Summary: Xi Jinping, accompanied by Shandong Party Secretary Lin Wu and Governor Zhou Naixiang, inspected agricultural production and rural development in Dezhou. He emphasized ensuring stable grain and key agricultural product supplies, improving productivity and quality, and building livable villages. He called for reducing grassroots burdens and strengthening party leadership to serve residents. Xi urged officials to prioritize public welfare and enhance people's sense of gain and happiness. He also noted the upcoming 105th anniversary of the CPC, urging continued collective efforts to meet the people's aspirations for a better life.
Summary: During his 2020 and 2024 inspections of Hunan, Xi Jinping called for preserving and utilizing red resources to strengthen revolutionary tradition and patriotic education. In Shaoshan, local party organizations have transformed these directives into economic development, with red tourism driving rural revitalization and income growth. Party members, such as those in Yintian Village, have taken the lead in building collective enterprises and educational complexes. The article highlights that over 70% of Shaoshan Village’s 5,000 residents work in red tourism-related industries. By the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" period, Shaoshan aims to establish a comprehensive ideological and political curriculum system.
Summary: Premier Li Qiang delivered a speech at the 2026 Summer Davos Forum in Dalian, accompanied by the prime ministers of Bangladesh, Guinea, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Mongolia, and Montenegro, along with 1,800 global representatives. He highlighted innovation as central to China’s economic resilience, citing the “15th Five-Year Plan” and describing China’s economy as “stable, new, vibrant, and integrated.” Li emphasized that China’s innovation stems from sustained effort, widespread application, and a supportive ecosystem, and that its emerging technologies offer global opportunities, not threats. He urged international cooperation on innovation, open economies, and AI governance, while pledging to expand market access and improve the business environment. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Zhao Leji, Chairman of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, met with NPC deputies on June 24 to discuss法治宣传 (legal publicity and education). He emphasized the need to study and implement Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, urging deputies to act as role models in respecting and applying the law. Zhao called for enhancing the targeting and effectiveness of legal education, integrating it into daily life and grassroots governance. The meeting was presided over by Li Hongzhong, Vice Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee. The discussion did not address the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Wang Huning, chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), presided over the closing of its 17th Standing Committee meeting, emphasizing the need to pursue high-quality development and advance Chinese-style modernization under the leadership of Xi Jinping. He called on the CPPCC to focus on key issues such as modernizing the industrial system and achieving self-reliance in science and technology, while also preparing for the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. The meeting approved several personnel changes, including additions and removals of committee members. Following the session, Yin Yong, secretary-general of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, delivered a lecture on national security. Senior officials including Shi Taifeng, Hu Chunhua, and others attended the meeting.
Summary: The article is a special report marking the 105th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party. It reaffirms the commitment to unwaveringly follow the socialist political development path with Chinese characteristics. The report highlights the organic unity of Party leadership, people's democracy, and rule of law. No specific official statements or accompanying individuals are cited. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Premier Li Qiang attended the 2026 Summer Davos Forum in Dalian on June 24, meeting with about 150 business representatives from over 30 countries. He stated that trade wars and tariff conflicts have no winners, emphasizing that open cooperation is an irreversible trend and China will continue integrating its market with the world. Li denied that China's industrial competitiveness stems from subsidies, insisting it comes from its comprehensive industrial system and innovation ecosystem, while vowing equal treatment for domestic and foreign firms. He highlighted opportunities from China's economic upgrading in markets, manufacturing, and infrastructure, and promised to improve the business environment for foreign companies. He was accompanied by Wu Zheng Long.
Summary: Chinese Premier Li Qiang addressed the 17th Summer Davos Forum in Dalian, describing China's economy as "stable, new, active, and integrated" amid global headwinds. He emphasized that China's innovation is driven by persistent R&D investment, widespread industrial application, and a supportive ecosystem, rejecting the "China shock 2.0" narrative in favor of "China opportunity 2.0." Li argued that China provides both market and innovation dividends to the world, positioning its policies as strategic, open integration rather than a stopgap. He called for global innovation cooperation to counter rising technological barriers and unilateralism, implicitly addressing U.S.-China tensions over tech decoupling. No specific accompanying officials were named in the speech.
Summary: At a meeting of the 14th National People's Congress Standing Committee on June 24, lawmakers reviewed a State Council report on building a unified national market and posed inquiries. Zhao Leji attended, and Xiao Jie presided. Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing, accompanied by officials from multiple ministries, responded to questions, stating that progress has been made under the leadership of Xi Jinping. Zhang stressed the need to accelerate the drafting of regulations on a unified national market and improve related systems. Xiao Jie reiterated the strategic importance of this effort and urged relevant departments to address the concerns raised.
Summary: At a meeting of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Standing Committee, 14 members delivered speeches on "high-quality development" and related economic and social progress, with Wang Huning, Chairman of the CPPCC and member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China, in attendance. Speakers focused on themes including technological innovation, modern industrial systems, the development of "new quality productive forces," artificial intelligence governance, and the high-quality construction of the Belt and Road Initiative. Li Xiaopeng called for improving comprehensive transportation logistics to support the strong domestic market, while Kong Lingzhi, speaking for the Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League, proposed building a unified national market for green energy. The discussion did not directly address the United States or U.S.-China relations. Vice Chairperson Qin Boyong presided over the meeting.
Summary: The article, timed for China’s 36th National Land Day, reports on nationwide efforts to protect arable land and improve soil quality, citing Xi Jinping’s emphasis that farmland is the “lifeline” of food production. It highlights the remediation of Dalian’s Fuzhou River, where total nitrogen fell to 4.92 mg/L by 2025 after targeting livestock waste, and details soil pollution control successes, including the cleanup of Beijing’s Shougang site for the Olympics. Officials such as Zhao Shixin (Ministry of Ecology and Environment) and Sun Luping (Ministry of Natural Resources) are quoted on policies that maintain 1.865 billion mu of farmland and promote “quantity, quality, and ecology” protection. The article also describes land-use efficiency gains—such as redeveloping idle factories in Hefei and Jiangsu—and systematic governance projects like the Yangtze River restoration and nationwide “mountain-water-forest-farmland-lake-grassland” initiatives.
Summary: During a critical summer harvest inspection in Dezhou, Shandong, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized the importance of ensuring stable supplies of grain and key agricultural products, calling for a full-year bumper harvest. He reaffirmed that food security remains a top priority for national governance, underpinned by integrated efforts to boost output, productivity, ecology, and farmer incomes. The article highlights that technological innovation and policy support have secured consecutive record harvests, with summer grain output already assured. It underscores China's resolve to steadfastly manage its own affairs amid external uncertainties. No discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations appears in the article.
Summary: The 2026 Summer Davos Forum in Dalian (June 23-25) highlighted "China opportunity" as a key theme, with global attendees citing China's role as a stable economic anchor amid uncertainty. World Economic Forum President Alois Zwinggi stated China is a vital global engine, manufacturing and innovation hub, while WIPO Chief Economist Carsten Fink praised China's consistent policy environment and impressive innovation. Foreign leaders, including Kazakhstan's Prime Minister Bektenov and Guinea's Prime Minister Bah, emphasized deepening cooperation with China through Belt and Road and agricultural technology. The forum also discussed China's 15th Five-Year Plan as offering global opportunities for scaling innovation, green energy, and digital transformation.
Summary: The article criticizes Japan’s accelerating "re-militarization" under Prime Minister Takayagi Sanae, focusing on a draft proposal by the Liberal Democratic Party to revise key security documents. The draft calls for significantly increased defense spending, the removal of weapons export restrictions, and the development of offensive military capabilities, including long-range missiles. It notes Japan has brought forward its target for raising defense spending to 2% of GDP to fiscal year 2025, and its latest defense budget has hit a post-WWII record of over 9 trillion yen. The analysis frames these moves as a dangerous shift toward offensive and expansionist military policy, explicitly accusing Japan of breaking post-war constraints and challenging the post-war international order. While the U.S. is not directly mentioned, the article ties Japan's actions to broader regional security concerns and implicitly critiques the U.S.-Japan alliance context that enables such military expansion.
Summary: UK Ambassador to China Wei Lei recently visited Yan’an and Liangjiahe, becoming the first ambassador from a major Western nation to undertake an official "red tour." During the visit, he stated that the trip deepened his understanding of the Communist Party’s revolutionary history and the grassroots origins of China’s leadership philosophy. He highlighted the stark transformation of China since 1981, noting improved rural living conditions and the adoption of new technologies like solar panels. Wei also spoke with local villagers who had worked alongside Xi Jinping, expressing admiration for Xi’s dedication to reading under a kerosene lamp despite harsh conditions. He underscored the importance of the UK-China strategic dialogue and called for bilateral cooperation on global challenges such as climate change and public health.
Summary: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke by phone with Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Dar, who congratulated the CPC on its 105th anniversary and praised China's achievements. Dar briefed Wang on the new phase of Iran-U.S. negotiations, thanking China for supporting Pakistan’s mediation efforts. Wang outlined three priorities: consolidating the ceasefire, restoring navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, and urging Middle Eastern countries to build a new security architecture free from great-power rivalry. He stressed that the U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding serves Iran’s interests and global expectations, and pledged China’s continued support for Pakistan’s constructive role. The discussion also touched on the Palestinian issue as the root of Middle East tensions, with Wang calling for unified action to implement the two-state solution.
Summary: During his March 2024 inspection of Hunan, Xi Jinping emphasized the need to protect and utilize red resources to strengthen revolutionary traditions and patriotic education, echoing his 2020 call for cadres to carry forward the revolutionary spirit. In Shaoshan, local officials have responded by transforming these resources into economic drivers for rural revitalization, fostering a red tourism industry that employs roughly 70% of Shaoshan Village’s 5,000 residents. The article highlights Party-led initiatives such as the “Dao Meng Tian Yuan” agritourism complex and a farm-study homestay, which boosted one villager’s income by over 5,000 yuan in a month. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Premier Li Qiang attended and addressed the 2026 Summer Davos Forum opening ceremony in Dalian, accompanied by Prime Ministers from Bangladesh, Guinea, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Mongolia, Montenegro, and roughly 1,800 global representatives. Li emphasized innovation as key to development, stating China's economy demonstrates a "stable, new, vibrant, and integrated" picture despite global turmoil, providing certainty to the world. He attributed China's sustained growth to stable environments and innovation, portraying Chinese innovation as hard-earned through grassroots effort, widespread application, and nurturing ecosystems. Li argued that China's emerging technologies and products offer opportunities, not threats, to the world. He called for deepened global innovation cooperation to address growth challenges, specifically urging the establishment of rules for AI governance and pledging to expand market access and improve the business environment.
Summary: Zhao Leji, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, met with NPC deputies on June 24 to discuss legal education, emphasizing the need to study and promote Xi Jinping’s thought on the rule of law. He called on deputies to model legal compliance and enhance the effectiveness of法治宣传 (law-based propaganda). The session was presided over by Li Hongzhong, vice chairman of the NPC Standing Committee. Zhao stressed that法治宣传 is a long-term foundation for comprehensive law-based governance. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Bater, Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and President of the China-Cuba Friendship Association, held a video meeting on June 24 in Beijing with Cuban officials, including González and Diego. They discussed implementing the important consensus reached by the two countries’ heads of state and advancing the special friendly relationship between China and Cuba in the new era. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Wang Huning, Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), presided over the 17th session of the Standing Committee, which focused on high-quality development and China's modernization. He emphasized the significance of the "two establishments" and "two upholds" in advancing China's economy and technology under Xi Jinping's leadership, and called for CPPCC efforts to support the upcoming "15th Five-Year Plan." The session also approved several personnel appointments and removals, including adding Li Xiaohong and Xiao Pei as committee members. The meeting was attended by senior officials including Shi Taifeng, Hu Chunhua, and others. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Liu Haixing, head of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, met in Beijing on June 24 with Dawale, Secretary General of Djibouti's People's Rally for Progress and Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry. They exchanged views on jointly implementing the important consensus reached by the two countries' leaders and strengthening inter-party exchanges to advance bilateral relations. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article commemorates the 1982 12th National Congress of the CPC, which introduced the key concept of "socialism with Chinese characteristics" and set the goal of quadrupling industrial output to achieve a "moderately prosperous society." Xi Jinping is quoted praising Deng Xiaoping for launching this path, while the congress also institutionalized the five-year party conference cycle and cleared "leftist" errors from the party constitution. It highlights Deng Xiaoping's 1986 gift of China's first stock (Shanghai Feilo Acoustics) to a visiting American guest, symbolizing early U.S.-China economic exchange. The article credits the 12th Congress with spurring economic reforms, the rise of private enterprise in Wenzhou, and foreign investment totaling $25.77 billion by 1987. It concludes by affirming that China has now fully built a moderately prosperous society, with Xi reaffirming the need to unswervingly follow the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Summary: The article summarizes five reports presented to the 14th National People's Congress Standing Committee on June 23. National Development and Reform Commission Vice Director Li Chunlin reported progress on building a unified national market, citing reduced trade barriers and improved economic indicators. Finance Minister Lan Fo'an reported on the 2025 central决算, noting increased spending on consumption,科技, and social welfare. Justice Minister He Rong detailed the "Eighth Five-Year"普法 campaign's achievements in法治 education. Additionally, a report on the pilot program allowing Hong Kong and Macau lawyers to practice in nine Guangdong cities showed 646 have obtained内地 qualifications. No mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations appears in the article.
Summary: Lu Chunhong, Party secretary of Zhuangzitian in Yunnan, led local Party members to revitalize the village by scaling up cactus cultivation, transforming a rocky, barren landscape into a profitable industry. After being selected under the "Guiyan Project" in 2021, he organized the Party branch into grids, mobilized young Party members like Wang Yunxi, and established a collective company where villagers traded land for shares. They built five industrial roads, with Lu personally donating his own land, and implemented a unified management model covering seedlings, technology, and sales. By 2025, the village's cactus industry generated 15 million yuan in primary product revenue, with profits distributed among shareholders, all villagers, and public welfare projects. Lu is now promoting "cactus + rural tourism" to further drive development.
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Summary: The article emphasizes the fundamental role of Party regulations and institutional oversight in ensuring power operates transparently, highlighting the full and rigorous governance of the Party (全面从严治党) as essential for fostering a conducive environment for entrepreneurship and cadre initiative. It recounts the case of Sanya’s Hongtang Bay, where illegal reclamation was corrected through political accountability mechanisms, illustrating the tangible results of anti-corruption efforts. The piece underscores Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building as the guiding principle for deepening self-governance, linking this to the need for robust enforcement as China faces more complex development tasks during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. It notes that 95.5% of surveyed citizens affirm the effectiveness of the central eight-point regulations, with improved Party conduct driving positive social change and attracting both businesses and talent. The article concludes that effective Party governance is the bedrock of economic and social development, providing the political confidence to secure popular support and future success.
Summary: The article reports that the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) has launched a pilot program in seven provinces and cities—including Beijing, Hebei, and Jiangsu—allowing registration authorities to petition courts for compulsory liquidation of “zombie enterprises.” This follows a new provision in the revised Company Law, which empowers government agencies as applicants to initiate the process, enhancing proactive market clearing. The initiative aims to address the long-standing challenge of inefficient firms that lack incentives or assets for voluntary liquidation, thereby improving resource allocation. The article emphasizes the need for supporting mechanisms in asset disposal, employee resettlement, and debt resolution, as well as differentiated treatment of firms based on their condition. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A report from China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment and ten other agencies states that by the end of 2025, 3,272 “quiet neighborhoods” had been built nationwide, benefiting over 2.4 million households. The soon-to-be-implemented Ecological Environment Code encourages creating such tranquil areas to maintain a harmonious living environment. The article recommends three approaches for success: shifting from zero-sum thinking to collaborative solutions, strengthening long-term institutional frameworks, and innovating upstream supply-side measures like stricter building soundproofing standards. It highlights a case in Hangzhou’s Gongshu District where a community resolved noise conflicts between musicians and residents by offering shared soundproof practice rooms. The commentary frames quiet neighborhood construction as a method for officials to achieve tangible results for the people.
Summary: The Ministry of Commerce, along with seven other units, issued joint measures to promote the integration of railway and tourism, aiming to expand service consumption by diversifying railway travel offerings. In 2025, China operated 2,485 tourist trains nationwide, a 33.6% year-on-year increase. The initiative highlights that railways are evolving beyond mere transportation to create new growth points for service consumption. The report does not mention or allude to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports that the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) reduced enterprise administrative inspections by 28.4% year-on-year while increasing problem detection rates by 17.25%, reflecting a shift from crude to precise oversight. It highlights the State Council’s opinion on strictly regulating such inspections, which sets rigid limits on inspection items, authority, and procedures. The piece emphasizes balancing strict enforcement—especially in food safety, production safety, and ecology—with leniency through “first offense non-penalty” and “minor exemption” lists. It advocates for technology-enabled non-site supervision and differentiated management based on enterprise credit risk classifications. The article concludes that optimizing the business environment requires lawful, discretionary enforcement to allow enterprises to invest and operate with confidence.
Summary: The article argues that vocational training must be directly tied to enterprise and market demand to improve its effectiveness, highlighting a persistent mismatch between "recruitment difficulty" and "employment difficulty" in China. It identifies three disconnects: low job-matching efficiency, certification lacking employer recognition, and short employment service chains. To address this, the piece recommends shifting employment services earlier—into project planning and school education—citing examples from Suzhou and Hubei where pre-employment skills assessment and校企 (school-enterprise) cooperation are used. The author calls for a "reverse engineering" approach to training design and for evaluating employment services based on outcomes like retention rates rather than activity counts. The overarching message is that employment services must be embedded in industrial needs to stabilize the labor market and support economic development.
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Summary: The article reports on the continued efforts in Tuanjie Village, Guizhou, inspired by former Party secretary Huang Dafa, who built a canal. Village Party secretary Wang Chaohai led over 50 party members in reciting Huang's original party membership application, emphasizing unwavering service to the people. Villager Xu Guoshu, a 20-year party member, spearheaded the creation of a camping base funded by 53 households, which overcame flood losses and earned substantial profits. Returning migrant Zhao Jinshan established logistics to connect the village to markets, crediting Huang’s spirit of selfless service. The village’s per capita income rose from about 3,000 yuan in 2015 to 17,900 yuan last year, with younger generations increasingly returning to participate in rural revitalization.
Summary: In May, China’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection investigated 24,513 violations of the central eight-point regulation, handling 31,184 individuals, including one provincial-level official and 118 prefectural-level officials. Formalism and bureaucracy accounted for 12,994 cases, with the largest subcategory involving dereliction of duty or improper conduct affecting high-quality development (10,783 cases). Hedonism and extravagance totaled 11,519 cases, primarily involving illicit gift-giving (6,829), unauthorized allowances (1,360), and extravagant dining (2,188). No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the report.
Summary: The National Health Commission and the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine launched the 2026 National Elderly Health Publicity Week, running from June 22 to 28 under the theme "Proper Medication, Silver Age Wellbeing." The initiative aims to ensure correct, rational, and safe medication use for the elderly, directly impacting their health and quality of life. Across China, local authorities will hold promotional activities such as medication education, free clinics, and health Q&A sessions focusing on elderly health and medication safety. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: At a June 24 press conference, Vice Minister of the United Front Work Department and Director of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission Chen Ruifeng, accompanied by senior officials including Bayin Chaolu, Lei Jianbin, Duan Yijun, and Hu Weilie, announced that the Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law will take effect on July 1. Chen stated the law codifies Xi Jinping's thinking on ethnic work, particularly fostering a sense of community for the Chinese nation, and enshrines successful experiences since the 18th Party Congress. Bayin Chaolu noted it is the first law in over 30 years to include a preamble and the first specialized ethnic law of the new era, with a legislative process that solicited nearly 50,000 public comments. The law establishes a comprehensive legal framework for ethnic unity, emphasizing shared cultural identity, interethnic exchanges, and common prosperity. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Five frontline civil affairs workers shared their experiences at a June 24 State Council press conference themed "Civil Affairs for the People, Warm Services for the Heart." They included grassroots social assistance worker Guo Shanshan from Xi'an, who helped a non-local student after a severe accident; Hangzhou救助站站长 Yu Zhen, whose team used technology and a dialect clue to reunite a lost elderly person with family after a decade; and Yang Shouwei, vice director of Weifang Children's Welfare Home, who designed adaptive aids for children with disabilities. Zhang Sijin from Chongqing Mental Rehabilitation Hospital described nighttime rounds and home follow-ups, pledging continued "mental health integration actions" during the 15th Five-Year Plan period. Zhao Qiongqiong of Shanghai First Social Welfare Home introduced her "three no's, five senses" care method for seniors with dementia, calling for more young people to join the profession.
Summary: The article reports that the Beijing Sports Lottery Center has implemented "deep governance year" measures to enhance compliance, anti-fraud, and risk management. It highlights a new police-lottery cooperation mechanism for fraud prevention, including joint alerts, training, and microfilms. The Center also enforced zero-tolerance compliance checks, established a public reporting reward system for illegal sales, and promoted rational purchasing and youth protection. Additionally, it strengthened anti-corruption controls by requiring signed commitments from agents and staff. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations were mentioned.
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Summary: The article explains the importance of personnel files for Chinese college graduates, highlighting their role in career and social benefits such as employment, social security, and pension calculations. It stresses that files must be transferred securely through official "public-to-public" channels and that graduates must accurately provide their destination information to avoid errors. The piece details three main file destination types based on post-graduation plans: government or state-owned enterprises, private-sector jobs, and unemployment or further studies. It also notes that Beijing offers online services for file management via government platforms. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations are discussed.
Summary: The article summarizes multiple reports presented to the 23rd session of the 14th NPC Standing Committee on June 23. National Development and Reform Commission Vice Chair Li Chunlin reported progress on building a unified national market, citing reductions in the negative list and increased interprovincial trade. Finance Minister Lan Fo'an presented the 2025 central决算, noting GDP growth and fiscal measures including 1.3 trillion yuan in ultra-long-term special bonds for consumption and investment. Justice Minister He Rong reported on the "8th Five-Year" legal education campaign, emphasizing nationwide implementation and enhanced rule-of-law awareness. Auditor General Hou Kai presented an audit report covering central budget execution, identifying 139.24 billion yuan in problematic funds across 39 departments. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The State Council issued the "15th Five-Year Plan for Accelerating Agricultural and Rural Modernization," outlining goals, tasks, and policies to advance Chinese-style modernization through rural development. The article reports that PICC Property and Casualty Company, having provided 10.9 trillion yuan in agricultural risk coverage to 320 million rural households during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, will align with this new Plan to promote high-quality agricultural insurance. The company stated it will safeguard grain production, support modern agricultural management systems, and protect strategic agricultural sectors. It also plans to expand insurance services for rural industry integration, livable villages, and carbon-sequestering ecological agriculture. The report does not mention any official accompanying a specific official, nor does it discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: On June 24, Xi Jinping inspected Dezhou, Shandong, urging village party organizations to strengthen leadership and motivate villagers to achieve progress in building livable, prosperous, and harmonious rural areas. He emphasized that rural revitalization requires comprehensive progress in industry, talent, culture, ecology, and organization, with grassroots party building as the key. The article highlights the central leadership's focus on strengthening grassroots party organizations and reducing bureaucratic burdens on cadres to improve service delivery. It underscores the importance of party leadership in modernizing agriculture and rural areas, ensuring stable food supply, and promoting sustainable development. No mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations was found.
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Summary: The article analyzes the theoretical character of Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building, emphasizing six core qualities: firm ideals and convictions, a high degree of historical initiative, a clear problem-oriented approach, a strong sense of mission, deep commitment to the people, and scientific methods of thinking. It explains that these elements form an interconnected logic that guides the construction of a long-term ruling Marxist party. The author, a researcher at the Central Party School, stresses the importance of understanding these traits to advance Party governance and national rejuvenation. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: President Xi Jinping emphasized that through scientific decision-making and practical hard work, cadres must create achievements that withstand the test of practice and history. The article outlines three dimensions of "practical work" (实干): stepping firmly with a nail-driving spirit, respecting objective laws to solve real problems, and pursuing tangible results with persistent perseverance. It cites examples such as Jiao Yulu and Zhejiang's "Thousand Village Demonstration" project to illustrate these principles. The piece argues that current development challenges—from shifting to high-quality growth to tackling systemic reforms—demand a combination of urgency, scientific rigor, boldness, and patience. Ultimately, it concludes that all grand blueprints rely on down-to-earth diligence, respect for laws, and long-term commitment, without any mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: At the 2025 Central Urban Work Conference, Xi Jinping called for establishing a correct approach to political performance and a scientific urban development evaluation system. The article emphasizes that such a system is crucial for building modern people-centered cities during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, shifting focus from GDP to metrics like livability, green growth, and safety. It outlines principles including balancing visible results (e.g., economic indicators) with latent ones (e.g., ecological restoration), and using differentiated indicators tailored to city types. Methods involve improving data quality through statistics, public surveys, and digital tools, with dynamic weight adjustments. The system also advocates multi-stakeholder participation, including independent third-party evaluations, to guide local officials and resource allocation. The author is a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences' Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.
Summary: The article highlights Xi Jinping's repeated emphasis on China's socialist political development path, rooted in whole-process people's democracy and the leadership of the Communist Party. It details the roles of the National People's Congress, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and grassroots democratic practices, citing Xi's remarks on the superiority of China's political system. The piece also covers the passage of the 15th Five-Year Plan and the enactment of laws like the Ecological Environment Code, underscoring the integration of rule of law. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations. The article concludes with testimonials from local officials and party members on grassroots governance and party building.
Summary: The article quotes Xi Jinping defining "whole-process people's democracy" as the "most extensive, most genuine, and most effective socialist democracy." It explains that this democracy ensures broad participation from all people ("everyone is present"), operates through continuous, tangible processes such as elections, consultations, and decision-making ("happens every day"), and delivers concrete results by solving practical problems ("every matter gets a response"). The piece underscores that this system is embedded in China's political institutions, from the grassroots to the national level, and aims to realize the people's aspirations. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: In an article marking the 105th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, President Xi Jinping stressed that the organic unity of Party leadership, people's democracy, and rule of law is essential to socialist political development, with Party leadership being the most fundamental element. The piece highlights Xi's "Ten Persistences" framework, which places Party leadership as the defining feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics. It notes that since the 18th Party Congress, China has advanced whole-process people’s democracy and strengthened core political systems, including the People's Congress system. The article further references the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline's dedicated section on developing whole-process people’s democracy and improving the socialist legal system. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article outlines the strategic importance of science and technology groups during China’s "15th Five-Year Plan" period, emphasizing Party leadership and the need for self-reliance in scientific advancement. It highlights Chinese President Xi Jinping’s directives that these groups must maintain political, advanced, and mass-oriented characteristics, serving as bridges between the Party and scientists. The text stresses serving young researchers, strengthening the national innovation system, and fostering international scientific cooperation. It calls for reforming management to enhance the groups’ vitality and governance, while upholding the Party’s absolute leadership to align with the goal of building a technologically strong nation. No direct reference to the United States or U.S.-China relations is made.
Summary: The article highlights President Xi Jinping's assertion that farmland is the "lifeline" of food production and China's sustainable development. It reports on environmental monitoring official Zhao Hui's efforts to trace pollution sources in the Fuzhou River, which improved water quality after central ecological inspections. The piece details nationwide soil remediation, including the transformation of Beijing's Shougang factory site into Olympic venues, and notes that 18.65 billion mu of farmland are protected under strict land-use policies. It also describes land-saving initiatives like factory renovations in Dezhou and the "Duck-Frog-Rice" ecological farming model in Shishou, Hubei, which boosted yields while reducing chemical use. The article concludes that integrated land management across China—supported by 52 "mountain-water-forest-farmland-lake-grassland-sand" restoration projects—aims to balance ecological protection with high-quality development.
Summary: The article reports on the fourth China International Supply Chain Expo (CISCE) in Beijing, highlighting its focus on "digital-intelligent technology chains" and new AI applications. At the Yum China booth, a "full-chain AI + robot operation system" was unveiled, capable of operating in -18°C cold storage. ShiShi Technology's founder Yan Bowen emphasized innovation-driven development and AI empowerment, while Yadu's Li Zhifeng stated the expo helps link global resources for domestic health appliance upgrades. Haleon China's Fu Yue noted the expo is a key platform for collaboration, and the Bank of Communications showcased supply chain financial solutions. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: China's National Radio and Television Administration released a draft "Micro-Drama Development Management Measures" on June 24 for public consultation. The draft defines micro-dramas as series with episodes under 20 minutes, clear themes, and complete storylines. It prohibits 11 types of content, including those endangering national security, distorting history, and harming minors' rights. AI-generated micro-dramas must display clear labeling in each episode. The public comment period ends on July 23, 2026.
Summary: The article reports on the success of Shanghai's aid to Yunnan, focusing on the development of Xishuangbanna’s specialty waxy corn industry in Menghai County. Jiang Yun, Deputy Secretary-General of the Xishuangbanna Prefectural Committee and head of the Shanghai aid team, was quoted explaining that the collaboration transforms local farming into a modern, high-efficiency chain. The project, supported by Shanghai funds and expertise, established standardized processing facilities and a "company + base + farmer" model, boosting output and quality. As a result, the corn is now exported to markets including the United States, Germany, and Australia. Jiang Yun emphasized that the partnership is a mutually beneficial two-way empowerment, leveraging Shanghai’s market channels and management skills alongside Yunnan’s high-quality ecological products.
Summary: The article highlights the rise of "new mass literature and art" in China, exemplified by a physical education teacher, Zhang Xinhong, who became an author using digital tools. It attributes this trend to rising education and living standards, which have increased spiritual needs, and to digital technology lowering the barriers to creation. The piece argues that ordinary people are not only consumers but also creators of culture, with their personal stories serving as rich material for art. It stresses that this democratization of art does not diminish professional work but enriches the cultural ecosystem through mutual inspiration. Ultimately, the phenomenon is presented as a manifestation of the people's subjectivity in cultural life, fostering broader cultural creativity.
Summary: The article is a first-person account by a physical education teacher and Director of the Dongcheng Street Sports Management Service Center in Dongguan, Guangdong. He recounts his unexpected transition from a sports teacher to a published author, with his散文集 *From Jiangyou to Lingnan* released last year. He describes how he developed a writing habit by composing for a school newspaper and using his phone as a "scratch paper" in his car. He emphasizes that his only goal in writing is "fun," likening it to a long run that anyone can enjoy without aiming to be a champion. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A Beijing Daily report states that 138 Beijing social security services have been launched in Xiong'an New Area, enabling cross-regional online processing for relocated workers and commuters. The article also covers the 22nd China International Animation Festival's "Golden Monkey Awards," where "The Legend of Hei 2" and other works won top prizes. Additionally, China issued its first AI-themed special stamps in Guangzhou. Chongqing has established over 200 car rental points at transport hubs. Guangxi introduced a pharmacy price heat map using a color-coded system. The 2026 Inner Mongolia Folk Song Festival was held in Wuhai. No mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations appears in the article.
Summary: An international shell exhibition was held for four days at the Gulou Metro Station in Ningbo, Zhejiang. The event displayed over 100,000 shells from more than 4,000 species, attracting local visitors. Photos were taken by Hu Xuejun for Image China.
Summary: In Jingning County, Gansu, apple farmers' rising incomes have driven strong car and agricultural machinery sales, with a local official noting that the sales cycle follows the apple harvest. Store manager Li Tao reported that his lot holds 150 new cars, with peak season comprising over half of annual sales. County commerce bureau director Chang Zhiliang highlighted a shift toward higher-quality consumer demand. The apple industry has also spurred rural tourism, transforming the once-poor Wumiao Village into a model tourist destination.
Summary: A sports facility in Putian, Fujian, built on a previously neglected plot, has become popular since opening. It was jointly developed by a local investment company and six villages, using 314.6万元 from a municipal “破壳消薄” fund designed to boost weak village economies. The project also includes parking and other facilities. Across the district, 40 villages have formed partnerships, with 41 projects expected to increase annual incomes for weak villages by about 120,000 yuan each.
Summary: At the 2026 China-Langfang International Economic and Trade Fair, Hebei paper company general manager Wang Weihua demonstrated wet wipes to U.S. buyer Ricky Li, head of the American Geriatric Care Association, who praised the product. Wang’s company secured cooperation意向 from three international purchasing groups, including a preliminary order for one container. Two additional purchasing groups from Bangladesh and Pakistan, initially focused on auto and motorcycle parts, pivoted to include the paper products after seeing their market fit. The cross-sector collaboration was enabled by cross-border logistics "consolidation," mixing heavy auto parts with light paper goods to optimize container space and reduce shipping costs. The article highlights successful U.S.-China business interaction, with Li representing a direct American procurement opportunity.
Summary: The article reports on Yanshan Primary School in Taicang, Jiangsu, where student fitness improved significantly over five years: average one-minute jump rope scores rose 65.1%, myopia rates dropped by about 15%, and physical fitness excellence reached 57.3%. Principal Gu Jian stated the school integrates health into daily life by limiting homework, ensuring ample physical activity, and using innovations like a giant vision chart and AI-based smart sports systems. The school offers diverse sports including shooting, fencing, judo, and drone soccer, and uses AI to turn exercise into "level-breaking games" that assess and customize student fitness plans. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: In Xinjiang's Turpan, a flexible conveyor belt for melon harvesting, developed by the Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the Nanjing Institute of Agricultural Mechanization, was publicly demonstrated. Gong Yan, director of the National Watermelon and Melon Industry Technology System Mechanization Research Office, stated that the "manual picking + mechanical transport" model avoids the high cost of full automation while boosting single-group harvesting efficiency by over 100% and keeping loss rates very low. No political officials were reported as accompanying the demonstration, and the article does not address U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article, published on China's 36th National Land Day, highlights diverse soil conservation and sustainable farming practices across five regions. In Shaanxi, fruit grower Zhao Yongdong discusses how apple orchards on the Loess Plateau have reduced erosion and boosted incomes, with Nangou Village's per capita income reaching 24,500 yuan in 2025. In Fujian, villager Ma Xuemei explains how chestnut trees and cover crops like Bahia grass rehabilitated eroded red soil in Changting. Jilin's "Lishu model" of no-till farming and straw retention has revitalized black soil, with the Qiangsheng cooperative reporting 20% higher corn yields and 20% less fertilizer use. Other stories cover low-carbon rice farming on Sichuan's purple soil and soybean breeding on Shandong's saline-alkali land, with researchers like Ning Kai focusing on salt-tolerant varieties. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations are mentioned.
Summary: The article explains that soil color in China is determined by minerals and organic matter, with iron compounds creating hues like red, purple, and gray in different regions. Organic matter accumulation in northeast China produces deep black fertile soil. Coastal areas in Jiangsu develop white saline soil due to salt transport. Layered yellow and red soils in the Loess Plateau reflect glacial and interglacial climate cycles. The piece notes that a high-precision soil color map of China was created by the Nanjing Institute of Soil Science.
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Summary: Several members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee submitted proposals focused on using technological innovation to drive industrial modernization, with suggestions including strengthening national laboratories, supporting enterprises in overcoming "bottleneck" technologies, and improving AI governance. Other proposals addressed expanding the Silk Road Economic Belt core area in Xinjiang, enhancing transportation infrastructure, and developing "patient capital" for long-term investments. Additional recommendations covered intellectual property protection for emerging fields, rural revitalization through regional coordination, and green transformation of the construction and energy sectors. The proposals also called for better regulation of new employment forms, urban grassroots governance, and cross-regional development collaboration. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports that Xiong’an New Area has adhered to the principle of "greening before building," with cumulative afforestation reaching 744,500 mu and forest coverage rising to 35.2%. Baiyangdian Lake's water quality has steadily improved to Class III, and wild bird species have increased by 90 to 296 since the area's establishment. The text highlights the integration of blue-green spaces and the development of parks like Yuerong Park and the Central Green Valley. No statements from officials or mention of the United States are included.
Summary: Brazil's government reported a 30% year-on-year increase in Chinese tourists in Q1 2025, reaching over 26,000, a record for the period. Brazilian International Tourism Promotion Agency head Bruno Reis highlighted tourism's role in bridging the two countries, while the May 11 visa-free policy for Chinese citizens is expected to further boost arrivals. Brazil has updated its list of 325 accredited travel agencies for Chinese groups, and multiple cities—including Rio de Janeiro and Foz do Iguaçu—are adding Mandarin services, Chinese-language apps, and digital marketing to cater to Chinese visitors. Tourism Minister Gustavo Feliciano said the visa waiver strengthens people-to-people ties and opens new cooperation opportunities in travel and business. In parallel, Chinese visa-free entry for Brazilians since June 2025 has driven a threefold increase in searches for flights and accommodations to China, with destinations like Beijing, Shanghai, and Zhangjiajie gaining popularity.
Summary: Bangladesh’s 2026–2027 national budget introduces substantial tax exemptions for solar and renewable energy equipment, aiming to accelerate its energy transition away from a nearly 98% fossil fuel dependency. The measures include tariff reductions on solar inverters, lithium batteries, and electric vehicle imports, with corporate tax breaks for solar firms extended to 2035. Energy Minister Iqbal Mahmood stated that Bangladesh is “ready for the solar era” and noted the formation of a special committee to expedite renewable energy policy. The article highlights Chinese firms as key partners, mentioning that a Chinese-built solar plant and the country’s first wind farm are already supplying green power. No direct discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations appeared in the report.
Summary: Philippine Q1 2026 GDP growth slowed to 2.8%, missing the 5.0–6.0% target for a third consecutive quarter, while inflation hit a three-year high of 7.2% due to geopolitical tensions driving oil prices. Analysts warn of stagflation, with government spending growth dropping sharply from 18.7% to under 5% amid a corruption scandal in flood infrastructure budgets that led to President Marcos dismissing several officials. Rising energy and food inflation is pushing 1.3–3.1 million Filipinos into poverty, disproportionately affecting low-income households. Business groups are urging urgent reforms to improve governance and curb corruption, citing declining investor confidence and pressure on tourism. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports on Chongqing's implementation of the "Ten Million Project" experience to advance rural revitalization, highlighting improvements in village appearances, ecological living conditions, and industrial development. In 2025, the city upgraded 6,001 villages, achieving a 65% completion rate for its "Beautiful and Harmonious Chongqing Villages" initiative. Key figures cited include a 94.6% rural tap water coverage rate and a 2025 per capita disposable income of 23,448 yuan for rural residents. The report details the cultivation of ten 10-billion-yuan ecological industry chains, such as Fengjie navel oranges and Fuling pickled mustard. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: Summer tourism bookings in China surged 20% year-on-year by mid-June, with domestic travel up over 30%, reflecting strong consumer spending. Service retail sales grew 5.4% in January–May, outpacing goods, driven by experiential and personalized travel such as cultural tours and hands-on craft experiences. Young consumers increasingly use social media to plan trips and share immersive experiences, shifting consumption from passive to active co-creation. New urban venues like Beijing's “gentle breeze terraces” and renovated historic districts are boosting supply and demand. The summer consumption wave underscores China's economic resilience and ongoing structural upgrade toward higher-quality, experience-driven services.
Summary: Jingdezhen's ceramic industry achieved a milestone in 2025, with total output value surpassing 100 billion yuan (102.7 billion yuan, up 9.3%), driven by the transformation of traditional ceramics into cultural creative products and trendy items. Innovators like Wang Xu, a "Jingpiao" (migrant artisan), are producing geometric ceramic jewelry to meet rising consumer aesthetics, while companies like Chentian Ceramics collaborate with Pop Mart on limited-edition Molly dolls using heritage techniques, achieving instant sellouts. The adoption of industrial-grade 3D printing by firms such as Microceramic Technology enables complex ceramic structures, lowering customization barriers and expanding applications in home décor and precision components. Advanced ceramics are also targeting high-tech sectors like electronics and new energy, now accounting for 34% of the city's ceramic output. Museums like the Imperial Kiln Museum are leveraging IP development (e.g., the "Suisui Duck" character) and immersive experiences such as "Linglong Night Banquet" to attract younger consumers and integrate ceramics into daily life.
Summary: A Ming-dynasty falangcai (cloisonné-style) meiping vase, recovered from a shipwreck in the South China Sea at a depth of 1,500 meters, was showcased at the China (Hainan) Museum of the South China Sea. The wreck, discovered in a joint survey from 2023 to 2024, yielded nearly 1,000 artifacts and was named one of China's top ten archaeological finds of 2023. Museum director Xin Lixue noted that some of the recovered falangcai items feature gold-leaf appliqué on their main decorations, a rare and highly skilled technique. The museum has developed文创 products inspired by the vases, including award-winning jewelry and resin fridge magnets, bringing the artifacts into daily life. The exhibition has also been extended to Haikou Meilan International Airport, allowing travelers to view replicas and learn about the Maritime Silk Road without visiting the museum.
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Summary: The article highlights the success of China's "Eighth Five-Year Plan" for legal education, featuring tailored legal courses for village cadres in Chongqing delivered by a university student group. It notes that 98.9% of primary and secondary schools now have legal vice principals, with examples from Guangxi addressing juvenile crime near the border. Over 2.2 million volunteer legal educators have conducted activities for nearly 400 million people, including a case in Fujian where a delivery worker became a volunteer after receiving legal aid. Additionally, 4.4 million "legal awareness persons" have helped rural land transfers in Chongqing by clarifying contract terms. The report also describes "red legal propagandists" in Zunyi, Guizhou, who use storytelling and tea-house gatherings to promote legal awareness and resolve disputes.
Summary: The article reports that China's Ministry of Public Security, National Health Commission, and National Medical Products Administration jointly expanded the controlled substances list by adding 16 new substances to combat evolving drug abuse patterns, including synthetic drugs and unlisted addictive substances like "head-shaking e-cigarettes" targeting youth. Courts have upheld convictions for illegally selling controlled medicines such as diphenoxylate, reinforcing a zero-tolerance stance. In 2025, China solved 27,000 drug-related cases, while new young drug users dropped 41.6% and long-term abstainers increased 2.7%. Authorities emphasize both harsh enforcement—including severe penalties for drug crimes involving minors—and preventive measures such as industry oversight and public education. The article underscores the need for sustained, multi-sector collaboration to address emerging threats and maintain social stability.
Summary: A Shanghai court ruled that a childless, widowed elderly man's cousin and his wife could inherit 1.3 million yuan of his estate after they provided care and funeral arrangements, despite not being legal heirs. The man, Ge, had no surviving family and died without a will, leaving his remaining property—including a house—to be auctioned and absorbed by the state for public welfare. The court cited civil code provisions allowing non-heirs who provided substantial support to receive a portion of the estate, emphasizing principles of fairness and traditional virtue. The local civil affairs bureau served as the estate administrator, as mandated by law when no heirs exist. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Jining City’s public security bureau, led by Deputy Mayor and Bureau Chief Zhang Dayong, has integrated nearly 90 high-frequency police services—including household registration, immigration, and vehicle management—into local派出所, enabling citizens to complete multiple tasks in one visit. The reform, praised by residents like Mr. Zhao and Ms. Wang, reduces bureaucratic hurdles through streamlined windows and online-offline service options. Zhang Dayong stated the system will continue to add services, such as vehicle certificate renewals, while eliminating inefficiencies to prioritize public satisfaction. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The 28th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) concluded on June 20, with extended screenings through June 28. Chen Guo, director of the Shanghai International Film Festival Center, emphasized the festival's role in supporting young filmmakers and fostering an ecosystem for new works. The event featured an "AI Film Set" unit exploring AI integration in filmmaking, with industry figures like former Academy President Yang燕子 (from the U.S.) participating in a panel on the enduring importance of film festivals. SIFF awarded top prizes in the Golden Goblet Awards, with young director Zhong Kaifeng winning Best Film. The festival also saw participation from international filmmakers, including Australian director Warwick Thornton, highlighting its growing global stature.
Summary: The article is a first-person account by the director of the film *Four Crossings*, detailing a research trip to Guizhou to understand the historical site of the Red Army’s Fourth Crossing of the Chishui River. The director accompanied film producer Andrew Lau on the trip, noting Lau’s intense focus on historical details during their visit to the memorial. The narrative emphasizes the youth of the Red Army soldiers, with the director and Lau concluding the film should target a young audience. A key focus is on Mao Zedong’s solitary late-night walk along a country path to persuade Zhou Enlai and Zhu De after his proposal was initially rejected, which the director identifies as the film’s core image. While the article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations, it centers on the inspirational, humanistic portrayal of ordinary soldiers and Mao’s strategic perseverance.
Summary: Beijing People's Art Theatre used 4K ultra-HD live streaming to broadcast its classic 1957 production of *Camel Xiangzi* to nearly 6,000 students from eight universities in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. Earlier this spring, the theatre premiered four 4K drama films—*Teahouse*, *The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial*, *Under the Banners of the Red Banner*, and *Zhang Juzheng*—at the 16th Beijing International Film Festival, where all sold out on opening day. The project aims to preserve the essence of stage art while integrating cinematic techniques, blending “the liveness of theatre” with “the lensing of film.” Yin Hong, vice chairman of the China Film Association, praised the initiative as opening “a new track for Chinese drama films.” The theatre also plans to expand overseas exhibitions to tell Chinese stories through stage and screen.
Summary: The article, written by the director of the National Theatre of China, reflects on the revival of the play *Green Snake* 13 years after its debut, now performed by a new generation of post-2000s actors. The author discusses the production's artistic philosophy, emphasizing the "Chinese-style performance concept" and the process of mentoring young actors. The summary highlights the director’s pride in the seamless transition of roles from veteran actors to newcomers, noting the audience's positive reception in Chengdu and Guangzhou. No mention is made of U.S. officials, U.S.-China relations, or any statements regarding the United States.
Summary: The author, a scriptwriter for the medical drama *Wen Xin* (Ask Heart), explains that the show aims to bridge the information asymmetry between doctors and patients, fostering mutual understanding and trust. Over six years, they visited over a dozen hospitals across China, from major tertiary centers to rural clinics, and consulted more than 200 medical professionals. Four senior experts provided continuous script review, and each case involved input from at least five specialists. The writer emphasizes that rigorous research and clinical immersion are essential for authentic storytelling that conveys medicine's human warmth. No references to U.S.-China relations or specific officials appear in the article.
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■ The modernization of agriculture and rural areas concerns the overall situation and quality of Chinese-style modernization. Solid measures must be taken to carry out all work effectively, focus on enhancing comprehensive agricultural production capacity and quality efficiency, ensure the stable supply of grain and other important agricultural products, advance the building of beautiful and harmonious rural areas that are desirable for living and working by tailoring measures to local conditions, and guide the vast numbers of farmers and rural people to use their diligence and wisdom to create a better life.
■ Ensuring the stable supply of grain and other important agricultural products is the top priority of agricultural production. It is necessary to implement various support policies for grain production, ensure the supply and stable prices of agricultural materials, actively promote advanced and suitable varieties, technologies, and equipment, steadily increase per-unit yield and efficiency, and strive for a bumper grain harvest for the whole year. It is necessary to improve agricultural infrastructure, ensure the quality of high-standard farmland construction, promote agricultural water conservation and efficiency enhancement, strengthen meteorological forecasting and disaster monitoring and early warning, and enhance the capacity for agricultural disaster prevention, mitigation, and relief.
■ Village Party organizations should further leverage the guiding role of Party building, fully mobilize the enthusiasm of villagers and the masses, and continuously achieve new results in advancing the building of beautiful and harmonious rural areas that are desirable for living and working. Continue to reduce burdens at the grassroots level, so that village cadres have more time and energy to serve the masses and promote development.
■ Establishing and practicing a correct view of political performance ultimately lies in bringing benefits to the people. The vast number of Party members and cadres must strengthen their sense of public service, cultivate deep feelings for the people, do more good deeds, practical things, and solve difficult problems for the masses, and genuinely enhance the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security.
■ "July 1st" is approaching, and we will soon usher in the 105th birthday of the Party. Over the past 105 years, our Party has united and led the people of all ethnic groups across the country in unremitting struggle, creating great achievements worthy of history and the people. Now, we are striding forward on the new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country. We must work together with one heart and one mind to walk the new Long March well, create a brighter future, and continuously meet the people's aspirations for a better life.
Our Correspondent, Dezhou, Shandong, June 24th — General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, Xi Jinping (习近平), emphasized during his inspection in Dezhou City, Shandong Province on June 24th, that the modernization of agriculture and rural areas concerns the overall situation and quality of Chinese-style modernization. Solid measures must be taken to carry out all work effectively, focus on enhancing comprehensive agricultural production capacity and quality efficiency, ensure the stable supply of grain and other important agricultural products, advance the building of beautiful and harmonious rural areas that are desirable for living and working by tailoring measures to local conditions, and guide the vast numbers of farmers and rural people to use their diligence and wisdom to create a better life.
On June 24th, Xi Jinping (习近平), accompanied by Lin Wu (林武), Secretary of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee, and Zhou Naixiang (周乃翔), Governor of Shandong Province, came to Dezhou City for inspection and research.
It is the summer planting season, and the fields are bustling with agricultural activities. On the morning of June 24th, Xi Jinping (习近平) came to Dongyujia Village, Bianlin Town, Lingcheng District, Dezhou City, to hear reports on the local "three summers" (三夏) production work, and to learn about wheat harvests, corn planting, and agricultural material supply. He went to the farmland irrigation canal to inspect the water-fertilizer integration facilities, and then walked into the fields for cordial exchanges with large grain growers, agricultural machinery operators, and agrotechnicians. Learning that the per-unit yield of wheat has increased again this year, and that corn sowing has been done without missing the farming season and at a fast pace, Xi Jinping (习近平) was very pleased. He emphasized that ensuring the stable supply of grain and other important agricultural products is the top priority of agricultural production. It is necessary to implement various support policies for grain production, ensure the supply and stable prices of agricultural materials, actively promote advanced and suitable varieties, technologies, and equipment, steadily increase per-unit yield and efficiency, and strive for a bumper grain harvest for the whole year. It is necessary to improve agricultural infrastructure, ensure the quality of high-standard farmland construction, promote agricultural water conservation and efficiency enhancement, strengthen meteorological forecasting and disaster monitoring and early warning, and enhance the capacity for agricultural disaster prevention, mitigation, and relief.
Afterwards, Xi Jinping (习近平) visited the neighboring "National Civilized Village" (全国文明村), Xiyujia Village, for inspection. He walked into the village Party and mass service center, carefully inquired about the construction of the village Party organization and the provision of convenient services for the people, learned about local practices of promoting rural revitalization on a regional basis, and inspected agricultural and sideline product displays. Xi Jinping (习近平) expressed the hope that the village Party organization would further leverage the guiding role of Party building, fully mobilize the enthusiasm of villagers and the masses, and continuously achieve new results in advancing the building of beautiful and harmonious rural areas that are desirable for living and working. He demanded continued efforts to reduce burdens at the grassroots level, so that village cadres have more time and energy to serve the masses and promote development.
At the home of villager Yu Xinhui (于鑫辉), Xi Jinping (习近平) inspected the home furnishings, sat together with the family for a chat, cordially inquired about employment income, the health of the elderly, and the children's schooling, and learned in detail about whether the Party's "three rural" (三农) policies were all fully implemented. He pointed out that establishing and practicing a correct view of political performance ultimately lies in bringing benefits to the people. The vast number of Party members and cadres must strengthen their sense of public service, cultivate deep feelings for the people, do more good deeds, practical things, and solve difficult problems for the masses, and genuinely enhance the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security.
When leaving the village, the villagers warmly saw off the General Secretary. Xi Jinping (习近平) said to everyone, "July 1st" is approaching, and we will soon usher in the 105th birthday of the Party. Over the past 105 years, our Party has united and led the people of all ethnic groups across the country in unremitting struggle, creating great achievements worthy of history and the people. Now, we are striding forward on the new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country. We must work together with one heart and one mind to walk the new Long March well, create a brighter future, and continuously meet the people's aspirations for a better life. He wished the villagers, under the leadership of the Party, to build their homes more beautifully and live better and better lives day by day.
He Lifeng (何立峰) and relevant responsible comrades from central Party and state organs accompanied the inspection.
By: 本报记者 申智林
Shaoshan City (韶山市), Hunan (湖南), where Shaofeng (韶峰) peaks are layered with green. At the Historical Exhibition Hall of the Shaoshan Special Branch of the Communist Party of China (中共韶山特别支部历史陈列馆), docent Wu Shichuan (吴诗传) is explaining to children who have come for study tours: "In June 1925, at Comrade Mao Zedong's (毛泽东) home, a ceremony for admitting new Party members was held, and the Shaoshan Special Branch of the Communist Party of China was established..." The old photographs and restored scenes in the exhibition hall draw people's thoughts back to those 峥嵘岁月 (zhēngróng suìyuè - "steep and lofty years," eventful years of struggle).
In September 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out during his inspection tour in Hunan (湖南): "Hunan is a piece of red hot land where a large number of Communists have composed 感天动地 (gǎn tiān dòng dì - "move heaven and earth," extremely touching) heroic songs. We must educate and guide the vast numbers of Party members and cadres to carry forward the revolutionary tradition and inherit the red genes." In March 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized during his inspection tour in Hunan (湖南): "Protect and make good use of red resources, strengthen revolutionary tradition and patriotic education, guide the vast numbers of cadres and masses to carry forward fine traditions, continue the red bloodline, practice the core socialist values, and cultivate a new style and new look for the era."
Keeping in mind the General Secretary's earnest instructions, Shaoshan City (韶山市) continuously transforms red resources into development momentum, promoting the old revolutionary base area's development to improve quality and increase efficiency.
Under the leadership of the Party organization, cadres and masses work together. Today's Shaoshan Village (韶山村) has prosperous farmers, beautiful villages, and a fine environment. Shaoshan Village (韶山村) villagers Mao Xiaowen (毛晓文) and Mao Guhua (毛谷华), sister and brother, are hosting tourists who have finished their visits at their own agritainment establishment. A sign reading "Party Member Business Operator" hangs on the wall nearby. "Golden flower seeds bloom red flowers..." Sister Mao Xiaowen (毛晓文) has a clear voice, and Shaoshan folk songs come readily to her lips.
This scene is also a microcosm of the development of Shaoshan City's (韶山市) red cultural tourism industry. Centered on red resources, various business formats such as study tours, training, catering, and accommodation are developed. Among the more than 5,000 villagers of Shaoshan Village (韶山村), about 70% are engaged in occupations related to red tourism.
"Red genes are carved into the bones of every one of our Party members," said Mao Xiaowen (毛晓文). Displaying one's identity and valuing integrity are not only rules but also the confidence to 不忘初心 (bù wàng chū xīn - "do not forget the original heart," remain true to the original aspiration) and 砥砺前行 (dǐ lì qián xíng - "sharpen and forge ahead," forge ahead with determination). The whole village has over 300 registered merchants, among which more than 50 are Party member households.
Entering Yintian Village (银田村), Yintian Town (银田镇), the high-standard farmland is a scene of bustling activity, and the Chinese medicinal herb base wafts with medicinal fragrance. In 2018, the Party Committee of Yintian Village (银田村) organized all Party members to study at the Historical Exhibition Hall of the Shaoshan Special Branch of the Communist Party of China (中共韶山特别支部历史陈列馆). "Feel the revolutionary spirit, draw forth the strength to strive forward," said Guo Fang (郭芳), Secretary of the Party Committee of Yintian Village (银田村).
Recently, Yintian Village (银田村) has seen new changes: next to the village collective's ten-thousand-mu demonstration plot, the "Rice Dream Pastoral" (稻梦田园) agricultural, cultural, tourism, and study complex is being built up in earnest; the Party organization led the villagers to establish Yintian Future Pastoral Development Co., Ltd. (银田未来田园发展有限公司), and villager Lu Wen (卢文) set up a farming-study homestay, which has increased income by more than 5,000 yuan in just over a month since May this year.
开门见山 (kāi mén jiàn shān - "open door see mountain," [here used literally] to face the mountains when opening the door), push open the window and see fields. In recent years, Shaoshan City (韶山市) has moved the learning classroom from the classroom to the red bases, organizing Party members and cadres to go to the Historical Exhibition Hall of the Shaoshan Special Branch of the Communist Party of China (中共韶山特别支部历史陈列馆) and other red scenic spots to draw forth the strength to strive forward, taking the lead in promoting comprehensive rural revitalization. In 2025, the per capita disposable income of rural residents in Shaoshan City (韶山市) was 42,997 yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.9%.
It is understood that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, Shaoshan (韶山) will create more than 150 high-quality courses and build a "Shaoshan Grand Classroom" (韶山大课堂) ideological and political course system covering the entire Shaoshan (韶山) area and all age groups.
Dalian, June 24 (Reporters Wang Di (王迪), Li Yan (李琰), and Huang Fahong (黄发红)) – On the morning of June 24, Premier Li Qiang (李强) of the State Council attended and delivered a speech at the opening ceremony of the 2026 Summer Davos Forum (2026年夏季达沃斯论坛) in Dalian (大连). Also in attendance were Bangladeshi Prime Minister Tarique (塔里克), Guinean Prime Minister Wuli Ba (乌里·巴), Kazakh Prime Minister Bektenov (别克捷诺夫), Korean Prime Minister Kim Min-seok (金民锡), Mongolian Prime Minister Wuqierle (乌其尔勒), Montenegrin Prime Minister Spajić (斯帕伊奇), and approximately 1,800 representatives from all sectors worldwide.
Li Qiang (李强) stated, “As President Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out, to grasp innovation is to grasp development, and to plan for innovation is to plan for the future. This forum, with the theme ‘Scale-Up Innovation,’ highlights a major proposition in the development of the world economy today. Drawing on China’s economic development practice, I would like to share with you China’s innovation story and some thoughts on global innovation cooperation.”
“First, at the start of the ‘15th Five-Year Plan’ (十五五), China’s economy is opening up new prospects amid changing circumstances. 2026 is the first year of China’s 15th Five-Year Plan (十五五) period. Against a backdrop of increasing turbulence in the international situation, China’s economy, undaunted by wind and rain and striving forward through the waves, presents a multi-dimensional picture of ‘stability, innovation, vitality, and integration,’ demonstrating a resilient and robust start that injects precious certainty into a world fraught with uncertainty. We have the confidence and the ability to sustain and develop this positive start and continue writing new chapters in China’s high-quality development.”
“Second, innovation-driven development is the key code for China’s economy to maintain long-term sound growth and 行稳致远 (xíng wěn zhì yuǎn – “proceed steadily to reach far,” to make steady progress for long-term success). Over the years, China’s economy has been able to maintain stable and healthy development thanks to two essential factors: one is a stable environment, and the other is innovation-driven growth. Everyone has full recognition and personal experience of the stable environment. As for innovation-driven growth, people may pay more attention to the results already achieved, but they do not fully understand the hard work and long-term perseverance behind it. China’s innovation is ‘fought out’ through hard internal efforts, ‘used out’ across thousands of industries, and ‘nurtured out’ by fostering a robust ecosystem. We will continue to strengthen key technology breakthroughs, enhance original innovation capabilities, promote deep integration of technological and industrial innovation, remove barriers to optimal resource allocation, and stimulate the innovation vitality of the whole society, thereby providing a steady stream of impetus for China’s economy to move toward new heights and better quality. Recently, many international institutions and media have mentioned ‘China Opportunity 2.0.’ Facts have forcefully proven that what China’s emerging technology and products bring to the world are not shocks but opportunities, not threats but empowerment.”
“Third, innovation cooperation is the inevitable choice for resolving the global growth dilemma. At the current stage, global innovation activities are exhibiting new features and trends: the speed of technological progress is unprecedented, while uncontrollability has also risen significantly; the depth of innovation interconnection is unprecedented, while obstacles and barriers are also increasing. We should deepen connectivity and collaboration, jointly build an open world economy, maintain the stable and unimpeded operation of global industrial and supply chains, and more broadly pool innovation synergy. We should adhere to the principle of technology for good, improve global governance rules and institutional frameworks in fields such as artificial intelligence, enhance regulatory effectiveness, and more efficiently advance common governance. Enterprises are the main force of innovation. We hope that you will become leaders in innovation and creation, practitioners of win-win cooperation, and partners on China’s development path. China will further expand market access, continue to build a first-class business environment, and sincerely welcome enterprises from all countries to invest and operate in China, sharing more of the new development opportunities China offers.”
Wu Zhenglong (吴政隆) attended the event.
Return to TopBeijing (北京), June 24 (Reporter Peng Bo (彭波)) – Zhao Leji (赵乐际), Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), held a discussion and exchange with NPC deputies attending the 23rd session of the 14th NPC Standing Committee on the afternoon of the 24th. He emphasized that NPC deputies must deeply study, publicize, and implement Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, integrate it with their work and performance of duties, participate in the practice of the rule of law, promote the spirit of the rule of law, disseminate legal knowledge, and actively play a role in legal publicity and education.
During the symposium, deputies, based on their review of the report on the implementation of the "Eighth Five-Year Plan" (八五) for promoting legal awareness, spoke on strengthening legal publicity and education and enhancing the rule of law concept among the entire population, offering opinions and suggestions. Zhao Leji listened attentively and engaged in in-depth exchanges with the deputies. He stated that legal publicity and education constitute a long-term foundational task for comprehensively governing the country by law. Under the leadership of the Party, China has successively formulated and implemented eight five-year plans for legal awareness promotion, effectively boosting the legal literacy of all citizens and the level of rule-of-law-based social governance.
Zhao Leji emphasized that Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law is the fundamental guidance for comprehensively governing the country by law in the new era. NPC deputies must regard studying and implementing Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law as a basic skill and mandatory course for performing their duties, deeply understand the significant implications, rich connotations, and practical requirements of this important thought, and consciously use it to arm their minds, guide practice, and advance work. Publicizing Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law should be integrated into deputies' performance of duties, using various methods to explain the core essence of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, promote the historic achievements of building a rule-of-law China in the new era, and effectively tell the story of China's rule of law.
Zhao Leji pointed out that NPC deputies must consciously serve as role models in respecting, studying, abiding by, and applying the law. They should firmly establish a concept of the rule of law, revere the rule of law, believe in the rule of law, enhance their awareness and ability to perform duties, handle affairs, and resolve contradictions and problems in accordance with the law, and consciously uphold the unity, dignity, and authority of the national legal system. They should strengthen the study of the Constitution, adhere to constitutional principles, thoroughly master the Organic Law of the NPC, the Law on Legislation, the Law on Supervision, the Organic Law of the NPC Standing Committee, and its Rules of Procedure, strictly perform duties according to law and procedures, and serve as a bridge for the Party and the state to connect with the people. In their daily work and life, they must set an example by abiding by the Constitution and laws, practicing core socialist values, maintaining integrity and self-discipline, being fair and upright, and voluntarily accepting supervision from the people.
Zhao Leji emphasized the need to strive to improve the targetedness and effectiveness of legal publicity and education. NPC deputies should, based on their positions and responsibilities, leverage their professional expertise and actively explore effective methods of legal publicity and education. Through platforms such as deputy home stations (代表家站) and local legislative contact points, they should proactively participate in diverse grassroots legal publicity activities, attentively listen to, and reflect, the opinions and suggestions of the people on legislation and law enforcement. They should use down-to-earth methods that are easily accessible and engaging for the masses, integrating legal awareness promotion into legal practice, grassroots governance, and daily life, so as to subtly enhance citizens' awareness of the rule of law and legal literacy, thereby promoting the effective implementation of the law.
Li Hongzhong (李鸿忠), Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, presided over the symposium.
Return to TopBeijing, June 24 (Reporter Jiang Jie (姜洁)) — The 17th Session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (政协第十四届全国委员会常务委员会第十七次会议) concluded in Beijing on the afternoon of the 24th. The session conducted political consultation and deliberation on the topic of "adhering to high-quality development to promote sustained and healthy economic development and all-round social progress." Wang Huning (王沪宁), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, presided over the closing meeting and delivered a speech. He stated that since the 18th National Congress of the CPC (中共十八大), the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has profoundly grasped the trends of world development and the process of Chinese modernization, driving our country's economy to steadily and comprehensively embark on the path of high-quality development. Our country's economic strength, scientific and technological strength, and comprehensive national power have reached new heights, and Chinese modernization has taken new solid steps. We must profoundly comprehend the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments" (两个确立) and resolutely achieve the "Two Upholds" (两个维护), in order to widely gather people's hearts, gather consensus, gather wisdom, and gather strength for promoting high-quality development and advancing Chinese modernization.
Wang Huning (王沪宁) stated that the "15th Five-Year Plan" period (十五五时期) is a critical period for basically realizing socialist modernization. The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference must deeply study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on promoting high-quality development, firmly grasp the theme and primary task of promoting high-quality development, adhere to serving high-quality development with high-level performance of duties, and boost sustained and healthy economic development and all-round social progress. It must focus on major issues such as building a modernized industrial system, achieving high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening, constructing a new development pattern, building a high-level socialist market economy system, ensuring and improving people's livelihood, and accelerating the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development. It should organize CPPCC members to go to the front line to observe actual conditions, provide precise suggestions and seek good strategies, and strengthen supervision to promote implementation. It must strengthen research, consultation, and deliberation around serving and assisting the implementation of the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五规划), strengthen unity and friendship work around commemorating the 160th anniversary of the birth of Mr. Sun Yat-sen (孙中山先生诞辰160周年), strengthen the learning and education of establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements around studying and implementing Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building (习近平党建思想), strengthen the CPPCC's own construction, and solidly perform all tasks of the CPPCC in the second half of the year.
After voting, the session decided to add Comrade Li Xiaohong (李晓红) as a member of the 14th National Committee of the CPPCC and deputy director of the Education, Science, Culture, Health and Sports Committee (教科卫体委员会); add Comrade Xiao Pei (肖培) as a member of the 14th National Committee of the CPPCC and deputy director of the Social and Legal Affairs Committee (社会和法制委员会); adopt the decision on accepting Comrade Chen Qun's (陈群) resignation as a member of the Standing Committee and member of the 14th National Committee of the CPPCC; adopt the decision on removing Wang Xiaodong (王晓东) from the positions of member of the Standing Committee of the 14th National Committee of the CPPCC and deputy director of the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee (农业和农村委员会) and revoking his membership qualification; adopt the decision on accepting the resignations of Comrades Hu Chenglin (胡诚林) and Peng Chun (彭纯) as members of the 14th National Committee of the CPPCC. The session ratified the decision to revoke the membership qualifications of Wei Xiaodong (魏小东) and Hou Guisong (侯贵松) as members of the 14th National Committee of the CPPCC.
After the closing meeting, Yin Bai (訚柏), Secretary-General of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政法委秘书长), was invited to deliver a study lecture titled "Advancing the Modernization of the National Security System and Capacity, Building a Higher Level of Peaceful China (平安中国)."
Shi Taifeng (石泰峰), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the CPPCC, and Vice Chairmen of the National Committee of the CPPCC Hu Chunhua (胡春华), Shen Yueyue (沈跃跃), Wang Yong (王勇), Zhou Qiang (周强), Edmund Ho Hau Wah (何厚铧), Leung Chun-ying (梁振英), Bater (巴特尔), Su Hui (苏辉), Shao Hong (邵鸿), Gao Yunlong (高云龙), Mu Hong (穆虹), Xian Hui (咸辉), Wang Dongfeng (王东峰), Jiang Xinzhi (姜信治), He Baoxiang (何报翔), Wang Guangqian (王光谦), Qin Boyong (秦博勇), Zhu Yongxin (朱永新), and Yang Zhen (杨震) attended the meeting.
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Return to TopThis newspaper Dalian (大连), June 24 (Reporters Wang Di (王迪), Hu Jingyi (胡婧怡)) – On the afternoon of June 24, Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) attended a symposium with business representatives of the 2026 Summer Davos Forum (2026年夏季达沃斯论坛) in Dalian (大连).
After listening to the remarks of the attending business representatives, Li Qiang (李强) pointed out that in recent years, the international community has increasingly recognized that there are no winners in trade wars or tariff wars, and more and more countries are more actively promoting economic and trade exchanges, returning to the right path of mutual benefit and win-win. This fully reflects that open cooperation is an irreversible trend of the times and also an inherent need for countries to expand their development space. No matter how the external environment changes, China always follows the historical trend of open cooperation, will continue to deeply participate in international trade, investment and other forms of cooperation, and promote the connection and integration of the Chinese market with the world market. China's export of high-quality products is an important contribution to the world economy and is conducive to enhancing the economic efficiency and residents' welfare of importing countries. We have never deliberately pursued a trade surplus, and have always been sharing the domestic market with the world. We are willing to import more high-quality products from various countries, and work with all parties to promote the optimized and balanced development of trade by making the trade pie bigger. China's industrial competitiveness is not created by subsidies, but comes from the comprehensive advantages formed by its own complete industrial system, ultra-large market, and good innovation ecosystem, and from the long-term unremitting hard work and investment of enterprises. China's industrial subsidies strictly comply with World Trade Organization (世贸组织) rules, are fair and inclusive, and adhere to treating domestic and foreign-funded enterprises 一视同仁 (yī shì tóng rén – "one view same benevolence," to treat equally without discrimination). We hope that the entrepreneurs present can convey more rational voices to the international community and inject more positive energy into world economic and trade cooperation.
Li Qiang (李强) stated that in recent years, China's economy has been developing towards innovation and excellence, which will bring more new opportunities for enterprises from all countries. The renewal and upgrading of the Chinese market will create more abundant incremental space, especially the diversified expansion of demand levels on a huge scale, which is a valuable opportunity that enterprises from all countries should not miss. The renewal and upgrading of Made in China (中国制造) will form a more efficient industrial ecosystem, providing customized landing solutions for new products of enterprises from all countries, helping them to rapidly improve their development level. The renewal and upgrading of China's infrastructure will provide more superior comprehensive conditions, through the digital and intelligent upgrading of traditional infrastructure and the networked layout of new infrastructure, helping enterprises from all countries to stay one step ahead in innovation-driven development, while also providing a large number of investment opportunities.
Li Qiang (李强) stated that the Chinese government will do its utmost to serve enterprises from all countries and create a more open, fair, and friendly environment. We will continue to expand the scope and degree of opening up of the service sector, take more concrete actions, fully implement national treatment for foreign-invested enterprises, better understand and respond to the demands of enterprises from all countries, help solve practical difficulties, and enable everyone to operate with peace of mind and work comfortably in China, achieving good performance.
Approximately 150 business figures from more than 30 countries and regions attended the meeting. Representatives of enterprises that spoke stated that with the current intensification of global economic uncertainty, China is a trustworthy long-term cooperative partner, having achieved remarkable accomplishments in many fields such as green transformation and technological innovation, and playing a leading role in the future development of the world economy. The international business community is optimistic about China's development prospects, is committed to taking root in China, integrating into China, and deeply cultivating China, expanding investment in China, deepening innovation布局, enhancing industrial competitiveness, sharing opportunities from China's high-quality development, growing together with the Chinese economy, and contributing to promoting world economic growth.
Wu Zhenglong (吴政隆) attended the event.
Return to TopBy: 中华人民共和国国务院总理 李 强
Respected Co-Chairman Hoffman (霍夫曼), President Zwingli (茨温吉),
Respected Leaders of Various Countries,
Respected Heads of International Organizations,
Respected Entrepreneurs, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen,
It gives me great pleasure to join you old and new friends in Dalian (大连) for the 17th Summer Davos Forum (第十七届夏季达沃斯论坛). First of all, on behalf of the Chinese government, I wish to extend warm congratulations on the convocation of the Forum! I also wish to express heartfelt thanks for your long-standing, vigorous support for China's development!
This Forum, under the theme "Scaling Innovation," highlights a major proposition for the development of the world economy today. As President Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out, to pursue innovation is to pursue development, and to plan for innovation is to plan for the future. Taking this opportunity, I would like to share with you the story of China's innovation in the context of China's economic development practices, along with some reflections on global innovation cooperation.
I. At the Start of the 15th Five-Year Plan, the Chinese Economy Opens New Chapters while Responding to Changing Situations
The year 2026 marks the start of China's 15th Five-Year Plan. Since the beginning of the year, the international situation has become increasingly turbulent, with geopolitical conflicts 此起彼伏 (cǐ qǐ bǐ fú - "this rises that falls," occurring one after another in succession), the world economic recovery was already arduous, and now it is even more 雪上加霜 (xuě shàng jiā shuāng - "snow plus frost," adding insult to injury; making matters worse). Against this backdrop, the Chinese economy, undaunted by wind and rain, has forged ahead through the waves, demonstrating a resilient, vigorous, and positive start. In general, this can be summarized in four characters.
First, "Stability." The Chinese economy grew by 5% in the first quarter, and has maintained a sound operational trajectory since the second quarter, with corporate profit growth, moderate price recovery, and continuous improvement in people's livelihoods. "Stability" may not seem particularly outstanding in ordinary times, but the fact that the Chinese economy, on an enormous base of 140 trillion yuan and under multiple shocks such as international energy shortages and severely disrupted production and supply chains, can still develop steadily, injecting valuable certainty into a world of increasing uncertainty and playing an important role as a "safe haven," makes such solid and powerful "stability" especially 难能可贵 (nán néng kě guì - "hard to come by and valuable," commendable and praiseworthy).
Second, "Newness." After years of dedicated cultivation and accumulation, China's new technologies, new products, and new business forms are emerging in competition. In the first half of the year, multiple types of commercial aerospace rockets were successfully launched, and technologies such as quantum information, integrated circuits, and nuclear fusion have accelerated. The field of artificial intelligence has experienced explosive growth, with several large models achieving new performance breakthroughs. By the end of May, China's average daily token call volume had reached hundreds of trillions, leading the world, and embodied intelligence has begun large-scale commercial application. The sparkling starlight of cutting-edge innovation is rapidly converging into a 燎原之火 (liáo yuán zhī huǒ - "fire that burns the prairie," a growing momentum that spreads rapidly) of driving force transformation, continuously enabling the Chinese economy to take on new appearances and radiate new vitality.
Third, "Vitality." The demand potential of China's ultra-large market continues to be released, with particularly bright spots in service consumption, green consumption, and new types of consumption. Tourism, performing arts, and sports events are highly popular, often with tickets sold out; smart products such as smartwatches and smart glasses are widely sought after, with sales multiplying. The flow of people, goods, information, and capital is highly active. Currently, China's daily express delivery volume exceeds 550 million items, more than the total of other countries combined. These are vivid footnotes to the surging vitality of the Chinese economy and true reflections of its internal market momentum, indicating the rich layers and high growth potential of China's domestic demand.
Fourth, "Integration." As unilateralism and protectionism rear their heads, China persists in actively expanding opening-up on its own initiative. It has implemented a zero-tariff policy for 63 countries, and its import scale has ranked second in the world for 17 consecutive years. In the first five months of this year, the import growth rate reached 20.5%, significantly higher than exports. We have also held a series of "Export to China" activities, providing more channels for high-quality foreign products to enter the Chinese market, which has received positive responses from various countries. China's integrated development with the world has never been a 权宜之计 (quán yí zhī jì - "expedient measure," temporary expedient) but rather a strategic move that follows the historical trend and is rooted in its own development philosophy. China never pursues speed in going alone, but is committed to win-win cooperation with all countries, so that all can travel far together.
Taken together, the four characters "Stability, Newness, Vitality, Integration" outline a multidimensional picture. This is not only the overall profile of the Chinese economy at present but also its general trend for the future. We have the confidence and ability to maintain and develop this good start, continuously writing new chapters in China's high-quality development.
II. Innovation-Driven Development is the Key Code for the Chinese Economy's Long-term Sound Performance and Steady Progress
Over the years, the reason why the Chinese economy has been able to maintain steady and healthy development lies in two essential elements: one is a stable environment, and the other is innovation-driven development. Everyone has ample understanding and personal experience of the stable environment, so I will not elaborate on that. As for innovation-driven development, you may often focus more on the innovation achievements and vigorous momentum that have already been presented, but you may not all fully understand the hard work and long-term perseverance behind them. In this regard, I would like to say three things.
First, China's innovation is "fought out" through arduous internal training. We are deeply aware that there are no shortcuts in scientific and technological R&D, and innovation advantages cannot be obtained through replication. We must be down-to-earth and tackle difficult problems. Over the years, focusing on achieving high-level scientific and technological self-reliance, we have continuously increased investment in scientific research. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the whole society's R&D expenditure grew at an average annual rate of 10%, with the scale of investment firmly ranking second in the world, and the proportion of basic research expenditure last year exceeded 7%, a historical high. In this process, Chinese enterprises have demonstrated 百折不挠 (bǎi zhé bù náo - "hundred setbacks not bent," indomitable perseverance) and a focus that "sharpens a sword for ten years." Many leading enterprises in their industries have experienced operational pressures from long-cycle, high-investment R&D; some faced huge interim losses, and others encountered unfair external suppression. Yet even so, they never wavered, and ultimately achieved today's returns. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, we will continue to strengthen the tackling of key technologies, significantly increase the proportion of basic research investment, continuously enhance original innovation capability, and provide a steady stream of momentum for the Chinese economy to develop toward new and high-quality directions.
Second, China's innovation is "used out" by thousands of industries. The vitality of science and technology lies in application. Often, the greatest threshold innovation needs to cross is not the invention in the laboratory, but the "Darwinian Sea" from the laboratory to the market. The key to solving the problem lies in how to better integrate science and technology with industry. Through long-term innovation development practice, we have found an effective path: using scientific and technological innovation to lead industrial innovation, and using industrial upgrading to promote technological iteration. On the one hand, scientific and technological progress injects "source of living water" into industrial development. In recent years, we have focused on actively exploring frontier emerging fields, achieving a large number of innovations and giving birth to many new industries. The vigorous development of industries such as China's new energy and intelligent connected vehicles is precisely backed by breakthroughs in new materials, power batteries, communications, and other technologies. This is the key to the competitiveness of Chinese products, not, as some speculate, primarily relying on government subsidies; we simply could not subsidize them. On the other hand, the vast number of application scenarios provide a powerful "incubator" and "training ground" for new technology development. China has a complete industrial system and vast market space. Any valuable scientific and technological achievement, with the support of China's manufacturing, can quickly become an actual product; any niche product in a large market of over 1.4 billion people can become a big business and a big industry. It is precisely the joint participation of thousands of industries, high-frequency feedback from countless users, and repeated refinement in various scenarios that allow new technologies to continuously iterate and upgrade through large-scale application. Going forward, we will promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation, continuously expand effective domestic demand, accelerate the large-scale application of new technologies and new products, and continuously strengthen the virtuous cycle of mutual promotion between technology and industry.
Third, China's innovation is "nurtured" by cultivating a robust ecosystem. In today's era, innovation has become a highly complex systematic project, requiring larger-scale resource input, stronger supporting facilities, and a more friendly institutional environment. Over the years, China has focused on enhancing systematic innovation capacity and achieved remarkable results. We have continuously increased the guarantee of resource elements, built a diversified investment system led by enterprises, guided by the government, and participated in by society, constructed a number of major scientific research facilities and infrastructure, and cultivate about 7 million university graduates in science, engineering, agriculture, and medicine each year. We have placed emphasis on building innovation platforms, creating 24 global top-100 innovation clusters, ranking first in the world for three consecutive years. Specialized, differentiated, and characteristic industrial clusters are spread across the country, from the 1-hour innovation circle for electronic information in the Yangtze River Delta, to the 1-hour industrial circle for motorcycles in Chongqing (重庆), to the half-hour supporting circle in the Shenzhen (深圳) Robot Valley, breeding a large number of high-tech enterprises and specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative "little giant" enterprises. We have deeply advanced institutional reform, introducing a series of new policies and measures in areas such as intellectual property protection, risk sharing, and innovation incentives. In the future, we will continue to optimize the innovation ecosystem, accelerate the construction of infrastructure such as new power grids, computing power networks, and next-generation communication networks, effectively break down barriers that hinder the optimal allocation of resources, and continuously stimulate and unleash the innovation vitality of the whole society.
Regarding the rapid improvement of China's innovation level, the international community has generally given positive assessments and wide acclaim. However, some do not see it this way. They feel anxious about China's scientific, technological, and industrial innovation, and even, for various reasons, have put forward the so-called "China Shock 2.0" thesis. I have noticed that recently some institutions and media have discussed this, but more voices mention an opposite term, namely "China Opportunity 2.0." If in the past, China mainly provided the world with "market dividends" through its own large-scale market and low-cost factors, then now, while providing even larger "market dividends," China is also providing the world with increasing "innovation dividends" through scientific and technological progress and industrial upgrading. These dividends interlace and superimpose, bringing the world more development opportunities and greater development space. For enterprises from all countries, "China Opportunity 2.0" means all-round innovation empowerment and high-return investment opportunities. We see that more and more foreign enterprises are coming to China, setting up R&D centers and regional headquarters, deeply integrating into China's innovation and industrial chains, shifting from "producing in China" to "creating in China." In 2025, 14,000 new foreign-funded enterprises were established in the field of scientific research and technical services, a year-on-year increase of 27.2%. In China, enterprises from all countries can quickly find full-process partners from R&D, prototyping to mass production, making innovation more efficient and easier, not only achieving success in the Chinese market but also enhancing their competitiveness in the global market. At the same time, fast-growing Chinese innovative enterprises can bring investors from all countries returns of several times or even dozens of times. For global development, "China Opportunity 2.0" means more accessible advanced technology and more inclusive sharing of achievements. China persists in opening its door for innovation, and many innovations follow open-source routes, enabling more countries, especially developing countries, to use and afford new technologies and products, thereby enhancing their development capabilities and promoting the solution of many global development challenges. Currently, the global cumulative downloads of China's open-source AI large models have exceeded 10 billion times. Major scientific facilities such as controlled nuclear fusion and quantum technology are open to the world, and the Tiangong Space Station will soon welcome foreign astronauts. Facts have powerfully proven that China's technologies and products in emerging fields bring not shock but opportunity, not threat but empowerment to the world.
III. Innovation Cooperation is an Inevitable Choice to Solve the Global Growth Dilemma
Throughout China's development, innovation has played an irreplaceable and key role. Looking at the world economy, innovation is also an important path to counter downward pressure and enhance growth momentum. At the current stage, global innovation activities are showing new features and trends different from the past. First, the speed of technological progress is unprecedented, while uncontrollability has also risen significantly. Artificial intelligence greatly improves innovation efficiency, and various frontier breakthroughs emerge one after another. Some say humanity has entered the "Cambrian" of the intelligent era. But risks such as technology out of control and ethical anomie are also more prominent. If relevant governance fails to keep pace, it could lead to serious consequences. Second, the degree of interconnection of innovation is deeper than ever, while barriers and obstacles are also increasing. Interdisciplinary and cross-border "group warfare" and joint efforts are increasingly becoming the mainstream and necessity of innovation, but various forms of "building walls and setting up barriers" and "technology blockades" are also intensifying. Innovation that truly changes the world and benefits the world must always be innovation that reaches out to the world and embraces the world. Under the new circumstances, only by strengthening cooperation can we achieve more innovation outcomes; and only by strengthening cooperation can we respond to various risks and challenges.
We should deepen connectivity and collaboration to gather innovative forces more broadly. In the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, no single country or enterprise can 包打天下 (bāo dǎ tiān xià - "monopolize the world," accomplish everything on its own). An interconnected global market can enable more efficient flow and allocation of various factors, significantly reducing innovation costs. An inclusive and collaborative innovation network can allow more sufficient cross-fertilization and collision of various inspirations, accelerating breakthroughs in frontier technologies. China will integrate itself into the international division of labor in innovation and industry with a more proactive posture, promote all parties to jointly build an open world economy, jointly maintain the stable and smooth functioning of global production and supply chains, foster more innovation outcomes, and continuously strengthen development momentum.
We should adhere to technology for good and promote common governance more effectively. Innovation carries humanity's unremitting pursuit of a better life. Advanced technologies should become tools to benefit people of all countries, not sources of chaos that endanger peace and stability. This requires us to better coordinate development and security, jointly improve the global governance system, and ensure that technological progress always conforms to the common values of all humanity and always serves the cause of global peace and development. China will continue to participate in global governance in fields such as artificial intelligence in a responsible and constructive manner, work with all parties to improve institutional rules and enhance regulatory efficiency, effectively mitigate risks, and better promote common development.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends,
Enterprises are the main force of innovation, and entrepreneurs bear the important responsibility of organizing innovation activities. I hope you will be leaders in innovation and creation, directing your gaze from the fiercely competitive stock "red ocean" to the vast and boundless incremental "blue ocean," using innovation to make the global market "cake" bigger, and using innovation to win the future for corporate development. I hope you will be practitioners of win-win cooperation, actively supporting, participating in, and promoting global innovation cooperation, promoting the dismantling of walls and the building of bridges, stimulating innovation through exchange and mutual learning, and growing together by achieving each other's success. I hope you will be companions in China's development, continuing to deepen your engagement with the Chinese market. No matter how the international situation changes, China's door of opening-up will only open wider. We will further expand market access, fully implement national treatment for foreign-invested enterprises, and continue to create a first-class business environment. We sincerely welcome enterprises from all countries to invest and operate in China, share more of the new opportunities in China's development, and work together to create a better future.
I wish the Forum a full success! Thank you!
(Xinhua News Agency (新华社), Dalian (大连), June 24)
Return to TopBeijing (北京), June 24 (Reporter Peng Bo (彭波)) – The 23rd Meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress (十四届全国人大常委会) held a joint group meeting at the Great Hall of the People (北京人民大会堂) on the morning of June 24 to deliberate a report by the State Council (国务院) on its work concerning the construction of a unified national market and to conduct a special inquiry. Chairman Zhao Leji (赵乐际) attended the meeting.
Vice Chairman Xiao Jie (肖捷) presided over the meeting. Ten members of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会), members of the special committees, and deputies to the National People's Congress (全国人大代表) who were present raised inquiries on topics including the goals and progress of building a unified national market, improving and perfecting the fair competition review system, current problems in the construction of a unified national market and next steps, cross-regional coordination and alignment of administrative enforcement standards, standardizing local fiscal subsidy policies, regulating local investment attraction practices, perfecting a unified national electricity market system, strengthening platform economy regulation, and enhancing transportation service guarantees.
Vice Premier of the State Council Zhang Guoqing (张国清), along with responsible comrades from the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部), the Ministry of Finance (财政部), the Ministry of Transport (交通运输部), the Ministry of Commerce (商务部), the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局), and other departments, attended the meeting to hear opinions and respond to inquiries.
Zhang Guoqing (张国清) stated that under the strong leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (党中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, the construction of a unified national market has achieved positive results and made important progress. The State Council and all relevant departments will thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on advancing the construction of a unified national market in depth, and in accordance with the basic requirements of "five unifications and one opening" (五统一、一开放), will accelerate the formulation of regulations for the construction of a unified national market, improve systems for statistics, fiscal taxation, and assessment, promote high-standard connectivity of market facilities, advance the unification of markets in key areas such as technology and data, and raise the level of standardization and normalization in regulatory and law enforcement, thereby providing strong support for shaping a new development pattern and promoting high-quality development.
Xiao Jie (肖捷) stated that building a unified national market is a major decision made by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (党中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core from an overall and strategic perspective, and is the foundation and inherent requirement for shaping a new development pattern. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) put forward the basic requirements of "five unifications and one opening" (五统一、一开放) and key tasks of "six focal efforts" (六个着力), which must be solidly grasped and implemented. This special inquiry focused on prominent issues and reflected the common concerns and attention of the people. The State Council and relevant departments should seriously study and process the opinions and suggestions raised during the deliberation and special inquiry, and submit to the National People's Congress Standing Committee (全国人大常委会) a report on the research and handling situation in accordance with the law. The Financial and Economic Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大财经委) shall conduct follow-up oversight.
Vice Chairmen of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会) Li Hongzhong (李鸿忠), Wang Dongming (王东明), Zheng Jianbang (郑建邦), Ding Zhongli (丁仲礼), Cai Dafeng (蔡达峰), He Wei (何维), Wu Weihua (武维华), Tie Ning (铁凝), Peng Qinghua (彭清华), Zhang Qingwei (张庆伟), Losang Jamcan (洛桑江村), Shohrat Zakir (雪克来提·扎克尔), and Secretary-General Liu Qi (刘奇) attended the meeting.
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寸土寸金 (cùn tǔ cùn jīn - "inch land inch gold," every inch of land is as precious as gold) concerns the national economy, and every ridge and every acre bears the people's livelihood.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Farmland is the lifeline of grain production and the foundation for the sustainable development of the Chinese nation."
Crouching by the Fuzhou River (复州河), scooping up a handful of water, the clear river water flowed through Zhao Hui's (赵辉) fingers.
The Fuzhou River (复州河) flows from the western part of Dalian (大连), Liaoning (辽宁) into the Bohai Sea (渤海). Four years ago, this was a different scene: the river water was turbid, and livestock and poultry manure was piled on the banks. In 2021, due to failure to meet the total nitrogen reduction target, it was "named" by the Central Ecological and Environmental Protection Inspectorate (中央生态环保督察).
Zhao Hui (赵辉) has worked in environmental monitoring for many years at the Dalian Ecological Environment Affairs Service Center (大连市生态环境事务服务中心). He and his colleagues conducted investigations along the mainstream, tributaries, livestock farms, and sewage outlets, deploying more than 200 monitoring points, and finally identified major pollution sources such as livestock and poultry breeding manure and domestic sewage tail water.
Once the problem was pinpointed, the direction for treatment became clear. A "collection – transportation – treatment – returning to fields" utilization system was established for livestock and poultry manure; ecological interception belts were built along field ditches and waterways; and sewage treatment facilities were upgraded and expanded. Through these efforts, by 2025, the total nitrogen concentration in the Fuzhou River (复州河) dropped to 4.92 mg per liter, and the water quality improved significantly.
1.865 billion mu of farmland, 1.546 billion mu of permanent basic farmland – every inch of land carries grain security, ecological security, and development security. The clarity of a river and the cleanliness of a piece of soil concern the rice bowls of more than 1.4 billion people. June 25 is the 36th National Land Day (全国土地日), with the theme "Cherish every inch of land, promote high-quality development."
How to cherish every inch of land? The answer is written on the vast land.
量质并重 (liàng zhì bìng zhòng - "quantity quality equally emphasize," attaching equal importance to quantity and quality)
Every inch of land must be clean.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的十八大), the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has promoted farmland protection, soil pollution prevention and control, and quality improvement with unprecedented intensity, simultaneously ensuring quantity, improving quality, and optimizing ecology, laying a solid foundation for high-quality development.
"Strengthen soil pollution control and restoration, effectively prevent risks, so that the people can eat with confidence and live with peace of mind."
Heavy metal pollution risks in agricultural land have achieved "three declines." More than 80,000 soil pollution risk points have been eliminated; 1,406 contaminated plots have been removed from the control and restoration list; a batch of historically contaminated plots have been treated and restored and revitalized... The results of the battle to protect clean soil are increasingly evident.
At the old Shougang (首钢) factory area in Beijing (北京), after the relocation of the 8-million-ton steel plant, a comprehensive underground "physical examination" was first conducted, followed by batch-wise control and green restoration, "transforming" it into the venue for the Winter Olympics. At the Beijing Central Green Forest Park (北京城市绿心森林公园), ecological restoration and risk control were carried out on 120 hectares of contaminated land at the site of the former Dongfang Chemical Plant (东方化工厂), and since its opening, it has received over 10 million visitors.
Continue to deepen the fight to protect clean soil. In November 2024, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (生态环境部) and six other departments issued the "Soil Pollution Source Prevention and Control Action Plan" (《土壤污染源头防控行动计划》), defining 82 tasks and building a whole-process, whole-chain source prevention and control system. Zhao Shixin (赵世新), Director of the Department of Soil Ecology and Environment (土壤生态环境司) of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (生态环境部), stated that currently, they are working with relevant departments to promote the optimization of industrial layout and the green transformation of enterprises, strengthen the management of key regulated units, continue to promote pollutant emission reduction in key industries such as steel, coking, cement, and coal-fired power generation, and advance the traceability and remediation of heavy metal pollution in agricultural land.
"Soil pollution risks across the country are effectively controlled, the overall soil environmental quality remains stable, and locally it is stable with improvement." said Guo Guanlin (郭观林), Director of the Contaminated Land Department (污染地块部) of the Soil Center (土壤中心) of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (生态环境部). During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the focus will continue to be on source prevention and risk control, adhering to the combination of "treatment, utilization, and conservation" (治、用、养), promoting stable improvement in the soil environmental quality of agricultural land, and fully ensuring the quality and safety of agricultural products; deeply advancing the control and restoration of construction land, and comprehensively ensuring the safety of the human living environment.
Protect the "rice bowl fields." Farmland protection must ensure both quantity and quality.
"The 1.8 billion mu of farmland must be 实至名归 (shí zhì míng guī - "substance arrives name returns," to deserve the reputation), and farmland must be fertile land." Sun Luping (孙鲁平), a relevant person in charge of the Farmland Protection Supervision Department (耕地保护监督司) of the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部), introduced that according to the National Territorial Space Planning Outline (全国国土空间规划纲要), by 2035, the national farmland area must not fall below 1.865 billion mu, and permanent basic farmland must not be less than 1.546 billion mu. Currently, the farmland area of all provinces is higher than the protection tasks set in the plan, firmly holding the farmland protection red line.
China continuously improves the strictest farmland protection system. In August 2025, the "Management Measures for the Red Line of Permanent Basic Farmland Protection" (《永久基本农田保护红线管理办法》) was issued, establishing a dynamic management mechanism of "excellent entering, inferior exiting" (优进劣出). The Land Administration Law (土地管理法) has been enacted for 40 years; the draft of the Farmland Protection and Quality Improvement Law (耕地保护和质量提升法) has passed the second review by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会); the Ecological Environment Code (生态环境法典) will take effect on August 15 this year, and the basic state policy of "highly cherishing, rationally using land and effectively protecting farmland" has been written into the code.
The "trinity" protection of quantity, quality, and ecology – measures are being implemented and producing results.
The saline-alkali land once regarded as 不毛之地 (bù máo zhī dì - "not hair place," barren land) is becoming new space for increasing grain output. In Dongying, Shandong (山东东营), an innovative staged gradient improvement path has been implemented, with a cumulative improvement of over 100,000 mu of saline-alkali land, and the soil salt content dropped from 16‰ to 3‰. The National Innovation Center for Comprehensive Utilization of Saline-Alkali Land (国家盐碱地综合利用技术创新中心) has cultivated 87 new salt-tolerant crop varieties (lines), turning more saline-alkali land into bumper harvest fields.
Black soil protection is also a race against time. In Lishu County, Jilin (吉林梨树县), farmer Tao Yong (陶勇) has been farming for decades and has witnessed the changes in the black soil. In the past, a single strong wind could sweep away the surface black soil; now, conservation tillage technologies such as straw mulching and no-till seeding are widely promoted, making the land increasingly fertile.
Continuous years of monitoring data show that in the experimental fields using the "Lishu Model" (梨树模式), soil water storage capacity increased by 20% over the past 20 years, deep soil reservoir expansion and capacity increased by 40%, wind and water erosion were curbed, soil loss was reduced by 80%, and the organic matter content in the 0-20 cm plow layer increased by 10%. The "Lishu Model" (梨树模式) has become an important example of China's black soil protection.
From pollution control to risk management, from quality improvement to systematic restoration, from black soil protection to saline-alkali land treatment, a series of measures continuously strengthen the foundation for grain security and development security.
精打细算 (jīng dǎ xì suàn - "careful calculate meticulous budget," to budget meticulously and make careful calculations)
Make a great article of land use.
The change in land use patterns reflects a change in development philosophy.
"We do not have a small amount of land, but compared with the needs of 1.4 billion people, it is a scarce resource! Building cities, developing industry, and protecting ecology all require land, and we must be 精打细算 (jīng dǎ xì suàn - "careful calculate meticulous budget," budget meticulously)." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) earnestly admonished.
In Yaohai District, Hefei, Anhui (安徽合肥瑶海区), a row of red-brick factory buildings stand quietly. This was once the Hefei Electric Motor Factory (合肥电机厂). With industrial relocation, the factory buildings were idle for many years. In 2022, Yaohai District (瑶海区) launched an update and renovation.
It was not large-scale demolition and reconstruction, but fine renewal. The old factory buildings were completely preserved and named "Xingguang Alley" (星光坊); nearly a hundred camphor trees over 60 years old were not cut down, and a 400-meter-long Camphor Tree Avenue was built along the shade. The integration of industrial heritage and modern commerce, "Yaohai Tiandi" (瑶海天地) has become a new landmark integrating commercial consumption, cultural experience, and creative office space, attracting more than 250 brands and driving employment for over 2,000 people.
The former industrial factory area has become a new space for urban development. Land use has not increased, but value continues to grow. Such changes are happening all over the country.
Mo Xiaohui (莫晓辉), Deputy Director of the Department of Natural Resources Development and Utilization (自然资源开发利用司) of the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部), provided a set of data: Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," the national construction land use area per unit of GDP has decreased by a cumulative 19.36%, over 6 million mu of idle land has been disposed of, and 99 cities and all of Guangdong Province (广东) have carried out pilot projects for redeveloping low-efficiency land, with a cumulative revitalization of 1.98 million mu of stock land.
The past development model relying on incremental expansion is rapidly shifting to a development model focusing on tapping the potential of existing stock.
This is deeply felt in Suyu District, Suqian, Jiangsu (江苏宿迁宿豫区). The area where Jiangsu Yihe Pet Products Co., Ltd. (江苏益和宠物用品有限公司) is located was once a long-term idle and inefficiently used land. Through government acquisition and redevelopment, advanced manufacturing projects were introduced. After production, with an annual output value of 431 million yuan and tax payments of 12 million yuan, the land output rate reached 4.31 million yuan per mu.
At the same time, a group of enterprises have increased floor area ratios and output rates through technological transformation, factory floor addition, and equipment renewal. In the past, expansion relied on new land; now, it increasingly relies on technological upgrading and spatial restructuring to enhance efficiency. "Completely, accurately, and fully implement the new development concept, shift from reliance on increments to tapping stock potential, and promote high-quality development." said Xu Yuan (徐源), Secretary of the Suyu District Party Committee (宿豫区委书记).
In Qihe County, Dezhou, Shandong (山东德州齐河县), 32 enterprises have promoted "zero-land" technological transformation — without adding an inch of land, single-story factories were rebuilt into multi-story standard factories. The county renovated 120,000 square meters of old factories, increased the floor area ratio to over 1.3, effectively utilized over 1,000 mu of idle and inefficient land, and is expected to increase industrial output value by nearly 5.5 billion yuan.
"Three revitalization paths: functional reengineering, business implantation, and composite development, with customized 'one plot, one policy' plans." said Zhao Pan (赵攀), Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of Dezhou Municipal Bureau of Natural Resources (德州市自然资源局). Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," the city has revitalized 100,000 mu of land that was approved but not supplied, or idle.
"Land will not increase indefinitely, but the space for development can continuously expand." Mo Xiaohui (莫晓辉) stated. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, China will improve planning controls, land supply and tax policies to promote the revitalization of stock land, accelerate the development of the secondary market for construction land, improve the mechanism for revitalizing stock in industrial parks and high-quality development, deepen pilot projects for redeveloping low-efficiency land, and systematically promote the conservation, intensive and efficient use of land resources.
From old factory renewal to low-efficiency land redevelopment, from industrial park upgrading to three-dimensional utilization of urban space, when every inch of land is cherished, activated, and efficiently used, the potential for development will be continuously released.
系统治理 (xì tǒng zhì lǐ - "system governance," systematic governance)
Draw a new picture of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature.
Land is not just a factor of production. It connects mountains, water, forests, fields, lakes, grass, and sand, and also sustains the development future of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature.
"The lifeline of humans is in the fields, the lifeline of fields is in water, the lifeline of water is in mountains, the lifeline of mountains is in soil, the lifeline of soil is in forests and grass." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out the life logic of mountains, water, forests, fields, lakes, grass, and sand — this is a community of life.
Land governance today is no longer about managing a single field or a piece of land, but about coordinating ecological protection, industrial development, and spatial optimization on a larger scale, achieving systematic, comprehensive, and source governance.
The transformation of the Yangtze River (长江) is the most vivid illustration.
Yichang, Hubei (湖北宜昌) — the first large city along the river after the Yangtze River (长江) leaves the Three Gorges (三峡).
In the new material industrial park of Xingfa Group (兴发集团), a copper commemorative plaque is engraved with "2018.4.24" — that day, the enterprise dismantled 32 sets of production facilities along the river, with total asset value of 1.358 billion yuan; sealed sewage outlets; invested 1.106 billion yuan to build sewage treatment facilities; and invested a total of over 20 billion yuan for industrial upgrading.
After the pain came rebirth.
In the past, they sold by tonnage; now they sell by weight — one gram of high-tech black phosphorus product can cost 5,000 yuan. The enterprise has moved from traditional phosphorus chemical industry to high-end fields such as microelectronic materials and new energy materials, developing 723 products in 30 series across 9 categories, including food-grade, pharmaceutical-grade, and electronic-grade products.
Ten years ago, enterprises often faced environmental complaints; now, the landscape belt is lush with green trees.
This is a microcosm of the transformation of the Yangtze River (长江). Ten years of major protection, nearly 10,000 chemical enterprises along the river underwent "closure, relocation, conversion, or relocation," and 162 kilometers of shoreline were vacated and restored. In 2025, 98.9% of the water quality sections of the Yangtze River (长江) mainstream and tributaries reached Class I to III, and the total phosphorus concentration dropped by over 40%.
Such changes are happening in more places.
In Shishou, Hubei (湖北石首), a demonstration point of the "Mountain-Water Project" (山水工程) on the Jingjiang section of the Yangtze River (长江荆江段). In the rice paddies, ducks swim and frogs croak.
Locals have explored the "duck-frog-rice" ecological breeding model: ducks weed and control pests, frogs take over to protect the fields; the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides is reduced by over 70%, grain output increases by 7%, and the average mu yield income increases by 20%. The duck-frog-rice planting area has exceeded 3,000 hectares, extending to regional brands such as rice, wine, and rice cakes, with an annual profit of 9.6 million yuan. One field not only produces grain but also nurtures ecology and enriches farmers.
Looking across the country, the integrated protection and restoration project of mountains, water, forests, fields, lakes, grass, and sand continues to advance. Lu Lihua (卢丽华), Deputy Director of the Department of Territorial Space Ecological Restoration (国土空间生态修复司) of the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部), introduced that as of 2025, 52 projects have been deployed across the country, covering 29 provinces, with a cumulative restoration of over 120 million mu, and the central government has allocated 103 billion yuan. In June this year, the first batch of "Mountain-Water Projects" (山水工程) for the "15th Five-Year Plan" completed the review and public announcement of implementation plans.
Comprehensive land consolidation at the whole-region level is a concentrated manifestation of systematic governance in the land sector. In Puyuan Town, Tongxiang, Zhejiang (浙江桐乡濮院镇), villages were once scattered, with individual rural residential plot patches covering only 4.61 mu, and farmland was severely fragmented. Through comprehensive land consolidation at the whole-region level, dispersed land resources were concentrated and optimally allocated, creating a "ten-thousand-mu, thousand-square" (万亩千方) agricultural cluster, with rice yield reaching 1,730 jin per mu. At the same time, the surplus indicators from the linkage between increase and decrease generated by land consolidation were used to implement cross-regional projects for the common prosperity of a hundred villages, with participating villages earning an average annual comprehensive income of nearly 1 million yuan.
Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," 24 provinces have implemented comprehensive land consolidation projects at the whole-region level, involving a total investment of 1.43 trillion yuan (including investment in industrial projects), adding 1.51 million mu of farmland and reducing construction land by 640,000 mu. Comprehensive land consolidation at the whole-region level has become an important platform for optimizing territorial spatial layout, promoting urban-rural integration, and comprehensive rural revitalization. Yang Di (杨地), Deputy Director of the Department of Territorial Space Planning (国土空间规划局) of the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部), introduced that in the next step, the traditional model of urban-rural separation and partial consolidation will be broken, and systematic territorial space governance will support regional high-quality development.
Fortifying the foundation of the earth protects grain security; seeking development space from limited land supports high-quality development; allowing the land to regenerate continuously plans the future of the sustainable development of the Chinese nation.
How to cherish every inch of land? In the fertile fields, in the industrial parks, amid 绿水青山 (lǜ shuǐ qīng shān - "green water blue mountains," clear waters and green mountains), the earth is answering.
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Ensuring the stable supply of grain and other important agricultural products is the top priority of agricultural production. During the critical period of the "Three Summers" (三夏) production, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平总书记) came to Dezhou (德州), Shandong (山东) for inspection and research, and put forward clear requirements for ensuring the stable supply of grain and other important agricultural products, emphasizing "striving for a bumper grain harvest for the whole year."
Stable grain ensures peace under heaven. The reason why our country's grain production can have consecutive bumper harvests, with total output exceeding 1.4 trillion jin for two consecutive years, lies in the key point of always treating food security as the top priority in governance, and insisting on grasping production capacity, production ecology, and increasing production and income together, firmly holding the initiative in food security.
At present, a bumper harvest of summer grain is a foregone conclusion, laying a solid foundation for stable production and supply of grain throughout the year. From implementing moisture-resistant sowing and late-sowing contingency technologies, to promoting high-quality improved seeds and promoting large-area yield improvement, to the iterative upgrading of agricultural machinery equipment and efficient coordination of cross-provincial harvesting and drying operations... Technology empowerment and policy guarantees comprehensively and throughout the entire chain ensure grain production increase and income increase. This is where our confidence and foundation for achieving a bumper grain harvest for the whole year lie.
The more the wind is high and the waves are rough, the more we must unswervingly handle our own affairs well. Implement the various support policies for grain production, hold the rice bowl firmly and steadily, and we will surely be able to respond to changes and open up new prospects on the new journey, and better benefit the people through agricultural and rural modernization.
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From June 23 to 25, the 2026 Summer Davos Forum (夏季达沃斯论坛) was held in Dalian (大连), Liaoning (辽宁). Representatives from the global political, business, and academic communities gathered together, engaging in vigorous exchanges of thought on themes such as economic recovery, energy transition, AI (artificial intelligence), and open cooperation. "China Opportunities" (中国机遇) became a high-frequency word at the forum; attending guests unanimously agreed that China continues to inject momentum into the world economy, and a development consensus of innovation-driven and open-win is taking shape.
China continues to play the role of a stabilizing anchor for the world economy
At present, geopolitical factors continue to impact the world economy, and the uncertainties facing global development are rising. Attending guests believe that China, which adheres to openness and innovation, provides precious stability to the world, and they call for abandoning zero-sum thinking and deepening mutually beneficial cooperation based on multilateral platforms.
World Economic Forum President and Chief Executive Officer Alois Zwinggi (阿洛伊斯·茨温吉) stated that the holding of this forum coincides with a period of profound global transformation, and China's role is crucial. China is an important engine of the global economy, a manufacturing and innovation center, and an important contributor to technological progress and international cooperation. The scale of China's market, the strength of its industrial system, and the vitality of its entrepreneurs are not only relevant to China but also affect the world.
"The Chinese government continuously introduces policy dividends, adheres to high-standard opening up, and is one of the few economies that can consistently provide stable expectations and a reliable business environment," said Carsten Fink (卡斯滕·芬克), Chief Economist of the World Intellectual Property Organization. "China's innovation activities in recent years have shown outstanding performance, and the continuously emerging innovative enterprises and practices are deeply impressive. China's stable growth is not only beneficial to itself but will also continue to play a role in boosting the world economy."
"China's economic transformation and growth are admirable," said Sameer Zuberi (萨迈拉·祖拜鲁), President and Chief Executive Officer of the African Finance Corporation. He expressed hope to learn from China's experience through this forum, to promote scientific planning in Africa, and to truly implement innovation at scale to achieve development and prosperity.
"Protectionism is a very mechanical zero-sum mindset, which is costly for all countries. We should adopt a more constructive attitude in our work," said Elizabeth Thurbon (伊丽莎白·索伯恩), Professor of International Political Economy and Director of the Green Energy Governance Program at the University of New South Wales (澳大利亚新南威尔士大学), Australia.
"Through the Summer Davos Forum, representatives from multiple countries including political leaders, enterprises, international organizations, and research institutions engage in in-depth dialogue and exchanges, forming more consensus and transmitting positive energy," said Yu Feng (余锋), President of Honeywell (霍尼韦尔) Greater China.
China's scaled innovation benefits all parts of the world
In the first-floor lobby of the Dalian International Conference Center (大连国际会议中心), the beauty of the integration of technology and art is palpable. The immersive exhibition "Technology and Human Systems" focuses on popular technologies such as human-computer interaction, intelligent perception, and digital innovation, turning the theme of this forum, "Scaling Innovation," into a tangible experience.
During the forum, the World Economic Forum and the Swiss Frontier Publishing (瑞士前沿出版社) jointly released the "2026 Top 10 Emerging Technologies" report. Technologies such as the IoT-enabled grid for everything, direct lithium extraction, and quantum simulation drug discovery were selected. China's green innovation received high recognition from the international community. Fan Mingsong (范洺菘), Chief Executive Editor of Frontier Publishing, stated: "China provides 70% of the world's wind power equipment and 80% of photovoltaic module equipment, driving down global wind and solar photovoltaic power generation costs by more than 60% and 80% respectively. The green development model benefits the whole world."
World Economic Forum Managing Director and Chief Technology Officer Jeremy Jurgens (马思远) stated that each technology not only has the potential to bring profound changes to its respective field, but when they converge, they reveal a grand trend of technological innovation, providing ideas for addressing global challenges such as climate change and food security.
The topic of AI attracted much attention; from empowering the macroeconomy to the boundaries of industrial implementation, relevant discussions ran through multiple sub-forums. Attending guests deeply explored how AI can drive a new round of economic growth, how female science and technology talents can exert greater value in the AI wave, and how enterprises can balance technological ethics and business efficiency when advancing an "AI-first" strategy, providing intellectual nourishment for global AI governance and innovation development.
Lars Lindgren (蓝尚立), Senior Vice President of Ericsson (爱立信) Global and President of Northeast Asia, said that AI is being integrated into the real economy and will become an important engine for global economic development. China possesses a super-large market, a complete industrial chain, and leading communication infrastructure, which have given rise to active scenarios such as robot clusters and drone applications, and it has the conditions to rapidly realize the physical implementation of AI.
"China has the 'photovoltaic sheep' (光伏羊) model, perhaps Australia can also have 'photovoltaic kangaroos'!" Catherine Daniel (凯瑟琳·丹尼尔), Dean of the School of Cybernetics at the Australian National University (澳大利亚国立大学), told this reporter that China's 因地制宜 (yīn dì zhì yí - "according to local conditions," to adapt measures to local conditions) development model is worth learning from for Australia. "China's new energy vehicles, energy storage batteries, and photovoltaic industries are globally leading in scale, and there are huge development opportunities in electrification, low-carbon transition, and environmental governance. It fully has the conditions to build a mature comprehensive renewable energy system."
"True prosperity cannot occur in isolation," said Chloe Mayono (克洛伊·马约诺), Vice General Manager of Singapore's EasyPay (易付达), a company specializing in cross-border payment technology. Global growth depends on cooperation and interconnection. "China has a huge advantage in mobile payments. The company will continue to increase investment in China, build an open and interconnected regional network through close cooperation with local partners, and promote economic growth through global cooperation."
Nibras Al-Amri (尼卜拉斯·阿姆里), Manager of the Risk and Information Management Department of Oman International Development and Investment Company (阿曼国际发展投资公司), believes that providing innovative technologies is one of China's important contributions to the global economy. "Oman is happy to engage in more cooperation with China."
Deepesh Sutharia (迪佩什·苏塔里亚), Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of the India Empowerment Association (印度赋能协会), visiting China for the first time, hopes to understand scaled innovation through the forum in order to help disabled people better integrate into society. Sutharia stated: "China's AI technology is developing very fast, and some products can be used to improve the quality of life for disabled people, which has greatly inspired me. The Summer Davos Forum has shown me the humanistic care of inclusive development."
The "15th Five-Year Plan" development blueprint brings global opportunities
The themes of multiple sub-forums focused on China's medium- and long-term development blueprint. Representatives from Chinese and foreign enterprises and institutions discussed topics such as China's "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五) outline, new quality productive forces, and high-quality co-building of the "Belt and Road" (一带一路), interpreting the global opportunities brought by China's high-quality development from dimensions such as industrial investment, cross-border cooperation, and regional development.
Zou Jun (邹俊), Chairman of KPMG (毕马威) China, stated that China's "15th Five-Year Plan" outline draws a new blueprint for China's economy to move towards innovation and strength, pointing the way for innovative development in industries and also providing a basis for global enterprises to seek industrial development amid uncertainty. "KPMG will base itself on China's long-term economic development strategy, deeply cultivate the fertile ground of innovation, and continuously empower high-quality industrial development."
Yu Feng (余锋) stated that China's "15th Five-Year Plan" outline focuses on high-quality development, prioritizing the development of new quality productive forces and the green economy, promoting the country's scaled innovation in data centers, semiconductors, life sciences, energy transition, etc., opening up new tracks for multinational enterprises in China.
"China is at the forefront of global frontier technological transformation, thanks to China's multi-dimensional potential such as its huge market, continuous R&D reserves, scaled application, innovation vitality, and supply chain resilience," said Lars Lindgren (蓝尚立). China's "15th Five-Year Plan" outline vigorously promotes industries such as 5G-A, 6G, and computing network integration, which will continue to drive the digital and intelligent upgrading of industries and build a solid digital foundation for China's high-quality development.
"High-quality co-building of the 'Belt and Road' means not only opportunities for Kazakhstan but also further deepening international partnerships and enhancing mutual trust," said Prime Minister Bektenov (别克捷诺夫) of Kazakhstan. Historical successful experience shows that only by remaining open can growth be achieved.
Prime Minister Oury Bah (乌里·巴) of Guinea stated that in recent years, China's hybrid rice technology has taken root in Guinea and is helping the people of Guinea overcome hunger. He hopes that Guinea and China will strengthen technical cooperation to help local agricultural sustainable development.
"I saw on TV that China's robots can run marathons!" said Bajabulile Tsabalala (巴贾布利莱·察巴拉拉), a board member of South Africa's national power company Eskom (南非国家电力公司). China has demonstrated strong strength in frontier technologies such as robotics. Chinese enterprises, as important partners, are deeply involved in South Africa's communication construction, and Chinese-brand electric vehicles have also entered the South African market. He looks forward to more Chinese manufacturing landing in South Africa, achieving localized production and promoting Africa's industrialization process.
(Our reporter Gong Ming (龚鸣) contributed to the reporting)
Return to TopHistory never forgives adventurers who ignore its lessons. Any form of Japan (日本)'s "remilitarization" moves are not only a shock to regional security and stability, but also the most reckless abandonment of its own future.
Regarding the revision of the "three security documents" within this year, Japan (日本)'s Liberal Democratic Party has recently adopted a draft proposal to be submitted to the government. The draft's content is radical, including a substantial increase in defense spending, a full-scale removal of restrictions on arms exports, and the vigorous development of offensive military capabilities. This is no longer a simple policy adjustment, but a dangerous move by Japanese right-wing forces to accelerate the casting off of post-war constraints and comprehensively advance "remilitarization," the potential impact of which on regional peace and stability cannot be underestimated.
The Japanese government's intensive push to revise the "three security documents" is a key step in breaking through the post-war principle of "exclusively defense-oriented defense." The three security documents—the *National Security Strategy* (《国家安全保障戦略》), the *National Defense Strategy* (《国家防衛戦略》), and the *Defense Buildup Program* (《防衛力整備計画》)—are considered the overarching guidelines for Japan (日本)'s security and defense. At the end of 2022, the Japanese government adopted the current versions, originally planning to raise defense spending to 2% of GDP by fiscal year 2027. However, after Ishiba Shigeru (石破茂) took office, he accelerated the relevant plans, moving this target forward to fiscal year 2025. Now, less than four years into the implementation of the "three security documents," the Ishiba (石破) administration is eager to "revise the old and establish the new," fully exposing its impatient posture of compressing policy cycles and accelerating military transformation.
A close look at the draft's provisions reveals Japan (日本)'s impulse for "remilitarization" leaping off the page, and the dangerous turn in its new security policy is clearly visible. The draft blatantly proposes to "further strengthen stand-off defense capabilities and counterstrike capabilities," advocates "securing a necessary and sufficient number of missiles and improving missile performance such as range," and even plots to build "submarines capable of mounting vertical launch systems and launching long-range missiles." It clamors to deal with "new modes of warfare," seeking to build "integrated operational capabilities across all domains including space, cyberspace, and the electromagnetic spectrum." It vigorously advocates for "maintaining and ensuring sustained combat capabilities," proposing "institutional reorganization in an unprecedented form" to "achieve a transformation of defense capabilities within five years." On the surface, it is defense adjustment; between the lines, it is an offensive blueprint. Aki Hiroshi (佐道明広), Vice President of Osaka Seikei University (大阪成蹊大学) and a security policy expert, pointed out that although Japan (日本) still verbally claims to be a "peaceful nation," it has long since abandoned this concept in actual practice.
This radical draft is an inevitable product of the reckless actions of Japan (日本)'s "new-style militarism." Since Ishiba Shigeru (石破茂) took office, Japan (日本)'s military expansion moves have been frequent: accelerating the deployment of medium- and long-range offensive missiles, pushing forward at full speed the construction of "counterstrike capabilities"; significantly expanding drone forces and fielding various types of unmanned equipment on a large scale; promoting the reorganization of the "Air Self-Defense Force" into the "Air and Space Self-Defense Force," accelerating the pace of the militarization of space; continuously strengthening military deployments in the southwestern islands, adding missile bases and radar facilities in Okinawa (沖縄) and elsewhere. At the policy level, Japan (日本)'s latest defense budget has exceeded 9 trillion yen, setting a new post-war record for the 14th consecutive year; the outline of the 2026 edition of the *Defense White Paper* (『防衛白書』) clearly proposes deepening the application of "new modes of warfare" such as drones and artificial intelligence; it has initiated a restructuring of the intelligence system, aiming to create a "new pre-war intelligence system" serving military expansion... The numbers in the budget can be precisely calculated, but the boundaries of ambition cannot be measured. From weaponry to institutional mechanisms, Japan (日本)'s "remilitarization" process is constantly accelerating, racing in an offensive and expansionary direction.
To accelerate rearmament, Japanese right-wing forces continuously hype up the surrounding security situation, groundlessly accusing and smearing China (中国)'s normal military activities. Under the guise of "strengthening defense" and "passive response," they are in fact vigorously developing active, offensive medium- and long-range weapons, strengthening power projection and forward deployment. They attempt to embed military expansion and war preparation deeply into the national system, economic industry, and public opinion, step by step breaking through the constraints of Japan (日本)'s constitution and international law rules, openly challenging the post-war international order, and are creating a real threat to regional security.
History never forgives adventurers who ignore its lessons. As a major initiator and defeated nation of World War II, Japan (日本) should have remembered the profound disaster brought by that war and earnestly abided by its "Peace Constitution." However, the hasty revision of the "three security documents" reflects the ambition of Japanese right-wing forces to urgently cast off post-war constraints and repeat the mistakes of militarism. Any form of Japan (日本)'s "remilitarization" moves are not only a shock to regional security and stability, but also the most reckless abandonment of its own future.
Return to TopBeijing (北京), June 24 (Xinhua) -- Wang Yi (王毅), a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, on the evening of June 24 spoke by phone with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Dar (达尔) of Pakistan (巴基斯坦) at the latter's request.
Dar (达尔) extended warm congratulations on the upcoming 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) (中国共产党), saying that Pakistan (巴基斯坦) admires the extraordinary achievements made by the CPC (中国共产党) in leading China (中国) and hopes to strengthen exchanges with China (中国) on party governance and state administration. Wang Yi (王毅) said that General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has stressed that the CPC (中国共产党) is committed to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and that a century is still the prime of life. Under the guidance of Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Party Building, the CPC (中国共产党) has led the Chinese people to successfully blaze a path of development suited to China's realities. China (中国) is willing to strengthen inter-party exchanges with Pakistan (巴基斯坦) and share experience in governance and administration.
Dar (达尔) briefed Wang Yi (王毅) on the relevant situation of the new phase of talks between Iran (伊朗) and the United States (美国), and thanked China (中国) for its steadfast support for Pakistan's (巴基斯坦) peace mediation efforts. Dar (达尔) said that the four-point proposition put forward by President Xi Jinping (习近平) on maintaining and promoting peace and stability in the Middle East (中东) and the five-point initiative jointly proposed by Pakistan (巴基斯坦) and China (中国) on peace and stability in the Middle East (中东) and the Gulf (海湾) region have played an important role in easing the situation. Pakistan (巴基斯坦) expects to continue to maintain close coordination and cooperation with China (中国) and jointly play a constructive role in realizing lasting peace and stability in the region.
Wang Yi (王毅) thanked Dar (达尔) for promptly briefing him on the new phase of talks between Iran (伊朗) and the United States (美国), saying that the signing of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Iran (伊朗) and the United States (美国) is the result of the joint efforts of the international community, and that Pakistan (巴基斯坦) has played a key and unique role in this process. The peace process has just begun, and there is still a long, even tortuous and difficult road ahead. However, China (中国) will, as always, support Pakistan (巴基斯坦) and like-minded countries in continuing to play a constructive role, and is willing to maintain close communication and coordination with Pakistan (巴基斯坦).
Wang Yi (王毅) pointed out that in the next stage, priority should be given to three tasks. First, consolidate the comprehensive ceasefire and cessation of hostilities, and never allow the flames of war to be reignited. The Iran-United States (伊美) MoU serves the fundamental and long-term interests of Iran (伊朗) and meets the general expectations of the international community. China (中国) is willing to work with all parties to firmly support the negotiations in proceeding smoothly despite interference. Second, restore normal navigation through the Strait of Hormuz (霍尔木兹海峡) as soon as possible to ensure the stability of global industrial and supply chains. Arrangements for the Strait should not only respect the sovereignty and legitimate rights and interests of coastal states, but also conform to international practice and the common aspirations of all countries. Third, support Middle East (中东) countries in improving their mutual relations as soon as possible and exploring a new regional security architecture. The Middle East (中东), including the Gulf (海湾), can no longer be an arena for major-power rivalry and a victim of geopolitics. Regional countries should adhere to genuine strategic autonomy and firmly hold their destiny in their own hands. The crux of the Middle East (中东) issue remains the Palestinian (巴勒斯坦) question. China (中国) calls on countries in the region to form a more unified voice and take more coordinated actions on resolving the Palestinian (巴勒斯坦) question, to implement the "Two-State Solution" (两国方案) as soon as possible, and to achieve lasting peace and security in the region.
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Shaoshan City, Hunan (湖南韶山市), where Shaofeng Peak (韶峰) is layered with greenery. At the Historical Exhibition Hall of the CPC Shaoshan Special Branch (中共韶山特别支部历史陈列馆), docent Wu Shichuan (吴诗传) is explaining to children participating in study tours: "In June 1925, at Comrade Mao Zedong (毛泽东)'s home, a ceremony for admitting new Party members was held, and the CPC Shaoshan Special Branch (中共韶山特别支部) was established..." The old photographs and restored scenes in the exhibition hall pull people's thoughts back to those 峥嵘岁月 (zhēng róng suì yuè - "eventful years," describing extraordinary and turbulent times).
In September 2020, during his inspection tour in Hunan (湖南), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平总书记) pointed out: "Hunan is a piece of red hot earth, where a large number of Communists have written 感天动地 (gǎn tiān dòng dì - "move heaven and earth," describing heroic deeds that are extremely touching) heroic songs. We must educate and guide the broad ranks of Party members and cadres to carry forward the revolutionary tradition and inherit the red genes." In March 2024, during his inspection tour in Hunan (湖南), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平总书记) stressed: "Protect and make good use of red resources, strengthen revolutionary tradition and patriotic education, guide the broad cadres and masses to carry forward fine traditions, continue the red bloodline, practice socialist core values, and cultivate a new atmosphere and new look for the times."
Keeping in mind the General Secretary's earnest entrustment (殷殷嘱托 - yīn yīn zhǔ tuō, "earnest entrustment," sincere and repeated instructions), Shaoshan City (韶山市) has continuously transformed red resources into development momentum, promoting quality improvement and efficiency enhancement in the old revolutionary base area.
Under the leadership of Party organizations and with the joint efforts of cadres and the masses, today's Shaoshan Village (韶山村) boasts prosperous farmers, beautiful villages, and an excellent environment. Villagers Mao Xiaowen (毛晓文) and Mao Guhua (毛谷华), siblings from Shaoshan Village (韶山村), are hosting tourists who have just finished their visits at their family-run agritainment. On the wall beside them hangs a sign reading "Party Member Business Household." "Golden seed (that) blooms red flowers..." Sister Mao Xiaowen (毛晓文) has a clear voice, and Shaoshan folk songs come straight from her lips.
This scene is also a microcosm of the development of Shaoshan City (韶山市)'s red cultural tourism industry. Centered on red resources, various business forms such as study tours, training, catering, and accommodation have been developed. Among the more than 5,000 villagers of Shaoshan Village (韶山村), about 70% are engaged in professions related to red tourism.
"The red gene is engraved in the bones of every Party member," said Mao Xiaowen (毛晓文). Showing one's identity and acting in good faith are not only rules but also the confidence to 不忘初心 (bú wàng chū xīn - "not forget the original intention," to remain true to one's initial aspiration) and 砥砺前行 (dǐ lì qián xíng - "forge ahead with determination," to push forward through trials). The entire village has over 300 registered commercial households, among which more than 50 are Party member households.
Entering Yintian Village (银田村) of Yintian Town (银田镇), there is a bustling scene in the high-standard farmland, and the fragrance of medicinal herbs wafts from the traditional Chinese medicine base. In 2018, the Party Committee of Yintian Village (银田村) organized all Party members to visit the Historical Exhibition Hall of the CPC Shaoshan Special Branch (中共韶山特别支部历史陈列馆) to study. "Understand the revolutionary spirit, draw the strength to forge ahead," said Guo Fang (郭芳), Party Secretary of Yintian Village (银田村).
Recently, Yintian Village (银田村) has seen new changes: next to the village collective's 10,000-mu demonstration plot, the "Dao Meng Tian Yuan (稻梦田园)" agricultural, cultural, tourism, and study complex is being built at an accelerated pace; the Party organization has led the villagers to establish Shaoshan Future Rural Development Co., Ltd. (韶山未来田园发展有限公司), and villager Lu Wen (卢文) has set up a farming-study guesthouse, which has increased his income by more than 5,000 yuan in just over a month since May this year.
开门见山 (kāi mén jiàn shān - "open door see mountain," literally describing a scenic view where mountains are visible right outside the door), push open the window and see the fields. In recent years, Shaoshan City (韶山市) has moved the learning classroom from the schoolroom to the red bases, organizing Party members and cadres to visit red attractions such as the Historical Exhibition Hall of the CPC Shaoshan Special Branch (中共韶山特别支部历史陈列馆) to draw strength for forging ahead, and to take the lead in promoting comprehensive rural revitalization. In 2025, the per capita disposable income of rural residents in Shaoshan City (韶山市) reached 42,997 yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.9%.
It is understood that during the 15th Five-Year Plan period (十五五), Shaoshan (韶山) will create more than 150 high-quality courses and build a "Shaoshan Great Classroom (韶山大课堂)" ideological and political curriculum system covering the entire Shaoshan (韶山) area and all age groups.
Our newspaper, Dalian (大连), June 24 — (Reporters Wang Di (王迪), Li Yan (李琰), Huang Fahong (黄发红)) On the morning of June 24, Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) attended the opening ceremony of the 2026 Summer Davos Forum (2026年夏季达沃斯论坛) in Dalian (大连) and delivered a speech. Prime Minister Tarique (塔里克) of Bangladesh, Prime Minister Uri Ba (乌里·巴) of Guinea, Prime Minister Bektenov (别克捷诺夫) of Kazakhstan, Prime Minister Kim Min-seok (金民锡) of the Republic of Korea, Prime Minister Uchirlel (乌其尔勒) of Mongolia, Prime Minister Spajić (斯帕伊奇) of Montenegro, and approximately 1,800 representatives from all sectors globally attended.
Li Qiang (李强) stated that, as President Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out, to pursue innovation is to pursue development, and to plan for innovation is to plan for the future. This forum, themed "Scaling Innovation," highlights a major proposition for the development of the world economy today. Drawing on the practice of China's economic development, I would like to share with you the story of China's innovation, as well as some thoughts on global innovation cooperation.
First, at the beginning of the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五), China's economy is opening up new prospects amidst navigating changing circumstances. 2026 is the first year of China's "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五). Against the backdrop of an increasingly turbulent international situation, China's economy, undaunted by wind and rain, rows hard and breaks through the waves (奋楫破浪), presenting a multidimensional picture characterized by "stability, innovation, vitality, and integration" (稳、新、活、融), demonstrating a resilient and robust start that injects valuable certainty into a world fraught with growing uncertainties. We are confident and capable of maintaining and developing this good start, continuously writing a new chapter of China's high-quality development.
Second, innovation-driven development is the key code for China's economy to sustain long-term sound growth and to be stable and far-reaching (行稳致远). Over the years, China's economy has been able to maintain stable and healthy development thanks to two major essentials: one is a stable environment, and the other is the drive of innovation. Regarding the stable environment, everyone has full awareness and personal experience. As for the drive of innovation, people may pay more attention to the results already achieved, but they do not fully understand the hard work and long-term perseverance behind it. China's innovation is "forged" through hard training in internal skills (苦练内功), "applied" through thousands of industries (千行百业), and "cultivated" through a nurturing ecosystem (厚植生态). We will continue to strengthen the tackling of key technologies, enhance original innovation capabilities, promote deep integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation, remove barriers to the optimal allocation of resources, stimulate the vitality of innovation across society, and provide a steady stream of impetus for China's economy to move towards new and superior development. Recently, many international institutions and media outlets have mentioned "China Opportunity 2.0." Facts have strongly proven that China's emerging field technologies and products bring not shocks but opportunities, not threats but empowerment to the world.
Third, innovation cooperation is an inevitable choice for solving the global growth dilemma. At the current stage, global innovation activities are exhibiting new characteristics and trends. The speed of technological progress is unprecedented, while at the same time, uncontrollability has increased significantly. The depth of innovation interconnection is unprecedented, while at the same time, barriers and obstacles are also increasing. We should deepen connectivity and collaboration, jointly build an open world economy, maintain the stable and smooth functioning of global industrial and supply chains, and more broadly pool innovation synergy. We should adhere to the principle of technology for good, improve global governance systems and rules in areas such as artificial intelligence, enhance regulatory efficiency, and more effectively promote common governance. Enterprises are the main force of innovation. We hope everyone will be leaders in innovation and creation, practitioners of win-win cooperation, and partners in China's development. China will further expand market access, continuously build a first-class business environment, and sincerely welcome enterprises from all countries to invest and operate in China, and to share more new opportunities from China's development.
Wu Zhenglong (吴政隆) participated in the event.
Return to TopBeijing, June 24 (People's Daily) — (Reporter Peng Bo (彭波)) Zhao Leji (赵乐际), a Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局常委) and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会委员长), on the afternoon of the 24th held a seminar and discussion with National People's Congress deputies (全国人大代表) who were列席 (attending as non-voting participants) the 23rd meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress (十四届全国人大常委会第二十三次会议). He emphasized that deputies to the National People's Congress must deeply study, publicize, and implement Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law (习近平法治思想), combine it with their own work and performance of duties, participate in the practice of the rule of law, promote the spirit of the rule of law, disseminate legal knowledge, and actively play a role in the publicity and education of the rule of law.
At the seminar, deputies, combining their deliberation of the report on the implementation of the resolution on the "Eighth Five-Year Plan" ("八五") law popularization, spoke around strengthening publicity and education on the rule of law and enhancing the concept of the rule of law among the entire people, and put forward opinions and suggestions. Zhao Leji (赵乐际) listened attentively and engaged in in-depth exchanges with the deputies. He said that publicity and education on the rule of law are a long-term foundational work for comprehensively governing the country according to law. Under the leadership of the Party, China has continuously formulated and implemented eight five-year plans for law popularization, effectively promoting the improvement of the rule of law literacy of all citizens and the level of rule of law in social governance.
Zhao Leji (赵乐际) emphasized that Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law (习近平法治思想) is the fundamental guide for comprehensively governing the country according to law in the new era. Deputies to the National People's Congress must regard studying and implementing Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law (习近平法治思想) as a basic skill and a compulsory course for performing their duties, deeply understand the great significance, rich connotation, and practical requirements of this important thought, and consciously use it to arm their minds, guide practice, and promote work. They must integrate the publicity of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law (习近平法治思想) into their performance of duties as deputies, explain the core essence of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law (习近平法治思想) through various means, publicize the historic achievements of the construction of a rule-of-law China in the new era, and tell the story of China's rule of law well.
Zhao Leji (赵乐际) pointed out that deputies to the National People's Congress must consciously set an example in respecting, studying, abiding by, and applying the law. Firmly establish a concept of the rule of law, revere the rule of law, believe in the rule of law, enhance the awareness and ability to perform duties according to law, handle affairs according to law, and resolve contradictions and problems according to law, and consciously safeguard the unity, dignity, and authority of national rule of law. They must strengthen the study of the Constitution (宪法), adhere to constitutional principles, proficiently master the Law on Deputies (代表法), the Legislation Law (立法法), the Supervision Law (监督法), the Organic Law of the National People's Congress (全国人大组织法) and its Rules of Procedure (议事规则), etc., strictly perform duties according to law and procedure, and serve as a bridge between the Party and the state and the people. In daily work and life, they must model compliance with the Constitution and laws, practice the core socialist values (社会主义核心价值观), be honest and self-disciplined, fair and upright, and consciously accept supervision by the people.
Zhao Leji (赵乐际) emphasized that efforts must be made to improve the pertinence and effectiveness of publicity and education on the rule of law. Deputies to the National People's Congress should base themselves on their positions and duties, leverage their professional expertise, and actively explore effective ways of publicity and education on the rule of law. Through platforms such as deputies' home stations (代表家站) and grassroots legislative contact points (基层立法联系点), they should actively participate in diverse and rich grassroots rule-of-law publicity activities, earnestly listen to and reflect the opinions and suggestions of the people on legislation and law implementation. Using methods that are down-to-earth and easy for the masses to participate in, integrate law popularization into the practice of the rule of law, grassroots governance, and daily life, and in a 潜移默化 (qián yí mò huà - "silent influence," exerting a subtle, gradual influence) manner, enhance citizens' rule-of-law awareness and rule-of-law literacy, and promote the effective implementation of laws.
Li Hongzhong (李鸿忠), a Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局委员) and Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会副委员长), presided over the seminar.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency (新华社), Beijing (北京), June 24 -- Bater (巴特尔), Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协副主席) and President of the China-Cuba Friendship Association (中国古巴友好协会会长), held a video meeting in Beijing (北京) on the 24th with González (冈萨雷斯), President of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (古巴与各国人民友好协会主席), and Diego (迭戈), President of the Cuba-China Friendship Association (古中友好协会主席). The two sides exchanged views on implementing the important consensus reached by the heads of state of the two countries and promoting the development of special friendly relations between China and Cuba in the new era.
Return to TopBeijing, June 24 (Reporter Jiang Jie (姜洁)) - The 17th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (政协第十四届全国委员会常务委员会第十七次会议) concluded in Beijing (北京) on the afternoon of the 24th. The meeting conducted political consultations and discussions on the topic of "Adhering to high-quality development, promoting sustained and healthy economic development and comprehensive social progress." Wang Huning (王沪宁), Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局常委) and Chairman of the National Committee of the CPPCC (全国政协), presided over the closing meeting and delivered a speech. He stated that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (中共十八大), the CPC Central Committee (中共中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has profoundly grasped the general trend of world development and the process of Chinese-style modernization, promoted China's economy to steadily and comprehensively embark on the path of high-quality development, and China's economic strength, technological strength, and comprehensive national power have reached new heights, and Chinese-style modernization has taken new solid steps. We must deeply understand the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments" (两个确立) and resolutely achieve the "Two Upholds" (两个维护), to widely gather people's hearts, gather consensus, gather wisdom, and gather strength for promoting high-quality development and advancing Chinese-style modernization.
Wang Huning (王沪宁) stated that the "15th Five-Year Plan" period (十五五时期) is a critical period for basically achieving socialist modernization. The People's Political Consultative Conference (人民政协) must deeply study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on promoting high-quality development, firmly grasp the theme and primary task of promoting high-quality development, adhere to serving high-quality development with high-level performance, and promote sustained and healthy economic development and comprehensive social progress. It should focus on major issues such as building a modern industrial system, achieving high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening, constructing a new development pattern, building a high-level socialist market economy system, safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods, and accelerating the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development. It should organize CPPCC members to go deep into the front line to observe actual conditions, offer precise suggestions and good strategies, and strengthen supervision to promote implementation. It should strengthen research, consultation, and political discussion around serving and assisting the implementation of the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五规划), strengthen unity and friendship work around commemorating the 160th anniversary of the birth of Sun Yat-sen (孙中山), grasp the establishment and practice of a correct view of political achievements through study and education around studying and implementing Xi Jinping's thought on party building (习近平党建思想), strengthen the CPPCC's own construction, and solidly carry out all work of the National Committee of the CPPCC in the second half of the year.
After a vote, the meeting decided to add Comrade Li Xiaohong (李晓红) as a member of the 14th National Committee of the CPPCC (第十四届全国政协委员) and deputy director of the Committee on Education, Science, Culture, Health, and Sports (教科卫体委员会), and to add Comrade Xiao Pei (肖培) as a member of the 14th National Committee of the CPPCC and deputy director of the Committee on Social and Legal Affairs (社会和法制委员会). It adopted the decision to accept Comrade Chen Qun's (陈群) resignation as a member of the Standing Committee and a member of the 14th National Committee of the CPPCC. It adopted the decision to remove Comrade Wang Xiaodong (王晓东) from his posts as a member of the Standing Committee of the 14th National Committee of the CPPCC and deputy director of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业和农村委员会) and to revoke his membership. It adopted the decision to accept the resignations of Comrades Hu Chenglin (胡诚林) and Peng Chun (彭纯) as members of the 14th National Committee of the CPPCC. The meeting ratified the decision to revoke the membership of Wei Xiaodong (魏小东) and Hou Guisong (侯贵松) as members of the 14th National Committee of the CPPCC.
After the closing meeting, Yin Bai (訚柏), Secretary-General of the Commission for Political and Legal Affairs of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政法委秘书长), was invited to give a study lecture entitled "Promoting the modernization of the national security system and capabilities, building a higher level of Peaceful China (平安中国)."
Shi Taifeng (石泰峰), Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局委员) and Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the CPPCC (全国政协副主席); Vice Chairmen of the National Committee of the CPPCC Hu Chunhua (胡春华), Shen Yueyue (沈跃跃), Wang Yong (王勇), Zhou Qiang (周强), He Houhua (何厚铧), Liang Zhenying (梁振英), Bate'er (巴特尔), Su Hui (苏辉), Shao Hong (邵鸿), Gao Yunlong (高云龙), Mu Hong (穆虹), Xian Hui (咸辉), Wang Dongfeng (王东峰), Jiang Xinzhi (姜信治), He Baoxiang (何报翔), Wang Guangqian (王光谦), Qin Boyong (秦博勇), Zhu Yongxin (朱永新), and Yang Zhen (杨震) attended the meeting.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 24 (Xinhua) -- On June 24, Liu Haixing (刘海星), Minister of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央对外联络部), met in Beijing with Daoualeh (达瓦莱), Secretary-General of the People's Rally for Progress of Djibouti (吉布提争取进步人民联盟) and Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry (政府经济、财政与工业部). The two sides exchanged views on jointly implementing the important consensus of the leaders of the two countries, strengthening inter-party exchanges and dialogue, and promoting the development of bilateral relations.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 魏哲哲
The solemn Great Hall of the People (人民大会堂) has witnessed countless important historical moments. From September 1 to 11, 1982, the Twelfth National Congress of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党第十二次全国代表大会) convened here.
This was the first National Congress of the Communist Party of China convened after entering the new period of reform and opening-up and socialist modernization. It shouldered a historical mission: through summing up the historic victories of the past six years, to further eliminate the negative consequences left over by the "Cultural Revolution," comprehensively create a new situation in socialist modernization, and determine the correct path, strategic steps, and policies for continuing to advance.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Comrade Deng Xiaoping (邓小平) firmly grasped the fundamental question of 'what is socialism and how to build socialism,' resolutely issued the great call to 'take our own path and build socialism with Chinese characteristics,' and led our Party on the basis of the practice of revolution and construction since the founding of New China to successfully blaze a new path of socialism with Chinese characteristics."
The Twelfth Party Congress clearly put forward the major proposition of "building socialism with Chinese characteristics," answering the most concerned major question of what kind of path China should take after entering the new period, and became the great banner guiding reform and opening-up and socialist modernization in the new period.
After this congress, the term "moderately prosperous society" (小康) spread rapidly. The report of the Twelfth Party Congress stated: "From 1981 to the end of this century, the overall goal of China's economic construction is, on the premise of continuously improving economic efficiency, to strive to quadruple the annual gross output value of industry and agriculture of the whole country... the people's material and cultural life can reach the level of a moderately prosperous society."
This was the first time the National Congress of the Party used the concept of a moderately prosperous society. The strategic goal of a moderately prosperous society met the expectations of the masses for a better life and attracted widespread attention from all sectors of society.
The confidence brought by the congress did not stop there. The congress put forward the goal of "building the Party into a strong core leading the cause of socialist modernization" and adopted a new Party Constitution. The new Party Constitution eliminated the "Left" errors in the Party Constitution of the Eleventh National Congress and inherited and developed the merits of the Party Constitutions of the Seventh and Eighth National Congresses. Since this congress, the National Congress of the Party has been held every five years, achieving institutionalization.
After the Twelfth Party Congress, the reform of the economic system unfolded in an all-round way, the household contract responsibility system with remuneration linked to output was universally implemented, township enterprises 异军突起 (yì jūn tū qǐ - "a new force suddenly rises," to describe the sudden emergence of a new force), and urban reform deepened in scope... The development of history fully proved the important position of the Twelfth Party Congress in the Party's history: reform and opening-up thus unfolded comprehensively, and socialist modernization presented a new situation.
A stock certificate bears witness to change. In the exhibition area of the Twelfth Party Congress at the Museum of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党历史展览馆), a stock certificate of Shanghai Feilo Acoustics (上海飞乐音响) attracted the attention of visitors. In November 1984, Shanghai Feilo Acoustics Company (上海飞乐音响公司) publicly issued shares to its own enterprise and society, becoming the first joint-stock company to trial a shareholding system in Shanghai after reform and opening-up. In November 1986, Comrade Deng Xiaoping presented the "first share" of New China to American guests visiting China. In December of the same year, the State Council (国务院) launched a pilot project for the joint-stock system.
A city burst with vitality. In Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province (浙江温州市), in 1985 the number of registered and licensed individual industrial and commercial households in the city exceeded 130,000, with family workshops blooming everywhere. Leather shoes, glasses, and other commodities produced in Wenzhou began to go to the whole country and the world, and at the same time a group of entrepreneurs grew up. Wenzhou was one of the fastest developing and most dynamic cities in China for individual and other non-public economies during this period.
After the Twelfth Party Congress, opening to the outside world took new steps. In early 1984, Comrade Deng Xiaoping successively inspected the Shenzhen (深圳), Zhuhai (珠海), and Xiamen (厦门) Special Economic Zones and inscribed inscriptions for the special economic zones. Comrade Deng Xiaoping's trip to the south and his affirmation of the special economic zones brought new opportunities for opening up. By 1987, the country had signed a total of 10,350 projects for utilizing foreign capital agreements (contracts), of which foreign direct investment and others reached US$25.773 billion. Opening to the outside world became an important driving force for China's economic and social development.
Today, a moderately prosperous society has been built in all respects across China, and the goal of "quadrupling" (翻两番) that people had so keenly anticipated has long been achieved. Along the way, history clearly shows: upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics is a great historical process.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "The path of socialism with Chinese characteristics is a 康庄大道 (kāng zhuāng dà dào - "broad and smooth road," a great and bright path) for contemporary China to stride forward with the times and lead the development of the times. We must unswervingly follow it."
On the new journey, we must always hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, 勇往直前 (yǒng wǎng zhí qián - "march forward courageously," to advance bravely without hesitation), 开拓进取 (kāi tuò jìn qǔ - "pioneer and forge ahead," to open up new ground and keep advancing), and continuously create new brilliance for socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Return to TopConstruction of a National Unified Market Achieves Phased Results
Our correspondent Wei Zhe-zhe (魏哲哲)
On June 23, the 23rd Session of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee heard the "Report of the State Council on the Work of Constructing a National Unified Market" submitted by Li Chun-lin (李春临), Deputy Director of the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委).
The report shows that various regions and departments have accelerated efforts to achieve "Five Unifications and One Opening." Uniform market foundation systems: The "Negative List for Market Access (2025 Edition)" was released and implemented, with items on the list reduced from 117 in the 2022 edition to 106. Uniform market infrastructure: During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the port container rail-water intermodal transport volume grew by an average of about 15% annually. Uniform government conduct standards: In 2025, a total of 57,000 cases of prominent problems in administrative law enforcement involving enterprises were investigated and rectified nationwide, recovering economic losses of 28.97 billion yuan for enterprises. Uniform market supervision and law enforcement: More than 330 measures for standardizing administrative law enforcement standards and systems were introduced across various localities. Uniform factor resource markets: Comprehensive reform pilots for market-oriented allocation of factors were deployed in 10 regions. Efforts were made to establish and improve data property rights systems, and accelerate the construction of a national unified technology trading service platform. Continuously expand opening up both internally and externally: A campaign to clean up and rectify market access barriers was carried out, with provinces cumulatively sorting through and investigating over 38,000 regulatory documents and policies.
Various regions and departments focused on concentrated efforts in six key areas of difficulty. Rectify the chaos of low-price disorderly competition among enterprises: Promoted the revision and promulgation of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law (反不正当竞争法), prohibiting platform operators from forcing or covertly forcing intra-platform operators to engage in low-price dumping, etc. Rectify the chaos in government procurement and bidding: Conducted special rectification of illegal and non-compliant acts in the field of government procurement, with nationwide key inspections of over 20,000 agency institutions, more than 90,000 procurement projects, and handling of over 30,000 related entities. Rectify the chaos in local investment attraction: Conducted routine risk screening, verification, and handling of suspected violations in localities, notified cases of illegal fiscal subsidies, and seriously interviewed localities engaging in illegal investment attraction with "zero rent." The awareness of compliant investment attraction in various localities has significantly increased. Promote integrated development of domestic and foreign trade: Promoted cost reduction and efficiency improvement for exports turning to domestic sales, and smoothed the green express channel for compulsory product certification of exports turning to domestic sales. As of the end of 2025, this benefited the product value of foreign trade enterprises exceeding 12.5 billion yuan. Fill the shortcomings in laws and regulations: Initiated research and drafting of regulations on the construction of a national unified market, promoted the formulation and revision of the Tendering and Bidding Law (招标投标法), Price Law (价格法), Product Quality Law (产品质量法), Social Credit Construction Law (社会信用建设法), etc., to use laws and regulations to break down blockages and obstacles that impede unified market and fair competition. Correct deviations in views on political achievements: Guided localities to establish and practice a correct view of political achievements and optimize assessment mechanisms.
Overall, extensive work has been done in all aspects, and the construction of a national unified market has achieved phased results. First, the "Four Pillars and Eight Mainstays" (四梁八柱) (sì liáng bā zhù - "four beams eight pillars," referring to the main framework or overall structure) have been basically established. Market foundation system rules have been continuously improved, market facility connectivity has been significantly strengthened, a batch of prominent problems impeding unified market and fair competition have been rectified, and the flow of goods, services, and resource factors has become smoother. Second, social consensus has significantly increased. The concept of a national unified market has taken deep root (深入人心) (shēn rù rén xīn - "deeply enter people's hearts," to be deeply rooted in people's minds), and advancing the construction of a national unified market in depth has become a conscious action in all aspects. The "involution-style" competition in investment attraction has been initially curbed. Third, the effects of construction continue to manifest. The ratio of total social logistics costs to GDP dropped from 14.1% in 2024 to 13.9% in 2025, falling below 14% for the first time. The proportion of inter-provincial trade sales to total sales nationwide increased from 39.8% in 2022 to 41% in 2025. Total retail sales of consumer goods increased from 43.6 trillion yuan in 2022 to 50.1 trillion yuan in 2025. The roles of the national unified market in gathering resources, driving growth, stimulating innovation, optimizing division of labor, and promoting competition are increasingly prominent, providing strong support for reducing market transaction costs, expanding the domestic market, and strengthening the domestic circulation.
Li Chun-lin (李春临) stated that the next step will be to advance institutional construction in depth, advance high-standard connectivity of market facilities in depth, advance market unification in key areas in depth, advance the elimination of deep-seated and chronic problems (顽瘴痼疾) (wán zhàng gù jí - "stubborn miasma chronic disease," deep-rooted and persistent problems) in depth, accelerate the construction of a national unified market, build a strong domestic market, and provide strong support for constructing a new development pattern and promoting high-quality development.
Our Economy Moves Forward Under Pressure, Developing Towards Innovation and Excellence
Our correspondent Peng Bo (彭波)
On June 23, the 23rd Session of the 14th NPC Standing Committee heard the "Report of the State Council on the 2025 Central Final Accounts" submitted by Lan Fo-an (蓝佛安), Minister of Finance (财政部).
The report shows that in 2025, our economy moved forward under pressure, developing towards innovation and excellence. The main economic and social development goals for the year were successfully completed, the "14th Five-Year Plan" concluded successfully, and Chinese-style modernization took new solid steps. The central final accounts were generally sound. In 2025, central general public budget revenue was 9,397.253 billion yuan, and central general public budget expenditure was 14,485.727 billion yuan. Offsetting total revenue against total expenditure, the central fiscal deficit was 4,860 billion yuan, matching the budget.
In 2025, the financial departments implemented a more proactive fiscal policy, focusing on stabilizing economic operation and promoting high-quality development. They coordinated expanding expenditure scale, accelerating expenditure progress, optimizing expenditure structure, and channeling more funds to key areas such as benefiting people's livelihoods, promoting consumption, and increasing growth potential.
In vigorously boosting consumption and expanding effective investment to continuously unleash domestic demand potential, a total of 1.3 trillion yuan in ultra-long-term special government bonds were issued, continuously supporting the "Two Priorities" (两重, major national strategies and security capacity building in key areas) and "Two New" (两新, large-scale equipment renewal and consumer goods trade-in) work. Among them, 800 billion yuan of ultra-long-term special government bonds were used for national major strategies and security capacity building in key areas; 300 billion yuan were used to intensify and expand the implementation of consumer goods trade-in for new ones, driving sales of goods such as automobiles, home appliances, mobile phones, and home furnishings exceeding 2.6 trillion yuan; 200 billion yuan were used to support large-scale equipment renewal, driving investment in related projects exceeding 1 trillion yuan.
The financial departments implemented the strategic deployment of building a strong nation in science and technology, continuously increasing financial investment in science and technology. Central financial expenditure on science and technology at the central level increased by 7.1%, strengthening support for original innovation and tackling key core technologies. Investment in basic research continued to increase. Central financial expenditure on basic research at the central level increased by 9.6%, increasing long-term stable support. The dominant role of enterprises in innovation was strengthened. The implementation mechanism of tax and fee preferential policies for scientific and technological innovation was continuously improved. The role of special guarantees for scientific and technological innovation was leveraged, encouraging enterprises to increase R&D investment. Awards and subsidies were given to a new batch of over 1,200 specialized and new "little giant" enterprises (专精特新"小巨人"企业), driving the growth and development of more innovative enterprises.
The financial departments increased efforts to safeguard and improve people's livelihoods, took multiple measures to stabilize employment, supported 11 million person-times of government-subsidized vocational skills training, and created 12.67 million new urban jobs for the year. They promoted the coordination of basic public education service supply with demographic changes, supported the strengthening of regular high school construction and the expansion of high-quality undergraduate enrollment. A childcare subsidy system was fully implemented, with a national basic standard of 3,600 yuan per year per child for infants and toddlers under 3 years old, and the subsidy was exempted from personal income tax. Central financial expenditure on related subsidy funds was about 90 billion yuan, benefiting over 30 million infants and toddlers. Pension levels were continuously increased. Central financial arrangements for basic pension transfer payments totaled 1.19 trillion yuan, ensuring timely and full payment.
The report shows that since the beginning of this year, our economy has started strong, demonstrating strong resilience and vitality. From January to May, fiscal revenue and expenditure operations were generally stable. Nationwide general public budget revenue was 10.05 trillion yuan, and nationwide general public budget expenditure was 11.39 trillion yuan, with expenditures in key areas receiving strong guarantees.
In the next step, the Ministry of Finance will accurately and effectively implement a more proactive fiscal policy, continuously optimize the fiscal expenditure structure, focus on stabilizing employment, enterprises, markets, and expectations, focus on promoting reform, strengthening management, preventing risks, and increasing efficiency, and promote the achievement of the year's economic and social development goals and tasks.
The Social Foundation for Comprehensively Governing the Country by Law is Further Consolidated
Our correspondent Zhang Tian-pei (张天培)
On June 23, at the 23rd Session of the 14th NPC Standing Committee, entrusted by the State Council, Minister of Justice He Rong (贺荣) submitted the "Report of the State Council on the Implementation of the 'Eighth Five-Year Plan' Resolution on Popularizing Legal Knowledge."
The report shows that over the past five years, legal publicity and education work has adhered to the leadership of the Party, deeply carried out the study and publicity of the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics centered on the Constitution, the socialist rule of law culture has flourished, the "who enforces the law who popularizes the law" (谁执法谁普法) legal popularization responsibility system has been widely implemented, the concept of rule of law in the whole society has significantly increased, the legal literacy of the entire population has significantly improved, the level of legalization of social governance has significantly increased, and the social foundation for comprehensively governing the country by law has been further consolidated.
Deeply study, publicize, and implement Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law (习近平法治思想), guiding the whole society to strengthen confidence in the path and confidence in the rule of law as the socialist rule of law path with Chinese characteristics broadens. The Law on Legal Publicity and Education (法治宣传教育法) for the first time wrote Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law into national law as the primary content of legal publicity and education. Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law was included in the important learning content of Party committee (Party group) theoretical study center groups, as well as Party schools (academies of administration) and cadre colleges. In-depth mass-oriented dissemination of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law was carried out.
Regular themed legal popularization activities were carried out, and the good atmosphere of law-abiding by the entire people is increasingly strong. Organized mass legal publicity and education activities continuously, making the rule of law a social consensus and basic standard. Promoted the regularization and long-term effectiveness of constitutional publicity and education. Continuously and deeply publicized the Constitution and laws related to the Constitution.
Legal education was strengthened in a stratified and categorized manner, and citizens' legal literacy significantly improved. A lifelong legal education system for citizens was implemented, incorporating legal education into the cadre education, national education, and social education systems. The action to improve citizens' legal literacy was implemented, focusing on key groups with precision. The learning and application of law by leading cadres was deeply advanced. Seizing the "key minority" (关键少数, key leading cadres), leading cadres at all levels were encouraged to become models of respecting, learning, abiding by, and applying the law.
Great efforts were made to promote the construction of a rule of law culture, and the socialist spirit of the rule of law has taken deep root (深入人心) (shēn rù rén xīn - "deeply enter people's hearts," to be deeply rooted in people's minds). The General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Strengthening the Construction of a Socialist Rule of Law Culture," regarding the construction of a socialist rule of law culture as a strategic and basic work for building a socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics and a socialist country under the rule of law. A total of 113 national legal publicity and education bases were named in four batches.
The integration of legal publicity and education with law-based governance and legal practice was promoted, and the pertinence and effectiveness of legal publicity and education were continuously enhanced. Legal publicity and education was promoted to integrate into legal practice, grassroots governance, and daily life, allowing the masses to understand legal provisions and practice the socialist spirit of the rule of law in legislation, law enforcement, judiciary, and legal services. 50 "National Model Cities (Counties, Districts) for Law-Abiding and Legal Popularization" were named. The cultivation project of "legal literate persons" (法律明白人) in villages (communities) was deeply implemented.
The responsibility for legal popularization was consolidated, and the work system for legal publicity and education was further improved. Seizing the "bull's nose" (牛鼻子, key link) of the legal popularization responsibility system, the work mechanism of Party committee leadership, People's Congress supervision, government leadership, multi-party coordination, and social participation was continuously improved.
The report proposes that the next step will be to grasp and deepen the study, publicity, and implementation of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, continuously promote the deep integration of legal publicity and education with law-based governance and legal practice, accelerate the formation of a new model for precise legal publicity and education, fully implement the legal popularization responsibility system, and further improve the institutional guarantees for legal publicity and education work.
Supporting Hong Kong and Macao Lawyers to Participate in National Rule of Law Construction
Our correspondent Zhang Tian-pei (张天培)
Recently, the 23rd Session of the 14th NPC Standing Committee deliberated the "Report of the State Council on the Pilot Work for Hong Kong Legal Practitioners and Macao Practicing Lawyers to Obtain Mainland Practice Qualifications and Engage in the Legal Profession in the Nine Mainland Cities of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area."
The report shows that on August 11, 2020, the 21st Session of the 13th NPC Standing Committee adopted a decision authorizing the State Council to conduct a three-year pilot in the nine Mainland cities of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area for Hong Kong legal practitioners and Macao practicing lawyers to obtain Mainland practice qualifications and engage in the legal profession (hereinafter referred to as "the pilot"). On September 1, 2023, the 5th Session of the 14th NPC Standing Committee adopted a decision extending the pilot period by three years until October 4, 2026.
According to the introduction, the State Council organized the Ministry of Justice and other relevant parties to steadily advance the pilot, supporting Hong Kong legal practitioners and Macao practicing lawyers (hereinafter collectively referred to as "Hong Kong and Macao lawyers") to better play their professional roles, contributing to the stable and enduring (行稳致远) (xíng wěn zhì yuǎn - "walk steady go far," to proceed steadily and achieve lasting success) implementation of the "one country, two systems" cause.
Since the pilot began, the Ministry of Justice has organized five sessions of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area lawyer qualification examinations. Over 2,000 Hong Kong and Macao lawyers registered for the exams, and 646 obtained lawyer practice certificates (Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area), including 544 Hong Kong legal practitioners and 102 Macao practicing lawyers.
The report points out that the pilot policy is a landmark achievement in comprehensively and accurately implementing the "one country, two systems" policy and promoting the high-quality development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. It has received broad recognition and high praise from relevant units, the governments of the Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions, and the legal communities of Hong Kong and Macao.
Promoting the stable and enduring (行稳致远) (xíng wěn zhì yuǎn - "walk steady go far," to proceed steadily and achieve lasting success) practice of "one country, two systems." Through the pilot, more and more Hong Kong and Macao lawyers have deeply studied Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, earnestly studied and grasped Mainland legal knowledge, deepened their understanding of national conditions and achievements in national rule of law construction, strengthened their determination and confidence to develop and progress together with the country, and more firmly supported the "one country, two systems" policy, further developing and strengthening the patriotic forces loving the country, Hong Kong, and Macao in the legal communities of Hong Kong and Macao.
Serving the high-quality construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Certified Hong Kong and Macao lawyers fully leverage their unique advantages in being familiar with common law and Portuguese-speaking country legal systems, actively handle related civil and commercial litigation and non-litigation legal affairs, and help the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area create a world-class business environment that is market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized. 81 certified Hong Kong and Macao lawyers serve as arbitrators in Mainland arbitration institutions, 71 as commercial mediators in Mainland commercial mediation organizations, and 26 as specially invited mediators in courts at various levels in Guangdong Province, promoting the efficient resolution of cross-border commercial disputes.
Supporting Hong Kong and Macao lawyers to participate in national rule of law construction. 24 certified Hong Kong and Macao lawyers serve as deputies to People's Congresses or members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), submitting nearly 100 high-quality suggestions and proposals. Several certified Hong Kong and Macao lawyers serve as legislative consultation experts for grassroots legislative contact points, government legal advisors. Over 80 hold positions in relevant committees of municipal lawyers associations in Guangdong Province, and more than 40 have participated in legal services for major economic and trade events such as the Canton Fair. Hong Kong and Macao lawyers and the Mainland legal community continue to deepen exchanges and cooperation, assisting in the cultivation of foreign-related legal talents, and better integrating into and serving the national development agenda.
The report recommends that the pilot will expire on October 4, 2026. All parties are highly concerned about subsequent arrangements, and generally hope to upgrade the pilot policy into a legal system, attract more outstanding Hong Kong and Macao lawyers to participate in national rule of law construction, and make new contributions to opening up a new situation of high-quality development in the "one country, two systems" cause.
Escorting High-Quality Economic and Social Development with High-Quality Audit Supervision
Our correspondent Qi Zhi-ming (齐志明)
On June 23, entrusted by the State Council, Auditor General of the National Audit Office (审计署) Hou Kai (侯凯) presented the "Audit Work Report of the State Council on the 2025 Central Budget Execution and Other Fiscal Revenues and Expenditures" to the 23rd Session of the 14th NPC Standing Committee.
The report shows that over the past year, audit institutions, based on the positioning of economic supervision, focused on the main responsibility and main business of fiscal and financial revenue and expenditure audits, conducted research-oriented audits, and deeply carried out the "Year of Scientific Standardization and Enhancement" (科学规范提升年) campaign. Overall, the effectiveness of the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee over audit work has become more evident, audit work results have become more abundant, and the overall pattern of audit rectification has become more stable.
In terms of central fiscal management audit, audit institutions focused on auditing five aspects: the organization of fiscal revenue, implementation of budget systems, management of transfer payments, supervision of special-purpose bonds, and preparation of the draft central final accounts. In 2025, total revenue of the central general public budget was 9,737.253 billion yuan, total expenditure was 14,597.253 billion yuan, and the deficit was 4,860 billion yuan, consistent with the budget; total revenue of the central government-managed funds budget was 2,344.231 billion yuan, total expenditure was 2,277.98 billion yuan; total revenue of the central state-owned capital operation budget was 395.696 billion yuan, total expenditure was 369.705 billion yuan; total revenue of the central social insurance fund budget was 293.834 billion yuan, total expenditure was 292.105 billion yuan, with a year-end cumulative surplus of 9.665 billion yuan. The National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) managed and allocated 735 billion yuan of central budget investment, of which 142.017 billion yuan was arranged for central-level expenditures and 592.983 billion yuan was transferred to local governments.
In terms of central department budget execution audit, the 39 departments and their 225 subordinate units audited by audit institutions received fiscal budget allocations of 620.588 billion yuan in 2025, with issues found totaling 13.924 billion yuan, of which 3.229 billion yuan was at the department level (23.19%) and 10.695 billion yuan at subordinate units (76.81%). The problem of disciplinary and rule-violating issues in central departments shifting and descending to subordinate units remains relatively prominent.
In terms of audit on the implementation of major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee (党中央), audit institutions focused on auditing two major strategies: the construction of the "Two Majors" (两重) and the work of the "Two News" (两新), and the Western Development Strategy (西部大开发); major projects such as urban underground pipeline networks; and major initiatives for implementing science and technology finance policies, with a focus on major risks such as local government debt and finance.
In terms of audit on key livelihood funds, audit institutions focused on auditing funds and related policy implementation in four areas: affordable housing projects (保障性安居工程), work-related injury insurance and childbirth support (工伤保险和生育支持), traditional Chinese medicine production and sales (中药产销), and strengthening, benefiting, and enriching agriculture (强农惠农富农).
In terms of audit on state-owned asset management, audit institutions, in their audits of departmental budget execution, state-owned enterprises and state-owned assets, finance, and agriculture-related matters, continuously monitored the management and use of four categories of state-owned assets: enterprise, financial, administrative and institutional, and natural resource assets.
In terms of investigating and dealing with major disciplinary and illegal issues, since May 2025, audits have discovered and transferred more than 260 major disciplinary and illegal issues, involving more than 1,100 people and over 910 billion yuan in funds, all of which have been transferred to relevant departments in accordance with discipline and law for further investigation and handling.
This report reflects the main problems identified in the 2025 central budget execution and other fiscal revenue and expenditure audits. With regard to these problems, the National Audit Office (审计署) has solicited opinions from the audited entities in accordance with the law, issued audit reports, and put forward rectification requirements; for major disciplinary and illegal issues, they have been transferred to relevant departments in accordance with discipline and law. The relevant regions, departments, and units are actively carrying out rectification.
In the next step, audit institutions will, in accordance with the deployment requirements of the CPC Central Committee (党中央) and the State Council (国务院), increase the intensity of tracking and urging the rectification of problems reflected in the audit work report, and the overall rectification situation will be publicly announced in accordance with the law before the end of the year.
The report shows that the overall pattern of audit rectification has been further consolidated and perfected, and the "second half of the article" (下半篇文章) of audit has become more authoritative and efficient. In terms of comprehensive rectification, all problems reflected in the 2024 audit work report were included in the scope of rectification, and rectification notices were issued to 138 regions, departments, and units. In terms of specialized rectification, the relevant competent departments carried out specialized audit rectification according to their work responsibilities, implementing a "combination of measures" (组合拳) for rectification. In terms of key supervision, the relevant departments have given priority supervision and handling to audit-transferred case leads, and overall progress has been smooth. As of the end of April 2026, 1.41 trillion yuan of the problems identified in the 2024 audit had been rectified, with more than 1,150 systems formulated and improved, and more than 3,690 people having been disciplined or dealt with.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张 驰
On the mountain, the gray-white rocks are sharp-angled, with red soil accumulated in the stone hollows. Clusters of cactus squeeze out from the crevices of the stones, full of vitality. "The cactus industry has become our wealth-generating industry," said Lu Chunhong (鲁春红), Party branch secretary of Zhuangzitian (庄子田), Hongqi Community (红旗社区), Xinping Subdistrict (新平街道), Wenshan City (文山市), Yunnan Province (云南省).
The location of the Zhuangzitian (庄子田) Residents' Group is a typical karst rocky desertification mountain area, with little arable land per capita, and once 70% of the able-bodied young and middle-aged people were out working as migrant laborers. In 2021, the Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (文山壮族苗族自治州), where Wenshan City (文山市) is located, vigorously implemented the "Guiyan Project (归雁工程)." Lu Chunhong (鲁春红), an old Party member who was a skilled talent in wealth creation, was elected as Party branch secretary of Zhuangzitian (庄子田). He secretly resolved to give full play to the cohesiveness and combat effectiveness of the Party organization and lead the villagers to blaze a new path.
Lu Chunhong (鲁春红) led the Party member team to the Laoshan Martyrs Cemetery (老山烈士陵园) and other places to reaffirm the Party membership oath. "We need to think clearly about what exactly a Party member is and what a Party member should do," he said to everyone with emotion.
Lu Chunhong (鲁春红) divided the jurisdiction into 8 grids, with 8 young Party members serving as grid members, who were responsible for solving difficult problems and also leading everyone to work. "One person's strength is no match for the joint force of Party members," Lu Chunhong (鲁春红) understood that only by making the villagers feel that the Party branch was taking action could they be united for development.
At one village-group meeting, everyone discussed again how to develop the industry. "Our village has a history of planting cactus, why not promote this!" "If the whole village plants it, then who will we sell to?" Everyone was discussing 七嘴八舌 (qī zuǐ bā shé - "seven mouths eight tongues," with everyone talking at once in a lively and confused manner). Lu Chunhong (鲁春红) listened and thought carefully, then led the backbone Party members to conduct in-depth research and repeated argumentation, finally finalizing the path of planting cactus and developing it on a large scale.
"Once the planting reaches a large scale, whether it's seedlings, fertilizer, or technical improvement and unified external sales, all can reduce costs and increase efficiency," said Lu Chunhong (鲁春红). In 2021 itself, Zhuangzitian (庄子田) established a village collective company, with villagers contributing land as shares, not only becoming shareholders but also being recruited as company employees and planting technicians.
For the industry to develop, roads must be built first. Seven-tenths of a mu of Lu Chunhong's (鲁春红) land was near the village entrance, beside the lane into the village. To facilitate the entry and exit of transport vehicles, he took the lead in making way by giving up his land.
When industrial roads were to be built in the mountains, some villagers did not support it: "If you build roads, you'll take up my family's land!" Young Party member Wang Yunxi (王云喜) kindly persuaded them: "If we build the road well, it will also be convenient for your family to haul fertilizer. Besides, if the village industry grows big, everyone will have 'meat' to eat."
After persuading the fellow villagers' thinking, the cadres and the masses worked together, moving stones and leveling the road surface. In the end, all 5 industrial roads were fully completed within half a year.
In 2022, the cactus planted on a large scale in Zhuangzitian (庄子田) bore fruit for the first time, delivering an output of 260 tons. By the end of 2025, the cactus planting area of the entire group has expanded to over 5,000 mu, and currently, more than 1,000 mu of cactus fields have entered the fruiting period.
The confidence for expanding the planting scale lies in opening up sales channels in advance. Lu Chunhong (鲁春红) introduced that the village implements the "Five Unifications (五统一)" management model: unified planning, unified seedlings, unified technology, unified purchasing and sales, and unified revenue distribution. At the beginning, the village set up points in Wenshan City (文山市) to sell the fruit; later, it introduced a professional operating company and jointly developed deep-processed products with a research team, so the sales channels became increasingly broad.
Driven by the Party organization, villager Zhang Jiaping (张家萍) has planted over 10 mu of cactus since 2022. This year, the cactus has entered the fruiting period. "If planted well, one mu can earn over 20,000 yuan," said Zhang Jiaping (张家萍). With the Party organization taking the lead and the village making unified purchases, "We can sell at a good price and don't have to worry about sales channels; I feel much more at ease."
In 2025, the primary agricultural product sales revenue of the Zhuangzitian (庄子田) cactus industry reached 15 million yuan, and the secondary distribution mechanism operated in an orderly manner: of the annual profit of the village collective company, 50% is returned to the land-contributing masses, 30% is shared by all villagers, and 20% is invested in village public welfare undertakings, using industrial income to feed back into rural greening, beautification, and other construction.
Today's Zhuangzitian (庄子田) has clean and tidy bluestone roads, and every household can push open the window to see the scenery. The village is now vigorously promoting the integrated development of "cactus + rural tourism," building cactus picking gardens and other rural tourism destinations, and carrying out popular science research and study activities. "We must continue to give play to the leading role of the Party organization, let the wealth-bearing fruits take deep root, and lead the villagers toward a better life," said Lu Chunhong (鲁春红).
By: 尹双红
Give full play to the fundamental role of laws and regulations, keep power always operating in the sunlight, and only then can we create a favorable environment for undertaking endeavors and starting businesses, allowing the positive atmosphere of daring to act and willingness to act to become more abundant.
Adhere to running the Party with institutions and governing the Party with rules, clarify the boundaries of power, and standardize the entire process of exercising power; who should manage, what to manage, and what responsibilities to bear become clear 一目了然 (yī mù liǎo rán - "at a glance clear," to be obvious at a glance).
Sanya Hongtang Bay (海南三亚红塘湾), Hainan (海南), with its blue sky, azure sea, and white sandy beach, is as beautiful as a painting. Just over a year ago, this sea still had a huge "scar": a development project proceeded with construction without approval, leaving behind 19 steel cylinders larger than basketball courts.
From illegal land reclamation through sea filling, to 心存侥幸 (xīn cún jiǎo xìng - "harbor fluke mentality," to rely on luck or take chances with a mindset of evading consequences), evading rectification, to thorough demolition, ecological restoration, and incorporating the performance of political responsibility for ecological environmental protection into the supervision list of the "top leader" (一把手)… The rebirth of Hongtang Bay witnesses the continuous achievement of new results in comprehensively enforcing strict Party governance.
"Our Party has such a long history, such a large scale, and has been in power for so long; how can it break out of the historical cycle of order and chaos, rise and decline?" Always cherishing the mindset of "taking the examination" (赶考), comprehensively enforcing strict Party governance — this is the solid confidence of our Party in successfully advancing Chinese-style modernization.
抚今追昔 (fǔ jīn zhuī xī - "caress present pursue past," to reflect on the past in the light of the present), "the Party must supervise itself and govern itself strictly" runs through our Party's history of struggle. The first Party Constitution passed by the Second National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的二大) stipulated the political and organizational disciplines that Party members should observe and proposed six circumstances for expulsion from the Party. In 1926, the "Circular of the Enlarged Meeting of the CPC Central Committee — Resolutely Clean Out Corrupt Elements" (《中共中央扩大会议通告——坚决清洗贪污腐化分子》) was issued, demonstrating the attitude and determination to fight corruption. Since the 18th CPC National Congress (党的十八大), the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has been promoting comprehensive strict Party governance with the tenacity and determination of "always on the road" (永远在路上), launching an anti-corruption struggle with the force of 雷霆万钧 (léi tíng wàn jūn - "thunderbolt ten thousand jun," overwhelming power), and promoting the sustained improvement of Party conduct and government conduct.
Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building (习近平党建思想) provides the fundamental guidance for strengthening Party building in the new era and has major practical significance and long-term guiding significance for strengthening the Party and the country. Continuously promoting the study and implementation of Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building to go deeper and more solid (走深走实), and doing a good job in all aspects of comprehensively enforcing strict Party governance with higher standards and more concrete measures, is an important political task for the current and future period.
"Wherever the cause of the Party and the people develops, comprehensive strict Party governance must follow." During the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五) period, China's economic and social development tasks become more arduous and the situation more complex and severe. Only by deeply studying and understanding the scientific connotation, theoretical character, practical basis, and theoretical origins of Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building, and continuously deepening the great practice of comprehensively enforcing strict Party governance in the new era, can we better transform the political advantages of the Party's leadership into governance effectiveness.
Power is entrusted by the people; how can we ensure it is always used to seek happiness for the people?
The system of intra-Party laws and regulations continues to improve, drawing red lines and clarifying boundaries; strengthen supervision and accountability, deeply advance measures such as simultaneous investigation and governance of corruption and misconduct; grasp the regular, grasp the detailed, grasp the long-term, giving iron rules iron teeth… The Party Central Committee continuously weaves the institutional cage tighter, guarding against the flaw of "cowshed trapping cats" (牛栏关猫) and also resolving the difficulty of "paper cage restraining tigers" (纸笼禁虎), promoting Party cadres to transform disciplinary requirements into internal pursuits.
Give full play to the fundamental role of laws and regulations, keep power always operating in the sunlight, and only then can we create a favorable environment for undertaking endeavors and starting businesses, allowing the positive atmosphere of daring to act and willingness to act to become more abundant.
To make power better serve the people, how can we strengthen institutional governance of power and exercise power according to regulations?
Look at rectifying formalism to reduce burdens at the grass-roots level. At Chaoyang Village (朝阳村), Dongliao County (东辽县), Jilin (吉林), in the past village cadres spent a lot of time on inspections and form-filling; now they can settle down to undertake endeavors and start businesses. In 2025 (2025年), the village collective's operating income reached 9.6 million yuan.
Look at governance of traffic bottlenecks. In Chengdu (成都), Sichuan (四川), multiple departments such as housing and construction, urban management, and public security established a coordination mechanism, with each performing its own duties 各司其职 (gè sī qí zhí - "each performs its duty," each does its own job) and exerting efforts in the same direction. The congestion index in key areas decreased by more than 20%.
Adhere to running the Party with institutions and governing the Party with rules, clarify the boundaries of power, and standardize the entire process of exercising power; who should manage, what to manage, and what responsibilities to bear become clear 一目了然 (yī mù liǎo rán - "at a glance clear," to be obvious at a glance). This not only reduces buck-passing and wrangling (推诿扯皮) but also urges all departments to fulfill their duties.
Comprehensive strict Party governance is related to the will of the people. Where Party conduct and government conduct are fresh and clean, what is won is the people's hearts and confidence.
Enterprises come because of this. A certain enterprise had 7 site selection options; Wujiang District, Suzhou, Jiangsu (江苏苏州吴江区) went from "alternative" to "first choice." The government's efficiency and sincerity were the key factors that moved the enterprise's responsible person.
Talent gathers because of this. Rich support measures, considerate public services, and a comfortable and livable urban atmosphere release appeal. In 2025 (2025年), among the new population in Guiyang, Guizhou (贵州贵阳), youth accounted for over 60%.
A 2025 survey by the National Bureau of Statistics (国家统计局) showed that 95.5% of respondents affirmed the effectiveness of implementing the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee (中央八项规定), and 92.2% of respondents expressed satisfaction with the effect of the improvement of Party and government conduct driving the improvement of social atmosphere.
Subsidies are distributed accurately and efficiently, the ecological environment continues to improve, and administrative law enforcement becomes more standardized… Comprehensive strict Party governance escorts good policies to be implemented in practice, winning the people's trust with visible and tangible results, and gathering the mighty force of high-quality development.
The more effectively the Party is managed and governed, the stronger the guarantee for economic and social development. Study and implement Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building, 持之以恒 (chí zhī yǐ héng - "persevere with constancy," to persist unremittingly) in rectifying conduct, enforcing discipline, and fighting corruption, use good Party conduct to guide social conduct and civic conduct; we will surely be unafraid of mountains high and roads long 山高路远 (shān gāo lù yuǎn - "mountains high road far," a long and arduous journey), win people's hearts, win the initiative, and win the future.
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Return to TopBy: 林丽鹂
The market entity exit mechanism is an important component of a modern economic system. Currently, the deepening reform of market-based allocation of factors requires us to accelerate the supporting reforms for enterprise deregistration and improve the enterprise exit system.
Allowing "zombie enterprises" (僵尸企业) to exit the market has always been a difficult problem. Now, there is a new lever for solving this thorny issue. Not long ago, the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局) selected seven provinces (municipalities) including Beijing (北京), Hebei (河北), and Jiangsu (江苏) to carry out a pilot program where registration authorities apply to the people's court for compulsory liquidation.
This new measure originates from a provision specifically added in the revised Company Law (公司法), which allows relevant departments or company registration authorities to apply to the people's court for liquidation as applicants. This not only provides an additional method for "zombie enterprises" to exit but also greatly enhances the initiative in governance.
In the past, for enterprises with abnormal operations, it was mainly stakeholders such as company shareholders and creditors who would apply to the people's court for compulsory liquidation. Since such enterprises often have little property available for liquidation, the incentive for creditors to push for compulsory liquidation was not great. Exiting the market requires completing multiple steps such as liquidation, debt repayment, and account cancellation, so enterprises also lack the motivation to exit voluntarily. In addition, some localities, concerned about the negative impacts of enterprise exits, would "transfuse blood" (输血) to "zombie enterprises." A combination of multiple factors makes it difficult for the market to truly achieve the **survival of the fittest** (优胜劣汰).
To break such a vicious cycle, it is necessary to identify the crux of the problem and take targeted action. The current pilot program of compulsory liquidation by the State Administration for Market Regulation precisely targets the key link of the applicant entity, with the registration authority taking the initiative to clear obstacles for the market's "metabolism" (新陈代谢). By acting as the applicant, the registration authority can better integrate data from multiple departments, provide a more complete chain of evidence, shorten the cycle of compulsory liquidation proceedings, and save valuable administrative and judicial resources. For example, Jiangsu (江苏) has established a normalized mechanism for public interest compulsory liquidation and exit of enterprises with abnormal operations. As of the end of May this year, it had handled over 18,000 cases of public interest compulsory liquidation deregistration.
Forcing the liquidation of "zombie enterprises" is not purely a judicial or administrative issue; it is a systematic project involving improving government efficiency and optimizing the allocation of factors. The purpose of such liquidation is to allow production factors such as land and labor to flow again and be allocated to more dynamic new industries and new business forms. Therefore, supporting mechanisms such as asset disposal, employee placement, and debt resolution must be improved simultaneously.
In addition, before compulsory liquidation, "assistance and guidance" should be provided to enhance the convenience of voluntary enterprise exit. For instance, in the first five months of this year, enterprises exiting the market through the simplified cancellation procedure in Beijing (北京) accounted for 64.95% of the total number of deregistered enterprises. By coordinating destruction and establishment, withdrawal and entry, we can ensure that invalid supply in the market is cleared as soon as possible, freeing up valuable space for high-quality development.
The exit of enterprises from the market can have wide-ranging economic and social impacts. While taking proactive measures and strengthening institutional rigidity, it is essential to conduct accurate identification and implement classified disposal. For example, in the process of conducting a pilot program for public interest liquidation of enterprises with abnormal operations, Neijiang City, Sichuan Province (四川内江市) established a "diagnosis-and-treatment-style" (诊疗式) tiered classification rescue and disposal mechanism: issuing early warnings to "not-yet-sick" (未病) enterprises with potential risks; providing targeted assistance to "minor-illness" (小毛病) enterprises with operational hazards; treating "seriously ill" (大病) enterprises through out-of-court restructuring, pre-reorganization, and judicial reorganization; and guiding "terminally ill" 病入膏肓 (bìng rù gāo huāng - "disease has entered the vital region," an idiom meaning the illness is beyond cure, used to describe a hopeless or irretrievable situation) "zombie enterprises" to exit in an orderly manner through public interest liquidation.
The market entity exit mechanism is an important component of a modern economic system. Currently, the deepening reform of market-based allocation of factors requires us to accelerate the supporting reforms for enterprise deregistration and improve the enterprise exit system. By better leveraging the market's role in **survival of the fittest** (优胜劣汰) and promoting the concentration of more resources toward efficient sectors, we can invigorate the construction of a high-level socialist market economy system and unleash the surging power of high-quality development.
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[Phenomenon] The "China Noise Pollution Prevention and Control Report (2026) (中国噪声污染防治报告（2026）)" issued by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (生态环境部) and 10 other departments and units shows that as of the end of 2025, a total of 3,272 quiet communities (宁静小区) had been built nationwide, benefiting over 2.4 million households. The soon-to-be-implemented Ecological Environment Code (生态环境法典) also encourages the creation of quiet zones such as quiet communities and silent carriages, jointly maintaining the harmony and tranquility of the living environment. Quiet communities are becoming a bright stroke in the answer sheet of noise governance.
[Commentary]
A quiet community refers to a community that, through noise pollution control, achieves a sound environment quality that meets standards and has a high degree of resident satisfaction, providing residents with a quiet living environment for daily life, study, and work. To build quiet communities and restore tranquility to the ears, it is advisable to keep in mind the following "three secrets."
**Shift thinking to crack difficult points.** To make a community "quiet," it is necessary not only to reduce "environmental sounds" but also to control "activity sounds." To prevent noise governance from falling into a deadlock, one must step out of the trap of zero-sum thinking. For example, in a certain community in Gongshu District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang (浙江杭州拱墅区), many homeowners are music enthusiasts. At night, music rises one after another, disturbing residents' dreams; adding sound-dampening pads to instruments affects timbre, and music lovers also have their grievances. Through consultation, the community and a music institution joined hands: the institution's soundproofed piano rooms are open for two "public welfare periods" each day, allowing quiet and hobbies to be balanced, and neighborly relations to become more harmonious. By switching perspectives and making good use of resources, turning "zero-sum" into "harmony and unity" (和合), it is possible to change "each going his own way" (各行其是 (gè xíng qí shì - "each acts as one pleases," acting independently without coordination)) into "each getting his due" (各得其所 (gè dé qí suǒ - "each gets its proper place," everyone is properly placed or satisfied)).
**Improve systems to resolve pain points.** Noise governance involves many aspects and a wide scope. If viewed short-sightedly and handled in a piecemeal manner, it is inevitable that one wave not yet subsided, another arises. To address this, it is especially necessary to improve systems and pursue long-term effectiveness. Looking at the top-level design, the Ecological Environment Code lists "Noise Pollution Prevention and Control" as a separate sub-section, formulating detailed provisions for the governance of industrial, construction, transportation, and social life noise, each categorized. Looking at grassroots practice, various localities focus on building quiet communities, strengthen public participation, "discuss the affairs of everyone together," and form institutional measures such as quiet community compacts (宁静公约). By both emphasizing the establishment of rules and systems and strengthening their implementation, from the top to the grassroots, weaving an increasingly perfect "noise reduction net" can make a quiet life a normal state.
**Innovate supply to eliminate blockages.** Shifting from passive governance to active prevention often achieves twice the result with half the effort (事半功倍 (shì bàn gōng bèi - "half the work, double the result," achieving more with less effort)). This requires placing noise reduction awareness in advance. For example, the national standard "Residential Project Specification (住宅项目规范)" implemented in May 2025 upgraded residential sound insulation requirements from "recommended" to "must be strictly enforced," making "sound insulation" a hard indicator, forcing iterative upgrades on the manufacturing and production side. In addition, the "good housing" construction standards are accelerating their implementation, with new processes, new pipes, and new designs jointly providing new "quiet" solutions. In urban renewal projects, huge air-film domes cover construction sites, and pollution such as noise and dust have nowhere to escape. Upholding a whole-chain mindset and promoting changes on the supply side such as manufacturing and products can find the key to "downstream" governance in the innovation of "upstream" products and services.
Governing noise is a manifestation of meeting the people's growing needs for a better life. Turning "zero-sum" into "harmony and unity," short-sightedness into long-term effectiveness, and challenges into opportunities, the construction of quiet communities embodies a methodology of achieving political achievements for the people and through solid work. By keeping the "three secrets" of quiet in mind and handling the major matters of the people's "voice," the people's sense of gain will be effectively enhanced.
How to coordinate the demolition of the old and the establishment of the new in urban renewal, how to closely integrate investment in things with investment in people... In advancing people-centered new urbanization, if one falls into the opposition of "choosing one of two" for everything, it is likely to be difficult to reconcile all parties, leading to mutual constraints and systemic internal friction, affecting development quality and efficiency. By adopting more of a "one-chess-game" awareness, finding the meeting points of various needs, making overall plans, and taking into account all factors with meticulous effort (绣花功夫 (xiù huā gōng fu - "embroidery effort," careful and detailed work)), it is certain to more efficiently leverage high-quality development.
Return to TopRecently, the Ministry of Commerce (商务部) and seven other units jointly issued the "Several Measures on Promoting the Integrated Development of Railway and Tourism and Expanding Service Consumption" (《关于促进铁路与旅游融合发展 扩大服务消费的若干措施》), further expanding new supply in railway tourism and innovating diversified consumption scenarios. In 2025, a total of 2,485 tourist trains were operated nationwide, a year-on-year increase of 33.6%. Today, the railway is breaking through its single transport function and creating new growth points for service consumption.
This is exactly:
The silver dragon links mountains and seas,
Carefree, heading to distant hometowns.
No need to wait until the climb,
Along the way, endless joy lingers.
Xu Zhiwen (徐之文)
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Regulating enterprise-related administrative inspections directly relates to the vitality of enterprise operations and the confidence of regional development. How to make administrative law enforcement possess both force and warmth, achieving the organic unity of "no disturbance when nothing happens" (无事不扰) and "ubiquitous presence" (无处不在), has already become a touchstone (试金石) for testing the quality of the business environment. Since the beginning of this year, the number of enterprise-related administrative inspections by departments at all levels of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (新疆生产建设兵团) has decreased by 28.4% year-on-year, while the problem discovery rate has increased by 17.25% year-on-year. One decrease and one increase reflect the transformation of enterprise-related inspections from "extensive style" (粗放式) to "precise style" (精准化).
To regulate enterprise-related inspections, one must first do "subtraction" and "loosen the ties" for enterprises. In the past, excessive and indiscriminate enterprise-related inspections in some places made enterprises suffer unspeakably. Multi-head inspections and duplicate inspections not only consume a great deal of enterprise energy but also breed space for power rent-seeking. In response, the "Opinions of the General Office of the State Council (国务院办公厅) on Strictly Regulating Enterprise-Related Administrative Inspections" has drawn rigid red lines in terms of inspection items, inspection authority, and inspection procedures. Nowadays, various places are widely promoting reforms such as "scan code to enter enterprise" (扫码入企) and "comprehensive inspection once" (综合查一次), precisely in order to "reduce what should be reduced," freeing enterprises from being 疲于应付 (pí yú yìng fù - "tired of dealing with," exhausted from coping with inspection receptions), so that they have more time to plan innovative development.
However, doing "subtraction" does not mean "lying flat," and doing "addition" does not mean "abusing power." The key to standardizing law enforcement lies in properly grasping the dialectic of strictness and leniency. Strictness must have a basis, and law enforcement must have accuracy. For fields such as food and drugs, production safety, and ecological environment, it is necessary to adhere to the most rigorous standards and the strictest supervision, ensuring that relevant inspections "inspect what must be inspected" (应查必查) and leave no dead ends. Leniency must have a limit, and law enforcement must have warmth. The purpose of law enforcement is not to issue how many fines, but to use inspections and guidance to "patch loopholes" (补漏洞) and "prescribe solutions" (开药方) for enterprise production and operations. It is necessary to further promote the list systems of "no punishment for first offense" (首违不罚) and "exemption for minor violations" (轻微免罚), and establish post-enforcement follow-up and compliance guidance mechanisms. At the same time, treat the development of new technologies and new business forms with inclusiveness and prudence, giving enterprises time and space for correction.
High-level supervision cannot be separated from precise profiling (精准画像) and classified policy implementation (分类施策). On the one hand, it is necessary to strengthen technology empowerment, use big data, artificial intelligence and other means to implement off-site supervision, and reduce interference with enterprise production and operations through smart supervision methods such as remote video and Internet of Things sensing. On the other hand, it is necessary to implement differentiated management, establish an enterprise credit risk classification management system, and implement key supervision for enterprises with high risk, poor credit, or significant influence in their industries, thereby improving the efficiency and coverage of inspections.
Optimizing the business environment has no completion time, only a continuous process. Only by putting an end to arbitrary law enforcement and achieving "strict when strict is needed, lenient when lenient is appropriate" on the track of the rule of law can we better activate the "pool of spring water" (一池春水) of the market, allowing enterprises to invest with confidence, operate with peace of mind, and focus on development on the fertile soil of the rule of law.
(Excerpted from Bingtuan Daily (兵团日报), originally titled "Enterprise-related administrative inspections should 'reduce quantity without reducing effectiveness'" (涉企行政检查当“减量不降效”).
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Directly linking training supply with enterprise demand, letting the industry have the final say, letting the market have the final say, can effectively enhance the value of training.
Recently, in employment service work, the HR manager of a manufacturing enterprise complained to this author: "Nearly half of the newly recruited ordinary workers leave within three months." At a city-wide job fair, they received hundreds of resumes, but when making phone calls, responses were either "too far away" or "the time is not suitable," with very few coming for interviews. The experience of this company is a microcosm of the current coexistence of "difficulty in recruiting" and "difficulty in finding employment."
Along with a new round of industrial transformation, the large-scale, homogenized employment model is increasingly unsuitable for composite and innovative job demands. There are generally three types of disconnection: the efficiency of matching people to positions is not high, with public platforms mostly posting basic positions while enterprises' urgently needed skilled positions must be resolved by themselves; skills training lacks value, with many certificates issued but not recognized by enterprises; the employment service chain is short, mostly stopping at "recommendation for employment," making the initial adaptation period after entry a blind spot. It can be said that the organization methods of employment services in some places have not truly switched to a track starting from industrial demands, and the inertia of departmental segmentation remains stronger than the consciousness of systematic coordination.
Prioritizing employment means not only priority in policy intensity but also must be priority in development logic; it requires planning employment simultaneously when planning industry.
The starting point of employment services must be advanced from "enterprise labor shortage" to the stage of "project signing," and even "school education." For example, Suzhou, Jiangsu (江苏苏州) has front-loaded employment and labor services, conducting "employment-driven evaluation" for major projects, and helping enterprises plan, cultivate, and reserve skilled personnel in advance, achieving "evaluation upon settlement, service before completion, and service guaranteeing commencement." Hubei (湖北) encourages schools and enterprises to jointly build "training grounds," connecting the production front line to teaching classrooms, with 80 institutions and over 800 enterprises conducting regular school-enterprise cooperation and offering more than 150 order-based classes. Reshaping the logic of employment services with industrial demands and doing the work in advance prevents enterprises from being trapped by talent shortages and stops workers from "being bewildered upon starting their jobs."
The focus of vocational training lies in practical application. It is advisable to use the "backward reasoning method": first clarify job requirements, then break them down into individual operational skills, and subsequently design courses and standards based on these. Take Guangdong (广东) as an example. Focusing on the labor demands of strategic industrial clusters, it leverages the main role of enterprises in talent cultivation, building over 150 industry-education-evaluation skills ecological chains, driving more than 1,100 chain enterprises to conduct skills training for 690,000 person-times, and vigorously promoting employment upon graduation. Directly linking training supply with enterprise demand, letting the industry have the final say, letting the market have the final say, can effectively enhance the value of training.
Job-seeking is a short-term choice, but employment is a long-term process. Building high-quality employment services is a system project covering the entire cycle and the entire chain. At the front end, employment impact assessment can be incorporated into the pre-procedures of major industrial policies, breaking down departmental information silos, and strengthening overall coordination. At the back end, an onboarding tracking and follow-up mechanism can be established to continuously monitor employee adaptation, alleviate work difficulties, coordinate labor relations, and effectively improve the retention rate. At the same time, measures must be tailored to different groups. Young people desire growth platforms, older employees seek stable security, and long-distance commuters value time flexibility; differentiated services must be provided for different categories of workers. Full-process follow-up and precise support help better retain talent, stabilize positions, and revitalize industry.
The evaluative baton for employment services needs to shift from "how much has been done" to "how much has been achieved." Currently, many assessments focus on the "action" level, tracking how many job fairs were held and how much information was released. These reflect workload rather than work effectiveness. Only by focusing on indicators such as information reach rate, interview conversion rate, and retention rate can we compel employment services to become more concrete and detailed.
Employment is the greatest livelihood. By "planting" employment services in the soil of industry and in the skills of workers, using more matching and complete measures to unblock bottlenecks and obstacles, effectively connecting talent supply with job demand, and ensuring that people and positions fit each other, using people's strengths, and 人尽其才 (rén jìn qí cái - "each person fully uses their talent," to ensure everyone can fully exploit their potential), we can then consolidate the foundation of development with the stability of employment.
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 马跃峰 苏 滨
The summer sun is blazing hot. In Tuanjie Village (团结村), Pingzheng Gelao and Miao Ethnic Township (平正仡佬族乡), Bozhou District (播州区), Zunyi City (遵义市), Guizhou Province (贵州省), the vegetation is lush and the mountains are covered in verdant green. The Dafa Canal (大发渠) is like a jade belt, tightly winding between the steep cliffs.
Entering the Tuanjie Village Dafa Canal Party Spirit Education Exhibition Hall (团结村大发渠党性教育陈列馆), the atmosphere is solemn and fervent — more than 50 Party members of the village Party general branch (村党总支) stand in solemn silence. The village Party general branch secretary, Wang Chaohai (王朝海), leads the reading in a loud voice: "I request to join the Party, and from now on I will serve the people wholeheartedly to the end, help the masses be a good servant, not fear sacrifice, not fear difficulty, not fear bloodshed..." This Party membership application form was written down by the old branch secretary, Huang Dafa (黄大发), many years ago while consulting a dictionary.
"The cliffside heavenly canal reflects the original aspiration. The old branch secretary led everyone using hoes and steel rods to chisel the sheer cliffs, never uttering a word of giving up. Relying on that very strength from the Party membership application, they dug through the 9400-meter canal." Xu Guoshu (徐国树), 54 years old, has been a Party member for over 20 years and is a villager group leader. When young, he followed Huang Dafa (黄大发) to build the canal. Even though there were 一波三折 (yì bō sān zhé - "one wave three twists," indicating many twists and turns and setbacks), his confidence never wavered.
"Seeing these words, I ask myself: the things the old branch secretary did back then, now that we have taken the baton, can we do even better?" Xu Guoshu (徐国树) said emotionally.
Since digging the canal, the local area has 因地制宜 (yīn dì zhì yí - "according to local conditions," to adapt measures to local conditions) developed "three types of land": areas above 1300 meters above sea level develop square bamboo shoot industry and beekeeping; areas between 800 and 1300 meters develop chili pepper, medicinal herb industries and livestock breeding; areas below 800 meters plant high-quality rice and economic fruit forests.
At the end of 2022, the expressway reached Tuanjie Village (团结村), and more and more tourists came to visit the Dafa Canal (大发渠). "We still want to let the fellow villagers live an even better life," Xu Guoshu (徐国树) visited two villager groups, mobilized the villagers to invest shares, and built a camping base.
At the internal meeting of the villager group, Wang Chaohai (王朝海) on behalf of the Party general branch (党总支) took the lead in expressing support: "We have such good natural resources and spiritual treasures; engaging in agricultural-culture-tourism will definitely be the right path, and the village collective must participate."
"What if the water suddenly rises and washes away the camping equipment?" "What if we can't make money — wouldn't that be a big loss for nothing?" ... Faced with some doubts, Xu Guoshu (徐国树) stated his attitude: "If we really lose money, I will pay out of my own pocket to make up the loss; I mean what I say!"
At the beginning of 2024, 53 households of villagers invested shares, raising more than 1.5 million yuan. Xu Guoshu (徐国树) led everyone to dredge the river channel, green the riverbanks, purchase equipment, and build the camping base. In the same year, they netted 2.98 million yuan and distributed 530,000 yuan in dividends. Everyone expressed their determination to continue.
"Unexpectedly, in the second year, a sudden flood washed away some equipment, causing a loss of over 400,000 yuan." Xu Guoshu (徐国树) worried that everyone's enthusiasm would be dampened. When he rushed to the scene, he found everyone busy cleaning up; he did not hear a single complaint. "We replenished the equipment, earned 1.5 million yuan that year, and everyone suggested not distributing dividends first, waiting until the operation is stable," Xu Guoshu (徐国树) said.
In the first half of this year, the camping base netted over 200,000 yuan, far exceeding the same period last year. The upcoming peak tourist season is an even bigger highlight. The village's development momentum is getting better and better, and more and more young people are returning to their hometown.
Villager Zhao Jinshan (赵金山) had long been working in the logistics industry in Guangdong (广东). In 2017, he returned to the village for the Spring Festival. On a rugged path of four to five hundred meters, carrying two boxes of fruit, he walked with sweat pouring down his face.
"My grandfather and father followed the old branch secretary to build the canal. I grew up playing in the mud by the canal. I have a responsibility to come back and build my hometown." In 2018, the returning Zhao Jinshan (赵金山) targeted rural logistics. "Courier services can't enter the village; they only go to the town. Agricultural specialty products are hard to sell. This situation needs to change."
Zhao Jinshan (赵金山) contacted logistics companies level by level and successfully set up a logistics point in Tuanjie Village (团结村). However, due to high costs and few parcels, within just over a year, the superior distribution point was forced to close. He renegotiated, but the superior distribution point folded again in less than half a year.
"If it doesn't work, do it yourself!" Zhao Jinshan (赵金山) went to the town to pick up parcels. Seeing this, the villagers spontaneously proposed a subsidy of 2 yuan per parcel. The logistics in Tuanjie Village (团结村) were thoroughly opened up, and agricultural products sell well outside the mountains. "The old branch secretary said, don't think for yourself, think for the masses, serve the people wholeheartedly to the end. Young people must also do this," Zhao Jinshan (赵金山) said.
In 2024, driven by Xu Guoshu (徐国树), Zhao Jinshan (赵金山) actively participated in the construction of the camping base. Now 36 years old, he has ideas and many suggestions. He proposed adding performances such as ethnic songs and dances, and also plans to introduce new business formats like coffee and new-style tea drinks.
"More and more young people are returning to the village to develop, and the driving force for comprehensive rural revitalization is getting stronger," Wang Chaohai (王朝海) said. Last year, the per capita annual income of the whole village was 17,900 yuan, a significant increase from about 3,000 yuan in 2015.
In March this year, Zhao Jinshan (赵金山) submitted his Party membership application to the Party organization. "We must be like the old branch secretary, with unchanged original aspiration, inherit and carry forward the spirit of wholeheartedly serving the people, working hard with heads buried, and 百折不挠 (bǎi zhé bù náo - "hundred setbacks not break," meaning perseverance despite countless setbacks), and serve the people wholeheartedly to the end!"
Return to TopBeijing (北京), June 24 (Journalist Shi Yiqi (史一棋)) — The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Commission of Supervision (中央纪委国家监委) on the 24th published the monthly report data on the nationwide investigation and punishment of violations of the spirit of the Central Committee's Eight-Point Regulation (中央八项规定精神). The bulletin shows that in May of this year, a total of 24,513 cases of violations of the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation were investigated and punished nationwide, with 31,184 persons subjected to criticism, education, and handling (including 1 provincial/ministerial-level cadre, 118 prefectural/department-level cadres), and 20,012 persons given disciplinary and government sanctions.
According to the bulletin, in May of this year, a total of 12,994 cases of formalism and bureaucratism were investigated and punished nationwide, with 16,958 persons subjected to criticism, education, and handling. Among them, the most cases were investigated in the area of "failure to assume responsibility, failure to act, arbitrary action, false action in performing duties and fulfilling responsibilities, serving economic and social development, and ecological and environmental protection, seriously affecting high-quality development," with 10,783 cases investigated and 14,141 persons subjected to criticism, education, and handling.
According to the bulletin, in May of this year, a total of 11,519 cases of hedonism and extravagance were investigated and punished nationwide, with 14,226 persons subjected to criticism, education, and handling. Among them, 6,829 cases of illegally receiving and sending famous specialty products and gifts and money were investigated, 1,360 cases of illegally distributing subsidies or benefits, and 2,188 cases of illegally eating and drinking.
Return to TopBeijing, June 24 (People's Daily) — (Reporter Shen Shaotie (申少铁)) Recently, the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委) and the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (国家中医药局) launched the 2026 National Elderly Health Awareness Week (全国老年健康宣传周) activities. This year's promotional theme is "Medication with Method, Silver Age Well-being" (用药有方，银龄安康), with the duration being June 22 to 28.
According to reports, how to ensure correct, rational, and safe medication use for the elderly not only relates to medical quality and patient safety but also directly affects the health and quality of life of the elderly population. During this year's National Elderly Health Awareness Week (全国老年健康宣传周), various localities focus on topics such as elderly health and safe medication, and carry out multiple forms of promotional activities including rational medication use publicity, free clinics, and health Q&A sessions.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘博通
The Law of the People's Republic of China on the Promotion of National Unity and Progress (《中华人民共和国民族团结进步促进法》) will come into effect on July 1 of this year. The State Council Information Office (国务院新闻办) held a press conference on June 24 to introduce the Law on the Promotion of National Unity and Progress (《中华人民共和国民族团结进步促进法》) and relevant information on China's ethnic work.
“The Law on the Promotion of National Unity and Progress (《中华人民共和国民族团结进步促进法》) transforms General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平总书记) important thought on strengthening and improving ethnic work, especially the major concept of forging a sense of community for the Chinese nation (铸牢中华民族共同体意识), into the will of the state; elevates the successful experience in promoting the building of the Chinese nation community (中华民族共同体建设) and the cause of national unity and progress since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China into legal provisions; proclaims and clarifies the political stance, specific tasks, and direction of efforts of the Party and the state regarding ethnic work in the new era; ensures the Party's overall leadership over ethnic work institutionally and legally; and continuously consolidates the common ideological and political foundation and the rule-of-law foundation for the united struggle of all ethnic groups,” said Chen Ruifeng (陈瑞峰), Deputy Head of the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中央统战部) and Director of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission (国家民委).
Systematically constructing the legal framework for the cause of national unity and progress
“The formulation and promulgation of the Law on the Promotion of National Unity and Progress (《中华人民共和国民族团结进步促进法》) is a milestone event in the history of the Party's united front and ethnic work, and a major legal measure to forge a sense of community for the Chinese nation (铸牢中华民族共同体意识) and advance the building of the Chinese nation community (推进中华民族共同体建设),” Chen Ruifeng (陈瑞峰) said.
“This is the first draft law studied at a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中央政治局会议) in over 30 years. The centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee ran through the entire process of the legislation's project initiation, drafting, and deliberation,” said Bayin Chaolu (巴音朝鲁), a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会) and Chairman of the Ethnic Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大民族委员会).
During the entire legislative process, opinions were extensively solicited from all sides in every link. Opinions on the draft law were solicited twice from over 380 units of central state organs, provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government, and opinions from deputies to the National People's Congress were solicited multiple times. The full text of the draft was published twice to solicit opinions from the public, and nearly 50,000 person-times submitted opinions.
“These practices maximized consensus on legislation, truly achieving ‘stand firm, workable’ (立得住、行得通), and are a vivid practice of implementing the major concept of whole-process people's democracy,” said Bayin Chaolu (巴音朝鲁).
“The Law on the Promotion of National Unity and Progress (《中华人民共和国民族团结进步促进法》) is a basic law in the new era for implementing the relevant provisions of the Constitution, handling ethnic affairs, and carrying out ethnic work. In terms of structure, a preamble was specially set, making it the first law in over 30 years to include a preamble,” Bayin Chaolu (巴音朝鲁) said.
In terms of content, the Law on the Promotion of National Unity and Progress (《中华人民共和国民族团结进步促进法》) clarifies the overall requirements, important principles, and responsibility requirements of relevant entities for the cause of national unity and progress; further improves and perfects the institutional mechanisms urgently needed for governance in the field of ethnic work, necessary for promoting national unity and progress, and urgently needed for effectively preventing risks and hidden dangers in the ethnic field; and establishes clear and stable behavioral norms and long-term expectations.
“The Law on the Promotion of National Unity and Progress (《中华人民共和国民族团结进步促进法》) is the first specialized law in the ethnic field in the new era,” said Lei Jianbin (雷建斌), Deputy Director of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会法工委). The Law on the Promotion of National Unity and Progress (《中华人民共和国民族团结进步促进法》) systematically constructs the legal framework for the cause of national unity and progress, providing a comprehensive, long-term, and fundamental guarantee for handling ethnic affairs and conducting ethnic work on the track of the rule of law and for comprehensively advancing the cause of national unity and progress.
Legislative work in the ethnic field has continuously achieved new developments and new accomplishments
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China's cause of national unity and progress has achieved new historic accomplishments. From 2012 to 2025, the gross regional product of the five autonomous regions (自治区) increased from 3.25 trillion yuan to 8.66 trillion yuan. The degree of interaction, communication, and integration among all ethnic groups is unprecedented. China's floating population of ethnic minorities reaches over 33 million, with more than one-third of ethnic minority populations living in cities and scattered areas. The distribution pattern of “large scatter, small clusters, and intermingled coexistence” (大散居、小聚居、交错杂居) among all ethnic groups continues to deepen.
“The concept of the Chinese nation community (中华民族共同体) has deeply entered people's hearts, and the atmosphere of ‘all ethnic groups of the Chinese nation are one family, working together to build the Chinese Dream’ (中华民族一家亲、同心共筑中国梦) is strong,” said Duan Yijun (段毅君), Deputy Head of the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中央统战部). With the legislative intent of forging a sense of community for the Chinese nation (铸牢中华民族共同体意识) and advancing the building of the Chinese nation community (推进中华民族共同体建设), the major reform results, valuable experience, and institutional measures of ethnic work in the new era have been transformed into national legal provisions, and a comprehensive, multi-level institutional mechanism has gradually been constructed.
Since the new era, implementing the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, the National People's Congress and its Standing Committee have actively and steadily carried out legislative work related to the ethnic field, continuously achieving new developments and new accomplishments.
“More than ten laws, including the Law on Land Border (陆地国界法), the Organic Law of Local People's Congresses and Local People's Governments (地方组织法), the Law on Deputies to the National People's Congress and Local People's Congresses (代表法), and the Legislation Law (立法法), have made clear provisions on forging a sense of community for the Chinese nation (铸牢中华民族共同体意识), continuously enriching and improving the content related to ethnic work,” Lei Jianbin (雷建斌) said.
Implementing all legal provisions into practice
The Law on the Promotion of National Unity and Progress (《中华人民共和国民族团结进步促进法》) specifically stipulates content on “building a common spiritual homeland” (构筑共有精神家园), “promoting interaction, communication, and integration” (促进交往交流交融), and “promoting common prosperity and development” (推动共同繁荣发展). Chen Ruifeng (陈瑞峰) said that the National Ethnic Affairs Commission (国家民委) is working with relevant departments to study and formulate the “15th Five-Year Plan” (十五五规划) for promoting national unity and progress, implementing all legal provisions into practice.
Enhance cultural identity and build a common spiritual homeland for all ethnic groups. The National Ethnic Affairs Commission (国家民委) will adhere to the guidance of socialist core values, continuously deepen education in patriotism, collectivism, and socialism, and guide people of all ethnic groups to firmly establish correct views of the country, history, ethnicity, culture, and religion (国家观、历史观、民族观、文化观、宗教观).
Promote interaction, communication, and integration among all ethnic groups, and promote all ethnic groups to cling together tightly like pomegranate seeds (石榴籽). The National Ethnic Affairs Commission (国家民委) will deepen the creation of national unity and progress in the new era, strengthen cultural and tourism integration to promote interaction, communication, and integration among all ethnic groups, solidly promote the construction of inter-embedded community environments, and deeply carry out the “new citizens” (新市民) empowerment action in ethnic regions.
Continuously realize the aspirations of people of all ethnic groups for a better life. The National Ethnic Affairs Commission (国家民委) will focus on achieving common prosperity for all ethnic groups, improve differentiated regional support policies, deepen the action to revitalize border areas and enrich the people (兴边富民行动) in the new era, and vigorously develop characteristic advantageous industries and “small yet beautiful” (小而美) livelihood projects.
“Through five years of continuous efforts, we have completed the compilation of the ‘History of Interaction, Communication, and Integration of the Chinese Nation’ (《中华民族交往交流交融史》), which will be published and released in the near future,” Chen Ruifeng (陈瑞峰) said. This book consists of 11 volumes with over 4.2 million characters, and will provide an important foundation for promoting the construction of a historical materials system, discourse system, and theoretical system for the Chinese nation community (中华民族共同体).
“Effectively studying and publicizing the Law on the Promotion of National Unity and Progress (《中华人民共和国民族团结进步促进法》) is an important task in nationwide legal education,” said Hu Weilie (胡卫列), Vice Minister of Justice (司法部). The study and publicity of the Law on the Promotion of National Unity and Progress (《中华人民共和国民族团结进步促进法》) should be integrated into the entire process of legislation, law enforcement, and judicial work related to ethnic work. Combining activities such as Constitution Publicity Week (宪法宣传周), National Unity and Progress Publicity Week (民族团结进步宣传周), and National Security Education Day for all citizens (全民国家安全教育日), we should go deep into communities, villages, schools, and social organizations to vigorously publicize the Party's ethnic policies and relevant laws and regulations.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 吴储岐
Civil affairs work connects thousands of households (千家万户), concerns the warmth and cold (百姓冷暖) of the common people, and the vast number of civil affairs workers take root among the masses, fight on the frontline of people's livelihood, and with heart and feeling (用心用情) solve the people's urgent, difficult, anxious, and longing (急难愁盼) problems.
On June 24, the State Council Information Office (国务院新闻办) held a press conference with Chinese and foreign journalists (中外记者见面会) on the theme "Strivers on the New Journey" (新征程上的奋斗者), inviting five frontline representatives from the civil affairs system to exchange views around "Civil affairs links people's livelihood, services warm people's hearts" (民政系民生，服务暖民心).
"I started engaging in social assistance work in 2011, and have been doing it for 15 years straight," introduced Guo Shanshan (郭珊珊), a grassroots social assistance worker from the Xingzhe Subdistrict Office (行者街道办事处) in Lintong District (临潼区), Xi'an City (西安市), Shaanxi Province (陕西省). In these years, she and her colleagues have normalized household visits, precisely delivering the bottom-line guarantee policies (兜底保障政策) to the needy masses.
There was once a student from an out-of-town household registration who suffered a severe traffic accident, and the high medical costs plunged the family into difficulty. "At that time, I was working in the Social Assistance Section of the Lintong District Civil Affairs Bureau (临潼区民政局社会救助科). After learning about this family's predicament, I was very distressed," Guo Shanshan said. She and her colleagues helped the family process a long-term residence certificate and traffic accident situation explanation materials, delivered temporary relief funds, and meanwhile contacted the student's household registration locality to implement social assistance policies such as the minimum subsistence guarantee (低保).
Yu Zhen (俞珍), director of the Hangzhou City救助 Management Station (杭州市救助管理站) in Zhejiang Province (浙江省), has been engaged in civil affairs work for thirty-five years and has deeply cultivated the field of rescue management for 11 years. Yu Zhen and her colleagues run year-round along railway lines and train platforms, escorting lost elderly and children home time and again.
"On the day of family reunion, the five siblings embraced and wept—a moment they had waited for fully 10 years," Yu Zhen said. The team once spent 10 years searching for the family of an elderly person with intellectual disabilities; later, a single dialect clue locked in the key lead, helping the separated family finally reunite. Beyond暖心坚守 (heartwarming perseverance), there is also technological empowerment: the locality created the civil affairs service intelligent agent "Hangmin Star" (杭民星), packing all municipal civil affairs policies and service guides into a "pocket"; it launched a "digital intelligence cockpit" (数智驾驶舱), forming a rapid response mechanism, improving the disposal efficiency of street-level rescue.
In the Weifang City Children's Welfare Institute (潍坊市儿童福利院) in Shandong Province (山东省), all children affectionately call the same person "Mom"—she is Vice Director Yang Shouwei (杨守伟). Yang Shouwei has used twenty-six years to guard the growth of abandoned and orphaned children. More than 500 children, accompanied by her, have gradually learned to turn over, crawl, walk, and run from being tiny little ones lying in her arms. Some have achieved academic success, some have mastered a skill, and have smoothly integrated into society. In Yang Shouwei's view, "the love the children give back makes my work especially meaningful."
At the press conference, Yang Shouwei brought a painting—a portrait of her drawn by the children, with the children's signatures on it. "For me, this expresses their love for me, and it is also my most precious collection," she said.
From youthfulness to gradually graying hair (华发渐生), Yang Shouwei has turned half a lifetime into warm companionship, and has also witnessed with her own eyes the development and changes of the children's welfare cause. She leads the team to formulate growth plans one by one tailored to each child's special circumstances: for the cerebral palsy child Xinxin (小新新) who had difficulty learning to walk, she designed a soft, widened walking harness; for the physically disabled child Zhouzhou (舟舟) with poor eating ability, she customized an anti-slip small spoon, turning one "impossible" after another into surprises through perseverance and companionship.
Zhang Sijin (张斯晋), head of the Nutrition and Dietetics Department at the Chongqing City Jiangjin Mental Rehabilitation Hospital (重庆市江津精神康复院), has been engaged in nursing work for 18 years. Facing a special patient group, Zhang Sijin juggles multiple roles. During morning care, he trims patients' nails, cuts their hair, and shaves their beards; in the deep night, he is a "lamp-carrying night watchman" (提灯守夜人), making rounds of the wards every hour; during discharge follow-ups, he travels over mountains and across rivers (跋山涉水 (bá shān shè shuǐ - "to cross mountains and wade rivers," to travel long distances under difficult conditions)), delivering free medicines into the hands of patients.
"During the '15th Five-Year Plan' (十五五) period, we will continue to promote the 'Mental Health Integration Action' (精康融合行动), continuously improve the full-chain services of discharge follow-up, home care guidance, community rehabilitation, etc., and carry out a series of nursing support measures to help patients better return to their families and integrate into society," Zhang Sijin said.
Nowadays, elderly care services are accelerating toward specialization and refinement. Ten years ago, Zhao Qiongqiong (赵琼琼), carrying her ignorance and enthusiasm for elderly care, stepped through the gate of the Shanghai First Social Welfare Institute (上海市第一社会福利院). Over ten years, she has continuously honed her skills and refined her abilities, step by step growing into the deputy director of the living area of the welfare institute. "Elderly care nursing is no longer simple physical care; it has become a composite profession that integrates multiple disciplines, emphasizes skills, and possesses high professionalism and humanistic care," she said.
Zhao Qiongqiong led the team to integrate professional knowledge from medicine, rehabilitation, nursing science, etc., and created a cognitive disorder "three no's, five senses" (三不五感) care method, creating a warm, comfortable, safe, and dignified living environment for elderly people with cognitive disorders. "In the future, I hope more young people can join this industry and shine with their light and heat (发光发热)," she said.
A word of thanks, a smile from the masses—for civil affairs workers, this is the most precious reward. They measure the people's sentiment with their steps, guard people's livelihood with their true hearts, and on the new journey are writing the answer sheet of struggle for the people and love for the people (为民爱民).
Return to TopThe China Sports Lottery (中国体育彩票) is a national public welfare lottery. The high-quality development of the sports lottery plays an important driving role in building a sports powerhouse. Since the beginning of this year, the Beijing Sports Lottery Management Center (北京市体育彩票管理中心) (hereinafter referred to as "Beijing Sports Lottery (北京体彩)"), based on its own functional positioning, has thoroughly implemented the deployment of the "Deepening Governance Year (深化治理年)" action in the sports field, focusing on the main tasks of governing prominent market risks, protecting the rights and interests of lottery purchasers, and carrying out industry integrity risk governance. It has strengthened security through police-lottery linkage (警彩联动), reinforced bottom lines through compliance inspection, strengthened supervision through social co-governance, established an image through public welfare and public trust, and consolidated the foundation through profession conduct purification. Through deepening governance, it integrates the concept of responsibility into the entire process of sports lottery business development, promoting the construction of a responsible lottery to 走深走实 (zǒu shēn zǒu shí - "go deep go solid," to be thoroughly implemented and achieve substantive results).
Police-Lottery Linkage (警彩联动), Build a Solid Anti-Fraud Safety Line. To better prevent and resolve sports lottery sales risks, Beijing Sports Lottery (北京体彩) proactively contacted relevant departments to establish a normalized police-lottery joint prevention and joint control coordination mechanism. Through regular consultations, joint early warnings, professional training, and diversified publicity, it has achieved a pattern of information exchange, complementary advantages, and shared risk governance. Before the "May Day (五一)" holiday this year, it jointly sent SMS reminders to all citizens in the city to prevent online lottery fraud; in early June, it invited anti-fraud experts to conduct anti-fraud legal training for more than 4,500 people including staff of the city's sports lottery institutions, specialized managers, agents, and salespersons; it jointly filmed an anti-fraud themed micro-film for sports lottery; after the start of the United States-Canada-Mexico World Cup (美加墨世界杯), it jointly added anti-fraud reminder text on the face of sports lottery tickets... multiple measures were implemented to effectively enhance the intensity of anti-fraud publicity and prevention work, with significant linkage results.
Compliance Inspection, Guard the Industry Compliance Bottom Line. Centering on the requirements of deepening governance in the sports lottery field, addressing market risks such as excessive multiple betting and illegal organized group purchases, it adheres to moving the threshold forward, source governance, strict investigation and punishment, and closed-loop disposal. Relying on a three-tier linkage verification mechanism, it comprehensively uses methods such as daily inspections and on-site verification to implement compliance rectification of offline physical stores. It adheres to the principle of "zero tolerance (零容忍)" for violations, implementing measures such as suspending machine operations for rectification within a time limit and expulsion for physical stores with illegal or non-compliant behaviors in accordance with the agency contract terms. Typical violation cases are reported citywide to strengthen the deterrent effect of case warning education, and to fully ensure the compliant and orderly operation of the Beijing sports lottery market.
Social Co-governance, Gather Joint Force for Standardized Development. To consolidate and strengthen the effectiveness of industry deepening governance, Beijing Sports Lottery (北京体彩) established a reward mechanism for reporting illegal sales behaviors in sports lottery physical stores, making public the reporting channels, detailing the verification process and reward standards. Through positive incentives, it activates social supervision forces, severely cracks down on various illegal behaviors, and builds a closed-loop governance pattern integrating industry supervision, public security law enforcement, and mass supervision, precisely filling regulatory shortcomings and rectifying industry chaos.
Rights Protection, Wholeheartedly Guard Peace of Mind Lottery Purchasing. Beijing Sports Lottery (北京体彩) anchors its publicity priorities on rational lottery purchasing, anti-fraud and fraud prevention, and protection of minors, coordinating online content creation and dissemination with offline scene promotion, carrying out public welfare publicity work in a multi-dimensional manner. In 2026, through the implementation of publicity work themed "Peace of Mind Lottery Purchasing Guardian Action (安心购彩守护行动)", it will comprehensively build a three-dimensional protection system of joint construction, joint governance, and shared benefits, creating a safe, healthy, and trustworthy lottery purchasing environment for the public.
Profession Conduct Purification, Continuously Strengthen Integrity Supervision. Beijing Sports Lottery (北京体彩) continues to carry out industry integrity risk governance. Focusing on key positions and core businesses, it establishes an integrity risk ledger, clarifying risk points, control measures, and responsible subjects item by item, regularly updating and improving, forming a normalized integrity risk prevention and control mechanism. It consolidates grassroots responsibility and strengthens 廉洁自律 (lián jié zì lǜ - "honest and self-disciplined," to be incorruptible and exercise self-discipline). All channel service units and specialized managers in the city sign the "Profession Conduct Construction Integrity and Clean Practice Commitment Letter (行风建设廉洁从业承诺书)", clarifying the requirements for clean practice; all sports lottery physical store agents in the city sign the "Commitment Letter for Selling Sports Lotteries in Accordance with Laws and Regulations (依法依规销售体育彩票承诺书)", clarifying the responsibility for compliant sales. Agents must strictly abide by various sales regulations, proactively guide rational lottery purchasing, consciously accept supervision and social oversight, and bear corresponding responsibility for non-compliant behaviors.
Next Steps. Beijing Sports Lottery (北京体彩) will continue to benchmark against the requirements of the "Deepening Governance Year (深化治理年)" action in the sports field, solidify long-term mechanisms such as police-lottery linkage, social co-governance, compliance control, and integrity risk control, continuously address governance weaknesses in the industry, consolidate the foundation for compliant development, consolidate governance results with normalized responsibility construction, uphold the duty of the national public welfare lottery, and assist the high-quality development of the capital's sports undertakings.
Data source: Beijing Sports Lottery Management Center (北京市体育彩票管理中心)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 潘俊强 李林蔚
For college graduates, in addition to job hunting, renting apartments, etc., there is one more thing that needs to be taken seriously during the graduation season – the standardized transfer of archives (档案).
Personnel files (人事档案) are important credentials for one's career, running through the entire process of job hunting and onboarding, household registration processing, social insurance participation, professional title evaluation, length of service determination, retirement calculation, etc. This indispensable and important credential concerns the long-term rights and interests of the individual.
—— Editor (编者)
What are archives (档案) used for –
They contain a "life resume (人生履历)" and are related to personal interests.
Graduates may never have seen their own archives, so they might be curious: what exactly is inside the archive bag?
The archive bag contains a person's "life resume (人生履历)." According to the "Regulations on the Work of Cadre Personnel Files (干部人事档案工作条例)" and the "Provisions on the Management and Service of Personnel Files of Mobile Personnel (流动人员人事档案管理服务规定)," personnel files (人事档案) are historical record materials that document a person's political affiliation, moral character, learning and work experience, professional competence, rewards and punishments, social relations, etc. They are an important part of the national archives and the social credit system. For college graduates, the archives contain many key materials such as school records, Party and League materials, transcripts, reward and punishment records, admission materials, etc., which are uniformly organized, reviewed, and sealed by the school before graduation to form a complete academic file (学籍档案). After entering the workplace, materials such as work experience, education and training, assessment and evaluation, and job appointments can be added successively to continuously enrich the archive content, providing an important basis for career development.
Personnel files (人事档案) are not insignificant "old materials (旧材料)" but rather a "growth record book (成长记录册)" and "rights and interests guarantee letter (权益保障书)" that accompany a person throughout their life. They are important bases for participating in unit recruitment, handling political review and investigation, applying for professional title evaluation, and verifying social insurance benefits, and they are related to the personal interests of the individual.
According to relevant regulations, the units that preserve the archives of college graduates mainly include several categories: universities (高校) – during the student's school period, the archives are uniformly managed by the school; unemployed graduates can retain them at the school for two years as per regulations; Party and government organs (党政机关) and state-owned enterprises and institutions (国有企业事业单位) – these units can directly manage the personnel files of their cadres and staff; public employment and talent service institutions (各级公共就业和人才服务机构) at all levels, as well as authorized archive management service institutions – these mainly provide archive management services for employees of non-public enterprises, flexible employment personnel, and unemployed graduates.
How are archives (档案) transferred –
Strictly implement the "public-to-public (公对公)" closed-loop transfer.
During the graduation season, the key to archive processing is to clarify the archive receiving unit according to the employment destination, and to standardize the transfer of archives. The human resources and social security departments (人社部门) remind that graduates' archives are strictly prohibited from being handled personally, privately unsealed, or self-kept.
Archive transfer strictly implements the "public-to-public (公对公)" closed-loop transfer. The destinations of graduates' archives are mainly divided into the following categories:
For those employed in state organs, state-owned enterprises, or public institutions (入职国家机关、国有企业、事业单位), graduates do not need to handle the archive transfer themselves. They only need to cooperate with the school to accurately register the unit information. The school will directly transfer the graduates' archives to the unit's organizational personnel department for reception and management.
For those employed in non-public enterprises, flexible employment, or self-employment (入职非公企业、灵活就业或自主创业), non-public enterprises cannot manage personnel files themselves. The graduates' archives can be transferred to the archive management service institution where the employer has entrusted the archives, or they can be transferred back to the public employment and talent service institution in the place of household registration for personal archive storage, ensuring safe and standardized management.
For those who are unemployed after leaving school, preparing for further studies, or studying abroad (离校未就业、备考深造或出国留学), graduates' archives can be transferred to the public employment and talent service institution in the place of household registration for management, or they can apply to retain them at the graduating school for two years according to policy. They must be transferred out before the expiration of the period to avoid affecting subsequent use due to archive retention.
Taking Beijing (北京) as an example, the city and districts have a total of 18 human resources public service institutions (人力资源公共服务机构). They provide a variety of archive government services for graduates, employees of non-public units, and flexible employment personnel, including archive reception and transfer, material collection and filing, archive organization and preservation, archive search and borrowing, issuance of relevant certificates based on archives, political review and investigation, etc. These services can be handled both online and offline.
How to fill in the information –
Graduation destination must be filled in accurately and truthfully.
The human resources and social security departments (人社部门) remind that during archive transfer, the transfer is conducted between the graduation school and the archive receiving unit. Graduates must truthfully fill in the name, detailed address, etc., of the archive receiving unit when registering their graduation destination. If the information is incorrect, it may lead to the archives being sent to the wrong place or returned, affecting subsequent storage and use. During the registration process, it is recommended that graduates confirm in advance information such as the mailing address and contact information of the archive receiving unit or institution to avoid archive return due to non-standard names or incomplete addresses. Information on archive management service institutions under the human resources and social security departments nationwide can be queried by logging into the National Human Resources and Social Security Government Service Platform (全国人社政务服务平台) or the "China Human Resources Market Network (中国人力资源市场网)."
The archives of graduates are uniformly transferred by the school. The school will uniformly and standardly fill out the archive transfer form and send the archives through channels such as postal express mail to ensure the safe and timely delivery of the archives.
For example, in Beijing (北京), if the archive receiving unit is a municipal or district human resources public service institution in Beijing, after the archives arrive, the staff will promptly review and enter the archive information, and notify the graduate by sending a text message or making a phone call. Therefore, it is essential to keep the mobile phone open.
Beijing (北京) fully promotes "online handling (网上办)" and "mobile handling (掌上办)" of archive services. With one mobile phone, high-frequency services such as inquiry, reception, transfer, and certificate issuance can be completed, achieving "letting data run more, and the masses run less (让数据多跑路、群众少跑腿)." Currently, there are 4 official online channels: first, log in to the "Efficiently Complete One Thing (高效办成一件事)" special zone of the Beijing Government Service Network (北京市政务服务网); second, follow the "Beijing Human Resources and Social Security (北京人社)" WeChat public account; third, download the "Beijing Human Resources and Social Security (北京人社)" APP; fourth, log in to the Beijing Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau (北京市人社局) official website. After new users complete real-name registration and login, they can handle archive-related business according to the prompts. Other regions can also apply through channels such as the official websites of local human resources and social security departments or government service platforms. Services such as cross-province archive transfer can be handled through the National Human Resources and Social Security Government Service Platform (全国人社政务服务平台).
Return to TopThe construction of a unified national market has achieved phased results
By our reporter Wei Zhezhe (魏哲哲)
On June 23, the 23rd meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress (第十四届全国人大常委会第二十三次会议) heard the "Report of the State Council on the Work of Building a Unified National Market" (《国务院关于建设全国统一大市场工作情况的报告》) presented by Li Chunlin (李春临), Deputy Director of the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委).
The report shows that various regions and departments have accelerated the realization of "five unifications and one opening" ("五统一、一开放"). Unified basic market systems: The "Negative List for Market Access (2025 Edition)" (《市场准入负面清单（2025年版）》) was issued and implemented, with the number of items on the list reduced from 117 items in the 2022 edition to 106 items. Unified market infrastructure: During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the average annual growth rate of port container rail-water intermodal transport volume was around 15%. Unified scale of government actions: In 2025, a total of 57,000 cases of outstanding problems in administrative law enforcement involving enterprises were investigated and corrected nationwide, recovering 28.97 billion yuan in economic losses for enterprises. Unified market supervision and law enforcement: Over 330 measures for standardizing administrative law enforcement standards and systems have been promoted in various localities. Unified markets for factors and resources: Comprehensive reform pilots for market-oriented allocation of factors were deployed in 10 regions. The establishment and improvement of data property rights systems have been promoted, and the construction of a national unified technology trading service platform has been accelerated. Continuous expansion of opening up both internally and externally: A campaign to clean up and rectify barriers to market access was carried out, with provinces and regions having cumulatively sorted through and investigated more than 38,000 regulatory policy documents.
Various regions and departments have focused on concentrated efforts to tackle six key and difficult areas. Rectifying the chaos of low-price disorderly competition among enterprises: The revision and promulgation of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law (反不正当竞争法) were promoted, prohibiting platform operators from forcing or covertly forcing merchants within the platform to engage in low-price dumping, etc. Rectifying the chaos in government procurement and bidding: A special rectification of illegal and non-compliant behaviors in the field of government procurement was carried out, with nationwide key inspections on more than 20,000 agency institutions and more than 90,000 procurement projects, and handling of more than 30,000 related entities. Rectifying the chaos in local investment attraction: Routine risk investigations, verifications, and disposals were conducted regarding suspected illegal activities in localities, cases of illegal fiscal subsidies were notified, and serious talks were held with localities that illegally carried out investment attraction using "zero rent"; the awareness of compliant investment attraction has been significantly enhanced in various localities. Promoting the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade: The reduction of costs and increase of efficiency for export-to-domestic sales were promoted, and green express channels for export-to-domestic sales of compulsory product certification were opened; as of the end of 2025, this had benefited foreign trade enterprises with product value exceeding 12.5 billion yuan. Filling the shortcomings in laws and regulations: Drafting of regulations on the construction of a unified national market was researched, and the revision and formulation of the Bidding Law (招标投标法), Price Law (价格法), Product Quality Law (产品质量法), and Social Credit Construction Law (社会信用建设法), etc., were promoted, using laws and regulations to break down blockages and obstacles that impede a unified market and fair competition. Correcting deviations in the view of political achievement: Guiding localities to establish and practice a correct view of political achievement and optimize assessment mechanisms.
Overall, a great deal of work has been done in various aspects, and the construction of a unified national market has achieved phased results. First, the "four beams and eight pillars" ("四梁八柱") have been basically established. The basic market system rules have been continuously improved, the interconnection of market facilities has been significantly strengthened, a number of prominent problems impeding a unified market and fair competition have been rectified, and the flow of goods, services, and resource factors has become smoother. Second, social consensus has been significantly enhanced. The concept of a unified national market has 深入人心 (shēn rù rén xīn - "deeply enter people's hearts," to be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people), and advancing the construction of a unified national market in depth has become the conscious action of all parties; the "involution-style" competition in investment attraction has been preliminarily curbed. Third, the effects of construction have been continuously demonstrated. The ratio of total social logistics costs to GDP dropped from 14.1% in 2024 to 13.9% in 2025, falling below 14% for the first time; the proportion of inter-provincial trade sales to total sales nationwide increased from 39.8% in 2022 to 41% in 2025; total retail sales of consumer goods increased from 43.6 trillion yuan in 2022 to 50.1 trillion yuan in 2025. The role of the unified national market in gathering resources, driving growth, stimulating innovation, optimizing division of labor, and promoting competition has become increasingly prominent, providing strong support for reducing market transaction costs, expanding the domestic market, and strengthening the domestic circulation.
Li Chunlin (李春临) stated that in the next step, efforts will be made to advance institutional construction in depth, advance high-standard interconnection of market infrastructure in depth, advance market unification in key areas in depth, and advance the elimination of 顽瘴痼疾 (wán zhàng gù jí - "stubborn obstacles and chronic diseases," deep-seated and long-standing problems) in depth, accelerating the construction of a unified national market, building a strong domestic market, and providing strong support for constructing a new development pattern and promoting high-quality development.
China's economy advances forward under pressure, developing toward innovation and excellence
By our reporter Peng Bo (彭波)
On June 23, the 23rd meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress (第十四届全国人大常委会第二十三次会议) heard the "Report of the State Council on the Final Accounts of the Central Government for 2025" (《国务院关于2025年中央决算的报告》) presented by Minister of Finance Lan Fo'an (蓝佛安).
The report shows that in 2025, China's economy advanced forward under pressure, developing toward innovation and excellence. The main economic and social development goals and tasks for the whole year were successfully completed, the "14th Five-Year Plan" was successfully concluded, and Chinese-style modernization took new solid steps. The final accounts of the central government were generally satisfactory. In 2025, general public budget revenue of the central government was 9,397.253 billion yuan, and general public budget expenditure of the central government was 14,485.727 billion yuan. Balancing total revenue and expenditure, the central government fiscal deficit was 4,860 billion yuan, consistent with the budget.
In 2025, the financial departments implemented a more proactive fiscal policy, focusing on stabilizing economic operation and promoting high-quality development, coordinating the expansion of expenditure scale, accelerating expenditure progress, and optimizing expenditure structure, channeling more funds into key areas such as benefiting people's livelihoods, promoting consumption, and increasing development momentum.
In vigorously boosting consumption and expanding effective investment to continuously unleash domestic demand potential, a total of 1.3 trillion yuan of ultra-long-term special government bonds were issued, continuously supporting the "two major constructions" ("两重" construction) and the "two new" ("两新") work. Among them, 800 billion yuan of ultra-long-term special government bonds were used for the construction of national major strategies and security capabilities in key areas; 300 billion yuan of ultra-long-term special government bonds were used to intensify and expand the implementation of trade-in of consumer goods, driving sales of goods such as automobiles, home appliances, mobile phones, and home furnishings to exceed 2.6 trillion yuan; 200 billion yuan of ultra-long-term special government bonds were used to support large-scale equipment upgrades, driving related project investments to exceed 1 trillion yuan.
The financial departments implemented the strategic deployment for building a strong nation in science and technology, continuously increasing fiscal investment in science and technology. Central government fiscal science and technology expenditures at the central level increased by 7.1%, strengthening support for original innovation and tackling key core technologies. Investment in basic research continued to increase; central government fiscal basic research expenditures at the central level increased by 9.6%, increasing long-term stable support. The dominant role of enterprises in innovation was strengthened, the implementation mechanism of tax and fee reduction policies for scientific and technological innovation was continuously improved, the role of special guarantees for scientific and technological innovation was leveraged, and enterprises were encouraged to increase R&D investment. Awards and subsidies were given to more than 1,200 new batches of "little giant" enterprises specializing in new and sophisticated technologies that are unique and novel (专精特新 "小巨人"), driving the growth and development of more innovative enterprises.
The financial departments increased efforts in safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods, adopting multiple measures to stabilize employment, supporting 11 million person-times of government-subsidized vocational skills training, and achieving 12.67 million new urban jobs for the whole year. The alignment of basic public education service supply with demographic changes was promoted, and support was given to strengthening regular high school construction and expanding quality undergraduate enrollment. A childcare subsidy system was fully implemented, with childcare subsidies for infants and toddlers under 3 years old issued at a national basic standard of 3,600 yuan per child per year, and the subsidies are exempt from personal income tax. Central government fiscal expenditure on related subsidy funds was about 90 billion yuan, benefiting more than 30 million infants and toddlers. Pension levels continued to be raised; the central government allocated 1.19 trillion yuan in transfer payments for basic pensions, ensuring timely and full payment.
The report shows that since the beginning of this year, China's economy has started with strong momentum, demonstrating strong resilience and vitality. From January to May, fiscal revenue and expenditure operations were generally stable. General public budget revenue nationwide was 10.05 trillion yuan, and general public budget expenditure nationwide was 11.39 trillion yuan, with strong guarantees for expenditures in key areas.
In the next step, the Ministry of Finance will accurately and effectively implement a more proactive fiscal policy, continuously optimize the fiscal expenditure structure, focus on stabilizing employment, stabilizing enterprises, stabilizing the market, and stabilizing expectations, focus on promoting reform, strengthening management, preventing risks, and increasing efficiency, and promote the realization of the year's economic and social development goals and tasks.
The social foundation for comprehensively governing the country by law is further consolidated
By our reporter Zhang Tianpei (张天培)
On June 23, at the 23rd meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress (第十四届全国人大常委会第二十三次会议), entrusted by the State Council, Minister of Justice He Rong (贺荣) presented the "Report of the State Council on the Implementation of the Resolution on the Eighth Five-Year Plan for Popularizing Legal Knowledge" (《国务院关于"八五"普法决议实施情况的报告》).
The report shows that over the past five years, legal publicity and education work has adhered to the leadership of the Party, deeply carried out the study and publicity of the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics with the Constitution at its core, the socialist rule-of-law culture has flourished vigorously, the responsibility system for legal popularization of "whoever enforces the law shall popularize the law" ("谁执法谁普法") has been widely implemented, the awareness of the rule of law in the whole society has been significantly enhanced, the legal literacy of the entire people has been significantly improved, the level of rule-of-law governance in society has been significantly raised, and the social foundation for comprehensively governing the country by law has been further consolidated.
In-depth study, publicity, and implementation of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law (习近平法治思想) guided the whole society to strengthen confidence in the path of the socialist rule-of-law system with Chinese characteristics and confidence in the rule of law as the path becomes broader and broader. The Law on Legal Publicity and Education (法治宣传教育法) for the first time wrote Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law into national law as the primary content of legal publicity and education. Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law was included in the important study content of the theoretical study center groups of Party committees (Party groups) as well as Party schools (schools of administration) and cadre colleges. The popularization of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law among the masses was carried out in depth.
Regular thematic legal popularization activities were carried out, and the good atmosphere of law-abiding by the whole people has become increasingly strong. Mass legal publicity and education activities were continuously organized, making the rule of law a social consensus and basic norm. The normalization and long-term effectiveness of constitutional publicity and education were promoted. The publicity of the Constitution and laws related to the Constitution continued in depth.
Legal education was strengthened by stratification and classification, and the legal literacy of citizens has been significantly improved. A lifelong legal education system for citizens was implemented, incorporating legal education into the cadre education, national education, and social education systems. Actions to improve citizens' legal literacy were implemented, focusing precisely on key groups. The study and application of law by leading cadres were promoted in depth. Seizing the "key minority" ("关键少数"), leading cadres at all levels were urged to become models of respecting, studying, abiding by, and applying the law.
Vigorous promotion of rule-of-law culture construction, the spirit of socialist rule of law has 深入人心 (shēn rù rén xīn - "deeply enter people's hearts," to be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people). The General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央办公厅) and the General Office of the State Council (国务院办公厅) issued the "Opinions on Strengthening the Construction of Socialist Rule-of-Law Culture" (《关于加强社会主义法治文化建设的意见》), regarding the construction of socialist rule-of-law culture as a strategic and foundational task for building the socialist rule-of-law system with Chinese characteristics and building a socialist country under the rule of law. Four batches of a total of 113 national legal publicity and education bases were designated.
The integration of legal publicity and education with law-based governance and legal practice was promoted, and the pertinence and effectiveness of legal publicity and education have been continuously enhanced. The integration of legal publicity and education into legal practice, grassroots governance, and daily life was promoted, allowing the masses to understand legal provisions and practice the spirit of socialist rule of law in legislation, law enforcement, judiciary, and legal services. Fifty "National Model Cities (Counties, Districts) for Law-Abiding and Legal Popularization" ("全国守法普法示范市（县、区）") were designated. The training project for "legal savvy persons" ("法律明白人") in villages (communities) was deeply implemented.
Responsibility for legal popularization was consolidated, and the work system for legal publicity and education was further improved. Seizing the "bull's nose" ("牛鼻子") of the legal popularization responsibility system, the working mechanism of Party committee leadership, People's Congress supervision, government leadership, multi-party coordination, and social participation was continuously improved.
The report proposes that in the next step, the study, publicity, and implementation of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law will be deepened and made more concrete, the deep integration of legal publicity and education with law-based governance and legal practice will be continuously promoted, new models for precise legal publicity and education will be accelerated, the legal popularization responsibility system will be fully implemented, and the institutional guarantees for legal publicity and education work will be further improved.
Assisting Hong Kong and Macao lawyers in participating in national rule-of-law construction
By our reporter Zhang Tianpei (张天培)
Recently, the 23rd meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress (第十四届全国人大常委会第二十三次会议) reviewed the "Report of the State Council on the Pilot Work of Allowing Hong Kong Legal Practitioners and Macao Practicing Lawyers to Obtain Mainland Practice Qualifications and Engage in the Legal Profession in the Nine Mainland Cities of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area" (《国务院关于在粤港澳大湾区内地九市开展香港法律执业者和澳门执业律师取得内地执业资质和从事律师职业试点工作情况的报告》).
The report shows that on August 11, 2020, the 21st meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress (第十三届全国人大常委会第二十一次会议) adopted a decision authorizing the State Council to carry out a three-year pilot program in the nine mainland cities of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) for Hong Kong legal practitioners and Macao practicing lawyers to obtain Mainland practice qualifications and engage in the legal profession (hereinafter referred to as the "pilot"). On September 1, 2023, the 5th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress (第十四届全国人大常委会第五次会议) adopted a decision extending the pilot period by three years to October 4, 2026.
According to the introduction, the State Council organized the Ministry of Justice (司法部) and other relevant parties to steadily advance the pilot, supporting Hong Kong legal practitioners and Macao practicing lawyers (hereinafter collectively referred to as "Hong Kong and Macao lawyers") to better play their professional role, contributing to the stable and enduring implementation of the "one country, two systems" cause ("一国两制").
Since the pilot was launched, the Ministry of Justice has organized five sessions of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area lawyer qualification examination, with more than 2,000 Hong Kong and Macao lawyers registering to take the exam, and 646 have obtained lawyer practice certificates (Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area), including 544 Hong Kong legal practitioners and 102 Macao practicing lawyers.
The report points out that the pilot policy is a landmark achievement in comprehensively and accurately implementing the "one country, two systems" policy and promoting the high-quality development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, receiving widespread recognition and high praise from relevant units, the governments of the Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions, and the Hong Kong and Macao legal communities.
Promoting the stable and enduring practice of "one country, two systems": Through the pilot, more and more Hong Kong and Macao lawyers have deeply studied Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, earnestly studied and mastered Mainland legal knowledge, deepened their understanding of the national conditions and the achievements of the nation's rule-of-law construction, strengthened their determination and confidence in developing and progressing together with the country, and more firmly supported the "one country, two systems" policy, further developing and strengthening the patriotic, pro-Hong Kong, and pro-Macao forces in the Hong Kong and Macao legal communities.
Serving the high-quality construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area: Certified Hong Kong and Macao lawyers have fully leveraged their unique advantages of being familiar with common law and the legal systems of Portuguese-speaking countries, actively handling related civil and commercial litigation and non-litigation legal matters, assisting in creating a market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized first-class business environment in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Eighty-one certified Hong Kong and Macao lawyers have served as arbitrators in Mainland arbitration institutions, 71 have served as commercial mediators in Mainland commercial mediation organizations, and 26 have served as specially invited mediators in courts at various levels in Guangdong Province (广东省), promoting the efficient resolution of cross-border commercial disputes.
Assisting Hong Kong and Macao lawyers in participating in national rule-of-law construction: Twenty-four certified Hong Kong and Macao lawyers have served as deputies to People's Congresses or members of Political Consultative Conferences, submitting nearly 100 high-quality suggestions and proposals. Many certified Hong Kong and Macao lawyers have served as legislative consultation experts for grassroots legislative contact points and government legal advisors; over 80 have held positions in relevant committees of the Guangdong provincial and municipal lawyers associations; over 40 have participated in legal service work for major economic and trade events such as the Canton Fair (广交会). Hong Kong and Macao lawyers and the Mainland legal community have continuously deepened exchanges and cooperation, assisting in the cultivation of foreign-related legal talents, and better integrating into and serving the overall national development situation.
The report suggests that the pilot will expire on October 4, 2026. All parties are highly concerned about the follow-up arrangements and generally hope that the pilot policy will be elevated to a legal system, attracting more outstanding Hong Kong and Macao lawyers to participate in national rule-of-law construction, and making new contributions to creating a new situation of high-quality development of the "one country, two systems" cause.
Escorting high-quality economic and social development with high-quality audit supervision
By our reporter Qi Zhiming (齐志明)
On June 23, entrusted by the State Council, Auditor General of the National Audit Office Hou Kai (侯凯) presented to the 23rd meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress (第十四届全国人大常委会第二十三次会议) the "Audit Work Report of the State Council on the Implementation of the Central Budget and Other Fiscal Revenues and Expenditures for 2025" (《国务院关于2025年度中央预算执行和其他财政收支的审计工作报告》).
The report shows that over the past year, audit institutions have positioned themselves in economic supervision, focused on the main responsibilities and businesses of auditing fiscal and financial revenues and expenditures, conducted research-oriented auditing, and deeply carried out the "Year of Scientific Standardization and Improvement" ( "科学规范提升年" ) campaign. Overall, the effectiveness of the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee over audit work has become more evident, the achievements of audit work have become more abundant, and the overall pattern of audit rectification has become more stable.
The report shows that over the past year, audit institutions, based on the positioning of economic oversight, focused on the main responsibility and main business of auditing fiscal and financial revenues and expenditures, substantiated research-oriented auditing, and deeply carried out the "Scientific and Normative Enhancement Year (科学规范提升年)" action. Overall, the effectiveness of the centralized and unified leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (党中央) over audit work has become more evident, the achievements of audit work have become more abundant, and the overall pattern of audit rectification has become more stable.
In the audit of central fiscal management, audit institutions focused on auditing five aspects: organizing fiscal revenue, implementation of the budget system, transfer payment management, special bond supervision, and compilation of the draft central final accounts. In 2025, the total revenue of the central general public budget was 9,737.253 billion yuan, the total expenditure was 14,597.253 billion yuan, the deficit was 4,860 billion yuan, consistent with the budget; the total revenue of the central government fund budget was 2,344.231 billion yuan, the total expenditure was 2,277.98 billion yuan; the total revenue of the central state capital management budget was 395.696 billion yuan, the total expenditure was 369.705 billion yuan; the total revenue of the central social insurance fund budget was 293.834 billion yuan, the total expenditure was 292.105 billion yuan, with a year-end accumulated surplus of 9.665 billion yuan. The National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) managed and allocated 735 billion yuan of central budget investment, of which 142.017 billion yuan was allocated for central-level expenditures and 592.983 billion yuan for local transfer payments.
In the audit of budget execution at central departments, the 39 departments and their 225 subordinate units that were audited by the audit institutions received fiscal budget appropriations of 620.588 billion yuan in 2025. The amount of problems discovered was 13.924 billion yuan, of which the department level was 3.229 billion yuan (23.19%), and subordinate units were 10.695 billion yuan (76.81%). The problem of central departments transferring and shifting discipline and violation issues down to subordinate units remains relatively prominent.
In the audit of the implementation of major decisions and deployments of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (党中央), audit institutions focused on auditing the construction of "Two Major (两重)" and the work of "Two New (两新)", the Western Development Strategy (西部大开发) and other major strategies, major projects of urban underground pipeline networks, major measures for the implementation of science and technology financial policies, and paid close attention to major risks such as local government debt and finance.
In the audit of key livelihood funds, audit institutions focused on auditing four areas of funds and the implementation of related policies: affordable housing projects (保障性安居工程), work-related injury insurance and maternity support (工伤保险和生育支持), production and sales of traditional Chinese medicine (中药产销), and strengthening agriculture, benefiting agriculture, and enriching farmers (强农惠农富农) policies.
In the audit of state-owned assets management, audit institutions, in the audits of departmental budget execution, state-owned enterprises and state-owned assets, finance, and agriculture-related matters, continuously paid attention to the management and use of four types of state-owned assets: enterprise, financial, administrative and institutional, and natural resource assets.
In the investigation and punishment of major disciplinary and illegal issues, since May 2025, audit has discovered and transferred more than 260 major disciplinary and illegal cases, involving more than 1,100 people and more than 91 billion yuan in funds, all of which have been transferred to relevant departments for further investigation in accordance with discipline and law.
This report reflects the main problems discovered in the audit of the 2025 central budget execution and other fiscal revenues and expenditures. With regard to these problems, the National Audit Office (审计署) solicited opinions from the audited units in accordance with the law, issued audit reports, and put forward rectification requirements; with regard to major disciplinary and illegal problems, they were transferred to relevant departments in accordance with discipline and law. The relevant regions, departments, and units are actively carrying out rectification.
Next, audit institutions will, in accordance with the deployment requirements of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (党中央) and the State Council (国务院), increase the intensity of tracking and supervising the rectification of problems reflected in the audit work report, and the comprehensive rectification situation will be publicly announced in accordance with the law before the end of the year.
The report shows that the overall pattern of audit rectification has been further consolidated and improved, and the "second half of the article (下半篇文章)" of auditing has become more authoritative and efficient. In terms of comprehensive rectification, all problems reflected in the 2024 audit work report were included in the scope of rectification, and rectification notices were issued to 138 regions, departments, and units; in terms of special rectification, the relevant competent departments carried out special audit rectifications according to their work responsibilities, effectively using a "combination punch (组合拳)" of rectification; in terms of key supervision, the relevant departments prioritized supervising and handling case clues transferred by audit, and overall progress was smooth. As of the end of April 2026, the amount of problems found in the 2024 audit that had been rectified was 1.41 trillion yuan, more than 1,150 systems were formulated and improved, and more than 1,100 people were dealt with.
Return to TopRecently, the State Council (国务院) issued the Accelerating Agricultural and Rural Modernization "15th Five-Year Plan" (《加快农业农村现代化“十五五”规划》) (hereinafter referred to as the Plan (《规划》)), which clarified the guiding ideology, goals, key tasks, and policy measures for accelerating agricultural and rural modernization during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, emphasizing the need to better advance Chinese-style modernization by accelerating agricultural and rural modernization.
For a long time, the People's Insurance Company of China Property and Casualty Company Limited (hereinafter referred to as "PICC Property and Casualty" (人保财险)) has taken serving "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" (三农) as its own responsibility, effectively played the role of insurance as a "shock absorber" (减震器) and "stabilizer" (稳定器), vigorously developed agricultural insurance, and continuously contributed to the building of an agricultural powerhouse and comprehensive rural revitalization. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, PICC Property and Casualty cumulatively provided 10.9 trillion yuan of agricultural risk protection to 320 million household-level farmers, annually underwrote an average of 420 million mu of the three major staple grains and over 260 million pigs, and cumulatively paid 212.3 billion yuan in insurance claims to 100 million household-level farmers. In response to the deployment of the Plan (《规划》), PICC Property and Casualty will anchor itself to the goals and tasks of agricultural and rural development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, adhere to 守正创新 (shǒu zhèng chuàng xīn - "uphold integrity and innovate," to maintain foundational principles while pursuing innovation), proceed steadily and surely (稳扎稳打), strive to promote high-quality development of agricultural insurance, and comprehensively serve agricultural and rural modernization.
**Leverage the Function and Role of Insurance to Ensure Agricultural Production Capacity**
PICC Property and Casualty fully ensures the stable supply of grain and other important agricultural products. Deepen the pillar role of staple grain crop insurance, establish an integrated guarantee system covering "sowing, management, harvesting, and storage" (种、管、收、储), assist in stabilizing rice and wheat production, and enhance corn and soybean production capacity. For bulk agricultural products such as oil crops, cotton, sugar crops, and rubber, focus on achieving full coverage and multi-level development from the direction of income insurance. Around the reduction of costs, improvement of quality, and enhancement of efficiency in livestock and poultry farming, steadily improve the supply and management capacity of livestock and poultry insurance.
Fully support the construction of a modern agricultural management system. Leverage the function of insurance to introduce advanced suitable varieties, technologies, and equipment to smallholder farmers, promoting the organic integration of smallholder farmers with modern agricultural development. Adapt to the direction of agricultural transformation, provide personalized and customized insurance protection to various types of agricultural scale operation entities and socialized service organizations, and assist in the high-quality development of new-type agricultural operation entities.
Safeguard strategic security in key areas of building an agricultural powerhouse. Accelerate the expansion of insurance products related to seed breeding, agricultural science and technology innovation, agricultural machinery and equipment, and smart agriculture, using insurance to promote the integration and efficiency enhancement of good farmland, good seeds, good machinery, and good methods. For deep-sea aquaculture models, build a tiered and categorized insurance product system to assist in the construction of a "blue granary" (蓝色粮仓). Develop a comprehensive insurance model combining "production + price" (产量+价格), explore the comprehensive use of various financial instruments, and assist in the transformation and upgrading of grassland animal husbandry and the revitalization of the dairy industry.
**Broaden the Fields of Insurance Services to Assist Comprehensive Rural Revitalization**
PICC Property and Casualty fully serves the integrated development of primary, secondary, and tertiary industries in rural areas. Strengthen insurance protection for property, liability, and employee accident and health in agricultural industrial parks, such as agricultural product processing industrial parks, cold chain collection and distribution centers, and warehousing and logistics facilities, as well as various links in the agricultural industry chain, assisting in the transformation and upgrading of the agricultural product processing industry. Actively innovate insurance products and service models around rural characteristic industries and new industries and new business forms, such as rural e-commerce, leisure agriculture, rural tourism, and characteristic handicrafts. Develop and promote insurance services adapted to county and rural characteristic cultural tourism scenarios and "village-brand" (村字头) cultural and sports activities.
Assist in the construction of livable, workable, and beautiful villages. Provide full lifecycle insurance protection in key project areas such as high-standard farmland, farmland water conservancy, rural roads, rural energy, cold chain logistics, and digital villages. Build a long-term mechanism for rural housing safety, establish and improve a new service model of "insurance + governance" (保险+治理), rely on grassroots service stations to build a rural risk monitoring and early warning system, and assist in conducting risk hazard investigation and emergency response and other related work.
**Upgrade the Quality of Insurance Services to Enhance Risk Protection Capacity**
PICC Property and Casualty fully promotes innovation in insurance products and services. Explore innovative insurance types such as forest carbon sink insurance and ecological agriculture insurance, assisting in emission reduction, carbon sequestration, and the transformation of agricultural ecological value. Actively develop special insurance products around green production methods such as precise application of chemical fertilizers, green integrated prevention and control of pests and diseases, ecological fisheries, and integrated rice-farming and aquaculture. Steadily promote land fertility insurance, strengthen farmland protection and quality improvement, deeply implement the strategy of "storing grain in the land and storing grain in technology" (藏粮于地、藏粮于技), and build a solid risk barrier.
Empower through technology to improve insurance service quality and efficiency. Accelerate the construction of "data-driven, smart operation" (数据驱动、智慧经营) insurance infrastructure, promote the construction of the "Strengthening Agriculture" (强农) data middle platform, the "Smart Agriculture" (智农) AI platform, and the "Safe Agriculture" (安农) risk control platform, and comprehensively improve the automation and intelligence level of agricultural insurance operations. Relying on the basic agricultural insurance information database, the "sky-ground" (天空地) integrated monitoring platform, and the "Yunzhibao" (耘智保) APP, strengthen multi-source data fusion to achieve precise verification of insured subjects and intelligent loss assessment for claims, making agricultural insurance underwriting and claims settlement more efficient and more precise.
Expand service boundaries to help enhance agricultural resilience. Continuously deepen the integrated service of "insurance, prevention, reduction, relief, and compensation" (保防减救赔) in agriculture, strengthen prevention against agricultural meteorological disasters, integrate the concept of agricultural disaster prevention, mitigation, and relief into the entire process of agricultural insurance services, enrich and refine risk reduction service scenarios in agricultural insurance, and strive to minimize agricultural disaster losses. Improve claims efficiency, make every effort to ensure that claims are paid as due, paid quickly when possible, and reasonably advanced, helping farmers to quickly resume production. Accelerate the construction of a large agricultural network pattern, promote the establishment of rural service institutions according to local conditions, and provide more convenient and efficient insurance services to the vast number of farmers.
Advancing into the "15th Five-Year Plan," PICC Property and Casualty will, with a high sense of responsibility and mission, fully implement the deployment of the Plan (《规划》), continuously promote the multi-level and high-quality development of agricultural insurance, and contribute insurance strength to accelerating agricultural and rural modernization, promoting comprehensive rural revitalization, and building an agricultural powerhouse.
Data source: People's Insurance Company of China Property and Casualty Company Limited (中国人民财产保险股份有限公司)
Return to TopBy: 何昭宇
On June 24, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平总书记), during his inspection in Dezhou City (德州市), Shandong Province (山东省), expressed the hope that village Party organizations would further leverage the leading role of Party building, fully mobilize the enthusiasm of villagers and the masses, and continuously achieve new accomplishments in advancing the construction of livable, workable, and harmonious villages.
Rural revitalization is a comprehensive revitalization that includes industrial revitalization, talent revitalization, cultural revitalization, ecological revitalization, and organizational revitalization. Rural work is 千头万绪 (qiān tóu wàn xù - "a thousand heads and ten thousand threads," referring to a multitude of complicated matters), and grasping the construction of rural grassroots organizations is the key. Since the new era, the Party Central Committee (党中央) has established a clear orientation of energetically focusing on the grassroots, using Party building to promote rural revitalization, and striving to enhance the political functions and organizational functions of rural grassroots Party organizations. Continuously strengthening the building of the contingent of village Party organization leaders, rural grassroots Party organizations are increasingly becoming strong battle fortresses for effectively realizing the Party's leadership.
Villages look to villages, households look to households, and the masses look to cadres. Rural grassroots cadres are the bridge linking the Party and government with the masses. The work style of cadres concerns the image of the Party and affects the quality of comprehensive rural revitalization. From the establishment of the "Year of Reducing Burdens at the Grassroots (基层减负年)," to the establishment at the central level of a special working mechanism for rectifying formalism to reduce burdens at the grassroots, to the issuance of the "Several Provisions on Rectifying Formalism to Reduce Burdens at the Grassroots (《整治形式主义为基层减负若干规定》)"... More and more grassroots cadres have more time and energy to serve the masses and promote development.
The modernization of agriculture and rural areas concerns the overall situation and quality of Chinese-style modernization (中国式现代化). This year is the first year of normalized assistance, and the task of comprehensive rural revitalization remains heavy. A Party branch is a fortress; a Party member is a banner. We must strengthen the Party's comprehensive leadership over work on agriculture, rural areas, and farmers (三农), leverage the exemplary and leading role of Party members and cadres, strive to enhance comprehensive agricultural production capacity and quality efficiency, ensure stable supply of grain and other important agricultural products, promote the construction of livable, workable, and harmonious villages according to local conditions, and guide the vast number of farmers to use diligence and wisdom to create a better life.
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Return to TopBy: 宋福范
Theoretical character is the inherent quality of an ideological system as a scientific theory. The theoretical character of Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building reflects its theoretical qualities that transcend general Party-building experience and work arrangements, and grasp deeply the laws governing the construction of a Marxist political party that has been in power for a long time. The firm ideals and convictions, high degree of historical initiative, distinct problem orientation, strong sense of mission and responsibility, profound affection for the people, and scientific mode of thinking contained in Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building make its substance understood and its application realized, integrating substance and application, and endowing it with a distinct theoretical character.
To deeply study and understand Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building, the key lies in comprehending its spiritual temperament, theoretical structure, and practical characteristics from the perspective of "making the substance understood and the application realized, integrating substance and application." "Making the substance understood" means revealing the fundamental stipulations, political principles, and value foundations of building a Marxist political party that exercises long-term governance. "Realizing the application" means transforming these fundamental stipulations, political principles, and value foundations into practical requirements, institutional mechanisms, and working methods for managing, governing, revitalizing, and strengthening the Party. "Integrating substance and application" means integrating the theoretical substance with practical application, value positions with institutional arrangements, and the Party's own construction with the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation. "Making the substance understood and the application realized, integrating substance and application" is centrally embodied in firm ideals and convictions, a high degree of historical initiative, a distinct problem orientation, a strong sense of mission and responsibility, profound affection for the people, and a scientific mode of thinking, which mutually support and interpenetrate each other. We must deeply study and understand the distinct theoretical character of this important thought, consciously realize the power of truth and the power of personality from it, and enhance political identity, ideological identity, theoretical identity, and emotional identity.
**Deeply understand the firm ideals and convictions contained in Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building**
A Marxist political party is an advanced political force guided by scientific theory, pursuing lofty ideals, and supported by firm convictions. Party building, in the final analysis, is the building of people, the building of organizations, and the building of political forces, of which the most fundamental is the building of ideals and convictions. If a Marxist political party lacks firm ideals and convictions, it will lose its political soul; if the ideals and convictions of a Marxist political party in long-term governance waver, it will lose its way in the face of power, interests, and complex environments.
Firm ideals and convictions reveal the deepest spiritual foundation of Party building. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平总书记) pointed out: "Ideals and convictions are the spiritual pillar and political soul of Communists." Party building is not general organizational governance, but a political project for a Marxist political party to maintain its advanced nature, purity, and combat effectiveness. Ideals and convictions are the spiritual source of all aspects of Party building. Without ideals and convictions, political construction easily becomes formalistic, ideological construction loses its direction, organizational construction lacks cohesion, and it is difficult to form inherent self-discipline in work style construction, discipline construction, institutional construction, and the anti-corruption struggle.
Firm ideals and convictions answer the fundamental question of "on what basis the Party stands up and becomes strong." Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building is full of firm belief in Marxism, persistent pursuit of the lofty ideal of communism and the common ideal of socialism with Chinese characteristics, placing ideals and convictions at the foundation of Party building, profoundly revealing the fundamental truth of building the Party through ideology and strengthening the Party through theory. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的十八大), General Secretary Xi Jinping has always emphasized using the Party's innovative theory to consolidate the soul and build the mind, emphasizing tempering a strong Party spirit, precisely because ideals and convictions are the foundation for Communists to establish themselves and their destiny. With firm ideals and convictions, the Party can maintain political resolve under complex circumstances, Party cadres can clearly take a stand on major issues of principle, and Party organizations can form unified will and unified action. Firm ideals and convictions are not abstract declarations; theoretical arming must be strengthened, Party spirit tempered, and political loyalty consolidated. Persisting in using the Party's innovative theory to consolidate the soul and build the mind means establishing ideals and convictions on the basis of scientific theory. Persisting in strengthening Party spirit education and Party spirit training means transforming ideals and convictions into the political character of Party cadres. Persisting in rigorous political life within the Party means implementing ideals and convictions in organizational life and political practice.
**Deeply understand the high degree of historical initiative contained in Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building**
Party building is never static; it continuously develops and evolves with changes in the Party's historical position, central tasks, and conditions of the times. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in the report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的二十大): "Strengthen historical confidence and enhance historical initiative." Historical initiative means, on the basis of deeply grasping historical laws and the general trend of the times, not passively dealing with problems or waiting for changes, but actively recognizing changes, responding to changes, and seeking changes, and continuously promoting theoretical innovation, practical innovation, and institutional innovation.
Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building profoundly reveals the historical positioning and development trend of Party building in the new era. The Communist Party of China (中国共产党) has become a Marxist political party exercising long-term governance and is leading the Chinese people to comprehensively advance the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese modernization. Long-term governance means that the Party's leading position is more important, but it also means that the risks and tests the Party faces are more complex. How to always maintain the Party's advanced nature and purity, ensure that the Party does not change its nature, color, or flavor, and ensure that the Party always becomes the strong leading core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics are major issues that Party building in the new era must proactively answer. Based on a profound summary of historical experience and deep insight into the direction of development, Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building scientifically answers the major issues of the era: what kind of long-term governing Marxist political party to build, and how to build a long-term governing Marxist political party. This important thought integrates Marxist theory of Party building with the great practice of the Communist Party of China's long-term governance in the new era, contains a high degree of historical initiative, and demonstrates a distinct awareness of the times and a spirit of theoretical creation.
Historical initiative is not an abstract concept but is concretely embodied in the practical process of advancing the great new project of Party building in the new era. With the sobriety and determination to forever maintain the "examination" mentality, Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building systematically answers a series of major questions of what to do and how to do it in managing and governing the Party in the new era, profoundly reflecting the deepening of the Party's understanding of the laws of its own construction, making the Party stronger and more powerful through revolutionary forging, and always becoming the mainstay of the people throughout the nation in the historical process of responding to various domestic and international risks and tests, leading and ensuring the stable and long-term development of the Party and the country's cause.
**Deeply understand the distinct problem orientation contained in Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building**
Adhering to a problem orientation is a distinct feature of Marxism. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Only by listening to the voice of the times, responding to the call of the times, and earnestly studying and solving major and urgent problems can we truly grasp the historical context, find the laws of development, and promote theoretical innovation." Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building was formed and developed in the process of solving prominent problems within the Party, responding to the risks and tests of long-term governance, and advancing the great new project of Party building in the new era. The distinct problem orientation vividly embodies the pragmatic character of continuously discovering and solving major theoretical and practical problems facing Party building.
A problem orientation does not simply address problems in isolation but reveals laws through problems. Long-term governance is not a once-and-for-all qualification but a historical process of continuously undergoing tests and solving problems. The longer the Party exercises governance, the more it must not ignore its own problems; the more the Party's cause develops, the more it needs to advance its own construction with a clear problem awareness. Under conditions of long-term governance, the problems the Party faces are complex and deep-seated. Weakening of ideals and convictions, dilution of political awareness, hollowing out of organizational functions, solidification of work style problems, loosening of disciplinary constraints, concealment of corruption risks, formalization of responsibility implementation, etc., all affect the Party's advanced nature and purity, and weaken the Party's creativity, cohesion, and combat effectiveness. Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building scientifically answers the important question of "starting from what real contradictions to advance Party building" and reveals the inherent laws that the construction of a long-term governing Marxist political party must adhere to comprehensive strictness, systematic governance, and addressing both symptoms and root causes. The deep meaning of the distinct problem orientation is that it makes Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building not remain at the level of normative requirements, but reveal laws, form principles, and construct a system in the process of solving the difficulties of building a long-term governing political party.
The distinct problem orientation is embodied in practice, requiring the integration of discovering problems, analyzing problems, and solving problems. The reason why comprehensively governing the Party with strict discipline has become the distinct theme of Party building in the new era is that it is not a partial requirement for work in a certain area, but a systematic plan aimed at the deep-seated problems facing Party building under conditions of long-term governance. "Comprehensiveness" means full coverage of objects, fields, processes, and responsibilities; "strictness" means that all aspects of the Party must be strict. Through comprehensively governing the Party with strict discipline, Party building has moved from being lax and soft to being strict and hard, from partial rectification to systematic governance, and from periodic advancement to normalization and long-term effectiveness.
**Deeply understand the strong sense of mission and responsibility contained in Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building**
Mission and responsibility are the consistent spiritual gene and value pursuit of Chinese Communists. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Our responsibility is to unite and lead the entire Party and people of all ethnic groups in the country, take over the historical baton, continue to strive hard for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, enable the Chinese nation to stand more strongly and resolutely among the nations of the world, and make new and greater contributions to mankind." "In order to carry out the great struggle with many new historical features, effectively respond to various risks and challenges, realize the 'Two Centenary' goals and the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, we must build our Party well and make it strong." Only by grasping the mission and responsibility can we understand the strategic significance and practical direction of Party building.
The Communist Party of China is a party that seeks happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation. Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building integrates managing and governing the Party, revitalizing and strengthening the Party with building a strong country and national rejuvenation, revealing the inherent logic of the unity of strengthening the Party and strengthening the country. Only when the Party is strong and powerful can the national cause have a fundamental guarantee; only when the Party itself is robust can national rejuvenation have a strong leading force. Answering the major issues of the era of what kind of long-term governing Marxist political party to build and how to build it ultimately aims to answer how the Party can better lead the Chinese people to comprehensively advance the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese modernization.
The strong sense of mission and responsibility is a profound manifestation of a high degree of responsibility to the cause of the Party and the country, to the people, and to history. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的十八大), under the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building, our Party has improved the organizational system that links up and down and executes effectively, built a high-quality cadre team capable of undertaking the heavy task of national rejuvenation, adhered to institutional governance of the Party and governance of the Party according to regulations, implemented the political responsibility of managing and governing the Party, unswervingly pursued strictness in ideology, supervision, discipline, cadre management, work style, and anti-corruption, curbed some unhealthy tendencies that had long gone unchecked, and corrected some stubborn and chronic maladies that had not been eliminated for many years. Deeply understanding the strong sense of mission and responsibility contained in Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building means enhancing political identity, ideological identity, theoretical identity, and emotional identity in the integrated understanding of strengthening the Party and the country, and transforming the effectiveness of Party building into a strong guarantee for advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation.
**Deeply understand the profound affection for the people contained in Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building**
The people's position is the fundamental political position of a Marxist political party. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Our Party always represents the fundamental interests of the broadest majority of the Chinese people." The fundamental purpose of building our Party well and making it strong is to ensure that the Party always represents the people, takes root among the people, serves the people, forever maintains a flesh-and-blood connection with the masses, and persists in governing for the people and relying on the people. The people's character is the most distinct and profound value background of Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building. The profound affection for the people it contains profoundly reveals the important mission of managing and governing the Party, revitalizing and strengthening the Party, and answers the fundamental question of "for whom, relying on whom, and who I am."
Strengthening the Party's own construction and persistently advancing the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party is by no means purely about improving internal Party management and standardizing internal Party order, but about preventing the Party from becoming detached from the masses under conditions of long-term governance, guarding against Party cadres diluting the people's position under the temptation of power and the test of interests, and firmly defending the Party's nature and purpose without wavering. In the final analysis, it is an inevitable requirement of adhering to remaining true to the original aspiration and keeping the mission firmly in mind. Therefore, profound affection for the people is the value foundation running through Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building.
"Remaining true to the original aspiration and keeping the mission firmly in mind" as an important part of the "Fourteen Persistences" concretely implements this profound affection for the people throughout the entire practice of managing and governing the Party, revitalizing and strengthening the Party, embodied in the fine work style of maintaining close ties with the masses, the rigid discipline of safeguarding the immediate interests of the people, and the governance effectiveness of responding to the people's beautiful expectations. To deeply study and carefully understand the profound affection for the people contained in Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building, we must continuously deepen our understanding and comprehension of the Party's nature, purpose, original aspiration, and mission, realize from it the strong power of personality of "I will have no self, I will live up to the people," always stand firm on the people's position, strengthen the foundation for the people, protect the people's hearts, and benefit the people.
**Deeply understand the scientific mode of thinking contained in Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building**
The scientific mode of thinking is an important foundation for a scientific theory to possess strong explanatory power and practical guidance. Ideals and convictions, historical initiative, problem orientation, mission and responsibility, and affection for the people respectively highlight the theoretical character of Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building from five dimensions: political soul, era orientation, practical entry point, strategic direction, and value position. The scientific mode of thinking connects these five aspects and transforms them into an important methodological support for the practical system of managing and governing the Party, revitalizing and strengthening the Party.
Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building emphasizes continuously improving the ability of strategic thinking, historical thinking, dialectical thinking, systematic thinking, innovative thinking, rule-of-law thinking, and bottom-line thinking, requiring a good grasp of the relationships between the overall and the partial, the present and the long-term, the macro and the micro, the principal contradiction and the secondary contradiction, the special and the general, etc., and effectively achieving forward-looking thinking, overall planning, and holistic advancement of Party building. This sets a model and provides scientific methodological guidance for us to scientifically understand problems, accurately analyze problems, and better solve problems. For example, strategic thinking is reflected in the fact that Party building must not only solve practical problems but also serve long-term development; it must not only strengthen the Party's own construction but also ensure the overall situation of the Party and the country's cause, thinking about Party building under conditions of long-term governance and planning it within the overall context of building a strong country and national rejuvenation. For another example, under the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building, Party building covers all areas, connects all chains, and exerts force in all directions, reflecting the mode of thinking of systematic governance, holistic advancement, and coordinated force, which is an important manifestation of systematic thinking. For yet another example, Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building does not one-sidedly emphasize construction in one aspect but emphasizes that all aspects of Party building interpenetrate, mutually support, and mutually promote each other, which is an important manifestation of dialectical thinking; and so on.
The importance of the scientific mode of thinking lies in its ability to transform firm ideals and convictions into the basic concepts of the Party's political construction and ideological construction, transform profound affection for the people into the basic requirements of the Party's work style construction and discipline construction, transform a high degree of historical initiative into the strategic deployment of Party building, transform a distinct problem orientation into a systematic plan for comprehensively governing the Party with strict discipline, and transform a strong sense of mission and responsibility into the practical path of strengthening the Party and the country. This further highlights the powerful truth force, personality force, and practical force of Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building.
The importance of scientific thought methods lies in their ability to transform firm ideals and convictions into the basic concepts of the Party's political and ideological construction, transform profound feelings for the people into the basic requirements of the Party's work style and disciplinary construction, transform a high degree of historical initiative into the strategic deployment of Party building, transform a clear problem orientation into a systematic plan for comprehensively and strictly governing the Party, and transform a strong sense of mission and responsibility into the practical path of strengthening the Party and the country. This further demonstrates the immense power of truth, the power of personality, and the power of practice of Xi Jinping (习近平)'s thought on Party building.
The distinctive theoretical character of Xi Jinping (习近平)'s thought on Party building possesses an internally coherent logical structure. It uses firm ideals and convictions to forge the soul of politics, uses a high degree of historical initiative to grasp the trend of the times, uses a clear problem orientation to solve practical problems, uses a strong sense of mission and responsibility to link the responsibility of strengthening the Party and the country, uses profound feelings for the people to consolidate the foundation of values, and uses scientific thought methods to form the methods of managing and governing the Party, and revitalizing and strengthening the Party. We must deeply study and comprehend the distinctive theoretical character of Xi Jinping (习近平)'s thought on Party building, strengthen faith and conviction in comprehending the power of truth, enhance action consciousness in enhancing historical initiative, improve practical ability in strengthening problem orientation, practice the original aspiration and mission in fulfilling mission and responsibility, cultivate feelings for the people in strengthening the people's standpoint, and grasp the laws and requirements of managing and governing the Party, and revitalizing and strengthening the Party in mastering scientific methods, continuously contributing strength to advancing the new great project of Party building in the new era and walking the path of strengthening the Party and the country.
(The author is a researcher at the Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, Central Party School (National Academy of Governance) (中央党校（国家行政学院）习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想研究中心))
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General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out at the Central City Work Conference (中央城市工作会议) held in 2025: "Establish and practice a correct view of political achievements, and establish and improve a scientific urban development evaluation system." The "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五规划) outline proposes: "Promote the transformation of urban development mode, and build modern people's cities that are innovative, livable, beautiful, resilient, civilized, and smart." Establishing and improving a scientific urban development evaluation system can not only guide the direction of healthy urban development, but also is an important manifestation of establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements. It is of great significance for building modern people's cities during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, promoting connotative urban development, and continuously enhancing the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security.
Building a scientific urban development evaluation system is an important way to implement the people's city concept and promote high-quality urban development. It helps to promote various tasks of urban construction and guide various market resource factors to invest in people's city construction. As a "physical examination indicator" for high-quality urban development, the urban development evaluation system can identify the advantages, shortcomings, and potential problems of urban development, test the effectiveness of urban work, the quality of planning implementation, and the effect of policy implementation, provide decision-making basis for the government to optimize spatial allocation and layout of public services, and provide important reference for enterprise investment site selection and residents' settlement and career choice. In addition, the evaluation results can serve as an important basis for performance assessment of local governments, help to stimulate the endogenous motivation of various regions to promote high-quality urban development, and guide party members and cadres to establish and practice a correct view of political achievements.
Establishing and improving a scientific urban development evaluation system is a complex systematic project, involving evaluation subjects, objects, indicators, methods, and results, etc. Efforts can be made from the following aspects.
Clarify correct evaluation principles. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "We must grasp the relationship between latent achievements (潜绩) and visible achievements (显绩), and adhere to a correct view of political achievements." Urban evaluation should not only assess visible achievements such as city appearance, industry and economy, but also assess latent achievements such as ecosystem restoration and improvement of people's livelihood. We must grasp directionality, closely follow the people's city concept, focus on the comprehensive development of people, focus on key points such as structural optimization, green transformation, continuation of cultural context, security and resilience, and examine latent achievements in aspects such as living experience on the basis of considering visible achievements. Adhere to scientificity, uphold fair, just, objective and accurate evaluation standards, rely on professional theories to construct indicator, data, and method systems, innovate evaluation methods, and adapt to new trends and requirements of urban development. Emphasize differentiation, based on differences in urban development conditions, stages, and positioning in different regions, adhere to 因地制宜 (yīn dì zhì yí - "according to local conditions," to suit measures to local conditions) and classified evaluation, balance unified evaluation standards and urban characteristics, and form an evaluation system that is compatible with commonality and diversity. For example, for cities located in restricted development zones, appropriately increase the weight of ecological environment indicators to promote their enhancement of ecological functions; for cities located in developed economic zones, appropriately increase the weight of scientific and technological innovation indicators to promote their innovation capabilities. Maintain simplicity, discard complex and overlapping indicators, select core and key indicators, and match with simple and appropriate method models to make evaluation efficient and accurate.
Improve the scientific evaluation indicator system. To build a scientific and complete evaluation indicator system, we must optimize the traditional evaluation framework, transform the traditional evaluation system centered on GDP, take people's livelihood development indicators such as per capita income, education level, and life expectancy as the core evaluation basis, streamline and optimize traditional hard evaluation indicators such as scale and growth rate, and add soft evaluation indicators such as livable life, green and low-carbon, security and resilience, and smart governance. For example, increase indicators such as 15-minute accessibility of community life circles and completeness of barrier-free facilities. Through zero-weighting of indicators, generate evaluation indicator systems for different types of cities; make regular dynamic adjustments according to changes in conditions. Clarify indicator classification and positioning, divide into three categories: basic and improvement, core and characteristic, binding and anticipatory, corresponding to the rigid tasks, self-selected improvement parts, key monitoring parts, and characteristic content of urban development, so that the evaluation indicator system is more scientific and accurate.
Consolidate the data quality foundation. The accuracy, completeness, and consistency of data are the basic guarantees for building a scientific urban development evaluation system. Improving evaluation data requires balancing objective statistics, subjective perception, and digital technology support. Optimize objective statistical data, in response to the lag of some existing urban statistical indicators, dynamically update the statistical system in accordance with the requirements of modern people's city construction, and improve statistical monitoring indicators in key areas such as cultural construction, public services, and green ecology. Supplement subjective evaluation data, take people's satisfaction as the core standard for urban development and political achievement assessment, collect real evaluations from residents and enterprises through methods such as questionnaire surveys and online reviews, score the level of urban development, and avoid evaluation bias caused by face projects (面子工程) and formalism (形式主义). Empower evaluation with digital intelligence (数智), follow the trend of digital intelligence, rely on modern information technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence, and digital twins, build a unified and shared information platform, integrate various data such as authoritative statistics, questionnaire surveys, real-time monitoring, etc., construct an accurate and reliable high-quality urban spatiotemporal data map, and enhance the comprehensiveness and accuracy of urban evaluation.
Select appropriate evaluation methods. Scientific evaluation methods and models are the basic guarantee for improving evaluation accuracy. It is necessary to select optimal econometric analysis methods, and screen core and highly representative key indicators from multiple variables. Build composite evaluation models, combine indicator characteristics and internal correlations, and use different calculation rules to carry out comprehensive judgment. Combine urban development differences and empirical analysis, select appropriate weighting methods, and set indicator weights in a differentiated and dynamic manner. Complete data standardization in a differentiated manner according to indicator attributes: for indicators with clear attainment thresholds, use the standard optimal value as a reference for conversion; for indicators that can be continuously improved, use the maximum data value as the baseline for conversion. In addition, combined with artificial intelligence technology, build intelligent evaluation models, carry out dynamic simulation and real-time monitoring of urban development, and improve the intelligent and scientific level of urban evaluation work.
Establish a fair and scientific evaluation participation mechanism. A fair and scientific evaluation participation mechanism can ensure that urban development evaluation is objective and effective, and fully empower high-quality urban development. We must create a multi-party collaborative work model and build a pattern of collaborative participation by multiple entities. Central departments coordinate standards and unify rules, local governments actively cooperate, professional institutions provide technical support, and enterprises and citizens participate extensively. In addition, support research institutes and market institutions to conduct independent third-party evaluations in accordance with the law to provide reference for decision-making. Improve the result analysis and application mechanism, build a multi-functional display platform, present evaluation results in multiple forms and dimensions, and play its role in guiding, motivating, monitoring, and referencing urban development. Improve supporting systems, decompose binding indicators to relevant departments, implement commendation and rewards or supervision and rectification based on evaluation results. Establish a dynamic optimization mechanism and testing mechanism for evaluation to test the scientificity and robustness of indicators, data, and methods. Establish an evaluation feedback mechanism, smooth feedback channels, collect opinions and suggestions from all parties, continuously optimize evaluation indicators and method models in combination with problems, suggestions and development trends, and keep the evaluation system 与时俱进 (yǔ shí jù jìn - "progress with the times," to keep abreast of the times).
(The author is a researcher at the Research Center for 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研究中心), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院))
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"The state takes the people as its foundation; the altars of state are also established for the people." (国以民为本，社稷亦为民而立)
The path of socialist political development with Chinese characteristics (中国特色社会主义政治发展道路) is the inevitable result of the historical logic, theoretical logic, and practical logic of the long-term struggle of the Chinese people since modern times; it is the inevitable requirement of upholding the Party's essential attributes and practicing the Party's fundamental purpose.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的十八大), China's socialist democratic politics has been comprehensively advanced in institutionalization, standardization, and proceduralization; the superiority of the socialist political system with Chinese characteristics (中国特色社会主义政治制度) has been better exerted; and a lively, stable, and united political situation has been consolidated and developed.
"A very important piece of experience behind China's governance achievements that have attracted worldwide attention (举世瞩目 [jǔ shì zhǔ mù - "attract worldwide attention," to be the focus of global interest]) is that, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), we follow the path of socialist political development with Chinese characteristics, and uphold and develop whole-process people's democracy." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly pointed out that the path of socialist political development with Chinese characteristics is the correct path that conforms to China's national conditions and ensures the people are the masters of the country.
Once the path is chosen, we must unswervingly (坚定不移 [jiān dìng bù yí - "firm and unshakable," to be resolute and unwavering]) follow it.
The Fundamental Political System Demonstrates Remarkable Superiority
"Passed!"
On the afternoon of March 12, at the Great Hall of the People (人民大会堂), the Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress (十四届全国人大四次会议) voted to adopt the resolution on the Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development (国民经济和社会发展第十五个五年规划纲要).
Under the leadership of the Party, through the system of the People's Congress (人民代表大会制度), the scientific formulation and successive implementation of five-year development plans (programs) have made them legally binding development goals and work guidelines, achieving the practice of "carrying out one task after another and drawing the blueprint to the end."
The system of the People's Congress is a fundamental political system arrangement that organically integrates the leadership of the Party, the people being the masters of the country, and the rule of law. In September 1954, the First Session of the First National People's Congress (一届全国人大一次会议) was convened in Huai Ren Tang, Zhongnanhai (中南海怀仁堂). The session adopted the first constitution of New China, marking the formal establishment of the system of the People's Congress.
The system of the People's Congress has advanced with the times (与时俱进 [yǔ shí jù jìn - "advance with the times," to keep pace with the times]) and been improved and developed, demonstrating strong vitality, and providing important institutional guarantees for the Party to lead the people in effectively governing the country according to law and in creating two miracles: rapid economic development and long-term social stability.
In 1952, China's GDP (Gross Domestic Product, 国内生产总值) was only 67.9 billion yuan. In 2025, China's GDP surpassed the 140 trillion yuan mark, firmly ranking as the world's second-largest economy. China has built the world's largest education system, social security system, and medical and health system, and has become one of the countries recognized by the international community as having the greatest sense of security.
People's democracy is a glorious banner that the Communist Party of China has always held high. The people being the masters of the country is the essence and core of socialist democratic politics.
Recently, at Hongqiao Subdistrict (虹桥街道), Changning District (长宁区), Shanghai (上海), more than 80 teachers and students from British universities visited the Gubei Civic Center (古北市民中心), touring functional areas such as the grassroots legislative contact point, the grassroots practice base for whole-process people's democracy of the People's Congress, the overseas talent hub, and the Gubei Civilian Deliberation Hall (古北市民议事厅).
"Democracy is not an abstract concept, but a pragmatic measure to serve people's livelihoods. Such a governance model is admirable," said one student.
In November 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected the Gubei Civic Center in Shanghai and clearly pointed out, "We are walking on a path of socialist political development with Chinese characteristics; people's democracy is a whole-process democracy."
In October 2021, the Central Conference on Work of the People's Congress (中央人大工作会议) was held, the first of its kind in the history of the Party and the history of the system of the People's Congress. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized, "We must unswervingly (毫不动摇 [háo bù dòng yáo - "not waver in the slightest," to be completely unwavering]) uphold, and advance with the times to improve, the system of the People's Congress; strengthen and improve the work of the People's Congress in the new era."
In September 2024, at the conference celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the National People's Congress (庆祝全国人民代表大会成立70周年大会), General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out, "The system of the People's Congress is the fruit of the arduous exploration and long-term struggle of the Communist Party of China leading the Chinese people; it is a brand-new political system that has grown from China's soil; it is a great creation in the history of human political systems."
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Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has pushed forward the work of the People's Congress to achieve historic achievements, making the system of the People's Congress more mature and more well-defined.
By upholding, perfecting, and operating the system of the People's Congress well, and better leveraging the role of the country's fundamental political system, we can rely on the system's strength to resist risks and challenges, and ensure the flourishing and long-term stability of the Party's and the country's cause.
Basic Political Systems Radiate Strong Vitality
The implementation of the system of the People's Congress, together with the implementation of basic political systems such as the system of multi-party cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党领导的多党合作和政治协商制度), the system of regional ethnic autonomy (民族区域自治制度), and the system of grassroots self-governance (基层群众自治制度), and the consolidation and development of the broadest possible patriotic united front (爱国统一战线), together form a comprehensive, extensive, and organically connected institutional system for the people to be masters of the country.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out, "China, a country with a civilization history of more than 5,000 years and a population of several hundred million, has established a new type of political system in which the people are the masters of the country. This is epoch-making in the history of China's political development and even in the history of world political development."
— New progress has been made in the construction of the new type of party system.
Promoting democracy, 集思广益 (jí sī guǎng yì - "gather wisdom, broaden benefits," to pool ideas from many sources and benefit from collective wisdom), and extensively listening to opinions from all sides are a consistent practice and fine tradition of the CPC Central Committee when studying major issues and formulating important documents.
On December 3, 2025, the CPC Central Committee (中共中央) held a symposium of non-Party persons (党外人士座谈会) in Zhongnanhai (中南海) to hear opinions and suggestions from leaders of the democratic parties (各民主党派), the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (全国工商联) and representatives of non-Party personages on the economic situation in 2025 and economic work in 2026. Everyone actively offered suggestions and proposals, highlighting the political advantage of China's new type of party system in pooling wisdom and strength.
At the conference celebrating the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (庆祝中国人民政治协商会议成立75周年大会), General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that consultative democracy (协商民主) is an important component of whole-process people's democracy, a unique form and distinctive advantage of China's socialist democratic politics, and an important manifestation of the Party's mass line in the political field.
Promoting the construction of multi-party cooperation systems, convening the Central Conference on United Front Work (中央统一战线工作会议), the Central Conference on Work of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (中央政协工作会议), issuing important documents such as the Opinions on Strengthening the Construction of Socialist Consultative Democracy (加强社会主义协商民主建设的意见), the Implementation Opinions on Strengthening Political Consultation Between Parties (加强政党协商的实施意见), and the Opinions on Strengthening and Improving the Work of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in the New Era (新时代加强和改进人民政协工作的意见)...
New progress has been made in the construction of China's new type of party system. The democratic parties have done a good job as good advisors, good helpers, and good colleagues of the Communist Party of China, jointly working to handle China's affairs well.
— New developments have emerged in ethnic unity and progress.
"People of all ethnic groups love their hometowns, people of all ethnic groups love the motherland..." Walking into the chorus room of Guyuanxiang Community (固原巷社区), Erdaoqiao Subdistrict (二道桥街道), Tianshan District (天山区), Urumqi City (乌鲁木齐市), Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区), the song "Sweet Song Welcomes Guests" (《甜甜的歌儿迎宾客》) resounded loudly.
"We, brothers and sisters of all ethnic groups, are like pomegranate seeds, 手足相亲 (shǒu zú xiāng qīn - "hands and feet close," to be as close as brothers and sisters), 守望相助 (shǒu wàng xiāng zhù - "keep watch and help each other," to support and assist one another)." Resident Aziguli Abula (阿孜古力·阿不拉) opened a cherished photo stored in her phone, which was the scene when General Secretary Xi Jinping visited the community in July 2022.
In 2025, the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区) and the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区) respectively marked the 60th and 70th anniversaries of their founding. Xi Jinping, as General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission (中共中央总书记、国家主席、中央军委主席), led central delegations to Tibet and Xinjiang to attend the celebration activities, the first time in the history of the Party and the country.
From July 1, 2026, the Law on the Promotion of Ethnic Unity and Progress (民族团结进步促进法) will officially come into effect, laying a solid legal foundation for forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation (铸牢中华民族共同体意识) and promoting the building of the Chinese national community.
Under the centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee, the system of regional ethnic autonomy is upheld and improved, and the socialist ethnic relations of equality, unity, mutual assistance, and harmony are consolidated and developed. All ethnic groups are tightly united like pomegranate seeds.
— The orderly political participation of the people continues to expand.
Walking deep along Caochang Sitiao Hutong (草厂四条胡同) and knocking on a dark red wooden gate leads to the "Courtyard Deliberation Hall" (小院议事厅) in Beijing's Dongcheng District (东城区).
Garbage sorting, gas pipeline renovation... Whenever issues related to the lives of neighbors arise, everyone comes to the "Courtyard Deliberation Hall" to discuss.
On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping walked into the "Courtyard Deliberation Hall" and clearly pointed out that the establishment of the "Courtyard Deliberation Hall," where "residents discuss residents' affairs, residents decide residents' affairs," is conducive to enhancing the sense of belonging and ownership among community residents.
On January 1 of this year, the revised Organic Law of the Villagers' Committees (村民委员会组织法) and the Organic Law of the Urban Residents' Committees (城市居民委员会组织法) came into effect. These two laws are legislative implementation of the constitutional provisions on the system of grassroots self-governance. This revision is a vivid practice of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law (习近平法治思想) in the field of grassroots governance, providing more complete legal guarantees for the development of grassroots democracy.
"Dam meetings" (坝坝会), "discussions under the camphor tree" (樟树下议事), "old neighborhood council" (老街坊议事会)... Localities have integrated whole-process people's democracy into grassroots governance, exploring and creating one democratic form after another full of the vitality of daily life. The orderly political participation of the people has continued to expand, making the people being the masters of the country shine more brilliantly.
The Overall Framework of Comprehensive Law-Based Governance Has Basically Taken Shape
The organic unity of the Party's leadership, the people being the masters of the country, and the rule of law is the essential characteristic of the political civilization of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has incorporated comprehensive law-based governance (全面依法治国) into the "four comprehensives" strategic layout (四个全面) and vigorously promoted it. The overall framework of comprehensive law-based governance has basically taken shape, the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics has been continuously improved, and the path of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics has become ever broader.
— Ensure good governance with good laws.
When the Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress (十四届全国人大四次会议) voted with a high number of favorable votes to adopt the Ecological Environment Code (生态环境法典), warm applause rang out in the Great Hall of the People.
This is the second basic law in China named with the word "code" after the Civil Code (民法典). It is of great and far-reaching significance for advancing the construction of an ecological civilization in the new era on the track of the rule of law and realizing the sustainable development of the Chinese nation.
Amending the Legislation Law (立法法), adopting the Criminal Law Amendment (XII) (刑法修正案(十二)), enacting the National Development Plan Law (国家发展规划法), the Private Sector Promotion Law (民营经济促进法), etc. By deeply advancing scientific legislation, democratic legislation, and law-based legislation, and strengthening legislation in key fields, emerging fields, and fields involving foreign affairs, the system of legal norms has become more scientific and complete.
China currently has 311 laws in effect, more than 600 administrative regulations and supervisory regulations, and over 15,000 local regulations. The socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics, with the Constitution at its core, has kept pace with the times and been improved and developed.
— Comprehensively promote strict, standardized, fair, and civilized law enforcement.
"In the past, various regulatory departments were like 'nine dragons managing water' (九龙治水 [jiǔ lóng zhì shuǐ - "nine dragons manage water," metaphor for multiple authorities with overlapping responsibilities]), conducting separate inspections. Now all departments inspect together, which is much easier for us." In Yiwu International Trade City (义乌国际商贸城), Zhejiang (浙江), the operator of a toy store explained the convenience brought by "comprehensive inspection once" ("综合查一次").
Comprehensively promote "scanning QR code to enter enterprises" to further regulate administrative inspections on enterprises; strengthen the standardization of administrative law enforcement, promote the clarity and unification of benchmarks for administrative discretion, improve the two-way connection system between administrative penalties and criminal penalties...
By comprehensively promoting strict, standardized, fair, and civilized law enforcement, the correct implementation of laws is effectively ensured, the market environment is more fair and dynamic, and the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security is more substantial, better guaranteed, and more sustainable.
— Resolutely defend social fairness and justice.
In this year's "Two Reports" (两高报告, work reports of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate), two cases attracted attention:
Yu Mou (余某) worked continuously for more than 8 hours, and the company did not arrange a replacement. He was dismissed for closing his eyes and resting for 3 minutes. The court ruled that this constituted an illegal termination of the labor contract.
Wang Mou (王某) fought with a thief who broke into his home late at night, causing the thief's death. Chen Mou (陈某) resisted unlawful infringement and injured the perpetrator. The procuratorial organs ruled both to be justifiable self-defense.
The judicial organs handle every case with high quality and efficiency, deepen the comprehensive and integrated reform of the judicial system, advance the reform of the criminal procedure system centered on trials, comprehensively implement the case registration system, establish a circuit inspection system, expand the scope of public interest litigation cases, pay more attention to the coordination of the rule of law with reform, development, and stability, and strive to let the people feel fairness and justice in every judicial case.
— Innovatively promote law-abiding by all people and legal education and propaganda.
For the law to play its role, it requires the whole society to believe in the law and respect the rule of law.
On November 1, 2025, the Law on Legal Education and Propaganda (法治宣传教育法) came into effect, providing legal protection for legal publicity. Based on this law, the "Ninth Five-Year" legal publicity plan ("九五"普法规划) will be formulated and implemented this year.
Starting from issues such as neighborhood disputes and property rights protection that are close to the people, various localities and departments have carried out diverse and vivid legal education activities, promoting a significant improvement in citizens' legal awareness. Respecting, learning, abiding by, and using the law has become a common practice (蔚然成风 [wèi rán chéng fēng - "become common practice," to become widespread and established as a trend]) throughout society.
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Direction determines the future; the path decides destiny.
The Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan (十五五规划纲要) proposes to unswervingly follow the path of socialist political development with Chinese characteristics, uphold the organic unity of the Party's leadership, the people being the masters of the country, and the rule of law, and consolidate and develop a lively, stable, and united political situation.
On the new journey, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, we will unswervingly follow the path of socialist political development with Chinese characteristics, comprehensively develop whole-process people's democracy, deeply advance comprehensive law-based governance, and the superiority of the socialist political system with Chinese characteristics will surely be better exerted. Chinese modernization will surely proceed steadily and far (行稳致远 [xíng wěn zhì yuǎn - "walk steadily to reach far," to make steady and long-term progress]).
As a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协委员) rooted in the countryside, I deeply understand the great responsibility on my shoulders. Entering the Great Hall of the People, I bring the most genuine voices and expectations of the villagers around me. My suggestions on comprehensive rural revitalization and elderly care services come from my observations while dining with the elderly at the Liuzhai Village (刘寨村) day care center, and from my thoughts when calculating accounts with farmers in greenhouses. I witness the continuous development of the country's democratic politics, and I hope to better play my role as a committee member, using my proposals to turn grassroots 'pain points' into policy 'fulcrums', so that more 'Liuzhai Villages' can enjoy the sunshine and rain of national policies, and strive to write the great essay of comprehensive rural revitalization with more splendor and color!
— Cheng Yuzhen (程玉珍), member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Party branch secretary and village committee director of Liuzhai Village (刘寨村), Longquan Town (龙泉镇), Huguan County (壶关县), Shanxi Province (山西省)
(Compiled by Zheng Yangyang [郑洋洋], reporter of this newspaper)
Having worked deeply in village affairs for many years, I have a deep understanding of grassroots governance: evaluating the quality of work of grassroots Party members and cadres never relies on self-praise; the people have a scale in their hearts. Whether villagers' incomes have steadily increased and whether the village's appearance has continuously improved are the most realistic and hard-core standards for testing performance in fulfilling duties.
In the future, I will continue to uphold the original aspiration of a Party member, shoulder my responsibilities and duties, lead the whole village to strengthen characteristic industries, improve people's livelihood security, broaden the path to increasing income and becoming rich step by step, so that every family's life becomes more prosperous and happier.
— Qian Xueyu (钱学余), Party branch secretary and village committee director of Xiaopingfang Village (小平房村), Wanshou Subdistrict (万寿街道), Jianping County (建平县), Liaoning Province (辽宁省)
(Compiled by Liu Hongchao [刘洪超], reporter of this newspaper)
From taking off my military uniform to becoming a food delivery rider, then serving as a community volunteer, and later becoming the Party branch secretary of a newly employed group volunteer service team, I have been rooted at the grassroots level for many years, serving newly employed groups. Party building can both unite people's hearts and drive responsibility. Relying on the advantage of delivery riders going through streets and alleys, we guide everyone to participate in grassroots governance, volunteer services, and help those in need.
Along the way, the identity of a Party member has motivated me to work diligently and help others warmly. I have always remembered the enthusiasm when I started. Next, I will continue to do a good job in Party building among newly employed groups, drive more peers to listen to the Party, follow the Party, actively integrate into urban governance, serve the people around us, and keep the Party flag flying high at the forefront.
— Wang Kehao (王柯皓), Party branch secretary of the "Brother Niu · Pioneer Rider" Volunteer Service Team (小牛哥·先锋车手志愿服务队), Niushikou Subdistrict (牛市口街道), Jinjiang District (锦江区), Chengdu (成都市), Sichuan Province (四川省)
(Compiled by Wang Mingfeng [王明峰], reporter of this newspaper)
Having been engaged in the field of police technology innovation for many years, I have increasingly deeply realized the strong organizational advantages of the Party organization. Leveraging the role of the Party branch as a fighting fortress, we coordinate resources from various aspects such as technology, business, and grassroots police forces, striving to break through data barriers and cross-departmental collaboration bottlenecks. Party members take the lead in tackling difficulties (攻坚克难 [gōng jiān kè nán - "assault fortresses, overcome difficulties," to tackle tough problems and overcome obstacles]), turning 'impossible' into 'possible' step by step.
Having devoted myself to the field of police technology innovation for many years, I have increasingly deeply realized the strong organizational advantages of the Party organization. Leveraging the role of the Party branch as a fighting fortress, we coordinate resources from all aspects such as technology, business, and grassroots police forces, striving to break down data barriers and cross-departmental collaboration bottlenecks. Party members take the lead in tackling difficulties, step by step turning "impossible" into "possible."
In the future, I will bear in mind the original aspiration and mission, continue to deepen the deep integration of Party building and smart policing, transform the advantages of the Party organization into the momentum for scientific innovation and tackling difficulties, polish more policing innovation achievements that are grounded, enhance efficiency, and solve people's concerns, fulfill with solid actions the solemn commitment of the people's police for the people, and contribute more strength to the construction of peace.
——Zhou Kewu (周克武), Party Branch Secretary and Political Commissar of the Information Command Center of Ma'anshan Municipal Public Security Bureau, Anhui Province (安徽省马鞍山市公安局情报指挥中心)
(Compiled by Tian Xianjin (田先进), reporter of this newspaper)
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Democracy is a common value of all humanity and an important concept that the Chinese Communist Party (中国共产党) and the Chinese people have 始终不渝 (shǐ zhōng bù yú - "from beginning to end unchanged," steadfastly and unwaveringly) adhered to. In China, what kind of democracy is people's democracy exactly?
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平总书记) gave a profound answer: Whole-process people's democracy is "the broadest, most genuine, and most effective socialist democracy."
These three "mosts" reveal the essential characteristics of whole-process people's democracy and also demonstrate the confidence and assurance of the political development path of socialism with Chinese characteristics (中国特色社会主义).
The broadest socialist democracy means "everyone is present," reflected in the system coverage and participation subjects of the people being the masters of the country. Our country implements the state system of people's democratic dictatorship (人民民主专政) led by the working class and based on the alliance of workers and peasants, implements the form of government of the system of people's congresses (人民代表大会制度), and implements the basic political systems such as the system of multiparty cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党领导的多党合作和政治协商制度), the system of regional ethnic autonomy (民族区域自治制度), and the system of grassroots self-governance (基层群众自治制度). These constitute a comprehensive, extensive, and organically interconnected system of the people being the masters of the country. From central to grassroots, from cities to villages, from people's congress deputies to ordinary masses, this broad representativeness ensures that whole-process people's democracy is not democracy of a minority but the right of all the people.
The most genuine socialist democracy means "it happens every day," reflected in the unity of complete institutional procedures and complete participatory practices. Democracy is not an abstract concept but a tangible and participatory actual process. Whole-process people's democracy includes not only democratic elections but also democratic consultation, democratic decision-making, democratic management, and democratic oversight, forming a full-chain participatory closed loop. From grassroots legislative contact points to residents' deliberation halls, from the 12345 hotline (12345热线) to online political inquiry platforms, the forms of democracy are increasingly rich, and the channels for participation are increasingly unobstructed. Democracy is no longer an invisible institutional design but the tangible sense of participation and gain of hundreds of millions of people.
The most effective socialist democracy means "every matter has a response," reflected in being able to truly solve the problems that the people need to solve. In our country, democracy runs through the entire process of decision-making, implementation, and oversight. For adding elevators to old residential communities, opinions of residents are repeatedly solicited; for rural sewage treatment, plans are consulted door-to-door and person-by-person; for law revisions and policy adjustments, massive demands are collected online and offline. Whole-process people's democracy tightly binds together what the Party and government want to do with what the people hope for, making governance achievements visible and tangible.
On the new journey, we must continue to concretely and realistically embody the people being the masters of the country in the policies and measures of the Party's governance and administration, and in the work of realizing the people's aspirations for a better life.
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This year marks the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党). Having traversed over a century of vicissitudes, our Party has always held high the banner of people's democracy, uniting and leading the people to successfully open up and adhere to the political development path of socialism with Chinese characteristics (中国特色社会主义政治发展道路). General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平总书记) pointed out that the organic unity of upholding Party leadership, ensuring the people's position as masters of the country, and governing the country according to law is an inevitable requirement for socialist political development. This is the choice of history and the people, and it is also the correct path fully proven by the great practice of socialist democratic politics in our country.
The most fundamental aspect of upholding the organic unity of Party leadership, people being masters of the country, and rule of law is to uphold Party leadership. Among the "Fourteen Persistences" (十四个坚持) of Xi Jinping's thought on Party building (习近平党建思想), the first is: upholding Party leadership is the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的十八大以来), our Party has vigorously developed whole-process people's democracy (全过程人民民主), ensured the people's position as masters of the country, upheld and improved the fundamental political system of the system of people's congresses (人民代表大会制度), and the basic political systems of the system of multi-party cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党领导的多党合作和政治协商制度), the system of regional ethnic autonomy (民族区域自治制度), and the system of grassroots self-governance (基层群众自治制度). Under the leadership of the Party, whole-process people's democracy has developed in depth, democratic forms at all levels have become richer, and the institutionalization and rule-of-law of national and social life have advanced in an orderly manner.
The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan (十五五规划纲要) makes a dedicated chapter arrangement for "Developing whole-process people's democracy and perfecting the socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics (中国特色社会主义法治体系)." Forging ahead on the new journey, we must 坚定不移 (jiān dìng bù yí - "firm and unwavering," to be resolute and unswerving) follow the political development path of socialism with Chinese characteristics (中国特色社会主义政治发展道路), uphold the organic unity of Party leadership, people being masters of the country, and rule of law, and consolidate and develop a political situation that is lively and stable. Continuously improve the institutional system for the people to be masters of the country, expand the people's orderly political participation, enhance the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security, and work 同心同德 (tóng xīn tóng dé - "with one heart and one virtue," to be of one mind and one will) and hand in hand with the people, jointly gathering the majestic force for comprehensively building a modern socialist country.
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The “15th Five-Year Plan” period (十五五) is a critical period for our country to consolidate the foundation and comprehensively exert efforts to basically achieve socialist modernization, and it is also an important stage for building a strong nation in science and technology where we must 攻坚克难 (gōng jiān kè nán - “storm fortresses overcome difficulties,” overcome difficulties and tackle tough problems) and 闯关夺隘 (chuǎng guān duó ài - “break barriers seize passes,” break through barriers and seize strategic passes). To advance Chinese-style modernization, science and technology must take the lead (打头阵), and scientific and technological workers must bravely serve as the vanguard (排头兵) in achieving high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has comprehensively strengthened unified leadership and systematic planning over the work of mass organizations, put forward the requirement to unswervingly follow the path of socialist mass organization development with Chinese characteristics, and profoundly clarified a series of directional and strategic major issues such as the fundamental guarantee, political responsibility, basic functions, theme of the times, strategic mission, and work philosophy of scientific and technological mass organizations. This provides the fundamental guidance and action guide for the development of scientific and technological mass organizations in the new era.
Scientific and technological mass organizations include both the national unified organization of scientific and technological workers under the leadership of the Party – the China Association for Science and Technology (中国科学技术协会) – and various scientific societies, associations, research societies and other scientific and technological societies voluntarily formed by scientific and technological workers in accordance with regulations. This year marks the start of the “15th Five-Year Plan” period (十五五). The 11th National Congress of the China Association for Science and Technology (中国科协) is about to be convened, and the cause of scientific and technological mass organizations will embark on a new journey. We must comprehensively implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s (习近平) important expositions on scientific and technological innovation and the work of the China Association for Science and Technology (科协), establish and practice a correct view of performance, unite and lead the vast numbers of scientific and technological workers to anchor the goal of building a strong nation in science and technology, make contributions in the “15th Five-Year Plan” period (十五五), and strive forward on the new journey.
**Adhere to the Party’s overall leadership over scientific and technological mass organizations, ensuring that all undertakings always advance in the correct political direction**
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that “mass organizations must always place themselves under the leadership of the Party,” requiring the China Association for Science and Technology (科协) to unwaveringly adhere to Party leadership and unswervingly follow the path of socialist mass organization development with Chinese characteristics. Adhering to Party leadership is the highest political principle for all work of scientific and technological mass organizations.
Party leadership is the historical choice for the development of scientific and technological mass organizations. In modern times, a group of advanced intellectuals, harboring the dream of saving the country through science and rejuvenating the nation through industry, learned from the West to establish societies and associations; this is the origin of our country’s scientific and technological mass organizations. However, from the various societies during the Hundred Days’ Reform (戊戌变法) to groups such as the Science Society of China (中国科学社) in the early 20th century, due to a lack of national political support and necessary social foundation, they ultimately found it difficult to realize their visions. In 1940, the Communist Party of China led the establishment of the Natural Science Research Society of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region (陕甘宁边区自然科学研究会). From then on, our country’s scientific and technological mass organizations embarked on the correct path of integrating the pursuit of their cause with the fate of the nation and the interests of the people. After the founding of New China, the Party led scientific and technological workers to establish a national unified organization, endowed it with social functions, and made it a constituent unit of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (中国人民政治协商会议). From then on, scientific and technological mass organizations were systematically and institutionally incorporated into the overall work of the Party and government. Scientific and technological workers’ commitment to serving the country transitioned from spontaneity to consciousness, and from individual pursuit to collective will.
The Party’s overall leadership is the political guarantee for the development of scientific and technological mass organizations. The Communist Party of China is the leadership core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, commanding the overall situation and coordinating all parties. Only by adhering to Party leadership can the social participation aspirations and personal development rights and interests of the vast numbers of scientific and technological workers be expressed more orderly and safeguarded more effectively. Only by adhering to Party leadership can scientific and technological mass organizations accurately grasp the pulse of the times and the direction of development, and can their various functions of uniting and leading, contacting and serving scientific and technological workers obtain strong policy support and resource guarantees. Only by adhering to Party leadership can a favorable atmosphere of respecting knowledge and respecting talent gradually form, and can the ideals of the vast numbers of scientific and technological workers to serve the country and serve the people obtain broad space for realization and a solid social foundation.
The Party’s overall leadership is the requirement of the times for the development of scientific and technological mass organizations. Comprehensively advancing the construction of a strong nation and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization is the central task of the Party and the state in the new era and new journey, and it is also the “greatest politics” of scientific and technological mass organizations. Our country’s scientific and technological societies implement the “one industry, one society” (一业一会) policy, which objectively provides an institutional guarantee for eliminating disorderly competition among societies, and at the same time requires scientific and technological societies to consciously establish the value pursuit of national interests above all else. Only by adhering to Party leadership can it be ensured that the personal aspirations of scientific and technological workers and the organizational pursuits of scientific and technological mass organizations resonate at the same frequency (同频共振) and move in the same direction (同向同行) with the great practice of Chinese-style modernization.
Scientific and technological mass organizations must further improve the implementation mechanism for the major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, take political construction as the guide, earnestly strengthen the self-construction of mass organizations, and clearly and unequivocally promote “strengthening the society through Party building” (党建强会). Thoroughly implement the general requirements for Party building in the new era, consciously implement the Party’s overall leadership in all fields and aspects of the work of scientific and technological mass organizations, adhere to the original aspiration and mission, and ensure a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee in political stance, political direction, political principles, and political path.
**Adhere to the high degree of unity of political character, advanced nature, and mass character, effectively play the role of a bridge and bond connecting the Party and government with scientific and technological workers**
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has consistently required the effective maintenance and enhancement of the political character, advanced nature, and mass character of the Party’s mass organizations and mass organizations themselves, emphasizing that the China Association for Science and Technology (科协) organization, as the bridge and bond between the Party and government and scientific and technological workers, must establish smooth and stable two-way communication channels between Party committees and governments and scientific and technological workers. This further points out the direction for scientific and technological mass organizations to fulfill their political responsibilities.
Political character is the soul and comes first, which is primarily reflected in the fact that scientific and technological mass organizations must maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee in thought, politics, and action. Political character must be transformed into effective political guidance and value shaping for the vast numbers of scientific and technological workers. Scientific and technological mass organizations must implement the requirements of ideological and political guidance into the activities, resources, and evaluations of the organization, guiding and converging the wisdom and strength of organizational members and the vast numbers of scientific and technological workers to serve national strategic needs.
Advanced nature is an important focal point, which is primarily reflected in the fact that scientific and technological mass organizations must lead scientific and technological workers to walk at the forefront of the times. Advanced nature includes the advanced nature of the organization, requiring scientific and technological mass organizations to focus on the national overall situation, promote the development of new quality productive forces, and play a leading role in flourishing academia, promoting innovation, driving development, serving society, and nurturing culture; it also includes the advanced nature of organizational members. Scientific and technological workers must bravely serve as the vanguard (排头兵) of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening, the demonstrators of promoting socialist core values, and fully play the role of pioneers of advanced productive forces and practitioners and disseminators of advanced culture.
Mass character is the fundamental characteristic, which is primarily reflected in the fact that scientific and technological mass organizations must be deeply rooted among the vast numbers of scientific and technological workers. In the activities of scientific and technological mass organizations, scientific and technological workers must be the protagonists, with service tentacles extensively reaching front-line units and scientific and technological workers in various fields, promoting the coverage and work coverage of scientific and technological mass organizations to be more tangible and effective; cadres of scientific and technological mass organizations must go deep into the grassroots, strive to be loyal practitioners of the purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, firm executors of the Party’s mass line, and experts in the Party’s mass work.
Political character, advanced nature, and mass character are interrelated and inseparable. The three are organically unified in the practice of effectively playing the role of a bridge and bond. Scientific and technological mass organizations must further highly unify the social functions of the scientific and technological community with the political functions and organizational functions of the Party’s mass organizations, do a good job of ideological guidance, career support, humanistic care, and emotional connection for scientific and technological workers, fully convey the warmth of the Party to the vast numbers of scientific and technological workers, and truthfully report the warmth of scientific and technological workers to the Party.
**Adhere to the lifeline of serving the development and progress of the vast numbers of scientific and technological workers, promote the spirit of scientists and the spirit of science**
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has always shown cordial concern and full trust for the vast numbers of scientific and technological talents, requiring the China Association for Science and Technology (科协) organization to be built into a veritable “home for scientific and technological workers” (科技工作者之家), hoping that the vast numbers of scientific and technological workers will vigorously promote the spirit of scientists and the spirit of science, consciously integrate academic pursuits into the great cause of building a strong nation in science and technology, and clarify the key focus of uniting, gathering, and serving scientific and technological workers for scientific and technological mass organizations in the new era.
Expand the breadth of service. Serving the vast numbers of scientific and technological workers is the concentrated embodiment of the people-centered development thought in the field of scientific and technological mass organizations, and is the inherent requirement for scientific and technological mass organizations to practice the Party’s purpose, demonstrate organizational value, and maintain vitality. The attribute of “home for scientific and technological workers” (科技工作者之家) determines that scientific and technological mass organizations must serve the vast numbers of scientific and technological workers, combining optimizing the environment for making contributions with providing direct services. Leading bodies of the China Association for Science and Technology (科协) at all levels and national societies must more actively safeguard the common development rights and interests of scientific and technological workers, and promote the resolution of institutional and environmental problems affecting group development. Grassroots science and technology associations (科协) must be close to the front line, shift the focus of service to caring for individuals and solving actual difficulties, and provide precise and personalized support.
Enhance the precision of service. Service resources must be more precisely allocated to the key group of scientific and technological talents, especially making service for the growth and success of young scientific and technological talents the top priority at the current stage. Through organized guidance and empowerment, create conditions and build platforms for young talents to realize their aspirations and make contributions, while guiding them to progress politically, ideologically, and in cultivation. It is necessary to face up to the real pressures and development needs faced by young scientific and technological talents in career start-up, project support, team building, academic recognition, resource guarantee, psychological relief, etc., tilt service resources, and effectively enhance their sense of gain and achievement.
Improve the effectiveness of service. The fundamental effectiveness of service lies in promoting the comprehensive development and continuous progress of the ideological realm and professional abilities of scientific and technological workers, and effectively stimulating innovation vitality and creative potential. Efforts should be made to guide scientific and technological workers to consciously practice the spirit of scientists and the spirit of science, consciously abide by academic norms and scientific and technological ethics, and resist extreme individualism and utilitarian tendencies. Enhance the comprehensive ability of scientific and technological workers to understand industrial needs, communicate and collaborate, and transform achievements, helping them to continuously broaden their horizons, understand reality, and better adapt to economic and social development and scientific and technological industrial transformation.
**Adhere to centering on the core and serving the overall situation, fully leverage the important role of scientific and technological mass organizations in the national innovation system**
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) requires the China Association for Science and Technology (中国科协) to adhere to serving scientific and technological workers, serving innovation-driven development, serving the improvement of the scientific quality of the whole people, and serving scientific decision-making of the Party and government. The value of scientific and technological mass organizations must be marked by their contribution to the overall situation.
Scientific and technological mass organizations have unique functions in the national innovation system. As the product of the socialization, organization, and institutionalization of scientific and technological activities, scientific and technological mass organizations, based on basic functions such as academic exchange, science popularization, scientific and technological evaluation, scientific and technological consulting, and international cooperation, link innovation entities and innovation networks, and play an important hub role among the government, market, and society. The work of scientific and technological mass organizations should focus on activating the endogenous strength of the scientific and technological community, and in areas where the government and market find it difficult to play a role, especially in optimizing the academic ecology, establishing professional authority, strengthening peer supervision, and disseminating advanced culture, provide specialized and organized public goods, making substantive incremental contributions to improving the overall effectiveness of the national innovation system.
The “15th Five-Year Plan” period (十五五) is a critical period for accelerating the achievement of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening and building a strong nation in science and technology. Currently, our country’s scientific and technological innovation has achieved leaps from following and running alongside to leading in some fields, and is advancing into more “uncharted territories.” The ability to independently condense scientific problems and define frontier directions has become crucial. The urgency of mastering academic leadership and safeguarding scientific and technological security is increasingly heightened. Cross-field and cross-industry common technical problems and systemic decision-making needs are emerging in large numbers, placing higher demands on scientific and technological consulting capabilities. Improving the scientific and cultural quality of citizens and consolidating the mass foundation for innovative development still requires 久久为功 (jiǔ jiǔ wéi gōng - “persist long achieve work,” persistent and long-term effort). Deepening the reform of scientific and technological evaluation, stimulating talent innovation vitality, and creating a good research ecology are also inherent requirements for building a strong nation in science and technology. These situations and tasks together constitute the background of the times and the realistic stage for scientific and technological mass organizations to play their roles.
Facing the new situation and new requirements, scientific and technological mass organizations must strengthen their mission responsibility, leverage their unique advantages, and further enhance their contribution to the overall situation of building a strong nation in science and technology. Independently condense scientific problems and judge frontier directions, create high-level, convenient exchange carriers and conference platforms. Cultivate world-class scientific journal clusters, attract first-class scientific and technological achievements from both domestic and international sources to be published first. Play the role of the main social force in science popularization work, effectively improve the scientific and cultural quality of the whole people, and consolidate the mass foundation for innovative development. Leverage the organizational advantages of cross-discipline and cross-field, based on a third-party perspective, provide systematic solutions, and promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation. Explore the establishment of an authoritative evaluation mechanism based on peer review, focusing on professional level, actual contribution, and social impact.
**Adhere to enhancing international openness, trust, and cooperation in science and technology, strengthen the scientific and technological forces for building a community with a shared future for mankind**
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that “scientific and technological progress is a worldwide and epochal topic, and only openness and cooperation is the right path,” requiring the China Association for Science and Technology (科协) to make greater contributions to promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind. This places higher demands on scientific and technological mass organizations to implement the four major global initiatives and play the unique role of non-governmental science and technology diplomacy.
Deeply participate in global science and technology governance. Currently, the international competition and cooperation landscape in science and technology is profoundly evolving, and the game and struggle surrounding rules, standards, and discourse power are becoming increasingly fierce. Scientific and technological mass organizations must shoulder the responsibility of the times, organize and guide our country’s scholars to step onto the stage of international science and technology cooperation in a structured manner. Focus on improving the internationalization level of domestic scientific and technological societies, optimize external professional exchange and cooperation mechanisms, actively integrate into the global innovation network, and create an open innovation ecosystem with global competitiveness. Proactively initiate and establish international science and technology organizations, cultivate and recommend top scientists to hold important positions in international science and technology organizations, substantially enhance our country’s influence and discourse power in global science and technology agenda setting, technical standard formulation, and ethical rule construction, and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of our country’s scientific and technological development.
Deepen international scientific and technological and people-to-people exchanges. This is a vivid practice of the scientific and technological community promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind. We must adhere to being centered on ourselves, continuously deepen the “Belt and Road” (一带一路) scientific and technological and people-to-people exchanges, promote dialogue among civilizations through the bond of science and technology, and tell the story of China’s scientific and technological innovation well. Closely surrounding the common development needs of countries jointly building the “Belt and Road” (一带一路), build mutually beneficial and win-win scientific and technological partnerships, strengthen the sharing of science popularization resources and the dissemination of scientific culture, bridge the development gap, improve people’s livelihood and well-being, and promote people-to-people connectivity. Fully leverage the people-to-people exchange function of science and technology, pragmatically promote the exchange of scientific and technical personnel, especially strengthen cooperation among young scientific and technological talents and exchanges among young people, and promote the exchange and mutual learning of scientific knowledge, scientific methods, scientific thought, and scientific spirit.
Safeguard national scientific and technological security. We must establish bottom-line thinking, enhance risk awareness, establish and improve a security early warning and prevention and control system, resolutely safeguard the security of our country’s core technologies, strategic data, key facilities, top talents, and even the academic ecology in all aspects, provide strong international rule support for our country’s scientific and technological development to break through containment and strive for a fair and just environment, and ensure that our country’s scientific and technological undertakings advance steadily and far (行稳致远) in the changing international environment.
**Adhere to upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground (守正创新), carry out work in accordance with laws and regulations**
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) requires that mass organization reforms strengthen the “three natures” (三性: political character, advanced nature, mass character) and remove the “four tendencies” (四化: bureaucratization, administrative tendency, entertainment tendency, ostentation tendency), emphasizing that “mass organizations must be built to be more vibrant and stronger, so that they become an important force in promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity.” This clarifies the tasks and goals for the reform and development of scientific and technological mass organizations.
Reform the working methods of scientific and technological mass organizations. Actively adapt to the new requirements of the modernization process of the national governance system and governance capacity, as well as the new changes in the paradigm shift of scientific research and the group structure and activity methods of scientific and technological workers, courageously break free from ideological constraints, break through solidified interest barriers, crack institutional and mechanism obstacles, and use reform to stimulate new momentum for the development of the cause of scientific and technological mass organizations. Accurately grasp the development laws of scientific and technological mass organizations, adhere to a problem-oriented approach, persist in breaking and establishing simultaneously (破立并举), while removing bureaucratized work styles and administrative dependence, steadily and orderly promote the flattening of scientific and technological mass organizations, the socialization of their survival, the refinement of their activities, and the networking of their mobilization. Vigorously build an “online home for scientific and technological workers” (网上科技工作者之家), and take the online mass line well.
Reform the work methods of science and technology mass organizations (科技群团). Actively adapt to the new requirements of the modernization process of the national governance system and governance capacity, as well as the new changes in the paradigm shift of scientific research and the group structure and activity methods of scientific and technological workers. Bravely break free from ideological constraints, break through solidified interest barriers, and crack institutional and mechanism obstacles, using reform to stimulate new momentum for the development of science and technology mass organizations. Accurately grasp the development laws of science and technology mass organizations, highlight problem orientation, adhere to both breaking and establishing simultaneously, while removing the style of bureaucratic organs and dependence on administrative methods, steadily and orderly promote the flattening of science and technology mass organizations, socialization of survival, refinement of activities, and networking of mobilization. Vigorously build the "Online Home for Science and Technology Workers (网上科技工作者之家)", and effectively implement the online mass line (网上群众路线).
Promote the sound management system of science and technology societies (科技社团). Closely integrate with the goals and requirements of building a strong science and technology nation, adhere to problem orientation, classified policies, pilot first, steady and cautious advancement, and strive to stimulate the endogenous power of science and technology societies, optimize the development environment, and promote high-quality development. Improve the corporate governance structure with the charter as the core, perfect democratic decision-making and supervision mechanisms, and enhance the ability to perform duties using legal thinking and legal methods. Keep up with the pace of the times, conform to practical development, focus on outstanding issues such as discipline layout, organizational structure, core capabilities, institutional supply, management rights and responsibilities to deepen reforms, and improve the modern governance level of science and technology societies.
Advance strict governance of the societies (全面从严治会). Further improve the Party building of science and technology societies, and perfect the mechanism for Party organizations to play their role. According to laws and charters, seriously rectify outstanding problems in the governance of societies, and deepen the rectification of corruption in societies and associations. Leverage the self-discipline and self-purification function of the science and technology community (科技共同体) in strengthening work style and academic atmosphere, rectify academic misconduct and unhealthy practices, and vigorously 激浊扬清 (jī zhuó yáng qīng - "drive out evil and promote good," to eliminate bad practices and promote positive ones). Establish and practice a correct view of performance, build a cadre team that is loyal to the Party's cause, loves the positions of the Association for Science and Technology (科协), closely connects with the grassroots, and wholeheartedly serves talents, so as to forever maintain the vigorous vitality and exuberant energy of science and technology mass organizations.
(The author is the Party Secretary (党组书记), Executive Vice Chairman in charge of daily work (分管日常工作副主席), and First Secretary of the Secretariat (书记处第一书记) of the China Association for Science and Technology (中国科学技术协会).)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 齐志明
Mid-summer season, the Shunyi Hall of the China International Exhibition Center in Beijing (北京中国国际展览中心顺义馆) is bustling with people. The ongoing 4th China International Supply Chain Expo (第四届中国国际供应链促进博览会, hereinafter referred to as the "Chain Expo (链博会)") has upgraded the "Digital Technology Chain (数字科技链)" to the "Digital Intelligence Technology Chain (数智科技链)", established an artificial intelligence dedicated zone for the first time, and a batch of first-releases, first-exhibitions, and first-debuts have been concentratedly unveiled, with innovation becoming the distinct main line running through the expo, and the vibrant vitality of new quality productive forces (新质生产力) coming right at you.
At the Yum China (百胜中国) booth in the Green Agriculture Chain exhibition area, the company's on-site first-release of the "full-chain AI (artificial intelligence) + robot operation system (全链AI（人工智能）+机器人运营体系)" builds an intelligent "super chassis (超级底盘)" for the catering supply chain. In a minus-18-degree-Celsius cold storage scenario, robots replace human labor to complete picking operations, solving the industry challenge of working in extreme cold environments and significantly improving warehouse efficiency per square meter; heavy-duty unmanned delivery vehicles unlock round-the-clock transport capacity, allowing ingredient delivery to break free from human and weather limitations.
At the Shishi Technology (是石科技) booth, the company's brought domestic token optimization factory (国产词元优化工厂) is eye-catching, and the "Little Stone (小石子)" IP (intellectual property) image vividly demonstrates the entire process from the domestic chip computing power base to the output of high-quality model tokens. "We will persist in innovation-driven development, increase R&D investment, and empower the high-quality development of the AI industry with super-intelligence integration," said Yan Bowen (闫博文), founder and chairman of Shishi Technology.
At the Yadu (亚都) booth, the whole-house air purification and healthy humidification solution is 耳目一新 (ěr mù yī xīn - "ears eyes new," refreshingly novel and impressive). "Leveraging the innovative platform of the Chain Expo, we will further link global industrial resources and promote the technological iteration and industrial upgrade of domestic health home appliances," said Li Zhifeng (李志峰), director of the Brand Management Center at Yadu.
Haleon (赫力昂), exhibiting for the first time, showcased multiple innovative products on site, using green production and local innovation to coordinate a health ecosystem, continuously empowering upstream and downstream and benefiting Chinese consumers. "The Chain Expo is an important platform for exchange and cooperation. We look forward to working with more partners to promote collaborative innovation," said Fu Yue (傅悦), Vice President of Haleon China and Head of Corporate Affairs.
As the official partner of the Chain Expo, Bank of Communications (交通银行) exhibited its full-scenario chain financial solutions in the Supply Chain Services exhibition area, using financial water to precisely drip-irrigate industrial innovation and upgrades along the chain. The "BOCOM Hangmaotong (交银航贸通)" platform integrates cross-border settlement, exchange, and financing functions in one stop, using digital financial services to support the collaborative development of the industrial chain.
One technology after another is implemented, one scenario after another is iterated, reflecting the solid steps of the industrial and supply chains moving toward high-end, intelligent, and green development. With the chain as the medium (以链为媒), the Chain Expo has become an important platform for showcasing and matching new quality productive forces, attracting global innovation resources to converge and integrate, injecting lasting momentum into building a more resilient and higher-quality global industrial and supply chain.
Return to TopBEIJING, June 24 (Xinhua) — (Reporter Liu Yang (刘阳)) In order to further enrich micro-dramas (微短剧), expand the new popular literature and arts under internet conditions, and promote the healthy development of micro-dramas, the National Radio and Television Administration (国家广播电视总局) has, in accordance with administrative regulations such as the "Regulations on the Administration of Radio and Television" (广播电视管理条例), organized the drafting of the "Administrative Measures for the Development of Micro-Dramas (Draft for Comments)" (微短剧发展管理办法（征求意见稿）), which is hereby publicly soliciting opinions from society starting from the 24th.
The Draft for Comments clarifies that, for the purposes of these Measures, a "micro-drama" (微短剧) refers to a series where each episode is less than 20 minutes in duration, with a clear theme and main thread, a continuous and complete storyline, and prominent character roles. The Draft for Comments requires that micro-dramas must not contain 11 categories of content, including endangering national security, distorting national history, denigrating the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and infringing upon the legitimate rights and interests of minors. At the same time, it stipulates that micro-dramas generated or produced using artificial intelligence technology must have a prominent prompt identifier added to each episode.
The deadline for submitting feedback is July 23, 2026.
Return to TopBy: 解放日报记者 巩持平 西双版纳报记者 胡冰清 马 芸
The sunlight at 21 degrees north latitude passes through the rainforest, sprinkling onto the cornfields of Menghai County (勐海县), Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture (西双版纳傣族自治州), Yunnan (云南).
“In the past, selling corn could only be carried to the market; now, picking early in the morning, entering the factory within 4 hours to lock in freshness, cold-chain trucks directly deliver to Shanghai supermarkets, and we can even sell abroad!” said Tao Yong (陶勇), a villager from Gasa Village (嘎赛村), Meng'a Town (勐阿镇), Menghai County (勐海县), while sorting freshly harvested Xishuangbanna small waxy corn (西双版纳小糯玉米).
At the same time, in Mengzhe Town (勐遮镇), Menghai County (勐海县), Wang Rui (王瑞), general manager of Shanghai Taiding Runchen Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd. (上海泰鼎润宸农业科技有限公司), crouched in the field, repeatedly emphasizing this key detail: “From picking to processing completion, it must be compressed within 4 hours.”
Behind the efficient time requirement is a change in industrial logic: locally, the Xishuangbanna small waxy corn is also called “Banna small corn” (版纳小苞谷), once a crop self-planted by villagers around their houses and a specialty taken away by tourists, but now, a modern agricultural industrial chain supported by standards, efficiency, and cold chain has taken shape.
Thanks to the mild and moist climatic conditions, the small flower waxy corn and thumb-sized small waxy corn nurtured in Xishuangbanna are small in size, soft and sticky with bursting pulp, and are local specialty crops. However, the traditional mode of scattered planting and street stall selling in early years limited the industrial scale development of Xishuangbanna small waxy corn, and in bumper years it was prone to unsold stock, with meager farmer income.
Since 2022, Shanghai cadres assisting Yunnan (上海市援滇干部) have gone deep into villages, visited and researched specialty agricultural products, and were invited by farmers to their homes to taste freshly boiled Xishuangbanna small waxy corn.
“Although small in size, it is very soft and sticky, with high sweetness and full aroma,” introduced Jiang Yun (姜云), Deputy Secretary-General of the Xishuangbanna Prefecture Committee (西双版纳州委) and leader of the Xishuangbanna Prefecture group of the Shanghai Cadre Liaison Group for Assisting Yunnan (上海市援滇干部联络组西双版纳州小组). “At that time, everyone realized that this is a high-quality ecological agricultural product with great market potential; all it lacks is a modern industrial system and broad market channels.”
Through multiple investigations, the cadres assisting Yunnan decided to bring Shanghai's modern agricultural development experience to Xishuangbanna, selecting Menghai County (勐海县), where the planting of Xishuangbanna small waxy corn is relatively concentrated, for key support.
The first step was to cultivate leading enterprises. Shanghai's aid-Yunnan funds were injected into enterprises, cooperating with local village committees to use collective construction land to build standardized workshops with a one-stop chain of “washing, sterilizing, steaming, packaging, and boxing.” Enterprises lease and use them, and pay operating funds to the village committees. Li Zhongqiang (李忠强), general manager of the Menghai Branch of Zhenshou Agricultural Technology Development (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (臻收农业科技发展（上海）有限责任公司勐海分公司), introduced: “The workshop employs 60 people per day on average, and the planting base employs 200 people per day on average. They are all farmers from Meng'a Town (勐阿镇), and during the agricultural slack season, suitable jobs can be provided for them.”
Relying on the drive of leading enterprises, Meng'a Town (勐阿镇) established three specialized industrial project sites for Xishuangbanna small waxy corn, implementing a “enterprise + base + farmer” model of linking farmers with enterprises. Enterprises signed guaranteed purchase orders with farmers, providing unified services in seeds, technology, standards, and procurement. At the same time, through scientific planting techniques such as rotation cropping (轮茬种植), a high-standard planting base of about 4,000 mu for Xishuangbanna small waxy corn was cultivated. Currently, about 500 farming households in the town have signed orders, and related enterprises have registered characteristic brands such as “Nuo Xiaomeng” (糯小萌) and “North Latitude 21°” (北纬21°). The previous situation of scattered and unscale planting of Xishuangbanna small waxy corn has been changed, with output and quality simultaneously leaping upward.
Shanghai-Yunnan cooperation (沪滇协作) opened up a channel from Yunnan fields to Shanghai dining tables. At the 7th Shanghai Counterpart Regional Specialty Products Exhibition (第七届上海市对口地区特色商品展销会), a company from Menghai County brought several hundred boxes of Xishuangbanna small waxy corn, which sold out in less than half a day, and also signed intention orders worth about 400,000 yuan. Major supermarkets and community group-buying in Shanghai have steadily listed vacuum-packed waxy corn gift boxes, whose soft, sticky, low-fat characteristics precisely “hit” the young consumer group.
During the cooperation process, the Shanghai aid-Yunnan team also attempted mechanism innovation, promoting concentration of funds towards advantageous areas, concentration of income towards township-level platforms, and concentration of distribution towards weak villages. The well-conditioned Gasa Village (嘎赛村) received concentrated support, and the corn industry rapidly grew into an advantageous industry. Income such as rent is uniformly remitted to the town-level platform. When distributing, besides ensuring a certain proportion for the village where the project is located, the focus is tilted towards weak villages, helping to solve problems such as insufficient infrastructure, effectively broadening the scope of assistance benefits, and further amplifying the comprehensive benefits of Shanghai-Yunnan cooperation.
Relying on Shanghai port foreign trade resources, Banna small corn (版纳小苞谷) is accelerating its move towards the international market. Starting from September 2025, the export business of Xishuangbanna small waxy corn from Meng'a Town (勐阿镇) was launched, and it has now been exported to the United States, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, Australia, and other places.
In just a few years, Xishuangbanna small waxy corn has become a local agricultural pillar product. In 2025, the planting area across the prefecture reached 250,000 mu, output reached 250,600 tons, and the total industrial chain output value reached 6.3 billion yuan.
“Eastern-western cooperation is not one-way assistance, but a two-way empowerment of complementary advantages and mutual benefit and win-win between the two places,” Jiang Yun (姜云) stated. Shanghai provides market channels, brand operations, and modern industrial management experience, while Xishuangbanna exports high-quality ecological agricultural products. In the next step, the Shanghai aid-Yunnan team will build a consumption platform for Shanghai-Yunnan cooperation, continuously promoting Yunnan's good products to thousands of households in Shanghai and into the view of global consumers.
By: 李 纵
Physical education teacher Zhang Xinhong (章新宏) never imagined that one day, as a writer, he would appear at the new book release conference of the Guangdong Literature Museum (广东文学馆). Creating through media such as mobile phones, he has broken down the professional barriers to literary and artistic creation, becoming a vivid footnote in the wave of new mass literature and art. "PE teacher turned writer," "cleaner turned writer" — literature and art are increasingly becoming a way of life in which ordinary people can participate, express themselves, and create, becoming a part of daily life.
This is by no means accidental. On one hand, the improvement of the nation's education level and the abundance of material life have given rise to higher-level spiritual needs; on the other hand, digital technology has lowered the threshold for creation, turning the ideal that "everyone can create" from a vision into reality. When hundreds of millions of ordinary people pick up pens and raise their mobile phones, what they are writing are the vivid stories of this era.
The people are not only consumers of literature and art but also creators; ordinary people can also become the protagonists of literature and art. Every ordinary person carries within them a rich imprint of the times. Once activated, these imprints become an inexhaustible source of creative material, giving concrete grounding to the people-centered creative orientation.
Of course, the vigorous development of new mass literature and art does not mean the decline of professional literature and art, but rather greatly enriches the diversity of the literary and artistic ecology. The two can nourish and accomplish each other. Professional creation can draw inspiration from grassroots material, and mass expression also requires aesthetic improvement and value guidance. The key lies in embracing this new cultural trend with an open mindset.
Zhang Xinhong (章新宏) says that writing is another "long-distance run" for him. In fact, the wave of new mass literature and art is also a cultural long-distance run in which everyone participates. It does not take winning awards as its end point, but aims to enrich every life and warm every journey. As more and more ordinary people join in, what we will welcome is not only the vitality of literature and art, but also the enrichment and enhancement of cultural creativity.
Ultimately, the essence of new mass literature and art is the full manifestation of the people's subjectivity in the cultural field. In an era with hundreds of millions of migrant people and with urban and rural development changing with each passing day (日新月异 - rì xīn yuè yì - "sun new moon different," changing rapidly and continuously), every individual possesses a unique life story. Enabling these stories to be seen, recorded, and transmitted is not only a necessary component of literary and artistic prosperity, but also a solid foundation for cultural confidence.
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I am a physical education teacher.
In 1991, I graduated from the Physical Education Department of Jiujiang Teachers College (九江师专) in Jiangxi Province (江西). The following year, I moved south to Guangdong (广东) and settled in Dongguan (东莞). Having worked on the front lines of physical education for over 30 years, I had considered many possibilities for my career development, but I never imagined that one day, I would appear as an author at a new book launch event at the Guangdong Museum of Literature (广东文学馆).
Last year, my collection of essays, *From Jiangyou to Lingnan* (《从江右到岭南》) (see Figure 1), was published. In the wave of new mass literature and art, I, who am often teased as "a PE teacher teaching Chinese," have this time stepped onto the stage.
For me, this crossover into a different field is both accidental and inevitable. As early as 2007, I founded the school newspaper *New Seedlings* (《新苗》) at the sports school, and I personally wrote many of the articles. Persisting for several years, I gradually developed the habit of writing.
After the popularization of smartphones, the phone screen became my "scratch paper." When I was sending my daughter to extracurricular activities and waiting in the car, I would calmly tap away on the phone screen, and the small car became my mobile study. The lychees brought by the principal, the sweet soup handed over by colleagues, the students teaching me to speak the Guangdong dialect (广东方言) in their childish voices... these subtle and sincere moments all became valuable creative material for me.
People often ask me, what is my goal in writing? I have only two words: "for fun."
If you persist in exercise, you don't necessarily have to become an Olympic champion; you can just enjoy the exhilaration of sweating profusely. Writing is the same. In an era where everyone can create, we may not reach the heights of literary masters, but we can absolutely, through our own perspectives and writing, depict the steaming, vibrant life and record the everyday vitality (烟火气) belonging to our generation.
Writing is my other "long-distance run."
(The author is the Director of the Dongcheng Subdistrict Sports Management Service Center (东城街道体育管理服务中心), Dongguan City (东莞市), Guangdong Province (广东).)
Return to TopXiong'an New Area (雄安新区) launches 138 Beijing social security service items. Beijing Daily (北京日报), Beijing, June 24 (Reporter Han Mei (韩梅)) – Recently, 138 full-coverage Beijing social security service items were officially launched in Hebei Xiong'an New Area (河北雄安新区), achieving "one-network processing" and undifferentiated acceptance for Beijing-Xiong'an social security services. In the future, employees of relocated enterprises, Beijing-Xiong'an commuters, and retired Beijing residents living in Xiong'an can handle Beijing social security business without leaving Xiong'an. Currently, all Beijing social security service items such as social security relationship transfer and continuation, and "retirement one-stop" can be fully processed online in Xiong'an.
The 22nd China International Cartoon and Animation Festival (中国国际动漫节) "Golden Monkey Award" (金猴奖) announced. Xinhua News Agency (新华社) – The 22nd China International Cartoon and Animation Festival "Golden Monkey Award" was recently announced, with 36 entries winning awards. Among them, 'The Legend of Hei 2' (罗小黑战记2) won the Gold Award for Comprehensive Award Animation Film, 'Yao-Chinese Folktales 2' (中国奇谭2) won the Gold Award for Comprehensive Award Animation Series, the Russian work 'When We Were Grass (一岁一枯荣)' won the Gold Award for Comprehensive Award Animation Short Film, and 'Danqing Water Margin: The Legend of Lu Zhishen' (丹青水浒·鲁智深传) won the Gold Award for Comprehensive Award Comic. 'No Questions East and West' (无问东西) won the Special Award for Red Animation Award.
Special Stamp 'Artificial Intelligence' (人工智能) issued in Guangzhou, Guangdong. Southern Daily (南方日报), Guangzhou, Guangdong, June 24 (Reporter Bin Hongxia (宾红霞)) – Recently, the first special stamp themed on artificial intelligence in the history of China's stamp issuance held its first-issue ceremony in Guangzhou, Guangdong. The 'Artificial Intelligence' special stamp set consists of 4 stamps, with a total face value of 4.80 yuan, using offset printing technology, and locally applying special techniques such as hot stamping, screen printing, and embossing, showcasing the beauty of technology and the charm of humanity within a small square.
Car rental points at Chongqing airport, high-speed rail stations exceed 200. Chongqing Daily (重庆日报), Chongqing, June 24 (Reporter Yang Yongqin (杨永芹)) – Chongqing Municipality has made every effort to build a "seamless connection" car rental service network at transportation hubs, and has optimized and deployed 202 car rental service points at transportation hubs such as Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport (重庆江北国际机场), Chongqing North Station (重庆北站), and popular self-driving districts and counties. Currently, the coverage rate of car rental outlets at high-speed rail stations with an average daily passenger volume of 3,000 person-times or more in Chongqing reaches 78.9%.
Guangxi launches pharmacy price heatmap convenience service. Guangxi Daily (广西日报), Nanning, June 24 (Reporter Luo Qi (罗琦)) – The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Medical Security Bureau (广西壮族自治区医保局) has launched a "designated retail pharmacy price level heatmap" convenience service, converting professional drug price indices into a color-shade map from green to red, comprehensively collecting the quantity-price comparison indices of more than 14,000 designated pharmacies in the region, and updating them dynamically in real time after big data integration. The price heatmap uses an intuitive green, yellow, and red three-color standard: green represents that the comprehensive price of the pharmacy is relatively low, yellow represents moderate, and red represents relatively high.
2026 Inner Mongolia Folk Song Conference held. Inner Mongolia Daily (内蒙古日报), Wuhai, June 24 (Reporter Hao Biao (郝飚)) – Recently, the 2026 Inner Mongolia Folk Song Conference, hosted by the China Folk Literature and Art Association (中国民间文艺家协会), the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Federation of Literary and Art Circles (内蒙古自治区文学艺术界联合会), and the Propaganda Department of the Wuhai Municipal Committee of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古乌海市委宣传部), was held on the shores of Wuhai Lake (乌海湖) in Wuhai City. During the two days, two themed special performances, "Songs from the Grassland" and "Songs from the Yellow River," were presented in sequence, and outstanding folk singers from many places offered an immersive folk song feast for citizens and tourists with their singing.
Return to TopRecently, the four-day International Shell Exhibition (国际贝壳展) made its debut at Gulou Subway Station (鼓楼地铁站) in Ningbo (宁波), Zhejiang (浙江). On site, over 4,000 species and more than 100,000 shells were exhibited, attracting many citizens to come and visit.
All the above images were photographed by Hu Xuejun (胡学军) (Image China (影像中国)).
Return to TopBy: 新华社记者 王 朋 蒲彦任
In the outskirts of Jingning County (静宁县), Pingliang City (平凉市), Gansu Province (甘肃省), several auto sales outlets are filled with new cars. "There are currently over 150 new cars in the store, all available for immediate sale, and many have just arrived recently," said Li Tao (李涛), the person in charge of one outlet. Auto sales in Jingning County (静宁县) are closely related to the local apple production and sales cycle.
Every year after the apple harvest, auto sales enter the peak season, with sales over three months accounting for more than half of the annual total. Apple farmers have a strong willingness to transact for immediate delivery. To avoid inventory shortages during the peak season, local auto sales enterprises mostly prepare inventory in advance.
Similar situations also appear in the agricultural machinery sales market. Yang Wenhui (杨文辉), an apple farmer from Jiahe Township (贾河乡), Jingning County (静宁县), introduced that there is a saying circulating locally: "Jingning apple farmers have three vehicles—a diesel tricycle to haul fertilizer, an electric tricycle to haul fruit, and a small car for travel."
Jingning (静宁) is a major apple county, with a planting area that has remained stable at 1 million mu for years. The apple industry is the leading industry for local farmers to increase their income. In recent years, with the continuous development of the apple industry, apple farmers' wallets have bulged, their consumption confidence has grown, and their consumption structure has also undergone significant changes. "The most obvious change is that people have higher demands for quality of life and diversified consumption scenarios," said Chang Zhiliang (常志良), Director of the Jingning County Commerce Bureau (静宁县商务局).
In Wumiao Village (吴庙村), Chengchuan Town (城川镇), Jingning County (静宁县), the local area has leveraged the apple industry to create a rural tourism project integrating cultural tourism, ecological agriculture, and more. This once impoverished village has become a model demonstration village for local rural tourism.
(According to Xinhua News Agency)
Return to TopBy: 福建日报报业集团记者 陈盛钟
In the evening, within the Xia Lin Sports Center (霞林体育馆) beside Liyuan East Road (荔园东路) in Chengxiang District (城厢区), Putian City (莆田市), Fujian Province (福建), the sounds of striking balls and cheers 此起彼伏 (cǐ qǐ bǐ fú - "this rises, that falls," to occur one after another in rapid succession). “Since opening, business has been booming, and during the prime evening hours it is basically fully booked,” said Huang Jiansen (黄剑森), the person in charge of the sports center.
The site of Xia Lin Sports Center (霞林体育馆) was originally a “crack land” (夹缝地), where disorderly parking and unauthorized construction frequently occurred. In May last year, after joint consultation between Putian City Land Reserve Center (莆田市土储中心), Xia Lin Subdistrict (霞林街道), and other units, it was decided that the land parcel would be leased by Xia Lin Subdistrict (霞林街道) and repurposed, with plans to build a sports center, parking lot, and other areas. A local investment development company jointly invested 5 million yuan with six village communities under Xia Lin Subdistrict (霞林街道), including Xia Huang (下黄) and Bantou (坂头), to build the Xia Lin Sports Center (霞林体育馆) (including parking lot) project. Of this, 3.146 million yuan came from the “Poke Xiao Bo (破壳消薄)” funds used by these six village communities to assist weak villages such as Xiashan Village (霞山村) in Changtai Town (常太镇) and Aizao Village (硋灶村) in Lingchuan Town (灵川镇). The “Poke Xiao Bo (破壳消薄)” funds are a special fiscal subsidy fund established by Putian City (莆田市), aimed at supporting village collective economies and solving the problem of some villages having no collective income or excessively low income.
In addition to Xia Lin Sports Center (霞林体育馆), Xia Lin Subdistrict (霞林街道) has also planned and implemented ten projects including parking lots, terraced fields, leisure agriculture, and cultural tourism. Currently, 40 villages (communities) in Chengxiang District (城厢区) have formed assistance and pairing relationships, with 41 co-construction projects implemented, expected to drive an average annual increase of approximately 120,000 yuan in collective income for the weak villages.
Return to TopBy: 本报通讯员 李保健
"You see, this wet tissue, after being soaked in water, it is soft and resilient." Recently, at a procurement matchmaking event of the 2026 China · Langfang (廊坊) International Economic and Trade Fair (2026年中国·廊坊国际经济贸易洽谈会), Wang Weihua (王卫华), general manager of a paper company in Hebei (河北), demonstrated and introduced while doing so. American buyer Ricky Lee (瑞奇·李) took the wet tissue, wiped the back of his hand, and then repeatedly expressed admiration. Ricky Lee (瑞奇·李) is the head of the American Elderly Care Association (美国老年护理协会). The wet tissues and other products of this paper company precisely matched the procurement needs of his senior apartment facilities.
At one procurement matchmaking event, Wang Weihua (王卫华)'s company secured cooperation intentions from three international procurement delegations. Previously, Wang Weihua (王卫华) had also reached consensus with two procurement delegations from Bangladesh (孟加拉国) and Pakistan (巴基斯坦). These two procurement delegations originally focused on the automobile and motorcycle parts sector and had not included daily paper products in their plans, but the heads of the procurement delegations, after seeing the products, believed they were very suitable for the local market. The two sides preliminarily reached cooperation, with a single intended order being one container shipment volume.
Behind this cross-sector cooperation lies the advantage of the "consolidated cargo" model of cross-border logistics. Automobile and motorcycle parts are heavy cargo, and when packed in sea containers, they are prone to situations where "weight meets the standard, but space remains empty"; paper products are light and bulky. The mixed loading of the two achieves spatial complementarity, fully utilizing the container space while sharing costs and reducing logistics expenses, becoming an important factor driving the cooperation.
(Mi Yanze (米彦泽) participated in the writing and reporting)
Return to TopBy: 本报通讯员 赵 焱
A set of data from Yanshan Primary School (弇山小学) in Taicang City (太仓市), Jiangsu Province (江苏省) is striking: over five years, the school's students' average one-minute jump rope performance increased by 65.1%, the myopia rate dropped by approximately 15%, and the physical fitness excellence rate reached 57.3%, with all indicators surpassing the regional average. How did an ordinary primary school produce such a "health report card"?
Since 2022, Yanshan Primary School (弇山小学) has strictly controlled the total volume and duration of homework, ensuring students have ample time for physical activities every day. To remind children to pay attention to eye health, the school has also hung a giant standing visual acuity chart on the outer wall of the teaching building, and in the classroom constantly reminds students of their sitting posture and writing distance, while encouraging students to look into the distance and exercise outdoors during breaks.
The school has introduced multiple sports programs including shooting, fencing, judo, and drone football, and every year holds various fun competitions such as a horizontal bar "school-level star competition" and a smart sports challenge. In 2023, Yanshan Primary School (弇山小学) introduced an AI (Artificial Intelligence) smart sports system, turning physical exercise into a "level-breaking game." This system can intelligently capture movements, automatically evaluate, correct and count errors, and can also generate physical fitness profiles and customize personalized exercise plans for students.
"Our educational method is actually very simple: integrate health into every day," said Gu Jian (顾健), principal of Yanshan Primary School (弇山小学).
Return to TopBy: 新疆日报记者 谢慧变
Recently, in Turpan City, Xinjiang (新疆吐鲁番市), within the Turpan Hami Melon Experimental Base (吐鲁番哈密瓜试验基地) of the Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences (新疆农业科学院), a flexible conveyor belt shuttled nimbly between melon ridges. Melon farmers bent down to pick Hami melons, turned around and gently placed them, and the melons smoothly rode this "field special train" towards the collection crate. The "Watermelon and Melon Light and Simple Harvesting and Transport Platform" (西甜瓜轻简采收传输平台), jointly developed by the Sweet Melon Cultivation Team of the Fruit and Vegetable Research Institute (果蔬研究所) of the Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences (新疆农科院) and the Nanjing Institute of Agricultural Mechanization (南京农业机械化研究所) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部), completed its first public demonstration here.
Xinjiang (新疆) is China's premium production area for watermelon and melon. Previously, the harvesting process had long relied on manual labor: bending down, picking melons, passing them along, and loading them onto vehicles — four actions repeated cyclically, requiring frequent bending during harvest. "If we directly adopted fully automatic harvesting robots, the technology would need further refinement and the costs would be relatively high," said Gong Yan (龚艳), Director of the Mechanization Research Office (机械化研究室) of the National Watermelon and Melon Industry Technology System (国家西甜瓜产业技术体系). Following the human-machine coordination plan of "manual picking + mechanical transport," humans still handle the "selective picking" that requires the most experience and judgment, while the most physically demanding "transport and handling" is handed over to machines. On-site measured data show that this model has increased the harvesting efficiency of a single group by more than double, and the loss rate has been controlled at an extremely low level.
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Return to TopJune 25 this year is the 36th National Land Day, with the theme "Cherish every inch of land, promote high-quality development."
Our country is 幅员辽阔 (fú yuán liáo kuò – "vast territory," describing a country with extensive land) and 地大物博 (dì dà wù bó – "vast land abundant resources"), and different types of soil nurture rich and diverse crops. Protect and utilize our land resources well, strive to achieve harmonious coexistence between humans and nature. This edition launches a special report, telling stories of 因地制宜 (yīn dì zhì yí – "adjust measures to local conditions") in carrying out land protection and utilization, looking forward to the bright prospects of striding toward a new stage of high-quality development. — Editor
Shaanxi Yan'an (陕西延安) Yellow Earth
“The apple trees have greened the mountains, and also brightened our days.”
By Our Reporter Jia Fengfeng (贾丰丰)
In Nangou Village (南沟村), Gaoqiao Town (高桥镇), Ansai District (安塞区), Yan'an City (延安市), Shaanxi (陕西), thousands of mu of orchards spread layer upon layer along the mountain ridges.
Fruit farmer Zhao Yongdong (赵永东) smoothed the drip irrigation hose: "In the past, water was carried on shoulders; now the fruit trees get 'small stove' meals—water and fertilizer seep into the tree roots through the pipes, not a drop wasted."
Who would have thought this orchard was once a barren, treeless mountain? Nangou Village (南沟村) is located in a loess hilly and gully region. The soil layer is deep but cannot retain water; sunlight is abundant but cannot withstand drought. Zhao Yongdong (赵永东) had farmed for half his life, previously growing corn and potatoes on the slopes, but after a heavy rain, surface runoff carried away the topsoil, causing severe soil erosion.
To treat the soil, first treat the water. The local area built silt dams in the gullies to trap mud and harvest grain; on the mountaintops, water towers were built, equipped with drip irrigation.
With silt dams in place, crops that balance ecological protection and economic benefits were needed. Northern Yan'an (延安) has ample sunlight and large temperature differences between day and night, naturally suited for mountain apple growth. Nangou Village (南沟村) was designated as a standard demonstration area for mountain apples.
Dwarfing and dense planting, wide rows with grass, terrace slope stabilization—a scientific planting plan was implemented in Nangou Village (南沟村); 70% of the village area was laid with drip irrigation networks, 7 silt dams, and 9 mountain reservoirs stored rainwater, with pipelines reaching the roots of every fruit tree.
Zhao Yongdong (赵永东) was among the first farmers to switch to planting apples, and within a few years he truly tasted the benefits.
Irrigation became more scientific and precise, the problem of large amounts of water scouring slopes was greatly reduced, and the slope's soil-fixing capacity significantly improved; organic fertilizer replaced traditional chemical fertilizer, the soil layer thickened and became more fertile year by year, and the barren yellow earth slowly became loose and rich. The people of Nangou Village (南沟村) planted trees while managing the mountains—12,000 mu of new greenery climbed onto the ridges, and the soil erosion control rate exceeded 51%.
Today, Shaanxi's (陕西) apple planting belt extends hundreds of kilometers northward, from the Weibei Plateau (渭北塬区) to the southern edge of the Mu Us Sandy Land (毛乌素沙地). Millions of mu of mountain orchards are a solid ecological barrier and a cornucopia for increasing villagers' income.
"The apple trees have greened the mountains, and also brightened our days," said Zhao Yongdong (赵永东). Mountain apples have a crisp, sweet taste and sell well. In 2025, the per capita disposable income in Nangou Village (南沟村) reached 24,500 yuan, nearly 8 times that of 2014.
Fujian Longyan (福建龙岩) Red Soil Region
"The chestnut forest protects the water and soil of this mountain."
By Our Reporter Shi Yu (施钰)
Although it is hot, 63-year-old Ma Xuemei (马雪梅), a villager from Yuandang Village (园当村), Zhuotian Town (濯田镇), Changting County (长汀县), Longyan City (龙岩市), Fujian (福建), still goes to the orchard every day to cut grass. "Weeds grow fast in summer. Using herbicides can control them for a month or two, but I feel more at ease with manual weeding and covering the soil to nourish the land," Ma Xuemei (马雪梅) said. Since contracting a barren mountain with soil erosion in 1999, she has been carefully tending the land.
Changting (长汀) is located in the red soil region of southern China. The soil has characteristics of being "acidic, sticky, and hard." When drought occurs, the soil easily hardens and crusts. Once surface vegetation is lost, the organic matter in the topsoil rapidly depletes, leading to barren land.
In 1999, to control soil erosion, the local government provided policy support, encouraging people to contract barren mountains. Ma Xuemei (马雪梅) actively responded. "At that time, there were over 100 mu of chestnut trees planted by town cadres with pooled funds on the mountain, and I added another 100 mu," Ma Xuemei (马雪梅) said. What she didn't expect was that the trees she planted would either be "heat-damaged" or washed away by rain. "The land was bare, with surface temperatures reaching over 70 degrees Celsius; the soil was compacted, and the water I poured just wouldn't seep through."
Choosing to plant chestnut trees was not a whim. "In the early stages of soil erosion control, the soil conditions were poor, and there were not many economic tree species to choose from," recalled Yue Hui (岳辉), director of the Changting County (长汀县) Soil and Water Conservation Center. To balance ecological management and economic benefits, and to drive villagers to increase income and become prosperous, Changting (长汀) successively carried out screening of economic tree species for soil erosion areas. Chestnut trees are drought-tolerant and barren-tolerant, and also suitable for slightly acidic soil. As deciduous broad-leaved trees, they can both shade the ground, reduce sun exposure and rainwater erosion, and their fallen leaves can supplement soil organic matter.
The tree species was fine, but why couldn't they survive? At a loss, experts from Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University (福建农林大学) brought Ma Xuemei (马雪梅) Bahia grass. "Even those big saplings couldn't withstand the rain—what use can these grasses be?" Ma Xuemei (马雪梅) wondered.
"Unexpectedly, they really lived!" Ma Xuemei (马雪梅) said. The planted Bahia grass gradually connected into patches of green. The surface temperature on the mountain dropped, and the chestnut trees survived. In the sixth year after planting, the chestnut trees bore fruit.
The trees grew year by year, the soil became richer year by year, and the orchard thrived with lush vegetation. "On the mountaintops, those are the chestnut trees that survived back then. You see, the chestnut forest protects the water and soil of this mountain," Ma Xuemei (马雪梅) said.
Jilin Siping (吉林四平) Black Soil
"The corn here is of good quality with plump kernels."
By Our Reporter Meng Haiying (孟海鹰)
At the Qiangsheng Agricultural Machinery Farmers' Cooperative (强盛农机农民专业合作社) in Liangjiazicun Village (两家子村), Gujiazhen Town (孤家子镇), Lishu County (梨树县), Siping City (四平市), Jilin (吉林), walking along the cornfield furrows, the soil underfoot is soft and fertile.
"Look at this land—it's so soft to step on!" exclaimed Gong Xue (宫雪), the cooperative's head in his 40s. Years ago, the black soil here was heavily compacted. With the implementation of black soil conservation techniques, the dormant black soil slowly "woke up." "The corn here is of good quality with plump kernels," Gong Xue (宫雪) said.
Gong Xue (宫雪) had worked outside the village for 18 years, and in 2018 he returned home to join the cooperative. Now, seeds, fertilizers, and field operations are all coordinated by the cooperative, and processes such as sowing and fertilizing are fully mechanized.
38-year-old Zhao Hongtao (赵洪涛) is the cooperative's "all-around machine operator," skilled in operating various types of agricultural machinery. With complete equipment, the cooperative's 6,000-plus mu of land can be fully sown in one week.
The gratifying changes in the black soil stem from the exploration and promotion of the "Lishu Model (梨树模式)." Nineteen years ago, Wang Guiman (王贵满), then head of the Lishu County (梨树县) Agricultural Technology Extension Station, started conservation tillage experiments on 225 mu of local farmland. After years of exploration, this technical system centered on "straw returning to the field and no-till seeding" was named the "Lishu Model (梨树模式)," providing a feasible path for the protection and utilization of black soil.
The Northeast Black Soil Region is one of the world's major black soil regions, with a cultivated area of approximately 278 million mu, nurturing corn, soybeans, rice, sorghum, and other crop types, with corn being the dominant crop in the region.
Qiangsheng Agricultural Machinery Farmers' Cooperative (强盛农机农民专业合作社) has for many consecutive years implemented the technology of "full straw returning + no-till seeding + high stubble cover," introducing intelligent equipment such as drones and automatic navigation driving for agricultural machinery, integrating black soil conservation throughout the entire agricultural production process. In 2025, the cooperative's corn yield per mu increased by 20% compared to five years ago, while fertilizer use decreased by 20%.
Sichuan Meishan (四川眉山) Purple Soil
"Carbon emissions have decreased, and rice yields have increased."
By Our Reporter Li Kaixuan (李凯旋)
In Fujia Town (富加镇), Renshou County (仁寿县), Meishan City (眉山市), Sichuan (四川), the fields are bustling with activity. Yang Bo (杨波), a 49-year-old large grain grower, led workers to finish the tail end of rice transplanting. The patches of purplish-red soil underfoot were soft and fertile. "Fertilizer usage has dropped, carbon emissions have decreased, and rice yields have increased," Yang Bo (杨波) said.
"The purple soil underfoot is a widely distributed soil in the Sichuan Basin (四川盆地)," introduced Zhang Shujin (张树金), an agronomist from the Meishan City (眉山市) Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. Purple soil is formed by the weathering of purple sandstone and shale, mostly purplish-red or purplish-brown in color, with rock debris mixed in the soil layer. It has a short development cycle, abundant mineral nutrients, and is rich in silicon and potassium elements needed for rice growth, making it high-quality agricultural soil. After long-term paddy cultivation, the water and fertilizer retention capacity of these fields has greatly improved, making them suitable for food crop growth. "But this soil also has shortcomings—it is loose in texture, weak in resistance to erosion, and blind cultivation can easily cause soil and water loss," Zhang Shujin (张树金) said.
Having deeply cultivated grain fields for many years, Yang Bo (杨波) has figured out a set of management tips that combine "use and nurture, low-carbon and high yield."
Yang Bo (杨波) graduated from Sichuan Agricultural University (四川农业大学) and manages over 4,000 mu of farmland. To care for the purple soil and promote low-carbon planting, Yang Bo (杨波) implements straw crushing and returning to the field, along with organic fertilizer to replace part of the chemical fertilizer, and combines this with soil testing and formula-based precise fertilization. Measures such as field leveling, ditch clearing, and planting vegetative hedges on field ridges are implemented simultaneously, both reducing rainwater erosion and continuously increasing soil organic matter content. Various types of agricultural machinery shuttle back and forth in the fields, achieving full mechanization of plowing, planting, managing, and harvesting, bringing the efficiency of scientific farming to a new level.
Last year, in Yang Bo's (杨波) farm, the per-mu yield of the three major staple grains—rice, corn, and wheat—all increased significantly.
As a large grain grower, Yang Bo's (杨波) farm employs over 10,000 person-days per year, helping villagers increase their income. Nowadays, he is also planning to build a grain processing plant to extend the industrial chain.
In Meishan (眉山), pieces of purple fertile soil are carefully guarded, green agricultural technologies take root one after another, and a new generation of farmers are taking root in the fields.
Shandong Dongying (山东东营) Saline-Alkali Land
"Soybeans and the land are making a two-way journey here."
By Our Reporter Li Rui (李蕊)
In the laboratory of Dongying City (东营市) Academy of Agricultural Sciences (农业科学研究院), culture dishes are neatly arranged. Ten kilometers to the south lies the Yellow River Delta (黄河三角洲) Agricultural High-Tech Industry Demonstration Zone (农业高新技术产业示范区). A local folk saying, "nine out of ten years no harvest," tells of the past difficulty of farming on this saline-alkali land.
Why is it difficult to grow crops on saline-alkali land? Ning Kai (宁凯), director of the Dongying Comprehensive Experiment Station (东营综合试验站) of the National Soybean Industry Technology System (国家大豆产业技术体系), said: "The soluble salt content in the soil is too high, making it difficult for roots to absorb water. Coupled with severe compaction of Dongying's (东营) saline-alkali soil, it is hard for seeds to break through. However, wild soybeans are widely distributed in the Yellow River Delta (黄河三角洲) wasteland and saline land, with strong vitality. We hypothesized that if we could transfer the stress tolerance traits of wild soybeans to cultivated soybeans, would it increase the yield and quality of soybeans on saline-alkali land?"
The hardest part of breeding is dealing with the "eccentric temperament" of saline-alkali land—soybeans and rhizobia are normally "symbiotic partners," but this symbiotic mechanism often fails to function fully in saline-alkali land. Salt inhibits the survival of rhizobia, resulting in fewer root nodules on soybeans in saline-alkali soil and poor nitrogen fixation.
As research gradually advanced, more and more breeding teams added salt-alkali tolerant breeding directions, and many problems were solved one after another; in 2023, the Dongying City (东营市) Academy of Agricultural Sciences (农业科学研究院) joined the National Soybean Industry Technology System (国家大豆产业技术体系), introducing many excellent germplasm resources and cutting-edge technologies; in 2024, Ning Kai (宁凯) and his team introduced the mechanical no-till straw mulching production technology for summer soybeans in the Huang-Huai-Hai region to Dongying (东营) for experiment and demonstration, significantly improving the emergence quality of soybeans...
"Seeing the tender green seedlings emerge in neat rows, all the hard work is worth it." In Ning Kai's (宁凯) view, "Soybeans and the land are making a two-way journey here"—soybeans strive to adapt to the land, and the land is quietly being changed by soybeans. This saline-alkali land is nurturing heavy hope.
Return to TopBy: 杨顺华
The color of soil is mainly determined jointly by the minerals and organic matter in the soil.
A few years ago, the Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院南京土壤研究所) produced China's first high-precision soil color map — the national soil color three-dimensional distribution map. On the map, soils distributed in different regions have different hues, brightness, and saturation, which can be subdivided into 428 standard soil colors, looking like a huge color palette.
Why do soils have different colors? What factors influence them?
The formation of soil mainly comes from the weathering products of rock weathering on the surface layer of the Earth's crust. The color of soil is mainly determined jointly by the minerals and organic matter in the soil.
Various color-displaying minerals paint the base color of the soil, the most common being various types of iron minerals. In the eastern region of China, in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River (长江) and Huaihe River (淮河), and around Poyang Lake (鄱阳湖) and Taihu Lake (太湖), the river network is dense and the terrain is low-lying; some of the iron oxide in the soil is reduced to ferrous oxide, presenting a light brown or grayish cyan color. The Sichuan Basin (四川盆地) is China's famous purple soil basin; its soil "inherits" color-displaying minerals such as hematite from purple sandstone or shale, thus presenting a purple color. In southern regions such as Fujian (福建), Jiangxi (江西), and Hunan (湖南), the widespread red soil is mainly colored by secondary hematite produced during the soil formation process.
Organic matter dominates the depth of soil color. In Northeast China (东北) region, with ample rain and heat in summer, the plains are lush with vegetation; in winter, it is cold and dry, the metabolic rate of organisms is slow, and fallen leaves and straw are not easily decomposed — organic matter accumulates year after year, making the soil color deep black, forming fertile black soil.
Due to differences in the environment, soils in the same area can also present different colors. Taking Jiangsu (江苏) as an example, most of the region's soil is mainly grayish cyan, but in coastal areas such as Yancheng (盐城), soils developed from tidal flats have high salt content; if in certain seasons there is more sunlight and less rainfall, the salt at the bottom of the soil will be "transported" to the surface, forming white and barren saline-alkali land.
The color of soil also contains rich information on climate change. On the Loess Plateau (黄土高原), when people drill wells or build roads, digging down hundreds of meters, they will find that the soil color is distributed in a layer of yellow and a layer of red interwoven. In fact, this is related to the different stages of the glacial-interglacial cycles that the Earth has experienced: in the dry and cold glacial period, due to the low content of soil organic matter, under the interaction of minerals such as quartz, mica, and calcium carbonate, the soil mainly appears yellow; in the warm and humid interglacial period, some secondary color-displaying minerals that are difficult to dissolve in water will be produced, causing the soil to appear in other colors.
Behind the rich colors of soil lie the mysteries of nature, and also reflect the trajectory of human activities.
(The author is an associate researcher at the Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院南京土壤研究所), compiled by this newspaper's reporter Yao Xueqing (姚雪青))
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Return to TopOverall planning for this issue Zhang Yifu (张一夫)
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Strengthen market operations, enhance the sustainable development momentum of the area. Guide the coordinated development of rural operations, youth entering the countryside, and area-based clustering. Establish a diversified collaborative cultivation system for rural professional managers, standardize professional criteria. Encourage private enterprises and state-owned enterprises to enter villages and establish mixed-ownership companies with village collectives to carry out operations.
Improve the interest linkage mechanism, enhance the quality and efficiency of benefiting and supporting farmers. Build a linkage mechanism of "shared benefits, shared risks," clearly define the income proportions of village collectives, enterprises, cooperatives, and farmers in different links of the industrial chain, improve the risk supervision mechanism, and increase efforts to support leading enterprises with outstanding contributions.
Building Cross-Regional Connecting Areas into Demonstration Zones for Regional Coordinated Development
Member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协常委) Teng Shujing (滕树静)
Cross-regional connecting areas are located at the intersection of different administrative or economic regions, bearing rich natural resources, concentrated ethnic populations, and unique forms of cultural integration. Paying attention to and solving the development difficulties of such areas not only concerns regional coordination and urban-rural integrated development but also has important demonstrative significance for promoting multi-ethnic interaction, exchange, and integration, and for promoting common prosperity. Suggestions:
Focus on tailoring measures to local conditions, shifting from flood irrigation (大水漫灌) to precision drip irrigation (精准滴灌). Based on locational characteristics, resource endowments, etc., issue categorized guidance catalogs, formulate special plans, implement "one area, one policy, customized tailor-made" (一区一策、量身定制), and strive to cultivate a number of cross-provincial cooperation pilot areas and regional central cities.
Strengthen the hub function, enabling geographic peripheries to move towards open highlands. Plan and construct a number of cross-regional backbone corridors such as high-speed railways and expressways, deploy new infrastructure such as industrial internet and data centers in advance, strengthen artificial intelligence empowerment, build regional computing power hubs and smart logistics platforms, develop open platforms such as international land ports according to local conditions, and accelerate the construction of energy corridors for electricity, natural gas, etc.
Optimize factor allocation, using institutional innovation to break administrative barriers. Establish "Cross-Regional Collaborative Development Demonstration Zones," grant greater autonomy in areas such as industrial access and green mining; explore integrated allocation models for energy resources, and carry out pilot projects for cross-provincial direct power supply and the same grid and same price.
Promote collaborative governance, transforming each keeping to its own boundaries into jointly governing boundaries. Explore joint river (lake) chief systems and forest chief systems, and implement joint prevention and joint governance in cross-provincial mountain forest disputes and cross-basin river and lake governance. Jointly build a number of "community with one heart," create a number of literary and artistic works, and work together to create demonstration zones for national unity and progress.
Promoting the Healthy Development of New Employment Forms
Member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协常委) Jiang Guangping (江广平)
In recent years, new employment forms represented by the platform economy have flourished, and the scale of the new employment group has continued to expand. However, there are still practical problems such as difficulty in identifying labor relations, opaque algorithm rules, and shortcomings in care services. It is necessary to further improve the service management mechanism and promote healthy and standardized development. Suggestions:
Uphold and strengthen the Party's overall leadership, continuously improve the three-layer organizational system of "industry Party committee—functional Party branch—backbone Party members," and for different employment models, formulate work guidelines for the management of mobile Party members and the role of Party members, promoting the transformation of Party organization coverage from "visible" to "effective." Strengthen care and concern for the new employment group, focus on the actual needs of different occupations, solve problems such as "cannot enter residential communities" and "difficult rights protection process," and promote the extension of trade union stations, driver homes, and warm service points to commercial districts and transportation hubs.
Clarify responsibilities and obligations, effectively protect rights and interests. Consolidate the responsibilities of platform enterprises, improve the employment relationship identification and contract agreement system, clarify the boundaries of rights and obligations of various employment models, and prevent the transfer of responsibilities through multi-layer outsourcing and agreement packaging. Deeply promote the comprehensive governance of platform algorithms, promote consultations on platform labor rules and algorithms, and explore and improve the paths and methods for new employment form workers to participate in enterprise collective consultations.
Strengthen governance at the source, resolve conflicts and risks. Strengthen guidance on enterprise employment, promote platform enterprises and platform employment cooperation enterprises to establish worker appeal mechanisms according to law, form clear appeal acceptance, review feedback, and corrective handling procedures, and strive to resolve conflicts and disputes at the source. Give full play to the role of trade union organizations and labor dispute mediation and arbitration institutions, promoting the interconnection of rule consultations, dispute mediation, and administrative supervision.
Improving the Efficiency of Urban Grassroots Governance
Member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协常委) Song Yajun (宋亚君)
Currently, the modernization of China's grassroots governance system and governance capacity has achieved remarkable results, but there are still some urgent problems to be solved: the coverage level of Party organizations and Party work in emerging fields needs to be further improved; the governance body at the grassroots level is singular, vitality is insufficient, and the work pattern of co-construction, co-governance, and shared benefits needs to be improved; the quality and efficiency of serving the people still need to be enhanced, etc. Suggestions:
Build grassroots Party organizations into strong battle forts leading grassroots governance, weave a tight organizational network, promote the establishment of Party branches or Party groups on grids, residential communities, and building units, explore the use of "red property" construction as a starting point, build a governance pattern of coordinated linkage of "residential community Party branch + owners' committee + property," and enhance the coverage and work quality of Party organizations in urban emerging fields.
Consolidate the joint force of co-construction, co-governance, and shared benefits. Coordinate the in-depth participation of multiple entities within the jurisdiction in grassroots governance, accelerate the construction of a new grassroots governance pattern of co-construction, co-governance, and shared benefits led by "Party organization initiation, multi-department coordination, and whole society participation." Improve and perfect the work mechanism of "street whistle blowing, departments reporting," break down the barriers of fragmented divisions, and form a "one chessboard" work pattern for grassroots governance. Introduce professional social organizations to undertake public services, and promote the integration of new employment groups into community governance.
Improve the quality and efficiency of serving the people. Implement a "general subject service" model of "one window acceptance, integrated service," implementing immediate handling upon receipt, completion within a time limit, first-answer responsibility, and two-way feedback. Promote digital empowerment and smart governance, establish a community smart brain, achieving unified management on one screen and one-network processing. Implement more flexible and elastic management measures in areas such as community commerce and shared spaces.
Accelerating the Comprehensive Green and Low-Carbon Transformation of the Construction Industry
Member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协常委) Yi Jun (易军)
The construction industry has a large industrial scale, wide employment coverage, and high industrial chain correlation. During the rapid development of the industry, the total energy consumption and carbon emissions are high, and the pressure for emission reduction is prominent. To promote comprehensive green transformation and advance related "dual carbon" work, suggestions:
Focus on standard unification and stock renewal, stabilize the basic carbon reduction of the industry. Accelerate the establishment of a unified national building carbon emission standard and accounting statistical system, clarify carbon verification boundaries, unify accounting caliber, and solve the prominent problems of inconsistent standards, inaccurate data, and lax supervision. With urban renewal and renovation of old residential communities as priorities, refine the energy-saving renovation standards for existing buildings, strictly control the energy-saving of new buildings throughout the entire process, and stabilize the basic carbon emission plate from the source.
Focus on construction model innovation, open up the entire chain low-carbon management closed loop. Fully implement the integrated model of general engineering contracting and whole-process engineering consulting, close the loop to consolidate the low-carbon responsibilities of design, construction, and construction parties. Vigorously promote the deep integration of new building industrialization and intelligent construction, strengthen the demonstration of industry green and low-carbon benchmarking enterprises, normalize the implementation of energy consumption audits and carbon emission disclosure systems, and steadily explore pilot projects for building energy consumption quotas and carbon emission rights trading.
Focus on key technology implementation, cultivate new low-carbon productive forces in the construction field. Closely follow the rigid needs of industry transformation, focus on the large-scale application of mature technologies and centralized tackling of key technologies. Centering on the four core scenarios of building-integrated photovoltaics, "photovoltaic-storage-direct-flexible" systems, resource utilization of construction waste, and building energy saving and carbon reduction, rely on smart technologies such as digital twins and construction robots to solve application problems.
Innovatively Breaking the Bottleneck of Green Electricity Development
Member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协常委) Kong Lingzhi (孔令智) (representing the Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League Central Committee (台盟中央))
Striving to build a new power system and expand the application of green electricity are key measures to enhance energy self-sufficiency and achieve energy security and controllability. Currently, coal power and green electricity are developing in parallel, comprehensively improving the complementary and synergistic mutual assistance and security resilience of the power system. However, there are also some structural contradictions and regional imbalances that affect the effectiveness of the green and low-carbon energy transition. To accelerate the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, and to synergistically promote carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion, and growth, suggestions:
Focus on the green electricity market, build a unified national large market for green energy, and lead carbon reduction and green expansion. Establish a green energy product system with green electricity as the core and connected upstream and downstream, expand diversified utilization forms such as direct connection of green electricity, energy storage, hydrogen production, and alcohol production. Accelerate the construction of the internal storage and external sales market for green electricity, advance the deployment of inter-provincial ultra-high voltage channels, improve the cross-regional allocation efficiency of green electricity, and perfect the power supply pattern of green electricity priority, coal power supply guarantee, energy storage regulation, and surplus electricity trading, enhancing flexibility.
Focus on improving the pricing mechanism, implement categorized and precise policies, and promote orderly substitution. On the generation side, increase the proportion of price factors such as electric energy, capacity, auxiliary services, and environmental protection, guiding enterprises to expand functions such as medium and long-duration energy storage and high-precision frequency regulation. On the grid side, improve the level of digital management, guiding investment and financing in the green energy field. On the user side, promote enterprises to "determine production by electricity," raising the level of terminal electrification substitution.
Connect with international rules at a high standard, promote green trade. Expand the coverage of carbon footprint accounting and certification, strengthen the digital construction and data governance of green electricity, enhance traceability, and promote the harmonization and mutual recognition of rules and standards. Promote the international promotion and regional application of carbon accounting, green infrastructure, and green electricity technology standards, striving to become a leader in international standards.
Return to TopXiong'an New Area (雄安新区) firmly practices the principle of "first plant green, then build city," and consistently applies the concepts of ecological priority and green development throughout. Blue-green spaces intertwine; the "Millennium Beautiful Forest" (千年秀林) has accumulated a total greening area of 74.45 million mu (亩), raising the forest coverage rate to 35.2%; the water quality of Baiyangdian (白洋淀) continues to improve, stably maintaining Class III (Ⅲ类), with a significant increase in biodiversity, wild bird species reaching 296, an increase of 90 species compared to before the establishment of the New Area, unfolding a modern picture of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature. Yuerong Park (悦容公园), the Central Green Valley (中央绿谷), and the water system corridors 相映成趣 (xiāng yìng chéng qù - "mutually reflect form interest," complement each other delightfully); the Yannan Embankment (燕南堤) and the Nanhe Junction (南河枢纽) guard clear water and green banks, and a future city suitable for business and livable is accelerating its emergence.
Data source: Xiong'an New Area Publicity, Internet and Information Bureau (雄安新区宣传网信局)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 时元皓
Data recently released by the Brazilian government shows that in the first quarter of this year, Brazil (巴西) received more than 26,000 Chinese tourists, a year-on-year increase of 30%, setting a record high for the same period in history. Bruno Reis (布鲁诺·雷斯), Director of the Brazilian International Tourism Promotion Agency (巴西国际旅游推广局), stated that tourism plays an important role in bringing the people of Brazil and China closer and creating development opportunities.
According to an announcement issued by the Brazilian government, starting from May 11, Chinese citizens holding ordinary passports can enter Brazil (巴西) without a visa. As cooperation in the tourism field between the two countries continues to deepen, the number of Chinese tourists to Brazil has increased. Brazil is welcoming more Chinese tourists through multiple measures such as enriching product offerings, optimizing service guarantees, and improving infrastructure.
Recently, the Brazilian Ministry of Tourism (巴西旅游部) released the latest list of travel agencies qualified to receive Chinese group tourists, with a total of 325 companies authorized to receive Chinese tour groups. In May last year, Brazil returned to the Shanghai International Tourism Trade Fair (上海国际旅游交易博览会) after a six-year hiatus, and this year Brazilian industry professionals again formed a delegation to appear at the fair. Reis said that Chinese tourists have a strong interest in Brazil's nature and outdoor tourism. 35% of Chinese tourists choose to travel to Brazil for natural landscapes and outdoor activities, and 21% prefer eco-tourism and adventure tourism. Natural landmarks such as the Amazon Rainforest (亚马孙雨林) and the Pantanal Wetlands (潘塔纳尔湿地) have become key promotional resources for the Chinese market.
Many places in Brazil have increased efforts to attract Chinese tourists. Last year, the state of Rio de Janeiro (里约热内卢州) through the "Connecting Cultures: Brazil-China" project, cooperated with Chinese media and internet influencers to promote relevant tourism projects on Chinese social media; the state's rapid alarm application "190RJ" also added a Chinese version to enhance tourist safety experience. Statistics from the Rio de Janeiro City Tourism Bureau (里约热内卢市旅游局) show that the number of Chinese tourists in the city jumped from 2,513 in 2023 to 11,696 in 2025. In the first quarter of this year, Rio de Janeiro City received 3,547 Chinese tourists, a year-on-year increase of 23%. Brazil's Iguazu National Park (伊瓜苏国家公园), famous for its great waterfalls, received more than 21,000 Chinese tourists in 2025, an increase of 32% compared to 2024. The Iguazu City Tourism Bureau (伊瓜苏市旅游局) launched digital marketing activities targeting the Chinese market, not only launching a Chinese-language official website but also opening accounts on Chinese social media for promotion. Ana Carvalho (安娜·卡瓦略), Chair of the Tourism Committee of the Brazilian Foreign Trade Chamber of Commerce Federation (巴西外贸商会联合会旅游委员会), told reporters that many tourist cities have been intensifying efforts to train professionals to better serve Chinese tourists, including increasing the number of Mandarin-speaking guides and adjusting services in commercial establishments to suit Chinese tourists' preferences.
Brazilian tourism practitioners are full of expectations for the arrival of more Chinese tourists. "The visa-free policy not only further consolidates the relationship between Brazil and China, but also opens up new cooperation opportunities." Alfredo Lopes (阿尔弗雷多·洛佩斯), President of the Rio de Janeiro Hotel and Lodging Association (里约热内卢酒店和住宿协会), stated that strengthening cooperation with the Chinese side can drive the development of Brazil's hotel, catering, retail, and tourism-related service industries. Ailton Botelho (艾尔顿·博特略), a hotel professional in São Paulo, observed that aside from natural landscapes, Chinese tourists' attention to cultural activities such as the Brazil Carnival (巴西狂欢节) and Harvest Festival (丰收节) is increasingly growing. "Cultural tourism is becoming a new vehicle for tourism exchanges between the two countries."
"With the noticeable increase in Chinese tourist sources, the growth expectation for Chinese tour groups to Brazil has further risen, and Rio de Janeiro has already seen a shortage of Chinese-speaking guides. Currently, the industry is taking measures to actively respond." Chen Xiuhua (陈秀华), head of the China-Brazil Travel Agency (中巴旅行社) located in Rio de Janeiro, stated that business volume has grown significantly recently. The relevant favorable policies not only benefit tourists but also are expected to increase the entry of business and trade groups. Gustavo Feliciano (古斯塔沃·费利西亚诺), Minister of Tourism of Brazil (巴西旅游部), said: "The visa-free policy further consolidates the bond of people-to-people exchanges between Brazil and China, and opens new cooperation opportunities in the fields of tourism and commerce. Brazil will strive to provide more complete services and diversified experiences for Chinese tourists."
China is also increasingly becoming a popular tourist destination for Brazilian tourists. Since China implemented a pilot visa-free policy for Brazilian citizens in June 2025, more and more Brazilian tourists have favored traveling to China. A survey of multiple Brazilian online travel booking platforms shows that in 2025, searches for flights and accommodations with destinations in China were three times that of 2024. Besides popular cities such as Beijing (北京), Shanghai (上海), and Chongqing (重庆), places known for natural landscapes like Zhangjiajie (张家界) have also attracted significant attention from Brazilian tourists.
"Interest in China is the result of a combination of multiple factors." Lucas (卢卡斯), head of the "World Asia" Travel Agency (世界亚洲旅行社), which specializes in receiving Brazilian tourists traveling to Asian countries, stated that China's long history and culture, the cutting-edge technology and modern urban atmosphere of Shanghai and Beijing, as well as China's visa-free policy, have all played important roles in attracting Brazilian tourists to travel to China. "Now, going to China has become more accessible," Lucas said.
(This newspaper's dispatch from Rio de Janeiro (里约热内卢), June 24)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李 墨
Recently, Bangladesh (孟加拉国) announced its national budget for the fiscal year 2026-2027, with multiple incentive measures supporting renewable energy, injecting strong momentum into the country's energy structure transformation, attracting widespread attention from the industry.
According to the new budget, the government of Bangladesh (孟加拉国) will exempt key equipment for solar power generation, such as solar inverters, battery energy storage systems, lithium-ion batteries, and photovoltaic modules, from multiple taxes including import tariffs, regulatory duties, surcharges, and advance income tax. For example, import raw materials for environmentally friendly lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries are exempt from customs duties, valid until June 30, 2030; tax incentive policies for electric buses and trucks are simultaneously extended to 2030, the comprehensive tax rate for imported electric vehicles valued at $25,000 or less is reduced from 93% to 64%, and full tax exemption is applied to electric vehicle charging piles, charging station equipment, etc.; the zero corporate income tax rate policy for the solar industry is extended to 2035, and ordinary consumers using solar power can enjoy a 5% tax reduction on electricity bills. According to estimates, this round of tax reductions will lower the cost of photovoltaic power generation by 25% to 30%, accelerating the green transformation of the country's manufacturing, transportation, and other industries.
For a long time, Bangladesh's (孟加拉国) electricity supply has been highly dependent on fossil fuels, with natural gas, coal, and oil power generation accounting for nearly 98% of the country's total electricity generation. In recent years, due to increased volatility in international energy prices and shortages in domestic fuel supply, accelerating the development of renewable energy has become a key measure for the country to ensure stable energy supply and achieve sustainable development. Currently, Bangladesh (孟加拉国) has set clear medium- and long-term energy transition targets: by 2030, renewable energy will meet 20% of the country's electricity demand, and by 2040, this share will increase to 30%. Data from the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (孟加拉国能源监管委员会) shows that the country currently has a renewable energy installed capacity of 1,781.09 MW, with 26 renewable energy power plants under construction, with a total designed installed capacity of 1,172 MW. Another 15 renewable energy projects have entered the bidding stage, with the pace of construction continuing to accelerate.
Mustafa Mahmud (穆斯塔法·马哈茂德), Chairman of the Bangladesh Sustainable and Renewable Energy Association (孟加拉国可持续和可再生能源协会), stated that the incentive measures demonstrate the government's commitment to developing renewable energy. Khondaker Moazem (霍恩达克尔·莫阿泽姆), Research Director of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (孟加拉国政策对话中心), believes that the government has shown a policy tendency to move away from over-reliance on fossil fuels, and the tax reductions will bring confidence to the development of the renewable energy industry.
To support the implementation of incentive measures, Bangladesh (孟加拉国) is accelerating the improvement of its renewable energy policy system. "Bangladesh is ready to embrace the solar era," said Iqbal Mahmud (伊克巴尔·马哈茂德), Minister of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources of Bangladesh (孟加拉国电力、能源和矿产资源部). The government has formed a special committee to accelerate the formulation of renewable energy policies. "The government is further relaxing regulations on the solar industry, creating convenient conditions for the import of necessary equipment, and accelerating the construction of battery energy storage systems."
Financial empowerment is also continuously increasing efforts to provide funding guarantees for green transformation. In November 2025, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (亚洲基础设施投资银行) and the New Development Bank (新开发银行) jointly provided a total of USD 75 million in loans to Bangladesh (孟加拉国), focusing on supporting green projects such as renewable energy development, energy efficiency improvement, and electric transportation upgrades. In June this year, the Central Bank of Bangladesh (孟加拉国中央银行) launched a green refinancing scheme of 10 billion Bangladeshi Taka (孟加拉塔卡) (approximately 554 million Chinese yuan), providing low-cost financing support for green industries and environmentally friendly factory construction.
In recent years, practical cooperation between China (中国) and Bangladesh (孟加拉国) in the green field has continued to deepen and solidify, and Chinese enterprises have become important partners in Bangladesh's energy transformation. In July 2025, the 64 MW photovoltaic power station project in Pabna (帕布纳), Bangladesh (孟加拉国), constructed by PowerChina (中国电建), was fully connected to the grid and began generating electricity, capable of producing approximately 110 million kWh of green electricity annually. The country's first centralized wind power project—the Cox's Bazar (科克斯巴扎尔) wind power project—was constructed by a Chinese enterprise, with a total installed capacity of 66 MW. Since it was connected to the grid and began generating electricity in October 2023, its annual power generation has reached 145 million kWh, meeting the electricity needs of approximately 100,000 households, continuously supplying green electricity to the local area.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 樊 帆
Recently, data released by the Philippine Statistics Authority (菲律宾统计局) showed that the country's gross domestic product (GDP) in the first quarter of 2026 grew by 2.8% year-on-year, far below the government target of 5.0% to 6.0%. This marks the third consecutive quarter of economic slowdown for the country. At the same time, affected by persistently heightened geopolitical tensions pushing up international oil prices, the country's inflation rate in April rose to 7.2%, hitting a nearly three-year high. These data have triggered concerns across all sectors in the Philippines about the economy falling into stagflation.
Multiple private-sector economic analysts have warned that the Philippine economy has already shown signs of stagflation. Patrick Ella (帕特里克·埃拉), an economic analyst at Sun Life Investment Management Trust Company (永明投资管理信托公司), told the media, "The classic definition of stagflation is negative economic growth coupled with inflation. But for an emerging economy like the Philippines, a growth rate below 4% already counts as growth stagnation. Add to that the highest inflation rate in nearly three years, and the stagflation situation is already very evident."
Wu Junhao (吴俊豪), an assistant economic analyst at Capital Economics (凯投宏观), believes that the downward trend in Philippine economic growth may intensify in the coming quarters. He stated that government spending used to support economic growth will be constrained by already limited fiscal space, and the slowdown in Philippine economic growth will persist.
According to previous disclosures by Philippine media, since last September, investigations by the Philippine executive branch and Congress have confirmed widespread corruption in the 2025 flood control infrastructure project budget. The corruption scandal forced President Marcos (马科斯) to dismiss several cabinet members and close associates and has repeatedly triggered nationwide anti-corruption protests. Arsenio Balisacan (阿塞尼奥·巴利萨坎), Secretary of the National Economic and Development Authority (菲律宾经济、规划和发展部), acknowledged that the lingering effects of the flood control corruption scandal have dampened consumer sentiment and business investment confidence. Due to stricter audit procedures, the growth rate of Philippine government spending in the first quarter slowed sharply, from 18.7% in 2025 to less than 5%, further dragging down economic growth.
Inflation is spreading from the food and energy sectors to broader household expenditure areas, with low-income households 首当其冲 (shǒu dāng qí chōng - "first to bear the brunt," to be the first to suffer the impact). The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (菲律宾发展研究所) estimates that rising energy prices and the inflation crisis may push 1.3 million to 3.1 million Filipinos into poverty. Mariz B. Agbon (马里兹·B·阿格邦), a figure in the Philippine business community, wrote in the media that the country's low-income group, accounting for about 30% of the total population, concentrates its daily spending on areas with the highest inflation rates, such as food, transportation, fuel, and electricity, and thus bears an inflation rate higher than the average. "Inflation is not equal for everyone; it usually shifts the pain onto those who are least able to bear it," Agbon said.
The surge in Philippine fuel prices has had a significant impact on the lives of people at the bottom. Emily Ruado (艾米丽·鲁阿多), 59, told reporters that she originally earned the equivalent of $10 per day, but the rise in oil prices has led to a substantial shrinkage in her actual income. Ruben (鲁本), a 27-year-old parking lot attendant, starts work at 3 a.m. and works 12 hours, earning only about $6 in tips, less than half the usual amount. He said, "I have four children. Before, I could barely make ends meet, but now my family is facing hunger."
The Philippine business community is worried about the current economic outlook and has again called for urgent reforms. Sergio Luis Jr. (小塞尔吉奥·路易斯), president of the Philippine Exporters Confederation (菲律宾出口商联合会), urged the government to improve the business environment. He said, "This is really very bad. Investors are moving away from us. Key economic drivers like tourism are also feeling the pressure." Edgar Chua (埃德加·蔡), chairman of the Makati Business Club (马卡蒂商业俱乐部), issued a statement saying, "We should carry out meaningful changes to strengthen governance, improve policies, simplify and optimize processes, curb corruption, promote innovation, and build a more resilient and investment-friendly economy."
(This newspaper, Manila, June 24)
Return to TopIn Linfeng Town (邻封镇), Changshou District (长寿区), Chongqing (重庆), deep within a ten-thousand-mu (mu, Chinese unit of area) pomelo grove, farmhouse courtyards are clean and tidy, with classified garbage bins placed in an orderly manner; in Huatian Township (花田乡), Youyang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County (酉阳土家族苗族自治县), layer upon layer of terraced fields ripple with rice waves, and field plank roads connect viewing platforms and folk experience points… As one walks across the land of Bashu (巴渝), a thousand villages with a thousand faces all look like paintings, and at every step, every scene retains nostalgia for one's homeland.
The mountains and waters of Bashu (巴渝) paint a new scroll, and harmonious and beautiful villages come into the picture. As a municipality directly under the central government that integrates a large city, a large rural area, a large mountainous region, and a large reservoir area, Chongqing (重庆) has deeply studied and applied the experience of the "Thousand Village Demonstration and Ten Thousand Village Renovation" Project (千万工程), based itself on mountainous characteristics, intensively cultivated urban-rural integration, used the skill of 精雕细琢 (jīng diāo xì zhuó - "fine carving and meticulous polishing," to work with exquisite craftsmanship) to enhance the "face value" of villages, used industrial thinking to consolidate the foundation for enriching the people, and used the wisdom of good governance to cultivate civilized rural customs, striving to paint a new picture of harmonious and beautiful villages in Bashu (巴渝) in the new era. In 2025, the city has improved the quality of construction in 6,001 villages, with the completion rate of harmonious and beautiful Bashu villages reaching 65%.
Fine carving and meticulous polishing bring a new face, showcasing a new appearance of ecological livability
Walking into Qiaotou Town (桥头镇), Shizhu Tujia Autonomous County (石柱土家族自治县), farmhouse courtyards have white walls and grey tiles, with flowers and trees scattered in front and behind the houses, and melons and fruits fragrant; the former small mountain village has transformed into a harmonious and beautiful new home. In Longhu Village (龙湖村), Weilong Town (围龙镇), Tongliang District (铜梁区), 281 beautiful courtyards connect to form a scenic view, farmhouses with yellow walls and black tiles complement the pastoral scenery, and courtyard pavilions dot the landscape…
These vivid scenes provide a vivid footnote for Chongqing (重庆) in building harmonious and beautiful Bashu villages. Chongqing (重庆) has concentrated efforts on improving the overall village landscape, following the principles of 因地制宜 (yīn dì zhì yí - "according to local conditions," to adapt measures to local conditions), building according to the terrain, 显山露水 (xiǎn shān lòu shuǐ - "reveal mountains and show water," to display the natural scenery prominently), and retaining nostalgia, continuously improving the living environment. Taking the "Five Clean-ups and One Activity" (五清理一活动) as the starting point, it has coordinated the promotion of rural human settlement environment improvement. The penetration rate of sanitary toilets in rural areas has risen to 88%, the coverage rate of classified domestic waste in administrative villages has reached 83.6%, and black and malodorous water bodies in rural areas have achieved dynamic elimination across the entire area.
At the same time, Chongqing (重庆) has accelerated the filling of shortcomings in the "Five Networks" (五网) of infrastructure: roads, water, electricity, communications, and logistics. The city's rural tap water penetration rate has reached 94.6%, the mileage of rural roads has reached 168,000 kilometers, the power supply reliability rate has reached 99.8%, the 5G coverage rate of administrative villages and the coverage rate of three-level delivery logistics nodes have both reached 100%, and rural education, medical care, elderly care, culture and sports facilities have benefited more than 7 million people.
Multiple empowerment to revitalize industries, activating new momentum to strengthen villages and enrich the people
In the navel orange orchards of Fengjie County (奉节县), each orange tree nurtures the hope of a bountiful harvest. The current comprehensive output value of Fengjie navel oranges exceeds 6.5 billion yuan, driving 300,000 fruit-growing households to increase their income. In the livestock industry park of Rongchang District (荣昌区), the "Industry Brain" (产业大脑) monitors the entire chain of breeding in real time, and the brand value of Rongchang pigs reaches 5.595 billion yuan. At the Coptis chinensis planting base in Shizhu Tujia Autonomous County (石柱土家族自治县), the small Coptis has grown into a ten-billion-level industry, turning bitter medicinal materials into a "sweet industry."
When industries are strong, villages are strong; when industries are prosperous, farmers are prosperous. Chongqing (重庆) has concentrated efforts on developing modern, ecological, and efficient agriculture, deeply cultivating the "local specialty products" article, strengthening innovation-driven development, and creating regional public brands such as "Bawei Yuzhen" (巴味渝珍) and "Youyang 800" (酉阳800). At present, Chongqing (重庆) has cultivated and formed 10 ecological specialty industry chains with an output value of over ten billion yuan, including Fengjie navel oranges, Fuling pickled mustard tubers, and Wushan crisp plums. It has launched 10 "Industry Brains" online and built 20 future farms (agricultural, pastoral, and fishery). In 2025, the city's output value of food and agricultural product processing reached 379.3 billion yuan.
In addition, Chongqing (重庆) insists on consolidating the foundation of food security. Intelligent quality inspection has been completed for map spots of the city's 4.13 million mu of high-standard farmland construction projects. It has promoted compound operation models such as "rice +" and "grain and vegetable." It has deepened the mechanism linking agriculture and farmers, established 399 three-level rural cooperative economic organization federations, with a township coverage rate of 64.5%, standardized the development of 1,859 village-strengthening companies, and achieved an average income of 629,100 yuan per village collective economic organization. Industrial prosperity has driven farmers' income growth. In 2025, the per capita disposable income of rural residents in Chongqing (重庆) reached 23,448 yuan, with more and more villagers achieving employment near their homes and stable income increases.
Good governance and good deeds unite the people, cultivating new customs of rural civilization
Clean and tidy village appearance, rich and varied cultural activities, harmonious and friendly neighborhood relations… Walking through the fields of the Bashu (巴渝) land, one can feel the new breeze of civilization everywhere.
Party building leads to consolidate the foundation. Chongqing (重庆) has implemented the "Head Goose Leads the Voyage · Strengthen Villages and Enrich the People" (头雁领航·强村富民) project, regularly selected and dispatched first secretaries to villages and rural revitalization work instructors, improved the three-level joint governance mechanism at county, township, and village levels, and established 30,000 rural grid party organizations with full coverage.
Digital empowerment enhances efficiency. Relying on smart village construction, Chongqing (重庆) has promoted services such as government affairs, livelihood security, and environmental monitoring to sink into villages. The digital and intelligent application scenario "Xiaoyuanjia" (小院家) covers 564 townships, allowing villagers to handle social security payments, policy consultations, and agricultural product sales without leaving their homes.
Cultural empowerment nourishes rural customs. Chongqing (重庆) has deeply explored characteristic cultural resources such as Bashu culture (巴渝文化) and Three Gorges culture (三峡文化), protected traditional villages, ancient dwellings, and intangible cultural heritage skills, so that nostalgia has a place to rest and culture has inheritance. It has deeply advanced the transformation of outdated customs, abandoned outdated habits, and advocated a new civilized trend of frugality, mutual assistance among neighbors, and striving for upward and virtuous conduct.
From the transformation of the living environment to the rise of distinctive industries, from the improvement of grassroots governance to the formation of civilized rural customs, Chongqing (重庆), through deeply studying and applying the experience of the "Thousand Village Demonstration and Ten Thousand Village Renovation" Project (千万工程), has blazed a unique path of comprehensive rural revitalization. In the future, Chongqing (重庆) will deeply study and earnestly apply the experience of the "Thousand Village Demonstration and Ten Thousand Village Renovation" Project (千万工程), work steadily and 稳扎稳打 (wěn zhā wěn dǎ - "steady pitching and steady hitting," to go about something steadily and surely), 善作善成 (shàn zuò shàn chéng - "do well and achieve well," to do a good job and achieve success), continuously paint new pictures of harmonious and beautiful Bashu villages, and lay a solid rural foundation for striving to write a new chapter of Chinese-style modernization in Chongqing (重庆).
Data source: Chongqing Municipal Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee (重庆市农业农村委员会)
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In the summer of cicada chirping, summer consumption is heating up. Recent travel platform data on summer travel forecasts show that as of mid-June this year, the number of booked summer tourism products increased by 20% year-on-year, with domestic travel bookings seeing even more significant growth, exceeding 30% year-on-year. The tourism consumption market continues the hot scene seen since the beginning of this year, and is about to usher in a new wave of heat.
This phenomenon is also confirmed by macroeconomic data: data released recently by the National Bureau of Statistics (国家统计局) show that from January to May, the total retail sales of consumer goods and services increased by 2.8% year-on-year, among which service retail sales increased by 5.4%, significantly higher than the growth rate of goods retail sales. Contact-based and experience-based service consumption such as tourism services, cultural and sports leisure services is particularly prominent.
Through the window of summer consumption, we can see the trend of consumption structure upgrading. Service consumption is accelerating its leap toward experiential, quality-oriented, and personalized forms.
Experiential quality has become an important consideration in summer consumption. Consumers are bidding farewell to the 走马观花 (zǒu mǎ guān huā - "walk horse view flower," to take a cursory glance at things without paying attention to detail) style of check-in sightseeing, and are placing greater emphasis on pursuing warm, personalized, and immersive experiences. Thematic and scenario-based tours such as study tours, film and TV IP tours, cultural and museum tours, and intangible cultural heritage experience tours continue to gain popularity. Consumers enjoy finding satisfaction in deep experiences and emotional resonance. During a journey, a historical-themed "City Walk (城市漫步)" allows you to rediscover a different side of the city around you, and at a corner of an old street, you unexpectedly encounter a small street-side concert. Such an experience is no longer just "arriving at a destination," but a city memory worth savoring. Embarking on an intangible cultural heritage-themed journey, making Huizhou inksticks (徽墨) by hand, participating in tie-dye, learning Miao silver (苗银) forging, and completing a unique intangible cultural heritage piece under the guidance of artisans not only allows you to explore the transmission of skills but also find a deep cultural enjoyment.
Experiential consumption inherently possesses social attributes. The rise of experiential consumption aligns with the current young consumer group's demand for social identity and emotional value. Consumers record instantly through taking photos, recording videos, writing notes, etc., and share genuine feelings and unique perspectives on social platforms, driving more people to check in, experience, and participate in spreading. Platform statistics show that young consumers are more inclined to use social platforms to filter destinations and plan itineraries, combining personal interests and preferences to independently plan personalized travel plans. From this perspective, experiential consumption is driving consumer behavior from "passive reception" to "active co-creation," making the consumption process more disseminative and social.
Innovation in consumption scenarios stimulates more demand. Unlike commodity consumption, service consumption requires more the creation of an immersive consumption environment, so that consumers are not only willing to come but also willing to stop and personally experience and deeply participate. Recently, Beijing (北京) has opened a new batch of "Breeze Terrace (微风露台)" where citizens and tourists can look into the distance at the Central Axis (中轴线) scenery, drink coffee, listen to music, and participate in open-air handicraft markets. Many places, in conjunction with urban renewal and renovation, have revitalized old factory buildings and historic districts into new consumption scenarios, providing tourists with unique consumption experiences. These innovative scenario practices not only enrich the supply of quality cultural tourism but also inject new vitality into the market.
Summer consumption constitutes a vivid scene of the summer economy. Through this vivid scene, one can see the resilience and vitality of the Chinese economy, and also feel the trend of accelerating consumption transformation and upgrading. Seizing the summer consumption window period, continuously optimizing supply, innovating scenarios, and improving services can better release consumption potential and create a new consumption life with a stronger sense of experience.
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A handful of porcelain clay, ten thousand craftsman’s hearts.
Ceramics are a Chinese cultural名片 engraved with millennia of heritage. In the past, they mostly appeared on display cabinets and desks as artistic porcelain and ceremonial porcelain, with limited audience reach. Today, they have been transformed by the times, turning into cultural and creative pendants, clothing accessories, exquisite jewelry, technological ceramics, and other daily-use items and trendy products, achieving a youthful and contemporary expression.
Jingdezhen, Jiangxi (江西景德镇) is hailed as the "Millennium Porcelain Capital." Here, ceramics integrate tradition and modernity, presenting 千姿百态 (qiān zī bǎi tài - "thousand postures hundred forms," diverse appearances), becoming a window to observe Chinese ceramics moving toward the new and the excellent. In 2025, the Jingdezhen ceramic industry reached a milestone breakthrough, with total output value exceeding the 100-billion-yuan mark, reaching 102.7 billion yuan, an increase of 9.3%.
Millennium-old techniques integrate with trendy culture and contemporary aesthetics, radiating new vitality.
The most eye-catching transformation of Jingdezhen ceramics is undoubtedly the shift from exquisite "handicrafts" to cultural and creative trendy toys with market influence, achieving a downward expansion and broadening of the consumer base.
"Jingpiao" — a group that injects more possibilities into Jingdezhen ceramics. Among them is Wang Xu (王旭), a post-90s girl. After graduating with a master's degree in 2024, she stayed in Jingdezhen and founded the Mengzheng Handcraft Studio (蒙正手造工作室).
When first meeting at the "Jingpiao Home" (景漂之家) in Zhushan District (珠山区), Wang Xu was wearing a square blue-and-white ceramic pendant with eight-treasure motifs around her neck. In her online and offline shops, one can see more geometric-shaped accessories: elements such as elegant blue-and-white and dreamy Van Gogh starry skies are creatively integrated into necklaces, earrings, rings, and other accessories.
"Now consumers' aesthetic standards are constantly improving, and market competition is becoming fiercer, so we have to produce products with a threshold," Wang Xu said about the original intention of making small geometric jewelry. On the one hand, the geometric shapes are unique and eye-catching; on the other hand, for accessories like cube-shaped necklaces, because they are small and hollow, the painting requires greater precision, and successful firing is more difficult.
Differentiating in shape also requires effort in craftsmanship and aesthetics, pursuing exquisiteness. "Recently, we have combined metallic silver with ceramic jewelry, and the products have been well received by many consumers. After launching, monthly revenue has nearly doubled compared to before, achieving high value through high quality," Wang Xu said.
If ceramic jewelry brings it closer to consumers, then collaborating with well-known trendy IPs and international brands to launch trendy toys and cultural creations broadens the channels for ceramics to go viral.
In the trendy toy market, a Molly ceramic doll has become a vivid footnote to the cross-border integration of trendy toys and ceramics — the ceramic version of Molly sold out 40,000 sets in just 2 seconds after launch; the limited edition Molly, using the traditional Jingdezhen pahua (扒花) technique, was limited to 199 pieces worldwide and sold out immediately upon release.
The company producing this doll is Chentian Ceramics Co., Ltd. (辰天陶瓷有限公司), located in the Changnan New District (昌南新区) of Jingdezhen, and it is the only ceramic co-branding partner of Pop Mart (泡泡玛特). It innovatively uses ceramic intangible cultural heritage techniques such as pahua, enamel, gold tracing, and langhong (郎红) to design new trendy toys.
"In 2022, we tried to cooperate with Pop Mart to develop a ceramic version of Molly, and this cross-border collaboration was not easy," recalled Xu Wan (许婉), general manager of Chentian Ceramics. Because it was 头重脚轻 (tóu zhòng jiǎo qīng - "head heavy feet light," top-heavy and unstable), it was prone to collapsing during high-temperature firing. Additionally, the pahua technique required high standards for the green body. Out of 2,000 products, the final yield was only 10%. After two years of experimentation and more than 20 sampling rounds, "no fees were charged during the initial development, and finally, through continuous communication on design and adjustments in craftsmanship on both sides, we succeeded in firing."
With this sincerity and strength, the company became a long-term partner of Pop Mart and also received custom orders from many other trendy IPs, such as the Langlang Mountain Little Monster and Disney IPs. Xu Wan introduced that the company’s output value is expected to exceed 50 million yuan this year.
At Jingde Xianyunju Ceramic Culture Co., Ltd. (景德闲云居陶瓷文化有限公司), exquisite ceramic cultural creations such as cups and serving plates tell the contemporary vitality of millennium-old ceramics. Among them, a Mobius Cup (莫比乌斯杯) developed and produced in collaboration with renowned British designer Robin Levien (罗宾·列文) has been highly favored by customers for its smooth lines and minimalist aesthetic texture, becoming a bestseller among cultural and creative products. Since its launch in July 2024, cumulative sales have exceeded 7 million yuan.
Company chairman Duan Jianping (段建平) introduced that Robin Levien was attracted by the profound historical heritage of Jingdezhen’s ceramic craftsmanship, which also fully proves that the development of Jingdezhen porcelain must adhere to shouzheng chuangxin (守正创新 - uphold tradition and innovate). Cultural creation is not only product innovation but also a contemporary path for cultural inheritance. The accumulation of millennia-old techniques is radiating new vitality through integration with trendy culture and contemporary aesthetics.
New quality productive forces empower ceramic products to move toward high-end and diversified directions.
The warmth of handcraft conveys the historical depth of Jingdezhen ceramics, while the development of new quality productive forces greatly enriches the forms and application scenarios of ceramic products.
Leveling powder, precisely injecting ink according to spatial coordinates, and repeating this 循环往复 (xún huán wǎng fù - "cycle back and forth," to repeat in a cycle) — after about 20 hours, the ink-jet area, like stacking building blocks layer by layer, "builds" a three-dimensional ceramic green body. Inside the production workshop of Weici Technology (Jiangxi) Co., Ltd. (微瓷科技（江西）有限公司), industrial-grade ceramic 3D printers are constantly in operation.
As a ceramic 3D printing innovation R&D and intelligent manufacturing enterprise, Weici Technology relies on new materials and innovative processes to deeply cultivate the field of ceramic additive manufacturing, breaking the limitations of traditional ceramic creation and production. In the company's exhibition hall, various beautifully shaped ceramic products in irregular forms are 琳琅满目 (lín láng mǎn mù - "beautiful jade fills the eyes," a wide variety of beautiful things), perfectly presenting complex structures such as hollow shapes, intricate internal cavities, and irregular interlayers, vividly demonstrating the new shaping of ceramic product forms by 3D printing.
Fang Tao (方涛), head of Weici Technology, introduced that the company’s technology is derived from sand-type 3D printing processes, with outstanding capability for forming complex structures. For example, high-difficulty spliced ceramic artworks such as snowflake-shaped partitioned screens and archaistic nine-dragon walls can achieve high-precision splicing and forming, while traditional craftsmanship and extrusion-type 3D printing make their realization extremely difficult.
In traditional ceramic production, there is a 15% shrinkage during firing, and the requirements for craftsmanship from forming the green body to the finished product are very high. "Industrial-grade ceramic 3D printing can overcome these problems relatively well," Fang Tao said. Operators only need a 3D modeling diagram to produce a ceramic green body, significantly lowering the production threshold for personalized ceramic customization, with broad market space in fields such as decorative tiles, high-end home furnishings, and precision ceramic components. The company has already engaged in deep cooperation with global classic kitchen and bathroom brands and is steadily advancing commercialization.
By integrating cutting-edge 3D printing technology with the millennium-old ceramic culture and empowering traditional industry innovation with technology, ceramic products are ushering in a brand-new look. In Fang Tao’s view, 3D printing and traditional ceramics have a complementary relationship with differentiation: traditional ceramics focus on classic handmade aesthetics, while 3D printing focuses on personalized and complex structural customization.
In addition to becoming artworks and decorations, a type of ceramic called advanced ceramics is widely used in fields such as communication electronics and new energy. Advanced ceramics, also known as industrial ceramics, special ceramics, or high-tech ceramics, feature low energy consumption and low material consumption, as well as high technology and high added value, making them key materials supporting the development of emerging industries.
In the production workshop of Jiangxi Shanhaina Microelectronic Materials Co., Ltd. (江西山海纳微电子材料有限公司), long tube-shaped advanced ceramic materials — targets — are continuously coming off the production line. "Advanced ceramics are used in our mobile phone and television screens," introduced Li Juntao (李俊涛), head of the enterprise. Ceramic targets with different compositions have different properties and can be used in various application scenarios such as transparent conductive, insulating, optical, and magnetic storage, meeting customers’ different technical routes and quality requirements.
Using advanced ceramics in daily-use porcelain can improve the impact resistance of the ware. Xu Wan introduced that some enterprises, when customizing ceramic gifts, specifically require them to be drop-resistant, and they also use advanced ceramic materials for producing green bodies.
Since 2021, Jingdezhen has made advanced ceramics the main direction for industrial breakthrough, focusing on application fields such as communication electronics, new energy, aerospace, and biomedical, and making every effort to expand new tracks in the advanced ceramic industry. The output value of advanced ceramics now accounts for 34%.
From daily ornaments to high-tech materials, ordinary porcelain completes a cross-border transformation through material innovation. The development of new quality productive forces is continuously driving ceramic products toward high-end and diversified directions.
The "Ceramics+" model extends business forms, broadens scenarios, and enriches the connotation of ceramic good products.
Looking at the current consumer market, business form integration has become a trend. Jingdezhen’s ceramic products are also extending business forms, broadening scenarios, and amplifying value through the "Ceramics+" model, continuously enriching the contemporary connotation of ceramics as fine goods.
At the Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Museum (景德镇御窑博物院), a set of ceramics nicknamed "Suisui Duck" (岁岁鸭) by netizens has become a new online sensation.
The prototype of "Suisui Duck" is a Ming Dynasty Chenghua plain tricolor duck-shaped incense burner (明成化素三彩鸭形香薰), with an extended neck and raised head, an upturned tail, and three main colors: green, yellow, and purple, exhibiting exquisite craftsmanship. Weng Yanjun (翁彦俊), director of the Imperial Kiln Museum, introduced that more than 500 years ago, it was originally a royal order from the Ming Dynasty imperial kiln factory in Jingdezhen, but due to minor flaws, it was denied imperial use, shattered, and buried deep underground.
Speaking about the original intention to create the "Suisui Duck" IP, Weng Yanjun said that in recent years, guochao (国潮 - national trend) has become the mainstream aesthetic for young people. Creating IP and trendy cultural creations based on cultural relic prototypes can narrow the distance between the public and ancient ceramic culture, allowing young people to start by loving cultural creations and then take the initiative to deeply understand the history of the imperial kiln and ceramic relic knowledge. "The experience of the 'Suisui Duck' prototype coincidentally matches the emotional needs of today's young people for self-mockery, healing internal friction, and seeking warm companionship, giving it the qualities to become a viral IP."
In February 2024, the Imperial Kiln Museum launched the "Suisui Duck" IP, which received widespread attention immediately upon release. At the end of that year, the museum held a special competition "Suisui Duck and Her Friends," attracting over 10,000 participants, using creative design and development to broaden the path of revitalizing and inheriting ceramic good products from the Imperial Kiln Museum.
Today, based on the six unearthed plain tricolor duck-shaped incense burners, the Imperial Kiln Museum has developed six IP images with different personalities, forming the "Suisui Duck" family. Related derivative cultural creations account for 50% of the museum’s cultural creation categories. During this year’s May Day holiday, the museum’s cultural creation product sales increased by 47% year-on-year. The 59-yuan Longzhu Pavilion Suisui Duck handheld mirror and the 69-yuan Suisui Duck "Spin-Spin" are very popular. The "Suisui Duck" IP not only brings traffic to the Imperial Kiln Museum but has also become a well-known IP of Jingdezhen.
In addition to "Ceramics + IP" empowering the millennium-old porcelain charm, "Ceramics + Scenarios" also opens up new consumer tracks through immersive experiences, making ceramics more valuable by integrating into life and social interaction.
In a valley of Sanbao Village (三宝村) in Jingdezhen, when night falls, over 5,000 linglong (玲珑) porcelain lamps laid out along the valley light up, looking like a galaxy from above. Under the warm, soft lights, some people sip tea and read, others enjoy food. Amid the flowing light, porcelain charm blends with the warmth of daily life, art coexists with life. This is the immersive consumption scenario created by Yubai Porcelain Industry Co., Ltd. (玉柏瓷业有限公司) using linglong porcelain — the "Linglong Night Banquet."
Yubai Porcelain Industry is a ceramic production enterprise focusing on the linglong porcelain category. In recent years, it has continuously explored breaking away from the single form of shelf sales, linking with the catering, tea industry, and cultural tourism sectors to create offline experience scenarios and move toward high quality and high value.
This transformation stems from the company’s years of observation. Li Huifeng (李辉丰), general manager of Yubai Porcelain Industry, said that for a period, the industry followed hot categories, leading to severe homogenization competition in ceramic products, and it became 迫在眉睫 (pò zài méi jié - "pressing on eyebrows and eyelashes," extremely urgent) for enterprises to find a new development logic. "We saw some ceramic enterprises closely focusing on the pain points of target customer groups and integrating well with home life, which gave us great inspiration."
Thus, the enterprise’s thinking shifted from focusing on "objects" to focusing on "people" and "scenarios," anchoring precise customer groups, clarifying brand positioning and aesthetic orientation, screening customers that match its own tone, and building differentiated brand labels.
"Creating the 'Linglong Night Banquet' is a successful practice based on our own brand positioning," Li Huifeng said. Today’s young consumers prefer checking in, taking photos, and social sharing. The Linglong Night Banquet scenario combines dining and check-in attributes, allowing users to experience the art of linglong porcelain within the scenario. Only in this way can such traditional porcelain be integrated into the daily life of young people.
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In Exhibition Hall No. 6 of the China (Hainan) Museum of the South China Sea (中国（海南）南海博物馆), a beam of light falls upon a meiping vase (梅瓶). A large area of peacock-green glaze forms the base, with lotus flowers and yellow stamens inlaid among it, dark-colored branches and leaves intertwining and winding, and the raised ornamentation emerges from the body of the vase.
This Ming dynasty (明代) fahua (珐华) peacock-green glaze lotus pond pattern meiping (梅瓶) was retrieved from the Northwest Continental Slope No. 1 Shipwreck Site (南海西北陆坡一号沉船遗址) in the South China Sea, at a seabed depth of approximately 1,500 meters. Around the early 16th century, a merchant ship loaded with fahua wares, porcelain, and metalware departed from the coast of southern China, and soon after encountered an accident and sank. From May 2023 to June 2024, a joint team consisting of the National Cultural Heritage Administration Archaeological Research Center (国家文物局考古研究中心), the Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院深海科学与工程研究所), and the China (Hainan) Museum of the South China Sea (中国（海南）南海博物馆) conducted investigations at the site, retrieving nearly one thousand artifacts. This site was selected as one of the Top Ten New Archaeological Discoveries in China for 2023. The deep-sea, low-temperature, low-oxygen environment has kept the glaze colors of the fahua wares still bright and fresh as new.
Fahua (珐华), also known as "Fahua (珐花)" or "Fahua (法华)." It was first fired in Shanxi (山西) during the Yuan dynasty (元代), initially borrowing from architectural glazed tile techniques, using earthenware as the body. By the mid-Ming dynasty (明代中期), Jingdezhen (景德镇) artisans replaced the earthenware body with a porcelain body, making the glaze colors more transparent, lustrous, and smooth, pushing this craft to its peak. After the Qianlong period of the Qing dynasty (清乾隆), fahua almost vanished, with very few pieces surviving. Modern scholar Xu Zhiheng (许之衡), in his book Yinliuzhai Shuo Ci (《饮流斋说瓷》), described the colors of fahua: "The blue is like the blue of a deep-colored gemstone, the purple like the purple of a deep-colored amethyst, the yellow like the yellow of a transparent golden amber." A few words capture its luxurious temperament.
How is such a luxurious glaze color made? A cake decorating chef might find this process familiar: holding the piping bag in hand, the small nozzle tip against the cake surface, moving steadily along the outline, the cream rises in circles, and a three-dimensional flower takes shape. Porcelain artisans over 500 years ago used a similar process, except they used prepared porcelain clay slip, and the surface for the line work was the plain body of the vase. After high-temperature firing, the recessed areas are filled with blue, yellow, white and other colored glazes, then fired a second time at low temperature in the kiln. When touched by hand, the finished piece clearly shows three layers: concave, flat, and convex, with a three-dimensional relief texture. This technique is called "lifen (沥粉)" or "lifen (立粉)," which is the signature skill of fahua (珐华) colored porcelain.
Xin Lixue (辛礼学), director of the China (Hainan) Museum of the South China Sea (中国（海南）南海博物馆), introduced that some of the fahua ware retrieved this time show a technique of applying gold leaf over the main decorative patterns on the surface. This is relatively rare in previous studies of fahua ware, indicating an extremely high level of craftsmanship.
Exiting the exhibition hall, many visitors turn directly into the museum's cultural and creative products area. The three fahua (珐华) meiping (梅瓶) on display this time, each with a different form, have all become subjects for cultural and creative development.
On the shelves, a set of "South China Sea Wonders (南海奇珍)" series jewelry is attracting visitors to try on. The design team extracted elements from the silhouette, glaze color, and lotus pattern of the fahua peacock-green glaze lotus pond pattern meiping, combined with the natural luster of mother-of-pearl and cold enamel techniques, to create necklaces, bracelets, earrings, brooches... This set of jewelry won the gold award at the 9th Hainan Province Tourism Commodity Competition in 2024.
The shapes of the three meiping (梅瓶) and a susan-color ewer (素三彩执壶) were made into resin refrigerator magnets. Stuck on the refrigerator door, a miniature set of "Deep Blue Treasure (深蓝宝藏)" makes its home in the kitchen. "Only when cultural relics step out of the display case, into backpacks, and onto refrigerators, can they truly enter daily life," said a museum staff member.
In 2025, the China (Hainan) Museum of the South China Sea (中国（海南）南海博物馆) collaborated with Haikou Meilan International Airport (海口美兰国际机场) to move the promotional display area of the "Deep Blue Treasure (深蓝宝藏)" special exhibition into the terminal. Replicas of three fahua meiping (珐华彩梅瓶) and accompanying cultural and creative products stand in glass display cases in the waiting hall, where waiting passengers can see them within a few steps. "It's very convenient. Travelers who like humanities and history don't have to make a special trip to the museum; they can learn about the stories of the Maritime Silk Road at the airport," said Lin Haoming (林浩明), a traveler from Sichuan (四川).
In recent years, traditional Chinese colors have re-entered the aesthetic field of vision of young people. On social media platforms, "moon white (月白)" and "sea-sky haze (海天霞)" frequently appear in outfit and home decoration sharing. The tints formulated by Ming dynasty (明代) kiln workers, after deep-sea salvage, archaeological restoration, and cultural-creative transformation, are now returning to contemporary people's lives in the form of jewelry and daily necessities.
Over 500 years ago, the meiping (梅瓶) departed from Jingdezhen (景德镇) as a trade commodity on the Maritime Silk Road, ready to 漂洋过海 (piāo yáng guò hǎi - "float ocean cross sea," to travel across the seas). Over 500 years later, it has taken to the road again in the form of pendants and refrigerator magnets. The medium of circulation has changed, but the purpose of the artifact entering people's lives has not.
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"In the past, whatever the legal popularization (普法) talked about, we listened; now, whatever we need, they talk about. It truly solves a 燃眉之急 (rán méi zhī jí - "burning eyebrows emergency," describing an extremely urgent situation)!" In Wubao Town (五宝镇), Liangjiang New Area (两江新区), Chongqing (重庆), a village cadre exclaimed.
It turned out that the local village two committees (村两委) had just undergone a change of term, but the new leadership had many blind spots in legal knowledge regarding the collective economy. The town then found the college student rule of law propaganda team (大学生法治宣讲团) of Southwest University of Political Science and Law (西南政法大学), intending to "customize" rule of law lessons for village cadres.
Can they "order according to need"? 说干就干 (shuō gàn jiù gàn - "say do then do," to act immediately without delay), the college students found teachers from the school to prepare lessons together, combining typical cases, using cases to explain the law (以案说法) regarding the Rural Collective Economic Organization Law (农村集体经济组织法), and hand-in-hand (手把手) instructing cadres to handle collective economic development affairs according to laws and regulations.
Speaking of which, this college student rule of law propaganda team (大学生法治宣讲团) is not ordinary. As of now, this team has cumulatively conducted over 7,000 legal popularization activities and was also named "2025 Rule of Law Figure of the Year" (2025年度法治人物). Through their actions, they have spread the voice of the rule of law across fields and villages, as well as on streets and alleys.
Legal popularization and education (法治宣传教育) is a long-term foundational task for comprehensively governing the country by law (全面依法治国). Recently, the 23rd session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress (十四届全国人大常委会第二十三次会议) deliberated a report on the implementation of the resolution on the "Eighth Five-Year Plan" for legal popularization (八五普法).
From rule of law vice principals (法治副校长) protecting seedlings as they grow (护苗成长), to legal popularization volunteers (普法志愿者) 走街串巷 (zǒu jiē chuàn xiàng - "walk streets string alleys," to go around streets and lanes), from legal literacy figures (法律明白人) taking root in villages (扎根乡村), to red rule of law propagandists (红色法治宣讲员) resolving disputes and removing difficulties (解纷排难)... Over the past five years, with the joint efforts of all sides, the "Eighth Five-Year Plan" for legal popularization has achieved important results. Across the land of Shenzhou (神州大地), universal legal popularization is flourishing, further consolidating the social foundation for comprehensively governing the country by law.
Rule of law vice principals (法治副校长)——Helping young people button the "first button" of the rule of law.
In recent years, all localities have accelerated the construction of the rule of law vice principal team, assisting schools at all levels and of all types in carrying out rule of law education, student protection, safety management, crime prevention, and law-based governance. Currently, the rate of allocation of rule of law vice principals (rule of law counselors) (法治辅导员) in primary and secondary schools nationwide has reached 98.9%. They come from courts, procuratorates, public security organs, judicial administrative departments, etc., helping young people button the "first button" of the rule of law.
In Pingxiang (凭祥), Guangxi (广西), on the southern border of the motherland, along the winding border line, a team of "rule of law vice principals" left their footprints.
In a dimly lit billiard room, smoke filled the air. 16-year-old Xiao Liao (小廖) had just skipped school and played a few games. Someone leaned in and whispered, "Take someone across the border, a few hundred yuan per trip. Want to do it?" A few hundred yuan could buy that pair of sneakers he had wanted for a long time! Xiao Liao nodded vigorously. That night, for the first time, he led a stranger through a muddy forest trail across the border, not realizing that legal punishment awaited ahead.
The judicial administrative departments organized the "rule of law vice principal" team to investigate and found that over the past three years, the "first job" of many juvenile offenders in cases handled was received from these inconspicuous billiard rooms. Therefore, the "rule of law vice principal" team launched a "source governance" (源头治理) action.
After in-depth investigation, they identified high-frequency times and areas where venues such as KTVs, billiard rooms, and chess and card rooms illegally admitted minors. The procuratorial organs then issued procuratorial recommendations. Soon, a special rectification action jointly conducted by multiple departments was rolled out across the city. Legal popularization volunteers inspected and counseled key areas during school dismissal times, building a legal barrier for the protection of minors.
"Classmates, if someone abroad asks you to help transfer money, should we agree?" "If someone hands you a drink of unknown origin, how do you refuse?" Now, in the middle schools of Pingxiang City (凭祥市), the "rule of law vice principals" regularly conduct the "Border Gate Rule of Law Classroom" (国门法治课堂).
The "rule of law vice principal" team focuses on high-risk border issues, using local incidents to educate local people: some minors are lured by "high-paying overseas jobs" and become tools for telecom fraud; some blindly "borrow cards to transfer money" or "help withdraw cash" for commissions, falling into the abyss of information network crime; some trust others easily and participate in "smuggling and guiding" (偷引带), crossing the legal red line...
Since the beginning of this year, the judicial administrative departments of Guangxi, together with education, court, and procuratorial departments, have organized over 10,000 rule of law vice principals to conduct more than 15,000 sessions of "First Rule of Law Lesson of the Semester" (开学法治第一课).
The "rule of law vice principals" of Pingxiang City say, with legal popularization as the foundation, rescue as the key, governance as the root, and prevention as the priority, along the hundred-li border line, lighting a lamp for youth is also adding a measure of peace to the border gate.
Legal Popularization Volunteers (普法志愿者)——Gathering every bit of the rule of law strength
In recent years, social legal popularization forces have continued to grow. Over 2.2 million legal popularization volunteers nationwide are active on the front lines of legal popularization, going deep into more than 2,800 counties, cities, and districts, conducting legal popularization activities for nearly 400 million person-times, continuously promoting the integration of the socialist rule of law spirit into daily production and life, playing an important role in enhancing the legal consciousness of the entire population and advancing the construction of a rule-of-law society.
On streets and lanes, delivery riders rush day and night, walking in haste. Facing common legal troubles such as labor employment, traffic accidents, and rights protection, they often lack professional guidance and channels for rights protection.
Last spring, delivery rider Xiao Cheng (小程) in Xiamen (厦门), Fujian (福建), had an accident while delivering food, but not only did his company refuse to compensate, it also went through simplified cancellation and "ran away": "The company is gone, who will compensate?"
Soon, a turning point appeared——the "Dandelion" (蒲公英) legal popularization volunteers recruited by the Binhai Judicial Office (滨海司法所) of the Siming District (思明区) Judicial Bureau in Xiamen City came to the local distribution station that day, using the riders' daily morning meeting to conduct a "10-minute micro legal popularization" (10分钟微普法), which was about traffic accidents and work-related injury identification.
Xiao Cheng then approached the judicial office for help. Under the guidance of the staff, by reviewing the company's internal industrial and commercial files, he found the shareholders' commitment letter regarding the inheritance of debts——this was the key evidence for rights protection.
After receiving the compensation, Xiao Cheng returned to the Binhai Judicial Office, this time requesting to join the ranks of the "Dandelion" legal popularization volunteers: "Before, when I saw legal popularization leaflets on the road, I always felt they had nothing to do with me. After this incident, I want to deliver the sense of security given by the law into the hands of more people."
Under the guidance of the judicial office, Xiao Cheng officially registered as a "Dandelion" legal popularization volunteer. From then on, his delivery box contained an extra stack of rule of law publicity pamphlets. Every time he delivered food, he would hand out a copy of legal knowledge.
In Binhai Subdistrict (滨海街道), there are already over 20 "Dandelion messengers" (蒲公英信使) like Xiao Cheng. Their delivery boxes have become "mobile legal popularization stations" (移动普法站). Now, with the establishment of the Xiamen Postal and Express Delivery Industry "Dandelion" Legal Popularization Volunteer Brigade (厦门邮政快递行业"蒲公英"普法志愿者大队), the locality is promoting workers in new employment forms to transform into messengers, delivering the law to doorsteps.
During the "Eighth Five-Year Plan" for legal popularization, the Fujian Province "Dandelion" Legal Popularization Volunteer Alliance (福建省"蒲公英"普法志愿者联盟) grew from an initial 7 party member volunteers to 5,450 volunteer teams and over 180,000 volunteers, conducting more than 74,200 themed legal popularization activities, with cumulative volunteer service hours reaching over 1.162 million hours, becoming a unique landscape of the rule of law.
Legal Literacy Figures (法律明白人)——Using actions to let the rule of law spirit permeate the countryside
Promoting the integration of legal popularization and education with law-based governance and rule-of-law practice, all localities have deeply implemented the rural (community) "Legal Literacy Figure" cultivation project. Over 4.4 million "Legal Literacy Figures" nationwide fully play the roles of information officers on social conditions and public opinion, propagandists of legal policies, resolvers of conflicts and disputes, and guides for rule-of-law practice, sowing the seeds of the rule of law in vast urban and rural areas.
"With the law and contract backing me up, I feel very reassured!" In Longxing Village (龙兴村), Anju Town (安居镇), Tongliang District (铜梁区), Chongqing (重庆), villager Yang Wei (杨伟) looked at the land rent that had just arrived in his account and shared this feeling of reassurance with his neighbors, beaming with smiles.
Who would have thought that earlier, when the village initiated land transfer and developed integrated agricultural, cultural, and tourism industries, many villagers were still full of doubts: "Could the contract hide some trickery?"
This transformation from watching with hesitation to trust and support cannot be separated from the "Legal Literacy Figures" in the village.
In 2022, when the farming culture base project (农耕文化基地项目) landed in the village, the first difficulty was the centralized transfer of over 300 mu of land and multiple idle farmhouses. Whether rent payment would be guaranteed and whether land rights would be damaged after transfer became two major problems lingering in the villagers' minds.
"For the countryside to develop, the rule of law must come first." This phrase is often on the lips of Liu Fulun (刘福伦), Party branch secretary of Longxing Village and a "Legal Literacy Figure".
He suggested that the village committee contact professional legal advisors to participate in the legality review of the cooperation agreement throughout the process; he himself proactively consulted professional legal experts, clarifying word by word key terms such as the time limit for land rent payment, safety guarantees for farmhouse leasing, and methods for calculating income dividends, especially clarifying key stipulations such as "land transfer must not change the nature of farmland" and "the contractor has the right to supervise the use of farmland".
Liu Fulun also visited together with village cadres, converting the relevant regulations on land transfer and farmland protection into "plain talk" that villagers could understand and remember: "The rent will be deposited into your bank card on time every year, not a cent less" "The contract clearly states that whoever destroys farmland or breaches the contract will bear legal responsibility"...
In the end, when the rent was deposited into villagers' bank accounts on time and in full, and sales dividends were accurately distributed to households, villagers who had originally held a wait-and-see attitude also proactively came to consult about transfer matters and sign cooperation agreements. The entire village's over 300 mu of land were smoothly concentrated and transferred, and multiple idle farmhouses were renovated and put into use.
From a single contract winning villagers' trust to a piece of land activating rural industries, "Legal Literacy Figures" use actions to let the rule of law spirit take root in the countryside, making the road to increasing farmers' income more stable and smoother.
Red Rule of Law Propagandists (红色法治宣讲员)——走街串巷 (zǒu jiē chuàn xiàng - "walk streets string alleys," to go around streets and lanes), jointly promoting social governance
During the "Eighth Five-Year Plan" for legal popularization, with the vigorous promotion of rule-of-law culture construction, the number of rule-of-law themed parks (squares) at the county level and above nationwide reached over 5,200, and the coverage rate of rule-of-law culture positions in administrative villages (communities) reached 95.7%. Red rule-of-law culture and excellent traditional Chinese legal culture have been strongly inherited and promoted, and the socialist rule-of-law spirit has been deeply rooted in the people's hearts.
The Chishui River (赤水) flows leisurely. Bing'an Ancient Town (丙安古镇) in Zunyi (遵义), Guizhou (贵州), is built along the river, with green tiles and wooden houses arranged in a pleasingly irregular pattern, 错落有致 (cuò luò yǒu zhì - "scattered and orderly," describing a pleasingly irregular arrangement).
Every market day, the Wangjiang Old Teahouse (望江老茶馆) is always bustling with activity. Tea drinkers gather around. 79-year-old red rule of law propagandist Ma Guoyou (马国友) sits down on a bamboo chair, with a cup of clear tea and a pair of bamboo clappers. As soon as he speaks in authentic Chishui local dialect, he blends red stories and rule-of-law reasoning into the wispy tea fragrance.
As a retired cadre, Ma Guoyou is the leader of the Chishui red rule of law propagandists. In Chishui, this propaganda team has a special name——Teahouse Chat Masters (茶馆嗑子匠).
Ma Guoyou never preaches rigidly. He compiles the red discipline of the Red Army when stationed in Bing'an——"don't take a single needle or thread from the masses, return borrowed items, trade fairly"——and legal provisions such as the Civil Code into catchy ditties and clapper verses that are 朗朗上口 (lǎng lǎng shàng kǒu - "clear and easy to recite," easy and pleasant to read aloud).
Sometimes when talking about neighborly relations, he says, "The Red Army followed discipline to win people's hearts; now we abide by the law to be good neighbors with villagers. For homestead boundaries, we observe rules; help each other like one big family."
The teahouse is the legal popularization classroom, and the tea table is the mediation battlefield. Once, two households of villagers had a fierce dispute over land for building houses. They stormed into the teahouse with red faces to vent their feelings, and happened to catch Ma Guoyou telling the story of the Red Army's mutual help between soldiers and civilians and acting according to regulations. Accompanied by tea fragrance and local dialect, the two listened and felt increasingly ashamed. Ma Guoyou seized the opportunity to "break apart" legal principles and explain local customs thoroughly, and on the spot helped the two sides demarcate the boundary. The conflict 烟消云散 (yān xiāo yún sàn - "smoke disappear cloud scatter," to vanish completely like smoke and clouds).
Over the years, driven by Ma Guoyou, Chishui has cultivated 560 "Teahouse Chat Master" volunteers. This team has traveled all over the ancient town's streets and lanes, and rural courtyards, using local dialect to convey the voice of the rule of law, letting the rule of law spirit leap out of books and integrate into daily life.
Today in Zunyi, red rule of law propagandists go around streets and alleys to jointly promote governance. Tourists feel the rule of law warmth of the old revolutionary base areas in red scenic spots, and the masses receive rule of law edification through forms that are 喜闻乐见 (xǐ wén lè jiàn - "happy hear joy see," to be loved and enjoyed by all).
In recent years, the locality has also built a number of rule of law squares, real-scene teaching points, and quality study tour routes. Through holding legal popularization activities, they not only nourish the legal literacy of the masses, but also allow the red rule of law spirit to 生生不息 (shēng shēng bù xī - "grow grow not cease," to perpetuate and thrive endlessly) in grassroots practice.
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Drug control must closely follow changes in the drug situation and effectively address the real harm and potential threats posed by abused substances.
Is selling antidiarrheal drugs illegal? On the occasion of the 39th International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, relevant departments used cases to explain the law to remind the public.
Compound diphenoxylate (复方地芬诺酯) is a commonly used antidiarrheal drug, but because it is addictive and difficult to quit once addicted, and large doses can lead to serious consequences, it has been included in the Catalog of Category II Psychotropic Drugs (第二类精神药品目录). In daily life, some lawbreakers illegally sell this drug for profit, and have been determined by courts to constitute the crime of drug trafficking. The judgments in these cases demonstrate the judiciary's attitude of "zero tolerance" toward drug crimes, and further warn the whole society that the use of controlled drugs must not cross the legal red line.
In recent years, China's achievements in drug control have been remarkable, with steady improvement in the capacity to govern drug problems: in 2025, a total of 27,000 drug-related criminal cases were solved nationwide; the number of newly discovered drug users among adolescents under the age of 35 decreased by 41.6% year-on-year; and the number of individuals who had abstained for more than three years without relapse increased by 2.7% year-on-year. At the same time, drug control work faces new challenges. For example, the structure of drug abuse has undergone significant changes, with prominent problems of abuse of new drugs and non-listed addictive substances. There are underground factories illegally manufacturing and selling "head-rush e-cigarettes" containing addictive substances; their main abuse group is adolescents, causing great social harm.
Drug control must closely follow changes in the drug situation, legally and promptly include addictive substances found to have abuse hazards into regulated control, and effectively address the real harm and potential threats posed by abused substances. Not long ago, the Ministry of Public Security (公安部), the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委员会), and the National Medical Products Administration (国家药品监督管理局) jointly issued an announcement deciding to include 16 substances, including difluoroethylimidate (二氟乙咪酯), in the Catalogue of Non-medicinal Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (《非药用类麻醉药品和精神药品目录》). This means that the 16 added substances become drugs in the legal sense, which is conducive to timely prevention and curbing the spread of abuse.
For drug crimes, only by holding high the sharp sword of the rule of law and adhering to the stance of severe crackdown and severe punishment can a powerful deterrent be formed. To curb the spread of drugs and purify the social environment, it is necessary to always maintain a high-pressure and severe crackdown posture toward drug-related crimes. On the law enforcement front, public security anti-drug departments coordinate the two fronts of domestic and overseas, and the two battlefields of online and offline, deeply carrying out the "Clear Source and Cut Flow" (清源断流) special operation, solving a series of cases, destroying drug smuggling and transport channels, and significantly enhancing the effectiveness of full-chain drug enforcement. On the judicial front, heavy blows are dealt to drug crimes, especially heavier punishments for drug crime cases involving minors, so that criminals receive severe legal sanctions, and through strict justice, better protect the safety of the people and the tranquility of society.
Drug control requires not only after-the-fact crackdown, assistance, education, and correction, but also a step forward to put effort into source prevention. In practice, some drug-related cases have revealed problems such as loopholes in industry supervision. Some pharmacy staff have used their professional convenience to commit drug crimes, even selling narcotic and psychotropic drugs to minors, causing great social harm and posing a high risk of recidivism. In response, people's courts adhere to the equal emphasis on punishment and governance. While legally punishing drug crimes, they reasonably apply occupational bans to eliminate the risk of recidivism, and also combine public court hearings and judicial suggestions to link industry supervision to implement source governance, achieving good results of explaining the law through cases and rectifying the entire domain.
The road of drug control is 任重道远 (rèn zhòng dào yuǎn - "heavy responsibility long road," a heavy burden and a long journey, indicating a great task that requires persistent effort). Only by 持之以恒 (chí zhī yǐ héng - "persist with constancy," to persevere unremittingly) and constantly grasping without slackening can the foundation of peace and security be maintained. From risk investigation and precise publicity-education at the grassroots community level, to ecological purification and risk blockage in cyberspace; from strict supervision and source control in the industry field, to broad participation and positive guidance from all sectors of society... Drug control requires the joint participation of the whole society. Only when everyone consciously stays away from drugs, actively participates in drug control, and embraces a peaceful, healthy, and happy life, can the mighty force of nationwide drug prevention and domain-wide drug governance be gathered.
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A certain Ge (葛某) was an elderly person living alone in Xuhui District (徐汇区), Shanghai (上海). One day in 2022, Ge (葛某) passed away at home.
Under Ge's (葛某) name, there remained one housing unit in Xuhui District (徐汇区) as well as bank deposits and insurance interests. However, prior to Ge's (葛某) death, his parents, wife, and only daughter had all already passed away, and there were no statutory heirs. Then, to whom should the property left by Ge (葛某) belong?
At that time, Ge's (葛某) cousin, a certain Ge Moucheng (葛某成), and his wife approached the civil affairs department. It turned out that after Ge's (葛某) wife died, he had lived alone for a long time. But Ge (葛某) suffered from illness; it was Ge Moucheng (葛某成) and his wife who sent him to the hospital and took care of him; and after Ge (葛某) died, it was also Ge Moucheng (葛某成) and his wife who handled his funeral affairs and swept his grave and offered sacrifices.
Therefore, Ge Moucheng (葛某成) and his wife believed that since Ge (葛某) had no other heirs and they had provided relatively much support and care for him, they requested to receive a share of the estate.
The judge explained that the cousin and his wife were not statutory or testamentary heirs; they did not automatically have the right to inherit the estate. For Ge Moucheng (葛某成) and his wife to obtain the estate, they had to go through litigation. Accordingly, Ge Moucheng (葛某成) and his wife, citing the district civil affairs bureau acting as the estate administrator, filed a lawsuit in court with the district civil affairs bureau as the defendant.
What is an estate administrator? According to the provisions of the Civil Code (民法典), an estate administrator performs duties such as handling the decedent's claims and debts, and distributing the estate in accordance with the will or according to legal provisions. The Civil Code (民法典) also provides that where there is no heir or all heirs have renounced inheritance, the civil affairs department or the villagers' committee at the decedent's former domicile shall serve as the estate administrator.
After trial, the court held that Ge (葛某) had not made a will during his lifetime and had no heirs, and that both parties had no dispute regarding the civil affairs bureau lawfully serving as Ge's (葛某) estate administrator. Therefore, the civil affairs bureau's litigation standing was proper.
In addition, Ge Moucheng (葛某成) and his wife were not Ge's (葛某) heirs and had no statutory maintenance obligation. They had provided relatively much support and care for Ge (葛某) during his lifetime, and after his death they handled his funeral affairs and offered sacrifices. The Civil Code (民法典) provides that persons other than the heir who have provided relatively much support to the decedent may be given an appropriate share of the estate. Considering comprehensively that Ge Moucheng (葛某成) and his wife had only provided support to Ge (葛某) for about three years, and further considering the content and degree of such support, the court ruled that Ge Moucheng (葛某成) and his wife should receive from Ge's (葛某) estate the bank deposits and insurance interests totaling over 1.3 million yuan (RMB).
In addition, after the judgment took effect, upon the application of the Xuhui District Civil Affairs Bureau (徐汇区民政局), Ge's (葛某) remaining property, in accordance with the Civil Code (民法典) provisions on the handling of estates with no heir and no legatee, was lawfully auctioned or sold by the court, and the proceeds were taken over by the state for public welfare undertakings.
The judge explained that the question of to whom the property of an elderly person living alone who has no statutory heirs should belong after death has always been a topic of social concern. In this case, Ge Moucheng (葛某成) had no statutory maintenance obligation toward Ge (葛某); rather, he voluntarily provided assistance and care out of family affection and moral duty. Considering the degree of Ge Moucheng's (葛某成) assistance and care, the court ruled that he should receive an appropriate share of the estate, which both reflects the principle of consistency between rights and obligations and demonstrates the continuation of traditional virtues, thereby promoting the core socialist values (社会主义核心价值观).
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Recently, Mr. Zhao (赵先生), a citizen of Jining (济宁) in Shandong (山东), encountered a thorny matter: he needed both to exchange for a new household registration booklet (户口本) and to expedite processing of a passport for outbound travel. In the past, these two matters were handled at different government service points, and running back and forth would take at least several days.
“The matter is urgent—can it be done all at once?” Holding the thought of giving it a try, Mr. Zhao (赵先生) walked into the comprehensive service hall of the Yushan Police Station (渔山派出所) near his home.
“Submit all materials at once, and every item will be completed at a single window.” The staff member’s reply was crisp. Mr. Zhao (赵先生) submitted his documents with 半信半疑 (bàn xìn bàn yí - "half believe half doubt," skeptical and uncertain) and, in just half an hour, the brand-new household registration booklet and passport were all completed.
This convenience dividend also covers various categories of talent. Ms. Wang (王女士), a high-level talent who had taken up a post with a local Jining (济宁) unit, relied on the dedicated green channel at Yushan Police Station (渔山派出所) and completed the entire household registration process in just over 10 minutes. “I originally thought I would have to shuttle among multiple functional departments; I never expected to finish everything in one stop at just one window in a police station,” Ms. Wang (王女士) remarked with emotion.
Since the end of May last year, the Jining Municipal Public Security Bureau (济宁市公安局) has focused on the pain points of the masses, such as “running to multiple places, running back and forth,” conducted in-depth grassroots investigations to understand demands, broken down inter-police-branch business barriers, integrated and delegated nearly 90 high-frequency police service items, including household registration, exit-entry, vehicle management and driver’s license services, down to grassroots police stations, and built a new police service model characterized by “space concentration, matter centralization, service integration,” striving to realize that the masses “only enter one door and accomplish multiple matters,” thereby eliminating the masses’ vexations at the source.
At the same time, the city’s public security system has established a service system of “online application + offline completion, self-service processing + window backup,” and rolled out diversified convenience measures such as service by appointment, extended hours, door-to-door service, online service, and holiday service, precisely matching the service needs of different groups, making police services warmer and closer to the people’s hearts.
As of now, 54 grassroots police stations in Jining (济宁) have launched the “integrated service” (集约办) service, handling a cumulative total of 138,000 items of various types of livelihood-related police services, receiving over 6,300 thank-you messages from the masses, and significantly improving the efficiency of the masses in handling matters.
Such convenience continues to expand. This March, the Jining (济宁) police convenience service “integrated service” (集约办) police station windows, on the basis of having already opened 10 high-frequency vehicle management and driver’s license service items, added five new service types, including replacement and reissuance of motor vehicle registration certificates and issuance of temporary license plates. While vehicle and driver services continue to expand, the “integrated service” (集约办) has also been deeply integrated into the resident identity card replacement scenario. While handling identity cards, police officers can simultaneously remind and on-site exchange expired driver’s licenses, allowing the masses to “come once and get multiple things done.”
“Plan from what the masses need, start from what the masses are satisfied with, and reform from what the masses find vexing.” Zhang Dayong (张大勇), Deputy Mayor of Jining (济宁) and Director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau (市公安局), stated that the city’s public security system will continue to do a good job of the “addition” of service supply, the “subtraction” of handling procedures, the “multiplication” of technology empowerment, and the “division” of bottlenecks and difficulties, always taking mass satisfaction as the core yardstick of reform, and better meeting the needs of the masses in production and life.
(Dai Yu (代瑜) participated in writing this article)
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June 20, the 28th Shanghai International Film Festival (上海国际电影节) Golden Goblet Awards (金爵奖) various major awards were announced in Shanghai (上海). This year, the festival specially set up "Extended Screening (延长放映)," extending from June 22 to June 28. In midsummer Shanghai (上海), because of the film festival, countless filmmakers gathered with audiences on screen and offline. This film city of Shanghai (上海) both fills the joy of movie fans and makes people think about the purity of cinema.
"We hope to leave behind is the ever-present sense of presence; an industry ecology willing to build a stage for young people and escort new works; an ability to let more and more young creators believe that 'film dreams have soil, youth creation has a way out.'" said Chen Guo (陈果), director of the Shanghai International Film and TV Festival Center (上海国际影视节中心).
New wave surges
"New forces" should become "main force"
Post-95s director Zhong Kaifeng (钟凯峰) received the Best Film trophy from the main competition unit jury chairman Liang Chaowei (梁朝伟), tears of excitement. He said: "Atlantic (大西洋) is not a film that provides answers, but today this award gave me the answer, which is persistence, passion, effort, belief."
This "screen-filling" moment marks the evergreen core of the film festival. From project incubation, work landing to international going abroad, the Shanghai International Film Festival (上海国际电影节, hereinafter referred to as "SIFF (上影节)"), which takes "supporting newcomers" as its mission, is committed to promoting the gradual growth of film "new forces" into the "main force." This year's SIFF YOUNG × Shanghai Young Filmmakers Support Program (SIFF YOUNG×上海青年影人扶持计划) list was announced. Young director Wang Tong (王通) emotionally said: "I have always heard SIFF (上影节) say to me, come on, you can go further."
SIFF (上影节) has formed a three-wheel-driven talent cultivation system of industry activities, professional awards, and overseas tours. The SIFF ING Youth Cutting-Edge Image Program (SIFF ING青年新锐影像计划), SIFF PROJECT Film Project Pitches (SIFF PROJECT电影项目创投), SIFF NEXT Pitch Training Camp (SIFF NEXT创投训练营), and SIFF YOUNG × Shanghai Young Filmmakers Support Program (SIFF YOUNG×上海青年影人扶持计划) witness young filmmakers from immature to mature. Chen Guo (陈果) believes: "What young filmmakers need is not only exposure and honor, but also continuous resource docking, professional technical empowerment, and stable market outlets."
How to deliver? In terms of investment, a "Pitch Industry Screening Session (创投产业放映专场)" was added to help new directors complete the complete chain from financing, completion to final distribution; at the technical empowerment level, a new practical operation intensive training class was added to lead young directors to complete the complete closed loop from theoretical learning, practical training to actual work polishing. "'Help them mount the horse, see them off for a distance (扶上马，送一程),' requires a professional system to support. The film festival is a very good field." said Wang Juan (王隽), Party Secretary and Chairman of Shanghai Film Group Corporation (上海电影集团公司).
The Golden Goblet Award (金爵奖) Asian New Talent Unit is the "base camp" for encouraging young talents. This year, the unit's jury chairman, Singaporean director Chen Zheyi (陈哲艺), believes: "The first film is the starting point for a young director's entire career." Post-90s director Gong Yiwen (龚依文) entered the unit's feature-length debut "The Taste of Chinese (语文的滋味)," which was selected in 2023 for the 25th Shanghai International Film Festival (上海国际电影节) Film Project Pitch "Production in Progress" unit. At that time, relying only on some shooting materials, she gained recognition from multiple annual recommenders. Now, the work won two major awards in the Asian New Talent unit, and also gained audience approval at the film festival, achieving an 开门红 (kāi mén hóng - "open door red," meaning a good start, auspicious beginning) for her career.
AI surging
Building a "training ground" for new technology
Yu Xi (余曦), who won the Best Screenplay at the China Film Golden Rooster Awards (中国电影金鸡奖) for the film "1921 (1921)," "ran through the entire process of AI (artificial intelligence) in the film crew creation" at SIFF (上影节). Post-00s creator Li Xinxin (李鑫欣) from the School of Drama, Film and Television of Communication University of China (中国传媒大学戏剧影视学院), as soon as she opened her eyes every day, began to study the characteristics of various generative platforms...
This year's festival set up the "AI Film Set (AI片场)" activity unit for the first time, combining traditional film and television industry directors and screenwriters with AIGC (AI-generated content) creators in pairs for integrated creation. A one-month full-chain experiment provided practical cases for AI participation in film and television creation.
AI is 风起云涌 (fēng qǐ yún yǒng - "wind rise cloud surge," meaning rapidly developing and surging), and content boundaries are quickly dissolving. How can traditional experience enter the new creative chain? The film festival provides a testing ground for the whole society, and also sets up a "round table" for experts in film technology, film and television industry, and artificial intelligence to brainstorm, finding more possibilities for cutting-edge theories to be practiced and implemented. Portuguese director João Salaviza (若昂·萨拉维扎) said: "Film is a relatively young art form, looking back only a hundred years. I love film, first because of film itself, second because it is an art facing the future."
"The stronger the tool, the more important human judgment becomes." Qu Ji Xiaojiang (曲吉小江), Vice General Manager of Film and TV Production of Bona Film Group (博纳影业集团影视制作), frankly said: "In the film industry, we rarely talk about ecstasy over AI, because technology is helping us and also 'hurting' us. As creators, we still have to protect the most vulnerable place inside the human heart. We must return to emotion itself in order to gain the audience's heart."
When AI enters the film set, humans are always the core of creation.
"Film pursues sincere expression, not perfection." Liang Chaowei (梁朝伟) said. "Film is a container of human emotions and a mirror of the times. So many people fight for it because it is worthy of our emotional investment." Wang Changtian (王长田), chairman of Beijing Enlight Media (光线传媒), believes.
Resonating on the same "screen"
Film festival is not just the industry's "red carpet"
This year's SIFF (上影节) screened over 420 films from 77 countries and regions, with over 1,600 screenings. The fastest sell-out record this year was "Rose (罗斯)," a highly regarded work that attracted attention in the main competition unit of the Berlin International Film Festival (柏林国际电影节) not long ago.
Many foreign film creators selected for this year's festival screening units came specially to China to meet audiences. The feature film "Tungsten (钨)" screened in the "World Visions (世界万象)" unit, directed by Australian Aboriginal Warwick Thornton (沃威克·桑顿), found a kindred spirit in Shanghai (上海). He was gratified: "Exploring 'who we are, where we come from' is a common creative theme for filmmakers around the world."
The young SIFF (上影节) is increasingly enhancing its international status. In March this year, the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (国际电影制片人协会) officially announced a new list of A-category film festivals, and SIFF (上影节) was "re-elected with high votes." The "new A-category" places more emphasis on "internationalization, specialization, marketization, and standardization."
This year, the five units of the Golden Goblet Award (金爵奖) Main Competition, Asian New Talent, Documentary, Animation, and Short Film received about 4,100 entries from 125 countries and regions. Among the final 49 films, 41 were world premieres. The "premiere rate" of the shortlisted films demonstrates the gold content of the Golden Goblet Award (金爵奖).
Shanghai (上海) has also become the starting point for more and more young creators' "debuts." At overseas exhibitions, relying on the "Belt and Road (一带一路)" Film Festival Alliance and the "International Express (国际直通车)" mechanism, since 2025, SIFF (上影节) has promoted more than 20 Golden Goblet Award (金爵奖) Chinese domestic films to "go global," allowing more young creators and their works to shine on the international stage.
At this year's Golden Goblet (金爵) Opening Forum, around the topic "Today, is the film festival still indispensable?" Tricia Tuttle (特里西娅·塔特尔), President of the Berlin International Film Festival (柏林国际电影节), Cameron Bailey (卡梅隆·贝利), CEO of the Toronto International Film Festival (多伦多国际电影节), Li Yabo (利雅博), Director of the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society (香港国际电影节协会), and Yang Yanzi (杨燕子), former President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Oscar) (美国影艺学院（奥斯卡）), among several major film festival institutions and industry leaders, gave a unanimous answer: "The film festival is more important than ever."
Li Yabo (利雅博) believes that the film festival is an irreplaceable part of the film ecosystem: "If the film festival becomes a bridge between creativity and resources, a connection point between artistic ideals and industrial practice, then it is not only a cultural event, but also an important force driving the development of film."
"The film festival is not just the 'red carpet' of the film industry, but also the foundation of the film industry." Tricia Tuttle (特里西娅·塔特尔) said.
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In October 2024, the creative team of the film "Four Crossings" (四渡) came to Guizhou (贵州). From Zunyi (遵义) to Tucheng (土城), from Loushan Pass (娄山关) to Maotai Town (茅台镇), we traveled along both banks of the Chishui River (赤水河). Only by personally visiting the site, truly experiencing and feeling, can one deeply understand what kind of spiritual power is contained in this military legend of the Four Crossings of the Chishui River (四渡赤水) that "turned the impossible into possible, turned passivity into initiative."
At the Four Crossings Chishui Memorial Hall (四渡赤水纪念馆), I listened to the guide's explanation together with the film's producer, director Liu Weiqiang (刘伟强). Liu Weiqiang listened very attentively, repeatedly asking for details. When reviewing the learning gains, everyone's deepest feeling was: during the Long March, the average age of the Red Army soldiers was less than 20 years old! Liu Weiqiang said to me, "You are a young director, filming a miracle created by a group of young people. This film is definitely made for young people to watch." At that moment, our narrative gained new meaning and direction.
At the Gouba Conference Site (苟坝会议会址), we visited a field path that we had heard about. This path was one of the places that moved me the most during this trip.
According to historical records, after the Red Army's second crossing of the Chishui River and retaking Zunyi (遵义), they marched to the small mountain village of Gouba (苟坝). On March 10, 1935, the First Red Army Corps sent a telegram suggesting an attack on Daguxinchang (打鼓新场). At the meeting on whether to attack Daguxinchang, the debate was quite fierce. Mao Zedong (毛泽东) analyzed that if they could not quickly capture it, they would inevitably fall into a heavy encirclement, and they should eliminate the enemy in mobile warfare. Although his analysis was detailed and thorough, his opinion still did not gain approval from the meeting participants. Even Zhou Enlai (周恩来), who had always supported him, abstained this time. Late that night, Mao Zedong carried a horse lantern and walked about 2 kilometers of mountain road to Zhou Enlai's residence, persuaded Zhou Enlai, and then went to Zhu De's (朱德) residence to persuade Zhu De...
Four Crossings (四渡) is a military epic film. The Four Crossings of the Chishui River is "the proudest stroke" in Mao Zedong's military career. We devoted a great deal of effort to portraying his strategic deployments in the command room and his tactical maneuvers against Chiang Kai-shek (蒋介石). But in my heart, that field path he decided to take again to fight for it on the night he was opposed, and the lonely silhouette carrying a horse lantern in the pitch-black night, are the core imagery of the film Four Crossings (四渡).
We also set out from the Gouba Conference Site (苟坝会议会址) and walked all the way to the former residence of Zhou Enlai (周恩来). More than 90 years have passed, and both sides of the road have been cultivated into farmland. Several local residents we met on the road were all very familiar with this path and enthusiastically pointed it out to us. We walked and chatted along the way. History seemed to coincide with our footsteps.
Tucheng (土城), Qinggangpo (青杠坡), Loushan Pass (娄山关), Taiping Ferry (太平渡), Erlang Beach (二郎滩), Maotai (茅台), Zunyi (遵义), Guiyang (贵阳)... Every key location in the film, we visited them all during our research and study. It can be said that our script was walked out step by step on the mountains and rivers of Guizhou (贵州). Creating works with historical themes should be like this.
The film also portrays a group of ordinary Red Army soldiers, represented by Zhao Defa (赵德发), Zhu Huiyong (朱会永), and others. At that time, they may not have known, but we can now prove that the Long March path they took is a miracle in human history.
During the research and study in Guizhou (贵州), what moved me most were those historical details. Many young people from poor families who joined the Long March were 目不识丁 (mù bù shí dīng - "eye cannot recognize a character," meaning completely illiterate) and had not received much education. Even in such difficult times as the Four Crossings of the Chishui River, they did not lose their thirst for knowledge. During the march, soldiers often had characters written on their backpacks so that the soldiers behind them could recognize and learn them.
During the filming of Four Crossings (四渡), Liu Weiqiang (刘伟强) and I polished the story bit by bit, leaving one character after another, one battle after another on the screen. I told our cinematographer, teacher Shao Dan (邵丹), that our camera should try to maintain eye level with the characters, because the heroes in the camera, like the audience, are ordinary people. They went through hardships, perhaps once confused and hesitant, but they emerged with courage and wisdom, giving us, later generations, infinite strength.
I think this is the significance of filming Four Crossings (四渡). We always describe this campaign with phrases like 出奇制胜 (chū qí zhì shèng - "use surprise to win," to achieve victory through unexpected tactics) and "use surprise troops," but what is truly "surprising" is every person who writes history. (The author is the director of the film Four Crossings (四渡))
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When audiences entered the Capital Theatre (首都剧场) to watch Rickshaw Boy (骆驼祥子) in the glow of the setting sun, nearly 6,000 students from eight Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei universities, including Beijing Normal University (北师大), Capital Normal University (首师大), Nankai University (南开), and Hebei Agricultural University (河北农大), were also sharing this 1957 classic version of the play by the Beijing People's Art Theatre (北京人艺) in real time.
The market-town atmosphere of old Beijing a century ago, the myriad facets of life in the rickshaw yard, the tangled and delicate love, hate, and emotional entanglements of Xiangzi and Hu Niu (虎妞), the questioning of individual fate, and the historical currents and changes behind the characters—all were transmitted to the students of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei universities via six or seven high-definition cameras recording the stage and a set of high-definition live-streaming transmission systems. Beyond viewing, the pre-show program guide and the interactive exchanges during the intermissions also brought the students in the "second scene" an immersive audiovisual experience.
"Technology builds a bridge, good drama comes close to people." This ultra-high-definition live broadcast achieved ultra-high-definition recording and digital transmission beyond the stage. While presenting the artistic characteristics of stage art in its original form, it promoted stage art to step out of the theatre, allowing more audiences to enjoy high-quality cultural resources.
This spring, the Beijing People's Art Theatre (北京人艺) brought four 4K high-definition drama films—Teahouse (茶馆), The Mutiny (哗变), Under the Red Banner (正红旗下), and Zhang Juzheng (张居正)—to the 16th Beijing International Film Festival (第十六届北京国际电影节). The Mutiny (哗变) became the fastest-selling film after ticket sales opened for the Beijing International Film Festival, and the other three films also sold out within the first day of sales. Special screenings and post-screening exchange activities created a wave of viewing enthusiasm during the film festival. The "niche" drama films broke boundaries and "went viral" on a large platform.
Seventy years after its founding, the Beijing People's Art Theatre (北京人艺) explored and implemented the 4K high-definition drama film project. Starting with The Mutiny (哗变), which can be regarded as a "textbook of spoken drama" with relatively simple stage scenery, it took steady steps, one step at a time, with one drama having its own style, respecting the overall structure and narrative expression of the spoken drama, maintaining the unique stage convention and sense of presence, and presenting stage direction and actor performance in its original flavor. At the same time, it broke the limitation of the "fourth wall," amplified the stage audiovisual effects, and on the basis of fully respecting the ontology of stage art and relying on theatre space, carried out diversified explorations of film language, effectively unifying the "sense of theatrical presence" and the "sense of cinema shots," achieving an organic integration of stage aesthetics and film aesthetics, and forming an artistic form that possesses both theatrical character and cinematic texture.
Yin Hong (尹鸿), Vice Chairman of the China Film Association (中国电影家协会) and Professor at Tsinghua University (清华大学), assessed that it "has opened a new track for Chinese drama films." From classic repertoire to newly created excellent works in recent years, the drama films of the Beijing People's Art Theatre (北京人艺) have gradually established a complete, scientific, and standardized production process through exploration. The theatre has also used forms such as overseas screening exchanges to let spoken drama reach the international stage more, telling Chinese stories well through stage and stage image narrative systems, allowing the art of spoken drama to achieve greater dissemination and radiation power.
The stage has form, but dissemination has no boundaries. By inspiring the contemporary vitality of classic art and allowing spoken drama to reach a broader and more multi-tiered public, the space for drama revitalization and prosperous development will be even wider.
(Author's affiliation: Beijing People's Art Theatre (北京人民艺术剧院))
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As the scriptwriter and director of the play Green Snake (青蛇), seeing this production, which has been recognized by audiences, taken over by a group of post-00s young actors from the National Theatre of China (中国国家话剧院) and toured to different cities 13 years after its premiere, I feel deeply gratified. On one stage, the old and the new succeed each other; an excellent play is no longer hindered by time and radiates a vibrant youthful vitality.
Green Snake (青蛇) is adapted from Li Bihua's (李碧华) novel of the same title, integrating Chinese refined aesthetics with contemporary humanistic reflection, striving for elegant language and profound meaning. In my direction, I required the actors to explore the "Chinese-style theatrical concept" (中国式演剧观), from theory to practice, placing high demands on the actors' body movements, aura, emotional control, and character comprehension. The original cast of Green Snake (青蛇) — Qin Hailu (秦海璐), Yuan Quan (袁泉), and Xin Baiqing (辛柏青) — built up their performance through accumulation; in particular, the two actresses had both studied traditional opera at drama schools. With their delicate and mature stage presentation, they made this play a well-deserved repertory piece of the National Theatre of China (国家话剧院). This time, the theatre boldly deploys the new generation — it is both a tempering trial for the young actors and a 薪火传承 (xīn huǒ chuán chéng - "torch passing inheritance," passing the torch of the theatrical tradition).
When the young actors first set foot on the stage, although their brows and eyes carried a trace of greenness, there was not a hint of timidity or shrinking. Artists such as Xin Baiqing (辛柏青), Yuan Quan (袁泉), and Qin Hailu (秦海璐) adhered to the National Theatre of China's (国家话剧院) tradition of "passing on, helping, and leading" (传帮带), 倾囊相授 (qīng náng xiāng shòu - "pour out bag teach," imparting everything without reservation) and meticulously guiding the way. From the rhythm and cadence of the lines, the rules and proportions of body movements, to the characters' psychological landscapes and the tempering of the stage atmosphere — 事无巨细 (shì wú jù xì - "matter no large small," covering everything down to the smallest detail) and 毫无保留 (háo wú bǎo liú - "without any reservation," holding nothing back). The young actors, in turn, were modest and eager to learn, diligently honing their craft; they polished details in repeated rehearsals, corrected and improved in repeated reviews, and quietly completed their stage transformation from ignorant youth to composed confidence.
From the stunning premiere in Rongcheng, Chengdu (蓉城成都) to the fiery summer tour in midsummer Yangcheng (盛夏羊城) [i.e., Guangzhou], these young people turned in a brilliant report card. On the night of the premiere in Chengdu (成都), the audience praised the newcomers for their spiritual quality and graceful bearing, where classical elegance blended with youthful spirit, creating a particularly moving effect. In Guangzhou (广州), where the summer heat steamed, the three-hour-long play was performed twice a day, with less than an hour of rest before the second performance began in quick succession. They gave it their all; their stage costumes were repeatedly soaked through with sweat, yet no one slackened or relaxed. With down-to-earth hard work, they lived up to the audience's every journey and wait.
The four young lead actors each showed appropriate measure and individual brilliance. Han Jiarong (韩佳容) portrayed the Green Snake (青蛇) as lively, innocent, and frank in love and hate, interpreting the character's naivety and boldness with natural purity. Ma Xiaoya (马小雅) played the White Snake (白蛇), painstakingly practicing her body movements and footwork, using perseverance to understand the character, using hardship to precipitate her aura, and steadily supporting the White Snake's gentle dignity and the character's deep affection. Hu Xiaolong (胡晓龙) played Fahai (法海), not trapped by established paradigms; his performance had both traditional flavor and the sharpness of youth. Liu Hengfu (刘恒甫) precisely captured Xu Xian's (许仙) complex psychology, delicately depicting the character's sincerity and hesitation, his confusion and dreams, evoking empathy.
The artistic accumulation of the National Theatre of China (国家话剧院) over decades has never been the achievement of a single day or a single effort; rather, it is the result of generations of theatrical workers 前赴后继 (qián fù hòu jì - "advance fall succeed," advancing wave upon wave), cultivating both virtue and art (德艺兼修), and deeply plowing without ceasing (深耕不辍). The senior artists meticulously crafted excellence and set benchmarks with craftsmanship. The new generation of actors hold fast to their love, shed their childishness, and temper their foundations with diligence, striving to continue the artistic backbone of Chinese theatre.
The stage is ever green, youth is never ceasing; classics are constantly renewed, the cultural lineage endures forever.
(The author is the President of the National Theatre of China (中国国家话剧院))
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Six years ago, I conceived the idea of creating a medical drama. In my view, medical issues are not only a window reflecting all aspects of human life, but also an important carrier of human nature, human hearts, and human feelings, and moreover, a vivid expression recording the progress of Healthy China (健康中国).
After "Ask the Heart (《问心》)" aired, some viewers left messages saying "I hope real-life doctors are as good as the ones portrayed in the drama"; also, a doctor said to me: "We are willing to do more for patients, but sometimes we also feel helpless." Guardedness, resistance, and even confrontation often stem from information asymmetry. If patients and their families understand that the doctor in front of them is actually an ordinary person just like you and me, the sense of estrangement will be reduced psychologically; if doctors understand more about why patients and their families are troubled and why they are fearful, this information asymmetry can also be eliminated to a certain extent. This is the function of medical drama—to build a bridge of understanding and trust between doctors and patients, enabling both sides to move toward "mutual respect, mutual trust" through empathy.
Before "Ask the Heart (《问心》)", I created the education-themed drama "Small Sacrifices (《小舍得》)", and the most important takeaway was: for a work to be grounded, the creator must sink into the front line. During the six years of creating the "Ask the Heart" series, I visited more than a dozen hospitals, from Beijing and Shanghai (京沪) to Sichuan and Chongqing (川渝), Yunnan and Guizhou (云贵), from tertiary hospitals (三甲医院) to secondary hospitals (二级医院), county hospitals, and township hospitals. I often stayed in cardiology, cardiac surgery, and the ICU for over a month at a time, commuting with medical staff every day, communicating with clinical workers, as well as with patients and their families, striving with the utmost sincerity to become friends worthy of their trust. As a liberal arts major, I started from diagrams of cardiac anatomy, bit by bit gnawing through professional books, and collected dozens of important cases over time.
My contacts list also contains over 200 medical staff. For every unit case in the drama, I consulted at least five experts, not only from cardiology and cardiac surgery, but also from related auxiliary departments such as clinical laboratory and imaging; for the products used in diagnosis and treatment in the drama, I consulted product technicians; if the patient had other related diseases, I also consulted specialists in that disease. For the first case at the beginning of "Ask the Heart 2 (《问心2》)", I consulted experts from prenatal diagnosis, fetal medicine, obstetrics, neonatology, and other departments. To write a case of a patient with severe aortic stenosis and Alzheimer's disease (阿尔茨海默病), I also received guidance from experts in neurology, geriatrics, and other departments. I also consulted relatively niche practitioners, such as human organ donation coordinators (人体器官捐献协调员), researchers from animal institutes, medical supply distribution personnel, forensic experts... Only by sinking the heart, truly seeing, truly listening, and truly feeling can one obtain the most valuable material.
From these over 200 medical staff, I invited four senior experts to oversee the entire script. From selecting cases to conceiving plots, to every line of professional dialogue, they provided 保驾护航 (bǎo jià hù háng - "to escort and protect," to provide full support and guidance). Even for flying pages and bloopers, I asked them to review. For the content related to gene editing in the drama, I had a phone call with a genetics expert lasting over two hours to distill just seven or eight lines of dialogue that 深入浅出 (shēn rù qiǎn chū - "deep in, shallow out," to explain profound truths in simple language). After writing, beside asking him to check word by word, I also asked him to read it aloud to me, and I marked the phrasing of uncommon terms with pauses in the script to give hints to the actors. For important cases and key plot points, I also asked different experts to cross-verify. The entire creative process can be described as 战战兢兢 (zhàn zhàn jīng jīng - "trembling with fear," describes being extremely cautious and fearful), 如履薄冰 (rú lǚ bó bīng - "like walking on thin ice," describes being very careful and wary of danger).
After six years, some professional books have been thumbed to frayed edges by me; initially, I was 囫囵吞枣 (hú lún tūn zǎo - "to swallow a date whole," to read without understanding), but now I can understand a bit. Six years ago, when I first entered the hospital, I didn't even know what questions to ask; now I can "debate" with doctors about treatment plans for a few sentences. But I know well that what I have learned is just the surface. The more I understand, the more I am in awe. For a work to stand firm, the first priority is to infinitely approach reality.
What is gratifying is that this "stubbornness" has not been let down. From the initial planning team, to the screenwriters, directors, actors, and production team... every colleague in every position of the crew 竭尽全力 (jié jìn quán lì - "to exhaust one's full strength," to spare no effort) to ensure that their craft infinitely approaches reality. What they look at is 生老病死 (shēng lǎo bìng sǐ - "birth, aging, sickness, death," the cycle of life); what they write is 悲欢离合 (bēi huān lí hé - "sorrows and joys, partings and reunions," the vicissitudes of life). Letting the warmth of medicine penetrate the screen and reach the human heart—this is precisely the key to our approach to the medical theme.
(The author is the screenwriter of the TV series "Ask the Heart" series).
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