Summary: On July 3, Xi Jinping attended a ceremony at the Bayi Building in Beijing to promote two officers to the rank of general. Central Military Commission Vice Chairman Zhang Shengmin presided over the event and read Xi’s order. Xi presented the promotion certificates to Zhang Shuguang, Secretary of the Central Military Commission Discipline Inspection Commission and Director of its Supervision Committee, and Wang Gang, Commander of the Air Force. The ceremony concluded with a group photo of Xi and the newly promoted generals. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article announces that a booklet containing Xi Jinping’s speech at the celebration of the 105th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party has been published by the People's Publishing House. It is now available for purchase at Xinhua bookstores nationwide. The report focuses solely on the publication and distribution of the speech. No other officials are mentioned as accompanying Xi. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports on a July 3 readers' meeting in Colombo for Volume 5 of *Xi Jinping: The Governance of China*, co-hosted by China’s State Council Information Office. Sri Lankan Speaker Jagath Wickramaratne praised the volume as a vital perspective on China’s governance and development, expressing willingness to expand bilateral cooperation. Education Deputy Minister Matura Senaviratne highlighted the book’s outline of Chinese-style modernization across multiple sectors, offering lessons for countries seeking modernization without losing historical roots. Communist Party General Secretary Giganaga Weerasinghe commended China’s achievements in new productive forces and ecological progress as proof of socialism’s efficiency. The event focused on China-Sri Lanka amity and joint modernization, with no reference to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: President Xi Jinping awarded the July 1 Medals at the 105th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, praising the recipients as exemplary Party members. The article highlights the stories of grassroots figures such as Zhao Yafu and Ma Shanxiang, emphasizing their dedication to serving the people and the Party's role in nurturing such models. Xi underscored the importance of honoring heroes and fostering a culture of emulation. The celebration also featured speeches from medal recipients like Wu Yaqin, who pledged to continue grassroots service. The article concludes with a call for all Party members to remain confident and carry forward the struggle for national rejuvenation.
Summary: Premier Li Qiang chaired a State Council Party Leadership Group meeting on July 1 to study President Xi Jinping’s speech marking the 105th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party and Xi’s thought on party building. The meeting described Xi’s speech as providing fundamental guidance for the new journey, and emphasized integrating its study with Xi’s party-building thought. It called for unwavering adherence to party leadership, implementing central decisions with creativity and thoroughness, and deepening a people-centered development approach. The meeting also stressed pursuing high-quality development through industrial modernization, technological self-reliance, and further reforms. Deputy premiers Ding Xuexiang, He Lifeng, Zhang Guoqing, Liu Guozhong, and others, including Wang Xiaohong, Wu Zhenglong, and Shen Yiqin, attended.
Summary: The NPC Party leadership group, led by Zhao Leji, convened on July 3 to study Xi Jinping’s recent speech celebrating the CPC’s 105th anniversary and his Party-building thought. Zhao presided and stressed the speech’s significance as a political guide for advancing Chinese-style modernization, urging implementation through legislative duties. The group highlighted Xi’s systematic summary of the Party’s achievements and called for upholding the “two establishments” and “four consciousnesses.” They also emphasized Xi’s Party-building thought as a key component of his broader ideology, requiring deep study and integration into NPC work. No mention was made of the United States or bilateral relations.
Summary: Wang Huning, Chair of the CPPCC National Committee and head of its Party group, presided over a collective study session on July 3, focused on studying Xi Jinping’s speech at the 105th CPC anniversary and Xi’s thought on party building. He emphasized that the speech serves as a political declaration for the new era. Accompanied by vice chairs Shi Taifeng, Hu Chunhua, and other party group members including Shen Yanyue and Wang Yong, Wang called for deeper implementation of these directives to guide CPPCC work. The session stressed Xi’s party-building thought as fundamental for the new great project of party construction. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Cai Qi, a member of the Politburo Standing Committee and head of the Central and State Organs Work Committee, addressed a commendation conference for outstanding party members and organizations in central and state organs. He stressed the need to study Xi Jinping’s “July 1” speech and party-building thought, and to deeply understand the decisive significance of the “two establishments” while resolutely upholding the “two upholds.” Cai called for carrying forward the party’s six fine traits and the great founding spirit, and for using the commended individuals and groups as examples to set standards in loyalty, service, and integrity. The conference honored 123 outstanding party members, 126 outstanding party workers, and 285 advanced grassroots party organizations.
Summary: Li Xi, presiding over a meeting of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) on July 3, stressed studying Xi Jinping’s recent speech for the CPC’s 105th anniversary and Xi Jinping’s thought on party building. He emphasized deepening understanding of the “two establishments” and resolutely upholding the “two upholds,” calling for high-quality discipline inspection to support Chinese-style modernization. Li Xi urged strengthened supervision, rectification of misconduct around the people, and unwavering anti-corruption efforts to maintain the party’s purity. He also highlighted the need to convey the spirit of the 105th anniversary address and the “fourteen persists” as guiding principles. The meeting did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Vice President Han Zheng delivered a speech at the 14th World Peace Forum at Tsinghua University on July 3, outlining four proposals based on Xi Jinping's global governance initiative. He called for upholding the UN's authority, deepening multilateral cooperation (including hosting APEC 2025), improving global economic governance, and strengthening AI governance through China's proposed framework. The event was attended by around 400 participants, including former Pakistani Senator Mushahid Hussain and former South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan.
Summary: In a speech marking the 105th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Xi Jinping summarized six "excellent traits" of the Party, including its commitment to truth, deep roots among the people, and historical mission. He emphasized the need to uphold and develop these traits to ensure the Party remains unchanged, incorruptible, and consistently capable. Xi highlighted the Party's reliance on Marxism, the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and the importance of strategic planning such as the five-year plans. The article did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations, nor did it specify any officials accompanying Xi.
Summary: On July 1, Xi Jinping delivered a major speech at the celebration of the 105th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, which was widely praised by central and state organs as a "Marxist guiding document." He called on the Party to adhere to "five musts" for the new journey, emphasizing unity, self-reform, and the struggle for national rejuvenation. Various departments, including the Organization Department, Propaganda Department, and the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, expressed strong resonance, vowing to carry forward the Party's fine traditions and forge ahead with the "two establishments" and "two safeguards." The speech also stressed the need to strengthen the Party's leadership, maintain strategic resolve, and address risks and challenges. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: On July 1, the Chinese Communist Party held a ceremony for its 105th anniversary, where Xi Jinping personally awarded the "July 1 Medal" to outstanding Party members and commended national "Two Excellences and One First" awardees. Xi emphasized the role of honor and recognition in inspiring the nation to emulate heroes and strive for excellence. The article profiles several medalists, including Zhao Yafu, Ma Shanxiang, and Wu Yaqin, highlighting their decades of grassroots service and dedication to the people. Xi called on Party members to embody the six excellent qualities of the Party and to continue striving for the nation's rejuvenation. The report does not discuss U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The State Council issued the "Beautiful China 15th Five-Year Plan," outlining goals for 2030 including comprehensive environmental improvement and achieving carbon peak. The plan emphasizes seven priority tasks, such as pollution control, solid waste management, ecological restoration, and climate change response. It calls for accelerating the green transition and improving the ecological governance system. Implementation will involve central coordination, provincial responsibility, and local execution, with performance assessments to be conducted. The document does not address the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: At the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in October 2017, General Secretary Xi Jinping declared that socialism with Chinese characteristics had entered a new era, defining the Party's初心 and mission and the transformation of the principal social contradiction. The Congress established Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as the Party's guiding ideology, which was later enshrined in the Party Constitution. Xi emphasized that this thought is the latest achievement in adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and serves as the action guide for national rejuvenation. The article details subsequent developments, including the "two establishments" and "two upholds" reaffirmed at the sixth plenary session of the 19th Central Committee. It concludes that under this guidance, China has achieved decisive victories in poverty alleviation, comprehensive moderate prosperity, and broader modernization goals.
Summary: In a speech marking the 105th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping urged young people to unwaveringly follow the Party and "run the historical relay race well on the new journey." The article highlights role models such as Chen Junwu, Zhong Jue, and Wuhati Sulaiman, who devoted their youth to Party causes. It also features Ma Shanxiang, a grassroots governance pioneer, and young workers like Yang Guoxin, emphasizing intergenerational dedication. The report stresses that youth should strive in areas from AI to rural revitalization, framing their efforts as crucial to national rejuvenation. No U.S. or bilateral relations are discussed.
Summary: Wang Yuchang, a 1936-born veteran from Xiao County, Anhui, recounted his service in the PLA Air Force’s surface-to-air missile unit, where he was awarded first-class merit in 1964 for contributions to shooting down U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft—a clear allusion to Cold War U.S.-China tensions. He later worked as a shop assistant and manager, emphasizing his commitment to being an "honest person" and following Party orders. After retiring, he became a propaganda speaker, delivering over 70 talks since 2019 to "help more people firmly follow the Party." His wife Zhang Xueshan and daughter Wang Qihong were noted as supporting family members. The article highlights his lifelong dedication to the Party and military, without direct reference to current U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The State Council has appointed Cheng Fubo as Director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) and Hao Weiming as Deputy Director of the General Administration of Customs. No other officials were reported as accompanying them. The announcement did not address U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Premier Li Qiang chaired a State Council Party Leadership Group meeting on July 1 to study Xi Jinping’s speech for the 105th anniversary of the CPC and Xi Jinping’s thought on party building. The meeting stressed that Xi’s speech provides a fundamental guide for the whole party and country in forging ahead on the new journey, and called for integrating its study with Xi’s party-building thought to guide government work. It emphasized unwavering adherence to party leadership, implementing central decisions, and translating learning into concrete actions for development. Officials in attendance included Ding Xuexiang, He Lifeng, Zhang Guoqing, Liu Guozhong, Wang Xiaohong, Wu Zhenglong, and Shen Yiqin.
Summary: On July 3, Zhao Leji, Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee and head of its Party Leadership Group, chaired a meeting to study Xi Jinping's speech on the CPC's 105th anniversary and Xi Jinping's thought on party building. The meeting characterized the speech as a political declaration guiding the nation toward Chinese-style modernization, emphasizing the need to uphold party leadership and deepen theoretical understanding. Zhao highlighted the historic contributions of the CPC over 105 years and called for implementing the "five musts" requirements to advance people's congress work. The group resolved to apply Xi Jinping's party-building thought across all aspects of legislative work. Zhao was accompanied by Li Hongzhong, Wang Dongming, Xiao Jie, Tie Ning, Peng Qinghua, Zhang Qingwei, Losang Jamcan, Xueli Kelaiti Zakir, and Liu Qi.
Summary: Wang Huning, chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and head of its Party Leadership Group, presided over the group's third collective study session on July 3, 2026. The session focused on studying Xi Jinping's speech at the CPC's 105th anniversary celebration and Xi Jinping's thought on party building. The group emphasized that Xi's speech serves as a political declaration for advancing Chinese-style modernization and that his party-building thought provides a scientific guide for strengthening the Party. Deputy heads Shi Taifeng and Hu Chunhua, along with other Party Leadership Group members including Shen Yueyue, Wang Yong, Zhou Qiang, and others, attended and delivered remarks. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: Foreign journalists visiting China praised the Chinese Communist Party’s people-centered governance, citing examples of community renewal, poverty alleviation, and infrastructure development. They highlighted the Party’s anti-corruption efforts, policy continuity (e.g., “one blueprint drawn to the end”), and its role in global initiatives like the Belt and Road. Reporters from countries including Rwanda, Nepal, Thailand, and Brazil emphasized China’s “Chinese-style modernization” as a model for developing nations. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations. No accompanying Chinese officials are named.
Summary: Raed Fahmi, Secretary-General of the Iraqi Communist Party, congratulated the Chinese Communist Party on its 105th anniversary, praising China's modernization achievements and poverty alleviation as a model for the world. He emphasized that China's successful implementation of 14 five-year plans and its leadership in innovation, digital economy, and AI demonstrate strategic continuity and adaptability. Fahmi noted his 2017 visit to Beijing for the CPC’s dialogue with world political parties, highlighting China’s commitment to win-win cooperation. He lauded the Belt and Road Initiative for linking countries and contributing to infrastructure and development. Fahmi described China’s transformation as one of the greatest success stories in contemporary history.
Summary: Brazil's Special Secretary for Carbon Markets, writing for Chinese political analysts, announced that Brazil, China, and the EU jointly launched the Open Alliance for Carbon Emissions Trading Markets during COP30 in Belém, with Brazil as rotating chair and China and EU as co-chairs. The alliance signed a work outline in May 2026 to operationalize cooperation on carbon market rules and transparency. The article emphasizes that carbon markets are key policy tools for driving green transition and that China's carbon market experience, including the world's largest emissions trading system, offers valuable lessons. Brazil is steadily building its own carbon market, aiming for full implementation by 2030, and highlights strong bilateral cooperation with China in green development. The alliance seeks to deepen policy coordination, attract investment, and support global low-carbon transformation.
Summary: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Danish King Frederik X in Copenhagen on July 3, accompanied by Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen during the visit. The king conveyed greetings from Queen Margrethe II and himself to President Xi Jinping, highlighting strong bilateral economic and cultural ties. Wang Yi relayed Xi’s greetings, noted the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations, and praised the queen’s historic visit to the Nanjing Massacre Memorial. He proposed deeper cooperation in green economy, innovation, and artificial intelligence. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Cai Qi, a member of the Politburo Standing Committee and secretary of the Central and State Organs Work Committee, addressed a July 3 meeting in Beijing honoring exemplary Party members and organizations. He stressed the need to study Xi Jinping's July 1 speech and his Party-building theory, and to firmly uphold the "two establishes" and "two upholds." Cai called for improving Party building in state organs, focusing on loyalty, service, and discipline. The meeting commended 123 outstanding Party members, 126 outstanding党务 workers, and 285 advanced grassroots Party organizations. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Li Xi, a member of the Politburo Standing Committee and secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), presided over a CCDI Standing Committee meeting on July 3, accompanied by Liu Jinguo. Li emphasized the need to thoroughly study Xi Jinping's recent speech and his thought on party building, and to deepen understanding of the "two establishments" and resolutely uphold the "two upholds." He called for high-quality disciplinary inspection work to support Chinese-style modernization and the national rejuvenation effort. Li also stressed the importance of concrete, precise, and routine supervision, as well as persistent anti-corruption efforts to maintain the party's integrity and leadership.
Summary: He Wei, Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, attended the funeral of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Khamenei in Tehran, accompanied by Iranian President Pezeshkian and Parliament Speaker Qalibaf. He Wei expressed condolences and affirmed China’s steadfast commitment to developing the China-Iran comprehensive strategic partnership. He welcomed the signing of a U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding, urging both sides to maintain a ceasefire and pursue diplomatic progress, and called for a proper resolution of the Hormuz Strait issue. Iranian leaders thanked China for its high-level delegation, endorsed Xi Jinping’s global initiatives, and expressed willingness to deepen bilateral ties. The article highlights China’s diplomatic engagement with Iran amid U.S.-Iran tensions.
Summary: The National People's Congress hosted a seminar for 30 lawmakers and parliamentary officials from five Central Asian countries, aiming to strengthen legislative exchanges and promote a closer China-Central Asia community with a shared future. Kazakh deputy head Uakpaev said the seminar was timely amid global challenges, emphasizing legislative cooperation for mutual understanding. Turkmen MP Ovekova noted growing cultural ties, including the popularity of Luban Workshops and traditional Chinese medicine. Uzbek committee chair Tuiychev highlighted legislators' role in bridging cooperation and turning consensus into action. Tajik committee chair Makhmudzoda stressed the importance of dialogue and trust under the China-Central Asia cooperation mechanism.
Summary: Vice President Han Zheng addressed the 14th World Peace Forum at Tsinghua University on July 3, citing accelerating global changes and proposing four points on UN authority, multilateral cooperation, global economic governance, and AI governance. He emphasized China's commitment to the UN's core role and its hosting of APEC 2026 to build an Asia-Pacific community. Han promoted equal, open, and shared global economic governance and China's AI governance initiative. Foreign dignitaries including former Pakistani senator Mushahid Hussain and former South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan were in attendance.
Summary: The Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced that Namibian President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah will pay a state visit to China from July 5 to 11 at the invitation of President Xi Jinping. No accompanying officials were reported.
Summary: The State Council Information Office hosted a press conference on July 3 featuring five “Most Beautiful Sci-Tech Workers” discussing their work under the theme “Bravely Shouldering Historical Mission, Building a Sci-Tech Power.” Song Rende of Qinghai described 40 years of yak breeding and animal disease prevention in high-altitude Yushu, saying he overcame hardships to improve herders’ lives. Chen Lei of West China Hospital noted her team built the world’s first database for epilepsy in women of childbearing age to advance national sci-tech self-reliance. Kong Hainan of Shanghai Jiao Tong University showed a photo of returning aquatic plants in Erhai Lake, expressing his commitment to ecological protection. Huang Guiyun of China Three Gorges Corporation and astronaut Gui Haichao of Beihang University also shared their conservation and space science outreach efforts.
Summary: The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), with State Council approval, issued the 15th Five-Year Plan for Circular Economy Development. It sets 2030 targets including a 16% increase in resource productivity and an 8 trillion yuan industry output, aiming for international advanced levels by 2035. The plan emphasizes green design, industrial and agricultural circularity, and expanding reuse of imported recycled materials. It also focuses on enhancing waste collection networks and upgrading recycling technologies and equipment. No U.S.-related content was mentioned.
Summary: Liaoning public security authorities, as reported by state media, have intensified ecological policing to protect migratory birds, cracking down on illegal wildlife trade networks. Deputy head of the Liaoning provincial public security's environmental and food crime unit, Wang Shengxu, noted that criminals now employ highly隐蔽 methods, including live-streaming, to evade detection, as seen in the Jinzhou "9·04" case involving endangered birds like the Chinese hwamei. He emphasized a shift toward "full-chain" enforcement targeting the "capture, purchase, sale, and consumption" cycle, with Deputy head Li Jingtao of Jinzhou's environmental crime unit highlighting cross-regional collaboration. Local ecological police officers, such as Bai Xianli of Panjin's Zhaoquanhe派出所, reported increased public cooperation in reporting illegal bird poaching. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: China's Ministry of Finance, State Taxation Administration, and Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced that from January 1, 2027, the vehicle and vessel tax reduction for energy-saving cars and exemptions for pure electric commercial vehicles, plug-in hybrids, and fuel cell commercial vehicles will be canceled. Officials stated the adjustment aims to promote tax fairness and enhance the redistributive role of taxation, as the new energy vehicle market has matured—with domestic sales accounting for over 50% of new car sales in 2025. Pure electric and fuel cell passenger cars remain outside the tax scope. The announcement did not reference the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports that on July 3, five trucks carrying auto parts departed from Xiong'an New Area to be transferred via road to Shijiazhuang International Land Port, where they boarded a China-Europe railway express bound for Moscow. This marks the inaugural "Xiong-Shi-Ou" train, opening a direct international logistics corridor from Xiong'an to Europe using an integrated collection, short-haul, and trunk rail model. The article states that with regular operations, Xiong'an will continue improving its international logistics infrastructure and comprehensive services to establish a direct global shipping channel.
Summary: The Fourth "Revival Forum" was held at Renmin University of China on July 3, focusing on studying Xi Jinping’s speech marking the 105th anniversary of the CPC and his party-building thought. A research center for Xi Jinping’s party-building thought was inaugurated at the university’s academy of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. The center aims to advance systematic theoretical research, academic discourse, and dissemination. Former Central Party History Research Office head Ouyang Song, Party History and Literature Research Institute deputy director Ji Zhengju, People's Daily deputy editor Cui Shixin, and Renmin University party secretary Zhang Donggang and president Ma Huaide attended the event.
Summary: China’s mandatory national standard “Requirements for Limiting Excessive Express Packaging” took effect July 1. The regulation sets three core indicators—box fit, layer count, and tape usage—to define and curb over-packaging. A State Post Bureau official stated the standard provides quantified guidance to address four typical excessive packaging problems. Industry players, including SF Express and Zhongtong, have already adopted innovations such as smart box selection and material reduction. The standard aims to transform general waste-reduction principles from the revised Express Provisional Regulation into enforceable metrics, supporting the sector’s green transition.
Summary: The National Healthcare Security Administration (NHSA) announced the launch of a "Medical Insurance Drug Finder" function on its unified information platform to help patients locate where insured drugs and innovative commercial insurance drugs are available for purchase. The feature, updated daily, covers all designated medical institutions and retail pharmacies nationwide and supports both fuzzy and precise searches. It is accessible via the NHSA's official WeChat account, app, and mini-programs. No accompanying officials were named in the report, and no references to the United States or U.S.-China relations were included.
Summary: The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security has partnered with Tencent Maps, Baidu Maps, and AutoNavi to launch a national employment public service map, integrating over 4,400 public employment service locations across China. Workers can access the map by scanning a QR code or searching within the map apps to view details such as hours, addresses, and contact information, with one-click navigation. This initiative aims to improve the visibility and accessibility of employment public services. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations topics are discussed.
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Summary: Zheng Hairong, an academician and executive vice president of Nanjing University, stated that breakthroughs in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology will determine the pace and scope of future industrial development. He outlined China’s “15th Five-Year Plan” which designates quantum tech, biomanufacturing, hydrogen energy, and BCI as new growth drivers. Zheng detailed his team’s work on non-invasive ultrasound BCI, highlighting their development of domestically produced high-density phased-array transducers to overcome foreign technology monopolies. He noted clinical successes, including improved outcomes for epilepsy, depression, and prolonged consciousness disorders. Zheng projected staged development for BCI, aiming for broad medical and consumer applications within five years and eventual brain-machine fusion.
Summary: The article discusses three main technical routes for space-based solar power: gallium arsenide cells (efficient but costly), crystalline silicon heterojunction cells (lower cost, improved efficiency), and perovskite/silicon tandem cells (theoretically high efficiency but unproven in space). It notes that China has a complete gallium arsenide production chain but that costs remain prohibitive. The author, identified as the director of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Solar Energy Research Institute, emphasizes the need for multiple parallel technical paths, extensive ground simulation and orbital testing, and coordinated industrial development. The article concludes by urging patience, comparing space photovoltaic development to a newly sprouted tree that needs time to grow. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports that on June 29, the Space Computing Forum of the 2026 Global Digital Economy Conference was held in Beijing's Zhongguancun, where the Beijing Space Computing Innovation Center was officially inaugurated. Located in Beijing Satellite Town, the center operates via a "company + alliance" model and focuses on six research areas including space-native chip design, high-bandwidth payloads, satellite platforms, AI model deployment, cloud platform technologies, and satellite applications. Concurrently, the center's expert committee, comprising 30 experts including 12 academicians, and the Beijing Space Computing Innovation Alliance, with 108 initial member units, were established to foster collaboration across industry, academia, and research. No mention was made of any official's statements or of the United States.
Summary: The article reports that Li Jiayang, an academician at the Yaywan National Laboratory and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his team published research in *Cell* unraveling the century-old puzzle of crop "midday nap" by identifying a protein phase-change mechanism that protects plants from excess light. The study shows the MBS1 protein forms a dynamic sunscreen on chloroplasts to reduce reactive oxygen species and mitigate photosynthetic inhibition. Rice field trials demonstrated that upregulating MBS1 expression alleviates light stress and boosts yields. The research was funded by key national agricultural and science programs, underscoring its significance for food security. No mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Long March 12B Y1 rocket successfully launched from the Dongfeng Commercial Aerospace Innovation Zone, deploying the tenth batch of Qianfan constellation satellites. Developed by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation's commercial rocket subsidiary, the 72-meter, 800-ton-thrust rocket is China's new reusable single-core vehicle with a payload capacity of at least 20 tons to low Earth orbit. Key innovations include weight reduction through lightweight cabling and composite fairing materials, as well as a "smart brain" flight control system with fault diagnosis and autonomous reconfiguration for its nine-engine cluster. The rocket uses TSN high-speed bus technology for real-time data synchronization and potential future connectivity with mobile devices. The article does not mention any U.S. officials or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Chinese scientists in Hefei completed the final fabrication and expert verification of the largest superconducting component for the "Comprehensive Research Facility for Fusion Reactor Key Systems"—a toroidal field magnet that is 1.3 times the volume and three times the energy storage of its ITER counterpart. Simultaneously, a high-temperature superconducting central solenoid coil passed full-load testing, with key performance metrics reaching internationally leading levels. Both magnets achieved 100% domestic production across the entire supply chain, with 47 patents filed and 14 standards established. The project solidifies China's foundation for developing indigenous fusion reactors and enhances its independent R&D capabilities in this critical energy technology. No officials or U.S.-related references appear in the report.
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Summary: The article, written by the curator of the Peking University Red Building, highlights three artifacts commemorating the 105th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC): Li Dazhao's 1919 article introducing Marxism in *New Youth*, his 1921 piece on party-building in *Dawn* magazine, and Cai Hesen's 1920 letter to Mao Zedong proposing the "Chinese Communist Party." These items trace the early dissemination of Marxist theory, organizational planning, and the forging of the CPC's founding spirit of "upholding truth,坚守理想,践行初心,担当使命,不怕牺牲,英勇斗争,对党忠诚,不负人民." The curator emphasizes that young Mao Zedong, inspired at this site, developed an unwavering communist belief. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations are mentioned in the article. The summary focuses on the reported statements and artifacts, with no accompanying officials noted.
Summary: The article highlights exhibits—a frayed flag, duty log, flashlight, megaphone, and hand-copied party constitution—from Wang Jicai and his wife Wang Shihua, who defended Kaishan Island for 32 years, and Zhang Guimei, a teacher in remote mountains, as symbols of unwavering faith in the Communist Party. Wang Jicai stated that only the flag gave the island color, while his wife noted he never failed his duty despite family sacrifices. Zhang Guimei, despite illness, declared she will teach as long as she lives, using her megaphone daily. The items embody the spirit of perseverance and sacrifice across generations, with faith enduring through wear and time.
Summary: The article reports that two animal skeletons from the burial pits of Empress Dowager Bo (薄太后) and Han Wendi's mausoleum were identified as an African red-faced ground hornbill and a Southeast Asian brown-footed tortoise, using morphology, ancient DNA, and strontium isotope analysis. These species are not native to China and were confirmed to originate from southern Africa and Thailand/Malaysia respectively. The discovery provides concrete evidence that exotic animals reached the Central Plains before Zhang Qian's official mission to the Western Regions, indicating that unofficial cross-continental trade and species exchange networks existed as early as the Wen-Jing period (c. 155 BCE). The findings challenge the traditional timeline of the Silk Road's origins and support the existence of both maritime and overland routes linking Africa, Southeast Asia, and China. No U.S.-China relations or U.S. references were mentioned in the article.
Summary: The article describes the author's discovery of the ancient Qixing Bridge in Fuzhou’s Guo Village, a Song Dynasty stone structure now preserved as a municipal heritage site. The bridge, originally built by the Guo clan to facilitate transport, once supported local bamboo weaving and nearby railroad construction in the 1950s. No official figures or statements are reported, nor is any reference made to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A 48-year-old ceramic restorer at Shanxi Museum, who has worked in the field for 27 years, describes her daily routine and philosophy of preserving original traces on artifacts while employing reversible restoration methods. She won first prize in the 2022 national cultural relic restoration competition. She notes that her team of six technicians faces tens of thousands of items needing repair, and she now leads a provincial master studio to train more restorers.
Summary: The article reports on the "Archaeological China – Study of Civilization Models in the Lower Yangtze River Region" exhibition held on June 25 at Peking University's Sackler Museum, showcasing five years of findings from a major project launched in 2020 by the National Cultural Heritage Administration. The exhibition uses 419 artifacts from 14 key sites to illustrate how the region's civilization developed through water networks, rice agriculture, jade craftsmanship, and regional exchange from 6,000 to 4,000 years ago. Key sites include the Lingjiatan, Dongshan, and Mopanshan settlements, revealing early social stratification and regional integration, while the Liangzhu古城 complex demonstrates advanced urban planning, water management, and ritual jade artifacts. Later sections highlight multiple competing chiefdoms in the Taihu Lake area and the economic foundations of rice farming and salt production. The exhibition emphasizes that the lower Yangtze civilization emerged through multi-path, interactive processes rather than a single center.
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Summary: The article examines historical "red family letters" from Chinese revolutionary martyrs, highlighting their dual roles as devoted family members and selfless patriots. It recounts Zhao Yiman's farewell letter to her son, Chen Yi'an's "no-word letter" signifying his death, and Liu Bojian's final letters refusing rescue while pleading for his children's care. The author emphasizes that these figures balanced personal love and revolutionary duty, embodying both steel-willed sacrifice and profound human emotion. The letters reveal the martyrs' financial poverty yet spiritual richness, contrasting with modern corrupt officials. The piece concludes that understanding these personal sacrifices reveals the true essence of the Communist Party's spirit.
Summary: Jiang Lansheng, editor-in-chief of the *Modern Chinese Dictionary* published in 2026 by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, gave a lecture in Changzhou, Jiangsu, citing her mentor Lü Shuxiang’s advice to avoid creating a “fat dictionary” that merely piles on content without innovation. She stressed the importance of substance over superficial size, a principle she argued applies beyond lexicography to work and governance. The article criticizes contemporary tendencies toward bloated reports, lengthy meetings, and grandiose projects that lack real value, advocating instead for conciseness and true quality. It draws on classical Chinese wisdom to contrast empty “fatness” with meaningful “greatness.” No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article is a first-person narrative describing interactions with ordinary citizens in a Chinese city, including a barber named Ma who charges 10 yuan and volunteers for community services, a tailor named Liu who insists on precise measurements, and a noodle shop owner named Zhong who offers free "love meals" to those in need. Zhong was inspired by his own past hardship and the kindness of a former employer, and his generosity has inspired others like a Mr. Wang to support rural students. The piece highlights grassroots compassion and social reciprocity without referencing officials or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article describes the village of Tongluowan in Yudu County, Jiangxi, where the Red First Army Corps stationed in 1934 during the Fifth Counter-Encirclement campaign. Local villagers, including the elderly party secretary, recount how the community ceded their newly repaired ancestral hall to the troops, and how children stood guard for the Red Army. It highlights veteran Duan Jiuchang, who after helping carry a hand-cranked generator to Yan’an, chose to return to farming and told his descendants to be self-reliant. The piece also notes that in 2022, the Eastern Theater Command helped restore a village sentry post and a revolutionary well. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article discusses the Chinese painting "Potted Grass and Lychee" by Qi Baishi, which is housed in the collection of the National Art Museum of China. No statements or actions by officials are reported, nor is there any mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The poem "Red, Your Face" uses revolutionary imagery centered on the Communist Party, the Eighth Route Army, and Taihang Mountain to evoke themes of struggle, collective memory, and spiritual resilience. It emphasizes the enduring bond between the party, the people, and the landscape, with symbols like the sickle and hammer, mountains, and wheat. The poem does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article narrates the "occupational hazards" of a Chinese seismologist, Xiao Zhang, including his tendency to overanalyze unrelated phenomena (e.g., confusing ECG waves with seismic waves) and his anxiety about missing earthquake alerts. It highlights the profession's insistence on precision, as seen when Xiao Zhang's supervisor rejects a project from his former classmate because a parameter is 3% below national standards, stating, "Earthquakes concern human lives." The piece also illustrates how the supervisor demands exact details from a junior colleague about data anomalies, questioning the phrase "recently" and "often." No mention is made of any political official or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: This is a notice from the People's Daily inviting reader submissions to its column, with the contact email provided. Submissions must be original and exclusive, not previously published elsewhere.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 3 (Reporter Mei Changwei (梅常伟)) — The Central Military Commission ceremony for promotion to the rank of general was held on the 3rd at the Bayi Building in Beijing. Central Military Commission Chairman Xi Jinping attended the promotion ceremony.
At around 10:30 a.m., the promotion ceremony began with the solemn national anthem of the People's Republic of China. Central Military Commission Vice Chairman Zhang Shengmin (张升民) presided over the promotion ceremony and read the order for promotion to the rank of general signed by Central Military Commission Chairman Xi Jinping.
Xi Jinping presented certificates of appointment to Zhang Shuguang (张曙光), Secretary of the Central Military Commission Discipline Inspection Commission and Director of the Central Military Commission Supervision Commission, and Wang Gang (王刚), Commander of the Air Force, who were being promoted to the rank of general, and expressed his congratulations. The two officers who have been awarded the rank of general saluted Xi Jinping and then saluted all comrades attending the ceremony; warm applause rang through the hall.
The promotion ceremony concluded with the sonorous military song of the People's Liberation Army of China. Afterwards, Xi Jinping and other leading comrades posed for a group photo with the officers who had been promoted to the rank of general.
Leading comrades from various departments of the Central Military Commission organs and relevant units of the military stationed in Beijing attended the promotion ceremony.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 3 — A pamphlet of the Speech at the Conference Celebrating the 105th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China by Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, has been published by the People's Publishing House (人民出版社) and is available for distribution at Xinhua Bookstores nationwide starting from today.
Return to TopOur newspaper Colombo, July 3 (Reporter Bai Yuanqi (白元琪)) — The China-Sri Lanka Readers’ Meeting for Volume V of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China was held on the 3rd in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka.
The attending guests believed that Volume V of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China is an authoritative work that comprehensively and systematically reflects the latest achievements of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and helps the international community further deepen its understanding of the path of China (中国之路), the governance of China (中国之治), and the principles of China (中国之理). The attending guests stated that China and Sri Lanka are fellow travelers on the path of modernization. The holding of this readers’ meeting is of great significance for the two countries to enhance understanding, build consensus, deepen cooperation, and jointly build a China-Sri Lanka community with a shared future (中斯命运共同体).
Speaker of the Sri Lankan Parliament Jagat Wickramaratne said that Volume V of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China provides a valuable perspective for the world to understand China’s governance strategy, development ideas, innovative concepts, and propositions for international cooperation. This work not only records China’s practical experience in development but also demonstrates China’s profound thinking on maintaining world peace and promoting common prosperity. Sri Lanka is willing to continuously expand exchanges and cooperation with China in various fields, and promote the continuous new progress of the strategic partnership of sincere mutual assistance and generations-long friendship between Sri Lanka and China.
Deputy Minister of Education and Higher Education of Sri Lanka Mathura Seneviratne said that Volume V of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China outlines a clear framework for Chinese-style modernization (中国式现代化), covering various fields such as economic development, scientific and technological innovation, modern education, as well as cultural inheritance and protection. Any country that wishes to achieve modernization without losing its historical roots can draw valuable inspiration from it.
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Sri Lanka Jiganage Weerasingha said that the achievements of the Communist Party of China in developing new quality productive forces (新质生产力), promoting high-quality development (高质量发展), achieving scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening (科技自立自强), and building ecological civilization (生态文明) fully prove that the socialist system can organize modernization more efficiently and better balance efficiency and fairness.
During the event, the Chinese side presented to the Sri Lankan guests the English edition of Volume V of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China and the Sinhala edition of Volume II of the same work. The attending experts conducted exchanges and discussions on topics such as national governance, green development, open cooperation, and jointly building the Belt and Road (共建“一带一路”).
This readers’ meeting, with the theme “A Shared Future: China and Sri Lanka Walk the Path of Modernization Together” (命运与共：中斯同行现代化之路), was jointly hosted by the State Council Information Office of China (国务院新闻办公室), the China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration (中国外文局), and the Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka (中国驻斯里兰卡大使馆). Nearly 300 people from political, university, think tank, and media circles of both China and Sri Lanka attended the event.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 黄 超 李林蔚
Red banners flutter in the wind, medals gleam and shine.
On July 1, at the celebration rally for the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, to the stirring strains of the music "Salute to the Heroes of the Motherland," General Secretary Xi Jinping personally presented the "July 1 Medal" (七一勋章) to the recipients one by one, and warmly shook hands with them, expressing congratulations.
The rally also commended the national "Two Excellences and One Pioneer" (两优一先), and General Secretary Xi Jinping and others presented awards to the representatives of the commended national "Two Excellences and One Pioneer."
"Bring into play the spiritual guidance and exemplary model role of the Party and state systems of merit and honor recognition, driving the whole society to 见贤思齐 (jiàn xián sī qí - "see the worthy, think to equal them," to emulate the virtuous), revere heroes, and strive to be pioneers." General Secretary Xi Jinping has stressed this on many occasions.
Bearing the weight of history, condensing the ardent hopes of the people, the gleaming medals are engraved with the deep respect of the leader of this major party and major state, reflecting the century-old party's original aspiration as firm as a rock.
One Party member, one banner
"Their deeds can be learned and followed; their spirit can be pursued and reached." General Secretary Xi Jinping once praised the power of role models with deep feeling.
In the Maoshan old revolutionary base area of Jiangsu, local farmers have a ditty: "To get rich, find Yafu."
"'Agriculture, rural areas, and farmers' work requires a large number of people like him who selflessly dedicate themselves." In December 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping went to Zhenjiang City to investigate and learn about the development of modern agriculture, and praised Zhao Yafu (赵亚夫) for doing things for the farmers to see, leading the farmers to do, helping the farmers sell, and realizing the farmers' wealth. In February 2021, at the National Poverty Alleviation Summary and Commendation Rally, the General Secretary awarded him a medal and encouraged him to "write achievements on the land."
From the Zhenjiang City Institute of Agricultural Sciences, to the Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee, and then to the Daizhuang Organic Agriculture Professional Cooperative (句容市天王镇戴庄有机农业专业合作社) in Tianwang Town, Jurong City, the "Yafu" spoken of by the masses "serves farmers for a lifetime."
"Give me the poorest village; I want to make the farmers in this village all wealthy." Zhao Yafu, having reached retirement age, was still full of zeal.
"Your income is yours, I'll teach the technology, I'll stay in the village and not leave." When he first arrived in Daizhuang Village (戴庄村), the villagers had doubts about organic agriculture. Zhao Yafu, together with village cadres, leveled the land to plant organic rice and fruit trees, trained model households, and when the villagers saw the prospects, they took the opportunity to establish a cooperative... Now, more than 90% of the villagers have joined the cooperative, and the per capita annual disposable income has reached 47,000 yuan.
"A great era calls for a great spirit; lofty causes need role models to guide." General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed.
The recipients of the "July 1 Medal" come from the people, serve the people, and rely on the people. Every act of respect is a cheer and tribute to the meritorious models.
Having worked at the grassroots level for more than 30 years, filling 283 work notebooks with over 9 million characters, at the Guanyinqiao Subdistrict Office (观音桥街道) in Liangjiang New Area (两江新区), Chongqing, there is a retired cadre, Ma Shanxiang (马善祥). "Old and young in the subdistrict all call me 'Old Ma.' The General Secretary also called me that."
At the 2018 Two Sessions, General Secretary Xi Jinping participated in the deliberations of the Chongqing delegation and warmly addressed him as "Old Ma." "We need thousands upon thousands of grassroots cadres like Comrade Old Ma to play the exemplary and vanguard role of Communist Party members."
In the edifice of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the Party Central Committee is the main pillar, and the grassroots level is the "last kilometer" for implementing the Party Central Committee's decisions and deployments.
Rooted in the grassroots, loving the grassroots, dedicating to the grassroots, the reputation of Communist Party members is established in the hearts of the common people. "Old Ma respects us from the bottom of his heart, making everyone feel warmth." This is the common sentiment of many masses.
Over the years, Ma Shanxiang has set rules for himself: "Stand up to welcome, invite to sit and pour water, listen and record, communicate and guide, solve problems, and see off at the door." In his view, "At the grassroots, a member of the public often only comes to a cadre once in their lifetime to handle one matter. If this matter is handled well, the masses may remember the Party and government's goodness for a lifetime."
One Party member is one banner. The recipients of the "July 1 Medal" commended this time are outstanding representatives of Party members from all fronts and fields.
Wang Yuchang (王於昌), joined the military at 18, improved missile material filling techniques and assembly methods, and after transferring to civilian work did not flaunt his achievements and dedicated himself to society; Wuhasi Sulaiman (吾哈斯·苏来曼), practiced medicine on the frontier for over 40 years, traveling more than 200,000 kilometers for medical rounds, treating over 100,000 patients; Chen Junwu (陈俊武), immersed himself in the cause of serving the country through science and technology, leading breakthroughs in key technologies of the oil refining industry; Zhong Jue (钟掘), solved the problem of large-scale production of high-performance hot-rolled aluminum sheets, overcoming many industry "bottleneck" technologies...
One medal is one meritorious life, forged from countless years and sweat.
In December 2015, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, which reviewed and approved the "Opinions on Establishing and Improving the System of Merit and Honor Recognition for the Party and the State," and decided to establish a working committee for Party and state merit and honor recognition. In recent years, the construction of the Party and state systems of merit and honor recognition has achieved a historic breakthrough from nothing to existence, from establishment to perfection. Each time, the recognition of merit and honor has honored the worthy and respected scholars, with profound implications, continuously cultivating and promoting the core socialist values, and steadily enhancing the cohesion and appeal of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Greatness is found in the ordinary; spirit is seen in the minute details. On the new journey of the new era, glory "belongs to every striver who shouldered responsibilities and acted with commitment."
As long as one firmly upholds ideals and convictions, firmly upholds the will to struggle, firmly upholds perseverance and tenacity—so that in ordinary times they can be seen, at critical moments they can stand forward, and at dangerous junctures they can step up—every Party member can make contributions to the Party and the people in the great cause of national rejuvenation!
The medals are silent; the mission is on the shoulders
At the 2019 Two Sessions, facing General Secretary Xi Jinping, Li Liancheng (李连成), Secretary of the Party Branch of Xixin Village (西辛庄村), Qingzu Town (庆祖镇), Puyang County (濮阳县), Henan Province, spoke earnestly with a strong local accent about the "eight dreams of farmers"—
Wanting to cast off poverty and get rich, wanting to achieve in-situ urbanization, wanting to find a good school for their children, wanting the village to have a good cultural venue...
General Secretary Xi Jinping listened carefully, with eyes full of encouragement. "I often go to some impoverished areas, to the countryside. I always have one question: I want to know what you still need? What you have talked about today are precisely the demands of the vast number of farmers in their pursuit of a happy life."
"The General Secretary was a Party branch secretary in Liangjiahe and knows a lot about rural affairs. His heart is very close to the hearts of us farmers." Speaking about that scene, Li Liancheng could hardly contain his excitement.
"Always remember that one's first identity is that of a Communist Party member, and the first duty is to work for the Party," General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out.
"Sister Wu" is the WeChat nickname of Wu Yaqin (吴亚琴). As the First Secretary of the Party Committee of Changshan Garden Community (长山花园社区), Tuanshan Subdistrict (团山街道), Kuancheng District (宽城区), Changchun City, Jilin Province, she is affectionately called "big daughter" and "mother Wu" by the residents...
Changshan Garden Community is located in the urban-rural fringe, once "divided in heart and full of contradictions." What to do? "Only when the Party organization takes root can people's hearts be gathered!" Driven by Wu Yaqin, the Changshan Garden Community established a "four-level" community Party building network work system, extending the Party organization's tentacles to the very ends.
At the celebration rally for the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, Wu Yaqin, a representative of the "July 1 Medal" recipients, walked briskly to the podium.
In July 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Changshan Garden Community to inspect and learn about community Party building.
"The General Secretary came to inspect then and said I was like a ball of fire, encouraging me to do well. These words I will never forget for a lifetime. I deeply understand that this fire was not lit by me alone; it is the Party's cultivation, the organization's trust, and the residents' support that have made this fire of serving the people burn brighter and brighter." Wu Yaqin said emotionally, "As a Communist Party member, wherever the masses are, my post is there. I am willing to be rooted at the grassroots for a lifetime, to give my all, to live up to the organization's cultivation and the people's expectations."
Today, Changshan Garden Community provides "ten deliveries" elderly services such as meal delivery and medicine delivery, and has established a "Children's Home" offering free after-school tutoring... continuously sending the Party's warmth to the residents.
To govern the country, the Party must first be governed; only when the Party thrives can the country be strong. Xi Jinping thought on Party building is the fundamental guidance for strengthening Party construction in the new era.
At the celebration rally, General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly revealed the six excellent traits of the Party. "The fundamental reason why the Chinese Communist Party has been able to continuously create brilliance in its 105 years of struggle, and why history and the people have chosen the Chinese Communist Party, lies in the fact that our Party has excellent traits incomparable to other political parties and political forces."
The medals are silent, yet they carry a weight of a thousand jun; the mission is on the shoulders, and all the more requires 千锤百炼 (qiān chuí bǎi liàn - "a thousand hammerings, a hundred temperings," to have been steeled and tempered many times). "We must, in light of new realities, continuously carry forward and enhance the Party's excellent traits, ensuring that the Party never deteriorates, never changes color, never changes its flavor, and always possesses strong creativity, cohesion, and combat effectiveness."
Strengthen confidence, continue the struggle
"The red sun rises in the east, its great path full of rosy clouds..." On Monday mornings, the chorus of "Wanjiang" often sounds on the playground of Huaping Girls' Senior High School (华坪女子高级中学) in Lijiang, Yunnan. Teachers and students interact with Party cadres and members coming to study, and the cry "Serve the People" echoes through the mountains.
On the distant mountaintop, the large characters "Long Live the Chinese Communist Party" stand tall.
In recent years, Huaping County (华坪县) has innovated methods for Party spirit education. In 2025, it organized a cumulative total of over 12,000 people from within and outside the county to observe at the girls' high school. People walk into this campus marked by faith, touching the sincere dedication of a Communist Party member who gave a lifetime to education.
Turn the clock back five years.
On June 29, 2021, at the ceremony awarding the "July 1 Medal" for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, "As long as I have a breath left, I will stand on the podium, give all my strength, and dedicate everything I have," said Zhang Guimei (张桂梅), principal of Huaping Girls' High School, representing the recipients of the "July 1 Medal."
Not long ago, Zhang Guimei completed her 16th escorting of students to the college entrance exam. Over the years, many girls who were sent out of the mountains have chosen to look back at the mountains and give back to their hometowns: some became grassroots doctors, some returned to teach at the girls' high school... The lamp lit by one person converges into the torches held by a group.
"I hope the comrades receiving the commendation will cherish the honor, build on their achievements, and strive for even greater glory." General Secretary Xi Jinping's expectations are engraved in the hearts of the first batch of "July 1 Medal" recipients and the vast number of Party members, transforming into endless motivation to move forward.
Over the past five years, the "July 1 Medal" recipients have held high the torch of ideals and convictions, continuing to write their loyal devotion in their respective posts.
In Yumai Township (玉麦乡), Longzi County (隆子县), Tibet Autonomous Region, there are not only farmer Zhuo Ga (卓嘎), but also over 200 farmers and herdsmen who have taken root here. "Even though it is far away, Yumai is very 'close' to the capital Beijing; the General Secretary's heart is linked with ours," said Zhuo Ga. "No matter how hard or tiring, we must guard every inch of the motherland's land."
"I hope you will continue to carry forward the spirit of loving the country and guarding the border, leading more herdsmen to take root in the snowy frontier like the Gesang flower." Nowadays, the township's red exhibition hall has set up a young cadre interpretation team. Retracing the border patrol route, raising the national flag, and singing the national anthem have become part of the daily life of cadres and the masses.
Working for the Party and serving the people is the unwavering commitment of the meritorious models.
In 1991, 1995, and 2014, Comrade Xi Jinping visited the Junmen Community (军门社区) on Dongjie Subdistrict (东街街道), Gulou District (鼓楼区), Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, three times to investigate work. Lin Dan (林丹), a community cadre who has served residents for decades, was present each time. "Do you have a Party branch established? How many Party members?" When he came the first time, Comrade Xi Jinping asked carefully and requested that in the future, branch construction should be further strengthened.
Today, the community Party committee has 15 subordinate branches and over 300 registered Party members; the Party organization extends to building-level Party groups and Party member core households. "Turn to the organization for big and small matters" has become the common voice of the masses.
Leading fitness team activities, serving as building captain... Driven by Lin Dan, many residents, after retirement, actively transfer their Party organization relations to the community, merging the "I" into "we," transforming from service recipients into governance forces.
Over the past five years, on the stage of the times and the front line of struggle, a large number of ordinary faces dedicated to the Party and devoted to the people have shone brightly in their respective posts...
"Embodiment of firm ideals and convictions in one's own post and implementation in concrete actions" — this is the distinct spiritual foundation of the advanced models, and also the profound source of strength for doing solid work to rejuvenate the country.
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"To fulfill the Party's mission and tasks in the new era and new journey requires all Chinese Communists to strengthen confidence, continue the struggle, and constantly create new achievements worthy of the times and the people." General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed in his important speech at the celebration rally for the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.
Keeping in mind the clear requirements of the "five musts" (五个必须) put forward by the General Secretary, and carrying the glory conferred by the Party and the people, the recipients of the "July 1 Medal" walked out of the Great Hall of the People and headed toward the vast world of undertaking endeavors.
"Time waits for no one! History waits for no one!" On the new Long March, the baton of history is passed on in the hands of Chinese Communists. Taking the "July 1 Medal" recipients as role models, strive to create new historical brilliance!
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 3 -- On July 1, the State Council Party Leadership Group (国务院党组) convened a meeting of the State Council Party Leadership Group, chaired by Li Qiang, Premier and Secretary of the Party Leadership Group, to study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech at the conference celebrating the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China and Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building (习近平党建思想).
The meeting pointed out that General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech at the celebration conference comprehensively reviewed and summarized the great achievements created over the past 105 years by the Communist Party of China uniting and leading the people of all ethnic groups across the country in unremitting struggle, profoundly revealed the excellent qualities that have enabled the Communist Party of China to continuously forge brilliance, put forward clear requirements for all Chinese Communists to strengthen their confidence and continue their struggle on the new journey, and issued a great call to the entire Party to strive to create new historical splendor. The speech covers all areas of reform, development and stability, internal affairs, foreign affairs and national defense, and governance of the Party, the state, and the military, connects history, reality and the future, possesses strong political, ideological and guiding significance, and provides the fundamental guidance and action guide for the entire Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to forge ahead on the new journey and make achievements in the new era. Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building is an important component of Xi Jinping’s thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era, makes major original contributions to the development of Marxist theories of Party building, and has significant practical significance and long-term guiding significance for strengthening the Party and the country. The State Council Party Leadership Group and all departments of the State Council should integrate the study and implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech with the study and implementation of Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building, deeply grasp the core essence, rich connotations and practical requirements, fully implement them in government work, and transform the results of study into concrete actions that gather strength and promote development.
The meeting emphasized that it is necessary to always adhere to and strengthen the Party’s leadership, firmly uphold the “Two Establishments” (两个确立 - the establishment of Xi Jinping’s core position on the Party Central Committee and in the entire Party, and the establishment of the guiding position of Xi Jinping’s thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era) and resolutely achieve the “Two Upholds” (两个维护 - uphold Xi Jinping’s core position on the Party Central Committee and in the entire Party, and uphold the authority and centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee), and act as an executor, doer, and hard worker in implementing the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee with higher standards. Matters decided by the Party Central Committee must be resolutely carried out and followed through to the end; at the same time, the creativity and execution of implementation must be improved to ensure that the final results conform to the decision-making intentions of the Party Central Committee. It is necessary to consciously practice the people-centered development thought, continuously deepen the understanding and comprehension of the Party’s nature, purpose, original aspiration and mission, follow the Party’s mass line in the new era, and make greater efforts to do a good job in investing in people, serving people’s livelihood, and benefiting common prosperity. It is necessary to strive to achieve new results in promoting high-quality development, strengthen work initiative and sense of urgency, and take more forceful measures and actions in building a modern industrial system, accelerating high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening, building a strong domestic market, deepening reform and expanding opening up, etc., work hard and take responsibility, strive to run the historical relay race well, and make greater contributions to strengthening the country and national rejuvenation. It is necessary to comprehensively advance strict governance of the Party in depth, conscientiously implement the general requirements for Party building in the new era, take the Party’s political building as the guide to strengthen all aspects of Party building, unremittingly promote the construction of a clean and honest government and the fight against corruption within the government, and provide a strong guarantee for doing a good job in economic and social development.
Ding Xuexiang, He Lifeng, Zhang Guoqing, Liu Guozhong, Wang Xiaohong, Wu Zhenglong, and Shen Yiqin attended the meeting.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 3 -- The Party Leadership Group of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the Communist Party of China held a meeting on July 3 to study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the ceremony celebrating the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China and Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building, and to study measures for implementation. Zhao Leji, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and Secretary of the Party Leadership Group, presided over the meeting and delivered a speech.
The meeting held that the important speech delivered by General Secretary Xi Jinping comprehensively reviews the Party's glorious course, summarizes great achievements, puts forth clear requirements, and issues a great call. It is 高屋建瓴 (gāo wū jiàn líng - "pouring water from a high roof," having an insightful and far-sighted perspective), profound in thought, rich in content, and inspiring. It is a political declaration and action program leading the entire Party and the people of all ethnic groups in the country to forge ahead on a new journey and make contributions in a new era, and it has major political, theoretical, and practical significance. It is necessary to deeply study and comprehend the spirit of the speech and seriously study and implement it in conjunction with the functions and duties of the People's Congress.
The meeting pointed out that General Secretary Xi Jinping systematically summarized the great achievements of our Party's unremitting struggle over 105 years, demonstrating the Party's historic contributions to the Chinese people, to the Chinese nation, to Marxism, to the cause of human progress, and to the building of a Marxist political party. It is necessary to deeply understand the Party's glorious course and great achievements over 105 years, carry forward the great founding spirit of the Party, firmly uphold ideals and convictions, practice the original aspiration and mission, and based on one's own post, contribute wisdom and strength to the construction of Chinese-style modernization. It is necessary to accurately grasp the rich connotations, contemporary characteristics, and practical requirements of the Party's excellent qualities, implement and embody them in all processes and aspects of People's Congress work and Party building, consciously uphold the Party's overall leadership, deepen the armament with the Party's innovative theories, deeply comprehend the decisive significance of the "two establishes," strengthen the "four consciousnesses," firm up the "four confidences," and achieve the "two upholds," and in light of new realities, carry forward the Party's excellent qualities, achieving loyalty to the Party, sharing the Party's concerns, fulfilling duties for the Party, and dedicating to the Party. It is necessary to deeply implement the important requirements of the "five musts" put forward by the General Secretary, closely focus on the Party's mission and tasks in the new era and new journey to perform duties according to law, uphold, improve, and operate well the system of people's congresses, practice whole-process people's democracy, and seek progress while maintaining stability to promote high-quality development of People's Congress work.
The meeting stressed that Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building is an important component of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, a major achievement in advancing Party theoretical innovation by adhering to the combination of the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific realities and with the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and provides fundamental guidance for further advancing the great new project of Party building in the new era. The Party Leadership Group of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the Party Leadership Group of the General Office, the Party subgroups of the various special committees, and the Party organizations at all levels and Party members and cadres in the People's Congress organs must thoroughly study and deeply understand Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building, comprehend and grasp the connotations and essence of the "ten persists," combine with carrying out study and education on establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements, and continuously push the study, implementation, and practice to go deeper and take effect. It is necessary to consciously use Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building to plan and advance Party building in the People's Congress, earnestly fulfill the political responsibility of governing the Party, and adhere to taking the Party's political construction as the lead to strengthen all aspects of Party building.
Li Hongzhong, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress; Wang Dongming, Xiao Jie, Tie Ning, Peng Qinghua, Zhang Qingwei, Losang Jamcan, and Shekureti Zakir, members of the Party Leadership Group of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 3 — The Party Leadership Group Theory Study Center of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) held its third collective study session of 2026 on July 3, with the theme "Studying and implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the celebration of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, and studying and implementing Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building." Wang Huning, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, and secretary of the Party Leadership Group, presided over the session and delivered a speech.
The meeting pointed out that General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the celebration of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China comprehensively reviewed and summarized the great journey the Communist Party of China has led people of all ethnic groups across the country over the past 105 years, the great path it has opened, the great cause it has created, and the great achievements it has attained; profoundly elucidated the excellent traits and key codes that have enabled the Communist Party of China to continuously forge brilliance; and firmly issued a great call to vigorously carry forward the great spirit of Party building on the new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country, to always bear in mind the original aspiration and mission, to strengthen confidence and continue striving, and to strive to create new historical brilliance. The speech is 高屋建瓴 (gāo wū jiàn líng - "pour water from a rooftop," having a commanding and far-sighted perspective), profound in thought, rich in content, and inspiring. It is a political declaration for upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics and seizing new victories in Chinese-style modernization on the new journey of the new era. It possesses strong political guiding power, theoretical persuasiveness, historical penetrating power, and practical driving force, and will surely inspire the Chinese Communists and the Chinese people to advance boldly with full confidence toward the grand goal of comprehensively building a great modern socialist country and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
The meeting emphasized that Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, through a series of new concepts, new ideas, and new strategies, has profoundly answered the major epochal question of what kind of long-term governing Marxist political party to build and how to build it; through a series of principled achievements, has raised our Party's understanding of the laws of building a Marxist political party to a new height; and through a series of major original contributions, has opened a new realm of sinicization and modernization of Marxist party-building theory. It is the fundamental guideline and scientific guide for advancing the great new project of Party building in the new era. It is necessary to deeply grasp that this thought is a major achievement of the Party's adherence to the "two combinations" in promoting theoretical innovation, is a summary and condensation of the practical experience of comprehensively and strictly governing the Party in the new era, is an organic whole with rich content, systematic completeness, and rigorous logic, is a scientific theory with distinct theoretical character, and is an ideological weapon guiding the strengthening of the Party and the country on the new journey of the new era, thereby enhancing the consciousness and steadfastness in implementing it.
The meeting pointed out that the CPPCC National Committee should continuously push the study and implementation work to go deeper and more solid, and better guide and promote the performance of duties by the people's political consultative conference and the construction of the Party. It is necessary to strengthen the study, publicity, and interpretation of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech spirit at the celebration of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China and Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, and solidly carry out all work of the CPPCC.
Shi Taifeng and Hu Chunhua, deputy secretaries of the CPPCC National Committee Party Leadership Group, and members of the Party Leadership Group Shen Yuyue, Wang Yong, Zhou Qiang, Bater, Chen Wu, Mu Hong, Xian Hui, Wang Dongfeng, and Jiang Xinzhi attended and delivered exchange speeches. Comrades responsible for the Party Leadership Group of the CPPCC National Committee organs and the sub-Party Leadership Groups of various special committees participated in the study.
Return to TopBeijing, July 3 (Reporter Shi Yiqi (史一棋)) The Commendation Conference for Outstanding Communist Party Members, Outstanding Party Affairs Workers, and Advanced Primary-Level Party Organizations of Central and National Organs was held in Beijing on July 3. Cai Qi, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and secretary of the Committee for the Work of Central and National Organs, attended the conference and delivered a speech. He emphasized that Party organizations at all levels and the vast majority of Party members in Central and National Organs must earnestly study and implement the guiding principles of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech on July 1, study and implement Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building (习近平党建思想), further profoundly grasp the decisive significance of the two establishments (两个确立), and resolutely achieve the two upholds (两个维护).
Cai Qi pointed out that General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech on July 1 is 高屋建瓴 (gāo wū jiàn líng - “pouring water from a steep rooftop,” having an overwhelming strategic vision), profound in thought, and rich in content. It profoundly reveals the excellent traits that have enabled our Party to continuously forge brilliance, sets clear requirements for all Chinese Communists on the new journey to strengthen confidence and continue the struggle, and further points the direction and provides important guidance for realizing the Party’s central tasks in the new era and new journey. We must take the guiding principles of the General Secretary’s important speech as our guide, continuously carry forward and expand the Party’s six excellent traits (六大优秀特质), vigorously promote the great founding spirit of the Party, achieve the five musts (五个必须), remain true to our original aspiration and keep our mission firmly in mind, and continuously create new achievements worthy of the times and the people.
Cai Qi emphasized that it is necessary to persist in reading original works, studying original texts, and comprehending principles, deeply understand the scientific connotation, theoretical character, and practical requirements of Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building, master the fundamental skills, and use them to guide and advance all aspects of Party building in the organs. It is necessary to uphold and develop the effective practices of Party building in the organs in the new era, strengthen education on the awareness of the political nature of the organs and education on loyalty to the Party, highlight the use of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to consolidate souls and strengthen hearts, grasp the responsibility positioning of centering on the central tasks, building the contingent, and serving the masses, improve and perfect the institutional system for Party building in the organs, implement the main responsibility for Party building in the organs, and comprehensively enhance the quality of Party building in the organs. It is necessary to take the outstanding individuals and advanced collectives commended this time as role models, forge ahead with determination and strive with dedication, and take the lead and set an example in strengthening ideals and convictions, forging firm loyalty to the Party, serving the people wholeheartedly, honing solid responsibility and action, and maintaining integrity and uprightness.
Cai Qi demanded that Party groups (Party committees) of all departments earnestly implement the political responsibility for governing the Party and managing the Party, and solidly carry out study and education on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance. Primary-level Party organizations in the organs should strengthen the education, management, and supervision of Party members, and stimulate the spirit of striving to do things and overcome difficulties. The vast majority of Party affairs workers should earnestly fulfill their duties and responsibilities, becoming clear-headed persons in politics, expert persons in Party building, and persons close to the hearts of cadres and staff.
The conference commended 123 outstanding Communist Party members, 126 outstanding Party affairs workers, and 285 advanced primary-level Party organizations of Central and National Organs. Comrades responsible for the Party committees of the organs of all departments of Central and National Organs, representatives of the commended outstanding individuals and advanced collectives attended the conference, and six comrades delivered exchange speeches.
Return to TopBeijing, July 3 (Reporter Shi Yiqi (史一棋)) — The Standing Committee of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection held a meeting on July 3. Li Xi, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, presided over and delivered a speech. He stressed that disciplinary inspection and supervision organs must thoroughly study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the celebration of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China and Xi Jinping's thought on Party building (习近平党建思想), more deeply comprehend the decisive significance of the "Two Establishes" (两个确立) and resolutely achieve the "Two Upholds" (两个维护), strengthen confidence and continue the struggle, promote high-quality development of disciplinary inspection and supervision work, unswervingly take the path of anti-corruption with Chinese characteristics, and provide strong guarantees for comprehensively advancing the construction of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization (中国式现代化).
Li Xi pointed out that General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech is high in stance, broad in vision, deep in thought, rich in content, connecting history, reality and the future, highlighting the confidence and pride of a century-old major party in creating century-old great achievements and the firm determination to continue writing new chapters of a strong party and a strong country. It is an important Marxist document guiding the entire Party and the entire Chinese people to strive on the new journey and make contributions in the new era. Xi Jinping's thought on Party building is a major achievement of our Party in adhering to the "Two Combinations" (两个结合) to promote theoretical innovation, and it is the fundamental guidance for strengthening Party building in the new era. We must study General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech in conjunction with Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, deeply understand and grasp our Party's glorious course and great achievements in uniting and leading the people of all ethnic groups across the country in unremitting struggle over the past 105 years, deeply understand and grasp the excellent traits and key codes that have enabled our Party to continuously achieve brilliance, deeply understand and grasp our Party's mission, tasks and responsibility on the new journey, fully, accurately and comprehensively study and grasp the great significance and essence of Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, and focus on understanding and grasping the "Fourteen Perseverances" (十四个坚持), and consciously implement them in all aspects and throughout the process of promoting high-quality disciplinary inspection and supervision work on the new journey.
Li Xi emphasized that disciplinary inspection and supervision organs are an important force in promoting comprehensive and strict governance of the Party. We must vigorously promote the great founding spirit of the Party (伟大建党精神), inherit the red gene of being born because of the Party and fighting for the Party, earnestly perform duties and responsibilities, take initiative and act, and be unswerving loyal guardians of the Party and the people. We must strengthen concrete, precise and regular supervision and inspection, promote the entire Party to resolutely implement the Party's basic theory, basic line and basic policy, and always maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core in thought, politics and action. Continue to deepen the centralized rectification of misconduct and corruption around the masses, promote the resolution of problems that the masses are anxious about, and consolidate the mass foundation for the Party's long-term governance. Persist in rectifying work style and discipline, effectively prevent and correct deviations in the view of political achievement, and create a good environment for economic and social development. Unswervingly punish corruption, resolutely eliminate all factors that undermine the Party's advanced nature and purity, and remove all viruses that erode the Party's healthy body, ensuring that the Party never changes its quality, never changes its color, and never changes its flavor, and that it always remains a strong leading core in the historical process of adhering to and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era.
Secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and Deputy Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 3 - On July 3, Vice President Han Zheng attended the opening ceremony of the 14th World Peace Forum at Tsinghua University and delivered a speech.
Han Zheng stated that the world today is undergoing a transformation not seen in a century, with an international landscape marked by turbulence and change, geopolitical conflicts flaring up one after another, and various risks, challenges, and governance deficits becoming more pronounced. President Xi Jinping has put forward the Global Governance Initiative, promoting the building of a more just and equitable global governance system, injecting valuable stability and positive energy into the world.
Han Zheng put forward four suggestions. First, firmly uphold the authority and status of the United Nations. China has always taken concrete actions to uphold the core role of the United Nations in international affairs, faithfully fulfilled its duties and mission as a permanent member of the Security Council, and is willing to work with all countries to jointly maintain the post-war international order and defend international fairness and justice.
Second, deepen and expand cooperation in multilateral mechanisms. Taking the opportunity of hosting the 33rd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting, China will work with all parties to jointly build an Asia-Pacific community. China will strengthen coordination and collaboration within multilateral mechanisms such as the United Nations, practice true multilateralism, and safeguard the common interests of the Global South.
Third, promote the improvement of global economic governance. China has put forward a vision of global economic governance featuring equality, openness, cooperation, and sharing, and advocates building and maintaining an international economic order that is fair and just, open and inclusive, and mutually beneficial and win-win. China will continue to expand high-standard opening up and work with all countries to promote inclusive and beneficial economic globalization.
Fourth, strengthen governance in emerging fields such as artificial intelligence. China has proposed the Global AI Governance Initiative, advocating adherence to a people-centered approach and the principle of AI for good. Taking the opportunity of hosting the World Artificial Intelligence Conference and the High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance, China will strengthen exchanges and cooperation with all parties to promote the formation of a global AI governance system with broad consensus.
Approximately 400 people attended the event, including former Pakistani Senator Mushahid Hussain (穆沙希德), former Pakistani Chairman of the Senate Defense Committee, former South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan (金星焕), other former foreign dignitaries, foreign envoys to China, and Chinese and foreign scholars.
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Glorious history fills us with pride; the original aspiration and mission become 历久弥坚 (lì jiǔ mí jiān - “the longer it endures, the more unshakable it becomes,” growing stronger over time).
“The fundamental reason why the Communist Party of China has been able to continuously forge brilliance in its 105 years of struggle, and why history and the people have chosen the Communist Party of China, lies in the fact that our Party possesses outstanding traits that no other political party or political force can match.”
At the conference celebrating the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly summarized the outstanding traits of our Party from six aspects, stressing that “it is necessary to combine with new realities to continuously carry forward and develop the Party’s outstanding traits, ensuring that the Party never changes its nature, never changes its color, and never changes its flavor, always retaining strong creativity, cohesion, and combat effectiveness.”
Any nation that accomplishes something, any political party that shoulders responsibility, is known to the world by its unique spirit.
Looking back at history, why is it that only the Communist Party of China could lead the people to complete and advance the four great events (四件大事), pushing China, once impoverished and weak, to stand up step by step, grow rich, and become strong, and is now striding confidently, independently, and vigorously toward an even better future?
Surveying the history of human development, no political party in the world has encountered as many difficulties and obstacles, experienced as many life-or-death trials, and paid as many tragic sacrifices as ours. Why is it that the Communist Party of China, having gone through hardships with ever stronger fighting spirit, tempered and hardened through 千锤百炼 (qiān chuí bǎi liàn - “a thousand hammerings and a hundred temperings,” forged and strengthened by countless trials), continues to advance from victory to new victory?
“Resolutely pursuing truth, always keeping the direction of advance correct”; “Deeply rooted among the people, always possessing a solid foundation”; “Bravely undertaking historical missions, always grasping strategic initiative”; “Following the tides of development, always staying at the forefront of the times”; “Daring and adept at struggle, always maintaining the confidence of victory”; “Focusing on strengthening the self, always full of vitality and dynamism.”
The six outstanding traits of the Party summarized by General Secretary Xi Jinping run through a grand historical perspective and a grand era perspective, enrich and develop the Marxist theory of party building, reveal the key code to why the Communist Party of China can succeed, and are a profound indication for striving to create new historical brilliance on the new journey.
Possessing the guidance of Marxist scientific theory is the fundamental basis for our Party to strengthen its faith and conviction and grasp the historical initiative.
The Zunyi Conference held during the Long March “began to establish the leading position in the Party Central Committee of the correct Marxist line mainly represented by Comrade Mao Zedong,” opening a new stage in which the Party independently solved the practical problems of the Chinese revolution; around the time of the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee, the Party led and supported the great discussion on the criterion of truth, insisting on and developing Marxism from new practice and the characteristics of the times… Persisting in emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts (实事求是, shí shì qiú shì - “to seek truth from facts”), keeping pace with the times, and being realistic and pragmatic, ensuring that the cause of the Party and the people advances in the correct direction.
Treat science with a scientific attitude, pursue truth with the spirit of truth.
Since the new era, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has further deepened its understanding of the connotations and essence of Chinese-style modernization (中国式现代化), summarized and formed its Chinese characteristics, essential requirements, and major principles, preliminarily constructed a theoretical system of Chinese-style modernization, making Chinese-style modernization clearer, more scientific, and more tangible and feasible.
Guiding the practice of Chinese-style modernization with the theory of Chinese-style modernization, this broad road of building a strong country and achieving national rejuvenation is 康庄大道 (kāng zhuāng dà dào - “a broad and smooth highway,” the bright and correct path) — “not only is it correct and passable, but it is also stable and good to travel.”
Under the guidance of Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building, our Party has unswervingly advanced full and rigorous Party governance with perseverance, making the Party stronger and more powerful through revolutionary tempering. This thought is the latest achievement of theoretical innovation by adhering to the “two integrations” (两个结合) and is the fundamental guidance for strengthening Party building in the new era.
Today, the vigorous vitality and exuberant dynamism of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics have fully tested the scientific nature and truth of Marxism, fully demonstrated the people-centered nature and practical nature of Marxism, and fully manifested the openness and contemporaneity of Marxism.
On the new journey, using Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as a powerful ideological weapon to transform the subjective world and the objective world, constantly answering the questions of China, the questions of the world, the questions of the people, and the questions of the era, will surely enable the truth of Marxism to radiate even more dazzling brilliance, and with the power of thought, arouse the great force of endeavor.
Strategic issues are fundamental issues for a political party and a country.
“Adhere to the unity of long-term goals and stage goals, adapt to changes in the principal social contradiction to establish central tasks, formulate and implement correct lines, principles, and policies, and ensure firm grasp of the leadership and initiative in the development of the cause.”
The years since the new era have been extremely unusual and extraordinary. From creatively putting forward the new development philosophy, leading and driving a profound transformation concerning the overall situation of China’s development, to making the major strategic decision to accelerate the construction of a new development paradigm, continuously strengthening our survival capacity, competitiveness, development capacity, and sustainability…
Each key choice at a critical moment profoundly interprets: “If strategy is judged correctly, strategy is planned scientifically, and strategic initiative is won, then the cause of the Party and the people will have great hope.”
This year marks the first year of the Fifteenth Five-Year Plan (十五五). From the First Five-Year Plan (一五) to the Fifteenth Five-Year Plan, the consistent theme is to build China into a modern socialist country.
The five-year plan is a step-by-step implementation of long-term strategy and an important guarantee for achieving long-term strategic goals.
The five-year plan is like a staircase of the cause: “Take each step firmly, advance stage by stage, thereby continuously accumulating small victories into big victories, ensuring that the cause of the Party and the state proceeds 行稳致远 (xíng wěn zhì yuǎn - “move steadily and reach far,” progress steadily and sustainably).”
What we tread is 人间正道 (rén jiān zhèng dào - “the right path in the world,” the correct and just path), what we do is a just cause, and what we shoulder is the heavy responsibility entrusted by history and the people.
On the new road of the examination, by uniting more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, fully implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, vigorously carrying forward the great founding spirit of the Party (伟大建党精神), and continuously carrying forward and developing the Party’s outstanding traits, the Chinese Communists of the new era will surely be able to write an even more excellent answer sheet, and the grand goal of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation will surely be realized.
Return to TopBraving wind and rain to create brilliance, with sails set fair to embark on a new journey.
On July 1, General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered an important speech at the celebration of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, which aroused strong resonance among the vast number of cadres and staff of central and state organs and people's organizations. All agreed that General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech is a programmatic document shining with the light of Marxist truth, possessing great political, theoretical, and practical significance. They must deeply study and comprehend the General Secretary's important conclusions and earnest entreaties, and devote themselves with a strong sense of mission and responsibility to the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation.
Struggle erects monuments. The original aspiration illuminates the journey.
On the morning of July 1, the vast number of cadres and staff of various departments of the central and state organs and all people's organizations, with extremely excited hearts, watched the live broadcast of the celebration of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China and listened to General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech.
After the celebration, each unit promptly organized representatives of Party cadres and members to discuss their understandings and share their experiences around deeply studying and comprehending the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech, quickly setting off a wave of study.
The cadres and staff of the Central Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee (中组部), the Central Propaganda Department (中宣部), and the Central Social Work Department (中央社会工作部) deeply appreciated that General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech fully reviewed the glorious course the Party has led the people of all ethnic groups across the country through, profoundly revealed the excellent qualities that have enabled the Communist Party of China to continuously create brilliance, put forward the clear requirement of “five musts” (五个必须) for all Chinese Communists to strengthen confidence and continue the struggle on the new journey, and further pointed the direction and provided the guide for realizing the Party's central tasks in the new era and on the new journey.
Over the past 105 years, the Communist Party of China has united and led the people in writing the most magnificent epic in the several-thousand-year history of the Chinese nation. The cadres and staff of the organs of the National People's Congress (全国人大机关), the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委), and the Ministry of Finance (财政部) were deeply touched and believed that history is the best textbook. General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech inspires the entire Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to carry forward the great founding spirit of the Party, to grasp the laws, inspire morale, clarify direction from the Party's struggle course and great achievements, and to draw the wisdom and strength to forge ahead on the new journey and make achievements in the new era.
The people are the creators of history and the true heroes.
The cadres and staff of the Ministry of Civil Affairs (民政部), the Ministry of Justice (司法部), and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (生态环境部) stated that all the achievements of our Party over the past 105 years have been forged by generation after generation of Chinese Communists uniting and leading the Chinese people with blood, sweat, and wisdom. They must forever remember the revolutionary martyrs and people of lofty ideals who, 前仆后继 (qián pū hòu jì - “those in front fall, those behind take their place,” to continue the fight unflinchingly) and heroically sacrificed for national independence, the liberation of the people, and the prosperity of the country and the well-being of the people, and continuously advance the great cause pioneered by the revolutionary forebears.
We have created a glorious history by united struggle, and we must also open up a bright future by united struggle.
The cadres and staff of the People's Bank of China (中国人民银行), the Central Party School (National Academy of Governance) (中央党校（国家行政学院）), and the Ministry of Veterans Affairs (退役军人事务部) firmly believed that the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech will certainly further promote the entire Party to deeply understand the decisive significance of the “two establishments” (两个确立) and resolutely achieve the “two upholds” (两个维护), unite under the Party’s banner into “a single piece of hard steel,” think with one mind and act with one strength, and strive to write an even more splendid chapter of socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era.
Courageously carrying out self-reform; Forging a strong party.
General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out that the fundamental reason why the Communist Party of China has been able to continuously create brilliance in its 105 years of struggle, and why history and the people have chosen the Communist Party of China, lies in the fact that our Party possesses excellent qualities that no other political party or political force can match.
The cadres and staff of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Commission of Supervision (中央纪委国家监委机关), the Central and State Organs Work Committee (中央和国家机关工委), and the Ministry of Education (教育部) unanimously stated that General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech reveals the key code to why the Communist Party of China can succeed. They must base themselves on new practice, further inherit and carry forward the Party's excellent qualities well, ensure the Party never deteriorates, never changes its color, never changes its flavor, and always radiate powerful creativity, cohesion, and combat effectiveness.
Dedicated to pursuing truth, deeply rooted in the people—
The century-long Party history is both a history of faith-refining in adhering to ideals and firmly believing in truth, and a magnificent history of struggle in rooting among the masses and dedicating oneself to the people. The cadres and staff of the organs of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协机关), the Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院), and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (住房城乡建设部) believed that it is necessary to continuously use Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to solidify hearts and forge souls, and consciously arm the mind, guide practice, and promote work with the Party's innovative theories; always stand firmly on the people's side, cultivate deep feelings for the people, establish and practice a correct view of performance, bring benefits to the people by caring about their safety and warmth and resolving their urgent difficulties and pressing concerns (急难愁盼), win the people's hearts with sincerity, and gather the people's strength with solid work.
Brave to bear historical mission, conform to the trend of development—
“If the situation of the world is not flourishing, it will decline; if the governance of the world does not advance, it will retreat.” Studying and comprehending the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech, the cadres and staff of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源社会保障部), the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部), and the Ministry of Transport (交通运输部) felt a heavy sense of responsibility. They stated that our Party cherishes the lofty ideal of communism, aspires to the eternal cause of the Chinese nation, and bears the epochal task of building a strong country and national rejuvenation. On the path forward, there must be both the tenacity and persistence of “biting the green mountain and not letting go” and the sober determination of “not fearing that floating clouds block the view,” advancing in the logic of historical progress, developing in the current of the times, and forever being the worthy pioneer of the era and the backbone of the nation.
Daring and adept at struggle, focusing on strengthening oneself—
The cadres and staff of the Ministry of Commerce (商务部), the National Audit Office (审计署), and the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) stated that on the road forward, it is inevitable to have to cross Loushan Pass (娄山关) and take Lazi Pass (腊子口). It is necessary to be both daring in struggle and adept at struggle, and open up new horizons for the development of the cause through tenacious struggle. At the same time, we must persist in the principle that to forge iron, one must be strong oneself, and maintain the strict tone, strict measures, and strict atmosphere over the long term, take “having the Party in the heart, having the people in the heart, having responsibility in the heart, and having discipline in the heart” as the action guide for undertaking endeavors, and forge a stronger and more powerful Marxist party.
Shouldering the mission of rejuvenation; Pragmatic action opens a new chapter.
“The 105-year glorious history of the Communist Party of China is proud, but we must by no means become arrogant, complacent, or stop advancing.”
The cadres and staff of central and state organs and people's organizations stated one after another that General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech issued a great call to strive to create new historical brilliance. They must strengthen confidence, continue the struggle, walk well the first square, be the vanguard, and continuously create new achievements worthy of the era and the people.
Treading the righteous path of the world, the future is infinitely broad.
Studying General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech earnestly, the cadres and staff of the Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院), the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (文化和旅游部), and the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部) believed that on the road of examination on the new journey, it is necessary to firmly adhere to the Party's basic theory, basic line, and basic strategy, maintain the determination of not changing the path and not altering the will, neither take the closed and rigid old road nor the wrong road of changing the flag and altering the system, carry forward the legacy and break new ground, 守正创新 (shǒu zhèng chuàng xīn - “uphold fundamental principles and break new ground,” to maintain the right path while innovating), and firmly hold the fate of China's development and progress in our own hands.
Unity is strength; only with unity can we achieve victory.
The cadres and staff of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee (中央统战部), the National Ethnic Affairs Commission (国家民委), and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (全国总工会) stated that upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics is the common cause of the entire Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country. Under the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China, it is necessary to continuously consolidate and develop great unity among all ethnic groups, great unity of the people across the country, and great unity of all Chinese sons and daughters, and converge the majestic force for realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
At present, China's development is in a period where strategic opportunities coexist with risks and challenges, with increasing uncertain and unpredictable factors, requiring constant readiness to withstand major tests of high winds and rough waves, even raging storms.
The cadres and staff of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission (中央政法委), the Ministry of State Security (国家安全部), the Ministry of Public Security (公安部), and the Ministry of Emergency Management (应急管理部) stated that the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation will not be achieved easily, by beating gongs and drums. On the new journey, it is necessary to enhance vigilance, adhere to bottom-line thinking, go all out to prevent risks, ensure safety, maintain stability, promote development, effectively respond to various challenges, and drive the giant ship of the Chinese nation’s rejuvenation to 乘风破浪 (chéng fēng pò làng - “ride the wind and break the waves,” to forge ahead bravely) and set sail.
The cadres and staff of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee (中联部), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (外交部), and the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委) believed that General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech has pointed the direction for us to promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind. It is necessary to implement the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative, inject more positive energy into world peace and development, and demonstrate greater responsibility and action for building a better future for the world.
Do not forget yesterday's suffering and glory, be worthy of today's mission and responsibility, and live up to tomorrow's great dream.
The cadres and staff of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League (共青团中央), the All-China Women's Federation (全国妇联), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部), and the Ministry of Science and Technology (科技部) stated that they must transform the spirit of studying and implementing General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech into a powerful driving force for ensuring the 15th Five-Year Plan (十五五) gets off to a good start and makes a good beginning, strengthen all aspects of Party building with the Party's political construction as the guide, 埋头苦干 (mái tóu kǔ gàn - “bury one's head in hard work,” to work with concentrated effort) and advance with courage and perseverance, and create new and greater miracles that will make the world 刮目相看 (guā mù xiāng kàn - “rub one's eyes and look at someone afresh,” to view someone with new eyes) in the new era and on the new journey.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 3 (Xinhua) — Reporters Xiong Feng (熊丰), Tang Jianhui (唐健辉), Xu Zhuang (徐壮))
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 黄 超 李林蔚
Red flags flutter in the wind, medals gleam.
On July 1, at the ceremony celebrating the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, to the stirring strains of "Salute to the Heroes of the Motherland," General Secretary Xi Jinping presented the "July 1 Medal" (七一勋章) to each recipient one by one, and warmly shook hands with them, expressing his congratulations.
The ceremony recognized the nation's "Two Excellences and One Advanced" (两优一先) honorees; General Secretary Xi Jinping and others presented awards to the representative recipients of the national "Two Excellences and One Advanced."
"Let the spiritual guidance and exemplary role of the state and Party merit and honor recognition system be brought into play, pushing the whole society to 见贤思齐 (jiàn xián sī qí - 'see the worthy, think to equal,' emulate the virtuous), hold heroes in high esteem, and strive to be pioneers." General Secretary Xi Jinping has stressed this on many occasions.
Carrying the weight of history, embodying the profound hopes of the people, the shining medals inscribe the deep respect of the leader of a major party and a major nation, and reflect the unshakable original aspiration of the century-old Party.
One Party member is a banner
"Their deeds can be learned and emulated; their spirit can be pursued and attained." General Secretary Xi Jinping once praised the power of role models with deep feeling.
In the old revolutionary base area of Maoshan in Jiangsu (江苏茅山老区), the local farmers have a saying: "If you want to get rich, find Yafu."
"The work concerning agriculture, rural areas, and farmers (三农) needs a large number of people like him who give selflessly." In December 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping went to Zhenjiang City to investigate and understand the development of modern agriculture, and praised Zhao Yafu (赵亚夫) for doing things for farmers to see, leading farmers by the hand, helping farmers sell their products, and enabling farmers to get rich. In February 2021, at the National Conference on Summarizing and Commending the Fight Against Poverty, the General Secretary presented him with a medal and encouraged him to "write achievements on the land."
From the Zhenjiang City Institute of Agricultural Sciences, to the Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee, and then to the Daizhuang Organic Agricultural Cooperatives in Tianwang Town, Jurong City (句容市天王镇戴庄有机农业专业合作社), the "Yafu" in the mouths of the people has "served farmers all his life."
"Give me the poorest village; I want to make the farmers of that village all rich." Zhao Yafu, having reached retirement age, was still filled with passion.
"Your income is yours; I'll teach the techniques. I'll stay in the village and won't leave." When he first came to Daizhuang Village, the villagers had doubts about organic farming. Zhao Yafu led village cadres to level the land to plant organic rice and fruit trees, cultivated demonstration households, and when the villagers saw the prospects, a cooperative was formed in due course... Today, over 90% of the village's households have joined the cooperative, with per capita annual disposable income reaching 47,000 yuan.
"A great era calls for a great spirit; a lofty cause requires the guidance of role models." General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized.
The recipients of the "July 1 Medal" come from the people, serve the people, and rely on the people. Every gesture of tribute is a cheer and a salute to meritorious models.
Having worked at the grassroots for over 30 years, filling 283 work notebooks with more than 9 million characters, at the Guanyinqiao Subdistrict Office in Liangjiang New District, Chongqing, there is a retired cadre named Ma Shanxiang (马善祥). "Everyone in the subdistrict, young and old, calls me 'Old Ma.' The General Secretary also called me that."
During the 2018 two sessions, General Secretary Xi Jinping attended the deliberation of the Chongqing delegation and affectionately called him "Old Ma." "We need tens of millions of grassroots cadres like Comrade Old Ma to play the exemplary and vanguard role of Communist Party members."
In the edifice of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the Party Central Committee is the main pillar, and the grassroots are the "last kilometer" for implementing the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee.
Rooted at the grassroots, loving the grassroots, and dedicating themselves to the grassroots, the reputation of Communist Party members is established in the hearts of the people. "Old Ma respects us from the bottom of his heart, making everyone feel warmth." This is the common sentiment of many ordinary people.
Over the years, Ma Shanxiang has set rules for himself: "Stand up to welcome, offer a seat and pour water, listen and record, communicate and guide, solve problems, and see off at the door." In his view, "At the grassroots, a member of the public often comes to a cadre only once in a lifetime to handle a single matter. If that matter is handled well, the person may remember the Party and the government's kindness for a lifetime."
One Party member is a banner. The recipients of the "July 1 Medal" honored this time are outstanding representatives of Party members from all fronts and fields.
Wang Yuchang (王於昌), enlisted in the army at age 18, improved missile material loading techniques and assembly methods; after being transferred to civilian work, he did not flaunt his achievements and dedicated himself to society. Wuhas Sulaiman (吾哈斯·苏来曼), practiced medicine on the frontier for over 40 years, traveling more than 200,000 kilometers on rounds, treating and receiving over 100,000 patients. Chen Junwu (陈俊武), immersed himself in the cause of serving the country through science and technology, led breakthroughs in key technologies of the oil refining industry. Zhong Jue (钟掘), solved the problem of large-scale production of high-performance hot-rolled aluminum sheets, overcoming many industry "bottleneck" technologies...
A medal represents a life of meritorious service, embodying countless years and sweat.
In December 2015, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, which deliberated and approved the "Opinions on Establishing and Improving the State and Party Merit and Honor Recognition System" (关于建立健全党和国家功勋荣誉表彰制度的意见), and decided to establish the State and Party Merit and Honor Recognition Work Committee (党和国家功勋荣誉表彰工作委员会). In recent years, the construction of the state and Party merit and honor recognition system has achieved a historic breakthrough from nothing to something, from establishment to improvement. Each round of merit and honor recognition has solemnly honored the worthy, with profound implications, continuously cultivating and promoting core socialist values, and steadily enhancing the cohesion and appeal of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Greatness is found in the ordinary; spirit is seen in the small details. On the new journey of the new era, glory "belongs to every striver who shoulders responsibility and takes action."
As long as they firmly believe in their ideals and convictions, firmly maintain their will to struggle, and firmly preserve their perseverance and tenacity—visible in ordinary times, standing up at critical moments, and stepping forward at times of crisis—every Party member can make contributions to the Party and the people in the great cause of national rejuvenation.
The medals are silent; the mission is on the shoulders
During the 2019 two sessions, facing General Secretary Xi Jinping, Li Liancheng (李连成), Party branch secretary of Xizinzhuang Village, Qingzu Town, Puyang County, Henan Province, used his thick local accent to articulate "the eight dreams of farmers"—
They want to shake off poverty and get rich; they want to achieve local urbanization; they want to find a good school for their children; they want to have a good cultural venue in the village...
General Secretary Xi Jinping listened attentively, his eyes full of encouragement. "I often go to some impoverished areas, to the countryside. I always have one question: I want to know what else you need. What you have talked about today is precisely the demands of the vast number of farmers in their pursuit of a happy life."
"The General Secretary was once a Party branch secretary in Liangjiahe, so he knows rural affairs very well. His heart is very close to us farmers," Li Liancheng said, still unable to hide his excitement when recalling the scene.
"Always remember that one's first identity is a Communist Party member, and one's first duty is to work for the Party," General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out.
"Sister Wu" is the WeChat nickname of Wu Yaqin (吴亚琴). As the first secretary of the Party Committee of Changshan Huayuan Community, Tuanshan Subdistrict, Kuancheng District, Changchun City, Jilin Province, she is affectionately called "Big Daughter" and "Mother Wu" by the residents...
Changshan Huayuan Community is located in an urban-rural fringe area. It used to be a place where "people's hearts are scattered and conflicts are many." What to do? "Only when the Party organization takes root can people's hearts be gathered!" With Wu Yaqin's efforts, Changshan Huayuan Community established a "four-tier" community Party building network work system, extending the tentacles of the Party organization to the very ends.
At the ceremony celebrating the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, Wu Yaqin, representative of the "July 1 Medal" recipients, walked to the podium with brisk steps.
In July 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Changshan Huayuan Community for an inspection to learn about the community's Party building situation.
"The General Secretary said during that inspection that I am like a ball of fire and encouraged me to keep up the good work. I will never forget those words for the rest of my life. I deeply understand that this fire was not lit by me alone; it was the Party's cultivation, the organization's trust, and the residents' support that made this fire of serving the people burn ever brighter," Wu Yaqin said emotionally. "As a Communist Party member, wherever the masses are, there is my post. I am willing to root myself at the grassroots for a lifetime, give my all, and live up to the organization's nurturing and the people's expectations."
Today, Changshan Huayuan Community provides "ten deliveries" services for the elderly, such as meal delivery and medicine delivery, establishes a "Children's Home," offers free tutoring... continuously delivering the Party's warmth to the residents.
To govern the country, the Party must first be governed; only when the Party prospers can the country be strong. Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building is the fundamental guideline for strengthening Party construction in the new era.
At the ceremony, General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly revealed the Party's six excellent traits. "The fundamental reason why the Communist Party of China can continuously create glory in its 105 years of struggle, and why history and the people chose the Communist Party of China, lies in the fact that our Party possesses excellent traits incomparable to any other political party or political force."
The medals are silent, but they carry immense weight; the mission is on the shoulders, and it requires 千锤百炼 (qiān chuí bǎi liàn - 'thousand hammerings, hundred temperings,' thoroughly tempered and refined). "We must combine the new reality, continuously carry forward and enhance the Party's excellent traits, ensure that the Party never deteriorates, never changes color, never changes its flavor, and always possesses strong creativity, cohesion, and combat effectiveness."
Strengthen confidence, continue the struggle
"The red sun rises in the East, its great path full of rosy clouds..." On Monday mornings, the chorus of "Wanjiang" (万疆) often sounds on the playground of Huaping Girls' Senior High School in Lijiang, Yunnan. Teachers, students, and Party members and cadres who come to study interact, with "Serve the People" echoing through the mountains.
On a distant hilltop, the words "Long Live the Communist Party of China" stand tall.
In recent years, Huaping County has innovated ways of Party spirit education. In 2025, it organized a total of over 12,000 people from within and outside the county to observe at the Girls' High School. People walk into this campus marked by faith, touching the sincerity of a Communist Party member who devoted her life to education.
Turn the clock back five years.
On June 29, 2021, at the awarding ceremony of the "July 1 Medal" marking the centenary of the Communist Party of China, Zhang Guimei (张桂梅), principal of Huaping Girls' High School and representative of the "July 1 Medal" recipients, said: "As long as I have a breath left, I will stand on the podium, give my all, and dedicate everything I have."
Not long ago, Zhang Guimei completed her sixteenth examination escort. Over the years, many girls sent out of the mountains have chosen to look back at the mountains and give back to their hometowns: some became grassroots doctors, some returned to teach at the Girls' High School... The lamp lit by one person converges into torches in the hands of a group.
"I hope that the comrades receiving the recognition will cherish the honor, build on their achievements, and strive for greater glory." General Secretary Xi Jinping's expectation is engraved in the hearts of the first batch of "July 1 Medal" recipients and the vast number of Party members, transforming into endless motivation for moving forward.
Over the past five years, the "July 1 Medal" recipients have held high the torch of ideals and beliefs, continuing to write their loyal devotion in their respective posts.
In Yumai Township, Longzi County, Tibet Autonomous Region, not only the farmer Zhogka (卓嘎) but also over 200 farming and herding people have taken root there. "Even though it is thousands of miles away, Yumai is very 'close' to Beijing, the capital. The General Secretary's heart is connected with ours," said Zhogka. "No matter how hard or tiring, we must guard every inch of the motherland's land."
"I hope you will continue to carry forward the spirit of loving the country and guarding the border, and inspire more herder masses to take root in the snowy frontier like the galsang flower." Today, the township's red exhibition hall has formed a young cadre guide team. Retracing the border patrol route, raising the national flag, and singing the national anthem have become part of the daily lives of cadres and the masses.
Working for the Party and serving the people is the 矢志不渝 (shǐ zhì bù yú - 'swear to never change,' unswerving) commitment of the meritorious models.
In 1991, 1995, and 2014, Comrade Xi Jinping visited the Junmen Community on Dongjie Street, Gulou District, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, three times for investigation and research. Lin Dan (林丹), a community cadre who has served residents for decades, was present each time. "Do you have a Party branch? How many Party members?" During the first visit, Comrade Xi Jinping asked in detail, and requested that the branch construction be further strengthened in the future.
Today, the community Party committee oversees 15 branches, with over 300 registered Party members; the Party organization extends to building-level Party groups and Party member center households. "Turn to the organization for matters big and small" has become the common voice of the masses.
Leading fitness team activities, serving as building captain... Under Lin Dan's influence, after retirement, many residents voluntarily transfer their Party organizational relations to the community, integrating "I" into "We," transforming from service recipients into governance forces.
Over the past five years, on the stage of the times and the front line of struggle, a large number of ordinary faces who have dedicated themselves to the Party and the people shine brightly in their respective posts...
"Embodiment of firm ideals and beliefs in one's own post and implementation in concrete actions" is the distinct spiritual foundation of advanced models, and also the profound source of strength for doing solid work and rejuvenating the country.
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"To fulfill the Party's missions and tasks on the new journey of the new era requires all Chinese Communists to strengthen confidence and continue the struggle, constantly creating new achievements worthy of the times and the people." General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed in his important speech at the ceremony celebrating the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China.
Keeping in mind the General Secretary's explicit requirement of the "Five Musts" (五个必须), and carrying the glory conferred by the Party and the people, the recipients of the "July 1 Medal" walked out of the Great Hall of the People and into the vast world of work and enterprise.
"Time waits for no one! History waits for no one!" On the new Long March, the baton of history is passed in the hands of Chinese Communists. Taking the "July 1 Medal" recipients as role models, strive to create new glories!
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 3 (Xinhua) -- The State Council recently issued the Beautiful China Construction "15th Five-Year" Plan (美丽中国建设“十五五”规划) (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"), clarifying the overall requirements, targets and indicators, key tasks, and major projects for comprehensively advancing Beautiful China construction during the "15th Five-Year" period.
The Plan emphasizes upholding Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as the guide, fully implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, firmly establishing and practicing the concept that clear waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets, fully implementing precise, scientific, and law-based pollution control, taking peak carbon and carbon neutrality as the driving force, taking the improvement of the ecological civilization institutional system as the guarantee, coordinating industrial structure adjustment, pollution control, ecological protection, and climate change response, synergistically advancing carbon reduction, pollution reduction, ecological expansion, and economic growth, continuously and deeply advancing the battle against pollution and the optimization of ecosystems, accelerating the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, providing more high-quality ecological products to meet the people's ever-growing needs for a better life, and building a solid ecological foundation for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
The Plan proposes that by 2030, the quality of the ecological environment will be comprehensively improved, and new significant progress will be made in Beautiful China construction. Green production and lifestyles will be basically formed, the carbon peak target will be achieved as scheduled, the total discharge of major pollutants will continue to decrease, the comprehensive treatment capacity and level of solid waste will significantly improve, the urban and rural living environment will significantly improve, the diversity, stability, and sustainability of ecosystems will continue to enhance, the level of nuclear and radiation safety will continue to improve, national ecological security will be effectively guaranteed, the ecological environment governance system suitable for Beautiful China construction will be continuously improved, a number of Beautiful China construction demonstration models will be built, and the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security in the ecological environment will continuously increase. At the same time, it provides an outlook for the 2035 goals and proposes accelerating the formation of the overall layout of Beautiful China construction.
The Plan deploys seven key tasks: deeply fighting the battle for blue skies, clear waters, and clean soil; fully implementing solid waste and new pollutant treatment actions; coordinating and advancing ecosystem optimization; actively responding to climate change; accelerating the formation of green production and lifestyles; firmly guarding the safety bottom line of Beautiful China construction; and improving the Beautiful China construction guarantee system. It proposes major projects such as the improvement of air pollution prevention and control, water ecological environment governance and protection and restoration, marine ecological environment protection and restoration, soil pollution source prevention and control and treatment, industrial solid waste environmental risk hazard investigation, remediation, and comprehensive utilization, and synergistic treatment of new pollutants.
The Plan requires improving the working mechanism of central coordination, provincial overall responsibility, and city and county implementation for Beautiful China construction, and implementing the performance assessment of Beautiful China construction in accordance with regulations. Local people's governments at all levels should refine and implement the goals and tasks in accordance with the Plan, and relevant departments should coordinate and advance according to their responsibilities. The Ministry of Ecology and Environment (生态环境部) should, together with relevant departments, conduct dynamic monitoring, mid-term evaluation, and summary evaluation of the implementation progress of the Plan.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张 洋
"After long-term effort, socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era."
On October 18, 2017, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was solemnly convened. General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered a report to the congress, clarifying the new historical juncture of our country's development.
"This new era is an era of building on the past achievements, carrying forward the cause into the future, and continuing to win the great victory of socialism with Chinese characteristics under new historical conditions; an era of securing a decisive victory in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects (全面建成小康社会), and thus building a great modern socialist country (社会主义现代化强国) in all respects; an era of the people of all ethnic groups in the country working together and striving to create a better life and gradually achieving common prosperity for all; an era of all the sons and daughters of the Chinese nation working with one heart and one mind to realize the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation; and an era of China drawing ever closer to the center of the world stage and making ever greater contributions to humanity."
These firm words ignited passion and pride in the hearts of the sons and daughters of China.
The 19th CPC National Congress was a congress of great importance held at a crucial period when the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects was in its decisive stage and socialism with Chinese characteristics had entered a new era. The report of the congress clearly stated that the original aspiration and mission of the Chinese Communists is to seek happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation; that the principal contradiction facing Chinese society has evolved into the contradiction between the people's ever-growing needs for a better life and unbalanced and inadequate development; that the period from the 19th to the 20th National Congress is the historical intersection of the two centenary goals (两个一百年); and that China will take a two-step approach to build China into a great modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious, and beautiful by the middle of the century.
Enshrining Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想) as the guiding ideology that the Party must uphold for the long term and writing it into the Party Constitution solemnly was a historic decision and historic contribution of this congress.
Since the 18th CPC National Congress, a major era-defining question had been placed before the whole Party: what kind of socialism with Chinese characteristics to uphold and develop in the new era, and how to uphold and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era.
The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core closely combined new era conditions and practical requirements, deepened understanding of the laws governing the Communist Party's governance, the laws of socialist construction, and the laws of human social development from a new perspective, engaged in arduous theoretical exploration, achieved major innovative results, and founded Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.
Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is contemporary Chinese Marxism, 21st-century Marxism, and the essence of Chinese culture and Chinese spirit of the times, achieving a new leap in the sinicization and modernization of Marxism.
On October 24, 2017, the 19th CPC National Congress concluded victoriously. General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered an important speech that stirred the hall and spread across the land of China.
The grand convention drew a blueprint; the thought points the way to the future.
In recent years, the vast numbers of Party members and officials have unremittingly used Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to crystallize their souls, comprehend patterns, clarify direction, learn methods, and increase wisdom, effectively promoting the grand blueprint to take root step by step and turn into myriad scenes across the land of China: winning the battle against poverty, historically solving the problem of absolute poverty, and building a moderately prosperous society in all respects on the land of China; the new development concept deeply taking root, striving to achieve higher quality, more efficient, more equitable, more sustainable, and more secure development; comprehensively governing the Party with strict discipline continuing to deepen, Party conduct and government conduct taking on a completely new look, Party-mass relations becoming closer...
In November 2021, the "Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the Major Achievements and Historical Experience of the Party over the Past Century" reviewed and adopted at the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee clearly stated: "The Party has established Comrade Xi Jinping's core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole, and established the guiding role of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, reflecting the common will of the entire Party, the entire military, and the people of all ethnic groups across the country, and is of decisive significance for the development of the cause of the Party and the country in the new era and for advancing the historical process of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation."
The report of the 19th CPC National Congress summarized the main content of the Party's innovative theories since the 18th CPC National Congress as the "eight clarifications" (八个明确) and "fourteen upholdings" (十四个坚持). After summarization by the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee, it was summarized in the report of the 20th CPC National Congress as the "ten clarifications" (十个明确), "fourteen upholdings" (十四个坚持), and "achievements in thirteen aspects" (十三个方面成就), and also summarized, refined, and profoundly expounded the scientific methods for advancing Party theoretical innovation such as the "two combinations" (两个结合) and the "six musts" (六个必须坚持). It is precisely in the Party's theoretical innovation and practical innovation in the new era, and in the process of systematization and theorization, that Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era has been continuously enriched and developed, becoming a complete and scientific theoretical system.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "The Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is the inheritance and development of Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the Theory of Three Represents, and the Scientific Outlook on Development; it is the latest achievement in the sinicization of Marxism, the crystallization of the practical experience and collective wisdom of the Party and the people; it is an important component of the theoretical system of socialism with Chinese characteristics; and it is the guide to action for the entire Party and the entire people to strive for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. It must be upheld for the long term and continuously developed."
On the new journey, the vast numbers of Party members and officials firmly uphold the "two establishments" (两个确立) and resolutely achieve the "two upholds" (两个维护), consciously become steadfast believers and faithful practitioners of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and will surely continuously advance the grand cause of Chinese-style modernization.
Return to TopBy: 何 娟
"Use youth to pave the road, let ideals shine!"
At the grand meeting celebrating the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping encouraged young people of the new era to steadfastly listen to the Party and follow the Party, 只争朝夕 (zhǐ zhēng zhāo xī - "seize every minute and every second," act with urgency), 不负韶华 (bù fù sháo huá - "live up to youth's prime," make the most of one's youthful years), and "run the historical relay race well on the new journey." Listening to the General Secretary's important speech fills one with 心潮澎湃 (xīn cháo péng pài - "heart tide surging," emotionally stirred) and 豪情满怀 (háo qíng mǎn huái - "heroic feelings fill the breast," soaring with pride).
What is youth? What does youth do?
The future belongs to the young, and hope is placed in the young. The youth of the recipients of the "July 1 Medal" (七一勋章) provide a vivid annotation.
Faith. "The cause of the Communist Party is a great cause, and I am also willing to struggle for this cause for life." At age 29, Chen Junwu (陈俊武) joined the Party, with a loyal heart refining petroleum, dedicating his life's sincerity to the Party.
Aspiration. "Where the country needs me is where I will go." At 19, Zhong Jue (钟掘) resolved to devote herself to heavy industry, vowing "not to make anything that is not a high ground," overcoming the "bottleneck" problem in the aluminum industry, with her struggle footprints spanning from the First Five-Year Plan (一五) to the Fifteenth Five-Year Plan (十五五).
Perseverance. From a young man to one with frost on his head, Wuhas Sulaiman (吾哈斯·苏来曼) has been rooted in the pastoral areas of Xinjiang for over 40 years, with the horse's back as his home and the medicine box as his companion, traveling over 200,000 kilometers on medical rounds.
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In the meeting hall, warm applause rang out again and again; through the screen, many others were also deeply moved—by the noble character, by the lofty spirit.
Meritorious models all made life-changing choices in their youth. Their youth illuminates our youth.
It is the power of role models.
"The first time I saw you was in the civil service exam essay (申论), and the next time I saw you was receiving the Party's highest honor—how wonderful!" When Ma Shanxiang (马善祥), head of the "Old Ma Studio" (老马工作室), walked onto the award podium, netizens flooded the screen with congratulations. Many of the examinees who once took the test have now entered the workforce. The scene was like yesterday and today, ideals and reality reflecting each other. Someone sighed: One "Old Ma" leads a group of "Little Ma," eventually forming a 千军万马 (qiān jūn wàn mǎ - "a thousand armies and ten thousand horses," a vast force) for grassroots governance.
It is the echo of inheritance.
Yang Guoxin (杨国心), a 90s-born fitter at Shenyang Aircraft Corporation (沈飞), makes precision parts for fighter jets, with accuracy controlled to 0.005 millimeters. On the front lines of rural development, national defense and border defense, at the forefront of technological innovation and emergency response, countless young people integrate "Rest assured, Party, a strong nation has me" into their actions.
In Kunming, Yunnan, the Public Security's Cloud Leopard Commando Unit (云豹突击大队), knowing the dangers and difficulties, still advances to safeguard border tranquility. Whenever critical moments come, whenever emergencies and hardships arise, there are always such groups of young people stepping forward, charging ahead, playing one stirring song after another of youth in the new era.
Youth is meant for struggle. Looking across the river of history, the power of youth, the surge of youth, the creation of youth flow unceasingly.
"Go to Yan'an," "Go to the Liberated Areas," "Go to the West, go to the grassroots, go to the places where the motherland needs you most." The powerful appeal of the great cause attracts young people of different eras to make the same choice: use youth to pave the road—pave the broad road for national rejuvenation.
Over the past 105 years, an important reason why our Party has always been full of vitality and vigor and continuously forged brilliance is that its ranks have always been active with young people full of feeling and ambition, and because generation after generation of young people have firmly believed, followed the Party, lit lamps in the darkness, and opened roads in the wind and rain.
On July 1, a scene in front of the Great Hall of the People was particularly symbolic.
When the motorcade of the "July 1 Medal" recipients arrived, young students holding bouquets warmly shouted, "Welcome, welcome, salute to you." Such an interaction is both a tribute and an inheritance.
The Fifteenth Five-Year Plan has already begun. Young people are the new force for building a strong country and national rejuvenation; their time to make contributions has come at the right moment.
Look at the field of artificial intelligence: new-generation entrepreneurs are emerging. "A young undertaking" is also "a young person's undertaking."
Look at the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside: "Village Super League" (村超) and "Village BA" (村BA) have exploded and gone viral, witnessing a group of young strivers shedding wisdom and sweat, growing and achieving at the grassroots.
功崇惟志，业广惟勤 (gōng chóng wéi zhì, yè guǎng wéi qín - "great merit depends on aspiration, broad achievement depends on diligence," lofty achievements require high ambition, wide accomplishments require hard work).
Use youth to pave the road—the road extends beneath your feet; let ideals shine—the light shines ahead!
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 田先进
In the home of Wang Yuchang (王於昌) in Xiaoxian County (萧县), Suzhou City, Anhui Province, he asked his family to bring out a camphorwood chest that had been treasured for many years, then slowly opened it. Group photos of the military unit, green army uniforms, medals of honor... each piece of material and item recorded the extraordinary life experience of this elderly man.
"Even in my dreams, I am repeatedly practicing the operations"
In 1936, Wang Yuchang was born into a farming family in Wangliuyuan Village (王柳园村), Zhangzhuangzhen Town (张庄寨镇), Xiaoxian County. "The whole family lived off two mu of land, and my father worked as a long-term hired hand for the landlord," Wang Yuchang recalled. After the founding of New China, his family received land and life improved. "It was the Party that liberated us and let our family live a secure and stable life."
After graduating from junior high school in 1954, Wang Yuchang became a glorious soldier of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force. After enlisting, he studied at military academies in Chengdu, Sichuan, and Taiyuan, Shanxi, and later, with outstanding performance, entered the Air Force Ground-to-Air Missile Force.
"My post was that of a fueling technician, mainly responsible for fueling missiles and neutralizing and cleaning missile fuel tanks," Wang Yuchang said. "Missile fuel is flammable and explosive, highly toxic and corrosive. When working, I had to be fully armed and 全神贯注 (quán shén guàn zhù - "concentrate all one's attention," fully focused)."
Missile launch carries great responsibility; no link can afford any error. For this reason, Wang Yuchang studied hard and trained unremittingly. "Even in my dreams, I am repeatedly practicing the operations."
In the work procedure, there was an action of closing a specific valve, which even experienced veterans found difficult to operate. "After observation, I discovered that turning the machine 180 degrees and operating with the left hand was more convenient. I never expected that my 'left-handedness' would play such a big role." Wang Yuchang took the lead in improving the method, continuously refining the operation procedure, greatly increasing efficiency, and earning unanimous praise from his comrades.
Assiduously studying missile knowledge, improving missile material fueling techniques and assembly methods, and making outstanding contributions in the two shootdowns of U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft... In July 1964, Wang Yuchang was awarded a First-Class Individual Merit by the PLA Air Force Headquarters (中国人民解放军空军司令部), and together with his comrades, he was cordially received by Chairman Mao Zedong and other Party and state leaders. "This glorious experience is a precious treasure in my life," Wang Yuchang said.
"Must be a clean and honest person"
In the early 1970s, Wang Yuchang was transferred back to Xiaoxian County and became a salesclerk at a department store. He buried his glorious deeds in his heart and pressed the honors he had received into the wooden chest. "I am a brick of the Party, moved wherever needed. Actively obey the needs and arrangements of the organization; no matter what post I am in, I must do the work well."
At first, Wang Yuchang worked at the fabric counter. "I didn't know much about anything and made quite a few blunders." With the drive in his bones, he threw himself into work—measuring cloth with a ruler, practicing on the abacus, 勤学好问 (qín xué hào wèn - "diligent in study and fond of asking questions," diligent and inquisitive), and eventually 熟能生巧 (shú néng shēng qiǎo - "familiarity breeds skill," practice makes perfect), becoming a business backbone known among colleagues as "quick hands and a magic abacus."
Steadfast and hardworking, never giving up. With outstanding performance, Wang Yuchang gradually grew into a counter group leader, department store section head, personnel secretary section chief, and so on.
As his posts became increasingly important, he faced more challenges and pressure. Some people once tried to use "backdoor" connections with Wang Yuchang, who was in charge of personnel work, to seek better treatment, but they hit a wall. "Must be a clean and honest person," Wang Yuchang said.
Beneath his iron face, there was also a warm heart. Colleague Chen Jun introduced that once an employee of the company needed to go to another city for medical treatment, but his family members were unavailable. After learning of the situation, Wang Yuchang voluntarily accompanied him. "At that time, transportation was inconvenient, and going to another province was very troublesome, but Old Wang had no complaints, which was admirable," Chen Jun said.
In 1998, Wang Yuchang retired from the post of deputy manager of Xiaoxian County Department Store.
"Let more people firmly believe in the Party and follow it"
In 2019, with the work of collecting information on retired military personnel, Wang Yuchang's deeds began to attract attention.
In July of the same year, the National Conference on Retired Military Personnel Work was held in Beijing, and Wang Yuchang was awarded the title of "National Model Retired Soldier" (全国模范退役军人). His story was further disseminated. Later, he was appointed as a member of the Moral Education Report Group of the Xiaoxian County Care for the Next Generation Work Committee (萧县关心下一代工作委员会德育报告团), and also joined the propaganda team of Suzhou City (宿州市的宣讲团).
Once, Wang Yuchang was invited to give a report in another city, but before departure, his arthritis flared up severely. His wife Zhang Xueshan advised him: "Communicate with them and go in a few days." But Wang Yuchang firmly disagreed: "It's a promise, many people are waiting, I must go."
For smaller units and organizations, as well as university students participating in social practice, Wang Yuchang would also invite them to his home for face-to-face sharing and exchange. According to incomplete statistics, from 2019 to the present, Wang Yuchang has given over 70 reports and lectures.
Is it worth all the running around? Wang Yuchang responded: "My wish is 'to forever be a people's soldier who listens to the Party's command.' I hope that through my narration, more people will firmly believe in the Party and follow it, ready to heed the call of the Party and the people at any time."
As a National Outstanding Communist Party Member (全国优秀共产党员), Wang Yuchang places great emphasis on cultivating a good family tradition, deeply believing that "a sapling lacking water and soil can hardly grow into a towering tree." His second daughter, Wang Qihong, introduced that her father often admonished his three children: "Doing your job solidly and well is better than anything else," and "No matter when, rely on your skills to make a living, and no one will gossip."
"Father's words and deeds set an example for us," Wang Qihong said. "This precious spiritual wealth has greatly inspired us. We are proud to have such a father."
Return to TopBEIJING, July 3 (Xinhua) — The State Council has appointed and removed state personnel.
Cheng Fubo (程福波) was appointed Director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (国务院国有资产监督管理委员会); Hao Weiming (郝炜明) was appointed Deputy Director of the General Administration of Customs (海关总署).
BEIJING, July 3 (Xinhua) -- On July 1, Premier of the State Council and Secretary of the State Council Party Leadership Group Li Qiang presided over a meeting of the State Council Party Leadership Group to study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech at the celebration of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China and Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building (习近平党建思想).
The meeting pointed out that General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech at the celebration comprehensively reviewed and summarized the great achievements created by the Communist Party of China uniting and leading the people of all ethnic groups across the country in unremitting struggle over the past 105 years, profoundly revealed the excellent qualities that have enabled the Communist Party of China to continuously forge brilliance, put forward clear requirements for all Chinese Communists on the new journey to strengthen confidence and continue the struggle, and issued a great call to the entire Party to strive to create new historical brilliance. The speech covers all areas of reform, development, and stability; domestic affairs, foreign affairs, and national defense; and governance of the Party, the state, and the military. It threads through history, the present, and the future, and has strong political character, ideological content, and guiding significance, providing fundamental guidance and an action guide for the entire Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to forge ahead on the new journey and make contributions to the new era. Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building is an important component of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, has made major original contributions to the development of Marxist theory on Party building, and has significant practical significance and long-term guiding significance for strengthening the Party and strengthening the country. The State Council Party Leadership Group and all departments of the State Council should combine the study and implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech with the study and implementation of Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building, deeply comprehend the core essence, rich connotations, and practical requirements, fully implement them in government work, and transform the learning results into concrete actions that gather hearts and strength to promote development.
The meeting emphasized that we must always uphold and strengthen Party leadership, steadfastly support the Two Establishes (两个确立) and resolutely achieve the Two Upholds (两个维护), and be executors, activists, and doers of implementing the Party Central Committee’s decisions and deployments with a higher standard. We must resolutely act on and follow through on matters decided by the Party Central Committee, while improving the creativity and execution of implementation to ensure that the final results conform to the decision-making intent of the Party Central Committee. We must consciously practice the people-centered development thought, continuously deepen the understanding and comprehension of the Party’s nature, purpose, original aspiration, and mission, walk the mass line of the Party in the new era well, and expend greater efforts to do a good job in investing in people, serving the people’s livelihood, and benefiting common prosperity. We must strive to achieve new results in high-quality development, strengthen work initiative and sense of urgency, take more forceful measures and actions in building a modernized industrial system, accelerating high-level self-reliance and self-strengthening in science and technology, building a strong domestic market, deepening reform and expanding opening up, etc., grasp firmly and work solidly, take responsibility and act, strive to run the relay baton of history well, and make greater contributions to strengthening the country and national rejuvenation. We must push forward comprehensively and strictly governing the Party in depth, earnestly implement the general requirements for Party building in the new era, strengthen all aspects of Party building with the Party’s political construction as the leading priority, unremittingly advance the Party’s construction of clean government and anti-corruption struggle within the government, and provide a strong guarantee for doing a good job in economic and social development.
Ding Xuexiang, He Lifeng, Zhang Guoqing, Liu Guozhong, Wang Xiaohong, Wu Zhenglong, and Shen Yiqin attended.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 3 — The Party Leadership Group (中共全国人大常委会党组) of the National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee held a meeting on July 3 to study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech at the celebration of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China and Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building (习近平党建思想), and to study measures for implementation. Zhao Leji, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, and secretary of the Party Leadership Group, presided over the meeting and delivered a speech.
The meeting was of the view that the important speech delivered by General Secretary Xi Jinping comprehensively reviewed the Party’s glorious course, summarized great achievements, put forward clear requirements, and issued a great call. It is 高屋建瓴 (gāo wū jiàn líng - “looking down from a commanding height,” with a far-sighted, penetrating view), profound in thought, rich in content, and inspiring. It is a political declaration and a program of action that leads the entire Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to embark on a new journey and make new contributions in the new era. It has great political, theoretical, and practical significance. It is necessary to deeply study and comprehend the spirit of the speech and earnestly implement it in light of the functions and responsibilities of the NPC.
The meeting pointed out that General Secretary Xi Jinping systematically summarized the great achievements of our Party’s 105 years of unremitting struggle, demonstrating the Party’s historic contributions to the Chinese people, the Chinese nation, Marxism, the cause of human progress, and the building of a Marxist political party. It is necessary to deeply understand the Party’s 105 years of glorious course and great achievements, carry forward the great founding spirit of the Party, firm up ideals and convictions, fulfill the original aspiration and mission, and contribute wisdom and strength to Chinese-style modernization based on one’s own post and duties. It is necessary to accurately grasp the rich connotation, characteristics of the times, and practical requirements of the Party’s excellent qualities, and implement and embody them in all aspects and throughout the entire process of NPC work and Party building. We must consciously uphold the Party’s overall leadership, deepen the armed force of the Party’s innovative theories, deeply understand the decisive significance of the “Two Establishments” (两个确立 - the establishment of Comrade Xi Jinping’s core position on the Party Central Committee and in the whole Party, and the establishment of the guiding position of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era), enhance the “Four Consciousnesses” (四个意识 - consciousness of the necessity to maintain political integrity, think in big-picture terms, follow the leadership core, and keep in alignment with the central Party leadership), strengthen the “Four Confidences” (四个自信 - confidence in the path, theory, system, and culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics), and achieve the “Two Upholds” (两个维护 - uphold General Secretary Xi Jinping’s core position on the Party Central Committee and in the whole Party, and uphold the Central Committee’s authority and its centralized, unified leadership). In light of new realities, we must carry forward the Party’s excellent qualities, and be loyal to the Party, share the Party’s concerns, fulfill responsibilities for the Party, and dedicate ourselves to the Party. It is necessary to thoroughly implement the important requirements of the “Five Musts” (五个必须) put forward by the General Secretary, closely focus on the Party’s missions and tasks in the new era and new journey, exercise our functions according to law, uphold, perfect, and implement the system of people’s congresses, practice whole-process people’s democracy, and steadily promote the high-quality development of NPC work.
The meeting emphasized that Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building is an important component of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, a major achievement in advancing the Party’s theoretical innovation by adhering to the integration of the basic tenets of Marxism with China’s specific realities and with the best of traditional Chinese culture, and provides the fundamental guideline for further advancing the great new project of Party building in the new era. The NPC Standing Committee Party Leadership Group, the Organs Party Leadership Group, the Party Leadership Groups of each special committee, and Party organizations at all levels and Party cadres in the NPC organs must deeply study and thoroughly comprehend Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building, grasp the connotation and essence of the “Fourteen Persistences” (十四个坚持), and, by combining with the conduct of study and education on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, continuously promote the study, implementation, and deepening of the work. It is necessary to consciously use Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building to plan and advance Party building in the NPC, earnestly fulfill the political responsibility of managing the Party and governing the Party, and adhere to taking the Party’s political construction as the guide to strengthen all aspects of Party building.
Li Hongzhong, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and deputy secretary of the NPC Standing Committee Party Leadership Group, and NPC Standing Committee Party Leadership Group members Wang Dongming, Xiao Jie, Tie Ning, Peng Qinghua, Zhang Qingwei, Losang Jamcan, Shakya Kamek, and Xu Leipeng attended the meeting.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 3 — The Theoretical Study Center Group of the Party Leadership Group of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (全国政协党组理论学习中心组) held its third collective study session of 2026 on July 3, with the theme of “Studying and Implementing the Spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s Important Speech at the Celebration of the 105th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China, and Studying and Implementing Xi Jinping’s Thought on Party Building (习近平党建思想).” Wang Huning, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, and secretary of its Party Leadership Group, presided over the study session and delivered a speech.
The meeting pointed out that General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech at the celebration of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China comprehensively reviewed and summarized the great course traversed, the great path blazed, the great undertakings created, and the great achievements made by the Communist Party of China uniting and leading the Chinese people of all ethnic groups over the past 105 years, profoundly elucidated the excellent qualities and key codes that enable the Communist Party of China to continuously forge brilliance, and firmly issued the great call to vigorously promote the great spirit of Party building (伟大建党精神), always bear in mind the original aspiration and mission, strengthen confidence and continue to strive, and strive to create new historical brilliance on the new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country. The speech is 高屋建瓴 (gāo wū jiàn líng - “from a high house pour water from a rooftop,” meaning having a commanding strategic perspective), profound in thought, rich in connotation, and inspiring, and is a political declaration for adhering to and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics on the new journey of the new era and achieving new victories in Chinese-style modernization. It possesses strong political guiding power, theoretical persuasive power, historical penetrating power, and practical driving force, and will surely inspire Communists and the Chinese people to forge ahead with full confidence toward the great goal of comprehensively building a great modern socialist country and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
The meeting emphasized that Xi Jinping’s Thought on Party Building, with a series of new concepts, new ideas, and new strategies, has profoundly answered the major era-specific question of what kind of long-term governing Marxist party to build and how to build a long-term governing Marxist party; with a series of principled achievements, it has elevated our Party’s understanding of the laws of Marxist party building to a new height; with a series of major original contributions, it has opened a new realm of sinicization and modernization of Marxist party-building theory. It is the fundamental compliance and scientific guide for advancing the great new project of Party building in the new era. It is necessary to deeply grasp that this thought is a major achievement of the Party’s adherence to the “two combinations” (两个结合 - “two combinations,” referring to the combination of the basic tenets of Marxism with China’s specific realities and with the best of traditional Chinese culture) in advancing theoretical innovation, a summary and distillation of the practical experience of comprehensively and strictly governing the Party (全面从严治党) in the new era, an organic whole rich in connotation, systematic and complete, and logically rigorous, a scientific theory with distinct theoretical character, and an ideological weapon guiding the strengthening of the Party and the country on the new journey of the new era, and to enhance the consciousness and steadfastness in implementing it.
The meeting pointed out that the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference should continuously promote the implementation of the study and implementation work to go deeper and more solid, better guiding and promoting the performance of duties of the People’s Political Consultative Conference and Party building. It is necessary to strengthen the study, publicity, and interpretation of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech at the celebration of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China and Xi Jinping’s Thought on Party Building, and solidly carry out all work of the CPPCC.
Shi Taifeng and Hu Chunhua, deputy secretaries of the Party Leadership Group of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, and members of the Party Leadership Group Shen Yueyue, Wang Yong, Zhou Qiang, Bater, Chen Wu, Mu Hong, Xian Hui, Wang Dongfeng, and Jiang Xinzhi attended and delivered exchange speeches. The members of the Party Leadership Group of the General Office of the National Committee of the CPPCC and responsible comrades of the sub-Party Leadership Groups of the special committees participated in the study.
Return to TopSince the beginning of this year, more and more foreign journalists have come to China to record a China that is vigorous and developing, changing with each passing day. In their eyes, the Communist Party of China is confident and self-reliant, upholds integrity and innovates, always bearing in mind its mission and responsibility of “seeking happiness for the people, rejuvenation for the nation, and harmony for the world,” contributing to world development through new achievements in Chinese-style modernization.
“Take the people’s aspiration for a better life as the goal of struggle”
In Chongqing, Jiulongpo District (九龙坡区)’s Minzhu Village Community (民主村社区) extensively solicited residents’ opinions to achieve renovation of old communities, with residents directly participating in community governance and public affairs decision-making; Fuling District (涪陵区)’s Erdu Village (二渡村) drove sustained income increases for villagers through developing the characteristic pickled mustard tuber industry and collective economy… Walking along, observing, Gerald Mbanda (杰拉尔德·姆班达), founder and senior media person of the Rwanda “Africa-China Review” (非中评论) website, was deeply impressed: “From community governance to rural development, from improvement of people’s livelihoods to enhancement of public services, the Communist Party of China always holds the people highest in its heart, taking the people’s aspiration for a better life as the goal of struggle.”
As one of China’s most important centers for technology, finance, and innovation, Shenzhen’s vitality and transformation left a deep impression on Sushil Aryal, editor-in-chief of Nepal’s “Polar News Network” (极地新闻网). “Standing among rows of towering skyscrapers, walking through bustling innovation parks, it is hard for me to imagine that this was once a small fishing village,” Aryal exclaimed. In China, reform and development have never been abstract nouns, but are truly reflected in the local people’s sense of gain, happiness, and security, which also provides a window for the world to understand Chinese-style modernization.
“In China, innovation achievements are continuously transformed into people’s well-being,” said Sovanna, director of the news department of Cambodia’s Apsara TV (仙女电视台), giving an example: China’s high-speed rail is fast, punctual, comfortable, and very convenient.
In Kashgar, Xinjiang, every brick and tile, every street and lane, every tune and tone is steeped in deep historical charm and rich ethnic customs. Meng Kong, senior journalist of Thailand’s Bangkok Post, said that the ancient city of Kashgar’s protection and renovation adopted the principle of “restoring the old as old” and the method of “one household, one design,” etc., which not only improved the living conditions of the people but also respected and preserved the local traditional architectural style and residents’ living habits.
“China’s nearly 100 million rural poor have all been lifted out of poverty, a remarkable feat in human poverty reduction history,” said Charisa Sukoi, journalist of Thailand’s Matichon (民意报). She stated that the Communist Party of China strengthened top-level design, made strategic deployments such as relocation for poverty alleviation, with the government funding the construction of resettlement communities, allowing people to move into new homes and integrate into new lives, enhancing social cohesion; taking education as a foundational project, by ensuring educational equity and continuously cultivating high-quality talents, it provides a steady driving force for long-term economic and social development. “These practices provide valuable experience for the world,” Charisa said.
“In China, what touches me most is the people’s genuine pride in the country’s development, as well as the confidence and vitality displayed by the entire society,” said Leonardo Attuch, founder and editor-in-chief of Brazil’s 247 News Network (巴西247新闻网). Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, China’s economy grows steadily, technological innovation continues to break through, and society remains harmonious and stable. For ordinary people, their wallets are fuller, life is more convenient, and their homes are more beautiful.
“The Communist Party of China is a contingent with firm will and strict discipline”
Since 2010, Mian Abra, editor-in-chief of Pakistan’s “Pakistan Today” (今日巴基斯坦报), has visited China many times, and the Chinese Communists left a deep impression on Abra. “The Communist Party of China is a contingent with firm will and strict discipline, uniting and leading the Chinese people to achieve one victory after another,” Abra said.
“More than 10 years ago, when I was stationed in Beijing, the first article I sent back to Al-Ahram was about the CPC’s anti-corruption and integrity. China’s multi-pronged approach of ‘hunting tigers,’ ‘swatting flies,’ and ‘chasing foxes’ has achieved an overwhelming victory in the anti-corruption struggle and comprehensively consolidated it,” said Sami Kamhawi, deputy editor-in-chief of Egypt’s Al-Ahram (金字塔报). The CPC persistently advances full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, laying a solid foundation for achieving social fairness and justice and satisfying the people’s aspiration for a better life.
“In my interviews, I learned that the Communist Party of China is a party that serves the people, encouraging public supervision and suggestions, and focusing on solving the people’s urgent, difficult, and anxious problems,” said Javier Andrade, deputy director of the digital media department of Mexico’s Reforma (改革报). He gave examples: In Yunnan, the local government actively responds to public demands, governs the water environment, and promotes the formation of long-term supervision mechanisms. In Beijing, government service halls make good use of technology to simplify administrative procedures, with few people queuing on site. For elderly people who are not familiar with smart devices, counter staff teach them how to operate step by step, so that technology and services truly benefit the people.
“Observing the governance model of the Communist Party of China, what impresses me most is the continuity and execution of policy planning,” Meng Kong said. From the South-to-North Water Diversion to the West-to-East Gas Pipeline, from poverty alleviation to comprehensive rural revitalization, from transportation network layout to space station construction, many major projects and livelihood policies in China embody the characteristic of “drawing the blueprint to the end.”
In the view of Rafael Henrique Zelbetto, journalist of Brazil’s Forum magazine, “China’s experience proves that there is not only one development path; its development process shows the world how a country can explore a modernization path suited to its own national conditions based on its own characteristics.”
“The Communist Party of China displays a strong sense of responsibility and mission in international cooperation”
In today’s world, the international situation is intertwined with turbulence and change, the law of the jungle and unilateralism are prevalent, and the cause of human peace and development has reached a new crossroads. Charisa believes that the Communist Party of China adheres to the path of peaceful development and advocates win-win cooperation rather than zero-sum competition. China enriches the connotation of building a community with a shared future for mankind through the Global Development Initiative, Global Security Initiative, Global Civilization Initiative, and Global Governance Initiative, and unites the forces of global common development through a series of “large infrastructure” and “small yet beautiful” projects.
The closure of Malaysia’s Luba Cross-Sea Bridge, the official opening of Africa’s first heavy-haul desert railway – the Western Algeria Railway Mining Line project, the full line connection of the China-Laos 500 kV interconnection project, the official start of freight transport on the Hungarian section of the Hungary-Serbia Railway, and the official opening of the first section of Phase III of Egypt’s Ramadan Tenth City Railway… Since the beginning of this year, China has continued to take concrete actions to assist the development of countries jointly building the “Belt and Road.”
“The vivid practice of high-quality Belt and Road cooperation is always the focus of our attention and coverage,” said Serik Korzhumbayev, editor-in-chief of Kazakhstan’s “Business News” (实业报). The Belt and Road Initiative focuses on infrastructure, trade and investment, industrial development, agricultural progress, and people-to-people exchanges. “This is a natural extension of the process of Chinese-style modernization, starting from caring for the country’s own people and gradually expanding development experience and opportunities to the outside world.”
“The Communist Party of China displays a strong sense of responsibility and mission in international cooperation, promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind with concrete actions,” Andrade noted. In Caribbean countries, China actively works with locals to address climate change challenges, effectively helping local people cope with increasing risks of extreme weather through post-disaster reconstruction, improving infrastructure construction, and promoting energy transition.
“A series of global initiatives proposed by China effectively assist the development process of the African continent,” said Savules Quinica, editor-in-chief of South Africa’s CAJ Africa News (CAJ非洲新闻). China under the leadership of the Communist Party of China always adheres to the principle of mutual benefit and win-win, respects the right of each country to independently explore development paths suited to its national conditions, and opposes imposing its own will on others. From infrastructure projects under the Belt and Road Initiative to trade and investment, technological innovation, and poverty reduction experience sharing, a series of pragmatic cooperations provide new options for African countries.
“China is an important partner of the vast Global South countries,” Attuch said. China continuously deepens cooperation with other countries in investment, technology, industry, and infrastructure construction, injecting momentum into global development. “Western societies should abandon prejudice and outdated concepts, and understand China and the Communist Party of China with a more objective and open attitude. The development concepts and practices here are worth the world approaching, being deeply perceived and understood,” Attuch said.
(This newspaper, Beijing, Johannesburg, Kathmandu, Bangkok, Rio de Janeiro, Islamabad, Cairo, Mexico City, Astana, July 3 - reporters Chen Shangwen, Dai Kairan, Li Mo, Bai Yuanqi, Zhang Jinruo, Chen Yiming, Zhao Yipu, Shen Xiaoxiao, Cheng Shijie, Li Qiang)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张志文
“On the occasion of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, we extend our most sincere congratulations to the Chinese comrades and the Chinese people.” Raid Fahmi, General Secretary of the Iraqi Communist Party, said in a recent interview with our reporter that the Iraqi Communist Party deeply admires the great achievements of Chinese-style modernization and believes that under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the Chinese people will achieve new and greater successes in the process of comprehensively advancing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese-style modernization.
Fahmi stressed that the victory of the Chinese revolution is one of the most influential events of the 20th century. While washing away the century-old humiliation of the Chinese nation and profoundly changing the global geopolitical landscape, it has also provided useful reference for other developing countries in national construction and modernization development. China has successfully implemented 14 five-year plans (programs), creating a development miracle of the largest scale, fastest speed, and longest duration in human history.
“From building a complete industrial system to becoming a global leader in innovation, the digital economy, and artificial intelligence, China has continuously adapted to the changes of the times while maintaining the continuity of its strategic goals,” Fahmi said. The Communist Party of China uses medium- and long-term planning to guide economic and social development, promotes development achievements to better serve the people’s lives and human progress, and provides a development model for the world.
Fahmi stated that China has won the largest battle against poverty in human history, lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and enabling them to live a dignified life. The Communist Party of China adheres to a people-centered development philosophy, uniting and leading the Chinese people to create great achievements: China attaches great importance to scientific and technological innovation, with continuous emergence of scientific and technological achievements, becoming a global center for science and technology, industry, and innovation development.
Fahmi has visited China twice, including an invitation to Beijing in 2017 to attend the CPC in Dialogue with World Political Parties High-Level Meeting. “That event left a deep impression on me: China is committed to common development and win-win cooperation with all countries. We felt China’s sincere willingness to exchange and cooperate with political parties and political organizations around the world,” he said. By understanding China’s remarkable progress in various fields, he felt China’s confidence and openness.
Fahmi believes that the new achievements of Chinese-style modernization continuously provide new opportunities for world development. “The Belt and Road Initiative proposed by China profoundly reflects China’s global vision for foreign cooperation, depicting a vision of cooperation based on mutual respect, common development, and mutual benefit, aiming to jointly build a better world,” Fahmi said. Over more than a decade since the Belt and Road Initiative was proposed, it has closely connected participating countries and regions, making positive contributions to their infrastructure construction and economic and social development.
“The Communist Party of China continuously transforms ideas into actions and turns dreams into reality,” Fahmi said. The Communist Party of China has led the Chinese people in unremitting struggle, achieving remarkable accomplishments that have attracted worldwide attention, and also bringing enormous opportunities for world development and prosperity. This is one of the greatest successful practices in contemporary history.
(Inas Ibrahim of the Middle East Center Branch of our newspaper participated in the writing.)
Return to TopBy: 克里斯蒂娜·雷斯
Climate change is a common challenge faced by all of humanity. Promoting carbon emission reduction and fostering green development in a more efficient and pragmatic manner is an important issue for the international community. Against this backdrop, Brazil, China, and the European Union jointly initiated the establishment of the Open Alliance for Carbon Emissions Trading Markets (碳排放权交易市场开放联盟), building a new platform for deepening international cooperation in carbon markets and accelerating the global green and low-carbon transition.
In November 2025, during the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held in Belém, Brazil, the Open Alliance for Carbon Emissions Trading Markets was established, receiving positive responses from multiple countries and regions. In May 2026, Brazil, China, and the European Union, as the initiating parties of the alliance, jointly signed the Work Outline of the Open Alliance for Carbon Emissions Trading Markets (碳排放权交易市场开放联盟工作大纲), clarifying the alliance's objectives, scope of work, governance structure, and decision-making mechanisms, marking the entry of this cooperation mechanism into a substantive operational phase. According to the alliance charter, Brazil serves as the first rotating chair, with China and the European Union serving as co-chairs.
The establishment of the alliance stems from a broad consensus among all parties: In the face of climate change, no country can 独善其身 (dú shàn qí shēn - "to cultivate one's own virtue alone," to remain aloof from others' affairs while ignoring the common challenge), and the green transition requires all countries to advance it hand in hand. Practice has proven that the carbon market is an important policy tool for promoting carbon emission reduction and achieving climate goals. By releasing clear market signals, it guides more funds toward clean energy, low-carbon technologies, and ecological protection, helping to harmonize economic development with environmental protection and making the green transition more efficient and sustainable. Currently, the influence of carbon markets continues to expand. Carbon emissions trading systems are not only emission reduction tools but are also increasingly and profoundly affecting industrial development and international trade patterns. The EU's introduction of relevant reform measures and the steady advancement of carbon market construction in China, Brazil, and other countries all reflect this trend. How to enhance economic competitiveness while promoting green development has become an important issue that all face together.
China plays an important role in the global green and low-carbon transition process. In recent years, China has firmly pursued a green and low-carbon development path, actively and steadily advanced carbon peak and carbon neutrality, vigorously developed the new energy industry, and built the world's largest national carbon emissions trading market by covered emissions. The rich experience China has accumulated in green development and carbon market construction has provided useful reference for global climate governance and also offered important lessons for developing countries, including Brazil, to explore green transition paths suited to their national conditions. As the world's largest developing country, China has always adhered to the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, actively promoted the building of a fair, reasonable, and cooperative global climate governance system, shared experience with and deepened cooperation among fellow developing countries, and made important contributions to promoting the global green transition.
Brazil attaches great importance to cooperation with China in the field of green development. The two countries, both major emerging economies, have strong complementarity in resource endowments, industrial structures, and development needs, and they have broad space for cooperation in areas such as new energy, green finance, and ecological protection. In recent years, relevant practical cooperation has continued to deepen. The establishment of the Open Alliance for Carbon Emissions Trading Markets has provided a new important platform for the two sides to further strengthen policy communication, experience exchange, and practical cooperation. Brazil is steadily advancing the construction of its own carbon emissions trading system, planning to put it into operation in 2027 and fully implement it by 2030. For Brazil, the carbon market is not only an environmental policy tool but also an important lever for driving the green economic transition. By fully leveraging the advantages of low-carbon resources such as renewable energy and forest carbon sinks, promoting the green upgrade of key industries, and using related revenues to boost employment, improve people's livelihoods, and reduce social inequality, it will inject new impetus into Brazil's achievement of sustainable development.
At present, the global green transition is accelerating, and the establishment of the Open Alliance for Carbon Emissions Trading Markets conforms to the trend of the times. Member parties will deepen exchanges and cooperation in areas such as carbon market rule construction, carbon emissions accounting, and market integrity mechanisms, continuously enhance the transparency and comparability of each member's carbon market, strengthen market confidence, attract more public and private capital to green development fields, create favorable conditions for members to deepen cooperation in climate finance, green investment, sustainable trade, and other areas, and provide solid support for the global low-carbon transition. Brazil is willing to work together with China and other partners to contribute to building a cleaner, more beautiful, and more sustainable world.
(The author is the Special Secretary for Carbon Markets at the Brazilian Ministry of Finance.)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Copenhagen, July 3 (Reporter Zhang Yuliang (张玉亮)) King Frederik X of Denmark met with Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, at Amalienborg Palace on the 3rd.
Frederik X asked Wang Yi to convey the best wishes of Queen Margrethe II and himself to President Xi Jinping, saying that Denmark-China exchanges have a long history and the two peoples have friendly sentiments. The current development momentum of bilateral relations is good, with active economic and trade cooperation and close people-to-people and cultural exchanges. The Danish royal family and I myself are willing to play a positive role in inheriting the traditional friendship between the two countries and promoting the further development of Denmark-China relations.
Wang Yi first conveyed the cordial greetings of President Xi Jinping to Queen Margrethe II and King Frederik X, saying that President Xi Jinping and His Majesty the King exchanged congratulatory messages last year on the joint celebration of the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Denmark, which clarified the direction of efforts to elevate bilateral relations and injected important impetus into the friendship between the Chinese and Danish peoples. The Danish royal family has maintained friendly exchanges with China for many years. During her reign, Queen Margrethe II broke precedent to make two state visits to China and was the first foreign head of state in office to visit the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre (南京大屠杀遇难同胞纪念馆), reflecting respect for history and adherence to justice.
Wang Yi said that at present, the Communist Party of China is leading the Chinese people in striding forward toward Chinese-style modernization (中国式现代化), creating a new form of human civilization, and pushing human development and progress into a new stage. China is willing to further strengthen cooperation with Denmark in emerging fields such as green economy, innovation-driven development, and artificial intelligence, to closely link people-to-people and cultural exchanges, and to enhance the friendship between the two peoples. It is hoped that the Danish royal family will continue to play a leading role in China-Denmark friendship.
During the visit, Wang Yi also held talks with Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen.
Return to TopBeijing, July 3 (Reporter Shi Yiqi (史一棋)) The commendation conference for outstanding Communist Party members, outstanding Party affairs workers, and advanced primary-level Party organizations of central and national organs was convened in Beijing on July 3. Cai Qi, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and head of the Central and National Organs Work Committee, attended the meeting and delivered a speech. He emphasized that Party organizations at all levels and the vast number of Party members in central and national organs must earnestly study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important “July 1” speech, study and implement Xi Jinping’s Thought on Party Building (习近平党建思想), further deeply comprehend the decisive significance of the two establishments (两个确立), and resolutely achieve the two upholds (两个维护).
Cai Qi pointed out that General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important “July 1” speech is far-sighted, profound in thought, and rich in content. It profoundly reveals the excellent traits that have enabled our Party to continuously forge glory, sets forth clear requirements for all Chinese Communists on the new journey to strengthen confidence and continue striving, and further points the direction and provides important guidance for realizing the Party’s central tasks on the new journey of the new era. We must take the spirit of the General Secretary’s important speech as guidance, continuously carry forward and enhance the Party’s six excellent traits (六大优秀特质), vigorously promote the great founding spirit of the Party (伟大建党精神), achieve the five musts (五个必须), remain true to the original aspiration and keep the mission firmly in mind, and continuously create new achievements worthy of the times and the people.
Cai Qi stressed that we must persist in reading original works, studying original texts, and comprehending principles, deeply understand the scientific connotation, theoretical character, and practical requirements of Xi Jinping’s Thought on Party Building, master the essential skills, and use them to guide and advance all aspects of Party building in the organs. We must persist in and develop effective practices of Party building in organs in the new era, strengthen education on the awareness of being political organs and education on loyalty to the Party, highlight the use of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to consolidate the soul and unite the heart, grasp the duty positioning of centering on the core, building the team, and serving the masses, improve and perfect the institutional system of Party building in organs, implement the primary responsibility for Party building in organs, and comprehensively enhance the quality of Party building in organs. We must take the outstanding individuals and advanced collectives commended this time as role models, forge ahead with determination, strive and dedicate, and walk in the forefront and set an example in firming up ideals and convictions, casting a loyal heart to the Party, serving the people wholeheartedly, sharpening the spirit of practical work and responsibility, and maintaining integrity and honesty.
Cai Qi demanded that Party groups (Party committees) of all departments earnestly fulfill their political responsibility for governing the Party and managing the Party, and solidly carry out study and education on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance. Primary-level Party organizations in organs must strengthen education, management, and supervision of Party members, and stimulate the spirit of entrepreneurship, overcoming difficulties, and tackling tough problems. The vast number of Party affairs workers must earnestly perform their duties and responsibilities, becoming people who understand politics, insiders of Party building work, and caring companions for cadres and staff.
The conference commended 123 outstanding Communist Party members, 126 outstanding Party affairs workers, and 285 advanced primary-level Party organizations from central and national organs. Responsible comrades of the Party committees of organs in central and national organs, representatives of the commended outstanding individuals and advanced collectives attended the meeting, and six comrades made exchange speeches.
Return to TopThis newspaper, Beijing, July 3 (Reporter Shi Yiqi (史一棋)) — The Standing Committee of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection held a meeting on July 3. Li Xi (李希), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, presided over the meeting and delivered a speech, emphasizing that disciplinary inspection and supervision organs must thoroughly study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech at the conference celebrating the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China and Xi Jinping’s Thought on Party Building, more deeply comprehend the decisive significance of the "two establishes" (两个确立, i.e., establishing Xi Jinping’s core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole, and establishing the guiding role of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era), resolutely achieve the "two upholds" (两个维护, i.e., uphold Xi Jinping’s core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole, and uphold the authority and centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee), strengthen confidence, continue the struggle, promote high-quality development of disciplinary inspection and supervision work, unswervingly follow the path of anti-corruption with Chinese characteristics, and provide a strong guarantee for comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization.
Li Xi pointed out that General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech, with its lofty stance, broad vision, profound thought, and rich connotation, connects history, reality, and the future, manifesting the confidence and pride of the century-old Party in creating a great undertaking of the century and its firm determination to write a new chapter in strengthening the Party and the country. It is an important Marxist document guiding the entire Party and the people of the whole country to forge ahead on the new journey and make contributions in the new era. Xi Jinping’s Thought on Party Building is a major achievement of our Party in adhering to the "two integrations" (两个结合, i.e., integrating the basic tenets of Marxism with China’s specific realities and with the best of traditional Chinese culture) to advance theoretical innovation, and it is the fundamental guideline for strengthening Party building in the new era. We must integrate the study of the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech with Xi Jinping’s Thought on Party Building, deeply comprehend and grasp the glorious course and great achievements of our Party uniting and leading the people of all ethnic groups in unremitting struggle over the past 105 years, deeply comprehend and grasp the fine qualities and key codes of our Party’s continuous creation of brilliance, deeply comprehend and grasp our Party’s missions, tasks, responsibilities, and commitments on the new journey, fully, accurately, and comprehensively study and comprehend the great significance and essential meaning of Xi Jinping’s Thought on Party Building, focus on understanding and grasping the "ten plus four upholds" (十四个坚持, i.e., the 14 upholdings forming the basic strategy of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era), and consciously implement them throughout the entire process and all aspects of promoting high-quality development of disciplinary inspection and supervision work on the new journey.
Li Xi emphasized that disciplinary inspection and supervision organs are an important force in advancing full and rigorous Party governance. They must vigorously promote the great spirit of Party building, inherit the red gene of being born for the Party and fighting for the Party, earnestly fulfill their duties and responsibilities, take the initiative to act, and unswervingly be loyal guardians of the Party and the people. They must strengthen concrete, precise, and routine supervision and inspection, promote the entire Party to resolutely implement the Party’s basic theory, basic line, and basic policy, and always maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core in ideology, politics, and action. Continue to deepen the centralized rectification of misconduct and corruption around the people, promote the resolution of the people’s urgent, difficult, anxious, and expectant problems, and consolidate the mass foundation for the Party’s long-term governance. Persistently rectify work styles and enforce discipline, effectively prevent and correct deviations in performance view, and create a favorable environment for economic and social development. Unswervingly punish corruption, resolutely eliminate all factors that harm the Party’s advanced nature and purity, and resolutely remove all viruses that erode the Party’s healthy body, ensure that the Party never degenerates, never changes color, never changes flavor, and always remains a strong leading core in the historical process of upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era.
Member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and Deputy Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection attended the meeting.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Tehran, July 3 (Xinhua) -- (Reporter Sha Dati) From July 2 to 3, He Wei (何维), Vice Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人民代表大会常务委员会), attended the funeral of Iran's late Supreme Leader Khamenei in Tehran on behalf of the Chinese side. Iranian President Pezeshkian and Parliament Speaker Qalibaf met with He Wei separately.
He Wei stated that the Chinese side expresses deep condolences over the unfortunate passing of Supreme Leader Khamenei, extends sincere sympathy to the Iranian government and people as well as the relatives of Supreme Leader Khamenei, and hopes that under the leadership of Supreme Leader Moojtaba, Iran can restore security, stability, and development as soon as possible. Over the 55 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, China-Iran relations have maintained steady and healthy development. The Chinese side's determination to develop relations with Iran is unswerving, and the direction of advancing China-Iran relations will not change. China is willing to work with Iran to promote the steady and sustained progress of the China-Iran comprehensive strategic partnership.
He Wei stated that the Chinese side welcomes the signing of the memorandum of understanding between Iran and the United States, and hopes that the Iranian and U.S. sides will implement the existing outcomes, maintain a ceasefire and cessation of hostilities, remain rational and pragmatic, and consolidate the momentum of negotiations. The Chinese side also hopes that the issue of the Strait of Hormuz can be properly handled, and hopes that countries in the region will coexist in harmony.
The Iranian leaders congratulated the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, thanked the Chinese side for sending a high-level representative to attend the funeral of Khamenei, stated that Iran will remember the valuable support China has long provided, appreciated and supported the four major global initiatives proposed by President Xi Jinping, and expressed willingness to strengthen communication and coordination with China to elevate Iran-China relations to a new level. Iran is willing to continue to ease tensions through political and diplomatic channels, properly handle the issue of the Strait of Hormuz in accordance with international law, and achieve good-neighborly friendship with surrounding countries.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张晓东
Recently, the National People's Congress (全国人大) hosted a seminar for parliamentarians from Central Asian countries themed "Leveraging the Role of Legislative Bodies to Promote the China-Central Asia Spirit (中国-中亚精神)," which was attended by 30 parliamentarians and parliamentary officials from the five Central Asian countries. They visited multiple locations in China, engaged in in-depth exchanges with deputies to the National People's Congress and deputies to people's congresses at various levels, perceived the pulse of China's economic and social development, and contributed the strength of legislative bodies to promoting the building of an even closer China-Central Asia community with a shared future (中国-中亚命运共同体).
"The world is facing severe challenges and profound changes, and there is an urgent need to find new ways to develop the economy, improve governance, and strengthen cultural and people-to-people exchanges," said Uakpaev, Deputy Director of the Office of the Senate of the Parliament of Kazakhstan. The holding of the seminar is timely. Strengthening exchanges and cooperation between legislative bodies is an important way to enhance mutual understanding between countries, exchange legislative experience, and improve the well-being of the people.
Ovekova, a member of the Committee on Legislation and Legislative Norms of the Parliament of Turkmenistan, stated that cooperation between Central Asia and China in the field of cultural and people-to-people exchanges is increasingly close, with Luban Workshops (鲁班工坊) and traditional Chinese medicine being widely popular in Central Asia. "The relationship between Central Asia and China has achieved leapfrog development, and exchanges, cooperation, mutual learning, and mutual enrichment in various fields are continuously deepening, which is highly beneficial for deepening our friendship and benefiting the peoples of both sides," Ovekova said.
Tuyichiyev, Chairman of the Committee on Agricultural Water Issues and Ecology of the Senate of the Parliament of Uzbekistan, stated that legislative bodies are not only important formulators and overseers of national policies but also important bridges for promoting international cooperation and enhancing people-to-people bonds. Strengthening exchanges and cooperation between legislative bodies plays an important role in consolidating the foundation of Central Asia-China cooperation, translating consensus into action, and promoting the implementation and tangible results of cooperation outcomes.
Bolbiyev, a member of the Committee on Judicial and Legal Issues, Legal System, Combating Crime and Anti-Corruption of the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan, highly endorsed the Global Civilization Initiative (全球文明倡议) proposed by China. He stated that China continuously promotes exchanges and mutual learning between different civilizations and respects cultural differences. "Central Asian countries and China, through open dialogue between legislative bodies, increase mutual trust, and have consolidated the legal foundation for building a closer Central Asia-China community with a shared future and jointly moving toward shared prosperity."
Makhmudzoda, Chairman of the Committee on Legal Order, National Defense and Security of the Parliament of Tajikistan, stated that against the backdrop of profound changes in the global political, economic, and technological fields, the importance of dialogue, trust, coordination, and cooperation is increasingly prominent. Under the Central Asia-China cooperation mechanism, exchanges between the two sides in various fields are continuously deepening. "Legislative bodies can play a special role in this process. We firmly believe that such seminars are of great significance for strengthening inter-parliamentary dialogue, promoting the exchange of legislative experience, and further advancing cooperation between Central Asian countries and China," Makhmudzoda said.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 3 -- On July 3, Vice President Han Zheng attended the opening ceremony of the 14th World Peace Forum at Tsinghua University and delivered a speech.
Han Zheng stated that the current century-old transformation is accelerating in its evolution, the international situation is interwoven with change and chaos, geopolitical conflicts arise one after another, and various risks, challenges, and governance deficits are becoming more prominent. President Xi Jinping proposed the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议), promoting the building of a more just and equitable global governance system, injecting valuable stability and positive energy into the world.
Han Zheng put forward four suggestions. First, firmly uphold the authority and status of the United Nations. China always takes concrete actions to uphold the core role of the United Nations in international affairs, faithfully fulfills its responsibilities and mission as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, and is willing to work with all countries to jointly maintain the post-war international order and defend international fairness and justice.
Second, deepen and expand cooperation in multilateral mechanisms. China will take the opportunity of hosting the 33rd APEC Economic Leaders' Informal Meeting to work with all parties to build an Asia-Pacific community. Strengthen coordination and cooperation in multilateral mechanisms such as the United Nations, practice true multilateralism, and safeguard the common interests of the Global South.
Third, promote the improvement of global economic governance. China has put forward a vision of global economic governance based on equality, openness, cooperation, and sharing, and advocates building and maintaining an international economic order that is fair and just, open and inclusive, and mutually beneficial and win-win. China will continue to expand high-standard opening up and work with all countries to promote inclusive and beneficial economic globalization.
Fourth, strengthen governance in emerging fields such as artificial intelligence. China has proposed the Global AI Governance Initiative (全球人工智能治理倡议), advocating adherence to people-centeredness and AI for good. China will take the opportunity of hosting the World AI Conference and High-level Meeting on Global AI Governance to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with all parties and promote the formation of a global AI governance system with broad consensus.
About 400 people attended the meeting, including Mushahid Hussain, former chairman of the Pakistan Senate Defence Committee, Kim Sung-hwan, former Foreign Minister of South Korea, other former foreign political figures, foreign envoys to China, and Chinese and foreign scholars.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 3 — A Foreign Ministry Spokesperson announced on July 3: At the invitation of President Xi Jinping, President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah of the Republic of Namibia will pay a state visit to China from July 5 to 11.
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On July 3, the State Council Information Office (国务院新闻办) held a press conference themed "Strivers on the New Journey" with Chinese and foreign journalists, inviting five representatives of the "Most Beautiful Sci-Tech Workers" (最美科技工作者) to engage in exchanges around the theme of "Bravely Shoulder the Historical Mission, Build a Strong Science and Technology Nation" (勇担历史使命 建设科技强国).
"For 40 years, I have been working on the front line of animal husbandry research and animal epidemic prevention." Song Rende (宋仁德), a promotional researcher at the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Animal Disease Prevention and Control Center (玉树藏族自治州动物疫病预防控制中心) and chief expert on ecological animal husbandry in Yushu Prefecture, introduced that he led his team to persistently conduct research on the improved breeding of yaks, establish a three-level improved breeding system, and promote the efficient breeding technology of "grazing + supplementary feeding" for yaks.
The Yushu region has high altitude and thin oxygen, and working conditions are harsh. Previously, in order to collect samples and conduct performance measurements, Song Rende and his team often rode horses for dozens of miles on mountain roads. "Letting the herders live and develop better has supported me in breaking through one difficulty after another," Song Rende said.
Chen Lei (陈蕾) is Vice Dean of West China Clinical Medical College of Sichuan University (四川大学华西临床医学院) and Chief Physician of the Department of Neurology at West China Hospital. In the globally weak area of diagnosis and treatment for epilepsy in women of childbearing age, she led her team to establish the world's first diagnostic and therapeutic ontology database for epilepsy in women of childbearing age, Asia's first epilepsy registration and follow-up case database, and also tackled key technologies for epilepsy early warning, monitoring, screening, and treatment.
"I will work with the team to closely focus on the key challenges in the field of epilepsy and continue to tackle difficulties clinically," Chen Lei said. She expressed the determination to contribute solid achievements to the nation's scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement and the development of health care.
Professor Kong Hainan (孔海南), Chair Professor at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering of Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Chief Scientist of the Erhai Project under the National Major Science and Technology Project for Water Pollution Control and Treatment (国家水体污染控制与治理科技重大专项洱海项目), leads a research team responsible for water quality and aquatic ecological restoration in Erhai Lake.
At the press conference, Kong Hainan brought a photo of Ottelia acuminata. With the improvement of water quality in Erhai, aquatic plants represented by Ottelia acuminata have reappeared in the lakeside zone of Erhai. "We encountered various problems while working on Erhai, but I have always had a belief: we must protect the ecology of Erhai well," Kong Hainan said.
Huang Guiyun (黄桂云), Deputy Director of the Yangtze River Biodiversity Research Center of China Three Gorges Corporation (长江三峡集团有限公司长江生物多样性研究中心), has long been engaged in the protection of rare and endangered plants in the Three Gorges area. She introduced that the team completed a basic survey of plants in the Three Gorges reservoir area, grasped the baseline of rare plants, overcame the breeding difficulties of nearly 100 species of wild plants, and ex situ conserved more than 2,100 species of endemic rare and endangered plants.
In recent years, Huang Guiyun has actively engaged in science popularization. "We want more people to understand and participate in the protection of rare plants, gathering a joint force for protection," Huang Guiyun said.
In 2023, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor Gui Haichao (桂海潮) from the School of Astronautics at Beihang University performed the Shenzhou-16 mission as a payload specialist. During that time, he closely coordinated with the crew and completed 68 space science experiments. After returning to the teaching and research front line, Gui Haichao established the Space Intelligent Operation Technology Innovation Center (太空智能操作技术创新中心) and led a team of more than 50 teachers and students to conduct research in the fields of space robotics and space traffic.
Gui Haichao also actively participates in space science popularization, having given more than 50 popular science lectures at various universities, middle schools, and primary schools. "I hope to pass on the seeds of science and dreams to the vast number of young people, and to pass on the spirit of manned spaceflight," he said.
Return to TopBeijing, July 3 (Reporter Liu Zhiqiang) — Recently, with the approval of the State Council, the National Development and Reform Commission issued the "15th Five-Year Plan for the Development of the Circular Economy."
The Plan proposes to focus on key areas and critical links, smooth the resource recycling chain, promote the upgrading of the circular economy industry, reduce resource consumption and carbon emissions, improve resource utilization efficiency, and provide solid support for ensuring national resource security and accelerating the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development.
The Plan specifies that by 2030, the circular economy system covering the entire chain of production, consumption, recycling, and utilization will be more complete; the main resource productivity will be increased by about 16% compared to 2025; the annual comprehensive utilization volume of bulk solid waste will reach about 4.5 billion tons; the annual recycling volume of major renewable resources will reach 510 million tons; and the output value of the resource recycling industry will reach 8 trillion yuan. By 2035, a high-quality development system for the circular economy will be basically established, and the efficiency of major resource utilization will reach the international advanced level.
The Plan proposes to comprehensively consolidate the foundation of reduction, widely promote green design of products, deeply advance cleaner production in industries, and actively promote green consumption in the whole society. It is necessary to accelerate the improvement of resource utilization levels, prominently focus on the efficient recycling of industrial resources, deeply advance the ecological circular development of agriculture and forestry, vigorously implement green construction throughout the entire process of engineering construction, fully unleash the potential of traditional "urban mines" resources, and swiftly make up for the shortcomings in the recycling of solid wastes such as the "new three types" (新三样). It is necessary to continuously expand the scale of reuse, promote the import and utilization of high-quality overseas renewable raw materials, expand the application scale of renewable materials, promote high-level remanufacturing, and regulate the development of second-hand goods circulation and trading. It is necessary to effectively unblock the waste recycling network, strengthen fine collection of waste on the industrial side, promote standardized recycling of waste from social sources, and specifically enhance the recycling capacity of key categories of waste. It is necessary to vigorously promote the upgrading of the circular economy industry, optimize industrial layout, accelerate the improvement of technology, processes, and equipment, cultivate and expand the circular economy service industry, and strengthen industry supervision measures. It is necessary to strengthen the institutional and policy guarantees for the development of the circular economy, deeply carry out publicity and guidance, and strengthen international cooperation on the circular economy.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张天培
The Qian Mountains layer upon layer of green peaks, the Songliao Plain stretches with fertile fields, the Yellow Sea coast tides rise and fall—Liaoning is an indispensable life station on the migration routes of birds. Every year, tens of thousands of birds follow the monsoons and arrive as promised, sweeping across green mountains, passing through fields, perching on mudflats, sketching lively arcs across the sky.
To protect the lucid waters and lush mountains of the Liaoshen land, Liaoning public security organs adhere to proactive policing, carry out collaborative governance, and make every effort to advance the construction of an ecological policing system (生态警务体系), escorting the birds' soaring with the rule of law. Since last year, Liaoning public security organs have successfully cracked a batch of cases, including Jinzhou's "9·04" case of harming precious and endangered wild animals and Panjin's "10·23" case of illegally hunting wild animals, dismantled 18 criminal gangs, and created a strong deterrent against criminals.
What new characteristics do cases of harming precious and endangered birds have? How do public security organs use strikes to promote prevention? The reporter conducted an investigation.
Criminals use covert methods of committing crimes, evading supervision through means such as live-streaming traffic diversion.
"Eyes clear and bright, feathers tight and smooth..." In a live-streaming room called "Jinzhou Yashi 332," while playing an animated Hwamei bird, the characteristics of the bird were introduced in detail.
"It is suspected that someone is using live-streaming rooms to divert traffic and sell Hwamei, a national second-class key protected wild animal." On September 4, 2025, a tip provided by an ecological volunteer police officer (生态义警) caught the attention of the Jinzhou police.
After meticulous investigation, the police quickly locked onto a laundromat in Jinzhou High-tech Zone (锦州市高新区).
R aiding the laundromat, the police apprehended the suspect Xue Mouwen (薛某文). What the police did not expect was that inside the small laundromat there were 28 nationally protected birds hidden, including 20 Hwamei, a national second-class key protected wild animal, and eight "three-have" (三有 - beneficial, economically important, or scientifically valuable) protected birds such as Common Blackbird and Rosefinch.
Xue Mouwen, whose online name is "Jinzhou Yashi 332," used the laundromat as a hidden location and had long been engaged in the purchase and sale of Hwamei. He acquired Hwamei from Guangdong, Fujian, Guizhou, Jiangxi and other places, then resold them through live-streaming and other methods to Shenyang, Dalian, Yingkou and other places in Liaoning, as well as to Shanxi, Jilin, Heilongjiang and other places.
"Jinzhou's '9·04' case of harming precious and endangered wild animals has clear characteristics of cross-regional, specialized, and networked crime. At the same time, it evades supervision through a live-streaming traffic diversion model, which brought difficulty to the investigation of the case," said Li Jingtao (李静涛), Deputy Captain of the Environmental Resources and Food and Drug Crime Investigation Detachment of the Jinzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau.
Wang Shengxu (王升旭), Deputy Captain of the Environmental Resources and Food and Drug Crime Investigation General Detachment of the Liaoning Provincial Public Security Department, introduced that in such cases, concealment is a prominent feature. Criminals usually choose very hidden locations for transactions and promptly suspend activities once they detect any abnormality.
"Looking at the confiscated tools, the suspects mainly use sticky bird nets, bird traps, etc. These tools are highly concealable and cover a large area. Once a bird touches the net or steps on the trap, it is difficult to escape," Li Jingtao said.
Trace upward to the source, strike downward into the network, completely eradicate the criminal ecosystem.
In the Jinzhou "9·04" case of harming precious and endangered wild animals, the criminal chain covered multiple links including source acquisition, professional cultivation, sales, and after-sales service. Among them, some people were specifically responsible for setting nets to catch birds, some were responsible for raising captured birds, and some provided one-on-one after-sales service. The links collaborated closely, with a clear hierarchical structure.
"Such illegal bird hunting and selling behavior has a common characteristic: crime presents a complete chain, with clear division of labor between upstream and downstream, and mutual cooperation." Wang Shengxu introduced that in the Panjin "10·23" case of illegal hunting of wild animals, there was also a consumption link, forming a criminal chain of "catch, collect, sell, eat."
"Some people nowadays are influenced by mistaken beliefs, thinking that wild animal meat is tender and delicious with high nutritional value, and even that eating game is nourishing and shows a special status," introduced Wang Chao (王超), Deputy Captain of the Environmental Resources and Food and Drug Crime Investigation Detachment of the Dawa Sub-bureau of the Panjin Municipal Public Security Bureau.
On October 23, 2025, during routine inspections, the Panjin police discovered that a restaurant operated by Wang (王某) was secretly selling dishes made from wild birds. Soon, Wang confessed that he mainly purchased birds from Liu (刘某某) and then processed and cooked them to satisfy the special needs of some customers.
On November 26 of the same year, the investigating police decisively arrested Liu, who was receiving goods at the time, along with upstream and downstream accomplices. As an intermediary, Liu on one hand acquired various wild birds from the upstream bird catcher Zhang (张某某), and on the other hand, distributed the acquired birds downstream, supplying multiple restaurants and private clubs.
Strike with a heavy fist, flash a sharp sword, from "handling one case" to "striking a whole area." "We are not satisfied with investigating only a single link; rather, we continuously dig deeper along the clues, expand the investigation, trace upward to the source, strike downward into the network, achieving closed-loop strikes on the entire chain of 'catch, collect, sell, eat,' and completely eradicate the criminal ecosystem," Wang Shengxu said.
Police officers transform into "ecological police officers," and the protection tentacles continuously extend to the grassroots.
At the Liaohe Estuary National Nature Reserve, the ecological policing information board is particularly conspicuous, with the photos and phone numbers of responsible police officers printed on the board.
"Now when the common people see us, they take the initiative to report clues about illegal hunting of wild birds," said Bai Xianli (白宪立), an ecological police officer stationed at the Zhaoquanhe Police Station of the Dawa Sub-bureau of the Panjin Municipal Public Security Bureau.
Use ecological policing to guard the bird spirits. In June 2025, the Liaoning Provincial Public Security Department innovatively implemented the "Thousand Ecological Police Officers Integrated into a Thousand Stations" (千名生态警员融千所) mechanism. More than 2,000 specialized police officers from the Environmental Resources and Food and Drug Crime Investigation forces across the province transformed into "ecological police officers" and fully integrated into grassroots police stations. Relying on this mechanism, Liaoning public security organs handled 114 bird-related cases in the "Safe Wilderness—2025" (平安原野—2025) operation.
Shift from fighting alone to synergistic co-governance, driving the tentacles of bird protection to continuously extend to the grassroots.
"Previously, everyone managed their own segment, inevitably leaving blind spots. Now we analyze and act together, and the rectification effect is immediate," Wang Shengxu introduced. In recent years, relying on the joint action mechanism, public security organs, together with forestry and grassland, market supervision, postal and other departments, have closely monitored the main distribution areas of wild animals and plants, normalized inspections of flower and bird markets, promptly discovered suspicious clues, promoted information sharing and joint law enforcement, and continuously expanded the "circle of friends" for bird protection.
Reed waves rise and fall, flocks of birds flutter. During this year's Bird-Loving Week, the Panjin police went deep into scenic areas and carried out a down-to-earth bird protection law popularization activity. Police officers explained to the public relevant laws on protecting "three-have" birds and nationally key protected wild animals, reminding everyone that "protecting birds is everyone's responsibility."
"In recent years, under the unified command and deployment of the Ministry of Public Security, Liaoning public security organs, relying on the 'Safe Wilderness' special operation, have cracked down on crimes harming birds and other wild animals in accordance with the law, concentrated on handling a batch of typical cases, innovatively introduced a series of governance measures, and contributed important strength to the protection of wild birds," Wang Shengxu said.
Return to TopBeijing, July 3 (People's Daily) — (Reporter Qu Zhehan (曲哲涵)) The Ministry of Finance (财政部), the State Taxation Administration (税务总局), and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) on the 3rd issued the Announcement on Adjusting the Preferential Policies for Vehicle and Vessel Tax on Energy-Saving Vehicles and New Energy Vehicles, clarifying that from January 1, 2027, the policy of halving the vehicle and vessel tax for energy-saving vehicles will be cancelled, and the policy of exempting pure electric commercial vehicles, plug-in (including range-extended) hybrid electric vehicles, and fuel cell commercial vehicles from vehicle and vessel tax will be cancelled.
Why is the adjustment being made? Responsible persons from the three departments stated that restoring the levy of vehicle and vessel tax on certain types of vehicles is conducive to promoting tax equity.
Vehicle and vessel tax is a property tax levied annually on the owners or managers of vehicles and vessels. To support the development of the new energy vehicle industry and promote energy conservation and emission reduction, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Vehicle and Vessel Tax Law of the People's Republic of China and its implementing regulations, the Ministry of Finance, the State Taxation Administration, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and other departments issued a document clarifying that for eligible energy-saving vehicles, the vehicle and vessel tax is halved, and for eligible pure electric commercial vehicles, plug-in (including range-extended) hybrid electric vehicles, and fuel cell commercial vehicles, the vehicle and vessel tax is exempted. Since the implementation of this preferential policy in 2012, it has played a positive role in encouraging consumers to purchase new energy vehicles and energy-saving vehicles and promoting the development of the automobile industry. In recent years, China's automobile industry, especially the new energy vehicle industry, has accelerated development. In 2025, China's new energy vehicle sales reached 16.49 million units, and the proportion of new energy vehicles in domestic new car sales exceeded 50%. Restoring the levy of vehicle and vessel tax on the above types of vehicles is conducive to enhancing the regulatory role of taxation on income distribution.
According to the Vehicle and Vessel Tax Law of the People's Republic of China, pure electric passenger cars and fuel cell passenger cars are not within the scope of vehicle and vessel tax, and no vehicle and vessel tax is levied.
After the implementation of the announcement, how will the four types of vehicles such as pure electric commercial vehicles calculate and pay vehicle and vessel tax?
Regarding tax amount calculation, from January 1, 2027, pure electric commercial vehicles, plug-in (including range-extended) hybrid electric vehicles, fuel cell commercial vehicles, and energy-saving vehicles must calculate and pay vehicle and vessel tax in accordance with the specific applicable tax amounts for vehicles determined by the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government according to the Vehicle and Vessel Tax Item and Tax Amount Table attached to the Vehicle and Vessel Tax Law of the People's Republic of China.
In terms of declaration and payment methods, according to current tax management regulations, there are two ways to declare and pay vehicle and vessel tax. One is that insurance agencies collect and pay on behalf of taxpayers; taxpayers can have the insurance agency withhold and pay the vehicle and vessel tax at the same time as purchasing compulsory traffic accident liability insurance. The other is that taxpayers declare and pay on their own, with two channels available: online and offline.
It should be noted that vehicle and vessel tax is declared annually, calculated monthly, and paid in a lump sum. The specific declaration and payment deadline is stipulated by the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government. For motor vehicle vehicle and vessel tax collected and paid by insurance agencies on behalf of taxpayers, taxpayers should pay the vehicle and vessel tax at the same time as purchasing compulsory traffic accident liability insurance for motor vehicles.
Regarding the place of payment, for vehicles registered with the vehicle registration authority according to law, if the taxpayer declares and pays on their own, they should pay the vehicle and vessel tax at the place of vehicle registration; if the insurance agency collects and pays the vehicle and vessel tax on behalf of the taxpayer, the tax should be paid at the location of the insurance agency. If the vehicle and vessel tax has already been collected and paid by an insurance agency, the taxpayer no longer needs to declare and pay the vehicle and vessel tax to the tax authority. For vehicles that do not need to undergo registration according to law, the tax should be paid at the location of the owner or manager of the vehicle.
Return to TopThis newspaper Xiong’an, July 3 (Reporter Shao Yuzi (邵玉姿)) On July 3, five trucks loaded with auto parts departed from Hebei Xiong’an New Area, transferred by road feeder to Shijiazhuang International Land Port, and took the China-Europe freight train directly to Moscow, Russia. This operation adopted an integrated collection and distribution mode of “Xiong’an consolidation + short-distance road feeder + trunk line train,” marking that Xiong’an New Area has opened up a direct local cargo route to the China-Europe international logistics trunk line, and the first “Xiong-Shi-Ou” China-Europe freight train has been successfully launched.
With the normalization of China-Europe freight train consolidation operations, Xiong’an New Area will continue to improve international logistics infrastructure, upgrade comprehensive foreign-related services, and build a direct channel to the global market.
Return to TopBeijing, July 3 (Our Reporter Wu Dan (吴丹)) — On July 3, the fourth Revival Forum (复兴论坛) was held at Renmin University of China. The forum thoroughly studied and implemented the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech at the celebration of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China and Xi Jinping’s thought on party building, and conducted in-depth discussion on the internal relations between governing the party and managing the party, revitalizing the party and strengthening the party, and strengthening the country and national rejuvenation.
At the forum, the Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building Research Center (习近平党建思想研究中心) of the Academy of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想研究院) at Renmin University of China was inaugurated. The center will focus on five major tasks: systematic and theoretical research and interpretation, construction of an independent knowledge system, building a high-end academic platform, developing a first-class research team, and domestic and international dissemination, making every effort to establish an important vehicle for in-depth study of Xi Jinping’s thought on party building, an important think tank for systematic research, an important platform for propaganda and implementation, and an important bastion for interpretation and dissemination.
Ouyang Song (欧阳淞), former director of the Central Party History Research Office and former president of the Chinese Society of the History of the Communist Party of China; Ji Zhengju (季正聚), vice president of the Central Party History and Literature Research Institute and director of the Central Compilation and Translation Bureau; Cui Shixin (崔士鑫), deputy editor-in-chief of the People’s Daily; Zhang Donggang (张东刚), Party secretary of Renmin University of China; and Ma Huaide (马怀德), president of Renmin University of China, attended the event.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 韩 鑫
The mandatory national standard Requirements for Limiting Excessive Express Packaging (限制快递过度包装要求), formulated by the State Post Bureau (国家邮政局), officially takes effect on July 1. This standard specifies technical requirements for packaging reduction for express delivery operators, and also provides specific basis for relevant regulatory work. It will further strengthen express packaging governance and promote the green development of the postal and express delivery industry.
How is express packaging deemed "excessive"? The new regulation establishes three core indicators: packaging box fit, number of packaging layers, and sealing tape. Each indicator sets three tiers of limit requirements to determine whether express packaging is excessive. For example, for sealing tape, when the sum of the length, width, and height of the express packaging box is within 700 millimeters, the amount of sealing tape used shall not exceed three times that sum; when the value is between 700 millimeters and 1,000 millimeters, the amount used shall not exceed four times that sum.
"This standard targets four typical problems of excessive packaging — using large boxes for small items, over-filling, too many layers, and excessive tape. Through the establishment of a '3×3' indicator system, it provides quantitative guidance and standard norms for the entire industry to precisely govern excessive packaging," said a relevant official of the State Post Bureau.
According to reports, the entire industry has already aligned with the standard in advance and proactively carried out rectification, achieving phased results in promoting green governance of express packaging.
"In recent years, we have carried out reduction, standardization, and scenario-based innovative research and development for materials such as plastic film, tape, paper, and sealing strips," said Lu Peng (路鹏), senior manager of the SF Express Packaging Innovation Lab (顺丰包装创新实验室). He noted that in 2025, the company cumulatively reduced the use of virgin paper by approximately 46,000 tons, reduced plastic use by approximately 35,000 tons, and achieved carbon emission reductions of approximately 130,000 tons.
In the warehousing link, the Sedum Warehouse Management System (景天仓储管理系统) independently developed by ZTO Cloud Warehouse (中通云仓) can intelligently recommend the appropriate size of carton for each order, with recommendation accuracy exceeding 94%. It has currently been promoted and applied in nearly 300 warehouses nationwide.
At present, the number of layers in postal and express industry packaging boxes and the thickness of packaging bags have been reduced by more than 50%, tape width has been reduced by 25%, and intelligent box-packing algorithms have reduced material consumption by nearly 20%. The industry's green development level is steadily improving.
In June last year, the newly revised Interim Regulations on Express Delivery (快递暂行条例) came into effect, adding a chapter on "express packaging" for the first time. One year later, the national standard Requirements for Limiting Excessive Express Packaging is implemented. How do the two connect? A relevant official of the State Post Bureau stated that the standard transforms the principle-based requirements stipulated in the regulations — such as optimizing packaging methods and structures, and conserving resource use — into quantifiable, rigid indicators. For e-commerce scenarios, it explicitly proposes "upstream and downstream coordination to promote the application of original packaging," guiding and regulating delivery enterprises, packaging production enterprises, and e-commerce operators to jointly promote the green, reduced, and recyclable development of express packaging.
In the next step, the State Post Bureau will improve the express packaging collaborative governance system and the green and low-carbon product testing and certification system. It will deeply promote the whole-chain governance of express packaging, industry plastic pollution governance, and excessive packaging governance, and will promote and apply green products and technologies such as recyclable packaging, original packaging, integrated e-commerce express packaging, "bamboo instead of plastic" packaging, and intelligent box-packing algorithms. It will actively and steadily advance the reduction of carbon emissions throughout the entire process of postal industry collection, transfer, transportation, and delivery.
Return to TopThis newspaper, Beijing, July 3 (Reporter Sun Xiuyan (孙秀艳)) — To further enhance the convenience of medical insurance services, the National Healthcare Security Administration (国家医疗保障局) has, relying on the nationally unified medical insurance information platform, developed a "Medical Insurance Drug Finder" (医保找药) function, helping insured members to more conveniently query where drugs covered by medical insurance and commercially insured innovative drugs can be purchased, making drug purchasing more efficient, more transparent, and more worry-free for insured members.
The "Medical Insurance Drug Finder" function can conveniently check within which designated medical institution or designated pharmacy a certain drug has had settlement records in the past month, and achieves daily data updates. The function covers all designated medical institutions and designated retail pharmacies nationwide, and supports fuzzy search and precise retrieval of drugs covered by medical insurance and innovative drugs.
Members of the public can use this service through the National Healthcare Security Administration WeChat public account, the National Healthcare Security Service Platform app, the National Healthcare Security Service Platform Alipay mini-program, and the National Healthcare Security Service Platform WeChat mini-program; the operation is simple and easy to understand.
Return to TopThis news report from Beijing, July 3 (Reporter Qiu Chaoyi (邱超奕)): The reporter learned from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源社会保障部) that, in order to increase the awareness and accessibility of employment public services, the Ministry recently collaborated with Tencent Maps, Baidu Maps, and AutoNavi Maps to develop a National Employment Public Service Map (全国就业公共服务地图), integrating and displaying the locations of over 4,400 public employment service institutions nationwide.
According to the introduction, workers can access the map by scanning a promotional poster QR code or by opening an app such as Tencent Maps and entering "National Employment Public Service Map" in the search bar on the home page, thereby locating public employment service institutions nationwide, viewing location information such as business hours, detailed address, contact telephone number, and service contents, and navigating to the destination with one click, realizing the goal of "open the map, find the institution, enjoy the service."
Return to TopBy: 郑海荣
“The degree of technological breakthroughs largely determines the speed, breadth, and depth of future industrial development.”
At present, a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating, with cutting-edge technologies constantly emerging, leading and supporting the rapid rise of future industries.
The “Fifteenth Five-Year Plan” outline proposes to target key areas that will lead future development, build a full-chain cultivation system for future industries, and promote quantum technology, biomanufacturing, hydrogen energy and nuclear fusion energy, brain-computer interfaces, embodied intelligence, and sixth-generation mobile communications to become new economic growth points.
Forward-looking deployment of future industries is an inevitable requirement for developing new productive forces and is closely related to our daily lives. Starting today, this column launches the “Academician Talks Science Popularization: Future Industries” series of reports, following academicians to understand the trends of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, and to feel the pulse of technological innovation and future industrial development. In this edition, Zheng Hairong (郑海荣), academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and executive vice president of Nanjing University, takes us to the frontier of brain-computer interface industry development, to understand the great knowledge and new achievements within small interfaces.
— Editor
A brain-computer interface is a new type of human-computer interaction technology that connects the human brain with external devices, and it is also a frontier field of global technological competition. This technology can construct a direct information pathway between the brain and machines, enabling the reading, decoding, and writing of neural signals, and promoting the deep integration of carbon-based biological intelligence and silicon-based artificial intelligence.
Currently, global brain-computer interfaces are at a critical stage of transitioning from laboratory research to large-scale application. Although invasive technologies have achieved phased results, bottlenecks such as biocompatibility and long-term safety remain difficult to break. For many years, my team and I have been deeply engaged in the field of non-invasive brain imaging and neuromodulation, committed to overcoming multiple technical difficulties in non-invasive ultrasound brain-computer interfaces, and exploring a development path for non-invasive brain-computer interface technology.
Different technical routes face multiple challenges
Currently, brain-computer interfaces mainly have three technical routes: invasive, semi-invasive, and non-invasive. Their technical forms differ, and the challenges they face also have their own emphases.
Invasive technology involves implanting microelectrodes into the cerebral cortex through surgery. This technology has the highest precision for collecting neuronal signals, but also has obvious shortcomings: implanted electrodes easily trigger the body’s immune rejection response, and long-term use can lead to signal attenuation, device failure, and other problems. In addition, surgery carries certain risks, and only local brain area signals can be collected, making whole-brain detection impossible.
Semi-invasive technology involves placing electrodes on the surface of the cerebral cortex, seeking a balance between signal quality and safety of use, but it still cannot avoid the potential risks brought by intracranial implantation.
Non-invasive technology relies on wearable devices to collect brain signals from the scalp. It has the characteristics of being non-invasive, safe, and easy to popularize, but its research and development technical barriers are extremely high. The skull and scalp can significantly attenuate and interfere with neural electrical signals, causing the raw data to be mixed with a large amount of noise. How to achieve stable collection and high-precision decoding of neural signals in complex environments is a common challenge facing global researchers.
Looking at the entire industrial chain, the development of China’s brain-computer interface industry also faces multiple challenges: whole-brain directional information writing technology has yet to be broken through; the supply of low-power dedicated neural chips that meet industry needs is insufficient; general-purpose chips struggle to simultaneously meet the requirements of low power consumption, high computing power, and multi-channel real-time processing. Brain-computer interfaces directly touch the boundaries of human thought and privacy, and supporting ethical norms, industry standards, and regulatory systems also urgently need to be simultaneously constructed and improved.
Exploring non-invasive brain entry and expanding medical scenario applications
Faced with challenges, our team chose a new path — the original technical route of non-invasive ultrasound neuromodulation. Unlike traditional electrode implantation approaches, this technology relies on multiple physical fields such as ultrasound, light, and electromagnetism to achieve bidirectional reading and writing of whole-brain neural information without destroying the body’s natural physiological barriers.
Enabling ultrasound to “penetrate” the skull and precisely act on deep brain regions inside the skull is the first hurdle this technology must overcome. During the process of “passing through” the skull, ultrasound is prone to refraction, energy loss, and other issues. To this end, the team conducted theoretical modeling of sound fields in complex media, simulation calculations, and controlled experiments, solving scientific problems one by one such as ultrasound propagation through the skull, energy focusing, and safe modulation, confirming the feasibility of non-invasive ultrasound neuromodulation technology from the scientific principle level.
A key hardware component of non-invasive ultrasound brain-computer interface technology is the high-density phased array transducer. Previously, this device was monopolized by foreign technology for a long time. By deeply engaging in the research and development of underlying piezoelectric materials and precision processing techniques, our team completed full-chain independent research and successfully achieved domestic substitution of the device. The self-developed transducer performs excellently in key indicators such as electroacoustic conversion efficiency, skull penetration capability, and focusing accuracy. It is precisely relying on this that the team successfully developed a ten-thousand-channel-level intelligent neural regulation system, integrating sound field correction algorithms and multimodal imaging navigation technology to create a high-precision positioning and tracking system like a “brain GPS,” which can precisely focus ultrasonic energy onto millimeter-level targets at a depth of 10 centimeters inside the skull, solving both the problems of diffuse action range and insufficient depth of traditional electromagnetic stimulation and eliminating the risk of trauma from implanted technologies.
On this basis, we proposed the cutting-edge technological concept of a “neural printer,” using multiple physical fields to regulate nanoscale ion channels within the brain, achieving directional “writing” of external information into the brain. Currently, this technology has achieved controllable regulation of specific memories and behaviors in animal experiments, which is helpful for intervening in difficult-to-treat brain diseases and reshaping human neural functions.
Through systematic clinical research, we found that non-invasive ultrasound modulation can effectively reduce the frequency and intensity of seizures in refractory epilepsy and significantly improve the emotional state and sleep quality of patients with major depressive disorder. It is noteworthy that among the clinical interventions for more than 10 patients with long-term disorders of consciousness, over half of the patients successfully regained consciousness, and some patients even gradually restored life abilities such as verbal expression and self-feeding, demonstrating the application value of this technology in the diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of major brain diseases.
In 2025, the Nanjing University Brain-Computer Interface Research Institute (南京大学脑机接口研究院) was established, focusing on three major directions: quantum measurement devices, neural imaging, and brain information decoding. It will promote the expansion of technology from single medical scenarios to multiple fields, providing more talent support for non-invasive brain-computer interface technology.
Promoting deep integration of carbon-based intelligence and silicon-based computing power
Today, the overall development path of China’s brain-computer interface industry is becoming increasingly clear. Combining the laws of technological evolution with the rhythm of application implementation, we have phased development expectations: short term (1–2 years), prioritize releasing value in the medical field. Advance medical testing and clinical implementation of brain-computer interface technology, accelerate the large-scale application of brain-computer interface medical large models, motor and language function reconstruction technologies; medium term (2–5 years), comprehensively expand technological boundaries. Concentrate on overcoming non-invasive optoacoustic electromagnetic brain neural functional imaging, artificial vision, hearing, touch and other sensory function restoration technologies, while simultaneously promoting research, development, and application of non-invasive brain-computer interfaces in scenarios such as autonomous driving, embodied intelligence, intelligent manufacturing, and comprehensive health management; medium to long term (5 years and above), explore new forms such as brain-machine fusion and brain-to-brain communication. Focus on breaking through cutting-edge technologies including reading brain neural information imaging, intelligent model translation and reconstruction, and directional writing of neural information, pushing brain-computer interfaces toward large-scale popularization, full-scenario coverage, consumer-grade implementation, and lightweight wearable development.
Currently, medical rehabilitation is the most mature implementation scenario for brain-computer interfaces. In the future, technology application scenarios will become even richer. We can imagine that in fields such as aerospace and high-risk operations, using thoughts to assist in control; in the industrial field, developing applications for brain-controlled robotic arms, drones, and humanoid robots, achieving efficient collaboration between the human brain and embodied intelligence; in the consumer electronics field, lightweight brain-computer products integrated with wearable devices are expected to subvert traditional human-computer interaction models and give rise to new consumer business formats.
From the perspective of technological transformation, brain-computer interfaces are the hub connecting carbon-based biological intelligence and silicon-based artificial intelligence. The development of artificial intelligence will successively go through stages of data intelligence, physical intelligence, and biological intelligence. Silicon-based intelligence excels at logical operations and data processing, but it is difficult to replicate the creativity, perception, and autonomous consciousness of the human brain. Brain-computer interfaces can build a bidirectional high-speed information channel between the human brain and machines, promoting the deep integration of carbon-based intelligence and silicon-based computing power, and are a lever for artificial intelligence to break through existing development bottlenecks and move toward a higher-order form.
Brain-computer interfaces are a disruptive technology in the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, and even more so an important foundation for China to lay out future industries and move toward human-machine symbiosis. We believe that with multi-party collaborative efforts, China’s brain-computer interface technology will continue to achieve breakthroughs and accelerate implementation. From technological exploration in the laboratory, to life protection in the hospital ward, to full-scenario human-machine collaboration, non-invasive brain-computer interface technology will empower with safety, precision, and universal accessibility, helping to usher in a new future of human-machine symbiosis and intelligent integration.
(The author is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and executive vice president of Nanjing University. Our reporter Yao Xueqing (姚雪青) contributed to this article.)
Return to TopBy: 沈文忠
Recently, space photovoltaic has attracted widespread attention. Using solar energy to generate electricity in space has added another layer of expectation for people regarding the "stars and seas." In fact, generating electricity in space is not merely imagination; as early as the last century, some countries installed solar cells on satellites and attempted to use them to generate electricity.
Now, there are more and more satellites in the sky, and the demand for electricity is also growing. In the past, satellites were like a flashlight, with simple functions and low power consumption; now, satellites need to handle communications and data processing, and some even want to build "data centers" in space relying on satellites. Satellites have thus become like large searchlights, with greatly increased electricity consumption.
With the rapid development of science and technology, three main technical routes have now been formed for developing solar energy in space:
First, the gallium arsenide battery route, the fastest and most stable, with an energy conversion efficiency of about 30%. Our country has a complete industrial chain in this regard, and the triple-junction gallium arsenide batteries developed are reliable and stable, but the disadvantage is that the cost is too high, thousands of times more expensive than the solar panels commonly seen on rooftops.
Second, the crystalline silicon battery route, which has low cost but also low early conversion efficiency. However, crystalline silicon heterojunction technology can improve energy conversion efficiency to 25%–27%, and can also be made into thin wafers. At present, p-type crystalline silicon heterojunction batteries seem to be a more realistic choice.
Third, the perovskite/crystalline silicon heterojunction tandem battery route. Theoretically, it has high efficiency and light weight, and the scientific community believes this approach has greater potential. Some leading photovoltaic companies are also accelerating research and development. However, whether perovskite batteries can withstand the harsh environment of space remains a question mark. In the space environment, temperature differences can reach over 200 degrees Celsius, along with various cosmic rays, which will pose great challenges to the batteries.
Currently, many solar cells used in space still need to be "tailor-made." In the future, while mass-producing them, ensuring stable quality will not be easy.
Space photovoltaic is not simply about sending solar panels into space; it is about enabling the entire space power station to operate long-term in an extreme space environment. This includes the links of power generation, energy storage, power transmission, and on-orbit operation and maintenance. The space environment is completely different from the ground, facing intense ultraviolet rays, extreme temperature changes, high-energy particle radiation, atomic oxygen erosion, micrometeroid impacts, etc. It is necessary to accumulate data through rigorous ground simulation and long-term on-orbit verification.
In the next few years, the field of space photovoltaic should focus on the following aspects: technologically, insist on walking on multiple legs; in engineering, conduct more testing and verification, simulate the space environment as much as possible, and solve corresponding problems; in industry, form a combined force.
Doing scientific research is like planting a tree. The sapling of space photovoltaic has just broken through the soil. What we need to do is to give it time to grow. In the future, when we truly use "space electricity," and look up at the starry sky at night, knowing that there is a space power station built by our country working silently up there, what a proud thing that will be.
(The author is the director of the Solar Energy Research Institute at Shanghai Jiao Tong University; this newspaper's reporter Huang Xiaohui (黄晓慧) conducted the interview and compiled the text.)
Return to TopThis newspaper Beijing dispatch (reporter Wang Haonan (王昊男)). On June 29, the 2026 Global Digital Economy Conference · Space Computing Forum was held at the Zhongguancun Exhibition Center in Haidian District (海淀区), Beijing. At the event venue, the Beijing Space Computing Innovation Center (北京太空算力创新中心) was officially inaugurated.
The center is located at Beijing Satellite Town (北京卫星小镇) in Haidian District, positioned as a space computing innovation center with the important content of smoothing the industrial chain and coordinating upstream and downstream, and operates using a "company + alliance" dual-wheel drive model. The center focuses on the entire space computing industrial chain, systematically deploying six key research directions: design and development of space-native computing chips, high-performance ultra-bandwidth space computing payloads, satellite platforms and ground verification infrastructure, large model deployment and software-hardware collaborative optimization, key technology research and development for integrated space-ground cloud platforms, and satellite application technology innovation and scenario verification. It connects the full-stack collaboration of "chip - hardware - platform - intelligence - network - application," systematically building a space computing native industrial system.
At the same time as the center's inauguration, the Beijing Space Computing Innovation Center Expert Committee (北京太空算力创新中心专家委员会) and the Beijing Space Computing Innovation Alliance (北京太空算力创新联盟) were established simultaneously. The Beijing Space Computing Innovation Center Expert Committee brings together 30 experts, including 12 academicians, covering technical fields such as 6G space-air-ground integrated communications, microprocessors, and integrated circuits. The Beijing Space Computing Innovation Alliance has 108 first-batch intended member units, including universities, research institutes, central state-owned enterprises and state-owned enterprises, and private enterprises, etc. Focusing on the needs of building a space power and an AI computing system, it will gather industry-university-research-application resources, deepen collaborative innovation, and jointly build a space computing industry innovation ecosystem of resource sharing, complementary advantages, and win-win cooperation, promoting breakthroughs in key space computing technologies, collaborative innovation and standard setting in the industrial chain, public service capacity building, and application scenario expansion.
Return to TopOur newspaper’s Haikou dispatch — (Reporter Sun Haitian (孙海天)) The team of Academician Li Jiayang (李家洋) from the Yazhou Bay National Laboratory (崖州湾国家实验室) and the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院遗传与发育生物学研究所), together with collaborators, recently published research results online in Cell, systematically elucidating the mechanism of a new type of photoprotection mediated by plant protein phase transition that enhances photosynthesis, successfully cracking the crop “afternoon nap” (午睡) puzzle that has puzzled the scientific community for a century.
In the field environment, excessive midday sunlight causes plant chloroplasts to accumulate large amounts of singlet oxygen, damaging photosynthesis-related proteins and structures, triggering photoinhibition and photosynthetic midday depression. This “forced shutdown” directly leads to an average reduction in crop yield of about 30%, which has long constrained breakthroughs in grain output.
The study found that an ultra-small protein named MBS1 in plants, under high-light stress, can specifically sense singlet oxygen through conformational changes in its zinc finger structure, and undergo liquid-liquid phase separation and phase transition. This protein forms condensate droplets within the cell, covering the surface of chloroplasts like a “shield,” reducing strong light transmission through light scattering and optical masking effects, thereby reducing singlet oxygen accumulation at its source, constructing a natural dynamic sunscreen barrier for chloroplasts. When light returns to normal, these aggregated structures gradually disappear, forming a dynamic and intelligent sunlight filtering system.
Field trials on rice confirmed that upregulating MBS1 expression can effectively alleviate crop damage from strong light and significantly increase yield.
This research achievement was jointly funded by the National Major Project for Agricultural Biological Breeding (国家农业生物育种重大专项), the National Key Research and Development Program (国家重点研发计划), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (国家自然科学基金), and the Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院先导专项), and is of great significance for ensuring food security.
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The Long March 12B Y1 launch vehicle recently ignited and lifted off from the Dongfeng Commercial Aerospace Innovation Test Zone (东风商业航天创新试验区), successfully sending the tenth batch of networking satellites for the Thousand Sails Constellation (千帆星座) into the predetermined orbit, and the maiden flight mission achieved complete success.
The Long March 12B launch vehicle (hereinafter referred to as the "Long March 12B rocket") is led in overall development by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation Commercial Rocket Co., Ltd. (中国航天科技集团商业火箭有限公司). It has a total height of approximately 72 meters, a rocket body diameter of 4.37 meters, a first stage with nine engines in parallel, a liftoff thrust of 800 tons, and a low-Earth orbit payload capacity of no less than 20 tons. It is a new-generation single-core four-meter-class reusable launch vehicle built by China, capable of achieving high-density deployment of multiple satellites with a single rocket.
What are the new highlights of the new rocket that succeeded on its maiden flight?
Highlight 1: Cleverly doing "subtraction".
The development team introduced that by lightweight design to reduce rocket weight, transport efficiency was improved. For example, the cable network on traditional rockets has a relatively large weight proportion; by attempting lightweight wire design, the weight can be reduced by 30% to 40%. In the selection of fairing material, the team through repeated tests created a glass-fiber-reinforced plastic sandwich with honeycomb core structure, further reducing the rocket's weight.
The entire rocket also has many "invisible subtractions". As the current largest payload capacity single-core rocket in China, this model's first stage carries nine hundred-ton-class liquid oxygen/kerosene engines. Through innovative designs such as lightweight turbopumps and large-area-ratio high-altitude nozzles, a performance leap is achieved with a highly compact propulsion system. At the same time, this rocket, by optimizing the overall layout, achieves systemic "weight reduction and slimming" of the rocket body structure.
Highlight 2: Sufficiently "smart".
Development personnel introduced that because the Long March 12B rocket is a reusable rocket, the team installed a "smart brain" for the rocket: both the first stage and the second stage have a flight control center, capable of autonomously calculating real-time flight algorithms. Through information exchange between the two stages, reliability is improved.
Taking the engine as an example, the rocket's first stage uses nine hundred-ton-class liquid oxygen/kerosene engines in a parallel layout, with multiple engines working in coordination. Once a certain engine or servo mechanism fails, the remaining engines are also prone to problems such as mechanical collision. For this reason, the rocket is equipped with flight control software that has fault diagnosis and reconfiguration functions, enabling autonomous response to abnormal conditions by redistributing engine gimballing capability during flight. By constructing a high-precision dynamics and control coupling model, the system can achieve millisecond-level real-time perception and precise diagnosis of each engine's working state. Once a fault is detected, the system immediately initiates an intelligent reconfiguration mechanism, automatically identifies the failed component, dynamically allocates control commands, and directs other healthy engines to "cooperatively fill in".
In addition, the development team adopted TSN (Time-Sensitive Networking) high-speed bus technology. It builds a set of precise "traffic rules" on top of standard Ethernet, giving key data an exclusive "fast lane", achieving "heartbeat synchronization" of all devices on the rocket. In the future, this technology can be connected to mobile phones to transmit data and images in real time.
Hefei, Anhui (Reporter Li Junjie (李俊杰)) — The reporter learned from the Institute of Plasma Physics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院合肥物质科学研究院等离子体物理研究所) that recently, the largest superconducting component of the national major scientific and technological infrastructure, the "Comprehensive Research Facility for Fusion Reactor Host Key Systems (聚变堆主机关键系统综合研究设施)" — the toroidal field superconducting magnet — completed its final fabrication process in Hefei, Anhui, and passed expert acceptance. At the same time, the high-temperature superconducting central solenoid coil also completed full-condition parameter testing, with core performance reaching international leading levels.
The toroidal field superconducting magnet is 21 meters long, 12 meters wide, and 3.3 meters high, with a total weight of 582 tons. Its volume is 1.3 times that of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor toroidal field magnet, and its stored energy is three times that. During the operation of a fusion reactor device, the toroidal field superconducting magnet is responsible for constructing a toroidal magnetic field to confine the plasma and reduce the impact loss of high-energy particles on the vacuum chamber wall. The project took six years, and the entire chain of the complete set of magnets achieved 100% domestic production. The project applied for and was granted 47 patents and formulated 14 standards, with all performance indicators leading international同类 products.
The important function of the central solenoid coil is to induce and drive the plasma current and dynamically regulate the plasma confinement configuration. Measured data from the high-temperature superconducting central solenoid coil show that the coil stably carries 60 kiloamperes, stores 6.03 megajoules, has a maximum magnetic field change rate of 5.1 Tesla per second, and a joint resistance of 0.87 nano-ohms, with key indicators and core performance reaching international leading levels. From superconducting materials and structural design to the complete set of fabrication processes, the coil has achieved full domestic production. These two important breakthroughs further solidify the superconducting engineering foundation for China's construction of a fusion reactor and effectively enhance the independent research and development and engineering construction capabilities for fusion reactor construction.
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This year marks the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. As a guardian of the Red Building of Peking University, whenever I pause in the exhibition hall and look up at the couplet written by Li Dazhao in his own hand — “Shouldering righteousness with iron shoulders, writing brilliant essays with skillful hands” — I always feel a surge of thought that transcends time and space. This couplet is not only a true portrayal of the pioneers’ search for a path to save the country, but also the spiritual mainline of the entire exhibition.
In the past five years, we have adhered to the philosophy of “establishing the museum through scholarship, strengthening the museum through cultural preservation,” deeply excavated collection resources, and brought one precious historical document after another before the eyes of the audience. Following the spiritual context of these precious collections, we wish to journey with the audience back to the extraordinary past of the Awakening Age, and to perceive the original aspiration and mission in the echoes of history.
Entering the “Early Dissemination of Marxism” exhibition hall, the first artifact is the special issue on Marx research, Volume 6, Number 5 of New Youth, published in September 1919, in which Li Dazhao’s “My Marxist Views” was published. At that time, the divine land was deeply mired in 内忧外患 (nèi yōu wài huàn — “internal troubles and external threats,” domestic strife and foreign aggression), and various reformist trends of thought took turns appearing on the stage, but ultimately could not reverse the crisis of national decline. Li Dazhao was unwilling to confine himself to his study; he resolutely shouldered the heavy responsibility of seeking a path to save the country. This article of more than 20,000 characters systematically introduced the Marxist materialist conception of history, the theory of class struggle, and the theory of surplus value, clarifying that the theory of class struggle is the logical mainline connecting the three major theories. He clearly stated: “The realization of socialism, without the people themselves, is absolutely impossible.” This article, like a beacon of thought, propelled Marxism into a stage of systematic dissemination in China. This artifact profoundly interprets the “upholding truth and adhering to ideals” (坚持真理、坚守理想) of the great founding spirit of the Party (伟大建党精神).
Following the footprints of history, the second artifact is the second issue of the second volume of the Dawn magazine, published in March 1921, which contains Li Dazhao’s “Training of the Group and the Cause of Innovation,” completely reproducing the exploration process of organizational construction during the preparatory stage of Party building. This article is his only piece specifically explaining the strategy of Party building. From spreading the fire of theory to planning the founding of the Party, the early Communists integrated knowledge and action (知行合一 - zhī xíng hé yī, “knowledge and action are one,” unity of knowing and doing) and bravely shouldered the heavy responsibilities of the times, vividly interpreting the “practicing the original aspiration and undertaking the mission” (践行初心、担当使命) of the great founding spirit of the Party.
Turning the gaze to the third artifact — a precious letter sent across the ocean. On August 13, 1920, Cai Hesen, who had gone to France on a work-study program, wrote a letter to Mao Zedong, for the first time completely outlining the idea of establishing the “Communist Party of China,” clearly defining the Party as the initiator, propagandist, vanguard, and combat department of the revolutionary movement. After reading it, Mao Zedong replied: “Your letter is extremely sound in opinion; there is not a single character I disagree with.” The two were separated by thousands of miles, but their beliefs were connected. Though the road ahead was strewn with thorns and the danger of sacrifice lurked at every moment, neither wavered in their resolute will to join the revolution. This letter is a precious document in Party history that systematically expounds the proposition of Party building, deeply manifesting the “not fearing sacrifice, bravely struggling” (不怕牺牲、英勇斗争) of the great founding spirit of the Party.
Over a hundred years ago, the surging currents of thought and the light of faith converged at the Red Building of Peking University. It was here that the young Mao Zedong came into contact with Marxism and established his lifelong unwavering communist belief. As he later recalled: “Once I accepted that Marxism is the correct interpretation of history, my faith in Marxism has never wavered.” The lamplight of the Red Building witnessed the complete process of a patriotic youth growing into a staunch Marxist revolutionary, vividly confirming the “being loyal to the Party and never betraying the people” (对党忠诚、不负人民) of the great founding spirit of the Party.
Three artifacts are linked ring by ring, fully spreading out the process of early Chinese Communists disseminating truth, planning the founding of the Party, and building consensus, manifesting the spiritual source of the Communist Party of China.
Over a hundred years ago, Li Dazhao wrote a 振聋发聩 (zhèn lóng fā kuì — “shake the deaf and awaken the dull,” to rouse the ignorant and awaken the apathetic) cry of the times: “With the youthful self, create … a youthful country, a youthful nation …” Across more than a hundred years, this message remains as hot as ever. Today, guarding these artifacts is to allow every visitor to touch the temperature of faith through the paper and ink, to let the light of truth and the light of faith that have been tempered for a hundred years in the Red Building of Peking University be eternally propagated, inspiring future generations to shoulder the heavy responsibility of national rejuvenation with practical work and commitment.
(The author is the curator of the Museum of Early Revolutionary Activities of the Communist Party of China in Beijing.)
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This is a national flag, its edges frayed from countless tugs by the sea wind — it is one of the last few flags that Wang Jicai (王继才) and Wang Shihua (王仕花) raised on Kaishan Island (开山岛). Beside it, a duty log has yellowed pages; the metal casing of a flashlight is mottled with rust. In a neighboring display case, the shell of the loudspeaker Zhang Guimei (张桂梅) used shows its undercoat, the cover of her hand-copied Party Constitution is curled at the edges, and the handwriting on the inner pages remains as neat as ever. These five ordinary cultural relics piece together two extraordinary characters: Faith.
Looking back at the Party’s more than one hundred years since its founding, the spark of faith has never been extinguished. The perseverance of the revolutionary era was mostly heroic sacrifice in the face of 枪林弹雨 (qiāng lín dàn yǔ - “forest of guns, rain of bullets,” a hail of bullets) — meeting the mission with hot blood and fulfilling the original aspiration with life; the responsibility of the new era is more often a day-in, day-out, year-by-year quiet persistence, a long-accumulated selfless dedication. One-time bravery relies on mettle; a lifetime of perseverance relies on faith.
Adhering to truth and upholding ideals is embodied in the day-in, day-out routine of the island flagpole and the mountain classroom. During the Jinggang Mountains period, Red Army soldiers answered the question “how long can the red flag keep flying” with victory after victory in counter-encirclement campaigns; today, the couple Wang Jicai and Wang Shihua answer the doubt “is this island worth defending” with an unbroken flag-raising that lasted 32 years. Kaishan Island covers an area smaller than two football fields, has no water or electricity, and dozens of typhoons hit it every year. Before Wang Jicai, the Kaishan Island outpost had rotated through several batches of island keepers; the longest had lasted only 13 days. Wang Jicai not only stayed himself, but also persuaded his wife Wang Shihua to resign from her primary-school teaching post and come to the island to accompany him. He said: “Only by watching the national flag unfurl in the sea wind do I feel that this island has color.”
In the depths of the southwestern mountains, Zhang Guimei is coloring faith in another way. Every morning at 5 o’clock, her voice pierces the campus mist through a loudspeaker. In order to establish the first free girls’ high school in the country, and to ensure that no girl drops out because of poverty, she dragged her ailing body everywhere, was driven away by people, bitten by vicious dogs, endured all kinds of hardship, but never wavered. She always kept the Party Constitution on her desk and copied it out again and again — every word and every sentence was a tempering of faith.
Putting the original aspiration into practice and shouldering the mission leaves its mark in every island-keeping record and every morning wake-up call. “This morning the two of us raised the national flag in front of the house, inspected the area around the island and the sea surface, and all instruments on the island are normal” — the handwriting in the duty log is far from neat, somewhat blurred by the humid sea air, but such records were repeated for a full 32 years. Wang Shihua said: “The person he let down most in this life was his family, but he never let down Kaishan Island.” Zhang Guimei’s little loudspeaker also records a similar mark: every morning she wakes the students, during break she urges them to run, late at night she urges them to turn off the lights: “Girls, hurry up! Time waits for no one!” This phrase, repeated for over ten years, called back girls about to drop out on the ridges of the fields, and also called out the changed fates of more than 2,000 girls from the mountains.
Fearing no sacrifice and bravely fighting — in the flickering beam of the flashlight and the gradually hoarse voice of the loudspeaker, true annual rings are carved. The flashlight, 5.5 centimeters in diameter and 18 centimeters long, looks rather “primitive”; its beam travels no more than a dozen meters, yet it was the only reliance of Wang Jicai and his wife when they patrolled the island. The reefs were slippery, waves pounded the shore; that faint beam wobbled and swayed, illuminating countless nights when the sea wind howled. Once a typhoon raged for 17 straight days, leaving only half a bucket of fresh water; the island’s food was exhausted. The couple tied a backpack strap around their waists, braved the gale to pick sea snails on the reefs to stave off hunger, and managed to hold out for three days until a supply boat arrived. Years of dampness gave Wang Jicai severe rheumatoid arthritis. The doctor told him: only by leaving the island could he be cured. He did not leave. Similarly, Zhang Guimei, suffering from 23 diseases, her hands plastered with pain-relief patches, had to grip the railing and inch step by step when going up and down stairs — yet every day she held her little loudspeaker and “hawked” all over campus. Someone advised her to take a rest. She said: “As long as I have one breath left, I will stand on the platform.”
The national flag in the display case is no longer the bright red it once was, but it proves that loyalty never fades. The island was barren and lonely, the income meager, yet Wang Jicai never made any request to the organization. On July 27, 2018, he fell ill suddenly while on duty, leaving behind more than 200 national flags that had been blown by the sea wind. A life stopped at 58, here it burned without regret, lighting up the outpost between sea and sky, and also lighting the path for those who come after. When Zhang Guimei donated the little loudspeaker that had accompanied her for more than ten years and the hand-copied Party Constitution to the state, she said only: “I hope through these items to pass on our Party’s spirit and purpose, and to spread this voice as far as it can go.”
Cultural relics are the code of the spirit. Across the display cases, we encounter these relics. Some of their owners have been laid to rest on the lonely island; others are still rushing about in the depths of the mountains. The 伟大建党精神 (wěidà jiàn dǎng jīngshén - “great founding spirit of the Party”) lives in every national flag lifted by the sea wind, every page of the duty log soaked by the tide, every flashlight beam that cuts through the night, and every loudspeaker call that wakes the dawn. These objects will eventually grow old, but faith never needs a new coat — it carves its annual rings with wear, it takes the sea wind and chalk dust as its base color, and in the hands of each generation, it lives in a different form.
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The burial pits of the Baling (霸陵) mausoleum of Emperor Wen of Han and the southwest corner of the Nanling (南陵) mausoleum of Empress Dowager Bo have been selected as one of the Top Ten Archaeological Discoveries in the World for 2023. The more than 40 species of animals unearthed are predominantly local wild animals, including giant pandas, takins, golden snub-nosed monkeys and other species endemic to the Qinling Mountains. The majority of the animal remains were accurately identified through morphological examination and ancient DNA testing. However, two sets of skeletons — a ground hornbill and a brown-footed tortoise unearthed from the burial pits of Empress Dowager Bo's Nanling — could not be accurately identified due to a lack of comparative specimens and because their native distribution does not lie within China's territory.
After skeletal morphological comparison, ancient DNA testing, and strontium isotope analysis, the two were ultimately confirmed as skeletons of the Southern ground hornbill, which today lives in southern Africa, and the brown-footed tortoise, which lives in southern Thailand and other locations. This result corrected earlier conjectures and provides valuable physical evidence for investigating cross-continental civilizational interactions during the early Han dynasty.
Preliminary morphological comparison and identification determined that the unearthed Southern ground hornbill skeleton belongs to the genus Bucorvus of Africa. The ancient DNA team of Zhang Xiaoming (张晓明) at the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, extracted samples and completed mitochondrial genome sequencing, confirming that its closest genetic relationship is with the Southern ground hornbill found from Ethiopia in East Africa to the grasslands of southern Africa. The carapace length of the brown-footed tortoise skeleton far exceeds that of China's native tortoises, making it identifiable as the Southeast Asian brown-footed tortoise (Manouria emys). The brown-footed tortoise is divided into two subspecies: the black-footed and the brown-footed. Based on the typical characteristic that the pectoral scutes are not connected to the abdominal scutes, a tortoise expert from the University of Tokyo in Japan confirmed it as the brown-footed tortoise, which is distributed in southern Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra, and the Indonesian archipelago, and is the largest surviving tortoise in Asia.
Empress Dowager Bo died in the second year of Emperor Jing of Han's reign, before the official Silk Road had been opened. These two sole skeletons of exotic animals are sufficient to confirm that, prior to Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions, active channels for cross-regional and cross-continental species exchange, private commerce, and cultural interaction already existed outside official channels. Exotic rare birds and strange beasts from beyond the borders were transported over long distances to the imperial hunting parks of the Han dynasty, and after death were buried as funerary offerings in the outer storage pits of Nanling, becoming an important component of the royal "underground hunting park."
The Southern ground hornbill primarily moves on the ground and has extremely poor flight ability; it is not a migratory bird. The brown-footed tortoise moves very slowly. Neither could have journeyed thousands of miles on its own to migrate to the Guanzhong Plain. Examining the transmission routes, the brown-footed tortoise likely entered the Guanzhong region via the Indochina Peninsula — the Southwestern Yi regions — Ba-Shu, representing an early prototype of the later Southwestern Silk Road. The transmission route of the Southern ground hornbill was much longer and more complex; it most likely traveled through the Indian Ocean trade network from the east coast of Africa to India in South Asia, and then via the Yunnan-Burma land route or a combined sea-land route from the South China Sea through Jiaozhi (交趾) and Lingnan (岭南) to the Central Plains. This indicates that during the reigns of Emperors Wen and Jing, an intercontinental exchange network jointly built by merchants, explorers, and local polities had already taken shape. Together with the green peafowl, white-winged wood duck, and other animals unearthed at the same time, these species constitute a cross-continental animal atlas of the early Western Han dynasty.
Based on the molecular evidence of the Southern ground hornbill, the results of this archaeological study push forward the record of regularized species exchange between China and foreign lands to before Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions. At least before Empress Dowager Bo was interred in 155 BCE, exotic species from Africa and Southeast Asia had already arrived in the Central Plains, rewriting to a certain extent the history of foreign relations and species exchange in the Han dynasty. The research confirms that before the formal opening of the traditional Silk Road, the Eurasian and African continents had already engaged in cross-regional and cross-continental civilizational interactions and material exchanges through both maritime and land corridors. These exotic creatures sounded the prelude to early Silk Road exchanges, accumulated social knowledge and material foundations for Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions, and also provide archaeological evidence, dating back 2,000 years, for the historical and cultural origins of the Belt and Road Initiative (一带一路).
The Book of Han, Volume 95, "Biographies of the Southwestern Yi, Two Yue, and Korea" records that in the first year of Emperor Wen of Han, Nanyue presented as tribute "a pair of white jade discs, a thousand kingfishers, ten rhinoceros horns, five hundred purple cowries, one vessel of cinnamon tree borers, forty pairs of raw emerald feathers, and two pairs of peacocks." The Book of Han, "Biography of the Western Regions" records that after the Nanyue kingdom submitted, its king Zhao Tuo specially sent white elephants, products of Lingnan, as tribute into the Shanglin Imperial Park. These textual records clearly indicate that, via the transit of the Nanyue kingdom and through the South China Sea tributary trade, rare birds and strange beasts from the south and beyond the borders had already entered the imperial hunting parks of the Guanzhong region. The Southern ground hornbill and brown-footed tortoise unearthed from Empress Dowager Bo's Nanling corroborate the records in the Book of Han, "Treatise on Geography," and also demonstrate that the breadth of the Han dynasty's exploration of the outside world far exceeded what the written records convey, confirming the material and cultural exchanges between China and foreign lands at that time.
More than 2,000 years ago, the Southern ground hornbill crossed the mountains and seas of Asia and Africa, and the brown-footed tortoise traversed the rainforests of the Indochina Peninsula. Relying on private trade networks, they settled in the Guanzhong region, bearing witness to the open-mindedness and dynastic prosperity of the reigns of Emperors Wen and Jing. More than 2,000 years later, these two sets of sleeping ancient animal remains, through scientific evidence, narrate the cultural gene of 兼容并蓄 (jiān róng bìng xù - "to encompass and absorb all," inclusive and eclectic) that characterizes Chinese civilization, and once again demonstrate that Chinese civilization has, since ancient times, been an open civilization that has grown stronger through continuous exchange and mutual learning with other civilizations.
(The author is a Distinguished Professor at the Institute of Cultural Heritage, Shandong University, and a Research Fellow at the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology.)
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After relocating to Guo Village (郭宅村), Cangshan District, Fuzhou, on an early morning I strolled among the clusters of buildings that had risen around my new home, and inadvertently noticed an ancient stone bridge outside the community fence, brightening my eyes.
This place was a world apart. Everywhere I looked were banyan trees, camphor trees, chinaberry trees, reeds, and wildflowers; the flowing water murmured, and several small green fish in the water were clearly visible! A senior citizen who had come out for morning exercise walked toward me, and I asked: “Good morning, uncle! Where does this small stream lead to?” He said: “This was originally a moat; the water is drawn from the Min River, irrigates the nearby farmland, then flows back into the Min River and eventually empties into the sea.” Following his direction, I saw the inscription on the bridgehead – it was actually built during the Song Dynasty! The small bridge runs east-west; it is a stone-structured, two-pier, three-span flat-beam bridge. The bridge is 33.5 meters long, 3.6 meters wide, with unequal spans, one span already silted up; the piers are rectangular, each span surfaced with four stone beams laid side by side. On one of the stone beams are the characters “Tiansheng tenth year.” The stone slabs, polished dark and glossy by the footsteps of time, appear all the more solemn and sturdy. This single bridge has witnessed the bustling prosperity of Song and Ming market towns and the vicissitudes of modern history. Gazing at her, the bridge and I seemed to carry on a spiritual dialogue across a thousand years.
I sincerely thank the urban managers and builders for their breadth of mind and sentiment, allowing this azure wave that has flowed through a millennium still to ripple before our eyes. This bridge was listed as a Fuzhou municipal-level cultural relic protection unit in November 1992.
Worth mentioning is that this place was once famed for bamboo weaving. Quality bamboo from northern Fujian was transported here and, through superb bamboo-weaving craftsmanship, became Guo Village’s economic industry. Guo Village bamboo weaving was renowned far and wide; folk tradition says: when an old Fuzhou family married off a daughter, her dowry was sure to include Guo Village bamboo weaving. During the Northern Song Dynasty, the Guo clan ancestors raised funds to build this bridge over the Baihu River to facilitate travel, and named it the Seven-Star Bridge. As time passed, when the Yingtan–Xiamen railway was built in the 1950s, most of the carrying poles, baskets, and stone baskets used came from here, and several hundred villagers from the surrounding area supported the railway construction.
I have gazed in reverence at the Lugou Bridge on the outskirts of Beijing, visited the Zhaozhou Bridge in Hebei, and lingered time and again on my hometown’s Luoyang Bridge in Hui’an. Now, this ancient bridge at my doorstep sets my heart and spirit swaying – 心旌摇曳 (xīn jīng yáo yè - “heart and banner swaying,” deeply stirred)!
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A desk lamp, a soft cushion, a fine brush — seated in the morning, rising again at noon — such is the daily work of a ceramic restorer at the Shanxi Museum.
I am 48 years old this year, having深耕 (deeply cultivated) in the field of ceramic restoration for 27 years. I studied traditional Chinese painting from childhood, later switched to Western painting, majored in arts and crafts at university, and entered this line of work purely by chance. In 1999, while still in university, I taught at an art training class. A student’s parent always lingered a while longer at the classroom door each time he came to pick up his child. He would later become my teacher, Gao Guilin (高桂林), an expert in ancient Shanxi ceramic restoration. Teacher Gao took me to his workshop to watch broken shards be restored to wholeness in his hands. From then on, I plunged headlong into the world of ceramic restoration.
At the beginning, my teacher only assigned me tasks such as applying color and supplementing painted patterns. Ceramics are three-dimensional, so painting requires suspending the wrist. At first I was indeed not quite used to it, but relying on my foundation in fine arts and a steady temperament, after a period of adjustment I became accustomed. Seeing that I picked it up quickly, my teacher gradually entrusted me with procedures such as bonding, grinding, and filling. One year later, I was already able to independently restore ceramics. In the 1990s, there were few people engaged in ceramic restoration in Taiyuan; in the eyes of others, it was merely a niche trade of “repairing broken junk,” but we took delight in it. After graduating, I entered the former Shanxi Provincial Cultural Relics Exchange Center (原山西省文物交流中心). At that time, many collectors came with all kinds of damaged objects, queuing up to have them restored. I handled a large quantity of ceramics, thereby honing the fundamentals of restoration. In 2020, my former unit was merged into the Shanxi Museum, providing a larger platform for improving restoration skills.
What counts as a good restoration of a ceramic? It is not the pursuit of perfection, but rather preserving the original traces of the cultural relic as much as possible during the restoration process. In the “Xia and Shang Traces” (夏商踪迹) exhibition hall of the Shanxi Museum, there is a Shang dynasty three-legged ceramic li (商代三足陶鬲) that I restored. Upon close inspection, some fire marks are still retained. Bringing out these traces of use is meant to help audiences read this artifact more intuitively. At the 2022 National Cultural Relic Industry Vocational Skills Competition (全国文物行业职业技能大赛) finals, I used the same method to restore the lid of a famille rose flower-and-bird pattern winter-melon jar (粉彩花鸟纹冬瓜罐). There were some oil stains and dirt on the lid; judging it to be a heirloom object, I preserved the patina. In the end, I won the first prize in the ceramic cultural relic restorer category. “Reversible restoration” is also my consistent principle. Cultural relics have life; they must be left with the opportunity for later generations to re-repair. With progress in restoration materials and technology, perhaps future generations will do even better.
When one has learned all there is to learn, and the objects sent in offer nothing new — how to overcome burnout? I enjoy taking on challenges with “difficult and unusual pieces.” The crackle pattern of Ge ware (哥窑) has fine, dense lines that are hard to join. Through repeated experiments, I introduced the airbrushing technique from fine arts, spraying line by line so that the old and new crackle patterns precisely “interlock”… Every time I conquer a technical difficulty, I can move forward a bit further.
Shanxi is an important region for ancient Chinese ceramic production. In the ceramic restoration unit where I work, there are only six frontline technicians, yet we must face tens of thousands of ceramics awaiting restoration. In 2025, the Shanxi Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security (山西省人社厅) reviewed and approved the establishment of a provincial-level skill master studio led by me, in the hope that through this platform the skills can be passed on to more people.
One person, in one lifetime, can restore at most 10,000 pieces. If I teach 10 people, they can restore 100,000 pieces. Toward every piece of ceramic, we must hold a sense of reverence.
(The author is a “National Cultural Relic Grand Artisan” and restorer at the Shanxi Museum; reported by our correspondent Fu Mingli (付明丽))
By: 闻 白
The distorted painted pottery pot of Lingjiatan (凌家滩), the pottery urn of Mopanshan (磨盘山), the jade crown-shaped artifact of Yuhang Pingyao Beicun (余杭瓶窑北村)… In the lower Yangtze River region between 6,000 and 4,000 years ago, a unique civilization development model was nurtured, relying on the water network environment, rice-based economy, jade and stone handicrafts, and regional exchanges. In 2020, the National Cultural Heritage Administration (国家文物局) launched the major project "Archaeological China – Research on the Civilization Model of the Lower Yangtze River Region" (考古中国——长江下游区域文明模式研究), aiming to comprehensively display the civilization process of the region through systematic field archaeology and multidisciplinary collaborative research. The "Exhibition of Research Results on the Civilization Model of the Lower Yangtze River Region – Archaeological China" (考古中国——长江下游区域文明模式研究成果展) held on June 25 at Peking University's Sackler Museum of Archaeology and Art is the first concentrated display of archaeological research results over the past five years.
The exhibition takes time as the axis and uses 14 key sites such as the Hanshan County Lingjiatan site in Anhui (含山凌家滩遗址), the Zhangjiagang Dongshan Village site in Jiangsu (张家港东山村遗址), and the Yuhang Liangzhu Ancient City Site Group in Zhejiang (余杭良渚古城遗址群) as points, connecting important archaeological discoveries in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, and Anhui in recent years through 419 pieces (sets) of exhibits. It systematically presents the context of the lower Yangtze River region "taking water as the vein, rice as the foundation, jade as the ritual, and the capital city as the hub" (以水为脉，以稻为基，以玉为礼，以都邑为枢), moving toward early states.
The sites in the first unit are very representative. The Lingjiatan site has confirmed multiple ring ditches, complex public spaces, and sacrificial remains around high-ranking noble tombs in recent years of archaeology. The Dongshan Village site underwent a new round of archaeological excavation from 2023 to 2025, revealing a number of important remains such as large and medium-sized Songze Culture (崧泽文化) tombs and burned-earth sacrificial plazas. The Mopanshan site is connected to the Yangtze River system and the Lake Taihu system, and is located at an important geographical node for east-west transmission and north-south interaction, with relatively rich remains from the late Majiabang Culture (马家浜文化) to the early Liangzhu Culture (良渚文化). The three sites display from different angles the early features of settlement planning, social differentiation, and regional integration during the formation period of the lower Yangtze River regional civilization.
The second unit, "The Prosperous Stage of Civilization – The Liangzhu Ancient City Site Group" (文明鼎盛阶段——良渚古城遗址群), focuses on the Liangzhu ancient city from 5,300 to 4,500 years ago. A fragment of an incised pottery dish unearthed from the ancient river channel at Zhongjiagang (钟家港) (see Figure 1) attracted everyone's attention. Is this small figure holding a battle-ax in the left hand and a grid-shaped object in the right hand a soldier, a general, or the pottery artisan himself? Also, a jade crown-shaped artifact unearthed from Tomb No. 106 at Liangzhu North Village (良渚北村) has a wide, flat inverted trapezoid shape, with openwork and incised lines creating a beast-face pattern, on close inspection showing double-ring eyes and fangs. This type of circular and arc-triangle openwork is consistent with the decoration on late Songze Culture pottery, and the beast-face motif elements also continue into Liangzhu's "divine emblem" (神徽).
The complex water conservancy system of Liangzhu is also presented in the form of a sand table. In addition to the original 11 dams, archaeologists have newly discovered more than 20 dams and multiple long north-south ridges. The three-level reservoir areas of upper dam, middle dam, and lower reaches reflect the integrity of the water conservancy system at that time. Inside the ancient city, different functional zones were also divided by river waterways. The appearance of inner city walls and outer ramparts in the late Liangzhu Culture further shows that Liangzhu had already become a super city at that time.
The lower Yangtze River regional civilization entered a stage of diverse development of ancient states after 5,000 years ago. In this stage, high-level regional centers were spread throughout the Lake Taihu area, among which the Sidun site group (寺墩遗址群) and the Fuquanshan site group (福泉山遗址群) represent the development features of the northwestern and eastern parts of the Lake Taihu area, respectively. The lacquer-painted pottery pot from Sidun and the jade cong with deity figure pattern (神人纹玉琮) from Fuquanshan (see Figure 2) are both important representative artifacts of civilization development. The interaction and exchange among various regional centers are important clues for understanding the social structure of Liangzhu civilization.
The fourth unit, "The Economic Foundation of Civilization – Rice Cultivation and Salt Industry" (文明的经济基础——稻作与盐业), reveals the material foundation supporting this regional civilization through archaeological remains such as the large-scale ancient rice fields at Shiao (施岙) and Maoshan (茅山), and the early sea salt production on Daxie Island (大榭岛). The dense river and lake network in the lower Yangtze River provided convenient conditions for raw material acquisition, product circulation, and regional exchanges, and also implies a relatively active exchange network distribution system. The mutual support among agriculture, salt industry, and handicrafts constituted an important basis for the sustained development of the early civilization in the lower Yangtze River.
The formation of the prehistoric civilization in the lower Yangtze River was not the isolated rise of a single center, but a civilization process jointly promoted by agricultural production, resource allocation, division of labor in handicrafts, ritual systems, and large-scale public works. It has the characteristics of multiple paths advancing together and multi-regional interaction. This exhibition well outlines this complex and vivid model of civilization development.
The images in this article are all provided by Peking University's Sackler Museum of Archaeology and Art.
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“At the foot of a rockery, on a long bench, sat a young woman dressed in a bronze-colored woolen top and skirt, with a pair of crimson high-heeled leather shoes on her feet. She was opening a small brown handbag, looking at the mirror inside, and gently combing the short hair at her temples with her hand. As we approached her, she closed the handbag, raised her head toward us, and a warm smile spread across her face…”
When I first read this historical reminiscence, I found it hard to imagine that this young woman who looked in the mirror to apply makeup, youthful and fond of beauty, was the well-known heroine Zhao Yiman (赵一曼), that extraordinary woman from my home province of Sichuan. It was even harder to imagine how such a delicate Sichuan girl could have endured those unheard-of tortures.
The famous suicide letter Zhao Yiman left to her young son before her death is both a profoundly blood-weeping love of the human world and an earnest entrustment to those who come after: “Mother does not use a thousand words to educate you; she uses practice to educate you. After you grow up, I hope you will not forget that your mother sacrificed herself for the country!” Here there is both a revolutionary will as hard as steel and, as a mother, the deepest 舐犊之情 (shì dú zhī qíng - “the cow licking its calf,” deep parental love).
Reading the vast 浩如烟海 (hào rú yān hǎi - “vast as the ocean,” immense in number) of red family letters (红色家书), countless 撼人心魄 (hàn rén xīn pò - “shaking one’s heart and soul,” deeply stirring) details struck my mind like lightning bolts crossing the historical mists: the more deeply they cherished “private love,” the more they held “universal love” as their standard; they regarded “affection and righteousness” as weighty as Mount Tai, yet by “renunciation” they fulfilled great righteousness; they gave their lives for the revolution, yet gained value through “modernity.” It turns out that true revolutionaries do not belong only to yellowed history, but more to the present and the future. The red family letters are both a true witness to the Chinese revolution and a vivid textbook of the encyclopedia of life.
The 54 “red love letters” (红色情书) that the brave Red Army general Chen Yi'an (陈毅安) left to his wife Li Zhiqiang (李志强) are like a modern “textbook” on love. In the summer of 1923, when Chen Yi'an became engaged to Li Zhiqiang, he was a top student at the First Provincial A-Class Industrial School of Hunan, and she was a progressive-minded peasant girl. In letter after letter, Chen Yi'an cared for his wife’s studies, health, and mood in every possible way, passionately pouring out the pain of longing: “Since I left you, I do not know where my soul has flown…” Encouraged ardently by Chen Yi'an, Li Zhiqiang studied hard and was admitted to Changsha Women’s Normal School. This young couple 比翼齐飞 (bǐ yì qí fēi - “fly wing to wing,” advance together) in the revolutionary torrent, joining hands and forging ahead together.
What is even more moving is that Chen Yi'an and his wife made a “life-and-death pact”: if one day he sacrificed himself, he would entrust someone to send back a “wordless letter” (无字信), so that she would not wait in vain. One day in March 1931, Li Zhiqiang really received from Chen Yi'an a blank family letter with not a single word. It turned out that Chen Yi'an had already sacrificed himself in the Red Army’s attack on Changsha in August of the previous year. This letter was the last family letter he had entrusted to a comrade to send after his departure.
A “wordless letter” fully expresses 生离死别 (shēng lí sǐ bié - “separated in life, parted by death,” the pain of parting forever), leaving only eternal silence. With a solemn and tragic ending, Chen Yi'an fulfilled his final promise to his beloved, defending with his life the light he pursued in his heart.
Among the red family letters, the most numerous and most soul-stirring are the “deathbed letters” (绝命书) left by revolutionary martyrs. Reading these tragic and solemn final words, there is certainly no lack of 荡气回肠 (dàng qì huí cháng - “stirring the spirit and twisting the bowels,” deeply moving and soul-stirring) heroic spirit, but what touches the heart even more is that while they repeatedly looked back with deep attachment and reluctance, they also stepped calmly onto the path of no return in life.
Martyr Liu Bojian (刘伯坚) left a deathbed letter to his wife Wang Shuzhen (王叔振). A few words, 百转千回 (bǎi zhuǎn qiān huí - “a hundred twists, a thousand turns,” full of emotional complexity and indirection); iron pen, copper hook, 一丝不苟 (yī sī bù gǒu - “not a thread slack,” meticulous in every detail). “The twelfth hour is near, I am about to go to the execution ground; I can write no more. I extend my final revolutionary salute.” This closing sentence, calm and composed, makes one’s heartstrings tremble.
In fact, Liu Bojian had a complete chance not to die.
At that time, the then president of the Control Yuan (监察院), Yu Youren (于右任), and Deng Baoshan (邓宝珊), who held a post in the Nationalist government, had worked together with Liu Bojian during the Great Revolution and both highly appreciated him. After the reactionary Kuomintang betrayed the revolution, although they went their separate ways, they still showed “earnest care” for the couple. It was precisely because of this that Liu Bojian, in another letter to his elder brother and sister-in-law, strongly advised them: “Absolutely do not go to Mr. Yu or Brother Deng Baoshan to rescue me.” In the letter he left a resolute oath: “Your younger brother is prepared to sacrifice. Living is for China, dying is for China. I will accept whatever comes.”
However, in that same letter, Liu Bojian was filled with worry and concern for his three young children scattered in all directions.
Because revolutionary life had been one of wanderings and hardships, his three sons born to him and Wang Shuzhen could only be placed elsewhere to be raised. “For the Chinese nation, one cannot care for family and the self.” Since there had been no news from his hometown in Sichuan for eight years, and family members had 殆 (dài - “almost completely”) died out, Liu Bojian could only entrust his elder brother and sister-in-law with great guilt: “I have not a single cent of private property for the Chinese revolution; the raising of my three young children will all be a burden on you, my elder brother and sister-in-law.” He hoped they would find the children as soon as possible and enable them to receive an education and develop the ability to live independently. As for the children’s future, he meticulously instructed: “The children should receive elementary education until age eighteen and then enter a factory to work.” Without the ability to support themselves, they should not marry too early, “so as to avoid having children early and burdening themselves and others.”
The day after writing the deathbed letter to his wife, Liu Bojian died a martyr’s death in Dayu County (大余), Jiangxi. What is heartbreaking is that this turned out to be a “deathbed family letter” that could never be delivered. He did not know that his beloved wife Wang Shuzhen had already gone before him. Just a few days before Liu Bojian’s execution, Wang Shuzhen, in the guerrilla zone of western Fujian, was affected by the “Left” erroneous line and was wrongly killed during the expansion of the counter-revolutionary suppression (肃反扩大化). She was only 29 years old. After the founding of New China, Wang Shuzhen’s wrongful case was rehabilitated. Her three children with Liu Bojian — Liu Husheng (刘虎生), Liu Baosheng (刘豹生), and Liu Xiongsheng (刘熊生) — were found by the Party organization after enduring hardships and were raised to adulthood.
Letters are short on paper, but the feelings for family and country are long. Myriad cares of the heart — to whom can one pour them out? Only by understanding the “hearts” of these revolutionary martyrs can one understand the “soul” of the Communists. They were both loyal revolutionary fighters and filial children under their parents’ knees; they were both heroes of steel and iron will, and had the 柔肠百结 (róu cháng bǎi jié - “a tender heart tied in a hundred knots,” deeply worried with familial affection) of family bonds. Those final figures who 仰天长啸 (yǎng tiān cháng xiào - “face the sky and roar long,” cry out to heaven) formed a 气壮山河 (qì zhuàng shān hé - “spirit that emboldens mountains and rivers,” magnificent and heroic) revolutionary path; those final family letters full of 九曲回肠 (jiǔ qū huí cháng - “nine twists and turns of the bowels,” deeply circuitous emotions) contain the personality power of 静水深流 (jìng shuǐ shēn liú - “still water runs deep,” quiet depth).
Reading through all the red family letters, I discovered a striking pattern: almost all revolutionaries’ families faced economic difficulties; they were all poor and hard up. Chen Tanqiu (陈潭秋) had to harden his heart and send two children to be raised by his wife’s parents; Yuan Guoping (袁国平), who had participated in the Nanchang Uprising and the Guangzhou Uprising and held the senior leadership post of Director of the Political Department of the New Fourth Army, could only say with deep apology, “Right now I have not a penny to my name and cannot help the family.” He stated bluntly, “We all serve the revolution and the country and the nation in the spirit of martyrs.” Gao Wenhua (高文华), faced with difficulties described by his family, even helplessly calculated a “revolutionary account,” laying out his financial straits completely before his family.
At the same time, these poor revolutionaries were so spiritually rich. As Chen Yi'an wrote in a family letter from Jinggangshan: “I walk every day, have no money to spend, have no clothes to wear, but my spirit is very happy, because I am free and absolutely subject to no one’s oppression.”
They were all penniless revolutionaries; despite scrimping and saving, they still could not make ends meet. Yet they were also such abundant revolutionaries, clad in wind and rain, thunder and lightning, traversing ten thousand miles of rivers and mountains, to seek what all beings desire. “There should be some people in the world as ‘unintelligent’ as we are.” Compared with today’s greedy and corrupt elements whose insatiable desires are 欲壑难填 (yù hè nán tián - “a gully of desire hard to fill,” bottomless greed), compared with those 表里不一 (biǎo lǐ bù yī - “outside and inside not one,” hypocritical) “double-dealers,” these revolutionary forebears who 舍生忘死 (shě shēng wàng sǐ - “sacrifice life, forget death,” risk their lives) make one 高山仰止 (gāo shān yǎng zhǐ - “look up to a high mountain,” deeply admire and revere)!
This is the fiercest flame of the warrior; this is the truest promise on earth. They did not sacrifice “humanity” to achieve “revolution”; rather, they tempered the most beautiful, warmest, and most tenacious parts of human nature, making them purer and more sublime. Those family letters that carry memories of war, contain bonds of family love, and entrust feelings of life and death, are interwoven with deep attachment to a spouse, filial piety to parents, and profound parental love for children… The delicacy and fortitude, the attachment and sacrifice, the small self and the great self between the lines show that they were both warriors of iron and steel and ordinary people with tender hearts. This deep backward glance at the moment of parting makes even more apparent their frankness and tragic heroism in facing death. When all stories become legends, every youth stirs the spirit and twists the bowels.
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The Modern Chinese Dictionary (《现代汉语大词典》), edited by the Institute of Linguistics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences with Jiang Lansheng (江蓝生) as editor-in-chief, was published in April 2026. A few days ago, Jiang Lansheng gave a lecture on the Modern Chinese Dictionary in Changzhou, Jiangsu. Jiang Lansheng was once a distinguished student of Lü Shuxiang (吕叔湘). She said that Mr. Lü once pointed out: “Compiling a dictionary or textbook must most avoid being identical to others. If you are going to compile one, you must surpass your predecessors; if you are going to compile one, you must have distinctive features and new ideas; otherwise there is no need to compile it. Do not compile a ‘fat dictionary.’”
Do not compile a “fat dictionary.” Lü Shuxiang’s words carry profound meaning. They not only guided Jiang Lansheng in the compilation of the Modern Chinese Dictionary, but also embody an attitude toward scholarship and a kind of life wisdom.
Compiling a “fat dictionary” seems to be an easy thing. Nowadays, all kinds of dictionaries are 汗牛充栋 (hàn niú chōng dòng - “sweating oxen and filling rafters,” an immense number of books). If what the compiler pursues is merely an increase in content, a physical superimposition, although it still requires some effort, it is ultimately just acting as a porter, or mainly doing replicative work. Compiling a “big” dictionary is different. Here “big” does not only refer to large physical size, but also to novelty and richness of content. This requires “surpassing one’s predecessors” on the basis of what came before, 踵事增华 (zhǒng shì zēng huá - “follow precedents and add splendor,” to carry on and enhance), so that “big” can become weighty and qualitative.
Extending this to other fields, today in all walks of life there are also many people who are keen on superficial “bigness”: big projects, big achievements, big displays, big effects. Before a task has even begun, the ribbon-cutting site is already packed with people, grand and bustling. Materials get thicker and thicker, reports get longer and longer, plans become more and more complex, but if you examine them closely, how many core insights are there? How much actual effectiveness? It is impossible to know. The Analects says: “When substance outweighs refinement, one is rustic; when refinement outweighs substance, one is pedantic.” Only when substance and refinement are balanced is one a gentleman. If in work one only values the “fatness” of form and not the “substance” of content, one falls into the rut of “refinement outweighing substance.” In the Tang dynasty, Han Yu (韩愈) advocated “literature as a vehicle for the Way” and opposed the flashy emptiness of parallel prose; in the Song dynasty, Ouyang Xiu (欧阳修) and others, when compiling the New Book of Tang, strongly advocated that “its events should be increased over the former, its prose should be reduced from the old,” pursuing conciseness rather than piling up. These ancient wisdoms still 振聋发聩 (zhèn lóng fā kuì - “rouse the deaf and awaken the obtuse,” to enlighten the benighted) when read today.
During the Wei and Jin periods, some scholar-officials revered pure conversation and competed for empty fame. He Yan (何晏) and Wang Bi (王弼) and their ilk took metaphysics as their fashion, 口若悬河 (kǒu ruò xuán hé - “mouth like a hanging river,” eloquent and glib), 著作等身 (zhù zuò děng shēn - “writings as tall as oneself,” prolific author). Their learning seemed astonishingly “fat,” but in reality it was hard to say it benefited the national economy and people’s livelihood. The Yan Family Instructions criticized this well: “A doctor bought a donkey; the contract filled three sheets of paper, but there was not the word ‘donkey’.” A three-sheet document without a single “donkey” character — such a “fat” essay is better left unwritten.
Essays esteem “conciseness” and “refinement.” The Book of Changes says: “Qian is known through the easy; Kun is accomplished through the simple.” In the easy and simple, one sees the principles of heaven and earth. Sima Qian “investigated the boundary between heaven and man, and penetrated the changes of past and present.” One work, the Records of the Grand Historian, encompasses more than 3,000 years of history, 要言不烦 (yào yán bù fán - “essential words not tedious,” concise and to the point). Sima Guang compiled the Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government, spending 19 years, 字斟句酌 (zì zhēn jù zhuó - “weigh every word and phrase,” careful wording), 删繁就简 (shān fán jiù jiǎn - “cut the complex and simplify,” to simplify), using over 3 million characters to clarify a thousand years of rise and fall. This is true “bigness,” not “fatness.”
In today’s fast-paced social life with information overload, people more easily fall into the trap of “fatness.” Public accounts routinely produce “ten-thousand-character long essays,” bookshelves are full of “brick-like tomes,” work reports get thicker and thicker, meetings get longer and longer. It is as if the “fatter” one’s output, the more importance, effort, and value one has. In fact, the real skill lies in 提纲挈领 (tí gāng qiè lǐng - “lift the net by the main rope and grasp the collar,” to grasp the essentials), in making complex matters clear and doing them solidly. This is true for how one conducts oneself and handles affairs. Rather than 贪大求全 (tān dà qiú quán - “greedy for size and completeness,” to seek grandiose and all-inclusive), it is better to refine and focus; rather than being 虚胖浮肿 (xū pàng fú zhǒng - “puffy and bloated,” superficially inflated), it is better to be 瘦硬健康 (shòu yìng jiàn kāng - “lean, firm, and healthy,” robust and lean). Cut away unnecessary branches, subtract meaningless redundancy, and leave behind true skill, solid ability, and real benefit.
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I like to stroll on the streets, feeling the lively and seething world of everyday human life.
A lane behind the post office, ancient and quiet. At the end of the lane, in a corner pressed against the wall, grows a camphor tree as thick as a washbasin, 亭亭如盖 (tíng tíng rú gài - "tall and erect, like a canopy," standing tall with a canopy-like crown). A small barber stall and a square chess table keep company with the camphor tree year-round.
The stall owner, Master Ma, over 60 years old, has a straight back. Don't look down on the simple facilities – the whole set of procedures of washing, cutting, trimming, shaving, and blowing is meticulous, each time tidying up the customer so he looks and feels refreshed. Once the customer is seated, Master Ma circles around him, gets a clear view of the head shape, 胸有成竹 (xiōng yǒu chéng zhú - "having a completed bamboo in the chest," to have a well-thought-out plan) picks up the clippers or the razor, either 行云流水 (xíng yún liú shuǐ - "moving clouds and flowing water," smooth and effortless) in one go, or 凝神屏气 (níng shén bǐng qì - "concentrate spirit, hold breath") with intense care… His absorbed, focused expression is like someone polishing a work of art.
One haircut costs 10 yuan. In a bustling metropolis, this can be called a "friendship price." Master Ma is 古道热肠 (gǔ dào rè cháng - "ancient path, warm heart," kind-hearted and warm-hearted). Whenever the neighborhood organizes public-benefit haircuts, he participates 雷打不动 (léi dǎ bù dòng - "not shaken even by thunder," unshakably, steadfastly), leaving early and returning late, finding pleasure in it.
It is said that in his early years in his hometown of Tongling, Anhui, Master Ma was a well-known rural barber. Ten years ago, he came to Shenzhen to look after his grandson and grew to like this city where winter is not cold. After his grandson entered middle school, he had nothing to do and took up his old trade again.
In the central area of the neighborhood, less than 3 square kilometers, there are more than a dozen tailor shops. The signboard of "Sister Liu's Tailor Shop" is not conspicuous, the storefront is less than half a room, and the location is out of the way, yet it is 门庭若市 (mén tíng ruò shì - "gate and courtyard like a market," bustling with customers). She alters clothes to just the right fit: add one more point and it's too long, reduce one point and it's too short.
Sister Liu measured me for alterations. I blurted out: "My pant length is always 97 centimeters." Sister Liu said 掷地有声 (zhì dì yǒu shēng - "thrown to the ground and makes a sound," firm and forceful): "You can't wear 97; you can only wear 95!"
"How is that possible?" "You can only wear 95; any longer and you'll step on the hem!" Sister Liu's tone was so firm, as if one could not doubt that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
After putting on the altered pants, I felt much more nimble. Carefully thinking back, over these years, many of my pants, before they even looked worn, would have the hem threads snap, the seams split, or even tear. What Sister Liu said was indeed reasonable.
窗明几净 (chuāng míng jǐ jìng - "windows bright, tables clean," clean and bright), 12 long wooden tables are set in order. This is a fresh-boiled beef rice noodle shop. At the door stands a notice board with white background and red characters: "If you are away from home and encounter temporary difficulties, please tell us; we will give you a 'love meal.' We hope your days in the future will get better and better, and if someday you have the ability, please pass on this love, and help those in need as much as you can."
华灯初上 (huá dēng chū shàng - "the brightly decorated lanterns are just lit," early evening when the lights come on), I walked into this rice noodle shop. The soup broth, rich and fragrant, the beef and rice noodles, generous in portion and delicious in taste.
Going there for several days in a row, I got familiar with the shop owner, and only then learned the 来龙去脉 (lái lóng qù mài - "coming dragon and going vein," the whole story, context). In 2005, the shop owner Mr. Zhong came from Lincang, Yunnan to Shenzhen to make a living. He ran out of money, couldn't afford food, and slept on the streets at night. Fortunately, a rice noodle shop owner took him in, let him help in the shop, provided food and lodging, and paid a monthly salary. Five years later, Mr. Zhong started his own rice noodle shop and repaid society with "love meals." Mr. Wang from Xiangyang, Hubei was once down and out, ate the "love meal" and 念念不忘 (niàn niàn bù wàng - "constantly think of and not forget," to remember fondly). Later, when he became wealthy, he thought of the source and continuously sponsored students in mountainous villages. Love is like a pebble; when it is cast onto the lake of society, it ripples out with circles of love again and again.
I like to stroll through the streets and alleys, and in the 无心插柳 (wú xīn chā liǔ - "without intention, plant a willow," meaning inadvertently doing something that yields good results) walks, encounter those beautiful things.
Return to TopBy: 王先桃
This place, surrounded by mountains, has a very poetic name: Tongluowan (铜锣湾).
Before the summer solstice, driving on the winding colored village road in Weishang Village (围上村), Duanwu Township (段屋乡), Yudu County (于都县), Jiangxi, the rain-washed sunlight is fresh and bright, a few ancient trees stand at the village entrance like upright guards.
History is凝固 in the moss-covered bricks and paths; though silent, it hides power, as if a gust of wind could awaken those vigorous and spectacular past events.
In front of the Liu Clan Ancestral Hall (刘氏宗祠), built in the 30th year of the Qianlong reign (1765 AD), the old party branch secretary of Weishang Village told a story of village exchange hidden deep in time.
Tongluowan was originally a settlement of people surnamed Xiao, who earned their living by raising ducks for generations. The Liu clan lived in a neighboring waterside village a few kilometers away, mainly making a living by grinding tofu. In that era of carrying burdens on shoulders and backs, the Liu family had to get up in the middle of the night to grind tofu, otherwise they would miss the early market in Tongluowan. The Xiao people of Tongluowan needed to be close to water for raising ducks, while the Liu clan needed to be close to the market for selling tofu. It is unknown which side first proposed it, but the two villages exchanged their settlements.
I turned to look into the depths of the ancestral hall. Sunlight was slanting through the wooden lattice windows, falling on the rows of martyrs' names. At this moment, even if there were a thousand words, they all turned into reverence and silence.
In October 1934, after the failure of the Fifth Counter-Encirclement Campaign, the situation in the Central Soviet Area became critical. The Red First Army Group (红一军团) was ordered to hand over defenses, evacuated circuitously from the Xingguo (兴国) front, and assembled in the Duanwu and Kuantian (宽田) areas of Yudu. The army group headquarters finally stationed at Tongluowan in Weishang.
Hearing that the Red Army troops were to station here, the villagers unhesitatingly emptied the newly renovated Liu Clan Ancestral Hall to welcome the revolutionary troops. The short six-day garrison wrote a deep bond of army-civilian fish-and-water affection. To this day, whenever people of Tongluowan speak of those past events, they are extremely proud.
In that autumn 92 years ago, when the Red First Army Group was resting here, a group of youths spontaneously organized to stand guard and relay military intelligence at the main road of the village entrance. Liu Qibao (刘起保), a 70-year-old veteran and party member in the village, his father Liu Xingzhen (刘性真), was then the leader of the village's Children's Corps. Now, whenever Liu Qibao speaks of his father, he is full of pride. Unfortunately, the sentry post at the village entrance was destroyed the year after the Red Army left. In 2022, with the help of the Eastern Theater Command (东部战区), the sentry post was repaired. Also repaired was the revolutionary well in the village.
When the Red First Army Group was expanding the Red Army in Tongluowan, Duan Jiuchang (段九长), over 30 years old, heard the mobilization and enthusiastically enlisted, becoming a Red Army soldier. Because of his tall stature and steady character, he was appointed by the organization to take on the task of guarding communication equipment. After enduring hardships, of the reinforced company of over a hundred men, only Duan Jiuchang, Xie Baojin (谢宝金), and Zhong Qihan (钟起汉) three remained, crossing snow mountains and grasslands, successfully escorting a hand-cranked generator to Yan'an.
The people of Weishang Village hung the story of old Red Army soldier Duan Jiuchang on the wall of the Liu Clan Ancestral Hall, so that everyone who enters Tongluowan can see it.
Duan Jiuchang could have accepted the organization's preferential arrangement, but chose to return to his hometown to farm. Even during difficult times when he could not afford to build a house, he instructed his descendants to rely on themselves and never cause trouble for the government.
A hurried one-day stopover cannot contain the profound past of Tongluowan. When we turn our heads and look back at the continuous thousand-mu selenium-rich rice paddies, the green is spreading luxuriantly, like a scroll rebound by time, densely recording the changes of the times on this land, and the abundance and beauty of the people's lives.
Return to TopChinese painting "Potted Grass and Lychee" (《盆草荔枝》), by Qi Baishi, collection of the National Art Museum of China.
Return to TopBy: 北 乔
Red, your face
Your hot blood and the fervor of your breath
Sickle and hammer, each time I look up to gaze
Fists clench tighter
Shouts, making the mountain grow taller again and again
The boulders atop the peak, standing firm for thousands of years
"Taihang, the backbone of the world"
Our Party, our Eighth Route Army
Our we, the mountain forests
Giant crops, wheat ears also unsheathed
Fierce spirit, in the bulging veins
On the bright, rough forehead
Some accounts have always been there, like
Figures returning to the years, turning into mountain ranges
It is the Taihang Mountains, yet not only the Taihang Mountains
Leaves and broadswords, similar shapes
A just-right meaning, the sound of water
Another kind of birdcall's clarity
Peaks, stretching deep into the sky
Rooted in memory, why is there silence
Because we have a shared steadfastness
When past events are planted in the heart, everything lives
Wind and gaze intertwine
The spirit builds a high ground, all remains alive
By: 徐志双
"Doctor, my heartbeat..." Xiao Zhang held the electrocardiogram report, a little nervous.
The doctor took off his reading glasses and glanced at him. "Young man, don't scare yourself," he said, tapping the small wave peaks on the report with his pen. "Look, the heart beats, generating a weak electrical current, forming a set of wave peaks. If the intervals are even, it means the rhythm is basically fine. Whether the waveform goes up or down just depends on the angle at which the electrodes are attached."
Xiao Zhang was taken aback. The seismic waves he dealt with every day were continuous and undulating, representing material vibration and energy transmission. Yet an ECG was an electrical signal — the two were completely unrelated.
On the way back, he recalled that during his graduate studies, the building next door had been under renovation, and the electric drill ran all day long. The junior师妹 (shīmèi, younger female fellow student) slammed down her pen: "This noise is so annoying!" The senior师兄 (shīxiōng, older male fellow student), head buried in his thesis, didn't even look up: "Noise? I have all kinds of filters; what's the frequency?" Xiao Zhang laughed so hard he pounded the table. A filter filters out noise in an electrical signal — that has absolutely nothing to do with construction noise. The senior fellow student must have been driven crazy by his thesis. But today, he himself was exactly like that senior fellow student back then.
During the onboarding training, he heard a veteran colleague say that one coworker, while on night duty, didn't dare to close his eyes, afraid he might miss the earthquake rapid-alert alarm bell and delay issuing the information. Xiao Zhang hadn't believed it at first. It wasn't until he himself was on duty that he learned the lesson. As soon as he shut his eyes, two voices surged up in his mind: one said, "Hurry up and sleep, hurry up and sleep, you have a meeting tomorrow"; the other said, faintly, "If the alarm goes off, can you hear it in time?" Tossing and turning like this, he didn't manage to doze off until the sky outside the window began to lighten.
He discovered that "occupational disease" is contagious.
In his first year on the job, Xiao Zhang attended a project review meeting. The team leader mentioned while asking Xiao Zhang to prepare the meeting materials that the representative from the乙方 (yǐfāng, second party/client's counterpart) was his college roommate — they had gone their separate ways after graduation and hadn't seen each other for years. Xiao Zhang thought to himself, meeting an old classmate — the review probably wouldn't be too tough, right?
During the questioning session, the team leader stared at a page of parameter tables in the thick report, his brow furrowing deeper and deeper. "This value is 3% lower than the current national standard." The乙方 representative waved his hand: "Old classmate, it's just a tiny bit off — no big problem. Let the review pass and we'll fix it right away." The team leader didn't respond; he pushed the report forward. His voice wasn't loud, but every word carried weight: "If it doesn't meet the standard, then it's no good." The meeting room was silent for a few seconds. The乙方 representative looked embarrassed; he wanted to say something, but when he met the team leader's gaze, he swallowed the words again. In the end, the project did not pass. The乙方 representative's expression was not pleasant as he packed up his documents.
Xiao Zhang couldn't help asking: "Team leader, couldn't you give any leeway at all?" "Earthquakes are a matter of life and death." The team leader didn't even take his eyes off the waveform on the screen as he spoke.
The longer Xiao Zhang worked, the more he discovered the "occupational diseases" of this field.
For instance, being overly meticulous. A new colleague said, "Lately, the data from this station often has 'glitches'." The team leader immediately pressed: "What do you mean by 'lately'? Starting from which month and which day? 'Often' — is it once a week, or once a day? Have you contacted the local seismic station to check whether it's an instrument malfunction?" The new colleague was stunned and stammered, "Probably... last month, once every two or three days... I'll verify it right away." Before leaving the room, the new colleague muttered under his breath, "Is it worth it?"
Xiao Zhang thought, when he himself turns into Old Zhang one day, if some newcomer opens his eyes wide and asks, "Is it worth it?", he will immediately reply, "It is worth it!"
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