Summary: President Xi Jinping recently issued a directive emphasizing the achievements of the 30-year East-West collaboration program and calling for its normalization to promote regional development and rural revitalization. Vice Premier Liu Guodhu, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, attended the national conference in Yinchuan to communicate these instructions and oversee the implementation of long-term poverty prevention and economic integration strategies. The meeting included provincial-level leaders from relevant regions, who were tasked with leveraging models like the Minning (Fujian-Ningxia) collaboration to enhance industrial, labor, and talent exchanges. This initiative reflects the leadership's focus on institutionalizing domestic development mechanisms to ensure long-term regional parity and socioeconomic stability.
Summary: This article frames "Xi Jinping’s Thought on Party Building" as a fundamental, original contribution to Marxist theory that serves as the guiding doctrine for the Communist Party's governance. It asserts that this ideological system synthesizes historical experience, traditional Chinese culture, and the practical implementation of "comprehensive strict Party governance" since the 18th National Congress. The text emphasizes that this framework provides the definitive answers to the Party's core objectives and governing logic, particularly regarding the necessity of centralized leadership and the integration of anti-corruption efforts. By positioning this thought as essential for "national rejuvenation," the article underscores the Party's commitment to internal discipline and theoretical innovation as the primary mechanism for navigating modern challenges.
Summary: This article emphasizes the "Fourteen Persistences" of Xi Jinping’s ideology on Party building, framing it as the essential political guide for strengthening the Chinese Communist Party and advancing national rejuvenation. Officials across various sectors, including local Party secretaries, discipline inspection heads, and academic experts, advocate for integrating these principles into governance to ensure Party unity and improve administrative performance. The text highlights that this ideology provides a "Chinese solution" for the development of political parties globally, reflecting its perceived universal significance in the context of international governance. The contributors argue that rigorous theoretical study must be translated into practical action, such as strengthening grassroots organizational systems, enforcing anti-corruption measures, and upholding the Party's comprehensive leadership. Ultimately, the article posits that mastering this ideology is critical for navigating the complex challenges anticipated during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.
Summary: This report details ongoing efforts in Yan'an to preserve and digitize revolutionary sites, aligning with General Secretary Xi Jinping’s directives to leverage the city’s status as a foundational site of the Chinese Communist Party. Xi previously emphasized the need to manage these resources effectively to promote the "Yan'an Spirit" and the "Great Founding Spirit" of the Party. Local officials, including Yangjialing management head Hou Zhenlong and Yan'an Revolutionary Memorial Hall director Liu Ni, highlighted the implementation of digital twin technology and smart monitoring to protect these historical assets. The article underscores the city's success in integrating these sites into national education initiatives, reporting that over 50 million visitors engaged with these "red tourism" resources in 2025.
Summary: On June 17, Chinese Vice President Han Zheng met with former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao in Beijing. Han emphasized China's commitment to stable U.S.-China relations, citing the strategic consensus reached between President Xi Jinping and former President Donald Trump in May. He urged for expanded cooperation in trade, people-to-people exchanges, and subnational ties to bolster bilateral stability. Chao underscored the significance of the leaders' summit and expressed her intention to continue fostering practical cooperation and civil engagement between the two nations.
Summary: The State Council Information Office released a white paper titled "Building a More Just and Reasonable Global Governance System: China's Concepts, Initiatives, and Actions," underscoring Beijing's commitment to multilateralism and the concept of a community with a shared future. The document advocates for the Global Governance Initiative as a framework to address international challenges while emphasizing the centrality of the United Nations and the necessity of major-power responsibility. While the text focuses on systemic reform and the promotion of a multipolar order, it positions China's proposals as a stabilizing force in an increasingly volatile global landscape. By framing these efforts as an alternative to "starting from scratch," the white paper implicitly serves as a critique of existing U.S.-led international structures and calls for a more inclusive, China-aligned global governance architecture.
Summary: The State Council has issued the "15th Five-Year Plan for Implementing the Employment-First Strategy," outlining a comprehensive framework to achieve high-quality employment through structural reforms and modernized human resource development. The plan emphasizes addressing structural labor mismatches and mitigating risks of large-scale unemployment as key policy objectives for the upcoming term. Key initiatives include integrating employment goals into macroeconomic policy, adapting to advancements in artificial intelligence, and strengthening support systems for youth, migrant workers, and those in flexible employment sectors. The directive mandates that all regional and departmental authorities prioritize employment as a primary livelihood issue under the centralized leadership of the Party.
Summary: This report details the successful harvest of China's summer grain crop, noting that over 93% of the 318 million mu of wheat has been collected as of June 17, 2024. Despite significant late-planting challenges caused by unfavorable weather last autumn, officials from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs reported that intensive technological intervention, financial subsidies, and mechanized harvesting ensured stable acreage and increased yields. The article highlights that this harvest serves as a critical "ballast stone" for national economic stability, providing resilience against external risks and uncertainties in the global environment. Local agricultural authorities and specialized cooperatives are now shifting focus to the seamless transition into autumn grain planting. The text does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: This article highlights the evolution of the "Minning" (Fujian-Ningxia) cooperation model as a blueprint for China's broader strategy of regional development and inter-provincial collaboration. Citing General Secretary Xi Jinping’s directives, the piece emphasizes that shifting from basic poverty alleviation to high-tech green energy and industrial integration is essential to leveraging institutional advantages. The text argues that deepening these domestic synergies—characterized by mutual benefit and the optimization of industrial chains—is a prerequisite for building a unified national market. Ultimately, the report frames this coordinated, "whole-of-nation" approach as a critical mechanism for narrowing regional disparities and advancing the national objective of common prosperity.
Summary: From June 15 to 19, 2026, Myanmar’s President Min Aung Hlaing paid a state visit to China at the invitation of President Xi Jinping, where he met with Xi, Premier Li Qiang, and NPC Standing Committee Chairman Zhao Leji. The two sides reaffirmed their "Pauk-Phaw" friendship, signed multiple cooperation agreements, and committed to advancing the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor and the construction of a China-Myanmar community with a shared future. Myanmar reiterated its adherence to the one-China policy and its support for China’s positions on Taiwan, Hong Kong, Xinjiang, and Tibet. Regarding international affairs, the two nations pledged to oppose "exclusive small circles," bloc confrontation, and the politicization of human rights, emphasizing the defense of the post-WWII international order. Both parties agreed to deepen security cooperation, particularly in combating cross-border crimes and protecting Belt and Road projects, while pledging to jointly safeguard regional stability.
Summary: On June 17, the State Council Information Office released a white paper titled "Building a More Just and Equitable Global Governance System: China’s Philosophy, Initiatives, and Actions." The document outlines the "Global Governance Initiative," which President Xi Jinping proposed to reform international systems by emphasizing the authority of the UN and the responsibility of major powers. During the press conference, Vice Foreign Minister Miao Deyu advocated for increasing the representation and voting power of the Global South within international financial institutions and the UN Security Council. Other officials, including Zhao Fengtao of the CIDCA, Jin Xin of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, and Zhou Haibing of the NDRC, detailed China's contributions to poverty reduction, civilizational dialogue, and AI governance. While the text focuses on multilateralism, it implicitly contrasts China's cooperative approach with the existing international order, emphasizing the need for developing nations to gain influence within institutions often dominated by Western powers.
Summary: On June 17, the State Council Information Office released a white paper titled "Building a More Just and Reasonable Global Governance System: China's Concepts, Proposals, and Actions." The document advocates for the implementation of the Global Governance Initiative (GGI), emphasizing the necessity of upholding the UN-centered international system while criticizing unilateralism and "hegemonism"—a clear allusion to U.S. foreign policy. The text asserts that major powers must eschew "power politics" and "rules-based" frameworks that prioritize their own interests over international law. China positions itself as a responsible leader committed to multilateralism and the rejection of zero-sum dynamics. Ultimately, the white paper calls for global solidarity to address developmental and security deficits through China's established framework of global initiatives.
Summary: On June 17, Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a phone call with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who briefed Wang on the first-stage memorandum of understanding reached between Iran and the United States. Araghchi thanked China for its role in the negotiations and emphasized the need for the agreement to be fully implemented, including a cessation of Israeli military operations in Lebanon. Wang Yi welcomed the U.S.-Iran development, stating that dialogue is the correct path for resolving disputes and affirming China’s support for Iran’s sovereignty and security. Wang further urged all parties to uphold their commitments and pledged that China will continue to coordinate with Iran to promote regional stability and deepen their bilateral strategic partnership.
Summary: On June 17, Foreign Minister and Politburo member Wang Yi visited Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni and Queen Mother Norodom Monineath Sihanouk in Beijing on behalf of President Xi Jinping. Wang conveyed greetings from President Xi and his wife, Peng Liyuan, while emphasizing the strengthening of China-Cambodia relations under the strategic guidance of the two heads of state. He highlighted China’s commitment to deepening practical cooperation to benefit both nations. In response, the King and Queen Mother expressed gratitude for China’s assistance and sent their well wishes to the Chinese leadership.
Summary: NPC Standing Committee Vice Chairman Zhang Qingwei chaired the third meeting of the China-Belarus National People's Congress and National Assembly Cooperation Committee via video link on June 17. He co-chaired the session with Natalya Kochanova, Chairperson of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus. The two sides exchanged views on bilateral relations, inter-parliamentary exchanges, and issues of mutual concern.
Summary: The ninth China International Import Expo (CIIE) promotional symposium was held in Oslo on June 16 to highlight opportunities for Norwegian enterprises in the Chinese market. Geng Hongzhou, Economic and Commercial Counselor at the Chinese Embassy in Norway, stated that the CIIE serves as a crucial platform for China to fulfill its opening-up commitments and deepen the already strong, complementary economic ties between the two nations. Senior Advisor at Innovation Norway, Anrov, emphasized that the expo provides a pragmatic pathway for Norwegian firms to introduce advanced technologies and services to China, pledging active efforts to mobilize local participation. The event underscored a mutual desire to enhance bilateral trade cooperation and strengthen the economic bond between China and Norway.
Summary: The sixth China-Europe (France) Cross-Border E-commerce Forum was held in Paris on June 16 to discuss digital trade trends, including brand globalization, artificial intelligence, and supply chain logistics. The event convened government representatives, industry experts, and enterprises across the full e-commerce value chain to explore innovation opportunities. Attendees included a diverse array of stakeholders ranging from retail platforms and B2B traders to logistics and fintech service providers. Additionally, a sub-forum focused on cultural heritage and industrial narratives, titled "Dialogue of Civilizations: From Cultural Heritage to Industrial Narrative," was held to promote the city of Hangzhou.
Summary: The State Council Information Office released a white paper titled "Building a More Just and Reasonable Global Governance System: China's Concepts, Initiatives, and Actions," outlining China's vision for reforming the international order. The document emphasizes President Xi Jinping’s advocacy for a "community with a shared future for mankind" and multilateralism, framing China as a proactive contributor to global stability. The white paper stresses the importance of upholding the United Nations' central authority and international law while calling for major powers to demonstrate responsibility. Although the text focuses on collective global governance, it implicitly frames these efforts as an alternative to existing hegemonies, positioning China’s proposals as essential for navigating a volatile international landscape.
Summary: On June 17, the 10th National Congress of the China Theatre Association, the 11th National Congress of the China Folk Literature and Art Association, and the 9th National Congress of the China Calligraphers Association were held in Beijing. Li Shulei, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and head of the Publicity Department, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech. He was accompanied by Tie Ning, Vice Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and Chairperson of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles. The delegates emphasized the necessity of implementing the cultural strategic deployments of the "15th Five-Year Plan" and deepening the practice of Xi Jinping's cultural thought. The proceedings focused on strengthening domestic cultural development, institutionalizing the promotion of traditional Chinese arts, and fostering a new generation of artistic talent to support the progress of Chinese-style modernization.
Summary: On June 17, Li Shulei, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Head of the Publicity Department, toured the 32nd Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF). Under the theme of promoting global dialogue and the Global Civilization Initiative, the event hosts over 1,700 exhibitors from 82 countries and regions, with the United Arab Emirates serving as this year's guest of honor. The fair emphasizes the promotion of international cultural exchange and the development of socialist culture, featuring major global publishing houses alongside prominent Chinese digital entertainment firms. While the exhibition highlights broad international cooperation with numerous nations, it serves as a platform to project China’s cultural influence and digital publishing achievements on the global stage.
Summary: On June 17, Vice Premier and Politburo member He Lifeng addressed the 2026 Lujiazui Forum in Shanghai, accompanied by Shanghai Party Secretary and Politburo member Chen Jining. He emphasized China’s commitment to "high-quality development" in the financial sector, pledging to advance institutional opening-up and welcoming global financial institutions to the Chinese market. Addressing the broader geopolitical context, He argued that in the face of global governance challenges, international relations must be rooted in mutual respect, multilateralism, and "win-win cooperation," a stance implicitly contrasting with certain restrictive trends in U.S.-China financial and trade relations. He further outlined plans to bolster Shanghai’s role as an international financial hub by enhancing its capacity for offshore finance and the global allocation of RMB assets.
Summary: On June 17, the Symposium on the 40th Anniversary of Juvenile Procuratorial Work was held in Shanghai, where Chen Wenqing, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, delivered a speech. Chen emphasized the need to implement Xi Jinping’s legal thought and directives on preventing juvenile delinquency, advocating for a balanced approach of punishment, education, and comprehensive legal protection. Supreme People's Procuratorate Procurator-General Ying Yong presided over the meeting and also delivered remarks. The session focused on strengthening cross-departmental coordination to address juvenile crime and safeguard the rights of minors.
Summary: On the 32nd World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, the National Forestry and Grassland Administration reported that China has treated over 181 million mu of desertified and rocky desertified land during the 14th Five-Year Plan period. Officials highlighted the success of the "Three-North" Shelterbelt Program, noting that desertification rates have shifted from annual expansion to a net reduction of 10 million mu per year. Efforts have been bolstered by integrating "photovoltaic desert control," technological innovation, and the development of local sand-based industries to support rural livelihoods. Regarding international cooperation, the report emphasized China’s active role as a signatory to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, including the establishment of regional cooperation centers and the promotion of Chinese desertification control expertise under the "Belt and Road" Initiative. These efforts aim to solidify a northern ecological security barrier by 2030, contributing to global environmental governance.
Summary: Tianjin’s Dongjiang Comprehensive Bonded Zone is leveraging specialized financial leasing structures to facilitate the export of Chinese high-end manufacturing equipment, such as renewable energy infrastructure and maritime vessels. Shi Jinfeng, Director of the Dongjiang Financial Leasing Promotion Bureau, stated that the zone has established an "expert plus steward" service system to provide one-stop regulatory and financial solutions, effectively mitigating risks associated with cross-border rent repatriation and foreign exchange. Tian Yuan, Section Chief of Emerging Trade Supervision at Dongjiang Customs, noted that inter-departmental cooperation has streamlined customs processes, significantly reducing logistics costs for enterprises. Dongjiang Party Committee Secretary and Management Committee Director Li Gongliang emphasized that the zone aims to consolidate its advantages in green leasing and offshore finance to further integrate Chinese high-end equipment into global supply chains. These efforts reflect a broader strategic push to institutionalize support for domestic industrial expansion in international markets.
Summary: Dongjiang Comprehensive Bonded Zone is leveraging its unique regulatory advantages to upgrade its financial leasing industry, focusing on offshore, export, and green leasing models. The zone is actively pivoting from traditional leasing toward high-tech sectors, including commercial aerospace, the low-altitude economy, artificial intelligence, and advanced manufacturing. By optimizing its policy framework and integrating tech-finance services, the zone aims to foster a specialized ecosystem for "technology leasing." This initiative seeks to deepen the synergy between the financial services sector and the real economy to drive industrial innovation.
Summary: Data from the State Taxation Administration reveals that China’s industrial enterprise sales revenue grew by 6.8% year-on-year from January to May. The equipment manufacturing sector remains a core pillar, with notable growth in high-tech areas such as AI-driven robotics, intelligent automotive equipment, and semiconductors. Clean energy, particularly solar and wind power, also recorded significant gains, reflecting an accelerated transition toward green energy. While the report focuses on domestic industrial performance, the robust growth in high-end electronics and integrated circuits underscores China's strategic push for technological self-sufficiency amid ongoing competition with the United States.
Summary: On June 16, the Wanmu Green Grain Increase Demonstration Zone in Dachang Town, Qingdao, Shandong, reached its peak wheat harvest. Local authorities have implemented a fully mechanized production line—featuring large-scale harvesters, on-site drying equipment, and straw baling—to minimize crop loss and strengthen regional food security. The report emphasizes the modernization of agricultural operations to ensure stable grain supplies.
Summary: This article details ongoing efforts in Yan’an to preserve and promote the city's "red" historical sites through digital monitoring and educational outreach. It highlights General Secretary Xi Jinping’s directives, issued during his October 2022 visit and May 2023 briefing with Shaanxi officials, emphasizing the need to protect revolutionary heritage and uphold the "Yan’an Spirit" as essential components of the Party’s ideological foundation. Local authorities have implemented high-tech conservation measures, such as digital twin systems and remote monitoring, to manage the city's 445 revolutionary sites. Furthermore, officials like Yan’an Cultural Relics Bureau Deputy Director He Dongmei stress the importance of leveraging these resources to cultivate historical consciousness among the youth, as evidenced by the widespread success of youth volunteer docent programs. The report positions these preservation efforts as a strategic initiative to ensure that the Party’s historical narrative remains a central, living resource for national development.
Summary: The State Council has issued the "15th Five-Year Plan for Implementing the Employment-First Strategy," outlining a comprehensive framework to address structural labor imbalances and promote high-quality employment through 2030. The document emphasizes strengthening macro-policy coordination, leveraging emerging sectors like artificial intelligence, and refining human resource development to ensure stable labor market outcomes. Key objectives include enhancing vocational training, safeguarding the rights of flexible workers, and establishing robust risk-monitoring mechanisms to prevent large-scale unemployment. The plan underscores the Party's centralized leadership in managing these labor initiatives as a top priority for national development. While the text does not explicitly mention the United States, its focus on AI-driven employment shifts and industrial policy reflects China’s broader strategic efforts to maintain economic resilience amid intensifying U.S.-China technological and economic competition.
Summary: This article commemorates the victory of the Chinese People’s Volunteers (CPV) in the Korean War, framing it as a foundational moment for national rejuvenation and a definitive end to Western imperialist dominance in the region. Xi Jinping is cited emphasizing that the war served to safeguard China’s security against U.S. aggression—specifically noting the U.S. deployment of the Seventh Fleet to the Taiwan Strait—and to stabilize the Korean Peninsula. The text highlights the repatriation of CPV remains as a method of reinforcing historical memory and fostering patriotic resolve among the modern People's Liberation Army. By invoking the heroism of figures like Yang Gensi, the narrative contrasts the "asymmetric" struggle of the past with the "modernized" capabilities of today’s military. Ultimately, the piece positions the "Great War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea" as an enduring ideological pillar for current efforts to defend China’s sovereignty and development interests.
Summary: The 2026 China Brand Forum was held in the Xiong'an New Area on June 17, with Vice Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee Lobsang Gyaltsen in attendance to deliver opening remarks. Participants emphasized that brand development is essential for fostering "new quality productive forces" and advancing Chinese-style modernization through innovation and industrial upgrading. The event, hosted by the *People's Daily*, focused on the theme of brand-led growth in the context of the upcoming 15th Five-Year Plan. Attendees included representatives from central and state organs, local government officials, corporate executives, and academic experts.
Summary: On June 17, the State Council Information Office held a press conference titled "Strivers on the New Journey," featuring four representatives who discussed efforts to advance rural civilization and cultural development. Wang Chuanxi, Party Secretary of Daicun in Shandong, emphasized the integration of material and spiritual development through institutional oversight and community education. Ai Siqi Memorial Hall curator Bo Yanting highlighted the use of localized, accessible storytelling to communicate party theory, while cultural envoy Chen Yun noted the success of "planting culture" via rural art and photography initiatives. Additionally, entrepreneur Wu Juan described her efforts in Ningxia’s Minning Town, where she utilizes bilingual—Chinese and English—social media content to promote local products and foster community cohesion among ecological migrants.
Summary: This article highlights the ongoing political mandate for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to study and implement "Xi Jinping’s Thought on Party Building," which is presented as a systematic and original theoretical framework for strengthening the party's governance. Officials across various local party and government departments, including municipal party secretaries and discipline inspection heads, were cited as endorsing this thought as a necessary guide for organizational discipline, political construction, and ensuring party leadership. These officials, including figures such as Sun Haidong (Nanjing Qixia District Party Secretary) and Qi Jianfeng (Luoyang Discipline Inspection Commission Secretary), emphasized that applying this ideology is essential to overcoming contemporary challenges and fulfilling the objectives of the 15th Five-Year Plan. The article frames this ideological campaign as a means to solidify the CCP’s political foundation and provide a "Chinese solution" for party-building that can be observed by political parties worldwide. While the article focuses on internal party governance, it implicitly positions this strengthening of the CCP as a foundational requirement for China's broader national rejuvenation and modernization efforts.
Summary: Zhongguancun Science City has reorganized its Party structure, renaming its "Comprehensive Party Committee" to the "Enterprise Party Committee" to focus exclusively on supporting private sector innovation. Haidian District Party Secretary and Zhongguancun Science City Party Working Committee Secretary Zhang Ge stated that this shift aims to place a "red engine" at the forefront of technological development to facilitate industrial upgrading. Deputy Secretary Cao Zhou noted that the reorganization serves to better link resources and solve concrete business challenges, such as financing and market access. Through specialized industry committees and collaborative modules, the Party organization is actively integrating its influence into the operational lifecycle of over 3,000 private enterprises.
Summary: This article frames "Xi Jinping’s Thought on Party Building" as a fundamental, original contribution to Marxist theory that serves as the guiding principle for the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) governance and long-term vitality. It emphasizes that this ideological framework, synthesized from the Party’s century-long experience and the "Fourteen Persistences," is essential for navigating the complexities of the new era and ensuring the Party remains a cohesive, disciplined force. The text highlights how Xi has prioritized political construction, strict internal discipline, and the integration of traditional Chinese culture into governance to strengthen the Party's foundational unity. By positioning this ideology as the "thought secret" to the CCP's longevity, the article underscores the importance of ideological purity and organizational control in achieving national rejuvenation. The piece concludes that adhering to this specific body of thought is the primary mechanism for the Party to secure its leading role as it navigates domestic challenges and the pursuit of Chinese-style modernization.
Summary: China State Railway Group announced that a new national train schedule will take effect on July 1, increasing capacity to 12,174 passenger trains and 23,975 freight trains. The update includes the upcoming launch of the Xi’an East to Shiyan East section of the Wuhan-Xi’an high-speed railway, which will introduce 58 new daily services. These adjustments are projected to significantly reduce travel times between major hubs, such as shortening the Xi’an East to Hankou transit by over one hour. The report reflects ongoing efforts to optimize domestic logistics and connectivity through infrastructure expansion.
Summary: Zhao Yundong, former deputy director and party committee member of the State Council’s Special Economic Zones Office, passed away in Beijing on June 5, 2026, at the age of 92. Following his death, relevant central leadership figures expressed their condolences and extended sympathy to his family. Zhao’s career spanned several decades of service within the State Council and various planning commissions, with a significant tenure focusing on the development of China’s special economic zones and open cities.
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Summary: This article profiles a long-serving veterinary official in the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, who reflects on his 40-year career dedicated to modernizing plateau livestock production. The official, who serves as the director of the Yushu Animal Disease Prevention and Control Center, details his work in implementing scientific feeding methods to mitigate overgrazing and improve ecological sustainability in the Three-River-Source region. He emphasizes the importance of grassroots engagement, noting his efforts to train thousands of local herders and bridge the gap between technical research and traditional pastoral practices. Accompanied by his wife, who is a forage researcher, and his daughter, a scholar of rangeland management, the official highlights how his family has committed three generations to the development of the region. His testimony underscores the Chinese state’s focus on integrating scientific development with local economic stability to secure environmental protection in sensitive ecological zones.
Summary: This article outlines a development strategy for regional economies in China, advocating for a focus on niche "specialized sectors" rather than attempting comprehensive, broad-based industrial growth. It argues that localities with limited resources can achieve "late-mover advantages" by aligning local production with national strategic priorities and fostering deep integration between education, technology, and industry. By cultivating local clusters—such as footwear in Jinjiang or high-end guitars in Songzi—regions can create robust supply chains and systemic industrial resilience. The author emphasizes that these localized successes are essential to maintaining the integrity and competitiveness of China’s broader industrial system amidst global economic challenges. While the article does not explicitly address U.S.-China relations, it highlights the strategic importance of overcoming foreign technological monopolies—such as in ceramic cylinder production—as a core objective for achieving domestic industrial security.
Summary: China’s Ministry of Transport reports that the country has invested 82.1 billion yuan into rural road infrastructure during the first four months of this year. These efforts resulted in the construction or renovation of 16,000 kilometers of roads and the maintenance of an additional 26,000 kilometers, while sustaining approximately 800,000 jobs in the sector. This initiative aligns with broader national efforts to optimize rural transportation networks and stimulate local economic development.
Summary: A recent inbound tourism promotion event in Guilin, featuring actor and Trip.com ambassador Jackie Chan alongside nearly 2,000 global industry representatives, highlights China’s strategy to expand its tourism sector through immersive cultural experiences and eased visa policies. Official data indicates a significant increase in travel service exports and visa-free arrivals, reflecting the broader integration of China's tourism infrastructure with international standards. The article frames this growth as a component of China's "high-level opening up" and institutional development, citing recent initiatives to align service standards with global benchmarks. Notably, the report includes the perspective of a U.S. travel blogger, who characterized these cultural exchanges as a vital means of overcoming barriers and fostering a more accurate, firsthand understanding of China.
Summary: This *Guangxi Daily* commentary highlights growing public concerns over the misuse of smart glasses for unauthorized filming, citing recent instances of surreptitious recording in public spaces. The article urges a multi-faceted regulatory approach, specifically calling for manufacturers to address design vulnerabilities that facilitate covert filming and for platforms to eliminate tutorials and black-market links that promote such illegal activities. Emphasizing the need for stronger pre-market oversight, the author advocates for stricter enforcement of the revised Law on Penalties for Administration of Public Security to deter privacy infringements. Ultimately, the piece argues that technology must be directed toward the public good and that institutional cooperation is essential to preventing the alienation of smart devices into tools for harassment.
Summary: This article highlights the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System as a model for integrating technological innovation with industrial application, noting that the industry’s total output reached 1.3 trillion RMB in 2025. It emphasizes that China achieved this through "full localization" of core components, specifically framing these advancements as a necessary response to external technology blockades. The text advocates for the "new whole-nation system" to overcome "choke-point" vulnerabilities and argues that China’s massive market scale and diverse application scenarios provide a unique advantage for iterative technological development. Ultimately, the piece calls for strengthening the dominant role of enterprises in R&D to foster a robust industrial ecosystem capable of sustaining high-quality, independent growth.
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Summary: The State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) has released a draft of "Ten Guidelines for Regulating Subsidy Practices on Food Delivery Platforms," currently open for public comment through July 17. The initiative follows an investigation by the State Council’s Anti-Monopoly and Anti-Unfair Competition Committee, which identified systemic issues including the abuse of capital advantages, coercive merchant participation, and irrational market competition. The proposed regulations prohibit predatory pricing, mandate the transparent disclosure of subsidy activities, and strictly forbid forcing merchants to bear subsidy costs. These measures aim to curb monopolistic behavior and promote fair market practices within the platform economy.
Summary: On June 17, the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) released draft guidelines to regulate subsidy practices among food delivery platforms, explicitly prohibiting strategies that restrict competition or force merchants to bear subsidy costs. The regulatory move aims to curb "involutionary" competition, which authorities argue has led to price-quality degradation and squeezed merchant profits. By shifting oversight away from predatory, loss-leading subsidy models, the SAMR seeks to transition the platform economy toward innovation-driven growth and improve the unified national market. This intervention reflects a broader administrative push to rectify market distortions and ensure that subsidies support, rather than hinder, sustainable economic development.
Summary: Supreme People's Procuratorate Prosecutor General Ying Yong addressed a symposium in Shanghai on June 17 marking the 40th anniversary of juvenile procuratorial work. Ying emphasized that the procuratorate holds a critical responsibility to prevent juvenile delinquency and protect minors, urging the implementation of Xi Jinping’s legal thought to balance punishment with rehabilitation. He called for collaborative efforts across the "six major protection" systems to improve judicial efficiency and juvenile welfare. The report does not mention the United States or bilateral relations.
Summary: On June 17, the 2026 National Private Enterprise Green Development Conference was held in Haikou, Hainan, focusing on integrating green innovation into the upcoming "15th Five-Year Plan." Gao Yunlong, Vice Chairman of the CPPCC National Committee and Chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, attended the event and delivered a keynote address. Gao urged private enterprises to accelerate digital and green dual-transformation to secure competitive advantages in the global technological revolution. He emphasized that these efforts are critical for enhancing national competitiveness and achieving high-quality development.
Summary: This report confirms that China’s summer grain harvest is effectively secured, with over 93% of the wheat crop harvested as of June 17, despite initial challenges from late planting due to prolonged autumn rains. Officials from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and various provincial agricultural departments credited this success to intensive "grab-harvesting" strategies, the application of precise cultivation technology, and significant state-led financial and logistical support. Experts, including Chief Scientist Liu Luxiang of the National Wheat Industry Technology System, emphasized that integrated technological interventions—ranging from digital monitoring platforms to specialized mechanical harvesting—were critical in overcoming weather-related delays and pest threats. The article frames this agricultural resilience as a vital "ballast stone" for national stability in the face of complex global risks. No mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations was made in the text.
Summary: Since the beginning of the "14th Five-Year Plan," Yulin, Shaanxi, has prioritized significant investments in power grid infrastructure to bolster its status as a national-level energy and chemical base. The State Grid Yulin Power Supply Company has expanded both high-voltage export channels for renewable energy and local distribution networks to support industrial growth and agricultural irrigation. Key projects, such as the 750kV third transmission line and the Shaanxi-Henan ±800kV UHV DC project, are being accelerated to reinforce the "West-to-East Power Transmission" strategy. Local authorities emphasize that these upgrades are essential for transforming Yulin’s resource advantages into economic output and ensuring the reliable integration of industrial-scale green energy. Looking ahead to the "15th Five-Year Plan," Yulin plans to invest 31 billion yuan to further modernize its grid, aiming to establish a world-class energy and chemical industry hub.
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Summary: On June 17, the National Narcotics Control Commission held a press conference detailing evolving drug trafficking trends, characterized by increased organizational complexity, the rise of synthetic alternatives, and a younger user base. Wei Xiaojun, Deputy Director of the National Narcotics Control Commission and Director of the Ministry of Public Security’s Narcotics Control Bureau, highlighted successful international enforcement cooperation, including a joint 2025 operation involving China, Thailand, and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) that intercepted nearly five tons of methamphetamine. Highlighting the importance of international partnerships, Wei emphasized China's ongoing efforts to advance anti-narcotics cooperation with the United States, Europe, and neighboring Southeast Asian nations. Additionally, Deputy Directors Gao Wei and Shan Yehua addressed the proliferation of "new-type" drugs and addictive substances, announcing stricter regulatory controls and a national campaign focused on preventing drug abuse among youth. The report noted that Chinese authorities are increasingly utilizing high-tech surveillance to counter the rise of non-contact, digital-based drug trafficking.
Summary: The National Fire and Rescue Administration held a press conference on June 17 to report on recent fire safety statistics and disaster response efforts. Deputy Directors Wang Tianrui, Xiong Wei, Xu Hao, and Hu Anxiong provided briefings on the successful reduction of fire incidents, the deployment of specialized water rescue teams for flood management, and proactive strategies for forest fire prevention in northern regions. Officials emphasized a four-pronged approach to addressing high-rise building fire safety, focusing on accountability, hazard remediation, emergency response, and public awareness. The report details the mobilization of professional firefighting assets to address both seasonal climate-related risks and urban fire hazards.
Summary: On June 17, the *People’s Daily* "Campus Tour" event was held at the University of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (UCASS) to engage students on topics including international communication and news production. People’s Daily Deputy Editor-in-Chief Cui Shixin attended the event alongside editorial staff who interacted with the student body. The delegation held separate discussions with Zhao Rui, Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Feng Shizheng, President of UCASS, regarding the newspaper's development and talent recruitment. The initiative aims to strengthen the party newspaper's influence and engagement among the youth.
Summary: The Shangri-La municipal government has announced that the 2026 Diqing-Shangri-La Horse Racing Festival will take place from June 19 to 22, serving as a platform to promote ethnic integration and cultural heritage. The event will feature 22 distinct sporting competitions and a "museum of intangible cultural heritage" showcasing regional equestrian artifacts. Local authorities are coordinating the festival to boost tourism and regional development through an integrated program of sports, culinary displays, and outdoor activities. The initiative is framed by the Publicity Department of the Shangri-La Municipal Committee as a means to solidify national unity and promote the local cultural brand.
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Summary: Fushun, a historic industrial city in Liaoning Province, is leveraging its natural, cultural, and red tourism assets to undergo an economic transition toward a diversified service-oriented model. The city is integrating sports, commerce, and tourism through initiatives like the "Northeast Super" football league, which serves as a catalyst for local consumption and urban revitalization. By focusing on "authentic" local experiences and high-quality infrastructure, the city aims to shed its "rust belt" image and establish a sustainable, year-round tourism industry. This strategy also positions Fushun to capitalize on future growth as it prepares to host snow-based events for the 2028 National Winter Games.
Summary: This article, authored by the Director of the Cyberspace Administration of China, outlines the core tenets and strategic importance of "Xi Jinping's Thought on Building a Cyber Superpower." The author argues that this ideology provides the essential theoretical framework for advancing Chinese-style modernization and navigating the complexities of the information revolution. The text emphasizes the necessity of maintaining Party control over the internet, balancing development with national security, and promoting indigenous technological innovation to ensure sovereign resilience. Furthermore, the article highlights the importance of the "community with a shared future in cyberspace" concept, advocating for China’s active participation in setting international norms and governance standards to counter the influence of Western-led digital frameworks. Finally, it calls for enhanced cybersecurity and information control to mitigate risks and protect national interests in an increasingly competitive global technological landscape.
Summary: This article argues that the construction of an autonomous Chinese legal knowledge system is essential for the high-quality development of China’s legal theory and for reshaping the global legal academic landscape. The author asserts that this system must move beyond Western legal theories by centering on "Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law" and the "socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics." By identifying these concepts as the primary theoretical pillars, the author contends that China can better address foundational questions of governance and legal practice. The text emphasizes that this autonomous framework is necessary to guide China's unique path in legal development and to provide a cohesive theoretical paradigm for domestic legal research.
Summary: This article outlines a strategic approach to balancing digital and traditional reading habits in China, citing President Xi Jinping’s directive to integrate digital convenience with the depth of classical, paper-based study to foster a "book-reading society." The author emphasizes that digital reading—while efficient—risks promoting superficiality, necessitating institutional reforms such as the *National Reading Promotion Regulations* to shift evaluation metrics away from mere traffic volume toward critical thinking and information literacy. The text advocates for a "paper-screen integration" ecosystem, where digital tools support deep learning rather than replace the contemplative nature of traditional reading. By mobilizing schools, communities, and families, the state aims to mitigate the "frivolity" of modern internet culture and consolidate social consensus through shared intellectual practices.
Summary: Gaotiankeng Village in Kaihua County, Zhejiang, has leveraged its unique "dark sky" resources to develop a specialized astro-tourism economy. Changhong Township Party Secretary Wu Xiaogeng highlighted that the village’s high altitude, forest coverage, and isolation from urban light pollution create an optimal natural environment for astronomical observation. Following the establishment of a meteor monitoring station by the Hangzhou Astronomical Society in 2017, local authorities launched a rural revitalization project that repurposed traditional mud houses into a star-themed homestay cluster and a professional planetarium. These efforts have secured international recognition, including an entry in the World Dark Sky Protected Area list, and attracted 100,000 visitors annually. The village's development was further bolstered in 2025 by the Beijing Planetarium's designation of the site as an official off-site observation point.
Summary: Ahead of the Dragon Boat Festival, widespread domestic interest in traditional dragon boat racing has surged, driven by increased youth participation and social media engagement. Local governments are leveraging these events to foster the integration of culture, sports, and tourism, effectively revitalizing regional economies. Furthermore, the growing popularity of the sport has catalyzed a mature industrial supply chain, particularly in manufacturing hubs like Miluo, Hunan. The report notes that international students at universities in Wuhan have actively participated in these races, serving as a platform for cultural exchange.
Summary: The latest policy briefs from provincial-level authorities highlight diverse administrative initiatives: Guangxi has launched a revitalization plan for county-level high schools aiming for 250,000 new enrollment seats by 2030, while Chongqing is piloting "home-based elderly care beds" to provide professional, digitally-managed care for the disabled elderly. In regional development, Jiangsu and Qinghai are collaborating to professionalize the "Qinghai Ramen Chef" labor brand. Additionally, agricultural researchers in Yunnan have successfully bred 50 new climate-resilient rose varieties, and Xi'an held its first professional skills competition for archaeological and artifact conservation. Finally, Harbin has established its first "rider-friendly" pilot project to improve delivery efficiency within residential areas.
Summary: The first harvest of wolfberries has commenced at the foot of the Helan Mountains in Helan County, Yinchuan, Ningxia. Local pickers are currently capitalizing on favorable weather conditions to harvest the fresh fruit.
Summary: In Anhui Province’s Qimen County, local enterprises are revitalizing the rural economy by producing "zongzi tea," a niche product combining local bamboo leaves with Qimen black tea. General Manager Jiang Shuxia reports that this innovative seasonal commodity has successfully targeted younger demographics, with annual sales projected to exceed 1.3 million units and 6 million yuan. The industry has scaled to include over 10 local firms, generating approximately 20 million yuan in annual output value. Beyond commercial success, the sector serves as a mechanism for rural revitalization by providing significant local employment opportunities during the peak production season.
Summary: Hebei’s Luancheng District has launched a normalized drone-based medical logistics network, utilizing five low-altitude routes to transport samples, blood products, and surgical supplies between the Luancheng People’s Hospital and seven township health centers. According to Vice President Yang Qinghao, the drones are equipped with specialized climate-controlled delivery boxes to ensure the integrity of sensitive medical materials. Operators like Liu Jiangbo note that the system leverages Beidou satellite navigation for centimeter-level precision, with integrated safety features including emergency parachutes and automated landing protocols. This initiative highlights China's expanding focus on the "low-altitude economy" to optimize rural healthcare infrastructure.
Summary: Tianjin has expanded its "hotline alliance" from 10 to 17 member units, integrating diverse public service lines to enable seamless call transfers and improved inter-departmental coordination. Zhu Zhanpeng, deputy director of the data information department at the Tianjin Public Service Hotline Center, noted that this system significantly enhances user experience by replacing verbal redirection with direct transfers. The initiative pairs the hotline’s "reception and transfer" functions with the comprehensive management center's "execution and resolution" capabilities to address complex, multi-departmental issues. By establishing collaborative mechanisms for joint disposal and feedback, the city aims to streamline administrative responsiveness to public grievances.
Summary: The Ministry of Public Security’s Cyber Security Bureau recently publicized 10 model cases of online rumor-mongering, highlighting the arrest of six individuals in Anhui who fabricated "driving test reform" rumors to generate traffic and profit. Officials from the Bureau categorized the incident as a typical case of leveraging information asymmetry to induce public anxiety, noting that the perpetrators falsely distorted national training standards to simulate impending test changes. The report emphasizes that official regulatory updates are exclusively disseminated through authorized public security channels and the "Jiaoguan 12123" platform. Consequently, authorities are urging the public to verify policy changes directly against official government documents to mitigate the impact of such misinformation on social stability.
Summary: Xiamen’s Haitian Terminal has implemented an intelligent lighting system that utilizes longitude and latitude sensors to synchronize illumination with precise sunset data, significantly reducing manual maintenance costs. According to facility administrator Yang Qiyong, who was accompanied by representatives from the local technology firm responsible for the system, the upgrade integrates lighting controls directly with the terminal’s production operating system to optimize energy consumption during loading and unloading tasks. A company spokesperson emphasized that the efficacy of this smart infrastructure relies on a robust and high-stability communication technology foundation.
Summary: Since 2017, a grassroots charitable initiative in Sichuan province has evolved from a single shopkeeper’s gesture into a formalized network of 1,259 "charity freezers" providing free bottled water to outdoor laborers. Supported by local trade union service stations, the program now features a province-wide dynamic replenishment system and a digital map for public access. This expansion illustrates the provincial government's efforts to institutionalize and scale local philanthropic practices to enhance social welfare for the urban working class.
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Summary: This white paper details China’s "Global Governance Initiative," which was introduced by President Xi Jinping to address contemporary crises and reform the international system. The document frames the initiative as a contribution to global stability, grounded in the principles of sovereignty, international law, and multilateralism, while emphasizing the need to increase the representation of the "Global South." It characterizes the current international order as being undermined by unilateralism, hegemonism, and bloc politics—frequently alluding to U.S. actions such as "decoupling," trade wars, and the use of "long-arm jurisdiction." Ultimately, the text advocates for strengthening the United Nations as the core platform for global governance and warns against "building separate systems" that threaten the existing international order.
Summary: This white paper, released by the Chinese government, formally articulates the "Global Governance Initiative" (GGI) proposed by President Xi Jinping. The document identifies the current international system as being under severe strain from unilateralism, hegemony, and "jungle law," and positions the GGI as a necessary Chinese solution to reform and perfect global governance. While the text criticizes the actions of "individual countries"—a clear allusion to the United States—for promoting bloc politics, economic decoupling, and the instrumentalization of trade, it simultaneously emphasizes the need to uphold the UN-centered international system. The initiative advocates for sovereign equality, the practice of "true multilateralism," and the empowerment of the "Global South." Ultimately, the paper presents the GGI as a strategic pathway toward building a "community with a shared future for mankind" amidst a shifting global order.
Summary: On June 16, the Ministry of Education held an online broadcast to improve college entrance examination (gaokao) guidance services for the 2026 cohort. Ministry officials instructed local enrollment agencies and school administrators to enhance consultation resources, provide authoritative data, and professionalize guidance for students and parents. The event emphasized a shift toward aligning student interests with long-term career planning, discouraging an over-reliance on institutional rankings or "hot" majors. The ministry also showcased the "Sunshine Gaokao" information platform and its AI-assisted features to facilitate better-informed decision-making.
Summary: State Council Taiwan Affairs Office spokesperson Chen Binhua announced that over 6,000 Taiwan compatriots attended the 18th Straits Forum in Xiamen, which featured numerous policy signings and cooperation projects aimed at deepening integration with Fujian. Chen emphasized that these outcomes demonstrate the inevitability of cross-Strait connectivity despite interference from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities. Regarding the DPP’s increased defense spending, Chen criticized the administration for squandering public funds on "protection fees" for external forces, asserting that such military provocations only deepen the risk of conflict. He reiterated that Taiwan’s security is inextricably linked to peaceful development and national reunification, warning that "Taiwan independence" is fundamentally incompatible with regional peace.
Summary: This white paper introduces the "Global Governance Initiative," which President Xi Jinping proposed in 2025 to reform the international system toward a more equitable and inclusive order. The document characterizes the current global landscape as defined by intensified geopolitical conflicts, economic fragmentation, and a decline in international law, explicitly criticizing "unilateralism," "hegemonism," and the "Cold War mentality" of certain unnamed states. While the text frames the initiative as a contribution to the United Nations-centered international order, it emphasizes the rising influence of the "Global South" and calls for urgent reforms to international financial and security architectures. Regarding U.S.-China relations, the document implicitly critiques U.S. policies—such as "decoupling," "long-arm jurisdiction," and the formation of exclusive "small circles"—as the primary sources of global instability. The white paper concludes by calling on the international community to unite behind China’s vision of multilateralism to resolve the "peace, development, security, and trust deficits" currently plaguing the world.
Summary: Wang Hou, an official from the Yiwu Municipal Emergency Management Bureau, has issued a public warning regarding the severe fire and health risks posed by leaving common items in vehicles during extreme summer heat. Wang cautioned that high temperatures can cause pressurized containers, lithium-battery electronics, and flammable alcohol-based products to explode or self-ignite, while items acting as convex lenses can spark fires by concentrating sunlight. Additionally, he emphasized that intense heat significantly accelerates the degradation of food and water, turning them into health hazards. Wang advised vehicle owners to proactively clear their cars of these items and provided instructions on utilizing onboard fire extinguishers should emergency ignition occur.
Summary: Hengfeng Bank's Chengdu branch is celebrating its 19th anniversary, having expanded its operational footprint to cover key cities across Sichuan Province. The branch has pivoted toward "industry banking," focusing its financial resources on 13 strategic sectors, including culture and tourism, industrial parks, and emerging fields like low-altitude economics. By integrating financial services into specific industrial chains, the branch has disbursed over 6 billion RMB to support regional projects ranging from large-scale cultural tourism complexes to energy storage infrastructure. This strategic shift reflects a broader institutional effort to align financial supply with national development priorities and localized economic demands. Through these targeted investments, the branch aims to deepen its role in facilitating Sichuan’s industrial modernization and regional development.
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Summary: This article details河北 (Hebei) Province’s efforts to bolster its commerce and logistics infrastructure, reporting a significant rise in logistics efficiency and consumer spending through 2025. Zhang Hecheng, a member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the Hebei Provincial Department of Commerce, highlighted the success of provincial "trade-in" policies, noting that by June 8, 2025, these subsidies had driven 50.4 billion yuan in sales. The report further emphasizes the province's integration of "live-streaming e-commerce" to revitalize industrial and agricultural sectors. Additionally, Hebei is actively expanding international logistics routes, including new rail, air, and sea corridors to Europe, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia, to facilitate the export of local goods. While the article does not explicitly discuss U.S.-China bilateral relations, these logistics and supply chain developments are part of China’s broader strategic objective to enhance internal market circulation and international trade connectivity.
Summary: Langfang has successfully established itself as a major northern logistics hub, hosting the regional headquarters or distribution centers of eight major domestic express delivery brands. ZTO Express Northern Headquarters public affairs lead Li Yihui noted that the city's advanced, high-capacity automated sorting infrastructure has enabled massive daily throughput, while local officials attribute this growth to Langfang’s strategic positioning within the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei cluster. Ma Jingfeng, Deputy General Manager of STO Express’s North China region, underscored the city's geographical advantage as a critical factor for automotive-based distribution. Zhang Huirong, Director of the Langfang Postal Administration, stated that the city aims to further accelerate the development of county-level logistics centers and cultivate additional high-volume professional markets to sustain this momentum.
Summary: On June 16, the 2026 Langfang International Economic and Trade Fair opened, with the Hebei branch of the Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) providing specialized financial services to support provincial trade and logistics policy objectives. The branch has ramped up credit support for "Belt and Road" enterprises and companies within the Hebei Pilot Free Trade Zone, while implementing fee reductions and foreign exchange facilitation to lower costs for trade-oriented firms. Furthermore, the bank has provided over 18 billion RMB in financing to bolster the "Hebei Clean Vegetables" supply chain, a critical initiative supporting the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei regional integration strategy. The report highlights these efforts as key to enhancing Hebei’s role in international trade and regional economic development.
Summary: On June 17, Chengde City hosted a clean energy investment promotion event during the 2026 Langfang International Economic and Trade Fair to highlight the city's transition toward a comprehensive "generation, transmission, storage, and utilization" industrial system. Gao Chunlin, Director of the Chengde Municipal Development and Reform Commission, stated that developing clean energy is essential for meeting "dual carbon" goals and serving the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development strategy. The report emphasizes the city's significant scaling of wind, solar, and pumped-storage capacity, including the full operation of the world’s largest pumped-storage plant in Fengning. Zhao Renzheng, head of the Fengning station's operations department, noted that the facility has effectively stabilized the North China power grid by absorbing over 20 billion kWh of energy. The city is now shifting from simple resource output to a cluster-based development model integrating hydrogen production and advanced storage technologies.
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Summary: This article outlines the "small, quick, and agile" (小快灵) approach to local legislation, an initiative promoted by General Secretary Xi Jinping to improve the specificity and practical effectiveness of laws. Local authorities are increasingly adopting short, focused regulations to address localized issues, as evidenced by case studies in Chongqing, Yunnan, Henan, and Zhejiang. These regulations address diverse areas such as industrial standardization, cultural heritage protection, rural traffic safety, and the development of embodied AI robotics. Notably, the Hangzhou legislation regarding embodied AI explicitly incorporates safeguards against threats to national security and mandates adherence to technology ethics. The report highlights a shift toward "tailor-made" legal frameworks designed to resolve specific policy bottlenecks and facilitate regional development.
Summary: This article features insights from four National People’s Congress (NPC) delegates on cultivating "future industries" to secure technological advantages and develop "new quality productive forces." Delegates Huang Maoxing, Pang Xinchang, Du Weidong, and Shan Zefeng advocate for a state-led approach that includes focusing on strategic sectors like quantum technology and AI, breaking down barriers between academia and industry, strengthening the role of enterprises as innovation subjects, and optimizing the policy and financial environment. The contributors emphasize that mastering these frontier technologies is essential for overcoming "chokepoint" issues—a recurring theme in the context of technological competition with the United States. They call for a combination of centralized state planning and market-oriented innovation to ensure China’s industrial autonomy and long-term economic development.
Summary: Guizhou provincial authorities are leveraging the "High-Quality Development, Deputies in Action" campaign to mobilize over 94,800 people's congress deputies to advance local economic and social objectives. NPC deputies, including Yang Changqin and Zheng Peikun, are actively engaging in grassroots调研 (field research) to facilitate poverty alleviation, industrial development, and the implementation of agricultural policy. Provincial officials emphasized that these initiatives serve as a vital mechanism for aligning local legislative efforts with central government directives. The campaign continues to evolve through decentralized, localized innovations across cities like Guiyang and Zunyi to maximize the functional efficacy of the deputy system.
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Summary: Yiwu is strengthening its business environment by integrating legal services directly into its markets through "Rule of Law Supermarkets" and specialized dispute resolution centers. Yiwu Municipal Committee Standing Secretary and Political and Legal Affairs Commission Secretary Yang Xian stated that the city aims to integrate the rule of law into market operations to enhance global competitiveness. The city utilizes a "mediation-led" approach, including a unique "foreign-to-foreign" mediation matrix involving international volunteers, to resolve trade conflicts efficiently. Furthermore, these initiatives provide critical support for businesses navigating complex global trade, including intellectual property protection and risk monitoring for international transactions. These efforts ensure the city remains a stable hub for global trade, even as it manages the complexities of international commercial disputes.
Summary: This article outlines the June "National Anti-Fraud Action" campaign, emphasizing that while large-scale telecommunications fraud has been suppressed, criminals are increasingly utilizing AI and big data to conduct sophisticated, targeted scams. The text argues that current anti-fraud efforts face challenges, including ineffective generic public education and lingering vulnerabilities in data protection and platform oversight. To address these, the author calls for a shift toward "systemic thinking," advocating for tailored, demographic-specific public messaging and stricter accountability for internet, financial, and telecommunications firms. The strategy focuses on closing technical gaps and cutting off black-market information chains to build a more resilient, multi-layered national defense against fraud.
Summary: A Shanghai court recently rejected a compensation claim filed by a plaintiff who suffered a spinal injury after falling on stairs while distracted by their mobile phone. The court ruled that the restaurant and property management company were not liable, as the plaintiff failed to exercise reasonable care and their behavior could not have been anticipated or controlled by the venue operators. The presiding judge emphasized that individuals must take personal responsibility for accidents caused by "head-down" phone usage. This ruling serves to clarify the boundaries of the safety obligations owed by public establishment operators and discourages the shifting of liability for self-inflicted injuries.
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Summary: In May 2026, the Ulike brand, under the Youlai Group, launched a global technology conference to initiate the *2026 Home Hair Removal Industry Science and Standards White Paper* project. CEO Pan Yuping emphasized that the company’s international expansion aims to establish the value of "Intelligent Chinese Manufacturing" by leveraging original technology and quality to win global consumer trust. Having secured over 30 international certifications, including U.S. FDA approval, the company has successfully expanded its footprint into 49 countries and regions, including significant market penetration in North America. The firm continues to integrate research centers in Shenzhen and Seoul to advance optical technology, with the objective of transitioning from simple manufacturing exports to a global "technology plus brand" model. Through this strategy, Ulike aims to bolster the standardization and scientific development of the home beauty industry.
Summary: This article, written by the director of the Nanhu Revolutionary Memorial Hall, highlights the institution’s recent efforts to preserve and exhibit artifacts documenting the early history of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Key acquisitions include research notes from Professor Shao Weizheng regarding the first CCP Congress, a 1926 edition of *Class Struggle*—a foundational text for Mao Zedong—and a 1942 compilation of Long March memoirs. The director emphasizes that these materials serve as critical evidence of the Party’s "founding spirit" and commitment to historical accuracy. By promoting these relics, the museum aims to reinforce the ideological foundations of the Party's mission within the current political climate. The text also invokes the historical significance of Mao Zedong’s 1936 engagement with American journalist Edgar Snow to underscore the international intellectual origins and dissemination of Marxist theory in China.
Summary: The Shijiahe site in Hubei Province, recently designated as a protected national heritage site, represents a pinnacle of prehistoric civilization in the Yangtze River basin. Archaeological excavations have revealed a complex urban network featuring large-scale fortifications, sophisticated hydraulic systems, and specialized production centers for pottery and exquisite jade artifacts. Notable discoveries, such as the "feathered-crown" figure wielding an axe, provide significant insight into the hierarchical power structures and religious symbolism of the prehistoric "Shijiahe kings." The development of the Shijiahe site museum and accompanying park facilities reflects a broader state effort to leverage archaeological findings for cultural promotion and to assert the historical continuity of Chinese civilization.
Summary: The National Cultural Heritage Administration is emphasizing the systematic publication of archaeological reports to standardize academic practices and enhance public engagement with cultural heritage. The article contrasts the foundational 1956 "Huixian Report," which established early methodological norms, with the recently published *Panlongcheng (1995–2019)*, which reflects the field's shift toward multidisciplinary, collaborative, and technology-driven research. Under the leadership of Professor Zhang Changping, the Panlongcheng project has institutionalized the "practice-based teaching" tradition, notably expanding its international reach through collaboration with the Institute for Field Research (IFR) to train scholars from over 20 countries. This evolution in archaeological practice, now integrating environmental and metallurgical analysis, serves to bolster China’s cultural narrative and support large-scale initiatives like the Yangtze National Cultural Park. Through these efforts, the discipline has successfully transitioned from niche academic study to a core element of public cultural education and national identity.
Summary: This article highlights the academic and field training of archaeology students at Zhengzhou University, emphasizing their role in excavating significant sites like the Nancheng ruins. Chief Professor Han Guohe noted that the department’s 50-year development has remained closely aligned with regional archaeological efforts, fostering a new generation of "post-00s" scholars. The text underscores the integration of modern scientific techniques—such as carbon-14 dating and DNA analysis—within the university's "Zhonghua Yuan" laboratory to study artifacts from the Yellow River basin. By cultivating talent through rigorous fieldwork and interdisciplinary research, the institution aims to preserve and interpret the continuity of Chinese civilization.
Summary: The National Museum of Archaeology of China has launched an "Academic Cooperation Mechanism for Tracing the Origins of Chinese Civilization," featuring a new exhibition of high-status jade artifacts from the Liangzhu culture’s Jiangjiashan site. During a commemorative salon marking 90 years of Liangzhu archaeology, researchers Chen Minghui, Wang Mingda, Wang Ning远, and Fang Xiangming highlighted how these artifacts signify a mature ritual system and the stratified social structure of early Chinese civilization. The experts emphasized that the systematic study of these jade assemblages has been critical in defining the Liangzhu site complex and its sophisticated water management systems. Through these findings, the museum aims to provide empirical evidence for the continuity and distinct characteristics of Chinese civilization.
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■ Over the 30 years since the launch of East-West collaboration, it has played an important role in assisting with poverty alleviation and promoting coordinated regional development, demonstrating the political advantages of our Party (中国共产党) and the superiority of our country's socialist system.
■ This year marks the beginning of the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五) and the first year of normalized assistance. We must summarize and apply beneficial experiences such as the Min-Ning Collaboration (闽宁协作), further improve collaboration mechanisms, optimize collaboration methods, expand areas of collaboration, and promote industrial complementarity, personnel interaction, technical mutual learning, conceptual exchange, and mutual reference of work styles between the East and the West, so as to achieve mutual benefit, win-win results, and common development. Party committees and governments at all levels must conscientiously implement the responsibilities of normalized assistance, firmly hold the bottom line of preventing large-scale return to poverty, solidly promote comprehensive rural revitalization, continuously enhance the coordination of regional development, and take solid steps toward common prosperity for all people.
Beijing (北京), June 17 — General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) Central Committee, President of the State (国家主席), and Chairman of the Central Military Commission (中央军委) Xi Jinping (习近平) recently gave important instructions on normalized East-West collaboration, pointing out that over the 30 years since the launch of East-West collaboration, it has played an important role in assisting with poverty alleviation and promoting coordinated regional development, demonstrating the political advantages of our Party (中国共产党) and the superiority of our country's socialist system.
Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that this year is the beginning of the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五) and the first year of normalized assistance. We must summarize and apply beneficial experiences such as the Min-Ning Collaboration (闽宁协作), further improve collaboration mechanisms, optimize collaboration methods, expand areas of collaboration, and promote industrial complementarity, personnel interaction, technical mutual learning, conceptual exchange, and mutual reference of work styles between the East and the West, so as to achieve mutual benefit, win-win results, and common development. Party committees and governments at all levels must conscientiously implement the responsibilities of normalized assistance, firmly hold the bottom line of preventing large-scale return to poverty, solidly promote comprehensive rural revitalization, continuously enhance the coordination of regional development, and take solid steps toward common prosperity for all people.
The National East-West Collaboration Work Conference was held in Yinchuan (银川), Ningxia (宁夏), on the 17th. The important instructions of Xi Jinping (习近平) were conveyed at the meeting. Liu Guozhong (刘国中), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局) and Vice Premier of the State Council (国务院), attended the meeting and delivered a speech. He emphasized that the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) are 高屋建瓴 (gāo wū jiàn líng - "high house see roof tile," standing on high ground to have a commanding view; visionary and strategic) and 精辟深邃 (jīng pì shēn suì - "incisive and profound," sharp, insightful, and deep), possessing strong political, ideological, and guiding significance. They provide the fundamental guidelines for normalized East-West collaboration and must be deeply studied, understood, and resolutely implemented. We must always shoulder our political responsibilities, firmly establish and practice a correct view of political achievements, summarize and apply beneficial experiences such as the Min-Ning Collaboration (闽宁协作), deepen industrial cooperation and labor collaboration between the East and the West, strengthen the exchange of cadres and talent, expand collaboration in science, technology, and finance, carry out work creatively in light of local conditions, continuously improve the quality and efficiency of collaboration, and promote complementary advantages, two-way empowerment, and common development.
Relevant information regarding East-West collaboration was reported at the meeting. Responsible comrades from the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (宁夏回族自治区) and Fujian Province (福建省) introduced the experiences and practices of the Min-Ning Collaboration (闽宁协作), and responsible comrades from Beijing Municipality (北京市), Shanghai Municipality (上海市), Jiangsu Province (江苏省), Guangdong Province (广东省), Sichuan Province (四川省), and Gansu Province (甘肃省) spoke at the meeting.
Responsible comrades from relevant provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities undertaking East-West collaboration tasks, as well as responsible comrades from some member units of the Central Rural Work Leading Group (中央农村工作领导小组), attended the meeting.
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A great era nurtures scientific thought, and scientific thought leads innovative practice.
Xi Jinping’s Thought on Party Building (习近平党建思想), as the fundamental guideline for strengthening the Party in the new era, holds a special and important position within 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), making significant original contributions to the development of Marxist Party-building theory. On the occasion of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), the Party Central Committee (党中央) has clarified Xi Jinping’s Thought on Party Building (习近平党建思想), which is of great and far-reaching significance for enriching and developing contemporary Chinese Marxism (当代中国马克思主义) and 21st-century Marxism (21世纪马克思主义), and for promoting the continuous improvement of the ideological and theoretical level of the entire Party.
Xi Jinping’s Thought on Party Building (习近平党建思想) was formed on the basis of profoundly summarizing the rich experience of our Party in strengthening itself over the past hundred-plus years, and it is a systematic summary of the practical experience of comprehensive and strict Party governance in the new era. This important thought profoundly grasps the internal connection between managing the Party, governing the Party, revitalizing the Party, strengthening the Party, and the rejuvenation of a strong nation through the "Fourteen Persistences" (十四个坚持). It not only adheres to the most basic and core content of Marxist Party-building theory but also upholds integrity and innovates while pushing through the old to bring forth the new (推陈出新 - tuī chén chū xīn - "push out old, bring forth new," to innovate by discarding the obsolete and developing the new) in the process of studying new situations and solving new problems. It has answered major theoretical and practical questions regarding Party building in the new era and has enriched and developed Marxist Party-building theory with a series of original achievements. The formation and development of Xi Jinping’s Thought on Party Building (习近平党建思想) centrally reflect the courage and boldness of Chinese Communists (中国共产党人) in theoretical innovation in the new era, marking a new height in our Party’s understanding of the laws of Communist governance and the laws of Marxist Party building.
To study and implement Xi Jinping’s Thought on Party Building (习近平党建思想), one must profoundly understand and grasp the essence and core meaning of this important thought, deeply recognize its major original contributions, continuously promote theoretical and practical innovation in Party building, and constantly open up new realms for Marxist Party building.
This important thought originates from Marxist scientific theory, is rooted in the excellent traditional Chinese culture (中华优秀传统文化), and is nurtured in the great practice of comprehensive and strict Party governance in the new era, possessing a solid practical foundation and deep theoretical origins.
From a small red boat (小小红船) to a towering giant ship navigating China steadily and far, our Party has, for over a hundred years, adhered to the guidance of Marxist Party-building theory and, combined with the specific realities of China’s revolution, construction, and reform, accumulated rich experience in managing and governing the Party.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的十八大), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平总书记), starting from the strategic height of coordinating the two overall situations, has clearly proposed that the leadership of the Party is the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics (中国特色社会主义), and that upholding the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee (党中央) is the highest political principle. He creatively proposed that political building is the fundamental building of the Party, making the entire Party more unified in thought, more united in politics, and more consistent in action. Starting from the formulation and implementation of the Eight-point Regulation (中央八项规定), he incorporated comprehensive and strict Party governance into the "Four-Pronged Comprehensive" (四个全面) strategic layout, creatively proposed that strengthening discipline building is the fundamental strategy for comprehensive and strict Party governance, and that strengthening the construction of internal Party regulations and systems is the long-term and fundamental strategy for comprehensive and strict Party governance, reflecting strict requirements in every aspect and link of managing and governing the Party. Drawing rich spiritual nourishment for theoretical innovation from the thousands of years of development history of Chinese civilization, inheriting and developing the people-centered thought of Chinese civilization, and always adhering to the fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, he has realized the creative transformation and innovative development of the principles of governing the nation and the moral concepts of self-cultivation and conduct... Developing through inheritance and innovating while maintaining integrity (守正创新 - shǒu zhèng chuàng xīn - "uphold integrity, innovate," to maintain correct principles while pursuing innovation), Xi Jinping’s Thought on Party Building (习近平党建思想) has formed a complete theoretical system that reflects the characteristics of the times, grasps the laws, and is full of creativity. It is a major achievement of our Party in adhering to the "Two Integrations" (两个结合) and promoting theoretical innovation.
This important thought highlights firm ideals and beliefs, a high degree of historical initiative, a distinct problem-oriented approach, a strong sense of mission and responsibility, deep feelings for the people, and scientific ideological methods, possessing a distinct theoretical character.
Anchored in the belief that "the people's yearning for a better life is our goal," it requires the entire Party to remain true to its original aspiration and keep its mission firmly in mind, always placing the people in the highest position in its heart, regarding the welfare of the people as the most important political achievement, and always breathing the same breath, sharing the same destiny, and staying close to the people. From solidly carrying out centralized education within the Party to strengthening the construction of clean culture in the new era, it takes adhering to the use of the Party’s innovative theories to forge the soul as the fundamental task of the Party’s ideological construction, proposing that tempering Party spirit and improving ideological awareness should be a lifelong task, and always maintaining the political character of Communists. Focusing on prominent problems and serious hidden dangers within the Party, it promotes the implementation of the political responsibility for comprehensive and strict Party governance, insists on integrated efforts to ensure that officials dare not, cannot, and do not want to be corrupt, and pushes the anti-corruption struggle to achieve an overwhelming victory and comprehensive consolidation with the sense of mission of "offending thousands to avoid failing fourteen hundred million." By both deploying the task of "crossing the river" and guiding the solution to the problem of "bridges or boats," Xi Jinping’s Thought on Party Building (习近平党建思想) clarifies the essence and applies it effectively, profoundly elucidating the fundamental question of what the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) is and what it is for, demonstrating the truth power of Marxism.
Treating science with a scientific attitude and pursuing truth with the spirit of truth is the ideological code that keeps Chinese Communists (中国共产党人) at the forefront of the times. Xi Jinping’s Thought on Party Building (习近平党建思想) connects history, reality, and the future, and will continue to be enriched and developed with the development of the practice of Party building in the new era, demonstrating powerful ideological and practical strength in the historical process of promoting the construction of a strong nation and the great cause of national rejuvenation.
Looking back at the Party’s struggle, our Party has united and led the people to write the most magnificent epic in the thousands of years of Chinese history and has created a series of great achievements. History and practice tell us that having the guidance of Marxist scientific theory is the fundamental reason why our Party has firm faith and belief and grasps historical initiative. Under the guidance of 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), especially Xi Jinping’s Thought on Party Building (习近平党建思想), deeply advancing the new great project of Party building in the new era will surely continue to open up new realms for the century-old Party to manage, govern, revitalize, and strengthen itself, and continue to write new chapters of the two miracles on the new journey of Chinese-style modernization (中国式现代化).
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Studying and implementing the Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) is an important political task for the entire Party at present and for a period in the future.
The essential connotations of the "Fourteen Adherences" (十四个坚持) deeply grasp the internal connections between managing and governing the Party, revitalizing and strengthening the Party, and building a strong nation and achieving national rejuvenation. By coordinating the Party's leadership and the Party's construction, it serves as a concentrated summary of the new ideas, new thoughts, and new strategies of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) regarding Party construction in the new era. It is a systematic, complete, logically rigorous, rich in connotation, and profound organic whole, possessing distinct originality, theoretical depth, and identifying characteristics.
The vast number of Party members and cadres have expressed that the Party's construction must advance to the same stage as the development of the cause of the Party and the people. They must deeply comprehend the firm ideals and beliefs, high degree of historical initiative, distinct problem orientation, strong sense of mission and responsibility, profound feelings for the people, and scientific ideological methods contained within the Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平). They must accurately grasp the essence and practical requirements of this thought, and effectively transform the results of their study into practical actions of loyally protecting and strengthening the Party, providing a strong political guarantee for comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong nation and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization.
Follow the Path and Continuously Strengthen Theoretical Study and Application
The Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) is an important component of 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). It has made significant original contributions to the development of Marxist Party-building theory, marking a new height in our Party's understanding of the laws of Communist Party governance and the laws of the Party's own construction. It holds major practical significance and long-term guiding significance for strengthening the Party and the nation.
"Responding to the issues of the era, conforming to the overall situation and trends, and complying with the hearts of the Party and the people, studying and implementing the Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) is timely and absolutely necessary." Shen Chengfei (沈成飞), Dean of the School of Marxism at Sun Yat-sen University (中山大学), believes that the Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) was nurtured in the great practice of comprehensively and strictly governing the Party in the new era. It has achieved a leap from important viewpoints to a systematic framework, and from practical experience to an understanding of laws. It not only provides a scientific guide for deeply advancing the great new project of Party construction in the new era on the new journey, but also provides a Chinese solution for the self-construction and governance of political parties around the world.
Adhering to and strengthening the overall leadership of the Party concerns the future and destiny of the Party and the country. Among the "Fourteen Adherences" (十四个坚持) of the Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平), the one ranked first is "Adhering to the Party's leadership is the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics."
"A train runs fast, all depending on the locomotive." Huo Yankai (霍艳凯), Secretary of the Party Branch of Huojiazhuang Village (霍家庄村), Wei County (魏县), Handan (邯郸), Hebei (河北), believes that adhering to and strengthening the overall leadership of the Party, especially the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee (党中央), hinges on the word "practical." It is necessary to integrate the adherence to the Party's leadership into every practical matter concerning people's livelihoods, making villagers' pockets fuller, their jobs more secure, and the "appearance" of the countryside better, while continuously enhancing the Party's creativity, cohesion, and combat effectiveness.
The Party's political construction is the fundamental construction of the Party, determining the direction and effectiveness of Party construction.
"The 'Fourteen Adherences' (十四个坚持) clearly require 'adhering to the Party's political construction as the guide,' providing a fundamental follow for us to strengthen grassroots Party construction." You Yuanfei (由远飞), Secretary of the County Party Committee of Kuandian Manchu Autonomous County (宽甸满族自治县), Dandong (丹东), Liaoning (辽宁), said that Kuandian (宽甸) relies on the "Red Flag by the Yalu River" (鸭绿江畔党旗红) project to build positions such as "Red Stations" (红色驿站) and "National Gate Party Schools" (国门党校), making the Party's political construction concrete, positional, and normalized, empowering high-quality development with excellent political construction and promoting the quality and efficiency of all work.
Listening to Party history at the school history museum and revisiting the oath of joining the Party facing the Party flag... This is the "first lesson" of Party spirit education arranged by the Party School of the Jinan Municipal Committee of the CPC (济南市委党校) (Jinan Institute of Administration (济南行政学院)) in Shandong (山东) for students at the beginning of every school year.
"The Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) requires 'adhering to tempering strong Party spirit,' and as the main channel for educating and training cadres and Party members, the Party school is duty-bound." Li Lin (李琳), Director of the Party History and Party Construction Teaching and Research Department of the Party School of the Jinan Municipal Committee of the CPC (济南市委党校) (Jinan Institute of Administration (济南行政学院)), stated that they will take the Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) as an important content of theoretical education and Party spirit education, and further explore the establishment of a full-cycle, full-chain Party spirit education model that integrates thematic Party lectures, on-site realization, learning expansion, and exchange discussions, striving to make Party spirit tempering in the Party school truly vivid, profound, and deeply rooted in the mind and heart.
Study, Think, Practice, and Comprehend; Persistently Advance the Party's Own Construction
The Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) centrally embodies our Party's political will, political stance, political propositions, and political wisdom in managing and governing the Party. It profoundly answers a series of major questions such as "how to never forget the original intention and keep the mission in mind" and "how to jump out of the historical cycle of rise and fall," pointing out the correct political direction for Party construction in the new era.
"The great practice of comprehensively and strictly governing the Party in the new era is a powerful proof of the truth and practical power of the Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平)." Qian Baoxing (钱保兴), Secretary of the Party General Branch of Heinidi Community (黑泥地社区), Yangjie Township (羊街乡), Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture (红河哈尼族彝族自治州), Yunnan (云南), believes that adhering to the normalization and long-term effectiveness of work style construction is one of the essential connotations of the Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平), and it is also an important starting point for grassroots cadres to close the relationship with the masses. Party members and cadres must strictly cultivate their character, exercise power, and discipline themselves, and implement the spirit of the Central Eight-point Regulation (中央八项规定) without compromise, so as to continuously consolidate the political foundation for the Party's long-term governance.
Discipline is the "measuring stick" for managing and governing the Party, and it is also the standard and follow for Party members and cadres to constrain their own behavior. The Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) clearly proposes "adhering to using strict discipline to manage and govern the entire Party."
"Discipline construction is the focus of comprehensively and strictly governing the Party. We must always put discipline in the forefront and use strict discipline to rectify the style of work and regulate the behavior of performing duties." Wu Bihao (吴必豪), Secretary of the Commission for Discipline Inspection and Director of the Supervisory Commission of Shibing County (施秉县), Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture (黔东南苗族侗族自治州), Guizhou (贵州), stated that they will always anchor the tone of strictness, focus on the local development main line of "grasping industry and attacking industry," accurately deepen the application of the "four forms" (四种形态) of supervision and discipline enforcement, continuously improve the precision of discipline enforcement and accountability, and continuously transform the effectiveness of studying and understanding the Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) into internal motivation for promoting practical work.
At the Party Conduct and Clean Government Construction Training Base in Lingao County (临高县), Hainan (海南), Lin Hongzhen (林红珍), Director of the Research and Publicity Office of the County Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervisory Commission, is working with colleagues to turn the essential connotations of the Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) into display boards for everyone to study and discuss.
"The Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) is the latest achievement of the 'Two Combinations' (两个结合) in the field of Party building. 'Adhering to the integrated promotion of not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt' (三不腐) is the intuitive embodiment of the spiritual core of clean culture." Lin Hongzhen (林红珍) stated that they must more accurately grasp the practical requirements of the Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平), make greater efforts in the integrated promotion of the "three non-corruptions," and extend the anti-corruption chain from the source through methods such as family style classes and family-style clean government talks, continuously amplifying the comprehensive effectiveness of anti-corruption.
To govern the country, one must first govern the Party; to govern the Party, one must be strict; to be strict, one must follow the law.
"The 'Fourteen Adherences' (十四个坚持) clearly propose 'adhering to governing the Party by system and according to regulations,' providing a fundamental follow for the grassroots to enhance the authority and execution of intra-Party regulations with practical actions." Sun Haidong (孙海东), Secretary of the Qixia District Party Committee (栖霞区委) of Nanjing (南京), Jiangsu (江苏), said, "Everyone is equal before the system, and there are no exceptions in implementing the system. We will take inspections, special supervision, and the rectification of historical legacy problems as the starting point, continuously improve the system, promote problem rectification and system building in an integrated manner, and truly cage power within the system."
Hold High the Flag and Forge Ahead; Build Our Party Well and Strong
The "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五) period is a critical period for laying the foundation and making comprehensive efforts to basically realize socialist modernization. The heaviness of the tasks of reform, development, and stability, and the multitude of contradictions, risks, and challenges all put forward new and higher requirements for the Party's own construction, the Party's governance capacity, and leadership level.
The Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) was formed in the great practice of the new era, and it will surely demonstrate majestic power in guiding and promoting practice.
Since the beginning of summer, some farmland in Huaiyuan County (怀远县), Bengbu (蚌埠), Anhui (安徽), has experienced tight irrigation water. Fang Binjie (方斌杰), Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Town Mayor of Bailianpo Town (白莲坡镇), Huaiyuan County (怀远县), rushed to the scene at the first time to coordinate various village groups to divert water at staggered times and resolve difficulties.
"The purpose of learning lies entirely in application. The 'Fourteen Adherences' (十四个坚持) clearly propose adhering to using the Party's innovative theory to condense hearts and cast souls, putting forward higher requirements for us to transform the results of learning into practical actions and responsibilities." Fang Binjie (方斌杰) said that as a young grassroots cadre, he will adhere to the integration of learning, thinking, and using, the unity of knowing, believing, and acting, firmly establish and practice the correct view of political achievements, and transform the achievements of theoretical study into specific actions of developing industries, stabilizing employment, and benefiting people's livelihoods.
Walking into Nanqiao Village (南桥村) in Binyang County (宾阳县), Nanning (南宁), Guangxi (广西), the village is clean and the environment is pleasant. It is hard to imagine that in the past, sewage was discharged indiscriminately and dust filled the sky.
"Adhering to never forgetting the original intention and keeping the mission in mind is one of the essential connotations of the Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平), and it is also an important follow for us to do a good job in grassroots work." In the past few days, Liang Zhanfan (梁展凡), Secretary of the Binyang County Party Committee (宾阳县委), has come to Nanqiao Village (南桥村) again to check the progress of the rectification of problems such as garbage accumulation.
"Whether the political achievements are good or not, the masses have the final say; whether the original intention is firm or not, practical work will test it. The more complex the situation and the more arduous the task, the more we need to study and understand the Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) well, and perform our duties and serve the masses around the various livelihood deployments of the '15th Five-Year Plan' (十五五)." Liang Zhanfan (梁展凡) said.
Building our Party well and strong cannot be separated from a strong organizational system and cadre team.
Since the beginning of this year, Jingmen (荆门), Hubei (湖北), has used "running to the front line" to promote development, guiding cadres to step out of their offices and take root in the forefront of key project construction, the resolution of legacy problems, and the handling of livelihood matters.
"Adhering to improving the organizational system that runs through the top and bottom and is powerful in execution is the advantage of our Party, and it is also an important aspect of implementing the Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平)." Liu Fuguo (刘富国), Member of the Standing Committee of the Jingmen Municipal Party Committee (荆门市委) and Minister of the Organization Department, stated that it is necessary to effectively transform organizational strength and organizational advantages into development momentum and development advantages, adhere to the standards for good cadres in the new era, build and strengthen the cadre team, and provide strong support for comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese-style modernization.
One part deployment, nine parts implementation.
"Has the requirement of scanning the code to enter the enterprise been implemented? Are there any law enforcement officers who went to the door for inspection without scanning the code?" Recently, at a mining company in Luanchuan County (栾川县), Luoyang (洛阳), Henan (河南), discipline inspection and supervision cadres checked the records of scanning codes to enter the enterprise on the spot and revisited the enterprise person in charge about the situation of enterprise-related law enforcement, ensuring that enterprises can put more energy into production.
"The responsibility of managing and governing the Party is the most fundamental political responsibility. Implementing it into the work of optimizing the business environment depends on whether the responsibilities at all levels have been compacted, whether policy implementation has deviated, and whether the demands of enterprises have been responded to." Qi Jianfeng (祁建峰), Secretary of the Luoyang Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection (洛阳市纪委) and Director of the Supervisory Commission, stated that they will take the Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) as a guide, grasp the "nose of the ox" (牛鼻子) (niú bí zi - "ox nose," the key point or core issue) of the responsibility system, promote the responsibility requirements to the post and to the person, and make assessment and accountability visible and effective, advancing the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party with higher standards and more practical measures.
(According to Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 17)
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In midsummer in Northern Shaanxi (陕北), the morning sunlight spills over the treetops, casting its glow upon the blue bricks and grey tiles of the Central Auditorium at the Yangjialing Revolutionary Site (杨家岭革命旧址).
Yan'an (延安), the sacred site of the Chinese revolution and the cradle of the New China (新中国), stands as a testament to history. Cave dwellings (窑洞), desks, writing brushes and inkstones, and oil lamps—each object and artifact is engraved with the imprints of history and records the 峥嵘岁月 (zhēng róng suì yuè - "lofty/extraordinary years," referring to difficult and heroic times), attracting numerous visitors from all over to pay their respects.
In October 2022, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out while visiting the Yan'an Revolutionary Memorial Sites (延安革命纪念地): "The revolutionary sites in Yan'an (延安) have witnessed the glorious journey of our Party leading the Chinese revolution and exploring the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism during the Yan'an (延安) period. It is a book that can never be finished; every time one visits, one gains new insights from the old, receiving profound education and inspiration. We must manage and research them well, and combine them with reality to tell the stories of Yangjialing (杨家岭) and the 7th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的七大) well." In May 2023, while listening to the work report of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee (陕西省委) and the Provincial Government (省政府), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that "Shaanxi (陕西) must make good use of its own historical and cultural resources as well as its red cultural resources, and vigorously carry forward the great founding spirit of the Party and the Yan'an Spirit (延安精神)."
Bearing the instructions firmly in mind and living up to the mission, Yan'an (延安) has continuously strengthened the protection and utilization of its red resources in recent years, inheriting the red gene and continuing the red bloodline. Yan'an (延安) currently possesses 445 revolutionary sites and 19 revolutionary memorial halls, with a collection of over 43,000 pieces (sets) of revolutionary artifacts.
Putting protection first is paramount. "In the past, every rainy season, we could only cover the cave dwellings with plastic sheets," says Hou Zhenlong (侯振龙), Director of the Yangjialing Revolutionary Site Management Office (杨家岭革命旧址管理处). Today, a digital twin preventive protection system provides the sites with a "technological shield"—through 3D modeling, the Internet of Things, and Beidou (北斗) technology, indicators such as temperature, humidity, and soil moisture are monitored in real-time, allowing all data to be accessed via a mobile phone.
At the Yan'an Revolutionary Memorial Hall (延安革命纪念馆), artifacts can undergo "check-ups" and "treatments" without leaving the storage rooms. Curator Liu Ni (刘妮) says that by utilizing 3D laser scanning, virtual reality, and other technologies, the memorial hall has accelerated digital collection and archiving. Today, Yan'an (延安) has built a safety supervision and command platform for its revolutionary site clusters, achieving smart supervision for 40 national-level protected units and 69 provincial-level protected units.
With protection as the priority, we must also let history "speak."
Inside the memorial hall, visitors can put on augmented reality glasses to revisit the glorious history, making the red stories within the revolutionary artifacts even more captivating. Beside the Yan'an Lu Xun Academy of Arts and Literature (鲁艺) Culture Center, visitors can experience pottery making firsthand at the Lu Xun Academy of Arts and Literature (鲁艺) Pottery Workshop.
Transcending time and space, the spirit is eternal.
"Red history should be told to more people," says Liu Jingyi (刘静仪), a fourth-grade "Little Docent" who is providing voluntary explanations to visitors at the Zaoyuan Revolutionary Site (枣园革命旧址) in Yan'an (延安).
At the Memorial Hall of the Northwest Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央西北局纪念馆), "Little Docents" are also highly popular. Over the past 10 years, museum docent Luo Yu (罗玉) has trained more than 2,000 "Little Docents."
The red bloodline is passed down from generation to generation. As of 2025, the "Little Docent" program in Yan'an (延安) has been running for 35 years, having trained over 20,000 "Little Docents" and hosted 367,000 visitors.
Relying on its rich red resources, Yan'an (延安) is welcoming more youthful faces: the "New Era Youth Yan'an Journey" (新时代青年延安行) social practice activity has become a "Grand Ideological and Political Course" for university students; the opening and operation of the Xi'an-Yan'an High-speed Railway (西延高铁) has led to a continuous rise in family travel and study tours. In 2025, more than 50 million people visited Yan'an (延安) to read together this "book that can never be finished."
"The pages of the book are heavy with history, and the spirit will live forever," says He Dongmei (贺冬梅), Executive Deputy Director of the Yan'an Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau (延安市文物局). "From this book, we draw the strength to forge ahead and continue to march forward bravely."
Return to TopXinhua News Agency (新华社), Beijing (北京), June 17 — On June 17, Vice President (国家副主席) Han Zheng (韩正) met with former U.S. Secretary of Transportation (美国运输部长) Elaine Chao (赵小兰) in Beijing (北京).
Han Zheng (韩正) stated that in May of this year, President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Trump (特朗普) jointly determined a new positioning for a constructive strategic stable relationship between China (中国) and the United States (美国), providing important strategic guidance for the next stage of China-U.S. (中美) relations. The Chinese (中方) side has consistently been committed to developing stable China-U.S. (中美) relations. Implementing the consensus reached by the two heads of state requires joint action from all sectors of both sides to further strengthen cooperation in areas such as economy and trade, enhance people-to-people exchanges and non-governmental local interactions, and build more solid support for the development of bilateral relations.
Elaine Chao (赵小兰) stated that the meeting between the U.S. (美) and Chinese (中) heads of state is of great significance, and maintaining a stable U.S.-China (美中) relationship is in the interests of all parties. She expressed her willingness to continue making efforts to promote pragmatic cooperation between the U.S. (美) and China (中) and to facilitate non-governmental exchanges. Although the current situation requires both sides to avoid 守株待兔 (shǒu zhū dài tù - "guard stump wait rabbit," to rely on luck or wait idly for opportunities) and instead actively work toward shared goals, she remains optimistic about the future of these interactions.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency (新华社), Beijing (北京), June 17 — (Reporters Wen Xin (温馨), Sun Nan (孙楠)) To introduce China's (中国) concepts, initiatives, and actions regarding global governance, to more broadly build consensus within the international community, to more effectively address global challenges, and to build a more just and reasonable global governance system, the State Council Information Office (国务院新闻办公室) released a white paper titled "Building a More Just and Reasonable Global Governance System: China's (中国) Concepts, Initiatives, and Actions" on June 17.
The white paper points out that global governance is a common cause concerning human well-being, and building a just and reasonable global governance system is a common vision that people of all countries 孜孜以求 (zī zī yǐ qiú - "diligent seek," to pursue something tirelessly and persistently). China (中国) has always been an active participant, contributor, and builder of global governance. Since the dawn of the new era, President Xi Jinping (习近平) has historically proposed the major concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind (人类命运共同体), advocated for a global governance view based on extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits, and championed the practice of true multilateralism, promoting equal and orderly world multipolarity and universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization. In 2025, President Xi Jinping (习近平) solemnly proposed the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议), providing a Chinese (中国) solution to answer the epochal question of "what kind of global governance system to build and how to reform and improve global governance."
The white paper states that once the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议) was proposed, it quickly received support and responses from nearly 160 countries and international organizations, with more than 60 countries enthusiastically joining the "Group of Friends of Global Governance" (全球治理之友小组). The international community believes that the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议) has sent a clear signal to hold high the banner of multilateralism, gather the power of unity, and pursue a fair future. It conforms to the historical trend of the democratization of international relations, boosts the firm confidence of the international community in practicing multilateralism, provides a clear and feasible path for improving global governance, and injects valuable stability and positive energy into a turbulent world.
The white paper points out that China's (中国) proposal of the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议) aims to promote the construction of a more just and reasonable global governance system. To implement the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议), the most fundamental requirement is to firmly safeguard the authority and status of the United Nations (联合国); the most critical requirement is for major powers to demonstrate their sense of responsibility; the most necessary requirement is for all countries to unite and cooperate; and the most urgent requirement is to bridge the peace and development deficits. We must unswervingly safeguard the international system with the United Nations (联合国) at its core, the international order based on international law (国际法), and the basic norms of international relations based on the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章), rather than 另起炉灶 (lìng qǐ lú zào - "set up another stove," to start something over from scratch or create a separate, competing system).
The white paper consists of over 20,000 characters and, in addition to the preface and concluding remarks, is divided into five parts: The severe and complex crises and challenges facing the world today; The Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议) provides an answer for the times to solve difficult problems; China's (中国) contributions to advancing the cause of global governance; Leading the direction of change and moving toward a bright future; Moving forward together at a critical juncture in historical evolution.
(For related reports, see page 2; for the full text of the white paper, see pages 11-13)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency (新华社), Beijing (北京), June 17 — Recently, the State Council (国务院) issued the "15th Five-Year Plan for Implementing the Employment-First Strategy" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan" (《规划》)), which clarifies the ideas, goals, key tasks, and policy measures for deeply implementing the employment-first strategy and promoting high-quality full employment during the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五) period.
The "Plan" (《规划》) emphasizes adhering to the guidance of 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), focusing on the goal of promoting high-quality full employment. Centered on the primary contradiction of the mismatch between human resource supply and demand in the employment sector, it insists on closely combining investment in physical assets with investment in people. It takes promoting high-quality development as the foundation, the implementation of the employment-first strategy as the guide, the strengthening of employment-first policies as the lever, the resolution of structural employment contradictions as the focal point, the deepening of reforms to the employment system and mechanism as the driving force, and the prevention of large-scale unemployment risks as the bottom line. It aims to improve employment promotion mechanisms, build employment-friendly development models, strengthen human resource development and utilization, reinforce guidance on career selection and hiring concepts, continuously promote the effective improvement in the quality and reasonable growth in the quantity of employment, and constantly enhance the sense of gain, happiness, and security for the vast number of workers.
The "Plan" (《规划》) proposes that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五) period, employment will remain generally stable, employment opportunities will be more abundant, the employment environment will be fairer, the employment structure will be more optimized, the matching of people to jobs will be more efficient, labor relations will be more harmonious, and new progress will be made in high-quality full employment.
The "Plan" (《规划》) deploys nine key tasks. First, strengthen the employment-first orientation of macroeconomic regulation, enhance the synergy of macroeconomic policies for employment, implement actions to stabilize jobs, expand capacity, and improve quality, and adapt to the development of artificial intelligence to promote employment and entrepreneurship. Second, strengthen the synergy between industry and employment, stabilize the scale of employment in labor-intensive industries, expand the employment capacity of the service sector, and tap into the potential for job absorption in emerging fields. Third, accelerate the shaping of modern human resources, improve the matching degree between educational supply and talent demand, and carry out large-scale vocational skills training. Fourth, expand channels for university graduates and other young people to find employment and succeed, and improve a full-chain employment support system covering policy incentives, service guarantees, bottom-line assistance for those in difficulty, and rights protection. Fifth, increase support for the employment of key groups such as migrant workers (农民工) and veterans (退役军人), and strengthen employment assistance for groups such as those facing employment difficulties and registered unemployed persons. Sixth, promote the healthy development of flexible employment and new forms of employment, broaden development channels, strengthen public services, and safeguard legitimate rights and interests. Seventh, improve the employment and entrepreneurship service system and promote the high-quality and efficient development of human resource services. Eighth, strengthen the protection of workers' employment rights, improve labor standard systems and mechanisms for consultation and coordination of labor relations, and guarantee equal employment rights. Ninth, strengthen employment monitoring and early warning and risk response, and improve the ability to scientifically judge and analyze the employment situation.
The "Plan" (《规划》) requires upholding the Party's leadership throughout the entire process and all aspects of implementing the employment-first strategy and promoting high-quality full employment. All regions and departments must treat employment as the top priority of people's livelihood, pay attention to systematic implementation, and ensure the fulfillment of the "Plan" (《规划》) tasks in light of actual conditions, avoiding 纸上谈兵 (zhǐ shàng tán bīng - "paper on discuss soldiers," to engage in empty theorizing without practical application).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 朱 隽 郁静娴 李晓晴
In June, the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain (黄淮海平原) is a sea of rolling wheat waves. Combine harvesters "sweep" across the fields, and golden wheat grains flow "with a rustle" into the grain tanks.
In the high-yield demonstration field of the Huaibiao Agricultural Machinery Service Professional Cooperative (怀彪农机服务专业合作社) in Fengtai County (凤台县), Huainan (淮南), Anhui (安徽), the wheat was harvested within a week, with a yield of 706.4 kilograms per mu. "This harvest was not easy," said Xu Jiajia (徐甲甲), the head of the cooperative. "Last year, during the planting season, we had continuous overcast and rainy weather, which delayed sowing by about 10 days. Later, we managed every growth stage of the wheat with precision, and by the end of the season, we still achieved an increase in production."
According to the agricultural situation monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部), over 90% of the summer grain harvest has been completed nationwide. As of June 17, 318 million mu of summer wheat had been harvested, reaching a progress rate of 93.73%. Overall, the area for summer grain this year has remained stable, yields per unit are expected to rise, the production outlook is clear, and a bumper harvest is a foregone conclusion.
A bountiful summer harvest ensures stability for the entire year. "Winning" the first battle of summer grain production has laid a solid foundation for the year's total grain production, demonstrating the strong resilience of the nation's "granary."
### Wheat Harvest "Breaks Through" Barriers
A bumper summer harvest is hard-won; from planting to harvesting, "seizing the moment" (抢) is the keyword.
"In the past, we would have sown wheat on a large scale around October 8 of the previous year. Last year, the fields were too wet, and we didn't start sowing until November 15," said Li Yueming (李曰明), a major grain grower in Yuji Township (于集乡), Lingcheng District (陵城区), Dezhou (德州), Shandong (山东), while discussing the "late sowing" of this season.
It was not just Li Yueming’s 4,000-plus mu of land; the continuous rainy weather last autumn severely affected winter wheat sowing in the Huang-Huai-Hai region, with sowing dates generally delayed by 20 to 40 days compared to normal years, and the proportion of late sowing reaching 44.2%. In Shandong, 70.9% of plots were still "open" around the time of Frost's Descent (霜降).
Land area is the foundation of production; to ensure a bumper harvest, one must first stabilize the planting area.
With late sowing dates and overly wet soil, all major producing regions tightened their focus, rushing to disperse moisture, prepare the land, and sow quickly, following the strategy of "compensating for lateness with sowing, quality, density, and technology."
"Rushing to sow doesn't mean doing it blindly. Sowing dates must yield to soil moisture, seeding rates must yield to sowing dates, and progress must yield to quality. The later you sow, the more meticulous you must be," said Li Yueming.
Through unremitting efforts, winter wheat across the country was sown as much as possible, the area remained stable, and the foundation for a bumper harvest was secured.
Late sowing directly affects the condition of the seedlings. "Before the Lunar New Year, the seedlings in the fields hadn't fully emerged; most were 'bean sprout seedlings,' and there were many 'single needles' or even seeds 'smothered in the soil,'" said Li Yueming.
The pre-winter seedling condition maps of major producing regions also showed weak root systems, fewer tillers, and smaller leaves, with first- and second-class seedlings decreasing by 43.8% year-on-year. What to do? Use technology to strengthen seedlings and save the crop.
"Around the time of wheat green-up, we used moisture and rain to apply fertilizer, changing the strategy from 'postponing nitrogen fertilizer' to 'rushing fertilizer during green-up,' which effectively promoted the growth of weak seedlings and root tillers. By the time the wheat reached the jointing stage, the proportion of first- and second-class seedlings in Shandong Province had reached 91.3%, catching up to the average level of normal years," introduced a relevant official from the Shandong Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (山东省农业农村厅).
"Agricultural technicians ran to the fields time and again, advising on when to irrigate for green-up and how to formulate fertilizer... plans were made based on the classification of seedling conditions," said Li Yueming. By the end of March this year, the wheat fields showed improvement, and slow-release nitrogen fertilizer was used in the later stages for longer-lasting effects. Now, the wheat has been safely stored, with a yield exceeding 600 kilograms per mu.
With the seedling condition recovered, pests and diseases became another hurdle.
"Major pests and diseases in the middle and late stages of wheat are showing a trend of severe occurrence this year," experts from the National Agricultural Technology Extension Service Center (全国农技中心) predicted and analyzed in early April.
"There was a lot of rain this spring, and the wheat fields had high density and humidity, making them prone to disease." In Shiji Township (石集乡), Sihong County (泗洪县), Suqian (宿迁), Jiangsu (江苏), major grain grower Wu Dinghe (吴定和) sprayed his wheat fields twice this year. During the late grain-filling stage, he also sprayed foliar fertilizer to combat hot, dry winds. "Thanks to preventative measures taken early on, we nipped the threat of pests and diseases in the bud."
Shaanxi (陕西) aimed at "promoting tillering, ensuring spike formation, and increasing grain weight," persisting in promotion until the end. Anhui (安徽) basically completed two rounds of high-quality scab prevention and control across the province before the end of April. Henan (河南) cleared nearly 10 million mu of ryegrass in heavily infested areas, effectively suppressing the spread of weed damage. Nationwide, wheat pest and disease control covered 890 million mu, and "one spray, three preventions" covered 480 million mu. By "snatching grain from the mouths of pests," effective results were achieved.
When wheat ripens, every moment counts; success lies in the race against time. On May 28, large-scale mechanical harvesting of wheat began nationwide. From June 2 to 4, the daily harvested area nationwide exceeded 20 million mu for three consecutive days. In Henan, from May 31 to June 5, 60.41 million mu were harvested in six days, averaging over 10 million mu per day.
"Spring is a race for days, summer is a race for time." The round-the-clock harvesting left a deep impression on Liang Hui (梁辉), a major grain grower in Yushan Town (峪山镇), Xiangzhou District (襄州区), Xiangyang (襄阳), Hubei (湖北). It rained during the days of harvesting; at night, drones carrying emergency lights slowly rose into the sky, combine harvesters shuttled back and forth, and wheat grains fell through the unloading tubes into transport trucks, which were then immediately sent to nearby drying stations. Liang Hui said: "Only when the last few hundred mu were harvested did I feel at ease."
From sowing to harvesting, repeated "rushing" made the "counterattack" of late-sown wheat a reality.
### Behind the "Rush" are Strong Supports in Policy, Technology, and Equipment
A bumper summer harvest is inseparable from the support of diverse factors.
Fiscal funds were allocated in a timely manner. The central government issued 484 million yuan in agricultural production disaster relief funds for machine harvesting, grain drying, and farmland drainage in seven provinces in the Huang-Huai-Hai region. It also pre-allocated funds for "one spray, three preventions" and pest control, and urgently arranged 1.5 billion yuan in special funds to support 11 major winter wheat-producing provinces in promoting the strengthening of weak seedlings.
Credit funds provided "extra bricks and mortar." During the wheat harvest, the Liangmancang Agricultural Machinery Professional Cooperative (粮满仓农机专业合作社) in Jingzhou District (荆州区), Jingzhou (荆州), Hubei (湖北), had five drying machines running 24 hours a day. A 1.4 million yuan special loan from the Agricultural Bank of China (中国农业银行) covered equipment maintenance and electricity costs, ensuring 160 tons of wet grain could be dried at full capacity every day. To guarantee the funding needs for summer grain harvesting and drying, the Agricultural Bank of China has cumulatively invested 100 billion yuan in key links such as grain planting, purchasing, processing, and storage. The Agricultural Development Bank of China (中国农业发展银行) has pre-arranged 150 billion yuan in summer grain purchase funds to ensure that "money waits for grain."
Technology, as an important backdrop, reflects the profound transformation of agricultural production methods.
In Jiangsu, the "Sunongyun" (苏农云) platform "links" nearly 60 intelligent scab forecasters and over 800 "four-situation" monitoring stations, collecting real-time key data such as temperature, humidity, rainfall, and growth stages to continuously revise scab predictions.
"To strengthen technological empowerment, experts in the system's stations focus on farming seasons and integrate efforts across the entire chain," introduced Liu Luxiang (刘录祥), chief scientist of the National Wheat Industry Technology System (国家小麦产业技术体系). In Wuhan (武汉), Hubei, focusing on "variety disaster avoidance," they promoted varieties with outstanding resistance to pre-harvest sprouting such as "Kenmai 58" (垦麦58) and "Emai 30" (鄂麦30), effectively mitigating the risk of disasters caused by rain during the maturation period. In Hengshui (衡水), Hebei (河北), they established a "digital platform for agricultural machinery supply and demand" at the county level to achieve precise scheduling, ensuring the mechanical harvest loss rate is controlled within 1.5%.
Technological promotion is equally important. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has successively dispatched 37 working groups and scientific and technological teams to continue the 140-day campaign to strengthen spring management, promote seedling growth, and fight disasters for a bumper summer harvest, holding over 900 online and offline training sessions with over 8 million participants.
"Rushing" the summer harvest is inseparable from efficient agricultural machinery. To cope with heavy rainfall in Hubei, 13,000 combine harvesters provided cross-regional support. "We successively mobilized over 9,000 crawler-type combine harvesters from Zhumadian (驻马店) and mobilized 'Tianzhong Maike' (天中麦客) to actively participate in the emergency harvesting of rapeseed and wheat in Hubei," said a relevant official from the Henan Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (河南省农业农村厅).
To ensure that mature wheat is harvested and dried in a timely manner, nine key wheat-harvesting provinces organized over 3,300 regional agricultural machinery social service centers, over 2,000 regional agricultural emergency disaster relief centers, and over 5,900 normalized agricultural machinery emergency operation service teams, mobilizing over 280,000 crawler-type combine harvesters and over 70,000 various types of drying machines. Data shows that compared with 2023, the national inventory of drying machines has reached 207,400 units, an increase of 61%; the daily drying capacity has reached 8.42 million tons, an increase of 66%.
### Advancing in Succession, Going All Out for Autumn Grain Production
This year is the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五), and ensuring that the annual grain output remains at around 1.4 trillion jin is one of the main expected goals for economic and social development. Summer grain accounts for 21% of the annual grain output, with the bulk still coming from autumn grain.
As the summer harvest progresses, the sowing of summer corn in the Huang-Huai-Hai region will also be launched on a large scale. Recently, the Corn Expert Guidance Group of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部玉米专家指导组) and the National Agricultural Technology Extension Service Center (全国农业技术推广服务中心) jointly issued production technology guidance opinions, guiding various regions to focus on sowing with moisture and moderately increasing density, seizing the farming season to ensure planting within the optimal period.
In Huixian City (辉县市), Henan, Zhang Hailiang (张海亮), leader of an agricultural machinery service team, began coordinating operation areas as soon as he received reservation calls from villagers. "As soon as the combine harvester comes out of the field, the rake follows to gather rows, the baler follows closely behind, and the straw is loaded and transported away in time, so as not to delay the next round of sowing," said Zhang Hailiang.
In Wenshang County (汶上县), Shandong, the local government organized major grain growers, service entities, and agricultural supply enterprises to form a cooperative alliance. The "Wennongfu" (汶农服) digital platform allows for seamless connection between summer harvesting and summer planting. "You 'order' one day, and they enter the field the next." In the wheat field of Fang Maojun (房茂军), a major grain grower in Liu Village (柳村), Yiqiao Town (义桥镇), two air-suction precision corn seeders automatically planned the optimal route, sowing at a uniform depth of 3 to 5 centimeters and alternating row spacings of 40 and 80 centimeters, making the sowing fast and even.
A relevant official from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs stated that this year, they will continue to implement the action of increasing yields of grain and oil crops on a large scale, increase the number of counties promoting the entire system from 702 to 1,000, launch 20 cities promoting the entire system, and continuously promote the integrated efficiency of good fields, good seeds, good machines, and good methods. Grasping one node after another, they will go all out to lay a solid foundation for a bumper autumn harvest and ensure the completion of the annual grain production target tasks.
A bumper summer harvest is a foregone conclusion, and the "ballast stone" of the "three rural issues" (三农) is more stable, which will provide a more solid guarantee for coping with various risks and challenges.
(Participating reporter: Wu Jun (吴君))
Return to TopBy: 桂从路
Based on this new stage, how can we better leverage institutional advantages and normalize the work of East-West collaboration? "Promoting industrial complementarity, personnel interaction, technical mutual learning, conceptual exchange, and mutual reference of work styles between the East and the West"—the important instructions from General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) point the way and clarify the path.
Looking at the development changes through the lens of the Minning Collaboration (闽宁协作), we can understand the underlying code and promote the continuous deepening and solid implementation of East-West collaboration. Over the past 30 years, from the early days of Juncao (菌草) cultivation helping the masses increase their income, to today's transmission of green electricity from Ningxia (宁夏) to Fujian (福建) and the joint construction of a green electricity digital intelligence application center by the two regions, the reason the Minning Collaboration (闽宁协作) continues to upgrade lies in one important aspect: consistently adhering to complementary advantages and mutual benefit to achieve two-way empowerment.
Mutual benefit and win-win results, common development. Whether it is building a unified national market or promoting the extension, supplementation, and strengthening of industrial chains, continuously enhancing the coordination of regional development will allow us to transform the potential energy of regional disparities into the kinetic energy of coordinated development. We must not 守株待兔 (shǒu zhū dài tù - "guard stump wait rabbit," to rely on luck or wait idly for opportunities) but rather actively seek progress.
Normalized assistance requires more pragmatic responsibility and action. By adhering to the national "one game of chess" (全国一盘棋) approach and forming a harmony within the unified command of the Party Central Committee (党中央), our pace toward achieving common development and moving toward common prosperity will surely be more solid.
Return to TopI. At the invitation of President Xi Jinping (习近平) of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国), President Min Aung Hlaing (敏昂莱) of Myanmar (缅甸) paid a state visit to the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国) from June 15 to 19, 2026.
During the visit, President Xi Jinping (习近平) held talks with President Min Aung Hlaing (敏昂莱). The two sides exchanged in-depth views and reached important consensus on consolidating the Pauk-Phaw friendship between China (中) and Myanmar (缅), advancing comprehensive strategic cooperation, and deepening the building of a China-Myanmar (中缅) community with a shared future. Premier Li Qiang (李强) of the State Council of China (中国国务院) and Chairman Zhao Leji (赵乐际) of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人民代表大会常务委员会) met with President Min Aung Hlaing (敏昂莱) respectively.
II. Both sides emphasized that since the establishment of diplomatic relations 76 years ago, China (中) and Myanmar (缅) have been good neighbors, good friends, and good partners who have always maintained sincere mutual trust and helped each other. Their friendship has grown 历久弥坚 (lì jiǔ mí jiān - "endure long become firm," to become stronger and more solid as time passes), and their cooperative relationship is inseparable. Both sides have consistently adhered to treating each other as equals, achieving mutual benefit and win-win results, and firmly supporting each other in safeguarding national sovereignty, security, and development interests. Given the profound changes in the international and regional landscape, both sides agreed to further promote the Pauk-Phaw friendship between China (中) and Myanmar (缅), firmly uphold the spirit of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, deepen pragmatic cooperation in various fields based on the principles of equality, mutual benefit, mutual respect, and consultation, and continuously advance the building of a China-Myanmar (中缅) community with a shared future to better benefit the two peoples.
III. Both sides reiterated their continued firm mutual support on issues concerning each other's core interests and major concerns.
The Chinese (中) side welcomes Myanmar's (缅甸) holding of general elections and reiterates its support for Myanmar's (缅甸) efforts to achieve lasting peace, stability, and development in the country.
The Chinese (中) side firmly supports Myanmar (缅甸) in pursuing a development path that suits its national conditions and is supported by its people, firmly supports Myanmar (缅甸) in safeguarding its national sovereignty, security, territorial integrity, and national dignity, and firmly supports Myanmar (缅甸) in achieving national peace and stability, national reconciliation, social harmony, and long-term peace and order.
The Myanmar (缅甸) side reiterated its adherence to the One-China policy, acknowledging that there is but one China (中国) in the world, that Taiwan (台湾) is an inalienable part of China's (中国) territory, and that the Government of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国) is the sole legal government representing the whole of China (中国). The Myanmar (缅甸) side opposes "Taiwan independence" (台独) in any form, will not conduct any form of official exchanges with Taiwan (台湾), and firmly supports all efforts made by the Chinese (中国) government to achieve national reunification, emphasizing that the authority of United Nations General Assembly (联合国大会) Resolution 2758 is indisputable. The Myanmar (缅甸) side believes that issues related to Hong Kong (港), Xinjiang (疆), and Xizang (藏) are China's (中国) internal affairs and firmly supports the Chinese (中) side's just position on these issues.
The Chinese (中) side highly appreciates the Myanmar (缅甸) side's long-term firm support for the One-China policy and its support for China's (中) firm defense of its sovereignty, territorial integrity, and national reunification.
Both sides reiterated that neither country shall allow its territory to be used for activities that harm the security interests of the other.
IV. The Myanmar (缅甸) side highly evaluates the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平), as well as the Global Development Initiative, Global Security Initiative, Global Civilization Initiative, and Global Governance Initiative. The Myanmar (缅甸) side believes these are conducive to safeguarding the common interests of all mankind and advancing the cause of world peace and progress. Both sides agreed to make every effort to promote the implementation of these concepts and initiatives, carry out cooperation in various fields, and make positive contributions to promoting world peace, stability, development, and prosperity.
V. Both sides will work together to build a China-Myanmar (中缅) community with a shared future characterized by political friendship and mutual trust, mutually beneficial development, coordinated and mutually reinforcing security, and cultural exchanges and mutual learning, upholding the principles of equality, mutual benefit, and win-win results. Both sides agreed to maintain exchanges at all levels, deepen the exchange of experience in governance, and strengthen cooperation between the two governments, legislative bodies, and local authorities.
Both sides attach importance to and are willing to negotiate and sign a cooperation plan on the "Belt and Road" (一带一路) at an appropriate time. Both sides agreed to advance the construction of the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (中缅经济走廊) and prudently advance cooperation on major corridor projects such as the Kyaukpyu Deep Sea Port (皎漂深水港) and the Muse-Mandalay Railway (木姐—曼德勒铁路). These projects will follow the principles of mutual respect, mutual benefit, win-win results, commercial viability, and financial sustainability, and will fully comply with the laws, regulations, and basic national conditions of both countries. Both sides agreed to continue to leverage the role of the China-Myanmar Oil and Gas Pipeline (中缅油气管道), prudently advance power grid interconnection, and explore the establishment of an economically and environmentally sustainable energy partnership. The Chinese (中) side reiterated its willingness to provide continuous support in this regard, for which the Myanmar (缅甸) side expressed its gratitude.
Both sides agreed to continue to deepen pragmatic cooperation in fields such as minerals, digital economy, and artificial intelligence to maximize economic complementarity.
Both sides agreed to deepen cooperation in agriculture, forestry, and animal husbandry, simplify quarantine access procedures for high-quality agricultural products, and explore the implementation of smart customs measures.
Both sides agreed to strengthen cooperation in education, culture and tourism, health, youth, media, and human resources training to enhance mutual understanding between the two peoples and contribute to the development of people's livelihoods in both countries.
Both sides noted the steady growth of bilateral trade and agreed that its scale should be further expanded and its diversity enhanced. Both sides agreed to implement a direct settlement mechanism for the Renminbi (人民币) and Myanmar Kyat (缅币) to promote trade, and support the strengthening of trade and investment cooperation in areas of common interest such as agricultural product processing, petroleum, and energy.
Both sides will work together to manage and maintain the memorial facilities for the Chinese Expeditionary Force (中国远征军) in Myanmar (缅甸).
The Chinese (中) side actively supports Myanmar's (缅甸) post-disaster reconstruction and is willing to provide further support within its capacity on the basis of the emergency humanitarian disaster relief assistance provided previously. Both sides will work together to promote iconic projects such as the reconstruction of the Aung San Stadium (昂山体育场), deepen development cooperation in areas such as disaster prevention and mitigation, medical and health care, and community-focused human resource development, and explore more "small yet beautiful" livelihood assistance projects.
The Myanmar (缅甸) side sincerely thanks the Chinese (中) side for its continuous support for Myanmar's (缅甸) post-disaster relief, recovery, and reconstruction, as well as its valuable contributions to Myanmar's (缅甸) socio-economic development. The Myanmar (缅甸) side welcomes the Chinese (中) side's continued support through mutually agreed development cooperation projects. Both sides agreed to deepen cooperation in the energy and power sectors, accelerate the implementation of infrastructure, public service, and capacity-building projects agreed upon by both sides in accordance with Myanmar's (缅甸) development priorities, promote sustainable development, improve local livelihoods, and contribute to shared prosperity for both countries.
Both sides will work together to explore the implementation of the Global Security Initiative, uphold a common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable security concept, promote the establishment of a China-Myanmar (中缅) security partnership, strengthen dialogue, exchanges, and pragmatic cooperation in the security field, and join hands to promote the improvement of global security governance. Both sides support the establishment of an international alliance to combat telecommunications and network fraud, and will strengthen bilateral and multilateral law enforcement and security cooperation to combat cross-border criminal activities such as online gambling, telecom fraud, cross-border gambling, human trafficking, illegal border crossing, drug manufacturing and trafficking, smuggling, and financial fraud. Both sides will increase the protection of each other's citizens and institutions in their respective countries and strengthen security cooperation for the construction of the "Belt and Road" (一带一路). The Myanmar (缅甸) side reiterated that it will protect the security of Chinese (中) projects in Myanmar (缅甸).
The Chinese (中) side supports the Myanmar (缅甸) side in advancing the domestic peace and reconciliation process through political dialogue. The Myanmar (缅甸) side appreciates the positive and constructive role played by the Chinese (中) side in this regard, especially in promoting peace talks in northern Myanmar (缅北). Both sides agreed to strengthen communication and coordination to maintain peace and stability in the border areas of the two countries and achieve common development in border regions.
VI. Both sides will firmly defend the international system with the United Nations (联合国) at its core, the international order based on international law, and the basic norms of international relations based on the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章). They are committed to promoting an equal and orderly multipolar world and inclusive economic globalization, opposing all forms of unilateralism and protectionism, opposing the formation of exclusive "small circles" and camp confrontation, and opposing plots that endanger regional peace and stability such as the resurgence of militarism. They will resolutely defend the victory of World War II (第二次世界大战) and the post-war international order. Both sides emphasized the need to maintain regional peace, stability, and prosperity, advocated upholding the spirit of mutual respect, dialogue, and cooperation to address international and regional challenges, and emphasized the need to avoid the escalation of conflicts between countries.
The Chinese (中) side appreciates the Myanmar (缅甸) side's joining of the "Group of Friends of the Global Development Initiative," and both sides are willing to deepen cooperation under the framework of the Global Development Initiative to accelerate the implementation of the United Nations (联合国) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Chinese (中) side appreciates the Myanmar (缅甸) side's joining of the "Group of Friends of Global Governance" and the International Mediation Institute (国际调解院).
Both sides call for practicing true multilateralism, promoting the democratization of international relations, jointly safeguarding international fairness and justice, and promoting the building of a more just and reasonable global governance system.
The Myanmar (缅甸) side welcomes the Chinese (中) initiative to establish the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (世界人工智能合作组织) to ensure that artificial intelligence develops for the good of all. The Chinese (中) side welcomes the Myanmar (缅甸) side's active consideration of joining the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (世界人工智能合作组织) to jointly promote global governance and international cooperation in artificial intelligence.
Both sides advocate for exchanges and cooperation on human rights issues on the basis of equality and mutual respect, and resolutely oppose the politicization, instrumentalization, and double standards of human rights issues, as well as interference in other countries' internal affairs under the pretext of human rights.
VII. Both sides agreed to strengthen China-ASEAN (中国—东盟) cooperation, work together to build the "five major homes" of peace, tranquility, prosperity, beauty, and friendship, and are committed to promoting a higher level of regional economic integration and building a closer China-ASEAN (中国—东盟) community with a shared future. The two countries reiterated their commitment to promoting regional peace, stability, prosperity, and sustainable development, advancing regional economic integration, narrowing the development gap, and building an open and inclusive region.
Both sides agreed to strengthen Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (澜沧江—湄公河合作), support the successful hosting of the fifth Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (澜湄合作) Leaders' Meeting, work together to create a "Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (澜湄合作) 2.0 version" framework, and promote the building of a Lancang-Mekong (澜湄) community with a shared future for peace and prosperity.
Both sides agreed to strengthen mutual support and coordination in multilateral platforms such as the United Nations (联合国), the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织), ASEAN (东盟), the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (环孟加拉湾多领域经济技术合作倡议), and the Ayeyarwady-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy (伊洛瓦底江—湄南河—湄公河三河流域经济合作战略机制).
The Chinese (中) side supports Myanmar (缅甸) in fully, equally, and constructively participating in ASEAN (东盟) and United Nations (联合国) mechanisms and processes, and safeguarding Myanmar's (缅甸) legitimate rights and interests.
VIII. Both sides signed multiple cooperation documents covering fields such as transportation, science and technology, intellectual property, human resource development, public health, and media.
IX. President Min Aung Hlaing (敏昂莱) sincerely thanked President Xi Jinping (习近平), the Chinese (中国) government, and the Chinese (中国) people for the warm and friendly reception accorded to the Myanmar (缅甸) delegation, and invited President Xi Jinping (习近平) to visit Myanmar (缅甸) at a mutually convenient time.
(Xinhua News Agency (新华社), Beijing (北京), June 17)
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On June 17, the State Council Information Office (国务院新闻办公室) released the white paper titled "Building a More Just and Reasonable Global Governance System: China's Concepts, Initiatives, and Actions" (构建更加公正合理的全球治理体系：中国的理念、倡议与行动), systematically introducing China's concepts, initiatives, and actions regarding global governance to gather broader international consensus and synergy for effectively addressing global challenges and reforming and improving the global governance system.
In 2025, at the critical historical juncture of the 80th anniversary of the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War (世界反法西斯战争) and the founding of the United Nations (联合国), President Xi Jinping (习近平) solemnly proposed the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议), providing a Chinese solution to answer the epochal question of "what kind of global governance system to build and how to reform and improve global governance." The Global Governance Initiative has received support and responses from nearly 160 countries and international organizations, with over 60 countries enthusiastically joining the "Group of Friends of Global Governance" (全球治理之友小组). The international community believes that the Global Governance Initiative has sent a clear signal to hold high the banner of multilateralism, gather the power of unity, and pursue a fair future. It conforms to the trend of the times toward the democratization of international relations, boosts the firm confidence of the international community in practicing multilateralism, provides a clear and feasible path for improving global governance, and injects precious stability and positive energy into a turbulent world.
Promoting the Building of a More Just and Reasonable Global Governance System
Global governance is a common cause concerning human well-being, and building a just and reasonable global governance system is a common vision that people of all countries 孜孜以求 (zī zī yǐ qiú - "diligent diligent seek seek," to pursue something tirelessly and persistently). President Xi Jinping (习近平) solemnly proposed the Global Governance Initiative, calling on all countries to work together to build a more just and reasonable global governance system, contributing Chinese wisdom and providing Chinese solutions for resolving the global governance deficit and leading the direction of human progress.
The Global Governance Initiative is another important international public good contributed to the world by President Xi Jinping (习近平), following the Global Development Initiative (全球发展倡议), the Global Security Initiative (全球安全倡议), and the Global Civilization Initiative (全球文明倡议). As a systematic Chinese solution, the four global initiatives each have their own focus and support each other, establishing a systematic and complete action framework from the four dimensions of development, security, civilization, and governance, providing clear strategic guidance for promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind (人类命运共同体).
The white paper points out that the Global Governance Initiative takes maintaining the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章) and practicing the global governance view of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits as its basic adherence. It proposes five core concepts: pursuing sovereign equality, observing international rule of law, practicing multilateralism, advocating a people-centered approach, and focusing on action-orientation. These address the crux and root causes of many crises and challenges, providing a scientific guide for building a more just and reasonable global governance system.
"To implement the Global Governance Initiative, the most fundamental thing is to firmly maintain the authority and status of the United Nations (联合国), the most critical thing is for major countries to demonstrate responsibility, the most needed thing is for all countries to unite and cooperate, and the most urgent thing is to bridge the peace and development deficits. We must unswervingly maintain the international system with the United Nations (联合国) at its core, the international order based on international law, and the basic norms of international relations based on the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章), rather than 另起炉灶 (lìng qǐ lú zào - "set up another stove," to start something over from scratch or create a separate system)." The white paper points out.
Providing New Opportunities for the World with Chinese-Style Modernization
As a responsible major country, China holds high the banner of building a community with a shared future for mankind (人类命运共同体), takes the lead in practicing true multilateralism, and remains unswervingly a builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, a maintainer of international order, and a provider of public goods, actively promoting the building of a more just and reasonable global governance system. China always places its own development in the coordinate system of human development, adheres to openness and win-win results, advocates inclusive and universal benefits, provides new opportunities for the world through Chinese-style modernization, and promotes the development trend of modernization in all countries.
The white paper states that China adheres to promoting trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, has become a major trading partner of more than 160 countries and regions, and has signed 24 free trade agreements with 31 countries and regions. China has promoted the conclusion and high-level implementation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) (区域全面经济伙伴关系协定), signed the protocol for the 3.0 version upgrade of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (中国—东盟自贸区), and actively promoted accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) (全面与进步跨太平洋伙伴关系协定) and the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement (DEPA) (数字经济伙伴关系协定), expanding a high-standard free trade area network facing the world.
Eliminating poverty is a basic right for people of all countries to pursue a happy life. Zhao Fengtao (赵峰涛), Deputy Director of the China International Development Cooperation Agency (国家国际发展合作署), introduced that China is committed to improving the global poverty reduction governance system. In recent years, China has successfully held three high-level meetings of the Global Shared Development Action Forum (全球共享发展行动论坛) and built international poverty reduction cooperation networks such as the China-Africa Poverty Reduction and Development Partnership Alliance (中非减贫与发展伙伴联盟). China, together with 53 countries and 9 international institutions, initiated the establishment of the Global Alliance for Poverty Reduction and Development (全球减贫与发展伙伴联盟), created the Global Development and South-South Cooperation Fund (全球发展和南南合作基金) and increased its capital to 4 billion USD, with more than 200 projects implemented in over 70 countries benefiting more than 40 million people.
Civilizational exchange is a bridge and bond for building consensus and enhancing mutual trust, which is crucial for building a more just and reasonable global governance system. Holding the Ministerial Meeting on Global Civilization Dialogue (全球文明对话部长级会议), building multiple international platforms such as the World Conference on Classics (世界古典学大会), and promoting the participation of political parties, think tanks, youth, women, and civil society organizations from various countries in civilizational dialogue... At the press conference, Jin Xin (金鑫), Deputy Minister of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央对外联络部), listed a series of achievements in China's construction of a civilizational exchange network. He stated that China will focus on promoting the synergistic implementation of the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议) and the Global Civilization Initiative (全球文明倡议), draw wisdom from civilizational dialogue to address global challenges, and promote "global good governance" through "civilizational harmony" (文明和合).
Artificial intelligence governance concerns the destiny of all mankind and is a common subject faced by all countries in the world. Zhou Haibing (周海兵), Deputy Director of the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委), introduced that China took the lead in releasing the "Global AI Governance Initiative" (全球人工智能治理倡议), establishing a governance orientation of intelligence for good, safety and controllability, and inclusive fairness, providing a systematic, pragmatic, and implementable action guide for global artificial intelligence governance.
Addressing Global Challenges with Closer Cooperation
As an important force for seeking peace, pursuing development, and promoting cooperation, the collective rise of the Global South (全球南方) is the progress of mankind. To make the world stable and better, it is necessary to respond more to the demands of the South in international affairs and give full play to the role of the South.
The white paper points out that the Global South (全球南方) has brought a new atmosphere to global governance. The BRICS (金砖国家) have achieved historic expansion, and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织) has become the regional international organization with the widest territory and the largest population, playing an active role in the construction and reform of the global governance system. The G20 (二十国集团) has become the main platform for global economic governance, with emerging economies accounting for more than half of its total members. The "Group of 77 and China" (77国集团和中国) promotes fairness and justice and deepens South-South cooperation. Global South (全球南方) countries have hosted a series of multilateral summits, leaving a Southern imprint and making Southern contributions to global governance.
The contribution rate of the Global South (全球南方) to world economic growth has reached 80%, but it has long been marginalized in global governance, especially in terms of voting rights in major international financial institutions, which remain severely insufficient. In this regard, Miao Duyu (苗得雨), Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs (外交部), stated that priority should be given to increasing the weight of Southern countries in international affairs, insisting that the reform of the United Nations Security Council (联合国安理会) should increase the representation and voice of developing countries; accelerate the share review of the World Bank (世界银行), and realize the meaningful adjustment of the quota share of the International Monetary Fund (国际货币基金组织) as soon as possible; strive for more United Nations (联合国) agencies and international organization headquarters to be located in developing countries, and strive for more outstanding talents from developing countries to serve as heads of international organizations.
China has always been a member of the Global South (全球南方), always keeping the Global South (全球南方) in mind and taking root in the Global South (全球南方), upholding the concept of sincerity, real results, amity, and good faith and the correct view of righteousness and benefit to strengthen solidarity and cooperation with developing countries, firmly safeguarding the common interests of the Global South (全球南方) in international affairs, and leading and promoting the joint self-improvement of the Global South (全球南方). China has proposed and promoted the Global South Open and Inclusive Cooperation Initiative (全球南方开放包容合作倡议), implemented eight measures to support Global South (全球南方) cooperation, and promoted the Global South (全球南方) to work together as a stable force for maintaining peace, a backbone force for open development, a constructive force for global governance, and a promoting force for mutual learning among civilizations.
"天下之势不盛则衰，天下之治不进则退 (tiān xià zhī shì bù shèng zé shuāi, tiān xià zhī zhì bù jìn zé tuì - "the trend of the world, if not flourishing, will decline; the governance of the world, if not advancing, will retreat," meaning that one must constantly strive for progress or face inevitable decline)." Countries are not riding in 190-plus small boats, but are together in a large ship with a shared future. China is willing to move forward side by side with all parties, hold high the torch of multilateralism, gather majestic synergy with broader consensus, address global challenges with closer cooperation, jointly implement the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议) well, and promote the building of a more just and reasonable global governance system, constantly moving toward the grand goal of a community with a shared future for mankind (人类命运共同体).
Return to TopChina is willing to work with all countries to promote the implementation of the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议), continuously advance the great cause of reforming and improving global governance, and jointly build a better future.
On June 17, the State Council Information Office (国务院新闻办公室) released the white paper titled "Building a More Just and Reasonable Global Governance System: China's Concepts, Initiatives, and Actions" (《构建更加公正合理的全球治理体系：中国的理念、倡议与行动》). The white paper profoundly expounds on the historical background and far-reaching significance of the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议), comprehensively reviews the practical paths for China to participate in and lead global governance, and points out the way forward while building broader international consensus for constructing a more just and reasonable global governance system.
Global governance is a common cause concerning human well-being, and building a just and reasonable global governance system is a common vision that the people of all countries 孜孜以求 (zī zī yǐ qiú - "diligent diligent seek seek," to pursue something tirelessly and persistently). In 2025, President Xi Jinping (习近平) solemnly proposed the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议), providing a Chinese solution to the epochal questions of "what kind of global governance system to build and how to reform and improve global governance." Upholding sovereign equality, observing international rule of law, practicing multilateralism, advocating a people-centered approach, and focusing on action-oriented results—these five core concepts of the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议) strike at the crux and root causes of many crises and challenges, providing a scientific guide for building a more just and reasonable global governance system. Today, the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议) has received support and responses from nearly 160 countries and international organizations, with over 60 countries enthusiastically joining the "Group of Friends of Global Governance" (全球治理之友小组). The international community generally believes that the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议) conforms to the trend of the times toward the democratization of international relations, boosts the firm confidence of the international community in practicing multilateralism, and injects precious stability and positive energy into a turbulent world.
To implement the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议), the most fundamental requirement is to firmly safeguard the authority and status of the United Nations (联合国). The United Nations (联合国) headquarters, built on the ruins of two world wars, provides shelter for human peace and development. The Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章) has laid the institutional cornerstone for global governance, and the international system with the United Nations (联合国) at its core plays an irreplaceable role in global governance. However, unilateralism and hegemonism cause deep harm, openly trampling on international law and the basic norms of international relations, seriously impacting the international order, and constantly eroding the foundation of trust in multilateral cooperation. No matter how the international situation changes, China firmly practices true multilateralism, always safeguards the international system with the United Nations (联合国) at its core, the international order based on international law, and the basic norms of international relations based on the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章), adheres to the global governance view of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits, and firmly acts as an active leader and powerful promoter of multilateral cooperation.
To implement the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议), the most critical factor is for major countries to demonstrate their sense of responsibility. Major countries should act like major countries; they should be models of equality, integrity, and cooperation, and must not act from a position of so-called "strength." As a key force in promoting international rule of law, major countries should especially take the lead in following rules and upholding the rule of law. They should not place their own interests above international law, and even less should they impose their own domestic laws or clique rules on others. Once the principle of sovereign equality is abandoned, international relations will degenerate into power games, international law will lose its logical starting point, and the world will never have peace. As a responsible major country, China holds high the banner of building a community with a shared future for mankind (人类命运共同体), takes the lead in practicing true multilateralism, and remains unswervingly a builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, a maintainer of international order, and a provider of public goods, actively promoting the construction of a more just and reasonable global governance system.
To implement the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议), what is needed most is solidarity and cooperation among all countries. No country can achieve development by remaining outside the global governance system, nor can any country win the future by isolating itself from international cooperation. Facing complex global challenges, we must gather consensus through dialogue, resolve differences through consultation, and promote win-win results through cooperation, striving to expand the convergence of common interests and making global governance more coordinated and efficient. China firmly stands on the side of win-win cooperation, pursues harmony and coexistence as well as helping others succeed while succeeding oneself through practical actions, and advocates for countries to strengthen solidarity and cooperation. Together, we must turn the vision and blueprint of the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议) into a roadmap and timetable for joint action, so that the fruits of governance can be shared by all, allowing the "big family" of the international community to become "winners."
To implement the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议), the most urgent task is to bridge the peace and development deficits. Today's world has entered a new period of turbulence and change, and humanity is once again facing a choice between peace or war, dialogue or confrontation, and win-win or zero-sum outcomes. All parties must place development back at the center of the international agenda and help developing countries enhance their capacity for independent development; they should establish a common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable security concept, and coordinate efforts to address both traditional and non-traditional security threats. China has proposed the Global Development Initiative (全球发展倡议), the Global Security Initiative (全球安全倡议), the Global Civilization Initiative (全球文明倡议), and the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议), which build a systematic and complete action framework from different dimensions, forming an organic whole that promotes prosperity through development, ensures stability through security, enhances mutual trust through civilization, and seeks justice through governance, demonstrating the responsibility of a major country that practices what it preaches.
The Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议) stands at the forefront of the times. It is another important international public good contributed by China to the world, injecting momentum into the promotion of building a community with a shared future for mankind (人类命运共同体) and providing a compass for the ship of history to navigate through wind and waves. China is willing to work with all countries to promote the implementation of the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议), continuously advance the great cause of reforming and improving global governance, and jointly build a better future.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency (新华社), Beijing (北京), June 17 — Wang Yi (王毅), member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (中共中央政治局) Central Committee (中共中央) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (外交部长), held a telephone conversation with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (阿拉格齐) on the 17th at the latter's request.
Araghchi (阿拉格齐) briefed Wang on the relevant situation regarding the first-phase memorandum of understanding reached between Iran (伊朗) and the United States (美国), and expressed sincere gratitude for the positive role China (中方) played in promoting the negotiations and the reaching of the agreement. Araghchi (阿拉格齐) stated that the relevant memorandum of understanding should be effectively implemented, including the cessation of Israel's (以色列) military operations against Lebanon (黎巴嫩). The Iranian side always views its relations with China (中方) from a strategic height, looks forward to enhancing mutual trust with China (中方), deepening cooperation in various fields, and jointly advancing the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries.
Wang Yi (王毅) stated that China (中方) welcomes the first-phase memorandum of understanding reached between Iran (伊朗) and the United States (美国). Facts have proven that force and power politics cannot solve problems, and dialogue and negotiation are the only correct choices. As a comprehensive strategic partner, China (中方) has always supported Iran's (伊朗) reasonable and legitimate claims, supported Iran (伊朗) in safeguarding its own sovereignty and security, supported the mediation efforts of Pakistan (巴基斯坦) and the international community, and has consistently worked to stop the war and promote peace in its own way. The dawn of peace has appeared; the key to the next step is for all parties to truly implement their commitments and eliminate interference from all sides. The issue of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz (霍尔木兹海峡) should be properly handled to cautiously respond to the universal concerns of the international community. China (中方) supports Iran (伊朗) in improving relations with regional countries and exploring the joint construction of a regional security architecture. China (中方) is willing to strengthen communication and coordination with Iran (伊朗), and while consolidating and deepening China-Iran (中伊) relations, continue to make contributions to maintaining and promoting regional peace and stability.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency (新华社), Beijing (北京), June 17 — Wang Yi (王毅), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (外交部长), visited King Norodom Sihamoni (西哈莫尼) and Queen Mother Norodom Monineath (莫尼列) of Cambodia (柬埔寨), who are currently in Beijing (北京) for medical check-ups and recuperation, on behalf of President Xi Jinping (习近平) on the 17th.
Wang Yi (王毅) conveyed the cordial greetings and best wishes from President Xi Jinping (习近平) and his wife, Peng Liyuan (彭丽媛). His Majesty the King has inherited the tradition of friendship toward China (中国) from the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk (西哈努克), and has established a profound friendship with President Xi Jinping (习近平). Under the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, the relationship between China (中国) and Cambodia (柬埔寨) has entered a new stage. The Chinese (中国) side is willing to enhance practical cooperation with the Cambodian (柬埔寨) side to create more well-being for the people of both countries.
Norodom Sihamoni (西哈莫尼) and Norodom Monineath (莫尼列) asked Wang Yi (王毅) to convey their sincere greetings and wishes to President Xi Jinping (习近平) and his wife, Peng Liyuan (彭丽媛), and thanked the Chinese (中国) side for providing sincere assistance to Cambodia (柬埔寨). They wished China (中国) prosperity and peace, and its people 安居乐业 (ān jū lè yè - "live in peace and work happily," to live in a stable environment and enjoy one's occupation).
Return to TopXinhua News Agency (新华社), Beijing (北京), June 17 — Zhang Qingwei (张庆伟), Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会), presided over the third meeting of the Cooperation Committee between the National People's Congress (全国人大) of China (中国) and the National Assembly (国民会议) of Belarus (白俄罗斯) via video link in Beijing (北京) on the 17th. Natalya Kochanova (科恰诺娃), Chairperson of the Council of the Republic (共和国院) of the National Assembly (国民会议) of Belarus (白俄罗斯), co-chaired the meeting. The two sides exchanged views on bilateral relations, exchanges between legislative bodies, and issues of common concern.
Return to TopBerlin, June 17 (Reporter Xu Xin (徐馨)) — Oslo News: On the 16th local time, the symposium for the 9th China International Import Expo (进博会) was held in Oslo (奥斯陆), Norway (挪威). Many attendees stated that the economic and trade cooperation between China (中国) and Norway (挪威) has yielded 硕果累累 (shuò guǒ léi léi - "fruitful results," describing an abundance of achievements or successes), and that the China International Import Expo (进博会) helps encourage more Norwegian (挪威) enterprises to enter China (中国) and share in the country's development opportunities.
Geng Hongzhou (耿洪洲), Economic and Commercial Counselor of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the Kingdom of Norway (中国驻挪威大使馆), stated that the industries of China (中国) and Norway (挪威) are highly complementary, with a solid foundation for economic and trade relations and immense potential for cooperation. The China International Import Expo (进博会) is an important vehicle for China (中国) to fulfill its commitment to opening up, providing a platform for high-quality products from Norway (挪威) and other countries to enter the Chinese (中国) market.
Anrov (安若夫), Senior Advisor at the Export and Investment Department of Innovation Norway (挪威创新署), stated that the China International Import Expo (进博会) has opened a pragmatic and efficient path for Norwegian (挪威) enterprises to promote high-quality products, cutting-edge technologies, and professional services, as well as to deeply cultivate the Chinese (中国) market. The Norwegian (挪威) side will actively mobilize various enterprises to participate in the China International Import Expo (进博会), further tightening the bonds of mutual benefit between Norway (挪威) and China (中国), and enhancing the quality and efficiency of bilateral trade cooperation.
Return to TopParis, June 17 (Reporter Shang Kaiyuan (尚凯元)) — The 6th China-Europe (France) Cross-Border E-commerce Forum (第六届中欧（法国）跨境电商论坛) was held in Paris (巴黎) on the 16th. Government representatives, industry experts, platform enterprises, brand owners, and service institutions from China (中国) and Europe (欧洲) engaged in in-depth discussions on topics such as brand globalization, artificial intelligence, and logistics supply chains, 共话 (gòng huà - "jointly discuss," to talk together about a shared topic) the development trends of digital trade and innovation opportunities in cross-border e-commerce.
The forum featured various segments, including keynote speeches, thematic seminars, corporate presentations, brand exhibition areas, and signing sessions. Participating companies covered the entire cross-border e-commerce industry ecosystem, including well-known brand owners, retail e-commerce platforms, B2B (Business-to-Business) trade enterprises, postal and international logistics service providers, cross-border payment institutions, investment and financing institutions, and e-commerce technology innovation enterprises. During the event, a sub-forum titled "Dialogue of Civilizations: From Cultural Heritage to Industrial Narrative—Hangzhou (杭州) Promotion Conference" was also held.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency (新华社), Beijing (北京), June 17 — (Reporters Wen Xin (温馨), Sun Nan (孙楠)) To introduce China's (中国) concepts, initiatives, and actions regarding global governance, to build broader consensus within the international community, to more effectively address global challenges, and to construct a more just and reasonable global governance system, the State Council Information Office (国务院新闻办公室) released a white paper on June 17 titled "Building a More Just and Reasonable Global Governance System: China's (中国) Concepts, Initiatives, and Actions."
The white paper points out that global governance is a common cause concerning human well-being, and building a just and reasonable global governance system is a shared vision that the people of all countries 孜孜以求 (zī zī yǐ qiú - "diligent diligent seek seek," to pursue something tirelessly and persistently). China (中国) has always been an active participant, contributor, and builder of global governance. Since the dawn of the new era, President Xi Jinping (习近平) has historically proposed the major concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind, advocated for a global governance perspective based on extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits, and championed the practice of true multilateralism, promoting equal and orderly multipolarity and universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization. In 2025, President Xi Jinping (习近平) solemnly proposed the Global Governance Initiative, providing a Chinese (中国) solution to answer the epochal question of "what kind of global governance system to build and how to reform and improve global governance."
The white paper states that once the Global Governance Initiative was proposed, it quickly received support and responses from nearly 160 countries and international organizations, with over 60 countries enthusiastically joining the "Group of Friends of Global Governance" (全球治理之友小组). The international community believes that the Global Governance Initiative has sent a clear signal to hold high the banner of multilateralism, gather the strength of unity, and pursue a fair future. It conforms to the trend of the times toward the democratization of international relations, boosts the firm confidence of the international community in practicing multilateralism, provides a clear and feasible path for improving global governance, and injects valuable stability and positive energy into a turbulent and unsettled world.
The white paper points out that China's (中国) proposal of the Global Governance Initiative aims to promote the construction of a more just and reasonable global governance system. To implement the Global Governance Initiative, the most fundamental requirement is to firmly safeguard the authority and status of the United Nations (联合国); the most critical requirement is for major powers to demonstrate responsibility; the most necessary requirement is for all countries to unite and cooperate; and the most urgent requirement is to bridge the peace and development deficits. We must unwaveringly safeguard the international system with the United Nations (联合国) at its core, the international order based on international law, and the basic norms of international relations based on the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章), rather than 另起炉灶 (lìng qǐ lú zào - "separately set up stove," to start something new from scratch or set up a separate organization).
The white paper consists of over 20,000 words and is divided into five parts, in addition to a preface and a concluding remark: The severe and complex crises and challenges facing the world today; the Global Governance Initiative providing contemporary answers to difficult problems; China's (中国) contributions to advancing the cause of global governance; leading the direction of change toward a bright future; and moving forward together at a critical juncture of historical evolution.
(For related reports, see page 2; for the full text of the white paper, see pages 11-13)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency (新华社), Beijing (北京), June 17 — The 10th National Congress of the China Theatre Association (中国戏剧家协会), the 11th National Congress of the China Folk Literature and Art Association (中国民间文艺家协会), and the 9th National Congress of the China Calligraphers Association (中国书法家协会) were held in Beijing (北京) on the 17th. Li Shulei (李书磊), member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (中共中央政治局) Central Committee and Minister of the Publicity Department of the Central Committee (中宣部), attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech.
Delegates believe that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的十八大), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has attached great importance to literary and artistic work, delivering a series of important speeches and issuing a series of important instructions and directives, which have pointed out the direction forward for literary and artistic endeavors in the new era. The vast number of theatre, folk art, and calligraphy practitioners have deeply studied and practiced Xi Jinping Thought on Culture (习近平文化思想), creating and launching many excellent works that are both ideologically and artistically outstanding, making significant contributions to the prosperity and development of literature and art and the building of a socialist cultural powerhouse.
Delegates stated that they must implement the strategic deployment for cultural development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五) period, depict the myriad phenomena of the new era with heart and emotion, and consciously shoulder the cultural mission in the historical process of Chinese-style modernization (中国式现代化). They must inherit and develop our country's excellent national arts well, and better continue the Chinese cultural lineage through artistic creation. They must adhere to a people-centered creative orientation, create more high-quality works that can stand the test of time, spread widely, and endure, so as to nourish the spiritual world of the people with excellent works. They must persist in 守正创新 (shǒu zhèng chuàng xīn - "uphold integrity and innovate," to maintain fundamental principles while pursuing innovation), integrate the essence and core meaning of Chinese culture into their bloodlines, and incorporate the concepts of consolidating foundations while seeking novelty and weeding out the old to bring forth the new into their daily practice. They must strengthen the cultivation and utilization of young talent, foster more leading figures and core creative teams capable of shouldering heavy responsibilities, and promote the emergence of talent to ensure that the torch is passed from generation to generation, so that 人才辈出 (rén cái bèi chū - "talent appear in succession," a continuous emergence of outstanding people) is realized.
Tie Ning (铁凝), Vice Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会) and Chairperson of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles (中国文联), attended the opening ceremony.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency (新华社), Beijing (北京), June 17 — On June 17, the 32nd Beijing International Book Fair (北京国际图书博览会) opened at the China National Convention Center (国家会议中心) in Beijing (北京). Li Shulei (李书磊), member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (中共中央政治局) Central Committee and Minister of the Publicity Department of the Central Committee (中宣部), visited and conducted research at the book fair.
Guided by 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), this year's book fair deeply implements the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的二十大) and all plenary sessions of the 20th Central Committee (二十届历次全会), and comprehensively carries out Xi Jinping Thought on Culture (习近平文化思想). With the theme of "Books as a Medium, Exchange and Dialogue, Win-Win Cooperation" (以书为媒 交流对话 合作共赢), the fair actively practices the Global Civilization Initiative (全球文明倡议), promotes cultural and publishing exchanges and cooperation between China and foreign countries, serves the development of national reading and the construction of a society of book lovers, and injects publishing momentum into the building of a socialist cultural powerhouse. The exhibition covers an area of 60,000 square meters, divided into sections such as domestic publishing, overseas publishing, and online publishing, with the United Arab Emirates (阿拉伯联合酋长国) serving as the guest of honor. More than 1,700 exhibitors from 82 countries and regions are participating on-site, showcasing 220,000 types of books. Over 20 countries, including Russia (俄罗斯), France (法国), Germany (德国), and Italy (意大利), have set up national booths. Thirty major international publishing institutions, such as Springer Nature (施普林格·自然), Penguin Random House (企鹅兰登书屋), and Cengage (圣智), are participating to showcase high-quality foreign-language books that represent the outstanding civilizational achievements of their respective countries. Companies including Tencent (腾讯), Douyin (抖音), NetEase (网易), China Literature (阅文), and 37 Interactive Entertainment (三七互娱) are concentrated in the online publishing exhibition area to display online literature, online games, and high-quality animation products, demonstrating the development achievements of new mass literature and art.
This year's book fair lasts for five days and is hosted by the National Press and Publication Administration (国家新闻出版署).
Return to TopXinhua News Agency (新华社), Shanghai (上海), June 17 — He Lifeng (何立峰), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局) and Vice Premier of the State Council (国务院), attended and delivered a speech at the opening ceremony of the 2026 Lujiazui Forum (陆家嘴论坛) on the 17th. Chen Jining (陈吉宁), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局) and Secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee (上海市委), attended the event.
He Lifeng (何立峰) pointed out that in recent years, China (中国) has adhered to the main task of preventing risks, strengthening supervision, and promoting high-quality development in the financial sector, driving the continuous progress of the financial industry. Currently, the profound changes unseen in a century are accelerating, and global economic development and financial operations are facing tests. China (中国) will remain anchored to the path of financial development with Chinese characteristics without wavering or deviating, fully implement the deployments of the 15th Five-Year Plan (十五五), serve high-quality economic development, and inject stabilizing forces into the world economy. China (中国) will continue to steadily expand institutional opening-up in the financial sector and welcomes financial institutions from all countries to deepen their presence in the Chinese market and share in China's (中国) development opportunities.
He Lifeng (何立峰) emphasized that in the face of global development and governance challenges, only mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation based on international rules and multilateralism represent the 正道直行 (zhèng dào zhí xíng - "right path straight walk," to follow the correct path and act with integrity). China (中国) will continuously improve its financial legal system and unswervingly safeguard national financial security. China (中国) is willing to work with all parties to strengthen global financial governance cooperation and join hands to address risks and challenges.
He Lifeng (何立峰) pointed out that Shanghai (上海) gathers global financial elements and resources, and its unique advantages as an international financial center are becoming increasingly apparent. China (中国) will support Shanghai (上海) in piloting the development of offshore finance, accelerate the construction of a global hub for RMB asset allocation and risk management, enhance the level of facilitation for cross-border trade and investment, further enrich and improve the product system including credit, insurance, and bonds—including shipping insurance—and promote new breakthroughs and advancements in the construction of the Shanghai International Financial Center (上海国际金融中心).
Return to TopShanghai, June 17 (Reporter Ni Yi (倪弋)) — A symposium marking the 40th anniversary of the procuratorial organs' work in preventing and addressing juvenile delinquency and juvenile procuratorial work was held in Shanghai (上海) on the 17th. Chen Wenqing (陈文清), member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) (中共中央) Central Committee (中共中央) and Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission (中央政法委), attended the meeting and delivered a speech. He stated that it is essential to thoroughly implement Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law and the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) regarding the prevention and control of juvenile delinquency. He emphasized the need to further enhance the sense of responsibility and mission in carrying out juvenile procuratorial work, to better advance the prevention and control of juvenile delinquency and the protection of their rights and interests, and to uphold a rule-of-law environment that supports the healthy growth of minors.
Chen Wenqing (陈文清) affirmed the achievements made in juvenile procuratorial work over the past 40 years and set clear requirements for future efforts. He emphasized the need to continuously strengthen the prevention and governance of juvenile delinquency, adhering to the principles of combining punishment with prevention, leniency with severity, and addressing both symptoms and root causes—a practice of 标本兼治 (biāo běn jiān zhì - "symptoms and root causes both treat," to address both the superficial manifestations and the fundamental causes of a problem). He called for strengthening education in specialized schools and conducting corrective education, specialized education, and specialized corrective education in accordance with the law. He stated that it is necessary to combine general prevention with special prevention and to punish juvenile crimes according to the law. Furthermore, he urged the comprehensive protection of the legitimate rights and interests of minors, the severe punishment of crimes infringing upon minors in accordance with the law, and the high-quality and efficient handling of criminal, civil, administrative, and public interest litigation cases involving minors.
Chen Wenqing (陈文清) stated that the Political and Legal Affairs Commissions (政法委) of Party committees at all levels must play their roles in taking the lead, overall planning, coordination, and supervision of implementation. Political and legal organs at all levels must perform their respective duties and coordinate with one another, while relevant functional departments and mass organizations must form a synergy for comprehensive governance to ensure that the work of preventing and controlling juvenile delinquency and protecting the rights and interests of minors is carried out effectively and well.
The meeting commended collectives and individuals who have made outstanding contributions to juvenile procuratorial work.
Ying Yong (应勇) presided over the meeting and delivered a speech.
Return to TopBeijing (北京), June 17 — (Reporters Gu Zhongyang (顾仲阳), Dong Siyu (董丝雨)) June 17 of this year marks the 32nd World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought. The global theme is "United for Land. Our Legacy. Our Future," while China's theme is "Everyone Participates in Sand Control, Generations Share the Green." Reporters learned from the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (国家林草局) that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" (十四五) period, China has continuously strengthened the comprehensive prevention and control of desertification and deeply advanced key ecological projects such as the "Three-North" Shelterbelt Program (三北工程). A cumulative total of 152 million mu of sandy land and 29.32 million mu of rocky desertified land have been treated. The degree of desertification nationwide continues to decrease, and the ecological conditions in sandy areas are steadily improving.
In recent years, China has focused on fighting and winning the "Three-North" (三北) project battle, comprehensively advancing desertification prevention and control. Since the launch of the three major landmark campaigns of the "Three-North" (三北) project, a cumulative central investment of 88.9 billion yuan has been allocated, 544 key projects have been organized and implemented, and construction tasks covering 244 million mu have been completed. The country has issued the National Sand Prevention and Control Plan and the Photovoltaic Sand Control Plan for the "Three-North" (三北) sandy, gobi, and desert regions, revised the overall plan for the "Three-North" (三北) project, and introduced 10 industry standards, including the "Three-North" (三北) project construction management measures and technical specifications for desertification prevention and control. Pilot programs for desert ecological protection compensation have been carried out, and the policy and legal system for desertification prevention and control is constantly being improved. By promoting the construction of desert ecosystem positioning observation stations and sandstorm ground monitoring stations, a desert positioning observation system has been preliminarily formed. Innovative management models have been adopted: the "Three-North" (三北) region has orderly advanced "photovoltaic + sand control," driving the treatment of 5.3 million mu of land; vigorously promoted sand control through road construction, building over 3,500 kilometers of roads through deserts, which drove the treatment of 6.8 million mu; and strengthened scientific and technological empowerment by dividing 136 ecological management zones, selecting and breeding a batch of new drought-resistant, cold-resistant, and salt-alkali-tolerant forest and grass varieties. The utilization rate of improved varieties exceeds 75%, and new equipment has increased sand control efficiency by more than three times.
As of now, China's area of sandy land has continued to show a net decrease, shifting from an average annual expansion of 5.15 million mu at the end of the last century to a current average annual reduction of 10 million mu. The total soil wind erosion in the eight major deserts and four major sandy lands has decreased by about 40% compared to 2000, and the average vegetation coverage in sandy areas has reached 21.17%, an increase of 2.84% compared to 10 years ago. The forest and grass coverage rate in the "Three-North" (三北) project area has reached 40.76%, and 67.82% of treatable sandy land has been brought under control.
Over the years, various regions have coordinated the promotion of sand control and wealth creation, developing characteristic sand industries according to local conditions. The central government has specifically arranged 100 projects for "industrial ecology and ecological industrialization," promoting the vigorous development of characteristic sand industries such as red dates, walnuts, apples, Cistanche (肉苁蓉), sea buckthorn, and desert roses. By 2025, the total output value of the forest and grass industry in the "Three-North" (三北) project area will reach 800 billion yuan. At the same time, through the "work-for-relief" program, the "Three-North" (三北) project area has absorbed 1.526 million farmers and herdsmen to participate in project construction, distributing 10.24 billion yuan in labor remuneration, allowing ordinary people to find employment and increase their income at their own doorsteps.
As a signatory to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (联合国防治荒漠化公约), China, under the guidance of the China National Committee for the Implementation of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (中国防治荒漠化协调小组), has actively fulfilled its obligations under the Convention and continuously deepened international cooperation in desertification prevention and control. China has built multilateral exchange and cooperation platforms, established cooperation centers for desertification prevention and control between China and Central Asia, China and Arab states, and China and Mongolia, successfully held ten sessions of the Kubuqi International Desert Forum (库布其国际沙漠论坛), promoted the Boao Forum for Asia (博鳌亚洲论坛) Ningxia (宁夏) desertification prevention and control cooperation project, deepened cooperation on desertification prevention and control among countries jointly building the "Belt and Road" (一带一路), and actively promoted China's scientific sand control experience, contributing Chinese wisdom.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五) is a critical period and a decisive stage for deepening the national prevention and control of sand and winning the battle of the "Three-North" (三北) project. In the next step, all regions and departments will closely follow the planning goals and tasks, adhere to classified protection and zonal management, promote comprehensive management of sandy land in key areas, and moderately develop green sand industries. Efforts will be made to ensure that by 2030, the country will complete the treatment of nearly 100 million mu of sandy land, significantly improve the ecological conditions in key areas such as the four major sandy lands, desert oases, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (青藏高原), the Yellow River (黄河) basin, and the areas surrounding Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀), and basically achieve the goal of building a solid ecological security barrier in the north. The task is 任重道远 (rèn zhòng dào yuǎn - "burden heavy road far," to have a long and arduous journey ahead; to carry a heavy responsibility), and we must work with 众志成城 (zhòng zhì chéng chéng - "multitude will become city wall," unity is strength; when people are united, they can overcome any obstacle) to succeed.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 靳 博 葛孟超
In February of this year, through the concerted efforts of Tianjin Dongjiang Customs (天津东疆海关) and Yantai Customs (烟台海关), a cargo ship loaded with Chinese new energy equipment set sail for Guinea (几内亚), with the equipment delivered to the end-user via financial leasing.
What is financial leasing? "It is actually similar to renting a car for travel or leasing computers for an office, only the leased assets, transaction structures, transaction entities, and even the scope of transactions are more complex," said Shi Jinfeng (时金凤), Director of the Financial Leasing Promotion Bureau of the Tianjin Dongjiang Comprehensive Bonded Zone (天津东疆综合保税区).
Financial leasing is a financial service where a leasing company purchases leased assets according to the lessee's requirements and then provides them to the lessee for use. It is vividly described as "borrowing a chicken to lay eggs, then selling the eggs to pay the rent" (借鸡生蛋、卖蛋还租 - jiè jī shēng dàn, mài dàn huán zū - "borrow chicken lay egg, sell egg return rent," using borrowed capital to generate profit and pay off the debt). The lessee can use the equipment long-term without needing a large one-time procurement expenditure, thereby alleviating short-term cash flow pressure and achieving "financing" through "leasing objects"; the lessor, in turn, can collect stable rental income.
Today, financial leasing has become an important pillar for the manufacturing industry, providing in-depth services to sectors such as aircraft, ships, and offshore engineering equipment, and helping domestic equipment "go global."
"This batch of new energy equipment was purchased by Minsheng Financial (民生金融) through an SPV (Special Purpose Vehicle) established in Dongjiang (东疆), and was directly leased cross-border to a hydropower station project in Guinea (几内亚) for project construction. This not only significantly reduces the initial construction costs of the hydropower station but also helps high-end Chinese equipment expand into the international market," introduced a relevant person in charge at Minsheng Leasing (民生租赁). After the lease expires and the lessee has paid off all rent and other payables, the equipment automatically becomes the property of the lessee.
However, when using financial leasing for "domestic procurement of equipment, overseas landing and use," the lessor often faces difficulties such as obstructed cross-border rent repatriation and insufficient foreign exchange quotas. The Dongjiang Comprehensive Bonded Zone (东疆综合保税区) coordinates with financial regulation, customs, foreign exchange, and taxation authorities to provide "bundled" regulatory services, organically linking domestic and international resources to resolve these issues.
"We have joined forces with multiple departments to provide enterprises with 'one-stop' efficient solutions, including structuring transactions, declaring customs clearance, and financing," Shi Jinfeng (时金凤) explained. "This transaction fills a gap in the cross-border leasing of new energy equipment, and through this, we have established a standardized and systematic service process."
In 2009, the Dongjiang Comprehensive Bonded Zone (东疆综合保税区) completed China's first aircraft leasing business. As of the end of 2025, it had completed a cumulative total of over 2,500 aircraft leasing transactions. In the first quarter of this year, newly delivered leased ships exceeded 100, setting a record high for the same period in history.
Behind the accelerated development of the "Dongjiang Financial Leasing" (东疆融资租赁) brand is the continuous effort of the Dongjiang Comprehensive Bonded Zone (东疆综合保税区) in reform and service optimization. In March of this year, the 40,500-ton energy-saving and environmentally friendly bulk carrier "Lingyuan Yiqiao" (凌远译桥) was officially delivered in Jiangmen City (江门市), Guangdong Province (广东省). This was the 1,200th ship leasing transaction completed by Dongjiang (东疆). "Previously, regulatory procedures had to be completed in Dongjiang (东疆), but now ships can depart directly from other locations. Customs clearance time has been reduced from 10 days to 2 hours, saving enterprises over one million yuan in transportation costs," said Tian Yuan (田源), Section Chief of the Emerging Trade Supervision Section of Dongjiang Customs (东疆海关).
"The underlying assets of financial leasing vary greatly, and every project may encounter new problems. We form a set of experience for every problem we solve," said Shi Jinfeng (时金凤). Dongjiang (东疆) strengthens policy and business innovation, actively strives for pilot programs to test policies first, and works with multiple departments to implement reform measures conducive to the development of the financial leasing service industry.
Currently, the Dongjiang Comprehensive Bonded Zone (东疆综合保税区) has implemented several innovative measures, such as external debt registration for offshore aircraft and ship financial leasing, and the expansion of cross-regional customs supervision. It has also completed the first bonded "passenger-to-freighter" aircraft re-leasing business and the first joint financial leasing business for an FPSO (Floating Production Storage and Offloading unit).
"Financial leasing businesses have high unit values, involve many regulatory departments, and have complex processes. We design transaction structures for enterprises, guide the implementation of policies, and clear business bottlenecks," stated Shi Jinfeng (时金凤). Dongjiang (东疆) has assembled a professional team, forming a comprehensive service system of "experts + stewards."
According to statistics, the leasing asset scale of the Dongjiang Comprehensive Bonded Zone (东疆综合保税区) exceeds 1.7 trillion yuan. According to the implementation plan for Tianjin (天津) to build an international first-class national leasing innovation demonstration zone to better serve the high-quality development of the real economy, during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, while continuing to consolidate its comparative advantages in aircraft, ships, export offshore, and green leasing, Tianjin (天津) will broaden new leasing tracks and fully promote the "going global" of high-end domestic equipment. "The Dongjiang Comprehensive Bonded Zone (东疆综合保税区) will focus on extending, supplementing, and strengthening the industrial chain, continuously strengthening leasing advantages, seizing development opportunities in technology leasing, tackling new leasing tracks, stabilizing platform economy development, expanding the base of producer services, and driving the comprehensive momentum of leading industries," said Li Gongliang (李公良), Party Secretary and Director of the Management Committee of the Dongjiang Comprehensive Bonded Zone (东疆综合保税区).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 靳 博
As a sub-sector of the financial services industry that is closely integrated with the real economy, the financial leasing industry possesses the unique advantage of "financing plus leasing of goods." The Dongjiang Comprehensive Bonded Zone (东疆综合保税区) leverages the overlapping advantages of the Pilot Free Trade Zone (自贸试验区), the Comprehensive Bonded Zone (综保区), and port functions to deeply cultivate offshore leasing, export leasing, and green leasing, thereby empowering the quality improvement and upgrading of the financial leasing industry.
From industrial upgrading to innovative breakthroughs, and from enterprise services to ecosystem construction, the Dongjiang Comprehensive Bonded Zone (东疆综合保税区) continuously promotes the high-quality development of the financial leasing service industry. By guiding leasing businesses to gradually expand from traditional fields into new tracks such as commercial aerospace, the low-altitude economy, artificial intelligence, and high-end equipment, the Dongjiang Comprehensive Bonded Zone (东疆综合保税区) continuously optimizes its policy supply and service system. It innovates science and technology financial service models, promotes the efficient alignment of leasing resources with scientific and technological innovation resources, and gathers the synergy of industry and finance to build a highland for technology leasing, truly achieving 集思广益 (jí sī guǎng yì - "gather thoughts broaden ideas," to pool wisdom and ideas to achieve better results).
Return to TopBeijing (北京), June 17 (Reporter Wang Guan (王观)) — According to invoice data from the State Taxation Administration (国家税务总局), from January to May, the sales revenue of industrial enterprises nationwide increased by 6.8% year-on-year, achieving relatively rapid growth.
Equipment manufacturing continues to play its role as a 压舱石 (yā cāng shí - "ballast stone," a stabilizing force). From January to May, sales revenue in the equipment manufacturing industry grew by 8% year-on-year, accounting for 46.8% of the manufacturing sector. Among these, sales revenue for computer and communication equipment manufacturing, instrumentation manufacturing, and special-purpose equipment manufacturing grew by 15.6%, 10.5%, and 8.8% year-on-year, respectively.
Artificial intelligence is boosting the development of industrial intelligence. From January to May, sales revenue for robotics and intelligent vehicle equipment manufacturing grew by 27.7% and 46.3% year-on-year, respectively, as artificial intelligence continues to enhance the level of industrial intelligence. At the same time, high-end electronics manufacturing is accelerating. From January to May, sales revenue for integrated circuits, optoelectronic devices, and semiconductor device manufacturing grew by 57.7%, 32.6%, and 24.4% year-on-year, respectively.
Green energy is accelerating its pace of transformation. From January to May, sales revenue for the production and supply of electricity, heat, gas, and water increased by 4.2% year-on-year. Specifically, sales revenue for electricity production grew by 5.7% year-on-year, with clean energy—represented by wind, solar, hydro, and nuclear power—seeing a year-on-year sales revenue increase of 18.9%. This segment accounts for 38.1% of total electricity production sales revenue, an increase of 4.2 percentage points compared to the same period last year. Notably, sales revenue for solar power generation and wind power generation grew by 17.2% and 22.2% year-on-year, respectively.
Return to TopOn June 16, in the ten-thousand-mu green grain-increasing demonstration zone in Dachang Town (大场镇), West Coast New Area (西海岸新区), Qingdao (青岛), Shandong (山东), wheat reached its peak harvest period. Large combine harvesters operated efficiently to complete harvesting and threshing. By utilizing mechanized assembly line operations throughout the process—such as drying newly harvested wheat with equipment and recycling straw through on-site baling—the local area is able to reduce grain loss and ensure food security.
Photographed by Han Jiajun (韩加君) (Vision China (影像中国))
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 高 炳 李君强
In midsummer in Northern Shaanxi (陕北), the morning sunlight spills over the treetops, casting its glow upon the blue bricks and grey tiles of the Central Auditorium at the Yangjialing Revolutionary Site (杨家岭革命旧址).
Yan'an (延安), the sacred site of the Chinese revolution and the cradle of the New China (新中国), stands as a testament to history. Cave dwellings (窑洞), desks, writing brushes and inkstones, and oil lamps—every object and artifact is engraved with historical imprints, commemorating the 峥嵘岁月 (zhēng róng suì yuè - "extraordinary years," referring to a period of difficult and heroic struggle), attracting many visitors from all over to pay their respects.
In October 2022, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out while visiting the Yan'an Revolutionary Memorial Sites (延安革命纪念地): "The Yan'an revolutionary sites bear witness to the glorious journey of our Party leading the Chinese revolution and exploring the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism during the Yan'an period. It is a book that can never be fully read; every time one visits, one gains new insights from old knowledge (温故知新 - wēn gù zhī xīn - "review the old and learn the new," to gain new understanding by revisiting past experiences) and receives profound education and inspiration. We must manage and study them well, and combine them with reality to tell the stories of Yangjialing (杨家岭) and the Seventh National Congress of the Party (党的七大) well." In May 2023, while listening to the work report of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee (陕西省委) and the Provincial Government (省政府), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized, "Shaanxi (陕西) must make good use of its own historical and cultural resources as well as its red cultural resources, and vigorously carry forward the great founding spirit of the Party and the Yan'an Spirit (延安精神)."
Keeping the instructions in mind and living up to the mission, Yan'an (延安) has continuously strengthened the protection and utilization of red resources in recent years, inheriting the red gene and continuing the red bloodline. Yan'an (延安) currently has 445 revolutionary sites and 19 revolutionary memorial halls, with a collection of over 43,000 pieces (sets) of revolutionary artifacts.
Putting protection first: "In the past, every rainy season, we could only cover the cave dwellings with plastic sheets," says Hou Zhenlong (侯振龙), director of the Yangjialing Revolutionary Site Management Office (杨家岭革命旧址管理处). Today, a digital twin preventive protection system provides the sites with a "technological shield"—through 3D modeling, the Internet of Things, and BeiDou (北斗) technology, indicators such as temperature, humidity, and soil moisture are monitored in real-time, allowing all data to be accessed via a mobile phone.
At the Yan'an Revolutionary Memorial Hall (延安革命纪念馆), artifacts can undergo "check-ups" and "treatments" without leaving the storage rooms. Curator Liu Ni (刘妮) says that by utilizing 3D laser scanning, virtual reality, and other technologies, the memorial hall has accelerated digital collection and archiving. Today, Yan'an (延安) has built a safety supervision and command platform for its revolutionary site clusters, achieving smart supervision for 40 national-level protected units and 69 provincial-level protected units.
With protection as the priority, we must also let history "speak."
Inside the memorial hall, visitors can wear augmented reality glasses to revisit the glorious history, making the red stories within the revolutionary artifacts even more captivating. Beside the Yan'an Lu Yi Culture Center (延安鲁艺文化中心), visitors can personally experience pottery making at the Lu Yi Pottery Workshop (鲁艺陶工坊).
Transcending time and space, the spirit is eternal.
"Red history should be told to more people," says Liu Jingyi (刘静仪), a fourth-grade "little docent" who is providing volunteer explanations to visitors at the Zaoyuan Revolutionary Site (枣园革命旧址) in Yan'an (延安).
At the Memorial Hall of the Northwest Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央西北局纪念馆), "little docents" are also highly popular. Over the past 10 years, docent Luo Yu (罗玉) has trained more than 2,000 "little docents."
The red bloodline is passed down from generation to generation. As of 2025, the "little docent" program in Yan'an (延安) has been running for 35 years, having trained over 20,000 "little docents" and received 367,000 visitors.
Relying on its rich red resources, Yan'an (延安) is welcoming more youthful faces: the "New Era Youth Yan'an Journey" (新时代青年延安行) social practice activity has become a "great ideological and political course" for university students; the opening and operation of the Xi'an-Yan'an High-Speed Railway (西延高铁) have caused parent-child tours and study tours to continue heating up. In 2025, more than 50 million people visited Yan'an (延安) to read this "book that can never be fully read" together.
"The pages of the book are heavy, and the spirit is eternal," says He Dongmei (贺冬梅), executive deputy director of the Yan'an Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau (延安市文物局). "From this book, we draw the strength to forge ahead and continue to press forward with courage."
Return to TopXinhua News Agency (新华社), Beijing (北京), June 17 — Recently, the State Council (国务院) issued the "15th Five-Year Plan for Implementing the Employment-First Strategy" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan" (《规划》)), which clarifies the ideas, objectives, key tasks, and policy measures for deeply implementing the employment-first strategy and promoting high-quality and full employment during the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五) period.
The "Plan" (《规划》) emphasizes adhering to the guidance of 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), focusing on the goal of promoting high-quality and full employment. It centers on the primary contradiction of the mismatch between human resource supply and demand in the employment sector, insisting on the close integration of investment in physical capital and investment in human capital. Guided by promoting high-quality development, leading with the implementation of the employment-first strategy, utilizing the strengthening of employment-first policies as a key lever, focusing on resolving structural employment contradictions, using the deepening of employment system and mechanism reform as the driving force, and maintaining the bottom line of preventing large-scale unemployment risks, it aims to improve employment promotion mechanisms, build an employment-friendly development model, strengthen human resource development and utilization, guide career selection and hiring concepts, continuously promote the effective improvement in the quality and reasonable growth in the quantity of employment, and constantly enhance the sense of gain, happiness, and security for the vast number of workers.
The "Plan" (《规划》) proposes that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五) period, employment will remain generally stable, employment opportunities will be more abundant, the employment environment will be fairer, the employment structure will be further optimized, the matching of people to jobs will be more efficient, labor relations will be more harmonious, and new progress will be made in high-quality and full employment.
The "Plan" (《规划》) deploys nine key tasks. First, strengthen the employment-first orientation in macroeconomic regulation, enhance the synergy of macroeconomic policies for employment, implement actions to stabilize jobs, expand capacity, and improve quality, and adapt to the development of Artificial Intelligence (人工智能) to promote employment and entrepreneurship. Second, strengthen the synergy between industry and employment, stabilize the scale of employment in labor-intensive industries, expand the employment capacity of the service sector, and tap into the potential of emerging fields to absorb employment. Third, accelerate the shaping of modern human resources, improve the matching degree between educational supply and talent demand, and carry out large-scale vocational skills training. Fourth, expand channels for College Graduates (高校毕业生) and other young people to find employment and succeed, and improve the full-chain employment support system covering policy incentives, service guarantees, bottom-line assistance for the needy, and rights protection. Fifth, increase support for the employment of key groups such as Migrant Workers (农民工) and Military Veterans (退役军人), and strengthen employment assistance for groups such as those facing difficulties in finding employment and registered unemployed persons. Sixth, promote the healthy development of flexible employment and new forms of employment, broaden development channels, strengthen public services, and safeguard legitimate rights and interests. Seventh, improve the employment and entrepreneurship service system and promote the high-quality and efficient development of human resource services. Eighth, strengthen the protection of workers' employment rights, improve the labor standard system and the consultation and coordination mechanism for labor relations, and safeguard the right to equal employment. Ninth, strengthen employment monitoring, early warning, and risk response, and enhance the ability to scientifically judge and analyze the employment situation.
The "Plan" (《规划》) requires adhering to the leadership of the Communist Party of China (党) throughout the entire process and all aspects of implementing the employment-first strategy and promoting high-quality and full employment. All regions and departments must treat employment as the top priority for people's livelihoods, focus on systematic implementation, and ensure the fulfillment of the plan's tasks in light of actual conditions, avoiding 纸上谈兵 (zhǐ shàng tán bīng - "on paper discuss soldiers," to engage in empty theorizing without practical application).
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"Our predecessors exchanged their sacrifices for the peace and prosperity of the nation and the magnificence of our mountains and rivers; we pay tribute to the martyrs of the Chinese People's Volunteers (中国人民志愿军)!" "Let us escort our heroes home together; the spirit of the martyrs shall shine for thousands of years and remain immortal!"
In April of this year, the repatriation ceremony for the 13th group of remains of the Chinese People's Volunteers (中国人民志愿军) martyrs in South Korea (韩国) was held. A formation of Chinese Air Force (中国空军) aircraft was responsible for bringing the heroes home, and the dialogue between the pilots of the J-20 (歼—20) and the Y-20B (运—20B) in the clouds was deeply moving.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "The great victory of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea (抗美援朝战争) is a manifesto for the Chinese people standing tall in the East after rising up; it is an important milestone in the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and it holds significant and profound meaning for both China (中国) and the world."
In June 1950, the Korean (朝鲜) Civil War broke out. The United States (美国) carried out armed intervention and simultaneously dispatched the Seventh Fleet (第七舰队) of the Navy to invade the Taiwan Strait (台湾海峡) of China (中国). In early October, the U.S. military brazenly crossed the 38th Parallel (三八线) and brought the flames of war to the border between China (中国) and North Korea (朝鲜). U.S. aircraft invading North Korea (朝鲜) repeatedly bombed the border regions of Northeast China (中国东北), causing severe losses to people's lives and property, and posing a grave threat to our national security.
In the New China (新中国), where everything was waiting to be rebuilt, the clouds of war had already pressed to our doorstep. Should we send troops?
The Party Central Committee (党中央) and Mao Zedong (毛泽东), with the strategic foresight of "striking one blow to avoid a hundred," and with the determination and spirit of "not hesitating to rebuild even if the country is devastated," made the historic decision to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea (抗美援朝) to protect our homes and defend our country. Composed of the finest sons and daughters of the Chinese nation, the Chinese People's Volunteers (中国人民志愿军) marched across the Yalu River (鸭绿江) with high spirits and great vigor.
It was an extremely asymmetrical and difficult contest. The soldiers of the Chinese People's Volunteers (中国人民志愿军) held rudimentary weapons and wore thin cotton-padded clothes, facing an enemy armed to the teeth.
The Chinese People's Volunteers (中国人民志愿军), in close coordination with the North Korean (朝鲜) army and people, fought the first battle at Liangshuidong (两水洞), the fierce battle at Yunshan (云山城), the campaign at the Chongchon River (清川江), and the brutal battle at Lake Changjin (长津湖), among others. They fought five consecutive campaigns, subsequently constructing deep defensive positions as solid as a wall of bronze and iron, executing multiple offensive campaigns, crushing the "strangle campaign," resisting "bacteriological warfare," and fighting the bloody battle at Shangganling (上甘岭), creating a mighty and magnificent war legacy.
The heroes said: "Behind us is the motherland; for the peace of the people of the motherland, we cannot retreat a single step!" This mettle chilled the enemy and moved heaven and earth!
Yang Gensi (杨根思), the first special-class combat hero of New China (新中国). "I do not believe there is a task that cannot be completed, I do not believe there is a difficulty that cannot be overcome, and I do not believe there is an enemy that cannot be defeated!" During the Battle of Lake Changjin (长津湖), he led his officers and soldiers in repelling eight frantic enemy attacks. When he was the only one left in the fight, he resolutely grabbed an explosive pack and perished with the enemy.
Among the soldiers of the Volunteers (志愿军), more than 300,000 heroes and meritorious personnel emerged, including Huang Jiguang (黄继光) and Qiu Shaoyun (邱少云), along with nearly 6,000 meritorious collectives. Even more, over 197,000 heroic sons and daughters left their lives forever on that land.
On July 27, 1953, at Panmunjom (板门店), the Chinese-North Korean (中朝) delegation and the delegation of the so-called "United Nations Command" (联合国军) signed the Korean Armistice Agreement (朝鲜停战协定). We finally declared to the world with a great victory that "the era when Western invaders could occupy a country for centuries just by setting up a few cannons on an oriental coast has gone forever"!
Together with the people and army of North Korea (朝鲜), the Chinese People's Volunteers (中国人民志愿军) won the great victory of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea (抗美援朝战争) after two years and nine months of arduous and bitter bloody fighting.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The great War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea (抗美援朝战争) resisted imperialist aggression and expansion, defended the security of New China (新中国), protected the peaceful life of the Chinese people, stabilized the situation on the Korean Peninsula (朝鲜半岛), and safeguarded peace in Asia (亚洲) and the world."
Time is silent, but the monuments are witnesses. The great spirit of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea (抗美援朝精神) transcends time and space, remaining fresh as ever.
In Shenyang (沈阳), Liaoning (辽宁), at the Martyrs' Cemetery for the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea (抗美援朝烈士陵园), Wang Chunjie (王春婕), head of the cemetery's Social Education Department, has worked there for many years: "In recent years, we have been searching for the families of martyrs, giving names to the nameless, hoping to let more people remember the heroes' stories and pass on their spirit."
Time and again, explanations and ceremonies have brought the great spirit of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea (抗美援朝精神) into the hearts of more people.
More than 70 years ago, the Volunteer (志愿军) soldiers, holding rudimentary weapons, defeated a vicious enemy. More than 70 years later, the People's Army (人民军队), striding toward modernization, is well-equipped and high-spirited, with an even stronger backbone.
At the Yang Gensi (杨根思) Square of a certain brigade of the 83rd Group Army (第83集团军), the statue of Yang Gensi (杨根思) stands tall, maintaining a charging posture. "We will continue the red bloodline, strive to master excellent skills, and resolutely defend national sovereignty, security, and development interests," said Xiao Rongji (肖荣基), a soldier of the "Yang Gensi Company" (杨根思连) of a certain combined arms brigade of the Army (陆军).
In the new era, the officers and soldiers of the "Yang Gensi Company" (杨根思连) have transformed the heroic declaration of the "Three Beliefs" into a conviction of daring to fight and win, brilliantly completing major tasks such as international military competitions, field exercises, and international peacekeeping. The heroic spirit resonates in the hearts of generation after generation of officers and soldiers.
Return to TopXiongan (雄安), June 17 (Reporter Shi Pengfei (史鹏飞), Shao Yuzi (邵玉姿)) — The 2026 China Brand Forum (中国品牌论坛) was held on June 17 in the Xiongan New Area (雄安新区), Hebei (河北). Lobsang Gyaltsen (洛桑江村), Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会), attended and delivered a speech.
The attending guests stated that brands are an important vehicle for a company's core competitiveness and a comprehensive reflection of a nation's economic strength, innovation capability, and cultural influence. Strengthening brand development is an inherent requirement for developing new quality productive forces and advancing Chinese modernization (中国式现代化). To strengthen brand leadership, one must persist in innovation-driven development to stimulate the momentum and vitality of corporate innovation and creation; one must be based on high-quality development, focus on the real economy, and comprehensively promote industrial upgrading and transformational development; and one must proactively adapt to social needs to continuously satisfy the people's yearning for a better life. They must not 守株待兔 (shǒu zhū dài tù - "guard stump wait rabbit," to rely on luck or wait idly for opportunities) but instead actively pursue progress.
The China Brand Forum (中国品牌论坛) is hosted by the People's Daily (人民日报社) and has been held for 12 consecutive years. The theme of this year's forum is "'The 15th Five-Year Plan' | Brand Leadership, Moving Toward the New ('十五五'|品牌引领 向新而行)."
Responsible comrades from relevant ministries and commissions of the Central and State Organs (中央和国家机关), representatives from local government authorities, business leaders, and experts and scholars attended the forum.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 郑海鸥
Comprehensive rural revitalization requires both shaping the physical environment and fostering the spirit. In recent years, regions across the country have thoroughly studied and implemented the cultural thought of Xi Jinping (习近平), continuously cultivating civilized rural customs, positive family traditions, and simple folkways. These efforts have yielded positive progress and results, with a large number of cultural talents emerging who are dedicated to the construction of civilized rural customs. On June 17, the State Council Information Office (国务院新闻办) held a press conference titled "Strivers on the New Journey," inviting four representatives from the field of civilized rural construction to engage in discussions centered on the theme "Civilization Makes the Countryside Better."
"We focus on both material civilization and spiritual civilization." Wang Chuanxi (王传喜), Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the Village Committee of Dai Village (代村), Bianzhuang Subdistrict (卞庄街道), Lanling County (兰陵县), Linyi City (临沂市), Shandong Province (山东省), has spent 28 years uniting and leading Party members and the masses in working hard and overcoming difficulties. He transformed what was once a dirty, chaotic, poor, and backward village into a model village for rural revitalization that is livable, suitable for business, and harmonious. "The masses have integrated new trends and positive energy—such as diligence and thrift, respecting the elderly and caring for the young, and unity and harmony—into their daily lives, making them a conscious action. Everyone lives and works in peace and contentment, full of happiness."
Customs vary every ten miles, and habits differ every hundred miles. "Good habits must be passed down, while outdated customs and bad habits must be gradually eliminated." To this end, Wang Chuanxi (王传喜) insists on acting according to law, reason, and emotion, educating and guiding the villagers to subtly realize the benefits of new trends. He uses institutional constraints and makes good use of village rules and regulations, while commending the advanced and setting examples to let villagers feel the honor of observing rules and advocating new customs. A positive atmosphere of consciously speaking of civilization and establishing new customs has formed throughout the village.
"Mr. Ai Siqi (艾思奇) wrote profound philosophical principles into 'everyday language' that the common people love to hear. Today, how should we use this method to cultivate civilized rural customs?" This is a question that Bo Yanting (伯雁婷), curator of the Ai Siqi Memorial Hall (艾思奇纪念馆) in Tengchong City (腾冲市), Yunnan Province (云南省), has been reflecting on.
Since 2023, the Ai Siqi Memorial Hall (艾思奇纪念馆) has trained more than 300 "little docents" and over 50 university student volunteers. Bo Yanting (伯雁婷) is delighted to see that "the children tell red stories to tourists in the memorial hall, and when they return home, they share the new folk customs with their grandparents."
In order to better convey the Party's innovative theories and livelihood policies to the villagers, Bo Yanting (伯雁婷) leads her team out of the memorial hall and into villages and hamlets. They do not set up podiums or use empty jargon; instead, they sit with villagers in courtyards or by fire pits to chat about village rules and the importance of filial piety and family harmony. They turn theories into situational dramas, Yangqin (扬琴) rap, and flower-drum performances, allowing the common people to "understand the ropes" while "watching the fun." What deeply touches Bo Yanting (伯雁婷) is that when principles are told as stories—such as "environmental remediation makes the hometown beautiful, industrial development makes the hometown rich, and civilization and harmony make the hometown lovely"—the masses listen with great interest. "Theory is no longer high above, but has become a good prescription for solving problems," said Bo Yanting (伯雁婷).
Chen Yun (陈云), Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Zhejiang Photography Press (浙江摄影出版社), holds another identity as one of the first batch of cultural commissioners in Zhejiang Province (浙江省). During his two-year posting in Hangchuan Village (航川村), Jiande City (建德市), Hangzhou (杭州), he built a rural art museum, organized photography exhibitions with villagers, and established a rural photography team, shifting from "delivering culture" to "cultivating culture."
"Some villagers' photographic works have been successfully selected for national-level exhibitions," said Chen Yun (陈云). "We are also actively exploring the 'photography + homestay' model, transforming cultural traffic into economic growth, and the annual number of tourists has increased rapidly."
Wu Juan (武娟), a villager from Yuanlong Village (原隆村), Minning Town (闽宁镇), Yongning County (永宁县), Yinchuan City (银川市), Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (宁夏回族自治区), is a post-90s generation member who became a flight attendant after graduating from college. Later, witnessing the leapfrog development of her hometown, she took the initiative to return home to start a business. "I use both Chinese and English on the internet to tell stories about the changes in my hometown and the good products from the fields, letting more people see Minning (闽宁)."
Yuanlong Village (原隆村) is an ecological migration resettlement village. Villagers come from different places, and initially, their sense of identity with the village was not strong. Wu Juan (武娟) said that the village started by bringing people together. Through hosting basketball games and village banquets, as well as supporting Qinqiang (秦腔) amateur troupes and building cultural exchange rooms, the whole village eats, plays, and enjoys themselves together. "Slowly, we developed the concept of being one family."
"After I started live streaming, villagers came to me hoping I could help them sell their goods. I wrote them down one by one, then acted as a bridge to connect farmers and purchasers online." Wu Juan (武娟) remarked with emotion, "These are all very small things, but everyone's hearts are getting closer. Neighborhood relations are about helping more, sharing more, and spreading more. When people's hearts are warm, the village naturally becomes 和和美美 (hé hé měi měi - "harmonious and beautiful," describing a state of peace, unity, and happiness in a family or community)." In 2025, Yuanlong Village (原隆村) in Minning Town (闽宁镇) was awarded the title of National Civilized Village and Town.
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Studying and implementing the Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) is a major political task for the entire Party at present and for a period to come.
The essential connotations of the "Fourteen Adherences" (十四个坚持) deeply grasp the internal connections between managing and governing the Party, revitalizing and strengthening the Party, and building a strong nation and achieving national rejuvenation. By coordinating the Party's leadership and the Party's construction, it serves as a concentrated summary of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) new ideas, new thoughts, and new strategies that are iconic and leading for Party construction in the new era. It is a systematic, complete, logically rigorous, rich in content, and profound organic whole, possessing distinct originality, theoretical depth, and identifying characteristics.
The vast number of Party members and cadres have expressed that the development of the cause of the Party and the people must be matched by the progress of Party construction. They must deeply comprehend the firm ideals and beliefs, high degree of historical initiative, distinct problem-oriented approach, strong sense of mission and responsibility, profound feelings for the people, and scientific ideological methods contained within the Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平). They must accurately grasp the essence and practical requirements of this thought, and effectively transform the results of their studies into actual actions of loyally protecting the Party and fully revitalizing and strengthening the Party, thereby providing a strong political guarantee for comprehensively advancing the construction of a strong nation and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization.
Follow the Path and Continuously Strengthen Theoretical Learning and Application
The Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) is an important component of 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). It has made significant original contributions to the development of Marxist Party-building theory, marking a new height in our Party's understanding of the laws of Communist Party governance and the laws of the Party's own construction, and holds major practical significance and long-term guiding value for strengthening the Party and the nation.
"Responding to the issues of the era, conforming to the overall situation and trends, and following the hearts and minds of the Party and the people—studying and implementing the Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) is timely and absolutely necessary." Shen Chengfei (沈成飞), Dean of the School of Marxism at Sun Yat-sen University (中山大学), believes that the Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) was nurtured in the great practice of comprehensively and strictly governing the Party in the new era. It has achieved a leap from important viewpoints to a systematic architecture, and from practical experience to an understanding of laws. It not only provides a scientific guide for deeply advancing the great new project of Party construction in the new era on the new journey, but also provides a Chinese solution for the self-construction and governance of political parties around the world.
Adhering to and strengthening the overall leadership of the Party concerns the future and destiny of the Party and the country. Among the "Fourteen Adherences" (十四个坚持) of the Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平), the one ranked first is "Adhering to the Party's leadership is the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics."
"A train runs fast because of the engine." Huo Yankai (霍艳凯), Secretary of the Party Branch of Huojiazhuang Village (霍家庄村), Wei County (魏县), Handan (邯郸), Hebei (河北), believes that adhering to and strengthening the overall leadership of the Party, especially the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee (党中央), hinges on the word "practical." We must integrate the adherence to the Party's leadership into every practical matter concerning people's livelihoods, making villagers' pockets fuller, their jobs more secure, and the "appearance" of the countryside more beautiful, thereby continuously enhancing the Party's creativity, cohesion, and combat effectiveness.
The Party's political construction is the fundamental construction of the Party, determining the direction and effectiveness of Party construction.
"The 'Fourteen Adherences' (十四个坚持) clearly require 'adhering to the Party's political construction as the guide,' which provides a fundamental follow for us to strengthen grassroots Party construction." You Yuanfei (由远飞), Secretary of the Party Committee of Kuandian Manchu Autonomous County (宽甸满族自治县), Dandong (丹东), Liaoning (辽宁), said that Kuandian (宽甸) relies on the "Red Party Flag by the Yalu River" (鸭绿江畔党旗红) project to build positions such as "Red Post Stations" (红色驿站) and "National Gate Party Schools" (国门党校), making the Party's political construction concrete, localized, and normalized. By empowering high-quality development with rigorous political construction, they drive the quality and efficiency of all work.
Listening to Party history at the school history museum and revisiting the oath of admission to the Party facing the Party flag... this is the "first lesson" of Party spirit education arranged by the Party School of the Jinan Municipal Committee of the CPC (济南市委党校) (Jinan Institute of Administration (济南行政学院)) in Shandong (山东) for students at the beginning of each school year.
"The Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) requires 'adhering to tempering strong Party spirit,' and as the main channel for educating and training cadres and Party members, the Party school is duty-bound." Li Lin (李琳), Director of the Party History and Party Construction Teaching and Research Department of the Party School of the Jinan Municipal Committee of the CPC (济南市委党校) (Jinan Institute of Administration (济南行政学院)), stated that they will take the Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) as an important content of theoretical education and Party spirit education, and further explore the establishment of a full-cycle, full-chain Party spirit education model that integrates thematic Party lectures, on-site realization, learning expansion, and exchange discussions, striving to make the Party spirit training at the Party school truly vivid, profound, and deeply ingrained in the mind and heart.
Learn, Think, Practice, and Comprehend: Persistently Advance the Party's Self-Construction
The Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) centrally embodies our Party's political will, political stance, political propositions, and political wisdom in managing and governing the Party. It profoundly answers a series of major questions such as "how to always keep the original intention and remember the mission" and "how to jump out of the historical cycle of rise and fall," pointing out the correct political direction for Party construction in the new era.
"The great practice of comprehensively and strictly governing the Party in the new era is a powerful testament to the truth and practical power of the Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平)." Qian Baoxing (钱保兴), Secretary of the Party General Branch of Heinidi Community (黑泥地社区), Yangjie Township (羊街乡), Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture (红河哈尼族彝族自治州), Yunnan (云南), believes that adhering to the normalization and long-term effectiveness of work style construction is one of the essential connotations of the Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平), and it is also an important starting point for grassroots cadres to bridge the relationship with the masses. Party members and cadres must strictly cultivate their character, exercise power, and discipline themselves, and implement the spirit of the Central Eight-point Regulation (中央八项规定) without compromise, in order to continuously consolidate the political foundation for the Party's long-term governance.
Discipline is the "measuring stick" for managing and governing the Party, and it is also the standard and follow for Party members and cadres to constrain their own behavior. The Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) clearly proposes "adhering to using strict discipline to manage and govern the entire Party."
"Discipline construction is the focus of comprehensively and strictly governing the Party. We must always put discipline in the forefront and use strict discipline to rectify the atmosphere of work and standardize the behavior of performing duties." Wu Bihao (吴必豪), Secretary of the Commission for Discipline Inspection and Director of the Supervisory Commission of Shibing County (施秉县), Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture (黔东南苗族侗族自治州), Guizhou (贵州), stated that they will always anchor the tone of strictness, focus on the local development main line of "grasping industry and attacking industrial development," precisely deepen the application of the "four forms" (四种形态) of supervision and discipline enforcement, continuously improve the precision of discipline enforcement and accountability, and constantly transform the effectiveness of studying and understanding the Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) into internal motivation for promoting practical work.
At the Party conduct and clean government construction training base in Lingao County (临高县), Hainan (海南), Lin Hongzhen (林红珍), Director of the Research and Publicity Office of the County Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervisory Commission, is working with colleagues to turn the essential connotations of the Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) into display boards for everyone to study and discuss.
"The Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) is the latest achievement of the 'Two Combinations' (两个结合) in the field of Party construction. 'Adhering to the integrated promotion of not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt' (坚持一体推进不敢腐不能腐不想腐) is the intuitive embodiment of the spiritual core of clean culture." Lin Hongzhen (林红珍) stated that they must more accurately grasp the practical requirements of the Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平), put more effort into the integrated promotion of "three non-corruptions" (三不腐), and extend the anti-corruption chain from the source through methods such as family style classes and family-style clean government talks, continuously magnifying the comprehensive effectiveness of anti-corruption.
To govern the country, one must first govern the Party; to govern the Party, one must be strict; to be strict, one must follow the law.
"The 'Fourteen Adherences' (十四个坚持) clearly propose 'adhering to governing the Party by system and governing the Party according to regulations,' providing a fundamental follow for the grassroots to enhance the authority and execution of intra-Party regulations with practical actions." Sun Haidong (孙海东), Secretary of the Qixia District Committee (栖霞区委) of Nanjing (南京), Jiangsu (江苏), said, "Everyone is equal before the system, and there are no exceptions in implementing the system. We will take inspections, special supervision, and the rectification of historical legacy issues as starting points to continuously improve the system, promote problem rectification and institutional building in an integrated manner, and truly cage power within the system."
Hold High the Flag and Forge Ahead: Build Our Party Well and Strong
The "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五) period is a critical period for laying the foundation and making comprehensive efforts to basically realize socialist modernization. The weight of reform, development, and stability tasks, as well as the number of contradictions, risks, and challenges, have all put forward new and higher requirements for the Party's own construction, the Party's governance capacity, and leadership level.
The Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) was formed in the great practice of the new era, and it will surely demonstrate its majestic power in guiding and promoting practice.
Since the beginning of summer, some farmland in Huaiyuan County (怀远县), Bengbu (蚌埠), Anhui (安徽), has experienced a shortage of irrigation water. Fang Binjie (方斌杰), Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Mayor of Bailianpo Town (白莲坡镇), Huaiyuan County (怀远县), rushed to the scene immediately to coordinate various village groups to divert water at staggered times and resolve the difficulties.
"The purpose of learning lies entirely in application. The 'Fourteen Adherences' (十四个坚持) clearly propose adhering to using the Party's innovative theory to condense hearts and forge souls, putting forward higher requirements for us to transform the results of learning into practical actions and responsibilities." Fang Binjie (方斌杰) said that as a young grassroots cadre, he will adhere to the integration of learning, thinking, and application, and the unity of knowledge, belief, and action, firmly establish and practice a correct view of political achievements, and transform the results of theoretical study into specific actions of developing industries, stabilizing employment, and benefiting people's livelihoods.
Walking into Nanqiao Village (南桥村) in Binyang County (宾阳县), Nanning (南宁), Guangxi (广西), the village is clean and the environment is pleasant. It is hard to imagine that in the past, sewage was discharged randomly and dust filled the sky here.
"Adhering to not forgetting the original intention and remembering the mission is one of the essential connotations of the Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平), and it is also an important follow for us to do a good job in grassroots work." In the past few days, Liang Zhanfan (梁展凡), Secretary of the Binyang County Committee (宾阳县委), has come to Nanqiao Village (南桥村) again to check the progress of the rectification of problems such as garbage accumulation.
"Whether the political achievements are good or not, the masses have the final say; whether the original intention is firm or not, practical work will test it. The more complex the situation and the more arduous the tasks, the more we need to study and understand the Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平), and perform our duties and serve the masses around the various livelihood deployments of the '15th Five-Year Plan' (十五五)." Liang Zhanfan (梁展凡) said.
Building our Party well and strong cannot be separated from a powerful organizational system and a team of cadres.
Since the beginning of this year, Jingmen (荆门), Hubei (湖北), has used "running to the front line" to promote development, guiding cadres to step out of their offices and take root in the forefront of key project construction, the resolution of legacy issues, and the handling of livelihood matters.
"Adhering to improving the organizational system that is connected from top to bottom and executed effectively is the advantage of our Party, and it is also an important aspect of implementing the Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平)." Liu Fuguo (刘富国), member of the Standing Committee of the Jingmen Municipal Committee (荆门市委) and Minister of the Organization Department, stated that they must effectively transform organizational power and organizational advantages into development momentum and development advantages, adhere to the standards for good cadres in the new era, build and strengthen the cadre team, and provide strong support for comprehensively advancing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese-style modernization.
One part deployment, nine parts implementation.
"Has the requirement of scanning the code to enter the enterprise been implemented? Are there any law enforcement officers who entered the door to inspect without scanning the code?" Recently, at a mining company in Luanchuan County (栾川县), Luoyang (洛阳), Henan (河南), discipline inspection and supervision cadres checked the records of scanning codes to enter enterprises on the spot and conducted return visits to enterprise heads about enterprise-related law enforcement, ensuring that enterprises can focus more energy on production.
"The responsibility of managing and governing the Party is the most fundamental political responsibility. Implementing it into the work of optimizing the business environment depends on whether the responsibilities at all levels have been compacted, whether policy implementation has deviated, and whether the demands of enterprises have been responded to." Qi Jianfeng (祁建峰), Secretary of the Commission for Discipline Inspection and Director of the Supervisory Commission of Luoyang (洛阳), stated that they will be guided by the Party-building thought of Xi Jinping (习近平), grasp the "nose of the ox" (牛鼻子) (niú bí zi - "ox nose," the key point or crucial link in a matter) of the responsibility system, promote the responsibility requirements to be assigned to posts and individuals, and make assessment and accountability visible and effective, advancing the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party with higher standards and more solid measures.
(According to Xinhua News Agency (新华社), Beijing (北京), June 17)
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As the lights began to twinkle at dusk, the conference room at the Z-Park Dongsheng Science and Technology Park (中关村东升科技园) in Haidian District (海淀区), Beijing (北京), was packed for a special "night school" session tailored for scientific and technological innovation talent. "Our technology leads the industry, so why doesn't the market recognize it?" "We have refined our product repeatedly, so why are customers unwilling to pay for it?" "Our team has a stellar background, so why do we hit walls everywhere we seek financing?"... In the classroom, one question after another struck directly at the pain points of the enterprises.
"No empty talk, no beating around the bush, it hits the nail on the head." Bi Jiepeng (毕杰鹏), who was attending the "night school" for the first time, is the founder of Zhixing Technology Transfer (Beijing) Co., Ltd. (知行技转（北京）科技有限公司). Upon learning that the "night school" was spearheaded by the Enterprise Party Committee of Zhongguancun Science City (中关村科学城企业党委), he remarked with great emotion, "Solving real problems and learning real methods—the role of Party building is truly materialized here."
On the eve of "July 1st" (the anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China) in 2021, the Comprehensive Party Committee of Zhongguancun Science City (中关村科学城综合党委) was awarded the title of "National Advanced Grassroots Party Organization" (全国先进基层党组织). In May 2024, the Comprehensive Party Committee of Zhongguancun Science City (中关村科学城综合党委) was officially renamed the Enterprise Party Committee of Zhongguancun Science City (中关村科学城企业党委).
With less than three years between these two milestones, why the name change? From the Comprehensive Party Committee of Zhongguancun Science City (中关村科学城综合党委) to the Enterprise Party Committee of Zhongguancun Science City (中关村科学城企业党委), what changes have taken place here?
"Stripping away the content of government agency Party building to focus on enterprise Party building work," said Cao Zhou (曹舟), Deputy Secretary of the Enterprise Party Committee of Zhongguancun Science City (中关村科学城企业党委) and Deputy Director of the Non-Public Party Building Division of the Zhongguancun Science City Management Committee (中关村科学城管委会). "Enterprises are the main body of innovation. We must fully leverage the role of Party organizations to better link resources from all sides and assist in the innovative development of enterprises."
Zhongguancun (中关村) is a banner of China's innovation and development. "Technology iterates rapidly, and enterprises are riding the waves forward; this also puts forward brand-new requirements for our Party building work," said Zhang Ge (张革), Secretary of the Haidian District Party Committee (海淀区委) and Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Zhongguancun Science City (中关村科学城党工委). "We are installing a 'red engine' at the very forefront of scientific and technological innovation to help industrial upgrading and serve enterprise development."
What to do? Where to go? A major investigation became the key to breaking the deadlock. In May 2023, an in-depth investigation lasting more than six months was launched in Zhongguancun Science City (中关村科学城). By visiting over 1,300 enterprises and holding more than 10 seminars and validation meetings, a strategy gradually took shape: vertically, setting up Party building coordination committees for eight industrial special committees, including artificial intelligence and medicine and health; horizontally, establishing eight Party building empowerment modules for government-enterprise, finance-enterprise, and school-enterprise cooperation.
"Even the finest wine fears a deep alley; no matter how good the technology is, it is useless if it cannot be implemented," recalled Mou Honglei (牟宏磊), Chairman of Zhongguancun Robot Industry Innovation and Development Co., Ltd. (中关村机器人产业创新发展有限公司). Through the Party Building Coordination Committee of the Embodied Intelligence Industry Special Committee (具身智能产业专委会党建协调委员会), the company connected with the intelligent needs of the Beijing Red Cross Blood Center (北京红十字血液中心), and the two sides hit it off immediately 一拍即合 (yī pāi jí hé - "one clap immediately together," to reach an agreement or click instantly).
Today, a "team" consisting of six intelligent collaborative robots is already on duty at the Beijing Red Cross Blood Center (北京红十字血液中心). "This is the first set of blood identification and packaging robot systems in the country, increasing work efficiency in relevant links by 50% and achieving a 100% compliance rate in operations," said Mou Honglei (牟宏磊). "This not only solved the problems of the blood center but also allowed the company to take its first step toward medical intelligence."
Based on enterprise needs, they customized "Specialized, Refined, Differential, and Innovation (SRDI) Enterprise Policy Interpretation Meetings" (专精特新企业政策解读会); targeting financing difficulties, they organized financial institutions to carry out joint construction with enterprises; promoting the implementation of scenarios, they carried out joint Party building exchanges on "AI + Medicine and Health Industry Application Innovation and Development"... As services go deeper and become more practical, enterprises are also flocking to the Party organization.
Currently, the number of independent enterprise Party organizations under the Enterprise Party Committee of Zhongguancun Science City (中关村科学城企业党委) has reached 961, with 1,838 Party organizations at various levels, covering 3,223 private enterprises. "The coverage of Party organizations is still constantly expanding," said Cao Zhou (曹舟).
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A great era breeds scientific thought, and scientific thought leads innovative practice.
The Thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) on Party Building, as the fundamental guideline for strengthening the Party in the new era, holds a uniquely important position within the Thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) 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), making major original contributions to the development of Marxist party-building theory. As the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) approaches its 105th anniversary, the Party Central Committee (党中央) clarifying the Thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) on Party Building is of significant and far-reaching importance for enriching and developing contemporary Chinese Marxism and 21st-century Marxism, and for promoting the entire Party to continuously improve its ideological and theoretical level.
The Thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) on Party Building was formed on the basis of profoundly summarizing the rich experience of our Party in strengthening itself over the past hundred years and more, and is a systematic summary of the practical experience of comprehensive and strict Party governance in the new era. This important thought profoundly grasps the internal connection between governing the Party, making the Party thrive and strengthen, and the rejuvenation of the nation through the "Fourteen Persistences" (十四个坚持). It not only adheres to the most basic and core content of Marxist party-building theory but also 守正创新 (shǒu zhèng chuàng xīn - "uphold integrity and innovate," to maintain correct principles while pursuing innovation) and 推陈出新 (tuī chén chū xīn - "push out the old and bring in the new," to discard the obsolete and develop the new) while studying new situations and solving new problems. It has answered major theoretical and practical questions regarding Party building in the new era and has enriched and developed Marxist party-building theory with a series of original achievements. The formation and development of the Thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) on Party Building centrally embodies the boldness and courage of Chinese Communists in the new era for theoretical innovation, marking that our Party's understanding of the laws of Communist Party governance and the laws of Marxist party building has reached a new height.
To study and implement the Thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) on Party Building, one must profoundly understand and grasp the essence and main points of this important thought, deeply recognize its major original contributions, continuously promote theoretical and practical innovation in Party building, and constantly open up new realms for Marxist party building.
This important thought originates from Marxist scientific theory, is rooted in the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and was conceived in the great practice of comprehensive and strict Party governance in the new era, possessing a solid practical foundation and profound theoretical origins.
From a small red boat to a towering giant ship navigating China toward steady and long-term progress, our Party has, for over a hundred years, persisted in taking Marxist party-building theory as its guide, combined with the specific realities of China's revolution, construction, and reform, and has accumulated rich experience in governing the Party.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的十八大), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has proceeded from the strategic height of coordinating the "Two Overall Situations" (两个大局), clearly proposing that the leadership of the Party is the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and that upholding the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee (党中央) is the highest political principle. He creatively proposed that political construction is the fundamental construction of the Party, making the entire Party more unified in thought, more united in politics, and more consistent in action. Starting with the formulation and implementation of the "Eight-point Regulation" (中央八项规定), he incorporated comprehensive and strict Party governance into the "Four-pronged Comprehensive" (四个全面) strategic layout, creatively proposed that strengthening discipline construction is the fundamental strategy for comprehensive and strict Party governance, and that strengthening the construction of intra-Party regulations and systems is the long-term and fundamental strategy for comprehensive and strict Party governance, reflecting strict requirements in every aspect and link of governing the Party. Drawing rich spiritual nourishment for theoretical innovation from the thousands of years of Chinese civilization, inheriting and developing the people-centered thought of Chinese civilization, and always adhering to the fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, he has achieved the creative transformation and innovative development of the principles of governing the state and the moral concepts of self-cultivation and conduct... Developing through inheritance and innovating while upholding integrity, the Thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) on Party Building has formed a complete theoretical system that embodies the characteristics of the times, grasps the laws, and is full of creativity. It is a major achievement of our Party in adhering to the "Two Integrations" (两个结合) and promoting theoretical innovation.
This important thought highlights firm ideals and beliefs, a high degree of historical initiative, a distinct problem-oriented approach, a strong sense of mission and responsibility, profound feelings for the people, and scientific ideological methods, possessing distinct theoretical character.
Anchored in the belief that "the people's yearning for a better life is our goal," it requires the entire Party to never forget its original intention, keep its mission firmly in mind, always place the people in the highest position in its heart, regard benefiting the people as the most important political achievement, and always breathe the same breath, share the same future, and stay connected with the people. From solidly carrying out intra-Party centralized education to strengthening the construction of clean culture in the new era, it takes adhering to the use of the Party's innovative theories to forge the soul as the fundamental task of the Party's ideological construction, proposing that tempering Party spirit and improving ideological awareness should be a lifelong task, and always maintaining the political character of Communists. Focusing on the prominent problems and serious hidden dangers existing within the Party, it promotes the implementation of the political responsibility for comprehensive and strict Party governance, insists on promoting the inability, refusal, and fear of corruption as an integrated whole, and with the sense of mission of "offending thousands to avoid failing fourteen hundred million people," it has promoted the anti-corruption struggle to achieve an overwhelming victory and comprehensive consolidation... It not only deploys the task of "crossing the river" but also provides guidance for solving the problem of "the bridge or the boat." The Thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) on Party Building clarifies the essence and applies it to practice, connecting the body and the function, profoundly clarifying the fundamental question of what the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) is and what it is for, demonstrating the power of Marxist truth.
Treating science with a scientific attitude and pursuing truth with the spirit of truth is the ideological code that keeps Chinese Communists at the forefront of the times. The Thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) on Party Building connects history, reality, and the future. It will continue to be enriched and developed with the development of the practice of Party building in the new era, demonstrating powerful ideological and practical strength in the historical process of advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation.
Looking back at the Party's struggle, our Party has united and led the people to write the most magnificent epic in the thousands of years of Chinese history and has created a series of great achievements. History and practice tell us that possessing the guidance of Marxist scientific theory is the fundamental reason why our Party has firm faith and belief and grasps historical initiative. Under the guidance of the Thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) 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), especially the Thought of Xi Jinping (习近平) on Party Building, deeply advancing the new great project of Party building in the new era will surely continuously open up new realms for the century-old Party to govern, thrive, and strengthen itself, and continue to write new chapters of the two miracles on the new journey of Chinese-style modernization (中国式现代化).
Return to TopBeijing (北京), June 17 — (Reporter Li Xinping (李心萍)) The reporter learned from the China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. (中国国家铁路集团有限公司) that starting from 0:00 on July 1, the national railway network will implement a new train operation schedule. After the adjustment, the national railway network will arrange 12,174 scheduled passenger trains, an increase of 106 compared to the current schedule; 23,975 freight trains will be operated, an increase of 111 compared to the current schedule.
The new schedule shows that the Xi'an East (西安东) to Shiyan East (十堰东) section of the Wuhan (武汉) to Xi'an (西安) high-speed railway is about to open. The railway department will arrange for 58 bullet train services from Xi'an East (西安东) (Xi'an North (西安北)) to destinations including Nanyang East (南阳东), Hankou (汉口), and Chongqing North (重庆北). Among them, the shortest travel times from Xi'an East (西安东) to Hankou (汉口) and Guangzhou South (广州南) will be 2 hours and 41 minutes and 6 hours and 53 minutes, respectively, which are 1 hour and 1 minute and 15 minutes shorter than the current travel times from Xi'an North (西安北) via the Xulan (徐兰) and Beijing-Guangzhou (京广) high-speed railways to Wuhan (武汉) and Guangzhou South (广州南).
Return to TopXinhua News Agency (新华社), Beijing (北京), June 17 — Comrade Zhao Yundong (赵云栋), former Deputy Director and member of the Party Leadership Group of the State Council Special Economic Zones Office (国务院特区办公室), passed away due to illness in Beijing (北京) on June 5, 2026, at the age of 92.
Following the passing of Comrade Zhao Yundong (赵云栋), relevant leading comrades of the Central Committee (中央) expressed their condolences and extended sympathy to his family in various ways.
Zhao Yundong (赵云栋) was born in February 1934 in Changzhou (常州), Jiangsu (江苏). He began his career in April 1952 and joined the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) in July 1954. Starting in 1963, he successively served as Section Chief of the Transportation Command of the Ministry of Railways (铁道部), Section Chief of the General Office of the Ministry of Railways (铁道部), and Section Chief of the State Council Port Construction Office (国务院港口建设办公室). From 1978, he successively served as Secretary and Deputy Division Chief of the Foreign Affairs Division of the General Office of the State Capital Construction Commission (国家建委), Deputy Division Chief of the Secretary Research Group of the Infrastructure Office of the State Economic Commission (国家经委), Division Chief of the Transportation Project Review Division of the Design Appraisal Bureau, Deputy Secretary of the Party General Branch of the Infrastructure Office, and Deputy Secretary of the Branch Party Committee of the Infrastructure Office of the State Planning Commission (国家计委). From 1984 to 1992, he successively served as Head of the Open Cities Group and Deputy Director of the State Council Special Economic Zones Office (国务院特区办). From 1992 to 1995, he served as Deputy Director and member of the Party Leadership Group of the State Council Special Economic Zones Office (国务院特区办).
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Yushu (玉树) needs us. In our line of work, how could we ever leave these grasslands? Having a career one loves, villagers one cares for, and family members who share the same ideals—this life, spent here, is truly worthwhile.
The eagles circle over the Batang Grassland (巴塘草原), and the fresh green once again blankets the Sanjiangyuan (三江源). Beneath the three bridges named "Happiness" (幸福), "Life" (生命), and "Takeoff" (腾飞), the Tongtian River (通天河) flows; in the blink of an eye, I have been rooted on this plateau for 40 years.
Relationships between people and places are built on both fate and sentiment. When I first arrived in Yushu (玉树), Qinghai (青海), there was only one bridge here. Crossing the source of the Yellow River (黄河源) and traversing the Bayan Har Mountains (巴颜喀拉山), the journey took four days. Some said I was foolish; having graduated from university, I could have stayed in Xining (西宁) to teach, so why insist on going to Yushu (玉树)? At the time, I thought: if one studies animal husbandry, where else should one go but to the front lines of the pastoral areas? I am very grateful to my wife, who followed me all the way here. Around 2010, there was another opportunity to leave the plateau, but then the Yushu (玉树) earthquake struck. With emergency rescue, disaster relief, and post-disaster reconstruction underway, and support arriving from across the country, how could we have the heart to leave then?
During that earthquake, more than 4,900 domestic dogs and 47,000 cattle, sheep, and horses in Yushu (玉树) died. At the time, as the director of the Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Station of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (玉树藏族自治州), I immediately led an epidemic prevention team to carry out harmless disposal of the dead animals to prevent plagues as the weather warmed. Immediately afterward, I threw myself into the work of guiding the recovery of animal husbandry production... Where the heart points, time flies; before I knew it, another 10-plus years had passed.
Having spent most of my life working with yaks, my greatest wish is nothing more than for the cattle to be fat and the sheep to be strong, and for everyone’s life to get better and better. Looking back now, coming to Yushu (玉树) was the right choice.
In the past, the yaks here suffered from the phenomenon of being "strong in summer, fat in autumn, thin in winter, and dying in spring." Where was the crux of the problem?
It lay in concepts and methods. Previously, the standard for judging wealth among the masses in pastoral areas was quite simple: it depended solely on the number of yaks owned. The result was that every family competed to increase their numbers, each looking out only for themselves, which led to an increasingly prominent contradiction between grass and livestock—the grasslands degraded, the cattle and sheep could not gain weight, and they could not be sold for a good price. This is what is known in ecology as the "crowding effect." Under the traditional grazing model, there were many uncontrollable factors, and the non-natural mortality rate was high. One winter, there was a blizzard; there was ice on the grass and snow on the ice. The cattle and sheep could not graze, and the herdsmen were so anxious they used shovels to break the ice, but how much ground could they really clear?
How can one balance the need to give the grasslands time to rest and recover with the need to ensure that the cattle and sheep do not lose weight and to protect the herdsmen's "purses"? The solution was scientific supplementary feeding to reduce overgrazing. We devoted ourselves to refining a high-energy, high-protein, anti-diarrheal, and low-cost feed. The "grazing + supplementary feeding" model caused the age of first calving for female yaks to advance by two years, increased the consecutive calving rate to over 78%, and shortened the yak marketing cycle by more than two years. It is not easy to get herdsmen to change the grazing methods passed down by their ancestors, but facts speak for themselves. Relying on demonstration and guidance, over ten thousand herdsmen have achieved stable income growth, which not only broke the passive situation of "relying on the heavens to raise livestock" but also protected the ecology of the Sanjiangyuan (三江源).
From yak vaccination to forage improvement experiments, and from the promotion of cold-season supplementary feeding technology to breakthroughs in yak embryo transfer, we have traveled to the pastoral areas of all counties and cities in the prefecture. We have experienced severe altitude sickness, endured freezing temperatures of minus 20 degrees Celsius, and squeezed into tents with herdsmen. The pasture is the main battlefield for us researchers, and it is also the best experimental field for new technologies. Today, "Yushu Yak" (玉树牦牛) has been included in the National Livestock and Poultry Genetic Resources Directory and passed breed certification, becoming a national geographical indication protection product—a new "gold-lettered signboard" on the plateau.
Research topics come from practice, and solutions return to practice. Over the past five years, we have held 72 training sessions for professional technicians, large-scale breeders, and herdsmen, training over 8,300 people. We also compiled a bilingual Chinese-Tibetan yak-rearing popular science manual, translating professional breeding and disease prevention knowledge into plain language and simple illustrations, and distributed them to every pastoral village in the prefecture.
Over time, everyone came to trust us and called me "Dr. Yak." Every time I post a work plan for the next two weeks in the group, herdsmen call to schedule a time for me to check the health of their yaks. Each "Gua Zhenqie" (挂真切) (Tibetan, meaning "thank you") lets me know that they have long considered me one of their own.
The plateau is bitter and cold, yet it has become my comfort zone. After my daughter finished her doctorate, she also made her home in Yushu (玉树). She often jokes with others: "My father does animal husbandry, my mother researches forage, and I research the balance between grass and livestock!" Some say I have "dedicated my youth and now my descendants." In fact, everything is just natural—Yushu (玉树) needs us. In our line of work, how could we ever leave these grasslands? Having a career one loves, villagers one cares for, and family members who share the same ideals—this life, spent here, is truly worthwhile.
People of our generation love to listen to a song: "The roads north and south you must walk / On the thousands of roads, never look back / Where do you wander in the vast wind and rain / Let the waters of the Yangtze River flow to the edge of the sky..." If anyone still asks "why," I would like to invite them to look—look at the three bridges standing in silence, the river surging, and the herds of yaks on the distant grasslands. Could there be a more beautiful picture than this?
(The author is the director and promotion researcher of the Animal Disease Prevention and Control Center of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (玉树藏族自治州), Qinghai (青海) Province; interviewed and compiled by our reporter Qiao Dong (乔栋))
Return to TopBy: 吕晓勋
Instead of pursuing all-around perfection, forging a unique strength requires first selecting a niche track that suits oneself. Finding development opportunities and breakthrough directions from national strategies often yields 事半功倍 (shì bàn gōng bèi - "half work double result," achieving great success with half the effort).
Local leadership can generate powerful spillover effects and chain reactions, thereby driving a systematic leap in the industry and building more robust advantages in market, innovation, and security.
For those with flat feet, where can one find suitable slippers? Neikeng Town (内坑镇), Jinjiang (晋江), Fujian (福建), produces 1 billion pairs of slippers annually. With all kinds of features and styles available, it has become a "global slipper export hub."
Would anyone buy a guitar costing over ten thousand yuan? Songzi (松滋), Hubei (湖北), produces and exports high-end guitars. Its products are recognized by renowned musical instrument dealers in many countries and have even attracted foreign master luthiers to relocate and work there.
Separated by thousands of miles, one town and one city have both achieved excellence in their niche tracks, securing a place in the global market. Such practices prompt reflection: for places with "average conditions," how can new growth poles be created?
Limited resources mean it is difficult to exert effort in all areas. Adapting to local conditions, shaping the strength of local leadership, and creating late-mover advantages may be one way to solve the problem.
Instead of pursuing all-around perfection, forging a unique strength requires first selecting a niche track that suits oneself. Finding development opportunities and breakthrough directions from national strategies often yields 事半功倍 (shì bàn gōng bèi - "half work double result," achieving great success with half the effort).
Starting from scratch, Xunwu (寻乌), Jiangxi (江西), caught the favorable wind of "the old revolutionary base area integrating into the Greater Bay Area" and tried every possible way to introduce advanced manufacturing enterprises from Guangdong (广东). Slow logistics? Six dedicated lines to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) were opened, ensuring "same-day shipment, next-day direct arrival." No market? The government secured large exhibition areas at top domestic trade fairs and organized groups to win orders for enterprises. Located in an old revolutionary base area, the county actively coordinated with Guangdong to build a "scientific and technological enclave," with "Shenzhen (深圳) innovation + Xunwu (寻乌) manufacturing" working together. Today, for every 10 air compressors in the country, one is "made in Xunwu."
"Creating something from nothing" is not about sitting and waiting for a windfall; it is about actively pooling resources and striving for conditions with all one's might. As long as the soil of the business environment is enriched, one need not worry about failing to grow a "forest." From Xunwu (寻乌) to Yiwu (义乌), Zhejiang (浙江), the local practices of those who turned development disadvantages into advantages prove that by finding the right positioning and daring to explore and try, one can achieve the value enhancement of 点石成金 (diǎn shí chéng jīn - "touch stone turn gold," transforming something ordinary into something extraordinary).
Local leaders also face the possibility of being caught up and surpassed. The best way to maintain a leading edge is to improve "endurance" through effective "replenishment."
"Run schools in factories, move classrooms into workshops." Huangyan District (黄岩区), Taizhou (台州), Zhejiang (浙江)—the "Home of Molds"—has customized training for over 7,000 skilled personnel through school-enterprise cooperation in the past three years. Nearly 40% of graduates from one mold industry college became technical backbones in enterprises after employment. Talent empowers the industry, and the industry effectively feeds back into education. The deep integration of production, education, and research has pushed the local economy to find a path of advancement.
In response to the shortage of interdisciplinary talent and the lack of sustained industrial leadership, more places are exploring the integrated reform of education, technology, and talent to reshape the industrial ecosystem. In Suining (遂宁), Sichuan (Sichuan), the correlation between vocational school majors and key industries exceeds 95%. In Yangling Demonstration Zone (杨凌示范区), Shaanxi (陕西), where industry needs, university research, team problem-solving, and base demonstrations converge, new modern agricultural technologies for arid areas developed by scientific and technological achievement transformation consortia have been promoted and applied in countries such as Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦). It is evident that only by building an innovation ecosystem through the integration of four chains can the endogenous power of high-quality development be continuous, and the local economy can maintain a leading position.
It should also be noted that the local is part of the whole. From leading everywhere to being interconnected and progressing layer by layer, this will bring about a very considerable leap in the overall level.
Whether it is overcoming the difficulties of titanium alloy forming and welding, or breaking the long-term foreign monopoly on ceramic cylinder technology, thousands of enterprises are gathered in Duruan Town (杜阮镇), Jiangmen (江门), Guangdong (广东). Car companies can find all parts within half an hour and assemble a complete motorcycle. For customer production needs, the town's enterprises not only respond quickly—turning blueprints into finished products in less than three months—but also complete mold development and chassis manufacturing in an integrated manner. With stable supply chains, extended value chains, and activated innovation chains, every niche link has multiple suppliers to choose from. The originally scattered comparative advantages have condensed into regional competitive advantages due to division of labor, cooperation, and the "stringing of pearls into a chain."
Looking at the whole country from the perspective of a small town, one can better understand the significance of local leadership. For example, the three provinces and one city in the Yangtze River Delta (长三角) have optimized the division of labor, forming a "4-hour industrial circle" for new energy vehicles, making the industrial innovation development "forest" dense. Counties in Fujian (福建) have adapted to local conditions, with "champion" enterprises in key county-level industrial chains such as glass and power batteries emerging one after another, effectively enhancing industrial resilience by "strengthening the big and supporting the small." Facts prove that local leadership can generate powerful spillover effects and chain reactions, thereby driving a systematic leap in the industry and building more robust advantages in market, innovation, and security.
"In recent years, our country's economy has braved the wind and waves, maintaining strong resilience and vitality; the strategic pillar is a complete industrial system." I look forward to every place finding its own point of leverage. Thousands upon thousands of local leaders, with the real economy ensuring that "not a single aspect or field is missing," will eventually converge into the magnificent picture of China's (中国) high-quality economic development.
Return to TopSince the beginning of this year, China (我国) has been deeply implementing a new round of initiatives to upgrade rural roads, continuously optimizing and improving the rural road network. In the first four months, fixed asset investment in rural roads reached 82.11 billion yuan (元). Across the country (全国), 16,000 kilometers of new or reconstructed rural roads were completed, 26,000 kilometers of rural road maintenance projects were implemented, and the number of jobs provided in the field of rural road management and maintenance remained stable at around 800,000.
This is truly a case of:
Thoroughfares connect remote villages,
Paths wind beside garden fences.
Fearless of rugged dangers,
Prosperous industries bring 万象更新 (wàn xiàng gēng xīn - "ten thousand phenomena renew," a scene of renewal and flourishing vitality).
Chang Jinwen (常晋文)
Return to TopBy: 靳 山
Recently, an inbound tourism promotion event held on the banks of the Li River (漓江) in Guilin (桂林), Guangxi (广西), has become an excellent window for observing new trends in China's (中国) inbound tourism. Jackie Chan (成龙), Trip.com's (携程) inbound tourism ambassador, joined nearly 2,000 global tourism industry professionals to attend this rendezvous with landscapes, where a drone show connected classic films with iconic landmarks such as the Li River (漓江), Mount Huangshan (黄山), and the Bell Tower of Xi'an (西安钟楼). At the event, a Swiss (瑞士) tourism executive, after experiencing the handcrafting of Zhuang brocade (壮锦), remarked: "Travel is the best key to dissolving cultural barriers and fostering mutual understanding."
Today, immersive experiences have become a standard item on the "menu" for travel to China (中国). In Zhangjiajie (张家界), Hunan (湖南), overseas families hike through the mountains with custom travel planners; in the streets of Chongqing (重庆), foreign bloggers prefer to experience the local flavor of life at roadside stalls; and in Tunxi Old Street (屯溪老街), Huangshan (黄山), Anhui (安徽), Russian (俄罗斯) tourists walk into unique Hui-style (徽派) architecture to experience the making of Hui ink (徽墨)... Inbound tourism destinations are becoming more diverse, and travel scenarios are increasingly rich.
Data shows that in the first four months of this year, China's (中国) travel service exports reached 147.15 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 30.4%. In the first quarter, 8.315 million foreigners entered China (中国) visa-free, a year-on-year increase of 29.3%. From 走马观花 (zǒu mǎ guān huā - "running horse view flowers," to gain a superficial understanding through hurried observation) sightseeing to stepping into the daily life of the people; from "just being here" to immersively experiencing authentic Chinese (中国) life and touching the texture of Chinese (中华) culture—these new changes in inbound tourism reflect the continuous release of potential in service trade development and serve as a vivid microcosm of China's (中国) high-level opening-up moving deeper and becoming more concrete.
The booming "China Tour" (中国游) highlights the pragmatic stance of an open China (中国). The visa-free "circle of friends" continues to expand, and departure tax refund measures are being optimized... Various opening-up policies are being implemented, landing, and refined, continuously enhancing the convenience of entry. Cultural and tourism industry services are also becoming more internationalized. Currently, over 150,000 domestic tourism merchants have connected to Trip.com's (携程) 24-language overseas platform, achieving a comprehensive upgrade in inbound reception capabilities. Taking Guilin (桂林) as an example, scenic spots have fully launched multi-language ticketing machines and AI-powered guided tours, hotels have improved their online multi-language facility displays, and exclusive multi-language custom planners can create differentiated landscape experience routes for tourists. Multi-language online display systems, full-coverage foreign currency payment hardware, and standardized inbound reception services have solidified the foundation of the inbound tourism industry.
The booming "China Tour" (中国游) showcases the cultural heritage of an open China (中国). From the efficient and orderly airports, the extensive high-speed rail network, and advanced digital infrastructure, one can feel the pulse of modernization. Visitors can focus on touring the National Museum of Chinese Writing (中国文字博物馆) to learn in detail about the creation methods of oracle bone script (甲骨文) and the development history of Chinese characters; they can visit Zhaohua Ancient City (昭化古城) to feel the continuation of the historical and cultural lineage along the Ancient Shu Road (古蜀道), and immersively experience the charm of Three Kingdoms (三国) culture... An ancient, profound, yet vibrant and trendy China (中国) is increasingly attracting people from all countries to visit. Kevin Rotich, an editor for the Kenyan (肯尼亚) "Capital FM" (首都调频) website, commented, "Ancient civilization and modern innovation are perfectly blended here... Every personal experience leaves me sincerely amazed."
The booming "China Tour" (中国游) reflects the global opportunities of an open China (中国). The "Action Plan for Standardization of Service Trade (2026—2030)" (《服务贸易标准化工作行动计划（2026—2030年）》) was recently issued, clearly stating the focus on accelerating standard development in areas such as tourism services and inbound consumption, and promoting the alignment of service standards with advanced international standards. Focusing on breaking through bottlenecks in areas such as rules, regulations, management, and standards, and steadily advancing institutional opening-up will provide important momentum for building an open world economy. From the unveiling of the China (Inner Mongolia) Pilot Free Trade Zone (中国（内蒙古）自由贸易试验区) to the implementation of zero-tariff measures for 53 African (非洲) countries with diplomatic ties, and the fact that the China-Europe Railway Express (中欧班列) eastern corridor has seen over 3,000 trips and the central corridor has exceeded 2,000 trips this year, an all-around, multi-level, and wide-ranging opening-up pattern is accelerating. The concepts and actions of promoting cooperation and win-win results through openness have taken deep root and borne rich fruit.
After traveling in Guilin (桂林), an American (美国) blogger remarked that cultural and tourism experiences are dialogues without barriers; only by letting the world walk into China (中国) in person can they see the real China (中国). Using culture and tourism as a medium to promote people-to-people connectivity, the door to China's (中国) opening-up will open wider, and the breadth and depth of exchanges and mutual learning between civilizations will continue to expand.
Return to TopBy: 江 涵
Recently, consumers in a smart glasses user community discovered individuals using smart glasses to film flight attendants while boarding and publicly posting the footage. Some are concerned that smart glasses are becoming "tools for surreptitious filming," and such worries are by no means 杞人忧天 (qǐ rén yōu tiān - "man of Qi worries about the sky," groundless fears). In reality, there are those with ulterior motives who exploit various loopholes to improperly use smart glasses, infringing upon the privacy of others and disrupting their normal lives.
Close the design loopholes. Inconspicuous recording indicator lights, faint shutter sounds, and privacy risk warnings hidden in the corners of product manuals—some smart glasses harbor latent risks in their design. Some merchants even explicitly state during sales that their products "do not trigger alarms and do not interfere with photography." If users subsequently modify these devices to silence the sound or disable the light, it makes surreptitious filming even more covert, increasing the difficulty of timely detection and handling.
Close the review loopholes. User communities for some products are lax in screening harmful information, allowing individuals to upload "tutorials" on how to modify devices into "surreptitious filming tools," with some even linking to "illicit filming black markets." Under the dual influence of technical support and traffic monetization, technological convenience can be alienated into a tool for infringing upon others and illegal profit-seeking, which must be guarded against and prevented.
Continuously improve regulation. In recent years, the legal system regarding personal information protection has become more comprehensive, and law enforcement measures have been further refined, continuously tightening the "protection net" for personal information. The newly revised Law on Penalties for Administration of Public Security (治安管理处罚法), which came into effect on January 1st of this year, clarifies the provisions for punishing the "illegal installation, use, or provision of specialized equipment for eavesdropping or secret photography." It must also be noted that strengthening pre-event regulation and reinforcing post-event punishment should go 齐头并进 (qí tóu bìng jìn - "advance side by side," to move forward simultaneously). The difficulties in detection and evidence collection regarding surreptitious filming with smart glasses have, to a certain extent, led to difficulties in accountability and seeking compensation. Implementing source-based prevention during the production and market sales stages can effectively enhance governance efficiency.
Smart technology must be used for good, and privacy protection must not yield an inch. Preventing smart glasses from becoming tools for prying into the privacy of others requires joint action from multiple parties. Platforms must comprehensively remove "technical modification tools and secret manuals" for smart glasses surreptitious filming, user communities must eliminate such content, regulatory departments must follow up and investigate in a timely manner, and the public communication sector must promptly clear away harmful information. Only by working together can all parties build a solid defense and better safeguard a clear and bright digital space.
(Excerpted from Guangxi Daily (广西日报), originally titled "The Surreptitious Filming Loopholes of Smart Glasses Must Be Closed")
Return to TopBy: 喻思南
By relying on high-value application scenarios, we can move more scientific and technological achievements from the "bookshelf" to the "shelf," promoting the iterative upgrading of technology through practical application.
Navigating urban road networks, lane-level navigation provides precise guidance for travel; soaring through low-altitude airspace, drones rely on coordinates for orderly inspections... In recent years, the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (北斗卫星导航系统) has become the "spatiotemporal foundation" for thousands of industries.
The "2026 White Paper on the Development of China's BeiDou Spatiotemporal Industry" (2026中国北斗时空产业发展白皮书) shows that in 2025, the output value of China's satellite navigation industry reached 629 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9.24%; the total output value of the BeiDou spatiotemporal industry, formed by integrating other emerging fields, exceeded 1.3 trillion yuan. From the "horizon" to our "side," the leapfrog development of the BeiDou industry reflects the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation.
Without the "deep squat" of scientific and technological innovation, there can be no "jump" in industrial innovation. Facing technological blockades, the BeiDou team overcame key core technologies such as inter-satellite links and high-precision atomic clocks, achieving full localization from core components to system integration. Only by mastering core technologies can we solidify the industrial foundation. Today, approximately 98% of smartphones in China support BeiDou positioning functions, and more than 100 million passenger vehicles are equipped with in-vehicle devices featuring BeiDou positioning and navigation. Supported by hard-core technology, various applications are steadily extending in depth and breadth.
Promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation requires increasing the supply of high-quality technology as a foundation. Whether it is ensuring the security of key industrial and supply chains such as integrated circuits, basic software, and core germplasm, or seizing the high ground in frontier tracks like quantum technology and biomanufacturing, high-quality innovative achievements are the source of our confidence. In recent years, China's R&D investment has remained firmly in second place globally, with R&D intensity continuing to rise, and the support of scientific and technological innovation for industrial innovation growing ever stronger. In the future, we must continue to adhere to the principle of "industry poses the questions, technology provides the answers," leverage the advantages of the new whole-nation system, strive to solve "choke-point" (卡脖子) problems, produce more original innovative achievements, and consolidate the foundation of integrated development through technological breakthroughs.
The widespread implementation of technological achievements cannot be separated from a sound industrial ecosystem. While building a solid technical foundation, industrialization must also follow closely. Taking BeiDou as an example, the national level has issued plans to deepen the promotion of relevant applications, with fields such as surveying and mapping geographic information, territorial spatial planning, and disaster early warning being the first to adopt BeiDou technology. Having passed through the "first kilometer" of development, and through the dual efforts of "BeiDou+" and "+BeiDou," BeiDou has been widely integrated into transportation, communications, energy, meteorology, and other fields, leaping from a single navigation system to a comprehensive spatiotemporal system.
Promoting the transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements is key. How effective are new technologies and products, how large is the market space, and how can supporting facilities be well-prepared? Only by entering a real application environment can we find the answers. Abundant application scenario resources are a unique advantage for China in developing new technologies. In the past, from mobile payments to 5G communications, and then to intelligent factories, using applications to drive the synergy between technology and industry has been an important experience. The leap of the BeiDou industry makes us more convinced: we must fully forge our country's strengths—a solid industrial base and a large market scale—and rely on high-value application scenarios to move more scientific and technological achievements from the "bookshelf" to the "shelf," promoting the iterative upgrading of technology through practical application.
When enterprises are innovative and vibrant, industrial development has staying power; strengthening the status of enterprises as the main body of scientific and technological innovation is the "ox nose" (牛鼻子 - niú bí zi - "ox nose," the key point or core issue that determines the success of a situation). For example, BeiDou launched its unique short-message service, which benefited not only from the "technical redundancy" reserved during the project initiation of the BeiDou-3 system (北斗三号系统) but also from the joint efforts of domestic chip manufacturers and mobile phone manufacturers to achieve breakthroughs. The growth of emerging industries such as commercial aerospace and embodied intelligence has repeatedly verified that: continuously promoting the concentration of innovation resources toward enterprises and building an industry-university-research integrated innovation entity led by enterprises is conducive to the seamless connection of the innovation chain and the industrial chain, creating new possibilities.
With more advanced technology, more powerful functions, and better services, the next-generation BeiDou system is ready to go. We look forward to a better "two-way rush" (双向奔赴 - shuāng xiàng bēn fù - "two-way rush," a mutual effort toward a common goal or a shared commitment) between scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, jointly promoting the vigorous development of new quality productive forces.
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Return to TopBeijing (北京), June 17 (Reporter: Lin Lili (林丽鹂)) — The reporter learned from the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局) on the 17th that the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局) has drafted the "Ten Provisions on Regulating Subsidy Practices of Food Delivery Platforms (Draft for Comments)" (外卖平台补贴行为规范十条（征求意见稿）), which is open for public comment from today until July 17.
The Office of the Anti-Monopoly and Anti-Unfair Competition Committee of the State Council (国务院反垄断反不正当竞争委员会办公室) conducted an investigation and assessment of market competition in the food delivery industry. It discovered that food delivery platforms in China (中国) are utilizing capital advantages to seize market share, coercing merchants on the platforms to participate in subsidies, and causing irrational industry competition. There is an urgent need to regulate the subsidy practices of food delivery platforms and guide them to operate in accordance with the law and engage in benign competition.
The draft for comments mainly covers four aspects: First, it clarifies the general principles, stating that platforms must not use long-term, large-scale subsidies to exclude or restrict market competition or disrupt the order of market competition. Second, it specifies concrete requirements, stipulating that platforms must not force merchants to participate in subsidy activities or bear subsidy costs, must not use capital advantages to engage in monopolistic or unfair competitive practices, and must not sell goods at prices below cost. Third, it clarifies supervisory measures, requiring platforms to disclose information to the public before and after implementing subsidy activities, specifying the key information to be disclosed, and accepting public oversight. Fourth, it clarifies legal risks, alerting food delivery platforms to the relevant legal provisions they must comply with, as well as the legal consequences of conducting subsidy activities in violation of laws and regulations, ensuring they do not 重蹈覆辙 (chóng dǎo fù zhé - "repeat the same disastrous path," to make the same mistakes as predecessors).
Return to TopBy: 林丽鹂
On June 17, the State Administration for Market Regulation (国家市场监督管理总局) released the "Ten Provisions on Regulating Subsidy Practices of Food Delivery Platforms (Draft for Comments)" (外卖平台补贴行为规范十条（征求意见稿）). It proposes that platforms must not use long-term, large-scale subsidies to exclude or restrict market competition, disrupt the order of market competition, force merchants on the platform to participate in subsidy activities or bear subsidy costs, or sell goods at prices below cost. This sends a clear signal to deeply rectify "involutionary" competition and promote the formation of a market order characterized by high quality, fair pricing, and benign competition.
Since last year, many food delivery platforms have launched long-term, large-scale subsidies, with some even resorting to "reverse-subsidy" tactics. This has evolved into "involutionary" competition characterized by "subsidies," leading to issues such as low prices and low quality, squeezing the reasonable profit margins of merchants on the platforms, harming the legitimate rights and interests of consumers, and undermining the order of fair market competition.
Food delivery platforms connect a vast number of offline merchants, consumers, and delivery riders (骑手); the development of the food delivery industry is vital to promoting consumption, stabilizing employment, and benefiting people's livelihoods. Some consumers view the subsidy wars among food delivery platforms as a "benefit" for consumers, but they fail to realize that large-scale subsidies that fall below cost and coerce merchants may lead to a situation where consumers refuse to purchase without subsidies, producers lose positive incentives, and prices and quality enter a downward spiral. Regulating the subsidy practices of food delivery platforms is intended to effectively safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of merchants on the platforms, delivery riders, and consumers, curb "involutionary" competition in the food delivery industry, promote the formation of a market order of high quality, fair pricing, and benign competition, and advance the construction of a unified national market (全国统一大市场).
Regulating the subsidy practices of food delivery platforms is not a total rejection of platform subsidy behavior, but rather a reminder to platforms in all sectors, including food delivery, that they cannot engage in "involutionary" competition through subsidies. At the beginning of their development, some platforms used subsidies to cultivate user habits and "burned money" to gain market share and form economies of scale. However, competition between platforms is gradually transitioning from incremental competition to stock competition, and subsidies have begun to alienate from "market cultivation tools" of the platform economy into means of "involutionary" competition. If subsidies distort the normal market price formation mechanism and continuously squeeze resources for quality upgrading and technological innovation, creating a new type of market failure, regulatory forces must intervene to guide competition back to the fundamentals of efficiency and innovation.
We look forward to regulating the subsidy practices of food delivery platforms to guide the platform economy from subsidy-driven stock competition to innovation-driven value competition, promoting the formation of a market order of high quality, fair pricing, and benign competition, so that reasonable and compliant subsidies can truly benefit the people and surge the momentum of consumption.
In this context, we must avoid the trap of 饮鸩止渴 (yǐn zhèn zhǐ kě - "drink poison to quench thirst," to seek temporary relief at the cost of future disaster) by relying on unsustainable subsidies, and instead strive to achieve 长治久安 (cháng zhì jiǔ ān - "long-term stability and peace," long-lasting order and stability) for the industry through healthy development.
Return to TopShanghai, June 17 (Reporter Ni Yi (倪弋)) — While attending the Symposium on the Prevention and Governance of Juvenile Delinquency by Procuratorial Organs and the 40th Anniversary of Juvenile Procuratorial Work in Shanghai (上海) on the 17th, Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) Ying Yong (应勇) stated that procuratorial organs shoulder significant responsibilities in strengthening the prevention of juvenile delinquency and the protection of their rights and interests. He emphasized the need to deeply study and implement Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law (习近平法治思想) and the spirit of the important instructions and directives of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) regarding the protection of minors. He urged the enhancement of the awareness that prevention is protection and punishment is also a form of salvation, the diligent fulfillment of the duties of the state's legal supervisory organ, and the collaboration with all parties to safeguard and promote the healthy growth of minors through the power of the rule of law.
Ying Yong (应勇) pointed out that it is necessary to punish and prevent juvenile delinquency in accordance with the law, coordinate the strengthening of graded intervention and correction, comprehensively safeguard the rights and interests of minors, and combine procuratorial case handling to promote comprehensive governance, so as to ensure that the "Six Protections" (六大保护) form a synergy. He added that we must continue to deepen our understanding of the regularities of juvenile procuratorial work, comprehensively improve the quality, efficiency, and level of the work, and continuously promote the development and improvement of the juvenile procuratorial system, so as to avoid 半途而废 (bàn tú ér fèi - "halfway stop abandon," to give up halfway or fail to finish what one has started).
Return to TopXinhua News Agency (新华社), Haikou (海口), June 17 — (Reporters Fan Sixiang (范思翔), Wang Cunfu (王存福)) The 2026 National Private Enterprise Green Development Conference (2026全国民营企业绿色发展大会) was held in Haikou (海口), Hainan (海南), on the 17th. With the theme of "Gathering Enterprises for Innovation, Striving for Strength Through Green Development" (聚企创新 向绿图强), the conference aimed to deeply study and implement the Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization (习近平生态文明思想), focus on the new blueprint of the 15th Five-Year Plan (十五五规划), and guide enterprises to cultivate a green foundation for high-quality development. Gao Yunlong (高云龙), Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协) and Chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (全国工商联), attended the conference and delivered a speech.
Gao Yunlong (高云龙) pointed out that accelerating the coordinated digital and green transformation is a practical necessity for seizing the commanding heights of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, and serves as a powerful support for building new national competitive advantages. The vast number of private enterprises must accelerate the pace of digital and green transformation to consolidate the foundation for high-quality development; they must make full use of various policy dividends to focus on improving both the "quality" and "quantity" of enterprise development; and they must proactively shoulder the responsibility of digital and green transformation, enhance the level of high-end, intelligent, and green development, and play a greater role and make greater contributions to promoting the formation of green production and lifestyles. In this process, enterprises should avoid 守株待兔 (shǒu zhū dài tù - "guard stump wait rabbit," to rely on luck or wait idly for opportunities) and instead actively pursue innovation to ensure sustainable growth.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 朱 隽 郁静娴 李晓晴
In June, the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain (黄淮海平原) is a sea of rolling wheat waves. Combine harvesters "glide" across the fields, and golden wheat grains flow "clatteringly" into the grain tanks.
In the high-yield demonstration field of the Huaibiao Agricultural Machinery Service Professional Cooperative (怀彪农机服务专业合作社) in Fengtai County (凤台县), Huainan (淮南), Anhui (安徽), the wheat was harvested in a race against time within a week, yielding 706.4 kilograms per mu. "This harvest was not easy," said Xu Jiajia (徐甲甲), the head of the cooperative. "Last year, there was continuous rain during the planting season, delaying sowing by about 10 days. Later, we managed every stage of the wheat's growth with precision, and we still achieved an increase in yield by the end of the season."
According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部), over 90% of the summer grain harvest nationwide is complete. As of June 17, 318 million mu of summer wheat had been harvested, reaching a progress rate of 93.73%. Overall, the area for summer grain this year has remained stable, yields per unit are expected to rise, the production outlook is clear, and a bumper harvest is a foregone conclusion.
A bumper summer grain harvest ensures stability for the entire year. "Winning" the first battle of summer grain production has laid a solid foundation for annual food production, demonstrating the strong resilience of the nation's granary.
### Wheat Harvest "Breaks Through" Barriers
A bumper summer grain harvest is hard-won; from planting to harvesting, "seizing" (抢) is the keyword.
"In the past, we would have planted our wheat on a large scale around October 8 of the previous year. Last year, the soil was too wet, and we didn't start sowing until November 15," said Li Yueming (李曰明), a large-scale grain grower in Yuji Township (于集乡), Lingcheng District (陵城区), Dezhou (德州), Shandong (山东), while discussing the "late sowing" of this season.
It wasn't just Li Yueming's 4,000-plus mu of land; the continuous rainy weather last autumn severely affected winter wheat sowing in the Huang-Huai-Hai region, with sowing dates generally delayed by 20 to 40 days compared to normal years, and the proportion of late sowing reaching 44.2%. In Shandong, 70.9% of plots were still "open" around the time of Frost's Descent (霜降).
Area is the foundation of yield; to ensure a bumper harvest, one must first stabilize the planting area.
With late sowing dates and overly wet soil, all major production areas tightened their focus, rushing to dissipate moisture, prepare the land, and sow quickly, "compensating for lateness with sowing, quality, density, and technology."
"Rushing to sow is not done blindly; the sowing date must respect soil moisture, the sowing quantity must respect the sowing date, and the progress must respect quality. The later the sowing, the more meticulous the cultivation must be," said Li Yueming.
Through unremitting efforts, the national winter wheat crop was sown as much as possible, the area remained stable, and the foundation for a bumper harvest was secured.
Late sowing directly affects the condition of the seedlings. "Before the Lunar New Year, the seedlings in the fields hadn't fully emerged; most were 'bean sprout seedlings,' and there were many 'single needles' or even 'buried in the soil' ones," said Li Yueming.
The pre-winter seedling condition maps of major production areas also showed weak root systems, fewer tillers, and smaller leaves, with first- and second-grade seedlings decreasing by 43.8% year-on-year. What to do? Use technology to strengthen seedlings and save the crop.
"Around the time of wheat green-up, we applied fertilizer by leveraging soil moisture and rainfall, changing the 'postponed nitrogen application' to 'early green-up top-dressing,' which effectively promoted the recovery of weak seedlings and root-tiller growth. By the time the wheat reached the jointing stage, the proportion of first- and second-grade seedlings in Shandong Province had reached 91.3%, catching up to the average level of normal years," introduced a relevant official from the Shandong Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (山东省农业农村厅).
"Agricultural technicians ran to the fields time and again, advising on when to irrigate for green-up and how to formulate the seedling-boosting fertilizer... plans were made based on the classification of seedling conditions," said Li Yueming. By the end of March this year, the wheat fields showed improvement, and slow-release nitrogen fertilizer was used in the later stages for more lasting effect. Now, the wheat has been stored in the granary, with a yield exceeding 600 kilograms per mu.
With the seedling condition recovered, pests and diseases became the next hurdle.
"Major pests and diseases in the middle and late stages of wheat are showing a trend of severe occurrence this year," experts from the National Agricultural Technology Extension Service Center (全国农技中心) predicted and analyzed in early April.
"There was a lot of rain this spring, and the wheat fields had high density and humidity, making them prone to disease." In Shiji Township (石集乡), Sihong County (泗洪县), Suqian (宿迁), Jiangsu (江苏), large-scale grain grower Wu Dinghe (吴定和) sprayed his wheat fields twice this year. During the late grain-filling stage, he also applied foliar fertilizer to combat hot, dry winds. "It's all thanks to prevention being the priority; we nipped the threat of pests and diseases in the bud."
Shaanxi (陕西) aimed at "promoting tillering, ensuring ear formation, and increasing grain weight," persisting in promotion until the end. Anhui (安徽) basically completed two rounds of high-quality scab prevention and control across the province before the end of April. Henan (河南) treated nearly 10 million mu of areas with severe ryegrass infestations, effectively curbing the spread of weed damage. Nationally, wheat pest and disease control covered 890 million mu-times, and "one spray, three preventions" covered 480 million mu-times; by fighting for grain against "pests," results were achieved.
When wheat ripens, it is precious to compete for time. On May 28, large-scale mechanical harvesting of wheat began nationwide. From June 2 to 4, the daily harvested area nationwide exceeded 20 million mu for three consecutive days. In Henan, 60.41 million mu were harvested in six days from May 31 to June 5, averaging over 10 million mu per day.
"Spring competes for days, summer competes for time." The non-stop harvesting day and night left a deep impression on Liang Hui (梁辉), a large-scale grain grower in Yushan Town (峪山镇), Xiangzhou District (襄州区), Xiangyang (襄阳), Hubei (湖北). It rained during the days of harvesting; at night, drones carrying emergency lights slowly rose into the sky, harvesters shuttled back and forth, and wheat grains fell through the unloading tubes into transport vehicles, which were then immediately sent to nearby drying stations. Liang Hui said: "Only when the last few hundred mu were harvested did I feel at ease."
From sowing to harvesting, repeated "rushing" made the "counterattack" of late-sown wheat a reality.
### Behind the "Rush" are Strong Supports in Policy, Technology, and Equipment
A bumper summer grain harvest cannot be separated from the support of diverse factors.
Fiscal funds were allocated in a timely manner. The central government issued 484 million yuan in agricultural production disaster relief funds for mechanical harvesting, grain drying, and farmland drainage in seven provinces in the Huang-Huai-Hai region. It also pre-allocated funds for "one spray, three preventions" and pest control, and urgently arranged 1.5 billion yuan in special funds to support 11 major winter wheat-producing provinces in promoting the recovery of weak seedlings.
Credit funds "added bricks and mortar." During the wheat harvest, the Liangmancang Agricultural Machinery Professional Cooperative (粮满仓农机专业合作社) in Jingzhou District (荆州区), Jingzhou (荆州), Hubei (湖北), had five drying machines running 24 hours a day. A 1.4 million yuan special loan from the Agricultural Bank of China (中国农业银行) covered equipment maintenance and electricity expenses, ensuring 160 tons of wet grain could be dried at full capacity every day. To guarantee the funding needs for summer grain harvesting and drying, the Agricultural Bank of China has cumulatively invested 100 billion yuan in key links such as grain planting, acquisition, processing, and storage. The Agricultural Development Bank of China (中国农业发展银行) has pre-arranged 150 billion yuan in summer grain acquisition funds to ensure "money waits for grain."
Technology, as an important backdrop, reflects the profound transformation of agricultural production methods.
In Jiangsu (江苏), the "Sunongyun" (苏农云) platform "links" nearly 60 intelligent scab forecasters and over 800 "four-condition" monitoring stations, collecting real-time key data such as temperature, humidity, rainfall, and growth stages to continuously revise scab forecasts.
"To strengthen technological empowerment, experts in the system's stations focus on farming seasons and integrate efforts across the entire chain," introduced Liu Luxiang (刘录祥), chief scientist of the National Wheat Industry Technology System (国家小麦产业技术体系). In Wuhan (武汉), Hubei (湖北), focusing on "variety disaster avoidance," they promoted varieties with outstanding resistance to pre-harvest sprouting such as "Kenmai 58" (垦麦58) and "Emai 30" (鄂麦30), effectively mitigating the risk of disasters caused by rain during the maturity period. In Hengshui (衡水), Hebei (河北), a county-level "agricultural machinery supply and demand digital platform" was established to achieve precise scheduling, ensuring the mechanical harvest loss rate is controlled within 1.5%.
Technological promotion is equally important. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has successively dispatched 37 working groups and scientific and technological teams, continuously carrying out the 140-day campaign to strengthen spring management, promote seedling growth, and fight disasters to win a bumper summer grain harvest, holding over 900 online and offline training sessions with over 8 million participants.
"Rushing" the summer harvest cannot be done without efficient agricultural machinery. To cope with heavy rainfall in Hubei, 13,000 combine harvesters were mobilized for cross-regional support. "We successively transferred over 9,000 crawler-type harvesters from Zhumadian (驻马店) and mobilized 'Tianzhong Maike' (天中麦客) to actively participate in the emergency harvesting of rapeseed and wheat in Hubei," said a relevant official from the Henan Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (河南省农业农村厅).
To ensure mature wheat is harvested and dried in a timely manner, nine key wheat-harvesting provinces organized over 3,300 regional agricultural machinery social service centers, over 2,000 regional agricultural emergency disaster relief centers, and over 5,900 normalized agricultural machinery emergency operation service teams, mobilizing over 280,000 crawler-type harvesters and over 70,000 various types of dryers. Data shows that compared to 2023, the national inventory of dryers has reached 207,400 units, an increase of 61%; the daily drying capacity has reached 8.42 million tons, an increase of 66%.
### Advancing Staggered Operations, Going All Out for Autumn Grain Production
This year is the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五), and ensuring that the annual grain output remains at around 1.4 trillion jin is one of the main expected goals for economic and social development. Summer grain accounts for 21% of the annual grain output, with the bulk still coming from autumn grain.
With the progress of the summer harvest, the sowing of summer corn in the Huang-Huai-Hai region will also be launched on a large scale. Recently, the Corn Expert Guidance Group of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部玉米专家指导组) and the National Agricultural Technology Extension Service Center (全国农业技术推广服务中心) jointly issued production technical guidance opinions, guiding various regions to focus on sowing with soil moisture and moderately increasing density, seizing the farming season to ensure planting within the optimal period.
In Huixian (辉县), Henan (河南), agricultural machinery service team leader Zhang Hailiang (张海亮) began coordinating operation areas as soon as he received reservation calls from villagers. "As soon as the harvester comes out of the field, the rake enters to gather rows, the baler follows closely behind, and the straw is loaded and transported away in time, not delaying the next round of sowing," said Zhang Hailiang.
In Wenshang County (汶上县), Shandong (山东), the local area organized large-scale grain growers, service entities, and agricultural supply enterprises to form a cooperative alliance. The "Wennongfu" (汶农服) digital platform allows for a seamless connection between summer harvesting and summer sowing. "Order one day, enter the field the next." In the wheat field of Fang Maojun (房茂军), a large-scale grain grower in Liu Village (柳村), Yiqiao Town (义桥镇), two air-suction precision corn seeders automatically planned the optimal route, sowing at a uniform standard depth of 3 to 5 centimeters and alternating row spacing of 40 and 80 centimeters, making the sowing both fast and even.
A relevant official from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs stated that this year, the campaign to increase yields of grain and oil crops on a large scale will continue to be implemented. The number of counties advancing the entire system will increase from 702 to 1,000, and 20 cities will be launched for entire-system advancement, continuously promoting the integrated efficiency of good fields, good seeds, good machinery, and good methods. By grasping one node after another, they will go all out to lay a solid foundation for a bumper autumn grain harvest and ensure the completion of the annual grain production target.
A bumper summer grain harvest is a foregone conclusion, and the "ballast stone" of the "three rural issues" (三农) is even more stable, which will provide a more solid guarantee for responding to various risks and challenges.
(Reported by our reporter Wu Jun (吴君) who participated in the writing)
Return to TopAt the southern edge of the Mu Us Desert (毛乌素沙地), wind turbines rotate; on the west bank of the Yellow River (黄河), silver transmission lines crisscross. As a national-level energy and chemical industry base and a vital hub for the "West-to-East Power Transmission" (西电东送) project, power grid construction has always resonated at the same frequency as the development of Yulin City (榆林市), Shaanxi Province (陕西省). Since the start of the "14th Five-Year Plan" (十四五), Yulin (榆林) has prioritized power grid construction as a prerequisite for infrastructure. State Grid Yulin Power Supply Company (国网榆林供电公司), based on local needs, has continuously increased investment. Rows of power pylons have risen from the ground, and transmission lines extend in all directions, injecting a steady stream of development momentum into this energy hub city.
**Outgoing Transmission Channels: Starting from Yulin (榆林), Sending Green Power Afar**
Dingbian County (定边县) has an average annual wind speed of 6 meters per second, with over 4,000 effective wind hours annually. Today, the county's total new energy installed capacity has exceeded 6.5 million kilowatts, transmitting nearly 10 billion kilowatt-hours of green electricity annually. To ensure this green energy can be exported and transmitted over long distances, Yulin (榆林) continues to improve its ultra-high voltage (UHV) outgoing channels.
As a key region for new energy development in Shaanxi (陕西), Yulin (榆林) not only guarantees power consumption within the province but also shoulders the heavy responsibility of transmitting power to the central and eastern regions. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" (十四五) period, the State Grid (国家电网) has focused on advancing UHV and extra-high voltage (EHV) project construction in Yulin (榆林). Following the completion of a series of major projects, Yulin's (榆林) capacity to transmit power from the north to the south has reached 6.05 million kilowatts, with the total scale of outgoing transmission jumping to 19.56 million kilowatts.
Currently, the third 750 kV channel from Northern Shaanxi (陕北) to Guanzhong (关中) and the Shaanxi-Henan (陕西—河南) ±800 kV UHV DC transmission project are accelerating. A three-dimensional transmission network of "intra-provincial southward transmission + inter-provincial regional transmission" is rapidly weaving together, and Yulin's (榆林) resource advantages are being efficiently transformed into economic and supply-security advantages.
**Main Grid Upgrades: To Revitalize Industry, First Strengthen the Power Grid**
Yulin's (榆林) development requires not only "exportable" outgoing channels but also a strong main grid that is "capable of receiving and utilizing" power effectively. In July 2024, the 330 kV Wenchang Substation (文昌变电站), featuring five voltage levels, was put into operation. This station directly serves the power output of the 1,150 MW photovoltaic project in Yuyang District (榆阳区), while strengthening the 330 kV backbone grid structure of Yulin (榆林), providing reliable power guarantees for surrounding coal chemical, new material, and other enterprises.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" (十四五) period, Yulin's (榆林) power grid construction hit the fast-forward button. A total of 5 330 kV substations were put into operation, 8 330 kV substations underwent capacity expansion, 7.38 million kVA of new transformer capacity was added, and 568 kilometers of 330 kV lines were built. The electricity demands of major projects such as Jintai Chlor-Alkali (金泰氯碱), Shenmu Calcium Carbide (神木电石), and the East Route Yellow River Diversion (东线引黄) were efficiently met.
During the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五) period, investment in Yulin's (榆林) 330 kV and below power grid will reach 31 billion yuan. By then, weak links in the grid will be fully reinforced, an interconnected supply grid will be formed, and a regional pattern of flexible power complementarity will be **呼之欲出** (hū zhī yù chū - "call it out come out," meaning something is about to be revealed or is on the verge of emerging). With a stronger power grid and more prosperous industries, Yulin (榆林) has even greater confidence in building a world-class energy and chemical industry base.
**Distribution Network Extension: Power to the Fields, Revitalization Has Promise**
In the fields and farmyards of Yulin (榆林), the changes brought by grid upgrades are tangible. In the spring of 2025, Yulin (榆林) experienced a persistent shortage of effective rainfall, making drought relief and agricultural protection urgent. State Grid Yulin Power Supply Company (国网榆林供电公司) quickly launched a special action for drought relief and grain protection, newly building or renovating 172.3 kilometers of 10 kV lines and 282.49 kilometers of low-voltage lines, and adding or replacing 229 distribution transformers, solving the irrigation power problem for 10.9 million mu of farmland. In Chuankou Village (川口村), Chashang Town (岔上镇), Wubu County (吴堡县), the newly installed 100 kVA transformer shortened the time to irrigate one mu of corn to 2 hours, turning "people following the water" into "electricity waiting for the water."
On the industrial front, the service philosophy of "investing one month early" has pushed projects to land faster. Within the Yulin-Hengshan Industrial Park (榆横工业园区), the 50,000-ton annual capacity ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene resin project of China National Chemical Western New Materials Co., Ltd. (中化学西部新材料有限公司) is the first high-end new material project of its kind in Shaanxi (陕西), requiring extremely high power supply reliability. State Grid Yulin Power Supply Company (国网榆林供电公司) optimized the plan and opened a green channel, completing power connection one month ahead of schedule, helping the enterprise accelerate production.
Between urban and rural areas, distribution network renewal and livelihood improvements are mutually empowering. The 13 MW joint-village photovoltaic power station in Renquan Village (任圈村), Zhuanjing Town (砖井镇), Dingbian County (定边县) achieved full consumption through the upgraded distribution network, driving an income increase of 7 million yuan for 65 villages with weak collective economies. 12 "Photovoltaic+" demonstration projects for thousands of villages and households were completed and put into operation, and the city's 200 MW "rooftop power station" project has explored a new path for common prosperity through "self-generation and self-use, with surplus electricity fed into the grid." Today, the automation coverage rate of Yulin's (榆林) distribution network has reached 100%, the power supply reliability rate has increased to 99.85%, and the comprehensive voltage qualification rate has reached 99.37%. From "having electricity" to "using electricity well," the power consumption experience of urban and rural residents in Yulin (榆林) continues to upgrade.
From the steel dragons of UHV to the capillaries of urban and rural distribution networks, from the surging momentum of industrial parks to the flowing streams in the fields, Yulin (榆林) uses power grid construction as an engine, writing an era-defining answer to energy transformation and high-quality development on the land of Northern Shaanxi (陕北). Striving for the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五), Yulin (榆林) will continue to shoulder the heavy responsibility of energy supply security, fully build a new power system, accelerate the construction of an energy revolution innovation demonstration zone, and contribute greater strength to serving the "West-to-East Power Transmission" (西电东送) strategy.
Data Source: Publicity Department of the CPC Yulin Municipal Committee (中共榆林市委宣传部), State Grid Yulin Power Supply Company (国网榆林供电公司)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张天培
On June 17, the China National Narcotics Control Commission (国家禁毒办) held a press conference in Beijing (北京). The conference reported on the new characteristics and changes in China's drug situation, as well as the new achievements made by national drug control departments in combating and managing drug-related issues.
Wei Xiaojun (魏晓军), Executive Deputy Director of the China National Narcotics Control Commission (国家禁毒办) and Director of the Narcotics Control Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security (公安部禁毒局), stated that due to the continued deterioration of the global drug problem, the organization of drug smuggling and trafficking, the diversification of drug abuse types, and the younger age of drug-involved groups have become more prominent. The iterative upgrading of drug-related criminal methods has accelerated, the difficulty of drug governance has increased, and the game and struggle in the field of drug control have become more complex.
In recent years, national drug control departments have made every effort to respond to new challenges brought by international and domestic drug problems. By targeting new situations, researching new problems, and creating new combat tactics, they have ensured that the situation is manageable, crackdowns are effective, and there is no resurgence. With more practical measures, higher standards, and stricter requirements, they have solidly promoted work in crackdown, prevention, control, construction, and publicity, continuously consolidating and expanding the overall positive trend of the drug control struggle.
**Improving drug investigation and crackdown mechanisms, and deepening cross-border and cross-regional law enforcement cooperation**
On February 24, 2025, Chinese drug control and coast guard departments conducted law enforcement cooperation with the Royal Thai Police (泰国皇家警察) and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (美国司法部缉毒署). In the waters of Scarborough Shoal (黄岩岛) in the South China Sea (中国南海), they successfully seized the drug-trafficking vessel "Jisheng" (集盛), arrested 7 criminal suspects, and seized 4,973.4 kilograms of methamphetamine on the spot. Guangdong (广东) drug control departments, in coordination with provinces such as Fujian (福建) and Shandong (山东) as well as coast guard departments, spent over seven months clarifying the entire case.
In recent years, national drug control departments have deeply carried out the "Clear Source and Break Flow" (清源断流) special operation, improved drug investigation and crackdown mechanisms, deepened cross-border and cross-regional law enforcement cooperation, and made every effort to promote cluster strikes and regional battles. They have solved a number of major and important cases, achieving new results in drug enforcement. In 2025, national drug control departments solved 27,000 drug-related criminal cases, arrested 41,000 criminal suspects, and seized 33.5 tons of drugs. They arrested 131 "nail" (钉子) fugitives involved in drugs, with 49 arrested from January to May this year. Among them, 90% of the "nail" fugitives were arrested from Southeast Asian countries such as Myanmar (缅甸), Vietnam (越南), Cambodia (柬埔寨), Thailand (泰国), and Laos (老挝). Investigations revealed that these 49 fugitives were suspected of smuggling, trafficking, transporting, and manufacturing 13.3 tons of various drugs and 151 tons of precursor chemicals, a new high in recent years. Notably, with the strong support of Thai (泰国) law enforcement departments, Long Hua (龙华)—one of the Ministry of Public Security's (公安部) top ten publicly wanted fugitives involved in 3.8 tons of drugs—was successfully captured, greatly deterring overseas drug-related fugitives and their protective forces.
International drug control cooperation is crucial for combating transnational drug crimes and managing regional drug problems. In recent years, China has promoted China-U.S. (中美) drug control cooperation, carried out China-EU (中欧) drug control dialogues, and deepened cooperation and exchanges with countries such as Myanmar (缅甸), Laos (老挝), Cambodia (柬埔寨), Thailand (泰国), and Singapore (新加坡), forming an overall synergy.
In January this year, the Myanmar Defense Services (缅甸国防军) and police forces, acting on intelligence provided by the Chinese side, jointly organized a crackdown operation against drug manufacturing, trafficking, and telecom fraud in northern Myanmar (缅北). They destroyed 13 drug manufacturing sites in one fell swoop, seizing 2.47 tons of methamphetamine, 490 tons of controlled chemicals, 952 tons of non-controlled chemicals, and 83 sets of large-scale drug manufacturing equipment such as reaction kettles.
"This is the largest drug processing plant seizure and the largest quantity of drug manufacturing chemicals confiscated in Myanmar's (缅甸) history. It is a major achievement of China-Myanmar (中缅) drug control cooperation and has accumulated new experience for both sides to strengthen joint law enforcement," Wei Xiaojun (魏晓军) introduced.
**Focusing on new drug governance issues and carrying out supervision and management of addictive substances such as narcotic and psychotropic drugs**
Recently, Liaoning (辽宁), in conjunction with public security drug control departments in Hebei (河北), Jilin (吉林), and Heilongjiang (黑龙江), successfully solved a major drug case. They struck and handled 127 individuals involved in trafficking drugs and non-listed addictive substances, seizing 4 kilograms of etomidate, 15.9 kilograms of tiletamine powder and e-cigarette oil containing tiletamine, and 5,300 e-cigarette cartridges.
With the deepening of China's drug governance, narcotic and psychotropic drugs like etomidate and dextromethorphan, non-listed addictive substances like "laughing gas" (nitrous oxide) and butane, and medicines like pregabalin and "Yumei tablets" have appeared as substitutes for traditional mainstream drugs. Their types are updated and iterated quickly, and some use e-cigarettes as carriers, causing serious harm through abuse.
"In this regard, the China National Narcotics Control Commission (国家禁毒办) has joined relevant departments to continuously carry out crackdowns and rectifications on illegal crimes involving addictive substances such as narcotic and psychotropic drugs," said Gao Wei (高伟), Deputy Director of the China National Narcotics Control Commission (国家禁毒办) and Deputy Director of the Narcotics Control Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security (公安部禁毒局). In 2025, national public security drug control departments solved 14,000 cases involving narcotic and psychotropic drugs and discovered 92,000 person-times of abuse of non-listed addictive substances.
"Laughing gas" is addictive and hallucinogenic; excessive inhalation causes great physical damage and easily triggers other illegal and criminal acts. In 2025, 35 special cases involving "laughing gas" were investigated in Beijing (北京), Anhui (安徽), and Zhejiang (浙江), with 1,608 criminal suspects detained and 1,709 administratively detained, while 594,500 liters of "laughing gas" were seized.
Continuously promoting substance control, we maintain zero tolerance for drugs. The China National Narcotics Control Commission (国家禁毒办) continuously carries out drug abuse monitoring and early warning, and incorporates addictive substances found to be harmful into national controlled regulations in accordance with the law. The China National Narcotics Control Commission (国家禁毒办) coordinates with departments such as Emergency Management (应急管理), Industry and Information Technology (工信), and Market Regulation (市场监管) to strengthen the supervision and management of the production and circulation of "laughing gas" and butane. It collaborates with the Cyberspace Administration (网信部门) to strengthen online information monitoring, promptly cleaning up illegal information and hidden sales information regarding addictive substances like narcotic and psychotropic drugs online. In conjunction with the National Medical Products Administration (国家药监局), it issued announcements to further strictly manage the production and sales of drugs such as pregabalin and Yumei preparations, implementing real-name registration for drug purchases and strictly prohibiting online retail.
**Striving to improve teenagers' ability to recognize and prevent drugs, and widely promoting drug control science knowledge**
In recent years, some lawbreakers have packaged drugs as daily consumer goods or used certain non-listed addictive substances to lure teenagers into abuse, causing serious physical and mental harm to them.
"The 16 substances added this time, such as tiletamine and difluoroetomidate, are varieties discovered since 2025 that have relatively serious abuse and high risk of diversion. Among them, tiletamine illegally manufactured by underground factories is added in large quantities to 'high-inducing e-cigarettes' for abuse. The abuse group is mainly teenagers, and it is highly addictive with great social harm, so it must be controlled to prevent and curb the harm of abuse," introduced Shan Yehua (单叶骅), Deputy Director of the China National Narcotics Control Commission (国家禁毒办) and Deputy Director of the Narcotics Control Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security (公安部禁毒局).
The "2025 China Drug Situation Report" (2025年中国毒情形势报告) shows that the use of high-tech means and non-contact crimes are increasingly becoming normalized. Drug traffickers sell through dark web groups, connect via encrypted software, settle with virtual currency, and use "buried package" or delivery methods for handover. The entire transaction is non-contact, and drug-related illegal and criminal activities are becoming increasingly hidden.
To promote the broad masses of the people, especially teenagers, to further improve their ability to recognize, prevent, and refuse drugs, the China National Narcotics Control Commission (国家禁毒委员会) has deployed a centralized publicity and education campaign from June to December this year themed "You and I Participate, Guarding the Future, Preventing Teenager Drug Abuse" (你我参与 守护未来 防范青少年药物滥用).
"The focus of this activity is to widely promote drug control science knowledge, clarify common reasons and traps for teenager abuse, guide teenagers to actively identify drug-related risks, and instruct teachers and parents on methods for correct guidance and intervention," Gao Wei (高伟) introduced.
Police reminder: Substances included in the "Catalog of Non-Medicinal Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances" (非药用类麻醉药品和精神药品目录) are drugs in the legal sense. Any unit or individual is prohibited from producing, buying, selling, transporting, using, storing, or importing and exporting them. At the same time, the police appeal to the public, especially teenagers, not to 守株待兔 (shǒu zhū dài tù - "guard stump wait rabbit," to rely on luck or wait idly for opportunities) regarding the dangers of drugs, but to reject momentary curiosity and lucky testing, firmly resist drug abuse and the harm of new drugs, and embrace a safe, healthy, and happy life.
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On June 17, the National Fire and Rescue Administration (国家消防救援局) held a routine press conference to report on the recent fire safety situation and key fire rescue tasks.
"Since the beginning of this year, the national fire safety situation has been generally stable. As of June 14, a total of 452,000 fires have been reported nationwide, resulting in 886 deaths. Compared with the same period last year, the number of fires and deaths decreased by 17.8% and 14.8%, respectively." Wang Tianrui (王天瑞), Deputy Director of the Fire Supervision Department (消防监督司) of the National Fire and Rescue Administration (国家消防救援局), introduced that the national fire and rescue teams have dispatched 11.996 million personnel, rescued 88,000 trapped individuals, and evacuated 35,000 people in distress.
Since April, many parts of China have experienced persistent heavy rainfall, leading to frequent occurrences of urban waterlogging, landslides, mudslides, and other disasters. As of June 9, the National Comprehensive Fire and Rescue Teams (国家综合性消防救援队伍) have participated in 1,504 flood control and rescue operations, rescuing and relocating 7,610 people. "Facing the severe situation of flood control and disaster relief, the teams have implemented practical early warning linkages. Recently, 5,400 professional water rescue personnel were specifically selected from the entire force to be stationed at 6 National Regional Emergency Rescue Centers (国家区域应急救援中心) for rotational training and to be ready for battle at any time." Xiong Wei (熊伟), Deputy Director of the Special Disaster Rescue Department (特种灾害救援司) of the National Fire and Rescue Administration (国家消防救援局), explained that local fire and rescue teams have refined and improved their force composition plans, establishing 453 professional water rescue teams with 26,000 personnel to be prepared for flood control and rescue at all times. Regarding the deepening of support, 460 emergency communication professional teams and 2,500 "Light Cavalry" (轻骑兵) forward-assault squads have been formed to solve problems involving network, power, and road disruptions.
Since the beginning of the year, national forest and grassland fire incidents have experienced two minor peaks: first, from January to February, forest fires broke out intensively in southern forest regions and North China (华北地区); second, since April, with rapidly rising temperatures, increased windy weather, and frequent agricultural use of fire, forest and grassland fire incidents have shown a trend of "simultaneous occurrence in the north and south."
Xu Hao (徐浩), Deputy Director of the Forest and Grassland Fire Extinguishing and Aviation Rescue Department (森林草原灭火和航空救援司) of the National Fire and Rescue Administration (国家消防救援局), stated that although the spring forest and grassland fire prevention period has largely ended in most parts of the country, the prevention and response to summer lightning-induced fires in the Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), Heilongjiang (黑龙江) Greater Khingan Mountains (大兴安岭), and Xinjiang (新疆) Altay (阿勒泰) forest regions have entered a critical period, which is the key focus of fire prevention and control. The National Fire and Rescue Administration (国家消防救援局) has guided the Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) and Heilongjiang (黑龙江) Fire and Rescue Mobile Detachments (消防救援机动总队) to dispatch over 3,700 personnel for cross-regional mutual defense, ensuring that key periods and important areas are guarded by heavy forces to effectively respond to extreme situations.
Recently, high-rise building fires in some areas have attracted widespread attention. In response, Hu Anxiong (胡安雄), Deputy Director of the Fire Supervision Department (消防监督司) of the National Fire and Rescue Administration (国家消防救援局), stated that the administration will focus on four aspects of work: First, to solidify the responsibilities of all parties, promote relevant departments to strengthen industry safety management, and urge property management to fulfill fire service duties in accordance with contract agreements; second, to conduct comprehensive inspections and rectifications, focusing on high-risk areas such as external wall insulation and vertical pipe shafts of high-rise buildings, and prioritizing the correction of prominent problems such as illegal hot work, damaged fire facilities, locked emergency exits, unattended fire control rooms, and electric bicycles entering buildings or homes; third, to ensure effective emergency response, urging management units to strengthen micro-fire stations and volunteer fire brigades to ensure that fires are extinguished early, small, and at the initial stage; fourth, to strengthen publicity and warnings, using typical fire cases to explain the law and reinforce the fire safety awareness of the whole society.
(Zhang Guiwen (张癸雯) participated in the reporting and writing.)
Return to TopBeijing (北京), June 17 (Reporter Yan Yiqiao (闫伊乔)) — On the afternoon of June 17, the "People's Daily (人民日报) Campus Tour" event was held at the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院大学).
At the event, five young editors and reporters from People's Daily (人民日报) shared their personal development experiences, growth stories, and work insights with students, covering topics such as news gathering and editing, international communication, and new media production. Comrades from relevant departments of the People's Daily (人民日报) introduced the newspaper's career development and talent team construction. During the Q&A session, the editors and reporters from People's Daily (人民日报) engaged in in-depth interactive exchanges with the faculty and students present. An installation ceremony for the People's Daily (人民日报) electronic reading board was also held at the venue.
Since its launch in 2009, the "People's Daily (人民日报) Campus Tour" has visited numerous universities, allowing more young students to learn about and pay attention to the Party newspaper through face-to-face interaction. The campus tour plays a positive role in helping People's Daily (人民日报) expand its geographical coverage, audience reach, and content scope, while improving quality, refining writing styles, staying close to readers, and remaining 引人入胜 (yǐn rén rù shèng - "attract people enter victory," fascinating or captivating, used to describe something that holds one's interest).
Zhao Rui (赵芮), Vice President and member of the Party Leadership Group of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院), and Feng Shizheng (冯仕政), President and Deputy Party Secretary of the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院大学), held a discussion with the delegation from People's Daily (人民日报). Cui Shixin (崔士鑫), Deputy Editor-in-Chief of People's Daily (人民日报), attended the event.
Return to TopIn June, in Shangri-La City (香格里拉市), Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (迪庆藏族自治州), Yunnan Province (云南省), rhododendrons are in full bloom, lush grass blankets the fields, and the silhouettes of snow-capped mountains rest quietly on the lake surface, showcasing the spiritual beauty of the plateau everywhere. The 2026 Diqing·Shangri-La Horse Racing Festival (2026年迪庆·香格里拉赛马会) will be held from June 19 to 22 at the Shangri-La Ethnic Sports Center (香格里拉民族体育中心). With the theme of "Galloping Toward New Journeys, Forging Unity with Gratitude," this horse racing festival cordially invites tourists from all directions to join this grand event on the snow-covered plateau.
As a well-known folk activity at the junction of Yunnan (滇), Sichuan (川), and Tibet (藏), the horse racing festival is not only a sports arena but also an important platform for showcasing ethnic integration and inheriting folk culture. Coinciding with the Year of the Horse in the lunar calendar, hosting the horse racing festival is a powerful measure for Shangri-La (香格里拉) to promote the creative transformation and innovative development of excellent traditional Chinese culture, and it is also a vivid portrayal of Shangri-La (香格里拉) **策马扬鞭** (cè mǎ yáng biān - "whip the horse to gallop," to move forward at full speed or strive for progress) and forging ahead with determination.
**Steeds Chasing the Wind in the Arena, Competition Igniting the Plateau**
This horse racing festival features 19 horse racing events and 3 traditional ethnic sports events. The horse racing events cover speed races of different distances, pacing races, mixed-group speed races, as well as traditional equestrian skills such as picking up Hada scarves while galloping and archery on horseback. The speed races and pacing races are divided into three groups based on the height of the horses, while the mixed-group speed races have no height restrictions. The traditional ethnic sports events include archery, men's crossbow shooting, and women's crossbow shooting. The event has attracted outstanding riders from Yunnan (云南), Sichuan (四川), Tibet (西藏), Qinghai (青海), and Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) to compete on the same stage, with the rhythmic sound of hooves composing a vibrant movement of plateau vitality.
**Inheriting Intangible Cultural Heritage, Ancient Charms Imbuing the Grand Event**
This horse racing festival has ingeniously created an "Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum on Horseback," exhibiting 150 sets of ancient saddles and equestrian equipment collected from Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture (大理白族自治州), Lijiang City (丽江市) in Yunnan Province (云南省), and Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (甘孜藏族自治州) in Sichuan Province (四川省), with each old object quietly telling stories from horseback. The event site also features an integrated experience area for intangible cultural heritage, where traditional skills such as Tibetan black pottery, Naxi Dongba painting, manual wooden shuttle rope-making techniques, and gourd flute making are showcased in turn. Tourists can observe them up close and experience them firsthand, immersing themselves in the charm of intangible cultural heritage.
The opening ceremony takes the stories of multi-ethnic families as its main thread, integrating multi-ethnic song and dance, intangible cultural heritage performances, and characteristic equestrian honor guard performances. Combined with live-action performances and lighting effects, it vividly interprets stories on horseback that transcend time and space, allowing the profound ethnic culture to reach people's hearts.
**Merging Cultural and Sports Trends, Enjoying Colorful Experiences**
The 2nd Shangri-La Cross-Country Race (第二届香格里拉越野赛) will be held on June 20, featuring four major categories: 75km, 50km, 26km, and 8km. More than 2,000 sports enthusiasts will travel through the primeval forests and lakeside trails of Pudacuo National Park (普达措国家公园), practicing the concept of "Clean Mountains, Clean Races, Clean Hearts" and enjoying the fun of outdoor sports.
A light luxury camping and leisure belt on the plateau has been created around the arena, suitable for both watching the race and resting. As night falls, a starry sky concert begins, complemented by themed exhibitions of new energy vehicles and off-road motorcycles, allowing traditional folk customs and trendy culture to **相得益彰** (xiāng dé yì zhāng - "each brings out the best in the other," to complement each other perfectly).
**Meeting Amidst the Bustle of the Ancient City, Integrated Development of Culture and Tourism**
From June 10 to July 7, the characteristic food corridor on Nachidong Road (纳赤东路) will open for the Dragon Boat Festival food season, bringing together various local delicacies such as yak meat and highland barley-flavored food. The horse racing-themed cultural and creative market uses characteristic tent settings, offering a dazzling array of plateau agricultural products (matsutake, highland barley wine, butter tea), handmade intangible cultural heritage items, and horse racing-themed creative products, allowing tourists to choose souvenirs as they please. After nightfall, night activities such as the ancient city's intangible cultural heritage light show and the thousand-person bonfire Guozhuang dance are performed in turn, with laughter lingering in the plateau night sky. During the event, Shangri-La (香格里拉) has implemented temporary traffic controls, designated exclusive driving routes and parking areas, equipped itself with medical, security, and communication forces, and strictly controlled food safety and prices to provide comprehensive service guarantees.
Using sports as a medium, culture to gather strength, and tourism to revitalize industries—today's Shangri-La City (香格里拉市) is relying on characteristic festival activities to deeply tap into the potential of culture and tourism, continuously polishing the world-renowned "Shangri-La" (香格里拉) cultural and tourism brand, and vividly interpreting the unique charm of "a kind of life called Yunnan" (有一种叫云南的生活). This plateau grand event, which integrates sports competition, cultural inheritance, and leisure tourism, is not only a vivid performance of folk culture but also a warm picture of all ethnic groups standing together in unity.
Data Source: Publicity Department of the CPC Shangri-La Municipal Committee (中共香格里拉市委宣传部)
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Return to TopFushun City (抚顺市), located in the eastern part of Liaoning Province (辽宁省), is an old industrial city with a coal mining history spanning a century. Today, leveraging its beautiful scenery and profound history, Fushun (抚顺) has become a "rich mine" of cultural tourism, attracting the attention of visitors from all directions with a new posture of urban transformation and industrial integration.
"Using culture to shape tourism, and using tourism to highlight culture"—following this guidance, Fushun (抚顺) continues to advance its transformation from an industrial symphony to a cultural tourism epic. By relying on its landscape endowments, revolutionary resources, and industrial culture, the city is excavating the treasures bestowed upon it by nature and humanity, forging an innovative, distinctive, and brilliant path for the cultural tourism revitalization of an old industrial city.
**Changing Mindsets, Walking New Paths**
From an industrial powerhouse to an ecological city, and from deep-digging underground mineral deposits to revitalizing surface resources, Fushun (抚顺) has blazed a new trail on an old path, achieving a magnificent transformation.
Today's Tiannv Mountain Forest Park (天女山森林公园) has shifted from its past focus on scenery management to integrated development incorporating diverse business formats. On May 30, the "Northeast Super Carnival, Magnolia Blossoms at Tiannv Mountain" event and the "Northeast Super" (东北超) second-venue event were held at the scenic spot. The synergy between the forest park and soccer matches attracted online traffic and effectively boosted offline foot traffic.
Fushun’s (抚顺) natural scenery, revolutionary genes, folk customs, and industrial culture are intertwined and integrated, creating a cultural tourism foundation characterized by "open-minded people, upright scenery, and a warm city." Every piece of the city's scenery has its own unique beauty. Entering Fushun (抚顺), one can experience the varied charms of the four seasons: in spring, the ice melts and the breeze blows open the frozen Hun River (浑河), bringing new greenery and floral fragrance along the banks; in summer, the warm sun illuminates the dense shade across the mountains of the Sarhu Scenic Area (萨尔浒风景区), gently sprinkling onto the branches and leaves of the Tiannv magnolias; in autumn, when the frost falls, the Sankaishi National Forest Park (三块石国家森林公园) and the Kuangzigou Primitive Ecological Scenic Area (筐子沟原生态风景区) are covered in fire-like red leaves; in the cold winter, when snow falls, Yulong Creek (玉龙溪) and Crescent Island (月牙岛) resemble a world of glazed glass, and the world-class golden powder snow belt ignites the passion of the ice and snow economy.
Once the mindset changes, the world becomes vast. Fushun (抚顺) has transformed its dormant resources into fulcrums for leveraging the development of the cultural tourism industry. Scenic spots have become "Northeast Super" (东北超) viewing arenas, city children gather in the forests to explore secret ice river realms, and century-old landmarks have been turned into bustling markets full of nostalgia... The gratifying changes in cultural tourism development reflect the many possibilities hidden within this city.
Currently, the "Northeast Super" (东北超) continues to be red-hot, and Fushun’s (抚顺) second venue is full of popularity. The city’s cultural, tourism, sports, and commercial sectors are linked in a panoramic manner, with over 40 locations and more than 330 merchants resonating with fans and cheering for the matches. At the Blue Moon Bay Plaza (蓝月湾广场) on Crescent Island (月牙岛), there is a passionate collision, with enthusiastic spectators waving clappers to cheer for the games. The night market at the Lei Feng Stadium (雷锋体育场) is filled with appetizing aromas, and the "food + soccer" specialty combination unlocks the "hot and spicy" (热辣滚烫 (rè là gǔn tàng - "hot spicy boiling," describing something intense, passionate, or vibrant)) atmosphere of Fushun (抚顺) for fans. "Stroll through the old city and eat delicious food during the day; watch matches and stay in homestays at night." At Hetuala City (赫图阿拉城), the "Northeast Super" (东北超) second-venue activities are colorful and exciting, with authentic Manchu cuisine tickling the taste buds, treasure hunting in the ancient city, and ethnic costume experiences suitable for all ages. These special cultural tourism packages allow tourists to "spend less and have a great time."
Sitting in the Fushun City Living Room (抚顺城市会客厅), one can feel the changes between the past and present of the century-old Fushun South Railway Station (抚顺南站). This is also one of the "Northeast Super" (东北超) second-venue points, using old markets, vintage stages, and guitar performances to create a rich nostalgic atmosphere. Adhering to the principle of "repairing the old as the old, and revitalizing for use," Fushun (抚顺) has meticulously renovated the streets and alleys of the old city, making the City Living Room a public cultural landmark that integrates historical display, cultural exchange, and citizen leisure.
In recent years, Fushun (抚顺) has focused on the integration of culture and tourism, driving development breakthroughs through mindset shifts. Multiple departments across the city have collaborated to break down barriers between cultural, tourism, sports, and commercial resources. Relying on multi-party cooperation, they have promoted the clustering of various business formats and strived to build an integrated support system of "government + enterprise + social organization," achieving multi-dimensional and deep-level integrated development.
**Cultivating Characteristics, Establishing Brands**
Fushun (抚顺) has proactively jumped out of the "one city, one look" development model, turning instead to deeply excavating brands with unique urban recognition, and laying out a multi-layered matrix of characteristic cultural tourism IPs.
During this year's "May Day" holiday, Fushun (抚顺) promoted its "Slow Travel Circle," which was listed in the "May Day Travel Trend Report" jointly released by Fliggy (飞猪) and Xiaohongshu (小红书), becoming a major destination for "slow travelers." Fushun’s (抚顺) cultural tourism has become popular for its "slowness," benefiting from the "smoke and fire" (everyday life) hidden in the city's genes, forming a warm feeling of strolling through Fushun (抚顺).
Fushun (抚顺) insists that "the best tourism product is the essence of life itself." It does not deliberately create scenery or force commercialization, instead "subtracting" for tourists and "adding" to their experience. By using local, vivid daily life and thoughtful tour routes, it attracts tourists to walk into the streets and alleys of Fushun (抚顺) and integrate into the city's daily life, handing the choice to the tourists and doing work that touches their hearts, letting the real urban landscape become the main content of cultural tourism.
To increase the recognition of scenic spots, Fushun (抚顺) strives to tell cultural stories well: the Qiushui Changtian Pavilion (秋水长天楼) in Sarhu (萨尔浒), the internet-famous "Fu Lu" (福鹭) on Crescent Island (月牙岛), the *diyinzi* (underground dwellings) at Sankaishi (三块石), the Anti-Japanese United Army Road (抗联路) in Kuangzigou (筐子沟), the Liao Dynasty Pagoda (辽塔) on Gao'er Mountain (高尔山), and the "Spirit Ginseng" (灵参) in Canxian Valley (参仙谷) are all distinctive and fascinating cultural stories that add connotation to Fushun’s (抚顺) cultural tourism IP, attracting more and more tourists to visit.
High-stickiness IP cannot be separated from emotional investment. Fushun (抚顺) chooses to treat guests with "sincerity": all scenic spots in the city have clearly marked prices, parking lots around major scenic spots are opened, bus schedules are increased, special tourist lines are added, volunteer service personnel are dispatched, and cultural tourism and commercial integration benefits are increased. The entire city of Fushun (抚顺) welcomes visitors from all directions with an unadulterated sincerity, striving to make more people willing to stop and stay in Fushun (抚顺).
**Gathering Resources, Revitalizing Industry**
As the weather warms and the water-playing season approaches, homestays and campsites around the Honghe Canyon Rafting Scenic Area (红河峡谷漂流景区) have begun to open one after another. Tidying up guest rooms, trimming courtyards, and stocking up on wild mountain vegetables and farm ingredients, the economy along the village has heated up around the rafting industry, and the villagers' pockets have also become fuller.
Fushun (抚顺) is exploring a move from single-point scenic spot operation to full-chain industrial clustering, excavating cultural tourism resources and releasing economic benefits. At present, the city has formed a series of cultural tourism industrial clusters centered on scenic spots such as Sankaishi (三块石) and Hetuala City (赫图阿拉城). By running through the four seasons and linking urban and rural areas, it has broken the limitation of "relying on the weather, only popular in one season," and built a new all-season cultural tourism development pattern of "camping and flower viewing in the spring mountains, rafting in the canyon in midsummer, studying and maple viewing in the deep autumn, and enjoying ice and snow in the winter snowfields."
Fushun (抚顺) has also introduced more new business formats to the cultural tourism industry chain. At the Fushun Daguan Kiln Ceramic Cultural and Creative Park (抚顺大官窑陶瓷文创园), craftsmen use intangible cultural heritage techniques inherited for over 800 years to integrate the beauty of flowers into ceramic works. Works such as porcelain magnolias and porcelain peonies are fired at high temperatures, redefining the posture of "blooming flowers." They possess both the heavy texture of ancient kilns and the delicate charm of flowers and trees, becoming hot-selling cultural and creative products in Fushun (抚顺).
With scenic spots, homestays, and cultural and creative elements landing one by one, Fushun (抚顺) is looking for breakthroughs through characteristic activities. It actively hosts national and provincial-level events and plans a series of characteristic activities: the "Passionate Northeast Super, Meet in Lei Feng City" Sarhu Scenic Area (萨尔浒风景区) cultural tourism event and the "Most Beautiful Sarhu, Happy Fushun Trip" walking event, the "Lei Feng City Cup" Open Winter Swimming Tournament, and the "Run Across Liaoning · Fushun Run" Half Marathon... Fushun (抚顺) deeply embeds sports, exhibitions, performances, and consumption activities into the cultural tourism chain, allowing participants to immersively experience the city's temperature and the texture of life.
In 2028, the 15th National Winter Games will be held in Liaoning (辽宁), and the Fushun Longgang Mountain Snow Sports Center (抚顺龙岗山雪上运动中心) will host 3 sub-items and 18 minor events. The winter sports gala will bring new industrial opportunities. Fushun (抚顺) is ready, continuing to promote the deep integration of culture, tourism, sports, and commerce, firmly building an ice and snow city, creating a high-quality development leading zone for Liaoning’s (辽宁) ice and snow economy, and striving to meet the dual needs of "professional competition use" and "mass ice and snow leisure."
"Come to Fushun (抚顺) often, for both fortune and smoothness." Fushun (抚顺) extends a sincere invitation to visitors from all directions to walk into "Treasure Fushun" (宝藏抚顺) and encounter "Carefree Fushun" (自在抚顺).
Data Source: Publicity Department of the CPC Fushun Municipal Committee (中共抚顺市委宣传部)
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Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has profoundly grasped the trends of the information revolution era. Closely integrating the practice of China's internet development and governance, he has put forward a series of original new ideas, viewpoints, and assertions regarding cybersecurity and information technology work, forming General Secretary Xi Jinping’s (习近平) Important Thought on Building a Cyber Power. This important thought is a significant component of 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) and provides a powerful ideological weapon and scientific guide for action in advancing the construction of a cyber power. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五) period, the pioneering characteristics, global influence, strategic status, and driving role of cyber power construction in building a great modern socialist country will become even more prominent. We must persist in taking 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 our guide, deeply study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s (习近平) Important Thought on Building a Cyber Power, accelerate the construction of a cyber power, and provide powerful service, support, and guarantees for comprehensively advancing the construction of a great country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese-style modernization (中国式现代化).
### The Rich Connotations of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s (习近平) Important Thought on Building a Cyber Power
Building a cyber power is a major decision and deployment made by the Party Central Committee (党中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, and a major strategy for advancing Chinese-style modernization (中国式现代化). Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has set the course and steered the helm for cyber power construction, clearly put forward the mission and tasks of internet and information work, and made important expositions such as the "Five Clarifications" (五个明确) and "Ten Persistences" (十个坚持). He has systematically expounded the major significance, strategic goals, principles, requirements, main tasks, scientific methods, and fundamental guarantees for building a cyber power. General Secretary Xi Jinping’s (习近平) Important Thought on Building a Cyber Power is profound, rich in content, complete in system, and broad and deep, profoundly answering a series of major theoretical and practical questions such as why we should build a cyber power, what kind of cyber power to build, and how to build a cyber power.
It profoundly answers the major theoretical and practical question of why we should build a cyber power. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), with foresight and a keen grasp of the situation, standing at the historical height of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, emphasizes that "informatization has brought a once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity to the Chinese nation." Standing at the political height of ensuring the Party’s long-term governance, he emphasizes that "if we cannot pass the internet test, we cannot pass the test of long-term governance." Standing at the overall height of building a great modern socialist country, he emphasizes that "without cybersecurity, there is no national security; without informatization, there is no modernization." Standing at the strategic height of responding to the world's changes unseen in a century, he emphasizes that "those who win the internet win the world," and so on. This series of important expositions accurately judges the times and trends, dialectically grasps the crises and opportunities, scientifically oversees the internal and external situations, profoundly clarifies the inherent relationship between informatization and modernization, the internet and information cause and the great cause of national rejuvenation, and the cyber power and the great modern socialist country, and profoundly expounds the major and far-reaching significance of building a cyber power.
It profoundly answers the major theoretical and practical question of what kind of cyber power to build. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), focusing on the overall situation of the Party and the country, has clarified the strategic arrangements and goals for building a cyber power. He proposed the goal requirements for cyber power construction: "technologically strong, content-strong, foundation-strong, talent-strong, and strong in international discourse power." He emphasized that cyber power construction should "constantly advance in the direction of basic popularization of network infrastructure, significantly enhanced independent innovation capabilities, comprehensive development of the digital economy, powerful cybersecurity guarantees, and balanced network offensive and defensive strength," and so on. This series of important expositions comprehensively maps out the grand blueprint for building a cyber power, possessing powerful ideological leadership, practical guidance, and spiritual appeal.
It profoundly answers the major theoretical and practical question of how to build a cyber power. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), focusing on the contemporary task of how to build a cyber power, clearly proposed the "Ten Persistences" (十个坚持) as important principles for building a cyber power: namely, persisting in Party management of the internet, persisting in internet and information work for the people, persisting in following the path of internet governance with Chinese characteristics, persisting in coordinating development and security, persisting in the principle that positive energy is the general requirement, being able to manage is the hard truth, and being able to use it well is the real skill, persisting in building a solid national cybersecurity barrier, persisting in giving play to the driving and leading role of informatization, persisting in managing, running, and using the internet according to law, persisting in promoting the building of a community with a shared future in cyberspace, and persisting in building a loyal, clean, and responsible internet and information work team. These "Ten Persistences" (十个坚持) are internally connected, closely linked, and organically unified, systematically answering a series of major questions such as who leads the construction of a cyber power, who it is for and who to rely on, what path to take, how to promote development, and how to provide effective guarantees. They have clarified scientific ideas, made major deployments, and provided methodological paths for building a cyber power.
### The Truth Brilliance of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s (习近平) Important Thought on Building a Cyber Power
General Secretary Xi Jinping’s (习近平) Important Thought on Building a Cyber Power contains firm ideals and beliefs, a distinct political orientation, profound strategic thinking, a strong sense of mission, sincere feelings for the people, and scientific ideological methods. It is a scientific theory based on China, looking at the world, and leading practice.
Observing the general trend and leading the era, it provides a powerful ideological weapon for firmly grasping the historical initiative of the development of the information revolution. Karl Marx (马克思) and Friedrich Engels (恩格斯) pointed out: "The real content of every epoch-making system is formed by the needs of the period in which these systems are produced." General Secretary Xi Jinping’s (习近平) Important Thought on Building a Cyber Power was formed and developed under the historical conditions of humanity entering the information society, the in-depth development of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, and the internet becoming an important force affecting the world. Standing at the forefront of the era, this important thought clearly puts forward a series of major assertions such as "the internet is the most dynamic field of our era" and "whoever masters the internet masters the initiative of the era; whoever ignores the internet will be abandoned by the era." With a brand-new vision, it has deepened our Party's understanding of the laws of Communist Party governance, the laws of socialist construction, and the laws of human social development, providing us with a powerful ideological weapon to actively identify, adapt to, and seek changes in the waves of the information revolution, seize opportunities, master the initiative, and win the future.
Rooted in practice and guiding practice, it provides a scientific guide for action for the high-quality development of China's internet and information cause in the new era. General Secretary Xi Jinping’s (习近平) Important Thought on Building a Cyber Power is a scientific summary of our Party's practical experience in managing the internet, deeply rooted in the practice of China's cyber power construction. It originates from practice, guides practice, and is verified by practice, leading China's internet and information cause to achieve historic achievements and undergo historic changes. China's comprehensive strength in cyberspace is constantly rising, and it is striding from a major cyber country toward a cyber power, fully demonstrating the solid practical foundation, distinct practical orientation, and powerful practical strength of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s (习近平) Important Thought on Building a Cyber Power.
Grasping the laws and upholding integrity while innovating, it has made major original contributions to advancing the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism in the information age. Friedrich Engels (恩格斯) pointed out: "Marx's entire worldview is not a dogma, but a method. It provides not ready-made dogmas, but starting points for further research and methods for such research." General Secretary Xi Jinping’s (习近平) Important Thought on Building a Cyber Power persists in using the "arrow" of Marxism to hit the "target" of new-era cyber power construction. Applying the Marxist stance, viewpoint, and method, it has put forward a series of original new ideas, viewpoints, and assertions, scientifically answering many major theoretical and practical questions that Marxist classics never mentioned, our predecessors never encountered, and relevant Western theories could not solve, providing scientific guidance for doing a good job in cybersecurity and informatization work.
Upholding the original aspiration and manifesting the purpose, it has marked a deep pro-people background for cyber power construction. General Secretary Xi Jinping’s (习近平) Important Thought on Building a Cyber Power always adheres to putting the people first, profoundly grasping the significant characteristic that cyberspace has become a new space for the people's production and life. It clearly puts forward important expositions such as "the development of the internet and information cause must implement the people-centered development thought, take increasing the people's well-being as the starting point and goal of informatization development, and let the people have more sense of gain, happiness, and security in informatization development." It profoundly clarifies the value pursuit of our Party always being with the people and striving for the people's interests, providing the deepest and most lasting source of power for cyber power construction.
Cherishing the world and benefiting the world, it has contributed a systematic Chinese solution to global internet development and governance. The internet has turned the world into a global village, promoting the international community to increasingly become a community with a shared future where you have me and I have you. General Secretary Xi Jinping’s (习近平) Important Thought on Building a Cyber Power, focusing on the major issue of internet development and governance that concerns the future and destiny of humanity, creatively proposed the concept of building a community with a shared future in cyberspace. It systematically expounded the "four principles" and "five points of proposition" for global internet development and governance, demonstrating a high degree of concern for the common well-being of humanity, powerfully gathering broad consensus in the international community, and pointing out the direction for cyberspace to achieve common development, long-term stability, sustained prosperity, and orderly governance.
### Assisting Chinese-style Modernization (中国式现代化) with Cyber Power Construction
Under the guidance of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s (习近平) Important Thought on Building a Cyber Power, China's cyber power construction has taken solid steps, fully demonstrating the powerful truth strength of this important thought. The "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五) period is a critical period for consolidating the foundation and comprehensively exerting efforts in cyber power construction. We must deeply study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s (习近平) Important Thought on Building a Cyber Power, deeply comprehend the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments" (两个确立), resolutely achieve the "Two Maintenances" (两个维护), deeply implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee (党中央), strengthen the Party's comprehensive leadership over internet and information work, establish and practice a correct view of political achievements, and promote a good start for China's internet and information cause during the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五) period.
Consolidate and strengthen the mainstream ideological public opinion online for the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五). General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "We must persist in shaping cyberspace with positive voices, mainstream values, and the new style of the era." To gather development consensus and stimulate the power of forging ahead for the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五) online, we must give play to the demonstration and leading role of mainstream media in the supply of high-quality online content, carefully and emotionally do a good job in the online publicity of 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), strengthen major online theme publicity and major topic setting, strive to create communication brands such as "Why China" (何以中国) and "Red Star Shines Over China" (红星照耀中国), and sing the main melody of forging ahead for the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五). Strengthen the construction of internet civilization and jointly build a beautiful spiritual home online. Strengthen the construction of international communication network platforms and capabilities, and vividly display a credible, lovable, and respectable image of China.
Effectively improve the efficiency of network ecological governance. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "We must improve the long-term mechanism for network ecological governance, strive to enhance the foresight, precision, systematicness, and synergy of governance, and continuously create a clean and upright cyberspace." At present, the network ecology is generally moving upward and improving, but we must also see that the situation in the field of network ideology is complex, some network chaos is prone to occur, repetitive, and stubborn, and new technologies have put forward many new topics for network governance. We must effectively prevent and resolve online risks and resolutely guard the online front. Continuously carry out the "Qinglang" (清朗) series of special actions, press the main responsibility of platforms, effectively govern various network chaos, and strive to purify the network ecology. Strengthen the construction of the technical network management system and improve the ability and level of internet governance. Coordinate the promotion of legislation, law enforcement, justice, and popularization of laws in the network field, and promote the healthy operation of the internet on the track of the rule of law.
Empower high-quality development with informatization. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Informatization is the accelerator and catalyst for the synchronous development of the 'Four Modernizations' (四化). The internet and information cause represents new productive forces and new development directions, and should take a step ahead in practicing the new development concept." "We must fully play the leading role of informatization in economic and social development." At present, informatization is moving toward a new stage of comprehensive leap in digitalization, networking, and intelligence. We must improve the policy system and institutional mechanisms for promoting informatization development, and systematically and deeply promote informatization development. Promote decisive breakthroughs in key core technologies in key areas across the entire chain, accelerate the innovation of digital intelligence technologies such as artificial intelligence and blockchain, and actively implement the "Artificial Intelligence+" (人工智能+) action. Promote quantum technology, embodied intelligence, etc., to become new economic growth points, accelerate the development of industrial ecosystems such as artificial intelligence and operating systems, deeply promote the coordinated transformation and development of digitalization and greening, and promote the high-quality development of internet and information enterprises. Promote application scenarios such as blockchain-enabled shipping (freight) trade digitalization, deepen IPv6 technology innovation and integrated application, and deepen the development and utilization of data resources.
Deepen the benefit of the people through the internet and information work. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Let the internet better benefit the people." "Party and government organs at all levels and leading cadres must improve their ability to organize, publicize, guide, and serve the masses through the internet." The internet reaches hundreds of millions of people and connects the Party's heart with the people's heart. We must strengthen the coordinated governance online and offline, carry out online public opinion guidance precisely, and promote solving problems and resolving contradictions from the source. Establish and improve working mechanisms for asking the people for opinions, needs, and plans online, so as to better pool wisdom and efforts. Focus on the urgent, difficult, and anxious problems of the people, continuously rectify problems such as big data price discrimination, online rumors, and cyberbullying, strengthen personal information protection, and strengthen the network protection of minors. Use digital intelligence technology to empower people's livelihood services, improve the efficiency of e-government services, and create a beautiful digital intelligence life.
Comprehensively advance the modernization of the national cybersecurity system and capabilities. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Without cybersecurity, there is no national security, there is no stable operation of economic and social development, and the interests of the broad masses of the people are difficult to be guaranteed." At present, cybersecurity threats and risks are becoming increasingly prominent, and the status and role of cybersecurity in ensuring high-quality development are more important. We must strengthen the construction of cyberspace security capabilities, coordinate the implementation of major cybersecurity tasks, accelerate the construction of a cybersecurity defense system, strengthen the security protection of critical information infrastructure, and improve the level of integrated development of cybersecurity education, technology, and industry. Continuously improve the cybersecurity data governance system, improve basic systems such as network data classification and grading protection, and optimize the security management system for cross-border data flow. Strengthen artificial intelligence security governance, improve the filing management of large model services, hold the bottom line of security, and better promote development.
Actively expand international exchanges and cooperation in cyberspace. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Countries should strengthen communication, expand consensus, deepen cooperation, and jointly build a community with a shared future in cyberspace." Since the new era, China has actively participated in the process of global internet development and governance, and the concept of building a community with a shared future in cyberspace has won broad international recognition and formed more vivid practices. At the same time, we must also see that problems such as unbalanced development, imperfect rules, and unreasonable order in the internet field are prominent. We must deeply publicize and interpret the concept of building a community with a shared future in cyberspace, continuously launch more relevant international public goods, deeply participate in global governance of cyberspace and the formulation of international rules, actively participate in the governance process of fields such as artificial intelligence and data, build the World Internet Conference (世界互联网大会) international organization at a high level, deepen pragmatic cooperation in cyberspace, and let the fruits of internet development better benefit the people of all countries in the world.
(The author is the Deputy Minister of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee (中央宣传部), Director of the Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission (中央网信办), and Director of the Cyberspace Administration of China (国家网信办))
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Jurisprudence is an important component of philosophy and social sciences, playing an indispensable role in ordering the state and the people, governing the country, and achieving good laws and effective governance. Building an autonomous knowledge system of Chinese jurisprudence is the only way to accelerate the construction of a Chinese-style disciplinary system, academic system, and discourse system for law. It is a century-long plan for the high-quality development of Chinese jurisprudence and a monumental project to promote changes in the global academic landscape of law. To build an autonomous knowledge system of Chinese jurisprudence, one must be guided by 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), especially Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law (习近平法治思想), and take the Socialist Rule of Law System with Chinese Characteristics (中国特色社会主义法治体系) as the cornerstone. This will contribute Chinese wisdom and propose Chinese solutions to answer the fundamental theoretical questions of jurisprudence—"what is the rule of law" and "how to achieve the rule of law"—thereby better leading and shaping the Chinese characteristics, Chinese style, and Chinese ethos of Chinese jurisprudence in a holistic and comprehensive manner.
### Identifying Concepts and Original Theories are the Backbone of the Autonomous Knowledge System of Chinese Jurisprudence
In the process of advancing the comprehensive rule of law and building a higher-level socialist rule of law state, to better leverage the role of Chinese jurisprudence in serving our socialist rule of law practice, we cannot simply copy or apply Western legal theories; we must take steps and achieve breakthroughs in building an autonomous knowledge system of Chinese jurisprudence. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Strengthen the systematic and theoretical research and interpretation of the Party's innovative theories, profoundly reveal the principles, theories, and philosophies contained therein, lead the innovation of knowledge, theory, and methods in philosophy and social sciences with the Party's innovative theories, build an autonomous knowledge system of Chinese philosophy and social sciences with identifying concepts and original theories of various disciplines as the backbone, and apply and implement them in teaching practice." This important exposition scientifically clarifies the core elements and key levers for building an autonomous knowledge system of Chinese jurisprudence.
Taking identifying concepts as the backbone is because identifying concepts have an important identification function and are markers that indicate the nature, attributes, and characteristics of things. The key element that distinguishes a new doctrine or discipline from other existing doctrines or disciplines is the identifying concept. For example, "rights" (权利) is an identifying concept that distinguishes jurisprudence from ancient Chinese legal studies (律学) and jurisprudence from other social sciences. Identifying concepts occupy the central axis of the entire conceptual system and are the subjective and dominant elements in a knowledge system. Identifying concepts possess an indispensability in theoretical structure. Without identifying concepts, the theoretical chain cannot be connected, and the theoretical system cannot be constructed. Just as "practice" (实践) is the identifying concept of Marxist philosophy (马克思主义哲学), if the concept of "practice" were missing, it would be difficult for Marxist philosophy to be linked into a theoretical system.
Taking original theories as the backbone is because the core of a knowledge system is theory, and originality is the most distinct manifestation of autonomy. The production of original theories in philosophy and social sciences means proposing major theoretical propositions that reflect the requirements and spirit of the times, updating theoretical paradigms, filling theoretical gaps, transforming theoretical connotations, and expanding theoretical thinking. In particular, it means more accurately revealing the essence, laws, and the basic principles and internal logic of the formation and development of the research objects. The core of the autonomous knowledge system of Chinese jurisprudence must be original legal theory. Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law (习近平法治思想) creatively proposes a series of original and iconic new concepts, new ideas, and new strategies regarding the comprehensive rule of law. It is the latest achievement of the sinicization and modernization of Marxist rule of law theory and a major innovative development of the socialist rule of law theory with Chinese characteristics. These original rule of law theories have become the backbone of the autonomous knowledge system of Chinese jurisprudence.
### The Socialist Rule of Law System with Chinese Characteristics is the Most Identifying Concept and the Most Original Theory of the Autonomous Knowledge System of Chinese Jurisprudence
Among all the identifying concepts and original theories of Chinese jurisprudence since the New Era (新时代), the Socialist Rule of Law System with Chinese Characteristics (中国特色社会主义法治体系) is the most identifying concept and the most original theory.
From the perspective of practice, building the Socialist Rule of Law System with Chinese Characteristics (中国特色社会主义法治体系) is the general lever for comprehensively advancing the rule of law. In 2014, at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (党的十八届四中全会), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Building the Socialist Rule of Law System with Chinese Characteristics (中国特色社会主义法治体系) and building a socialist rule of law state are inevitable requirements for realizing the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity." "Comprehensively advancing the rule of law involves many aspects. In practical work, there must be a general lever that oversees the overall situation and leads all parties, and this general lever is the construction of the Socialist Rule of Law System with Chinese Characteristics (中国特色社会主义法治体系). All work related to the rule of law must be planned and advanced around this general lever." Since then, the Party Central Committee (党中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has put forward requirements such as "better advancing the construction of the Socialist Rule of Law System with Chinese Characteristics (中国特色社会主义法治体系)" and "building a more perfect Socialist Rule of Law System with Chinese Characteristics (中国特色社会主义法治体系)."
From the perspective of theory, the Socialist Rule of Law System with Chinese Characteristics (中国特色社会主义法治体系) is a concept and theory with autonomy, identification, and originality. In 2016, at the Symposium on Philosophy and Social Sciences (哲学社会科学工作座谈会), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) listed a series of "original and contemporary concepts and theories" proposed by our Party since the Reform and Opening-up (改革开放), one of which is "building the Socialist Rule of Law System with Chinese Characteristics (中国特色社会主义法治体系)." The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的十九大) in 2017 used the "Eight Clarifications" (八个明确) to elaborate on the core content of 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). The "Resolution" (决议) of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (党的十九届六中全会) in 2021 further summarized the core content of 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) into "Ten Clarifications" (十个明确), both of which include "clarifying that the general goal of comprehensively advancing the rule of law is to build the Socialist Rule of Law System with Chinese Characteristics (中国特色社会主义法治体系) and build a socialist rule of law state."
It can be seen that the Socialist Rule of Law System with Chinese Characteristics (中国特色社会主义法治体系) is an innovative concept and theory that embodies the institutional characteristics of the socialist rule of law path with Chinese characteristics, can scientifically answer the questions of China, the world, the people, and the times regarding the rule of law, and unifies ideology and practice.
### Building an Autonomous Knowledge System of Chinese Jurisprudence with the Socialist Rule of Law System with Chinese Characteristics as the Cornerstone
Taking the Socialist Rule of Law System with Chinese Characteristics (中国特色社会主义法治体系) as the cornerstone for building an autonomous knowledge system of Chinese jurisprudence, its academic logic includes the following aspects:
First, the Socialist Rule of Law System with Chinese Characteristics (中国特色社会主义法治体系) is a concentrated embodiment of the new concepts, new ideas, and new strategies for comprehensively advancing the rule of law. It clarifies our Party's basic position and basic views on the comprehensive rule of law, reveals the internal requirements and practical logic of building a rule of law China, and not only clarifies the nature and direction of China's rule of law but also points out the approach and methods of China's rule of law. It makes a scientific response that organically connects the content and formal requirements of the rule of law to major issues such as what kind of rule of law to achieve and how to achieve it. This provides an ideological and logical starting point for transcending Western rule of law theories, conducting in-depth research on professional legal issues in various legal departments under the guidance of China's autonomous rule of law theory, and constructing China's autonomous legal research propositions, knowledge discourse, and academic theories.
Second, the Socialist Rule of Law System with Chinese Characteristics (中国特色社会主义法治体系) provides a sharp ideological weapon for various disciplines of Chinese jurisprudence to scientifically grasp and accurately understand the contemporary Chinese rule of law situation, and creates the necessary, urgently needed, and effective theoretical paradigm for building an autonomous knowledge system of Chinese jurisprudence. Through this theoretical paradigm, legal research can, from the ideological height that comprehensively advancing the rule of law is a systematic project, and from the systematic perspective of comprehensively advancing scientific legislation, strict law enforcement, impartial administration of justice, and observance of the law by all, deeply explore the real problems in China's rule of law practice and the development of Chinese jurisprudence, such as "how to organically unify ruling the country according to law and governing the Party according to regulations" and "how to organically combine ruling the country according to law and ruling the country by virtue." This makes Chinese jurisprudence closer to Chinese reality and highlights Chinese creation.
Third, the Socialist Rule of Law System with Chinese Characteristics (中国特色社会主义法治体系) as a cornerstone possesses powerful historical penetration, scientific explanatory power, theoretical construction power, and practical guidance. The specific legal concepts and theories extracted, summarized, and created by various departmental laws, scattered across various fields and links of rule of law construction, can all be interconnected and coordinated through the Socialist Rule of Law System with Chinese Characteristics (中国特色社会主义法治体系), thereby building the ideological edifice of an autonomous knowledge system of Chinese jurisprudence. The systematic concept, systematic thinking, and systematic methods contained in the Socialist Rule of Law System with Chinese Characteristics (中国特色社会主义法治体系) provide ideological guidance and spiritual impetus for the autonomous knowledge system of Chinese jurisprudence to continuously move toward self-consistency and self-sufficiency in exchange and openness.
In summary, building an autonomous knowledge system of Chinese jurisprudence with the Socialist Rule of Law System with Chinese Characteristics (中国特色社会主义法治体系)—a concept and theory with profound connotations, broad vision, and scientific methods—as the cornerstone will surely widely and effectively gather and stimulate the ideological vitality and development potential of Chinese jurisprudence, and make the academic contributions that Chinese jurisprudence should make to building a higher-level socialist rule of law state.
(The author is a professor at Jilin University (吉林大学))
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Currently, digital technology is profoundly reshaping the forms and scenarios of reading. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has pointed out: "Digital reading must be combined with traditional reading to safeguard our core and literacy." The results of the 23rd National Reading Survey show that in 2025, digital reading has become deeply integrated into the daily lives of Chinese adult citizens, with mobile reading holding a significant advantage. At the same time, one data point from the survey is worth noting: "45.9% of adult citizens expressed a preference for 'picking up a physical book to read,' ranking first among all types of reading methods." The Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan (十五五规划) proposes: "Deepen national reading activities and promote the construction of a society of books." Combining digital reading with traditional reading to achieve a **双向奔赴** (shuāng xiàng bēn fù - "bidirectional rush toward each other," a mutual effort toward a shared goal) is of great significance for promoting the construction of a society of books.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "We must overcome the air of impetuosity, calm down to read more classics, and understand the 'why' behind things. Network reading has the characteristics of convenience and immediacy, making it an important way of modern reading; everyone should use it reasonably." Digital reading and traditional reading each have their own characteristics and advantages. Digital reading is convenient and fast, but it is also prone to being fast without depth. Traditional reading has a slower pace, but thinking tends to be more profound. To promote national reading, we must make good use of both digital and traditional reading methods, give full play to the "fast" advantage of digital reading, continuously consolidate the role of traditional reading in calming the mind and deep thinking, and make efforts to effectively overcome impetuous mindsets and solve the problem of shallow reading.
We must **群策群力** (qún cè qún lì - "group strategy group strength," to pool the wisdom and efforts of everyone) to overcome the impetuous mindset toward reading. The formation of an impetuous mindset largely stems from environmental coercion. When most people around you are scrolling through short videos, what an individual needs to overcome when picking up a book is not only their own inertia but also the invisible influence of the environment. Conversely, when reading becomes a community behavior, individuals can gain the support of "self-discipline" through "heteronomy." The essence of national reading lies in realizing the transformation from "I read" to "we read" through the word "together," making reading a cultural practice that builds public spirit and condenses social consensus. For individuals, one should actively create an environment for deep reading, fix a certain duration of screen-free time every day, and create an exclusive reading corner to make calm reading a lifestyle. In families, parent-child co-reading can be included as part of family life to cultivate good family traditions through the fragrance of books. As an important place for reading, schools can expand the time for teachers and students to read together, and enhance the sense of participation and gain in reading by offering reading courses and holding book clubs. In communities, reading can be used as a way of social governance, making full use of community libraries, rural libraries, and other positions to carry out regular reading activities, helping to form closer social governance ties.
Strengthen the institutional coordination mechanism for deep reading. The shaping of deep reading ability is not only a process of individual cognitive training but also a systematic project of social and cultural construction. The "Regulations on Promoting National Reading" (全民阅读促进条例), which came into effect in February 2026, has provided legal protection and institutional guarantees for national reading, providing a powerful guarantee for making good use of the advantages of digital reading and thickening the soil for deep reading. We must further strengthen institutional coordination, add guiding evaluation indicators for deep reading, and correct the single evaluation orientation of "reading quantity only" from the institutional level. Strengthen industry supervision, guide platforms to appropriately introduce parameters such as content diversity and knowledge systemization, and explore responsibility regulation systems for algorithmic recommendations. Incorporate digital reading literacy such as sustained attention, critical thinking, and information screening ability into the national education system, offer relevant courses in primary, secondary, and higher education, and form a long-term mechanism for cultivating deep reading ability. For example, Haidian District (海淀区) in Beijing (北京) has deeply implemented the "Dian Yao Zhonghua" (典耀中华 - "Classics Illuminating China") theme reading campaign, using artificial intelligence to empower full-discipline reading teaching practice; Beijing Normal University (北京师范大学) has integrated digital literacy and cybersecurity protection capabilities into curriculum construction and grassroots training, guiding students and rural teachers to master core capabilities such as information screening, privacy protection, and risk prevention.
Build a benign reading ecology of "paper-screen integration." Breaking away from the problem of shallow reading does not mean rejecting digital technology, but rather using the "depth" of traditional reading to lead the "fast" of digital reading, creating a "paper-screen integration" reading ecology that is functionally complementary, experience-integrated, and leverages strengths while avoiding weaknesses. One can use digital reading to establish a comprehensive and systematic knowledge genealogy, and then cultivate "reading endurance" through intensive reading, deep reading, and research reading, ensuring the knowledge transformation process of immersive thinking and independent dialogue. One can also improve the level of using digital technology to carry out digital transformation of the carriers and scenarios of traditional reading, and use digital technology to empower traditional reading. For example, some places have built campus digital reading rooms, using intelligent reading terminals to realize the rapid sorting out of work contexts and deep excavation of text connotations, promoting the improvement of students' reading interest and reading efficiency. At the same time, digital reading platforms can set up deep reading sections, and algorithmic recommendations can shift to balancing interest and intellectual challenge, upgrading from "guessing what you like" to "accompanying you to understand."
(The author is a researcher at the Ministry of Education (教育部) University Ideological and Political Work Team Training and Research Center (Northwest Normal University (西北师范大学)))
Return to TopNot long ago, on the eve of the 2026 "Eye of the Galaxy" (银河之眼) celestial event, inside the Dark Night Park (暗夜公园) Planetarium in Gaotiankeng Natural Village (高田坑自然村), Zhenzikeng Village (真子坑村), Changhong Township (长虹乡), Kaihua County (开化县), Quzhou City (衢州市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), a dozen children sat in a circle, looking up as the curator Dou Chuang (窦闯) told stories of the Milky Way and galaxies. Outside the window, the daylight was fading, and tents had already been pitched at the mountaintop camping base, waiting for the night to fall so they could encounter the marvelous spectacle of the "Milky Way arch bridge lifting the moon."
Gaotiankeng Village (高田坑村) is located deep in the mountains of western Zhejiang (浙江), at the source of the Qiantang River (钱塘江) where the three provinces of Zhejiang (浙江), Jiangxi (江西), and Anhui (安徽) meet. It is a "Starry Sky Village" (星空村) where "viewing the Milky Way with the naked eye" has become a daily occurrence. This ancient mountain village, situated at an altitude of over 600 meters, has become a premier stargazing destination for astronomy enthusiasts and tourists alike, thanks to its rare dark night sky resources.
Gaotiankeng Village (高田坑村) preserves 88 rustic yellow mud houses, with spring water flowing through the village, making it one of the highest-altitude and best-preserved original ecological ancient villages in Kaihua County (开化县). Its primitive scenery and the rare, pure starry sky overhead have made Gaotiankeng Village (高田坑村) increasingly famous.
The higher the altitude, the thinner the atmosphere, and with less water vapor and dust, the degree to which starlight is scattered and absorbed is lower. Gaotiankeng Village (高田坑村) is surrounded by mountains on three sides; the mountains act as a barrier, blocking the lights of surrounding towns, allowing the village to maintain extremely low nighttime brightness, with almost no light pollution on the horizon or at the zenith. Kaihua County (开化县), where Gaotiankeng Village (高田坑村) is located, has a forest coverage rate of over 80%; this high-density forest further reduces scattered light interference, providing a stable environmental foundation for dark night observations.
"Gaotiankeng Village (高田坑村) has high air transparency and excellent conditions for stargazing," introduced Wu Xiaogeng (吴晓庚), Secretary of the Party Committee of Changhong Township (长虹乡). "Here, the Milky Way is visible to the naked eye in summer, the Perseid meteor shower is spectacular and breathtaking, and the Orion constellation is clearly visible in winter. It is a natural treasure trove for astronomical observation."
Such a stargazing paradise was not widely known from the start. In 2017, stargazing enthusiasts from the Hangzhou Astronomical Society (杭州市天文学会) in Zhejiang (浙江) stumbled into these deep mountains by chance. They discovered that the geographical conditions were superior, making it an ideal place for stargazing. The Hangzhou Astronomical Society (杭州市天文学会) subsequently established a meteor monitoring station in Gaotiankeng Village (高田坑村). Since then, more and more astronomy and photography enthusiasts have come to visit, and the reputation of the "Starry Sky Village" (星空村) has gradually spread.
To better serve the stargazing tourists who came for its reputation, at the end of 2020, the village collective unified the rental of 44 vacant yellow mud houses from villagers and began a four-year ancient village protection and renovation plan. In September 2021, the Changhong Township (长虹乡) government established a special project promotion team for "Xingxiu Gaotian" (星宿高田), focusing on the renovation of the 44 farmhouses and inviting three domestic homestay brands to operate them jointly, striving to create a homestay cluster themed around the "starry sky."
On the mountaintop, the Dark Night Park (暗夜公园) Planetarium has risen, equipped with professional astronomical observation equipment. "Currently, the Dark Night Park (暗夜公园) Planetarium has launched functions such as sightseeing, camping for stargazing, and educational study tours," said Dou Chuang (窦闯).
The achievements of Gaotiankeng Village (高田坑村) in protecting the dark night sky have received successive domestic and international recognition. In 2023, Gaotiankeng Village (高田坑村) was recognized by the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (中国生物多样性保护与绿色发展基金会) as a "Chinese Dark Night Starry Sky Conservation Area" (中华暗夜星空保护地); in 2024, it was successfully included in the World Dark Sky Protected Areas list released by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (世界自然保护联盟) Dark Sky Advisory Group.
In December 2025, the Beijing Planetarium (北京天文馆) officially established an astronomical observation point here, marking the first time the Yangtze River Delta (长三角) region has been included in the Beijing Planetarium's (北京天文馆) off-site observation point system, which has elevated the value of Gaotiankeng Village's (高田坑村) educational study tours to a new level. Last year, Gaotiankeng Village (高田坑村) received approximately 100,000 tourists, driving the turnover of rural homestays and farmhouses to 7 million yuan.
This small village hidden deep in the mountains is making good use of its overhead starry sky resources, and the path of its development is growing ever wider—truly 前程似锦 (qián chéng sì jǐn - "future like brocade," a bright and promising future).
(Reported by Quzhou Daily (衢州日报) reporters Zhou Yang (周洋) and Lan Qi (兰琦))
Return to TopBy: 张伟昊
As the Dragon Boat Festival (端午节) approaches, dragon boat racing activities are being held enthusiastically across many regions in China (中国). In Gaoyou (高邮), Jiangsu (江苏), dragon boats raced side-by-side on Qingshui Tan (清水潭); in Sanxi Village (三溪村), Fuzhou (福州), Fujian (福建), the night dragon boat race was a dazzling display of light and color; in Daoxian (道县), Hunan (湖南), the women's dragon boat team broke through the waves to compete for the lead... Accompanied by the rhythmic beating of drums and the flickering shadows of boats, the lively scenes of dragon boat racing have become viral sensations on the internet.
The folk custom of dragon boat racing, which has been passed down for thousands of years, is increasingly loved by young people. With the help of social media platforms, it has reached the general public, sparking a craze for nationwide participation and sharing.
In Diejiao (叠滘), Foshan (佛山), Guangdong (广东), where the river channels are narrow and the bends are turbulent, dragon boat racing is affectionately dubbed "F1 on the water" by netizens. In the past, village dragon boat races often required door-to-door mobilization to get villagers to participate; today, more and more young people are volunteering, with those born after 2000 and 2010 becoming the main force on the racing field. At the Dragon Boat Open (龙舟公开赛) in Wuhan (武汉), Hubei (湖北), international students from various universities broke through the waves side-by-side on Nanhu Lake (南湖). The team members signed up enthusiastically and practiced diligently, experiencing the charm of the dragon boat spirit of 同舟共济 (tóng zhōu gòng jì - "same boat together help," to pull together in times of trouble). The ancient folk custom of dragon boat racing is transforming into a trend that more people can participate in, experience, and promote.
The warming up of dragon boat events has driven the integrated development of culture, sports, commerce, and tourism. Various regions are digging deep into their dragon boat resources, revitalizing unique IPs according to local conditions. Bazhong (巴中), Sichuan (Sichuan), has enriched the cultural and sports life of the masses through market-oriented event organization, creating a region-wide leisure scene for the Dragon Boat Festival. Yichang (宜昌), Hubei (湖北), relying on its water town resources, has combined dragon boat events with folk sightseeing, attracting large numbers of tourists to visit and experience the festivities. Fenyi (分宜), Jiangxi (江西), has taken the opportunity of dragon boat events to improve rural environments and create water town attractions, becoming a popular destination for many to visit during holidays.
Behind the popularity of the dragon boat folk custom is the steady growth of related industries. As a large-scale dragon boat manufacturing base, Miluo (汨罗), Hunan (湖南), has gathered many dragon boat production enterprises. Before every Dragon Boat Festival, orders exceed supply, and the local dragon boat industry's annual output value remains stable at around 200 million yuan. From dragon boat manufacturing and event hosting to cultural tourism experiences and peripheral consumption, a complete dragon boat industrial chain is gradually maturing, broadening channels for local people to increase their income and achieve prosperity.
The small dragon boat has paddled through thousands of years of time. Between every boat and every oar lies the intergenerational continuation of ancient folk customs; within every beat of the drum lies the youthful vitality of traditional culture.
Return to TopGuangxi Launches Roadmap for Revitalizing County-Level General High Schools
Guangxi Daily (广西日报), Nanning (南宁), June 17 — (Reporter Luo Qi (罗琦)) Guangxi (广西) recently released the "Implementation Plan for the Revitalization Action Plan of County-Level General High Schools in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区县域普通高中振兴行动计划实施方案)." Focusing on the development shortcomings of county-level general high schools, the plan implements five major projects: capacity expansion, quality improvement, digital empowerment, teacher workforce development, and comprehensive reform. It aims to add approximately 250,000 high school seats in counties by 2030, achieving full coverage of educational communities and county-level high school support programs.
Chongqing Launches Pilot Program for Home-Based Elderly Care Beds
Chongqing Daily (重庆日报), Chongqing (重庆), June 17 — (Reporter Zhang Sha (张莎)) Recently, the Chongqing Civil Affairs Bureau (重庆市民政局) issued the "Implementation Plan for the Pilot Program of Home-Based Elderly Care Bed Construction in Chongqing (重庆市家庭养老床位建设试点实施方案)." By relying on professional service agencies, the plan will "bring" age-friendly renovations, smart equipment, and professional care services into the homes of the elderly, making elderly care services 触手可及 (chù shǒu kě jí - "touch hand reachable," meaning easily accessible or within reach). Eligible elderly individuals with disabilities or financial difficulties can now enjoy "institution-like" care services at home.
The plan specifies that service agencies must possess 24/7 response capabilities, establish service hotlines, and arrange dedicated personnel to receive requests, ensuring responses and processing within 15 minutes. Home environments will undergo age-friendly renovations in areas such as bedrooms and bathrooms, and be equipped with smart devices to achieve digital management through a "one bed, one code" system.
Jiangsu and Qinghai Collaborate to Build the "Qinghai Ramen Master" Labor Brand
Qinghai Daily (青海日报), Haidong (海东), June 17 — (Reporter Niu Yujiao (牛玉娇)) Jiangsu (江苏) and Qinghai (青海) have joined forces to build the "Qinghai Ramen Master (青海拉面师)" labor brand.
The two provinces are jointly conducting specialized training, inviting industry experts to use a "theory + practical operation + observation" model to provide instruction on ramen techniques, food safety, cost control, and brand marketing. They are also establishing a "master-apprentice pairing" mechanism to enhance the professional management capabilities of ramen masters.
Yunnan Breeds 50 New "Yun-Series" Landscape Rose Varieties
Yunnan Daily (云南日报), Kunming (昆明), June 17 — (Reporter Chen Yunfen (陈云芬)) After more than 10 years of dedicated research and multi-site regional adaptability testing, the Institute of Flowers of the Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences (云南省农业科学院花卉研究所) has successfully bred 50 new "Yun-series (云系)" landscape rose varieties with independent intellectual property rights, such as "Yunjing Nishang (云景霓裳)," "Gaoyuan Cuican (高原璀璨)," and "Manyuan Chun (满园春)," filling the gap in low-maintenance native landscape rose varieties in Yunnan Province (云南省). Verified through multi-regional introduction trials, these 50 new varieties are adapted to the vast majority of regional climates, are heat-tolerant, require minimal water and fertilizer management, possess strong resistance to black spot and powdery mildew, and have a long annual flowering period of 7 to 9 months.
Shaanxi Xi'an Hosts First Cultural Relic Archaeology Skills Competition
Shaanxi Daily (陕西日报), Xi'an (西安), June 17 — (Reporter Zhao Zhuoyi (赵茁轶)) Recently, the practical assessment of the first Cultural Relic Archaeology Skills Competition in Xi'an, Shaanxi (陕西西安), was held at the Xi'an Western Han Imperial Mausoleum Protection and Management Center (西安市西汉帝陵保护管理中心), with a total of 277 contestants registered. Participants competed in four categories: archaeological exploration, pottery relic restoration, metal relic restoration, and masonry relic restoration.
The competition's format was designed to fully align with national and provincial professional skill standards for the cultural relic industry. Each category adopted a comprehensive scoring model consisting of 20% theory and 80% practical operation. The theoretical assessment was conducted as a closed-book exam, while the practical assessment was scored on-site by a judging committee and recorded in its entirety.
Harbin, Heilongjiang Launches "Rider-Friendly Community" Bicycle Transfer Demonstration Point
Our Newspaper, Harbin (哈尔滨), June 17 — (Correspondent Wang Dong (王东)) Recently, the first "Rider-Friendly Community (骑手友好小区)" bicycle transfer demonstration point in Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江省) was officially put into use in a residential community in Pingfang District (平房区), Harbin (哈尔滨).
The community has a high concentration of residents and significant demand for food delivery. The Social Work Department of the Pingfang District Committee (平房区委社会工作部) listened to the demands of riders through forums and coordinated with property management to negotiate an optimized plan. Ten dedicated transfer bicycles were deployed, and the community simultaneously issued transfer management regulations. Property management signed agreements with multiple rider stations to co-build the facility, saving delivery time for riders, improving delivery efficiency, and ensuring the safety and order of the community.
Return to TopBy: 新华社记者 王 鹏摄影报道
Recently, in Helan County (贺兰县), Yinchuan City (银川市), Ningxia (宁夏), the first batch of goji berries at the foot of Helan Mountain (贺兰山) has entered the harvest season. Harvesters are seizing the favorable weather to gather fresh fruit in the fields where the branches are 硕果累累 (shuò guǒ léi léi - "large fruit piled up," describing an abundance of fruit or great achievements).
Return to TopBy: 安徽日报记者 袁中锋
As the Dragon Boat Festival (端午节) approaches, the "zongzi" (粽子) selling well in Qimen County (祁门县), Huangshan City (黄山市), Anhui Province (安徽省), are somewhat unique—they are "mini zongzi" that can be steeped and drunk, known as Qimen Zong-tea (祁门粽茶).
Walking into the workshop of a local Zong-tea production enterprise, workers are skillfully rushing to make the Zong-tea. Folding the bamboo leaves (箬叶), adding tea leaves, tucking the leaves, and tying the string—the movements are 一气呵成 (yī qì hē chéng - "one breath complete," done in one continuous, smooth motion), and miniature triangular Zong-tea pieces quickly take shape. Jiang Shuxia (江淑霞), the general manager of the enterprise, said: "Qimen County (祁门县) has abundant bamboo leaf resources, but most of them were lying idle. We thought of combining local bamboo leaves with Qimen Black Tea (祁门红茶) to revitalize local resources while innovating the form of tea products."
In recent years, thanks to novel creativity and excellent quality, Zong-tea has quickly opened up the market after its launch. "The Zong-tea has an exquisite appearance and cleverly echoes the cultural elements of the Dragon Boat Festival (端午节), making it particularly favored by young consumer groups and becoming a distinctive gift for the festival," Jiang Shuxia (江淑霞) noted. She explained that the production and sales of Zong-tea have distinct seasonal attributes; the enterprise has formed a stable operating model of "concentrated production from April to June and normalized sales throughout the year," with over 80% of annual sales concentrated before the Dragon Boat Festival (端午节).
"We are currently at the peak of the sales season, with a stable daily output of 13,000 units," Jiang Shuxia (江淑霞) introduced. "Based on current sales trends, it is estimated that the total sales volume of Zong-tea this year will exceed 1.3 million units, with sales revenue surpassing 6 million yuan."
The small Zong-tea has not only broken into a large market but has also become a "wealth-generating tea" that drives comprehensive rural revitalization. Every year during the Zong-tea production season, local tea enterprises absorb surrounding villagers for employment, with positions covering bamboo leaf picking, cleaning, wrapping, baking, packaging, and other links. Some villagers can earn up to 400 yuan per day, broadening the income channels for local residents. Currently, there are more than 10 Zong-tea production enterprises in Qimen County (祁门县), among which three are of a larger scale, with an annual sales output value of approximately 20 million yuan.
Return to TopBy: 本报通讯员 赵元君
At 8:00 a.m., the flow of traffic on the road began to thicken. In front of the outpatient building of Luancheng People's Hospital (栾城人民医院) in Luancheng District (栾城区), Shijiazhuang City (石家庄市), Hebei Province (河北省), a white six-rotor drone was standing by. Wang Kesong (王珂松), a staff member from the Central Sterile Supply Department (消毒供应室), loaded a temperature-controlled box containing specimens and medical instruments into the drone, waiting for this "Flash Delivery Hero" (闪送侠) to set off.
At a low-altitude economy operations service company 10 kilometers away, staff member Liu Jiangbo (刘江波) received the flight command and clicked his mouse. With a "buzz," the drone soared straight into the sky and disappeared from sight in the blink of an eye. Its destination was the Xiying Township Health Center (西营乡卫生院) in Luancheng District (栾城区), 12 kilometers away. A journey that used to take over 20 minutes by car now takes only 12 minutes via the "air corridor."
Luancheng District (栾城区) is going all out to build a normalized drone logistics network for its county-level medical community. With Luancheng People's Hospital (栾城人民医院) as the hub, it has formed a low-altitude medical logistics network, with five low-altitude flight routes covering seven township health centers across the district.
"The drone is also equipped with a temperature-controlled delivery box, with a temperature fluctuation of less than 1 degree Celsius per hour, so there is no need to worry when transporting blood products, test samples, and other materials," said Yang Qinghao (杨清昊), Vice President of Luancheng People's Hospital (栾城人民医院).
"We plan the flight routes in advance, and with the help of Beidou (北斗) technology, we can achieve centimeter-level precise scheduling," said Liu Jiangbo (刘江波). "There are emergency points every 3 kilometers along the route, and the drone body also contains an emergency parachute. In case of an unexpected situation, the intelligent system will trigger a landing mechanism to ensure a safe landing."
While speaking, another drone took off smoothly. Ten minutes later, it landed at the Douyu Central Health Center (窦妪中心卫生院) 7 kilometers away, delivering an urgently needed surgical kit.
Return to TopBy: 天津日报记者 韩 雯
On June 1, 2024, 10 organizations in Tianjin (天津) established a "Hotline Alliance" (热线联盟). Over the past two years, the membership has expanded to 17 organizations, covering livelihood sectors such as emergency assistance, legal aid, women's rights protection, and employee services. Seventeen originally independent hotlines have now achieved one-touch transfer. Citizens only need to make one phone call, and their requests can reach the corresponding functional department directly. When encountering issues that do not fall under the responsibility of a specific hotline, there is no need to hang up and redial; operators can simply click to transfer in the background, and the call is seamlessly switched to the appropriate functional hotline.
Zhu Zhanpeng (朱占鹏), Deputy Minister of the Data Information Department at the Tianjin (天津) Public Service Hotline Center (便民专线服务中心), has worked at the 12345 Hotline (12345热线) for nearly 10 years. "In the past, if citizens dialed the wrong number, we could only inform them verbally. Now, with direct transfers, the experience is completely different," said Zhu Zhanpeng (朱占鹏).
With the Social Governance Center (综治中心) providing a safety net, complex conflicts are "managed and resolved." Online transfers have solved the problem of "finding the right door," but requests involving multiple departments or historical legacy issues cannot be solved by phone calls alone. In these cases, the hotline is responsible for "receiving and transferring," while the Social Governance Center (综治中心) is responsible for "handling and implementing."
To ensure that the "Hotline Alliance" (热线联盟) not only "connects" but also "transfers smoothly," member organizations have established working mechanisms for consultation and notification, joint disposal, and follow-up feedback.
From 10 organizations to 17, the membership has grown, transfers have become smoother, and the troubles of the common people are being resolved faster. Over the past two years, what the "Hotline Alliance" (热线联盟) has solved are not abstract numbers, but concrete problems one by one. For the common people, making one less phone call and taking one less trip is a tangible sense of gain. They no longer need to worry about 奔走呼号 (bēn zǒu hū háo - "run about and shout," to rush about and appeal for help), as the system works to ensure that their needs are met efficiently.
Return to TopBy: 新华社记者 李明辉 潘 峰
The Cyber Security Bureau (网络安全保卫局) of the Ministry of Public Security (公安部) recently announced 10 typical cases of online rumors. Among them, the case involving six individuals—including Fu (付某), Deng (邓某某), and Huang (黄某某)—from Suzhou (宿州), Anhui (安徽), who fabricated rumors regarding "additional driving test items," has attracted significant attention.
Investigations revealed that in order to gain traffic and seek profit, the six individuals spread videos on internet platforms titled "Driving Test Interpretation," falsely claiming that new assessment items would be added to the local driving test in 2026, such as adding narrow-road U-turns to Subject II and simulated tunnels to Subject III. This caused panic among some local driving school students, leading to disruptions in market order, such as mass requests for refunds and a rush to secure enrollment spots. Currently, the individuals involved have been dealt with in accordance with the law. A relevant official from the Cyber Security Bureau (网络安全保卫局) of the Ministry of Public Security (公安部) stated that this case is a typical example of an online rumor that exploits information asymmetry to create anxiety.
Regarding this case, reporters have summarized the tactics used by these lawbreakers. The first step is to seize upon the public's anxious mindset. Obtaining a driver's license is not an easy task; upon seeing that assessment items are to be added, most people's immediate reaction is to rush to pass the exam before the new policy is implemented. Lawbreakers take this opportunity to 浑水摸鱼 (hún shuǐ mō yú - "fish in troubled waters," to take advantage of a chaotic situation for personal gain) to make money. Next, they confuse concepts. They misinterpret the two national standards—the "Business Conditions for Motor Vehicle Driver Training Institutions" (机动车驾驶员培训机构业务条件) and the "Technical Requirements for Motor Vehicle Driver Training Practice Grounds" (机动车驾驶员培训教练场技术要求)—which were revised and issued by the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局), as "driving test reforms." In reality, the two new national standards in the field of driver training are intended to regulate motor vehicle driver training institutions and improve the quality of training services and teaching levels; whereas the content of motor vehicle driver examinations should be formulated by public security departments, which regulate aspects such as examination content, passing standards, examination requirements, and examination supervision and management. The aforementioned two documents have nothing to do with the so-called "additional driving test items."
So, how should the public distinguish truth from falsehood when encountering such policy-related rumors? First, identify the official release channels. For example, information regarding adjustments to driving test policies is generally announced to the public through the official websites of public security organs and the Traffic Management 12123 (交管12123) application. Second, consult the original text of the policy. If there is a policy adjustment, the relevant regulations will be released publicly, and the public should compare them with current policies. Finally, consult official channels. If it is truly difficult to distinguish truth from falsehood, one can contact the public-facing windows of the relevant departments.
(According to Xinhua News Agency (新华社))
Return to TopBy: 福建日报记者 傅韬旭
At the Haitian Terminal (海天码头) in Xiamen City (厦门市), Fujian Province (福建省), 70 high-mast lights turn on precisely 10 minutes before sunset, casting an orange glow across the 2.5-kilometer coastline.
"The lighting time is precise and controllable, and the cost of manual operation and maintenance has dropped significantly," says Yang Qiyong (杨启勇), a facility administrator in the Engineering Department (工程部) at Haitian Terminal (海天码头). Having worked at this terminal for 13 years, he is well aware of the inconveniences of the past. Previously, the terminal required manual inspections of the coastline every half month, with staff manually adjusting each timer according to sunset times they looked up themselves. Today, the streetlights are equipped with latitude and longitude sensors that automatically retrieve sunrise and sunset data from the National Astronomical Observatories (国家天文台) every day, making the lighting time accurate to the minute.
At the end of May last year, Haitian Terminal (海天码头) completed the smart renovation of its 70 high-mast lights. A local technology company provided the solution, which not only optimized the lighting control functions but also deeply integrated this system with the terminal's production operating system. "In the past, streetlights wouldn't turn on when they should, or would stay on when they shouldn't, which affected operations," says Yang Qiyong (杨启勇). He notes that after achieving system integration, when a specific work area needs to load or unload containers, instructions are synchronized to the system to achieve smart lighting. For example, before a vehicle enters the area, all 12 lights in that zone turn on; once the vehicle leaves, it automatically switches back to an energy-saving mode of "8 lights on, 4 lights off."
How can ordinary streetlights be made smart? The key lies in the foundation of communication technology. "To achieve intelligent control of streetlights, it is necessary to realize high-quality, high-stability communication simultaneously with the power supply," explains a relevant person in charge at the technology company. This effort is not **守株待兔** (shǒu zhū dài tù - "guard stump wait rabbit," to rely on luck or wait idly for opportunities); rather, it is a proactive technological upgrade that ensures efficiency.
Return to TopBy: 四川日报记者 魏 冯 范芮菱
In summer, 1,259 "Love Freezers" (爱心冰柜) have begun operations at labor union service stations in cities such as Chengdu (成都), Panzhihua (攀枝花), and Nanchong (南充) in Sichuan Province (四川). The freezers are labeled with four characters—"Free to Take" (免费取用)—and are stocked with chilled mineral water. Food delivery riders, couriers, sanitation workers, construction workers, and others passing by can stop and help themselves for free.
This is a relay that has lasted for nine years. In the summer of 2017, at a hotpot restaurant on Gaoshengqiao East Road (高升桥东路) in Chengdu (成都), the owner Zhao Chunyan (赵春艳) and her husband Huang Ming (黄明) invited sanitation workers resting at their doorstep to come inside for tea. They then moved a small wooden table outside the shop, placed several bottles of mineral water on it, and set up a handwritten sign: "When you are out and about, if you are thirsty, please come and take a bottle, free of charge." From that point on, it remained there for years.
In the summer of 2022, the couple moved a freezer to the doorway and filled it with chilled mineral water. Since then, the water supply has not only failed to diminish but has instead piled up even more. Checking the surveillance footage, they saw young people who, after drinking the water, returned shortly after with a whole case to donate; they saw a woman who, after taking a bottle, slipped 50 yuan into a box nearby... That video received hundreds of thousands of likes online.
In July 2023, the "Love Freezer" (爱心冰柜) public welfare campaign was launched across Sichuan (四川), spreading the "Love Freezers" (爱心冰柜) from the streets of Chengdu (成都) to the entire province. This year, the number of locations has increased to 1,259, the first batch of 2 million bottles of mineral water is fully in place, and a dynamic replenishment mechanism has been established. Outdoor workers can use their mobile phones to search for the "Love Freezer Map" (爱心冰柜地图), making the nearest supply station clear at a glance.
From 1 to 1,259, the freezer is not large, yet it carries the kindness of a city. This is truly a case of 积少成多 (jī shǎo chéng duō - "accumulate little become much," small amounts gathered over time result in a large quantity).
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# Table of Contents
Preface
I. The Contemporary World Faces Severe and Complex Crisis Challenges
(I) Increasingly Severe Challenges Call for More Effective Governance
(II) The Law of the Jungle Seriously Impacts International Rule of Law
(III) Addressing Shortcomings in the Governance System is Imperative
(IV) The Voice of the Global South Needs to be Heard More
II. The Global Governance Initiative Provides an Answer for the Times to Solve Difficult Problems
(I) Upholding Sovereign Equality
(II) Observing International Rule of Law
(III) Practicing Multilateralism
(IV) Advocating People-Centered Approaches
(V) Focusing on Action-Orientation
III. China’s Contribution to Advancing the Cause of Global Governance
(I) Committed to Universal and Common Security
(II) Promoting Open Cooperation and Common Development
(III) Firmly Practicing True Multilateralism
(IV) Supporting the Global South in Playing a Greater Role
(V) Promoting Exchanges and Mutual Learning Among Civilizations
(VI) Providing More Public Goods to the International Community
IV. Leading the Direction of Change Toward a Bright Future
(I) Consolidating Broad Consensus on Improving Global Governance
(II) Embodying a Vision and Responsibility for the World
(III) Expanding the Practical Path of Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind
(IV) Opening Up New Horizons for Human Political Civilization
V. Moving Forward Together at a Critical Historical Juncture
(I) Planning for the World and for All Generations
(II) Firming Confidence and Overcoming Difficulties
(III) Uniting and Taking Action
Concluding Remarks
Preface
Global governance is a common cause concerning human well-being, and building a fair and reasonable global governance system is a shared vision that people of all countries strive for.
More than 80 years ago, the founding of the United Nations (联合国) established a multilateral cooperation platform for countries to handle international affairs through dialogue and consultation, established international rule-of-law norms, and pioneered a brand-new practice of global governance. After the end of the Cold War, the processes of world multi-polarization and economic globalization accelerated, and the concept of global governance based on coordination and cooperation increasingly took root in people's hearts. However, for some time, unilateralism, protectionism, and hegemonism have run rampant, and the deficits in peace, development, security, and trust have continued to expand. How to reform and improve global governance, solve difficult problems and challenges, and effectively play the core role of the United Nations (联合国) has become a major issue concerning the future and destiny of mankind.
China (中国) has always been an active participant, contributor, and builder of global governance. Since the new era, President Xi Jinping (习近平) has historically proposed the major concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind (人类命运共同体), advocated a global governance view of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits, advocated practicing true multilateralism, and promoted equal and orderly world multi-polarization and universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization. In 2025, at the critical historical node of the 80th anniversary of the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War (世界反法西斯战争) and the founding of the United Nations (联合国), President Xi Jinping (习近平) solemnly proposed the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议), providing a Chinese solution to answer the epochal question of "what kind of global governance system to build and how to reform and improve global governance."
Once proposed, the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议) was quickly supported and responded to by nearly 160 countries and international organizations, and more than 60 countries enthusiastically joined the "Group of Friends of Global Governance" (全球治理之友小组). The international community believes that the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议) has sent a clear signal of holding high the banner of multilateralism, gathering the power of unity, and pursuing a fair future. It conforms to the trend of the times toward the democratization of international relations, boosts the firm confidence of the international community in practicing multilateralism, provides a clear and feasible path and plan for improving global governance, and injects precious stability and positive energy into a turbulent world.
China (中国) proposed the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议) with the aim of promoting the construction of a more fair and reasonable global governance system. To implement the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议), the most fundamental thing is to firmly safeguard the authority and status of the United Nations (联合国), the most critical thing is for major powers to demonstrate responsibility, the most needed thing is for all countries to unite and cooperate, and the most urgent thing is to bridge the peace and development deficits. We must unswervingly safeguard the international system with the United Nations (联合国) at its core, the international order based on international law, and the basic norms of international relations based on the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章), rather than starting over.
In order to introduce China's (中国) concepts, initiatives, and actions on global governance, build broader consensus in the international community, more effectively respond to global challenges, and build a more fair and reasonable global governance system, the Chinese government (中国政府) hereby releases this white paper.
I. The Contemporary World Faces Severe and Complex Crisis Challenges
The era we live in is experiencing changes unseen in a century, and the cause of human peace and development still has a long way to go. The international system established after World War II (二战) has been severely impacted by multiple crises, and global governance is at a critical juncture where failure to advance means falling behind. The world needs to revitalize multilateralism, adhere to the rule of law, and improve governance efficiency more than ever before.
(I) Increasingly Severe Challenges Call for More Effective Governance
At present, the depth of changes in the international situation is rare in history, and the intensity of chaos is more prominent. International political and economic disputes have intensified, many contradictions have been exposed, and various "black swans" and "gray rhinos" have emerged one after another. The ship of human civilization has sailed into dangerous waters full of reefs and storms.
Geopolitical contradictions are intensifying, and armed conflicts are breaking out in many places. The Ukraine crisis (乌克兰危机) has entered its fifth year, the war in the Middle East (中东) has spilled over and expanded, and many hot-spot issues remain unresolved. The Global Peace Index has continued to deteriorate. In 2025, the number of armed conflicts hit a new high since the end of World War II (二战), with more than 50 countries directly involved in conflicts and wars. Global military spending has expanded sharply, militarism has resurfaced, nuclear proliferation and "nuclear sharing" have sounded alarms, and international security is at a fragile moment.
World economic fragmentation has intensified, and the development process has been seriously hindered. Economic globalization has encountered countercurrents. Building walls and barriers, "decoupling and breaking chains," and abusing tariffs have disrupted the operation of the world economy. The implementation of the United Nations (联合国) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2030年可持续发展议程) is seriously lagging behind, with nearly 80% of specific goals progressing slowly or even regressing. More than 830 million people worldwide are in a state of extreme poverty, 2.3 billion people are in a state of food insecurity, and the North-South divide and the gap between rich and poor continue to widen.
New challenges have followed one after another, and multiple crises have overlapped. Climate transition is facing difficulties, the digital divide continues to expand, the abuse of artificial intelligence has triggered security risks, food and energy security challenges have intensified, and non-traditional security threats such as terrorism, cyberattacks, transnational crime, and biosecurity have risen. The problems that human society needs to face together are more complex and diverse.
There is only one Earth in the universe, and mankind shares one home. Countries are not riding in more than 190 small boats, but are riding together in a big ship with a shared future. Only by working together and helping each other can we weather the storms of global challenges and sail toward a better future.
(II) The Law of the Jungle Seriously Impacts International Rule of Law
The United Nations (联合国) building, established on the ruins of the two world wars, has sheltered mankind from the wind and rain for peace and development, and the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章) has laid the institutional cornerstone for global governance. History can only move forward and not backward. The lessons of blood and fire must be deeply learned, and the recurrence of the law of the jungle must be avoided with all our might.
Unilateralism and hegemonism are deeply harmful, openly trampling on international law and the basic norms of international relations. Individual countries bully the small and the weak, and use force against sovereign states in an unbridled manner; they engage in "America First" (or similar national-priority policies) and double standards, challenging international justice for their own selfish interests; they piece together various small cliques and small circles, repeating the old script of inciting division and confrontation and dividing spheres of influence in the 21st century, becoming the biggest source of chaos in today's world.
Anti-globalization and protectionism are on the rise, and economic and trade issues are being politicized, instrumentalized, and weaponized. Some countries have provoked trade wars and technology wars, abused illegal unilateral sanctions and "long-arm jurisdiction," insisted on creating "small yards and high fences" and "parallel systems," generalized the concept of national security, and suppressed and contained the economic and technological development of other countries. A series of perverse acts violate the principles of the market economy, trample on the rules of free trade, and seriously undermine the international economic and trade order.
Standing at the crossroads of history, whether it is justice or the law of the jungle, openness and win-win or isolation and confrontation, international rule of law or power politics, mankind must make a responsible and correct choice.
(III) Addressing Shortcomings in the Governance System is Imperative
The United Nations (联合国) is the most universal, representative, and authoritative international organization, and the international system with the United Nations (联合国) at its core plays an irreplaceable and important role in global governance. However, with the development of the times and the evolution of the landscape, there are more and more places where the current global governance system is unadapted and mismatched, and the shortcomings and deficits are increasingly intensified:
Authority is challenged. Individual major powers ignore the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章), frequently withdraw from groups and tear up agreements, withdraw funds and cut off supplies, obstruct the passage of Security Council (安理会) resolutions, paralyze the dispute settlement mechanism of the World Trade Organization (世界贸易组织), and seriously impact the international order. The operation of multilateral mechanisms has become more difficult, and the foundation of trust in multilateral cooperation has been eroded.
Effectiveness needs to be improved urgently. Some countries refuse to fulfill their own responsibilities and obligations, and the situation where multilateral agendas are discussed without decision and decided without implementation has existed for a long time. The operational efficiency, emergency response capability, and work transparency of multilateral institutions such as the United Nations (联合国) need to be improved. Governance in emerging fields such as artificial intelligence, cyberspace, and outer space is absent.
Representation is seriously insufficient. In order to maintain their own hegemony and private interests, some countries have long hindered the reform process of the United Nations (联合国) and its agencies, resulting in serious lags in reforms such as the International Monetary Fund (国际货币基金组织) quotas and World Bank (世界银行) equity, and the representation and voice of the vast number of developing countries are not fully reflected.
Although the current governance system is not perfect, it does not need to be overthrown and rebuilt, nor does it need to start over. It is necessary to reform and improve with the times, solve the problems of mismatch and unadaptation, make up for governance shortcomings with a developmental attitude, and respond to the call of the times with progressive concepts.
(IV) The Voice of the Global South Needs to be Heard More
As an important force in seeking peace, pursuing development, and promoting cooperation, the collective rise of the Global South (全球南方) is the progress of mankind. To make the world stable and better, it is necessary to respond more to the demands of the South in international affairs and give full play to the role of the South.
The Global South (全球南方) is growing impressively. After World War II (二战), the national independence and liberation movements in Asia, Africa, and Latin America (亚非拉) surged, the world colonial system collapsed, and the number of United Nations (联合国) member states increased from 51 at the beginning of its founding to 193 now. Today, calculated by purchasing power parity, the proportion of the Global South (全球南方) in the world economy exceeds 60%, and its contribution rate to world economic growth reaches 80%, with multiple development centers formed in various regions. It is unsustainable for a few countries to monopolize international affairs, and the long-standing historical injustice must be corrected.
The Global South (全球南方) brings a new atmosphere to global governance. The BRICS (金砖国家) countries have achieved historic expansion, and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织) has become the regional international organization with the widest territory and the largest population, playing an active role in the construction and reform of the global governance system. The G20 (二十国集团) has become the main platform for global economic governance, with emerging economies accounting for more than half of its members. The "Group of 77 and China" (77国集团和中国) promotes fairness and justice and deepens South-South cooperation. Global South (全球南方) countries have hosted a series of multilateral summits, leaving a Southern imprint and making Southern contributions to global governance.
The era calls for a more inclusive, fair, and sustainable global governance model. The process of giving greater respect to the development rights, right to speak, and decision-making power of Global South (全球南方) countries in international affairs will surely be a historical process in which the global governance system becomes more vibrant, effective, and promising.
II. The Global Governance Initiative Provides an Answer for the Times to Solve Difficult Problems
The Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议) takes safeguarding the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章) and practicing the global governance view of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits as its basic guidelines. It proposes five core concepts: upholding sovereign equality, observing international rule of law, practicing multilateralism, advocating people-centered approaches, and focusing on action-orientation. It hits the crux and root causes of many crises and challenges, and provides a scientific guide for building a more fair and reasonable global governance system.
(I) Upholding Sovereign Equality
Sovereign equality is the basic principle clearly stated in the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章) and the most important norm for regulating relations between countries. Countries vary in size, national strength, and development, but they are all equal members of the international community. Their sovereignty and dignity must be respected, and they all have the right to participate, make decisions, and benefit equally in the process of global governance.
In dealing with relations between countries, we must put equal treatment at the forefront. Countries should conduct equal consultations in a spirit of mutual respect and properly manage contradictions and differences. Major powers should act like major powers, setting an example of equality, integrity, and cooperation, rather than pushing for hegemony, power politics, and bullying based on so-called "positions of strength." Deviating from the principle of sovereign equality, international relations will degenerate into power games, international law will lose its logical starting point, and the world will never have peace.
Sovereign equality is an inevitable requirement for uniting to meet challenges. Now, common interests, common challenges, and common responsibilities have closely linked the future and destiny of all countries. Only by ensuring that all countries participate in governance equally, rather than a few developed countries monopolizing the right to speak, can all parties build basic political trust in unity and cooperation. Only then will the rules and decisions produced have broad recognition and solid legitimacy, and only then will a powerful synergy of "discussing things together" be formed.
Equality and inclusiveness are the historical trend of the evolution of the governance system. Pluralistic coexistence is the original face of human society, and multipolar coexistence is the requirement for the development of the international landscape. Improving the representativeness, inclusiveness, and universality of the global governance system is the trend of the times, and equality of rights, opportunities, and rules is the aspiration of the people. The set of power politics and bullying that goes against the historical trend is destined to fail.
(II) Observing International Rule of Law
International rule of law is the fundamental guarantee for global governance. Only a global governance system based on the rule of law can truly provide a fair and just development environment for all countries, ensure the balance between rights and obligations, and promote the evolution of the international order in a more fair and reasonable direction.
To strictly implement the international rule of law, the foundation lies in abiding by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章). The various confrontations and injustices in today's world are not because the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章) is outdated, but because it has not been effectively implemented. The Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章) clarifies the purposes and principles of "maintaining international peace and security," "promoting international cooperation," "peaceful settlement of international disputes," and "refraining from the threat or use of force in international relations," establishes the basic norms of international relations, and builds an important cornerstone for the stability of the post-war international order, which must be unswervingly safeguarded.
To strictly implement the international rule of law, the key lies in defending its impartiality and seriousness. Only by ensuring the equal and unified application of international law, rather than using it when it suits and discarding it when it does not, can we truly distinguish right from wrong and promote peace and development. All countries are stakeholders in the international rule of law. If there were no international rule of law, those who were at the table yesterday might be on the menu tomorrow. Major powers are the key force in promoting the international rule of law, and they must take the lead in following the rules and practicing the rule of law. They should not place their own interests above international law, and even less should they impose their own domestic laws and gang rules on others.
To strictly implement the international rule of law, it is necessary to improve the formulation of rules in emerging fields. Human society is developing with each passing day, and the rules of global governance also need to keep up. In new frontiers such as the deep sea, polar regions, outer space, and cyberspace, some are the common heritage of mankind, and some are the frontiers of future development. The shortcomings of rule gaps and governance absence need to be filled urgently. We should uphold the principles of peace, sovereignty, universality, and co-governance to ensure that the development and utilization of new frontiers have laws to follow and become an increment for cooperation among all parties, rather than a battlefield for mutual games. Artificial intelligence governance must not only hold the bottom line of security and ethics but also adhere to openness, sharing, and intelligent equality to ensure that intelligence is used for good and truly benefits mankind.
(III) Practicing Multilateralism
Multilateralism was born for the cause of peace and development, and multilateral mechanisms are of great significance for solving global problems. No country can achieve development outside the global governance system, and no country can win the future without international cooperation. Multilateralism is not a multiple-choice question, but the only viable path. 孤掌难鸣 (gū zhǎng nán míng - "one palm is hard to clap," meaning it is difficult to achieve success without cooperation or support).
Multilateralism was born for the cause of peace and development, and multilateral mechanisms are of great significance for resolving global issues. No country can achieve development while remaining outside the global governance system, nor can any country win the future by isolating itself from international cooperation. Multilateralism is not a multiple-choice question; it is the only viable path.
Adhere to extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits. The essence of multilateralism is that international affairs should be discussed and handled by all, and the destiny of the world should be grasped by all countries together. We must pool wisdom through consultation, gather strength through joint contribution, and benefit everyone through shared benefits. We must clearly oppose all forms of unilateralism, as well as "hegemony by one country," "governance by a few," and bloc politics. Artificially creating isolation will only push the world into an abyss of opposition and confrontation.
Resolutely safeguard the core status of the United Nations (联合国). The United Nations (联合国) is the primary platform for practicing multilateralism and advancing global governance. The leading status of the United Nations (联合国) must be upheld and cannot be shaken; its role can only be strengthened, not weakened. All countries should revisit the original aspirations of the founding of the United Nations (联合国), promote the revitalization of its authority and vitality in the new situation, and give full play to its central role in coordinating actions and jointly addressing challenges.
Firmly promote multilateral dialogue, consultation, and cooperation. Facing complex global challenges, no single country can stay aloof or solve all problems alone. We must build consensus through dialogue, resolve differences through consultation, and promote win-win outcomes through cooperation, striving to expand the convergence of common interests among all parties. We must give full play to the constructive role of various global and regional multilateral mechanisms, mobilize the resources and forces of governments, international organizations, non-governmental organizations, and other parties to make global governance more coordinated and efficient.
(IV) Advocate People-Centeredness
Human well-being is the core concern of global governance, and the people of all countries are the fundamental participants and beneficiaries of global governance. Only by aiming for the gains of the people and continuously providing confidence and stable expectations for the public can the global governance system gain broad support and operate effectively.
Promote common development to bring a greater sense of gain to the people of all countries. Development concerns the lives and dignity of the people; this is a contest between hope and disappointment. World prosperity and stability cannot be built on the basis of a widening gap between the rich and the poor. We must place development back at the center of the international agenda, mobilize global development resources, and accelerate the implementation of the United Nations (联合国) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (联合国2030年可持续发展议程). We should bridge the North-South divide as soon as possible, help developing countries enhance their capacity for independent development, and let the fruits of development benefit the people of all countries more and more fairly.
Address common challenges to bring a greater sense of security to the people of all countries. In today's world, the security of all countries is interconnected. All parties should establish a common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable security concept, and coordinate efforts to address both traditional and non-traditional security threats. Facing risks and challenges such as climate change, public health, and cybersecurity, we should let the general public truly feel that all countries are taking action and that unity can overcome all difficulties.
Promote mutual understanding and affinity to bring a greater sense of happiness to the people of all countries. Civilizations are colorful due to exchanges and enriched by mutual learning. We must transcend civilizational estrangement through exchanges, transcend civilizational conflicts through mutual learning, and transcend civilizational superiority through inclusiveness. We must strengthen people-to-people exchanges and personnel visits, strive to eliminate ideological barriers between different countries and groups, make the maintenance of common interests a shared belief, and let different civilizations shine together and achieve each other.
(V) Focus on Action-Orientation
The vitality of global governance stems from practice, the key lies in action, and the fundamental measure is effectiveness. A beautiful vision must be realized through hard work. The international community must anchor common goals, base itself on solving problems, and take concerted actions.
Adhere to the combination of overall advancement and key breakthroughs. We must coordinate the advancement of all agendas of global governance, synergistically resolve governance deficits, and prevent the fragmentation of the governance system; we must also focus on the prominent problems faced by all countries, especially the vast number of developing countries, and achieve tangible governance results and gains in areas such as poverty reduction, people's livelihoods, and the digital divide.
Adhere to the combination of addressing symptoms and root causes. Based on the present, we must solve urgent global problems through pragmatic action plans and improve the efficiency of responding to major public crises and providing international public goods. Looking to the long term, we must explore ways to fundamentally resolve chronic diseases, improve the lagging situation of global governance system reform, and make it conform to the changed world politics and economy.
Adhere to the combination of North-South cooperation and South-South cooperation. The North and the South should complement each other's advantages and move toward each other. Developed countries should earnestly fulfill their international obligations, honor their commitments to development assistance and climate financing, and should not evade international responsibilities under any pretext. Developing countries should unite and strengthen themselves, improve South-South cooperation mechanisms, enhance their capacity for coordinated development and collective voice, and inject inexhaustible power into improving global governance.
III. China's Contribution to Advancing the Cause of Global Governance
As a responsible major country, China holds high the banner of building a community with a shared future for mankind (人类命运共同体), takes the lead in practicing true multilateralism, remains unswervingly a builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, a defender of the international order, and a provider of public goods, and actively promotes the construction of a more just and reasonable global governance system.
(I) Committed to Universal and Common Security
Humanity is an indivisible security community. As the major country with the best record on peace and security issues, China has written the commitment to peaceful development into its Constitution (宪法), advocates a common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable security concept, proposes and practices the Global Security Initiative (全球安全倡议), and contributes strength to achieving lasting world peace and security.
Firmly safeguard world peace under the framework of the United Nations (联合国). China faithfully fulfills its duties and missions as a permanent member of the Security Council (安理会), firmly supports the United Nations (联合国) in playing a core role in international affairs, and supports the Security Council (安理会) in playing a primary role in peace and security issues. Actively participating in United Nations (联合国) peacekeeping operations, China is the second-largest contributor to the United Nations (联合国) peacekeeping budget and the largest troop contributor among the permanent members of the Security Council (安理会). To date, it has dispatched over 50,000 peacekeeping personnel, participated in 29 United Nations (联合国) peacekeeping operations authorized by the Security Council (安理会), formed an 8,000-strong peacekeeping standby force, and was the first to form a complete standing peacekeeping police unit. On September 3, 2025, as a major victor in World War II (第二次世界大战), China grandly commemorated the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War (中国人民抗日战争暨世界反法西斯战争), stood with the international community to defend the fruits of victory in World War II (第二次世界大战), promoted a correct view of World War II (第二次世界大战) history, and sounded the clarion call of the era to safeguard peace and ensure that justice prevails.
Safeguard global strategic stability. China pursues a defensive national defense policy, adheres to the policy of no-first-use of nuclear weapons, adheres to a self-defensive nuclear strategy, and firmly safeguards the international nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation system. China promoted the leaders of the five nuclear-weapon states to jointly issue a joint statement on preventing nuclear war and avoiding an arms race, reaffirmed the concept that "a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought," emphasized avoiding military confrontation and preventing an arms race, and issued a common voice for safeguarding global strategic stability and reducing the risk of nuclear conflict. China proposes a fair, cooperative, balanced, and effective arms control concept and supports the international arms control system with the United Nations (联合国) at its core.
Pioneer successful practices for resolving hotspot issues with Chinese characteristics. China advocates adhering to non-interference in internal affairs, political settlement, objectivity and impartiality, and addressing both symptoms and root causes, providing a new option for constructively resolving hotspot issues. On the Ukraine crisis (乌克兰危机), based on the "four shoulds" as the fundamental guideline, China released the document "China's Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis" (关于政治解决乌克兰危机的中国立场), and together with Brazil (巴西) and other Global South (全球南方) countries, initiated the "Friends of Peace" group for the Ukraine crisis (乌克兰危机) to pool efforts and accumulate conditions for ending the war and holding peace talks. On the Palestinian-Israeli issue (巴以问题), China promoted the Security Council (安理会) to pass the first Gaza ceasefire resolution after the outbreak of the new round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict (巴以冲突), provided emergency humanitarian aid to Gaza, clearly supported the "two-state solution," and promoted a comprehensive, just, and lasting settlement of the Palestinian question (巴勒斯坦问题). China facilitated the historic reconciliation and restoration of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia (沙特) and Iran (伊朗), and hosted 14 Palestinian (巴勒斯坦) factions in China for reconciliation dialogue and the signing of the "Beijing Declaration" (北京宣言), with the Middle East (中东) "reconciliation wave" being deeply welcomed. Regarding maintaining and promoting peace and stability in the Middle East (中东), China put forward a four-point proposal: adhering to the principle of peaceful coexistence, adhering to the principle of national sovereignty, adhering to the principle of international rule of law, and adhering to the principle of coordinating development and security. Together with Pakistan (巴基斯坦), China issued a five-point initiative on restoring peace and stability in the Gulf (海湾) and Middle East (中东) regions. China advocates an Asian security model of shared security, seeking common ground while shelving differences, and dialogue and consultation, facilitated the signing of a ceasefire agreement by relevant parties in the Northern Myanmar (缅北) conflict, and played a constructive role in the Cambodia-Thailand (柬泰) border dispute and the Afghanistan-Pakistan (阿巴) conflict. China proposed the "Outlook on Peace and Development in the Horn of Africa" (非洲之角和平发展构想) to support regional countries in addressing security challenges.
Build a solid barrier for non-traditional security. China continues to support the construction of the Global Public Security Cooperation Forum (Lianyungang) (全球公共安全合作论坛（连云港）), build consensus among all parties, and promote global public security governance. China advocates comprehensive measures and addressing both symptoms and root causes, promotes international and regional counter-terrorism cooperation, implemented the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织) Comprehensive Center for Countering Security Threats and Challenges, its Information Security Center, the Center for Combating Transnational Organized Crime, and the Anti-Drug Center, and actively helps developing countries strengthen their counter-terrorism capacity building. China resolutely combats transnational drug crimes, leads the pragmatic development of anti-drug cooperation in the Greater Mekong Subregion (大湄公河次区域), the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织), and BRICS (金砖国家), and is the first in the world to regulate fentanyl-related substances as a class. China effectively combats cross-border crimes such as online gambling and telecom fraud, accelerates the construction of an international alliance to combat telecom network fraud, and jointly destroyed a large number of overseas fraud dens with countries such as Thailand (泰国), Myanmar (缅甸), and Laos (老挝). Under the framework of the G20 (二十国集团), China proposed the International Food Security Cooperation Initiative, promoted the adoption of the "BRICS (金砖国家) Food Security Cooperation Strategy," joined the "Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty," and provided emergency humanitarian food aid to several countries suffering from food shortages or disasters.
(II) Promote Open Cooperation and Common Development
China's development cannot be separated from the world, and the world's prosperity also needs China. As the largest developing country, China always places its own development in the coordinate system of human development, adheres to open win-win results, advocates inclusive and universal benefits, provides new opportunities for the world with Chinese-style modernization (中国式现代化), and promotes the development trend of modernization in all countries.
Promote the construction of an open world economy. China adheres to promoting trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, has become the main trading partner of more than 160 countries and regions, and has signed 24 free trade agreements with 31 countries and regions. China promoted the conclusion and high-level implementation of the "Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement" (区域全面经济伙伴关系协定), signed the 3.0 version upgrade protocol of the China-ASEAN (中国—东盟) Free Trade Area, actively promoted accession to the "Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership" (全面与进步跨太平洋伙伴关系协定) and the "Digital Economy Partnership Agreement" (数字经济伙伴关系协定), and expanded its network of high-standard free trade zones facing the world. China firmly safeguards the rules-based multilateral trading system with the World Trade Organization (世界贸易组织) at its core, comprehensively and deeply participates in the reform of the World Trade Organization (世界贸易组织), and announced that it will not seek new special and differential treatment in current and future negotiations of the World Trade Organization (世界贸易组织).
Bring broader opportunities to the world through a higher level of opening up. China deeply promotes institutional opening up, comprehensively abolished foreign investment access restrictions in the manufacturing sector, continuously reduced the negative list for foreign investment access, and created a first-class market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized business environment. China has orderly expanded autonomous opening up and unilateral opening up, successively established 23 pilot free trade zones (自贸试验区), realized the full-island customs clearance operation of the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港), actively built open cooperation platforms such as the China International Import Expo (中国国际进口博览会), the China International Fair for Trade in Services (中国国际服务贸易交易会), the China International Consumer Products Expo (中国国际消费品博览会), and the China International Supply Chain Expo (中国国际供应链促进博览会), and implemented zero tariffs for all least developed countries and African (非洲) countries that have established diplomatic relations with China. During China's "14th Five-Year Plan" (十四五) period, imports of goods and services exceeded 15 trillion US dollars. In the next five years, China's gross domestic product is expected to grow from 140 trillion yuan to 170 trillion yuan, and the potential of its super-large market is constantly being released.
High-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" (一带一路) goes deeper and more solid. China promotes the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" (一带一路) to enter a new stage of high-quality development, has built the widest and largest international cooperation platform, and has broadened the "development belt" that benefits the world and the "road to happiness" that benefits all parties. Policy communication gathers synergy; China has signed cooperation documents with more than 150 countries and 30 international organizations, successfully held three "Belt and Road" (一带一路) Forums for International Cooperation, established more than 30 special cooperation mechanisms in key areas such as economy, trade, energy, and infrastructure, and established the Forum Secretariat. Facility connectivity has achieved leapfrog development; a large number of flagship projects such as cross-border highways, railways, ports, and aviation hubs have achieved new breakthroughs. The interconnection architecture of "six corridors, six roads, and multiple countries and ports" has basically taken shape, and the China-Europe Railway Express (中欧班列) has cumulatively operated over 130,000 trains. Trade connectivity has advanced against the trend; institutional docking in areas such as cross-border payment, digital certification, and smart customs has been deepened. In 2025, China's trade in goods with partner countries reached 23.6 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.3%, and its share of China's total foreign trade increased to 51.9%. Financial integration is becoming increasingly diversified; the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (亚洲基础设施投资银行) and the Silk Road Fund (丝路基金) have provided investment and financing support for hundreds of projects, established a RMB financing window, and from 2021 to the first half of 2025, China's two-way investment with partner countries cumulatively exceeded 240 billion US dollars. People-to-people bonds are closer; iconic livelihood brands such as the Luban Workshop (鲁班工坊) and Juncao technology (菌草技术) continue to advance, and exchanges and cooperation in culture, tourism, education, media, and youth are blooming like a hundred flowers.
The Global Development Initiative (全球发展倡议) has landed and taken effect. With the goal of accelerating the implementation of the United Nations (联合国) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (联合国2030年可持续发展议程), China promotes global development toward a new stage of balance, coordination, and inclusiveness, achieving more robust, green, and healthy global development. The consensus on development priority continues to gather; more than 130 countries and international organizations support and participate in the initiative, and more than 80 countries have joined the "Group of Friends of the Global Development Initiative" (全球发展倡议之友小组). China hosted the High-level Dialogue on Global Development, held the Global Shared Development Action Forum, and promoted all parties to re-commit to and re-start the Sustainable Development Goals (可持续发展目标). Cooperation mechanisms are becoming increasingly perfect; China has signed more than 80 cooperation documents on implementing the initiative with developing countries, international organizations, and financial institutions, built more than 30 cooperation mechanisms in the eight key areas of the initiative, fully covering all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (可持续发展目标), established the Global Development Promotion Center, established the Global Development Knowledge Network, and released the "Global Development Report" (全球发展报告). China established the China-UN Global South-South Development Cooperation Center with the United Nations (联合国), actively discussed with the United Nations Development Programme (联合国开发计划署) the establishment of the UNDP Global Sustainable Development Center, and took the initiative to establish the Global Development Institute. Development cooperation resources are constantly gathering; China mobilized more than 23 billion US dollars in various development funds, created the Global Development and South-South Cooperation Fund and increased its capital to 4 billion US dollars, and launched the third phase of the China-FAO South-South Cooperation Trust Fund. Pragmatic cooperation has achieved remarkable results; China established the Global Development Initiative Project Pool, carried out more than 1,800 cooperation projects, completed 80,000 person-times of training under the framework of the initiative, and helped developing countries enhance their capacity for independent and sustainable development.
(III) Firmly Practice True Multilateralism
No matter how the international situation changes, China always firmly safeguards the international system with the United Nations (联合国) at its core, the international order based on international law, and the basic norms of international relations based on the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章). China advocates and practices true multilateralism and firmly acts as an active leader and powerful promoter of multilateral cooperation.
China firmly upholds the authority and status of the United Nations (联合国). As a founding member of the United Nations (联合国) and the first country to sign the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章), China has always used concrete actions to safeguard the core role of the United Nations (联合国) in international affairs. The proportion of the UN regular budget covered by China increased from less than 1% in 2000 to over 20% in 2025, making it the second-largest contributor to the UN regular budget. China pays its assessed contributions in full and on time, supporting the effective operation of UN agencies. China established the China-UN Peace and Development Fund (中国—联合国和平与发展基金) and has continued to renew and increase its investment, providing strong support for major UN agendas. China supports the United Nations (联合国) in advancing the implementation of the Pact for the Future (《未来契约》) and enhancing quality and efficiency through the "UN 80th Anniversary Reform Initiative" (“联合国80周年改革议则”) to revitalize its vitality. China actively supports the United Nations (联合国) and its specialized agencies in establishing new institutions in China, such as the UNESCO International STEM Education Institute (联合国教科文组织国际STEM教育研究所) in Shanghai (上海) and the IMF Shanghai Regional Center (国际货币基金组织上海区域中心). China sends outstanding talent to the United Nations (联合国), and the proportion of Chinese staff in various UN agencies and related international organizations has steadily increased. China successfully hosted the Global Women's Summit (全球妇女峰会), accelerating the new process of comprehensive development for women. (See Sidebar 1)
China upholds the authority of international rule of law and promotes progress in international rule of law. China has joined almost all universal intergovernmental international organizations and participated in over 600 international conventions and amendments, fulfilling its treaty obligations in good faith and effectively honoring its international commitments. China held a grand commemorative meeting for the 70th anniversary of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence (和平共处五项原则), firmly defending the basic norms of international relations and the fundamental principles of international law. China firmly supports the work of UN judicial bodies and actively participates in international judicial activities. China actively carries out international law enforcement cooperation and continuously increases efforts in repatriation and extradition regarding anti-corruption, overseas fugitive pursuit, and asset recovery. China initiated and promoted the establishment of the International Organization for Mediation (国际调解院), filling a gap in the field of international mediation mechanisms. (See Sidebar 2)
China participates in and leads G20 (二十国集团) cooperation. China promotes the G20 (二十国集团) to lead international cooperation in the spirit of equal consultation and mutual benefit, building this primary forum for developed and developing countries to consult on international economic affairs and conduct international economic cooperation. China hosted the 2016 Hangzhou Summit (2016年杭州峰会), the most fruitful in G20 (二十国集团) history, and issued a landmark leaders' communiqué. For the first time, development issues were placed at the center of macroeconomic policy coordination. China approved multiple consensus documents such as the "G20 Guiding Principles for Global Investment Policymaking" (《二十国集团全球投资指导原则》) and the "G20 Blueprint on Innovative Growth" (《二十国集团创新增长蓝图》), leaving a distinct Chinese imprint on the development process of the G20 (二十国集团). At the G20 (二十国集团) Rio Summit (里约峰会), China systematically expounded major propositions on global economic, financial, trade, digital, and ecological governance, promoting the construction of a cooperative, stable, open, innovative, and eco-friendly world economy. China was the first to publicly support the African Union (非盟) in joining the G20 (二十国集团), promoting the representation of developing countries.
China promotes the construction of an Asia-Pacific community. The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) (亚太经济合作组织) is the highest-level, broadest-ranging, and most influential economic cooperation mechanism in the Asia-Pacific region. China actively advocates upholding the spirit of the Asia-Pacific family and is committed to building an Asia-Pacific community with a shared future characterized by openness, inclusiveness, innovative growth, connectivity, and win-win cooperation. Driven by China, the 2001 APEC Shanghai Meeting (亚太经合组织上海会议) adopted the "Shanghai Accord" (《上海共识》), giving a new start to Asia-Pacific cooperation in the new century. The 2014 APEC Beijing Meeting (亚太经合组织北京会议) reached multiple important outcomes, including the "Beijing Roadmap" (《北京纲领》), where all parties committed to building an Asia-Pacific partnership oriented toward the future, outlining a vision for long-term regional development and common prosperity. In 2026, China will serve as the host of APEC (亚太经合组织) for the third time, setting "Building an Asia-Pacific Community, Promoting Common Prosperity" as the theme, focusing on the three priority areas of "openness, innovation, and cooperation," joining hands with all parties to revisit the original aspiration of Asia-Pacific cooperation, and pushing the construction of the Asia-Pacific community from goals to actions and from blueprints to reality.
(IV) Supporting the Global South in Playing a Greater Role
China has always been a member of the Global South, always keeping the Global South in its heart and rooted in the Global South. China upholds the principles of sincerity, real results, amity, and good faith and the correct view of righteousness and benefit to strengthen solidarity and cooperation with developing countries, firmly safeguarding the common interests of the Global South in international affairs, and leading and promoting the Global South to seek strength through unity.
China promotes the high-quality development of "Big BRICS Cooperation" (大金砖合作). As the first phalanx of the Global South, BRICS (金砖国家) countries are committed to promoting world economic growth, improving global economic governance, and promoting the democratization of international relations. China actively promotes the expansion and strengthening of BRICS (金砖国家) cooperation, strengthens the construction of BRICS (金砖国家) mechanisms with the times, and continuously expands the influence of BRICS (金砖国家) mechanisms. Together with other BRICS (金砖国家) members, China established the New Development Bank (新开发银行) and the Contingent Reserve Arrangement (应急储备安排), becoming an emerging force in the international financial system and a gold-standard brand for Global South cooperation. The 2017 BRICS Xiamen Summit (金砖国家领导人厦门会晤) reached more than 60 important outcomes, forming a "three-wheel drive" pattern of political security, economic and financial trade, and people-to-people exchanges, and pioneered the "BRICS+" (金砖+) cooperation model. The 2022 BRICS "China Year" (金砖“中国年”) issued the "Beijing Declaration" (《北京宣言》), starting the BRICS (金砖国家) expansion process. China, working with relevant parties, promoted the historic expansion of BRICS (金砖国家), which is an important milestone in the history of BRICS (金砖国家) development and a landmark event in the evolution of the international landscape. China promotes the construction of a peaceful BRICS (和平金砖), innovative BRICS (创新金砖), green BRICS (绿色金砖), just BRICS (公正金砖), and humanistic BRICS (人文金砖), supporting more Global South countries to join the BRICS (金砖国家) cause in the forms of full members, partner countries, or "BRICS+" (金砖+), making BRICS (金砖国家) the main channel for Global South solidarity and cooperation and a vanguard force for global governance reform. (See Sidebar 3)
China promotes the development and growth of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) (上海合作组织). The SCO (上海合作组织) is the first international organization named after a Chinese city, co-founded by China, and headquartered in China. China promotes the "Shanghai Spirit" (上海精神) of mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality, consultation, respect for diverse civilizations, and seeking common development, and promotes the construction of a closer SCO (上海合作组织) community with a shared future. With the joint efforts of member states, the SCO (上海合作组织) has built an "SCO Family" (上合大家庭) involving 27 countries across Asia, Europe, and Africa, with a total economic volume of nearly 30 trillion US dollars, conducting cooperation in more than 50 fields, and becoming an important force in promoting world peace and development and safeguarding international fairness and justice. The 2025 SCO Tianjin Summit (上海合作组织天津峰会) formulated a development strategy for the next 10 years, and leaders of member states witnessed the unveiling and implementation of the "Four Security Centers" (四个安全中心), and made a political decision to establish the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Development Bank (上海合作组织开发银行). China decided to establish three major cooperation platforms for energy, green industry, and digital economy, as well as three major cooperation centers for scientific and technological innovation, higher education, and vocational education, continuously implementing the high-quality development action plan for economic and trade cooperation facing the SCO (上海合作组织) family, pushing the SCO (上海合作组织) into a new stage of high-quality development that is more united, more focused on collaboration, more vibrant, and more capable.
China promotes a more balanced and effective global governance architecture. China advocates that the representation of the international financial architecture should be more reasonable and better reflect the reality of the world economic landscape. According to the timetable and roadmap agreed upon by all parties, China conducts World Bank (世界银行) equity reviews and promotes the adjustment of IMF (国际货币基金组织) quota shares to bridge the "democratic deficit" in global financial governance as soon as possible. China supports the reform of the UN Security Council (联合国安理会), insisting that the correct direction of reform is to increase the representation of developing countries. The urgent task is to correct the historical injustice suffered by Africa and make special arrangements for prioritizing African demands. Through mechanisms such as the Non-Aligned Movement (不结盟运动) and the Group of 77 (七十七国集团), China maintains communication and coordination with the vast number of Global South partners, actively upholds justice in important international occasions such as the UN General Assembly (联合国大会), jointly safeguards international fairness and justice, and defends legitimate rights and interests.
China helps the Global South move toward modernization together. China proposed and promoted the Global South Open and Inclusive Cooperation Initiative (全球南方开放包容合作倡议), implemented eight measures to support Global South cooperation, and promoted the Global South to work together to be a stable force for maintaining peace, a backbone force for open development, a constructive force for global governance, and a promoting force for mutual learning among civilizations. The FOCAC Beijing Summit (中非合作论坛北京峰会) announced that China's bilateral relations with all African countries that have diplomatic ties with China have been upgraded to the level of strategic relations, and the overall positioning of China-Africa relations has been upgraded to an all-weather China-Africa community with a shared future in the new era, working together to advance the "Six Modernizations" (六个现代化) and jointly implement the "Ten Partnership Actions" (十大伙伴行动). The China-Arab States Summit (中国—阿拉伯国家峰会) decided to make every effort to build a China-Arab community with a shared future in the new era and carry out the "Eight Major Common Actions" (八大共同行动) for China-Arab practical cooperation. China has established a comprehensive cooperative partnership of equality, mutual benefit, and common development with Latin American and Caribbean countries, established the China-CELAC Forum (中国—拉共体论坛), and joined hands to launch the "Five Major Projects" (五大工程) of solidarity, development, civilization, peace, and people-to-people bonds. China upholds the "Four Full Respects" (四个充分尊重) in carrying out friendly cooperation with Pacific Island countries, building "Seven Major Cooperation Platforms" (七大合作平台), and supporting island countries in accelerating the realization of autonomous and sustainable development.
(V) Promoting Exchanges and Mutual Learning Among Civilizations
Facing the greatest reality of world civilizational diversity and the urgent need to transcend the clash of civilizations, China proposed and promoted the implementation of the Global Civilization Initiative (全球文明倡议), promoted the common values of humanity, and strove to create a new situation of people-to-people exchanges, cultural integration, and heart-to-heart communication among countries, jointly promoting the development and progress of human civilization.
China advocates global civilization dialogue. China upholds the civilizational view of equality, mutual learning, dialogue, and inclusiveness, promoting the harmonious coexistence and beauty of different civilizations. On June 7, 2024, China promoted the 78th UN General Assembly (第78届联合国大会) to adopt a resolution by consensus, designating June 10 of each year as the "International Day for Dialogue among Civilizations" (文明对话国际日), and carried out rich and colorful themed activities in New York (纽约), Geneva (日内瓦), and other UN locations and many countries. China convened the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations (亚洲文明对话大会) and the Global Civilization Dialogue Ministerial Meeting (全球文明对话部长级会议), built multi-level international platforms such as the World Conference on Classics (世界古典学大会), the Liangzhu Forum (良渚论坛), and the Alliance for Cultural Heritage Conservation in Asia (亚洲文化遗产保护联盟), signed cooperation agreements in the fields of culture, cultural relics, and tourism with hundreds of countries, deepened cooperation in joint archaeology, world heritage protection, and mutual translation of classic works, and promoted global civilization dialogue with practical actions to care for the cultural treasures of all humanity. The CPC and World Political Parties High-level Dialogue (中国共产党与世界政党高层对话会) and the CPC and World Political Parties Leaders' Summit (中国共产党与世界政党领导人峰会) promoted the mutual learning between the new form of human civilization—Chinese-style modernization—and other civilizations around the world, continuously enriching the garden of world civilizations and making new contributions to humanity's exploration of modernization paths. (See Sidebar 4)
China promotes the development and progress of the human rights cause. China advocates safeguarding human rights with security, promoting human rights with development, and advancing human rights with cooperation, pushing global human rights governance toward a more fair, just, reasonable, and inclusive direction. China has joined or ratified 29 international human rights instruments and played a constructive role in the formulation of many important international human rights instruments such as the "Declaration on the Right to Development" (《发展权利宣言》) and the "Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action" (《维也纳宣言和行动纲领》). China has served as a member of the UN Human Rights Council (联合国人权理事会) six times, making it one of the countries with the most elections and the longest tenure. China promoted the UN Human Rights Council (联合国人权理事会) to adopt resolutions such as "The contribution of development to the enjoyment of all human rights," "The negative impact of the legacies of colonialism on the enjoyment of human rights," "Promoting and protecting economic, social and cultural rights within the context of addressing inequalities," and "Promoting the enjoyment of all human rights by all through barrier-free construction."
China promotes people-to-people exchanges and friendship. China promotes various forms of non-governmental diplomacy, city diplomacy, and public diplomacy, holds years of people-to-people exchanges, tourism years, and education years with many countries, established more than 3,000 pairs of sister-city (province/state) relations with more than 150 countries, and actively builds bridges for people-to-people exchanges. China continues to optimize policies to facilitate personnel exchanges, has implemented unilateral visa-free policies for 50 countries around the world, has fully mutual visa-free policies with 29 countries, and the number of countries applicable to the 240-hour transit visa-free policy has expanded to 55, with the number of applicable entry ports increasing to 65. In 2025, 30.08 million foreigners entered China visa-free, accounting for 73.1% of inbound foreigners, a year-on-year increase of 49.5%. Sports are a bond for enhancing people's friendship. China successfully hosted the Beijing Winter Olympics (北京冬奥会), Chengdu Universiade (成都大运会), Hangzhou Asian Games (杭州亚运会), and Harbin Asian Winter Games (哈尔滨亚冬会), practicing the Olympic motto of "Faster, Higher, Stronger—Together" (更快、更高、更强——更团结). Youth are the future of people-to-people friendship. China proposed and steadily implemented the "5 years 50,000" initiative (5年5万倡议) and the "3 years 10,000, Europe doubling" initiative (3年1万，欧洲翻番倡议), held the China-Africa Youth Festival (中非青年大联欢) and the "Chinese Bridge" summer camp for young students (青年学生“汉语桥”夏令营), planting the flowers of friendship in the hearts of the younger generation.
(VI) Providing More Public Goods to the International Community
Facing endless global challenges, the global governance system must keep pace with the times, find solutions to old problems, and fill gaps in rules in new fields. China demonstrates the responsibility of a major country that practices what it preaches, actively creates international public goods, and contributes new plans for global governance.
China firmly leads global climate governance. China firmly upholds and promotes the implementation of the "United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change" (《联合国气候变化框架公约》) and its "Paris Agreement" (《巴黎协定》), adheres to the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, and promotes the construction of a fair, reasonable, and win-win global climate governance system. In 2020, China solemnly declared at the UN General Assembly (联合国大会) that China aims to peak carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and strive to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060. In 2025, at the UN Climate Change Summit (联合国气候变化峰会), China announced a new round of nationally determined contributions, including that by 2035, net greenhouse gas emissions across the economy will decrease by 7%–10% compared to the peak, striving to do better, the proportion of non-fossil energy in total energy consumption will reach more than 30%, as well as goals for forest stock volume and the construction of the carbon emission trading market. China initiated the establishment of the "BASIC" countries (基础四国) and the Ministerial Meeting on Climate Action (气候行动部长级会议) to build consensus among all parties and help developing countries improve their ability to cope with climate change through South-South cooperation. As of the end of October 2025, China has signed 55 cooperation documents with 43 developing countries, cumulatively implemented more than 300 capacity-building projects, and provided and mobilized more than 177 billion yuan in project funds since 2016. (See Sidebar 5)
China promotes the development of artificial intelligence (AI) for good and for the benefit of all. China proposed the Global AI Governance Initiative (全球人工智能治理倡议), advocated adhering to a people-centered approach and AI for good, supported the United Nations (联合国) in playing the role of the main channel, and promoted the formation of a global AI governance system with broad consensus, so that AI can benefit all humanity. China advocates strengthening international cooperation and assistance for developing countries, bridging the intelligence gap, promoting the UN General Assembly (联合国大会) to adopt a resolution on strengthening international cooperation in AI capacity building, proposing and implementing the "AI Capacity Building Inclusive Plan" (《人工智能能力建设普惠计划》), initiating the establishment of the Group of Friends of International Cooperation on AI Capacity Building (人工智能能力建设国际合作之友小组), building the "Digital South" (数字南方) brand of the global development project pool, and holding multiple capacity-building seminars and themed dialogues. China proposed the establishment of the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (世界人工智能合作组织), proposed the "Artificial Intelligence Global Governance Action Plan" (《人工智能全球治理行动计划》) and the "AI+" International Cooperation Initiative (人工智能+国际合作倡议), contributing Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to AI development and governance. China attaches great importance to the prevention of risks in the military application of AI, advocating that all countries should adopt a cautious and responsible attitude when researching, developing, and using relevant technologies to ensure that relevant weapon systems are always under human control and to prevent an AI arms race.
Promote the benevolent and inclusive development of artificial intelligence (AI). China has proposed the Global AI Governance Initiative (全球人工智能治理倡议), advocating for a people-centered approach and AI for good. It supports the United Nations (联合国) in playing a primary role, pushing for the formation of a global AI governance system with broad consensus, so that AI can benefit all of humanity. China advocates for strengthening international cooperation and assistance for developing countries, bridging the intelligence divide, and promoting the UN General Assembly (联大) to adopt resolutions on strengthening international cooperation in AI capacity building. China has proposed and implemented the "AI Capacity Building Inclusive Plan" (人工智能能力建设普惠计划), initiated the establishment of the Group of Friends of International Cooperation on AI Capacity Building, created the "Digital South" (数字南方) brand for the global development project pool, and held multiple capacity-building seminars and thematic dialogues. China has proposed the establishment of a World AI Cooperation Organization, put forward the "Global AI Governance Action Plan" (人工智能全球治理行动计划) and the "AI+" (人工智能+) international cooperation initiative, contributing Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to AI development and governance. China attaches great importance to the risk prevention of AI military applications, advocating that all countries should adopt a cautious and responsible attitude when researching, developing, and using relevant technologies, ensuring that relevant weapon systems remain under human control at all times to prevent an AI arms race.
Contribute Chinese strength to maintaining global public health security. China actively participates in global health affairs, carries out health exchanges and cooperation through multiple channels and at multiple levels, vigorously provides international assistance in the health sector, and actively participates in major international health operations such as combating the Ebola epidemic and the COVID-19 pandemic. It strives to bridge the "immunity gap" and "health deficit," advocating for working together to build a global community of health for all. China has signed health cooperation agreements with more than 160 countries and international organizations, and has initiated and participated in 9 international and regional health cooperation mechanisms, such as China-Africa, China-Arab, and China-ASEAN (中国—东盟). China has dispatched over 30,000 medical personnel to 77 countries and regions, treating 300 million patients. It has carried out free medical services such as the "Brightness Action" (光明行), "Love Action" (爱心行), and "Smile Action" (微笑行), and implemented the "New Era Shennong Tasting Herbs" (新时代神农尝百草) action. China supports the World Health Organization (世界卫生组织) in playing a central coordinating role in global health governance, and deeply participates in and leads important agendas such as the revision of the International Health Regulations (国际卫生条例), the negotiation of the Pandemic Agreement (大流行协定), the global health governance architecture, and the reform of the World Health Organization (世界卫生组织) governance.
Actively lead global biodiversity governance. China upholds the philosophy that "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" (绿水青山就是金山银山), unswervingly follows the path of ecological priority and green development, and is a participant, contributor, and leader in global ecological civilization construction. As the presidency of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (生物多样性公约), China released the "Kunming Declaration" (昆明宣言), leading to the historic achievement of the "Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework" (昆明—蒙特利尔全球生物多样性框架), anchoring the direction and drawing a blueprint for global biodiversity protection until 2030 and even longer. China took the lead in initiating the "Kunming-Montreal Framework" (昆蒙框架) implementation initiative, took the lead in contributing 1.5 billion RMB to establish the Kunming Biodiversity Fund (昆明生物多样性基金), and has currently supported 31 projects covering 45 developing countries, providing continuous momentum for the implementation of the framework. China advocates for the establishment of the Belt and Road (一带一路) Green Development International Coalition, continuously deepens bilateral and multilateral dialogues and exchanges, and promotes fruitful results in "South-South cooperation" (南南合作) for biodiversity protection. Since 2019, China has become the largest donor to the core budget of the Convention on Biological Diversity (生物多样性公约) and its protocols, as well as the largest developing country donor to the Global Environment Facility (全球环境基金).
Promote the improvement of governance rules for new domains. China promotes the reform of the global internet governance system, advocating for the four principles of respecting cyber sovereignty, maintaining peace and security, promoting openness and cooperation, and building good order. Since 2014, China has held the World Internet Conference (世界互联网大会) for twelve consecutive years, proposed the "Global Data Security Initiative" (全球数据安全倡议) and the "Global Initiative on Cross-Border Data Flow Cooperation" (全球数据跨境流动合作倡议), supported the establishment of the World Data Organization (世界数据组织) in Beijing (北京), supported the United Nations (联合国) as the main channel to promote global cyberspace and digital governance, and worked together to build a community with a shared future in cyberspace. China actively promotes the process of global ocean governance and pushed for the conclusion and first-batch signing of the BBNJ Agreement (海洋生物多样性协定). China has become an observer to the Arctic Council (北极理事会), advocates for building the "Silk Road on Ice" (冰上丝绸之路), and promotes the international community to jointly protect and sustainably use Antarctic marine living resources. China is committed to the lasting peace and security of outer space, firmly maintains the international order in outer space based on the 1967 Outer Space Treaty (外空条约), opposes an arms race in outer space, supports the United Nations (联合国) in playing the role of the main platform, and safeguards the common rights and interests of all countries in the peaceful use of outer space.
IV. Leading the Direction of Change, Moving Toward a Bright Future
The reason why the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议) has been able to quickly receive the welcome and support of nearly 160 countries and international organizations, and why China's concepts and actions are increasingly resonating with and receiving responses from the international community, lies in the fact that it grasps the era and leads the era, is rooted in China and benefits the world, is based on the present and opens up the future, and contributes wisdom and strength to the cause of human civilization's progress.
(I) Consolidating Broad Consensus on Improving Global Governance
China has proposed a series of new concepts and propositions that have both value orientation and practical direction, responding to the universal demands of the international community and addressing the most urgent problems in global governance.
Extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits are the common aspiration. The world is so big and there are so many problems; what kind of global governance system is good for the world and for the people of all countries? China upholds the concept that global affairs should be discussed by everyone, the governance system should be built by everyone, and development achievements should be shared by everyone. It has identified the root causes of problems, represents the common voice of the vast majority of countries, and has drawn the largest concentric circle that conforms to the common interests of all countries in the world.
An equal and orderly multipolar world and inclusive economic globalization are the trend. China advocates that all countries should have a place in global governance and play their due roles; it advocates for making the cake of the world economy bigger and sharing it well, so that the fresh air and warm sunshine of economic globalization can penetrate the dark house of protectionism and benefit every country and every nation, truly fitting the trend of the times and the wishes of the people.
True multilateralism is the only way forward. Global governance is grand yet specific, and the Chinese solution is comprehensive yet clear. In a nutshell, it is to advocate and practice true multilateralism. Practice has repeatedly proven that only when the concept of multilateralism is well practiced and multilateral coordination and cooperation are powerful and effective can global governance be advanced and human well-being be guaranteed. Human development cannot be separated from multilateralism, and world progress cannot be separated from multilateralism.
The common values of all humanity are the universal guide. There are more than 8 billion people in the world, more than 200 countries and regions, more than 2,500 ethnic groups, and various religions. How to respect diversity and differences and gather the strengths of different systems, different civilizations, and different countries is crucial to the success or failure of global governance. China promotes the common values of all humanity—peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy, and freedom—which are compatible and integrated with the core concepts of solidarity, coexistence, and win-win cooperation advocated by civilizations of all countries, laying a value foundation for working together to improve global governance.
(II) Reflecting a Vision and Responsibility for the World
China's global governance concepts and initiatives demonstrate responsibility in practicing the original mission of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), uphold integrity and innovation in carrying forward the fine traditions of New China's diplomacy, and draw strength from inheriting the excellent traditional Chinese culture, reflecting the unity of the times, advancement, and practicality.
Stemming from the world sentiment of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党). Since its founding 105 years ago, the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) has always taken seeking progress for humanity and great harmony for the world as its own responsibility. This determines that the lofty goal of China's participation in global governance is to strive to turn the aspirations of the Chinese people and the people of all countries for a better life into reality. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) emphasized "promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind" and "implementing the Global Development Initiative (全球发展倡议), Global Security Initiative (全球安全倡议), Global Civilization Initiative (全球文明倡议), and Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议)," providing clear guidance for China and other countries to work together to promote the reform and construction of the global governance system.
Carrying forward the fine traditions of New China's diplomacy. As early as the 1950s, Comrade Mao Zedong (毛泽东) pointed out that China should make greater contributions to humanity. New China's diplomacy firmly pursues an independent foreign policy of peace, has successively proposed policies, guidelines, and ideas such as the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence (和平共处五项原则), the division of the "Three Worlds" (三个世界), and the establishment of a new international political and economic order, and has actively spoken up for developing countries. For more than 70 years, New China's diplomacy has remained true to its original aspiration of defending fairness and justice, and its mission of promoting human progress has remained fresh, providing a source of strength for China to participate in and lead global governance in the new era.
Based on the profound accumulation of Chinese civilization. In the 5,000-plus years of civilization development, the Chinese nation has always pursued and inherited the firm concepts of peace, harmony, and concord. Since ancient times, it has held the lofty ideal of "the world as one community" (天下大同), the governance thinking of "great wisdom in governance" (大智治制), the spiritual pursuit of "helping each other in the same boat" (和衷共济), the deep sentiment that "the people are the foundation of the state" (民为邦本), and the practical spirit of "unity of knowledge and action" (知行合一). These crystallizations of wisdom have undergone creative transformation and innovative development under new historical conditions, providing civilizational inspiration that transcends time and space for solving global problems.
(III) Expanding the Practical Path of Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind
More than a decade ago, President Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed the major concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind, aiming to promote the building of a better world and create a better life for the people of all countries. Over the past decade, under the banner of building a community with a shared future for mankind, a series of Chinese initiatives and actions have faced various risks and challenges, continuously enriching the practice of global governance.
Facing the widening North-South divide and the serious lag in the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (联合国2030年可持续发展议程), China proposed the Global Development Initiative (全球发展倡议), aiming to promote the cause of common development. Facing the complex international and regional situation and security governance problems, especially the fact that some individual countries seek their own absolute security at the expense of other countries' security, China proposed the Global Security Initiative (全球安全倡议), aiming to bridge the peace deficit and break the security dilemma. Facing the rampant "clash of civilizations" (文明冲突论) and "systemic confrontation" (制度对抗论) theories, and the fact that some countries provoke value-based opposition, China proposed the Global Civilization Initiative (全球文明倡议), aiming to promote exchanges and mutual learning between different civilizations. Facing the impact on the United Nations (联合国) and multilateralism, and the continuous expansion of the governance deficit, China proposed the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议), aiming to build a more just and reasonable global governance system, extending and expanding the first three global initiatives from the level of improving governance mechanisms.
As a systematic Chinese solution, the four global initiatives have different focuses but run in parallel, building a systematic and complete action framework from different dimensions, forming an organic whole of promoting prosperity through development, ensuring stability through security, increasing mutual trust through civilization, and seeking justice through governance. The four global initiatives all point to a world of lasting peace, universal security, common prosperity, openness and inclusiveness, and cleanliness and beauty, becoming an important pillar for building a community with a shared future for mankind.
(IV) Opening Up a New Realm of Human Political Civilization
Looking back at history, humanity has experienced bloody hot wars and cold wars, but has also achieved amazing development and huge progress, moving forward while overcoming one challenge after another. Today's world is facing a wider and deeper transformation, and where to go depends on the choices of each country. China has proposed a series of new concepts and plans such as the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议), which has deepened the understanding of the laws of human social development and promoted the development and progress of human political civilization.
Breaking through the old order and framework of "center-periphery." A world where a few countries dominate and the majority are subordinate, where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, is not a good world. Whether it is the so-called "hegemonic stability theory" (霸权稳定论) or "Western-centrism" (西方中心论), or "neoliberalism" (新自由主义) and "democratic peace theory" (民主和平论), what they have brought to the world is disunity and unfairness, and what they have left in many regions is turmoil and chaos. China firmly stands on the right side of history, is committed to promoting the democratization of international relations, and lets developing countries truly become equal members of the international community and masters of their own destiny.
Transcending the wrong logic that "might is right." The old thinking of hegemonism and power politics cannot adapt to the new reality of a multipolar world. Engaging in bullying and wielding the big stick to coerce and blackmail has opened Pandora's box of returning to the law of the jungle. China firmly stands on the side of fairness and justice, has always been a pillar of stability in the changing and chaotic world, clearly advocates for defending international rule of law, never allows whoever has the hardest fist to have the final say, and has gathered international consensus that justice is needed, not hegemony.
Abandoning the zero-sum thinking of "winner-takes-all." Blocking others' paths will not allow oneself to go further; blowing out others' lamps will burn one's own beard. Engaging in protectionism is no different from "putting out a fire with firewood" (抱薪救火 - bào xīn jiù huǒ - "carry firewood save fire," to adopt a wrong method that aggravates the problem), and seeking absolute security will eventually backfire. China firmly stands on the side of win-win cooperation, pursues harmony and coexistence and "helping others to succeed while succeeding oneself" (立己达人 - lì jǐ dá rén - "establish self reach others," to achieve one's own success while helping others achieve theirs) with practical actions, advocates that governance achievements should be shared by everyone, does not let any country fall behind, and lets the "big family" of the international community all become "winners."
V. Moving Forward Together at a Critical Moment in Historical Evolution
Today's world has entered a new period of turbulence and change, and humanity is again facing the choice between peace or war, dialogue or confrontation, win-win or zero-sum. It is encouraging that with the broad support of the international community, the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议) is increasingly becoming a practice in which all parties actively participate. A great cause will not be accomplished overnight; implementing the initiative requires all parties not to be hindered by wind and rain, not to be trapped by disputes, and to work together to build a more just and reasonable global governance system.
(I) Planning for the World, Planning for All Generations
Global governance concerns the common and long-term interests of the people of all countries in the world, and its essence is to seek justice, not to make deals. China calls on all countries to keep the future of humanity in mind, to keep the well-being of the people in mind, to effectively put the initiative into action, and to build a long-term achievement that benefits the ages and the people.
In the "global village" (地球村), all countries are closely linked. A country's own interests can only be better realized when they are in the same direction and frequency as the common interests of all countries. "Country first" (本国优先) will eventually degenerate into "country alone" (本国独行), and harming others for one's own benefit will inevitably harm others and oneself. Countries must have a grand pattern of "sharing the same boat on the same globe" (同球共济 - tóng qiú gòng jì - "same globe together help," to work together in solidarity during difficult times). Participating in global governance should transcend the perspective of interest-based orientation, transcend estrangement and conflict with a broad mind, care for the destiny of humanity with a great sentiment, work together to build a common home, and prevent the "tragedy of the commons" (公地悲剧).
Global governance concerns setting rules and managing for the long term. It requires upholding the concept of intergenerational equity and taking into account both the present and the future. We must neither "eat the ancestors' food and cut off the descendants' path" (吃祖宗饭、断子孙路 - chī zǔ zōng fàn, duàn zǐ sūn lù - "eat ancestor meal, cut descendant road," to squander resources and leave nothing for future generations), nor push the problems that this generation should solve to the next generation. The baton of history is already in our hands, and the topic of "where global governance is going" is already before us. Our generation must provide an answer worthy of the times, come up with great wisdom that looks to the long term, strive to build a more just, reasonable, stable, and effective global governance system, and hand over a more peaceful, prosperous, and beautiful world to our descendants.
(II) Firming Confidence and Facing Difficulties
Building a more just and reasonable global governance system is a feasible and achievable beautiful goal, and it is also a historical process. China believes that as long as all parties establish a firm and indomitable will and do not abandon the effort of "accumulating small amounts to make a large sum" (铢积寸累 - zhū jī cùn lěi - "penny accumulate inch accumulate," to make steady progress through small efforts), they will certainly be able to build the vision into reality.
At present, a multipolar world is coming head-on. The process of democratization and rule of law in international relations is unstoppable. It is a historical inevitability that human society moves from confrontation to cooperation, from imbalance to equilibrium, and from estrangement to coexistence. With the progress of the times and the awakening of the people, power politics and "small circle governance" (小圈子治理) are increasingly losing their soil. As long as we hold high the torch of multilateralism, the cause of global governance will certainly be able to penetrate the haze and mist and reach the bright shore.
Today's world is intertwined with changes and chaos. Moving from chaos to order is not an easy task. Overcoming contradictions and differences to reach a governance consensus requires arduous efforts. "Although the road is long, one will reach it if one keeps walking; although the task is difficult, it will be accomplished if one does it" (路虽远，行则将至；事虽难，做则必成). We must be strivers and fighters who are "self-improving" (自强不息 - zì qiáng bù xī - "self strengthen not rest," to constantly strive for self-improvement), not hesitant or slackers who wait and watch, and continuously push forward the great cause of reforming and improving global governance.
(III) Uniting and Taking Action
Global governance pursues the common well-being of the international community and relies on the joint efforts of the international community. China advocates that all countries should unite and cooperate, rise to the occasion, and turn the vision and blueprint of the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议) into a roadmap and timetable for all countries to work together.
Regarding the different interest demands of various countries, the key is to be adept at 求同存异 (qiú tóng cún yì - "seek common ground, reserve differences," to focus on shared interests while setting aside disagreements) and 聚同化异 (jù tóng huà yì - "gather commonalities, resolve differences," to build consensus and bridge gaps), finding the greatest common divisor for peaceful development and win-win cooperation. It is essential to unite under one system, one order, and one set of rules, and to fortify the United Nations (联合国) as the core mechanism for practicing multilateralism and the primary platform for global governance. Unity is strength. Only through unity and cooperation can we accomplish tasks, achieve good results, and handle major issues, and only then can we transform the propositions of global governance initiatives into the broadest consensus and the most powerful actions.
The implementation of global governance initiatives cannot be separated from major countries assuming their responsibilities, from multilateral mechanisms playing their roles, or from the international community putting them into practice. We must distinguish between the primary and secondary, the urgent and the slow, push for the cooling down of hot-spot issues, and prioritize strengthening communication and cooperation in areas where governance urgency is prominent and governance deficits are large, such as international financial architecture reform, artificial intelligence, cyberspace, climate change, trade, and outer space. We must actively build consensus, lock in outcomes, and strive for early harvests.
Concluding Remarks
This is an era full of challenges and hopes, and a better future requires generation after generation to strive for it. This is an initiative that carries ideals and is 脚踏实地 (jiǎo tà shí dì - "foot tread solid earth," to be realistic and pragmatic), and more perfect global governance requires moving forward step by step.
The Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议) stands at the forefront of the times, injecting momentum into the promotion of building a community with a shared future for mankind, providing a compass for the giant ship of history to sail through wind and waves, and serving as another important international public good contributed by China (中国) to the world.
Looking to the future, as the international community increasingly understands and participates in this major initiative, the progressive forces that uphold multilateralism will surely continue to grow, and the grand goal of building a more just and reasonable global governance system will surely become a reality step by step.
China (中国) is willing to work with all countries to adhere to the principles of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits, promote the implementation of the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议), make the path of multilateralism wider and wider, let the sunshine of fairness and justice shine upon the earth, allow the fruits of global governance to benefit the world, and join hands to open up a bright future of shared human destiny and civilizational progress!
(Note 1) "Four Shoulds": The sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries should be respected; the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章) should be observed; the legitimate security concerns of all countries should be taken seriously; and all efforts conducive to the peaceful settlement of crises should be supported.
(Note 2) "Four Security Centers": The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织) Comprehensive Center for Countering Security Threats and Challenges and its branches: the Center for Combating Transnational Organized Crime, the Information Security Center, and the Drug Control Center.
(Note 3) "Six Modernizations": Just and reasonable modernization, open and win-win modernization, people-centered modernization, diverse and inclusive modernization, eco-friendly modernization, and peaceful and secure modernization.
(Note 4) "Ten Partnership Actions": Partnership Action for Civilizational Mutual Learning, Partnership Action for Trade Prosperity, Partnership Action for Industrial and Supply Chain Cooperation, Partnership Action for Connectivity, Partnership Action for Development Cooperation, Partnership Action for Health, Partnership Action for Rural Revitalization and Public Benefit, Partnership Action for People-to-People Exchanges, Partnership Action for Green Development, and Partnership Action for Building Security Together.
(Note 5) "Eight Common Actions": Common Action for Supporting Development, Common Action for Food Security, Common Action for Health, Common Action for Green Innovation, Common Action for Energy Security, Common Action for Civilizational Dialogue, Common Action for Youth Talent Development, and Common Action for Security and Stability.
(Note 6) "Four Full Respects": Fully respect the sovereignty and independence of island countries and uphold the equality of all countries regardless of size; fully respect the will of island countries and uphold extensive consultation, joint contribution, shared benefits, and win-win results; fully respect the national cultural traditions of island countries and uphold 和而不同 (hé ér bù tóng - "harmony without uniformity," to maintain harmony while respecting differences) and 美美与共 (měi měi yǔ gòng - "cherish the beauty of each, share the beauty of all," to appreciate the beauty of different cultures and share in that beauty); fully respect the unity and self-improvement of island countries and support them in implementing the "2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent" (《蓝色太平洋2050战略》), contributing to the building of a peaceful, harmonious, secure, inclusive, and prosperous Blue Pacific.
(Note 7) "Seven Cooperation Platforms": Platforms for emergency supplies, climate change, poverty reduction and development cooperation, disaster prevention and mitigation, Juncao technology, agricultural cooperation, and police cooperation.
(Note 8) In November 2023, President Xi Jinping (习近平) announced during his visit to the United States (美国) that China (中国) is willing to invite 50,000 American teenagers to China (中国) for exchanges and study over the next five years.
(Note 9) In May 2024, President Xi Jinping (习近平) announced during his visit to France (法国) that he would promote the number of French students studying in China (中国) to exceed 10,000 in the next three years and double the scale of European youth exchanges in China (中国).
(Note 10) All are foreign medical aid projects: "Bright Journey" (光明行) conducts free cataract surgery clinics, "Love Journey" (爱心行) conducts free heart surgery clinics, and "Smile Journey" (微笑行) conducts free cleft lip and palate surgery clinics.
(Xinhua News Agency (新华社), Beijing (北京), June 17)
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# Table of Contents
Preface
I. The Contemporary World Faces Severe and Complex Crisis Challenges
(I) Increasingly Severe Challenges Call for More Effective Governance
(II) The Law of the Jungle Seriously Impacts International Rule of Law
(III) Addressing Shortcomings in the Governance System is Imperative
(IV) The Voice of the Global South Needs to be Heard More
II. The Global Governance Initiative Provides an Answer for the Times to Solve Difficult Problems
(I) Upholding Sovereign Equality
(II) Observing International Rule of Law
(III) Practicing Multilateralism
(IV) Advocating a People-Centered Approach
(V) Focusing on Action-Orientation
III. China's Contribution to Advancing the Cause of Global Governance
(I) Committed to Universal and Common Security
(II) Promoting Open Cooperation and Common Development
(III) Firmly Practicing True Multilateralism
(IV) Supporting the Global South in Playing a Greater Role
(V) Promoting Exchanges and Mutual Learning Among Civilizations
(VI) Providing More Public Goods for the International Community
IV. Leading the Direction of Change and Moving Toward a Bright Future
(I) Consolidating Broad Consensus on Improving Global Governance
(II) Reflecting a Sense of Responsibility with the World in Mind
(III) Expanding the Practical Path of Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind
(IV) Opening Up New Horizons for Human Political Civilization
V. Working Together at a Critical Juncture of Historical Evolution
(I) Planning for the World and for All Generations
(II) Firming Confidence and Meeting Challenges Head-On
(III) Uniting and Taking Action
Concluding Remarks
Preface
Global governance is a common cause concerning human well-being, and building a fair and reasonable global governance system is a shared vision that the people of all countries strive for.
More than 80 years ago, the founding of the United Nations (联合国) established a multilateral cooperation platform for countries to handle international affairs through dialogue and consultation, established international rule of law, and initiated a new practice of global governance. After the end of the Cold War (冷战), the processes of world multi-polarization and economic globalization accelerated, and the concept of global governance based on coordination and cooperation has increasingly taken root in people's hearts. However, for some time, unilateralism, protectionism, and hegemonism have been rampant, and the deficits in peace, development, security, and trust have continued to expand. How to reform and improve global governance, solve difficult problems and challenges, and effectively play the core role of the United Nations (联合国) has become a major issue concerning the future and destiny of mankind.
China (中国) has always been an active participant, contributor, and builder of global governance. Since the new era, President Xi Jinping (习近平) has historically put forward the major concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind (人类命运共同体), advocated a global governance view of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits, advocated practicing true multilateralism, and promoted equal and orderly world multi-polarization and universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization. In 2025, at the critical historical node of the 80th anniversary of the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War (世界反法西斯战争) and the founding of the United Nations (联合国), President Xi Jinping (习近平) solemnly proposed the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议), providing a Chinese solution for answering the question of the times: "What kind of global governance system should be built, and how to reform and improve global governance?"
Once proposed, the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议) was quickly supported and responded to by nearly 160 countries and international organizations, and more than 60 countries enthusiastically joined the "Group of Friends of Global Governance" (全球治理之友小组). The international community believes that the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议) has sent a clear signal of holding high the banner of multilateralism, gathering the power of unity, and pursuing a fair future. It conforms to the trend of the times toward the democratization of international relations, boosts the firm confidence of the international community in practicing multilateralism, provides a clear and feasible path and plan for improving global governance, and injects valuable stability and positive energy into a turbulent world.
China (中国) proposed the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议) with the aim of promoting the construction of a more fair and reasonable global governance system. To implement the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议), the most fundamental thing is to firmly safeguard the authority and status of the United Nations (联合国), the most critical thing is for major powers to demonstrate their responsibility, the most needed thing is for all countries to unite and cooperate, and the most urgent thing is to make up for the peace and development deficits. We must unswervingly safeguard the international system with the United Nations (联合国) at its core, the international order based on international law, and the basic norms of international relations based on the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章), rather than starting from scratch.
In order to introduce China's (中国) concepts, initiatives, and actions on global governance, build broader consensus in the international community, more effectively respond to global challenges, and build a more fair and reasonable global governance system, the Chinese government (中国政府) hereby releases this white paper.
I. The Contemporary World Faces Severe and Complex Crisis Challenges
The era we live in is experiencing changes unseen in a century, and the cause of human peace and development has a long way to go. The international system established after World War II (二战) has been severely impacted by multiple crises. Global governance is at a critical juncture where it will either advance or retreat. The world needs to revitalize multilateralism, adhere to rules and the rule of law, and improve governance efficiency more than ever before.
(I) Increasingly Severe Challenges Call for More Effective Governance
At present, the international situation is undergoing rare and profound changes, and the intensity of chaos is more prominent. International political and economic disputes are intensifying, many contradictions have been exposed, and various "black swans" and "gray rhinos" are emerging one after another. The ship of human civilization has sailed into dangerous waters full of reefs and storms.
Geopolitical contradictions are intensifying, and armed conflicts are breaking out in multiple places. The Ukraine crisis (乌克兰危机) has entered its fifth year, the war in the Middle East (中东) has spilled over and expanded, and many hot-spot issues remain unresolved. The Global Peace Index (全球和平指数) continues to deteriorate. In 2025, the number of armed conflicts reached a new high since the end of World War II (二战), with more than 50 countries directly involved in conflict and war. Global military spending has expanded sharply, militarism has resurfaced, nuclear proliferation and "nuclear sharing" have sounded alarms, and international security is at a fragile moment.
World economic fragmentation is intensifying, and the development process is seriously hindered. Economic globalization has encountered countercurrents. Building walls and barriers, "decoupling and breaking chains," and abusing tariffs have disrupted the operation of the world economy. The implementation of the United Nations (联合国) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2030年可持续发展议程) is seriously lagging behind. Nearly 80% of the specific goals are progressing slowly or even regressing. More than 830 million people worldwide are in a state of extreme poverty, 2.3 billion people are in a state of food insecurity, and the North-South divide and the gap between rich and poor continue to widen.
New challenges follow one after another, and multiple crises are intertwined and superimposed. Climate transition is facing difficulties, the digital divide continues to expand, the abuse of artificial intelligence (人工智能) has triggered security risks, food and energy security challenges have intensified, and non-traditional security threats such as terrorism, cyberattacks, transnational crime, and biosecurity have risen. The problems that human society needs to face together are more complex and diverse.
There is only one Earth in the universe, and mankind has one home. Countries are not riding in 190-plus small boats, but are riding together in a big ship with a shared future. Only by helping each other in the same boat and looking out for each other can we weather the storms of global challenges and sail toward a better future.
(II) The Law of the Jungle Seriously Impacts International Rule of Law
The United Nations (联合国) building, established on the ruins of the two world wars, has sheltered mankind from the wind and rain of peace and development, and the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章) has laid the institutional cornerstone of global governance. History can only move forward and not backward. The lessons of blood and fire must be deeply learned, and the recurrence of the law of the jungle must be avoided with all our might.
Unilateralism and hegemonism are deeply harmful, openly trampling on international law and the basic norms of international relations. Individual countries bully the small and the weak, and brazenly use force against sovereign states; they engage in "America First" (or similar national-priority policies) and double standards, challenging international justice for their own selfish interests; they piece together various small groups and small circles, repeating the old script of inciting division and confrontation and dividing spheres of influence in the 21st century, becoming the biggest source of chaos in the world today.
Anti-globalization and protectionism are on the rise, and economic and trade issues are being politicized, instrumentalized, and weaponized. Some countries have provoked trade wars and technology wars, abused illegal unilateral sanctions and "long-arm jurisdiction," insisted on creating "small yards and high fences" and "parallel systems," generalized the concept of national security, and suppressed and contained the economic and technological development of other countries. A series of perverse acts violate the principles of the market economy, trample on the rules of free trade, and seriously undermine the international economic and trade order.
Standing at the crossroads of history, whether it is justice or the law of the jungle, openness and win-win or isolation and confrontation, international rule of law or power politics, mankind must make a responsible and correct choice.
(III) Addressing Shortcomings in the Governance System is Imperative
The United Nations (联合国) is the most universal, representative, and authoritative international organization, and the international system with the United Nations (联合国) at its core plays an irreplaceable and important role in global governance. However, with the development of the times and the evolution of the pattern, there are more and more places where the current global governance system is unadapted and mismatched, and the shortcomings and deficits are increasingly intensified:
Authority is challenged. Individual major powers ignore the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章), frequently withdraw from groups and tear up agreements, withdraw funds and cut off supplies, obstruct the adoption of Security Council (安理会) resolutions, and paralyze the World Trade Organization (世界贸易组织) dispute settlement mechanism, seriously impacting the international order. The operation of multilateral mechanisms has become more difficult, and the foundation of trust in multilateral cooperation has been eroded.
Effectiveness needs to be improved urgently. Some countries refuse to fulfill their own responsibilities and obligations, and the situation where multilateral agendas are discussed without decision and decided without implementation has existed for a long time. The operational efficiency, emergency response capability, and work transparency of multilateral institutions such as the United Nations (联合国) need to be improved. Governance in emerging fields such as artificial intelligence (人工智能), cyberspace, and outer space is absent.
Representation is seriously insufficient. In order to maintain their own hegemony and private interests, some countries have long hindered the reform process of the United Nations (联合国) and its institutions, resulting in serious lags in reforms such as the International Monetary Fund (国际货币基金组织) quotas and World Bank (世界银行) equity, and the representation and voice of the vast number of developing countries cannot be fully reflected.
Although the current governance system is not perfect, it does not need to be overthrown and rebuilt, nor does it need to be started from scratch. It is necessary to reform and improve with the times, solve the problems of mismatch and unsuitability, make up for governance shortcomings with a developmental attitude, and respond to the call of the times with progressive concepts.
(IV) The Voice of the Global South Needs to be Heard More
As an important force for seeking peace, pursuing development, and promoting cooperation, the collective rise of the Global South (全球南方) is the progress of mankind. To make the world stable and better, it is necessary to respond more to the demands of the South in international affairs and give full play to the role of the South.
The Global South (全球南方) is growing impressively. After World War II (二战), the national independence and liberation movements in Asia, Africa, and Latin America were surging, the world colonial system collapsed, and the number of United Nations (联合国) member states increased from 51 at the beginning of its founding to 193 now. Today, calculated by purchasing power parity, the proportion of the Global South (全球南方) in the world economy exceeds 60%, its contribution rate to world economic growth reaches 80%, and multiple development centers have been formed in various regions. It is unsustainable for a few countries to monopolize international affairs, and long-standing historical injustices must be corrected.
The Global South (全球南方) brings a new atmosphere to global governance. The BRICS (金砖国家) countries have achieved historic expansion, and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织) has become the regional international organization with the widest territory and the largest population, playing an active role in the construction and reform of the global governance system. The G20 (二十国集团) has become the main platform for global economic governance, with emerging economies accounting for more than half of its members. The "Group of 77 and China" (77国集团和中国) promotes justice and deepens South-South cooperation. Global South (全球南方) countries have hosted a series of multilateral summits, leaving a "Southern imprint" and making "Southern contributions" in global governance.
The era calls for a more inclusive, fair, and sustainable global governance model. The process of giving greater respect to the development rights, right to speak, and decision-making power of Global South (全球南方) countries in international affairs will surely be a historical process in which the global governance system becomes more vibrant, effective, and hopeful.
II. The Global Governance Initiative Provides an Answer for the Times to Solve Difficult Problems
The Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议) takes safeguarding the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章) and practicing the global governance view of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits as its basic guidelines. It puts forward five core concepts: upholding sovereign equality, observing international rule of law, practicing multilateralism, advocating a people-centered approach, and focusing on action-orientation. It hits the crux and root causes of many crises and challenges, and provides a scientific guide for building a more fair and reasonable global governance system.
(I) Upholding Sovereign Equality
Sovereign equality is the basic principle clearly stated in the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章) and is the most important norm for regulating relations between countries. Countries vary in size, strength, and development, but they are all equal members of the international community. Their sovereignty and dignity must be respected, and they all have the right to participate, decide, and benefit equally in the process of global governance.
In dealing with each other, countries should put equal treatment at the forefront. Countries should conduct equal consultations in a spirit of mutual respect and properly manage contradictions and differences. Major powers should behave like major powers and set an example in being equal, trustworthy, and cooperative, rather than pushing for hegemony, bullying, and intimidation based on so-called "positions of strength." Deviating from the principle of sovereign equality, international relations will degenerate into power games, international law will lose its logical starting point, and the world will never have peace.
Sovereign equality is an inevitable requirement for uniting to meet challenges. Now, common interests, common challenges, and common responsibilities have closely linked the future and destiny of all countries. Only by ensuring that all countries participate in governance equally, rather than a few developed countries monopolizing the right to speak, can all parties build basic political trust in unity and cooperation. Only then will the rules and decisions produced have broad recognition and solid legitimacy, and only then will a powerful synergy of "everyone discussing and handling things together" be formed.
Being equal and inclusive is the historical trend of the evolution of the governance system. Pluralistic coexistence is the original face of human society, and multi-polar coexistence is the requirement for the development of the international pattern. Enhancing the representativeness, inclusiveness, and universality of the global governance system is the trend of the times. Equality of rights, equality of opportunities, and equality of rules are the aspirations of the people. The set of power bullying that goes against the historical trend is destined to fail.
(II) Observing International Rule of Law
International rule of law is the fundamental guarantee for global governance. Only a global governance system based on the rule of law can truly provide a fair and just development environment for all countries, ensure the balance of rights and obligations, and promote the evolution of the international order in a more fair and reasonable direction.
To strictly practice the international rule of law, the foundation lies in abiding by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章). The various confrontations and injustices in the world today are not because the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章) is outdated, but because it has not been effectively implemented. The Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章) clarifies the purposes and principles of "maintaining international peace and security," "promoting international cooperation," "peacefully resolving international disputes," and "not using threats or force in international relations," establishes the basic norms of international relations, and builds an important cornerstone for the stability of the post-war international order, which must be unswervingly safeguarded.
To strictly practice the international rule of law, the key lies in defending its fairness and seriousness. Only by ensuring the equal and unified application of international law, rather than using it when it fits and discarding it when it does not, can we truly distinguish right from wrong and promote peace and development. All countries are stakeholders in the international rule of law. If there were no international rule of law, those who were at the table yesterday might be on the menu tomorrow. Major powers are a key force in promoting the international rule of law, and they should especially take the lead in following the rules and talking about the rule of law. They should not place their own interests above international law, and even more so, they should not impose their own "family rules" or "gang rules" on others.
To strictly practice the international rule of law, it is necessary to improve the formulation of rules in emerging fields. Human society is developing with each passing day, and the rules of global governance need to keep up. In new frontiers such as the deep sea, polar regions, outer space, and cyberspace, some are the common heritage of mankind, and some are the frontiers of future development. The shortcomings of rule gaps and governance absences need to be filled urgently. We should uphold the principles of peace, sovereignty, universality, and co-governance to ensure that the development and utilization of new frontiers have laws to follow and become an increment of cooperation for all parties, rather than a battlefield for mutual games. Artificial intelligence (人工智能) governance must not only hold the bottom line of security and ethics but also adhere to openness, sharing, and intelligent equality to ensure that intelligence is used for good and truly benefits mankind.
(III) Practicing Multilateralism
Multilateralism was born for the cause of peace and development, and multilateral mechanisms are of great significance for solving global problems. No country can achieve development outside the global governance system, and no country can win the future without international cooperation. Multilateralism is not a multiple-choice question; it is the only viable path. 守株待兔 (shǒu zhū dài tù - "guard stump wait rabbit," to rely on luck or wait idly for opportunities; here used to imply that waiting for others to solve problems without participating in multilateral cooperation is futile).
Multilateralism was born for the cause of peace and development, and multilateral mechanisms are of great significance for resolving global issues. No country can achieve development while remaining outside the global governance system, nor can any country win the future by isolating itself from international cooperation. Multilateralism is not a multiple-choice question; it is the only viable path.
Adhere to extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits. The essence of multilateralism is that international affairs should be discussed and handled by all, and the fate of the world should be grasped by all countries together. We must gather wisdom through consultation, pool strength through joint contribution, and benefit everyone through shared benefits. We must clearly oppose all forms of unilateralism, and oppose "hegemony by one country," "governance by a few," and bloc politics. Artificially creating isolation will only push the world into the abyss of opposition and confrontation.
Resolutely safeguard the core status of the United Nations (联合国). The United Nations (联合国) is the primary platform for practicing multilateralism and advancing global governance. The leading position of the United Nations (联合国) must be upheld and cannot be shaken; its role can only be strengthened, not weakened. All countries should revisit the original aspirations of the founding of the United Nations (联合国), promote the revitalization of its authority and vitality in the new situation, and give full play to its central role in coordinating actions and jointly addressing challenges.
Firmly promote multilateral dialogue, consultation, and cooperation. Faced with complex global challenges, no single country can stay aloof or solve all problems alone. We must build consensus through dialogue, resolve differences through consultation, and promote win-win outcomes through cooperation, striving to expand the convergence of common interests for all parties. We must give full play to the constructive role of various global and regional multilateral mechanisms, mobilize resources and strengths from governments, international organizations, non-governmental organizations, and other parties, and promote more coordinated and efficient global governance.
(IV) Advocate for a People-Centered Approach
Human well-being is the core concern of global governance, and the people of all countries are the fundamental participants and beneficiaries of global governance. Only by taking the gains of the people as the goal and continuously providing the public with confidence and stable expectations can the global governance system gain broad support and operate effectively.
Promote common development and bring a greater sense of gain to the people of all countries. Development concerns the lives and dignity of the people; this is a contest between hope and disappointment. World prosperity and stability cannot be built on the basis of a widening gap between the rich and the poor. We must place development back at the center of the international agenda, mobilize global development resources, and accelerate the implementation of the United Nations (联合国) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. We should bridge the North-South gap as soon as possible, help developing countries enhance their capacity for independent development, and let the fruits of development benefit the people of all countries more and more fairly.
Address common challenges and bring a greater sense of security to the people of all countries. In today's world, the safety and well-being of all countries are interconnected. All parties should establish a concept of common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable security, and coordinate the response to both traditional and non-traditional security threats. Faced with various risks and challenges such as climate change, public health, and cybersecurity, we should let the general public truly feel that all countries are taking action and that unity can overcome all difficulties.
Promote mutual understanding and closeness, and bring a greater sense of happiness to the people of all countries. Civilizations are colorful because of exchanges and enriched by mutual learning. We must transcend civilizational estrangement through exchanges, transcend civilizational conflicts through mutual learning, and transcend civilizational superiority through inclusiveness. We must strengthen people-to-people exchanges and personnel visits, strive to eliminate ideological barriers between different countries and groups, make safeguarding common interests a shared belief, and let different civilizations shine together and achieve each other.
(V) Focus on Action-Orientation
The vitality of global governance stems from practice, the key lies in action, and the fundamental measure is effectiveness. A beautiful vision must be realized through hard work. The international community must anchor common goals, base itself on solving problems, and take consistent actions.
Adhere to the combination of overall advancement and key breakthroughs. We must coordinate the advancement of all agendas of global governance, work together to resolve governance deficits, and prevent the fragmentation of the governance system; we must also focus on the prominent problems faced by all countries, especially the vast number of developing countries, and achieve tangible governance results and gains in areas such as poverty reduction, people's livelihoods, and the digital divide.
Adhere to the combination of addressing symptoms and root causes. Based on the present, we must solve urgent global problems through pragmatic action plans and improve the efficiency of responding to major public crises and providing international public goods. Looking to the long term, we must explore ways to fundamentally resolve chronic diseases, improve the lagging state of global governance system reform, and make it conform to the changed world politics and economy.
Adhere to the combination of North-South cooperation and South-South cooperation. The North and the South should complement each other's advantages and move toward each other. Developed countries should earnestly fulfill their international obligations, honor their commitments to development assistance and climate financing, and should not evade international responsibilities under any pretext. Developing countries should unite and strengthen themselves, improve South-South cooperation mechanisms, enhance their capacity for coordinated development and collective voice, and inject inexhaustible power into improving global governance.
III. China's Contribution to Advancing the Cause of Global Governance
As a responsible major country, China holds high the banner of building a community with a shared future for mankind, takes the lead in practicing true multilateralism, remains unswervingly a builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, a defender of the international order, and a provider of public goods, and actively promotes the construction of a more just and reasonable global governance system.
(I) Committed to Universal and Common Security
Humanity is an indivisible security community. As a major country with the best record on peace and security issues, China has written the path of peaceful development into its Constitution (宪法), advocates a concept of common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable security, and has proposed and practiced the Global Security Initiative (全球安全倡议), contributing strength to achieving lasting world peace and stability.
Firmly safeguard world peace under the framework of the United Nations (联合国). China faithfully fulfills the duties and missions of a permanent member of the Security Council (安理会), firmly supports the United Nations (联合国) in playing a core role in international affairs, and supports the Security Council (安理会) in playing a primary role in peace and security issues. Actively participating in United Nations (联合国) peacekeeping operations, China is the second-largest contributor to the United Nations (联合国) peacekeeping budget and the largest troop contributor among the permanent members of the Security Council (安理会). To date, it has dispatched over 50,000 peacekeeping personnel, participated in 29 United Nations (联合国) peacekeeping operations authorized by the Security Council (安理会), formed an 8,000-strong peacekeeping standby force, and was the first to form a complete, standing peacekeeping police unit. On September 3, 2025, as a major victor in the Second World War (第二次世界大战), China solemnly commemorated the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (中国人民抗日战争) and the World Anti-Fascist War (世界反法西斯战争), stood with the international community to defend the fruits of the victory of the Second World War (第二次世界大战), promoted a correct history of the Second World War (第二次世界大战), and issued a strong call of the times to safeguard peace and ensure that justice prevails.
Safeguard global strategic stability. China pursues a defensive national defense policy, adheres to the policy of no-first-use of nuclear weapons, adheres to a self-defensive nuclear strategy, and firmly safeguards the international nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation system. It promoted the leaders of the five nuclear-weapon states to jointly issue a joint statement on preventing nuclear war and avoiding an arms race, reaffirmed the concept that "a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought," emphasized avoiding military confrontation and preventing an arms race, and issued a common voice for safeguarding global strategic stability and reducing the risk of nuclear conflict. China has proposed a fair, cooperative, balanced, and effective concept of arms control and supports the international arms control system with the United Nations (联合国) at its core.
Pioneer successful practices for solving hotspot issues with Chinese characteristics. China advocates adhering to non-interference in internal affairs, political settlement, objectivity and impartiality, and addressing both symptoms and root causes, providing a new choice for constructively resolving hotspot issues. On the Ukraine crisis (乌克兰危机), taking the "four shoulds" as the fundamental guideline, it released the document "China's Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis" (关于政治解决乌克兰危机的中国立场), and together with Global South (全球南方) countries such as Brazil (巴西), initiated the "Friends of Peace" (和平之友) group for the Ukraine crisis (乌克兰危机), pooling efforts and accumulating conditions for stopping the war and promoting peace talks. On the Palestinian-Israeli issue (巴以问题), it promoted the Security Council (安理会) to pass the first ceasefire resolution in Gaza (加沙) after the outbreak of the new round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict (巴以冲突), provided emergency humanitarian aid to Gaza (加沙), clearly supported the "two-state solution" (两国方案), and promoted a comprehensive, just, and lasting settlement of the Palestinian issue (巴勒斯坦问题). It facilitated the historic reconciliation and restoration of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia (沙特) and Iran (伊朗), and 14 Palestinian (巴勒斯坦) factions came to China to hold reconciliation dialogues and sign the "Beijing Declaration" (北京宣言); the "reconciliation wave" (和解潮) in the Middle East (中东) is deeply welcomed. Regarding maintaining and promoting peace and stability in the Middle East (中东), it put forward four proposals: adhering to the principle of peaceful coexistence, adhering to the principle of national sovereignty, adhering to the principle of international rule of law, and adhering to the coordination of development and security. Together with Pakistan (巴基斯坦), it issued a five-point initiative on restoring peace and stability in the Gulf (海湾) and the Middle East (中东) region. It advocates an Asian security model (亚洲安全模式) of shared security, seeking common ground while reserving differences, and dialogue and consultation, facilitated the signing of a ceasefire agreement by parties to the conflict in northern Myanmar (缅北), and played a constructive role in the Cambodia-Thailand border dispute (柬泰边境争端) and the Afghanistan-Pakistan conflict (阿巴冲突). It proposed the "Horn of Africa Peace and Development Vision" (非洲之角和平发展构想) to support regional countries in addressing security challenges.
Build a solid barrier for non-traditional security. It continues to support the construction of the Global Public Security Cooperation Forum (Lianyungang) (全球公共安全合作论坛（连云港）), build consensus among all parties, and promote global public security governance. China advocates comprehensive measures and addressing both symptoms and root causes, promotes international and regional counter-terrorism cooperation, implemented the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织) Comprehensive Center for Countering Security Threats and Challenges, its Information Security Center, the Counter-Transnational Organized Crime Center, and the Anti-Drug Center, and actively helps developing countries strengthen their counter-terrorism capacity building. It resolutely combats transnational drug crimes, leads the pragmatic development of anti-drug cooperation in the Greater Mekong Subregion (大湄公河次区域), the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织), and BRICS (金砖国家), and is the first in the world to regulate fentanyl-related substances as a class. It effectively combats cross-border crimes such as online gambling and telecommunications fraud, accelerates the construction of an international alliance to combat telecommunications and network fraud, and jointly destroyed a large number of overseas fraud dens with countries such as Thailand (泰国), Myanmar (缅甸), and Laos (老挝). Under the framework of the G20 (二十国集团), it proposed the International Food Security Cooperation Initiative (国际粮食安全合作倡议), promoted the adoption of the "BRICS Food Security Cooperation Strategy" (金砖国家粮食安全合作战略), joined the "Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty" (抗击饥饿与贫困全球联盟), and provided emergency humanitarian food aid to several countries with food shortages or disasters.
(II) Promote Open Cooperation and Common Development
China's development cannot be separated from the world, and the world's prosperity also needs China. As the largest developing country, China always places its own development in the coordinate system of human development, adheres to openness and win-win results, advocates inclusive and universal benefits, provides new opportunities for the world with Chinese-style modernization (中国式现代化), and promotes the development trend of modernization in all countries.
Promote the construction of an open world economy. China adheres to promoting trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, has become the main trading partner of more than 160 countries and regions, and has signed 24 free trade agreements with 31 countries and regions. It promoted the conclusion and high-level implementation of the "Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement" (区域全面经济伙伴关系协定), signed the 3.0 version upgrade protocol of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (中国—东盟自贸区), actively promoted accession to the "Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership" (全面与进步跨太平洋伙伴关系协定) and the "Digital Economy Partnership Agreement" (数字经济伙伴关系协定), and expanded the network of high-standard free trade areas facing the world. It firmly safeguards the multilateral trading system with the World Trade Organization (世界贸易组织) at its core and based on rules, fully and deeply participates in the reform of the World Trade Organization (世界贸易组织), and announced that it will not seek new special and differential treatment in current and future negotiations of the World Trade Organization (世界贸易组织).
Bring broader opportunities to the world with a higher level of opening up. It deeply promotes institutional opening up, comprehensively cancels foreign investment access restrictions in the manufacturing sector, continuously reduces the negative list for foreign investment access, and creates a first-class market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized business environment. It orderly expands autonomous opening and unilateral opening, has successively established 23 pilot free trade zones (自贸试验区), the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港) is operating with island-wide customs closure, actively builds open cooperation platforms such as the China International Import Expo (中国国际进口博览会), the China International Fair for Trade in Services (中国国际服务贸易交易会), the China International Consumer Products Expo (中国国际消费品博览会), and the China International Supply Chain Expo (中国国际供应链促进博览会), and implements zero tariffs on all least developed countries and African (非洲) countries that have established diplomatic relations with China. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" (十四五) period, China's imports of goods and services exceeded 15 trillion US dollars, and in the next five years, China's gross domestic product is expected to grow from 140 trillion yuan to 170 trillion yuan, and the potential of the super-large market is constantly being released.
High-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" (一带一路) goes deep and solid. China promotes the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" (一带一路) to enter a new stage of high-quality development, has built the widest and largest international cooperation platform, and has broadened the "development belt" that benefits the world and the "road to happiness" that benefits all parties. Policy communication gathers synergy; it has signed cooperation documents with more than 150 countries and more than 30 international organizations, successfully held three "Belt and Road" (一带一路) International Cooperation Summit Forums, established more than 30 special cooperation mechanisms in key areas such as economy, trade, energy, and infrastructure, and established the Summit Forum Secretariat. Facilities connectivity has achieved leapfrog development; a large number of flagship projects such as cross-border highways, railways, ports, and aviation hubs have made new breakthroughs, the interconnection architecture of "six corridors, six roads, multiple countries, and multiple ports" has basically taken shape, and the China-Europe Railway Express (中欧班列) has cumulatively operated more than 130,000 trains. Trade facilitation has advanced against the trend; institutional docking in areas such as cross-border payment, digital certification, and smart customs has been deepened. In 2025, the volume of trade in goods between China and participating countries reached 23.6 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.3%, and its share of China's total foreign trade increased to 51.9%. Financial integration is becoming increasingly diversified; the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (亚洲基础设施投资银行) and the Silk Road Fund (丝路基金) have provided investment and financing support for hundreds of projects, established a renminbi financing window, and from 2021 to the first half of 2025, China's two-way investment with participating countries cumulatively exceeded 240 billion US dollars. People-to-people bonds are closer; iconic livelihood brands such as Luban Workshops (鲁班工坊) and Juncao technology (菌草技术) continue to advance, and exchanges and cooperation in culture, tourism, education, media, and youth are blossoming.
The Global Development Initiative (全球发展倡议) has landed and yielded results. With the goal of accelerating the implementation of the United Nations (联合国) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, China promotes global development toward a new stage of balance, coordination, and inclusiveness, and achieves more robust, green, and healthy global development. The consensus on development priority continues to gather; more than 130 countries and international organizations support and participate in the initiative, more than 80 countries have joined the "Group of Friends of the Global Development Initiative" (全球发展倡议之友小组), China presided over the High-level Dialogue on Global Development (全球发展高层对话会), held the Global Shared Development Action Forum (全球共享发展行动论坛), and promoted all parties to re-commit to and re-start the Sustainable Development Goals (可持续发展目标). Cooperation mechanisms are becoming increasingly perfect; China has signed more than 80 cooperation documents for implementing the initiative with developing countries, international organizations, and financial institutions, built more than 30 cooperation mechanisms in the eight key areas of the initiative, fully covering all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (可持续发展目标), established the Global Development Promotion Center (全球发展促进中心), established the Global Development Knowledge Network (全球发展知识网络), and released the "Global Development Report" (全球发展报告). It established the China-UN Global South-South Development Cooperation Fund (中国—联合国全球南南发展支持机制) with the United Nations (联合国), actively discussed with the United Nations Development Programme (联合国开发计划署) to prepare for the establishment of the UNDP Global Sustainable Development Center (开发计划署全球可持续发展中心), and took the initiative to establish the Global Development College (全球发展学院). Development cooperation resources are constantly gathering; it mobilized more than 23 billion US dollars in various development funds, created the Global Development and South-South Cooperation Fund (全球发展和南南合作基金) and increased its capital to 4 billion US dollars, and launched the third phase of the China-FAO South-South Cooperation Trust Fund (中国—联合国粮农组织第三期南南合作信托基金). Pragmatic cooperation has achieved remarkable results; China established the Global Development Initiative Project Pool (全球发展倡议项目库), carried out more than 1,800 cooperation projects, completed 80,000 person-times of training under the framework of the initiative, and helped developing countries enhance their capacity for independent and sustainable development.
(III) Firmly Practice True Multilateralism
No matter how the international situation changes, China always firmly safeguards the international system with the United Nations (联合国) at its core, the international order based on international law, and the basic norms of international relations based on the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章). It advocates and practices true multilateralism and is firmly a positive leader and powerful promoter of multilateral cooperation.
China firmly upholds the authority and status of the United Nations (联合国). As a founding member of the United Nations (联合国) and the first country to sign the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章), China has always used concrete actions to safeguard the core role of the United Nations (联合国) in international affairs. The proportion of the United Nations (联合国) assessed contributions borne by China has grown from less than 1% in 2000 to over 20% in 2025, making it the second-largest contributor to the United Nations (联合国) regular budget. China pays its assessed contributions to the United Nations (联合国) in full and on time, supporting the effective operation of United Nations (联合国) agencies. China established the China-UN Peace and Development Fund (中国—联合国和平与发展基金) and has renewed and increased its investment, providing strong support for major United Nations (联合国) agendas. China supports the United Nations (联合国) in advancing the implementation of the Pact for the Future (《未来契约》) and improving quality and efficiency through the "UN 80th Anniversary Reform Initiative" (“联合国80周年改革倡议”) to revitalize its vitality. China actively supports the United Nations (联合国) and its specialized agencies in establishing new institutions in China, such as the UNESCO International STEM Education Institute (联合国教科文组织国际STEM教育研究所) in Shanghai (上海) and the IMF Shanghai Regional Center (国际货币基金组织上海区域中心). China provides excellent talent to the United Nations (联合国), and the proportion of Chinese staff in various United Nations (联合国) agencies and related international organizations has steadily increased. China successfully hosted the Global Women's Summit (全球妇女峰会), accelerating the new process of comprehensive development for women. (See Sidebar 1)
China safeguards the authority of international rule of law and promotes the progress of international rule of law. China has joined almost all universal intergovernmental international organizations and participated in over 600 international conventions and amendments, fulfilling treaty obligations in good faith and effectively honoring international commitments. China held a grand commemorative meeting for the 70th anniversary of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence (和平共处五项原则), firmly defending the basic norms of international relations and the fundamental principles of international law. China firmly supports the work of United Nations (联合国) judicial bodies and actively participates in international judicial activities. China actively carries out international law enforcement cooperation and continuously increases efforts in repatriation and extradition regarding anti-corruption and overseas fugitive recovery and asset recovery. China initiated and promoted the establishment of the International Organization for Mediation (国际调解院), filling a gap in the mechanism of the international mediation field. (See Sidebar 2)
China participates in and leads the G20 (二十国集团) cooperation. China promotes the G20 (二十国集团) to lead international cooperation with a spirit of equal consultation and mutual benefit, building this primary forum for developed and developing countries to consult on international economic affairs and carry out international economic cooperation. China hosted the 2016 Hangzhou Summit (2016年杭州峰会), which was the most fruitful in the history of the G20 (二十国集团), and issued a landmark leaders' communique. It placed development issues at the center of macroeconomic policy coordination for the first time and approved multiple consensus documents such as the "G20 Guiding Principles for Global Investment Policymaking" (《二十国集团全球投资指导原则》) and the "G20 Blueprint on Innovative Growth" (《二十国集团创新增长蓝图》), leaving a distinct Chinese imprint on the development process of the G20 (二十国集团). At the G20 (二十国集团) Rio Summit (里约峰会), China systematically expounded major propositions on global economic, financial, trade, digital, and ecological governance, promoting the building of a cooperative, stable, open, innovative, and eco-friendly world economy. China was the first to publicly support the African Union (非盟) in joining the G20 (二十国集团), promoting the enhancement of representation for developing countries.
China promotes the construction of an Asia-Pacific community. The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (亚太经济合作组织) is the highest-level, broadest-field, and most influential economic cooperation mechanism in the Asia-Pacific region. China actively advocates upholding the spirit of the Asia-Pacific family and is committed to building an Asia-Pacific community with a shared future that is open, inclusive, innovatively growing, interconnected, and mutually beneficial. Under China's promotion, the 2001 APEC Shanghai Meeting (亚太经合组织上海会议) adopted the "Shanghai Accord" (《上海共识》), allowing Asia-Pacific cooperation in the new century to set sail again; the 2014 APEC Beijing Meeting (亚太经合组织北京会议) reached multiple important outcomes such as the "Beijing Agenda" (《北京纲领》), with all parties committing to building a future-oriented Asia-Pacific partnership, outlining a vision for long-term regional development and common prosperity. In 2026, China serves as the host of APEC (亚太经合组织) for the third time, setting "Building an Asia-Pacific Community, Promoting Common Prosperity" as the theme, focusing on the three priority areas of "openness, innovation, and cooperation," joining hands with all parties to revisit the original intention of Asia-Pacific cooperation, and pushing the construction of the Asia-Pacific community from goals to actions, and from blueprints to reality.
(IV) Supporting the Global South in Playing a Greater Role
China has always been a member of the Global South, always keeping the Global South in mind and taking root in the Global South. It upholds the principles of sincerity, real results, amity, and good faith and the correct view of righteousness and benefit to strengthen unity and cooperation with developing countries, firmly safeguarding the common interests of the Global South in international affairs, and leading and promoting the Global South to unite and strengthen itself.
China promotes the high-quality development of "Big BRICS Cooperation" (大金砖合作). As the first phalanx of the Global South, BRICS (金砖国家) countries are committed to promoting world economic growth, improving global economic governance, and promoting the democratization of international relations. China actively promotes the expansion and strengthening of BRICS (金砖) cooperation, strengthens the construction of the BRICS (金砖) mechanism with the times, and continuously expands the influence of the BRICS (金砖) mechanism. Together with other BRICS (金砖) members, China established the New Development Bank (新开发银行) and the Contingent Reserve Arrangement (应急储备安排), becoming an emerging force in the international financial system and a gold-standard brand for Global South cooperation. The 2017 BRICS Xiamen Summit (金砖国家领导人厦门会晤) reached more than 60 important outcomes, forming a "three-wheel drive" pattern of political security, economic and financial trade, and people-to-people exchanges, and pioneered the "BRICS+" (金砖+) cooperation model. The 2022 BRICS "China Year" (金砖“中国年”) issued the "Beijing Declaration" (《北京宣言》), opening the process of BRICS (金砖) expansion. China joined hands with relevant parties to promote the historic expansion of BRICS (金砖), which is an important milestone in the history of BRICS (金砖) development and a landmark event in the evolution of the international landscape. China promotes the building of a peaceful BRICS (和平金砖), innovative BRICS (创新金砖), green BRICS (绿色金砖), just BRICS (公正金砖), and humanistic BRICS (人文金砖), supporting more Global South countries to join the BRICS (金砖) cause in the forms of formal members, partner countries, or "BRICS+" (金砖+), making BRICS (金砖) the main channel for the unity and cooperation of the Global South and a vanguard force for the reform of global governance. (See Sidebar 3)
China promotes the development and growth of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织). The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织) is the first international organization named after a Chinese city, which China participated in creating and headquartered in China. China promotes the "Shanghai Spirit" (上海精神) of mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality, consultation, respect for diverse civilizations, and seeking common development, pushing for the building of a closer Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织) community with a shared future. With the joint efforts of member states, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织) has built an "SCO Family" (上合大家庭) with the participation of 27 countries across Asia, Europe, and Africa, with an economic aggregate of nearly 30 trillion US dollars, carrying out cooperation in more than 50 fields, and becoming an important force in promoting world peace and development and safeguarding international fairness and justice. The 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Organization Tianjin Summit (上海合作组织天津峰会) formulated a development strategy for the next 10 years, and the leaders of the member states witnessed the unveiling and implementation of the "Four Security Centers" (四个安全中心), and made a political decision to establish the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Development Bank (上海合作组织开发银行). China decided to establish three major cooperation platforms for energy, green industry, and digital economy under the China-SCO (中国—上海合作组织) framework, as well as three major cooperation centers for scientific and technological innovation, higher education, and vocational and technical education, continuously implementing the high-quality development action plan for economic and trade cooperation facing the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织) family, pushing the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织) into a new stage of high-quality development that is more united, emphasizes collaboration, is more vibrant, and is more accomplished.
China promotes a more balanced and effective global governance architecture. China advocates that the representativeness of the international financial architecture should be more reasonable and better reflect the reality of the world economic landscape. According to the timetable and roadmap agreed upon by all parties, China carries out the World Bank (世界银行) shareholding review, promotes the adjustment of the IMF (国际货币基金组织) quota share, and fills the "democratic deficit" in global financial governance as soon as possible. China supports the reform of the United Nations Security Council (联合国安理会), insisting that the correct direction of reform is to increase the representation of developing countries. The urgent task is to correct the historical injustice suffered by Africa and make special arrangements for prioritizing the resolution of African demands. Through mechanisms such as the Non-Aligned Movement (不结盟运动) and the Group of 77 (七十七国集团), China maintains communication and coordination with the vast number of Global South partners, actively upholds justice in important international occasions such as the United Nations General Assembly (联合国大会), jointly safeguards international fairness and justice, and defends legitimate rights and interests.
China helps the Global South move toward modernization together. China proposed and promoted the Global South Open and Inclusive Cooperation Initiative (全球南方开放包容合作倡议), implemented eight measures to support Global South cooperation, and promoted the Global South to work together as a stable force for maintaining peace, a backbone force for open development, a constructive force for global governance, and a promoting force for mutual learning between civilizations. The FOCAC Beijing Summit (中非合作论坛北京峰会) announced that the bilateral relations between China and all African countries having diplomatic ties with China have been elevated to the level of strategic relations, and the overall positioning of China-Africa relations has been elevated to a new era of an all-weather China-Africa community with a shared future, working together to advance the "Six Modernizations" (六个现代化) and jointly implementing the "Ten Partnership Actions" (十大伙伴行动). The China-Arab States Summit (中国—阿拉伯国家峰会) decided to make every effort to build a China-Arab community with a shared future in the new era and carry out the "Eight Major Common Actions" (八大共同行动) for China-Arab practical cooperation. China and Latin American and Caribbean countries established a comprehensive cooperative partnership of equality, mutual benefit, and common development, established the China-CELAC Forum (中国—拉共体论坛), and jointly launched the "Five Major Projects" (五大工程) of unity, development, civilization, peace, and people-to-people bonds. China upholds the "Four Full Respects" (四个充分尊重) to carry out friendly cooperation with Pacific Island countries, building "Seven Major Cooperation Platforms" (七大合作平台), and supporting island countries in accelerating the realization of autonomous and sustainable development.
(V) Promoting Exchanges and Mutual Learning Among Civilizations
Facing the greatest reality of world civilization diversity and the urgent need to transcend the clash of civilizations, China proposed and promoted the implementation of the Global Civilization Initiative (全球文明倡议), promoted the common values of all mankind, and strove to create a new situation of people-to-people exchanges, cultural integration, and mutual understanding among all countries in the world, jointly promoting the development and progress of human civilization.
China advocates global civilization dialogue. China upholds the civilization view of equality, mutual learning, dialogue, and inclusiveness, promoting the harmonious coexistence and beauty of different civilizations. On June 7, 2024, China promoted the 78th United Nations General Assembly (联合国大会) to adopt a resolution by consensus, designating June 10 of each year as the "International Day for Dialogue among Civilizations" (文明对话国际日), and carried out rich and colorful theme activities in New York (纽约), Geneva (日内瓦), and other United Nations (联合国) locations and many countries. China convened the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations (亚洲文明对话大会) and the Global Civilization Dialogue Ministerial Meeting (全球文明对话部长级会议), built multi-level international platforms such as the World Conference on Classics (世界古典学大会), the Liangzhu Forum (良渚论坛), and the Alliance for Cultural Heritage in Asia (亚洲文化遗产保护联盟), signed cooperation agreements in the fields of culture, cultural relics, and tourism with hundreds of countries, deepened cooperation in joint archaeology, world heritage protection, and mutual translation of classic works, and promoted global civilization dialogue with practical actions to protect cultural treasures of all mankind. The CPC and World Political Parties High-level Dialogue (中国共产党与世界政党高层对话会) and the CPC and World Political Parties Leaders Summit (中国共产党与世界政党领导人峰会) promoted the mutual learning between the new form of human civilization—Chinese-style modernization—and other civilizations around the world, continuously enriching the garden of world civilizations and making new contributions to humanity's exploration of the path to modernization. (See Sidebar 4)
China promotes the development and progress of the human rights cause. China advocates protecting human rights with security, promoting human rights with development, and advancing human rights with cooperation, pushing global human rights governance to develop in a more fair, just, reasonable, and inclusive direction. China has joined or ratified 29 international human rights instruments and played a constructive role in the formulation of many important international human rights instruments such as the "Declaration on the Right to Development" (《发展权利宣言》) and the "Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action" (《维也纳宣言和行动纲领》). China has served as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council (联合国人权理事会) six times, making it one of the countries with the most elections and the longest tenure. China promoted the Human Rights Council (人权理事会) to adopt resolutions such as "The Contribution of Development to the Enjoyment of All Human Rights," "The Negative Impact of the Legacy of Colonialism on the Enjoyment of Human Rights," "Promoting and Protecting Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Context of Addressing Inequalities," and "Promoting and Protecting the Human Rights of All through Accessible Construction."
China promotes people-to-people exchanges and friendship. China promotes various forms of non-governmental diplomacy, city diplomacy, and public diplomacy, holds years of people-to-people exchanges, tourism years, and education years with many countries, established more than 3,000 pairs of sister-city (province/state) relations with more than 150 countries, and actively builds bridges for people-to-people exchanges. China continuously optimizes policies to facilitate personnel exchanges, has implemented unilateral visa-free entry for 50 countries around the world, has comprehensive mutual visa exemption with 29 countries, and the number of countries applicable to the 240-hour transit visa-free policy has expanded to 55, and the number of applicable entry ports has increased to 65. In 2025, 30.08 million foreigners entered China visa-free, accounting for 73.1% of inbound foreigners, a year-on-year increase of 49.5%. Sports are a bond to enhance people's friendship. China successfully hosted the Beijing Winter Olympics (北京冬奥会), Chengdu Universiade (成都大运会), Hangzhou Asian Games (杭州亚运会), and Harbin Asian Winter Games (哈尔滨亚冬会), practicing the Olympic motto of "Faster, Higher, Stronger—Together" (更快、更高、更强——更团结). Youth are the future of the cause of people's friendship. China proposed and steadily implemented the "5-Year 50,000" initiative (5年5万倡议) and the "3-Year 10,000, Europe Doubled" initiative (3年1万，欧洲翻番倡议), held the China-Africa Youth Festival (中非青年大联欢) and the "Chinese Bridge" Summer Camp for youth students (青年学生“汉语桥”夏令营), planting the flower of friendship in the hearts of the young generation.
(VI) Providing More Public Goods to the International Community
Facing the endless stream of global challenges, the global governance system must keep pace with the times, find solutions for old problems, and fill the gaps in rules in new fields. China demonstrates the responsibility of a major country that practices what it preaches, actively creates international public goods, and contributes new solutions for global governance.
China firmly leads global climate governance. China firmly upholds and promotes the implementation of the "United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change" (《联合国气候变化框架公约》) and its "Paris Agreement" (《巴黎协定》), adheres to the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, and promotes the building of a fair, reasonable, and mutually beneficial global climate governance system. In 2020, China solemnly declared at the United Nations General Assembly (联合国大会) that China strives to peak carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and strives to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060. In 2025, at the United Nations Climate Change Summit (联合国气候变化峰会), China announced a new round of nationally determined contributions, including that by 2035, the total economy-wide net greenhouse gas emissions will be 7%—10% lower than the peak, striving to do better, the proportion of non-fossil energy in total energy consumption will reach more than 30%, as well as goals for forest stock volume and the construction of the carbon emission trading market. China initiated the establishment of "BASIC" (基础四国) and the Ministerial Meeting on Climate Action (气候行动部长级会议) to build consensus among all parties, and helps developing countries improve their ability to cope with climate change through South-South cooperation. As of the end of October 2025, China has signed 55 cooperation documents with 43 developing countries, cumulatively implemented more than 300 capacity-building projects, and provided and mobilized more than 177 billion yuan in project funds since 2016. (See Sidebar 5)
China promotes the development of artificial intelligence toward good and inclusive development. China proposed the Global AI Governance Initiative (全球人工智能治理倡议), advocated adhering to a people-centered approach and intelligence for good, supported the United Nations (联合国) in playing the role of the main channel, and promoted the formation of a global AI governance system with broad consensus, allowing artificial intelligence to benefit all mankind. China advocates strengthening international cooperation and assistance for developing countries, bridging the intelligence gap, promoting the UN General Assembly (联大) to adopt a resolution on strengthening international cooperation in AI capacity building, proposing and implementing the "AI Capacity Building Inclusive Plan" (《人工智能能力建设普惠计划》), initiating the establishment of the Group of Friends on International Cooperation in AI Capacity Building (人工智能能力建设国际合作之友小组), creating the "Digital South" (数字南方) brand of the Global Development Project Pool, and holding multiple capacity-building seminars and theme dialogues. China proposed the establishment of the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (世界人工智能合作组织), proposed the "Global AI Governance Action Plan" (《人工智能全球治理行动计划》) and the "Artificial Intelligence+" (人工智能+) international cooperation initiative, contributing Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to the development and governance of artificial intelligence. China attaches great importance to the prevention of risks in the military application of artificial intelligence, advocating that all countries should adopt a cautious and responsible attitude when researching, developing, and using relevant technologies, ensuring that relevant weapon systems are always under human control, and preventing an artificial intelligence arms race.
Promote the benevolent and inclusive development of artificial intelligence (AI). China has proposed the Global AI Governance Initiative (全球人工智能治理倡议), advocating for a people-centered approach and AI for good. It supports the United Nations (联合国) in playing a primary channel role, promoting the formation of a global AI governance system with broad consensus, and allowing AI to benefit all of humanity. China advocates for strengthening international cooperation and assistance for developing countries, bridging the "intelligence divide," promoting the passage of a resolution on strengthening international cooperation in AI capacity building by the UN General Assembly (联大), proposing and implementing the "AI Capacity Building Inclusive Plan" (人工智能能力建设普惠计划), initiating the establishment of the Friends Group for International Cooperation on AI Capacity Building, creating the "Digital South" (数字南方) brand for the global development project pool, and hosting multiple capacity-building seminars and thematic dialogues. China has proposed the establishment of a World AI Cooperation Organization (世界人工智能合作组织), put forward the "Global AI Governance Action Plan" (人工智能全球治理行动计划) and the "AI+" (人工智能+) international cooperation initiative, contributing Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to AI development and governance. China attaches great importance to preventing risks in the military application of AI, advocating that all countries should adopt a cautious and responsible attitude when researching, developing, and using relevant technologies, ensuring that relevant weapon systems remain under human control at all times, and preventing an AI arms race.
Contribute Chinese strength to maintaining global public health security. China actively participates in global health affairs, carries out health exchanges and cooperation through multiple channels and at multiple levels, vigorously provides international assistance in the health field, actively participates in major international health actions such as fighting the Ebola (埃博拉) epidemic and the COVID-19 (新冠) epidemic, strives to bridge the "immunity gap" and "health deficit," and advocates for working together to build a global community of health for all. China has signed health cooperation agreements with more than 160 countries and international organizations, and has initiated and participated in 9 international and regional health cooperation mechanisms, including those between China and African countries, China and Arab countries, and China and ASEAN (东盟). China has dispatched over 30,000 medical team members to 77 countries and regions, treating 300 million patients. It has carried out free medical services such as the "Brightness Action" (光明行), "Love Action" (爱心行), and "Smile Action" (微笑行), and implemented the "New Era Shennong Tasting a Hundred Herbs" (新时代神农尝百草) action. China supports the World Health Organization (世界卫生组织) in playing a central coordinating role in global health governance, and deeply participates in and leads important agendas such as the revision of the International Health Regulations (国际卫生条例), the negotiation of the Pandemic Agreement (大流行协定), and the reform of the global health governance architecture and World Health Organization (世界卫生组织) governance.
Actively lead global biodiversity governance. China upholds the philosophy that "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" (绿水青山就是金山银山), unswervingly follows the path of ecological priority and green development, and is a participant, contributor, and leader in global ecological civilization construction. As the presidency of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (生物多样性公约), China released the "Kunming Declaration" (昆明宣言), leading to the historic achievement of the "Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework" (昆明—蒙特利尔全球生物多样性框架), anchoring the direction and drawing a blueprint for global biodiversity protection until 2030 and even longer. China took the lead in initiating the "Kunming-Montreal Framework" (昆蒙框架) implementation initiative, took the lead in contributing 1.5 billion RMB to establish the Kunming Biodiversity Fund (昆明生物多样性基金), which has currently supported 31 projects covering 45 developing countries, providing sustained momentum for the implementation of the framework. China advocates for the establishment of the Belt and Road (一带一路) Green Development International Coalition, continuously deepens bilateral and multilateral dialogues and exchanges, and promotes fruitful results in "South-South cooperation" (南南合作) for biodiversity protection. Since 2019, China has become the largest donor to the core budget of the Convention on Biological Diversity (生物多样性公约) and its protocols, as well as the largest developing country donor to the Global Environment Facility (全球环境基金).
Promote the improvement of governance rules for new domains. China promotes the reform of the global internet governance system, advocating the four principles of respecting cyber sovereignty, maintaining peace and security, promoting openness and cooperation, and building good order. Since 2014, it has held the World Internet Conference (世界互联网大会) for twelve consecutive years, proposed the "Global Data Security Initiative" (全球数据安全倡议) and the "Global Cross-Border Data Flow Cooperation Initiative" (全球数据跨境流动合作倡议), supported the establishment of the World Data Organization (世界数据组织) in Beijing (北京), supported the United Nations (联合国) as the main channel to promote global cyberspace and digital governance, and worked together to build a community with a shared future in cyberspace. It actively promotes the global ocean governance process and promoted the reaching and first-batch signing of the Agreement on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (海洋生物多样性协定). China has become an observer to the Arctic Council (北极理事会), advocates for building the "Silk Road on Ice" (冰上丝绸之路), and promotes the international community's joint protection and sustainable use of Antarctic marine living resources. China is committed to the lasting peace and security of outer space, firmly upholds the international order in outer space based on the 1967 Outer Space Treaty (外空条约), opposes an arms race in outer space, supports the United Nations (联合国) in playing the role of the main platform, and safeguards the common rights and interests of all countries in the peaceful use of outer space.
IV. Leading the Direction of Change, Moving Toward a Bright Future
The reason why the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议) has been able to quickly receive the welcome and support of nearly 160 countries and international organizations, and why China's concepts and actions are increasingly resonating with and receiving responses from the international community, lies in the fact that it grasps the era while leading it, is rooted in China while benefiting the world, and is based on the present while opening up the future, contributing wisdom and strength to the cause of human civilization's progress.
(I) Condensing Broad Consensus on Improving Global Governance
China has proposed a series of new concepts and propositions that have both value orientation and practical direction, responding to the universal demands of the international community and hitting the most urgent problems in global governance.
Extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits are the common aspiration of the people. The world is so big and there are so many problems; what kind of global governance system is good for the world and for the people of all countries? China upholds the concept that global affairs should be discussed together, the governance system should be built together, and development achievements should be shared together. This has identified the root cause of the problems, represents the common voice of the vast majority of countries, and has drawn the largest concentric circle that conforms to the common interests of all countries in the world.
Equal and orderly multipolarization of the world and inclusive economic globalization are the trend of the times. China advocates that all countries should have a place in global governance and play their due roles; it advocates for making the cake of the world economy bigger and sharing it well, so that the fresh air and warm sunshine of economic globalization can penetrate the dark house of protectionism and benefit every country and every nation, truly fitting the trend of the times and conforming to the aspirations of the people.
True multilateralism is the only way forward. Global governance is grand yet specific, and the Chinese solution is comprehensive yet clear. In a word, it is to advocate and practice true multilateralism. Practice has repeatedly proven that only when the concept of multilateralism is well practiced and multilateral coordination and cooperation are powerful and effective can global governance be advanced and human well-being be guaranteed. Human development cannot be separated from multilateralism, and world progress cannot be separated from multilateralism.
The common values of all humanity are the universal guidelines. There are more than 8 billion people in the world, more than 200 countries and regions, more than 2,500 ethnic groups, and various religions. How to respect diversity and differences and gather the forces of different systems, different civilizations, and different countries is crucial to the success or failure of global governance. China promotes the common values of all humanity—peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy, and freedom—which are interconnected and integrated with the core concepts of solidarity, symbiosis, and win-win cooperation advocated by civilizations of all countries, laying a value foundation for working together to improve global governance.
(II) Reflecting a Vision and Responsibility for the World
China's global governance concepts and initiatives demonstrate responsibility in practicing the original mission of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), uphold integrity and innovation in carrying forward the fine traditions of New China's diplomacy, and draw strength from inheriting the excellent traditional Chinese culture, reflecting the unity of the times, advancement, and practicality.
Stemming from the world sentiment of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党). Since its founding 105 years ago, the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) has always taken seeking progress for humanity and great harmony for the world as its own responsibility. This determines the lofty goal of China's participation in global governance, which is to strive to turn the aspirations of the Chinese people and the people of all countries for a better life into reality. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) emphasized "promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind" and "implementing the Global Development Initiative (全球发展倡议), Global Security Initiative (全球安全倡议), Global Civilization Initiative (全球文明倡议), and Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议)," providing clear guidance for China and other countries to work together to promote the reform and construction of the global governance system.
Carrying forward the fine traditions of New China's diplomacy. As early as the 1950s, Comrade Mao Zedong (毛泽东) pointed out that China should make greater contributions to humanity. New China's diplomacy firmly pursues an independent foreign policy of peace, has successively put forward policy guidelines and ideas such as the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence (和平共处五项原则), the division of the "Three Worlds" (三个世界), and the establishment of a new international political and economic order, and actively speaks out for justice for developing countries. For more than 70 years, New China's diplomacy has remained steadfast in its original intention of defending fairness and justice, and its mission to promote human progress has remained ever-new, providing a source of strength for China to participate in and lead global governance in the new era.
Based on the profound accumulation of Chinese civilization. In the 5,000-plus years of civilization development, the Chinese nation has always pursued and inherited the firm concepts of peace, harmony, and concord. Since ancient times, it has had the lofty ideal of "the world as one" (天下大同), the governance thinking of "great wisdom in governance" (大智治制), the spiritual pursuit of "helping each other in the same boat" (和衷共济), the deep sentiment that "the people are the foundation of the state" (民为邦本), and the practical spirit of "unity of knowledge and action" (知行合一). These crystallizations of wisdom have been creatively transformed and innovatively developed under new historical conditions, providing civilizational inspiration that transcends time and space for solving global problems.
(III) Expanding the Practical Path of Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind
More than a decade ago, President Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed the major concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind, with the aim of promoting the construction of a better world and creating a better life for the people of all countries. Over the past decade, under the banner of building a community with a shared future for mankind, a series of Chinese initiatives and Chinese actions have faced various risks and challenges, continuously enriching the practice of global governance.
Faced with the widening North-South divide and the serious lag in the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (联合国2030年可持续发展议程), China proposed the Global Development Initiative (全球发展倡议), aiming to promote the cause of common development. Faced with the complex international and regional situation and security governance problems, especially the fact that some countries seek their own absolute security at the expense of other countries' security, China proposed the Global Security Initiative (全球安全倡议), aiming to bridge the peace deficit and solve the security dilemma. Faced with the rampant "clash of civilizations" (文明冲突论) and "systemic confrontation" (制度对抗论) theories, and some countries inciting value opposition, China proposed the Global Civilization Initiative (全球文明倡议), aiming to promote exchanges and mutual learning among different civilizations. Faced with the impact on the United Nations (联合国) and multilateralism and the continuous expansion of the governance deficit, China proposed the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议), aiming to build a more just and reasonable global governance system, extending and expanding the first three global initiatives from the level of improving governance mechanisms.
As a systematic Chinese solution, the four major global initiatives have their own focus and run in parallel, building a systematic and complete action framework from different dimensions, forming an organic whole that promotes prosperity through development, ensures stability through security, increases mutual trust through civilization, and seeks justice through governance. The four major global initiatives all point to a world of lasting peace, universal security, common prosperity, openness, and inclusiveness, and a clean and beautiful world, becoming an important support for building a community with a shared future for mankind.
(IV) Opening Up a New Realm of Human Political Civilization
Looking back at history, humanity has experienced bloody hot wars and cold wars, and has also achieved amazing development and huge progress, moving forward continuously in overcoming one challenge after another. Today's world is facing a wider and deeper transformation, and where to go depends on the choices of all countries. China has proposed a series of new concepts and new solutions such as the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议), which has deepened the understanding of the laws of human social development and promoted the development and progress of human political civilization.
Breaking through the old order and old framework of "center-periphery." A world dominated by a few countries and subordinated by the majority, where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, is not a good world. Whether it is the so-called "hegemonic stability theory" (霸权稳定论) or "Western-centrism" (西方中心论), or "neoliberalism" (新自由主义) and "democratic peace theory" (民主和平论), what they bring to the world is disunity and unfairness, and what they leave behind in many regions is turmoil and chaos. China firmly stands on the right side of history, is committed to promoting the democratization of international relations, and allows developing countries to truly become equal members of the international community and masters of their own destiny.
Transcending the wrong logic of "might makes right." The old thinking of hegemonism and power politics cannot adapt to the new reality of a multipolar world. Engaging in bullying at every turn and waving the big stick of coercion and blackmail has opened Pandora's box of returning to the law of the jungle. China firmly stands on the side of fairness and justice, has always been a pillar in the changing and chaotic world, clearly advocates for defending international rule of law, never allows whoever has the hardest fist to have the final say, and condenses the international consensus of wanting justice rather than hegemony.
Abandoning the zero-sum thinking of "winner-takes-all." Blocking others' paths will not let you go further; blowing out others' lamps will burn your own beard. Engaging in protectionism is no different from putting out a fire with firewood, and seeking absolute security will eventually backfire. China firmly stands on the side of win-win cooperation, pursues harmony and symbiosis with practical actions, benefits others while benefiting oneself, advocates that governance achievements should be shared by all, does not let any country fall behind, and lets the "big family" of the international community all become "winners."
V. Moving Forward Together at a Major Juncture of Historical Evolution
Today's world has entered a new period of turbulence and change, and humanity is again facing the choice between peace or war, dialogue or confrontation, win-win or zero-sum. What is encouraging is that with the broad support of the international community, the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议) is increasingly becoming a practice in which all parties actively participate. A great cause will not be achieved overnight; implementing the initiative requires all parties not to be hindered by wind and rain, not to be trapped by disputes, and to work together to build a more just and reasonable global governance system.
(I) Planning for the World, Planning for All Generations
Global governance concerns the common and long-term interests of the people of all countries in the world; its essence is to seek justice, not to make deals. China calls on all countries to keep the future of humanity in mind, to keep the well-being of the people in mind, to effectively put the initiative into action, and to build a long-term achievement that benefits all generations and brings happiness to all people.
Countries in the "global village" (地球村) are closely linked. A country's own interests can only be better realized when they are in the same direction and frequency as the common interests of all countries. "Country first" will eventually degenerate into "country alone," and harming others for one's own benefit will inevitably harm others and oneself. Countries must have a grand pattern of "sharing the same boat on the same globe" (同球共济). Participating in global governance should transcend the perspective of self-interest, transcend estrangement and conflict with a broad mind, care for the destiny of humanity with a great sentiment, and work together to build a common home and prevent the "tragedy of the commons" (公地悲剧).
Global governance concerns setting rules and managing for the long term. It requires upholding the concept of intergenerational equity and taking into account both the present and the future. We must neither eat the ancestors' food and cut off the descendants' path, nor push the problems that this generation should solve to the next generation. The baton of history is already in our hands, and the subject of "where global governance is going" is already before us. Our generation must provide an answer worthy of the times, show great wisdom that looks to the long term, strive to build a more just, reasonable, stable, and effective global governance system, and hand over a more peaceful, prosperous, and beautiful world to our descendants.
(II) Firming Confidence, Moving Forward Against Difficulties
Building a more just and reasonable global governance system is a feasible and reachable beautiful goal, and it is also a historical process. China believes that as long as all parties set a firm and indomitable will and do not abandon the work of accumulating small successes, they will surely be able to build the vision into reality.
At present, a multipolar world is coming head-on, the process of democratization and rule of law in international relations is unstoppable, and it is a historical inevitability for human society to move from confrontation to cooperation, from imbalance to equilibrium, and from estrangement to symbiosis. With the progress of the times and the awakening of the people, power politics and "small circle governance" are increasingly losing their soil. As long as we hold high the torch of multilateralism, the cause of global governance will surely be able to penetrate the haze and mist and reach the bright shore.
Today's world is intertwined with changes and chaos. Moving from chaos to order is not an easy task, and overcoming contradictions and differences to reach a governance consensus requires arduous efforts. Although the road is long, it will be reached if we walk; although the matter is difficult, it will be done if we do it. We must be strivers and fighters who are self-improving, not hesitaters and slackers who wait and watch, and continuously push forward the great cause of reforming and improving global governance.
(III) Uniting and Taking Action
Global governance pursues the common well-being of the international community and relies on the joint efforts of the international community. China advocates that all countries should unite and cooperate, rise to action, and turn the vision and blueprint of the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议) into a roadmap and timetable for all countries to work together.
Global governance seeks the common well-being of the international community and relies on the joint efforts of the international community. China (中国) advocates that all countries should unite and cooperate, take action, and transform the vision and blueprint of global governance initiatives into a roadmap and timetable for concerted action by all nations.
Regarding the different interest demands of various countries, the key is to be adept at 求同存异 (qiú tóng cún yì - "seek common ground, reserve differences," to focus on shared interests while setting aside disagreements) and 聚同化异 (jù tóng huà yì - "gather commonalities, resolve differences," to build consensus by bridging gaps), finding the greatest common denominator for peaceful development and win-win cooperation. It is essential to unite under one system, one order, and one set of rules, and to fortify the United Nations (联合国) as the core mechanism for practicing multilateralism and the primary platform for global governance. Unity is strength. Only through unity and cooperation can we accomplish tasks, do good deeds, and achieve great things, and only then can we transform the propositions of global governance initiatives into the broadest consensus and the most powerful actions.
The implementation of global governance initiatives cannot be achieved without major powers assuming their responsibilities, without multilateral mechanisms playing their roles, and without the international community putting them into practice. We must distinguish between the urgent and the less pressing, promote the cooling down of hot-spot issues, and prioritize strengthening communication and cooperation in areas where governance urgency is prominent and governance deficits are large, such as international financial architecture reform, artificial intelligence (人工智能), cyberspace, climate change, trade, and outer space. We must actively build consensus, lock in outcomes, and strive for early harvests.
Concluding Remarks
This is an era full of challenges and hope, and a better future requires generation after generation to strive for it. This is an initiative that carries ideals and is also 脚踏实地 (jiǎo tà shí dì - "foot tread solid ground," to be realistic and down-to-earth). More perfect global governance requires moving forward step by step.
The Global Governance Initiative stands at the forefront of the era, injecting momentum into the promotion of building a community with a shared future for mankind, providing a compass for the giant ship of history to sail through wind and waves, and serving as another important international public good contributed by China (中国) to the world.
Looking to the future, as the international community increasingly understands and participates in this major initiative, the progressive forces that uphold multilateralism will inevitably continue to grow, and the grand goal of building a more just and reasonable global governance system will surely become a reality step by step.
China (中国) is willing to work with all countries to adhere to the principles of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits, promote the implementation of the Global Governance Initiative, make the path of multilateralism wider, let the sunshine of fairness and justice shine upon the earth, allow the fruits of global governance to benefit the world, and join hands to open up a bright prospect of shared human destiny and civilizational progress!
(Note 1) "Four Shoulds": The sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries should be respected; the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章) should be observed; the legitimate security concerns of all countries should be taken seriously; and all efforts conducive to the peaceful settlement of crises should be supported.
(Note 2) "Four Security Centers": The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织) Comprehensive Center for Countering Security Threats and Challenges and its branches: the Center for Combating Transnational Organized Crime, the Information Security Center, and the Anti-Drug Center.
(Note 3) "Six Modernizations": Just and reasonable modernization, open and win-win modernization, people-centered modernization, diverse and inclusive modernization, eco-friendly modernization, and peaceful and secure modernization.
(Note 4) "Ten Partnership Actions": Civilization Mutual Learning Partnership Action, Trade Prosperity Partnership Action, Industrial Chain Cooperation Partnership Action, Connectivity Partnership Action, Development Cooperation Partnership Action, Health Partnership Action, Agriculture and People-Benefit Partnership Action, People-to-People Exchange Partnership Action, Green Development Partnership Action, and Security Building Partnership Action.
(Note 5) "Eight Joint Actions": Joint Action for Supporting Development, Joint Action for Food Security, Joint Action for Health, Joint Action for Green Innovation, Joint Action for Energy Security, Joint Action for Dialogue Among Civilizations, Joint Action for Youth Development, and Joint Action for Security and Stability.
(Note 6) "Four Full Respects": Fully respect the sovereignty and independence of island countries, and uphold the equality of all countries regardless of size; fully respect the will of island countries, and uphold extensive consultation, joint contribution, shared benefits, and win-win results; fully respect the national cultural traditions of island countries, and uphold 和而不同 (hé ér bù tóng - "harmony without uniformity," to maintain harmony while acknowledging differences) and 美美与共 (měi měi yǔ gòng - "cherish the beauty of others as one's own," to appreciate the beauty of different cultures and share in that beauty); fully respect the unity and self-improvement of island countries, support island countries in implementing the "2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent" (蓝色太平洋2050战略), and contribute to building a peaceful, harmonious, secure, inclusive, and prosperous Blue Pacific.
(Note 7) "Seven Cooperation Platforms": Platforms for emergency supplies, climate change, poverty reduction and development cooperation, disaster prevention and mitigation, Juncao technology, agricultural cooperation, and police cooperation.
(Note 8) In November 2023, during his visit to the United States (美国), President Xi Jinping (习近平) announced that China (中国) is willing to invite 50,000 American teenagers to China (中国) for exchange and study over the next five years.
(Note 9) In May 2024, during his visit to France (法国), President Xi Jinping (习近平) announced the promotion of increasing the number of French students studying in China (中国) to over 10,000 in the next three years and doubling the scale of European youth exchanges in China (中国).
(Note 10) All are foreign medical aid projects: "Bright Journey" (光明行) conducts free cataract surgery clinics, "Love Journey" (爱心行) conducts free heart surgery clinics, and "Smile Journey" (微笑行) conducts free cleft lip and palate surgery clinics.
(Xinhua News Agency (新华社), Beijing (北京), June 17)
Return to TopBeijing (北京), June 17 — (Reporter Wu Dan (吴丹)) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Education (教育部) that in order to effectively carry out the service work for 2026 college entrance examination (Gaokao (高考)) voluntary application, the Ministry of Education (教育部) organized an online live broadcast event titled "Attending the Same Class" for Gaokao (高考) voluntary application on June 16. Staff from provincial, municipal, and county-level admissions and examination institutions, as well as principals of regular high schools, senior high school homeroom teachers, and student development guidance teachers, watched the live broadcast online.
The event deployed measures to ensure that Gaokao (高考) voluntary application services are implemented thoroughly and meticulously. It required local admissions and examination institutions to carefully conduct training for teachers, students, and parents, provide information services such as the release of authoritative data and the sending of public welfare text messages, and continuously build and improve hotline networks and offline consultation service stations, striving to meet the multi-level and differentiated consultation needs of examinees and their parents.
The event invited relevant experts to explain the basic principles and methods of Gaokao (高考) voluntary application, helping frontline teachers to comprehensively understand and master policy regulations, application methods, and precautions, thereby further improving their ability and level of guidance for voluntary application. At the same time, it emphasized establishing scientific concepts for voluntary application, breaking away from misconceptions such as "only prestigious schools" and "only popular majors," and guiding students to combine their interests, specialties, and potential with long-term planning to find a development path suitable for their own growth and success.
Relevant units provided a detailed introduction to the usage methods of the "Sunshine Gaokao (阳光高考)" information platform and the "Sunshine Voluntary Application (阳光志愿)" information service system, including practical functions such as intelligent voluntary screening, college and major inquiries, and professional inclination assessments, as well as featured data such as employment status and graduate evaluations, to assist examinees in filling out their voluntary applications. This effort aims to ensure that students do not 守株待兔 (shǒu zhū dài tù - "guard stump wait rabbit," to rely on luck or wait idly for opportunities) when planning their future, but instead actively engage with these resources to make informed decisions.
Return to TopBeijing (北京), June 17 (Reporter Zhang Shuo (张烁)) — The 18th Straits Forum (海峡论坛) was held in Xiamen (厦门), Fujian (福建), on June 13. Chen Binhua (陈斌华), spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council (国务院台办), stated at a regular press conference on the 17th that, to date, more than 30 activities have been held during this forum. Over 6,000 Taiwan compatriots (台胞), particularly "first-time visitors" (首来族) and Taiwanese youth, have participated enthusiastically, undeterred by the interference and obstruction of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities (民进党当局). This fully proves that the grand trend of compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait (两岸) getting closer and coming together will not change, and that the interference and sabotage by the DPP authorities (民进党当局) are **不得人心** (bù dé rén xīn - "not gain people's hearts," unpopular and against the will of the people) and will not succeed.
Chen Binhua (陈斌华) noted that this year's forum has persisted in enhancing people's well-being through exchange and integration, promoting a series of policies, cooperation projects, and phased progress to be released, signed, and implemented during the forum. It intuitively showcased the solid achievements of the "Small Four Links" (小四通) and the bright prospects of the "New Four Links" (新四通), comprehensively demonstrating the actual construction of Fujian (福建) as the first home for Taiwan compatriots and enterprises (台胞台企) to land. A matchmaking and signing ceremony for 10 policies and measures to promote cross-strait exchange and cooperation was held on the 13th, and multiple letters of intent for procurement were signed in the field of cross-strait agriculture and fisheries. Fujian Province (福建省) implemented five measures to deepen cross-strait film and television cultural exchanges, took the lead in introducing Taiwanese television dramas to be broadcast during prime time on satellite television, and established the Cross-Strait Audiovisual Copyright Exchange Center (两岸视听版权交流中心). The Straits Finance Forum · Taiwan Enterprise Development Forum (海峡金融论坛·台企发展论坛) released the mainland banking industry's first group standard for financial services for Taiwan, the Cross-Strait Maritime Culture Exchange Activity (海峡两岸航海文化交流活动) released five work measures to promote high-quality development of cross-strait shipping, and the Straits Science and Technology Experts Forum (海峡科技专家论坛) facilitated the signing of six cross-strait science and technology exchange and cooperation projects. The Straits Youth Forum (海峡青年论坛) established a cooperation mechanism for youth organizations on both sides, released 23 cross-strait organization cooperation projects, and saw 19 pairs of cross-strait youth organizations form partnerships and sign cooperation agreements. The Straits Women's Forum (海峡妇女论坛) facilitated the pairing of 10 families sharing the same ancestry. Dozens of Taiwanese youth took the stage at the forum and related events to share their personal journeys of crossing the strait, seeking their ancestral roots, and integrating into life and development on the mainland. More than 100 university students from both sides formed co-creation teams to participate in a short drama creation and performance competition, using their lenses to tell vivid stories of Fujian and Taiwan (闽台) sharing the same roots and helping each other in times of need.
He said that Taiwanese guests from all walks of life, while participating in the forum's activities, have repeatedly called for cross-strait relations to return to the right track of peaceful development as soon as possible, hoping that both sides will expand exchanges and cooperation and work together to create a bright future for national rejuvenation.
Chen Binhua (陈斌华) introduced that since the release of the "Opinions of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央) and the State Council (国务院) on Supporting Fujian (福建) in Exploring New Paths for Cross-Strait Integrated Development and Building a Demonstration Zone for Cross-Strait Integrated Development" in 2023, relevant departments of the central government and state organs have formulated and issued a series of supporting policy documents. Fujian (福建) has successively released five batches of 74 policy measures to promote Fujian-Taiwan (闽台) integration, rolled out a number of key projects for Fujian-Taiwan (闽台) integrated development, and publicly released the first batch of 17 landmark achievements. The demonstration effect of the demonstration zone on Taiwan (台) is gradually appearing, its influence is expanding, the first home for Taiwan compatriots and enterprises (台胞台企) to land is becoming more convenient, cross-strait economic and cultural exchanges and cooperation are continuously deepening, and Fujian's (福建) overall integrated development maintains a good momentum, with phased progress achieved in the construction of the demonstration zone. In 2025, Fujian (福建) newly established 2,612 Taiwan-funded enterprises, a year-on-year increase of 6.8%. From January to May this year, 518,000 Taiwan compatriots (台胞) entered through Fujian (福建) ports, a year-on-year increase of 29.7%; the number of passengers traveling via the "Small Three Links" (小三通) reached 939,000, an increase of 25.6%.
Taiwanese media reported that in 2026, the DPP authorities (民进党当局) budgeted nearly NT$950 billion for defense, an increase of about three times compared to the beginning of the DPP's (民进党) tenure in 2016. Public opinion on the island criticized this as squandering huge funds that should have been used to improve people's livelihoods on meaningless armaments. In response to this, Chen Binhua (陈斌华) stated that since taking office, the DPP authorities (民进党当局) have stubbornly adhered to the "Taiwan independence" (台独) separatist stance, continuously colluding with external forces to engage in "independence" provocations. For the sake of their party's political self-interest, they have increasingly squandered the hard-earned money of the Taiwanese people, willingly paying "protection fees" to external forces, and running wildly on the evil path of militarism. "Taiwan independence" (台独) and peace in the Taiwan Strait (台海) are **水火不容** (shuǐ huǒ bù róng - "water and fire do not mix," incompatible). "Protection fees" cannot buy protection, and "seeking independence by force" will only lead Taiwan step by step into an abyss of disaster, making the Taiwanese people "cannon fodder" for "Taiwan independence" (台独).
Chen Binhua (陈斌华) pointed out that the future of Taiwan (台湾) and the safety, security, and well-being of Taiwan compatriots (台湾同胞) are always tied to the peaceful development of cross-strait relations and the reunification of the motherland. Only by opposing "Taiwan independence" (台独) separatism can the Taiwan Strait (台海) be peaceful and tranquil. Only by achieving the complete reunification of the motherland can Taiwan (台湾) enjoy lasting peace.
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# Table of Contents
Preface
I. The Contemporary World Faces Severe and Complex Crisis Challenges
(I) Increasingly Severe Challenges Call for More Effective Governance
(II) The Law of the Jungle Seriously Impacts International Rule of Law
(III) Addressing Shortcomings in the Governance System is Imperative
(IV) The Voice of the Global South Needs to be Heard More
II. The Global Governance Initiative Provides an Answer for the Times to Solve Difficult Problems
(I) Upholding Sovereign Equality
(II) Observing International Rule of Law
(III) Practicing Multilateralism
(IV) Advocating a People-Centered Approach
(V) Focusing on Action-Orientation
III. China's Contribution to Advancing the Cause of Global Governance
(I) Committed to Universal and Common Security
(II) Promoting Open Cooperation and Common Development
(III) Firmly Practicing True Multilateralism
(IV) Supporting the Global South in Playing a Greater Role
(V) Promoting Exchanges and Mutual Learning Among Civilizations
(VI) Providing More Public Goods to the International Community
IV. Leading the Direction of Change and Moving Toward a Bright Future
(I) Consolidating Broad Consensus on Improving Global Governance
(II) Reflecting a Vision and Responsibility for the World
(III) Expanding the Practical Path for Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind
(IV) Opening Up New Horizons for Human Political Civilization
V. Working Together at a Critical Juncture of Historical Evolution
(I) Planning for the World and for All Generations
(II) Firming Confidence and Overcoming Difficulties
(III) Uniting and Taking Action
Concluding Remarks
Preface
Global governance is a common cause concerning human well-being, and building a fair and reasonable global governance system is a shared vision that people of all countries strive for.
More than 80 years ago, the founding of the United Nations (联合国) established a multilateral cooperation platform for countries to handle international affairs through dialogue and consultation, established international rule of law, and initiated a brand-new practice of global governance. After the end of the Cold War, the processes of world multipolarization and economic globalization accelerated, and the concept of global governance based on coordination and cooperation became increasingly deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. However, for some time, unilateralism, protectionism, and hegemonism have been running rampant, and the deficits in peace, development, security, and trust have continued to expand. How to reform and improve global governance, solve difficult problems and challenges, and effectively play the core role of the United Nations (联合国) has become a major issue concerning the future and destiny of mankind.
China (中国) has always been an active participant, contributor, and builder of global governance. Since the new era, President Xi Jinping (习近平) has historically put forward the major concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind, advocated a global governance view of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits, advocated practicing true multilateralism, and promoted equal and orderly world multipolarization and universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization. In 2025, at the critical historical node of the 80th anniversary of the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War and the founding of the United Nations (联合国), President Xi Jinping (习近平) solemnly proposed the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议), providing a Chinese solution for answering the question of the times: "What kind of global governance system should be built, and how to reform and improve global governance."
Once proposed, the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议) was quickly supported and responded to by nearly 160 countries and international organizations, and more than 60 countries enthusiastically joined the "Group of Friends of Global Governance" (全球治理之友小组). The international community believes that the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议) has sent a clear signal of holding high the banner of multilateralism, gathering the power of unity, and pursuing a fair future. It conforms to the trend of the times of democratization of international relations, boosts the firm confidence of the international community in practicing multilateralism, provides a clear and feasible path and plan for improving global governance, and injects precious stability and positive energy into a turbulent world.
China (中国) proposed the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议) with the aim of promoting the construction of a more fair and reasonable global governance system. To implement the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议), the most fundamental thing is to firmly safeguard the authority and status of the United Nations (联合国), the most critical thing is for major powers to demonstrate responsibility, the most needed thing is for all countries to unite and cooperate, and the most urgent thing is to make up for the peace and development deficits. We must unswervingly safeguard the international system with the United Nations (联合国) at its core, the international order based on international law, and the basic norms of international relations based on the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章), rather than starting over.
In order to introduce China's (中国) concepts, initiatives, and actions on global governance, build broader consensus in the international community, more effectively respond to global challenges, and build a more fair and reasonable global governance system, the Chinese government (中国政府) hereby releases this white paper.
I. The Contemporary World Faces Severe and Complex Crisis Challenges
The era we live in is experiencing changes unseen in a century, and the cause of human peace and development has a long way to go. The international system established after World War II (二战) has been seriously impacted by multiple crises. Global governance is at a critical juncture where it will either advance or retreat. The world needs to revitalize multilateralism, adhere to the rule of law, and improve governance efficiency more than ever before.
(I) Increasingly Severe Challenges Call for More Effective Governance
At present, the depth of changes in the international situation is rare in history, and the intensity of chaos is more prominent. International political and economic disputes have intensified, many contradictions have been exposed, and various "black swans" and "gray rhinos" have emerged one after another. The ship of human civilization has sailed into dangerous waters full of reefs and storms.
Geopolitical contradictions are increasingly intensifying, and armed conflicts are breaking out in many places. The Ukraine crisis (乌克兰危机) has entered its 5th year, the war in the Middle East (中东) has spilled over and expanded, and many hot-spot issues remain unresolved. The Global Peace Index has continued to deteriorate. In 2025, the number of armed conflicts reached a new high since the end of World War II (二战), with more than 50 countries directly involved in conflicts and wars. Global military spending has expanded sharply, militarism has resurfaced, nuclear proliferation and "nuclear sharing" have sounded alarms, and international security is at a fragile moment.
World economic fragmentation has intensified, and the development process has been seriously hindered. Economic globalization has encountered countercurrents. Building walls and barriers, "decoupling and breaking chains," and abusing tariffs have disrupted the operation of the world economy. The implementation of the United Nations (联合国) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2030年可持续发展议程) is seriously lagging behind. Nearly 80% of the specific goals are progressing slowly or even regressing. More than 830 million people worldwide are in a state of extreme poverty, 2.3 billion people are in a state of food insecurity, and the North-South divide and the gap between rich and poor continue to widen.
New challenges have followed one after another, and multiple crises are intertwined and superimposed. Climate transition is facing difficulties, the digital divide continues to widen, the abuse of artificial intelligence has triggered security risks, food and energy security challenges have intensified, and non-traditional security threats such as terrorism, cyberattacks, transnational crime, and biosafety have risen. The problems that human society needs to face together are more complex and diverse.
There is only one Earth in the universe, and mankind shares one home. Countries are not riding on more than 190 small boats, but are riding together on a big ship with a shared future. Only by helping each other in the same boat and looking out for each other can we weather the storms of global challenges and sail toward a better future.
(II) The Law of the Jungle Seriously Impacts International Rule of Law
The United Nations (联合国) building, established on the ruins of the two world wars, shelters mankind from the wind and rain for peace and development, and the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章) has laid the institutional cornerstone for global governance. History can only move forward and not backward. The lessons of blood and fire must be deeply learned, and the recurrence of the law of the jungle must be avoided with all our might.
Unilateralism and hegemonism are deeply harmful and openly trample on international law and the basic norms of international relations. Individual countries bully the small, rely on their strength to oppress the weak, and brazenly use force against sovereign states; they engage in "America First" (or similar national priority policies) and double standards, challenging international justice for their own selfish interests; they piece together various small cliques and small circles, repeating the old script of provoking division and confrontation and dividing spheres of influence in the 21st century, becoming the biggest source of chaos in today's world.
Anti-globalization and protectionism are on the rise, and economic and trade issues are being politicized, instrumentalized, and weaponized. Some countries have provoked trade wars and technology wars, abused illegal unilateral sanctions and "long-arm jurisdiction," insisted on creating "small yards and high fences" and "parallel systems," generalized the concept of national security, and suppressed and contained the economic and technological development of other countries. A series of perverse acts violate the principles of market economy, trample on the rules of free trade, and seriously undermine the international economic and trade order.
Standing at the crossroads of history, whether it is fairness and justice or the law of the jungle, openness and win-win or isolation and confrontation, international rule of law or power politics, mankind must make a responsible and correct choice.
(III) Addressing Shortcomings in the Governance System is Imperative
The United Nations (联合国) is the most universal, representative, and authoritative international organization. The international system with the United Nations (联合国) at its core plays an irreplaceable and important role in global governance. However, with the development of the times and the evolution of the pattern, there are more and more places where the current global governance system is unadapted and mismatched, and the shortcomings and deficits are increasingly aggravated:
Authority is challenged. Individual major powers ignore the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章), frequently withdraw from groups and break contracts, withdraw funds and cut off supplies, obstruct the passage of Security Council (安理会) resolutions, paralyze the dispute settlement mechanism of the World Trade Organization (世界贸易组织), and seriously impact the international order. The operation of multilateral mechanisms has become more difficult, and the foundation of trust in multilateral cooperation has been eroded.
Effectiveness needs to be improved urgently. Some countries refuse to fulfill their own responsibilities and obligations, and the situation where multilateral agendas are discussed but not decided, and decided but not implemented, has existed for a long time. The operational efficiency, emergency response capability, and work transparency of multilateral institutions such as the United Nations (联合国) need to be improved. Governance in emerging fields such as artificial intelligence, cyberspace, and outer space is absent.
Representation is seriously insufficient. In order to maintain their own hegemony and private interests, some countries have long hindered the reform process of the United Nations (联合国) and its institutions, resulting in serious lags in reforms such as the International Monetary Fund (国际货币基金组织) quotas and World Bank (世界银行) equity, and the representation and voice of the vast number of developing countries are not fully reflected.
Although the current governance system is not perfect, it does not need to be overthrown and rebuilt, nor does it need to be started over. It is necessary to reform and improve with the times, solve the problems of mismatch and unadaptation, make up for governance shortcomings with a developmental attitude, and respond to the call of the times with progressive concepts.
(IV) The Voice of the Global South Needs to be Heard More
As an important force for seeking peace, pursuing development, and promoting cooperation, the collective rise of the Global South (全球南方) is the progress of mankind. To make the world stable and better, it is necessary to respond more to the demands of the South in international affairs and give full play to the role of the South.
The Global South (全球南方) is growing magnificently. After World War II (二战), the national independence and liberation movements in Asia, Africa, and Latin America surged, the world colonial system collapsed, and the number of United Nations (联合国) member states increased from 51 at the beginning of its founding to 193 now. Today, calculated by purchasing power parity, the share of the Global South (全球南方) in the world economy exceeds 60%, and its contribution rate to world economic growth reaches 80%, with multiple development centers formed in various regions. It is unsustainable for a few countries to monopolize international affairs, and the long-standing historical injustice must be corrected.
The Global South (全球南方) brings a new atmosphere to global governance. The BRICS (金砖国家) countries have achieved historic expansion, and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织) has become the regional international organization with the widest territory and the largest population, playing an active role in the construction and reform of the global governance system. The G20 (二十国集团) has become the main platform for global economic governance, with emerging economies accounting for more than half of its members. The "Group of 77 and China" (77国集团和中国) promotes fairness and justice and deepens South-South cooperation. Global South (全球南方) countries have hosted a series of multilateral summits, leaving a Southern imprint and making Southern contributions to global governance.
The era calls for a more inclusive, fair, and sustainable global governance model. The process of greater respect for the development rights, right to speak, and decision-making power of Global South (全球南方) countries in international affairs will surely be a historical process in which the global governance system becomes more vibrant, effective, and promising.
II. The Global Governance Initiative Provides an Answer for the Times to Solve Difficult Problems
The Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议) takes safeguarding the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章) and practicing the global governance view of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits as its basic guidelines. It puts forward five core concepts: upholding sovereign equality, observing international rule of law, practicing multilateralism, advocating a people-centered approach, and focusing on action-orientation. It hits the crux and root causes of many crises and challenges, and provides a scientific guide for building a more fair and reasonable global governance system.
(I) Upholding Sovereign Equality
Sovereign equality is the basic principle clearly stated in the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章) and is the most important norm for regulating relations between countries. Countries vary in size, strength, and development, but they are all equal members of the international community. Their sovereignty and dignity must be respected, and they all have the right to participate equally, decide equally, and benefit equally in the process of global governance.
In dealing with each other, countries should put equal treatment first. Countries should consult on an equal footing in a spirit of mutual respect and properly manage contradictions and differences. Major powers should behave like major powers and set an example of being equal, honest, and cooperative, rather than pushing for hegemony, bullying, and intimidation based on so-called "positions of strength." Departing from the principle of sovereign equality, international relations will degenerate into power games, international law will lose its logical starting point, and the world will never have peace.
Sovereign equality is an inevitable requirement for uniting to meet challenges. Now, common interests, common challenges, and common responsibilities have closely linked the future and destiny of all countries. Only by ensuring that all countries participate in governance equally, rather than a few developed countries monopolizing the right to speak, can all parties establish basic political trust in unity and cooperation, can the rules and decisions produced have broad recognition and solid legitimacy, and can a powerful joint force of "discussing things together" be formed.
Being equal and inclusive is the historical trend of the evolution of the governance system. Pluralistic symbiosis is the original appearance of human society, and multipolar coexistence is the requirement for the development of the international pattern. It is the general trend to improve the representativeness, inclusiveness, and universality of the global governance system. Equality of rights, equality of opportunities, and equality of rules are what the people want. The set of power bullying against the historical trend is doomed to fail.
(II) Observing International Rule of Law
International rule of law is the fundamental guarantee for global governance. Only a global governance system based on the rule of law can truly provide a fair and just development environment for all countries, ensure the balance of rights and obligations, and promote the evolution of the international order in a more fair and reasonable direction.
To strictly implement the international rule of law, the foundation lies in abiding by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章). The various confrontations and injustices in today's world are not because the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章) is outdated, but because it has not been effectively implemented. The Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章) clarifies the purposes and principles of "maintaining international peace and security," "promoting international cooperation," "peaceful settlement of international disputes," and "not using threats or force in international relations," establishes the basic norms of international relations, and builds an important cornerstone for the stability of the post-war international order, which must be unswervingly safeguarded.
To strictly implement the international rule of law, the key lies in defending its impartiality and seriousness. Only by ensuring the equal and unified application of international law, rather than using it when it suits and discarding it when it doesn't, can we truly distinguish right from wrong and promote peace and development. All countries are stakeholders in the international rule of law. If there is no international rule of law, you might be at the dinner table yesterday, and you might be on the menu tomorrow. Major powers are the key force in promoting the international rule of law. They should especially take the lead in following the rules and talking about the rule of law, should not place their own interests above international law, and should not impose their own "family rules" or "gang rules" on others.
To strictly implement the international rule of law, it is necessary to improve the formulation of rules in emerging fields. Human society is developing with each passing day, and the rules of global governance also need to keep up. In new frontiers such as the deep sea, polar regions, outer space, and cyberspace, some are the common heritage of mankind, and some are the frontiers of future development. The shortcomings of rule gaps and governance absence need to be filled urgently. We should uphold the principles of peace, sovereignty, universality, and co-governance to ensure that the development and utilization of new frontiers have laws to follow and become an increment of cooperation for all parties, rather than a battlefield for mutual games. Artificial intelligence governance must not only hold the bottom line of security and ethics but also adhere to openness, sharing, and intelligent equality to ensure that intelligence is for good and truly benefits mankind.
(III) Practicing Multilateralism
Multilateralism was born for the cause of peace and development, and multilateral mechanisms are of great significance for solving global problems. No country can achieve development outside the global governance system, and no country can win the future without international cooperation. Multilateralism is not a multiple-choice question, but the only feasible path. 守株待兔 (shǒu zhū dài tù - "guard stump wait rabbit," to rely on luck or wait idly for opportunities) is not an option in the face of global crises.
Multilateralism was born for the cause of peace and development, and multilateral mechanisms are of great significance for resolving global issues. No country can achieve development while remaining outside the global governance system, nor can any country win the future in isolation from international cooperation. Multilateralism is not a multiple-choice question; it is the only viable path.
Adhere to extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits. The essence of multilateralism is that international affairs should be discussed and handled by all, and the destiny of the world should be grasped by all countries together. We must pool wisdom through consultation, gather strength through joint contribution, and benefit everyone through shared benefits. We must clearly oppose all forms of unilateralism, and oppose "hegemony by one country," "governance by a few," and bloc politics. Artificially creating mutual isolation will only push the world into an abyss of confrontation and opposition.
Resolutely safeguard the core status of the United Nations (联合国). The United Nations (联合国) is the most important platform for practicing multilateralism and advancing global governance. The leading position of the United Nations (联合国) must be upheld and cannot be shaken; its role can only be strengthened, not weakened. All countries should revisit the original aspirations of the founding of the United Nations (联合国), promote the revitalization of its authority and vitality in the new situation, and give full play to its central role in coordinating actions and jointly addressing challenges.
Firmly promote multilateral dialogue, consultation, and cooperation. Faced with complex global challenges, no single country can stay out of harm's way, nor can it solve all problems by fighting alone. We must build consensus through dialogue, resolve differences through consultation, and promote win-win outcomes through cooperation, striving to expand the convergence of common interests for all parties. We must give full play to the constructive role of various global and regional multilateral mechanisms, mobilize the resources and forces of governments, international organizations, non-governmental organizations, and other parties, and promote more coordinated and efficient global governance.
(IV) Advocate for a People-Centered Approach
Human well-being is the core concern of global governance, and the people of all countries are the fundamental participants and beneficiaries of global governance. Only by taking the gains of the people as the goal and continuously providing confidence and stable expectations for the public can the global governance system gain broad support and operate effectively.
Promote common development and bring a greater sense of gain to the people of all countries. Development concerns people's lives and dignity; this is a contest between hope and disappointment. World prosperity and stability cannot be built on the basis of a widening gap between the rich and the poor. We must place development back at the center of the international agenda, mobilize global development resources, and accelerate the implementation of the United Nations (联合国) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. We should bridge the North-South divide as soon as possible, help developing countries enhance their capacity for independent development, and let the fruits of development benefit the people of all countries more and more fairly.
Address common challenges and bring a greater sense of security to the people of all countries. In today's world, the safety and well-being of all countries are intertwined. All parties should establish a concept of common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable security, and coordinate to address both traditional and non-traditional security threats. Faced with risks and challenges such as climate change, public health, and cybersecurity, we should let the general public truly feel that all countries are taking action and that unity can overcome all difficulties.
Promote mutual understanding and closeness, and bring a greater sense of happiness to the people of all countries. Civilizations are colorful because of exchanges and enriched by mutual learning. We must transcend civilizational estrangement through exchanges, transcend civilizational conflicts through mutual learning, and transcend civilizational superiority through inclusiveness. We must strengthen people-to-people exchanges and personnel visits, strive to eliminate ideological barriers between different countries and groups, make safeguarding common interests a shared belief, and let different civilizations shine together and achieve each other.
(V) Focus on Action-Orientation
The vitality of global governance stems from practice, the key lies in action, and the fundamental measure is effectiveness. A beautiful vision must be realized through hard work. The international community must anchor common goals, base itself on solving problems, and take concerted action.
Persist in combining overall advancement with key breakthroughs. We must not only coordinate the advancement of various global governance agendas and synergistically resolve governance deficits to prevent the fragmentation of the governance system, but also focus on the prominent problems faced by all countries, especially the vast number of developing countries, and achieve tangible governance results and gains in areas such as poverty reduction, people's livelihoods, and the digital divide.
Persist in combining addressing symptoms with addressing root causes. Based on the present, we must solve urgent global problems through pragmatic action plans and improve the effectiveness of responding to major public crises and providing international public goods. Looking to the long term, we must explore ways to fundamentally solve deep-seated problems, improve the lagging state of global governance system reform, and make it conform to the changed world politics and economy.
Persist in combining North-South cooperation with South-South cooperation. The North and the South should complement each other's advantages and move toward each other. Developed countries should earnestly fulfill their international obligations, honor their commitments to development assistance and climate financing, and should not evade international responsibilities under any pretext. Developing countries should unite and strengthen themselves, improve South-South cooperation mechanisms, enhance their capacity for coordinated development and collective voice, and inject inexhaustible power into improving global governance.
III. China's Contribution to Advancing the Cause of Global Governance
As a responsible major country, China (中国) holds high the banner of building a community with a shared future for mankind, takes the lead in practicing true multilateralism, and has always been an unswerving builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, a defender of the international order, and a provider of public goods, actively promoting the construction of a more just and reasonable global governance system.
(I) Committed to Universal and Common Security
Humanity is an indivisible security community. As a major country with the best record on peace and security issues, China (中国) has written the path of peaceful development into its Constitution (宪法), advocates a concept of common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable security, and has proposed and practiced the Global Security Initiative (全球安全倡议), contributing strength to achieving lasting world peace and security.
Firmly safeguard world peace under the framework of the United Nations (联合国). China (中国) faithfully fulfills its duties and missions as a permanent member of the Security Council (安理会), firmly supports the United Nations (联合国) in playing a core role in international affairs, and supports the Security Council (安理会) in playing a primary role in peace and security issues. Actively participating in United Nations (联合国) peacekeeping operations, China (中国) is the second-largest contributor to United Nations (联合国) peacekeeping operations and the largest contributor of troops among the permanent members of the Security Council (安理会). To date, it has dispatched over 50,000 peacekeeping personnel, participated in 29 United Nations (联合国) peacekeeping operations authorized by the Security Council (安理会), established an 8,000-strong peacekeeping standby force, and was the first to form a full-scale standing peacekeeping police unit. On September 3, 2025, as a major victor in World War II (第二次世界大战), China (中国) solemnly commemorated the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (中国人民抗日战争) and the World Anti-Fascist War (世界反法西斯战争), stood with the international community to defend the fruits of victory in World War II (第二次世界大战), promoted a correct view of World War II (第二次世界大战) history, and sounded the clarion call of the era to safeguard peace and ensure that justice will prevail.
Safeguard global strategic stability. China (中国) pursues a defensive national defense policy, adheres to the policy of no-first-use of nuclear weapons, adheres to a self-defensive nuclear strategy, and firmly safeguards the international nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation system. It promoted the leaders of the five nuclear-weapon states to jointly issue a joint statement on preventing nuclear war and avoiding an arms race, reaffirmed the concept that "a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought," emphasized avoiding military confrontation and preventing an arms race, and issued a common voice on maintaining global strategic stability and reducing the risk of nuclear conflict. China (中国) has proposed a fair, cooperative, balanced, and effective concept of arms control and supports the international arms control system with the United Nations (联合国) at its core.
Pioneer successful practices for solving hotspot issues with Chinese characteristics. China (中国) advocates adhering to non-interference in internal affairs, political settlement, objectivity and impartiality, and addressing both symptoms and root causes, providing new choices for constructively solving hotspot issues. Regarding the Ukraine crisis (乌克兰危机), taking the "four shoulds" as the fundamental guideline, it released the document "China's Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis" (关于政治解决乌克兰危机的中国立场), and together with Brazil (巴西) and other Global South (全球南方) countries, initiated the "Friends of Peace" (和平之友) group for the Ukraine crisis (乌克兰危机), pooling efforts and accumulating conditions for stopping the war and promoting peace talks. On the Palestinian-Israeli issue (巴以问题), it promoted the Security Council (安理会) to pass the first Gaza ceasefire resolution after the outbreak of the new round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict (巴以冲突), provided emergency humanitarian aid to Gaza, clearly supported the "two-state solution" (两国方案), and promoted a comprehensive, just, and lasting settlement of the Palestinian question (巴勒斯坦问题). It facilitated the historic reconciliation and restoration of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia (沙特) and Iran (伊朗), and 14 Palestinian (巴勒斯坦) factions came to China (中国) to hold reconciliation dialogues and sign the "Beijing Declaration" (北京宣言), with the Middle East (中东) "reconciliation wave" being deeply welcomed. Regarding maintaining and promoting peace and stability in the Middle East (中东), it put forward four propositions: adhering to the principle of peaceful coexistence, adhering to the principle of national sovereignty, adhering to the principle of international rule of law, and adhering to the principle of coordinating development and security. Together with Pakistan (巴基斯坦), it issued a five-point initiative on restoring peace and stability in the Gulf (海湾) and Middle East (中东) regions. It advocates an Asian (亚洲) security model of shared security, seeking common ground while reserving differences, and dialogue and consultation, facilitated the signing of a ceasefire agreement by relevant parties in the Northern Myanmar (缅北) conflict, and played a constructive role in the Cambodia-Thailand (柬泰) border dispute and the Afghanistan-Pakistan (阿巴) conflict. It proposed the "Horn of Africa Peace and Development Vision" (非洲之角和平发展构想) and supported regional countries in responding to security challenges.
Build a solid barrier for non-traditional security. It continues to support the construction of the Global Public Security Cooperation Forum (Lianyungang) (全球公共安全合作论坛（连云港）), builds consensus among all parties, and promotes global public security governance. China (中国) advocates comprehensive measures and addressing both symptoms and root causes, advances international and regional counter-terrorism cooperation, implemented the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织) Comprehensive Center for Responding to Security Threats and Challenges and its Information Security Center, Counter-Transnational Organized Crime Center, and Anti-Drug Center, and actively helps developing countries strengthen their counter-terrorism capacity building. It resolutely combats transnational drug crimes, leads the pragmatic development of anti-drug cooperation in the Greater Mekong Subregion (大湄公河次区域), the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织), and BRICS (金砖国家), and is the first in the world to regulate fentanyl-related substances as a class. It forcefully strikes against cross-border crimes such as online gambling and telecommunications fraud, accelerates the construction of the International Alliance for Combating Telecommunications and Network Fraud, and together with Thailand (泰国), Myanmar (缅甸), Laos (老挝), and other countries, jointly destroyed a large number of overseas fraud dens. Under the framework of the G20 (二十国集团), it proposed the International Food Security Cooperation Initiative, promoted the adoption of the "BRICS (金砖国家) Food Security Cooperation Strategy," joined the "Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty" (抗击饥饿与贫困全球联盟), and provided emergency humanitarian food aid to many countries facing food shortages or disasters.
(II) Promote Open Cooperation and Common Development
China's (中国) development cannot be separated from the world, and the world's prosperity also needs China (中国). As the largest developing country, China (中国) has always placed its own development in the coordinate system of human development, adheres to open win-win results, advocates inclusive and universal benefits, provides new opportunities for the world with Chinese-style modernization (中国式现代化), and promotes the development trend of modernization in all countries.
Promote the construction of an open world economy. China (中国) insists on promoting trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, has become the main trading partner of more than 160 countries and regions, and has signed 24 free trade agreements with 31 countries and regions. It promoted the conclusion and high-level implementation of the "Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement" (区域全面经济伙伴关系协定), signed the 3.0 version upgrade protocol of the China-ASEAN (中国—东盟) Free Trade Area, actively promoted accession to the "Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership" (全面与进步跨太平洋伙伴关系协定) and the "Digital Economy Partnership Agreement" (数字经济伙伴关系协定), and expanded a high-standard free trade area network facing the world. It firmly safeguards the rules-based multilateral trading system with the World Trade Organization (世界贸易组织) at its core, comprehensively and deeply participates in World Trade Organization (世界贸易组织) reform, and announced that it will not seek new special and differential treatment in current and future World Trade Organization (世界贸易组织) negotiations.
Bring broader opportunities to the world through higher-level opening up. It deeply advances institutional opening up, comprehensively cancels market access restrictions for foreign investment in the manufacturing sector, continuously reduces the negative list for foreign investment access, and creates a first-class market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized business environment. It orderly expands autonomous opening up and unilateral opening up, has successively established 23 pilot free trade zones, the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港) has fully implemented island-wide customs closure operations, actively created open cooperation platforms such as the China International Import Expo (中国国际进口博览会), the China International Fair for Trade in Services (中国国际服务贸易交易会), the China International Consumer Products Expo (中国国际消费品博览会), and the China International Supply Chain Expo (中国国际供应链促进博览会), and implemented zero tariffs on all least developed countries and African (非洲) countries that have established diplomatic relations with China. During China's (中国) "14th Five-Year Plan" (十四五) period, imports of goods and services exceeded 15 trillion US dollars. In the next five years, China's (中国) gross domestic product is expected to grow from 140 trillion yuan to 170 trillion yuan, and the potential of its super-large market is being continuously released.
High-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" (一带一路) is going deeper and more solid. China (中国) has promoted the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" (一带一路) to enter a new stage of high-quality development, created the widest and largest international cooperation platform, and broadened the "development belt" that benefits the world and the "road to happiness" that benefits all parties. Policy communication has gathered synergy, with cooperation documents signed with more than 150 countries and 30 international organizations. It successfully held three "Belt and Road" (一带一路) Forums for International Cooperation, established more than 30 special cooperation mechanisms in key areas such as economy, trade, energy, and infrastructure, and established the Forum Secretariat. Facility connectivity has achieved leapfrog development, with new breakthroughs in a large number of flagship projects such as cross-border highways, railways, ports, and aviation hubs. The "six corridors, six roads, multiple countries, and multiple ports" interconnection architecture has been basically formed, and the China-Europe Railway Express (中欧班列) has cumulatively operated more than 130,000 trains. Trade connectivity has advanced against the trend, with deep docking of systems in areas such as cross-border payments, digital certification, and smart customs. In 2025, China's (中国) trade in goods with partner countries reached 23.6 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.3%, and its share of China's (中国) total foreign trade increased to 51.9%. Financial integration is becoming increasingly diversified. The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (亚洲基础设施投资银行) and the Silk Road Fund (丝路基金) have provided investment and financing support for hundreds of projects, established a renminbi financing window, and from 2021 to the first half of 2025, China's (中国) two-way investment with partner countries cumulatively exceeded 240 billion US dollars. People-to-people bonds are closer, with iconic livelihood brands such as Luban Workshops (鲁班工坊) and Juncao technology (菌草技术) continuously promoted, and exchanges and cooperation in culture, tourism, education, media, and youth are blooming everywhere.
The Global Development Initiative (全球发展倡议) has landed and taken effect. With the goal of accelerating the implementation of the United Nations (联合国) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, China (中国) has promoted global development toward a new stage of balance, coordination, and inclusiveness, achieving more robust, green, and healthy global development. The consensus of development first continues to gather, with more than 130 countries and international organizations supporting and participating in the initiative, and more than 80 countries joining the "Group of Friends of the Global Development Initiative" (全球发展倡议之友小组). China (中国) hosted the High-level Dialogue on Global Development, held the Global Shared Development Action Forum, and promoted all parties to re-commit to and restart the Sustainable Development Goals. Cooperation mechanisms are becoming increasingly perfect. China (中国) has signed more than 80 cooperation documents for implementing the initiative with developing countries, international organizations, and financial institutions, built more than 30 cooperation mechanisms in the eight key areas of the initiative, fully covering all 17 Sustainable Development Goals, established the Global Development Promotion Center, built a Global Development Knowledge Network, and released the "Global Development Report" (全球发展报告). It established the China-UN (中国—联合国) Global South-South Development Cooperation Fund with the United Nations (联合国), actively discussed with the United Nations Development Programme (联合国开发计划署) to prepare for the establishment of the UNDP Global Sustainable Development Center, and took the initiative to establish the Global Development Institute. Development cooperation resources are continuously gathered, mobilizing more than 23 billion US dollars in various development funds, creating the Global Development and South-South Cooperation Fund and increasing its capital to 4 billion US dollars, and launching the third phase of the China-FAO (中国—联合国粮农组织) South-South Cooperation Trust Fund. Pragmatic cooperation has achieved remarkable results. China (中国) established a project pool for the Global Development Initiative (全球发展倡议), carried out more than 1,800 cooperation projects, completed 80,000 person-times of training under the framework of the initiative, and helped developing countries enhance their capacity for independent and sustainable development.
(III) Firmly Practice True Multilateralism
No matter how the international situation changes, China (中国) has always firmly safeguarded the international system with the United Nations (联合国) at its core, the international order based on international law, and the basic norms of international relations based on the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章). It advocates and practices true multilateralism and is firmly an active leader and powerful promoter of multilateral cooperation.
China firmly upholds the authority and status of the United Nations (联合国). As a founding member of the United Nations (联合国) and the first country to sign the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章), China has always used concrete actions to safeguard the core role of the United Nations (联合国) in international affairs. The proportion of the United Nations (联合国) assessed contributions borne by China has grown from less than 1% in 2000 to over 20% in 2025, making it the second-largest contributor to the United Nations (联合国) regular budget. China pays its assessed contributions to the United Nations (联合国) in full and on time, supporting the effective operation of United Nations (联合国) agencies. China established the China-UN Peace and Development Fund (中国—联合国和平与发展基金) and has renewed and increased its investment, providing strong support for major United Nations (联合国) agendas. China supports the United Nations (联合国) in promoting the implementation of the Pact for the Future (《未来契约》) and improving quality and efficiency through the "UN 80th Anniversary Reform Initiative" (“联合国80周年改革倡议”) to revitalize its vitality. China actively supports the United Nations (联合国) and its specialized agencies in establishing new institutions in China, such as the UNESCO International STEM Education Institute (联合国教科文组织国际STEM教育研究所) and the IMF Shanghai Regional Center (国际货币基金组织上海区域中心) in Shanghai (上海). China sends outstanding talent to the United Nations (联合国), and the proportion of Chinese staff in various United Nations (联合国) agencies and related international organizations has steadily increased. China successfully hosted the Global Women's Summit (全球妇女峰会), accelerating the new process of comprehensive development for women. (See Sidebar 1)
China safeguards the authority of international rule of law and promotes the progress of international rule of law. China has joined almost all universal intergovernmental international organizations and participated in more than 600 international conventions and amendments, fulfilling treaty obligations in good faith and effectively honoring international commitments. China held a grand commemorative meeting for the 70th anniversary of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence (和平共处五项原则), firmly defending the basic norms of international relations and the fundamental principles of international law. China firmly supports the work of United Nations (联合国) judicial bodies and actively participates in international judicial activities. China actively carries out international law enforcement cooperation and continuously increases efforts in repatriation and extradition regarding anti-corruption, overseas fugitive pursuit, and asset recovery. China initiated and promoted the establishment of the International Organization for Mediation (国际调解院), filling a gap in the field of international mediation mechanisms. (See Sidebar 2)
China participates in and leads G20 (二十国集团) cooperation. China promotes the G20 (二十国集团) to lead international cooperation in the spirit of equal consultation and mutual benefit, building this primary forum for developed and developing countries to consult on international economic affairs and carry out international economic cooperation. China hosted the 2016 Hangzhou Summit (2016年杭州峰会), which was the most fruitful in G20 (二十国集团) history, and issued a landmark Leaders' Communiqué. For the first time, development issues were placed at the center of macroeconomic policy coordination, and multiple consensus documents such as the "G20 Guiding Principles for Global Investment Policymaking" (《二十国集团全球投资指导原则》) and the "G20 Blueprint on Innovative Growth" (《二十国集团创新增长蓝图》) were approved, leaving a distinct Chinese imprint on the development process of the G20 (二十国集团). At the G20 (二十国集团) Rio Summit (里约峰会), China systematically expounded major propositions on global economic, financial, trade, digital, and ecological governance, promoting the construction of a cooperative, stable, open, innovative, and eco-friendly world economy. China was the first to publicly support the African Union (非盟) in joining the G20 (二十国集团), promoting the increased representation of developing countries.
China promotes the construction of an Asia-Pacific community. The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (亚太经济合作组织) is the highest-level, broadest-field, and most influential economic cooperation mechanism in the Asia-Pacific region. China actively advocates upholding the spirit of the Asia-Pacific family and is committed to building an Asia-Pacific community with a shared future that is open, inclusive, innovatively growing, interconnected, and mutually beneficial. Under China's promotion, the 2001 APEC Shanghai Meeting (亚太经合组织上海会议) adopted the "Shanghai Accord" (《上海共识》), setting Asia-Pacific cooperation in the new century on a new journey; the 2014 APEC Beijing Meeting (亚太经合组织北京会议) reached multiple important outcomes such as the "Beijing Agenda" (《北京纲领》), with all parties committing to building a future-oriented Asia-Pacific partnership, outlining a vision for long-term regional development and common prosperity. In 2026, China will serve as the host of APEC (亚太经合组织) for the third time, setting "Building an Asia-Pacific Community, Promoting Common Prosperity" as the theme, focusing on the three priority areas of "openness, innovation, and cooperation," joining hands with all parties to revisit the original aspirations of Asia-Pacific cooperation, and pushing the construction of the Asia-Pacific community from goals to actions and from blueprints to reality.
(IV) Supporting the Global South in Playing a Greater Role
China has always been a member of the Global South, always keeping the Global South in mind and taking root in the Global South. China upholds the principles of sincerity, real results, amity, and good faith and the correct view of righteousness and benefit to strengthen unity and cooperation with developing countries, firmly safeguarding the common interests of the Global South in international affairs, and leading and promoting the Global South to unite and strengthen itself.
China promotes the high-quality development of "Greater BRICS Cooperation" (大金砖合作). As the first phalanx of the Global South, BRICS (金砖国家) countries are jointly committed to promoting world economic growth, improving global economic governance, and promoting the democratization of international relations. China actively promotes the expansion and strengthening of BRICS (金砖国家) cooperation, strengthens the construction of the BRICS (金砖国家) mechanism with the times, and continuously expands the influence of the BRICS (金砖国家) mechanism. Together with other BRICS (金砖国家) members, China established the New Development Bank (新开发银行) and the Contingent Reserve Arrangement (应急储备安排), becoming an emerging force in the international financial system and a gold-standard brand for Global South cooperation. The 2017 BRICS Xiamen Summit (金砖国家领导人厦门会晤) reached more than 60 important outcomes, forming a "three-wheel drive" pattern of political and security, economic and financial, and people-to-people exchanges, and pioneered the "BRICS+" (金砖+) cooperation model. The 2022 BRICS "China Year" (金砖“中国年”) issued the "Beijing Declaration" (《北京宣言》), opening the process of BRICS (金砖国家) expansion. China, working with relevant parties, promoted the historic expansion of BRICS (金砖国家), which is an important milestone in the history of BRICS (金砖国家) development and a landmark event in the evolution of the international landscape. China promotes the construction of a peaceful BRICS (和平金砖), innovative BRICS (创新金砖), green BRICS (绿色金砖), just BRICS (公正金砖), and humanistic BRICS (人文金砖), supporting more Global South countries to join the BRICS (金砖国家) cause in the forms of formal members, partner countries, and "BRICS+" (金砖+), making BRICS (金砖国家) the main channel for Global South unity and cooperation and a vanguard force for global governance reform. (See Sidebar 3)
China promotes the development and growth of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织). The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织) is the first international organization named after a Chinese city, co-founded by China, and headquartered in China. China promotes the "Shanghai Spirit" (上海精神) of mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality, consultation, respect for diverse civilizations, and seeking common development, and promotes the construction of a closer Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织) community with a shared future. With the joint efforts of member states, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织) has built an "SCO Family" (上合大家庭) with the participation of 27 countries across Asia, Europe, and Africa, with a total economic volume of nearly 30 trillion US dollars, carrying out cooperation in more than 50 fields, and becoming an important force for promoting world peace and development and safeguarding international fairness and justice. The 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Organization Tianjin Summit (上海合作组织天津峰会) formulated a development strategy for the next 10 years, and the leaders of the member states witnessed the unveiling and implementation of the "four security centers," and made a political decision to establish the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Development Bank (上海合作组织开发银行). China decided to establish three major cooperation platforms for energy, green industry, and digital economy, as well as three major cooperation centers for scientific and technological innovation, higher education, and vocational and technical education for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织), continuously implemented the high-quality development action plan for economic and trade cooperation facing the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织) family, and pushed the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织) into a new stage of high-quality development that is more united, emphasizes collaboration more, is more vibrant, and is more accomplished.
China promotes a more balanced and effective global governance architecture. China advocates that the representation of the international financial architecture should be more reasonable and better reflect the reality of the world economic landscape. According to the timetable and roadmap agreed upon by all parties, China conducts the World Bank (世界银行) shareholding review and promotes the adjustment of the IMF (国际货币基金组织) quota share to bridge the "democratic deficit" in global financial governance as soon as possible. China supports the reform of the United Nations Security Council (联合国安理会), insisting that the correct direction of reform is to increase the representation of developing countries. The urgent task is to correct the historical injustice suffered by Africa and make special arrangements for prioritizing the resolution of African demands. Through mechanisms such as the Non-Aligned Movement (不结盟运动) and the Group of 77 (七十七国集团), China maintains communication and coordination with the vast number of Global South partners, actively upholds justice in important international occasions such as the United Nations General Assembly (联合国大会), jointly safeguards international fairness and justice, and defends legitimate rights and interests.
China helps the Global South move toward modernization together. China proposed and promoted the Global South Open and Inclusive Cooperation Initiative (全球南方开放包容合作倡议), implemented eight measures to support Global South cooperation, and promoted the Global South to jointly act as a stable force for maintaining peace, a backbone force for open development, a constructive force for global governance, and a promoting force for mutual learning among civilizations. The FOCAC Beijing Summit (中非合作论坛北京峰会) announced that China's bilateral relations with all African countries that have diplomatic relations with China have been elevated to the level of strategic relations, and the overall positioning of China-Africa relations has been elevated to a new era of an all-weather China-Africa community with a shared future, working together to advance "six modernizations" and jointly implement "ten partnership actions." The China-Arab States Summit (中国—阿拉伯国家峰会) decided to make every effort to build a China-Arab community with a shared future for the new era and carry out "eight major common actions" for China-Arab practical cooperation. China and Latin American and Caribbean countries established a China-CELAC comprehensive cooperative partnership of equality, mutual benefit, and common development, established the China-CELAC Forum (中国—拉共体论坛), and jointly launched the "five major projects" of unity, development, civilization, peace, and people-to-people bonds. China upholds the "four full respects" in carrying out friendly cooperation with Pacific Island countries, building "seven major cooperation platforms," and supporting island countries in accelerating the realization of autonomous and sustainable development.
(V) Promoting Exchanges and Mutual Learning Among Civilizations
Facing the greatest reality of world civilization diversity and the urgent need to transcend the clash of civilizations, China proposed and promoted the implementation of the Global Civilization Initiative (全球文明倡议), promoted the common values of humanity, worked hard to create a new situation of people-to-people exchanges, cultural integration, and heart-to-heart communication among countries around the world, and jointly promoted the development and progress of human civilization.
China advocates global civilization dialogue. China upholds the civilization view of equality, mutual learning, dialogue, and inclusiveness, promoting the harmonious coexistence and beauty of different civilizations. On June 7, 2024, China promoted the 78th United Nations General Assembly (联合国大会) to adopt a resolution by consensus, establishing June 10 of each year as the "International Day for Dialogue among Civilizations" (“文明对话国际日”), and carried out rich and colorful themed activities in New York (纽约), Geneva (日内瓦), and other United Nations (联合国) locations and many countries. China convened the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations (亚洲文明对话大会) and the Global Civilization Dialogue Ministerial Meeting (全球文明对话部长级会议), built multi-level international platforms such as the World Conference on Classics (世界古典学大会), the Liangzhu Forum (良渚论坛), and the Alliance for Cultural Heritage in Asia (亚洲文化遗产保护联盟), signed cooperation agreements in the fields of culture, cultural relics, and tourism with hundreds of countries, deepened cooperation in joint archaeology, world heritage protection, and mutual translation of classic works, and promoted global civilization dialogue with practical actions, caring for the cultural treasures of all mankind. The CPC and World Political Parties Summit (中国共产党与世界政党高层对话会) and the CPC and World Political Parties Leaders' Summit (中国共产党与世界政党领导人峰会) promoted the mutual learning between the new form of human civilization—Chinese-style modernization—and other civilizations around the world, continuously enriching the world's garden of civilizations and making new contributions to humanity's exploration of the path to modernization. (See Sidebar 4)
China promotes the development and progress of human rights. China advocates protecting human rights with security, promoting human rights with development, and advancing human rights with cooperation, pushing global human rights governance to develop in a more fair, just, reasonable, and inclusive direction. China has joined or ratified 29 international human rights instruments and played a constructive role in the formulation of many important international human rights instruments such as the Declaration on the Right to Development (《发展权利宣言》) and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action (《维也纳宣言和行动纲领》). China has served as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council (联合国人权理事会) six times, making it one of the countries with the most elections and the longest tenure. China promoted the Human Rights Council (人权理事会) to adopt resolutions such as "The contribution of development to the enjoyment of all human rights," "The negative impact of the legacies of colonialism on the enjoyment of human rights," "Promoting and protecting economic, social and cultural rights within the context of addressing inequalities," and "Promoting the enjoyment of all human rights by all through accessible construction."
China promotes people-to-people exchanges and friendship. China promotes various forms of non-governmental diplomacy, city diplomacy, and public diplomacy, holds years of people-to-people exchanges, tourism years, and education years with many countries, established more than 3,000 pairs of sister city (province/state) relationships with more than 150 countries, and actively builds bridges for people-to-people exchanges. China continuously optimizes policies to facilitate personnel exchanges, has implemented unilateral visa-free policies for 50 countries around the world, has comprehensive mutual visa exemption with 29 countries, and the 240-hour transit visa-free policy has been extended to 55 countries, with the number of applicable entry ports increased to 65. In 2025, 30.08 million foreigners entered China visa-free, accounting for 73.1% of foreign entries, a year-on-year increase of 49.5%. Sports are a bond for enhancing friendship among people. China successfully hosted the Beijing Winter Olympics (北京冬奥会), Chengdu Universiade (成都大运会), Hangzhou Asian Games (杭州亚运会), and Harbin Asian Winter Games (哈尔滨亚冬会), practicing the Olympic motto of "Faster, Higher, Stronger—Together." Youth are the future of the cause of people-to-people friendship. China proposed and steadily implemented the "5 years 50,000" initiative and the "3 years 10,000, Europe doubling" initiative, held the China-Africa Youth Festival (中非青年大联欢) and the "Chinese Bridge" summer camp for young students (青年学生“汉语桥”夏令营), planting the flowers of friendship in the hearts of the younger generation.
(VI) Providing More Public Goods to the International Community
Facing the endless stream of global challenges, the global governance system must keep pace with the times, find solutions to old problems, and fill the gaps in rules in new fields. China demonstrates the responsibility of a major country that practices what it preaches, actively creates international public goods, and contributes new solutions for global governance.
China firmly leads global climate governance. China firmly upholds and promotes the implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (《联合国气候变化框架公约》) and its Paris Agreement (《巴黎协定》), adheres to the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, and promotes the construction of a fair, reasonable, and mutually beneficial global climate governance system. In 2020, China solemnly announced at the United Nations General Assembly (联合国大会) that China strives to peak carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060. In 2025, at the United Nations Climate Change Summit (联合国气候变化峰会), China announced a new round of nationally determined contributions, including that by 2035, net greenhouse gas emissions across the economy will decrease by 7%—10% from the peak, striving to do better, the proportion of non-fossil energy in total energy consumption will reach more than 30%, as well as targets for forest stock volume and the construction of the carbon emission trading market. China initiated the establishment of the "BASIC" countries (基础四国) and the Ministerial Meeting on Climate Action (气候行动部长级会议) to build consensus among all parties and helps developing countries improve their ability to cope with climate change through South-South cooperation. As of the end of October 2025, China has signed 55 cooperation documents with 43 developing countries, cumulatively implemented more than 300 capacity-building projects, and provided and mobilized more than 177 billion yuan in project funds since 2016. (See Sidebar 5)
China promotes the good and inclusive development of artificial intelligence. China proposed the Global AI Governance Initiative (全球人工智能治理倡议), advocated adhering to a people-centered approach and intelligence for good, supported the United Nations (联合国) in playing the role of the main channel, promoted the formation of a global AI governance system with broad consensus, and let AI benefit all mankind. China advocates strengthening international cooperation and assistance for developing countries, bridging the intelligence gap, promoting the United Nations General Assembly (联合国大会) to adopt a resolution on strengthening international cooperation in AI capacity building, proposed and implemented the "AI Capacity Building Inclusive Plan" (《人工智能能力建设普惠计划》), initiated the establishment of the Group of Friends of International Cooperation on AI Capacity Building (人工智能能力建设国际合作之友小组), built the "Digital South" (数字南方) brand of the Global Development Project Pool, and held many capacity-building seminars and themed dialogues. China proposed the establishment of the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (世界人工智能合作组织), proposed the "Global AI Governance Action Plan" (《人工智能全球治理行动计划》) and the "AI+" International Cooperation Initiative (“人工智能+”国际合作倡议), contributing Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to AI development and governance. China attaches great importance to the prevention of risks in the military application of AI, advocating that all countries should adopt a cautious and responsible attitude when researching, developing, and using relevant technologies, ensuring that relevant weapon systems are always under human control, and preventing an AI arms race. 刻舟求剑 (kè zhōu qiú jiàn - "carve boat seek sword," to be dogmatic and fail to adapt to changing circumstances) is not the approach China takes; instead, it remains proactive and adaptive in its global governance efforts.
Promote the good and inclusive development of artificial intelligence (AI). China has proposed the Global AI Governance Initiative (全球人工智能治理倡议), advocating for a people-centered approach and AI for good. It supports the United Nations (联合国) in playing a primary role, promotes the formation of a global AI governance system with broad consensus, and aims to make AI benefit all of humanity. China advocates for strengthening international cooperation and assistance for developing countries, bridging the intelligence gap, and promoting the adoption of a resolution on strengthening international cooperation in AI capacity building by the UN General Assembly (联大). China has proposed and implemented the "AI Capacity Building Inclusive Plan" (人工智能能力建设普惠计划), initiated the establishment of the Friends Group for International Cooperation on AI Capacity Building, created the "Digital South" (数字南方) brand for the Global Development Project Pool, and hosted numerous capacity-building seminars and thematic dialogues. China has proposed the establishment of a World AI Cooperation Organization (世界人工智能合作组织), put forward the "Global AI Governance Action Plan" (人工智能全球治理行动计划) and the "AI+" (人工智能+) international cooperation initiative, contributing Chinese wisdom and solutions to AI development and governance. China attaches great importance to preventing risks in the military application of AI, advocating that all countries should adopt a cautious and responsible attitude when researching, developing, and using relevant technologies, ensuring that relevant weapon systems remain under human control, and preventing an AI arms race.
Contribute China’s strength to maintaining global public health security. China actively participates in global health affairs, carries out health exchanges and cooperation through multiple channels and at various levels, vigorously provides international assistance in the health field, and actively participates in major international health actions such as fighting the Ebola (埃博拉) epidemic and the COVID-19 (新冠) pandemic. China strives to bridge the "immunity gap" and "health deficit," advocating for working together to build a global community of health for all. China has signed health cooperation agreements with more than 160 countries and international organizations, and has initiated and participated in 9 international and regional health cooperation mechanisms, including those between China and African countries, China and Arab countries, and China and ASEAN (东盟). China has dispatched over 30,000 medical personnel to 77 countries and regions, treating 300 million patients. It has carried out free medical services such as the "Brightness Action" (光明行), "Love Action" (爱心行), and "Smile Action" (微笑行), and implemented the "New Era Shennong Tasting a Hundred Herbs" (新时代神农尝百草) action. China supports the World Health Organization (世界卫生组织) in playing a central coordinating role in global health governance and is deeply involved in leading important agendas such as the revision of the International Health Regulations (国际卫生条例), negotiations for the Pandemic Agreement (大流行协定), and the reform of the global health governance architecture and World Health Organization (世界卫生组织) governance.
Actively lead global biodiversity governance. China upholds the philosophy that "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" (绿水青山就是金山银山), unswervingly follows the path of ecological priority and green development, and is a participant, contributor, and leader in global ecological civilization construction. As the presidency of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (生物多样性公约), China released the "Kunming Declaration" (昆明宣言), leading to the historic achievement of the "Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework" (昆明—蒙特利尔全球生物多样性框架), which anchors the direction and draws a blueprint for global biodiversity protection through 2030 and beyond. China took the lead in initiating the "Kunming-Montreal Framework" (昆蒙框架) implementation initiative, took the lead in contributing 1.5 billion RMB to establish the Kunming Biodiversity Fund (昆明生物多样性基金), which has so far supported 31 projects covering 45 developing countries, providing sustained momentum for the framework's implementation. China advocates for the establishment of the Belt and Road (一带一路) Green Development International Coalition, continuously deepens bilateral and multilateral dialogues and exchanges, and promotes fruitful results in "South-South Cooperation" (南南合作) for biodiversity protection. Since 2019, China has become the largest donor to the core budget of the Convention on Biological Diversity (生物多样性公约) and its protocols, as well as the largest developing country donor to the Global Environment Facility (全球环境基金).
Promote the improvement of governance rules for new domains. China promotes the reform of the global internet governance system and advocates for the four principles of respecting cyber sovereignty, maintaining peace and security, promoting openness and cooperation, and building good order. Since 2014, China has held twelve consecutive World Internet Conferences (世界互联网大会), proposed the "Global Initiative on Data Security" (全球数据安全倡议) and the "Global Initiative on Cross-Border Data Flow Cooperation" (全球数据跨境流动合作倡议), supported the establishment of the World Data Organization (世界数据组织) in Beijing (北京), supported the United Nations (联合国) as the main channel for promoting global cyberspace and digital governance, and worked together to build a community with a shared future in cyberspace. China actively promotes the process of global ocean governance and promoted the reaching and first-batch signing of the Agreement on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (海洋生物多样性协定). China has become an observer to the Arctic Council (北极理事会), advocates for building the "Silk Road on Ice" (冰上丝绸之路), and promotes the international community's joint protection and sustainable use of Antarctic marine living resources. China is committed to the lasting peace and security of outer space, firmly upholds the international order in outer space based on the 1967 Outer Space Treaty (外空条约), opposes an arms race in outer space, supports the United Nations (联合国) in playing a primary platform role, and safeguards the common rights and interests of all countries in the peaceful use of outer space.
IV. Leading the Direction of Change, Moving Toward a Bright Future
The reason why the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议) has been able to quickly receive the welcome and support of nearly 160 countries and international organizations, and why China's concepts and actions are increasingly resonating with and receiving responses from the international community, lies in the fact that it grasps the era while leading it, is rooted in China while benefiting the world, and is based on the present while opening up the future, contributing wisdom and strength to the cause of human civilization's progress.
(I) Consolidating Broad Consensus on Improving Global Governance
China has proposed a series of new concepts and propositions that have both value orientation and practical direction, responding to the universal demands of the international community and addressing the most urgent problems in global governance.
Extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits are the common aspiration. The world is so big and there are so many problems; what kind of global governance system is good for the world and for the people of all countries? China upholds the concept that global affairs should be discussed together, the governance system should be built together, and development achievements should be shared together. This identifies the root of the problem, represents the common voice of the vast majority of countries, and draws the largest concentric circle that conforms to the common interests of all countries in the world.
An equal and orderly multipolar world and inclusive economic globalization are the trends of the times. China advocates that all countries should have a place in global governance and play their due roles; we must make the cake of the world economy bigger and divide it well, so that the fresh air and warm sunshine of economic globalization can penetrate the dark house of protectionism and benefit every country and every nation, truly fitting the trend of the times and the aspirations of the people.
True multilateralism is the only way forward. Global governance is grand yet specific, and the Chinese solution is comprehensive yet clear. In a nutshell, it is to advocate and practice true multilateralism. Practice has repeatedly proven that only when the concept of multilateralism is well practiced and multilateral coordination and cooperation are strong and effective can global governance be advanced and human well-being be guaranteed. Human development cannot be separated from multilateralism, and world progress cannot be separated from multilateralism.
The common values of all humanity are the universal guide. There are more than 8 billion people in the world, over 200 countries and regions, more than 2,500 ethnic groups, and various religions. How to respect diversity and differences and bring together the strengths of different systems, civilizations, and countries is crucial to the success or failure of global governance. China promotes the common values of all humanity—peace, development, equity, justice, democracy, and freedom—which are interconnected and integrated with the core concepts of solidarity, coexistence, and win-win cooperation advocated by civilizations of all countries, laying a value foundation for working together to improve global governance.
(II) Reflecting a Vision and Responsibility for the World
China's global governance concepts and initiatives demonstrate responsibility in practicing the original mission of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), uphold integrity and innovation in carrying forward the fine traditions of New China's (新中国) diplomacy, and draw strength from inheriting the excellent traditional Chinese culture, reflecting the unity of the times, advancement, and practicality.
Originating from the world sentiment of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党). Since its founding 105 years ago, the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) has always taken seeking progress for humanity and great harmony for the world as its own responsibility. This determines that the noble goal of China's participation in global governance is to strive to turn the aspirations of the Chinese people and the people of all countries for a better life into reality. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) emphasized "promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind" and "implementing the Global Development Initiative (全球发展倡议), Global Security Initiative (全球安全倡议), Global Civilization Initiative (全球文明倡议), and Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议)," providing clear guidance for China and other countries to work together to promote the reform and construction of the global governance system.
Carrying forward the fine traditions of New China's (新中国) diplomacy. As early as the 1950s, Comrade Mao Zedong (毛泽东) pointed out that China should make greater contributions to humanity. New China's (新中国) diplomacy has firmly pursued an independent foreign policy of peace, successively proposed policies, guidelines, and ideas such as the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence (和平共处五项原则), the division of the "Three Worlds" (三个世界), and the establishment of a new international political and economic order, and has actively spoken up for justice for developing countries. For more than 70 years, New China's (新中国) diplomacy has remained steadfast in its original intention of defending equity and justice, and its mission of promoting human progress is always new, providing a source of strength for China to participate in and lead global governance in the new era.
Based on the profound accumulation of Chinese civilization. In the 5,000-plus years of civilization development, the Chinese nation has always pursued and inherited the firm concepts of peace, harmony, and concord. Since ancient times, there has been the noble ideal of "the world as one community" (天下大同), the governance thinking of "great wisdom governs through systems" (大智治制), the spiritual pursuit of "helping each other in the same boat" (和衷共济), the deep sentiment that "the people are the foundation of the state" (民为邦本), and the practical spirit of "unity of knowledge and action" (知行合一). These crystallizations of wisdom have undergone creative transformation and innovative development under new historical conditions, providing civilization inspiration that transcends time and space for solving global problems.
(III) Expanding the Practical Path for Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind
More than a decade ago, President Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed the major concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind, aiming to promote the building of a better world and create a better life for the people of all countries. Over the past decade, under the banner of building a community with a shared future for mankind, a series of Chinese initiatives and actions have faced various risks and challenges, continuously enriching the practice of global governance.
Faced with the widening North-South gap and the serious lag in the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (联合国2030年可持续发展议程), China proposed the Global Development Initiative (全球发展倡议), aiming to promote the cause of common development. Faced with the complex international and regional situation and security governance challenges, especially the fact that some individual countries seek their own absolute security at the expense of other countries' security, China proposed the Global Security Initiative (全球安全倡议), aiming to bridge the peace deficit and break the security dilemma. Faced with the rampant "clash of civilizations" (文明冲突论) and "systemic confrontation" (制度对抗论) theories, and some countries inciting value-based opposition, China proposed the Global Civilization Initiative (全球文明倡议), aiming to promote exchanges and mutual learning among different civilizations. Faced with the impact on the United Nations (联合国) and multilateralism and the continuous expansion of the governance deficit, China proposed the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议), aiming to build a more just and reasonable global governance system, extending and expanding the previous three major global initiatives from the level of improving governance mechanisms.
As a systematic Chinese solution, the four major global initiatives have their own focus and run in parallel, building a systematic and complete action framework from different dimensions, forming an organic whole that promotes prosperity through development, ensures stability through security, increases mutual trust through civilization, and seeks justice through governance. The four major global initiatives all point to a world of lasting peace, universal security, common prosperity, openness, and inclusiveness, and a clean and beautiful world, becoming an important pillar for building a community with a shared future for mankind.
(IV) Opening Up a New Realm of Human Political Civilization
Looking back at history, humanity has experienced bloody hot wars and cold wars, but has also achieved amazing development and huge progress, moving forward while overcoming one challenge after another. Today's world is facing a wider and deeper transformation, and where to go depends on the choices of all countries. China's proposal of a series of new concepts and solutions, such as the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议), has deepened the understanding of the laws of human social development and promoted the development and progress of human political civilization.
Breaking through the old order and framework of "center-periphery." A world dominated by a few countries and subordinated by the majority, where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, is not a good world. Whether it is the so-called "hegemonic stability theory" (霸权稳定论) or "Western-centrism" (西方中心论), or "neoliberalism" (新自由主义) and "democratic peace theory" (民主和平论), what they have brought to the world is disunity and unfairness, leaving behind turmoil and chaos in many regions. China firmly stands on the right side of history, is committed to promoting the democratization of international relations, and lets developing countries truly become equal members of the international community and masters of their own destiny.
Transcending the wrong logic that "might makes right." The old thinking of hegemonism and power politics cannot adapt to the new reality of a multipolar world. Engaging in bullying and wielding the big stick of coercion and blackmail has opened Pandora's box of returning to the law of the jungle. China firmly stands on the side of equity and justice, has always been a mainstay in the world's changing and chaotic situation, clearly advocates for defending international rule of law, never allows whoever has the hardest fist to have the final say, and has gathered international consensus on wanting justice instead of hegemony.
Abandoning the zero-sum mentality of "winner-takes-all." Blocking others' paths will not let you go further; blowing out others' lamps will burn your own beard. Engaging in protectionism is no different from "trying to put out a fire with firewood" (抱薪救火 - bào xīn jiù huǒ - "carry firewood save fire," to use the wrong method to solve a problem, resulting in worsening the situation), and seeking absolute security will eventually backfire. China firmly stands on the side of win-win cooperation, pursues harmony and coexistence and helping others while helping oneself with practical actions, advocates that governance achievements should be shared by everyone, does not let any country fall behind, and lets the international community as a "big family" all become "winners."
V. Moving Forward Together at a Critical Juncture of Historical Evolution
Today's world has entered a new period of turbulence and transformation, and humanity is again facing a choice between peace or war, dialogue or confrontation, win-win or zero-sum. Encouragingly, with the broad support of the international community, the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议) is increasingly becoming a practice in which all parties actively participate. A great cause will not be accomplished overnight; implementing the initiative requires all parties not to be hindered by wind and rain, not to be trapped by disputes, and to work together to build a more just and reasonable global governance system.
(I) Planning for the World, Planning for All Generations
Global governance concerns the common and long-term interests of people of all countries in the world; its essence is to seek justice, not to make deals. China calls on all countries to keep the future of humanity in mind, to care for the well-being of the people, to effectively put the initiative into action, and to build a long-term achievement that benefits the ages and the people.
Countries in the "global village" (地球村) are closely linked. A country's own interests can only be better realized when they are in the same direction, on the same frequency, and resonating with the common interests of all countries. "Country first" (本国优先) will eventually degenerate into "country alone" (本国独行), and harming others for one's own benefit will inevitably harm others and oneself. Countries must have a grand pattern of "sharing the same boat on the same planet" (同球共济), and participating in global governance should transcend the perspective of self-interest, transcend estrangement and conflict with a broad mind, care for the destiny of humanity with a great sentiment, and work together to build a common home and prevent the "tragedy of the commons" (公地悲剧).
Global governance concerns setting rules and managing the long term. It requires upholding the concept of intergenerational equity, taking into account both the present and the future. We must neither "eat the ancestors' food and cut off the descendants' path" (吃祖宗饭、断子孙路 - chī zǔ zōng fàn, duàn zǐ sūn lù - "eat ancestral rice, cut off descendants' road," to consume resources meant for future generations, leaving them with nothing), nor push the problems that this generation should solve to the next generation. The baton of history is already in our hands, and the subject of "where is global governance going" is already before us. Our generation must provide an answer worthy of the times, show great wisdom that looks to the long term, strive to build a more just, reasonable, stable, and effective global governance system, and hand over a more peaceful, prosperous, and beautiful world to our descendants.
(II) Firming Confidence, Moving Forward Against Difficulties
Building a more just and reasonable global governance system is a feasible and achievable beautiful goal, and it is also a historical process. China believes that as long as all parties establish a firm and indomitable will and do not abandon the effort of "accumulating small amounts to achieve greatness" (铢积寸累 - zhū jī cùn lěi - "penny accumulate inch accumulate," to achieve great things through small, persistent efforts), they will certainly be able to build the vision into reality.
At present, a multipolar world is rushing toward us, the process of democratization and rule of law in international relations is unstoppable, and it is a historical inevitability for human society to move from confrontation to cooperation, from imbalance to equilibrium, and from estrangement to coexistence. With the progress of the times and the awakening of the people, power politics and "small circle governance" (小圈子治理) are increasingly losing their soil. As long as we hold high the torch of multilateralism, the cause of global governance will certainly be able to penetrate the haze and mist and reach the bright shore.
Today's world is intertwined with changes and chaos. Moving from chaos to order is not an easy task, and overcoming contradictions and differences to reach a governance consensus requires arduous efforts. Although the road is long, we will reach it if we walk; although the task is difficult, we will succeed if we do it. We must be strivers and fighters who are "self-improving" (自强不息 - zì qiáng bù xī - "self-strengthen not rest," to constantly strive for self-improvement), not hesitaters and slackers who wait and watch, and continuously push forward the great cause of reforming and improving global governance.
(III) Uniting and Taking Action
Global governance pursues the common well-being of the international community and relies on the joint efforts of the international community. China advocates that all countries should unite and cooperate, rise to the occasion, and turn the vision and blueprint of the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议) into a roadmap and timetable for countries to work together.
Global governance pursues the common well-being of the international community and relies on the joint efforts of the international community. China (中国) advocates that all countries should unite and cooperate, take action, and transform the vision and blueprint of global governance initiatives into a roadmap and timetable for concerted action by all nations.
Regarding the different interest demands of various countries, the key is to be adept at 求同存异 (qiú tóng cún yì - "seek common ground while reserving differences," to focus on shared interests while setting aside disagreements) and 聚同化异 (jù tóng huà yì - "gather commonalities and resolve differences," to build consensus by emphasizing shared goals and addressing divergences). It is essential to find the greatest common divisor for peaceful development and win-win cooperation, unite under one system, one order, and one set of rules, and solidify the United Nations (联合国) as the core mechanism for practicing multilateralism and the primary platform for global governance. Unity is strength. Only through unity and cooperation can we accomplish tasks, achieve good results, and handle major issues, and only then can we transform the propositions of global governance initiatives into the broadest consensus and the most powerful actions.
The implementation of global governance initiatives cannot be achieved without major powers assuming their responsibilities, without multilateral mechanisms playing their roles, and without the international community putting them into practice. It is necessary to distinguish between the primary and the secondary, prioritize cooling down hot-spot issues, and strengthen communication and cooperation in areas where governance urgency is prominent and governance deficits are significant, such as international financial architecture reform, artificial intelligence (人工智能), cyberspace, climate change, trade, and outer space. We must actively build consensus, lock in outcomes, and strive for early harvests.
Concluding Remarks
This is an era full of challenges and hopes, and a better future requires generation after generation to strive for it. This is an initiative that carries ideals and is 脚踏实地 (jiǎo tà shí dì - "foot tread solid earth," to be realistic and pragmatic), and more perfect global governance requires pushing forward step by step.
The Global Governance Initiative stands at the forefront of the times, injecting momentum into the promotion of building a community with a shared future for mankind, providing a compass for the ship of history to sail through wind and waves, and serving as another important international public good contributed by China (中国) to the world.
Looking ahead, as the international community increasingly understands and participates in this major initiative, the progressive forces that uphold multilateralism will inevitably continue to grow, and the grand goal of building a more just and reasonable global governance system will surely become a reality step by step.
China (中国) is willing to work with all countries to adhere to the principles of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits, promote the implementation of the Global Governance Initiative, make the path of multilateralism wider, let the sunshine of fairness and justice shine upon the earth, allow the fruits of global governance to benefit the world, and join hands to open up a bright prospect of shared human destiny and civilizational progress!
(Note 1) "Four Shoulds": The sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries should be respected; the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations (联合国宪章) should be observed; the legitimate security concerns of all countries should be valued; and all efforts conducive to the peaceful resolution of crises should be supported.
(Note 2) "Four Security Centers": The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织) Comprehensive Center for Countering Security Threats and Challenges and its branches: the Center for Combating Transnational Organized Crime, the Information Security Center, and the Anti-Drug Center.
(Note 3) "Six Modernizations": Just and reasonable modernization, open and win-win modernization, people-centered modernization, diverse and inclusive modernization, eco-friendly modernization, and peaceful and secure modernization.
(Note 4) "Ten Partnership Actions": Civilization Mutual Learning Partnership Action, Trade Prosperity Partnership Action, Industrial Chain Cooperation Partnership Action, Connectivity Partnership Action, Development Cooperation Partnership Action, Health Partnership Action, Agriculture Promotion and Benefit-to-People Partnership Action, People-to-People Exchange Partnership Action, Green Development Partnership Action, and Security Building Partnership Action.
(Note 5) "Eight Common Actions": Support for Development Common Action, Food Security Common Action, Health Common Action, Green Innovation Common Action, Energy Security Common Action, Civilization Dialogue Common Action, Youth Talent Development Common Action, and Security and Stability Common Action.
(Note 6) "Four Full Respects": Fully respect the sovereignty and independence of island countries, and uphold the equality of all countries regardless of size; fully respect the will of island countries, and uphold extensive consultation, joint contribution, shared benefits, and win-win results; fully respect the national cultural traditions of island countries, and uphold 和而不同 (hé ér bù tóng - "harmony without uniformity," to maintain harmony while acknowledging differences) and 美美与共 (měi měi yǔ gòng - "cherish the beauty of each and share the beauty of all," to appreciate the unique beauty of different cultures and promote mutual appreciation); fully respect the unity and self-improvement of island countries, support island countries in implementing the "2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent" (蓝色太平洋2050战略), and contribute to building a peaceful, harmonious, secure, inclusive, and prosperous Blue Pacific.
(Note 7) "Seven Cooperation Platforms": Emergency supplies, climate change, poverty reduction and development cooperation, disaster prevention and mitigation, Juncao technology, agricultural cooperation, and police cooperation platforms.
(Note 8) In November 2023, President Xi Jinping (习近平) announced during his visit to the United States (美国) that China (中国) is willing to invite 50,000 American teenagers to China (中国) for exchange and study over the next five years.
(Note 9) In May 2024, President Xi Jinping (习近平) announced during his visit to France (法国) that he would promote the number of French students studying in China (中国) to exceed 10,000 and double the scale of European youth exchanges in China (中国) over the next three years.
(Note 10) All are foreign medical aid projects: "Bright Journey" (光明行) conducts free cataract surgery clinics, "Love Journey" (爱心行) conducts free heart surgery clinics, and "Smile Journey" (微笑行) conducts free cleft lip and palate surgery clinics.
(Xinhua News Agency (新华社), Beijing (北京), June 17)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘温馨
In summer, as temperatures continue to climb, enclosed vehicles exposed to intense sunlight can easily become "high-temperature ovens."
"When the outdoor temperature reaches 35 degrees Celsius, the temperature inside a closed vehicle cabin under direct sunlight can soar to between 60 and 70 degrees Celsius." Wang Hou (王厚), a staff member at the Emergency Management Bureau (应急管理局) of Yiwu City (义乌市), Zhejiang Province (浙江), explains that in such high-temperature environments, many everyday items can become safety hazards. At the same time, the shelf life of drinking water and food will be significantly shortened, concealing safety risks, and the general public of car owners must remain vigilant.
First, high-risk items must absolutely not be left inside the vehicle. For example, lighters generally use liquid butane as fuel; if the car doors are closed for 10 minutes in high heat, the lighter may expand and explode. "Common flammable and explosive items also include canned sunscreen sprays, foam cleaners, etc. High temperatures will cause internal pressure to surge, triggering bulging, bursting, or even fire." Wang Hou (王厚) says that there are also items containing alcohol, such as perfumes and aromatherapy products. The alcohol concentration of these items can reach 40% to 80%, and after high temperatures accelerate their evaporation, they can very easily cause spontaneous combustion if they encounter a heat source inside the car.
Wang Hou (王厚) warns that electronic products containing lithium batteries, such as mobile phones and power banks, may experience casing softening, battery bulging, or even short-circuit fires when exposed to high-temperature sunlight. Items that act as convex lenses, such as mineral water bottles, reading glasses, and crystal ornaments, can concentrate sunlight and heat. Prolonged exposure can ignite fabric or paper items inside the car, triggering a fire.
Carbonated drinks like cola can also easily become safety hazards. "Carbonated drinks already contain gas; even a slight shake of the bottle will cause it to expand, and when combined with prolonged scorching in high temperatures, they can easily explode," says Wang Hou (王厚).
"Car owners should proactively inspect the vehicle for dangerous items to prevent them from becoming hazardous under high-temperature scorching, 防患于未然 (fáng huàn yú wèi rán - "prevent trouble before it happens," to take precautions to prevent a problem before it occurs)." Wang Hou (王厚) says that if slight smoke or a small fire appears inside the car, one can use a vehicle-mounted fire extinguisher to put it out, or use a blanket or sand to cover it to quickly extinguish the source of the fire and prevent the flames from spreading.
In addition, many car owners are accustomed to keeping some common medicines or food in their cars. Although these items will not explode, the excessively high temperatures inside the car will accelerate their deterioration.
"The shelf life of regular bottled water at room temperature can reach two years, but in the high-temperature, sun-exposed environment inside a car, the permeability of the bottle increases and the water quality oxidizes rapidly, shortening the actual shelf life to about two months," says Wang Hou (王厚). If the bottled water has been opened, bacteria will multiply rapidly in high temperatures, and it will lose its safety for consumption in just about two hours.
For ready-to-eat cooked foods such as bread, cakes, and braised dishes, high temperatures will accelerate the growth of mold, shortening their original shelf life of several days to less than half a day; consuming them can easily cause gastrointestinal discomfort. Sweets like chocolate and candy will melt and deteriorate rapidly, and the oxidation of fats will produce off-flavors, causing them to lose their edible value.
There are no small matters when it comes to driving safety. Relevant departments remind the general public of car owners that as outdoor temperatures continue to rise, they must check and clear out items inside the vehicle when getting out to avoid leaving behind dangerous goods.
Return to TopThis year marks the 19th anniversary of the establishment of the Chengdu Branch (成都分行) of Hengfeng Bank (恒丰银行). Since officially commencing operations in 2007, the branch has deeply cultivated its presence in key cities such as Chengdu (成都), Leshan (乐山), Nanchong (南充), Dazhou (达州), Zigong (自贡), and Guang'an (广安) in Sichuan Province (四川省). With a service network covering the entire region of Sichuan (四川), Hengfeng Bank Chengdu Branch (恒丰银行成都分行) has taken root in the province for nineteen years, gradually forming a development pattern that includes 5 secondary branches, 12 intra-city sub-branches, and 22 branches across Sichuan (四川).
Since landing in Rongcheng (蓉城 - Chengdu), Hengfeng Bank Chengdu Branch (恒丰银行成都分行) has consistently stood at the forefront of local economic development. It is committed to transforming into an "industry-focused bank," continuously improving the quality and efficiency of its services to the real economy through specialized industrial insight and full-chain financial services.
From taking root to deep cultivation: "all-around" support for industrial finance
Sichuan (四川) possesses a solid industrial foundation, with each region featuring its own unique development characteristics. Enterprises across different regions, industries, and stages of development have varying needs regarding loan terms, credit methods, risk control models, and service efficiency. In recent years, Hengfeng Bank Chengdu Branch (恒丰银行成都分行) has continuously optimized its "industry-region-customer-product" service approach. By utilizing industry research to enhance the precision of financial supply, the branch focuses on 13 key sectors—including cultural tourism, ports, industrial park finance, energy storage, electrical equipment, automotive and parts, cold-chain logistics, computing power, and the low-altitude economy—directing more resources toward the critical links of Sichuan's (四川) industrial development.
To date, the Hengfeng Bank (恒丰银行) head office has approved over 120 key industry research reserve projects at the Chengdu Branch (成都分行), totaling more than 21 billion yuan; nearly 100 disbursements have been realized, amounting to over 6 billion yuan. Among these, cumulative funding for the cultural tourism industry has reached nearly 3 billion yuan, and cumulative funding for industrial park finance has exceeded 1 billion yuan. This series of data reflects a profound transformation in the financial services of Hengfeng Bank Chengdu Branch (恒丰银行成都分行): from focusing on individual enterprises to understanding industrial chains, and from providing capital support to embedding services into specific scenarios.
From scenic spots to chains: "precision" irrigation for cultural tourism finance
The cultural tourism industry connects landscape and humanities on one end, and the consumer market on the other. What tourists see are the scenery and facilities of scenic spots, while what remains unseen are the supporting systems such as ticketing settlement and material procurement. Hengfeng Bank Chengdu Branch (恒丰银行成都分行) embeds financial services into specific scenarios to bridge financial gaps in the industrial chain for the integrated development of cultural tourism in Sichuan (四川).
In Ya'an (雅安), the giant panda-themed outdoor amusement park "Panda Paradise · Panda Planet" (熊猫乐园·胖达星球) has become a new landmark for cultural tourism in Sichuan (四川) since its opening in January 2026. As a key carrier for Ya'an's (雅安) goal of "building an important global destination for giant panda cultural tourism," this project is a large-scale cultural tourism complex planned for a new zone and built from scratch, requiring substantial long-term capital support during the initial construction phase. Hengfeng Bank Chengdu Branch (恒丰银行成都分行) tailored a 200 million yuan fixed-asset loan plan for Ya'an Cultural Tourism Panda City Investment and Development Co., Ltd. (雅安文旅熊猫城投资开发有限公司) to support the construction of the "1869 China Giant Panda Ecological World (Phase I) First Opening Area—Panda Planet (Phase I) Project," helping to build an all-encompassing cultural tourism ecosystem of "ecological sightseeing + artistic entertainment + industrial derivatives."
Financial services continue to extend from new projects to existing scenic spots. At the Dou'an Mountain Scenic Area (窦圌山风景区) in Jiangyou (江油), Mianyang (绵阳), Hengfeng Bank Chengdu Branch (恒丰银行成都分行) provides specialized financial service plans covering landscape material procurement, daily operation and maintenance, and cultural tourism service guarantees. In Dujiangyan (都江堰), the branch provides financial support to Chengdu Dujiangyan Cultural Tourism Group Co., Ltd. (成都市都江堰文旅集团有限责任公司), helping to optimize ticketing agency platforms and tourism business settlement processes. For supply chain links related to scenic spots such as Shunan Bamboo Sea (蜀南竹海) and Xingwen Stone Sea (兴文石海), the branch provides timely credit support for capital turnover needs such as material procurement and logistics distribution.
From projects to clusters: "forward-looking" layout for industrial park finance
If the cultural tourism industry emphasizes segmented scenarios, industrial park finance tests a more comprehensive understanding of industrial chains, project cycles, and regional supporting facilities. In the field of industrial park finance, Hengfeng Bank Chengdu Branch (恒丰银行成都分行) has advanced its financial support from "back-end construction" to "front-end planning."
In Yibin (宜宾), the power battery industry is accelerating its chain extension and cluster formation, placing higher demands on the carrying capacity of industrial parks. Focusing on projects related to the Yangtze River Industrial Park (长江工业园区) in the Yibin Sanjiang New Area (宜宾三江新区), Hengfeng Bank Chengdu Branch (恒丰银行成都分行) provided medium-to-long-term capital support for the "Next-Generation High-Safety and Solid-State Battery Industrialization Customized Factory Project," approving 100 million yuan in preliminary project loans and 297 million yuan in project loans, with phased disbursements already completed. Simultaneously, the branch provided 230 million yuan in preliminary project loans and 500 million yuan in project loans for the park's supporting construction projects, helping the park enhance its comprehensive carrying capacity.
In the Nanchong Airport Industrial Park (南充航空港工业园区), where over 500 enterprises are clustered, industries such as electronic information and high-end equipment manufacturing have high electricity load demands. Focusing on the construction of the park's 100MW/200MWh user-side energy storage power station, Hengfeng Bank Chengdu Branch (恒丰银行成都分行) provided 176 million yuan in special credit, and has currently completed the disbursement of 113 million yuan in 10-year fixed-asset loans, helping the park strengthen its energy supply security.
Facing emerging industries such as the low-altitude economy, Hengfeng Bank Chengdu Branch (恒丰银行成都分行) enhances its service capability for light-asset enterprises through digital risk control, credit identification, and product innovation. Addressing the characteristics of a drone manufacturing enterprise in Chengdu (成都)—such as high R&D investment and insufficient collateral—the branch provided 5 million yuan in inclusive financing support through a credit-based method, used for the enterprise's R&D investment and capacity enhancement.
As it moves into its twentieth year of taking root in Rongcheng (蓉城) and deeply cultivating the Bashu (巴蜀) region, Hengfeng Bank Chengdu Branch (恒丰银行成都分行) will continue to integrate financial services into national strategies and the overall situation of regional development, continuously contributing financial strength to the industrial revitalization of Sichuan (四川), the strengthening of the province through manufacturing, the integration of culture and tourism, and coordinated regional development.
Data Source: Chengdu Branch of Hengfeng Bank (恒丰银行成都分行)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 史自强
At dusk, the STO Express (申通快递) North China Sorting Center, located within the Daqinghe Park of the Jingnan-Gu'an High-tech Zone (京南·固安高新区) in Gu'an County (固安县), Langfang City (廊坊市), Hebei Province (河北省), is a scene of bustling activity. The sorting system operates at high speed, with parcels being automatically diverted to their corresponding address slots after precise weighing, scanning, and identification. Relying on intelligent equipment, the center handles a daily throughput of 7 million orders, which can exceed 12 million during peak periods.
The high-speed circulation of express delivery reflects the vigorous momentum of the commerce and logistics industry. In 2025, Hebei's express delivery volume reached 11.96 billion pieces, accounting for 70% of the total in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) region and ranking fourth in the country, doubling the volume compared to 2022. The value-added of the commerce and logistics industry grew from 625.21 billion yuan in 2022 to 782 billion yuan in 2025, while the ratio of total social logistics costs to regional GDP dropped from 14.7% in 2022 to 13.7% in 2025.
This "two rises and one fall" is not only a powerful testament to the improvement of Hebei Province's commerce and logistics infrastructure and operational efficiency, but also a direct reflection of the enhanced vitality of the consumer market and the continuous release of domestic demand potential. Guided by the goal of building an important national base for modern commerce and logistics, Hebei is driving the commerce and logistics industry to achieve sustained and robust development.
### New Business Formats Reshape the Commercial Landscape
Since last year, first stores in Hebei for brands such as Hema Fresh (盒马鲜生), Meituan Xiaoxiang (美团小象), and JD 7Fresh (京东七鲜) have opened one after another, and JD's (京东) first large-scale discount supermarket in the country also opened in Hebei. New retail models such as "front-end warehouses + instant delivery" and "community group buying + in-store pickup" are favored by an increasing number of consumers. Many local commercial supermarkets in Hebei have also upgraded; the first store opened by Xinyulou Supermarket (信誉楼超市) at Gangyue Plaza (港悦广场) in Chang'an District (长安区), Shijiazhuang City (石家庄市), attracted over 100,000 people on its opening day last year to "get a taste," with sales exceeding 3 million yuan.
A series of consumption scenarios integrating commerce, tourism, culture, sports, health, and exhibitions have made a spectacular debut. During this year's "May Day" holiday, 40 multi-format integrated consumption scenarios built by Hebei attracted numerous citizens and tourists.
The innovation of consumption scenarios is inseparable from policy support. Hebei Province has formulated guidelines for the cultivation and construction of multi-format integrated consumption scenarios, and the commerce departments of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei have held the "Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Consumption Season" (京津冀消费季) for four consecutive years. In the first quarter of this year, Hebei held more than 2,200 consumption-promoting activities such as "Buy in China" (购在中国), investing a total of approximately 510 million yuan and driving nearly 8 billion yuan in consumption.
The increasingly perfect urban and rural commerce and circulation system has both improved people's well-being and unleashed consumption potential. Hebei's 7 national logistics hubs carry the provincial system layout, 5 national backbone cold-chain logistics bases have been completed and put into use, and 118 counties have achieved "dual coverage" of county-town-village commercial networks and logistics distribution systems. The province has built 448 "15-minute convenient living circles" in cities, covering 1,166 communities and 54,525 commercial outlets, and has laid out 46,000 comprehensive service cooperatives and 43,000 postal service stations, allowing the public to "enter the circle" for daily life and "step out of the circle" for happiness.
"Trade-in" policies have stimulated consumption vitality. "Since the beginning of this year, we have focused on green and intelligent products, continuously compressed the review and payment time for trade-in subsidies, normalized the disclosure of subsidy fund usage progress and the list of participating enterprises, and built provincial and municipal consultation service platforms to fully unleash the effectiveness of policy empowerment. As of June 8, the province has used 4.91 billion yuan in subsidies, with sales reaching 50.4 billion yuan. The number of applications for automobile scrapping and renewal, as well as replacement and renewal, ranks among the top in the country," said Zhang Hecheng (张贺成), a member of the Party Group and Deputy Director of the Hebei Provincial Department of Commerce (河北省商务厅).
Under the combined effect of scenario innovation, business format integration, and policy driving, Hebei Province's total retail sales of consumer goods in the first quarter reached 381.43 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.3%. From January to April, the retail sales of consumer goods by units above the designated size in the province reached 179.22 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10.1%.
### Specialized Livestreaming Opens Up Production and Sales Channels
Hebei is vigorously promoting the development of livestreaming e-commerce, using the "one product, one stream" model to connect the production end with the consumer end.
In the Fengfeng Mining District (峰峰矿区) of Handan City (邯郸市), "Dongfang Sesame Oil" (东方香油), a brand passed down through three generations, has found a new path for development through online livestreaming. "In the past, it was only sold in a small area in surrounding towns, but now it is sold all over the country. Production capacity has doubled, the product range is rich, and the livestreaming room receives more than 2,000 stable orders every month," said Liu Yan (刘燕), the person in charge of the enterprise.
This gratifying change stems from the "one product, one stream" e-commerce development initiative implemented by Handan City. The local government combines the cultivation of "one county, one product" characteristic industries with the livestreaming economy, digs deep into high-quality local products, provides platforms, and invites experts to pass on experience, leading merchants hand-in-hand to learn skills such as short video shooting, content editing, and livestreaming operations. Currently, there are more than 38,000 streamers in the area, and nearly 7,000 products have been included in the "Handan Good Products" (邯郸好物) selection library.
Last December, Hebei Province held a promotion meeting for the development of the livestreaming e-commerce industry and the "one product, one stream" work, establishing a development strategy of "government guidance, market operation, linkage from top to bottom, and full-region promotion." This new online retail model is being promoted throughout the province, and the pulling effect of livestreaming e-commerce on the consumer market continues to be prominent.
Based on its industrial foundation, Hebei is further promoting the extension of livestreaming e-commerce to the industrial field. In April this year, Hebei issued a special work plan to encourage industrial enterprises to enter the livestreaming track, carrying out livestreaming sales and short video traffic attraction based on real scenes such as production workshops, factory showrooms, storage warehouses, and R&D laboratories. As of the end of May, more than 7,000 industrial enterprises in the province had carried out livestreaming marketing.
Walking into Hebei Bo'ang Automobile Sales Service Co., Ltd. (河北伯昂汽车销售服务有限公司) located in Cheng'an County (成安县), Handan, a streamer stands next to a heavy-duty truck, meticulously explaining the frame material, load-bearing performance, and interior configuration, while interacting with online buyers in real-time. Previously, the company faced shrinking orders and operational pressure. In 2025, the company tested the waters of livestreaming transformation; 6 sales staff transformed into streamers, accumulating a total of 165,000 precise industry fans. The company's annual sales reached 350 million yuan, with online orders accounting for as high as 85%. From January to May this year, the company completed the delivery of 619 trucks, and its business situation continues to improve.
In the first quarter of this year, Hebei Province's online retail sales of goods and services reached 151.06 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 15.5%. The online retail sales of goods via livestreaming e-commerce reached 29.86 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 20.7%, with 145,000 participating streamers and 5.5 million livestreaming sessions, up 9.4% and 17.4% respectively year-on-year. As of mid-April, Hebei had achieved full coverage of municipal-level livestreaming e-commerce bases and selection centers, with more than 200 livestreaming e-commerce bases and over 150 selection centers built at the municipal and county levels.
### International Logistics Achieves New Speed in Opening Up
On June 5, 6 trucks fully loaded with goods departed from the Shijiazhuang Comprehensive Bonded Zone (石家庄综合保税区), sounding their horns. This batch of goods will exit the country via the Manzhouli Port (满洲里口岸), reaching the destination in as fast as 10 days, which is 30 days shorter than rail transport, providing an efficient and convenient new path for Hebei goods to go to sea.
"In the past, our product exports to Turkey relied on sea transport, with a transport cycle of 40 to 50 days, occupying a large amount of capital. The new special line significantly compresses transport time, effectively reduces costs, and can help us strengthen the export of high-end products and further expand the European market," said Wu Qiang (吴强), Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Shijiazhuang Industrial Pump Factory Co., Ltd. (石家庄工业泵厂有限公司).
In recent years, Hebei has continuously expanded foreign trade routes and channels, built a three-dimensional sea, land, and air hub, coordinated the construction of trunk channels, county-level collection and distribution layouts, and overseas node empowerment, effectively reducing cross-border logistics costs, improving transport efficiency, and smoothing the channels for Hebei goods to go to sea.
In terms of sea transport, a new direct shipping route from Cangzhou Huanghua (沧州黄骅) to Incheon, South Korea (韩国仁川), was opened this year, and routes from Huanghua to Thailand (泰国) and Vietnam (越南) continue to be intensified. The shipping volume of the Northern (Cangzhou) Cross-border E-commerce Logistics Base (北方（沧州）跨境电商物流基地) has increased rapidly; from January to May, the export container collection volume at Huanghua Port (黄骅港) was 16,581 TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 255%.
In terms of air transport, three international cargo air routes from Shijiazhuang to Ostrava, Czech Republic (捷克俄斯特拉发), Liege, Belgium (比利时列日), and Moscow, Russia (俄罗斯莫斯科) were opened this year.
In terms of rail transport, a new return train from Serbia (塞尔维亚) to Shijiazhuang Gaoyi (石家庄高邑) was opened this year. The China-Europe Railway Express (中欧班列) from Shijiazhuang to Poland (波兰) has achieved normalized operation according to a full-course timetable, and a Hebei assembly center has been established in Poland. The Zhangjiakou China-Europe (Asia) Railway Express (张家口中欧（亚）班列) has been approved for scheduled operation. On May 25, the new China-Europe Railway Express route from Huanghua Port to Tashkent, Uzbekistan (乌兹别克斯坦塔什干), was officially launched, with a total transport time of 12 days, significantly compressing the cross-border trade time and space distance between Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and the hinterland of Central Asia.
On March 23, Hebei Province's first sea-rail intermodal transport business was launched at the Baoding Jingxiong-Bao International Smart Port (保定京雄保国际智慧港), operating at a high frequency of two trains per week. Chu Yixiao (楚逸啸), General Manager of Taitong International Transport Co., Ltd. (泰通国际运输有限公司), the operator of the Jingxiong-Bao International Smart Port, introduced that compared with the traditional model, the overall customs clearance time for goods under the new model is shortened by about 20%, and the comprehensive logistics cost is expected to be reduced by 15%, providing a fast sea-going channel for characteristic industrial clusters.
It is necessary to both open up the trunk network and fill the shortcomings of terminal collection and distribution. Hebei is striving to densify the county-level cargo collection network and continuously improve the front-end cargo collection service capability. Currently, 28 county-level shared cargo collection warehouses have been built in places such as Shijiazhuang, Tangshan (唐山), Langfang, Cangzhou, Xingtai (邢台), and Handan.
In addition, Hebei will accelerate the construction of overseas warehouse service stations this year and encourage and support the expansion and upgrading of overseas warehouses. Currently, Hebei has built a total of 43 public warehouses and 75 self-use warehouses, distributed in more than 40 countries and regions. The Hebei International Trade Group (河北国贸集团) has built overseas warehouse service stations in countries such as Indonesia (印度尼西亚), Russia, Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦), and Hungary (匈牙利), providing display and sales, direct e-commerce sales, warehousing, logistics, after-sales, supply chain finance, and other multi-faceted services for Hebei goods to go to sea.
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At the sorting center of the ZTO Express (中通快递) Northern Headquarters in the Guangyang Economic Development Zone (广阳经济开发区), Langfang (廊坊), Hebei (河北), automated sorting equipment is operating at a high speed of 2.5 meters per second, with parcels sliding down like they are on a slide to land precisely into their corresponding shipping chutes.
"This equipment can sort 80,000 parcels per hour, and the process from unloading to loading can take as little as 10 minutes. Behind this efficient operation lies a comprehensive equipment cluster and a scientific layout concept," introduced Li Yihui (李宜晖), head of public affairs at the ZTO Express (中通快递) Northern Headquarters. The center innovatively utilizes a vertical layout for the flow of the express sorting center, achieving a one-way circulation of "arrival—sorting—dispatch." Currently, the center has a daily throughput of 7.5 million parcels, which can exceed 12 million during peak periods.
In 2025, the total annual postal delivery volume in Langfang (廊坊) reached 2.296 billion pieces, a year-on-year increase of 28.81%. Among the 24 professional markets in Hebei Province (河北省) with an annual express delivery volume exceeding 100 million pieces, Langfang (廊坊) accounts for 8, ranking first in Hebei (河北).
Why do express delivery companies choose Langfang (廊坊) one after another?
Ma Jingfeng (马敬峰), Deputy General Manager of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) Region at the STO Express (申通快递) North China Transfer Center, said: "Express delivery is primarily based on road transport. Langfang (廊坊) is located at the center of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) urban agglomeration, and its high-speed road network is 四通八达 (sì tōng bā dá - "four directions connect eight reaches," extending in all directions), making it a 'treasure land' for the development of the express delivery industry."
Today, the northern headquarters or regional distribution centers of the eight major express brands, including China Post (中国邮政), SF Express (顺丰), and JD Logistics (京东), have all settled in Langfang (廊坊). A pattern of express headquarters characterized by "Qingpu (青浦) in the South, Langfang (廊坊) in the North" has formed, and Langfang (廊坊) is gradually transforming from an "express corridor" into an "important hub for northern express logistics."
As hub construction continues to advance, the "capillaries" at the urban and rural fringes are also being carefully cleared. Currently, all 101 towns and townships in Langfang (廊坊) have achieved full coverage of delivery outlets. Among them, more than 70 outlets have transformed into comprehensive "delivery + convenience" service stations, integrating diverse services such as government affairs agency, agricultural product collection, and commodity sales, allowing township outlets to enhance their own profitability while serving the public.
At the very end of the villages, the "last mile" has been opened up. Nearly 90% of administrative villages in Langfang (廊坊) have established delivery service stations, and more than 1,500 sets of smart parcel lockers have been deployed simultaneously, steadily improving the timeliness and service quality of rural delivery.
At the same time, the deep integration of "passenger, cargo, and mail" is being solidly promoted. Langfang (廊坊) has opened 35 transport-mail intermodal lines and built 106 passenger-cargo-mail stations, transporting an average of over 2,900 parcels daily. By adhering to the principle of "one network for multiple uses, one station for multiple functions," idle transport capacity has been fully revitalized, urban-rural distribution time has been compressed, and terminal costs for enterprises have been reduced.
"The substantial growth in express delivery volume stems from the capacity-doubling effect brought about by the clustering of leading enterprises," said Zhang Huirong (张惠荣), Director of the Langfang (廊坊) Municipal Postal Administration (廊坊市邮政管理局). Langfang (廊坊) will accelerate the construction of county-level express logistics centers and cultivate more professional markets with an annual business volume exceeding 100 million pieces.
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On June 16, the 2026 China·Langfang International Economic and Trade Fair (中国·廊坊国际经济贸易洽谈会) opened. As an official partner of this fair, the Agricultural Bank of China Hebei Branch (中国农业银行河北省分行) (hereinafter referred to as "ABC Hebei Branch" (农行河北分行)) fully leveraged its unique strengths to provide professional and efficient financial services to participating merchants and enterprises.
ABC Hebei Branch (农行河北分行) closely followed the policy orientation of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee (河北省委) and the Hebei Provincial Government (省政府) to accelerate the construction of an important modern trade and logistics base. By combining the operational scenarios and practical needs of foreign trade enterprises, the branch customized full-process service plans, continuously increased credit support, and improved the level of trade and investment facilitation.
At the same time, ABC Hebei Branch (农行河北分行) actively coordinated with government departments such as Customs (海关), introduced incentive measures for AEO (Authorized Economic Operator) enterprises, expanded the scope of implementation for trade foreign exchange receipt and payment facilitation policies, and implemented multi-dimensional fee reduction and profit-sharing policies—such as those for handling fees and foreign exchange settlement and sales—to effectively reduce the comprehensive financial costs for foreign trade enterprises.
As of the end of May, the loan balance of ABC (农行) for "Belt and Road" (一带一路) enterprises in the province exceeded 74 billion yuan, an increase of 9.3 billion yuan since the beginning of the year. It served nearly 2,400 international settlement clients oriented toward countries jointly building the "Belt and Road" (一带一路), providing a powerful guarantee for the accelerated development of Hebei's (河北) export-oriented economy through high-quality financial services.
The China (Hebei) Pilot Free Trade Zone (中国（河北）自由贸易试验区) covers four major areas: Xiong'an (雄安), Zhengding (正定), Caofeidian (曹妃甸), and Daxing Airport (大兴机场). Since its establishment, the trade and logistics industries within the Pilot Free Trade Zone (自贸试验区) have developed rapidly, making it an important window for Hebei Province's (河北省) opening-up. ABC Hebei Branch (农行河北分行) has comprehensively served the upgrading and quality improvement of the Pilot Free Trade Zone (自贸试验区), promoted online cross-border financial services, and carried out business innovations such as multimodal transport documents. As of the end of May, ABC Hebei Branch (农行河北分行) had provided financing, settlement, and other financial services to over 3,600 enterprises registered in the Pilot Free Trade Zone (自贸试验区), with a related loan balance of 25.8 billion yuan.
As an important "vegetable basket" (菜篮子) supply base for the capital, Hebei (河北) vegetables account for more than 40% of the market share in Beijing (北京). In recent years, Hebei Province (河北省) has focused on building the "Hebei Clean Vegetables" (河北净菜) brand, vigorously promoting the entry of "Hebei vegetables into Beijing" (冀菜进京), and gradually improving the production and sales channels for high-quality agricultural products. The continuous warming of the clean vegetable industry has also driven the development of related industries such as logistics and warehousing.
ABC Hebei Branch (农行河北分行) has continuously strengthened financial support around the entire industrial chain of clean vegetables, and has currently provided cumulative credit support of over 18 billion yuan to the Hebei (河北) clean vegetable industry. At the same time, combined with the development needs of the industry, it has developed and launched the "Hebei Clean Vegetables" (河北净菜) digital information platform, realizing online management for authorized enterprises and major product categories.
Since the beginning of 2024, ABC Hebei Branch (农行河北分行) has joined hands with the government to organize more than 10 "Hebei Clean Vegetables" (河北净菜) brand promotion activities in various places across the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) region, helping to enhance the brand influence of "Hebei Clean Vegetables" (河北净菜) and promoting regional agricultural industrial upgrading and the prosperity of trade and logistics. The bank is truly 脚踏实地 (jiǎo tà shí dì - "foot tread solid earth," to be down-to-earth and steady in one's work) in its commitment to regional economic development.
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On June 17, during the "Invest in Hebei" (投资河北) event at the 2026 China·Langfang International Economic and Trade Fair (中国·廊坊国际经济贸易洽谈会), Chengde City (承德市) hosted a special matchmaking conference for the clean energy industry themed "Green Energy Drives the Future, Chains Ignite a New Journey" (绿动未来，链启新程). Attendees engaged in keynote speeches, project roadshows, and promotions centered on the current development status, strategic planning, and investment directions of clean energy in Chengde (承德), injecting momentum into industrial growth.
In recent years, Chengde (承德) has continuously developed clean energy by relying on its unique wind, solar, and water resources. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" (十四五) period, Chengde (承德) added an average of 3.384 million kilowatts of new clean energy installed capacity annually. Currently, the city's total clean energy installed capacity has reached 24.515 million kilowatts, and the power generation in 2025 reached 34.912 billion kilowatt-hours, accounting for 93% of the total power installed capacity and 81% of the total power generation in 2025, respectively. Green electricity is becoming a shining calling card for this city.
The development momentum in the wind and solar power sector is rapid. Currently, the cumulative installed capacity of wind power and photovoltaics in Chengde (承德) has exceeded 20.8 million kilowatts. In areas such as Yudaokou (御道口) in Weichang Manchu and Mongol Autonomous County (围场满族蒙古族自治县), the "pasture-solar complementary" (牧光互补) model has been implemented effectively. By generating electricity on photovoltaic panels and engaging in grass planting and livestock breeding beneath them, the city has achieved a win-win situation for efficient land use and ecological protection.
The pumped-storage industry has achieved remarkable results. By the end of 2024, the 3.6-million-kilowatt units of the Fengning Pumped-Storage Power Station (丰宁抽水蓄能电站) achieved full-capacity operation, marking the official full-load operation of this pumped-storage power station, which has the largest installed capacity in the world. "As of the end of May this year, it has cumulatively consumed over 20 billion kilowatt-hours of new energy and power grid off-peak electricity, effectively assisting the North China Power Grid (华北电网) in peak regulation, frequency modulation, and the consumption of new energy power," said Zhao Renzheng (赵人正), head of the operation department of the Fengning Pumped-Storage Power Station (丰宁抽水蓄能电站).
While expanding capacity on the power generation side, Chengde (承德) is simultaneously addressing shortcomings in power grid transmission, energy storage peak regulation, and hydrogen energy application, building an integrated "generation, transmission, storage, and usage" support system.
Power grid transmission capacity has been enhanced. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" (十四五) period, Chengde (承德) accelerated the layout of 500kV and 220kV power transmission and transformation projects, with two major 500kV projects completed one year ahead of schedule. New energy storage has achieved breakthroughs at multiple points, balancing both new energy-paired storage and independent energy storage construction, with the scale of storage continuing to climb. The Hebei Jiaotou Longhua Chanmingshan Independent Energy Storage Power Station (河北交投隆化蝉鸣山独立储能电站), completed and put into operation in 2025, adopts advanced string technology and is a leading domestic electrochemical energy storage project in terms of single-unit scale. The hydrogen energy industry has also made a breakthrough start; the Weichang Daxigou Wind Power Hydrogen Production Demonstration Project (围场大西沟风电制氢示范项目) has been implemented, creating a linkage model of new energy power generation and green electricity hydrogen production, realizing the on-site conversion of green electricity into green hydrogen.
Today, Chengde (承德) has built a complete industrial chain for the coordinated development of wind, solar, storage, and hydrogen networks. The clean energy industry has shifted from single-point projects to cluster development, and from resource output to a dual focus on product manufacturing and technology export. "Chengde (承德) has a unique ecological location and outstanding wind, solar, and water resource endowments. Developing clean energy is not only an inevitable choice for practicing the 'Dual Carbon' (双碳) goals, but also an important lever for achieving high-quality development by relying on ecological advantages and serving the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) region," stated Gao Chunlin (高春林), Director of the Chengde Municipal Development and Reform Commission (承德市发展改革委).
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"We must study and enrich the forms of legislation; we can create some 'heavyweights,' but we should also create some 'small, fast, and agile' ones to enhance the pertinence, applicability, and operability of legislation." The important speech by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has provided fundamental adherence and scientific guidance for carrying out local legislative work and improving the quality of legislation.
Small entry points, concise provisions, rapid action, flexible forms, and substantive content... In recent years, "small, fast, and agile" local legislation has increasingly become a prominent highlight.
What new explorations have been made in "small, fast, and agile" local legislation? What changes have they brought? This issue of the Democratic Politics (民主政治) edition focuses on four samples to see how localities "tailor-make" regulations and norms to address specific problems, ensuring that "the law as established" becomes "the law as needed."
—Editor
**Industrial Development Legislation:**
**Chongqing Hot Pot Now Has a Legal "Business Card"**
Red oil broth is rolling, and steam is rising. This is the "smoke and fire" (everyday life) of Chongqing (重庆), and it is also a highly recognizable business card for this city. In May of this year, the *Regulations on Promoting the Development of the Chongqing Hot Pot Industry* (重庆火锅产业发展促进条例), the first local regulation on the hot pot industry in the country, was implemented.
A pot of boiling flavor connects a massive industry. As of 2025, there are nearly 900,000 people employed in the hot pot-related sector in Chongqing (重庆), with the total industrial chain output value reaching 330 billion yuan.
"However, the development of the hot pot industry still faces problems such as insufficient industrial scale, lack of strong leading enterprises, low supply chain levels, and suboptimal quality and efficiency," said Zhang Bangping (张邦平), Deputy Director of the Financial and Economic Committee of the Chongqing Municipal People's Congress (重庆市人大财经委). Legislation helps to further improve the institutional mechanisms for promoting the development of the hot pot industry and creates a favorable development ecosystem.
The regulations, consisting of 28 articles, respond to the needs of the industry.
The regulations state their purpose clearly at the outset, defining "Chongqing Hot Pot" (重庆火锅) in legal form: "A type of hot pot that originated in Chongqing (重庆), uses unique techniques for stir-frying, simmering, and seasoning the base, features spicy, numbing, fresh, and fragrant flavors, and showcases Bayu (巴渝) dietary cultural customs," highlighting the distinctiveness of "Chongqing Hot Pot" (重庆火锅) and manifesting regional cultural characteristics.
Li Yuan (李媛), Deputy Director of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Chongqing Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee (重庆市人大常委会法工委), introduced that the regulations also stipulate that the industrial development promotion activities of other types of hot pot businesses in the city shall refer to these regulations, sharing resources and developing together. This not only highlights the unique status of Chongqing Hot Pot (重庆火锅) but also creates a market environment of fair competition and symbiotic prosperity for various hot pot business formats.
Addressing the problem of being "large but not strong," the regulations require scientific planning and rational layout of production bases, trading markets, and characteristic consumption zones related to the hot pot industry. At the same time, it supports the construction of high-quality supply bases for hot pot food ingredients, processing bases, and manufacturing bases for facilities and equipment.
"Safety on the tip of the tongue" is a matter of high concern for the public. How to strictly guard the safety bottom line? Starting from the entire chain, the regulations build a rigorous safety assurance system in aspects such as production and processing, quality supervision, and fire safety, allowing consumers to eat with peace of mind and confidence.
The regulations place significant emphasis on brand building and cultural integration. On one hand, it supports applications for trademarks and the declaration of "China Time-honored Brands" (中华老字号) and "Chongqing Time-honored Brands" (重庆老字号), strengthening intellectual property protection. On the other hand, it explicitly promotes the inclusion of traditional Chongqing Hot Pot (重庆火锅) techniques in the representative project list of intangible cultural heritage. In terms of expanding international markets, the regulations encourage Chongqing Hot Pot (重庆火锅) enterprises to "go global," supporting the construction of hot pot ingredient warehouses and processing bases, the opening of brand chain stores, and the development of cross-border e-commerce.
The rule of law is the best business environment. Chen Guohua (陈国华), President of the Chongqing Hot Pot Industry Association (重庆市火锅产业协会), stated that the association will accelerate the formulation of standards and norms for traditional flavors, so that the "Chongqing Taste" (重庆味道) has standards to follow, making the city's business card even more dazzling.
**Cultural Heritage Legislation:**
**Breaking the Dilemma of Protecting the Ancient Tea Horse Road**
The Ancient Tea Horse Road (茶马古道) is an important commercial and cultural traffic corridor in Chinese history. In Pu'er, Yunnan (云南普洱), there is a piece of "small, fast, and agile" legislation escorting this cultural treasure—the *Regulations on the Protection of Cultural Heritage of the Ancient Tea Horse Road in Pu'er City* (普洱市茶马古道文化遗产保护条例). This is the first regulation in the country specifically formulated for the protection of the cultural heritage of the Ancient Tea Horse Road (茶马古道).
Small entry points and concise provisions are a major feature of this regulation.
"We set as many articles as are needed," introduced Li Hong (李鸿), Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Pu'er Municipal People's Congress (普洱市人大常委会). The regulation is not divided into chapters and contains only 19 articles, focusing on the actual difficulties and problems existing in the protection work of the Ancient Tea Horse Road (茶马古道) cultural heritage in Pu'er (普洱).
Short, fast, and clear, yet precise and effective. High-quality local regulations must face problems head-on.
For example, unclear management responsibilities are a difficult problem in the protection of the Ancient Tea Horse Road (茶马古道). In response, the regulations promote the formation of a co-governance pattern of "government-led, department-coordinated, and social participation," stipulating that municipal and county (district) people's governments should strengthen organizational leadership over the protection and utilization of the Ancient Tea Horse Road (茶马古道) cultural heritage, establish a coordination mechanism, study and solve major problems, incorporate the protection and utilization of the Ancient Tea Horse Road (茶马古道) cultural heritage into national economic and social development plans, territorial spatial plans, and cultural and tourism development plans, and include relevant protection and utilization funds in the fiscal budgets at their respective levels.
Addressing the issue of "unclear bottom lines," the regulations stipulate a resource survey and list protection system, requiring municipal and county (district) people's governments and their cultural and tourism administrative departments to carry out resource surveys, establish archives and databases, and organize the compilation and public release of protection lists, ensuring a clear understanding of the situation and a basis for protection.
How to balance strict protection with rational utilization? The regulations leave ample space for active utilization: under the premise of ensuring the safety of cultural heritage, municipal and county (district) people's governments and their relevant departments shall promote in-depth publicity, exhibitions, performances, and promotion activities; support the creation of high-quality tourist routes; and cultivate new business formats such as cultural and creative product research and development, health and leisure, homestays and gourmet food, and sports events. It also stipulates inheritance and development systems, cultivates professional talent, advocates scientific research and academic exchanges, and fully excavates and interprets the historical and cultural connotations of the Ancient Tea Horse Road (茶马古道) cultural heritage.
"The Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress will, in combination with the implementation of the regulations, organize law enforcement inspections and post-legislative evaluations at appropriate times to urge subjects at all levels to earnestly perform their duties and ensure the comprehensive implementation of the regulations," said Li Hong (李鸿). Pu'er (普洱) will take the implementation of the regulations as an opportunity to pool wisdom and strength, working together to protect, utilize, and inherit this precious heritage well.
**Traffic Safety Legislation:**
**Safeguarding the Safe Travel of Rural Masses**
Rural road traffic safety is one of the most concerning, direct, and realistic livelihood issues for the masses.
The south entrance of Feng Village (冯村), Gedangdian Town (圪垱店镇), Wuzhi County (武陟县), Jiaozuo City (焦作市), Henan (河南), is the intersection of the Longyuan Line (龙园线) county road and the Yangpu Highway (杨铺公路) township road. The traffic environment here is standardized and orderly, making people feel secure.
However, traffic accidents occurred here frequently in the past, and it was once considered a "dangerous travel spot" for the surrounding 5 villages.
How did the change happen?
Addressing the problem of high accident rates at rural intersections, the Standing Committee of the Jiaozuo Municipal People's Congress (焦作市人大常委会) organized special research multiple times, urging public security, transportation, and other relevant functional departments to deeply carry out source governance of rural intersections and explore working mechanisms such as the "Four Ones" (setting up one yellow flashing light, one set of speed bumps, one set of warning signs, and one set of speed monitoring facilities). After the rectification, the public's sense of security has significantly improved.
Can effective measures like setting up "yellow flashing lights" be solidified in the form of a system? On January 1st of this year, the *Regulations on the Management of Rural Highway Traffic Safety Facilities in Jiaozuo City* (焦作市农村公路交通安全设施管理条例) was officially implemented. This is the first local regulation in Henan Province (河南省) on the management of rural highway traffic safety facilities, writing the methods that have "grown" out of Jiaozuo's (焦作) years of practice into the law.
The person in charge of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Jiaozuo Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee (焦作市人大常委会法工委) introduced that the regulations consist of only 20 articles, focusing on the key links of rural highway traffic safety facility management and making a series of scientific and pragmatic institutional designs.
In terms of the construction and management of rural highway traffic safety facilities, the regulations solidify working mechanisms like the "Four Ones" formed in practice through legislation. It explicitly requires that rural highway traffic safety facilities be constructed "simultaneously" with the main project; it stipulates that yellow flashing lights, speed humps (strips), warning signs, speed display instruments, and other facilities can be set up at intersections with heavy mixed traffic flow and high accident frequency.
In terms of division of responsibilities, the regulations focus on refining the duties of county (city), district people's governments, township people's governments, and sub-district offices, clarifying that the municipal transportation department is the competent department for the construction and management of rural highway traffic safety facilities, and that public security organs participate in the design review and completion acceptance of traffic safety facilities, as well as the investigation and governance of traffic safety hazards, effectively solving problems such as unclear responsibilities and buck-passing.
"Taking the implementation of the regulations as a starting point, we will further increase the intensity of rural highway traffic safety governance," said Li Yinghao (李英豪), Director of the Jiaozuo Highway Development Center (焦作市公路事业发展中心).
**Emerging Field Legislation:**
**Helping Embodied Intelligent Robots "Run" More Steadily**
Recently, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang (浙江杭州), the robot industry has attracted attention, becoming a vivid example of Hangzhou's (杭州) future industrial development.
However, the embodied intelligent robot industry also faces some problems during its rapid development. How to respond to the development needs of emerging fields?
On May 1st of this year, the *Regulations on Promoting the Development of the Embodied Intelligent Robot Industry in Hangzhou* (杭州市促进具身智能机器人产业发展条例) was implemented. As the first local regulation in the country focusing on the field of embodied intelligent robots, the regulations closely follow the core needs of industrial development, helping embodied intelligent robots "run" more steadily.
The regulations make a clear definition of "embodied intelligent robot" for the first time at the legal level: an intelligent robot that has a physical form, realizes the integration of perception, cognition, decision-making, and action through the fusion of artificial intelligence technology, can interact with the real environment in real-time, and can complete a variety of complex tasks.
Core technology breakthroughs face "stranglehold" problems, infrastructure construction needs to be improved, and the landing of application scenarios is difficult... Embodied intelligent robots have encountered "growing pains" during their rapid growth, urgently needing legal means to remove obstacles and stimulate vitality.
"Small, fast, and agile" legislation must be based on practical needs. To figure out the bottlenecks of the industry, relevant leaders of the Hangzhou Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee (杭州市人大常委会) led teams to visit enterprises and research institutes for research multiple times, invited relevant enterprise leaders to participate in the deliberation of Standing Committee meetings, and combed the voices from the front line into a "problem list," transforming them into institutional responses one by one.
Addressing technical difficulties, the regulations summarize and solidify Hangzhou's (杭州) open-source practice, supporting enterprises, research institutions, universities, and developers to open up algorithm models, development tools, and datasets to build an open-source technology ecosystem; addressing infrastructure shortcomings, it focuses on systematic layouts such as intelligent computing power, data centers, and application pilot testing, supporting the construction of high-quality training datasets and pilot testing and detection platforms; addressing the difficulty of scenario landing, it takes the lead in clarifying the government's responsibility for overall planning of scenario cultivation and opening in the form of regulations...
The "exploration of building a sandbox regulatory model" proposed by the regulations is regarded as a major highlight. Shao Hao (邵浩), Chief Scientist of vivo Robot Lab, stated that sandbox regulation provides a relatively relaxed innovation environment for enterprises, which is conducive to bold trial and error and rapid iteration of cutting-edge technologies.
"A promotion law that encourages innovative development, a safety law that prevents risks, and a procedural law that regulates power—these are the three positionings of the regulations." Ji Junmin (暨军民), Director of the Hangzhou Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee (杭州市人大常委会), stated that the regulations explicitly prohibit acts that endanger national security and the personal and property safety of users, require adherence to scientific and technological ethical principles such as being people-oriented and safe and controllable, and explore measures such as coding management, electronic fences, and full-lifecycle traceability.
(Hou Junyuan (侯竣元) participated in the reporting and writing)
Return to TopCultivating and developing future industries is of great significance for seizing the commanding heights of science, technology, and industry, firmly grasping the initiative in development, developing new quality productive forces, building a modern industrial system, improving the quality of people's lives, and promoting the comprehensive development of individuals and society as a whole. How can we better cultivate and develop future industries? Our reporter interviewed four deputies to the National People's Congress (全国人大代表).
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Huang Maoxing (黄茂兴), Deputy to the National People's Congress (全国人大代表) and President of Fujian Jiangxia University (福建江夏学院):
Focusing Efforts on Key Directions
Future industries are forward-looking emerging industries driven by frontier technologies that are currently in the incubation or early stages of industrialization. They possess strategic and disruptive characteristics. Developing future industries requires scientific planning, overall coordination, and solid implementation.
During the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五) period, we must anchor our efforts on key directions for China's future industrial development—such as quantum technology, biomanufacturing, and embodied intelligence—focusing our efforts and implementing precise policies to ensure that the development of future industries always moves in the right direction and achieves significant progress.
We must strengthen the exploration of diverse technological paths and make timely dynamic adjustments. For key core technologies and "choke point" (卡脖子) areas with clear directions and goals, we must implement concentrated breakthroughs. For frontier fields where paths are not yet determined and iteration is rapid, we should adopt a decentralized trial-and-error approach, unifying needs with possibilities, and compile specialized plans by category.
We must strengthen industrial synergy, adhere to the integrated development of future industries with emerging and traditional industries, establish and improve a multi-dimensional support and guarantee system, guide the complementary advantages and organic connection of these three types of industries, and promote the formation of an industrial development pattern characterized by tiered advancement and mutual promotion for win-win results, thereby contributing to high-quality economic development.
(Interviewed and compiled by our reporter Liu Xiaoyu (刘晓宇))
Pang Xinchang (庞新厂), Deputy to the National People's Congress (全国人大代表) and Academic Vice President of Henan University of Science and Technology (河南科技大学):
Breaking Down Barriers Between Industry, Academia, and Research
Scientific and technological innovation is the core engine of future industrial development. The degree of technological breakthroughs largely determines the speed, breadth, and depth of future industrial development. To cultivate future industries, we must always prioritize high-level technological self-reliance and self-strengthening.
We must fully leverage the advantages of the new whole-of-nation system (新型举国体制), strengthen the role of national strategic scientific and technological forces, and adhere to the principle of "industry sets the questions, technology provides the answers," vigorously enhancing our ability to support and lead through technology. This is precisely the effective path to breaking down the barriers between industry, academia, and research.
We must base our actions on the present, adopt extraordinary measures, increase efforts to tackle key core technologies in key areas, and resolve the "choke point" (卡脖子) problems that constrain the development of future industries as soon as possible. Looking to the long term, we must strengthen the strategic, forward-looking, and systematic layout of basic research, reinforce the orientation toward original innovation in scientific research and technological development, and strive to fundamentally solve principled and foundational problems.
We must promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation, accelerate the transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements, and strive to translate scientific research creativity into real productive forces. Currently, many industrial fields still face bottlenecks in key core technologies; this is both a challenge and the direction for the struggle of scientific researchers. Scientific workers must take the initiative to step out of the laboratory, keep a close eye on the real needs of the industrial front, focus on concentrated breakthroughs in frontier fields, write their papers on the land of the motherland, and go all out to overcome "choke point" (卡脖子) technical difficulties. At the same time, we must accelerate the implementation of scientific and technological achievements, allowing innovative ideas from the laboratory to transform into high-quality products in the market and core kinetic energy in the industry.
(Interviewed and compiled by our reporter Jin Xin (金歆))
Du Weidong (杜卫东), Deputy to the National People's Congress (全国人大代表), Party Secretary and Chairman of Chongqing Xiyong Micro-electronics Industrial Park Investment Group (重庆西永微电园产业投资集团):
Giving Play to the Principal Role of Enterprises
Enterprises are the main body of innovation. In forward-looking layouts for future industries, we must give play to the principal role of enterprises, promote the concentration of innovation resources toward enterprises, and activate development momentum.
To cultivate and grow future industries, we must anchor the principal status of enterprise technological innovation and treat enterprises as the main force in technological innovation and industrial development. Focusing on core directions such as new-generation intelligent manufacturing, embodied intelligence, and biomanufacturing, we must promote the dual-track development of "industrialization of future technologies" and "futurization of existing industries," relying on a systematic layout of "points, lines, planes, and networks" to comprehensively empower the upgrading of traditional industries.
Focusing on empowering the enterprise as the main body, we must promote the precise concentration of innovation resources. Adhere to the orientation of scientific and technological innovation empowering industrial development, break down barriers to innovation resources, and promote the all-around inclination of high-quality innovation resources—such as talent, technology, platforms, and capital—toward enterprises, and their concentration along the entire chain toward enterprises. Build high-level scientific and technological innovation platforms to help enterprises solve innovation bottlenecks and enhance core R&D capabilities.
Improve the gradient cultivation system and grow industrial clusters of high-quality enterprises. Through a cultivation model of leading enterprises, tiered follow-up, and collaborative development, we should build an industrial ecosystem where large, medium, and small enterprises integrate innovation and develop together. We must strive to forge leading forces in industrial development while deeply cultivating small and medium-sized scientific and technological enterprises, incubating and growing a large number of technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises with good growth potential and strong professionalism.
(Interviewed and compiled by our reporter Liu Xinwu (刘新吾))
Shan Zefeng (单泽峰), Deputy to the National People's Congress (全国人大代表) and District Mayor of Binhai New Area, Tianjin (天津市滨海新区):
Creating a Favorable Policy Environment
The cultivation cycle for future industries is long and market risks are high, so strong policy support is required, and the government must provide good services. Promoting the development of future industries requires creating a favorable policy environment and pushing for the concentration of innovation resources toward future industries.
Taking the building, extending, supplementing, and strengthening of chains as the starting point, we should create industrial clusters where upstream and downstream sectors serve as scenarios for each other based on future industrial chains, and promote the development of future industrial clusters. Vigorously introduce and cultivate a number of leading and benchmark enterprises in future industries, and promote the integrated development of upstream, midstream, and downstream sectors, as well as large, medium, and small enterprises in future industrial chains through technological integration, resource consolidation, and capital operations.
Fully utilize university resources, establish channels for school-enterprise cooperation, open up two-way channels for "technology spawning new demand" and "demand guiding new technology," and lay out a number of open and shared major application scenarios in fields such as enterprise production, urban construction and management, and social livelihood. Continuously carry out the collection, release, docking, evaluation, and trading of market-oriented future technology and product needs, and incorporate innovative products into government procurement catalogs in a timely manner.
Support the diversified development of new tracks and future industries through diversified financial empowerment projects. Taking Binhai New Area (滨海新区) as an example, relevant departments are actively exploring the establishment of mother funds for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, guiding social capital to invest in scientific and technological innovation projects in future industries. Encourage financial institutions to innovate financial products and services such as intellectual property pledge financing, financing guarantees, financial leasing, and technology insurance based on the characteristics of future industries.
Innovate talent support projects, fully leverage the role of universities, and introduce and cultivate various types of innovative talent for future industries. Implement talent projects for high-level industrial talent, innovation leaders, and young innovative talent. Explore the establishment of an evaluation system in new R&D institutions that is oriented toward innovation value, capability, and contribution, which is conducive to innovative talent focusing on research and innovation.
(Interviewed and compiled by our reporter Jin Bo (靳博))
By: 本报记者 张天培
Inside the bamboo craft workshop of Chishui City Qianshou Bamboo Art Development Co., Ltd. (贵州省赤水市牵手竹艺发展有限公司) in Guizhou Province (贵州省), the air is filled with the scent of bamboo. Yang Changqin (杨昌芹), a deputy to the National People's Congress (全国人大代表) and a representative inheritor of intangible cultural heritage in Guizhou Province (贵州省), is using her skillful hands to transform thin bamboo strips into handicrafts such as bamboo baskets and woven bamboo cups.
Over the years, Yang Changqin (杨昌芹) has led local villagers in turning more than 300 varieties of bamboo and over 1.328 million mu of bamboo forests into a "green treasure house" and an "ecological bank." By increasing the "green content" of the industry, she has boosted the "gold content" of local incomes, helping to increase the earnings of more than 570 local residents.
In recent years, the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Guizhou Province (贵州省人大及其常委会) has deeply carried out the "High-Quality Development, Deputies in Action" (高质量发展，代表在行动) campaign, further promoting the active fulfillment of duties by more than 94,800 deputies to the People's Congress at all levels across the province.
"Last year, we organized deputies to the National People's Congress (全国人大代表) and deputies to the Provincial People's Congress (省人大代表) to participate in centralized inspections, thematic research, and other activities, totaling 484 person-times," introduced a relevant official from the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Guizhou Province (贵州省人大常委会).
On February 28 of this year, on the eve of the "Two Sessions" (全国两会), Zheng Peikun (郑培坤), a deputy to the National People's Congress (全国人大代表), Party Branch Secretary and Village Committee Director of Tashan Village (塔山村), Dayou Town (大有镇), Cengong County (岑巩县), Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture (黔东南苗族侗族自治州), Guizhou Province (贵州省), visited the home of villager Xiang Bangxi (向帮席) in the Liangshuijing Group (凉水井组) to conduct research.
Upon seeing Zheng Peikun (郑培坤), Xiang Bangxi (向帮席) took his hand and said, "It would be great if the balance of personal medical insurance accounts could be shared with parents." Zheng Peikun (郑培坤) took out his notebook and carefully recorded this. A few days later, he brought this "request" to Beijing (北京). In March of this year, Zheng Peikun (郑培坤) submitted a proposal focusing on "how small-scale farmers can connect with modern agriculture," suggesting the innovation of socialized agricultural service mechanisms. This proposal was quickly adopted by relevant departments.
As a deputy to the National People's Congress (全国人大代表), Zheng Peikun (郑培坤) actively participates in the "High-Quality Development, Deputies in Action" (高质量发展，代表在行动) campaign, conveying the voices of grassroots people and promoting the better implementation of the Party and the country's policies benefiting farmers.
"Seeing the lives of my fellow villagers getting better and better, I also feel very motivated," said Zheng Peikun (郑培坤).
Whether in the fields of rural revitalization, industrial development, cultural inheritance, or ecological and environmental protection, every action and every effort made by the deputies is a vivid microcosm of the "High-Quality Development, Deputies in Action" (高质量发展，代表在行动) campaign. Through years of exploration and practice, the "High-Quality Development, Deputies in Action" (高质量发展，代表在行动) campaign has become an important tool for the People's Congresses and their standing committees at all levels in Guizhou (贵州), as well as deputies at all levels, to implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee (党中央), effectively promoting the innovative development of local People's Congress work in the new era.
To further carry out the "High-Quality Development, Deputies in Action" (高质量发展，代表在行动) campaign, the Guiyang Municipal People's Congress (贵阳市人大) has focused on "gold content" and "innovation content," innovating research forms and combining the fulfillment of deputies' duties with research themes; the Zunyi Municipal People's Congress (遵义市人大) has continuously innovated activity carriers, utilizing platforms such as "People's Sentiment Discussion Halls" (民情议事厅) and "Deputy Liaison Rooms" (代表联络室) to collect opinions and suggestions from the public; the Qianxinan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture People's Congress (黔西南布依族苗族自治州人大) has created work brands, actively guiding deputies at all levels across the prefecture to demonstrate their demeanor based on their positions... Currently, People's Congresses at all levels across the province are basing their work on key areas and critical links of local economic and social development, highlighting local characteristics, innovating work methods, and expanding work carriers, all while working in the same direction, coordinating from top to bottom, and maintaining continuous progress in promoting the "High-Quality Development, Deputies in Action" (高质量发展，代表在行动) campaign.
"We will always focus on the primary task of high-quality development, encourage deputies to do their best and showcase their strengths based on their positions, leverage the unique advantage that deputies come from the people and are rooted in the people to pool wisdom and strength, and make contributions from the People's Congress in the process of promoting economic and social development," said a relevant official from the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Guizhou Province (贵州省人大常委会).
(Tian Shengping (田胜平) participated in the reporting and writing)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 何 聪 窦 皓
At 9:00 AM, at the North Gate of District 4 of the Yiwu International Trade City (义乌国际商贸城), the flow of people is 人流如织 (rén liú rú zhī - "human flow like weaving," describing a dense and continuous crowd). Among the rows of shops, a spacious and bright area stands out: the Yiwu Market Rule of Law Center for Business Environment (义乌市营商环境市场法治中心). It provides services such as legal consultations, risk inquiries, contract templates, and trade risk reporting. This "special shop," led by the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the Yiwu Municipal Committee (义乌市委政法委) and jointly staffed by the People's Court (法院), Public Security Bureau (公安), and Bureau of Justice (司法局), is affectionately known as the "Rule of Law Supermarket" (法治超市).
From integrated services like the "Rule of Law Supermarket" to cross-border dispute resolution "by foreigners for foreigners," and full-chain intellectual property protection... Yiwu (义乌), this "World Supermarket" (世界超市) with over 1.28 million business entities and trade covering more than 230 countries and regions worldwide, is forging the rule of law into a core competitive advantage for its business environment.
### Service Integration: Bringing the "Rule of Law Supermarket" into the Market
Walking into the Yiwu Market Rule of Law Center for Business Environment, merchants are queuing up at the comprehensive service window to consult on legal issues.
In the Shared Court (共享法庭) mediation room, Mr. Du (杜先生) has just signed an "Application for Withdrawal of Lawsuit." Not long ago, he ordered a used car from a company online and paid a 3,000 yuan deposit. "I only found out later that I had to buy their designated financial products and pay related handling fees. I wanted a refund, but the other party refused point-blank." Mr. Du said helplessly. After negotiations failed, he came to the Rule of Law Center to prepare to submit litigation materials.
"The litigation process is long, and Mr. Du's core demand is to get his refund back. We guided him to try mediation first; it is efficient and leaves room for future cooperation," explained Wu Yaolin (吴瑶琳), Deputy Presiding Judge of the International Trade City People's Court (国际商贸城人民法庭) of the Yiwu People's Court (义乌市人民法院). A relay race of "mediation by merchants" began.
"We immediately contacted a part-time mediator from the Used Car Association (二手车协会). They know the industry rules and understand the 'twists and turns' of car loans," recalled Huang Hongming (黄洪鸣), Director of the Shared Court at the Rule of Law Center and a merchant mediator. The mediators communicated repeatedly from the perspective of honest business operations, appealing to both emotion and reason. In the end, the merchant refunded the full deposit on the spot, Mr. Du withdrew the lawsuit, and the conflict vanished into thin air.
"We have five paths here: commercial mediation, people's mediation, industry professional mediation, administrative mediation, and foreign-related mediation. The parties choose for themselves. If we encounter a highly specialized case, we invite experts from industry associations to help, and the success rate of mediation is naturally higher," Wu Yaolin introduced. Currently, Yiwu has established 13 Shared Courts in major markets, equipped with guiding judges to achieve seamless integration of "front-end mediation + back-end justice." In 2025, this system successfully mediated 5,564 sales contract disputes, accounting for 40% of the city's total cases of this type.
"If mediation fails, you can choose arbitration. The parties pick their own arbitrators, and the proceedings are not public, so trade secrets and corporate privacy are protected. For some disputes with clear facts and minor disagreements, the court usually uses a summary judgment method, which is fast and effective," Wu Yaolin added. Today, Yiwu has partnered with the court and the Zhejiang Branch of the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (贸仲委浙江分会) to build the country's first county-level "Litigation-Arbitration-Mediation" one-stop dispute resolution platform, which has handled a total of 1,227 disputes.
On the "shelves" of the Rule of Law Center, risk warnings are also one of the services merchants love to "shop" for most.
"When dealing with foreign merchants, the biggest fear is encountering contract fraud or malicious debt, as you can't figure out the other party's background at all." Ms. Wang (王女士), who does hardware business in District 2 of the International Trade City, skillfully took out her phone and clicked on the "International Trade Comprehensive Service and Economic Case Warning and Disposal Platform." By entering the partner's name, it is clear at a glance whether the other party is a high-risk company.
This platform, created by Yiwu Public Security organs (义乌公安机关) in conjunction with relevant units, regularly pushes a "List of High-Risk Purchasers." As of March this year, the platform has pushed 63 batches of risk warnings, cumulatively preventing and disposing of 436 major contract fraud and debt evasion cases, saving merchants 710 million yuan in economic losses.
Last year, Yiwu integrated legal and government resources to build a high-standard International Trade Legal Service Cluster (国际贸易法务集聚区), attracting 28 well-known law firms, financial institutions, financial courts, and international trade centers. A relevant person in charge of the Yiwu Bureau of Justice (义乌市司法局) stated that in addition to physical windows, they also hold rich "Legal Salons" and policy interpretation meetings to jointly build a rule-of-law service community where information is interconnected and resources are shared, making the rule of law a "public product" within reach of business entities.
### "By Foreigners for Foreigners": International "Old Aunties" Play a Unique Role
In a foreign-related dispute mediation room on the third floor of District 4 of the Yiwu International Trade City, the atmosphere was once tense. Chinese merchant Ms. Chen (陈女士) and foreign businessman Asimi (阿西米) had a dispute over a payment for goods. By the beginning of this year, part of the payment remained unresolved. When the two walked into the mediation room, they were emotional and held their own ground.
At this moment, Mika (米卡), a mediator from Kyrgyzstan (吉尔吉斯斯坦), speaking fluent Chinese, intervened along with a Chinese mediator. "Asimi is not deliberately defaulting; he just has temporary difficulties with capital turnover. Ms. Chen is anxious to recover funds, and her feelings are completely understandable." Mika communicated between the two in both English and Chinese, and the confrontational mood gradually eased. In the end, the two sides reached an installment repayment plan and solemnly signed their names on the agreement.
This diverse mediation team, composed of 20 foreign mediators from 15 countries and 22 local chamber of commerce mediators, covers 9 major languages and has formed a unique "Chinese-Foreign" mediation matrix. Every volunteer mediator must have been engaged in foreign trade in Yiwu for at least 5 years, have a continuous 5-year tax record, and have no record of any illegal or dishonest behavior.
As of the end of last year, they had handled 1,604 foreign-related disputes, with a mediation success rate as high as 96%, saving parties 197 million yuan in economic losses.
"Language barriers and cultural differences are the biggest headaches for foreign merchants when they encounter disputes. Foreign mediators can make them feel closer, break down barriers of language and trust, and make it easier to open up," said Ding Wangfang (丁王芳), Director of the Foreign-Related Dispute People's Mediation Committee (涉外纠纷人民调解委员会), hitting the nail on the head regarding the essence of "by foreigners for foreigners."
In May 2013, the country's first foreign-related dispute people's mediation committee was established in Yiwu, innovatively launching the "by foreigners for foreigners" working method. In 2015, the Yiwu Foreign Mediation Committee (义乌市外调委) and the Yiwu Court established a litigation-mediation docking mechanism. In 2018, the Foreign-Related Dispute Litigation-Mediation Docking Center (涉外纠纷诉调对接中心) was officially established, ensuring the legal validity of mediation results. Today, models such as "WeChat Mediation Room + Shared Court" and "Online Cloud Mediation + Offline Face-to-Face" have broken through time and space limitations, allowing foreign merchants to participate in mediation easily even when they are far abroad.
This model has also extended to the field of labor disputes. In 2025, Yiwu established the province's first international trade foreign-related labor dispute arbitration tribunal, hired the first batch of foreign part-time arbitrators, and arranged for foreign mediators to participate in mediation, filling the gap in foreign-related employment compliance governance.
In the Jimingshan Community (鸡鸣山社区), where foreigners live, nearly 5,000 foreign nationals from 74 countries and regions reside. International "Old Aunties" (a term for neighborhood mediators) also play a unique role in resolving neighborhood disputes. In July 2020, the Standing Committee of the Yiwu Municipal People's Congress (义乌市人大常委会) became a grassroots legislative contact point for the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会法工委). In the same year, the Jimingshan Community Legislative Liaison Station was established, allowing people of different nationalities, ethnicities, and professions to participate in legislative consultations right at their doorstep.
In addition, Yiwu pioneered the "Foreign Business Friend Card" (外籍商友卡), covering 25 livelihood services such as loans, schooling, and medical treatment, with a cumulative issuance of over 370,000 cards. It connects data from public security, justice, market supervision, and other departments, enabling precise rule-of-law information services such as visa reminders, contract template pushes, and risk warnings. Yiwu also created the "Yijing" (义境) APP, Zhejiang's first foreign immigrant service platform, which integrates 126 information services and 17 online businesses, effectively shortening the processing time for foreign merchants.
### Intellectual Property "Shield": Rights Protection Services Escort Brands "Going Global"
"Our independent brand trademark was preemptively registered abroad! In the future, they might even turn around and sue us for infringement!" The person in charge of a Zhejiang pharmaceutical company was shocked and anxious when receiving a call from the Yiwu Intellectual Property Rights Protection Service Center (义乌市知识产权维权服务中心). "The other party is 'opening a lion's mouth' (demanding an exorbitant price); either pay a high price to buy it back, or wait to be sued."
"Don't worry, since we have monitored this situation, we have ways to deal with it." Yan Huixuan (延汇轩), a staff member at the service center, handed him a trademark monitoring report. "We suggest you first prepare evidence of trademark use to prove our prior rights. We have contacted experts and will provide you with professional guidance later."
Today, the Yiwu Intellectual Property Rights Protection Service Center relies on a trademark database covering 197 judicial jurisdictions worldwide to send warning reports to enterprises regularly every month. This service has covered 55 "going global" enterprises, monitored 159 core trademarks, discovered 158 trademarks suspected of being preemptively registered, and carried out 59 targeted guidance sessions. At the same time, Yiwu has also set up overseas intellectual property service guidance stations in major export markets such as Dubai (迪拜), Frankfurt (法兰克福), and Manila (马尼拉), reducing the overseas rights protection costs for participating enterprises by more than 90%.
Here, 34 services such as trademark registration applications and design patent pre-examination can be handled "one-stop," so it is also known as the "Intellectual Property Supermarket" (知识产权超市).
The efficiency of rights protection also comes from the professionalism and speed of evidence preservation.
At the Foreign-Related Dispute People's Mediation Committee in District 4 of the International Trade City, a notary encountered a foreign trade dispute over "goods not matching the description." A foreign merchant refused to pay the final balance after receiving the goods, claiming the material of the thermos cup was not the "agreed 316 stainless steel." Market merchant Ms. Chen and the foreign merchant each held samples from the day of purchase, arguing until their faces were red.
"Ms. Chen, did you keep a sample at the time?" the notary asked. "I took photos using the notarial online platform!" Ms. Chen immediately took out her phone and opened the Yiwu Notary Online Service Platform (义乌公证在线服务平台). A "deposit report" was clearly visible: the bottom of the thermos cup was clearly marked "316 stainless steel," and the shooting time, location, and other details were all complete.
After reading the deposit report, the foreign merchant scratched his head embarrassedly: "Sorry, I mixed up the samples from several purchases." A few days later, Ms. Chen received the final payment. "Notarized mediation + evidence deposit" thus successfully resolved a dispute.
Yiwu also launched a "Intellectual Property Case Manager" (知识产权案件管理人) notary service model, assigning notary personnel to provide full-process services from rights protection plan formulation, infringement evidence fixation, and pre-litigation mediation to the connection of subsequent legal procedures. In 2025, a total of 781 intellectual property protection notarizations and 3,479 foreign-related notarizations were handled, with 95.8% of them requiring "at most one trip."
In addition, the Yiwu People's Procuratorate (义乌市检察院) established the country's first Intellectual Property Criminal Judicial Protection Center (知识产权刑事司法保护中心) in 2020, formed a specialized case-handling team to centrally manage related cases, and promoted the establishment of the "Yiwu Cross-border E-commerce Intellectual Property Protection Collaboration Center" (义乌市跨境电商知识产权保护协作中心) with the participation of public security, courts, market supervision, customs, and others, building a more solid "safe harbor" for local brands going global.
Addressing the weak links exposed in cases regarding domestic authorization and overseas brand layout of infringed companies, the Yiwu People's Procuratorate also issued prosecutorial suggestions to the infringed companies to strengthen overseas intellectual property layout and supply chain management, and joined experts from the National Overseas Intellectual Property Dispute Response Guidance Center (国家海外知识产权纠纷应对指导中心) to conduct "legal physical examinations" for enterprises. Over the past 5 years, the procuratorial organs have legally cracked down on 1,033 intellectual property infringement crimes and protected 128 well-known domestic and foreign brands.
### Judicial Services: Relieving Difficulties for the Healthy Development of Business Entities
"This company can still be saved; we cannot let it go bankrupt just like that." At the Yiwu Municipal Government Service Center (义乌市政务服务中心), Judge Ying Jinxin (应金鑫) of the Futian Financial Court (福田金融法庭) flipped through a thick stack of bank statements and balance sheets, his brows furrowed.
The machinery manufacturing plant operated by Zhang (张某) had its capital chain broken due to the soaring international raw material prices, leaving behind more than 1.8 million yuan in bank debt. Ying Jinxin visited the site and saw that the machines in the workshop were still roaring and the workers were still busy. "Under the high pressure of debt, the enterprise is still producing and operating normally, the account cash flow is normal, and the industry market prospects are promising." Ying Jinxin immediately decided to initiate "clinical" mediation.
In the mediation room, financial experts, bank loan officers, and business owners sat around a table. After several rounds of consultation, the bank agreed to grant a grace period, adjust the repayment method, and tailor a "treatment plan" for the manufacturing plant. Since then, the enterprise has repaid 8 installments of debt as agreed, production has gradually increased, and it is expected to pay off all loans this year.
This refined service not only helps the healthy development of the market but also provides enterprises with valuable opportunities for "rebirth." In the past 3 years, the Yiwu Court has helped 23 companies on the verge of bankruptcy restore normal production and operation through bankruptcy reorganization procedures, and promoted the orderly exit of 256 "zombie enterprises" from the market, "slimming down" the entire market and freeing up development space for high-quality enterprises.
"Treatment" is not limited to enterprises. Xiao Zhang (小章), born after 1995, was burdened with debt because she guaranteed loans for her parents. After the factory closed, the family of three fell into a debt quagmire. The judge found through investigation that although Xiao Zhang was in a difficult situation, she always adhered to integrity: she repaid the money as soon as her salary arrived and kept receipts for every expense.
At the creditors' meeting, the judge presented Xiao Zhang's repayment records and expense receipts. In the end, the creditors reached a consensus to waive all her interest and penalties, requiring only the installment repayment of 250,000 yuan in principal. Last year, Xiao Zhang successfully paid off her debts and repaired her personal credit. "Personal debt clearing is not a 'passport for defaulting on debts,' but an opportunity for 'rebirth' for those who are honest but trapped in difficulties," said Ying Jinxin.
The Yiwu Court also joined with the Federation of Industry and Commerce (工商联) to establish a "Merger and Bankruptcy Direct Service Center" (融破直通服务中心), providing small and micro enterprises with full-chain value-added services from "health checkups" and early warning prompts to credit repair. Here, one can not only get bankruptcy legal advice but also inquire about property information such as industrial and commercial registration and tax status. After completing centralized inquiries, the administrator can also handle services such as lifting preservation measures, taking over bankruptcy property, and canceling registration of debtor enterprises in a "one-stop" manner, greatly improving efficiency.
"Yiwu insists that wherever reform advances, the support of the rule of law follows. We use rule-of-law thinking to explore the way, use rule-of-law methods to solve problems, continuously optimize the rule-of-law business environment, transform it into market vitality and development momentum, and have walked a path where the rule of law and opening-up resonate at the same frequency," said Yang Xian (杨献), Member of the Standing Committee of the Yiwu Municipal Committee and Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission. The rule of law has already integrated into the capillaries of the market, becoming a significant competitive advantage, assisting and escorting Yiwu to become a "World Supermarket."
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To fortify the national defense against fraud, it is essential to use systematic thinking to address shortcomings, implement precise policies, and construct a work framework characterized by universal governance and comprehensive prevention.
June has arrived once again, marking the timely return of the "National Anti-Fraud Action" (全民反诈在行动) concentrated publicity month. With the theme "Don't Listen, Don't Believe, Don't Be Greedy; Build a 'Mental' Defense Line Against Fraud," this campaign strikes directly at the crux of telecommunications and internet fraud. In recent years, various regions and departments have taken heavy-handed measures and implemented comprehensive governance, effectively curbing the high incidence of telecommunications fraud. However, as fraudulent methods iterate and upgrade, becoming increasingly covert and deceptive, the struggle against fraud remains an ongoing task. Safeguarding psychological defenses, addressing governance gaps, and weaving a dense protective network are the mandatory questions for normalized anti-fraud governance.
At present, telecommunications and internet fraud have long since moved beyond "simple script routines," exhibiting new characteristics of intelligence, contextualization, and precision. Scams are becoming increasingly realistic, precisely targeting various demographics. The previous "cast a wide net" style of fraud is gradually diminishing, replaced by customized, precision deception. Criminals rely on Big Data (大数据) and AI (Artificial Intelligence) (人工智能) technology to deeply integrate information regarding personal consumption, job hunting, and social interactions, tailoring fraudulent scripts accordingly. The abuse of AI face-swapping and voice synthesis technology has led to frequent successes in scams involving impersonating relatives or friends to borrow money, posing as leaders to order transfers, or pretending to be customer service for claims and refunds. These indistinguishable audio and video materials significantly lower the vigilance of victims.
Meanwhile, fraud scenarios are deeply integrated into daily life, with new types of scams emerging one after another. Scams targeting young people—such as fake part-time jobs, gaming transactions, and rebate-based order brushing—exploit their desire for employment and wealth. Scams targeting the elderly—such as pension investments, health therapy, and impersonating public security, procuratorate, or judicial (公检法) authorities—manipulate their isolation from information and desire for stability. Scams targeting the workforce—such as credit repair, tax refunds, and business cooperation—precisely use information asymmetry to create panic. These new types of fraud abandon rigid routines, starting from daily scenarios and mass psychology; they are highly covert and deceptive, making it easy for people to be deceived if they are not careful.
While the struggle against fraud continues to advance, governance shortcomings objectively persist. For example, there is a "temperature gap" and "discrepancy" in publicity and education. Traditional anti-fraud publicity mostly relies on slogans, posters, and general lectures; such content is often homogeneous and lacks precision. There is insufficient targeted education for key groups such as young people, the elderly, and workers in new business formats, leading to a situation where some members of the public have "heard of anti-fraud, do not understand anti-fraud, and are still deceived when encountering fraud." Their anti-fraud awareness remains superficial, and their psychological defenses are fragile. Furthermore, there are "weak blind spots" in prevention and control governance. The black and gray industrial chains of the internet have not been completely severed, and the sources of personal information leaks have not been fully blocked, providing soil for precision fraud. Some platforms have lax risk control audits, allowing fake accounts, non-compliant scripts, and fraudulent links to spread, while technical interception and risk warnings suffer from lag.
To fortify the national defense against fraud, it is essential to use systematic thinking to address shortcomings, implement precise policies, and construct a work framework characterized by universal governance and comprehensive prevention. We must promote the precision and normalization of anti-fraud publicity, abandoning "blanket" publicity. We should customize content for different ages, occupations, and groups, using real cases to dismantle new scams and using popular language to popularize anti-fraud knowledge, so that anti-fraud common sense enters the mind and heart, truly cultivating the public's self-awareness in preventing fraud.
We must strengthen technical empowerment and source governance. Internet platforms, financial institutions, and telecommunications entities must fulfill their responsibilities, upgrade intelligent risk control systems, precisely intercept fraudulent information, block fraudulent channels, and strictly rectify the chaos of personal information leaks and internet black/gray industries, thereby compressing the survival space for fraud from the source. We must adhere to the rule of law, precisely balance prevention and control with service, abandon simple and crude management models, and safeguard the normal production and living order of the masses through refined governance.
There are no bystanders in the fight against fraud; everyone is a participant and everyone is a guardian. Normalized anti-fraud governance is not only a livelihood project to protect the property safety of the masses but also a legal project to consolidate the foundation of social governance. Only when the whole society is of one heart and one mind, engaging in collective prevention and control, and continuously fortifying ideological, institutional, and technical defenses—making "Don't Listen, Don't Believe, Don't Be Greedy" a national consensus and conscious action—can we eradicate the soil in which telecommunications and internet fraud breed and safeguard the "purses" and happiness of the people. 层出不穷 (céng chū bù qióng - "layer out not exhausted," emerging one after another; used to describe the constant appearance of new things).
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Walking while scrolling on a phone, watching videos while riding in a vehicle, replying to messages while cycling... Nowadays, the "phubber" (low-head tribe) has become a common sight on every street corner, and some people frequently suffer various accidents due to neglecting the safety of their footing. When injuries are caused by "looking down," who should bear the responsibility?
Guo (郭某) finished a meal at a restaurant in the Pudong New Area (浦东新区) of Shanghai (上海) and was walking away when he accidentally missed a step and fell in the stair area outside the restaurant. Surveillance footage from outside the restaurant shows that from the moment Guo (郭某) appeared in the frame, he had been looking down at his phone the entire time. The surveillance footage showed no rain or snow, and there was no accumulation of snow, water, or ice on the steps. Ten days after the incident, Guo (郭某) went to the hospital on his own, where he was diagnosed with a fracture of the right transverse process of the lumbar vertebra.
Guo (郭某) believed that the restaurant operator, a certain Catering Company (某餐饮公司), and the property management enterprise of the building where the restaurant is located, a certain Commercial Management Company (某商业管理公司), had failed to fulfill their safety protection obligations and had not repaired the worn-out steps in a timely manner, which led to his fall and injury. Guo (郭某) filed a lawsuit with the court, requesting that the Catering Company (某餐饮公司) and the Commercial Management Company (某商业管理公司) jointly pay compensation for medical expenses, lost wages, and other costs totaling more than 60,000 yuan.
The court of first instance held that Guo (郭某) had been looking down at his phone continuously before falling, thereby creating a safety risk for himself. Meteorological data and surveillance footage both indicated that there were no other objective interference factors at the scene at the time of the incident that would affect walking safety, and there were no obvious abnormalities in the stair area. The safety protection obligations of operators and managers of public places such as hotels and shopping malls should be within a reasonable limit. After Guo (郭某) finished his meal and left the restaurant, the operators and managers could neither foresee nor control Guo's (郭某) behavior of looking down at his phone while walking. Guo (郭某) is a person with full capacity for civil conduct; the fall was caused by his own failure to fulfill his duty of care, and the Catering Company (某餐饮公司) and the Commercial Management Company (某商业管理公司) were not at fault and should not bear liability for compensation. Ultimately, the court ruled to dismiss all of Guo's (郭某) litigation claims.
The judge stated that when "phubbers" look down at their phones while walking, cycling, or driving, they put themselves and others in dangerous situations. Injuries caused by missing a step due to continuously looking down at a phone should be borne by the individual. In this case, the court determined that Guo's (郭某) fall and injury were caused by his constant looking at his phone while walking, which had nothing to do with the Catering Company (某餐饮公司) or the Commercial Management Company (某商业管理公司); therefore, the court did not support Guo's (郭某) request for the companies to bear compensation liability. This not only clarifies the stance against the behavior of blaming unrelated others for one's own damages at every turn but also defines the boundaries of the safety protection obligations of operators and managers of business and public places. It resolutely puts an end to the practice of 和稀泥 (hé xī ní - "mix mud," to try to smooth things over by compromising principles or avoiding conflict) and advocates for strengthening safety, civilized travel, and a sense of self-responsibility, which is conducive to promoting the Core Socialist Values (社会主义核心价值观).
Return to TopIn May 2026, Ulike (Ulike), a brand under the Youlai Group (由莱集团) that specializes in the field of optical beauty, held a global technology launch event and officially initiated the "2026 White Paper on Science and Standards for the Home Hair Removal Device Industry" project. The event featured in-depth discussions surrounding technological innovation, the co-construction of standards, and brand globalization, showcasing the exploratory achievements of Youlai Group (由莱集团) in driving the high-quality development of the Ulike (Ulike) brand and facilitating the standardization and scientific advancement of the home beauty industry.
As a national high-tech enterprise, Youlai Group (由莱集团) has anchored itself in the home beauty track, taking technology as its foundation and users as its core, striving to write a "dual excellence" answer sheet in product innovation and standard setting.
**Product Innovation: Enhancing Technology and Responding to User Expectations**
Product strength is the foundation of an enterprise. In recent years, through deep technological cultivation and scenario extension, Youlai Group (由莱集团) has optimized its hair removal device products, developed new technologies, and realized new functions, responding to user expectations with higher standards.
Facing the trend of industry quality improvement and upgrading, as well as the reality of rapid technological iteration, Youlai Group (由莱集团) has proactively increased its own pressure and strengthened independent research and development, pushing the brand to continuously expand the application boundaries of optical technology.
To achieve technological breakthroughs, Ulike (Ulike) has built its own laboratories, developed its own algorithms, independently overcome challenges in temperature control and heat dissipation, constructed a complete patent matrix, and achieved material innovation.
At the same time, Ulike (Ulike) focuses on user needs, striving to solve problems such as heat dissipation and operational convenience, integrating various professional service functions into its products, and committing to "home-use" versions of large-scale beauty equipment to facilitate user convenience at home.
Relying on the R&D strength and engineering experience accumulated through Ulike's (Ulike) long-term technological breakthroughs, Youlai Group (由莱集团) has upgraded its individual technological advantages into a systematic core competitiveness for the entire group, forming an internal collaborative R&D and operation mechanism of "deeply cultivating key core technologies and precisely responding to user needs." Youlai Group (由莱集团) has established international optical beauty research centers in Shenzhen (深圳), China (中国), and Seoul (首尔), South Korea (韩国), with over 300 high-level R&D personnel continuously working on key core technologies. After achieving technological breakthroughs, they use continuous R&D investment to apply technological achievements in a differentiated manner according to different brand positioning and usage scenarios.
To date, Youlai Group (由莱集团) holds over 1,000 global patents, keeping key core technologies in its own hands through continuous R&D investment.
**Global Layout: Establishing Brand Image and Developing Overseas Markets**
Starting from China (中国) and moving toward the world—this is the development direction of Ulike (Ulike) and a true reflection of its years of deep cultivation in the home beauty track. As competition in overseas markets becomes increasingly fierce, Ulike (Ulike) leverages its original technology and quality standards to exert force in the international high-end track, calmly participating in global market competition.
The path of globalization is never a smooth one. The differentiated compliance thresholds and access standards of various national markets have become "checkpoints" for Ulike's (Ulike) overseas layout. Ulike (Ulike) has tackled these one by one by benchmarking against local market rules, striving to pass local technical standard audits, and has cumulatively obtained more than 30 international authoritative certifications, including the U.S. FDA (美国FDA), EU CE (欧盟CE), and South Korea MFDS (韩国MFDS). With steady overseas expansion and deep insights into local user needs, Ulike (Ulike) continues to open up new spaces in overseas markets by relying on its own hard power.
In South Korea (韩国), Ulike (Ulike) products remain at the forefront of the market, becoming an important choice for female consumers for home beauty products; in Southeast Asia (东南亚), Ulike (Ulike) has achieved rapid penetration through a localized development strategy, integrating into local life scenarios while respecting local culture; in North America (北美), Ulike's (Ulike) high-end market development has been effective, achieving an upgrade from "entering" to "taking root."
To date, Ulike's (Ulike) business covers 49 countries and regions, ranking among the top tier in the global beauty and health field, and achieving a transformation from simple manufacturing output to "technology + brand" output.
Ulike (Ulike) has ranked at the top of global beauty sales charts for several consecutive years, and its products were selected for the *Time* (《时代》) magazine's 2025 Best Inventions list. Pan Yuping (潘玉平), CEO of Youlai Group (由莱集团), believes that "going global" is not just about letting products go out, but about establishing the value perception of "Intelligent Manufacturing in China" (中国智造) in the hearts of global consumers. Ulike (Ulike) is committed to sending a signal to overseas markets: Chinese brands can make good products, and even more so, they can win the trust of global consumers by relying on original technology, hardcore quality, and brand value.
**User First: Applying Technological Achievements to Serve a Better Life**
Ulike Group (由莱集团) upholds the philosophy of "user first," committing to integrating hardcore technological achievements into the beautiful lives of users. It not only acts as an exporter of technology and products but also strives to be a component of a better life, allowing professional beauty products and services to enter thousands of households through brands like Ulike (Ulike).
Youlai Group (由莱集团) has long conducted in-depth online and offline user surveys, collecting millions of pieces of real usage feedback in the global market. It attaches great importance to the user feelings, emotions, and expectations hidden within the data collection, directly synchronizing user pain points to the research centers in Shenzhen (深圳) and Seoul (首尔) to ensure product R&D aligns with the actual situation of users. Ulike (Ulike) insists on optimizing and upgrading products around real user demands, striving to tailor beauty solutions for various types of users, promoting the precise matching of product functions and user needs, and continuously providing consumers with a comfortable and thoughtful user experience, truly realizing that technological innovation originates from users and serves users.
In the future, Youlai Group (由莱集团) will continue to deeply cultivate the home beauty industry and upgrade around three levels: at the technical level, it will delve into the underlying logic of "beauty and health"; at the scenario level, it will extend to the "third space of the home"; at the value level, it will leap toward "long-termism." It will make every user experience an epitome of a better life. By 脚踏实地 (jiǎo tà shí dì - "foot tread solid earth," to be steady and earnest) creating value and doing difficult but correct things, Youlai Group (由莱集团) will continue to serve the quality life of users and contribute to promoting the quality improvement and upgrading of the consumer market.
Data Source: Hangzhou Youlai Technology Co., Ltd. (杭州由莱科技有限公司)
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In the second-floor exhibition hall of the Nanhu Revolutionary Memorial Hall (南湖革命纪念馆) in Jiaxing (嘉兴), Zhejiang (浙江), a special notebook is preserved (see Figure ①). Its owner is the renowned Party history expert Professor Shao Weizheng (邵维正). The pages of the notebook have yellowed and the edges are somewhat worn, but between the lines, it records the most vivid details of that "epoch-making great event" (开天辟地大事变) from 105 years ago.
This notebook is the crystallization of the painstaking efforts of Professor Shao Weizheng (邵维正), who traveled extensively to interview eyewitnesses between 1980 and 1984 to verify the history of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China (中共一大). This notebook contains many historical details disclosed for the first time, leaving behind invaluable "living" materials for the century-long history of the Party, such as the precious historical facts recording that the delegates of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China (中共一大) stayed at the Bowen Girls' School (博文女校) and that the meeting was forced to relocate to Nanhu (南湖) in Jiaxing (嘉兴).
Behind this notebook is a story about "seeking the truth." In the late 1970s, in order to determine the exact date and the number of attendees of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China (中共一大), Professor Shao Weizheng (邵维正) visited almost every library and archive in Beijing (北京). In that era without computer retrieval, he relied on his own feet and hands to search for clues in a vast sea of documents. To interview the eyewitnesses who were still alive at the time, he inquired through many channels and went through many twists and turns. When he learned that Wang Huiwu (王会悟), the wife of Li Da (李达), a delegate to the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China (中共一大), happened to be in Beijing (北京) due to illness, he rushed over immediately. However, Wang Huiwu (王会悟) was physically weak and bedridden at the time. To avoid overexerting her, Professor Shao Weizheng (邵维正) could only conduct the interviews intermittently, with each session being quite short. It was under such conditions, relying on his persistence and love for Party history research, that he pieced together that dust-covered history bit by bit.
In 2021, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), Professor Shao Weizheng (邵维正) donated this notebook, which he had cherished for more than 40 years, to the Nanhu Revolutionary Memorial Hall (南湖革命纪念馆). He said: "This notebook is more meaningful and can better exert its value only when donated to Jiaxing (嘉兴)."
This is not just a donation, but a heavy entrustment and a guardianship of the original aspiration. It tells us that the great founding spirit of the Party is not just a slogan, but is forged together by countless people like Professor Shao Weizheng (邵维正), who have worked tirelessly and made silent contributions to pursue the truth and restore history.
Complementing this notebook are two other precious collections acquired in recent years. One is "Class Struggle" (《阶级争斗》) published by the New Youth Society (新青年社) in October 1926 (authored by Ke Zuji (柯祖基), translated by Yun Daiying (恽代英)) (see Figure ②). It took Yun Daiying (恽代英) four months to complete the translation. In January 1921, the book was published in Shanghai (上海) by the New Youth Society (新青年社) as the "Eighth Volume of the New Youth Series" (新青年丛书第八种); the museum's collection is a reprint. The entire book is typeset vertically with lead type, in a small 32-mo paperback format, totaling 200 pages, and priced at 5 jiao in silver dollars. "Class Struggle" (《阶级争斗》) is an important witness to the early spread of Marxism in China. In 1936, when Mao Zedong (毛泽东) met with Edgar Snow (埃德加·斯诺) in Yan'an (延安), he said: "There were three books that especially deeply engraved themselves on my mind, establishing my faith in Marxism. Once I accepted Marxism as the correct interpretation of history, my faith in Marxism never wavered." Among the three books mentioned by Mao Zedong (毛泽东), one was "Class Struggle" (《阶级争斗》), along with "The Communist Manifesto" (《共产党宣言》) and "A History of Socialism" (《社会主义史》).
Another collection is the "Account of the Red Army's Long March" (《红军长征记》) printed in Yan'an (延安) in 1942 (see Figure ③), which includes eyewitness accounts from older generation revolutionaries such as Dong Biwu (董必武), Lu Dingyi (陆定一), and Xie Juezai (谢觉哉). It is the earliest, most direct, and most authentic memoir of the Red Army's Long March (红军长征). This book presents us with a magnificent scroll of the Red Army soldiers fighting heroically for their ideals and beliefs under extremely difficult and arduous conditions.
Every collection carries a heavy history and shines with the light of the great founding spirit of the Party. They are witnesses to history and inheritors of the spirit.
As the curator of the Nanhu Revolutionary Memorial Hall (南湖革命纪念馆), I feel a heavy responsibility. Our work is not only to preserve these cultural relics well, but more importantly, to deeply excavate the stories behind them, to interpret well the great founding spirit of the Party they contain, and to let these precious spiritual treasures radiate new brilliance in the new era.
In recent years, relying on its rich collection resources, the Nanhu Revolutionary Memorial Hall (南湖革命纪念馆) has continuously innovated its exhibition methods and publicity and education means. Through various forms such as holding thematic exhibitions, carrying out immersive experience activities, and developing red cultural creative products, we have made red culture "come alive." We hope that every visitor who comes to the memorial hall can find a connection point with history here, feel the power of faith from these precious cultural relics, and comprehend the purity of the original aspiration.
A single notebook, a century of original aspiration. These precious collections remind us that no matter how far we go, we must not forget the road we came from, and we must not forget why we started. Let us, from these historical witnesses, comprehend our original mission, inherit the red bloodline, and strive unremittingly for the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation (中华民族) with a more high-spirited posture.
(The author is the curator of the Nanhu Revolutionary Memorial Hall (南湖革命纪念馆), interviewed and compiled by our reporter Liu Junguo (刘军国))
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The Shijiahe Culture (石家河文化) is named after the discovery of the Shijiahe Site (石家河遗址) in Tianmen (天门), Hubei (湖北). More than 70 years ago, while conducting infrastructure projects along the northern edge of the Jianghan (江汉) Plain, the Qujialing Site (屈家岭遗址) was discovered; simultaneously, the nearby Shijiahe Site (石家河遗址) was unexpectedly unearthed, thereby raising the curtain on the exploration of civilization in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River (长江).
The Shijiahe Culture (石家河文化) and the Post-Shijiahe Culture (后石家河文化) represent the highest level of prehistoric cultural development in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River (长江). In 2025, the Shijiahe Site (石家河遗址) was included in the first list of major national archaeological sites, becoming the first site in Hubei (湖北) to receive legislative protection at the provincial level. Today, three major venues—the site museum, the visitor center, and the performing arts center—have been completed simultaneously. The museum features an exhibition area of 6,100 square meters, where six major halls utilize AR (augmented reality) restoration, digital sand tables, and interactive experiences to showcase the astonishing and brilliant civilization of the Yangtze River (长江) basin, including prehistoric jade artifacts, pottery, and rice-farming civilization.
The Shijiahe Site (石家河遗址) area covers a total of approximately 8 square kilometers and consists of 41 site locations, including large-scale prehistoric city walls, massive sacrificial areas, specialized pottery workshops, and complex water conservancy systems. The city layout is rectangular, measuring 1,000 meters from north to south and over 900 meters from east to west, with a total area of 3.485 million square meters. It is the largest known ancient city from the Neolithic Age in China and the largest prehistoric urban cluster.
The most precious discoveries at the Shijiahe Site (石家河遗址) are the large quantities of exquisite jade artifacts, including divine figures, human figures, and dragons and phoenixes. Among a batch of jade artifacts unearthed in 1955, there were both jade phoenixes and jade dragons; because the jade phoenix was crafted with such exquisite vividness that it surpassed the jade dragon, it received more attention. Although the jade dragon is small in size, it is coiled like a ring, with its head, eyes, and four claws fully formed. Previously discovered jade dragons and jade phoenixes were all circular in shape, initially identified as jade ring phoenixes and jade ring dragons. Since the first jade dragon was found alongside a jade phoenix, another was later unearthed at the Xiaojiawuji Site (肖家屋脊遗址). The jade dragon features a coiled posture, has horns but no feet, and its form is similar to the jade dragons of the Hongshan Culture (红山文化). The "coiled phoenix and ring dragon" appearing together in Shijiahe (石家河) marked the prologue of the "dragon and phoenix auspiciousness" (龙凤呈祥 - lóng fèng chéng xiáng - "dragon phoenix present auspiciousness," an idiom describing a propitious omen or a harmonious, prosperous union). The Tomb of Fu Hao (妇好墓) at Yinxu (殷墟) also yielded jade phoenixes and jade dragons, all bearing the Shijiahe (石家河) style. The craftsmanship of jade artifacts in the Shijiahe Culture (石家河文化) and Post-Shijiahe Culture (后石家河文化) had already reached its peak in prehistoric times. The delicate jade phoenix displayed a noble and elegant posture from the moment of its birth. The jade works of the Shijiahe (石家河) people combined figurative and abstract forms, highlighting symbolic connotations, with purely decorative items being rare. Like the jade dragon, jade tiger, and jade cicada, the jade phoenix was an artwork born from a mythological background, carrying special significance.
Many small red pottery animal figurines have been discovered here, serving as a portrait of the Shijiahe (石家河) people's love for life and passion for art. In recent years, through cleaning and excavation, some human pottery figurines have been discovered. In addition to figurines holding fish or objects, there was an unexpected find of a "meditating figurine," whose rough styling creates a delicate mental state that is 惟妙惟肖 (wéi miào wéi xiào - "only wonderful only likeness," remarkably true to life or vivid). There was an even greater discovery regarding the scale of pottery production at the Shijiahe Site (石家河遗址). Archaeologists excavated a red pottery cup site in Sanfangwan (三房湾); within an area of over 5,000 square meters, there was a deposit more than 2 meters thick, with red pottery cups of similar sizes stacked layer upon layer, densely packed. This is a major discovery and also an unsolved mystery. These wine cups, which can be held in one's hand, reflect the prosperity and sentiment of that era, regardless of the occasions for which they were produced.
Yinxintai (印信台) is located on the west side of the site, where archaeologists uncovered five artificial rectangular platforms built from pure yellow soil. Along the edges of the platforms, there are over 100 remains, including urn coffins, covered bowls, standing jars, and covered jars. The large pottery jars are connected mouth-to-bottom, with the longest continuous sequence of 30 jars stretching over 9 meters, which is truly spectacular. One side of the large pottery jars features various incised symbols such as suns, moons, diamonds, and angles, each carrying different symbolic meanings.
A similar pottery jar was unearthed in 1980 at the Xiaojiawuji Site (肖家屋脊遗址) in Shijiahe (石家河), featuring a special human depiction known as the "figure holding a yue-axe with a feathered crown." On one side of the jar, extremely minimalist lines depict a standing warrior wearing a high crown and long boots, holding a yue-axe in his right hand, looking 威风凛凛 (wēi fēng lǐn lǐn - "majestic awe-inspiring," describing a person who looks powerful and imposing). The figure in the painting is likely an image of a king, serving as a military leader or monarch of that time. Above the crown is a double-spiral pattern, a symbol representing the sun that was widely disseminated during the prehistoric painted pottery era. Wearing the sun crown that symbolizes the throne and holding the jade yue-axe that symbolizes power, we can see the majestic appearance of the "King of Shijiahe" (石家河王).
Four thousand years of the coiled phoenix and ring dragon. The opening of the site park provides the world with an opportunity to gain a deep understanding of the Shijiahe Culture (石家河文化).
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The publication of archaeological reports is an inherent requirement of cultural heritage work. Only by timely publishing the “non-renewable” cultural resource and information derived from archaeological discoveries can the academic community better utilize them for reference and study, while simultaneously presenting and popularizing archaeological achievements to the public. Consequently, the National Cultural Heritage Administration (国家文物局) has consistently prioritized this work in recent years.
In 1956, the Report on the Excavations at Huixian (《辉县发掘报告》), compiled by the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院考古研究所), was published by Science Press (科学出版社). As the “No. 1 Report” of field archaeology in New China (新中国), it established the “rules” for compiling archaeological reports in China and laid down a standardized fundamental paradigm, which became known as the “Huixian Model” (辉县模式). At the end of 2024, Panlongcheng (1995–2019) (《盘龙城（1995—2019）》), compiled by Wuhan University (武汉大学) in collaboration with several other institutions, was also published by Science Press (科学出版社). This monumental work, consisting of 5 volumes and 6 books, not only continues the academic traditions of predecessor archaeologists but also serves as an important milestone in the development of archaeology in the new era through its innovative “report + research” format and multidisciplinary research methods.
Spanning nearly seventy years, these two reports are not merely systematic records of archaeological achievements; they clearly outline the evolutionary trajectory of Chinese archaeology from its inception to maturity, and from singular academic exploration toward a diverse cultural mission, witnessing the continuous deepening of the inheritance of the Chinese cultural lineage and the interpretation of its civilization.
In the early days of the founding of New China (新中国), the discipline of archaeology urgently needed a foundation, and the lack of talent was the primary bottleneck. From the winter of 1950 to the spring of 1952, three large-scale excavations in Huixian (辉县), Henan (河南), were launched. This excavation was described by archaeologist Sun Qingwei (孙庆伟) as “the first field archaeological practice in New China with talent cultivation as its core.” The excavation team was truly “群星璀璨” (qún xīng cuǐ càn - "a galaxy of stars," describing a gathering of many brilliant and talented people): Xia Nai (夏鼐) served as the team leader, Guo Baojun (郭宝钧) as the deputy leader, and Su Bingqi (苏秉琦) as the secretary-general. Four young scholars—An Zhimin (安志敏), Shi Xingbang (石兴邦), Wang Bohong (王伯洪), and Wang Zhongshu (王仲殊)—became the key subjects for training. It was precisely this “academic training” that allowed these four young men to grow into the backbone of archaeology in New China (新中国).
This tradition of “nurturing talent” has been continued and innovated in the archaeological work at the Panlongcheng Site (盘龙城遗址). The editor-in-chief, Professor Zhang Changping (张昌平), led the team in transforming the archaeological site into a “practical teaching base.” To broaden academic horizons, the project team invited experts in scientific archaeology from institutions such as the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院) and the University of Science and Technology Beijing (北京科技大学) to give on-site lectures, allowing students to face the academic frontier of multidisciplinary intersection. Notably, with the support of the National Cultural Heritage Administration (国家文物局) and the Institute for Field Research (IFR), Panlongcheng (盘龙城) has hosted multiple international field archaeology summer schools, attracting over a hundred young scholars from more than 20 countries, thereby taking talent cultivation beyond national borders and toward the international stage.
During the Huixian (辉县) excavation period, the important mission of archaeology was to construct cultural sequences. The excavation team utilized the two fundamental methods of stratigraphy and typology to systematically reveal the continuous cultural deposits and burial sequences from the Shang Dynasty (商代) to the Han Dynasty (汉代), providing a key basis for the chronology of archaeological cultures in the Central Plains (中原). Nearly 70 years later, the research boundaries of archaeology have continuously expanded. On the solid foundation of settlement archaeology and cultural periodization, the Panlongcheng (盘龙城) site has shifted its research focus to deep explorations of urban nature, functional interpretation, and the mechanisms of civilizational evolution. Facing the academic trend of multidisciplinary intersection, the Panlongcheng (盘龙城) project team established a cross-institutional and cross-disciplinary collaborative platform. To clarify the ancient environmental background, they collaborated with Peking University (北京大学) and the Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院南京湖泊研究所), to conduct underwater drilling at Pokou Lake (破口湖) and Panlong Lake (盘龙湖). Through soil structure and phytolith analysis, combined with trench excavations during the dry season, they confirmed that the ancient water level around the site was 5–7 meters lower than it is today. This not only refreshed the understanding of the urban landscape of Panlongcheng (盘龙城) but also provided an important reference for the study of the hydrological history of the Jianghan (江汉) region during the Xia (夏) and Shang (商) dynasties; relevant findings were compiled into the thematic volume Landscape and Environment (《景观与环境》). To solve the mystery of the origin of bronze ware, they invited experts from the University of Science and Technology Beijing (北京科技大学) to conduct chemical element detection and process analysis, providing scientific support for exploring the bronze-casting industry and urban functions.
With the development of the times, the value boundaries of archaeology have continuously expanded, moving from “research in the study” to “heritage in society,” which has become an important identifier of the transformation of Chinese archaeology. The research results of Panlongcheng (1995–2019) (《盘龙城（1995—2019）》) have provided solid academic support for the exhibition of the Panlongcheng Site Park (盘龙城遗址公园) and have injected historical connotations into the construction of the Yangtze River National Cultural Park (长江国家文化公园). The team has actively promoted archaeological achievements to the public: holding public lectures to interpret the civilizational value of the site and organizing archaeological experience days where citizens can personally clean pottery shards and observe artifacts, with over ten thousand people participating in public activities each year. This transformation has made archaeology no longer a niche academic exploration, but a force for constructing historical narratives and enhancing cultural confidence.
Over the flow of nearly seventy years, what has changed are the archaeological methods, report formats, and research dimensions; what remains unchanged is the original aspiration and mission of archaeologists to explore the unknown and reveal the origins.
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Traveling west from Zhengzhou (郑州), moving from the city into the suburbs toward Guangwu Town (广武镇) in Xingyang (荥阳), one gradually encounters the rolling gullies of the Mangling Ridge (邙岭) and the spreading floodplains of the Yellow River (黄河). Upon a terrace flanked by two rivers, the Nancheng Site (南城遗址) lies quietly, stretching out to meet the dawn. Dozens of excavation squares resemble wounds on the earth, or perhaps eyes opened by history. Outside the squares, loess dust fills the air; inside, history echoes. Bridging this divide is a group of "archaeology students" born after 2000—undergraduates from the Department of Archaeology at Zhengzhou University (郑州大学). Using the excavation site as their parchment and hand trowels and brushes as their pens, they are interpreting Central Plains (中原) civilization in this field classroom.
The land of Henan (河南) boasts 16 major archaeological sites, ranking first in the country. People often joke: with a casual shovel, one might strike the Lijiagou Culture (李家沟文化) from 10,000 years ago, the Peiligang Culture (裴李岗文化) from 8,000 years ago, or the Yangshao (仰韶) painted pottery from 5,300 years ago.
"The field is the best classroom. Walking on this land, it is hard not to feel a sense of awe: beneath every layer of loess, an era is stacked upon another," says Han Guohe (韩国河), Chief Professor of Archaeology at Zhengzhou University (郑州大学). This year marks the 50th anniversary of the archaeology program at Zhengzhou University (郑州大学). Not long ago, the Department of Archaeology was awarded the National Workers' Pioneer (全国工人先锋号). "As one of the earliest established archaeology programs in national universities, its founding and development have always been 同频共振 (tóng pín gòng zhèn - "same frequency resonance," to be in perfect sync or move in step with one another)."
Under the scorching sun, the students remain crouched at the edges of the excavation squares, meticulously refining the soil layers with hand trowels. Their movements are gentle, as if brushing dust off a work of art. Over the past year, these young people have followed the Zhengzhou (郑州) archaeological team to explore house foundations and roads, clearing ash pits and tombs, discovering a total of 526 relics dating from the Longshan (龙山), Erlitou (二里头), and Erligang (二里岗) cultures to the Eastern Zhou (东周), Qin (秦), and Han (汉) dynasties.
Using key archaeological projects as a training ground, the faculty and students of the Department of Archaeology learn skills, gain experience, and temper their original aspirations in the field. In April of this year, the Nancheng Site (南城遗址) was named one of the Top Ten New Archaeological Discoveries in Henan (河南). The Guanzhuang Site (官庄遗址), through years of continuous excavation and exposure, transformed from an ordinary village into a site known to the world, and in 2019, it was listed as a Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level (全国重点文物保护单位). Tracing back further, the footprints of the faculty and students cover important sites such as the Wangchenggang Site (王城岗) in Dengfeng (登封) and the Xiaoshuangqiao Site (小双桥) in Zhengzhou (郑州); they also participated in the first excavation of the Peiligang Site (裴李岗遗址) and proposed the naming of the Peiligang Culture (裴李岗文化).
Bidding farewell to the mud and dust of the wilderness, these excavated soil samples, skeletal remains, and artifact fragments are packed and sent to the "Zhonghua Yuan" (中华源 - "Source of China") Archaeology Laboratory at Zhengzhou University (郑州大学). This is one of the first university-based philosophy and social science laboratories in Henan (河南). Students place femur specimens into trays; 3D instruments capture the subtle morphology of the bones, and the data is recorded into a database. Behind these young figures is a repository of over 10,000 human skeletal specimens. These remains, sourced from over a hundred sites across Henan (河南), Shanxi (山西), Shandong (山东), and Shaanxi (陕西), span from the Neolithic Age to the Ming (明) and Qing (清) dynasties, making it one of the richest repositories of ancient human specimens in the Yellow River (黄河) basin.
Today, archaeology is no longer a 一亩三分地 (yī mǔ sān fēn dì - "one mu and three fen of land," a small, private, or narrow sphere of influence) of the past; it has become a frontier for interdisciplinary integration. Bronze arrowheads and rod-shaped artifacts unearthed at the Gouwan Site (沟湾遗址) in Xichuan (淅川), through scientific analysis, have been identified as the earliest extant bronzeware in the Yangtze River (长江) basin. Relics at the Guanzhuang Site (官庄遗址), through carbon-14 dating, have been confirmed as the oldest known coin-casting workshop in the world. Within more than 10 sub-laboratories focusing on ancient DNA, environmental archaeology, and stable isotope analysis, artifacts from the Peiligang Site (裴李岗遗址) and the Zhengzhou Shang City Site (郑州商城遗址) are being studied collaboratively.
With practice and scientific research acting as two wings, batches of outstanding students from the Department of Archaeology have left campus to devote themselves to the Central Plains (中原). At the Yinxu (殷墟) site in Anyang (安阳), He Yuling (何毓灵), head of the Anyang Station (安阳工作站) of the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院考古研究所), has stayed for over 20 years to explore the Great City of Shang (大邑商). At the Longmen Grottoes (龙门石窟) in Luoyang (洛阳), doctoral student Liu Yi (刘轶) and others conduct disease surveys and mapping among thousands of caves and niches, collecting data for archaeological reports. Over the past 50 years, renowned scholars such as Jing Sanlin (荆三林), Liu Mingshu (刘铭恕), Zhang Wenbin (张文彬), and Liu Qingzhu (刘庆柱) have taught here, cultivating over 1,600 undergraduate, master's, and doctoral students.
Many ask: what is the purpose and significance of devoting oneself to archaeology? Perhaps the answer can be found in the college motto, "Endure the wind and snow, seek truth and innovate" (坐风立雪，求是维新), or on the banners at the construction sites that read, "The Party branch is built on the archaeological team."
Leaving the Nancheng Site (南城遗址), the sun is slanting. In the excavation squares, young figures are still busy; the rustling sound of hand trowels meeting the soil layers is like some ancient whisper. These "archaeology students," connecting the ancient to the present, are continuing to write the chapters of a civilization that has never been interrupted.
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The National Museum of Archaeology (中国考古博物馆), in collaboration with 16 archaeological and cultural heritage institutions nationwide, has established the "Academic Collaboration Mechanism for Tracing the Origins of Chinese Civilization" (中华文明溯源学术协作机制). This initiative involves regularly updating exhibits at the National Museum of Archaeology (中国考古博物馆) to showcase significant archaeological findings that highlight China's "one million years of human history, ten thousand years of cultural history, and over five thousand years of civilization." The latest set of artifacts on display consists of 15 high-status jade (and stone) objects unearthed from Tomb M1 at the Jiangjiashan Site (姜家山遗址) of the Liangzhu Culture (良渚文化). These include a complete set of ritual objects such as jade *cong* (玉琮), jade (stone) *bi* (玉（石）璧), stone *yue* axes (石钺), jade crown-shaped ornaments (玉冠状器), and sets of jade awl-shaped objects (玉锥形器), all of which demonstrate the mature ritual civilization of the Liangzhu Culture (良渚文化).
Centered around these ritual objects, the National Museum of Archaeology (中国考古博物馆) organized an academic salon titled "Archaeological Achievements of the Liangzhu Culture (良渚文化) Substantiate the Prominent Characteristics of Chinese Civilization." Chen Minghui (陈明辉), the lead excavator of the high-status Jiangjiashan (姜家山) cemetery; Wang Mingda (王明达), who led the archaeological excavation of the Fanshan Royal Mausoleum (反山王陵) 40 years ago; Wang Ningyuan (王宁远), who has been responsible for researching the Liangzhu (良渚) water management system; and Fang Xiangming (方向明), Director of the Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology (浙江省文物考古研究所), who has drawn over ten thousand illustrations of Liangzhu (良渚) jade artifacts, all came to the site to share their archaeological findings and insights with the audience.
This year marks the 90th anniversary of Liangzhu (良渚) archaeology. On November 3, 1936, the young archaeologist Shi Xingeng (施昕更) discovered two "black, lustrous pottery shards" at the bottom of a dried-up pond at Qipanfen (棋盘坟) in Liangzhu Town (良渚镇), Hang County (杭县), Zhejiang (浙江) (now Yuhang District, Hangzhou City (杭州市余杭区)). Believing them to be similar to the black pottery of the Longshan Culture (龙山文化) in Shandong (山东), he conducted three excavations centered on Qipanfen (棋盘坟), discovering a large quantity of pottery and stone tools, which confirmed the existence of an extremely ancient culture in Liangzhu (良渚). Although the war interrupted related archaeological work, one archaeological report was fortunately published. It was not until the 1950s, following the discovery of a series of related sites in the Jiangsu-Zhejiang-Shanghai (江浙沪) region, that it was proven that the Liangzhu (良渚) remains were distinct from the Shandong Longshan Culture (山东龙山文化). In 1959, Xia Nai (夏鼐) named it the Liangzhu Culture (良渚文化). Subsequently, many Liangzhu Culture (良渚文化) sites were discovered throughout the Taihu Lake Basin (太湖流域). In 1986, a high-status tomb of the Liangzhu Culture (良渚文化) was discovered at Fanshan (反山) in Yuhang (余杭), with Tomb No. 12 yielding a large number of exquisite jade and lacquer artifacts. Yan Wenming (严文明) believed that the excavation of Fanshan (反山) pushed the Liangzhu Culture (良渚文化) to the forefront of the archaeological discipline.
Wang Mingda (王明达) was the excavator of the Fanshan (反山) tomb. "Jade artifacts accounted for 90% of the burial goods in the Fanshan (反山) tomb, resulting in unprecedented gains in the quantity, types, carved patterns, and exquisite craftsmanship of ancient Liangzhu (良渚) jade. More importantly, the archaeological staff performed proper field operations and meticulous excavation, leading to a brand-new understanding of the original positions, compatibility, and combinations of the jade artifacts within the tomb. This allowed research on Liangzhu (良渚) jade to expand from individual pieces to assembled sets. This method of studying complete sets has breakthrough significance in archaeology." In November 1986, the "Academic Symposium Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Discovery of the Liangzhu Site (良渚遗址)" was held in Hangzhou (杭州), and the great gift of Fanshan (反山) left archaeologists filled with excitement.
Wang Ningyuan (王宁远) revealed that Wang Mingda's (王明达) contribution also lay in proposing the concept of the "Liangzhu Site Complex (良渚遗址群)," suggesting systematic archaeological surveys within a 10-kilometer radius. This spurred a series of important archaeological discoveries, including the finding of a massive, well-planned water management system.
Chen Minghui (陈明辉) introduced that the Jiangjiashan Site (姜家山遗址) is located south of Fanshan (反山) and west of Mojiaoshan (莫角山). Multiple excavations have shown that its eastern part was a residential area and its western part was a cemetery, making it a site that combined living and burial functions. The jade artifacts currently on display were unearthed from a high-status noble family cemetery dating to the late stage of the early Liangzhu Culture (良渚文化). The excavation of this cemetery fills a gap in high-status noble cemeteries from the early stage of the Liangzhu Culture (良渚文化) at the Liangzhu Ancient City Site (良渚古城遗址) and enriches the understanding of social stratification.
"As markers of the owner's identity, rank, and status, and as a reflection of settlement hierarchy, scale, and the relationship between the center and the periphery, the sets of Liangzhu (良渚) jade ritual objects became the primary means and bond for maintaining the political organization of Liangzhu (良渚) society," said Fang Xiangming (方向明). Liangzhu (良渚) jade ritual objects influenced more than half of China. The newly displayed combination of jade artifacts reflects the complete jade-making craftsmanship and mature ritual system of the time, intuitively interpreting the prominent characteristics of Chinese civilization. 名副其实 (míng fù qí shí - "name matches reality," to be worthy of the name; to be exactly as described).
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