Summary: President Xi Jinping, in recent speeches commemorating the CPC's 105th anniversary and during an inspection in Dezhou, Shandong, stressed the imperative for Party members to adopt a correct view of performance, prioritizing practical work and tangible benefits for the people. He emphasized seeking truth from facts, citing examples such as Shanghai's "carry toilet" renovation and the need to avoid uniform solutions for rural latrines across diverse regions. Xi highlighted the success of Yiwu's development model as a case of adapting to local conditions and the Yangtze fishing ban as a decisive, long-term action yielding ecological results. He called for resolute opposition to formalism and continued reduction of burdens at the grassroots to free cadres for service. The article underscores Xi's consistent demand for pragmatic implementation to realize the Party's missions and the goal of national rejuvenation.
Summary: Local officials across China are intensifying study and implementation of Xi Jinping’s guidance on establishing a correct view of political achievement, particularly following his speech at the CPC’s 105th anniversary. In Henan’s Xixia County, a party cadre criticized focusing solely on inspection metrics and “face-saving projects,” while Jiangxi’s Chongren County and Hunan’s Shaoyang are rectifying performance evaluation biases and prioritizing public welfare. Yunnan’s Xishuangbanna is tackling inherited problems by requiring outgoing officials to sign handover lists to prevent “new officials ignoring old debts.” Shandong’s Dongying and Zhejiang’s Pingyang have introduced long-term assessment mechanisms to incentivize sustainable, people-centered results. Other regions, including Anhui, Jiangsu, Tibet, and Xinjiang, are deploying resources to improve healthcare, elderly care, and community dining services.
Summary: In an article marking the Chinese Communist Party’s 105th anniversary, Xi Jinping delivered a speech outlining the Party’s six “outstanding qualities” – including truth-seeking, people-centeredness, and historical initiative – as the key to its enduring governance. The piece highlights China’s growing global appeal, with many nations “looking East,” and frames Chinese modernization as a model that breaks the “Westernization equals modernization” myth. It references Xi’s reported visit with U.S. President Trump to the Temple of Heaven, where Xi linked traditional Chinese people-oriented thought to the Party’s service ethos. The article also underscores China’s role in global governance, including tariff-free access for 53 African nations and mediation in conflicts, positioning the CCP as a force for peace and development. It concludes by asserting that the Party’s people-first principle is its foundation, contrasting with U.S.-led Western models.
Summary: The article highlights Chinese public security agencies' implementation of the "Fengqiao experience" in grassroots governance, emphasizing service-oriented policing and community engagement. It provides examples such as the "Hefeng Station" at Beijing Capital International Airport, where officers address truck drivers' concerns, and community police in Qingdao resolving long-standing neighbor disputes. The report notes that from January to May this year, criminal cases fell 16.1% and public security cases dropped 10.6% nationwide. A Ministry of Public Security official is quoted as stating that during the 15th Five-Year Plan's opening year, police will enhance governance efficiency to promote high-quality development and high-level security. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article emphasizes the critical responsibility of Communist Party officials in flood control and disaster relief, prioritizing the protection of people's lives and property. It cites concrete actions such as removing aged roofing before a typhoon and ordering evacuations before a red alert. Restoring utilities, transport, and providing agricultural support are highlighted as essential for rebuilding livelihoods. The piece underscores the need for thorough, proactive measures to build a safety net through risk mitigation and rapid recovery. No U.S. relations were mentioned.
Summary: The National Development and Reform Commission’s Information Center released high-frequency data showing China’s economic resilience strengthened in the first half of the year, with consumption in AI-related and cultural tourism sectors surging. Investment in cutting-edge fields like AI and humanoid robots rose 118.4% year-on-year, while digital infrastructure project bids increased 23%. Strategic emerging industry patent grants grew 15.6%, and AI-related patents jumped 34.8%. No mention was made of U.S. relations or accompanying officials.
Summary: The article reports the completion of Phase I of a coastal sea wall in Tianjin’s Binhai New Area, which extends 3.4 km and has been upgraded to a height of 9.2 meters. The new wall is designed to mitigate the combined risks of typhoons, heavy rainfall, and storm surges. No Chinese official is quoted or identified as accompanying the project in the report. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Vice Premier Liu Guozhong, a Politburo member, inspected flood prevention work in Beijing on July 12, visiting the Huazi and Zhangzuo reservoirs in Pinggu District. He emphasized the need to fully implement the directives of General Secretary Xi Jinping and central party meetings, and to adopt a worst-case-scenario mindset to ensure reservoir safety during the main flood season. Liu stressed strict enforcement of reservoir operation rules, including mandatory empty storage for dangerous and small-to-medium reservoirs, and preemptive releases to allow for flood storage. He called for improved monitoring, early warning systems, and rapid emergency response, including timely evacuation of at-risk populations. The report did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article highlights President Xi Jinping's fourth visit to Xiong'an New Area on March 23, 2024, where he called for building it into a "new-era innovation highland and a model for high-quality development." It showcases three innovation-driven projects: a smart agriculture greenhouse using IoT and soilless cultivation, the Xiong'an Zhongguancun Science Park hosting cybersecurity firm Tianrongxin, and a satellite internet R&D base with rapid prototyping and testing facilities. No accompanying officials are named in the report. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Huang Gang, chairman of Wuhan-based industrial software firm Epic Technologies, characterized industrial software as the "brain" of manufacturing, enabling precise coordination and cost reductions. He noted that early reliance on foreign software constrained customization and control, but his company broke foreign monopoly in commercial aerospace with a design system that cut development cycles by 40%. The article reports that Epic Technologies now serves over 1,000 companies across ten industries, with some software exported abroad. Huang stated the firm aims to move beyond being a "cheap alternative" and develop globally leading standards in new energy and semiconductors. A Wuhan official from the Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology said the city will build a national industrial software verification platform, leveraging local universities and research institutes.
Summary: China's State Council has approved the "15th Five-Year Plan for Building a Strong Tourism Country," issued by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, which is guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. The plan calls for high-quality development, deeper cultural-tourism integration, and a modern tourism system to support economic growth and cultural exchange. It sets the goal that by 2030, significant progress will be made in building a strong tourism country, with the industry's contribution to GDP steadily rising. Key tasks include fostering new growth drivers through smart, green, and integrated development, optimizing spatial layout, boosting consumption, and enhancing public services. The plan also emphasizes stronger tourism cooperation with Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, as well as international exchanges, while making no direct reference to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports on Xinjiang wheat farmers combating "dry hot wind" (ganre feng) damage, a high-temperature, low-humidity weather event that can reduce yields by 10–20%. National Wheat Industry Technology System Urumqi station chief Lei Junjie and his team, along with researcher Zhang Yongqiang, advised farmers like Zhang Guo'an to use frequent small-batch drip irrigation and foliar fertilizer sprays to raise field humidity and extend leaf greenness, comparing the method to preventing heatstroke. Zhang Yongqiang noted that fields applying their integrated control technology in 2025 saw yield losses reduced by 10% compared to untreated plots. The team's "Xinjiang wheat large-area yield increase key technology" was recently appraised by the China Association of Agricultural Science Societies as leading in large-scale high-yield creation in arid oasis areas. No mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations appears in the article.
Summary: The National Bureau of Statistics reported that China's CPI rose 1.0% year-on-year in June, with core CPI excluding food and energy also up 1.0%, while the PPI increased 4.1% year-on-year. Month-on-month, CPI fell 0.3% due to seasonal factors and international market price fluctuations, including declines in gold jewelry and gasoline prices. The PPI also dropped 0.3% month-on-month, influenced by lower international crude oil prices. The data highlights the impact of global commodity price movements on domestic inflation indicators. No specific mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations was made in the report.
Summary: The National Medical Products Administration released its 2025 annual report on new drug registration clinical trials, showing total drug clinical trials exceeded 5,000 for the first time, a 6.4% increase from 2024 and double the 2020 figure. New drug trials reached 2,997, up 18% year-on-year, while the average time from approval to trial initiation shortened by four months. Notable increases were seen in rare disease trials (118), cell and gene therapy trials (149, up 29.6%), and medical imaging/radiopharmaceutical trials (22). The report did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Fourth China-Central and Eastern European Countries Press Spokespersons Dialogue was held, with over 20 spokespersons discussing "Press Releases and the Modernization Process" and visiting multiple sites. Croatian spokesperson Ivan Marić, who previously drove across the Pelješac Bridge built with Chinese participation, emphasized that cooperation must be tangible, not just rhetorical. Albanian advisor Altio Hysi noted that while countries differ, they share modernization challenges, and practical exchanges can turn dialogue into action. Participants toured a Xiaomi auto factory with over 700 robots, a robotics center in Hangzhou, and a Shanghai short-video hub, with Polish official Piotr Jakonowski highlighting green energy and smart manufacturing cooperation. The dialogue also underscored deepening connectivity via the China-Europe Railway Express and Ningbo-Zhoushan Port, which facilitates stable two-way trade in goods from ceramics to appliances.
Summary: The article commemorates the 105th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), highlighting Xi Jinping’s speech identifying six core traits that explain the Party’s enduring success. It emphasizes China’s growing global appeal, with more countries "looking east" for governance inspiration, and contrasts the CCP’s people-centered model with Western approaches. The article notes Xi Jinping’s May 14 visit to the Temple of Heaven with U.S. President Donald Trump, where Xi linked traditional Chinese governance to the Party’s commitment to serving the people. It frames the CCP as a stabilizing force in a turbulent world, promoting Chinese-style modernization as an alternative to Western-led globalization. The piece concludes by reaffirming the Party’s dedication to human development and global cooperation under Xi’s leadership.
Summary: The Chinese Foreign Ministry issued a statement rejecting a joint declaration by the United States, the Philippines, Australia, and 11 other countries marking the 10th anniversary of the 2016 South China Sea arbitration ruling. China reiterated its sovereignty over the South China Sea islands and historic rights, calling the arbitration award an illegal and invalid “piece of paper” that it does not accept. The statement accused the United States and other extra-regional countries of militarizing the region and challenged supporters of the ruling to voluntarily surrender their own island-based maritime claims. It warned that the award has become a tool for Philippine territorial expansion and a pretext for external interference, undermining regional stability. China reaffirmed its commitment to resolving disputes through bilateral negotiations with directly affected parties, in accordance with international law and historical facts.
Summary: The Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson strongly condemned Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi's remarks on the tenth anniversary of the South China Sea arbitration ruling, which China considers illegal and invalid. The spokesperson stated that Japan, not a party to the South China Sea dispute, has no right to comment on China’s territorial sovereignty and maritime rights, and recalled Japan’s historical aggression and illegal occupation of Chinese islands during World War II. China reiterated its rejection of the arbitration ruling, emphasizing that its rights in the South China Sea are based on historical and legal grounds. The spokesperson accused Japan of hypocrisy, noting that Tokyo's endorsement of the ruling contradicts its own claims over the Okinotori Reef. Finally, China warned Japan against further meddling in the South China Sea and strengthening military ties with the Philippines, which threatens regional stability.
Summary: Typhoon Bavi made landfall twice in Zhejiang on July 11-12, prompting Chinese authorities to activate emergency response measures. The National Defense General initiated a Level IV flood response for Shandong, while dispatching work groups to Hebei, Liaoning, and Jilin. The National Disaster Relief Commission started a Level IV disaster response and sent a team to Zhejiang, with the National Development and Reform Commission allocating 100 million yuan for post-typhoon recovery. Central relief supplies and flood-control materials were deployed to Zhejiang, Tianjin, and Anhui. The article also notes that Typhoon Meisak led to additional funding for Guangxi's disaster recovery.
Summary: President Xi Jinping issued instructions on flood control and disaster relief, urging maximum efforts to reduce casualties and prevent secondary disasters. The article reports on local Party officials and members, such as Wencheng County Organization Minister Zhou Qiang and village Party secretary Fu Shuoshuo, who led evacuations and ensured the safe transfer of residents, including those reliant on medical equipment. It also highlights actions by officials like Power Company worker Jin Jianfa, who restored power during Typhoon Bawayi, and Party members like Gong Dejin, who rescued swept-away workers. The report emphasizes the collective commitment of Party members and local officials, including Zhejiang provincial authorities, to protect lives and property. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article highlights the achievements of young Chinese scientists, such as the “Post-90s” team behind a laser scattering system that advanced the “China Huanliu-3” fusion reactor. It quotes President Xi Jinping emphasizing the strategic importance of cultivating young scientific talent, calling it a “strategic project.” The piece notes that many breakthroughs, from AI to semiconductor technology, are driven by young innovators. It profiles figures like 80s-born paleogeneticist Fu Qiaomei and carbon-silicon expert Gao Chao, who lead in their fields. The article concludes that China's push to become a tech powerhouse by 2035 aligns with the prime career phases of today’s young scientists.
Summary: The article reports on China's implementation of a three-tier (county, township, village) elderly care service network under the 15th Five-Year Plan, with local governments exploring various models. In Taishan district, officials described a mutual-aid model where younger elderly volunteers assist older residents, supported by a points-based incentive system. Miluo city's civil affairs bureau director said they created "small cluster" care points in village houseyards to overcome distance and emotional isolation. Yongchang county's civil affairs bureau director noted they purchase professional services for home-delivered meals, nursing, and home modifications for disabled seniors. The piece highlights these local efforts to ensure rural elderly have access to care, companionship, and security.
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Summary: The article presents three essays on effective governance, emphasizing the need for officials to confront problems directly and simplify complex issues for better public outcomes. One essay advocates breaking down intricate tasks, reducing bureaucratic steps, and improving communication to solve challenges like installing elevators in old neighborhoods. Another stresses the importance of rigorous safety inspections, cautioning against complacency and urging officials to be thorough yet empathetic. The final piece warns against neglecting the last 1% of unresolved problems, which can undermine trust and progress, calling for persistent accountability and systematic solutions. No U.S.-China relations or specific official statements are mentioned.
Summary: The article highlights China's proliferation of over 40,000 new-style public cultural spaces, such as transformed mining pits in Weihai and renovated warehouses in Chongqing, which blend old infrastructure with new cultural functions. These spaces, including "urban living rooms" and "Qinling book houses," are designed to bring cultural services closer to communities through innovative mechanisms like public-private partnerships. The piece emphasizes that these spaces aim to satisfy diverse cultural demands and address the "last mile" of service delivery, with local adaptations like a Yangzhou city library serving as an AI entrepreneurs' office. It cites Xi Jinping's call to "enhance people's cultural sense of fulfillment and happiness" through high-quality cultural supply, framing these efforts as integral to Chinese-style modernization. No reference is made to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article profiles Yan Zerui, a graduating student with a rare bone disease at Yangtze University, who thanked classmates for leaving water bottles at his door to support his family. It highlights the support network provided by the state (graduate stipends), the school (accessible housing), and peers (rotating assistance). The piece contrasts negative stereotypes of youth as "utilitarian" with examples of sincere kindness, including dorm staff and students. It cites national moral model Wang Liang and Youth May Fourth Medalist Liao Zhusheng as exemplars of youthful "clarity" and resilience. The article concludes that such mutual care and sincerity are enduring qualities that prepare graduates for life.
Summary: A recent heatwave in Europe has highlighted the low penetration of traditional air conditioning, with Chinese-made portable cooling devices such as split air conditioners and solar-powered fans gaining market share by addressing local installation and cost barriers.
Summary: Nissan announced it signed a memorandum with a Chery subsidiary to produce Chery vehicles at its Sunderland plant in the UK starting in 2027, marking the first time a major Japanese automaker will manufacture Chinese-brand cars in Europe. The article frames this "reverse OEM" as evidence of China's auto industry transitioning from follower to leader, leveraging its advantages in electric and smart vehicle technologies. It highlights similar partnerships, such as Stellantis producing Zero Run EVs in Spain and Volkswagen collaborating with XPeng on intelligent driving systems. The analysis credits China's strategic policy support and long-term industrial planning for enabling this shift from "market for technology" to exporting Chinese solutions and standards. The piece concludes by portraying these developments as a model for China's broader ambition to reshape global supply chains through independent innovation.
Summary: In Jiashan County, Zhejiang, a government service center staff member delayed closing to complete a lengthy medical insurance procedure for an elderly visitor, stating, “Don’t worry—we will process all tickets issued before closing.” The article emphasizes a shift from service based on set hours to service centered on public needs, calling for innovative, technology-enabled approaches to improve efficiency. It argues that true political achievement lies in resolving people's daily concerns, with small cumulative efforts leading to meaningful progress. The piece is adapted from *Hubei Daily* and does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article profiles Xiangqiu Lamu, a Tibetan woman and Communist Party member in Leiwuqi County, Tibet, who began rescuing red deer in the 1970s and later served as a protected area ranger. It details her lifelong dedication to feeding and protecting the deer, which she considered her "children," and her insistence on fulfilling this duty as a party member. The piece emphasizes that her actions contributed to the local deer population growing from about 500 to over 8,000. Her sons, Baima Zewang and Renqing Zepei, have now taken over her role as rangers, continuing her legacy. The story frames her commitment as exemplifying the party's mission to "safeguard the highlands’ creatures, plants, and waters."
Summary: Qinghai adheres to "ecological priority and green development," leveraging its unique resources to develop yak, cold-climate vegetable, and goji berry industries. The yak sector has boosted牧民 incomes through dairy and meat processing, with logistics improvements enabling fresh meat to reach Shanghai in three days. Cold-climate vegetables are exported to Hong Kong and Guangdong via order-based production, with local officials noting the advantage of "off-season listing." Organic goji berries, led by enterprises like Golmud Agricultural Reclamation, have become a major income source, with the province leading the nation in organic goji acreage. These industries have significantly increased rural incomes, with green-organic agricultural enterprises reaching 318 and output value 16.227 billion yuan.
Summary: The article describes how public libraries serve as popular summer retreats for self-improvement, featuring a photograph of readers at the National Library of China on July 11, taken by Guo Junfeng. No officials or U.S.-China relations are mentioned.
Summary: The National Immigration Administration reported that China recorded 3.69 billion border crossings in the first half of 2026, up 10.8% year-on-year and a record high, with foreign entries surging 20.4% to 22.91 million. Visa-free foreign arrivals reached 17.82 million, accounting for 77.7% of all foreign entries and rising 30.6%. The United States ranked among the top ten source countries for foreign visitors, alongside South Korea, Russia, and others. Officials highlighted continued policy innovations, including expanded unilateral visa-free access, pilot programs for online foreigner accommodation registration, and new “cooperative inspection, one-time release” procedures at Huanggang port. These measures aim to convert higher cross-border traffic into greater economic gains.
Summary: On International Sandstorm Day, China’s National Forestry and Grassland Administration reported that spring sandstorm events have declined from an average of 12.5 to 9.6 per year over the past two decades, with eight such events occurring this spring. The administration highlighted ongoing integrated ecosystem management focused on the “Three-North” shelterbelt project, allocating 277 billion yuan in central investment for 328 key projects covering over 95 million mu. As a result, forest coverage in the “Three-North” region rose from 5.05% to 13.84%, and desertified land area has continuously contracted—shifting from an annual expansion of 5.15 million mu to a net reduction of 10 million mu per year.
Summary: A mandatory national standard for intelligent connected vehicle combined driving assistance systems (GB 47955—2026) was approved by the State Administration for Market Regulation and the Standardization Administration, with implementation set for January 1, 2027. Developed under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the standard establishes safety requirements tailored to three types of systems, covering functionality, data recording, manufacturer safeguards, and user training. It also introduces a multi-tier evaluation method including field and road tests. No specific official was quoted or mentioned as accompanying the announcement. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article highlights the Chinese public security system's implementation of the "Fengqiao experience" in grassroots governance, featuring examples of community police resolving disputes and enhancing patrol mechanisms. It notes that from January to May this year, national criminal cases dropped 16.1% and public security cases fell 10.6%. A Ministry of Public Security official, quoted without named accompaniment, stated that in the first year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," police will deepen policies to balance development and security, boosting governance efficiency to advance a safer China.
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Summary: A criminal group operating an illegal gambling ring under the guise of "China Sports Lottery" was recently dismantled in Zhejiang, involving over 5 million yuan. Officials including Wang Zule, deputy captain of the Shangyu Public Security Bureau's cybersecurity brigade, noted that such networks often use overseas servers and lure victims via private social media groups, with funds laundered through personal accounts. Experts such as Sun Shuguang from Renmin University observed that online gambling has become increasingly covert, cross-border, and industrialized. Authorities including public security, cyberspace, and financial regulators are urged to enhance joint enforcement and technological monitoring. Peng Bo of Shandong Police College emphasized the need for systematic governance and public legal awareness to combat these persistent threats.
Summary: A villager from Fujian's Zhangping city reported that a drainage ditch in his village has remained uncemented since 2013, causing persistent waterlogging. After he complained to the town government in August 2025, only superficial cleaning was performed, leaving the problem unresolved. His potato and bean crops suffered major losses from flooding in May 2025. He is requesting deep dredging and cementing of the ditch.
Summary: The article recounts a citizen's difficulty renting inherited property without a title deed, as the community office stopped issuing ownership proofs to reduce its workload, forcing the author to travel to a county service hall and obtain neighbor signatures. The author argues that this "burden reduction" shifted costs onto citizens, increasing inconvenience. They suggest that grassroots efficiency and citizen convenience can be reconciled through data sharing, community verification, or having the county hall distribute forms to communities for distribution to residents.
Summary: A reader's letter in *People's Daily* highlights severe fire safety risks in rural elderly care homes, citing outdated facilities, insufficient equipment, and poor staff training. The author, Wen Guoyun of Neijiang, Sichuan, calls for tailored solutions: providing basic fire-fighting gear, scenario-based staff training, and individualized emergency plans for each facility. No U.S. or bilateral relations are referenced.
Summary: The article highlights widespread Chinese consumer confusion over complex nutrition labels, prompting calls for front-of-package labeling. World Health Organization Representative to China Martin Taylor endorsed such labels as cost-effective for combating unhealthy diets. Shanghai has pioneered a four-tier (A-D) nutrition分级标识 system for beverages, which improved consumer health awareness and prompted companies to reformulate products (A/B-grade share rose from 44.5% to 52.4%). In 2025, China updated national food labeling standards and issued a policy framework to expand front-of-pack labels, with experts urging their integration into the national food safety system.
Summary: The People's Daily "Readers' Letters" section and the People's Net "Leadership Message Board" have jointly launched a call for public submissions on urgent problems related to "safety production risks and hidden dangers." Readers are invited to provide leads and suggestions via email, the People's Daily client's "Exposure Platform," or the leadership message board.
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Summary: In a recent article commemorating the 105th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC), a senior Central Party School official highlighted President Xi Jinping’s address outlining six "excellent traits" of the CPC, which include its commitment to truth, deep roots among the people, historical mission, adaptability, fighting spirit, and self-reinforcement. Xi emphasized that these characteristics explain the Party’s enduring success and why history and the people have chosen the CPC. The article asserts that the Party’s theoretical innovation, especially Xi Jinping Thought, has guided China’s modernization and the realization of the Chinese Dream. It also underscores the Party’s ability to maintain strategic initiative and adapt to global trends, including promoting the Global Development Initiative and other global governance proposals. The piece does not address the United States or U.S.-China relations directly.
Summary: In the article, President Xi Jinping is reported to have addressed Chinese youth on July 1 and ahead of Youth Day, urging them to steadfastly follow the Party, embrace lofty ideals, and integrate personal goals into national development during the “15th Five-Year Plan” period. He stressed the importance of inheriting “red genes”—the spiritual lineage of Chinese Communists—to maintain ideological commitment, patriotic responsibility, and pragmatic action. The piece calls for leveraging new opportunities from technological revolution and China’s modernization to empower young people, while also emphasizing the need to cultivate their faith through systematic education and real-world experience. It highlights Xi’s directive that young people should demonstrate determination and resilience, particularly in tackling critical challenges and contributing to rural revitalization. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Professor Zhang Yongquan's team at Zhejiang University has successfully reconnected over 30 damaged Dunhuang manuscript fragments from six global institutions, including libraries in China, the UK, France, and Russia. Zhang stated that this work, which has joined tens of thousands of fragments, is foundational for Dunhuang studies and corrects previous errors in naming and dating. The team developed a method for matching fragments by comparing script, paper, and content, moving from isolated studies to holistic manuscript analysis. Zhang noted that while current progress relies on manual effort, he hopes for faster public release of hidden collections and for AI to assist future restoration. The project has also trained dozens of students, many of whom have become academic leaders.
Summary: A scholar reflects on nearly 20 years of work piecing together Dunhuang manuscript fragments scattered across different countries and collections, expressing both emotion and joy at their reunification. Citing Tao Xingzhi’s poem, he frames his life’s mission as encompassing the systematic collation of Dunhuang texts, compilation of a language dictionary, and construction of a philological framework for the manuscripts. He describes the painstaking process of page-by-page comparison as difficult but thrilling, comparing it to discovering a new star. Positioning himself within the broader Dunhuang research community, he emphasizes his duty to pass on the legacy so that the fragments can be “revived” and Chinese civilization sustainably transmitted.
Summary: The article celebrates the 20th anniversary of China's Central Digital TV Calligraphy and Painting Channel, emphasizing its mission to make traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting accessible to the public. It highlights the channel's role in breaking down barriers through TV, online, and mobile platforms, and its "Into Ten Thousand Homes" initiative that has reached over a million people. The channel promotes cultural confidence and artistic education via exhibitions, lectures, and cross-genre events. Internationally, it organizes exhibitions and concerts to showcase Chinese aesthetics, enhancing China's cultural influence abroad. The piece, authored by the channel’s chairman, underscores the channel’s commitment to cultural transmission and innovation.
Summary: In December 2025, China's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and Ministry of Finance jointly issued an opinion to expand enterprise annuity coverage, simplify procedures, and promote fund safety. In June 2026, the Changzhou talent annuity project launched as a pilot, using a unified plan to cover various employment types, including dispatched and contract workers, under a single management system. The project was implemented by the Jiangsu center of People's Insurance Pension Company, which won the bid to operate it. It features triple innovations: ending identity-based differences in pension benefits, broadening coverage from high-level talent to all employees, and adopting a unified operational model to reduce costs and improve efficiency. The project aims to serve as a replicable model for nationwide enterprise annuity expansion.
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Summary: The article reports on the implementation of the Central City Work Conference's goal to build "modern people's cities" with six dimensions—innovation, livability, beauty, resilience, civilization, and smartness. It features local case studies, including Shenzhen's PPP model for updating city assets, a "15-minute living circle" in Guyuan, ecological restoration along Kunming's Dianchi Lake greenway, Weihai's integrated smart platform for urban resilience, Jingdezhen's cultural heritage-driven community renewal, and Qiqihar's digitalized residential management. Local officials such as Shenzhen Women's Federation head Liu Jiachen and community party secretary Ma Ying are quoted on specific innovations and outcomes. No mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations appears in the text.
Summary: Wu Wei, director of the Disaster Assessment Department at the National Disaster Reduction Center, advised that during extreme rainfall, people should remember four key points: don't go out under a red alert, cut power if water enters, avoid electrified pits outdoors, and move to higher ground if trapped. He recommended preparing supplies like food and flashlights, and stressed that if water enters a home, residents should shut off electricity and gas and move to upper floors, never using elevators. For underground garages, he noted that when water reaches the wheel level, occupants have only tens of seconds to open doors or windows, and should break side window corners with a safety hammer if doors fail. If trapped in enclosed spaces, he suggested using sandbags or cloth to seal gaps and tapping pipes rhythmically to signal for help. Wu emphasized calling 110 or 119 with precise location information and following evacuation signs to reach safety.
Summary: The National Health Commission released the 2026 edition of the National Essential Medicines List, effective September 1, 2026, containing 794 drugs. The updated list adds 116 new drugs (68 chemical/biological and 48 traditional Chinese medicines) while removing only two chemical/biological products. Adjustments to existing drug formulations and specifications were made, with deletions due to canceled approvals, low clinical use, or substitution. The new list covers 1,180 disease categories under the WHO International Classification of Diseases for chemical/biological drugs and 63 efficacy categories for Chinese patent medicines. Preliminary data show the list accounts for 71% of drug usage in public medical institutions, with 78% usage in primary care facilities.
Summary: The article reports on Beijing's first municipal-level "Urban Renewal Partnership" promotion conference, held recently in Zhongguancun. It describes how the government created a platform to match projects with market resources, ultimately selecting 14 representative projects from 1,273 candidates. The featured projects range from district-wide overhauls to industrial park and old building renewals, highlighting a strategic shift from individual projects to comprehensive clusters, from spatial upgrades to functional improvements, and from government-led to market-coordinated approaches. No specific officials or their statements were mentioned, and the report does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: On July 11, China marked its 22nd Maritime Day, highlighting the nation’s continued dominance in global shipbuilding. The article reports that in 2025, China retained the world’s largest shipbuilding market share for the 16th consecutive year, with first-quarter 2026 figures showing completion, new orders, and holding volumes accounting for 57.3%, 84.9%, and 69.8% of global totals respectively. It details advances in high-end vessels (e.g., second domestic large cruise ship “Adora Huacheng” set for November delivery, plus dual-fuel and LNG carriers), smart ships (e.g., the global first methanol dual-fuel smart VLCC “Kai Tuo”), and green ship types (e.g., B-type LNG carrier, liquid hydrogen carrier, and ammonia dual-fuel VLCC). The piece concludes that China’s shipbuilding sector is strengthening itself to seize global market opportunities and sail further into deep blue waters. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article reports on record-breaking heatwaves across Europe in June-July, causing school closures, transport disruptions, and economic strain, with officials including WHO’s Tedros and UN’s Guterres warning of rising heat-related deaths. It attributes the extreme heat to a "heat dome" and global warming, noting Europe is the fastest-warming continent. The piece highlights Europe's poor preparedness, including low air conditioning prevalence and infrastructure unsuited for heat, while citing US weather models predicting further temperature extremes. CNN is referenced as reporting on the broader infrastructure and policy challenges. The article calls for urgent action, including emergency summits, to address the escalating climate crisis.
Summary: At a Tokyo conference, Japanese Prime Minister Takai Sanae pledged support for climate-affected island nations and stressed "rule of law"-based sustainable oceans through cooperation. The article accuses Japan of hypocrisy, noting its pro-whaling record contradicts its environmental rhetoric. Japan exited the International Whaling Commission in 2019 and resumed commercial whaling, with annual sales exceeding 1,000 tons of whale meat. The piece claims Japan’s whaling industry is sustained by state subsidies and deeply intertwined with official institutions, masking a special-interest-driven defiance of international treaties. It calls for global pressure to compel Japan to rejoin multilateral governance and respect conservation commitments.
Summary: Nearly 140,000 Japanese protested against Prime Minister Takaichi’s dangerous policies. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard closed the Strait of Hormuz, citing U.S. interference. Cuba’s President Diaz-Canel condemned the U.S. oil blockade for causing power outages. Venezuela’s Jorge Rodriguez reported 4,333 deaths from earthquakes.
Summary: Global EV registrations rose 7% in June to 2 million units, with Europe surging 31% while North America fell 13% due to the end of U.S. tax credits. The article notes that German automakers face challenges from U.S. tariffs and intense competition, with Porsche's first-half sales dropping 16% and Volkswagen's operating profit plunging 54%. Reports indicate Volkswagen may cut 100,000 jobs and close four domestic plants, though its supervisory board has not yet approved the restructuring plan.
Summary: South Korea's new vehicle registrations in the first half of 2026 reached 852,000, with new energy vehicles (hybrid, electric, hydrogen) accounting for 50.4% of the total, up from 9.1% in 2020. The government has introduced measures including 464.5 billion won in R&D investment, zero-emission sales targets (28% by 2026 rising to 50% by 2030), and additional subsidies for replacing gasoline cars with EVs. Challenges remain, as only 6.1% of auto parts firms are transitioning, citing financing difficulties, lack of technological competitiveness, and talent shortages. Financial Services Commission Vice Chairman Kwon Dae-young, accompanied by officials from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, announced 18 trillion won in policy financial support and the formation of a “Future Auto Parts Industry Council.” Kwon called for a “national mobilization” to transform the sector into a high-tech industry integrating AI, semiconductors, and big data.
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Summary: On June 18 in Xiong'an, educational officials and experts convened for a 2026 China Brand Forum panel on education, focusing on building a strong education system during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. Ministry of Education Higher Education Department Vice Minister Wu Shixing stated that higher education must drive the development of an education powerhouse. Beijing Normal University Deputy Party Secretary Wei Wei presented the "Strong Teacher Project," while China Academy of Educational Sciences Vice President Li Xiaoqiang called for data-driven resource allocation. Officials including Yang Fan (Beijing Institute of Technology) and Li Yujin (Xiong'an Education Bureau) emphasized AI integration in education, noting AI tools from Beijing have been deployed in Xiong'an. The discussion centered on high-quality educational development, with participants agreeing on the need for improved teacher training and resource sharing.
Summary: The article argues that higher education is key to building China’s educational strength, noting that it now ranks first globally in scale. It calls for categorizing universities into research-oriented, applied, and skills-based tracks to match student potential. To address population-driven enrollment peaks, the piece recommends balancing expansion with structural upgrades. It also advocates using digital tools to personalize learning and improve equity. Written as China enters the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the article emphasizes high-quality development as essential for national rejuvenation.
Summary: The article reports on Beijing’s role in the national strategic deployment of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development and Xiong’an New Area. It describes efforts to enhance educational collaboration, including deploying over 40 AI education products to Xiong’an and integrating student health data into Beijing’s monitoring system. The piece highlights the formation of 25 university innovation alliances and 36 cross-regional vocational education groups to support talent development. It also notes that 362 schools from Beijing and Tianjin have partnered with 583 schools in Hebei. No specific official is quoted, and there is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Hebei Province will implement the national education-strengthening plan during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, focusing on comprehensive reforms in basic, vocational, higher education, and teacher development. The province aims to deepen collaboration with Beijing and Tianjin by sharing high-quality educational resources through branch schools and group operations. It will also support Xiong'an New Area in building a high-quality education system to attract and retain talent. Additionally, Hebei plans to optimize discipline structures to align with industrial needs and enhance校企科研 cooperation. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) is restructuring its higher education model to adapt to the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI), which is reshaping paradigms, disciplines, and development trends. The university has established a "teacher–student–AI–environment–culture" five-element smart education model, breaking down disciplinary and resource barriers. It is implementing flexible academic systems, early research involvement, and cross-disciplinary training, along with "one student, one policy" personalized cultivation. BIT has also set up four specialized science-education centers—AI, ultrafast laser manufacturing, aerospace information, and frontier interdisciplinary—to support talent development. The article does not mention any specific official statements or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports on Beijing Normal University’s "Strong Teacher Project," which aims to address the twin challenges of educational equity and quality in China. The university has implemented targeted training and placement for teachers in central and western regions, enrolling 3,418 students in its "Excellent Teacher Plan" over five years, with the first 364 graduates assigned to teach in poverty-alleviated counties in 2025. It also launched a program to cultivate future "educator-type" teachers through innovative training, and its leadership conducted field research across 19 provinces, establishing seven service stations in poverty-alleviated counties. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article argues that China’s rapid urbanization and large-scale population movement have created mismatches in education resource allocation, with both overall surplus and structural shortages. It calls for building three key mechanisms to align resources with demographic changes: a precision early-warning system using big data to track school-age populations; a categorized guidance mechanism for different education levels (e.g., expanding preschool access, small-class piloting in primary, shared resources in secondary); and a policy adjustment mechanism to break the hukou barrier, allocate resources based on permanent residents, and create provincial teacher staffing pools. The piece is authored by reporter Ding Yasong and does not mention U.S.-China relations or any specific official’s statements.
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Summary: Chinese education officials from Hebei University of Technology, Northeast Forestry University, and other institutions emphasized commitments to regional development, ecological education, and industry-education integration. Hebei University of Technology President Wang Limin highlighted serving Hebei through “Beijing-Tianjin R&D, Hebei transformation” and reported that nearly 40% of graduates work in Hebei. Other officials focused on moral education, AI integration, and expanding high-quality resource sharing, particularly in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: President Xi Jinping's July 1 speech on the 105th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party emphasized that the long-term prosperity of Hong Kong and Macau is essential to national rejuvenation, and that resolving the Taiwan issue to achieve complete reunification is a historical mission. The speech drew strong positive reactions from compatriots in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, with Hong Kong's first astronaut Li Jiaying sending blessings from space. The article highlights Hong Kong's leading global rankings and Macau's hosting of the APEC tourism ministers' meeting as evidence of successful "one country, two systems" practice. It also notes that the Party has developed a comprehensive strategy for Taiwan, including historic cross-strait leadership meetings and opposition to external interference. The piece concludes by calling for united efforts across all regions to advance national rejuvenation.
Summary: The China Soong Ching Ling Foundation hosted "Master Lecture for Children" events in Hong Kong (June 29-30) and Macau (July 2), featuring seven and six national experts respectively in fields such as cultural heritage, astronomy, nuclear fusion, and traditional Chinese medicine. In Hong Kong, experts like Su Bomin (former head of Dunhuang Academy) and Jiang Peng (deputy director of the National Astronomical Observatories) presented on digital preservation and the FAST telescope. In Macau, speakers including space station expert Zhang Qiao and TCM specialist Zhao Wenhai engaged students. Foundation Vice Chair Shen Beili urged Hong Kong youth to link personal growth with national development. The events aimed to inspire scientific curiosity and patriotic pride among young people.
Summary: A cross-strait youth basketball tournament, the "Two Sides of the Strait, Same Dream on the Court" 2026 Zhejiang-Taiwan Youth 3x3 Basketball Invitational, was held in Deqing, Zhejiang. Multiple youth teams from Taipei, Chiayi, and Kaohsiung participated alongside mainland Chinese teams. The event aimed to foster friendship and mutual understanding through sport. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations were referenced. No specific officials were reported as accompanying the event.
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Summary: A Chinese exhibition at the Overseas Chinese History Museum in Beijing, titled "Stories of Sino-U.S. People-to-People Friendship in Cultural Relics," highlights historical exchanges such as the 19th-century Chinese immigrant Liu Jinong, who saved Florida's citrus industry and is honored by a road sign ("Gim Gong Rd"). The event, co-hosted by the museum and the Beijing China University Exchange Association, featured American students and teachers reflecting on shared history through artifacts like Chinese restaurant menus and railroad spikes. All China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese Chairperson Wang Linggui attended, urging international youths to build bridges of mutual understanding. The exhibition underscores that U.S.-China relations are rooted in centuries of people-to-people ties across trade, education, and culture, despite diplomatic ups and downs. American participants stressed that ordinary individuals, not just diplomats, shape bilateral relations, and called for continued grassroots exchanges.
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Summary: At the Third World Sinologists Conference in Dunhuang, sinologists from Albania, Mongolia, Russia, and Italy shared their perspectives on Chinese culture and modernization. Albanian sinologist Spartak Spahiu discussed his translation of Chinese classics and contemporary works, emphasizing that understanding China requires grasping its history and culture. Mongolian sinologist D. Tsedevdorj highlighted the wisdom of Confucian and Daoist texts, advocating for "harmony in diversity" as a means to bridge civilizations. Russian scholar Olga Pronkina focused on Dunhuang as a symbol of cross-cultural exchange, calling it essential for global dialogue. Italian sinologist Rosalia noted that China’s openness fosters mutual understanding, and she promotes academic cooperation between Italy and China.
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Summary: China’s new “Lingsheng” supercomputer has reclaimed the world’s top spot in high-performance computing, achieving a sustained performance of 2.19 EFLOPS—the first system globally to exceed 2 EFLOPS and the country’s first number-one ranking since 2017. The system features fully domestically produced key components, underscoring a strategic push toward self-reliance in core technologies amid intensifying global tech competition. The article emphasizes that this achievement is rooted in China’s comprehensive industrial ecosystem and aims to accelerate the development of new quality productive forces. It is expected to boost innovation in scientific research, industrial applications such as materials science and aerospace simulation, and public services like weather forecasting. The piece frames the milestone as a step toward achieving broader technological self-reliance and high-quality development.
Summary: The article profiles Zhuji’s computer embroidery machine industry, which holds roughly 80% of the global market share, tracing its origins to a small farm machinery repair shop. Local official Chen Zhenming, chairman of the industry association, recounted the sector’s evolution from the pioneering “Feiying” company and noted that over 50 local firms produce complete machines. Deputy Mayor Gao Song stated that the city aims to raise the industry’s total output value to 30 billion yuan within five years, while Street Deputy Director Zhou Weilu highlighted annual R&D investment growth of over 15%. The report also details efforts to integrate AI and automation, and how firms are expanding into high-end international markets.
Summary: The article reviews a book compiling 20 Chinese green finance case studies across five categories, highlighting three development layers: sovereign-level international standard-setting (e.g., the Ministry of Finance’s green RMB sovereign bond), industrial innovation (e.g., Mengniu’s offshore “dim sum bond” for dairy), and inclusive grassroots finance (e.g., CITIC Financial Leasing’s rooftop solar for rural households). It argues China’s green transition is driven by “institutional guidance plus market endogenous forces,” distinct from Western paths and not explicable by Western theory. The author, Dean of Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management, praises the book for providing empirical material on localized green finance that offers a Chinese reference different from European and American models.
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Summary: A Chinese article reports on recent bystander rescues of cardiac arrest victims using AEDs and CPR, highlighting the importance of emergency medical skills. It notes that since 2022, 13 Chinese government departments have promoted first-aid training and AED deployment, with the Red Cross reporting over 6.21 million trained personnel and 86,000 AEDs installed by end of 2025. However, the article states China still lacks sufficient trained individuals and equipment relative to its population, calling for enhanced skill-based training and more AEDs in public spaces. It also mentions pilot programs like "mobile AEDs" in ride-hailing vehicles in Beijing and Shenzhen. Finally, the article references legal protections under China's Civil Code for volunteer rescuers, encouraging more people to act.
Summary: The article reports that Tianjin is advancing medical innovation across multiple fields, with officials highlighting collaborative efforts to translate research into clinical applications. Wang Shusen of Tianjin First Central Hospital described his team’s work on chemical reprogramming stem cell-derived islet transplants that functionally cured a Type 1 diabetes patient, while Liu Xiaocheng of TEDA International Cardiovascular Hospital detailed the development of the domestically-produced "Rocket Heart 2.0" artificial heart. Tong Xiaoguang, president of Tianjin Huanhu Hospital, emphasized a cautious approach to brain-computer interface rehabilitation, stating it is not mind-reading and requires rigorous clinical validation. Wang Xudong, director of the Tianjin Health Commission, said the city aims to build a national medical hub by integrating science, technology, and industry. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The poem commemorates the Long March, celebrating the Red Army's sacrifice and resilience as a defining moment in Chinese revolutionary history. It portrays the marchers as heroic figures who endured extreme hardships to reshape the nation's destiny. The verses emphasize the enduring legacy of the Long March, comparing it to a blade, an iron flow, and a rainbow that continues to inspire. It concludes by linking the poet's personal reflection with the martyrs' spirit, symbolized by a "three-edged stone" from a烈士墓 (revolutionary martyr’s grave). No references to the United States or U.S.-China relations are present in the text.
Summary: The article recounts the story of Communist martyr Lan Diyu, who wrote a 76-character poem-letter to his son “Geng Huang” before his 1949 execution, urging him to transform China’s “barren sand” into beautiful gardens. Lan, a model for the character “Blue Beard” in *Red Rock*, was arrested in 1948 and executed at age 33. His son later joined the army and lived by the letter’s spirit. The author reflects on how this letter teaches that children should be given the truth and the courage to create beauty.
Summary: The article discusses the "5% rule," positing that only a small fraction of writing remains irreplaceable by AI as technology advances. It warns that novice writers bypassing foundational training via AI risk losing aesthetic judgment, as deep reading and practice are essential for understanding language’s emotional logic. The author emphasizes that AI lacks a soul and cannot replicate human pain or joy, citing writer Shi Tiesheng to illustrate this barrier. While advocating for embracing AI, the piece stresses that core literary creativity—such as narrative design and spiritual depth—remains uniquely human. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations are referenced.
Summary: The article briefly notes the watercolor painting "Night Mooring" by Zhou Lingzhao, which is held in the collection of the National Art Museum of China.
Summary: The article reflects on the traditional role of "mountain load carriers" (挑山工), who transport goods on foot along steep mountain paths, contrasting their rhythmic, skillful labor with modern conveniences like cable cars and drones. It describes their quiet resilience and dignity, comparing them to urban porters and delivery riders who also shoulder heavy burdens for their livelihoods. The author emphasizes that these workers embody a universal human spirit of perseverance, turning difficult paths into manageable ones through steady effort. No officials, U.S. relations, or political figures are mentioned.
Summary: The article recounts a personal story of a man who, after losing his job and facing financial hardship, opens a calligraphy and painting gallery with his wife, inspired by his father’s expertise in art mounting. His father, a respected local craftsman, sends a calligraphy piece and 30 yuan as the gallery’s first sale, providing emotional and moral support. The narrative emphasizes the father’s influence and the family’s resilience, with the father’s words about not letting the heart collapse serving as a guiding principle. No political figures, the United States, or U.S.-China relations are mentioned in the text.
Summary: The article describes the cultivation and processing of sweet potatoes in central Hunan, using the local term "贴" for planting. It details methods of eating them raw, steamed, or roasted, and focuses on the traditional process of making sweet potato slices, which involves washing, grating, boiling, and sun-drying on rice field ridges. The author highlights the simplicity of the farming and the natural, preservative-free quality of the finished product. No officials or references to the United States appear in the text.
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By: 本报记者 常 钦 申少铁
“To fulfill the Party’s mission and tasks in the new era and new journey requires all Chinese Communists to strengthen their confidence, carry on the struggle, and continuously create new achievements worthy of the era and the people.” On July 1, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized this at the grand rally celebrating the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China.
“Establishing and practicing a correct view of performance ultimately must be realized in benefiting the people.” On June 24, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out during his inspection in Dezhou, Shandong: “The vast number of Party members and cadres must strengthen their public-servant consciousness, cultivate deep feelings for the people, do more good things, practical things, and difficult things for the people, and genuinely enhance the people’s sense of gain, happiness, and security.”
Using fine conduct to unite hearts and minds, to work earnestly and practically, insisting on producing performance for the people and producing performance through hard work — this reflects the unchanging original aspiration of Chinese Communists.
“Communists are materialists; pragmatism is an essential quality. We must seek truth from facts, be practical and realistic, and take concrete actions.” In December 2025, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed this at the Democratic Life Meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee.
The words are plain and powerful, revealing the people’s leader’s consistent people’s stand, his resolve and will to strictly govern the Party, and his sense of mission and responsibility, and contain the epistemology, methodology, and practice theory of governing the country.
Seeking truth from facts solidifies the ideological foundation and illuminates the political responsibility of benefiting the people.
Seeking truth from facts is the essence of Marxism. Adhering to proceeding from reality in everything is the starting point and foothold for our thinking about problems, making decisions, and handling affairs. In March 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized during his inspection in Hunan: “When grasping any work, when handling any matter for the masses, we must seek truth from facts.”
In November 2019, during his inspection in Shanghai, General Secretary Xi Jinping first put forward the concept that “people’s cities are built by the people, and people’s cities serve the people” (人民城市人民建，人民城市为人民).
“Is the rent expensive?” “What plans do you have next?” In November 2023, when General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected the Home for Builders and Managers of the New Era City in Minhang District, Shanghai (上海市闵行区), he successively visited tenants’ housing in community apartment-type and dormitory-type rental units, as well as shared spaces such as public kitchens and public laundry rooms, carefully learning about the living conditions of frontline urban workers residing there, and stressed that “a city must not only have height, but also warmth.”
A livelihood project reflects the people’s stand. In September 2025, the renovation task for more than 14,000 households that had been “carrying chamber pots” (拎马桶) was completed ahead of schedule. Shanghai completely bid farewell to “carrying chamber pots,” and the “tough battle” involving millions of residents was historically won.
When working in Shanghai, Comrade Xi Jinping proposed that “the renovation of old districts must be persistently advanced; we cannot let the common people continue to live in such dilapidated houses.” After arriving at the central work, General Secretary Xi Jinping again stressed: “This matter involves the vital interests of the masses and the long-term development of the city. No matter how difficult it is, we must find a way to solve it.”
Being practical and realistic provides scientific methods and illuminates the path choice of adapting measures to local conditions.
“Adapting measures to local conditions is essentially seeking truth from facts.” Being practical and realistic means discerning the laws and making precise diagnoses in the complex reality of a thousand differences. When developing new quality productive forces, one must not rush into action in a herd; when tackling outstanding issues of ecological degradation, “where appropriate for forest, plant forest; where appropriate for grass, plant grass; where appropriate for sand, leave as sand; where appropriate for wasteland, leave as wasteland”; when protecting and utilizing water resources, “set the city by water, set the land by water, set the population by water, set the industry by water” — the key is to respect laws and act according to laws.
At the Central Economic Work Conference at the end of 2025, General Secretary Xi Jinping spoke about the small livelihood matter of rural toilet renovation with keen insight: “The south and the north differ so greatly — how can toilet renovation be done in one model? There are only a few households on the vast wasteland, yet we also build standard toilets — is that necessary? We must not turn a ‘hearts-and-minds project’ into a ‘project of public grievance.’”
“Yiwu’s small commodities have broken into a big market and been made into a big industry, forming the ‘Yiwu Development Experience’ (义乌发展经验). This is a successful practice of developing county economies by adapting measures to local conditions.” General Secretary Xi Jinping made an important directive emphasizing. Back in Zhejiang, Comrade Xi Jinping used the vivid metaphor “you have to give a fast-growing child a larger suit of clothes” to express the law of development that advances with the times and changes with the situation. Today, from the focus of “piercing the heavens with a single needle” to the speeding China-Europe Railway Express trains, Yiwu has turned its “short board” into a “long board.”
Taking concrete actions calibrates the point of practice and illuminates the goal pursuit of responsibility for the people.
Taking concrete actions is the correct path to transform scientific decisions into actual results. “Realizing basic modernization depends on hard work; realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation depends on hard work.”
Grasping implementation is the “touchstone” for establishing and practicing a correct view of performance. “Whether we want to grasp implementation, whether we dare to grasp implementation, whether we know how to grasp implementation — this tests our actions and tests our ability.”
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: “The Yangtze River fishing ban is an important decision made for the overall situation and for the benefit of future generations.” From January 1, 2021, the Yangtze River ten-year fishing ban (长江十年禁渔) was fully implemented. 231,000 fishermen changed jobs and employment. Over the past few years, 43 species of fish have increased in the Yangtze River, and the number of finless porpoises has recovered to more than 1,400. What is banned is short-sighted eagerness for quick success; what is established is benefiting future generations — taking concrete actions has never been something that is just shouted.
Forge good conduct with iron rules. Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, we have cut down on “mountains of documents and seas of meetings,” curbed “fiddling on the fingertips,” continuously reduced burdens at the grassroots level, and allowed cadres to devote more energy to serving the masses. General Secretary Xi Jinping urged: “We must take the lead in opposing formalism and form a strong atmosphere of valuing hard work and seeking practical results.”
The great Dao is simple; action is essential. The new journey is an expedition full of glory and dreams; history will not disappoint those who work hard. “We have created a brilliant past through hard work, and we must also create an even better future through hard work.” Forge ahead into the 15th Five-Year Plan (十五五), and turn the grand blueprint of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation into reality step by step!
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At present, the study and education on establishing and practicing a correct view on political achievement has reached a critical and demanding juncture. All localities are conscientiously studying and comprehending 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, studying and implementing Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building, deeply carrying out rectification and remediation, solving problems in a solid and concrete manner, continuously strengthening the ideological consciousness and action consciousness of establishing and practicing a correct view on political achievement, and striving to create real achievements that can stand the test of practice, the people, and history.
Deepen rectification and remediation. “We cannot only keep our eyes fixed on higher-level assessment indicators and take ‘inspection reception and standard meeting’ as the goal; we must resolutely put an end to the phenomenon of ‘data looks good, penjing (盆景 - "tray landscape," showpiece project) looks good, but the masses feel nothing.’” A party member and cadre from Xixia County (西峡县), Nanyang City, Henan Province, recently participated in a study and discussion and said with deep feeling.
In the study and education, Xixia County makes good use of both positive and negative typical cases, not only studying positive models such as Jiao Yulu and Gu Wenchang, but also circulating negative cases such as “face project” (面子工程) phenomena, seeking gaps, tracing roots, and strengthening cultivation from the perspective of Party spirit; adhering to the integrated promotion of studying, checking, and rectifying, cleaning up unreasonable assessment items, so that party members and cadres can put more energy into doing practical things for the people’s livelihood.
At the elderly care service center of Chongren County (崇仁县), Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province, workers are urgently installing age-friendly renovation facilities. The county has specifically allocated funds to guarantee the center’s renovation and upgrading. Since the launch of the study and education, Chongren County has deeply analyzed cases, resolutely corrected the deviation in the view on political achievement of “emphasizing scale over actual effect, emphasizing input over efficiency,” established a priority guarantee mechanism for people’s livelihood projects, and ensured financial resources are used on the cutting edge and spent on the people’s hearts.
Recently, Shaoyang City, Hunan Province, has been targeting prominent issues of deviation in the view on political achievement for focused assault, continuously carrying out “look back, make up back, check back” (回头看、回头补、回头查) actions, formulating a list of issues for immediate correction at the municipal level, advancing the rectification of issues such as historical legacy problems, prominent ecological and environmental protection problems, and production safety risks and hidden dangers by category and policy, and promoting the study and education to go deeper and be more substantive.
Establish good systems and rules. “Finally got the ‘red booklet,’ and this stone in my heart has finally been laid down!” said Ms. Li, a homeowner in Phoenix Valley Community, Jinghong City (景洪市), Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. In the study and education, relevant departments voluntarily took on historical legacy debts, party members and cadres paired up “one-to-one” with problematic building projects, formulated “one building, one policy” solutions, and safeguarded the legitimate rights and interests of home-purchasing residents.
Xishuangbanna Prefecture closely targets prominent issues, explores and pilots a management method for the handover of changes in principal responsible persons of prefecture-managed leadership bodies, clearly defines the circumstances, items, procedures, and work responsibilities for handover during personnel changes, carries out special reminders for the “first-in-charge” of units undergoing position adjustments, and signs handover lists of important work and issues, preventing “new officials from ignoring old accounts” (新官不理旧账).
“The latest assessment system urges us to plan for the long term when doing work,” said Wang Tao, Deputy Party Committee Secretary of Dawang Town (大王镇), Guangrao County (广饶县), Dongying City, Shandong Province. Dongying City explores and establishes a long-cycle assessment and evaluation mechanism for cadres’ political achievements, implementing long-cycle assessments for five indicators including the completion status of dual control targets for carbon emissions and the growth rate of fixed asset investment, conducting penetrating identification and evaluation of cadres’ visible achievements and hidden achievements, linking the evaluation results to cadre selection and appointment, professional title promotion, and evaluation for excellence, guiding cadres to do more work that lays the foundation and benefits the long term.
Pingyang County (平阳县), Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, continuously improves the political achievement assessment and evaluation system, distinguishing between economic townships and mountainous townships in setting assessment indicators and weights; regularly carries out “three frontlines” thematic research on key work, major projects, and grassroots work; organizational departments go directly to the site to carry out verification and checking, and promptly correct those with deviations in the view on political achievement.
Resolve to benefit the people. Early in the morning, at the hemodialysis center of the Shiqiao Town Health Center in Jin’an District (金安区), Lu’an City, Anhui Province, multiple patients came for treatment according to their appointment times. In the study and education, Jin’an District insists that people’s livelihood is paramount, solidly carries out special rectification on people’s livelihood areas with “small entry points,” closely follows the actual needs of the people, integrates regional medical forces, and promotes the sinking of high-quality medical resources.
Sihong County (泗洪县), Suqian City, Jiangsu Province, continuously advances the deepening and upgrading action of “cadres go down to understand conditions and solve difficulties” (干部下沉 知情解难), organizing leading cadres at all levels to go deep into rural fields, enterprise workshops, and community grids, carrying out reception of petitioners and visits, as well as visits and research, with a focus on promoting work such as the renovation of old residential communities and the improvement of farmland infrastructure, concentrating efforts to accomplish a batch of practical matters benefiting the people.
Entering the Xiqin Township rural happiness courtyard in Lhatse County (拉孜县), Shigatse City (日喀则市), Tibet Autonomous Region, laughter and cheerful voices of the elderly ring out continuously from the two-story small building. Shigatse City increases assistance efforts for groups such as subsistence allowance recipients, persons in extreme poverty, the disabled, and elderly people living alone, focuses on the needs of elderly care services, accelerates the construction of elderly care service centers and day-care stations, and gradually improves the county-township-village three-tier elderly care service network.
In Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, at the warm-heart canteen of the Yingbin Road North Community in Urumqi High-tech Zone (New District), porridges, pastries, and side dishes are arranged in an orderly manner, and many elderly people and children come to eat one after another. “Being able to eat hot nutritious meals right at our doorstep is truly heartwarming,” said resident Chen Qiuping (陈秋萍). The Urumqi High-tech Zone (New District) actively explores multiple pathways such as revitalizing idle community resources, linking up caring enterprises, and village collective autonomous operations, building a meal assistance service system that covers urban and rural areas with distinctive features, and has completed and put into operation a batch of warm-heart canteens, providing services to more than 5,000 person-times per day on average.
(Our reporters Li Linwei, Fang Min, Liu Junguo, Shen Zhilin, Tian Xianjin, Li Rui, Zhou Huan, Xu Yuyao, Ardak, Zhang Ye)
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In today's world, where change and turmoil intertwine and instability occurs frequently, more and more countries are choosing to "look east," and the appeal of "China's governance" (中国之治) and the magnetic pull of China's opportunities are rising day by day.
To understand "China's governance," one must understand "the governance of the Chinese Communist Party" (中国共产党之治). The international community is exploring: What accounts for the capability of the Chinese Communist Party?
On July 1, General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered an important speech at the ceremony celebrating the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, profoundly revealing, with a broad historical perspective and deep theoretical insight, the six outstanding qualities of the Chinese Communist Party — unswervingly pursuing truth, always keeping the correct direction; deeply rooted among the people, always having a solid foundation; bravely assuming historical missions, always grasping strategic initiative; conforming to the trend of development, always staying at the forefront of the times; daring and adept at struggle, always maintaining confidence in victory; focusing on strengthening itself, always full of vitality. These outstanding qualities are the key code to why the Chinese Communist Party is capable, and also the deep logic of "the governance of the Chinese Communist Party."
Seeking happiness for the people, rejuvenation for the nation, progress for humanity, and harmony for the world. Looking back at the 105-year struggle of the Chinese Communist Party, there are both echoes of history and the tide of the times, and even more profound revelations for the future. The Chinese Communist Party will always be committed to the great cause of the Chinese nation for thousands of years, dedicated to the noble cause of human peace and development, promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, answering the questions of China, the world, the people, and the times, so that contemporary Chinese Marxism and 21st-century Marxism shine with even more brilliant truth.
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Over the past 105 years, how has the Chinese Communist Party been able to develop from an initial mere 50-plus party members into the world's largest ruling party with significant global influence?
The answer is clear and resolute: Ultimately, it is because Marxism works, and because the sinicized and modernized Marxism works.
Engels once pointed out incisively: "Marx's entire worldview is not a doctrine, but a method. It provides not ready-made dogmas, but the starting point for further research and the method used for that research." This assertion reveals the theoretical quality of Marxism to keep pace with the times — it is not a closed system of truth, but an open, developing science that always advances with the times.
Since its founding, the Chinese Communist Party has clearly inscribed Marxism on its own banner. Through 105 years of unremitting struggle, the Chinese Communist Party has insisted on combining the basic tenets of Marxism with China's specific realities and with the fine traditional Chinese culture, continuously advancing the sinicization and modernization of Marxism, greatly enriching and developing Marxism, and demonstrating the strong vitality of Marxism.
Today, the vigorous vitality and exuberant energy 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 contemporary relevance of Marxism. "The Chinese Communist Party does not 'adapt' Marxism, but 'practices' Marxism," said Alberto Lombardo, General Secretary of the Communist Party (Italy).
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has, centering on the major era-themed question of what kind of long-term Marxist ruling party to build and how to build it, put forward a series of new concepts, new ideas, and new strategies, forming Xi Jinping's thought on party building (习近平党建思想). Xi Jinping's thought on party building is an important component of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. It has made major original contributions to the development of Marxist party-building theory, and has significant practical significance and long-term guiding significance for strengthening the party and the country. Drawing wisdom and strength from the century-long struggle of the party, and learning from the positive and negative experiences of Marxist parties, Xi Jinping's thought on party building profoundly answers "why we were able to succeed in the past" and "how we can continue to succeed in the future," providing the fundamental guidance for strengthening party building in the new era and injecting strength into the development and progress of human civilization. International observers believe that Xi Jinping's thought on party building not only provides guidance for the "world's largest party" to move toward becoming the "world's strongest party," but also contributes Chinese wisdom to the development and progress of world political civilization.
A scientific thought rooted in history and pointing to the future, when placed in the vivid practice of governance, can truly release the mighty power to transform the world.
Time is the yardstick of struggle. The just-concluded five years are the first five years after the Chinese Communist Party completed the first centenary goal and embarked on the new journey toward the second centenary goal, and also a solid step from building a moderately prosperous society in all respects to building a great modern socialist country in all respects. These five years are both a solemn continuation in the long river of history and a crucial starting stroke on the new journey.
The 14th Five-Year Plan concluded successfully. China gave the most powerful answer with actual results: an average annual growth rate of 5.4% and a contribution rate of about 30% to world economic growth. As the 15th Five-Year Plan begins, China's economy shows sufficient resilience, strong endogenous momentum, and proactive and effective macroeconomic policies, continuously providing confidence and hope to the international community. IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva believes that China's economy has demonstrated resilience and has great potential, and will have a positive impact on the world.
The new journey is a new Long March. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out solemnly, "On the new journey, what do we rely on to further rally our strength? It is precisely Chinese-style modernization." To advance this "pioneering undertaking" of Chinese-style modernization, we must make efforts in studying new situations and solving new problems, and produce experience.
Facing endless risks and challenges, the Chinese Communists on the new journey unite and lead the people, "discovering truth and developing truth in practice, using practice to realize truth and test truth," promoting the continuous enrichment and development of the theory of Chinese-style modernization, and creating new historical achievements with new great struggles.
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On the east side of the northern extension of Beijing's central axis, the Museum of the Chinese Communist Party History (中国共产党历史展览馆) stands majestically.
In April this year, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam and President To Lam made a special trip here. He gazed at the precious original manuscript of Marx, watched intently a film on the theme of the Long March, and deeply experienced the development process of the Chinese Communist Party and China.
This museum of party history, which commemorates struggle and passes on the spirit, has become a must-visit place for many foreign political party leaders and friends when visiting China — they trace the path here, exploring the inner logic of China's development; they experience the present here, sensing the profound heritage of Chinese-style modernization.
Since the new era, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, the new explorations, new practices, and new achievements of Chinese-style modernization have unfolded in all directions, all fields, and all regions across the land of China, and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is unstoppable.
Through Chinese-style modernization, the latest major achievement of scientific socialism, the international community observes the long-termism of the Chinese Communist Party in "carrying out a blueprint to the end" and the strategic resolve of "carrying on the task one after another." This is the responsibility and commitment of a mission-oriented party that never forgets its original aspiration, and even more so, the firm pursuit of being determined to "make greater contributions to humanity." Manuel Pineda, International Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain, recently visited multiple places in China and remarked with emotion that China "advances major affairs through long-term goals, five-year plans, and clear development strategies," and that this "persistence and ability to strive toward the same goal for decades" is one of the aspects of Chinese-style modernization most worthy of serious study by Europe.
The Chinese Communist Party is a large party, leading a large country, and carrying out a great undertaking. Chinese-style modernization, with its magnificent exploration and practice, contributes new ideas and new paradigms to solving the common difficulties faced by all countries in the process of modernization.
— Who leads the modernization process?
In 1939, U.S. Navy Captain Evans Fordyce Carlson, who twice visited the Communist-led anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines, made this prediction: The Chinese Communist Party is the source of China's national strength, giving China the hope of becoming a great world power.
Carlson's prediction has become reality. Chinese-style modernization is socialist modernization led by the Chinese Communist Party. Party leadership directly concerns the fundamental direction, future, and ultimate success or failure of Chinese-style modernization.
After the Opium War, Chinese patriots once envisioned achieving national independence and prosperity by learning from Western modernization and following the Western development path, and made various attempts, but all ended in failure. After the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, it united and led the Chinese people to 革故鼎新 (gé gù dǐng xīn - "remove the old, establish the new," to reform and innovate) and 改天换地 (gǎi tiān huàn dì - "transform the heavens and change the earth," to fundamentally change the world), and embarked on a path of Chinese-style modernization, historically overcoming the greatest drawback of Western modernization, which is centered on capital rather than on the people. The Chinese Communist Party always grasps the laws of history, maintains historical initiative, and promotes the steady and long-term progress of Chinese-style modernization. The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation shows unprecedented bright prospects.
— For whom is modernization?
On May 14 this year, President Xi Jinping visited the Temple of Heaven with U.S. President Donald Trump, who was on a state visit to China.
The Temple of Heaven symbolizes "round heaven and square earth," reflecting the Chinese worldview and philosophy of life. "Ancient Chinese rulers held sacrificial ceremonies at the Temple of Heaven, praying for national peace and good harvests, embodying the traditional Chinese thought that the people are the foundation of the state, and when the foundation is solid, the state is at peace," President Xi Jinping said, drawing from the past to discuss the present. "The Chinese Communist Party inherits and develops the people-centered thought of Chinese civilization, always adheres to the fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, and receives the firm support and heartfelt endorsement of the people."
"Historical activity is the activity of the masses. With the deepening of historical activity, the expansion of the mass ranks will inevitably follow," pointed out Marx and Engels. Putting the people first is the fundamental stance of Marxism and also the core essence of Chinese-style modernization. The Chinese Communist Party combines the Marxist thought on adhering to the people's standpoint with the people-centered thought of fine traditional Chinese culture, places human development at the center of the modernization process, and constructs a people-centered development coordinate system.
Chinese-style modernization always focuses on and centers on people, responds to the people's aspiration for a better life, paves the value foundation of the narrative of civilization with common values, cares about the development needs of people around the world, and broadens the horizon of thought and injects forward momentum into the world modernization process.
— What path does modernization take?
"China has become a leading banner for the socialist system and developing countries, and a mainstay for maintaining world peace and promoting the building of a multipolar world." In June this year, Thongloun Sisoulith, General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Central Committee and President of Laos, stated during his visit to China that China's development has provided valuable experience that can be drawn upon by the vast number of developing countries, including Laos.
The process of human social development is tortuous and undulating, and the journey of countries exploring modernization paths is full of hardships. Facts have proven that the choice of modernization path for a country is determined by many factors such as its historical traditions, social system, development conditions, and external environment.
From theory to practice, from epistemology to methodology, Chinese-style modernization has broken the myth of "modernization equals Westernization." Its unique worldview, values, historical outlook, civilization outlook, democracy outlook, and ecological outlook, as well as its great practice, are a major innovation in world modernization theory and practice. Chinese-style modernization demonstrates that developing countries have the right and the ability to independently explore their own distinctive modernization paths based on their own national conditions, expands the avenues for developing countries to achieve modernization, and sets a model for the vast number of developing countries to independently advance toward modernization.
— What kind of civilizational future does modernization lead to?
The history of humanity's pursuit of modernization is a history of different civilizations innovating through exchange and mutual learning. Chinese-style modernization is deeply rooted in fine traditional Chinese culture, embodies the advanced nature of scientific socialism, draws on and absorbs all outstanding achievements of human civilization, represents the development direction of human civilization progress, and presents a new picture different from the Western modernization model. Balancing efficiency and fairness, ensuring that all people are truly masters of the country, enriching spiritual and cultural life, maintaining social unity, stability, and order, achieving harmony between humanity and nature, and promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind... Chinese-style modernization, as a brand-new form of human civilization, proves to the world that human civilization is still evolving and history has not ended.
History never fails those who strive. Forging ahead in the 15th Five-Year Plan, Chinese-style modernization continues to advance, not only contributing momentum and opportunities to global development but also further expanding the development space of world modernization and writing a magnificent chapter of a new form of human civilization.
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Over the past 105 years, the Chinese Communist Party has always stood on the right side of history and on the side of human civilization progress, profoundly changing the trends and patterns of world development through 自强不息 (zì qiáng bù xī - "self-strengthening without ceasing," unremitting self-improvement), and deeply influencing the course of world history.
As the once-in-a-century changes accelerate, the world has entered a new period of turbulence and transformation, and humanity once again stands at a crossroads of where to go. Socialist China, led by the Chinese Communist Party, continues to promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, contributing Chinese wisdom, Chinese solutions, and Chinese strength to solving major human problems, and is recognized as a builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, and a defender of the international order.
Adhering to inclusivity and universal benefit, expanding the space for common development—
Starting from May 1 this year, China implemented zero-tariff measures for all 53 African countries with diplomatic relations, becoming the first major economy in the world to achieve unilateral full-coverage zero-tariff treatment for all African countries with diplomatic relations. This opening-up measure demonstrates China's firm stance in helping the Global South develop and promoting common prosperity. Paul Frimpong, Executive Director of the Ghana Africa-China Policy and Consulting Center, believes that "its significance goes far beyond the trade level, and lies more in providing unprecedented strategic opportunities for Africa's economic transformation and integration into economic globalization."
China always insists on sharing opportunities and jointly creating a future, working together with all parties to make the "cake" of modernization of human society bigger, and striving to let the fruits of modernization benefit people of all countries more and more equitably. Since the Global Development Initiative (全球发展倡议) was proposed nearly five years ago, more than 1,800 cooperation projects have been carried out, over 200,000 talents of various types have been trained for developing countries, and it has received support and participation from over 130 countries and international organizations. China continues to share its "opportunity list" with the world, promoting new steps and new achievements in the global development cause.
Bridging the peace deficit, consolidating the foundation of peace and security—
The turmoil in the Middle East impacts global peace and development. How to stop the war tests responsibility and commitment. Since the outbreak of the US-Israel-Iran conflict, China has been committed to promoting ceasefire and cessation of hostilities, and has put forward a four-point proposal on maintaining and promoting peace and stability in the Middle East, providing a plan for the region to emerge from the shadow of war and achieve lasting peace and security.
This year marks the 36th year of China's participation in United Nations peacekeeping operations. Over the 36 years, China has cumulatively dispatched over 50,000 peacekeeping personnel, participated in 29 UN peacekeeping operations mandated by the Security Council, formed a standby peacekeeping force of 8,000 troops, and took the lead in forming the world's first organic standing peacekeeping police unit. It is the second largest contributor to the UN peacekeeping budget and the largest troop contributor among the permanent members of the Security Council. The "Chinese Blue Helmets" have become an indispensable and reliable force in UN peacekeeping operations.
Facing the complex and intertwined international situation, China adheres to the vision of common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable security, upholds the principle of indivisible security, deeply implements the Global Security Initiative (全球安全倡议), and mediates in a series of hotspot issues such as the Middle East and Ukraine, creating opportunities for peace. The Global Security Initiative has created a new path of security that features dialogue rather than confrontation, partnership rather than alliance, and win-win rather than zero-sum. It is hailed by the international community as "hoping to help build a world of universal security and common prosperity."
Promoting mutual learning among civilizations, gathering the power of harmony and coexistence—
Not long ago, the world welcomed the second United Nations International Day for Dialogue among Civilizations. From a seal-carving exhibition integrating cultural elements of UN member states, to a Dunhuang culture-themed exhibition recreating the millennia-long exchanges of the Silk Road, the rich and colorful dialogues among civilizations witness the integration and collision of Eastern and Western cultures. The Chinese civilization concepts of 和而不同 (hé ér bù tóng - "harmony without uniformity," harmony in diversity) and 美美与共 (měi měi yǔ gòng - "beauty shared together," appreciation of common beauty) are becoming more deeply rooted in people's hearts.
The great ship of shared destiny of all countries carries the dream of the sustainable development of human civilization. China has proposed and firmly implemented the Global Civilization Initiative (全球文明倡议), promoting the transcendence of civilization estrangement through exchanges, civilization conflict through mutual learning, and civilization superiority through inclusiveness. Today, from the Asia-Pacific region to the African continent, from the Middle East to Latin America, people around the world, against the backdrop of once-in-a-century changes, are more deeply aware of the epochal significance of the Global Civilization Initiative — China's concept clarifies the correct way for different civilizations to get along, responds to the common call of diverse civilizations to jointly march toward modernization, is gathering increasingly broad international consensus, and continues to arouse strong resonance in the world.
Deepening exchanges on governance experience has become an important part of implementing the Global Civilization Initiative. Since the beginning of this year, the Nyerere Leadership College in Tanzania has established a Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and the "World Mayors Dialogue" exchange activities have visited multiple places in China, building a communication platform for all parties to share experiences in modernization construction. As Ahmed Salam, former Deputy Director of the Egyptian State Information Service, said, the important significance of the Global Civilization Initiative lies in encouraging each civilization to walk its own path of modernization through inheritance and innovation.
Improving global governance, consolidating the cornerstone of fairness and justice—
Every act of justice, every instance of stepping forward with responsibility, is a vivid interpretation of worldview, order view, values, and responsibility view. The world cannot regress to the law of the jungle where the strong prey on the weak. Maintaining international order and strengthening global governance are in the common interests of all countries.
The "Group of Friends for Global Governance" initiated by China has been successively established at the UN headquarters in New York, Geneva, and Vienna, and a white paper titled "Building a More Just and Reasonable Global Governance System: China's Concepts, Initiatives, and Actions" has been released... At a critical juncture where global governance is at a point of "advance or retreat," the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议) proposed by China has gathered broad consensus and strength that upholds sovereign equality, abides by international rule of law, practices multilateralism, advocates people-centeredness, and emphasizes action orientation, contributing Chinese solutions to reforming and improving the global governance system.
The century-old party is in its prime. On the new journey, the Chinese Communist Party will continue to follow the aspirations of the people and the trend of the times, hold high the banner of peace, development, cooperation, and win-win, promote the common values of all humanity, promote the building of a new type of international relations, promote the implementation of the four major global initiatives, work with all countries to build a community with a shared future for mankind, and inject more positive energy into world peace and development.
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Currently, a study and education campaign on establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievement is being carried out thoroughly and solidly throughout the Chinese Communist Party. This is a profound answer to the proposition of "for whom to govern and how to govern."
Bringing benefits to the people is the greatest political achievement. The Chinese Communist Party always remembers that the state is the people and the people are the state, adheres to the principle of building the party for the public and exercising power for the people, consciously practices the fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, and firmly stands with the people, thinks with the people, and works with the people. This is a solid foundation that no storm can shake.
Eighty years ago, when American scholar John King Fairbank came to China for his third investigation, he seriously concluded: Every Chinese Communist Party member takes "serving the masses and being loyal to the party" as his creed, without any selfish motives. This "virtue of selflessness gives the Chinese Communist leaders the confidence to guide the government, and the Communist regime obtains the tacit consent of the people."
Apart from the interests of the country, the nation, and the people, the Chinese Communist Party has no special interests of its own. This spirit of selflessness has been 一脉相承 (yī mài xiāng chéng - "inherit the same lineage," to be passed down in a continuous line) and 历久弥新 (lì jiǔ mí xīn - "become newer with age," to remain ever fresh) in the Chinese Communists.
"I will have no self, and live up to the people." In March 2019, President Xi Jinping's reply to the then President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Roberto Fico, demonstrated the sincere people-centered sentiment of the leader of a major party and a major country.
Facing a series of profound changes and huge challenges in the world today, the Chinese Communist Party takes "meeting the needs of the people" as the key to breaking the deadlock. From "the people's aspiration for a better life is our goal," to "serve the people and take on the responsibilities that should be taken," to "Communists must remember that bringing benefits to the people is the greatest political achievement"... Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has always placed the people highest in their hearts, and regarded contributing to the cause of the party and the people as their highest pursuit. "The Chinese Communist Party, from top to bottom, has engraved the original aspiration and mission in its heart, wholeheartedly contributes to the happiness of the people and the rejuvenation of the nation, and only then created China's development achievements today." Such is the profound insight of the study delegation of the African National Congress, the ruling party of South Africa, during their visit to China.
Taking the people's heart as one's own heart, and taking the world's benefit as one's own benefit. The Chinese Communist Party adheres to a people-centered approach. This is an inevitable choice conforming to the laws of human social development and an inherent requirement of building a community with a shared future for mankind. From promoting the building of a world of lasting peace, universal security, common prosperity, openness, inclusiveness, and clean beauty, to the concrete practice of high-quality Belt and Road cooperation in helping local people improve their livelihoods and create employment, to playing the role of a major country in areas such as public health, climate change, and food security that concern life, health, and basic survival, all reflect the Chinese Communist Party's respect for people's needs, dignity, and development.
Having weathered a century of hardships without changing its original aspiration and remaining true to its character, the Chinese Communist Party brings inspiration to the construction of political parties and the development of political civilization in the world: A party can completely transcend the constraints of interests and take the people's interests as the highest criterion; a party can completely, with the mindset of "achievement need not be mine," plan grand blueprints that span generations.
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Having weathered storms and waves, the small red boat that set sail from Nanhu in Jiaxing back then has become a magnificent giant ship steering China. The Chinese Communist Party has written an inspiring epic with its actions.
Forging ahead in the 15th Five-Year Plan, this epic is continuing to write new chapters in the grand practice of Chinese-style modernization. The world will increasingly and clearly understand the logic of the giant ship's progress, and comprehend the original aspiration and foresight of its helmsman: Keeping in mind the strategic overall situation of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the once-in-a-century changes in the world, drawing up development blueprints with a broader pattern and vision, becoming the anchor of morality, the source of confidence, and the light of hope in the process of human civilization, joining hands with all progressive forces, and heading together toward a bright future of peace, development, cooperation, and win-win.
By: 本报记者 张天培
Summer, the cargo area of Beijing Capital International Airport — a continuous flow of vehicles. Truck driver Master Li parked his vehicle and walked straight into the roadside “Hefeng Station (和枫驿站).”
“The edge of the speed bump at the north checkpoint has curled up. Not only does it damage tires, but it can easily cause accidents. Can you coordinate a repair?” Master Li got a boxed meal and, while eating, muttered to the station officer Xie Tian. “We will verify immediately and fix it as soon as possible,” Xie Tian agreed right away.
Today, this “Hefeng Station” created by the Capital Airport Public Security Bureau (首都机场公安局) has become a warm haven for freight workers to rest and to voice their demands, and also a vivid practice in which public security organs implement the grassroots policing concept of “embedding service in management, promoting governance through service.”
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: “Open up the ‘last kilometer’ of serving the masses, earnestly solve problems involving the immediate interests of the people, uphold and develop the ‘Maple Bridge Experience (枫桥经验)’ of the new era, improve the grassroots governance system, and consolidate the foundation for social harmony and stability.” The outline of the “15th Five-Year Plan” proposes: “Adhere to systematic governance, law-based governance, comprehensive governance, and source governance; improve the social governance system of joint building, joint governance, and shared benefits.”
When the grassroots are strong, the country is strong; when the grassroots are secure, the world is at peace.
On Qidong Road Community in Shinan District, Qingdao City, Shandong Province, a long-standing neighborhood grievance that had stalled for years due to noise disputes was locally recognized as a “hard nut” for mediation.
After learning about it, community police officer Zhang Rong made repeated home visits and got to the bottom of it: the constant quarrels had left the upstairs resident with a psychological knot, so he often smashed the wall out of auditory hallucinations to vent. Thereupon, Zhang Rong joined community cadres and grid workers to patiently dissolve the resident’s knot. Through gentle persuasion, the two neighbors finally shook hands and made peace.
Faced with community governance challenges such as aging infrastructure in old residential areas and neighborhood/family conflicts, the Qingdao Municipal Public Security Bureau further strengthened grassroots police forces, dispatched experienced officers to serve as full-time community police officers, activated the “micro-cells” of community governance, and strived to resolve problems at the grassroots and nip them in the bud.
As police forces sink down, governance effectiveness rises up. Governance scenes similar to Qingdao public security’s “small matters do not leave the grid, major matters are promptly linked up” are often seen.
Xiamen Municipal Public Security Bureau, Fujian Province, promoted the “neighbor policing” model, starting from handling the small matters of the masses around them and resolving neighborhood disputes, creating a police station at the doorstep of the masses;
Beibei District Branch of Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau actively explored practices such as “dividing areas with responsibility + neighbor watch” night patrols and “special patrol team + property management” early morning patrols, strengthening the street patrol prevention system;
Wuhan Municipal Public Security Bureau, Hubei Province, focused on cracking down on and governing new types of cybercrime, deepened coordinated linkage with departments such as cyberspace affairs and communications, improved the clue reporting and joint law enforcement mechanisms;
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In recent years, the Ministry of Public Security has deployed public security organs across the country to actively promote efficient governance, improve the integrated operation mechanism of intelligence, command, and action (情指行一体化运行机制), innovate and perfect new mechanisms and new modes for cracking down on prominent crimes, deepen construction of the overall social security prevention and control system, vigorously promote and standardize the operation of new community policing mechanisms, and do everything possible to investigate and resolve conflicts and disputes, continuously consolidating the foundation of governance.
From January to May this year, public security organs nationwide recorded a 16.1% year-on-year decrease in the number of criminal cases filed and a 10.6% year-on-year decrease in the number of public security cases filed; the overall social security situation is stable and improving.
The masses whistle, and public security responds.
At around 13:00 on June 18, a volunteer from the “Fengcheng Vanguard (凤城前哨)” mass prevention and mass governance (群防群治) team in Feng County (丰县), Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province, reported to the local police that a suspicious man had appeared in his residential community; the man wore a hat and mask when going out and deliberately avoided crowds.
Police officers followed the volunteer’s guidance and went to the door to investigate. When questioned, the man looked panicked and stammered, and eventually confessed to his theft crime.
From “chance encounter with a suspect” to “precise capture,” this rapid pursuit that took less than two hours not only demonstrated the efficiency of the police-community linkage response of the “Fengcheng Vanguard,” but also fully confirmed that “peaceful China construction is for the people and also relies on the people.”
Public security organs uphold and develop the “Maple Bridge Experience” of the new era, forming teams for mass prevention and mass governance such as the “Fengcheng Vanguard,” “Red Maple Volunteer Police (红枫义警),” “Feihong Anti-Fraud Team (飞鸿反诈队),” etc., actively explore and innovate working mechanisms for mass prevention and mass governance such as police-enterprise joint defense, police-school joint governance, police-medical joint control, police-security joint service, and police-community joint action, guide all parties to participate orderly in social governance, and effectively consolidate the peace defense line.
“Bearing in mind the General Secretary’s earnest instructions, in the first year of the ‘15th Five-Year Plan,’ public security organs nationwide will thoroughly implement the Party Central Committee’s decisions and arrangements, better coordinate development and security, continuously enhance governance effectiveness, promote a benign interaction between high-quality development and high-level security through efficient governance, further improve the ability to prevent risks, ensure safety, maintain stability, and promote development, and promote the upgrading and improvement of peaceful China construction,” said a relevant responsible person from the Ministry of Public Security.
By: 亦 多
Currently, flood control and disaster relief face a multi-front battle situation, with a severe and complex circumstances. Ensuring the safety of the people’s lives and property is a mission shouldered by the vast number of Party members and officials, and moreover, a responsibility engraved in their hearts.
Protecting life safety is the primary requirement. Bottom-line thinking and extreme thinking must be deeply embedded in all aspects of disaster prevention and relief work. Before the typhoon arrives, promptly remove the aging iron-sheet roofs of the seafood trading market; when the rainstorm warning jumps three levels in 50 minutes, organize the evacuation of the masses ahead of the red warning without waiting... The more work leaves no dead corners and responsibilities are not left in neutral, the more we can build a solid safety defense line through each transfer to safety and each rescue operation against the current.
Safeguarding the people’s livelihoods is the foundation of confidence. The crops in the fields, the livestock in the pens, and the trades in hand are the most tangible hopes for ordinary people to make a living. Striving to minimize all kinds of losses is the only way to better rebuild homes. Promptly rush to repair water, electricity, gas, as well as roads and communication facilities; deliver disaster relief supplies to doorsteps; bring agricultural technical guidance to the fields... The faster the order of production and life is restored, the more we can rally people’s hearts and overcome difficulties.
Protecting the safety of hundreds of millions of people and the tranquility of ten thousand household lights lies in thinking of all ways and exerting all efforts.
Return to TopThis newspaper, Beijing, July 12 (Liu Zhiqiang (刘志强), Wang Shuyan (王澍言)) — The National Development and Reform Commission's State Information Center (国家信息中心) released multiple high-frequency data points showing that in the first half of this year, the resilience of China's economic foundation continued to strengthen, the conversion of innovation-driven development momentum accelerated, and comprehensive quality and efficiency steadily improved.
Growth in hot consumer sectors was particularly robust. From January to June, the amount of offline consumer payment increased by 2.7% year-on-year, among which commodity consumption and service consumption rose by 4.0% and 0.8% year-on-year respectively; demand for electronic goods was hot, up 9.5% year-on-year; consumption heat related to transport and catering linked to culture and tourism surged, increasing by 6.1% and 4.9% year-on-year respectively.
Investment heat in high-tech fields such as artificial intelligence continued to climb. From January to June, capital investment amounts in frontier fields such as artificial intelligence and humanoid robots increased by 118.4% year-on-year; the amount of winning bids for digital infrastructure projects in areas such as computing power increased by 23.0% year-on-year.
Industrial development showed a stable trajectory, new drivers of growth, and high quality. From January to June, the number of patent grants related to strategic emerging industries (战略性新兴产业) increased by 15.6% year-on-year, and the number of patent grants related to artificial intelligence increased by 34.8% year-on-year.
Return to TopRecently, the Phase I project of the tidal defense sea wall in Tianjin’s Binhai New Area was fully completed across the entire line and has acquired tidal defense capacity. According to the introduction, the Phase I project is 3.4 kilometers long, carrying out an all-around upgrade of the original dam body, with the crest elevation of the new sea wall reaching 9.2 meters, in order to address the risk of a “three-way convergence” of typhoon, heavy rain, and high tide. The photo shows the Phase I tidal defense sea wall taken on July 12.
Xinhua News Agency photographer Zhao Zishuo (赵子硕)
Liu Guozhong, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, conducted a research visit in Beijing on July 12. He emphasized the need to thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important directives and instructions, as well as the spirit of the meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, implement the deployments of the State Council executive meeting, firmly establish bottom-line thinking and extreme thinking, fully consolidate political responsibility, implement and refine measures to defend against rainstorms and floods, go all out to ensure the safe passage of the flood season for reservoirs, and effectively protect the safety of people's lives and property.
Liu Guozhong first went to the Huaizi Reservoir (滑子水库) and the Zhangzuo Reservoir (彰作水库) in Pinggu District, where he inspected the earth-rock dams, spillways, water release facilities, and downstream river channels, and learned in detail about the implementation of flood control responsibilities, rainfall and water regime forecasting, and safety management. He stressed that China has a large number of reservoirs, widely distributed, and the current period is the main flood season, making the task of safely passing the flood season heavy. It is necessary to improve the monitoring and forecasting system for rainfall and water regimes, implement reservoir operation management regulations and various contingency plans, perfect the command and decision-making mechanism, and enhance the ability to defend against floods and handle dangerous situations. It is necessary to fully implement the reservoir dam safety responsibility system, strengthen flood control safety management, carry out pre-release and storage emptying for reservoirs in areas affected by rainstorms in advance, and strictly prohibit operating above the limited flood level in violation of regulations. It is necessary to strengthen supervision of dangerous or defective reservoirs and small and medium-sized reservoirs; in principle, dangerous or defective reservoirs must all operate empty. It is necessary to strengthen inspections of key parts such as reservoir dams and dangerous sections, promptly detect and eliminate risks and hidden dangers, ensure smooth flood discharge in spillways, prepare sufficient emergency rescue materials, equipment, and personnel in advance, and once a dangerous situation occurs, decisively handle it and immediately evacuate threatened populations. It is necessary to implement flood season measures for important infrastructure such as the South-to-North Water Diversion Project and projects under construction to ensure safe and stable operation.
Liu Guozhong emphasized the need to strengthen monitoring and joint consultation, enhance the capability for short-term imminent forecasting and warning, promptly issue warnings for rainstorms, floods, typhoons, etc., strictly implement the pre-disaster warning "call-and-response" (叫应) and tracking feedback mechanisms, and ensure that warning information reaches the grassroots level without delay. It is necessary to do a good job in defending against mountain torrent disasters and floods in small and medium-sized rivers, strengthen publicity and education, and properly carry out personnel evacuation and risk avoidance. It is necessary to coordinate the upper and lower reaches, left and right banks, and main and tributary streams of river basins, scientifically dispatch water conservancy projects to block floods, reduce peaks, and stagger peaks, and fully leverage their role in disaster prevention and mitigation. It is necessary to strengthen the joint drainage and coordinated regulation of urban floods and waterlogging, and strictly prevent the risk of waterlogging.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 邵玉姿 孙亚慧
In the height of summer in the Xiongan New Area of Hebei, amid a verdant landscape lush to the eye, science and innovation buildings stand in clusters, smart scenes are diverse, and the power of innovation surges everywhere.
"Strive to build a new-era innovation highland and a model for promoting high-quality development." On March 23 this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to the Xiongan New Area for the fourth time, pointing the direction for the construction and development of this "city of the future."
Thought leads practice. From smart farmland to themed buildings, from satellite factories to shared testing centers, walking through Xiongan, everything the eye sees is an innovation scene, and everything the ear hears is the sound of striving footsteps.
Innovation is "an old tree putting forth new shoots."
At the Xiongan Smart Agriculture Science and Technology Park, a bunch of truss tomatoes are full of "sci-tech style."
"We have moved from relying on experience for cultivation and manual labor for management to monitoring with equipment and control through systems, achieving full-process digital management." Inside the glass greenhouse of the park, vines stretch upward along hanging ropes, and bright red and golden yellow truss tomatoes hang in mid-air. Gently holding up a bunch of truss tomatoes, Xu Lu (许璐), director of the Production Technology Department of Hebei Xiongan Ronggang Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd. (河北雄安容港农业科技有限公司), which is responsible for the park's operation, was quite proud.
The tomatoes here do not come with "soil." "We replace soil with crushed coconut husk chaff, and through soilless cultivation and integrated water-fertilizer recycling technology, we greatly improve water and fertilizer utilization rates," Xu Lu introduced. Compared to traditional greenhouses, the greenhouse saves about 40% in water and fertilizer, and the harvesting period of the truss tomatoes extends to eight months.
The greenhouse here comes with its own "brain." The greenhouse is filled with various sensors and intelligent controllers, collecting data on temperature, humidity, light, and carbon dioxide in real time and synchronously transmitting it back to the central control room, achieving IoT-based automated control. "Technicians pre-enter growth parameters, and the system can then combine the growth needs of the tomatoes at different stages to automatically adjust fans, rolling blinds, curtains, and other equipment, precisely controlling the temperature, humidity, etc., inside the greenhouse," introduced Gu Xiaotong (谷晓童), a park technician.
Smart production is full of the power of innovation. "Based on independent innovation, the domestic content rate of greenhouse equipment exceeds 98%, construction costs are reduced by 40%, and comprehensive energy consumption is reduced by 20%." Exploring the path for future agricultural development, Xu Lu is confident.
Innovation is "building a nest to attract new phoenixes."
At the Xiongan New Area Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park, one building gathers one industry.
On the 4th floor of the Artificial Intelligence Building, on the large screen of TopSec Xiongan Network Security Technology Co., Ltd. (天融信雄安网络安全技术有限公司), the operational maintenance data of the Digital City Security Center are displayed in real time.
TopSec Technology Group has been deeply engaged in the field of network security for many years, settled in Xiongan in 2023, and entered the Xiongan New Area Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park. Liu Jun (刘军), the company's person in charge, stated that Xiongan's simultaneous planning and construction of "a city above ground, a city underground, and a city in the cloud" provides a wealth of application scenarios for network security technology.
Demand is the starting point of innovation, and also its landing point. In recent years, TopSec has implemented frontier technologies such as large model security gateways and vehicle network security in Xiongan, and has established its Digital City Security headquarters here.
What also attracted TopSec was the convenient supporting services and symbiotic industrial ecology. "The one-stop integrated service center built as a supporting facility in the park and the themed building development model have transformed 'upstairs-downstairs neighbors' into 'upstream-downstream partners,' saving enterprise collaboration costs and improving innovation efficiency," Liu Jun said. The company has reached cooperation with multiple enterprises in the building and the park on network security equipment and solutions.
Currently, 284 technology enterprises have settled in the Xiongan New Area Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park, building a full-cycle industrial ecology around industries such as artificial intelligence, digital technology, biotechnology, and the low-altitude economy.
Innovation is "setting up a ladder to pick new stars."
At the Xiongan Science and Technology Innovation Center Pilot Base, one "star" connects one chain.
Aerospace information and satellite internet are one of the leading industries of the Xiongan New Area. Upstream in the industrial chain, Xinlianxin (Hebei Xiongan) Technology Co., Ltd. (芯联新（河北雄安）科技有限公司) is laying out the production of lasers, amplifiers, communication modules, and other "heart" components used for inter-satellite laser communication.
"The 'chain leader' China Satellite Network Group (中国卫星网络集团) is here, so we come here. Being closer to the market means faster iteration of products," inside the production workshop, Chen Wei (陈伟), chairman of Xinlianxin Company, and researchers are conducting the final tests before mass production of a satellite-borne transceiver integrated module.
Extending downstream in the industrial chain, LandSpace Hongqing (Xiongan) Space Technology Co., Ltd. (蓝箭鸿擎（雄安）空间科技有限公司) has created two "miracles" not far away: one is the construction of the company's pilot center, from starting the renovation of clean factory buildings to commencing operations, taking only 2 months; the other is the manufacturing of the "Xiongan-1" satellite, from components to final assembly off the production line, taking only 30 hours.
In Phase II of the pilot base, the Spacecraft Final Assembly, Integration, and Test Factory of Hebei Xiongan Future Aerospace Technology Co., Ltd. (河北雄安未来宇航科技有限公司) is undergoing accelerated renovation. The "FX Fengxing Series" spacecraft produced by the company is equivalent to a "space shuttle bus" for satellites. "The rocket delivers the satellite to the initial orbit, and the 'shuttle bus' takes over the baton, needing only 3 hours to push the satellite from low orbit to an altitude of over 1,100 kilometers," said Bai Junbiao (白俊标), deputy general manager of the company.
And next door, the Satellite Shared Intelligent Manufacturing Center and the Satellite Shared Testing Center have passed acceptance checks and have entered the stage of equipment installation and commissioning.
"After a scientific and technological achievement realizes a breakthrough 'from 0 to 1,' it still needs to achieve industrialization 'from 1 to 10,' and the pilot base is the bridge that crosses this gap," said Yang Yunjie (杨云杰), operations manager of the pilot base. From one "star" to a chain, the pilot base is building a ladder for Xiongan's aerospace information and satellite internet industry leading to the "sea of stars."
Driven by innovation, it is 欣欣向荣 (xīn xīn xiàng róng - "flourishing and thriving," to be vigorous and prosperous). The Xiongan New Area, with a future-oriented posture, is jointing and growing, full of vitality.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 吴 君
How do the hundreds of thousands of components of a high-speed train achieve "zero-error" installation? How should new-energy-vehicle batteries be arranged to achieve极致 weight reduction? In daily life, the production, manufacturing, and operation of industrial products are inseparable from the support of industrial software.
"If industrial manufacturing is likened to a living organism, industrial software is the brain; it strings together all the manufacturing links and completes each production task with maximum efficiency," said Huang Gang (黄刚), chairman of EPIC Industrial Software Technology (Wuhan) Co., Ltd. (艾普工华科技（武汉）有限公司).
At this enterprise's intelligent production workshop in Wuhan, Hubei, the reporter witnessed the scheduling and coordination capability of industrial software: in the vast workshop, workers on the assembly line, robotic arms, and various types of equipment worked 有条不紊 (yǒu tiáo bù wěn - "have order, not in chaos," methodically and in an orderly manner), with people, equipment, and software closely coordinated.
The secret to the factory's intelligence lies in the manufacturing operations management platform developed by the enterprise. "From planning to manufacturing to warehousing, the platform can precisely calculate the entire production process, reducing costs by about 10% and increasing inventory turnover rate by 25%," Huang Gang said.
In earlier years, when Chinese enterprises promoted intelligence, they mainly relied on foreign industrial software. "The foreign industrial software industry developed early, has a high degree of maturity, and is widely used, but the pricing power and technology leadership are in their hands. It is very difficult for enterprises to carry out deep customization, and development is constrained," Huang Gang recalled.
During his doctoral studies, Huang Gang was encouraged by his supervisor and decided to start a business, engaging in the research, development, and application of industrial software. "The results of laboratory research are like 'green apples'; enterprises need 'red apples.' Starting a business is about turning 'green apples' into 'red apples,'" Huang Gang said.
At that time, the domestic industrial software market was basically monopolized by overseas enterprises. The industrial software developed by domestic enterprises lacked scenario verification and key technologies, and many enterprises were unwilling to use it. How to break the deadlock?
EPIC chose to start from emerging fields, developing differentiated industrial software targeted at enterprise needs. "We must understand production even better than the enterprises themselves," Huang Gang said. Before developing industrial software, he required technical personnel to go deep into the production frontline, look at equipment, ask workers, and check data; after returning to the office, everyone shared what they had seen and learned, and then discussed design ideas. "If everyone's opinions conflict significantly, we go back to the site to observe again."
In 2012, EPIC launched its first industrial software product. "This product was priced lower than similar foreign products, had stable performance, and could be flexibly adjusted and adapted according to the expansion and changes in factory operations," Huang Gang introduced. "However, because many enterprises were already accustomed to using foreign industrial software, not many were willing to try it at first."
EPIC first sought people to promote it, letting enterprises try it out, and step by step built up a reputation within a small circle of enterprises, only then gradually gaining attention. "With the increasing number of enterprise customers in fields such as new-energy batteries and consumer electronics, sales finally saw a significant increase in 2016," Huang Gang said.
Relying on its early project experience, EPIC further advanced into high-end manufacturing. On the talent front, it filled in composite R&D capabilities in mathematics, design, mechanics, and other areas; on the ecosystem front, it cooperated with domestic integrated circuit manufacturers to promote the underlying adaptation of industrial software with domestic CPUs (central processing units), solving the pain point of insufficient coordination between high-end manufacturing software and domestic hardware.
After more than a decade of accumulation, EPIC successfully developed the "Aerospace Component Lightweight Design and Performance Simulation Optimization System" in 2025, which was included in the 2025 Intelligent Manufacturing System Solution "揭榜挂帅" (jiē bǎng guà shuài - "receive the list, take command," a competitive project selection mechanism where challenges are announced and leaders step forward) project list jointly issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) and others.
"This industrial software can simultaneously control more than 10,000 'micro-structure building blocks with hollow, lightweight configurations,' helping to shorten the development cycle of aerospace equipment by 40%, breaking the monopoly of foreign software in the commercial aerospace field," Huang Gang said.
Today, more and more enterprises are using domestic industrial software. EPIC's industrial software has been applied in more than ten fields, including power equipment, rail transit, and engineering machinery, serving over 1,000 enterprises, and some industrial software has even gone abroad.
"We are not satisfied with being a 'flat replacement' for foreign products. We are striving to develop specialized industrial software that can lead global standards in industries such as new energy, semiconductors, and photovoltaics, pushing more domestic industrial software from 'usable' to 'must-use,'" Huang Gang said.
In recent years, Wuhan has vigorously supported industrial software technology research and application, issuing measures such as certain policies to further promote the high-quality development of the software and information technology service industry. Through R&D subsidies, rewards for first procurement and first use, the "揭榜挂帅" mechanism, encouraging financial institutions to explore insurance related to industrial software, and holding international and national open-source competition events, it helps reduce the R&D costs of industrial software and stimulate enterprises' innovation vitality.
Wuhan has seen the emergence of a number of key enterprises in the sub-sectors of industrial software, such as Yimo Technology (益模科技), Tianyu Software (天喻软件), and Kaimu Software (开目软件). The mold industrial software of Yimo Technology and the industrial control software of Huazhong CNC (华中数控) are gradually opening up market space. In 2025, the scale of Wuhan's software industry exceeded 400 billion yuan.
"We will build a national-level industrial software pilot testing and verification platform to high standards, fully leveraging the innovation resources of Wuhan's universities and research institutions to provide strong support for the iterative maturity and market promotion of industrial software," said the relevant person in charge of the Wuhan Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology (武汉市经信局).
Return to TopBeijing, July 12 (Xinhua) — (Reporter Zheng Haiou) The reporter learned: Approved by the State Council, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism recently issued the Tourism Powerhouse Construction “Fifteenth Five-Year Plan”.
The plan requires that we adhere to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as the guide, thoroughly implement the guiding principles of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and all previous plenary sessions of the 20th Central Committee, deeply study and practice Xi Jinping’s Cultural Thought, fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the New Development Philosophy, adhere to the principle of tourism serving the people, take promoting high-quality development as the theme, take advancing the deep integration of culture and tourism as the main line, coordinate government and the market, supply and demand, protection and development, domestic and international, development and security, strive to improve the modern tourism system, accelerate the construction of a tourism powerhouse, so that the tourism industry can better serve a better life, promote economic development, build a spiritual home, display China's image, and enhance mutual learning among civilizations.
The plan specifies that by 2030, high-quality development of the tourism industry will achieve notable results, the modern tourism system will be further improved, and significant progress will be made in the construction of a tourism powerhouse. The pillar industry status of tourism will become more stable, its role in driving domestic demand, promoting employment, and invigorating the market will be further exerted, and the share of added value of tourism and related industries in GDP will steadily increase. The tourism public service system will be continuously improved, and people’s satisfaction with tourism will continue to rise.
The plan proposes to cultivate and expand new driving forces for the development of the tourism industry, focus on building a modern industrial system, adhere to the directions of intelligence, greenness, and integration, develop new quality productive forces according to local conditions, shape new advantages for development, and promote an overall leap in the tourism industry. The plan also specifies key tasks such as统筹优化旅游空间布局 (coordinating and optimizing the spatial layout of tourism), enriching high-quality tourism supply, releasing tourism consumption potential, improving tourism public services, strengthening foreign and cross-strait, Hong Kong, and Macao tourism exchanges and cooperation, promoting efficient governance of the tourism industry, and improving the guarantee system.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 尚嵘峥
At noon, the sun blazed on the northern slope of the Tianshan Mountains. In Erqi Village (二畦村), Laoqitai Town (老奇台镇), Qitai County (奇台县), Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, grower Zhang Guo'an (张国安) went to the fields again.
Since June, temperatures in Changji Prefecture (昌吉州) have exceeded 35 degrees Celsius on many days, and the meteorological department has frequently issued warnings, indicating that the risk of dry hot wind (干热风) disaster is high or very high. Zhang Guo'an, unable to rest easy about his thousand mu of winter wheat, goes to the fields every day to take a look.
What is dry hot wind? It is a disastrous weather that occurs from the grain-filling to ripening stage of wheat, with high temperature, low humidity and a certain wind force, which can lead to reduced grain weight and a yield reduction of about 10% in wheat fields, and over 20% in severe cases.
In the evening, as the temperature drops, plant protection drones take to the air and begin spraying foliar fertilizer.
“Experts have taught us that before each hot spell, drip irrigation with small amounts and multiple times, plus one more spray of fertilizer, can defend against dry hot wind.” The experts Zhang Guo'an referred to are Lei Junjie (雷钧杰), head of the Urumqi Comprehensive Experimental Station of the National Wheat Industry Technology System and researcher at the Institute of Crop Research, Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences (新疆农业科学院作物研究所), and his team of wheat cultivation and farming innovation.
The 1.28 million mu of winter wheat in Changji Prefecture are maturing and being harvested successively, while the 230,000 mu of spring wheat are heading and flowering or already in the milk stage, suffering from a long duration and high intensity of dry hot wind. “There are three conditions for the occurrence of dry hot wind: temperature above 32 degrees Celsius, field relative humidity below 30% at 14:00, and wind speed equal to or greater than 3 meters per second at 14:00.” Zhang Yongqiang (张永强), associate researcher at the Institute of Crop Research, Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, introduced that temperature and wind speed are difficult to control, so we can only work on increasing humidity and enhancing wheat stress resistance, i.e., combining small-amount and multiple irrigations, regular foliar fertilizer spraying, and timely harvesting.
“It is the same principle as preventing heatstroke for people—small-amount and multiple irrigations is like replenishing water, and regular foliar fertilizer spraying is like drinking Huoxiang Zhengqi Water (藿香正气水).” Zhang Yongqiang explained that small-amount and multiple irrigations can keep soil moisture longer, raising field relative humidity by 10% to 20%; spraying foliar fertilizer once before high temperatures can prolong the green leaf retention period of wheat by 3 to 5 days. “If the leaves stay green and oily, photosynthesis will not stop, and the organic matter produced can continuously supply the grains, allowing them to ‘eat and drink their fill’ even in high-temperature weather.”
Zhang Yongqiang introduced that in 2025, a hundred-mu demonstration field of wheat in Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County (察布查尔锡伯自治县), Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture (伊犁哈萨克自治州), was hit by severe dry hot wind, and the yield reduction in the fields applying the team's comprehensive dry hot wind prevention and control technology was 10% lower than that in the control field.
“Don't think it's just a few more times of watering and spraying—the effect is really obvious.” Zhang Guo'an walked into the field, bent down and parted the standing wheat seedlings. “Look, the wheat stalks are all green, and the soil is slightly moist. If we hadn't watered this one or two extra times, the wheat would have wilted and aged prematurely.”
Straightening up, Zhang Guo'an picked another ear of wheat, peeled back the husk to reveal the grains. “Look at these wheat grains—how big and plump they are, and each grain is uniform in size. The yield won't be low.”
“We still need to keep an eye on the weather forecast. If this leaf condition can be maintained for a while longer, the yield should be fine.” Zhang Yongqiang reminded Zhang Guo'an that after the wheat matures, it should be harvested at the wax ripeness stage; harvesting too early or too late may cause yield loss and quality decline.
In Xisan Village (西三村), Kan'erzi Township (坎尔孜乡), Qitai County, the hundred mu of spring wheat planted by the Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences are lush green. “Compared with winter wheat, spring wheat has a higher probability of encountering high-temperature weather and is more affected by dry hot wind, so the prevention and control technology is very useful,” Zhang Yongqiang said.
In recent years, this comprehensive dry hot wind prevention and control technology has been widely promoted in Xinjiang, with remarkable results in reducing losses.
“Recently, the China Agricultural Society (中国农学会) organized experts to evaluate the achievement ‘Key Technology Research and Integrated Application for Large-Area Yield Improvement of Xinjiang Wheat’ (新疆小麦大面积单产提升关键技术研发与集成应用), which integrates this technology, and concluded that it has reached a leading level in creating large-area high yield of drip-irrigated wheat in arid oasis ecological zones,” Lei Junjie said.
Key points of the comprehensive prevention and control technology: avoid irrigating during high temperatures at noon; ensure proper management of water and fertilizer; ensure the “one spray, three preventions” (一喷三防) measure.
Return to TopBeijing, July 12 (People's Daily) — (Reporter Liu Zhiqiang (刘志强)) The National Bureau of Statistics released data: In June, affected by seasonal factors and fluctuations in international market prices, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) fell 0.3% month-on-month and rose 1.0% year-on-year. The core CPI, excluding food and energy prices, rose 1.0% year-on-year, continuing to maintain a moderate increase. Demand in some domestic industries increased, but affected by factors such as the decline in international crude oil prices, the Producer Price Index (PPI) for industrial products fell 0.3% month-on-month and rose 4.1% year-on-year.
On a month-on-month basis, the national CPI fell 0.3%. Affected by fluctuations in international market prices, domestic gold jewelry and gasoline prices fell by 8.7% and 4.9% respectively, with the declines expanding by 5.9 and 4.6 percentage points respectively compared with the previous month, together affecting the CPI month-on-month decline by about 0.22 percentage points. Food prices fell 0.4%, the same decline as the previous month, affecting the CPI month-on-month decline by about 0.07 percentage points. Service prices turned from a decline of 0.1% in the previous month to flat.
On a year-on-year basis, the national CPI rose 1.0%, with the increase narrowing by 0.2 percentage points from the previous month. International imported factors and others drove the narrowing of the increase in domestic industrial consumer goods prices. Industrial consumer goods prices rose 2.9%, with the increase narrowing by 1.0 percentage points from the previous month, affecting the CPI year-on-year increase by about 0.90 percentage points. Service prices rose 0.8%, the same increase as the previous month, affecting the CPI year-on-year increase by about 0.40 percentage points. Food prices fell 1.6%, with the decline narrowing by 0.1 percentage points from the previous month, affecting the CPI year-on-year decline by about 0.28 percentage points.
On a month-on-month basis, the national PPI fell 0.3%. The decline in international crude oil prices affected the decline in prices of related domestic industries. On a year-on-year basis, the national PPI rose 4.1%, with the increase expanding by 0.2 percentage points from the previous month.
Return to TopBeijing, July 12 (Reporter Shen Shaotie (申少铁)) — The National Medical Products Administration (国家药品监督管理局) recently released the Annual Report on Progress of Clinical Trials for New Drug Registration in China (2025), systematically reviewing and analyzing the situation and development trends of clinical trials for new drug registration in China in 2025. The report shows that the total number of drug clinical trials in China exceeded 5,000 for the first time, reaching a record high, an increase of 6.4% compared to 2024 and a doubling compared to 2020.
The report covers two major categories: new drug clinical trials and bioequivalence trials. Among them, new drug clinical trials numbered 2,997, accounting for 57.5%, a year-on-year increase of 18%, indicating that China's clinical research maintains a positive momentum; bioequivalence trials numbered 2,218, accounting for 42.5%. In 2025, the average time from approval of new drug clinical trials to trial initiation was shortened by 4 months compared to the previous year. The number of clinical trials for drugs in key areas remained stable with some increases: 118 clinical trials of drugs for rare diseases were registered, primarily concentrated in hematological diseases, antitumor drugs, and nervous system diseases, accounting for 57.6% of the total annual clinical trials of drugs for rare diseases; 149 clinical trials of cell and gene therapy drugs were registered, an increase of 29.6% compared to 2024; 22 clinical trials of medical imaging and radiopharmaceuticals were registered, roughly level with 2024.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 谢佳宁 刘军国 崔 寅
Recently, the fourth China-Central and Eastern European Countries Spokespersons' Dialogue was held. Over 20 spokespersons from China and Central and Eastern European countries engaged in in-depth exchanges around the theme "Press Release and Modernization Process," and visited multiple locations. Focusing on shared concerns and practical needs, the participating guests discussed how press releases can adapt to new situations, respond to new communications, serve national governance, and continuously promote information connectivity and people-to-people bonds.
From Seeing to Understanding: Reshaping Perceptions on Site
"Deepening cooperation amid differences and responding to common challenges with shared knowledge have become the key paths for countries to achieve coordinated development and respond to people's expectations in the process of modernization." At the meeting, these words from a representative of the spokespersons of Central and Eastern European countries expressed the sentiments of the participating guests.
Ivan Marić, a spokesperson from Croatia, felt this deeply. On his first visit to China, he climbed the Great Wall and visited the Forbidden City, "like realizing a dream"; this time, he is more focused on "how China operates." "I very much look forward to seeing with my own eyes the technological strength and industrial capabilities that China has accumulated over the past few decades." He said, "I hope to gain inspiration from it."
Just one week before coming to China, Ivan drove across the Pelješac Bridge — a sea-crossing bridge connecting northern and southern Croatia, built with the participation of Chinese enterprises. He said that "cooperation" is not an abstract word but something that can be perceived. "'Cooperation' cannot stop at texts and statements; it must be continuously accumulated in specific contexts to deepen understanding and trust." At a time when artificial intelligence is changing the way information is transmitted, "being seen and felt in real scenes" is particularly important.
Altio Xhixhi, Advisor to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs and Chief Spokesperson of Albania, stated that although countries differ in language, culture, and social background, they all face common challenges in the modernization process. Only by strengthening communication and sharing best practices and results in technology application can common progress be achieved. "I believe that it is precisely based on this in-depth and pragmatic exchange that today's dialogue can be transformed into actions that effectively respond to people's expectations," Xhixhi said.
From Factory to Life: Making Technology Tangible
Inside the Beijing Xiaomi Automobile Factory, robotic arms operate rapidly on fixed tracks, and logistics robots stop precisely at different workstations. Upon learning that the factory has introduced over 700 robots, achieved 100% automation in key processes, and a comprehensive automation rate of 91% in the body shop, the visiting foreign guests were full of interest. Nataliya Dimitrova, Senior Expert at the Strategic Communication and Public Diplomacy Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria, expressed hope that such a factory could be established in Bulgaria.
Piotr Jakonowski, Head of Media Affairs of the New Left party of the Polish ruling coalition and former Chairman of the Poland-China Friendship Group in the Parliament, stated that automation and intelligent technologies are accelerating toward the mainstream. Poland, as an important market in Central and Eastern Europe, has already launched a series of cooperation with China in areas such as green energy and smart manufacturing. "I believe that in the future, these cooperations will become more concrete."
The Hangzhou Embodied Intelligence Exhibition and Application Promotion Center in Zhejiang seems like a "sample of future life." From a "silicon-based supermarket" to a "robot restaurant," from service-oriented robots to interactive devices, intelligent systems of different forms are available for visitors to experience. "I originally thought robots were mainly used in factories, but now they are entering people's lives," said Xhixhi after observing the entire process of a robot completing an order from receiving to serving. During the "Ink Wash Tai Chi" performance, the robots' synchronized movements greatly impressed Matija Miklavčič, Head of Media Affairs for the Secretary General of the National Assembly of Slovenia.
At the Shanghai International Short Video Center, the guests came to a "content production site" where artificial intelligence technology is deeply integrated with the shooting process: some sat in a "moving car," with a real-time generated virtual street scene outside the "window"; some walked into an "Old Shanghai Street" and tried to film a short drama; some changed into Tang-style ancient costumes and immersed themselves in Eastern aesthetics in a "palace scene," their sleeves gently swaying as if crossing ancient and modern times.
According to Yu Yang (于杨), General Manager of Shanghai Xiting Cultural Media Co., Ltd. (上海西亭文化传媒有限公司), the center has formed an integrated production model of "artificial intelligence + live shooting," achieving an efficient closed loop of "come with creativity, leave with works." In 2025, the base has hosted more than 300 film crews, including 15 overseas crews. Jakonowski said, "The base provides an excellent production platform for creators from various countries and also builds a bridge for cross-border film and television cooperation and youth cultural exchange."
From Flow to Connection: Drawing Closer in Openness
On the high-speed train from Zhejiang to Shanghai, the scenery outside the window flashed by. Many guests raised their phones to record this wonderful journey.
"China's high-speed rail demonstrates the strength of Chinese manufacturing." Divna Vidaković, Director of the News Department of the Serbian Government Office for Media Cooperation, stated that the Serbian section of the Hungary-Serbia Railway, using Chinese technology, has been fully opened to traffic, reducing the travel time from the capital Belgrade to Subotica from more than five hours to 79 minutes, greatly improving Serbia's domestic connectivity.
At the Ningbo Zhoushan Port in Zhejiang, bridge cranes tower high, containers are precisely lifted, automated trucks shuttle back and forth, and data jumps in real time on the large screen of the dispatch center — the entire port is like an efficient network. As an important hub connecting China and Central and Eastern Europe, Zhoushan Port, with its efficient logistics system and stable shipping network, continuously promotes the expansion and structural optimization of bilateral trade. Miklavčič said that the systematic capability of the port's full-process integrated management and control is an important support for the stable operation of the global supply chain.
Inside the Central and Eastern European Countries Specialty Products Permanent Exhibition Hall in Ningbo, Polish ceramics, Czech crystal, Bulgarian rose products, Montenegrin wine, and others are displayed in different sections, each with its own characteristics. Jakonowski said that relying on the shipping routes between Zhoushan Port and Central and Eastern European countries, Polish porcelain and fruit juices enter the Chinese market, while Chinese small home appliances sell well in Poland, forming a stable virtuous cycle of two-way trade. Xhixhi said that Albanian meat, eggs, and other agricultural products are expanding their sales channels to China, and the vast Chinese consumer market holds many cooperation opportunities.
The guests stated that the connection between China and Central and Eastern Europe has long been integrated into the daily lives of the people of both sides. This summer, as Europe experienced sustained high temperatures, cooling small appliances from China were widely popular and entered ordinary households; in local supermarkets, various Chinese home appliances and daily necessities are favored by consumers, with smooth two-way flow of goods and a high degree of alignment between supply and demand. Personnel exchanges between the two sides are becoming more frequent, two-way tourist numbers are growing year by year, and the people are getting to know and feel closer to each other.
(Yin Xiaoye (尹晓晔) contributed to the reporting.)
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In today's world, change and chaos interweave, and turbulence occurs frequently. More and more countries are choosing to "look east," and the appeal of China's governance (中国之治) and the magnetic attraction of China's opportunities are rising day by day.
To understand "China's governance," one must understand "the governance of the Chinese Communist Party." The international community is exploring: Why can the Chinese Communist Party do it?
On July 1, General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered an important speech at the celebration of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. With a broad historical vision and profound theoretical insight, he profoundly revealed the six outstanding qualities of the Chinese Communist Party: determined to pursue truth, always keeping the forward direction correct; deeply rooted in the people, always possessing a solid foundation; bravely undertaking historical missions, always grasping strategic initiative; conforming to the trend of development, always walking at the forefront of the times; daring and adept at struggle, always maintaining confidence in victory; focusing on strengthening itself, always full of vitality. These outstanding qualities are the key code to why the Chinese Communist Party can do it, and also the deep logic of "the governance of the Chinese Communist Party."
Seeking happiness for the people, rejuvenation for the nation, progress for humanity, and harmony for the world. Looking back on the 105-year struggle of the Chinese Communist Party, there are both echoes of history and the tide sounds of the times, and also profound indications for the future. The Chinese Communist Party will always aim for the great cause of the Chinese nation for thousands of generations, devote itself to the noble cause of human peace and development, promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind (人类命运共同体), answer the questions of China, the world, the people, and the times, and let contemporary Chinese Marxism and 21st-century Marxism shine with even more brilliant light of truth.
(1) In 105 years, why could the Chinese Communist Party develop from having only over 50 party members at the outset into the world's largest governing party with major global influence?
The answer is clear and firm: in the final analysis, it is because Marxism works, because the sinicized and modernized Marxism works.
Engels pointed out incisively: "The whole conception of the world of Marx is not a dogma, but a method. It provides not ready-made dogmas, but the starting point for further research and the method for this research." This assertion reveals the theoretical quality of Marxism to keep pace with the times — it is not a closed system of truth, but an open, developing science that always moves with the times.
Since its founding, the Chinese Communist Party has clearly written Marxism on its banner. Through 105 years of unremitting struggle, the Chinese Communist Party has adhered to integrating the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific realities and with the excellent traditional Chinese culture, continuously advancing the sinicization and modernization of Marxism, greatly enriching and developing Marxism, and demonstrating the strong vitality of Marxism.
Today, the vigorous vitality and flourishing energy of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics have fully tested the scientific nature and truth of Marxism, fully displayed the affinity to the people and practical nature of Marxism, and fully demonstrated the openness and contemporaneity of Marxism. "The Chinese Communist Party does not 'adapt' Marxism, but 'practices' Marxism," said Alberto Lombardo, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Italy.
Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has centered on the major contemporary issues of what kind of long-term governing Marxist party to build and how to build a long-term governing Marxist party, put forward a series of new concepts, new ideas, and new strategies, and formed Xi Jinping's thought on Party building (习近平党建思想). Xi Jinping's thought on Party building is an important component of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想), has made major original contributions to developing the Marxist theory of Party building, and has significant practical significance and long-term guiding significance for strengthening the Party and the country.
Drawing wisdom and strength from the Party's century-long struggle, and mirroring the positive and negative experiences and lessons of Marxist parties, Xi Jinping's thought on Party building profoundly answers "why we were able to succeed in the past" and "how we can continue to succeed in the future," providing a fundamental guideline for strengthening Party building in the new era and injecting strength into the development and progress of human civilization. International observers believe that Xi Jinping's thought on Party building not only provides guidance for the "world's largest party" to move towards the "world's strongest party," but also contributes Chinese wisdom to the development and progress of world political civilization.
A scientific thought rooted in history and oriented towards the future, when placed in the vivid practice of governance, can truly release the magnificent power to transform the world.
Time is the yardstick of struggle. The just-concluded five years are the first five years after the Chinese Communist Party completed its first centenary goal and embarked on the new journey toward the second centenary goal, and also a solid step from building a moderately prosperous society in all respects to building a great modern socialist country in all respects. These five years are not only a solemn continuation in the long river of history, but also a key beginning on the new journey.
The "14th Five-Year Plan" concluded successfully. China gave the most powerful answer with actual achievements of an average annual growth rate of 5.4% and maintaining a contribution rate of about 30% to world economic growth. The "15th Five-Year Plan" has started. China's economy has sufficient resilience, strong endogenous momentum, and proactive and effective macro policies, continuously providing confidence and hope to the international community. Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, believes that China's economy has shown resilience and has huge potential, and will have a positive impact on the world.
The new journey is a new Long March. General Secretary Xi Jinping solemnly pointed out: "On the new journey, what do we rely on to further rally the people? It is by relying on Chinese-style modernization (中国式现代化)." To advance Chinese-style modernization, this "pioneering undertaking," we must work hard and gain experience in studying new situations and solving new problems.
Facing emerging risks and challenges, the Chinese Communists on the new journey unite and lead the people, "discovering truth and developing truth in practice, and using practice to realize truth and test truth," promoting the constant enrichment and continuous development of the theory of Chinese-style modernization, and creating new historical achievements with new great struggles.
(2) On the east side of the north extension of the central axis of Beijing, the Museum of the Chinese Communist Party History (中国共产党历史展览馆) stands towering and majestic.
In April this year, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam and President To Lam made a special trip here. He gazed at the precious original manuscripts of Marx, intently watched the film on the theme of the Long March, and deeply experienced the development history of the Chinese Communist Party and China.
This museum of Party history, which remembers the struggle and passes on the spirit, has become a must-visit place for many foreign political party leaders and friends when they visit China — here they trace the origin and explore the internal logic of China's development; here they experience the present and feel the profound depth of Chinese-style modernization.
Since the new era, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, new explorations, new practices, and new achievements of Chinese-style modernization have been carried out in an all-round, all-field, and all-region manner across the Chinese land, and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is irresistible.
Through Chinese-style modernization, the latest major achievement of scientific socialism, the international community observes the Chinese Communist Party's long-termism of "drawing a blueprint through to the end" and its strategic determination of "carrying on the work one batch after another." This is the responsibility and commitment of a mission-oriented party that never forgets its original aspiration, and also the firm pursuit of being determined to "make relatively greater contributions to humanity." Manuel Pineda, International Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain, recently visited multiple places in China and remarked that China "advances major matters through long-term objectives, five-year plans, and clear development strategies," and this "persistence and ability to consistently strive towards the same goal for decades" is one of the aspects of Chinese-style modernization most worthy of serious study by Europe.
The Chinese Communist Party is a large party, leading a large country, and carrying out a great cause. With its magnificent exploration and practice, Chinese-style modernization contributes new ideas and new paradigms to solving the common problems faced by all countries in the modernization process.
— Who will lead the modernization process?
In 1939, U.S. Navy Captain Evans Fordyce Carlson, who twice visited the Communist-led anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines, made this prophecy: The Chinese Communist Party is the source of China's national strength, giving China hope of becoming a great world power. Carlson's prophecy has become reality. Chinese-style modernization is socialist modernization led by the Chinese Communist Party. The Party's leadership directly concerns the fundamental direction, future, and destiny, and ultimate success or failure of Chinese-style modernization. After the Opium War, China's people with lofty ideals once envisioned achieving national independence and prosperity by learning from Western modernization and following the Western development path, and they made various attempts, but all ended in failure. After the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, it united and led the Chinese people to 革故鼎新 (gě gù dǐng xīn - "discard the old and establish the new," to rid the old and bring in the new) and 改天换地 (gǎi tiān huàn dì - "transform heaven and earth," to remake nature), and embarked on a path of Chinese-style modernization, historically overcoming the biggest drawback of Western modernization which is capital-centered rather than people-centered. The Chinese Communist Party always grasps historical laws and historical initiative, promoting Chinese-style modernization to proceed steadily and far, and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation shows unprecedented bright prospects.
— Who is modernization for?
On May 14 this year, President Xi Jinping visited the Temple of Heaven together with U.S. President Donald Trump, who was on a state visit to China. The Temple of Heaven embodies the concept of "a round heaven and a square earth," showcasing the Chinese cosmology and philosophy of life. "Ancient Chinese rulers held sacrificial ceremonies at the Temple of Heaven to pray for national peace and prosperity and favorable weather, reflecting the traditional Chinese thought that the people are the foundation of the state, and when the foundation is stable, the state is secure," President Xi Jinping said, drawing from the past to discuss the present. "The Chinese Communist Party inherits and develops the people-oriented thought of Chinese civilization, always adheres to the fundamental principle of serving the people wholeheartedly, and receives the firm support and heartfelt endorsement of the people." "Historical activity is the activity of the masses; as historical activities deepen, the number of the masses will inevitably expand," Marx and Engels pointed out. Putting the people first is the fundamental stance of Marxism, and also the core essence of Chinese-style modernization. The Chinese Communist Party combines the Marxist thought on adhering to the people's stance with the people-oriented thought of excellent traditional Chinese culture, places human development at the center of the modernization process, and constructs a development coordinate system centered on the people. Chinese-style modernization always focuses on people and aims at people, responds to the people's aspiration for a better life, paves the value foundation of the civilizational narrative with common values, cares for the development needs of the people of all countries, and broadens the intellectual horizon and injects forward momentum into the world modernization process.
— What path does modernization take?
"China has become the leading flag for the socialist system and developing countries, and a mainstay in maintaining world peace and promoting the building of a multipolar world," said Thongloun Sisoulith, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and President of Laos, during his visit to China in June this year. China's development provides valuable experience that can be drawn upon for the vast number of developing countries, including Laos. The development process of human society is tortuous and undulating, and the journey of countries exploring modernization paths is full of hardships. Facts have shown that what kind of modernization path a country chooses is determined by many factors such as its historical traditions, social system, development conditions, and external environment. From theory to practice, from epistemology to methodology, Chinese-style modernization has broken the myth that "modernization equals Westernization." Its unique worldview, values, view of history, view of civilization, view of democracy, view of ecology, and its great practice represent a major innovation in the theory and practice of world modernization. Chinese-style modernization shows that developing countries have the right and ability to independently explore their own distinctive paths to modernization based on their national conditions, expands the avenues for developing countries to achieve modernization, and sets an example for developing countries to move towards modernization independently and autonomously.
— What kind of civilizational future does modernization lead to?
The history of humanity's pursuit of modernization is a history of different civilizations innovating through exchange and mutual learning. Chinese-style modernization is deeply rooted in excellent traditional Chinese culture, embodies the advanced nature of scientific socialism, draws on and absorbs all excellent achievements of human civilization, represents the direction of human civilization progress, and shows a new picture different from the Western modernization model. Balancing efficiency and fairness, ensuring that all the people become masters of the country in the true sense, enriching spiritual and cultural life, maintaining social unity, stability, and order, achieving harmony between humanity and nature, and promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind... Chinese-style modernization, as a completely new form of human civilization, proves to the world that human civilization is still evolving and history has not ended. History never fails those who strive. Advancing the "15th Five-Year Plan," Chinese-style modernization continues to progress. It not only contributes momentum and opportunities to global development, but will also further expand the development space of world modernization and write a grand chapter of a new form of human civilization.
(3) In 105 years, the Chinese Communist Party has always stood on the correct side of history and on the side of human civilization progress. With 自强不息 (zì qiáng bù xī - "unremitting self-reliance," ceaselessly striving to become stronger) struggle, it has profoundly changed the trends and patterns of world development and profoundly influenced the course of world history.
As the once-in-a-century transformation accelerates, the world has entered a new period of turbulence and transformation, and humanity once again stands at a crossroads of where to go. Socialist China under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party continuously promotes the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, contributes Chinese wisdom, Chinese solutions, and Chinese strength to solving major issues facing humanity, and is recognized as a builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, and a defender of the international order.
— Adhere to universal benefit and inclusiveness, expand the space for common development —
Starting from May 1 this year, China fully implemented zero-tariff measures for 53 African countries with which it has diplomatic relations, becoming the first major economy in the world to achieve unilateral full-coverage zero-tariff treatment for all African countries with diplomatic ties. This opening-up measure demonstrates China's firm stance in helping the Global South develop and promoting common prosperity. Paul Frimpong, Executive Director of the Ghana-based Africa-China Policy and Consulting Center, believes that "its significance goes far beyond the trade level; it provides an unprecedented strategic opportunity for Africa's economic transformation and integration into economic globalization." China always adheres to sharing opportunities and creating a future together, working with all parties to jointly make the "cake" of human society modernization bigger, and striving to let the fruits of modernization benefit the people of all countries more equitably. In the nearly five years since the Global Development Initiative (全球发展倡议) was proposed, it has carried out over 1,800 cooperation projects, trained more than 200,000 talents of various types for developing countries, and received support and participation from over 130 countries and international organizations. China continuously shares its "list of opportunities" with the world, pushing the global development cause to take new steps and achieve new results.
— Bridge the peace deficit, consolidate the foundation of peace and security —
Turmoil in the Middle East impacts global peace and development. How to stop war tests responsibility and commitment. Since the conflict involving the US, Israel, and Iran broke out, China has been committed to promoting ceasefire and cessation of war, put forward four-point proposals on maintaining and promoting peace and stability in the Middle East, and provided solutions for the region to emerge from the shadow of war and achieve lasting peace and security. This year marks the 36th year of China's participation in UN peacekeeping operations. Over 36 years, China has dispatched a cumulative total of over 50,000 peacekeeping personnel, participated in 29 UN peacekeeping operations authorized by the Security Council, formed a standby peacekeeping force of 8,000 troops, and took the lead in forming the world's first permanent peacekeeping police unit of a formed unit. It is the second largest contributor to UN peacekeeping and the largest troop contributor among the permanent members of the Security Council. "China Blue Helmets" have become an indispensable and reliable force in UN peacekeeping operations. Facing the interweaving of change and turbulence in the international situation, China adheres to the concept of common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable security, upholds the principle of indivisible security, deeply implements the Global Security Initiative (全球安全倡议), and mediates on a series of hot spot issues such as the Middle East and Ukraine, creating opportunities for peace. The Global Security Initiative has created a new path of security that is dialogue without confrontation, partnership without alliance, and win-win without zero-sum, and is hailed by the international community as "promising to help build a world of universal security and common prosperity."
— Promote mutual learning among civilizations, gather the strength of harmony and coexistence —
Not long ago, the world witnessed the second United Nations International Day of Dialogue among Civilizations. From a seal carving exhibition integrating cultural elements of UN member states to a Dunhuang culture thematic exhibition recreating the thousand-year-old interactions along the Silk Road, the colorful civilizational dialogues witness the fusion and collision of Eastern and Western cultures, and the Chinese civilizational concepts of 和而不同 (hé ér bù tóng - "harmonious but different," to seek harmony without uniformity) and "the beauty of each is shared by all" are taking deeper root in people's hearts. The great ship of shared destiny for all countries carries the dream of the sustainable development of human civilization. China put forward and firmly implements the Global Civilization Initiative (全球文明倡议), promoting mutual learning among civilizations through dialogue to replace estrangement, mutual respect to replace conflict, and inclusiveness to replace superiority. Today, from the Asia-Pacific to the African continent, from the Middle East to Latin America, people around the world, against the backdrop of a once-in-a-century transformation, have gained a deeper understanding of the significance of the Global Civilization Initiative for the times — Chinese concepts clarify the right way for different civilizations to get along, respond to the common call for diverse civilizations to join hands in achieving modernization, and are gathering increasingly broad international consensus and continuously inspiring strong resonance worldwide. In-depth exchanges of governance experience have become an important part of implementing the Global Civilization Initiative. This year, the Nyerere Leadership College in Tanzania established a research center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. The "World Mayors Dialogue" exchange activity visited many places in China, building a communication platform for all parties to share experiences in modernization construction. As Ahmed Salam, former Deputy Director of the Egyptian State Information Service, said, the important significance of the Global Civilization Initiative lies in encouraging each civilization to find its own modernization path through inheritance and innovation.
— Improve global governance, consolidate the cornerstone of fairness and justice —
Every act of justice, every act of shouldering responsibility, is a vivid interpretation of worldview, order concept, values, and sense of responsibility. The world cannot regress to the law of the jungle where the strong prey on the weak. Maintaining international order and strengthening global governance are the common interests of all countries. The "Group of Friends for Global Governance (全球治理之友小组)" initiated by China has been established successively at the UN headquarters in New York, Geneva, and Vienna. The white paper "Building a More Just and Reasonable Global Governance System: China's Concepts, Initiatives and Actions (《构建更加公正合理的全球治理体系：中国的理念、倡议与行动》)" was released... At a critical juncture where global governance is at a make-or-break point, the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议) proposed by China has gathered broad consensus and strength that uphold sovereign equality, abide by international rule of law, practice multilateralism, advocate people-centeredness, and emphasize action orientation, contributing Chinese solutions to reforming and improving the global governance system.
The century-old big party is in its prime. On the new journey, the Chinese Communist Party will continue to follow the aspirations of the people and the trend of the times, hold high the banner of peace, development, cooperation, and win-win, promote the common values of all mankind, promote the building of a new type of international relations, advance the implementation of the four global initiatives, and work with all countries to jointly promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, injecting more positive energy into world peace and development.
(4) At present, the study and education on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance (正确政绩观) is being carried out deeply and solidly throughout the Chinese Communist Party. This is a profound answer to the proposition of "for whom to govern and how to govern."
Bringing benefits to the people is the greatest performance. The Chinese Communist Party always remembers that the state is the people and the people are the state, adheres to building the Party for the public and exercising power for the people, consciously implements the fundamental principle of serving the people wholeheartedly, and firmly stands with the people, thinks with the people, and works with the people. This is a solid foundation that cannot be shaken by any wind or wave.
Eighty years ago, when American scholar John King Fairbank conducted his third investigation trip to China, he solemnly concluded that every Chinese Communist Party member takes "serving the masses and being loyal to the Party" as their creed, without any selfish thoughts, and this "virtue of 大公无私 (dà gōng wú sī - "selfless," completely devoted to the public without any selfishness) gives the Chinese Communist leaders confidence to guide the government, and the Communist regime has the acquiescence of the people."
Apart from the interests of the country, the nation, and the people, the Chinese Communist Party has no special interests of its own. This spirit of selflessness has been 一脉相承 (yī mài xiāng chéng - "come down in one continuous line," to share the same lineage) and 历久弥新 (lì jiǔ mí xīn - "become more vibrant over time," to become more meaningful with the passage of time) among Chinese Communists.
"I will have no self, and live up to the people." In March 2019, President Xi Jinping's reply to then-President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies Roberto Fico demonstrated the genuine people's sentiment of the leader of a major party and major country.
Facing a series of profound changes and huge challenges in today's world, the Chinese Communist Party regards "meeting people's needs" as the key to breaking the impasse. From "the people's aspiration for a better life is our goal," to "serve the people and take on the responsibilities that should be taken," to "Communists must remember that bringing benefits to the people is the greatest performance" ... Since the 18th National Congress, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has always placed the people in the highest position in its heart, and taken making contributions to the cause of the Party and the people as its highest pursuit. "The Chinese Communist Party has inscribed the original aspiration and mission deep in its heart from top to bottom, and wholeheartedly contributed to the people's happiness and national rejuvenation, thus creating China's development achievements today." Such was the profound impression of the visiting delegation of the African National Congress, the ruling party of South Africa.
Take the people's heart as its own heart, take the world's benefit as its own benefit. The Chinese Communist Party adheres to putting people first. This is an inevitable choice in line with the laws of human society development, and a necessary part of building a community with a shared future for mankind. From promoting the building of a world of lasting peace, universal security, common prosperity, openness, inclusiveness, clean and beautiful, to the concrete practice of high-quality Belt and Road cooperation (一带一路) helping local people improve livelihoods and create jobs, and to showing the responsibility of a major country in areas concerning life and health and basic survival such as public health, climate change, and food security, all reflect the Chinese Communist Party's respect for people's needs, dignity, and development.
Through a hundred years of vicissitudes without changing its original aspiration and retaining its true character, the Chinese Communist Party brings inspiration to the construction of political parties and development of political civilization in the world: a political party is fully capable of transcending the constraints of interests and taking the people's interests as the highest standard; a political party is fully capable of, with the mindset of "success need not be in my tenure," planning a grand blueprint that spans generations.
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After braving wind and waves, the small red boat that set sail from Nanhu, Jiaxing in those days has become a majestic giant ship leading China. The Chinese Communist Party has written an exciting epic with its actions. Advancing in the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, this epic is writing new chapters in the grand practice of Chinese-style modernization. The world will increasingly clearly understand the logic of this giant ship's course and comprehend the original aspiration and far-sightedness of its helmsman: bearing in mind the strategic situation of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the once-in-a-century transformation in the world, drawing up development blueprints with a broader pattern and vision, becoming the anchor of morality, source of confidence, and light of hope in the process of human civilization, joining hands with all progressive forces, and moving together towards a bright future of peace, development, cooperation, and win-win.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 12th — In response to the joint statement issued on July 12, 2026 by the United States, the Philippines, Australia, Canada, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, New Zealand, Romania, Slovenia, the United Kingdom and other countries so-called “commemorating the tenth anniversary of the South China Sea Arbitration ruling,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China solemnly states as follows:
One. China has sovereignty over the South China Sea Islands, including the Dongsha Islands, the Xisha Islands, the Zhongsha Islands and the Nansha Islands; China’s South China Sea Islands have internal waters, a territorial sea, a contiguous zone, an exclusive economic zone and a continental shelf; China has historic rights in the South China Sea. China’s sovereignty over the South China Sea Islands and its relevant rights and interests in the South China Sea have been established in the long course of history. As early as the Western Han Dynasty in the 2nd century BC, the Chinese people navigated the South China Sea and discovered the South China Sea Islands in the course of long-term practice. China was the first to exercise sovereignty and jurisdiction over the South China Sea Islands and the relevant waters continuously, peacefully and effectively. That the South China Sea Islands belong to China has long been a universal consensus of the international community.
Two. The South China Sea is one of the safest maritime passages in the world. There has never been any problem with freedom of navigation and overflight in the South China Sea. China firmly safeguards its territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests in the South China Sea, and firmly upholds peace and stability in the South China Sea. In response to the rights-infringing and provocative acts of relevant countries in the South China Sea, China takes resolute measures to defend its own rights and interests, which are lawful, reasonable, professional and restrained. The United States and other extra-regional countries continuously strengthen military force deployment in the South China Sea, 横冲直撞 (héng chōng zhí zhuàng - “to rush about wildly,” to act recklessly and aggressively) and 煽风点火 (shān fēng diǎn huǒ - “to fan the flames and ignite the fire,” to stir up trouble). Such militaristic and coercive acts are the main challenges currently facing the situation in the South China Sea.
Three. Issues of land territory do not fall within the scope of regulation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Disputes concerning maritime delimitation have been excluded from the compulsory dispute settlement procedures of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea by China’s declaration made in 2006 pursuant to Article 298 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. On issues of territorial sovereignty and maritime delimitation disputes, China does not accept any dispute settlement solution imposed on China. China will continue to follow the basic principles of international law and the basic norms of international relations as affirmed in the Charter of the United Nations, including the principles of respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity of states and peaceful settlement of disputes, and insist on resolving the relevant disputes in the South China Sea with directly concerned parties through negotiation and consultation on the basis of respect for historical facts and in accordance with international law, so as to maintain peace and stability in the South China Sea.
Four. China’s position on the “South China Sea Arbitration Case” (南海仲裁案) is clear, consistent and firm. The “South China Sea Arbitration Case” violates the basic principles of international law such as “the consent of States” and “pacta sunt servanda,” violates the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea itself, and even more so runs counter to the basic facts of the South China Sea. The so-called “ruling” is an illegal, invalid and non-binding piece of waste paper. China neither accepts nor recognizes that “ruling,” and opposes and does not accept any claims or actions based on that “ruling.” China’s territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests in the South China Sea shall in no case be affected by that “ruling.”
Five. In the ten years since the “ruling” was issued, it has not only failed to resolve the maritime issues between China and the Philippines, but has instead become a tool for the Philippines to expand its territorial and maritime claims, intensified regional contradictions, and provided a pretext for extra-regional forces to intervene in the South China Sea issue and destabilize the situation there. It has become a “stumbling block” affecting China-Philippines relations and peace and stability in the South China Sea. If the standards of the “ruling” were followed, many countries’ islands and reefs would lose the basis for claiming maritime rights and interests. Let us ask: have the individual countries that support the “ruling” voluntarily relinquished the maritime rights and interests of their own corresponding islands and reefs? The continued hyping of the illegal “ruling” by relevant countries is not in line with the general trend of regional peace and stability, and runs counter to the vision of regional countries and peoples for development and prosperity. Their attempts are doomed to fail. We urge relevant countries to earnestly respect China’s territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests in the South China Sea, stop making trouble on the South China Sea issue, and stop undermining peace and stability in the South China Sea.
Return to TopA spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement on the 12th in response to the Japanese Foreign Minister's remarks hyping the tenth anniversary of the "South China Sea Arbitration Ruling." The full text is as follows:
On July 12, Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi issued remarks on the tenth anniversary of the "South China Sea Arbitration Ruling," openly drumming up support for the illegal "ruling," attacking and accusing China's legitimate claims, and arrogantly claiming that Japan is a stakeholder in South China Sea affairs. China expresses strong condemnation and firm opposition to this.
Japan is not a party to the South China Sea issue and has no qualification to make irresponsible remarks about China's territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests in the South China Sea. During World War II, Japan committed heinous crimes in China, including the illegal occupation of China's islands and reefs in the South China Sea, bringing profound disasters to China and the Chinese people. Now, under the banner of so-called "stakeholder," Japan is again attempting to intervene in the South China Sea. This will only remind the world once again of Japan's history of foreign aggression and expansion, and make people more vigilant against Japan's scheme of "re-militarization."
China's sovereignty over the islands in the South China Sea and its relevant rights and interests in the South China Sea were established in the long course of history and are fully grounded in history and international law. China's activities in the South China Sea are legitimate, lawful, and beyond reproach. Still less can China's rights in the South China Sea be denied by a so-called "arbitral tribunal" established ad hoc. The so-called "arbitration" exceeded its jurisdiction, perverted the law, and the "ruling" it rendered is illegal, null and void, and has no binding force. It has seriously undermined the seriousness and authority of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and seriously impacted international rule of law. China neither accepts nor recognizes the relevant "ruling," and opposes and refuses to accept any claims or actions based on that "ruling."
Japan, ignoring the absurdity of the "ruling," openly advocates for the "ruling." In fact, it is "saying one thing and doing another," fully exposing its hypocritical nature. According to the "ruling's" standard, if even Taiping Island in the Nansha Islands, which covers an area of 500,000 square meters, has fresh water for drinking, and can grow vegetables, fruits, and raise poultry, is not an island and cannot claim an exclusive economic zone or continental shelf, then what right does Japan have to claim an exclusive economic zone and continental shelf of hundreds of thousands of square kilometers for Okinotori Reef, which is isolated in the Pacific Ocean and consists of only two rocks with an area of less than 10 square meters? By this standard, many other Japanese islands and reefs would also lose the basis for asserting maritime claims. Since Japan has issued a statement endorsing the content of the "ruling," China has reason to believe that Japan has, in accordance with the same standard, voluntarily relinquished its corresponding maritime claims.
What Japan cares about is not international rule of law at all, but rather intervening in the South China Sea and stirring up chaos in the region. Over the past period, Japan has continuously strengthened its collusion with the Philippines, exporting weapons and military equipment to the Philippines. Japan has dispatched military forces overseas and launched offensive missiles on several occasions. These actions go far beyond the scope of "self-defense," breach the constraints of Japan's constitution and international law, and challenge the post-war international order. Given all this, we cannot help but ask: what exactly is Japan up to?
We urge Japan to stop smearing and attacking China, stop making trouble over the South China Sea issue, and stop undermining peace and stability in the South China Sea. China will continue to firmly defend its territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests in the South China Sea. Any attempt to challenge China's lawful rights and interests and undermine peace and stability in the South China Sea is doomed to fail.
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On the night of July 11 and the early morning of July 12, Typhoon Bawi, the 9th typhoon of this year, made two landfalls, first in Yuhuan City (玉环市), Taizhou, Zhejiang, and then in Yueqing City (乐清市), Wenzhou, Zhejiang. In response to the impact of Typhoon Bawi and heavy rainfall, various regions and departments adhered to the principle of putting people and lives first, fully carried out flood prevention, typhoon prevention, and post-typhoon disaster emergency recovery work, minimized disaster losses, and resolutely safeguarded the safety of people's lives and property and the overall stability of society.
Strengthen consultation and assessment
Meteorological monitoring shows that on the afternoon of the 12th, Typhoon Bawi weakened to a tropical storm level. At 17:00 on the 12th, its center was located within Wuwei City (无为市), Wuhu, Anhui. The maximum wind force around its periphery was level 9 (23 m/s). The Central Meteorological Observatory (中央气象台) predicts that Typhoon Bawi will move northwest at a speed of 10–15 km per hour, gradually weakening. It will turn northeast in eastern Anhui on the 13th, pass through the Shandong Peninsula into the northern Yellow Sea on the 14th, and then gradually transform into an extratropical cyclone. In the next two days, there will be heavy rainfall in East China and Northeast China. In the eastern part of Northwest China and other areas, there will be heavy to torrential rain, with very heavy rain in some areas and exceptionally heavy rain in localized areas.
On the morning of the 12th, the Office of the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters (国家防总办公室) and the Ministry of Emergency Management (应急管理部) continued to organize a multi-department joint consultation to assess the development trends of Typhoon Bawi and heavy rainfall, and to deploy flood prevention and typhoon prevention work in key areas. The consultation pointed out that Typhoon Bawi will bring relatively severe wind and rain impacts to the central and eastern regions of China, with some areas experiencing extreme rainfall. Extraordinary rainstorms have already occurred in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and parts of Northeast China. Heavy rainfall will occur in Anhui, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shandong and other places. The situation for flood prevention and typhoon prevention is severe and complex.
The State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters launched a Level IV flood control emergency response for Shandong on the 12th, adjusted the flood control and typhoon prevention emergency responses for Zhejiang, Fujian, Beijing, Tianjin, and Guangxi at appropriate times, and dispatched three additional work teams to Hebei, Liaoning, and Jilin to assist and guide local flood control work.
After consultation and assessment, the Zhejiang Provincial Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters (浙江省防指) adjusted the typhoon prevention emergency response to Level II at 12:00 on the 12th, and then adjusted it to Level III at 16:00. The Zhejiang Provincial Department of Water Resources (浙江省水利厅) adjusted the flood and drought disaster defense (typhoon prevention) emergency response to Level II at 12:00 on the 12th. The Wenzhou City Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters (温州市防指) adjusted the typhoon prevention emergency response to Level III from 16:00 on the 12th. As Typhoon Bawi moves away from Zhejiang and gradually weakens, the tide levels along various sections of the Zhejiang coast will gradually return to normal. At 15:00 on the 12th, the Zhejiang Provincial Marine Monitoring and Forecasting Center (浙江省海洋监测预报中心) lifted the storm surge warning.
Highlight early warning and prevention
At 18:00 on the 12th, the Central Meteorological Observatory issued a blue typhoon warning, a blue severe convective weather warning, continued to issue an orange rainstorm warning, issued a waterlogging risk meteorological forecast, and issued a meteorological risk warning for medium and small river floods. The Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部) and the China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局) jointly issued a red geological disaster meteorological risk warning.
The Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) and the China Meteorological Administration jointly issued a red mountain torrent disaster meteorological warning at 18:00 on the 12th. It is expected that from 20:00 on the 12th to 20:00 on the 13th, there is a high possibility of mountain torrent disasters in parts of northeastern Liaoning, southwestern Jilin, southern Anhui, and northeastern Jiangxi (orange warning), among which localized areas in northeastern Liaoning, southwestern Jilin, and southern Anhui have a very high possibility of mountain torrent disasters (red warning).
The Ministry of Water Resources launched a Level IV flood defense emergency response for Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, and Shandong at 10:00 on the 12th. Affected by rainfall, the Luan River and the Ji Canal in the Haihe River Basin have already experienced the No. 1 flood of 2026. The Information Center of the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部信息中心) upgraded and issued a yellow flood warning at 13:01 on the 12th. The Hydrological Bureau of the Haihe River Water Conservancy Commission of the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部海河水利委员会水文局) issued a blue flood warning for the Ji Canal in the Haihe River Basin at 19:30 on the 11th.
On the 12th, the Hebei Provincial Department of Natural Resources (河北省自然资源厅) and the Hebei Provincial Meteorological Bureau (河北省气象局) jointly issued a geological disaster meteorological risk warning, guiding governments at all levels and relevant departments in the affected areas to carry out geological disaster defense work according to the emergency plan. On the same day, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Department of Natural Resources (内蒙古自治区自然资源厅) and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Meteorological Bureau (内蒙古自治区气象局) jointly issued a geological disaster meteorological risk warning.
Carry out disaster relief and assistance
On the 12th, the National Commission for Disaster Prevention, Reduction and Relief (国家防灾减灾救灾委员会) launched a national Level IV disaster relief emergency response in response to the severe impact of Typhoon Bawi on Zhejiang, dispatched disaster relief work teams urgently to the disaster area, and guided and assisted local authorities in carrying out disaster relief and assistance work such as the transfer and resettlement of affected people and the provision of basic living guarantees.
In accordance with the "National Natural Disaster Relief Emergency Plan" (《国家自然灾害救助应急预案》) and the disaster losses in Zhejiang, the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) urgently arranged 100 million yuan from central budget investment to support Zhejiang in post-typhoon disaster emergency recovery, focusing on the post-disaster emergency recovery and reconstruction of damaged infrastructure such as roads and water conservancy, as well as public service facilities such as schools and hospitals, to promote the restoration of normal production and living order as soon as possible.
On the 12th, the Office of the National Commission for Disaster Prevention, Reduction and Relief (国家防灾减灾救灾委员会办公室) and the Ministry of Emergency Management, in response to the impact of Typhoon Bawi and according to the needs of flood prevention, typhoon prevention, and disaster relief work in Zhejiang, Tianjin, Anhui and other places, in coordination with the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration (国家粮食和物资储备局), allocated 70,000 pieces of central disaster relief materials such as folding beds, towel blankets, summer quilts, mattresses, and family emergency kits to Zhejiang, Tianjin, and Anhui, fully supporting the emergency transfer and resettlement of affected people and disaster relief work.
On the 12th, at the request of the flood control headquarters of Tianjin (天津市防指) and Anhui (安徽省防指), the Office of the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters, in coordination with the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration, allocated more than 7,500 pieces of central flood control materials such as woven bags, laminated woven fabric, rubber boats, drainage equipment, and generators to support the two provinces and municipalities in flood control and emergency rescue work.
Affected by Typhoon Maysak, the 10th typhoon of this year, severe rainstorms and floods occurred in many places in Guangxi. On the basis of the emergency arrangement of 100 million yuan from central budget investment on the 6th, the National Development and Reform Commission added another 100 million yuan to support Guangxi in further post-disaster emergency recovery. On the 12th, the finance of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区财政) pre-allocated another 200 million yuan to help affected areas restore normal production and living order as soon as possible. As of now, the autonomous region's finance has cumulatively pre-allocated 416 million yuan to support areas such as Nanning, Guigang, Qinzhou, and Fangchenggang in carrying out various disaster relief work.
(Comprehensive report by our reporters Liu Zhiqiang (刘志强), Liu Wenxin (刘温馨), Deng Jianyang (邓剑洋), Jiang Xuehong (蒋雪鸿), Wang Donghui (王东辉), Jiang Nan (江南), Liu Junguo (刘军国), Dou Hao (窦皓), Pang Geping (庞革平), Jin Bo (靳博), Shi Ziqiang (史自强), and Zhang Cheng (张枨))
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"We must make every effort to organize emergency rescue and relief, medical treatment of the injured, and resettlement of the affected people, minimize casualties, and prevent secondary disasters." A few days ago, General Secretary Xi Jinping issued an important instruction on flood prevention and disaster relief work.
On the front line of fighting Typhoon Bawu in Zhejiang, reporters saw the steadfastness and sense of responsibility of Party members and cadres who had been battling for days: braving the wind and rain, standing guard through the night, not retreating in the face of danger, and stepping up at critical moments.
"Better to prepare defenses ten times and have nine be for nothing than to let a single chance in ten thousand go undefended."
At 16:00 on July 10, 31 hours before Bawu made landfall. "One more knock on a door, one more batch of people evacuated, one more verification of a hazard point... 'We must know where every person is headed; not a single person can be left behind,' said Fu Shuoshuo, Party branch secretary of Fukang Ethnic Village (富康民族村) in Huangtan Town (黄坦镇), Wencheng County (文成县), Wenzhou. During the inspection work for evacuating personnel, she discovered that villager Liu Guobiao was seriously ill and needed a ventilator to assist breathing; a sudden power outage would endanger his life."
"'What if something happens on the way?' Liu Guobiao's elderly spouse was very anxious."
"'Please trust me! The ventilator will not stop for a second, all the medicine will be prepared, and no matter what happens, the uncle will have someone to take care of him,' Fu Shuoshuo repeatedly promised."
After obtaining consent, they carried the stretcher, transferred the ventilator and other monitoring equipment, and ensured the power supply. The elderly couple was safely taken to the county-level disaster shelter center, where dedicated medical staff stood guard on-site 24 hours a day.
At the shelter site, the lights were bright.
"'With you here, we feel much more at ease,' Liu Guobiao's family members repeatedly thanked."
Not a single person was left behind; Huangtan Town successfully completed the evacuation and shelter of 1,976 people, including four patients who needed medical equipment.
Large-scale mobilization in advance: personnel deployed forward, supplies sent down, overnight duty, repeated inspections. Before the typhoon, wind and rain arrive; before wind and rain, Party members and cadres arrive!
"'Better to prepare ten times and have nine be for nothing than to let a single chance in ten thousand go undefended,' said Zhou Qiang, head of the Organization Department of the Wencheng County Party Committee. 'The starting point and end point of all work remain the same: it is for the people.'"
"Ensure that not a single household is missed, not a single person is left behind."
At 22:56 on July 11, a faint light appeared in the sluice gate management room on Ximen Island (西门岛), Yueqing City (乐清市), Wenzhou.
More than two hours earlier, Typhoon Bawu, carrying violent winds and torrential rain, swept across Ximen Island. The fierce winds snapped trees, floodwaters overflowed the embankments, the island's power supply lines were severely affected, and the small island fell into total darkness.
The electric opening and closing system of the coastal flood control sluice gate was completely paralyzed, and the accumulated water on the island could not be drained. Once the water level overflowed, it would have a serious impact on the hundreds of households and farmland on the island.
Moved by the flood warning, Yueqing City quickly convened relevant departments to discuss plans. State Grid Yueqing Power Supply Company received orders. Jin Jianfa, a power repair worker with over 20 years of Party membership, formulated an emergency plan at the first opportunity and drove with colleagues towards the dark isolated island.
Crushed stones and broken trees blocked the road; Jin Jianfa dragged them away with his bare hands, leaving bloody scratches on his hands. At 22:45, the truck drove into the area below the sluice gate management room. Jin Jianfa led the technicians as they jumped out of the truck and immediately began pulling cables and connecting lines. At that time, violent winds were raging near Ximen Island; seawater was pressing in step by step, and the water level was continuously rising. Facing the storm and rain, they repeatedly checked whether each connection was made.
At 22:56, the generator trembled, and as the motor spun rapidly, the accumulated water began to drain into the sea.
In this fight against Typhoon Bawu, from coastal towns to mountain villages, many Party members and cadres in Zhejiang stood guard day and night, charging forward.
In Pan'an County (磐安县), Jinhua, town and village Party members and cadres held gongs, drums, and loudspeakers to timely guide the masses to safety; in Youyi Village (友谊村), Yangxi Subdistrict (洋溪街道), Jiande City (建德市), Hangzhou, village Party secretary Xu Yaowen rested only 3 hours in two days, leading all village Party members and cadres to inspect risk points and evacuate and shelter villagers; in Xinzehu Village (新择湖村), Fengqiao Town (枫桥镇), Zhuji City (诸暨市), Shaoxing, Party members and cadres coordinated multiple forces, rushed to the scene to assess and eliminate dangers, cleared drainage pipes, and made every effort to eliminate safety hazards in mountain ponds. "Ensure that not a single household is missed, not a single person is left behind." Xu Yaowen's words are precisely the solemn promise of every Party member and cadre.
Party members and the masses work together with concerted effort, coalescing into a solid defensive line against the typhoon.
At 10:30 on July 12, Hesheng Town (鹤盛镇), Yongjia County (永嘉县), Wenzhou, received nearly 400 mm of rainfall in a few hours, and a flash flood occurred in the Dagang Stream (大矼溪) in Weifeng Village (桅峰村).
Yongjia County dispatched an emergency repair team that crossed the stream on a rubber boat to repair damaged facilities on the opposite bank. When they reached the middle of the stream, the boat was capsized by the swift current, and two team members were swept away, carried all the way to the downstream sluice gate.
"Quick, save them!" Gong Dejin, an elderly Party member of Weifeng Village who was patrolling the bank, saw this, took off his shirt, and plunged into the turbulent water at the risk of being swept away at any moment.
He caught them! Gong Dejin, with all his might, dragged one team member back. Without time to catch his breath, he turned and went back into the water again, rescuing the other team member who was nearly exhausted.
Later, someone asked him where his courage came from. Gong Dejin said, "At critical moments, a Party member must step up."
In Bingang Village (滨港村), Shamen Town (沙门镇), Yuhuan City (玉环市), Taizhou, fruit farmer Lin Yunding's greenhouse was blown down, and the 130,000 jin (65,000 kg) of ripe grapes faced total loss. "Everyone who can go, come with me!" Qu Renliang, deputy Party secretary of Shamen Town, and Hong Linglong, Party branch secretary of Bingang Village, organized Party members to help with the emergency harvest. For five consecutive hours, all the grapes from 16 mu of land were harvested. "Thank you, thank you so much!" Lin Yunding wept with emotion.
From stepping up and "going against the flow" to patrolling the dikes day and night, from repairing facilities to clearing mud and draining floods... every utterance of "I am a Party member, let me go first" coalesces into a powerful force on the front line of emergency rescue and disaster relief.
"The typhoon cannot break the solid defensive line of 众志成城 (zhòng zhì chéng chéng - "united will is like a fortress," unity is strength). With millions of Party members and the masses working together with concerted effort, we are sure to win this tough battle of defending against Typhoon Bawu," said a relevant responsible comrade of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee.
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"Do you believe in light?" This is the question posed by Zhai Wenyan (翟文延), a "light chaser" of the post-1995 generation, and also the name of the youth commando team he formed. With the help of the laser scattering system they conquered, the new generation artificial sun "China's Huanliu-3 (中国环流三号)" achieved a "double hundred million degrees" breakthrough, marking that our country's controllable nuclear fusion technology has entered a new stage of combustion experiments.
"We are not only people who chase light, but also must become people who create light." Zhai Wenyan's dedication is also a microcosm of more and more young scientific and technological talents emerging and courageously shouldering heavy responsibilities in the new era.
"The future of science lies in youth." At the National Science and Technology Awards Conference (国家科学技术奖励大会), the Conference of Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (两院院士大会), and the 11th National Congress of the China Association for Science and Technology (中国科协第十一次全国代表大会), General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized "vigorously cultivating outstanding young scientific and technological talents" and "treating the building of a young scientific and technological talent team as a strategic project." His earnest heart, full of fervent expectations.
Youth is always innovative. The "golden age" of life often can give rise to a "golden period" of innovation. In the history of scientific development, the breakthrough periods of many major achievements overlap with the burst period of thinking and active period of cognition of young people.
Take the evolution of artificial intelligence as an example. John McCarthy, who first proposed this concept, was less than 30 years old at the time; the research and development team that created ChatGPT had an average age of 32; more than half of the DeepSeek team members are post-1995 generation, and the proportion of post-1990 generation exceeds 75%... Why has artificial intelligence become a "young people's undertaking"? It lies in the interweaving of exploration of the unknown and pursuit of dreams.
Innovation often has no precedent to follow; what does it rely on? From the sharpness of "newborn calves not fearing tigers" to the courage of "daring to be the first under heaven," this is precisely the vigorous spirit of young people.
In 1964, the first medium-short range missile designed by our country was about to be launched, but it stalled due to range issues. While experts were discussing how to add propellant to the rocket, the 32-year-old Wang Yongzhi (王永志) did the opposite and proposed a plan to drain 600 kilograms of fuel. Qian Xuesen's eyes lit up, "This young man's opinion is correct, do it his way!" The result was three shots and three hits. Relying on this sobriety, wisdom, and drive, Wang Yongzhi later grew into the chief designer of our country's manned space engineering program.
Youth is boundless, with myriad possibilities. Many innovative breakthroughs perhaps originate from a flash of inspiration in people's minds, then stir up a far-reaching scientific storm. It is precisely the wisdom and courage to dare to think and dare to forge ahead that constitute the original driving force for expanding the boundaries of science and broadening human cognition.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "We are comprehensively advancing the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation; it is precisely the good time for the young generation to display their talents and show their skills."
Some people persist in their passion in "unpopular" fields. Fu Qiaomei (付巧妹), a post-1980s young female scientist engaged in paleogenetics, for the first time successfully obtained key molecular information with identification characteristics of Homo erectus from six tooth fossils dating back about 400,000 years. "No limits, no giving up, always maintain curiosity, gnaw at the hardest bones, blaze a trail no one has walked."
Some people work hard on internal skills on the "frontier." Young scientist Gao Chao (高超) leads a team to deeply cultivate the third-generation semiconductor silicon carbide field. After tens of thousands of experiments, they successfully conquered a full range of technologies from high-purity raw material synthesis to high-quality single crystal preparation. Currently, their product's global market share ranks first. "Our goal is not only to catch up, but to lead the race."
Realizing the goal of building a scientific and technological power by 2035 corresponds to the golden career of today's young scientific and technological talents, exactly when they are at their most energetic, most active in thinking, and most vigorous in creativity.
An era with great potential, opportunities for great achievements. The state is supporting: the National Natural Science Foundation of China (国家自然科学基金) has maintained the proportion of funded projects for young scientific and technological talents at over 45%; cities are empowering: Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou, Jiangsu and other places have introduced special plans for young talents; industries are calling: from chips to new energy to biomedicine, every track leading to the future is opening up to young people.
Young heartbeats, in harmony with the drumbeat of the times, lead the pulse of innovation. Youth with infinite possibilities, science with infinite possibilities, an era with infinite possibilities, together create a future with infinite possibilities.
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The “15th Five-Year Plan” outline proposes to “improve the county-township-village three-tier elderly service network (县乡村三级养老服务网络).” Tai’an City’s Taishan District in Shandong Province explores a rural mutual-aid elderly care model, Miluo City in Hunan Province builds elderly service points right at rural seniors’ doorsteps, Yongchang County in Gansu Province brings in professional teams to deliver warm services to homes… Many localities are deepening the equalization of basic public services for the elderly and continuously improving the county-township-village three-tier elderly service network, so that more rural seniors have someone to support them, someone to rely on, something to enjoy, and a place of peace in their old age.
Leveraging silver-age forces, exploring mutual-aid elderly care
At 11 a.m. in Dongyanjiazhuang Village, Qijiadian Town, Taishan District, Tai’an City, 86-year-old Zhang Xiaomei (张孝美), who lives alone, listens carefully for sounds outside her courtyard gate. After a while, footsteps draw near, followed by a familiar voice: “Auntie, I’m back from market; here are the greens and noodles I brought for you.” 63-year-old villager Zhang Chuanfeng (张传凤) walks in.
Grandma Zhang’s children are away all year; she is advanced in years and has difficulty moving, unable to go to market on her own to buy daily necessities. Zhang Chuanfeng took the initiative to become her “shopping agent.” Every market day, she asks about the elderly woman’s needs in advance, helps select everyday food and household items, and delivers them to her home. Not only that, Zhang Chuanfeng also acts as a “runner,” making special trips to the village committee to handle chores like recharging tap-water fees on the elderly woman’s behalf.
In Taishan District, such mutual assistance between “younger elderly” and older seniors is common. To address problems like scattered elderly service resources and the difficulty of caring for seniors living alone in advanced age, Taishan District leverages the advantages of rural blood ties, geographic proximity, kinship relations, and neighborly help, and explores the implementation of a rural mutual-aid elderly care model (农村互助养老模式), recruiting villagers with free time and a sense of responsibility to join the volunteer service teams.
“We classify rural elderly into three categories,” a relevant official from the Taishan District Civil Affairs Bureau explains. Category A is “younger seniors” aged 60 to 70 — they form the backbone of the volunteer teams; Category B is seniors aged 70 to 80, who participate selectively depending on their physical condition; those over 80 are the key service targets. The district has screened out 562 “younger seniors,” forming 12 mutual-aid teams, and a service list has been drawn up — meal assistance, cleaning assistance, emergency assistance, bathing assistance, mobility assistance, and medical assistance.
How to motivate volunteers? Relying on village-level charity supermarkets, Taishan District has designed a “points + exchange” mechanism: volunteers earn points for each service they provide, which can be redeemed for daily necessities at the charity supermarket. “Points can be exchanged for many daily-use items. Now I help others, and in the future someone will help me,” says Zhang Chuanfeng.
To make the mutual-aid elderly care model more sustainable, service quality must not be compromised. Taishan District has mobilized six medical-nursing combined elderly care institutions to participate, providing training to Category A mutual-aid participants in daily life care, basic health monitoring, emergency response, and psychological companionship; it has clarified service responsibilities and procedures, established pairing assistance work groups, and volunteers register every home visit, making the service process traceable and quality monitorable.
In helping others, Zhang Chuanfeng has also found a sense of being valued. “With mutual-aid elderly care, the older and less mobile seniors are looked after, and I feel very motivated doing this,” Zhang Chuanfeng says with a smile. “This feeling of being remembered by the elderly — it’s really wonderful!”
“Small cluster” elderly care points built close to the people
In Sanjiang Town, Miluo City, mountains are layered in green, full of vitality. Approaching noon, the Heartwarming Canteen (暖心食堂) in Huaqiao Community fills with the aroma of food. Elderly people living nearby serve themselves meals, eating and chatting — a lively scene.
“The taste is really good!” says Huang Xiangui (黄先桂), nearly 70, a regular at the canteen. With his wife deceased and his children working in the city, he regards this place as another warm “home.”
“Local seniors aged 60 and above pay only 6 yuan to enjoy three dishes and a soup,” explains Huang Jiasheng (黄甲胜), Party branch secretary of Huaqiao Community. After meals, the elderly can also relax, enjoy recreational activities, and receive health therapies in the activity center next to the canteen.
This “home” specially built for the elderly is the “small cluster” (小集中) elderly care point that Miluo City is exploring and promoting.
Miluo City has a vast rural area with dispersed elderly residents. In the past, the city tried building elderly service centers at the administrative village level, but the results were unsatisfactory. “Elderly people don’t come, operations don’t function, and sustainability is hard to maintain” became a dilemma that traditional village-level elderly care centers found difficult to resolve. Where was the problem? The elderly gave the answer: distance is too far, too few acquaintances, and a lack of emotional connection.
A wuchang (屋场 — a village compound or homestead cluster) is a space close to the people; setting up elderly service points here can precisely solve the above problems. Thus, a service-level downsizing from the “village” to the “wuchang” began.
“Taking the wuchang as the smallest unit for rural elderly care services is based on the consideration that elderly care involves not only daily life assistance but also emotional companionship and psychological comfort,” says Li Baoguo (黎保国), Director of the Miluo City Civil Affairs Bureau. In places where elderly residents are relatively concentrated, Miluo City carries out low-cost renovations of idle private houses, old supply-and-marketing cooperative buildings, ancestral halls, etc., to provide diverse services for rural seniors.
The Yujiaqiao Wuchang in Shuangchu Village, Quzici Town, was one of the first pilot sites. This wuchang elderly care point was renovated from an idle private house donated by a villager, with a service radius not exceeding 500 meters; elderly people can walk to the point to eat, chat, and enjoy recreation.
From the “last kilometer” to the “warmest kilometer,” the rural elderly care security network along the Miluo River is being continuously improved. Currently, Miluo City has built or is building 60 “small cluster” elderly care points, covering more than 53,500 elderly people.
Introducing professional forces, providing elderly support services
At noon, at the Hui Min Tong Community Public Service Center (慧民通社区公共服务中心) in Yongchang County, meal delivery worker Ma Ning (马宁) packs steaming-hot gada soup (疙瘩汤) and braised tofu into insulated lunch boxes. Soon, the “love meal van” arrives at the home of Hu Wenyou (胡文有), a villager in Xiaoba Village, Chengguan Town.
“Grandpa Hu, your meal is here! Today we have your favorite!” Ma Ning calls out.
“I can’t move well, and going out to buy food is very troublesome. This food not only comes home but is also suitable for someone like me with bad teeth,” says Hu Wenyou.
To solve the problem of elderly people having difficulty eating at home, Yongchang County has introduced a “volunteer delivery + centralized dining + meal delivery to homes” model. Chengguan Town has established a dedicated meal-delivery team to provide door-to-door service for seniors who are elderly or disabled in its jurisdiction. “The center designs a weekly menu in advance, focusing on nutritional balance to meet the needs of different elderly people,” explains Li Jianlong (李建龙), head of the Hui Min Tong Community Public Service Center.
Meal delivery solves the urgent matter of “one meal,” and more comprehensive care is also continuously extended.
At the home of Ren Jinxiu (任金秀), an elderly person living alone in Erba Village, Dongzhai Town, Wang Yu (王玉), a volunteer from the “Love Yongchang” public service team, is performing rehabilitation care for the senior. Wang Yu crouches down, helping Ren Jinxiu do ankle flexing and rotating exercises, then supports her to walk slowly around the room a few times, reminding her as they go: “Your walking is much steadier than before. Remember to exercise every day, but don’t overdo it.” This team mainly provides door-to-door services for rural seniors — cleaning, nursing, and companionship — all available.
Yang Yongping (杨永平), Director of the Yongchang County Civil Affairs Bureau, explains that the county purchases services to bring in professional teams, providing meal, bathing, and cleaning assistance for economically disadvantaged elderly people with disabilities, and regularly organizes skill training for elderly care workers to raise care standards.
In addition to warm elderly support services, aging-adaptive renovations are also underway in rural areas. In Donggou Village, Shuiyuan Town, 84-year-old villager Lü Xiancheng (吕先成) has difficulty moving due to a leg condition; getting up or using the toilet require help from others. After staff from the Yongchang County Civil Affairs Bureau learned about his situation, they delivered an adjustable-height toilet chair, a walker, and a wheelchair to Lü Xiancheng. Now, Lü can walk from the bedroom to the courtyard using the walker. So far, 470 households with special difficulties among the elderly in the county’s rural areas have completed aging-adaptive renovations, with an average subsidy of 1,400 yuan per household.
“We will further improve the county-township-village three-tier elderly service network, so that more elderly people can enjoy warm elderly care services at home,” says Yang Yongping.
Return to TopStruggling against contradictions and confronting problems head-on — that is what wins the masses' acclaim. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Only by giving it your all, daring to venture and take action, with the resolve of 'knowing there are tigers in the mountain, yet preferring to travel that mountain path,' and tackling things with real weapons and real combat — only then can contradictions and difficulties be resolved." In this installment of "Discussion Corner," we select and publish three contributions, joining our broad readership in reflecting on how to better solve problems for the masses.
— The Editor
Be adept at 'turning complexity into simplicity'
Pan Chengwei (潘成威), Wuxi, Jiangsu Province
Recently, when I went to the countryside, I listened to village cadres talk about the improvement of the human settlement environment. At first, according to the evaluation indicators, the village set many detailed rules — how garbage should be placed, how firewood and grass should be stacked — every item had its requirement. As a result, the villagers could not understand and their enthusiasm was not high. Later, the village cadres thought about it and changed it to nine words: "sweep clean, arrange neatly, lift the spirit." The masses understood at once, and the effect turned out much better.
The local village Party branch secretary often says: "Ability does not lie in making simple things fancy, but in grasping the essence of complex things." Being adept at 化繁为简 (huà fán wéi jiǎn - "turn complexity into simplicity," to simplify complex matters) tests the cadre's genuine skill in breaking through problems and tackling tough tasks. This is by no means lowering standards; rather, it is about sorting out the "thread ends" from among 千头万绪 (qiān tóu wàn xù - "a thousand heads and ten thousand threads," extremely complex and chaotic) and pinpointing the crux of the problem, so as to achieve the greatest effect at the least cost.
First, one must learn to "break apart." For example, when adding elevators to old residential communities, it appears full of contradictions, but when you break it apart, it is just a few key points: lighting, noise, and the proportion of cost sharing. By decomposing a complex problem into several smaller problems and tackling them one by one, even the hardest bone can be gnawed through.
Second, one must be good at "subtracting." Subtract unnecessary links and redundant procedures. For instance, in some places, a dozen approval forms have been merged into a single "clear sheet"; the masses can understand it at a glance and get things done in one trip. What is subtracted is empty effort, what is increased is the people's sense of gain.
Third, one must focus on "opening channels." Many things appear complex, but the crux is often that information channels are blocked and communication is impeded. Go more often to the scene, sit more often on the villagers' benches, speak face-to-face and drum-to-drum, lay the words out clearly and explain the reasoning thoroughly. When minds are open, matters will also go smoothly.
When true feelings are exchanged for true sentiments, even the most complex problem can find its solution.
You must dare to be thoroughgoing
Dai Yixiang (代益香), Yongxing County (永兴县), Hunan Province
Recently, the town organized a fire safety hazard inspection of "nine-small venues" (九小场所). During one inspection, a colleague sighed wearily: "The upper floor is unoccupied, no need to be so thorough!" Another colleague, Old Chen, flipped through the inspection records and said: "Safety inspections must be thoroughgoing." Upon going upstairs, the corridor was cluttered with piled-up items and electrical wires were exposed — there were serious fire hazards; we immediately demanded rectification.
Laxness often begins with a few mental attitudes: either thinking that because nothing has happened before, nothing will happen in the future; or feeling that it is too troublesome to rectify problems after they are found, so it is better to avoid trouble; or being afraid of offending people, so simply turning a blind eye. Many times, the dike of safety begins to crack precisely because of wishful thinking and paralysis.
Safety is no trivial matter; a minor, negligible oversight may brew a major disaster that cannot be undone. Being thoroughgoing means, with the drive of "making the landing echo," grasping and implementing measures meticulously, and promptly detecting those details that are easily overlooked and risks that are covered up.
Daring to be thoroughgoing does not mean being heartless and unfeeling. On the contrary, when you speak and act with genuine feeling, you win more understanding and support for being thoroughgoing. The goal of being thoroughgoing is to push policies and measures to be implemented in detail. Less harsh reproach, more patient explanation; put yourself in the other's shoes, serve proactively, and use flexible enforcement to consolidate a joint governance force — only then can better results be reaped.
Keep a tight watch on the final 1%
Yang Liu (洋柳), Neijiang, Sichuan Province
Rectification of problems is a key measure for promoting work quality and efficiency and for cracking difficult issues in development. In many rectification ledgers, one often finds phrasing such as "rectification completion rate above 99%." Such phased achievements are worth affirming, yet at the same time it is necessary to guard against the phenomenon of turning a blind eye to and shying away from tackling the remaining 1% of issues that have not been closed out.
The 1% of issues that remain unresolved often involve deep-seated interests and touch on complex contradictions. If we examine why they are sidestepped, the reason lies not in a lack of methods but in weakened responsibility. Some cadres develop the lax mindset of "close enough, it'll pass"; some harbor the lucky mentality of 击鼓传花 (jī gǔ chuán huā - "beat the drum and pass the flower," shifting responsibility like a game of hot potato); still others use "historical legacy" as an excuse, finding pretexts for absent rectification.
"Raising a nine-ren mound of earth cannot be allowed to fail for want of one final basket" — 功亏一篑 (gōng kuī yī kuì - "fail to complete a mound for want of one basket of earth," to fall short of success at the final step). If the final 1% is allowed to become a "forgotten corner," the previous 99% of rectification efforts will be greatly compromised; moreover, it will weaken the rigid constraints of the system and exhaust people's trust.
Keeping a tight watch on the final 1% is an inevitable requirement for achieving genuine, practical, and thorough rectification. To gnaw through this "hard bone," on the one hand, the chain of responsibility must be tightened: implement "list-based" management for the remaining problems, clarify responsible persons and timelines, and ensure every item is managed by someone. On the other hand, one must be adept at using the method of "anatomizing the sparrow" (解剖麻雀) — from the 1% individual cases, explore the common rules of similar problems, and by solving one, driving a batch, and governing a whole area, achieve a leap from "point breakthrough" to "surface improvement."
With the tenacity of "biting firmly into the green mountain without relaxing," striking one hammer after another and clearing one matter after another, the rectification effect can win the approval of the masses and stand up to the test of practice.
Return to TopBy: 张 凡
From spatial re-creation, to the integration of business formats, and then to institutional innovation, new types of public cultural spaces have continuously emerged, becoming a vivid footnote to the leap in efficiency and effectiveness of public cultural services in recent years.
From a long-abandoned quarry pit to a new cultural landmark, how did the change occur? In Xiaozhen Village (小镇村), Huancui District, Weihai, Shandong, the terrain was followed to transform the sunken quarry into a stage, and gentle slopes were laid out as tiered seating, thus establishing a "wilderness theater." With the settlement of multiple business formats, the mine achieved rebirth.
"To promote high-quality development, culture is an important fulcrum." Today, in many places, we are encountering culture serendipitously (不期而遇, bù qī ér yù - "to meet without appointment," to encounter unexpectedly). Beside the Bell and Drum Towers in Beijing, a "Time Courtyard" (时光小院) attracts visitors to experience the烟火 (yān huǒ - "smoke and fire," the lively atmosphere of everyday life) of the old city; in Ankang, Shaanxi, the "Qinling Book House" (秦岭书屋) amidst green mountains and clear waters allows people to lift their eyes to see the green landscapes and bow their heads to savor the fragrance of books; in the Beicang Cultural and Creative Block in Chongqing, old warehouses have been transformed into libraries and art spaces, where industrial memory and artistic atmosphere blend together...
Creative, aesthetically pleasing, and warm — today, more than 40,000 new types of public cultural spaces are spread across urban and rural areas. Compared with traditional public cultural spaces, where is the "newness" of these new spaces?
The most intuitive manifestation is the newness of the site. New spaces often revitalize old resources with new models and fill old spaces with new content. Whether embedded in communities and parks, or repurposing old factory buildings and facilities... This construction method not only allows the new spaces to carry unique urban memory and landscape value but also better integrates cultural functions into living scenarios, enabling people to enjoy culture anytime, anywhere.
New spaces also achieve the "multivariate symbiosis" of cultural functions, highlighting the newness of business formats. The "Spring City Living Room" (春城会客厅) in Kunming, Yunnan, offers not only reading but also exhibitions and market browsing; the "Broadcast Dongqian Cultural Station" (播动潜江文化驿站) in Qianjiang, Hubei, integrates functions such as livestream training and practice, community reading, and cultural and creative product displays... Immersive, compound-type new scenarios make the cultural experience more flavorful and also ensure that multi-level and diversified cultural needs can be met.
The renewal of cultural spaces cannot be separated from the support of institutional innovation. In the past, public cultural services were mostly provided solely by the government; today, with government guidance, market dynamism, and social participation, supply and demand are efficiently connected. For example, in some cities, city study rooms solicit "partners" from society; some study rooms are even located directly in cafes, with shop assistants doubling as part-time "librarians."
The outline of the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposes: "Develop new types of public cultural spaces by relying on city study rooms, community cultural stations, cultural corridors, etc., to provide more cultural services at the people's doorstep." From spatial re-creation, to the integration of business formats, and then to institutional innovation, new types of public cultural spaces have continuously emerged, becoming a vivid footnote to the leap in efficiency and effectiveness of public cultural services in recent years.
The continuous extension of new types of public cultural spaces into communities, villages, commercial districts, etc., is precisely to solve the "last kilometer" problem, promoting high-quality cultural resources to directly reach the grassroots and benefit more people. At the old Jianwei Station (老建委驿站) on Zhongshan Road in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, books fill the shelves and visitors stream in continuously. This station, situated in a corner of the city, provides a poetic dwelling space for culture enthusiasts. Allowing everyone's poetic sentiments to be accommodated and every cultural yearning to be satisfied — the new cultural spaces "at the doorstep" hold great potential.
The core of constructing new cultural spaces is to serve people, the essence is cultural supply, and the key lies in innovative thinking. In Yangzhou, Jiangsu, local authorities have targeted the entrepreneurial and employment needs of young readers, transforming city study rooms into the "first office for AI (artificial intelligence) entrepreneurs." Providing high-quality, differentiated cultural services based on demand feedback and user profiles is conducive to unleashing the value of new spaces and achieving an effective combination of humanities and economy.
"Enhance the people's sense of cultural gain and happiness with high-quality cultural supply." General Secretary Xi Jinping constantly bears this in mind (念兹在兹, niàn zī zài zī - "to constantly think of this and be preoccupied with this," to always keep something in mind). Enriching the people's spiritual world is one of the essential requirements of Chinese-style modernization. By exploring innovation and engaging in intensive cultivation in areas such as construction, operation, and service, and by enabling new types of public cultural spaces to develop towards beauty and goodness, we can ensure that these "new destinations" truly become "good destinations" where people can fully enjoy public cultural services.
Looking to the future, more equitable and accessible public cultural services will surely better meet the people's new expectations for spiritual and cultural life, allowing the power of the spirit to flourish vigorously in the hearts of hundreds of millions of people.
Return to TopBy: 陈炳旭
【Keywords】Love Water Bottles
【Event】"I am very grateful for the love all classmates have always shown! I am about to graduate and leave the school, so from now on there is no need for everyone to place water bottles at the door anymore. I wish you all a splendid future and continued brilliance ahead!" At the entrance of a student dormitory at Yangtze University, a notice was filled with gratitude. Its author was Yan Zherui (严哲锐), a graduate student suffering from a difficult bone disease. After he was admitted to Yangtze University, his grandmother had been accompanying him, collecting recyclables on campus to supplement the family income. His classmates, 不约而同 (bù yuē ér tóng - "without prior agreement," acting in spontaneous unison) came to place empty bottles there, helping to increase income for Yan Zherui's family.
【Commentary】
Suffering from a difficult bone disease since childhood and relying mainly on a wheelchair for daily mobility, Yan Zherui's years of study were unavoidably marked by hardship, yet he was also accompanied by ever-present warmth.
The state provided a postgraduate stipend; the school specially arranged an independent dormitory on the first floor near the entrance and built an accessible ramp; classmates, using the dormitory room as a unit, drew up a duty roster to take turns helping him go up and down stairs... Over eight years, this safety net woven from goodwill was silently and meticulously stitched together by countless familiar and unfamiliar people. The empty bottles at the dormitory door were a tangible reflection of this genuine sentiment.
"It is these quiet acts of kindness that have allowed me to reach today smoothly" and "I will never forget this goodwill in my lifetime." The most basic fraternity and warmth in interpersonal relations constitute a full-bodied humanistic care, helping those in need to emerge from anxiety and helplessness.
During the graduation season, similar heartwarming stories unfold both on and off campus. "You are leaving, I will miss you, I love you, just a small token of my feelings," a dormitory auntie issued an invitation in a group chat and hand-made dumplings to send blessings to the departing students. "I've eaten at your place for seven years, I really can't bear to part. The day after tomorrow I'm taking graduation photos, could I invite you to come?" This was a sincere invitation left in the delivery notes by a graduate of Southern Medical University (南方医科大学). Small gestures, brimming with warmth and friendship.
In internet discourse, some people always label students with tags such as "meritocracy" (优绩主义) and "utilitarian rat race" (功利内卷), as if after a long time of "jostling and chasing," they would forget how to walk side by side. But one vivid story after another proves that the torrent of the times will not wash away the mutual care and concern between people; sincerity has always been a flourishing vitality of life.
What university students learn on campus is never merely professional knowledge, but also the capacity for sincere interaction. This has nothing to do with being smooth and worldly-wise; rather, it is the tolerance and understanding that comes after reading differences, the heartfelt tenderness and consideration from within, the sense of collaboration to advance hand in hand, and the comprehensive competence of empathy, sharing, and mutual promotion within a diverse team. Imprinted with the memory and time of touching heart with heart, "departing the port" fully loaded with warmth and "sailing far" filled with goodwill, this practice of life — understanding, being willing to facilitate, and daring to take responsibility — will ultimately become the enduring foundation for a steady and far-reaching life journey.
The "clarity" of youth is not the muddle-headed confusion of being adrift and at a loss, but the purity and sincerity of knowing what is what and abiding by its principles. In the face of danger, National Moral Model (全国道德模范) Wang Liang (王亮) jumped into raging currents three times to bravely rescue four people. On the road to comprehensive rural revitalization, China Youth May Fourth Medal (中国青年五四奖章) recipient Liao Zhusheng (廖竹生), 身残志坚 (shēn cán zhì jiàn - "body disabled but will firm," having strong will despite physical disability), has driven more disabled companions to employment and income growth. In the midst of scientific research and攻关 (key-problem tackling), young scientific and technological worker Zheng Li (郑理) affirmed that "as long as the light in the lab is on, there is light for China's chips," overcoming one technical difficulty after another. Knowing the weight of responsibility and bearing it, facing difficulties and rising to the challenge — this is a value choice that is both simple and difficult, and also the expectation society holds for its youth.
"No matter how life shifts scenes, we are fellow travelers who look to and encourage each other" and "What determines the happiness of life is always the love that fills your hearts"... Recently, a series of graduation ceremony speeches have gone viral, showcasing praise and protection for the unique "clarity" of youth. When every seed of love and courage can grow towards the sun, the world of men will naturally be in full bloom.
Return to TopRecently, a rare heatwave swept across many parts of Europe. The local penetration rate of traditional air conditioning is low, and it faces pain points such as cumbersome approval procedures and high installation costs. Chinese-made portable split air conditioners, solar-powered fan hats, handheld fans, and various other "heat-relief artifacts" precisely match demand, win market favor, and demonstrate strong market competitiveness.
This is exactly:
The scorching sun is like fire; where to hide?
Chinese manufacturing sends coolness.
Directly hit pain points, optimize supply,
有口皆碑 (yǒu kǒu jiē bēi - "every mouth becomes a monument," meaning widely praised) wins the market.
By: 张冬梅
Not long ago, Nissan Motor disclosed that it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a subsidiary of Chery Automobile, planning to open one production line at its Sunderland factory in the UK to manufacture right-hand-drive complete vehicles for Chery on an OEM basis starting from April of fiscal year 2027. This is the first time a mainstream Japanese automaker has engaged in OEM manufacturing for a Chinese independent brand in a core European market.
China's automotive products, leveraging the production lines of developed countries to go global, the knock on the door of a new industrial landscape is already clearly audible.
From following-run developing into side-by-side run and leading run, China's automotive industry has not been 亦步亦趋 (yì bù yì qū - "step by step, following closely," to imitate slavishly), but has firmly grasped the wave of industrial transformation toward electrification and intelligentization, reconstructed industrial logic and market ecology, and built a comprehensive industrial advantage in areas such as power batteries, complete vehicle platforms, intelligent connectivity, and industrial chain integration, achieving leapfrog development.
From the perspective of quantitative accumulation, China's production and sales of new energy vehicles have ranked first globally for 11 consecutive years, both exceeding 7.4 million units in the first half of 2026. This is an upward curve in the growth trajectory, and also a vivid footnote to the high maturity of the industrial ecosystem.
From the perspective of qualitative improvement, Chinese automakers have formed competitive advantages in vehicle model R&D, three-electric core technologies (三电核心技术 - battery, motor, electronic control), intelligent systems, and other areas. We have not only caught up in technical parameters but have also, to a certain extent, gained the power to define the next generation of intelligent mobility.
Besides the production line at the Sunderland factory, the globally renowned automotive company Stellantis Group will manufacture Leapmotor new energy vehicles at its factory in Zaragoza, Spain, and jointly develop new products based on Leapmotor's electric architecture and battery technology. In the Chinese market, for the new energy vehicle models jointly developed by Volkswagen and XPeng, core technologies such as intelligent driving are provided by XPeng.
Some people call this phenomenon reverse OEM (反向代工). It is not simply capacity cooperation, but an integrated empowerment encompassing technology, standards, brands, and more. China's automotive industry has not only shed the path of exchanging market for technology, but has also begun to provide Chinese products and solutions in reverse, as a market pioneer and technological innovator. This role reversal is an embodiment of the long-term achievement of China's automotive industry in going green and advancing innovation.
By leveraging new tracks, achieving industrial upgrading and market transformation relies not only on the late-mover dividend of technology, but even more on a profound insight into the trends of industrial development.
This is a kind of long-termism based on active shaping. Using the policy hand to pull the market force, strengthening supporting facility construction, and step by step weaving a dense industrial ecosystem; prioritizing the layout of some high-value small-cut scenarios and cross-regional, cross-domain comprehensive scenarios, gradually perfecting the business model, driving the leap of the whole surface through breakthroughs at individual points.
From wind power and photovoltaics to 5G communications, and then to artificial intelligence, the reason we have been able to 后来居上 (hòu lái jū shàng - "latecomers surpass the forerunners") in some key fields lies precisely in combining strategic vision with pragmatic effort, combining the daring to try and to break through with tackling tough challenges, one step at a time, one rung at a time, ultimately shaping a systemic competitive advantage.
Developing new models and new business forms often has no precedent to follow, and inevitably brings various risks, challenges, and uncertainties. From following-run to leading run means that every step requires self-exploration. We must face the tide and lay forward-looking layouts, face the wind and rain to continuously cultivate deeply, maintain sufficient strategic determination, and put forth the determination of 逢山开路、遇水架桥 (féng shān kāi lù, yù shuǐ jià qiáo - "cut paths through mountains and build bridges over rivers," to overcome obstacles). Being good at learning and drawing lessons, but not picking up others' tooth scraps (拾人牙慧 - shí rén yá huì - "pick up others' tooth scraps," to plagiarize or repeat others' ideas), insisting on independent innovation, but not building a cart behind closed doors (闭门造车 - bì mén zào chē - "build a cart behind closed doors," to act in isolation), only then will there be an opportunity to traverse the industrial cycle and open up new vistas amidst change.
察势者智，驭势者赢 (chá shì zhě zhì, yù shì zhě yíng - "those who discern trends are wise, those who ride trends prevail"). Winning the market with technology and actively participating in remaking the global industrial and supply chains, we have carved out an innovation path rooted in the home market, independently controllable, and open and win-win. Seizing favorable conditions and maintaining good momentum, more new fields and new tracks will surely, like new energy vehicles, rise amidst transformation and break through amidst innovation, bringing the world more and greater surprises.
Return to TopBy: 艾 丹
If “there are still six minutes until end of work, but you receive a task that takes over an hour to process” – what to do? Not long ago, facing an elderly person who had traveled from elsewhere to handle medical insurance matters, staff at the Government Service Center (政务服务中心) of Jiashan County (嘉善县), Zhejiang, proactively provided extended-hours service, “Don’t worry, for numbers taken before closing, we will definitely finish processing for you.”
From “the masses follow the schedule” to “revolve around the masses’ needs” – this is not only a change in service method, but also an elevation in service philosophy. Only by revolving around the needs of the masses, making helping the masses solve problems and get things done the goal of government services, can we better optimize work processes and improve service effectiveness. Of course, serving the masses “without closing shop” does not mean that staff cannot rest normally, but rather that in high-frequency matters of people’s livelihood services, we must continuously innovate service methods and improve service means. Only by scientifically and rationally allocating resources and skillfully using technology to empower can we ensure tangible results and long-term effectiveness.
What is political achievement? Spending a little more thought to relieve worries, expending a little more effort to resolve difficulties, making the masses’ urgent matters a little faster, their hopes a little smoother, their anxieties a little fewer – that is real achievement. This “little bit” plus that “little bit,” accumulated, progress is not just a “little bit.”
(Excerpted from Hubei Daily (湖北日报), originally titled “A Little More, and It Will Go a Little Smoother”)
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 徐驭尧
In Riwoqê County (类乌齐县), Qamdo, Tibet, at the Nadengtong Pasture (那登通牧场) in summer, sejin flowers (色金花) blanket the meadow, and mountain winds carry the fragrance of xiangchai flowers (香柴花) in gusts. Conservation ranger Baima Zewang (白玛泽旺) crouches on the ground, feeding a red deer (马鹿) yuangeng (芫根) mixed with coarse salt. Every few bites, the red deer rubs against his arm.
“More than 50 years ago, the three fawns that Mother saved were just as dependent on her—as soon as they heard Mother’s ‘suo suo suo’ call, even the most timid red deer would come running,” Baima Zewang said.
Baima Zewang’s mother was named Xiangqiu Lamu (向秋拉姆). One winter night in 1970, heavy snow sealed off the mountains. Fifteen-year-old Xiangqiu Lamu had already gone to bed when she heard a plaintive “jiu jiu” cry outside the door. She opened the door, and three fawns stood on the doorstep, the lead fawn knocking its head against the door panel. Without a second word, Xiangqiu Lamu carried them into the house.
With no deer milk, she milked yaks; at night, afraid the fawns might be cold, she held them in her own bedclothes… Two years passed, and the fawns grew plump and strong. Xiangqiu Lamu took them to the foot of Bangbeng Mountain (邦崩山) and released them back into the forest.
That same winter, as the wind had just grown harsh, those three red deer returned, followed by a group of companions. They ran straight to Xiangqiu Lamu and rubbed their foreheads and cheeks against her Tibetan robe. From then on, the red deer went up the mountain in summer to breed, and in winter came down 携家带口 (xié jiā dài kǒu – “carry family, bring dependents,” to come with one’s whole family). Xiangqiu Lamu would prepare yuangeng and salt early on and wait in the meadow.
In 1974, Xiangqiu Lamu joined the Chinese Communist Party. This Tibetan woman, who had only two years of primary school education, held a simple truth: Chinese Communist Party members must not only serve the villagers but also protect all life on this land.
In 1993, the Riwoqê Red Deer Autonomous Region-level Nature Reserve (类乌齐马鹿自治区级自然保护区) was officially established, and Xiangqiu Lamu became a conservation ranger. The reserve’s director asked her why she wanted to take on this job, which had no established post and meager subsidies. Xiangqiu Lamu said: “I know every single one of them—I know which one is pregnant, which one is sick, which one lost its calf last year. They are not just animals; they are my ‘children.’”
In early spring of 2008, a blizzard blanketed the meadow solid, and the red deer could not find food. Xiangqiu Lamu called together her entire family and neighbors, drove the yaks, loaded them with hay, yuangeng, and salt, and set out into the snow. On the third day of walking, her legs were frostbitten, swollen and purple; every step made her tremble all over. The companions took turns urging her to go back, but she repeated only one sentence: “The red deer on the mountain are still hungry; I cannot leave. I am a Party member; when they are in difficulty, we cannot ignore them.”
When they reached the last feeding point, the herd heard her voice and stood up shakily from the snow hollows, licking her frostbitten, swollen hands with their tongues. Xiangqiu Lamu knelt in the snow and wept aloud. “In all her life, Mother had never shed tears in front of outsiders. That was the only time,” Baima Zewang said.
In those years, the red deer population in Riwoqê County grew from about 500 at the reserve’s founding to more than 8,000 at one point, with over 90 percent inhabiting the reserve. “Protecting the living creatures, grasses and trees, and the countless waters and mountains of the plateau is an important task that we Chinese Communist Party members must take the lead to complete,” Xiangqiu Lamu said.
In August 2024, as Xiangqiu Lamu lay dying, she called her two sons to her side: “Don’t forget, in winter remember to stock up on more salt.” For red deer overwintering, salt is a life-saving substance.
Now, Baima Zewang and his older brother Renqing Zepei (仁青泽培) have taken over their Mother’s basket and whistle and become conservation rangers for the reserve. “When the herd hears my brother’s and my call, the red deer come down the mountain in a long line, just as before when they heard Mother’s voice,” Baima Zewang said. “These more than 8,000 red deer and the two of us—we are all Mother’s children.”
At dusk, the call sounded again over the pasture, and the red deer gathered from all directions. Though the person has changed, the pact on the meadow remains 始终如一 (shǐ zhōng rú yī – “from start to end as one,” consistent and unchanging).
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"Always adhere to ecological priority and green development" is the fundamental guiding principle of Qinghai's development.
Clean grasslands, a cool climate, abundant sunshine... Qinghai makes full use of its unique natural endowments. On the premise of protecting the ecology, it develops plateau-specific ecological agriculture and animal husbandry such as yak, cool-climate vegetables, and goji berries, transforming ecological advantages into industrial advantages and leading the people onto a path of prosperity through ecology. Data shows that the province currently has 318 green and organic agricultural and livestock enterprises, with an output value of 16.227 billion yuan.
A single yak yields more benefits
A blue sky, white clouds drifting, green pastures covering the mountains, countless yaks scattered across the vast green expanse... At Zhidoi County, Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province (治多县), at an altitude of over 4,000 meters, the scenery of the highland pastures is intoxicating.
Suonanduojia (索南多加), a herder from the Zhidoi County Ecological Animal Husbandry Cooperative Union, raises 282 yaks, including 52 lactating cows. Early in the morning, he and his wife milk the yaks and immediately deliver the milk to the Yushu Yak Milk Development Co., Ltd. (玉树牦牛乳发展有限公司) in the county seat.
Suonanduojia makes a rough calculation: the purchase price of yak milk is 13 yuan per kilogram, and the day's income from selling yak milk alone exceeds 500 yuan.
In the clean and tidy workshop of Yushu Yak Milk Development Co., Ltd., workers are busy. "Our daily processing capacity is about 5,000 jin (2,500 kg). The main products include yogurt, pastry ghee, milk tea, etc., all produced according to orders," said Sangzhou Dajie (桑周达杰), the legal representative of Yushu Yak Milk Development Co., Ltd.
In recent years, Yushu Yak Milk Development Co., Ltd. has seen robust production and sales, steadily driving income growth for farmers and herders. Sangzhou Dajie introduced that the company has signed milk supply agreements with 6 townships, 20 village-level cooperatives, 100 family pastures, and 50 joint-family household operators in Zhidoi County, simultaneously building milk stations, driving income growth for 3,765 herder households.
In addition to dairy products, yak meat also has significant economic value. The yak population in Yushu is nearly 1.6 million heads, mainly growing in the Sanjiangyuan region at altitudes above 4,200 meters. "Although yak meat is delicious, it doesn't fetch a good price locally," said Sangdan Lanzhou (桑旦兰周), head of the Yushu City Comprehensive Industry Entrepreneurship Logistics Park. Residents in cities like Shanghai prefer to eat fresh yak meat. Timely transport of fresh meat to big cities makes smooth logistics crucial. In May 2024, the Yushu City Comprehensive Industry Entrepreneurship Logistics Park officially opened. Covering 175 mu (approx. 11.67 hectares) with a total investment of 238 million yuan, the park has housed 32 business entities, encompassing functions such as yak meat processing and dairy processing.
"Today, Yushu yak meat can be delivered to Shanghai in just about 3 days. Compared to the past, each yak can be sold for an additional two to three thousand yuan," Sangdan Lanzhou said. The park not only enhances the economic benefits of yaks but also stably employs over 300 laborers in jobs and entrepreneurship, radiatively driving production and income growth for nearly 10,000 herder households.
Currently, the monitoring area for organic grasslands in Qinghai reaches 450 million mu (approx. 30 million hectares), achieving full organic monitoring coverage of available natural grasslands across the province. The proportion of yaks and Tibetan sheep included in organic certification management exceeds 40%. The systems of grassland ecological subsidies and rewards, grazing bans and seasonal rest-grazing, and grass-livestock balance are strictly implemented. The province's annual slaughter volume of cattle and sheep has exceeded 9.6 million heads, and the output of beef and mutton has reached 380,200 tons.
A single vegetable makes its way to the Greater Bay Area dining table
In Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County (大通回族土族自治县), Xining City, Qinghai Province, Bao Jidong (保吉栋), chairman of the Datong Jingxing Planting Professional Cooperative Union, is squatting in the field checking the growth of pea shoots.
"This year, our cooperative planted 970 mu of vegetables, mainly pea shoots and choy sum," Bao Jidong said. The pea shoots harvested that day, after cold chain transport, arrive in Shenzhen, Guangdong, 48 hours later, and are subsequently shipped to Hong Kong.
"Our average altitude here is 2,500 meters, with large day-night temperature differences, sufficient sunlight, soil free from pollution, and abundant water sources. The vegetables grown here have high dry matter accumulation, a crisp and sweet taste, and a single vegetable category can be continuously harvested for 2–3 months," explained Zhang Guangsheng (张广生), director of the Datong County Vegetable Technology Service Center. "When summer high temperatures lead to reduced vegetable yields in the south, the highland's cool climate precisely becomes an advantage for 'staggered-season marketing'."
In the past, local villagers mainly grew cabbage and broccoli, which faced significant price fluctuations and unstable sales. In 2024, Bao Jidong took his staff to research markets in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, Guangdong, and found that choy sum, pea shoots, etc., were very popular there. So they returned and tried planting choy sum, and the products gained recognition from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area market.
Bao Jidong decided to change his approach, shifting from "grow whatever and sell it" to "grow whatever the market demands." Last year, the Datong Jingxing Planting Professional Cooperative signed a five-year order contract with a Hong Kong food company, achieving "order-based production," with sales revenue reaching 5.6 million yuan that year.
"In the past, we were afraid we couldn't sell; now we're afraid we can't grow enough," Bao Jidong said. 240 farming households have already joined this cooperative. Wang Cunying (王存英), a villager from Ganshuwan Village, Jingyang Town, Datong County, is one of them. "I earn 4 yuan in processing fees for picking one jin." Every year, besides the land transfer fees, Wang Cunying and her husband can earn an additional 40,000 to 50,000 yuan. Currently, Datong County has built 3 demonstration areas for ten-thousand-mu cool-climate vegetables, with a vegetable planting area reaching 80,000 mu this year.
Data shows that Qinghai has established 312 highland cool-climate vegetable and vegetable supply bases for Hong Kong. In the first five months of this year, Qinghai exported 2,872.6 tons of cool-climate vegetables, a 58.5% increase. Cool-climate vegetables have become one of Qinghai's important economic growth points.
A single goji berry transforms into a "golden fruit" for increasing income
As the harvest day for fresh goji berries draws nearer, 56-year-old Xu Xianying (许显英) is busy in the fields every day. Last year, these 200 mu of goji berries brought his family an income of over one million yuan, truly becoming 名副其实 (míng fù qí shí - "the name matches the reality," truly worthy of the name) "golden fruit."
Xu Xianying's goji berry fields are located at Hexi Farm (河西农场), Golmud City, Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province. When he entered this industry in 2008, he chose to grow organic goji berries. Although the costs were higher, he firmly persisted. "In recent years, organic goji berries have become increasingly recognized by the market," Xu Xianying said. This year, 90% of the growers in the Ninth Company of Hexi Farm have followed him in engaging in organic cultivation.
This transformation is a microcosm of the development of the goji berry industry in Golmud.
Golmud Agricultural Reclamation (Group) Co., Ltd. (格尔木农垦（集团）有限公司) is a local national-level leading enterprise in agricultural industrialization, deeply engaged in the plateau agricultural industry. Today, the company's goji berry planting area reaches 57,200 mu, of which 2,586.3 mu is organically certified, with comprehensive output value exceeding 500 million yuan.
"Previously, sorting goji berries manually could handle at most 200 jin per day. Now this color sorter can screen 1 ton in one hour, removing all black tips and broken fruits." In the goji berry processing workshop, Xing Liangde (邢亮德), deputy director of the company's Special Biological Industrial Park, pointed to the third-generation color sorting equipment and explained. The company has introduced 10 deep-processing production lines, including low-temperature vacuum pulsating freshness-locking technology and NFC cold-pressing technology. It cooperates with research institutions on new product development and process improvement projects, developing over 50 products such as freshness-locked goji berries, thereby increasing product added value. Additionally, relying on platforms like "Magic Qaidam (神奇柴达木)," it has built a series of brands.
"We are also driving income growth for farming households," Xing Liangde said. Through the "leading enterprise + cooperative + farmer" model, the company signed framework agreements with 3 surrounding townships, purchasing fresh and dried goji berries, and providing standardized planting technical training for farmers in its jurisdiction, driving an average income increase of about 8,000 yuan per household.
Looking at the entire province, the goji berry planting area reaches 440,000 mu, with the green and organic goji berry planting area ranking first nationwide. Output exceeds 100,000 tons, and annual output value has broken through 10 billion yuan. This small, vibrant red fruit reflects the thriving prosperity of the people.
Return to TopIt is currently the summer vacation period, and libraries have become a good place for citizens to quietly "recharge." The picture shows readers studying and reading at the National Library of China on July 11.
Photo by Guo Junfeng (郭俊锋) (People's Daily Visual).
Return to TopBeijing, July 12 (Reporters Zhang Tianpei (张天培)) — The National Immigration Administration (国家移民管理局) recently held a press conference to release the main data on immigration management work for the first half of 2026.
In the first half of the year, national immigration management agencies cumulatively inspected 369 million entry-exit person-times, a year-on-year increase of 10.8%, setting a new historical high. The number of inbound foreigners reached 22.914 million person-times, a year-on-year increase of 20.4%, showing a rapid growth trend; among them, visa-free inbound foreigners were 17.815 million person-times, accounting for 77.7% of inbound foreigners, a year-on-year increase of 30.6%. The top ten countries for inbound foreign travelers were South Korea, Russia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, the United States, Japan, Mongolia, and Australia, accounting for 62% of the total inbound foreigners.
In the first half of the year, national immigration management agencies cumulatively inspected 20.844 million transport vehicles (aircraft, trains, ships, motor vehicles) movements, a year-on-year increase of 17.1%.
In the first half of the year, national immigration management agencies continuously promoted innovation in immigration management policies and systems, actively facilitated the optimization of regional opening layouts, coordinated with relevant departments to expand the scope of unilateral visa-free countries, precisely supplied policy measures such as regional entry visa-free, stay and residence convenience, piloted online processing of accommodation registration outside hotels for foreigners in 7 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) including Hebei, supported Shanghai international cruise ship destination-less sea tours and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao yacht free travel (粤港澳游艇自由行) in Guangdong Province, helping to convert greater "entry-exit flow" into greater "economic increment"; innovated and optimized border inspection modes, fully supported the implementation of the "joint inspection, one-time release" (合作查验、一次放行) clearance mode at New Huanggang Port (新皇岗口岸), activated vehicle clearance "facial recognition + iris" intelligent lanes at some land ports adjacent to Hong Kong and Macao, promoted and applied vehicle fast clearance at some land ports on the southwestern border, continuously improving the port clearance efficiency for personnel, goods, and vehicles; greatly enhanced government service efficiency, continuously deepened and expanded "Internet+" government services, and deeply advanced the facilitation of applying for various entry-exit documents.
Return to TopBeijing, July 12 (Our correspondent Dong Siyu (董丝雨)) — July 12 is the International Day of Combating Sand and Dust Storms, and this year's theme is "From Source to Impact: Protecting Land and Life from Sand and Dust Storms." The reporter learned from the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (国家林业和草原局) that over the past 20 years, China's spring sand and dust weather has generally shown a trend of decreasing frequency and weakening intensity. The average annual number of sand and dust weather events has decreased from 12.5 to 9.6 in recent years. This spring, a total of 8 sand and dust weather processes occurred in China.
In recent years, China has adhered to the integrated protection and systematic management of mountains, waters, forests, farmlands, grasslands, lakes, and deserts, focusing on fighting the "Three-North" Shelterbelt Forest Program (三北工程)攻坚战, and comprehensively advancing the comprehensive control of desertification. Since the beginning of this year, central government investment of 27.7 billion yuan has been allocated, with plans to implement 328 key projects and arrange construction tasks covering over 95 million mu.
After long-term sustained governance, the ecological conditions in China's sandy areas have been continuously improving. The "Three-North" program area has completed a cumulative total of 480 million mu of afforestation and restored 1.28 billion mu of degraded grasslands, with the forest coverage rate rising from 5.05% in 1978 to 13.84%. The area of desertified land nationwide has achieved a net reduction for four consecutive monitoring periods, shifting from an average annual expansion of 5.15 million mu at the end of the last century to an average annual reduction of 10 million mu at present. The total soil wind erosion of the eight major deserts and four major sandy lands has decreased by about 40% compared to 2000, and key treatment areas have achieved a historic transformation from "sand advances, people retreat" to "green advances, sand retreats."
Return to TopPeople's Daily, Beijing, July 12 (correspondent Wang Zheng (王政)) — The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) organized the drafting and is the responsible body for the mandatory national standard "Safety Requirements for Combined Driving Assistance Systems of Intelligent Connected Vehicles" (智能网联汽车 组合驾驶辅助系统安全要求) (GB 47955—2026), which was recently approved and released by the State Administration for Market Regulation (国家市场监督管理总局) and the Standardization Administration of China (国家标准化管理委员会), and is planned to be formally implemented from January 1, 2027.
According to the introduction, this standard puts forward a safety index system with clear requirements, comprehensive dimensions, and adaptation to national conditions. First, it fully considers different product forms and technical routes, and proposes applicable safety requirements for three types of combined driving assistance system products: basic single-lane, basic multi-lane, and navigation driving assistance. Second, from the dimensions of functional requirements, data recording, and vehicle manufacturer safety guarantees, it proposes baseline requirements for ensuring the safe operation of combined driving assistance systems. Third, it proposes requirements for human-machine interaction, user instructions, user training, etc., providing basic guarantees for the correct coordination between users and the system. Fourth, in combination with the actual needs of industry management in our country, it constructs a multi-level evaluation method including field tests, road tests, document inspections, etc., to comprehensively examine the safety capability of the system.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张天培
Summer, Beijing Capital International Airport cargo area, traffic flows endlessly. Truck driver Master Li parked his vehicle and walked straight into the roadside He Feng Station (和枫驿站).
“The edges of the speed bumps at the north checkpoint have all curled up; not only do they damage tires, but they also easily cause accidents. Can you coordinate to have them repaired?” Master Li ordered a boxed meal, eating while muttering to the stationed police officer Xie Tian. “We will verify immediately and repair as soon as possible,” Xie Tian agreed at once.
Today, this He Feng Station (和枫驿站), created by the Capital Airport Public Security Bureau (首都机场公安局), has become a warm haven for cargo workers to rest their feet and voice their demands, and also a vivid practice of the public security organs implementing the grassroots policing philosophy of “embedding service in management, promoting governance through service.”
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: “Open up the ‘last kilometer’ of serving the masses, earnestly resolve issues concerning the vital interests of the people, uphold and develop the Fengqiao Experience (枫桥经验) in the new era, improve the grassroots governance system, and consolidate the foundation of social harmony and stability.” The 15th Five-Year Plan (十五五) outline proposes: “Adhere to systematic governance, law-based governance, comprehensive governance, and source governance; improve the social governance system of joint construction, joint governance, and shared benefits.”
A strong grassroots level makes the nation strong; a secure grassroots level makes the world secure.
In Qidong Road Community (齐东路社区), Shinan District (市南区), Qingdao City, Shandong Province, a long-standing neighborhood grievance caused by noise disputes had lasted for years, recognized locally as a mediation “big, old, difficult” problem.
After learning about it, community police officer Zhang Rong conducted household visits again and again, figuring out the real story: years of constant quarreling had left the upstairs resident with a psychological knot, often smashing the wall due to auditory hallucinations as a way to vent. Zhang Rong then united community cadres and grid staff to patiently resolve the resident’s mental block. Through gentle guidance, the two sides finally shook hands and made peace.
Faced with community governance challenges such as aging infrastructure in old residential areas and neighborhood/family conflicts, the Qingdao Public Security Bureau further strengthened grassroots policing forces, assigning experienced police officers to serve as full-time community police officers, activating the “micro-cells” of community governance, striving to resolve problems at the grassroots level and nipping them in the bud.
As police forces sink down, governance effectiveness rises. Scenes of governance similar to Qingdao’s public security — “small matters do not leave the grid, major matters are quickly linked up” — are often seen.
The Xiamen Public Security Bureau of Fujian Province implemented the “neighbor policing” (近邻警务) model, starting from handling the trivial matters of the masses and resolving neighborhood disputes, creating police stations at the doorstep of the people;
The Beibei District Branch (北碚区分局) of the Chongqing Public Security Bureau actively explored practices such as “divide areas and take responsibility + neighborhood watch” (分片包干+邻里守望) night patrols and “special patrol teams + property management” (专巡队+物业) early-morning patrols, strengthening the street patrol and prevention system;
The Wuhan Public Security Bureau of Hubei Province focused on combating and governing new types of cybercrime, deepening coordination and linkage with departments such as the Cyberspace Administration and telecommunications, improving the mechanisms for tip-off sharing and joint law enforcement;
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In recent years, the Ministry of Public Security has deployed public security organs across the country to actively promote efficient governance, improve the intelligence-command-action integrated operation mechanism (情指行一体化运行机制), innovate and perfect new mechanisms and models for cracking down on prominent crimes, deepen the construction of an overall social security prevention and control system, vigorously promote and standardize the operation of new community policing mechanisms, and do everything possible to investigate and resolve conflicts and disputes. The foundation of governance has been continuously consolidated.
From January to May this year, the number of criminal cases filed by public security organs nationwide decreased by 16.1% year-on-year, and the number of public security cases filed decreased by 10.6% year-on-year. The overall public security situation nationwide is stable and improving.
The masses whistle, the public security responds.
Around 1:00 PM on June 18, a volunteer from the Fengcheng Forward Post (凤城前哨) mass prevention and mass governance team in Feng County (丰县), Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province, reported to the local police officer that a suspicious man had appeared in the residential community where the volunteer lived. The man wore a hat and mask when going out and deliberately avoided crowds.
The police officer, guided by the volunteer, went to the door to investigate. When questioned, the man looked flustered and stammered, eventually confessing truthfully to his theft crime.
From “chance encounter with a suspect” to “precise capture,” this rapid pursuit that took less than two hours not only demonstrated the efficiency of the police-civilian joint response of the “Fengcheng Forward Post” but also fully confirmed that “building a safe China is for the people and also relies on the people.”
The public security organs uphold and develop the Fengqiao Experience in the new era, forming teams such as Fengcheng Forward Post (凤城前哨), Red Maple Volunteer Police (红枫义警), Feihong Anti-Fraud Team (飞鸿反诈队), and other mass prevention and mass governance teams, actively exploring and innovating mass prevention and mass governance working mechanisms such as police-enterprise joint defense, police-school joint governance, police-medical joint control, police-security joint duty, and police-community joint action, guiding all parties to participate in social governance in an orderly manner, effectively consolidating the safety defense line.
“Remembering the General Secretary’s earnest instructions, in the first year of the 15th Five-Year Plan, public security organs nationwide will thoroughly implement the Party Central Committee’s decisions and deployments, better coordinate development and security, continuously improve governance effectiveness, promote efficient governance to drive a positive interaction between high-quality development and high-level security, further enhance the ability to prevent risks, ensure safety, maintain stability, and promote development, and push the construction of a safe China to a higher level of quality and efficiency,” said a relevant official of the Ministry of Public Security.
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Recently, the Jiangnan Branch (江南分局) of the Jinhua Municipal Public Security Bureau in Zhejiang successfully dismantled an illegal football gambling criminal group that used "China Sports Lottery" as a pretext, with the amount involved exceeding 5 million yuan.
A mobile phone, a private message, a mini-program — these can make an ordinary person fall into the quagmire of online gambling. Some people are induced to participate in overseas online gambling and lose all their savings overnight; others fall into the trap of "point-running money laundering (跑分洗钱)" and become accomplices in crime.
In recent years, multiple departments including public security, cyberspace administration, and finance have continuously carried out crackdowns on cross-border online gambling. Batches of involved platforms and black-and-gray industry groups have been arrested one after another, but lawbreakers keep changing their camouflage methods, and the characteristics of concealment, industrialization, and cross-border operation of online gambling are becoming increasingly prominent.
How to govern the chaos of online gambling and build a clear and bright cyberspace? A reporter interviewed relevant parties on this issue.
The侥幸心理 that "a small amount of play is harmless" causes some people to fall into the quagmire of online gambling
Using a mobile phone to participate anytime, anywhere, betting with just a few yuan, guaranteed profit, daily settlement... These talking points of online gambling precisely seize the fluke mentality of some people who think "a small amount of play is harmless." Little do they know that with one careless move, they may cause a major disaster.
Liu Wei (刘威, pseudonym), a reader from Nanning, Guangxi, recounted his personal experience. In the second half of last year, he came across a sports commentary blogger on a short video platform. The videos frequently mentioned "guaranteed profit" and "internal match predictions," and the comment section hid private contact information. After adding the blogger on WeChat, the other party pulled him into a private fan group. The group never directly mentioned "gambling," but used code words like "match betting, points exchange, entertainment guessing" to share download links for overseas gambling platforms.
At first, Liu Wei tried investing a few dozen yuan. After two consecutive successful withdrawals and profits of several hundred yuan, he kept boldly increasing his stakes. In just three months, he invested 50,000 yuan of his savings. Later, the platform refused to allow withdrawals on the grounds that "the flow did not meet the standard" and "the account was frozen by risk control," and the blogger who had brought him into the group blocked him and went missing. Only then did Liu Wei realize he had been cheated.
Liu Wei's experience is not an isolated case. Some people saw a chess and card mini-program shared in a fellow-villager WeChat group and thought it was just casual playing, but recharging virtual coins could be exchanged for cash; with one careless moment, they stepped into the online gambling trap and subsequently took on online loans. There are also college students who were induced by social media friends to participate in "online baccarat (网络百家乐)," starting with small trial bets and later maxing out credit cards to place bets, ultimately losing everything and falling into debt crisis.
At the same time, some people unknowingly become money-laundering tools for online gambling. Lawbreakers use false information such as "200 yuan daily commission," "simple operation," and "does not affect credit standing" to lure groups who are eager to find part-time jobs and have relatively weak legal awareness. Many people, tempted by "high pay," register payment accounts with their real names as required without knowing the actual use.
In June this year, police officers from the Shangyu District Branch (上虞区分局) of the Shaoxing Municipal Public Security Bureau in Zhejiang discovered an anomaly during work: a neighborhood in the district was suspected of harboring a group that provided fund settlement services for overseas football gambling platforms. They followed the clues and tracked them down, gradually revealing a criminal group with a certain Hu (胡某) and a certain Tao (陶某) at its core.
"The criminal group posted high-paying part-time job information such as 'game top-up agent' and 'e-commerce fake orders' on Internet communities and forums, tricking the public into providing real-name payment accounts to offer 'adding points (上分)' (i.e., betting fund recharge) services for overseas football gambling platforms," introduced Wang Zule (王祖乐), Deputy Captain of the Cybersecurity Brigade of the Shangyu District Branch.
A certain Chen (陈某), who had just started working, was one of the deceived people. He had been wanting to do a part-time job to supplement his family's income. While browsing a local forum, he saw a recruitment post offering "game top-up, daily settlement 300-500 yuan." The other party claimed that he only needed to provide a payment account for "flow verification" and did not need to advance any funds.
"I didn't think much at the time; I just felt that it was a good deal, not having to exert any effort, just moving my fingers to earn money," Chen said. Under the other party's inducement, he successively registered two payment accounts with his real name using his ID card, cooperated in completing facial recognition authentication, and handed over the account and password to the other party. Unexpectedly, the other party used his account to process transactions for the football gambling platform. It was not until the police came to his door that Chen realized he had crossed the legal line.
Leveraging events for traffic, continuously iterating and mutating; online gambling exhibits characteristics of cross-border operation, camouflage, and privatization
After long-term joint crackdowns by multiple departments, blatant public gambling websites and apps have greatly decreased, but online gambling has not disappeared; instead, its methods have been renovated, spawning more concealed routines.
"What traditional gambling has, online gambling has; what traditional gambling does not have, online gambling also has," introduced Sun Shuguang (孙树光), a master's supervisor at the School of Law of People's Public Security University of China. Currently, online gambling patterns are constantly being renovated, spawning many highly concealed types of gambling. For example, online chess and card types, fake lottery types, football betting and guessing types, etc., and they show a trend of privatization in dissemination, relying on WeChat groups, private chat groups, fan groups, etc., to share links and invite participation, unlocking cash betting channels only through internal invitation codes. At the same time, new types such as disguised mini-games, financial trend betting, and live-stream blind box lottery redemption emerge endlessly, all embedded into daily online life scenarios, without obvious gambling identifiers, highly concealed, and covering a wide range of victim groups.
Recently, the United States, Canada, and Mexico World Cup is in full swing. Behind the enthusiastic viewing atmosphere, the black industry chain of gambling lurking on the internet stirs and becomes particularly active.
The Dongpo District Branch (东坡区分局) of the Meishan Municipal Public Security Bureau in Sichuan recently successfully dismantled a cross-border online gambling criminal group that used "World Cup gambling" as a pretext. After investigation, the group was led by a certain Long (龙某) and a certain Huang (黄某), among others. Several people jointly invested, with a clear division of labor. They posted World Cup football gambling advertisements online, recruited fans to participate in betting on overseas apps, and organized multiple people to carry out cross-border online gambling crimes, with over 100 involved participants.
"This football gambling model is extremely deceptive, and the fraud tactics are hard to guard against, easily misleading the public into deep gambling and suffering property losses," introduced Liu Yang (刘洋), Deputy Captain of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Dongpo District Branch. Currently, all nine involved persons have been subjected to criminal compulsory measures according to law, and the case is under further investigation.
Similar to this situation, the Qingxu County (清徐县) public security cyberspace department in Taiyuan, Shanxi, cracked a case of illegally downloading gambling software to participate in online football gambling; the Weiyang Branch (未央分局) of the Xi'an Municipal Public Security Bureau in Shaanxi cracked an online gambling case that used social groups to conceal gambling setups; the Cyberspace Security Brigade of the Jinshi City (津市市) Public Security Bureau in Hunan successfully cracked a case of using overseas gambling software to organize World Cup off-site football betting...
Criminal groups not only leverage events for traffic but also continuously iterate and mutate. In this regard, Sun Shuguang summarized that currently, online gambling crime as a whole exhibits characteristics such as "cross-border operation, camouflage, privatization, industrialization, and younger age."
From the major online gambling cases currently cracked, the vast majority of gambling platform servers are set up overseas. Overseas groups are responsible for website operation and setting odds, while domestic agents promote and recruit gamblers at various levels, forming a cross-regional crime pattern of "overseas operation, domestic traffic." The aforementioned World Cup online football gambling case cracked by the Shangyu District Public Security Bureau clearly has such characteristics.
The forms of committing crimes are deeply disguised, and the boundary between entertainment and gambling is becoming increasingly blurred. In addition, police found during case handling that the dissemination path for recruiting gamblers and attracting traffic tends toward privatization: public webpage traffic is reduced, and dissemination channels shift to WeChat, QQ groups, and other paths. Lawbreakers use industry code words such as "buying vegetables," "red and blue," and "adding points" to place bets, and evade regulation by regularly changing group chat QR codes, frequently changing domain names and app download links.
Similar to the case handled by the Shangyu District Branch, the flow of gambling-related funds passes through multiple layers of laundering, and the closed-loop characteristics of the black and gray industries are obvious. According to introductions, most of the funds involved in online gambling are transferred and split through multiple layers via point-running accounts, third-party collections, virtual currencies, game points, etc., and are dispersed through a large number of personal accounts. Online gambling is deeply intertwined with telecom network fraud, money laundering crimes, etc., forming a complete black and gray industrial chain. The criminal groups have a clear internal division of labor, tight organization, and strong anti-investigation awareness.
What is more noteworthy is that the victim group is extending downward, with many young students becoming targets. Recently, there have been multiple gambling cases in which students were deceived by "part-time job recruitment." In these cases, online gambling groups focus on students with a lot of free time and little experience, as well as summer workers, exploiting their weaknesses such as shallow social experience and speculative psychology, precisely pushing relevant information to develop them into online gambling participants, or luring them into becoming "tool persons" for fund collection or traffic promotion.
Technology empowerment, joint management; governing online gambling requires early warning, cutting off sources, and striking pain points
Once addicted to online gambling, it is difficult to stop. Some people, after losing their savings, will also take out online loans or max out credit cards to fill the hole. It is not uncommon for huge gambling debts to lead to family breakdowns and neighborhood conflicts. Under the pressure of high debt, some people take risks, giving rise to secondary cases such as telecom fraud, burglary, and illegal detention.
Facing the harm of online gambling, in recent years, various localities and departments have continuously innovated new governance measures and methods, providing early warning, cutting off sources, and striking pain points.
Some grassroots workers once stated that the vast majority of online gambling clues come from public reports and letters of complaint, which are "passive discoveries after the case has occurred." There is insufficient capacity to proactively provide early warnings and precisely excavate hidden gambling-related clues, and the hidden dangers are only exposed after a large number of victims have suffered property losses.
Today, in response to the difficulty of governing new types of online gambling, various localities rely on artificial intelligence and big data technology to build intelligent monitoring systems for gambling risks. They integrate multi-dimensional data such as network access trajectories, community chat data, bank payment flows, and IP (Internet Protocol) location information, establish risk assessment models, automatically capture gambling-related clues, and achieve early warning of risks and early landing of clues, making concealed online gambling nowhere to hide.
In recent years, the public security organs in Shenyang, Liaoning, have deepened the new police operation model of "professional + mechanism + big data (专业+机制+大数据)." By building gambling-related data assessment models, they conduct in-depth analysis of abnormal fund flows, high-frequency communication contacts, and suspicious app download behaviors, promptly detect signs of gambling, and gradually change the previous passive situation of relying on public reports.
To eradicate the chaos of online gambling, it is necessary to form a fist and manage jointly. Peng Bo (彭波), Associate Professor of the Investigation School of Shandong Police College, suggested that it is necessary to adhere to systematic thinking, improve the comprehensive governance system of law, technology, regulation, and society, and have various localities and departments jointly build a normalized long-term governance mechanism, opening up the entire chain of dissemination, technology, and fund supervision. Public security, cyberspace administration, communication management, financial regulation, market supervision, and other departments regularly carry out joint law enforcement actions. For major cross-border cases, multiple departments simultaneously file cases and jointly supervise, forming a combined force of supervision and crackdown.
Many experts stated that the governance problem of online gambling being "hard to eradicate despite crackdowns, rebounding after treatment" has long existed, and raising the public's awareness of prevention and legal awareness is the key to solving the problem.
"We found during case handling that some people who were tempted by high-paying part-time jobs to sell their accounts often thought it was just an ordinary 'part-time job,' and even if the account was used for a gambling platform, it had nothing to do with them. But in reality, according to relevant judicial interpretations, if one knows it is a gambling website and still provides fund payment and settlement services for it, with service fees amounting to more than 10,000 yuan, that constitutes a joint crime of opening a casino," Wang Zule introduced.
In addition, for people who are deceived into providing accounts, even if they do not constitute a crime, their behavior violates the People's Bank of China regulations on bank account management. "Once involved, all bank accounts under the individual's name will be frozen, and their credit record will be tainted, seriously affecting future loans, travel, and daily life," Wang Zule said. The aforementioned Chen was therefore deeply regretful: "I didn't earn any money, and I ended up with a criminal record. Buying a house or taking out a loan in the future will be a problem."
Therefore, the police especially remind the general public, especially young people, to be highly vigilant when looking for online part-time jobs. Any request to provide bank cards, Alipay or WeChat payment codes, or to undergo facial recognition to help others "process accounts" or "brush flows" is highly likely to involve online gambling or telecom fraud. Do not lend your identity information and payment accounts to others for petty gains, lest you become a "tool person" for criminals and end up losing more than you gain.
Governing online gambling is a long and arduous task. Peng Bo stated that only by maintaining a high-pressure crackdown stance, closely monitoring new types of chaos, solving governance problems, making up for regulatory shortcomings, strengthening nationwide co-governance, and continuously building the three lines of defense of crackdown, supervision, and prevention, persistently working and making sustained efforts, can the soil for online gambling to thrive be completely eradicated.
Return to TopI am a villager of Shandou Natural Village, Ziyang Village, Yongfu Town, Zhangping City, Longyan, Fujian. Around 2013, Ziyang Village implemented a farmland water conservancy renovation project, and most of the farmland drainage ditches in the entire village underwent cement hardening renovation as required, while the area near Longjianguan (龙见官) in Shandou Natural Village still has earthen ditches. Over ten years have passed, and this section of the ditch has not been hardened, and has also lacked long-term maintenance, resulting in silt accumulation and overgrown weeds in the only section of the ditch that enters the river, basically losing its drainage and waterlogging prevention function. Whenever it rains, the surrounding farmland becomes extensively waterlogged (see picture).
In August 2025, I reported this matter to the town government. The town government organized weed removal and simple desilting, but did not use large machinery for deep desilting, nor did it carry out hardening renovation. Within less than a month, silt and weeds accumulated again, and the waterlogging problem remained severe. In May of this year, the potatoes and green beans I planted again suffered extensive yield reduction due to waterlogging. I earnestly request that the relevant departments pay attention to this matter, carry out deep desilting with large machinery on this section of the drainage ditch, and perform cement hardening renovation, to help us solve the waterlogging problem.
Fujian Zhangping City, Chen Chen (陈陈)
Return to TopNot long ago, my father passed away, leaving behind two street-front shops. I planned to lease the properties out. Since this property had not obtained a property ownership certificate, when the lessee applied for a business license, they got stuck at the step of providing proof of premises ownership. In the past, for such materials, you could simply go to the community residents' committee to obtain a certificate. But when I went to the community, the staff replied that, in order to reduce the burden on grassroots work, the community no longer issues such certificates. So, I had to go to the county-district administrative service hall to obtain a standard form, then find neighbors one by one to sign, and also record their ID numbers, contact information, etc., to prove the ownership of the property.
By comparison, the cost for the public to handle affairs has increased. Originally, walking a few hundred meters to the community, the matter could be concluded on the spot. Now, not only do I have to run to the government affairs hall to get the form, but I also have to come back and ask neighbors for help. Reducing burdens at the grassroots should mean reducing repetitive reports and ledgers submitted to higher levels, rather than shifting upward matters that need to be resolved at the grassroots level, turning them into errands for the common people. In fact, reducing burdens at the grassroots and making it convenient for the common people to handle affairs are not contradictory. Relevant departments can achieve this by opening up information and data, having the community conduct on-site verification and online verification of ownership, or by sending the standard forms from the county-district administrative service hall to the community, and having the community distribute them on behalf of the public. By optimizing the method of ownership verification, it can both reduce the burden on grassroots personnel and make it convenient for the public to handle affairs.
Lu Chunfeng (陆春风), Bozhou City, Anhui
Return to TopRecently, I read the article "Undercover Investigation of Fire Safety in Elderly Care Institutions" published in the "Reader's Letters" section of People's Daily on June 29, and it reminded me that the fire safety situation in rural elderly care institutions is severe and should not be underestimated. Rural elderly care institutions are generally located in remote areas with inconvenient transportation, limited conditions, and inadequate safeguards; fire safety urgently needs attention and strengthening.
From the perspective of grassroots practice, the facilities of rural elderly care institutions are relatively outdated. Some rural elderly care institutions have been converted from school buildings, hospitals, factories, etc., with outdated facilities and prominent hidden safety hazards at the source. At the same time, evacuation hardware is clearly insufficient, lacking barrier-free evacuation ramps and the like. There are also problems such as low frequency of fire training, emergency drills going through the motions, staff not knowing how to operate equipment, and weak ability to organize the evacuation of the elderly.
To weave a tight "safety protection net" for rural elderly care institutions, first, it is necessary to, based on the limited conditions and insufficient hardware of rural elderly care institutions, 因地制宜 (yīn dì zhì yí - "adapt measures to local conditions," to suit measures to local conditions), implement categorized policies, and gradually equip simple and practical fire-fighting equipment suitable for rural areas, such as fire water sources, fire extinguishers, and alarm devices. Second, carry out specialized training for nursing staff in rural elderly care institutions, using scenario simulations, practical drills, and other methods to conduct targeted fire safety knowledge promotion, focusing on teaching nursing staff to call the alarm, evacuate, and extinguish fires, while also taking into account the prevention of the elderly getting lost and ensuring their escape, so that they do not panic in the event of fire and can avoid danger 有条不紊 (yǒu tiáo bù wěn - "orderly and unhurried," in an orderly manner), effectively delegating the responsibility for guidance down to the last link. Finally, implement "one-institution, one-policy" management for rural elderly care institutions, formulate operable fire safety emergency plans, consolidate the post responsibilities of duty officers, caregivers, and safety officers, achieve a closed chain of front-end prevention, mid-end control, and end-end disposal, leave no management blind spots, and effectively tighten supervision in normal times.
Neijiang, Sichuan, Wen Guoyun (文国云)
Return to TopBy: 健康时报记者 徐婷婷 尹 薇
“想看看营养成分表，字真小。好不容易看清楚了，一串数字和百分比，也不知道是好是坏。”近日，来自江西九江市的何女士告诉记者，每次给孩子买饮料，她都会反复查看配料表，可上面写满了化学名称，根本不知道是什么。
买回来上网一查，不少看不懂的成分原来是添加剂。何女士说，有时包装正面写着“零添加”，一看背面配料表，添加剂一样不少，“这不是玩文字游戏吗？”不少读者也有和何女士类似的疑问。对普通消费者来说，想看看食品标签的营养成分表，但上面全是专业名词，字都认识，就是不明白是什么。
山东济南市读者杨女士买了一款零食，营养成分表上写着“热量688千焦”。她说，不知道这算是高还是低。更让人困惑的是，有的品牌把“每份含量”标在表格第一行，有的按“每100克”标示，有的按“每袋”标示——稍不留神就会看错，热量和含糖量可能要差好几倍。
针对营养标签太复杂问题，复旦大学公共卫生学院副教授贾英男团队近年曾做调研，发现虽然消费者的健康意识在逐步提升，但传统营养成分表信息密集、字号偏小，大多数人没耐心看，也看不懂，更谈不上有效使用。
一边是消费者想吃得健康，一边是一般人看不明白的标签。矛盾如何破解？世界卫生组织驻华代表马丁·泰勒最近受访时表示，推行食品包装正面标签，是应对不健康饮食问题最划算的办法之一。
所谓食品包装正面标签，简单来说，就是印在食品包装显眼位置的直观标识，把营养成分用图形化、简化的方式印在包装正面，让消费者一眼就能识别出食品的健康程度，补足食品背面专业营养标签的短板。
世卫组织驻华代表处营养技术官员崔莹介绍，食品包装正面标签能帮助消费者快速了解食品的营养情况。研究分析表明，评价型标识在帮助消费者理解、选择和购买更健康食品方面，效果比信息型标识更好。一个小小的标签改动，可以带来实实在在的健康效益。
针对食品标签的问题，各地正在积极行动。2024年3月，上海在饮料领域推行营养选择分级标识，根据非乳源性糖、饱和脂肪、反式脂肪、非糖甜味剂含量等，把饮料分为A、B、C、D4个等级。这是国内首次由政府部门指导的评价型食品包装正面标识。从现制奶茶到预包装饮料，消费者选购时，只需看一眼瓶身上的分级标识，就能大致判断手中的饮料是否健康。
措施实施后，有消费者反映，“有了分级，买饮料时心里更有数了。”上海市疾病预防控制中心营养健康科主任臧嘉捷介绍，2025年试点满一年时曾做过调查，发现一年间A、B级饮料的消费累计超过2亿人次。消费者购买更健康食品的意愿从49%提升到75%，对食品营养健康程度的判断准确率从56%提升到83%，购买“微糖／无糖”产品的比例提升了至少4.6%。臧嘉捷说，“营养选择”标识把健康知情权变成了健康选择权，让消费者不仅能看到，还能选对。
调查还显示，分级标识对企业也产生导向作用。臧嘉捷介绍，针对这些企业所售卖的饮料食物成分的统计结果显示，试点企业开始根据标准调整配方，A、B级饮料的占比从44.5%提升到52.4%，部分品牌甚至达到90％——为了获得更优的评级，企业主动减糖、减脂，推动产品的健康化升级。
2025年，我国更新了《食品安全国家标准 预包装食品营养标签通则》（GB28050—2025），新增饱和脂肪、糖等强制标识内容。《中国食物与营养发展纲要（2025—2030年）》也明确提出“完善预包装食品营养标签制度，探索食品包装正面标签应用”的要求。2025年底，由中国营养学会发布的团体标准《现制饮料营养选择标识规范》，为更大范围推广食品包装正面标签积累了经验。
专家建议，可将食品包装正面标签纳入国家食品安全标准体系，优先在饮料、零食等高糖高盐高脂食品中推行，明确实施时间表和路线图，让好政策尽快落地。
在标识设计上，崔莹建议采用评价型体系，开发符合消费者认知习惯的图形样式。同时，应当建立跟踪监测机制，持续观察消费者的行为变化、企业配方调整情况以及实际健康效益，确保标识体系科学、独立、可信。
上海市食品学会秘书长郭燕茹还建议，可以结合数字标签试点，让消费者扫描二维码就能看到详细营养信息，还能放大字号、语音播报，方便老年人和有特殊需求的群体。包装正面标签简洁明了，扫码后又能获取完整信息，既照顾了不同人群的需求，也让健康选择更加便捷。
"I want to look at the nutrition information panel, but the font is really small. When I finally manage to read it clearly, there's just a string of numbers and percentages, and I have no idea whether it's good or bad." Recently, Ms. He, from Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province, told reporters that every time she buys a drink for her child, she repeatedly checks the ingredient list, but it is filled with chemical names and she simply does not know what they are.
After buying it, she searches online and finds out that many of the ingredients she could not understand are actually additives. Ms. He said that sometimes the front of the package says "zero added," yet when you look at the ingredient list on the back, there are no fewer additives. "Isn't this just playing word games?" Many readers have similar questions to Ms. He. For ordinary consumers, they want to look at the nutrition information panel on food labels, but it is full of technical terms — they recognize the characters but have no idea what they mean.
Ms. Yang, a reader from Jinan City, Shandong Province, bought a snack, and the nutrition information panel stated "Energy 688 kilojoules." She said she did not know whether that was high or low. What is even more confusing is that some brands put "per serving" in the first row of the table, some label it as "per 100g," and some as "per bag" — if you are not careful, you misread it, and the energy and sugar content can differ by several times.
Regarding the problem of complex nutrition labels, a team led by Jia Yingnan (贾英男), Associate Professor at the School of Public Health, Fudan University, conducted research in recent years and found that although consumers' health awareness is gradually increasing, traditional nutrition information panels are information-dense and printed in a small font. Most people lack the patience to read them, cannot understand them, and are even less able to use them effectively.
On one hand, consumers want to eat healthily; on the other hand, the labels are incomprehensible to most people. How can this contradiction be resolved? Martin Taylor, Representative of the World Health Organization in China, recently said in an interview that promoting front-of-pack labeling is one of the most cost-effective ways to address the problem of unhealthy diets.
The so-called front-of-pack labeling, simply put, is an intuitive identifier printed in a prominent position on food packaging, presenting nutritional information in a graphical, simplified form on the package front, allowing consumers to recognize at a glance the healthiness of the food, thereby compensating for the shortcomings of the professional nutrition labels on the back.
Cui Ying (崔莹), Nutrition Technical Officer at the WHO Representative Office in China, explained that front-of-pack labeling can help consumers quickly understand the nutritional profile of a food. Research analysis shows that interpretive labels are more effective than informative labels in helping consumers understand, choose, and purchase healthier foods. A small change in labeling can bring real and tangible health benefits.
In response to the issue of food labels, various localities are taking active action. In March 2024, Shanghai introduced a nutritional choice graded labeling system in the beverage sector, categorizing beverages into four grades — A, B, C, and D — based on non-dairy sugar, saturated fat, trans fat, and non-sugar sweetener content. This is the first time in China that a government department has guided the adoption of interpretive front-of-pack labeling. From freshly made milk tea to pre-packaged drinks, when consumers make a purchase, a single glance at the grade label on the bottle enables them to roughly judge whether the drink in their hand is healthy.
After the measure was implemented, some consumers reported, "With the grading, I feel more confident when buying drinks." Zang Jiajie (臧嘉捷), Director of the Nutrition and Health Department at the Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention (上海市疾病预防控制中心), said that when the pilot reached its first anniversary in 2025, a survey was conducted. It found that over the year, cumulative consumption of A and B grade beverages exceeded 200 million servings. Consumer willingness to purchase healthier foods rose from 49% to 75%, the accuracy of judging a food's nutritional health level increased from 56% to 83%, and the proportion of consumers buying "low-sugar/sugar-free" products increased by at least 4.6%. Zang Jiajie said that the "nutritional choice" label has turned the right to know about health into the right to choose health, enabling consumers not only to see but also to select correctly.
The survey also showed that graded labels have a steering effect on enterprises. Zang Jiajie explained that statistics on the beverage food components sold by these enterprises showed that pilot companies began adjusting their formulas in accordance with the standards, with the proportion of A and B grade beverages rising from 44.5% to 52.4%, and some brands even reaching 90%. To obtain a better rating, enterprises voluntarily reduced sugar and fat, driving the healthy upgrade of products.
In 2025, China updated the National Food Safety Standard General Rules for Nutrition Labeling of Prepackaged Foods (GB28050—2025) (《食品安全国家标准 预包装食品营养标签通则》), adding saturated fat, sugar, and other items as mandatory labeling content. The China Food and Nutrition Development Outline (2025–2030) (《中国食物与营养发展纲要（2025—2030年）》) also clearly put forward the requirement to "improve the nutrition labeling system for prepackaged foods and explore the application of front-of-pack food labeling." At the end of 2025, the group standard Specification for Nutritional Choice Labeling of Freshly Prepared Beverages (《现制饮料营养选择标识规范》) issued by the Chinese Nutrition Society (中国营养学会) accumulated experience for promoting front-of-pack labeling on a larger scale.
Experts suggest incorporating front-of-pack labeling into the national food safety standard system, giving priority to its implementation in beverages, snacks, and other high-sugar, high-salt, high-fat foods, defining a clear implementation timetable and roadmap, so that good policies can be put into practice as soon as possible.
Regarding label design, Cui Ying recommended adopting an interpretive system and developing graphic styles that align with consumers' cognitive habits. At the same time, a tracking and monitoring mechanism should be established to continuously observe changes in consumer behavior, enterprise recipe adjustments, and actual health benefits, ensuring that the labeling system is scientific, independent, and credible.
Guo Yanru (郭燕茹), Secretary-General of the Shanghai Food Society (上海市食品学会), also suggested combining it with digital label pilots, allowing consumers to scan a QR code to see detailed nutritional information, and also to enlarge the font or use voice broadcast, making it convenient for the elderly and groups with special needs. Front-of-pack labels are concise and clear, and scanning the code provides complete information, accommodating the needs of different populations and making healthy choices even more convenient.
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Return to TopBy: 谢春涛
The Communist Party of China, having been founded for 105 years and governing the country for 77 years, has undergone hardships yet its fighting spirit has grown stronger, and after being tempered a thousand times it has become even more resilient. At the celebration of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping, with a broad perspective, looked back on the Party’s history, concisely summarized and profoundly elucidated the Party’s six outstanding qualities, and 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 outstanding qualities that are incomparable by any other political party or political force.” This major theoretical innovation encapsulates the course of struggle, reveals the key code, and enables us to understand more deeply what kind of party the Communist Party of China is and what kind of people Chinese Communists truly are, thereby uniting more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, strengthening confidence, continuing the struggle, and constantly creating new achievements worthy of the times and the people.
The Communist Party of China is a great political party that is determined to pursue truth and always keeps the direction of progress correct.
The power of truth is centrally embodied in the Party’s scientific theory; a political party guided by scientific theory is 无坚不摧 (wú jiān bù cuī – “nothing hard cannot be destroyed,” all-conquering) and 无往不胜 (wú wǎng bù shèng – “no going without victory,” invincible). At the most critical moment in modern China, our Party, after searching up and down and making repeated comparisons, found Marxism-Leninism, bringing the fire of truth to China. In the course of leading revolution, construction, and reform, the Party has always been based on China’s national conditions, insisted on emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts, keeping pace with the times, and being pragmatic, paid attention to revealing and applying truth in the movement of social contradictions, been good at testing and developing truth in practice, continuously advanced the sinicization and modernization of Marxism, formed Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thought of the “Three Represents,” and the Scientific Outlook on Development, made Marxism take deep root in the land of China, radiated a powerful material force for understanding and transforming the world, guided China to open up earth-shaking historical changes, and guided the cause of the Party and the people to advance along the correct direction.
The light of truth traverses time and space, illuminating the journey. Entering the new era, new situations and new tasks urgently require new theories to hold high the banner and unite souls. Chinese Communists, with Comrade Xi Jinping as their chief representative, stand at a new historical juncture, treat science with a scientific attitude, pursue truth with the spirit of truth, adhere to combining the basic principles of Marxism with China’s specific realities and with the excellent traditional Chinese culture, continuously promote theoretical innovation on the basis of practice, founded Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, achieved a new leap in the sinicization and modernization of Marxism, provided scientific theoretical guidance that is both continuous and advancing with the times for the development of the Party and the country, and provided a powerful ideological weapon and action guide for advancing the construction of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation. Thought originates from practice and in turn guides practice. Relying on the power of scientific theory, our Party has united and led the people of all ethnic groups across the country to write a new chapter in the two miracles of rapid economic development and long-term social stability, comprehensively built a moderately prosperous society on the land of China, successfully promoted and expanded Chinese-style modernization, promoted the irresistible trend of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and shown unprecedented bright prospects. The extraordinary journey and extraordinary achievements of the new era fully demonstrate the truth power and practical power of the Party’s innovative theory, and have become the most vivid portrayal and most powerful proof that Marxism works, and that sinicized and modernized Marxism works.
History profoundly shows that Marxism has not ended truth, but has opened the path to truth. We must better unify upholding and developing Marxism, consciously use Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to arm our minds, guide practice, and promote work, deeply understand the decisive significance of the “two establishments” (两个确立), resolutely achieve the “two upholds” (两个维护), and under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, strive to create new historical brilliance, and let contemporary Chinese Marxism and Marxism in the 21st century radiate even more brilliant rays of truth.
The Communist Party of China is a great political party that is deeply rooted in the people and always possesses a solid foundation.
Historical materialism holds that the masses of the people are the subjects of historical activities and the creators of history, which points out the relying force for a proletarian party. One of the notable signs that distinguish the Communist Party of China from other political parties is that it maintains the closest ties with the masses of the people. For 105 years, the Party has always firmly believed that the people are the true heroes, taken serving the people wholeheartedly as its fundamental purpose, established and adhered to the mass line, proposed tasks at different historical stages to meet the expectations of the people, extensively mobilized and organized the people, and gathered them into an impregnable fortress that cannot be destroyed or broken. All the work of our Party, whether it is carrying out revolutionary struggles, establishing armed forces, building political systems, advancing reform and opening up, promoting cultural development, or innovating social governance, ultimately aims to achieve the fundamental interests of the vast majority of the people. History and reality repeatedly prove that whoever can firmly stand with the people, think together with the people, and work together with the people, the people will choose and support them.
Having traveled thousands of miles, we have not forgotten the original aspiration. Our Party has crossed countless rivers and mountains, and its steps to seek happiness for the people have never stopped. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “The country is the people, and the people are the country.” These sincere words reveal the profound sentiment of the Party’s leader and the people’s leader of “I will have no self, and live up to the people.” Since the new era, the Party Central Committee has responded to the people’s longing for a better life, firmly established a people-centered development thought, adhered to building the Party for the public and governing for the people, integrated the concerns of the people into the top-level design of national development, and reflected them in the policy arrangements of governance: running the concept of putting the people first through all processes and fields of economic and social development, winning the largest battle against poverty in human history; making heartfelt and strenuous efforts to solve practical problems concerning employment, education, social security, medical care, and elderly care that the people care about, striving to promote the comprehensive development of individuals and common prosperity for all the people; adhering to asking the people for their needs and seeking advice from the people, fully stimulating the creative power hidden in the masses, and continuously consolidating and developing the great unity of all ethnic groups, the great unity of the whole country, and the great unity of all Chinese sons and daughters with the Chinese Dream. Countless Communist Party members stand among the vast majority of the people, play an exemplary vanguard role in their respective posts, step forward in times of crisis, and spare no effort to serve the people. The recipients of the “July 1 Medal” (七一勋章) honored this time are precisely outstanding representatives among the millions of Party members who have adhered to the original aspiration and fulfilled their purpose.
History profoundly shows that the people are the source of our Party’s strength and the foundation of its victory. On the new journey, as long as we remember the fundamental question of what the Communist Party of China is and what it is to do, forever maintain flesh-and-blood ties with the people, take benefiting the people as the greatest political achievement, further boost the spirit of doing business and starting undertakings, and bring the enthusiasm of all sides into full play, we will certainly be able to unite and lead the people of all ethnic groups across the country to forge ahead, enabling the Party to have a solid foundation that cannot be shaken by any wind or wave.
The Communist Party of China is a great political party that bravely undertakes historical missions and always masters strategic initiative.
After modern times, China fell into an unprecedented dark situation. For the rebirth of the country and the nation, the Communist Party of China, cherishing the lofty ideal of communism and determined to pursue the eternal cause of the Chinese nation, firmly shouldered the heavy responsibility given by history and the people, and embarked on the long journey of pursuing modernization. Inspired by this great mission, our Party adapted to changes in the principal social contradiction to establish central tasks, refined long-term development visions into realistic, forward-looking, and inspiring goals, successively proposing the realization of the “four modernizations” (四个现代化), the “three-step” (三步走) development strategy for modernization, and the comprehensive building of a moderately prosperous society, effectively guiding China’s socialist modernization through key nodes, constantly achieving new accomplishments, and step by step turning the long-cherished dream of the Chinese nation into a “vivid and active” reality.
“Only with a certain strategy can there be certain achievements.” Entering the new era, China has stood at a new and higher starting point, and the importance of strategic issues has become even more prominent. General Secretary Xi Jinping, looking far ahead and planning the overall situation, has repeatedly emphasized that strategic issues are fundamental issues for a political party and a country, and has conducted deep strategic thinking and planning on where we are going and how to go on the new journey. The Party Central Committee has deeply perceived changes in the situation, made the major judgment that the principal social contradiction in China has transformed, made new strategic arrangements in two stages, proposed basically realizing socialist modernization by 2035, and building China into a great modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious, and beautiful by the middle of this century, setting the pace and blueprint for the future modernization process. In the historical process of stepwise progression, our Party has holistically promoted the “five-sphere integrated plan” (五位一体总体布局) and coordinated the “four-pronged comprehensive strategy” (四个全面战略布局) from a horizontal perspective, and deeply implemented a series of major strategies such as the strategy of invigorating China through science and education, the regional coordinated development strategy, and the rural revitalization strategy; from a vertical perspective, it has adhered to the unity of long-term goals and stage goals, using five-year planning as a cycle to implement step by step and advance in relay, making Chinese-style modernization clearer, more scientific, and more tangible and feasible. Many insightful people internationally admire China’s five-year plans, believing that the Communist Party of China can adhere to drawing a blueprint to the end, which is unimaginable and even more difficult to achieve in many countries.
History profoundly shows that if strategic judgments are accurate, strategic planning is scientific, and strategic initiative is gained, the cause of the Party and the people will have great hope. This year is the first year of the “15th Five-Year Plan” (十五五). We must closely focus on the Party’s mission and tasks in the new era and new journey, fully, deeply, and accurately understand and grasp the strategic deployment of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party, implement it with the spirit of driving nails, work steadily and surely, be good at doing things and achieving success, and ensure that the giant ship of the Chinese nation’s rejuvenation rides the wind and waves and sails steadily and far.
The Communist Party of China is a great political party that conforms to the trend of development and always stays at the forefront of the times.
A political party or a country can grasp the historical initiative of the development of its cause only if it clearly recognizes the laws of history and keeps pace with the times. 105 years ago, our Party came into being in the world trend of the victory of the Russian October Revolution and the rise of socialism, in the historical logic of China’s social progress after modern times. Along the way, from conforming to the general trend of the World Anti-Fascist War and the strong desire of the Chinese people to resist Japan and save the nation during the War of Resistance, promoting the formation of the anti-Japanese national united front, to accurately grasping the popular will and historical trend and establishing a new China where the people are the masters of the country, then to proposing that peace and development are the themes of the present era and making the great decision of reform and opening up, the Party has always deeply observed the conditions of the world, the country, and the Party, changed with the times and acted according to circumstances at every major historical juncture, leading the country and the nation to advance in the logic of historical progress and develop in the trend of the times, becoming a well-deserved vanguard of the times and the backbone of the nation.
Those who discern the situation are wise; those who harness the situation win. When the baton of history is passed to our generation, the relationship between China and the world has undergone profound changes, and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has entered a critical period. General Secretary Xi Jinping, proceeding from the grand view of history and based on the unprecedented changes in a century, has profoundly pointed out that understanding the general trend of world development and keeping up with the tide of the times is an extremely important and ever-new subject. The Party Central Committee coordinates both domestic and international situations, assesses the situation and acts accordingly, leads the whole Party to seize the opportunity of historical change, actively discerns, responds to, and seeks change, keenly pioneers and innovates, constantly creates new opportunities and opens up new prospects in turning crises, breaking through difficulties, and responding to changing situations. Adapting to China’s economy entering a new development stage, it leads high-quality development with the new development philosophy; conforming to the historical demands of the people for development, innovation, and a better life, it seizes the opportunity to comprehensively deepen reform; facing the wave of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, it comprehensively enhances independent innovation capabilities, develops new quality productive forces according to local conditions; discerning the trend of peace, development, cooperation, and mutual benefit, it expands high-level opening up, promotes the high-quality joint construction of the Belt and Road (一带一路), and promotes the building of a community with a shared future for mankind; seizing the strategic window period of the 15th Five-Year Plan to consolidate the foundation and exert full force, it rides the momentum and continues to advance Chinese-style modernization. The great changes since the new era are both the “fruit” of the Communist Party of China understanding and following laws, and the “achievement” of our Party riding the wind and taking the initiative to lead.
History profoundly shows that success always belongs to those who dare to stand at the forefront and innovate; being complacent and conservative will only be left behind by the times. The new era contains new opportunities. We must uphold a high degree of historical consciousness and a broad world vision, clearly grasp China’s national conditions and the theme of the times, mobilize and utilize all positive factors, concentrate our efforts on handling our own affairs well, promote the implementation of the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative, and inject more positive energy into world peace and development.
The Communist Party of China is a great political party that dares to and is good at struggle, and always maintains confidence in victory.
Daring to struggle and daring to win are the powerful spiritual force of the invincible Party and people. This is an important historical conclusion and a valuable experience of success. Our Party has grown and strengthened in struggle. Comrade Mao Zedong once profoundly summarized the development trend of China’s revolution: “Struggle, defeat, struggle again, defeat again, struggle again, until victory – this is the logic of the people.” After the baptism of war, our Party has repeatedly responded to adversity and setbacks, repeatedly overcome difficulties and obstacles, greatly enhancing its confidence to overcome all difficulties without being overwhelmed by any difficulty. Not long after the founding of New China, facing the threat and provocation of the world’s most powerful country, our Party made the decision that “we should participate, we must participate” with extraordinary courage, and faced the enemy with the determined fighting spirit of “even if the domestic situation is disrupted and rebuilt,” winning the great victory of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. Over the 105 years of stormy journey, countless Communists have forged the spirit of fearing no sacrifice and fighting bravely with their blood and sweat, forming an important part of the great founding spirit of the Party.
The times change, and so do the content, methods, and environment of struggle. For some time, the development environment has been relatively relaxed, and some Party cadres lack the will to struggle and their ability to struggle has weakened; they are prone to panic when facing danger and tests. General Secretary Xi Jinping, with a high degree of political sobriety and a strong sense of responsibility, warned the whole Party that it must carry out a great struggle with many new historical features, and must be prepared to make more arduous and harder efforts. The great struggle in the new era covers a very wide range of fields, with contradictions and problems overlapping, and its long-term nature, complexity, and arduousness are rare in the world and rare in history. In the surging sea, heroes show their true colors. The Party Central Committee, overseeing the great struggle, great project, great cause, and great dream, united and led the entire Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to carry out resolute struggle without any relaxation in various fields such as reform, development, stability, internal affairs, foreign affairs, national defense, and governing the Party, the country, and the military, overcoming a series of major risks and challenges from political, economic, ideological, and natural aspects, withstanding and countering external extreme suppression and containment, and safeguarding national dignity and core interests in struggle. There is no casual success in the world. Everything we have today was not obtained by waiting or shouting, but by relying on the struggle character that does not believe in evil, does not fear ghosts, and does not fear pressure, and by relying on the Communist Party members’ courage to take responsibility and the ability to fight and win.
History profoundly shows that without struggle, there is no victory, and there is no great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Facing increasingly complex risks and tests on the road ahead, we can only strengthen our sense of urgency, adhere to bottom-line thinking, carry forward the spirit of struggle, enhance our ability to struggle, be fighters who dare and are good at struggle, and actively face challenges in severe situations and struggle tasks, in order to rely on tenacious struggle to open up a new world and create a better future.
The Communist Party of China is a great political party that pays attention to strengthening itself and is always full of vigor and vitality.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “Promoting Party building as a great project, and always adhering to the principle and policy that the Party must supervise itself and govern strictly, is a major innovation of our Party, and also a major magic weapon for building the Party, the country, and strengthening the Party and the country.” Precisely because it has always attached great importance to and continuously strengthened its own construction, the Communist Party of China has been able to grow from small to large, from weak to strong, and develop into the world’s largest ruling party with significant global influence. At the beginning of its founding, the Party explored strengthening its own construction; the Party’s first congress program stipulated the Party’s organizational principles, organizational structure, and conditions for joining the Party. Starting from this point, our Party has adhered to proceeding from the actual situation within the Party, been good at examining itself with the requirements of the development of the times, alerting itself with a strong sense of urgency, and perfecting itself with the spirit of self-reform, through the Yan’an Rectification Movement, comprehensive Party consolidation, multiple centralized learning and education activities, extensive criticism and self-criticism, severe punishment of corrupt elements within the Party, etc., to centrally rectify and eliminate its own diseases, so as to comprehensively strengthen Party building and maintain the Party’s physical health.
“Those who overcome others are powerful; those who overcome themselves are strong.” As a Marxist political party in power for a long time, facing constantly emerging new situations and new problems, how to forever maintain its advanced nature and integrity, continuously improve the Party’s leadership level and long-term governance ability, is a major issue that our Party must answer and solve well. Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, General Secretary Xi Jinping has faced various problems caused by the once lax and soft Party management and governance, insisted that to forge iron, one must be strong, incorporated comprehensive and strict governance of the Party into the “four-pronged comprehensive strategy,” put forward the general requirements for Party building in the new era, deeply advanced the new great project of Party building in the new era, and opened up a new realm of Party management and governance, and rejuvenating and strengthening the Party. The Party Central Committee started the breakthrough from formulating and implementing the Central Eight-Point Regulations, playing a “combination punch” of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, especially targeting corruption, the biggest cancer that endangers the Party’s vitality and combat effectiveness, promoting the anti-corruption struggle to achieve an overwhelming victory and comprehensively consolidate it. After more than ten years of tempering in fire, our Party has solved a series of outstanding problems in politics, ideology, organization, and discipline in the process of self-reform, enabling the century-old Party to achieve a phoenix-like rebirth and renewal, and the Party has become stronger and more powerful in revolutionary forging. It can be said that no political party in the history of world politics has treated its own construction as seriously and conscientiously as the Communist Party of China, and has carried out such large-scale, powerful, and persistent anti-corruption efforts.
History profoundly shows that to handle China’s affairs well, the key lies in the Party, the key lies in adhering to the principle that the Party must supervise itself and govern strictly and comprehensively. We must always maintain the sobriety and caution of “taking the examination,” fully study and implement Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building, implement the requirements of comprehensiveness, the tone of strictness, and the concept of governance into the construction of the system of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, take the Party’s political construction as the guide to strengthen all aspects of Party building, resolutely fight the protracted, all-out, and overall battle against corruption, and continuously build our Party well and make it strong.
Silent years, enduring spirit. These six outstanding qualities have become even more resilient over time and space, centrally embodying the ideological soul, nature and purpose, theme of struggle, enterprising spirit, will and character, and distinctive identifiers of Chinese Communists, achieving the great, glorious, and correct Communist Party of China, forging 105 years of brilliant history, and providing a powerful driving force for the Party to grasp the present and create the future. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “We must combine with the new reality, continuously carry forward and develop the Party’s outstanding qualities, ensure that the Party never deteriorates, never changes color, never changes its flavor, and always has strong creativity, cohesion, and combat effectiveness.” Striving on the new journey, all Chinese Communists must remember General Secretary Xi Jinping’s earnest instructions, deeply integrate the Party’s outstanding qualities into their blood and marrow, continue and pass them on in practice, so that the distinct image of Communist Party members touches the hearts of the people, and the magnificent bearing of the century-old Party shocks people’s hearts, ensuring that the Party remains a strong leading core in the historical process of adhering to and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era.
(The author is the Executive Vice President of the Central Party School (National Academy of Governance) and Director of the Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era Research Center of the Central Party School (National Academy of Governance).)
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On July 1 this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping, at the grand gathering celebrating the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, sent a message to youth: “Chinese youth in the new era must unswervingly listen to the Party and follow the Party, set lofty aspirations, bravely shoulder the heavy responsibilities of the era, integrate personal pursuits into the cause of the Party and the state, 只争朝夕 (zhǐ zhēng zhāo xī - “strive to seize the morning and the evening,” to make the most of every moment) and live up to their youthful years, run the historical relay race well on the new journey, pave the road with youth, and let ideals shine!” On the eve of this year’s Youth Day (May 4th), in his reply letter to representatives of the winners of the China Youth May Fourth Medal and the New Era Youth Pioneer Award, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that “this year is the first year of the 'Fifteenth Five-Year Plan' (十五五), and it is precisely the time for youth to make contributions,” and encouraged them to “cherish lofty ideals, be determined to strive and struggle, drive the vast number of youth to integrate personal pursuits into the overall national development, continuously create new achievements based on their respective posts, and contribute youthful strength on the new journey.” General Secretary Xi Jinping’s earnest entrustments point out the direction forward and provide fundamental guidance for youth in the new era to firm up their ideals and convictions and to take on responsibilities in advancing Chinese modernization (中国式现代化).
The red gene (红色基因) is the spiritual lifeblood of Chinese Communists and the spiritual foundation for youth in the new era to make contributions and establish careers. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed: “The red gene is meant to be inherited. The Chinese nation has gone through so many hardships from standing up, becoming prosperous, to becoming strong, and created so many miracles. We must make future generations remember that we must not forget our original aspiration, and must never lose our direction and path.” The rock-solid ideal and belief is the spiritual core of the red gene, carrying the firm belief in the scientific theory of Marxism and the persistent pursuit of the lofty ideal of communism and the common ideal of socialism with Chinese characteristics; it is the spiritual calcium of Communists who have experienced storms without changing their original aspiration. The sincere and profound responsibility for family and country is the value base color of the red gene, containing the fundamental stance that individual destiny is closely linked with the destiny of the country and nation, and condensing the original aspiration and mission of “seeking happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation.” The practical character of unity of knowledge and action (知行合一, zhī xíng hé yī - “knowledge and action are one,” the unity of knowledge and action) is the practical feature of the red gene, embodied as the action consciousness and struggle will to 攻坚克难 (gōng jiān kè nán - “attack the strongholds and overcome difficulties,” to tackle tough problems), 敢闯敢拼 (gǎn chuǎng gǎn pīn - “dare to rush and dare to fight,” to be bold and venturesome), and 善作善成 (shàn zuò shàn chéng - “good at doing and good at accomplishing,” to be good at both initiating and completing tasks).
Standing at the new starting point of the first year of the “Fifteenth Five-Year Plan,” the “two overall situations” (两个大局) accelerate in evolution and deeply interact, providing important opportunities for youth to make contributions and establish careers; the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation deepens, opening broad tracks for youth to display their talents; the advancement and expansion of Chinese modernization builds a grand stage for youth to realize their life value. It is necessary to combine inheriting the red gene with grasping the opportunities of the era, guiding the vast number of youth to firm up ideals and beliefs and find the correct orientation for struggle in the tide of the era, so as to gather surging youthful strength for making contributions in the “Fifteenth Five-Year Plan.”
Use the red gene to cast the soul, consolidating the foundation of youth’s ideals and beliefs. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “Only when ideals and beliefs are set correctly can youth stand straight, walk steadily, and grow healthily.” This reveals the foundational role of ideals and beliefs for youth growth. Ideals and beliefs, as the “master switch” of life, fundamentally affect the direction and height of life development. Youth is the key stage for shaping values. Facing the influence of multiple ideological trends, the red gene provides a rock-solid spiritual anchor for the vast number of youth — it carries the firm belief in Marxism, condenses the correct choices made by countless youth at major historical junctures over the past hundred-plus years, and is the most precious spiritual nourishment for the young generation to establish correct worldview, outlook on life, and values. The reform and development tasks during the “Fifteenth Five-Year Plan” period are arduous. Only by using the red gene to cast the soul can youth maintain steadfastness in the face of wind and wave tests. We must promote the normalization and long-term effectiveness of Party history study and education, integrate red education into the national education system and throughout the entire process of talent cultivation; fully leverage the educational and nurturing functions of revolutionary memorial halls, martyrs’ cemeteries, and other venues; use modern science and technology to create immersive and experiential learning scenarios; pay attention to the unique demonstration and leading role of “living textbooks” such as old Party members and old veterans; and promote “listen to the Party and follow the Party” to be internalized as youth’s conscious value compliance.
Use era opportunities to empower, stimulating the momentum for youth to make contributions and establish careers. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “Contemporary Chinese youth are born at the right time; the stage to display their talents is extremely broad, the prospect of realizing dreams is extremely bright.” This points out the opportunities provided by the era for youth development. Personal growth is an interactive process closely intertwined with social history. The size of the actual stage affects the breadth and depth of youth’s talent display. The outline of the “Fifteenth Five-Year Plan” clearly states “support youth in striving to be vanguards and main forces in all fields and aspects of work.” Frontier fields such as artificial intelligence and advanced manufacturing are in urgent need of large numbers of young innovative talents; the vigorous development of new quality productive forces (新质生产力, xīn zhì shēngchǎn lì - “new quality productive forces”) gives rise to a large number of new business forms and new positions; the regional coordinated development strategy opens up differentiated growth paths for youth in different regions. We must deepen the docking mechanism between university disciplines and specialties and industrial needs, improve the collaborative education system of industry, academia, and research; fully leverage the supporting functions of platforms such as youth development-oriented cities and entrepreneurship incubation bases; improve the policy system for youth talent introduction, innovation and entrepreneurship support; and transform policy opportunities into development dividends that youth can feel and access. The vast number of youth must inherit and carry forward the profound responsibility for family and country embedded in the red gene, and display youthful brilliance in taking on responsibilities and making contributions in the new era.
Use practical work and responsibility to establish oneself, tempering youth’s style of being good at doing and good at accomplishing. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed: “Communists in the new era must inherit the red gene, remain true to the original aspiration and keep the mission firmly in mind, fulfill duties and take responsibility, practice hard and take on responsibility, and write excellent answers on the new journey.” This clarifies the practical essence of inheriting the red gene. The red gene is a practical tradition that is continuously activated and constantly enriched through the practical struggle of generations. The value of inheriting the red gene lies in unity of knowledge and action. Youth is in the golden period of life, energetic and active-minded, and has the advantage of transforming the red gene into practical action. We must fully leverage the tempering function of practice fronts such as the grassroots front line and major projects; improve the working mechanism for youth to train at the grassroots and participate in key projects; support youth in making contributions on the front lines of tackling “bottleneck” problems and serving the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas; improve the incentive mechanism, improve the fault tolerance and error correction mechanism; leverage the benchmark and leading role of “role models of the era” and other examples; and transform the revolutionary predecessors’ spirit of “so much ambition in sacrifice” into the practical style of “the more dangerous the situation, the more we advance.”
(The author is Vice Dean of the School of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era at Renmin University of China (中国人民大学习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想研究院).)
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After expert detective-like multi-directional searching and repeated collation, over 30 damaged Dunhuang manuscript fragments were finally rejoined into one. These fragments come respectively from the collections of six domestic and overseas institutions, including the National Library of China (中国国家图书馆), Tianjin Library (天津图书馆), Zhejiang Provincial Museum (浙江省博物馆), as well as the British Library, the National Library of France, and the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Zhang Yongquan (张涌泉), professor of the School of Literature at Zhejiang University, unfurled this rejoined manuscript over three meters long and displayed more results of Dunhuang fragment rejoining: a sheet once thought lost was restored to its place, reuniting with the original scroll; previously incomplete characters with missing strokes were successfully pieced together as "perfect jade."
A large batch of rejoined Dunhuang manuscripts seem to come back to "life" through time and space, as the scattered cultural relics gradually gather together and become clear, reappearing in their original splendor and form.
For nearly 20 years, Professor Zhang Yongquan's team has steadfastly adhered to the field of Dunhuang studies, a niche and esoteric discipline. On the basis of a general survey to ascertain the "family assets" of Dunhuang documents, they explored and summarized a set of rejoining methods, discovering that there are over 17,500 numbers of Dunhuang fragments that can be rejoined, and have so far rejoined over 10,000 fragments.
"The rejoining of Dunhuang fragments is one of the basic tasks on which the success or failure of Dunhuang document collation and research depends." As early as the 1930s and 1940s, the elder Jiang Liangfu (姜亮夫) had this clear judgment. Zhang Yongquan recalled with deep emotion the indissoluble bond between Zhejiang scholars and Dunhuang studies, and admired the pioneering and guiding efforts of senior scholars such as Jiang Liangfu, Jiang Lihong (蒋礼鸿), Guo Zaiyi (郭在贻), and Xiang Chu (项楚). "The approximately 70,000 ancient manuscript documents discovered in the Library Cave at Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang are the crystallization of East-West cultural exchange and the most precious material relics of Silk Road civilization. However, these precious cultural relics largely exist in a damaged and separated state, urgently needing restoration and rejoining," Zhang Yongquan said.
But "this matter is extremely difficult, and achieving it is not easy," as Mr. Jiang Liangfu said. Dunhuang scrolls are often split from one scroll into three, five, or ten scrolls. "The broken fragments are often scattered in various places: some in China, some in Paris, some stored in London, some collected in Japan. Therefore, only by managing to collect them in one place can the scrolls be restored."
In recent years, as the Dunhuang documents collected by various national libraries have been basically published, Professor Zhang Yongquan's team has conducted an exhaustive survey and digital collation of all published Dunhuang documents worldwide, established a database for Dunhuang documents, and named over 4,000 previously unnamed fragments, essentially ascertaining the "family assets" of Dunhuang documents. With this foundation, rejoining Dunhuang fragments became possible. In 2014, the "Research on Rejoining Dunhuang Fragments" project led by Professor Zhang Yongquan was approved as a key project of the National Social Science Fund. In 2020, the "General Collection of Rejoined Dunhuang Fragments" project was selected as a team project under the National Social Science Fund's niche and esoteric studies special program.
They gradually summarized a set of rejoining methods: first, "categorize and gather" — classify documents of the same type or related content, then gather together manuscripts whose content is directly connected or adjacent; then examine line formatting and handwriting, by comparing paper, calligraphic style, line layout, and script, and by comparing break marks, textual meaning, and recto-verso content, to determine whether fragments belong to the same manuscript.
In the past, collation of Dunhuang documents could often only study one or a few documents at a time, capable of "exploring a deep well" but hardly able to "see the whole panorama." Zhang Yongquan said that previous partial, point-based collation research was like "digging for treasure," lacking an overall grasp. But after large-scale rejoining work in recent years, rejoining over 10,000 fragments, collation research has gradually shifted to the study of manuscript groups, not only correcting predecessors' errors in naming, dating, and authenticity identification, but also proposing new views on the mystery of the nature of the Dunhuang Library Cave.
In 2025, the first batch of project results were published as a collection titled "Rejoining Silk Road Civilization: A Study on the Rejoining of Dunhuang Fragments." The "General Collection of Rejoined Dunhuang Fragments," which will bring together more academic results, is also in gestation.
What is even more valuable is that "producing results" and "cultivating talent" complement each other. Zhang Yongquan has successively recruited a large number of students to join the research team, guiding them to increase their abilities in research practice. "Apart from the core team members, there have been 60 to 70 doctoral students, master's students, and undergraduate students who participated in this project. After graduation, they went to work in various colleges and universities, and some have grown into academic leading talents in their institutions," Zhang Yongquan said.
In recent years, AI (artificial intelligence) has developed rapidly, also bringing profound impacts and changes to academic research. At Zhejiang University, the AI team led by Professor Wu Fei (吴飞) has cooperated with Professor Zhang Yongquan's team, and in recent years has launched new explorations in fields such as "AI + Philology" and "AI + Archaeology."
Zhang Yongquan remarked with emotion that so far, the achievements of him and his team have relied mainly on "human brains," requiring reading and comparing each scroll one by one, expending "stubborn effort," and willingly sitting on a "cold bench." "We hope that all public and private collecting institutions will publish the Dunhuang manuscripts in their collections as soon as possible, and we also look forward to AI giving wings of wisdom to Dunhuang studies, helping to rejoin Dunhuang fragments," Zhang Yongquan said.
Return to TopBy: 张涌泉
Since 2007, when I published my first paper on the joining of Dunhuang manuscript fragments (敦煌残卷缀合), I have been cultivating this field for nearly twenty years.
Whenever I see precious scrolls that were scattered across different countries and collections for various reasons now "reunited," my heart is filled with a mixture of emotion and joy.
Mr. Tao Xingzhi wrote in a poem: "Between heaven and earth, each person has their own endowment. Come for one great matter, go after that great matter is done." For me personally, the comprehensive collation of Dunhuang transformation texts (敦煌变文) to the systematic arrangement of Dunhuang documents, the identification of Dunhuang popular characters to the compilation of the Grand Dictionary of Dunhuang Document Language, the exploration of the characteristics of Dunhuang transformation-text manuscripts to the construction of the academic system of Dunhuang manuscript philology and the joining of Dunhuang fragments — all these are the "great matters" in my mind.
The joining of Dunhuang manuscript fragments requires one to page through and compare scroll after scroll, a crystallization of sweat and effort. This task is indeed extremely difficult. But in the course of research, the direct joining of fragments and the perfect matching of broken characters can be as thrilling and intoxicating as discovering a new star. The calligraphy banner hanging in my study is a faithful reflection of my state of mind: "Aspirations lie in books," "Joy lies in books." We take pride in being able to join together the remains of a civilization that had been torn apart.
I am but one member of the Dunhuang studies community. My achievements have been built upon the foundations laid by predecessors, and now it is my responsibility to pass the baton onward, so that the Dunhuang fragments can be "revived" across time and space, and the torch of Chinese civilization can be passed down from generation to generation without end.
(The author is a Senior Professor of Liberal Arts at Zhejiang University and Director of the Academic Committee of the School of Literature.)
Return to TopBy: 王 平
In the snap of a finger, twenty springs of ink fragrance and screen glow have passed. Since its launch in 2006, the China Central Digital Television Calligraphy and Painting Channel (中央数字电视书画频道) (hereinafter referred to as the Calligraphy and Painting Channel) has adhered to the positioning that "the Calligraphy and Painting Channel is everyone's channel," exploring a path of cultural lineage transmission, cultural benefit to the people, and civilization exchange. The channel's growth trajectory is precisely a vivid picture of the vigorous flourishing of Chinese calligraphy and painting art in the new era, and of fine traditional Chinese culture moistening ten thousand households.
Many people believe that calligraphy and painting are a refined art; although their hearts yearn for it, they hold back, not knowing where to start to engage with it. As a fine-art professional television medium, how can the Calligraphy and Painting Channel help calligraphy and painting art fly into the homes of ordinary people?
The Calligraphy and Painting Channel establishes itself through news, positioning itself with high-quality content and popular expression. From the real-time broadcast of Art News to the in-depth interpretation of Art Weekly, and then to the global vision of International News, the Calligraphy and Painting Channel's program offerings cover a wide range. Its planning is closely tied to major milestones, and its series of themed promotions are rich and vivid, vividly showcasing the mission and responsibility of literary and art workers in the new era. Adapting to the new communication landscape, the Calligraphy and Painting Channel has built a communication matrix integrating television, the internet, and mobile terminals, disseminating the art of calligraphy and painting and enhancing cultural confidence.
If one could say that calligraphy and painting art in the past was the solace of refined scholars for cultivating their moral character, now calligraphy and painting art is a vehicle for satisfying the people's spiritual and cultural needs. Over the past 20 years, from the snowy plateau to the shore of the East China Sea, from factory workshops to border garrison barracks, through calligraphy and painting exhibitions, art education classes, and creative brush-meeting sessions one after another, the Calligraphy and Painting Channel has persisted in bringing calligraphy and painting art to the people's side.
For many years, the "Calligraphy and Painting Channel Enters Ten Thousand Households" activity has cumulatively benefited over one million people. We have broken down the barriers of art circles, creating an "art university without walls (没有围墙的艺术大学)"; we have gathered renowned teachers to offer courses and built a teaching video resource library of more than 10,000 hours, with content that balances professional advancement with popular普及, adult study, and children's启蒙. This not only allows the people to share in the fruits of cultural development but also enables artists to absorb creative nutrients from life, achieving a sympathetic resonance between artistic growth and the nourishment of people's hearts.
How can diverse forms of expression enable the art of calligraphy and painting to shake off the stereotype of "highbrow songs find few singers" (曲高和寡 - qǔ gāo hè guǎ, "tunes too lofty find few to join them," meaning too elegant to appeal to the masses)? The Calligraphy and Painting Channel has also engaged in innovative exploration. Chinese calligraphy and painting art has stretched across several millennia; its vitality lies in making creative transformation and innovative development that keep pace with the times. The Calligraphy and Painting Channel insists on prospering the station through scholarship and strengthening the station with fine works, by filming academic special-topic documentaries, offering high-standard academic programs, analyzing creative pitfalls, and perfecting the theoretical system; exploring the art-education method of "high-quality offline exhibitions + cloud-based global dissemination" to break down the temporal and spatial limitations of exhibition viewing; repeatedly hosting the "Spring of Great Beauty (大美之春)" art gala, holding brand events such as the Yangshan Elegant Gathering (仰山雅集) and the Mid-Autumn Elegant Gathering, and exploring the cross-border integration of calligraphy and painting with music.
Using the brush and ink as a bridge, let Chinese culture reach the world. The Calligraphy and Painting Channel, with an open attitude, deepens international artistic exchange, goes abroad to build display platforms, and through forms such as calligraphy and painting exhibitions and symphony concerts, presents the profound heritage of Eastern aesthetics, enabling Chinese calligraphy and painting art to reach more overseas audiences. Civilization dialogue mediated by art transcends the barriers of language and geography, presenting to the world a credible, lovable, and respectable image of China, and continuously enhancing the international dissemination power and influence of Chinese culture.
Standing at a new starting point, the Calligraphy and Painting Channel will continue to 守正创新 (shǒu zhèng chuàng xīn - "uphold the orthodoxy and innovate," adhering to fundamental principles while engaging in creative development), allowing the enduring cultural lineage to continuously nourish the hearts of the Chinese people, and contributing strength to the building of a culturally strong nation.
(The author is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the China Central Digital Television Calligraphy and Painting Channel (中央数字电视书画频道董事局主席).)
Return to TopEnterprise annuity refers to a supplementary old-age insurance system independently established by enterprises and their employees on the basis of their statutory participation in the basic old-age insurance. It is called the "second pillar" of the old-age insurance system. On December 31, 2025, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the Ministry of Finance issued the "Opinions on Further Improving Enterprise Annuity Work" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions"), proposing important content such as expanding the coverage of the enterprise annuity system, simplifying the establishment procedures, and promoting the safe and standardized operation of funds, so that more employees can enjoy this old-age security.
In June 2026, the Changzhou City talent annuity project, an enterprise annuity plan that uses prefecture-level cities as units and implements unified centralized management for talents of enterprises and institutions and for types of employed personnel such as dispatched, agency, and labor service personnel, was officially launched. The Jiangsu Provincial Center of People's Insurance Company of China Pension Company Limited (PICC Pension) won the bid for operation with its professional strength. This project closely follows the requirements of the "Opinions," innovates models and services, helps promote enterprise annuity to take a key step toward "inclusive security," and provides a replicable and promotable practical sample for the high-quality development of enterprise annuity nationwide.
Three Innovations: A Powerful Practice for Expanding and Enhancing Enterprise Annuity
Enterprise annuity is an important part of the multi-level old-age insurance system and plays an important role in improving employees' old-age benefits and enhancing corporate cohesion. How to further expand the coverage of enterprise annuity and improve operational efficiency under the existing institutional framework is a topic that the industry has long explored. The Changzhou City talent annuity project explores the practical path for expanding and enhancing enterprise annuity through three innovations.
New in System Design: Breaking identity differences and implementing equal pay for equal work. For the first time, the project brings talents from enterprises and institutions and types of employed personnel such as dispatched, agency, and labor service personnel into a unified enterprise annuity security system, extending "equal pay for equal work" from the wage level to the old-age security level, vividly interpreting the fairness of system design.
New in Coverage Targets: Broadening coverage levels and promoting expansion and efficiency. By expanding the scope of enterprise annuity coverage, the project extends the security scope from high-level talents to enterprise self-recognized talents and all employees, interpreting the inclusive concept of "not one can be left behind." According to statistics, the project serves and covers more than 30,000 employees of enterprises and institutions, making the enterprise annuity system a solid barrier for protecting the people's good life.
New in Management Model: Unified operation mechanism, releasing institutional dividends. The project innovatively adopts a single-plan unified operation model, incorporating all qualified units in the city into a unified annuity plan. Unified operation, unified standards, and professional management enable enterprise annuity to be "easily established and assuredly managed," accelerating the transformation of institutional dividends into tangible gains for employing units and the vast number of employees.
An Answer Sheet: Turning System Design into a Livelihood Reality
In the two years since the Changzhou City talent annuity project went from concept to reality, PICC Pension has been deeply involved and accompanied the entire process. As the winning bid operator of the project, PICC Pension fully leveraged its unique advantages as a professional pension financial institution and made outstanding contributions to promoting the implementation of the project.
In advancing the project, PICC Pension went to the front line for field research more than ten times, providing professional advice on key issues such as contribution standards, funding sources, and plan design, becoming the "adhesive" for government-enterprise coordination. PICC Pension actively participated in promoting the release of the "Implementation Plan for the Changzhou City Talent Annuity Plan," turning "system design" into "operational practice" and delivering policy dividends to enterprises, institutions, and employees.
In terms of operational efficiency, PICC Pension adopts a single-plan unified operation for the Changzhou City talent annuity project, incorporating all eligible units into the annuity plan. The management costs scattered across various enterprises are consolidated to form a scale effect, significantly reducing unit management costs; centralized allocation and professional operation of funds also improve overall fund efficiency.
In terms of service outreach, PICC Pension fully leverages the group resource advantages of People's Insurance Company of China, coordinating with local PICC Property and Casualty, and launching measures such as door-to-door services and on-site stations to help enterprises complete the formulation and filing of annuity plans, so that enterprises can "establish annuities without worry and manage annuities without effort."
In terms of project advancement, a sense of gain must be genuine and sustainable. PICC Pension insists on adapting measures to local conditions, closely following the local fiscal "three guarantees" (三保) requirements and the actual development of enterprises, and designed a tiered advancement path of "first talents, then all employees; first key points, then the entire region" — that is, first focus on key industries such as health, education, and state-owned enterprises to form a demonstration effect, then gradually extend to small and medium-sized enterprises and private enterprises. Exchange time for space to ensure the project proceeds steadily and far.
The successful implementation of the Changzhou City talent annuity project is the result of the combined efforts of policy guidance, government support, professional operation, and enterprise participation. It is also a vivid practice of PICC Pension in fulfilling the political and people-oriented nature of financial work and serving inclusive finance and pension finance. PICC Pension will take doing more practical things that lay the foundation, benefit the long term, and improve people's livelihood as its work guide, continuously optimize the operation model, improve service quality, make every effort to build this project into a national benchmark model for improving the quality and expanding the coverage of enterprise annuity, transform local practical experience into a promotable development paradigm, and contribute greater strength with practical responsibility to perfecting the multi-level social security system.
Data source: People's Insurance Company of China Pension Company Limited
Return to TopFrom July 14 to 15, 2025, the Central Urban Work Conference was held in Beijing. The conference, from an overall and strategic perspective, for the first time set the goal of building modern people's cities, clarifying the connotations of six aspects: "innovation, livability, beauty, resilience, civilization, and wisdom."
Over the past year, localities and departments have deeply implemented the spirit of the Central Urban Work Conference, promoting urban structural optimization,动能转换 (dòngnéng zhuǎnhuàn - "kinetic energy conversion," transformation of growth drivers), quality enhancement, green transition, cultural continuity, and governance efficiency improvement. The concept of "People's cities are built by the people, and people's cities serve the people" is taking root in the vivid practices of many cities.
— Editor
Innovation
Shenzhen, Guangdong, listed 1,064 urban renewal plan projects
Old building "grows" new services
By our reporter Cheng Yuanzhou (程远州)
In Futian District, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, every weekend the Women's and Children's Building becomes the liveliest. In the atrium public welfare market, stallholders display handmade picture books and handmade toys; on the second floor in the Children's Exploration Hall, children turn handles, and the cargo sandbags of a ship model slowly rise and fall; on the 5th floor, the magic theater lights come on, and parent-child families laugh and interact following the magician's gestures...
This building, completed in 1996, had gradually lost its vitality due to outdated facilities and single functions. Now, after overall renovation, it has been transformed into an urban cultural landmark integrating public welfare services, inclusive consumption, cultural performances, and parent-child accommodation. "Here, you can unlock all-around family services for eating, living, traveling, sightseeing, shopping, and entertainment in one stop," said Liu Jiachen (刘佳晨), Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Chairwoman of the Shenzhen Women's Federation (深圳市妇女联合会).
How to innovatively revitalize idle assets?
Li Shaofeng (黎少峰), Director of the Shenzhen Public-Private Partnership Center (深圳市政府和社会资本合作事务中心), introduced that the Women's and Children's Building renovation project innovatively adopted the PPP (Public-Private Partnership) model, blazing a new path that simultaneously advances stock renewal and public service quality improvement.
Government-enterprise cooperation with clear rights and responsibilities. Shenye Group, as the social capital, invested 389 million yuan to complete the overall renovation and is responsible for subsequent operation for nearly 20 years, with the government bearing only over 6 million yuan in preliminary feasibility study costs; the Shenzhen Women's Federation and the Shenzhen Public-Private Partnership Center established a supervisory committee, participating in the entire process of planning, bidding, construction, and operation, safeguarding the public service baseline. "The government manages standards, direction, and the public interest baseline; enterprises manage construction, operation, and market innovation," Li Shaofeng said.
On Children's Day 2023, the renovated Women's and Children's Building opened to the public. "We have innovated the supply method of public services. About 30% of the space is used for providing basic public welfare services, with public welfare consultations, parent-child science classes, etc., open all year round; about 40% of the space is used for providing inclusive services, with the Children's Exploration Hall, psychological counseling room, parent-child theater, etc., charging fees lower than similar venues in the market; the remaining about 30% is for commercial配套设施 such as hotels and restaurants, which in turn subsidize the continuous operation of the public welfare sector," said Xiong Mingyue (熊铭悦), General Manager of Shenye Group Women's and Children's Building Company. Finding the balance between public welfare and commerce is key to the building's sustainable operation.
In recent years, Shenzhen's urban renewal has comprehensively shifted from "demolishing old to build new" towards stock quality improvement and organic renewal, innovatively revitalizing urban idle assets. As of March this year, Shenzhen had listed 1,064 projects under the urban renewal plan, using innovative means to promote the revitalization of idle assets, freeing up development space for Shenzhen's industrial innovation and upgrading.
Livability
Guyuan, Ningxia, built 27 convenient living circles
One map "concentrates" community convenience life
By our reporter Qin Ruijie (秦瑞杰)
Early morning, at the entrance of the Party and Mass Service Center of Xihu Road Community, Yuanzhou District, Guyuan City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, retired resident Li Weixia (李卫霞) stopped beside the "15-minute Living Circle Guidance Map." On the guidance map, points such as the community health station, day care center, convenience supermarket, and charging station were clear at a glance.
This guidance map is a microcosm of Guyuan City's construction of a livable city.
Since 2023, Ningxia has listed community construction in the autonomous region's annual practical livelihood matters list for four consecutive years, building complete communities that are safe and healthy, with complete facilities and orderly management. As one of the pilot cities, Guyuan has focused on the people's "urgent, difficult, anxious, and hopeful" issues (急难愁盼) and made continuous efforts. In one year, 7 "15-minute living circles" and 20 "5-10 minute living circles" were built in the central urban area, making services such as elderly care, childcare, medical visits, and shopping accessible on foot.
"15 minutes is not just a time scale, but also a yardstick for measuring the warmth of community services," said Ma Ying (马莹), Secretary of the General Party Branch of Xihu Road Community. Addressing the needs of "the elderly and the young," the community transformed idle rooms into a day care center, introduced a community health service station to set up a chronic disease management area, allowing residents over 65 to have blood sugar tests and physiotherapy without leaving the residential compound.
"Replenish whatever is lacking; build whatever the people hope for," Ma Ying introduced. Several residential areas under Xihu Road Community were built early, with tight parking spaces. With the increase in new energy vehicles and e-bikes, charging once became a "nuisance" for residents. "Previously, many households pulled wires down from upstairs to charge, with tangled lines hanging on the exterior walls like spider webs," Li Weixia said.
To address this, the community convened multiple consultation meetings with resident representatives, property management, and the homeowners' committee. After ascertaining the baseline of charging needs, they decided to implement "one district, one policy" (一区一策).
On the south side of the community, an idle vacant lot was transformed into a centralized charging shed, capable of accommodating 20 e-bikes charging simultaneously; on the roadside of a narrow alley with tight parking on the west side of the community, 6 wall-mounted smart charging piles were installed, flush against the wall, not occupying additional parking spaces. Residents scan a code to charge, and order prevails. "We compare against the '15-minute living circle' standards, check for shortcomings one by one, establish ledgers, and solve problems one by one," Ma Ying said.
"There is no standard template for building a livable city; it must be adapted to local conditions and based on the people's needs" (因地制宜 - yīn dì zhì yí - "suited to local measures," to formulate policies according to local conditions), said Li Yaoxing (李耀星), Director of the Guyuan Municipal Bureau of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (固原市住建局). Guyuan focuses on building "15-minute living circles," promoting the creation of convenient life in communities, "to better meet the daily needs of citizens."
Beauty
Kunming, Yunnan, completed ecological restoration of 193 hectares of Dianchi Lake greenway
One greenway leads to "poetry and the distance"
By our reporter Ye Chuanzeng (叶传增)
In Kunming City, Yunnan Province, summer at Dianchi Lake features blue sky and clear water, a gentle breeze brushing the face—ideal for cycling around the lake.
"For the first stop of a ride, I recommend Jiangwei Community, Dounan Subdistrict, Chenggong District." Kunming citizen Zhang Yuning (张宇宁) is a cycling enthusiast. The Jiangwei Community he mentions is a small fishing village along the Chenggong section of the Dianchi Lake Greenway. Mounting the bike, the greenway unfolds beneath the wheels. Cycling to the Luolong River estuary into Dianchi Lake, the view suddenly opens up, and Dianchi Lake spreads out before the eyes. "Along the way, the air is fresh, the scenery is picturesque—it can be called an urban version of 'poetry and the distance,'" Zhang Yuning said.
Jiangwei Community is less than 200 meters from Dianchi Lake, with the Luolong River flowing through the village into the lake, endowed with outstanding ecological assets, yet it once faced the dilemma of "guarding the lake but finding it hard to enrich the people." Yang Hongchun (杨红春), Secretary of the Jiangwei Community Party Committee, explained that in the past, villagers mainly engaged in vegetable and flower cultivation, a farming model with heavy water and fertilizer use that carried hidden risks of non-point source pollution. To build a solid ecological barrier for Dianchi Lake, local authorities gradually guided villagers to withdraw from lakeside farming.
"Wanting to develop but fearing damage to the ecology." Yang Hongchun's predicament was a common challenge for lakeside villages along Dianchi Lake at that time.
Resolving the contradiction between protection and development hinges on scientific planning and spatial restructuring. In 2021, Kunming City initiated the construction of the Dianchi Lake Greenway, delineating the Dianchi Lake lakeside ecological red line and the lake ecological yellow line. The Dianchi Lake Greenway, stretching over a hundred kilometers, became a clear physical boundary line.
A relevant official from the Kunming Municipal Bureau of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (昆明市住建局) introduced that the total planned length of the Dianchi Lake Greenway is 137 kilometers, with 108 kilometers currently completed and open. The greenway construction took ecological restoration as its starting point, completing ecological restoration for 193 hectares and constructing a lakeside green barrier. At the same time, the greenway links resources such as ecological wetlands and cultural scenic spots along its route, achieving a new pattern of ecological protection and green development in the Dianchi Lake basin.
According to the "two lines, three zones" designation for Dianchi Lake protection, Jiangwei Community happens to be located in the buffer zone above the greenway, allowing for orderly revitalization and utilization of idle resources. "With the plan, we know where the baseline is and where the space is," Yang Hongchun said. After the greenway was opened up, the community顺势 developed cycling-related industries. Currently, more than 30 cycling stations have settled here. Last year, the community attracted about 500,000 tourists, stably provided over 200 jobs, and the collective economy continued to grow.
Dianchi Lake ripples with blue waves, a green ribbon winding forward. The 108-kilometer Dianchi Lake Greenway links 43 wetlands like pearls on a string, opening a total of over 1.26 million square meters of shared green space. Along more than 40 kilometers of its route, diverse cultural tourism consumption formats such as dining and accommodation, cultural and creative retail, outdoor leisure, and cultural activities have been laid out, creating a dynamic economic belt around the lake, becoming a "back garden of the city" for citizens and tourists for leisure and sports.
Resilience
Weihai, Shandong, cumulatively renovated over 1,500 kilometers of various pipeline networks
Integrated platform aids safe operation of infrastructure
By our reporter Wang Zhe (王者)
"Di-du, di-du..." A burst of urgent alarm sounds. On the screen of the Weihai City Urban Lifeline Safety Operation Monitoring Platform in Shandong Province, a blue alert pops up: The water accumulation depth at the flood-prone point around the Department Store in Huancui District exceeds 150 mm, triggering a level-4 response for the water accumulation monitoring point. Affected by the accumulated water, traffic congestion occurs on that road section, hindering citizen travel.
Five kilometers away, at the Huancui District Municipal Garden Center, staff member Teng Fei (滕飞) simultaneously receives the alert. He immediately retrieves surrounding surveillance footage, confirms the extent of the accumulated water, and remotely dispatches a drainage emergency team and a mobile pump truck for forced drainage. In less than half an hour, the accumulated water significantly recedes, and traffic returns to normal.
"In the past, it relied on manual inspections and empirical judgment; a single rainstorm meant running to over a dozen points. Now the platform provides efficient alerts and precise positioning, significantly improving response efficiency," Teng Fei said.
In 2025, Weihai City integrated modules including gas, heating, urban flood control, and utility tunnels to build the urban lifeline safety operation monitoring platform in an integrated manner. It deployed 731,000 IoT sensing terminals, achieving 24-hour dynamic monitoring of key areas across the city, promoting the formation of a full-process management of "smart warning, rapid dispatch, on-site handling, closed-loop sign-off." Emergency response in key areas achieved "30-second warning, 5-minute dispatch."
Thirty sets of radar water accumulation monitors were deployed at 25 flood-prone points in the central urban area, monitoring water accumulation depth in real time, scientifically setting blue, yellow, orange, and red four-level warnings. When the water accumulation depth reaches the corresponding threshold, the system automatically generates warning information and pushes it to functional departments for effective measures.
"In the past, supervision mainly relied on manual patrols, regular maintenance, and public oversight. The operational status of facilities was 'invisible and intangible,' problem detection was lagging, and timely response was difficult," explained Yu Gang (于刚), Director of the Weihai City Comprehensive Urban Management Service Center (威海市城市管理综合服务中心). "Now, the platform can collect data in real time, accurately, and comprehensively, using big data analysis and AI algorithms to deeply mine potential risks and provide early warnings."
As one of the first batch of pilot cities for urban infrastructure lifeline safety engineering in Shandong Province, Weihai City统筹推进 project planning, factor guarantees, supervision and implementation, integratively advancing the urban lifeline safety engineering and resilient city construction, building a full-cycle, all-element, full-chain safety guarantee system. As of now, the city has focused on high-risk points such as old pipeline networks, flood-prone areas, and densely populated places. It has cumulatively renovated and upgraded over 1,500 kilometers of various pipeline networks including heating, gas, water supply, and drainage, basically achieving dynamic clearing of problematic pipelines, significantly improving the safety resilience of urban infrastructure.
Civilization
Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, conducted over 300 grassroots themed lectures
Deeply excavating humanistic heritage, nourishing new urban trends
By our reporter Zhou Huan (周欢)
On one side lies the Imperial Kiln Site (御窑厂遗址), bearing the glory of porcelain-making in Jingdezhen City, Jiangxi Province; on the other side is the Pengjia Lane Workshop Yard (彭家弄作坊院) with scattered houses—official kilns and folk kilns coexisting interdependently, promoting the thousand-year continuity of Jingdezhen's ceramic culture.
In 2021, after seven years of renovation, Pengjia Lane opened to the public. 197 traditional-style buildings, including old kiln sites, old porcelain firms, and old guild halls, formed a systematic ceramic cultural space.
In a ceramic-making experience shop in Pengjia Lane, Yuan Yichen (袁一晨), a middle school student from Shanghai, threw a lump of clay onto the potter's wheel. As the wheel turned, he cupped the clay with both hands, lifting it up, pressing it down... In a short while, a small vase took shape.
"I specifically brought my child to Jingdezhen to visit museums, explore kiln sites, and experience ceramic making, spending a culturally rich holiday," said Zhang Jingwen (张靖雯), Yuan Yichen's mother.
Strolling through Pengjia Lane, spaces for selling and displaying the four traditional famous porcelains of Jingdezhen—blue-and-white porcelain, rice-pattern porcelain, famille rose porcelain, and color-glazed porcelain—are frequently seen. Various ceramic cultural and creative small shops dot the area, and the handmade ceramic experience shops are full of people...
Centered on the inheritance and innovation of ceramic culture, Pengjia Lane has introduced formats such as intangible cultural heritage workshops, artist studios, and folk art exhibition spaces, forming an activation and utilization scene integrating display, experience, consumption, study tours, and exchange. "Pengjia Lane holds free intangible cultural heritage experience activities such as ceramic making every month, continuously building long-term demonstration points for civilized cities, allowing ceramic culture to enter daily life and cultivating urban trends towards goodness and beauty," said Liu Ren (刘韧), Director of the Taoyangli Historical and Cultural Block (陶阳里历史文化街区) where Pengjia Lane is located.
Pengjia Lane has introduced formats such as traditional Chinese medicine clinics and urban public welfare bookstores, enriching the supply of public culture. "On weekends and holidays, [I] come for a stroll, see what new products have arrived in the shops, or read for half a day—very pleasant and fulfilling!" said citizen Hu Keyu (胡可妤).
Pengjia Lane epitomizes how Jingdezhen uses its ceramic cultural heritage to empower the construction of a civilized city. In recent years, Jingdezhen has continuously promoted the revitalization and utilization of handmade porcelain industry relics such as porcelain kiln sites and mine sites, deeply excavated the humanistic heritage contained in the thousand-year ceramic civilization, and integrated the protection, inheritance, and innovation of ceramic historical culture into the entire process of building a civilized city.
Jingdezhen has launched science popularization brands such as "Heritage Decoded in 60 Seconds" and activities like "Mobile Porcelain Industry Cultural Heritage" for the general public. This year, it has conducted over 100 evening school activities on cultural heritage protection and over 300 grassroots themed lectures, continuously polishing the national civilized city brand.
Wisdom
Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, empowers community governance with digitalization
More efficient management, more peace of mind for residents
By our reporter Liu Mengdan (刘梦丹)
Summer: In Feihe Yujing Garden Residential Area, Jianhua District, Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province, greenery is lush. At 7 a.m., resident Ms. Wang returned from the morning market, carrying a vegetable basket to the residential area entrance. The facial recognition access control system responded instantly, completing verification and opening the gate. "Before, if I forgot my access card, I had to wait for security to open the door; it was very troublesome in snow or rain. Now, just scanning my face lets me in—fast and safe!" Ms. Wang said with a smile.
To address pain points in traditional residential area management such as low efficiency, slow response, and blind spots in security, Feihe Yujing Garden upgraded its cloud property management smart platform earlier this year. It integrates convenient functions like property services and online payments with IoT systems such as smart parking, smart access control, comprehensive surveillance, and smart fire protection, empowering community governance with digitalization, benefiting over 600 households.
Discussing the changes brought by the smart platform, Li Yadong (李雅东), manager of the residential area property, shared his deep impressions. "Before the platform went live, our reporting for repairs, inquiries, and demand coordination basically relied on owner WeChat groups. Messages were chaotic, work orders had no ledgers, and processing progress was untraceable." Li Yadong explained. After the smart system went live, owner demands are uniformly registered online, automatically dispatched, and fully traceable. Property staff can check processing progress in real time.
The comprehensive upgrade of the security system is also a highlight of the smart renovation. "When smoke or abnormal temperature occurs in areas like corridors and garages, fire detection devices immediately trigger an alert, enabling early detection and rapid handling of hazards," said Zheng Xigang (郑喜刚), the person in charge of community order and security.
From "human management" to "smart management," from "passive service" to "proactive response," currently over 20 residential areas in Qiqihar City have completed integrated smart community renovations. More and more residential areas are being equipped with facial recognition access control, high-altitude抛物 monitoring, online repair reporting and payment systems, and digital grassroots governance is gradually integrating into the daily lives of Qiqihar citizens.
In recent years, Qiqihar City has continuously advanced the construction of Digital Hecheng and Smart City, deeply cultivating scenarios benefiting the people. The smart heating system, built with a cumulative investment of over 400 million yuan, covers pipeline networks at all levels. The primary pipeline network in the central urban area has achieved full smart coverage. The "unattended" intelligent operation of heating exchange stations has reduced operation and maintenance costs by over 80%. Breaking down cross-departmental data silos, aggregating and sharing data, and building an integrated digital service platform continuously enhance the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘温馨
When a city encounters extreme heavy rainfall, low-lying spaces such as garages, tunnels, and culverts can easily become dangerous areas. When a torrential rain strikes, what preventive measures should be taken for underground spaces? And when danger arrives, how should one escape and seek self-rescue?
“You can remember these four key points: when a red alert is issued, do not go out; if water enters, first cut off electricity; outdoors, guard against electrified puddles; if trapped, go to higher ground and wait,” said Wu Wei (吴玮), director of the Disaster Assessment Department of the National Disaster Reduction Center (国家减灾中心).
First, do a good job of prevention — keep a close eye on the warnings and prepare supplies. When under a red rainstorm warning, if you can avoid going out, try not to go out at all. Do not enter any underground shopping malls, underground passages, or underground garages, and stay away from whirlpools and the like. At home, you can prepare in advance supplies such as food, drinking water, whistles, and flashlights, which can play a major role at critical moments.
“If you are at home and find water surging in, first turn off the indoor power supply and gas, then move to higher ground,” Wu Wei said. Especially for residents living on lower floors — once water accumulates and pours into the house, people should immediately evacuate to higher floors or the rooftop of the building. Do not stay in basements or other underground spaces, and remember not to use the elevator.
What to do if trapped in a confined space such as an equipment room or a small shop? Experts advise that the primary task is to slow down the water ingress and buy time. Try as much as possible to use sandbags, clothing, towels, and other items to block the gaps in the door. If the phone has no signal and you cannot call for help in time, you can rhythmically strike pipes or walls to make sounds.
When an underground garage encounters flood backflow, the incoming water at such a time is fast-flowing, large in volume, and strong in pressure. It can cause the water level in the garage to rise rapidly within a short period. The early stage of vehicle submersion is the golden time for escape and self-rescue. When the water level reaches the position of the wheels, do not attempt to forcibly drive through the flooded area, because water may already have entered the vehicle. At this point, there are at least several tens of seconds to smoothly open the car doors and windows. The moment the vehicle stalls, immediately unbuckle the seatbelt, then open the electronic lock and the sunroof.
When the water level reaches the position of the door handle, the vehicle's electrical circuit system is prone to short-circuiting, and it becomes necessary to break the window to escape. Professional personnel remind that a safety hammer should always be kept in the car. If the door cannot be opened, use the safety hammer or a hard object to break the glass from the inside at the four edges and corners.
If the water has already flooded over the windows, remain calm. The people inside the vehicle can wait for the water to completely fill the car. At the moment when the water pressure inside and outside the vehicle equalizes, take a deep breath, forcefully open the car door, and after escaping, quickly seek help.
On rainy days, when encountering sections with unknown water accumulation such as tunnels, culverts, low-lying areas, and underpasses, try to detour around them and do not forcibly push through. If the vehicle falls into a section with excessively deep accumulated water, immediately open the car door and escape. Underpasses are prone to water accumulation; when water rises, abandon the car and flee.
“If trapped, promptly call 110 or 119 for help, clearly and accurately state your location, and calmly wait for rescue,” Wu Wei suggested. Follow the directions on the evacuation signs and move toward the nearest evacuation passage or exit.
Return to TopThis newspaper, Beijing, July 12 (Reporter Bai Jianfeng (白剑峰)) — The National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委) recently released the National Essential Drug List (2026 Edition) (国家基本药物目录（2026年版）), to be implemented from September 1 this year.
The new edition of the list contains a total of 794 drugs. Among them, 476 are chemical drugs and biological products, including 791 dosage forms and 1,355 specifications; 318 are Chinese patent medicines, including 544 dosage forms and 888 specifications.
A total of 116 drug varieties are newly added, including 68 chemical drugs and biological products and 48 Chinese patent medicines. Two chemical drugs and biological products from the previous edition of the list are removed; no Chinese patent medicine varieties are removed. The description for tuberculosis prevention and treatment drugs is expressed as "tuberculosis drugs," and specific drug varieties are no longer listed separately.
The newly added drug varieties have a total of 175 dosage forms and 260 specifications added. Among the drugs retained from the previous edition of the list, dosage forms and specifications have been added for 134 drugs, with a total of 161 dosage forms and 200 specifications increased. Among the drugs retained from the previous edition of the list, a total of 75 dosage forms and 100 specifications have been removed, primarily due to reasons such as cancellation of approval numbers, low clinical usage, or basic substitution by other drugs.
After the adjustments, the new edition of the list covers the main clinical disease categories across all disease systems. Among them, chemical drugs and biological products cover 1,180 disease categories under the International Classification of Diseases issued by the World Health Organization, and Chinese patent medicines cover 63 efficacy classifications under the Guiding Principles for Clinical Application of Chinese Patent Medicines. According to preliminary estimates, the drugs in the new edition of the list account for 71% of the total variety usage in drug allocation at public medical and health institutions nationwide. Among these, the proportion of essential drug usage in primary-level, second-level, and third-level public medical and health institutions is 78%, 74%, and 65%, respectively, fully reflecting the important position of essential drugs in clinical medication and their universality and widespread use.
Return to TopOur newspaper, Beijing, July 12 (dispatch) (reporter Pan Junqiang (潘俊强)) — The "Urban Renewal Partner" (城市更新合伙人) 2026 Beijing Urban Renewal Promotion Conference was recently held at the Zhongguancun International Innovation Center in Beijing. This promotion conference marks the first time Beijing has systematically introduced urban renewal project resources at the municipal level, establishing an efficient docking platform between the government and the market.
The event focused on key links such as projects, funding, planning and design, construction implementation, and operation management. Through government setting the stage, market participation, and multi-party coordination, it promotes precise matching of projects and resources, attracting more social forces to participate. Since the promotion conference was launched in March, a total of 1,273 intended projects have been collected, business entities have been organized to conduct on-site surveys of more than 80 key projects across the city, and six preliminary selection events have been held in succession. A comprehensive selection was conducted based on project maturity, market attention, and demonstration and driving effect, and finally 14 representative projects entered the municipal-level promotion conference for centralized presentation. Among them, there are both area-wide coordinated renewal projects and key plots, industrial parks, and old building renewals, fully reflecting the development direction of Beijing's urban renewal transforming from individual projects to comprehensive clusters, from spatial renewal to functional enhancement, and from government-driven to market-coordinated.
The promotion conference will continue to promote efficient docking of more high-quality projects with high-quality resources, forming a replicable and promotable urban renewal cooperation mechanism.
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Return to TopJuly 11 of this year marks the 22nd China Navigation Day. Ships are the carriers and necessary tools for navigation; rooted in the fertile soil of Chinese manufacturing, giant vessels with internationally leading technological levels have been delivered one after another, and Chinese ships are advancing toward farther and deeper oceans.
Continuing to deeply cultivate, the position of a major shipbuilding country is further consolidated. In 2025, China's shipbuilding market share ranked first in the world for the 16th consecutive year. In the first quarter of this year, China's shipbuilding completion volume, new orders received, and orders on hand increased by 46.0%, 195.2%, and 43.6% year-on-year respectively, accounting for 57.3%, 84.9%, and 69.8% of the global total respectively.
Pursuing the new and aiming high, the comprehensive strength of the shipbuilding industry is further enhanced. High-end. The second domestically built large cruise ship, the Aida Huacheng (爱达·花城号), has achieved full domestic supporting for bulk materials and is scheduled for delivery in November this year. An industrial cluster for large cruise ships with the ship final assembly enterprise as the core is being rapidly built. In areas such as dual-fuel passenger ro-ro ships, large LNG dual-fuel car carriers, and very large ethane carriers (VLEC), China has also achieved batch delivery. Intelligent. In December 2025, the world's first methanol dual-fuel intelligent ultra-large crude carrier, the Kai Tuo (凯拓), was delivered. This giant ship is equipped with a domestically developed intelligent ship-based platform, intelligent liquid cargo management and control system, intelligent engine room operation and maintenance system, etc. Across the entire industry, Chinese ships have achieved breakthroughs in multiple areas such as auxiliary autonomous navigation, comprehensive energy efficiency management, equipment operation and maintenance, ship-shore integrated communication, and intelligent cargo management, and intelligent ship technology is moving toward multi-system integration. Green. Significant progress has been made in the development of new green and environmentally friendly ship types, such as the 192,000 cubic meter B-type tank electric propulsion LNG carrier, the 20,000 cubic meter liquid hydrogen carrier, and the 300,000-ton ammonia dual-fuel ultra-large crude carrier (VLCC). In 2025, China's international market share of new green ship orders reached 69.2%.
奋楫图强 (fèn jí tú qiáng - "row vigorously to seek strength," to strive hard for strength), Chinese ships sail toward the deep blue. By strengthening internal capabilities, building up one's own strength, and seizing new opportunities in the global market, Chinese ships will continue to write new chapters.
(By our staff reporter Liu Zhiqiang)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘 赫
Many parts of Europe experienced a widespread heatwave in late June, and a new round of heatwaves struck in July, with temperatures in many countries breaking historical extremes one after another, highlighting that extreme high-temperature events in Europe and globally are becoming increasingly frequent. Under the scorching heatwave, schools temporarily closed, railway operations were disrupted, and the medical system came under pressure, not only threatening people's lives and health but also posing multi-faceted impacts on daily life, urban operations, and industrial production. A single meteorological event is turning into a "baking" test — a stress test for the economies and societies of many European countries.
Multiple countries have successively refreshed historical extreme temperature records.
From July 2 to 5, extreme high temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius lasting several days were observed in many inland areas of Portugal, and multiple administrative regions issued red alerts for high temperature. In the UK, thousands of schools adjusted their schedules or even closed due to the high temperatures, and the temperature in London subway cars once approached 40 degrees Celsius, causing heatstroke in several passengers. Germany measured a high of 41.7 degrees Celsius on June 28, breaking the country's historical highest temperature for the third consecutive day, and due to tracks damaged by the high heat, some local trams were forced to suspend operations... This year's high-temperature weather arrived early and persisted long, with Germany, France, the UK, Spain and other countries successively breaking June high-temperature records.
According to the latest report released by the Copernicus Climate Change Service, the EU's climate monitoring agency, this June was the hottest June on record in Western Europe, with average temperatures 3.05 degrees Celsius higher than the average for the same period from 1991 to 2020, and marine heatwaves also occurred in the western Mediterranean and Atlantic coastal waters.
Why is this round of heatwaves so ferocious? The website of the British journal Nature cited analysis by German experts stating that the direct cause lies in the strong high-pressure system that has been controlling Western and Southern Europe, forming a typical "heat dome" effect. The high pressure acts like a giant "lid," locking hot air near the surface for a long time; at the same time, abnormally high Mediterranean Sea temperatures continuously transport heat to the atmosphere, causing heat to accumulate continuously, making Europe's average temperatures 5 to 12 degrees Celsius higher than the same period in previous years.
Ioanna Virgini, founder of the global weather forecasting platform WYF24, believes that the atmospheric "heat dome" effect is only the direct triggering mechanism for the recent high temperatures in Europe, and long-term climate warming is the driving force behind it. French paleoclimatologist Jean Jouzel said that as global warming continues, heatwaves will become stronger and more frequent, and high-temperature records will continue to be broken. Mireia Ginesta, a researcher at the University of Oxford in the UK, believes that the intensity of this heatwave would not have been so high, and global warming is making extreme high-temperature events more intense and more frequent. Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, stated bluntly: "The raging heatwave in Europe shows traces of the climate crisis everywhere."
A report by the World Meteorological Organization shows that Europe is currently the fastest-warming continent in the world, with a warming rate about two to three times the global average. Well-known German meteorologist Karsten Brandt predicts that in July, temperatures in some parts of Germany may again exceed 30 degrees Celsius and will then climb further. According to U.S. weather model predictions, France, Belgium, and other countries may again experience extreme high temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius. UN Secretary-General Guterres said recently during London Climate Action Week that the world has just experienced the hottest 11 years on record, and climate disasters have become more frequent and more destructive.
Economic and social operations have suffered multi-faceted impacts.
The sustained high temperatures have caused severe impacts on Europe's economic and social operations and people's health. According to an estimate by Agence France-Presse, the population in European high-temperature areas above 35 degrees Celsius exceeds 100 million, with hospital emergency rooms in many places overcrowded, and transportation and power systems overwhelmed. A study recently released by the international scientific research institution World Weather Attribution shows that the death toll caused by this round of European heatwaves has exceeded the total number of deaths from all other natural disasters. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros said on June 28 that since June 21, Europe has recorded more than 1,300 excess deaths related to high temperatures. As temperatures continue to rise, more and more people are exposed to high-temperature risks, and many countries have declared their medical systems on alert.
Abnormally high temperatures have led to an increased risk of forest fires. Over the past few days, wildfires have occurred in many places in France, Spain, Portugal, Greece, and other countries, affecting tens of thousands of people. Since July 1, multiple forest fires have occurred in southern France, with the burned area in the two departments of Hérault and Aude exceeding 1,000 hectares, and the burned area in Pyrénées-Orientales has reached 2,000 hectares, with about 10,000 people evacuated. From July 5 to 6, multiple wildfires occurred and spread in Spain, with over 40,000 people affected in the autonomous community of Catalonia. Portugal's civil protection department said on July 5 that the country mobilized more than 1,200 firefighters, nearly 400 vehicles, and 15 aircraft to participate in firefighting operations, and has basically controlled the wildfire in the central Vouzela region. This fire has burned about 12,000 hectares of land.
Public service systems have also been severely affected by the high temperatures. France's Ministry of Education said that high temperatures have caused about 13,500 schools in the country to close or implement special teaching arrangements. In the UK, because some classroom temperatures soared above 40 degrees Celsius, more than 1,000 schools closed or partially closed. Deutsche Bahn warned that high temperatures may affect the operation of facilities such as tracks, signals, and overhead contact lines, and advised passengers to reduce unnecessary travel, and made refund and change arrangements for some long-distance tickets.
Industrial production is also facing a high-temperature "test." Because nuclear power plant reactors need to draw water from rivers for cooling and discharge water at higher temperatures, in order not to further raise the environmental temperature, Électricité de France (EDF) said that the country has shut down or reduced power output at reactors in four nuclear power plants, causing an instantaneous nuclear power output gap of over 4,000 megawatts. In Italy, high temperatures made it difficult for some enterprises to maintain normal production rhythm, and car manufacturer Stellantis Group was forced to extend the shutdown time of some factories.
Allianz Trade, a global trade credit insurance company, estimates that if the temperatures of the five hottest years between 2014 and 2024 in European countries recur between 2026 and 2030, the cumulative loss of gross domestic product of major European economies over the next five years will reach 5% to 7%. "School closures, deaths of vulnerable groups, and economic hardship are the real portrayal of the climate crisis in reality, and this is only the beginning," Stiell said. Kai Zander, a partner at the international management consulting firm Arthur D. Little, called for treating climate issues such as high-temperature weather just like treating rising energy prices, supply chain disruptions, or intensifying geopolitical risks.
There are still obvious shortcomings in the capacity to respond to high temperatures.
Currently, European countries and some international organizations are actively taking action to reduce the impact of high-temperature weather. France has raised the alert level of the medical system to the highest level and urgently purchased 30,000 air conditioners for hospitals; Portugal's Ministry of Health has requested local governments to arrange temporary cooling shelters equipped with air conditioners to provide refuge for vulnerable groups when necessary. The WHO Regional Office for Europe has released a new version of the "Heatwaves and Health Action Plan Guide," proposing recommendations for high-temperature protection work around eight aspects including local high-temperature warnings, optimizing risk communication with vulnerable groups, and calling on European countries to improve early warning systems, clarify departmental responsibilities, identify high-risk populations, strengthen risk communication, and integrate response to high temperatures into the public health system.
Facing the sustained high-temperature heatwave weather, for most European households, air conditioners are still a "scarce commodity." Due to higher latitudes, many European cities were built with the concept of "resisting severe cold" rather than "coping with extreme heat." The design logic of many buildings emphasizes insulation, which under sustained high-temperature conditions easily causes heat to accumulate inside the buildings, making indoor cooling slow. Some old buildings built in the last century or even earlier have no reserved space for installing air conditioners. Even if they have air conditioners, many households may not be able to afford the electricity bills from continuous operation. Data shows that currently only about 20% of European households have air conditioners installed.
As the impact of high-temperature disasters expands, some European citizens have begun to reflect: As early as 2003, Europe experienced a deadly heatwave that caused tens of thousands of deaths. More than 20 years have passed, and many European countries are still hasty in dealing with extreme weather. François Gemenne, professor of environmental politics at HEC Paris, said: "Everyone is asking, why were we not prepared?" Buhlinger-Göpfarth, chair of the German Association of General Practitioners, publicly accused the federal government of dereliction of duty in heatwave protection: "The government has promised for years to prioritize dealing with heatwave protection, but has never taken action."
Kieran Caff, co-chair of the European Green Party, said that the current heatwave is rapidly evolving into a major European public health crisis, and Europe must take more forceful measures to reduce the impact of extreme weather. The party called on leaders of EU member states to convene an emergency summit at the highest level to discuss strengthening measures to respond to extreme high temperatures.
CNN reported that when climate conditions change and high-temperature weather severely affects social operations and people's lives, the challenges Europe faces may not just be an air conditioner, but also involve infrastructure, institutional design, and the capacity to adapt to climate change.
(Our newspaper's Berlin dispatch, July 12)
Return to TopBy: 宦 翔
Not long ago, the World Island-Nations Ocean Conference was held in Tokyo, Japan. Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) made a high-profile statement at the opening ceremony, saying that Japan would provide support to island nations troubled by climate issues, and also emphasized that “achieving a sustainable ocean based on the rule of law requires cooperation with like-minded partners.” Japan’s fine words were spoken in a 冠冕堂皇 (guān miǎn táng huáng – “crown and official robes, grand and imposing,” plausible and hypocritical) manner, but its actions on illegal whaling show that this is nothing more than a 掩耳盗铃 (yǎn ěr dào líng – “cover ears, steal a bell,” self-deceptive) political show.
The year 2026 marks the 80th anniversary of the signing of the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, and also the 40th anniversary of the entry into force of the International Whaling Commission’s commercial whaling moratorium. Cetaceans are a key species in marine ecology, with long reproductive cycles and slow population recovery; excessive hunting can easily cause irreversible ecological impacts. Protecting cetaceans is not just about saving a species, but about safeguarding the bottom line of global marine ecological security. From 1946 to 1986, humanity took 40 years to reach a global consensus on protecting cetaceans, building an institutional defense line for the recovery of cetacean populations. However, as one of the most active whaling nations in the world, Japan has always been “undermining” this global consensus.
Looking back at history, whaling was once a survival means for Japan’s coastal residents to obtain protein. With Japan’s post-war economic boom and increasingly abundant meat supply, demand for whale meat has long since shrunk dramatically. However, from the entry into force of the commercial whaling ban in 1986 to 2019, Japan has cumulatively killed over 20,000 cetaceans under the guise of scientific research, averaging several hundred per year, while during the same period only just over 100 so-called “scientific research” papers were published. Data do not lie; the truth is 一目了然 (yī mù liǎo rán – “one glance makes it clear,” obvious at a glance): so-called research is merely a fig leaf for commercial whaling; so-called data collection is in fact a flagrant disregard for international rules.
In 2014, the International Court of Justice explicitly ruled that Japan’s scientific whaling in the Antarctic was illegal. Facing the ruling, Japan directly withdrew from the International Whaling Commission in 2019 and completely restarted commercial whaling. Almost all whales killed by Japan flow into the consumer market; the whale meat, after being cut up, enters supermarkets, restaurants, and even school lunches, forming a complete commercial closed loop. Behind this chain lies a 盘根错节 (pán gēn cuò jié – “intertwined roots and gnarled branches,” deeply entangled and complex) network of interests.
Data show that in 2023, the auction price of whale meat from Japan’s coastal whaling was as high as 1,000 to 3,000 yen (1 yuan is about 24 yen) per kilogram, with an annual commercial circulation volume exceeding 1,000 tons. The entire whaling industry involves about 100,000 jobs. Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (农林水产省), in order to preserve this “cake,” forcibly props up the whaling industry through subsidies, legal support, and other means. Whaling companies are deeply intertwined with official institutions: the Japanese Institute of Cetacean Research (日本鲸类研究所), responsible for “research,” and Kyodo Senpaku Co., Ltd. (共同船舶株式会社), responsible for catching and selling, actually work in the same office and have overlapping personnel. To put it plainly, they rely on the national treasury’s tax revenue to fill deficits, using national wealth to nourish special interest groups.
For a long time, Australia, New Zealand, the European Union, and many Latin American countries have criticized Japan’s whaling policy, urging it to return to the multilateral governance framework. Japan often uses “whaling is limited to its own exclusive economic zone” as a shield, trying to whitewash its actions. As a state party to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the Convention on Biological Diversity, and other international conventions, Japan bears the international legal obligation to protect rare marine species. The large-scale hunting of cetaceans is essentially a trampling on the purposes of international conventions, pursuing a utilitarian view of rules—“use if they suit, discard if not”—which is completely 背道而驰 (bèi dào ér chí – “running in the opposite direction,” diametrically opposed) to the “international rule of law” it speaks of.
On the one hand, crafting an “image” of “protecting marine ecology” on the international stage; on the other hand, stubbornly holding on to the whaling industry despite long-term international opposition. This disparity between Japan’s words and deeds is, in the final analysis, a double standard driven by egoism. The international community especially needs to build consensus, curb Japan’s illegal whaling, urge Japan to return to the multilateral governance framework, and earnestly respect international rules. After all, speaking fine words is easy, but protecting the ocean and the environment requires action.
Return to TopNearly 140,000 Japanese Citizens Protest Takaichi Government's Dangerous Policies
According to Xinhua News Agency, Tokyo, July 10 (reporters Li Ziyue (李子越), Yang Zhixiang (杨智翔)) — A large number of Japanese citizens held a protest rally in front of the National Diet Building in Tokyo on the evening of the 10th, opposing a series of dangerous policies and bills recently pushed forward by the Takaichi Sanae government.
According to data released by the event organizers, about 27,000 people attended the protest in person that evening, and another approximately 110,000 participated online. The protesting citizens lined up for several kilometers along the sidewalks around the National Diet Building, shouting slogans such as "Don't let Takaichi 胡作非为 (hú zuò fēi wéi - "act outrageously, do evil at will")" and "Japan must permanently renounce the use of force," and collectively read aloud Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, opposing Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae's disregard for public opinion and forceful advancement of a series of policies considered to carry the risk of war.
Protester Kanamori Noriko, speaking with reporters on site, said that the current series of measures by the Takaichi government are precisely preparations for war, while Takaichi herself responds to public doubts by perfunctorily stating that "Japan is not currently at war," which is infuriating. She said that Japan is currently suffering from an oil crisis, with the people 民不聊生 (mín bù liáo shēng - "the people have no means of living"), and the government is not actively responding but instead putting its energy into establishing institutions like the "National Intelligence Conference." Another protester, Hosoi, told reporters that the current Japanese government is acting arbitrarily in almost all matters, with absolutely no consideration for the will of the people; "everything they do is pushing Japan step by step toward war."
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Announces Closure of the Strait of Hormuz
According to Xinhua News Agency, Tehran, July 12 (reporters Chen Xiao (陈霄), Shadati) — Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy announced in the early hours of the 12th that the Strait of Hormuz is closed from that day onward, and no vessels may pass.
The statement said that the Iranian side previously announced that any foreign forces intervening in the affairs of the Strait of Hormuz or illegally delineating vessel passage routes would incur a "resolute response" from Iran. In view of the unsafe situation caused by illegal foreign intervention, the Strait of Hormuz is closed from this day until further notice and until the United States stops interfering in this region.
The statement also warned that if the U.S. side uses this incident as a pretext to launch new attacks on Iran, the Iranian side will respond fiercely and strike more U.S. bases in the Middle East.
Cuba Condemns U.S. Oil Blockade for Causing Frequent Power Outages in Cuba
According to Xinhua News Agency, Havana, July 11 (reporters Li Zijian (李子健), Jiang Biao (蒋彪)) — The Cuban government on the 11th condemned the "genocidal" oil blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba for causing frequent power failures in Cuba.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said on social media that the national electricity system had collapsed twice within a few days, and repair work was under pressure, but Cuban power workers had not given up; some units had already resumed operation. He said that under the U.S. "genocidal" oil blockade, the repair process was very complicated.
Cuba's Electric Union issued a statement on the 10th saying that the country's power system had completely collapsed that afternoon. This was the second nationwide blackout in the country within one week.
Venezuela Earthquake Death Toll Rises to 4,333
According to Xinhua News Agency, Caracas, July 11 (reporter Tian Rui (田睿)) — Jorge Rodríguez, President of the National Assembly of Venezuela, said at a press conference held in the Venezuelan capital Caracas on the 11th that two strong earthquakes that occurred on June 24 had caused 4,333 deaths and 16,740 injuries.
Return to TopAccording to Xinhua News Agency, Frankfurt, (reporters Shan Weiyi (单玮怡) and Liu Xiang (徐雷鹏)) Data recently released by the electric vehicle and battery materials research institution Benchmark Mineral Intelligence (基准矿业情报公司) shows: global electric vehicle registrations in June increased for the fourth consecutive month, with strong growth momentum in the European region and declining sales in North America and other regions.
Data show that in the first half of this year, global registrations of pure electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (hereinafter collectively referred to as "electric vehicles") increased by 2% compared to last year. In June, global electric vehicle registrations reached 2 million units, a year-on-year increase of 7%. By region, in June, European electric vehicle registrations surged 31% year-on-year to approximately 530,000 units; affected by the termination of the U.S. electric vehicle tax credit policy, North American electric vehicle registrations fell 13% year-on-year.
The company analyzed that, driven by the active promotion of electric vehicle manufacturers, the global electric vehicle market is continuously expanding.
Affected by factors such as setbacks in the electrification transition, the impact of U.S. tariffs, and fierce international market competition, some German automakers are facing operational challenges. Porsche Group's global sales from January to June this year fell 16% to 122,300 units, the lowest level since 2020. Volkswagen Group's operating profit in 2025 fell by approximately 54% to about 8.9 billion euros, the lowest level since 2016.
German media recently reported that Volkswagen Group will lay off 100,000 employees, close four domestic factories, and implement restructuring. The Volkswagen Group Supervisory Board discussed on the 9th the comprehensive restructuring and transformation plan proposed by the group's management, but did not make a decision on large-scale layoffs and factory closures.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 莽九晨 汪思源
According to data from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of the Republic of Korea, during January–June 2026, cumulative new car registrations in South Korea reached approximately 852,000 units, a year-on-year increase of 1.4%. Among them, cumulative registrations of three categories of new energy vehicles – hybrid electric vehicles, battery electric vehicles, and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles – totaled about 429,000 units, accounting for 50.4% of overall new car registrations. According to a report by Yonhap News Agency, in the first half of 2020, new energy vehicle sales accounted for only 9.1% of the total; in the first half of 2021 this reached 14.2%; by the first half of 2023 the share had steadily risen to 25.5%; and in the first half of this year, the new energy vehicle sales share exceeded 50% for the first time.
Against the backdrop of an accelerating restructuring of the global automotive industry landscape, the South Korean government has introduced a series of measures to push the domestic automotive industry to speed up its transformation. In February this year, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy stated that it would invest 464.5 billion won (1 yuan is approximately 221 won) into the automotive industry for research and development and infrastructure construction projects, of which 382.7 billion won will be directed toward core technology R&D in autonomous driving, electric vehicles, and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. In January this year, the Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment issued newly revised regulations requiring relevant automobile sales enterprises to achieve zero-emission vehicle sales targets starting from 2026, namely a gradual increase from 28% in 2026 to 50% by 2030; if these targets are not met, the relevant enterprises must pay a certain amount in fines. At the same time, the South Korean government launched an "electric vehicle conversion subsidy" in 2026, under which individuals who replace their own fuel-powered cars with electric vehicles can receive an additional government subsidy of up to 1 million won on top of the existing vehicle purchase subsidy.
The transformation of South Korea's automotive industry still faces some difficulties. According to the "2025 Auto Parts Industry Survey Report" recently released by the Korea Automotive Research Institute, there are approximately 21,000 auto parts enterprises in South Korea, of which 4,142 specialize in fuel vehicle parts, while only 578 enterprises are dedicated to the production and sale of new energy vehicle parts. Among all South Korean auto parts enterprises, only 6.1% indicated that they are promoting enterprise transformation and product diversification. The report shows that the main challenges faced by South Korean enterprises include financing difficulties, lack of competitiveness in technology, and insufficient talent.
South Korean industry insiders believe that relying solely on enterprise self-transformation will be insufficient to cope with the new international competitive landscape. With the rapid development of technologies such as artificial intelligence and autonomous driving, South Korea's automotive industry must face a more diversified competitive environment. The Financial Services Commission and the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy recently jointly convened a "Future Automobile Industry Transformation Public-Private Joint Meeting" and established a "Future Auto Parts Industry Consultative Body," announcing that 18 trillion won in policy financial support will be provided within the year to promote the comprehensive transformation of South Korea's automotive industry into a next-generation mobility ecosystem centered on new energy vehicles and autonomous driving.
Kwon Dae-young, Vice Chairman of the Financial Services Commission, stated that the automotive industry is transforming into a cutting-edge industry in which auto parts are integrated with artificial intelligence, semiconductors, big data, and other technologies, and that a "national mobilization" is required. The Financial Services Commission will work closely with the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and other departments to provide full support for technology R&D, infrastructure investment, and enterprise financing, so as to drive the transformation of South Korea's automotive industry and enhance its competitiveness. (This newspaper, Seoul, date)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 吴 丹
In summer, Xiong'an is lush with trees, all things vying in splendor.
On June 18, experts, scholars, and educators gathered in the "City of the Future" to participate in the 2026 China Brand Forum (2026中国品牌论坛) thematic seminar on promoting high-quality development of education, conducting in-depth discussions around building a country strong in education during the 15th Five-Year Plan period.
"In building a country strong in education, the leading force is higher education," said Wu Shixing (武世兴), Deputy Director-General of the Department of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education (教育部高等教育司). "We must promote higher education quality improvement and capacity expansion, implement the fundamental task of fostering virtue and nurturing talent (立德树人), deepen comprehensive reform of higher education, and improve the resource allocation mechanism for higher education that adapts to demographic changes."
"Education is a great plan, and teachers are its foundation." Wei Wei (韦蔚), Deputy Party Secretary of Beijing Normal University, shared the school's exploration and practice of the "Strong Teacher Project" (强师工程), including six major plans such as the "Excellent Teacher Plan" (优师计划) and the "Set Sail Plan" (启航计划), covering the recruitment, training, and placement of normal school students, post-service support, and optimization of the basic education ecosystem, striving to support high-quality education development with high-quality teacher supply.
Based on the current demographic development situation, Li Xiaoqiang (李晓强), Vice President of the China National Academy of Educational Sciences (中国教育科学研究院), suggested improving the early warning mechanism for cross-departmental data sharing, perfecting the education resource allocation mechanism based on the permanent resident population, so as to gain valuable time and space for high-quality education development.
Cai Dongmei (蔡冬梅), Deputy Secretary of the Education Work Committee of Xicheng District, Beijing (北京市西城区委教育工委) and Director of the District Education Committee, said with deep feeling: "During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, Xicheng District added 64,600 primary and secondary school places. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, it is expected to add about 10,000 middle school places each year, continuously deepening the educational practice of being 'high-quality, balanced, and warm' (优质均衡有温度)."
"AI + education" was a high-frequency term at this seminar.
"Currently, artificial intelligence (AI) is developing rapidly, profoundly reshaping the paradigm of talent cultivation, disciplinary forms, and development trends in higher education," introduced Yang Fan (杨帆), Deputy Party Secretary of Beijing Institute of Technology. The school is actively creating "AI + teaching" smart scenarios, using means such as 24-hour intelligent learning companions and smart supervision to achieve full-process intelligent support before, during, and after class.
Li Yujin (李玉金), Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Education Bureau of Xiong'an New Area, Hebei (河北雄安新区教育局), introduced: "Beijing's 'Capital Education New Map' (首都教育新地图) and 'AI Application Supermarket' (AI应用超市) have been implemented in Xiong'an. Teachers and students in Xiong'an can browse and select AI teaching assistants and learning tools as if 'shopping in a supermarket' according to their needs."
Jiangxi University of Chinese Medicine (江西中医药大学) actively embraces new technologies such as AI, and the heat-sensitive moxibustion robot it developed has been mass-produced and rolled off the assembly line. Huang Jiawen (黄加文), the school's Party Secretary, said: "To promote the connotative development of higher education in Chinese medicine, we need to properly handle the relationship between inheritance and innovation, and promote the standardization and internationalization of Chinese medicine through openness and mutual learning."
In the dialogue session, the speeches of three guests each had different emphases, but they all pointed to "high-quality development of education."
Feng Yaozhong (冯耀忠), Deputy Director of the Heping District Education Bureau of Tianjin (天津市和平区教育局), proposed that we should pursue "green achievements" (绿色成绩)—caring for children's physical and mental health. He introduced that Heping District has established a data system for students' physical health and mental health from elementary to high school, and in the future will carry out evidence-based research to make evaluations more scientific and guidance more precise.
Deng Wenjuan (邓文娟), Principal of the Experimental School Affiliated to Tianjin Normal University (天津师范大学附属实验学校), said: "Basic education cannot 'run schools with closed doors.' We must actively connect with universities, research institutes, and all sectors of society, build a coordinated education pattern that integrates universities, middle schools, and elementary schools across stages and regions, so that high-quality resources can truly flow and be shared."
Xi Huisuo (郗会锁), Party Secretary of Hengshui High School of Hebei (河北衡水中学), believes that expanding the reach of high-quality education resources is key. "Relatively strong schools should not only provide resources, but also help weaker schools build mechanisms, improve teaching staff, and optimize instruction, to fill the shortcomings in school operation from the root."
"We teachers should also actively strengthen our digital literacy"… "We look forward to bringing these educational concepts back to the classroom"… After the seminar ended, many frontline teachers remained in the venue to continue exchanging ideas. Consensus gathered through exchange, setting out from this "City of the Future" and turning into beams of light in thousands of classrooms.
Return to TopBy: 教育部高等教育司副司长 武世兴
To build a strong education nation, the leading force is higher education. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the overall scale of China’s higher education has been firmly ranked first in the world. Adapting to changes in the school-age population, how to meet the people’s demand for high-quality educational resources through efficient policy supply and institutional arrangements is an important task for building a high-quality higher education system.
Carry out classified reform of colleges and universities. Support research-oriented universities in building themselves into the main force of basic research, the source of major scientific and technological breakthroughs, and the main position for cultivating top-notch innovative talents. Build well high-level application-oriented universities, with the goals of excellent school-running capacity and outstanding service to regional economic and social development. Build strong skill-oriented universities, cultivating large numbers of high-quality great craftsmen of the nation and skilled craftsmen. Scientifically design different tracks such as research-oriented, application-oriented, and skill-oriented, so that students with different endowments and potentials can all obtain development opportunities.
Expand the supply of high-quality degree places. Currently, the demographic peak is approaching the higher education stage year by year; before the peak, there is a shortage of high-quality degree resources, and after the peak, there will be idleness of low-level resources. We must proactively plan ahead, adhere to giving equal emphasis to “scale expansion” and “structural upgrading”, and build a flexible response mechanism that adapts to demographic cycle changes.
Empower the reform of education and teaching. Explore effective ways for digital empowerment of large-scale 因材施教 (yīn cái shī jiào – “teach according to the student’s ability,” to tailor instruction to individual needs) and innovative teaching; build vertical models for academic disciplines, intelligent agents, knowledge graphs, and capability graphs; provide students with intelligent and personalized learning services; create diversified, project-based, and immersive teaching scenarios; reshape learning paradigms; and enhance students’ learning experience. Enable every student to enjoy more equitable and higher-quality education.
This year marks the start of the “Fifteenth Five-Year Plan” (十五五). As the convergence point of science and technology, innovation, and talent, universities must take high-quality development as their lifeline, and contribute to accelerating the building of a strong education nation and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
(Our reporter Wu Dan (吴丹))
Return to TopBy: 北京市委教育工委副书记、市教委主任 李 奕
The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development (京津冀协同发展) and the planning and construction of the Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) are major national strategic deployments. Beijing closely adheres to the strategic positioning of the capital city, constructing a tiered policy system of "long-term strategic blueprint, medium-term five-year plan, short-term action plan, and annual work priorities," iteratively upgrading the education collaborative cooperation model among the three regions.
Deepen integrated collaboration, empower the quality improvement of Xiong'an education with artificial intelligence. Solidly advance Beijing's "one core, two wings" (一核两翼) strategy, ensure the construction of the Xiong'an campuses of universities. Unblock the data links, gather more than 40 high-quality AI education products to Xiong'an, promote the inclusion of Xiong'an student health data into Beijing's unified monitoring and inquiry system, and have multiple capital education intelligent agents such as "Jing Xiaojian" (京小健) and "Jing Xiaobao" (京小宝) land in Xiong'an for trial use. Currently, the number of direct cooperation projects between Beijing and Xiong'an has reached 43, making the achievements of education collaboration in Xiong'an more tangible and accessible.
Focus on investing in people, promote the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent. Transform the intellectual resources of universities to empower regional development, form 25 university innovation alliances, 36 cross-regional vocational education groups, and gather 29 national key laboratories. Beijing municipal universities connect with key regions such as the Tianjin Binhai New Area (天津滨海新区) and the Caofeidian (曹妃甸) Coordinated Development Demonstration Zone, deeply cultivating cooperation in production, education, research, and application. Multiple undergraduate institutions in Beijing and Tianjin jointly cultivate compound urgently-needed talents, and the scale of cross-provincial "3+2" training between secondary and higher vocational schools steadily expands; implement the "Thousand Clusters, Thousand Enterprises" (千团千企) integrated innovation plan, promote the precise alignment of enterprise needs with university achievements.
Reshape the education ecosystem, realize the integrated leap of education among the three regions. Deepen school-locality collaboration, have 362 primary and secondary schools and kindergartens in Beijing and Tianjin form paired assistance with 583 schools in Hebei. Improve the mechanism for talent exchange, normalizing cross-appointment of principals, two-way rotation of teachers, and cross-regional mentoring by famous teachers. Rely on the Beijing-surrounding education cluster and teaching-research community, comprehensively output Beijing's high-quality curricula, teaching staff, and school-running brands, etc.
Next, Beijing will be based on the national strategic positioning of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development, fully play the leading role, and contribute more strength to serving the national strategy, empowering regional development, and building a strong education country. (Wu Dan (吴丹), reporter for this newspaper, compiled)
Return to TopBy: 河北省委教育工委书记，省教育厅党组书记、厅长 黄 晟
The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a 承上启下 (chéng shàng qǐ xià - "inherit the past and initiate the future," a critical transitional period) for building a strong education system. Hebei Province will implement the plan outline for building a strong education system, scientifically formulate the "15th Five-Year Plan" for education development, deepen the "1+4" comprehensive education reform, and ensure high-quality development of basic education, vocational education, higher education, and the teaching workforce through high-quality Party building.
Improve the education system that cultivates students comprehensively in moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic, and labor education. Implement the project of fostering virtue and nurturing people for the new era, tap into and utilize red resources, and enhance the effectiveness of forging souls and educating people. Implement the "health first" concept, effectively carry out the student physical fitness strengthening plan, the aesthetic education immersion action, and the labor cultivation plan.
Deepen the coordinated development of education in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. Coordinate with universities in Beijing and Tianjin, deepen cooperation in teaching staff, discipline construction, and achievement transformation, and attract more high-quality basic education resources from Beijing and Tianjin to be shared with Hebei through forms such as establishing branch schools and group-based school operation.
Support the construction of a high-quality education system in the Xiong'an New Area. Accelerate the construction of the Xiong'an campuses of universities being relocated, strengthen the Xiong'an University Collaborative Innovation Alliance, and advance the construction of the Xiong'an Excellence Engineer Innovation Research Institute and the Xiong'an Innovation Engineering Research Institute. Guide the Xiong'an New Area to improve the level of basic education, providing strong support for attracting and retaining talent.
Enhance the capacity to serve economic and social development. Support advantageous disciplines to compete for the "Double First-Class" (双一流) construction, guide local universities to transform into application-oriented institutions, and promote the improvement of quality and expansion of scale in higher education. Align with the needs of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region's "six chains, five clusters" (六链五群) and Hebei's eight major industries, adjust and optimize the structure of disciplines and specialties. Strengthen university-enterprise scientific research cooperation, and enhance the capability for technological innovation and industrial innovation.
Improve the level of public education services. Strengthen the optimal allocation of basic education resources, coordinate the utilization of idle school buildings and the cross-urban-rural, cross-stage allocation of teachers. Implement the action to expand quality and improve basic education, implement the free preschool education policy, consolidate the effectiveness of the "double reduction" (双减) policy, implement the "county high school revitalization plan" (县中振兴计划), and explore the use of artificial intelligence to empower education reform.
(Our reporter Ding Yasong (丁雅诵) compiled this)
Return to TopBy: 北京理工大学党委副书记 杨 帆
Education is the foundation of building a strong country and national rejuvenation. Currently, artificial intelligence is developing rapidly, profoundly reshaping the paradigms of talent cultivation, disciplinary forms, and development trends in higher education. Colleges and universities should accelerate the construction of a talent cultivation system that interconnects teaching and research and integrates science and education, using systematic organizational innovation to activate the endogenous momentum for talent cultivation and solidify the foundation of talent cultivation.
In recent years, Beijing Institute of Technology has advanced the coordinated development of education, science and technology, and talent as an integrated whole, reshaped the functions of grassroots academic organizations, innovatively established science and education centers (科教中心), and explored the construction of a future talent cultivation system suited for cultivating top-notch innovative talents.
Building a new pattern of coordinated development of science and education. The school has constructed a "teacher–student–AI–environment–culture" five-element smart education model (五元智慧育人模式), comprehensively reshaping the logic of talent cultivation. It breaks down disciplinary and resource barriers, integrating interdisciplinary platforms, faculty, and projects. Following the principle of "refined cultivation, foundation building, and intelligent driving" (精育、筑基、智驱), it opens up channels for transforming scientific research resources into teaching resources.
Creating a new mechanism for talent cultivation in the intelligent era. It implements flexible academic systems, early research intervention, and interdisciplinary cross-training, and carries out "one student, one policy" (一生一策) personalized precise cultivation. It builds a "curriculum–research–mentor" talent cultivation model, using curriculum integration to break barriers between undergraduate and graduate courses, and using research integration to drive students' stepwise growth from cognitive practice, through technological breakthroughs, to theoretical innovation. It promotes the deep integration of artificial intelligence with education and teaching, creating "AI + teaching" smart scenarios.
Building a new strategic fulcrum for high-quality talent cultivation. Currently, with the concept of "green, high quality, education first" (绿色高质、以教为先), the school is laying out and building four distinctive science and education centers: the Artificial Intelligence Science and Education Center, the Ultrafast Laser Manufacturing Science and Education Center, the Aerospace Information Science and Education Center, and the Frontier Interdisciplinary Science and Education Center. The four centers complement each other's advantages, providing distinctive growth platforms for various types of top-notch talents.
In the future, the school will orderly advance pilot science and education centers in the sciences, humanities, and engineering, and continuously promote the full prominence of the talent cultivation effectiveness of the science and education centers.
(Compiled by our staff reporter Chen Chenxi (陈晨曦))
Return to TopBy: 北京师范大学党委副书记、珠海校区党委书记 韦 蔚
Accelerating the building of an educational powerhouse (教育强国) and running education to the satisfaction of the people requires above all solving the two major propositions of education: "balanced provision" and "high quality." In recent years, Beijing Normal University has fully implemented the "Strong Teacher Project" (强师工程), following the logic of "train a cohort, dispatch a cohort, upgrade a cohort," and has explored a full-chain set of reform measures covering recruitment, training, deployment, post-service support, and optimization of the basic education ecosystem.
First, targeted training and precise deployment, to 固本强基 (gù běn qiáng jī - "consolidate the foundation and strengthen the base," reinforce the fundamentals) for education in the central and western regions. The University took the lead in proposing and implementing the "Excellent Teacher Plan" (优师计划). Over the past five years, it has enrolled a total of 3,418 teacher-training students under the Excellent Teacher Plan, covering 21 provinces, thereby helping to revitalize education in the less-developed central and western regions. In 2025, the first cohort of 364 graduates took up teaching posts in poverty-alleviated counties (脱贫县), contributing to the high-quality development of local education.
Second, excellence-oriented leadership and top-tier innovation, to forge teachers of the future educator type. The University launched the "Top-Tier Innovative and Outstanding Teacher Training Plan," deepening the coordination of undergraduate and graduate training as well as collaboration between universities and secondary schools, practicing the educational philosophy of "using the best people to cultivate even better people." It selects outstanding students who love teaching, enjoy teaching, and are suited to teaching, and devotes effort to cultivating educator-type teachers who will lead the future development of China's basic education.
Third, coordination between the university and local governments, and 造血赋能 (zào xuè fù néng - "generate their own blood and empower them," build self-sustaining capacity and endow energy), to create a sound educational ecosystem at the county level. In recent years, members of the University's leadership team have led field research in 19 central and western provinces, 59 poverty-alleviated counties, and 73 primary and secondary schools and kindergartens at or below the county level, promoting the "Strong Teacher Project" to better serve educational development in less-developed regions. The University has already established seven "Strong Teacher Project Service Stations" in poverty-alleviated counties, building a working platform rooted in county-level localities. During the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" period, the University will innovate a customized "government-enterprise-school" cooperation mechanism to provide strong support for high-quality, balanced education and its high-quality development.
(Reported by our correspondent)
By: 中国教育科学研究院副院长 李晓强
Currently, urbanization is accelerating, urban-rural educational disparities remain significant, and populations are moving in large scale across regions. This results in a situation where the allocation of educational resources suffers from both total surplus and structural shortage. Against this backdrop, to improve the resource allocation mechanism that adapts to demographic changes, it is necessary to focus on constructing three key mechanisms with systematic thinking.
Establish a precision early-warning mechanism. Establish a cross-departmental data alignment mechanism to unblock the data chain of the resident school-age population. Leverage big data technology to accurately grasp the distribution of children accompanying the mobile population. Build and effectively use a four-level (national, provincial, municipal, county) linked school-age population monitoring and early-warning platform.
Establish a categorized guidance mechanism. Expand inclusive supply in preschool education, encourage conditional institutions to extend downward to open nursery classes. In primary school stage, deepen small-class teaching pilot programs and personalized tutoring, and run necessary rural small-scale schools well. In junior high school stage, resolve short-term demand for student seat increases by tapping the potential of existing school buildings, sharing resources with primary schools or senior high schools, etc. Key support will be given to areas with concentrated population inflow and areas with weak senior high school education foundations to build or expand a number of high-quality regular senior high schools. In towns, during the peak-crossing period, idle resources of compulsory education schools and secondary vocational schools can be fully utilized to open regular senior high schools.
Establish a policy adjustment mechanism. Support conditional regions in strengthening municipal-level coordination of basic education, especially coordinating student seat construction, teacher staffing quotas, and funding investment. Break down household registration barriers, and allocate educational resources based on the size of the resident population. Establish a rotating pool of teacher staffing quotas at the provincial level, regularly reassess and dynamically adjust the staffing quotas of each district and county based on actual conditions, so that teaching staff can dynamically circulate within regions and among schools, adjusting surplus and supplementing deficiencies.
(Compiled by our reporter Ding Yasong (丁雅诵))
Return to TopTake fostering virtue and nurturing talent and serving regional development as the mission and responsibility
President of Hebei University of Technology Wang Limin
Hebei University of Technology is a university jointly built by Hebei Province, Tianjin Municipality, and the Ministry of Education, and is also currently the only provincial "Double First-Class" university in China that operates across different locations. Affiliated to Hebei, located in Tianjin, adjacent to Beijing, Hebei University of Technology has charted a distinctive development path of "Upholding Tianjin, Strengthening Hebei, Collaborative Win-Win."
The school has established three major special tasks to serve Hebei's development: first, taking "Beijing-Tianjin R&D, Hebei Transformation" as the orientation, to strengthen the source position of major scientific and technological innovation; second, taking "Tianjin City Cultivates Talent, Yanzhao Empowers" as the tenet, to optimize the training base for top-notch innovative talents; third, taking "Tianjin Gateway Expands Outward, Hebei Region Integrates" as the link, to expand the exchange highland for international science and education collaboration.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the school obtained approval for two national key laboratories; added 18 new research platforms at various levels, now having 72 research platforms. The number of approved projects from the National Natural Science Foundation of China has remained stable at the level of one hundred for six consecutive years, and the number of national major and key projects approved increased by 143% compared with the "13th Five-Year Plan" period.
The school combines the scientific and technological forces of Beijing and Tianjin, lays out science and innovation positions, and cultivates science and innovation enterprises. Relying on the advantages of the complete industrial chain of Beijing and Tianjin, it jointly built with JD Group the country's first International Modern Business and Logistics Academy, jointly built with Great Wall Motors and China Automotive Technology and Research Center (Tianjin) a national-level Modern Industrial College, and jointly built with large enterprises such as State Grid and HBIS Group 344 internship and practice bases.
The school has always taken fostering virtue and nurturing talent and serving regional development as its mission and responsibility, with undergraduate enrollment from within the province accounting for 70%. Nearly 40% of graduates stay in Hebei for employment each year, and about 90% of key professional talents work in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. At the same time, the school fully leverages its educational resource advantages to carry out multi-level skills training for Hebei. In 2025, it trained over 15,000 person-times, radiating quality educational resources to the entire Hebei Province.
(Organized by Zhang Tengyang, reporter of this newspaper)
Talent cultivation highlights the characteristic of ecological education
Party Secretary of Northeast Forestry University Sun Meng
Northeast Forestry University, as one of the first forestry universities established after the founding of New China, was born from forests and thrives because of forests since its inception. Generations of students from Northeast Forestry University have "dressed up mountains and rivers in splendor, and painted the land in hues of vermilion and green." In recent years, the university has fully played its exemplary leading role in ecological civilization education, cultivating new-era talents with ecological civilization literacy.
Strengthen ideological and political guidance, highlighting the characteristic of ecological education. Emphasize brand building in forging souls and educating people, continuously deepen the grand ideological and political education system. Formulate and implement the "Cultivate Roots, Forge the Soul, Educate with Forests" three-year action plan. Emphasize integration and fusion in ecological education, formulate and implement an ecological civilization education implementation plan, establishing the first undergraduate-master-doctorate integrated ecological civilization education curriculum system among universities nationwide. Emphasize "educating with forests" in practical education; the university relies on the unique ecological resources of the two experimental forest farms at Mao'er Mountain and Liangshui, carrying out distinctive ecological civilization practices integrating nature education, farming-reading education, and labor education in the forests.
Deepen educational reform, innovate talent cultivation models. Optimize the discipline and specialty development pattern, strengthen forest-related discipline construction, take the lead among agricultural and forestry universities in setting up emerging specialties such as agricultural and forestry intelligent equipment engineering and smart landscape construction. Establish the first forestry future technology college in China, set up the first ecology college among universities in Northeast China, innovatively implement the "Forest Support Plan" (支林计划) among universities nationwide, selecting outstanding students to go to the front line of grassroots forestry to carry out forest support services.
Build a strong faculty team, consolidate the ability to foster virtue and nurture talent. Adhere to the first standard of teacher ethics and conduct, promote the integration of the spirit of educators into the entire process of teacher training and cultivation, and create the "Cultivate Self Academy" (修身书院). Adhere to strengthening the university with talents, implement the "Chengdong Talent Project" (成栋人才工程), systematically construct an integrated pattern of teacher introduction and cultivation through systems such as talent introduction plans and young talent visiting and research programs.
(Organized by Li Maoying, reporter of this newspaper)
Let research problems enter the clinic, clinical cases enter the classroom
Party Secretary of Jiangxi University of Chinese Medicine Huang Jiawen
To promote the high-quality development of Chinese medicine higher education, it is necessary to systematically grasp various dialectical relationships in running schools and educating people, and to assist the inheritance and innovation of the Chinese medicine cause.
Adhere to coordinating the present and the long-term. Improve the quality of talent cultivation and the conditions for running schools, lay a solid foundation for development; make planning and design around national strategies such as Healthy China, decompose long-term goals into phased tasks.
Strengthen the coordinated development of Chinese medicine and Chinese pharmacy. Taking the construction of New Medicine as the traction, promote the deep cross-integration of Chinese medicine and Chinese pharmacy, cultivate composite talents; establish interdisciplinary collaborative innovation mechanisms, build university-enterprise-local joint innovation platforms, and construct a medical-pharmaceutical collaborative development model that conforms to the characteristics of Chinese medicine.
Deepen the coordination of teaching, research, and medical practice. Deepen the reform of education evaluation, promote research problems entering the clinic and clinical cases entering the classroom, forming a virtuous cycle of "teaching—research—clinical practice."
Adhere to combining key breakthroughs with overall advancement. Use key breakthroughs to drive the overall improvement of school-running level, coordinate teaching reform, technical research and other work, achieving comprehensive, coordinated, and sustainable development.
Adhere to placing equal emphasis on inheritance and innovation. Do a good job in inheritance, deeply excavate the essence and quintessence of the treasure trove of Chinese medicine; strengthen innovative development, promote the research and development of new technologies for smart Chinese medicine, let experience inheritance and intelligent drive be deeply integrated.
Thicken the foundation and attack high-end with simultaneous efforts. Place undergraduate education, teacher team building, and basic research in a prominent position; aim at high-end frontiers, concentrate on tackling key problems in frontier fields such as Chinese medicine prevention and treatment of major diseases.
Implement incentives and constraints together. Strengthen incentives, so that teachers who devote themselves to education and dare to innovate receive due honor and rewards; strictly enforce constraints, improve supervision mechanisms in areas such as teacher ethics and conduct, academic integrity, and clean medical practice.
(Organized by Liu Shihao, reporter of People's Daily Online)
Vocational education should achieve two-way empowerment development with regional industries
Party Secretary of Jinan Vocational College Yin Yuanhua
The upgrade of industry-education integration platforms is a key lever for the new "Double High" reform of vocational education. The Jinan Intelligent Manufacturing and High-end Equipment Industry-Education Consortium, led by Jinan Vocational College, adheres to substantive, project-based, and market-oriented operation, charting a path of two-way empowerment development between vocational education and regional industries.
Make substantive operation practical. Jinan High-tech Zone established a special work team, set up a full-time secretariat, founded an operating enterprise, and coordinated service for the operation of the consortium. Establish a three-level scheduling mechanism such as joint meetings, implement a power and responsibility list system and a contribution points system, effectively stimulating the enthusiasm of all parties.
Implement project-based promotion. The consortium built a "Park Pass" supply-demand matching platform, compiled a competency map for key positions, guided colleges to add or remove 38 specialties, and developed a batch of courses and textbooks. Promote mutual appointment of talents between enterprises and schools, appointing 187 industrial professors to teach at schools, selecting 23 teachers to serve as corporate deputy directors of science and technology. Build one regional industry-education integration practice center, promote the establishment of 8 new industrial colleges by schools and enterprises, and cultivate new-type apprentices and on-site engineers through the dual-scenario education of "campus + park."
Grasp market-oriented services. The consortium precisely diagnoses enterprise needs, jointly builds common technology service platforms with universities, and carries out technical research. Cooperate with professional institutions to establish a patent navigation research institute, regularly carry out "enterprise-benefit park" activities, effectively reducing the innovation costs of schools and enterprises.
As the lead institution, Jinan Vocational College deeply participates in the construction of the consortium, contributing to the deep integration of regional industry and education, and further improving the multi-element collaborative education paradigm of "enterprise-school symbiosis, industry-education mutual progress, city-school integration."
(Organized by Ni Hongzhang, reporter of Global Times)
Deepen the educational practice of quality, equity, and warmth
Deputy Secretary of the Education Work Committee of the Xicheng District Committee of Beijing and Director of the District Education Commission Cai Dongmei
Xicheng District of Beijing, as the core functional area of the capital, thoroughly implements the strategy of strengthening the country through education, pursues "running every school well, achieving every teacher, and teaching every student well," and continuously deepens the educational practice of quality, equity, and warmth.
Based on simultaneous improvement of quantity and quality, create a highland of quality and equitable education. Xicheng District insists on cultivating new-era people through ideological and political education. Ensure the supply of school places; during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, a total of 64,600 primary and secondary school places were added through various means. To expand the coverage of quality resources, the district has established 21 education groups and 1 teaching premium school alliance, covering all primary and secondary schools. Release the "3+1" empowerment plan for cadres, teachers, students, and artificial intelligence, creating a virtuous cycle education ecosystem.
Based on new domains and new quality, build a linked and open education ecosystem. Xicheng District strives to build a new open and integrated education ecosystem from age 0 to 18, integrating inside and outside schools, bridging academic and vocational education. Fully undertake childcare functions, establish an integrated childcare-kindergarten operation mechanism. Deeply promote the new-type group-based school running, achieve vertical articulation of school segments and horizontal flow of resources. Build a Xicheng paradigm of innovative talent cultivation that connects middle school-college and coordinates science and education.
Serve national strategy, deepen regional education collaboration. Xicheng District helps efficiently and with high quality build Xiong'an Beihai Kindergarten and Beijing No.4 Middle School Xiong'an Campus, and strengthen high-end leadership and achievement sharing through famous principal studios and strong teacher co-cultivation systems. The two schools have become important windows for showcasing the educational image of the new area, with remarkable school-running results.
Xicheng District will continue to explore in fostering virtue and nurturing talent, quality and equity, promoting the spirit of educators, digital and intelligent empowerment, and integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent, making Xicheng education's golden signboard even brighter.
(Organized by Yan Yiqiao, reporter of this newspaper)
Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei share quality educational resources at the same frequency
Party Secretary and Director of the Education Bureau of Xiong'an New Area, Hebei Li Yujin
Under the policy support of sharing quality basic education resources from Beijing and Tianjin with Hebei, Xiong'an New Area accelerates the improvement of its educational quality while docking with and serving Beijing and Tianjin.
Insist on high-level promotion. The Party Work Committee and Management Committee of Xiong'an New Area attach great importance to the coordinated development of education, signed more than 20 education cooperation agreements with Beijing and Tianjin, regularly hold promotion meetings for sharing quality basic education resources from Beijing and Tianjin with Xiong'an; set up a principal fund to empower cooperative school running, fully implement the treatment and living security for assigned cadres and teachers, and build a comprehensive cooperation guarantee system covering basic education, education research, and teacher cultivation. Currently, 85 schools in Xiong'an New Area have established paired assistance relationships with 83 quality schools in Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei.
Insist on resource sharing. Xiong'an New Area adopts a two-way model of famous teachers from Beijing and Tianjin taking up posts in the area and backbone cadres from Xiong'an going to Beijing for on-the-job training, building a full echelon cultivation system for kindergarten principals, management cadres, and subject teachers. Implement characteristic teaching projects such as "dual-teacher classroom" and "same lesson, different design," introduce digital education resources such as Beijing's "Capital Education New Map" and "AI Application Supermarket," and build a three-dimensional collaborative education system of management, curriculum, and classroom. Relying on the Beijing Academy of Educational Sciences, establish the Xiong'an Teaching Research Branch Center, implement Beijing-Xiong'an integrated teaching research, and jointly build a Beijing-Xiong'an teaching research community.
Insist on radiation and empowerment. Relying on the "Build Three, Aid Four" (建三援四) schools from Beijing to carry out group-based school running, amplify the radiating effect of prestigious school running. Accelerate the landing of the affiliated schools of Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing University of Science and Technology, and Renmin University of China. Relying on the mature school-running systems, management models, and teacher resources of famous schools in Beijing and Tianjin, make every effort to ensure that new schools are high-quality from the start and benchmark from the beginning.
(Organized by Yan Yiqiao, reporter of this newspaper)
Create an education ecosystem that matches the future city
Deputy Director of the Education Bureau of Heping District, Tianjin Feng Yaozhong
Heping District of Tianjin implements the strategic deployment of strengthening the country through education, actively adapts to changes in the school-age population, uses systematic thinking to coordinate resource allocation and connotation construction, explores new models of talent cultivation in the intelligent era while building a foundation of fairness and quality, and strives to run education that satisfies the people.
Build a foundation of fairness, promote dynamic and balanced allocation of quality resources. Heping District establishes a degree demand early warning mechanism, adding more than 18,000 compulsory education places in the past three years; deepen the reform of "district management, school employment," improve the exchange and rotation of key teachers, with an annual exchange ratio exceeding 80%; establish close-knit education groups led by several prestigious schools, so that every child can enjoy quality education at their doorstep.
Embrace intelligent transformation, reconstruct future talent cultivation models. Heping District promotes the integration of AI (artificial intelligence) with education, offers AI general knowledge courses in primary and secondary schools, builds "AI + classroom" demonstration schools and smart teaching research platforms; relying on characteristic school-based curricula, create cross-disciplinary project-based learning scenarios, cultivate digital literacy and innovative thinking, and build an education ecosystem that matches the future city.
Insist on health first, cultivate fertile soil for the growth of new people. Heping District builds a full-staff, full-process, all-round health protection network, equips full-time psychological teachers, conducts regular psychological screening and intervention; offers social-emotional courses, cultivates students' task performance, emotional regulation and collaboration abilities, creates a stress-reducing and pressure-resistant environment, and promotes the cultivation of resilient character.
Establish brand awareness, highlight the subjectivity of regional education culture. Heping District implements the "One School, One Brand" project, builds a comprehensive reform demonstration zone for "Grand Ideological and Political Courses," supports each school in refining its school-running characteristics, and forms a flourishing education ecosystem.
Looking to the future, Heping District will continue to coordinate resource supply and connotation improvement, providing a central urban area practical sample for building a strong education country.
(Organized by Zhang Yongchao, reporter of China City News)
Build a long-term mechanism for collaborative education across universities, middle schools, and primary schools
Principal of the Experimental School Affiliated to Tianjin Normal University Deng Wenjuan
Building a long-term mechanism for collaborative education across universities, middle schools, and primary schools is an important path to promote the high-quality development of basic education. The Experimental School Affiliated to Tianjin Normal University is jointly built by Tianjin Normal University and the People's Government of Nankai District, Tianjin, deeply connecting high-quality university resources, systematically advancing the construction of a collaborative and articulated education system across universities, middle schools, and primary schools, and fully serving the quality and balanced development of regional basic education.
Coordinate quality resources, build a collaborative and articulated education system across universities, middle schools, and primary schools. Relying on the profound disciplinary accumulation and teacher education advantages of Tianjin Normal University, deeply integrate with the university in strategic planning, school management, curriculum construction, teacher development, ideological and political integration, and international exchange and cooperation; build a collaborative and articulated education system across universities, middle schools, and primary schools, promote the optimal allocation of regional educational resources, and comprehensively drive the quality upgrade of basic education.
Deepen teacher linkage, smooth the two-way empowerment channels for talents in universities, middle schools, and primary schools. Rely on university expert resources to deeply cultivate teacher training, link with municipal direct schools to implement the normalization mechanism of teacher exchange and new teacher cultivation; promote teacher quality improvement through two-way empowerment, promote quality and balanced education; in the past year, young teachers have cumulatively won more than 20 awards in various competitions, and the quality of education and teaching has steadily improved.
Open up collaborative co-education, explore new forms of innovative development for future education. Relying on the university's cutting-edge educational research achievements and open platforms, create an innovative curriculum system that integrates disciplines, explore new forms of future education; students have cumulatively won more than 70 awards in various competitions; the school has established long-term educational cooperation relationships with foreign institutions.
The school will continue to explore innovative education talent cultivation models, strive to build a benchmark brand for Tianjin basic education with demonstrative value and leading role, and run basic education that satisfies the people.
(Organized by Chang Wanjie, reporter of People's Livelihood Weekly)
Promote the balanced flow of quality educational resources
Party Secretary of Hebei Hengshui Middle School Xi Huisuo
The key to optimizing the allocation of educational resources is to expand the beneficiary scope of quality educational resources, allowing quality educational resources to flow in a balanced manner and be shared by all. Hebei Hengshui Middle School focuses on the coordinated development of regional education, solidly carries out multi-level assistance work, signs special assistance agreements with county-level schools such as Wuqiang County and Shenzhou City, selects backbone teachers to aid Xinjiang, Tibet, and Yunnan; establishes Hengzhong Cloud School to share Hengzhong's quality educational resources; relying on platforms such as the National High School Teacher Professional Development Forum, regularly invite teachers from assisted schools to come for on-the-job training and class following, improving the comprehensive quality and ability of teachers in assisted schools.
Hebei Hengshui Middle School is committed to accelerating the construction of a high-quality education system. In the construction of the ideological and political education system, take ideological and political courses as core courses for student growth, continuously innovate ideological and political education methods, and promote the integration of ideological and political education into the entire process of classroom teaching; in the construction of the teacher team system, vigorously practice the six major teacher development paths of "invite in to teach, go out to learn, push out to speak, support onto stage to compete, sink down to read, calm down to research," as well as the young teacher cultivation plan of "change the brain, point the way, set up the ladder, select the seedling, put on the burden, set up the stage, hold up the mirror," strictly implement the routine requirements of the eight major teaching links of preparation, teaching, correction, tutoring, examination, evaluation, group, and research, actively carry out various teacher ethics education activities, and guide teachers to actively embrace digital transformation; in the construction of the science and technology support system, build three teams of backbone teachers in the school, university experts, and industry experts, open up three channels of elective courses, club courses, and activity courses, rely on three platforms of science and technology venues, science and innovation competitions, and social practice, and focus on cultivating students' innovative thinking and practical ability.
(Organized by Quan Jiaxin)
Return to TopBy: 溪 远
“Promoting the long-term prosperity and stability of Hong Kong and Macao is an inherent requirement of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.” “Resolving the Taiwan issue and achieving the complete reunification of the motherland is our Party’s 矢志不渝 (shǐ zhì bù yú - “vow not to change,” unswerving) historical task and the common aspiration of all Chinese sons and daughters.” … On July 1, General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech at the celebration of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China elicited enthusiastic responses from various sectors in Hong Kong and Macao and from compatriots in Taiwan. All expressed that the important speech is inspiring and spurs people to forge ahead.
On July 1 itself, compatriots in Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan expressed in different ways their deep respect for the 105-year struggle journey of the Communist Party of China and their sincere wishes for the great motherland. On the banks of the Xiangjiang River in Hong Kong, the flag-raising ceremony held at the Golden Bauhinia Square was solemn and sacred, demonstrating that 29 years after Hong Kong’s return to the motherland, the practice of “one country, two systems” (一国两制) has achieved universally recognized success. On the banks of the Haojiang River in Macao, nearly 2,000 Macao students and youth representatives from all walks of life watched the broadcast of the celebration ceremony together, gathering the combined force of loving the country and loving Macao. In the treasured island of Taiwan, the celebration ceremony received high attention. Looking back on how the Communist Party of China led the Chinese nation from poverty and weakness toward great rejuvenation, many Taiwanese compatriots expressed that as long as compatriots on both sides of the strait work together hand in hand, promote cross-strait exchanges, cooperation, and integrated development, and advance the great cause of national reunification, they will surely create a bright future for national rejuvenation together. Our country’s first astronaut from Hong Kong, Li Jiaying (黎家盈), also sent blessings from space. She said with deep emotion, “My appearance in space together with everyone today truly embodies the precious opportunities that the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has gained by relying on the motherland under ‘one country, two systems’ (一国两制).”
After returning to the motherland, Hong Kong’s vibrant vitality as an international metropolis has amazed the world. Currently, Hong Kong ranks first among the world’s freest economies, ranks second globally in the 2026 World Competitiveness Yearbook, and has become the world’s largest cross-border wealth management center… History eloquently proves that the Communist Party of China is the leadership core of national rejuvenation, and the new China led by the Communist Party of China has provided a fundamental guarantee for Hong Kong’s prosperity and development. Recently, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government incorporated the celebration of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China into the national education activity plan for the 2025-2026 school year, further promoting Hong Kong citizens, especially the younger generation, to deeply understand the world-renowned achievements made by the country under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, to consolidate national confidence, and to cultivate deep feelings for family and homeland.
Macao is a treasured place of the great motherland. Since its return to the motherland, various undertakings have made significant progress, undergoing 翻天覆地 (fān tiān fù dì - “overturn heaven and earth,” earth-shattering) changes, with a substantial increase in international influence, ushering in the best period of development, demonstrating the great success of the practice of “one country, two systems” with Macao characteristics under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. In June this year, the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Tourism Ministers’ Meeting was again awarded to Macao, fully reflecting the central government’s high trust and solid support for the Macao Special Administrative Region. To celebrate the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, in recent days, the Macao Special Administrative Region Government has carefully prepared and organized a series of celebration activities, with active participation from all sectors of society, revisiting the Party’s glorious journey, deeply comprehending the profound history and great achievements of the country’s development, and expressing the firm determination to continuously open up new prospects for the high-quality development of the “one country, two systems” cause.
The Communist Party of China has always regarded resolving the Taiwan issue and achieving the complete reunification of the motherland as its unswerving historical task. Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, the theory of national reunification and the principles and policies toward Taiwan have been enriched and developed, forming the overall strategy for resolving the Taiwan issue in the new era. The leaders of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait achieved the first meeting and direct dialogue since 1949, marking a historic breakthrough in cross-strait political exchanges. We firmly hold the dominance and initiative in cross-strait relations, broadly unite Taiwanese compatriots, resolutely oppose “Taiwan independence” (台独) separatist activities and interference by external forces, solidly promote the peaceful development and integrated development of cross-strait relations, steadfastly advance the process of national reunification, and have achieved new progress and presented a new atmosphere in work related to Taiwan.
Achievements are lofty only through ambition; undertakings are vast only through diligence. Through 105 years of journey despite wind and rain, the Communist Party of China has always been the most reliable mainstay for the Chinese people and the Chinese nation. Realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the common aspiration of all Chinese sons and daughters, including Hong Kong compatriots, Macao compatriots, and Taiwanese compatriots. Currently, the construction of a strong country has unfolded a magnificent picture and presented an extremely bright prospect, and the Chinese nation is marching toward great rejuvenation with an unstoppable pace. Let us gather the mighty combined force of the unity and struggle of all Chinese sons and daughters, 乘风破浪 (chéng fēng pò làng - “ride the wind and break the waves,” to forge ahead boldly), join hands and work together, and continuously push forward the great cause of building a strong country and achieving national rejuvenation!
Return to TopSowing the Seeds of Exploring the Unknown and Chasing Dreams
Our staff reporter Chen Ran (陈然)
“The murals are sick — how to ‘对症下药 (duì zhèng xià yào – “suit the remedy to the case,” to take appropriate measures)’?” “Can the ‘artificial sun’ continuously emit light and heat like a real sun?” “What does the pulsar signal from tens of thousands of light-years away sound like?” … The children’s eyes were full of curiosity, and hands raised high were seen throughout the event.
From June 29 to 30, the “Master Lecture for Children” organized by the China Song Qingling Foundation (中国宋庆龄基金会) entered Hong Kong. With the theme “Youth Stand Between Mountains and Seas: Tomorrow’s Questions, Today’s Answers,” the master lecture invited seven experts from the national scientific and cultural fields to have face-to-face exchanges with Hong Kong young people, bringing national scientific and technological innovation achievements and fine traditional Chinese culture into schools, sowing the seeds of exploring the unknown and chasing dreams in the children’s hearts.
At the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups Building lecture hall, Su Bomin (苏伯民), former director of the Dunhuang Academy (敦煌研究院) and a cultural relic protection research expert, displayed high-definition Dunhuang murals. As the murals on the screen were continuously enlarged, each strand of hair and each brushstroke became clearly visible, and exclamations of amazement arose from the audience from time to time. “Cultural relic protection is not just about preserving cultural relics, but also about letting more people see and understand them.” Taking the construction of “Digital Dunhuang” as an example, Su Bomin introduced new paths for cultural relic protection to the children. From mass digitization of cultural relics to AI-assisted research, and then to online sharing and dissemination, modern technology has given new life to cultural heritage that had slept for a thousand years.
Li Jingyu (李婧语), a student from Shangzhi English College (上智英文书院), said that she used to think liberal arts and sciences were 泾渭分明 (jīng wèi fēn míng – “the Jing and Wei rivers are clearly distinct,” to be completely different from each other), but this activity made her realize, “Using technology to protect cultural relics and letting more people understand Chinese civilization is especially meaningful.”
In another lecture, the vast starry sky quietly “descended.” Jiang Peng (姜鹏), deputy director of the National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院国家天文台) and director of the Operation and Development Center for China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) – “China Sky Eye” (中国天眼), played pulsar signals from tens of thousands of light-years away, allowing the children to “hear” the echoes from deep space. Combining stories behind the construction of “China Sky Eye,” he recounted the development course of Chinese astronomy as it continuously moves toward the world frontier.
“The children listened very attentively,” Jiang Peng said. Astronomy can easily ignite young people’s enthusiasm for seeking knowledge and innovation. He hopes that through activities and exchanges, more students can be guided to love natural sciences and appreciate the technological power behind looking up at the starry sky.
In addition to centralized lectures, experts also entered schools to interact with Hong Kong young people. At the auditorium of Pui Kiu College (培侨中学), Xiao Guoliang (肖国梁), a researcher at the Southwestern Institute of Physics (核工业西南物理研究院) of CNNC, started from the movie The Wandering Earth to explain the principles of controlled nuclear fusion, and through on-site experiment demonstrations, made abstract knowledge intuitive and easy to understand. “The ‘artificial sun’ lets me see the speed of our country’s technological development. Technological innovation requires the接力奋斗 (relay struggle) of generations. I must study hard and contribute to the country’s technological development in the future,” said Jiang Jiaying (姜嘉莹), a second-year student at Pui Kiu College.
Principal Wu Huanjie (伍焕杰) of Pui Kiu College believes that bringing major national scientific and technological achievements into schools allows students to feel the spirit of scientists, which is more vivid than textbook knowledge.
Focusing on trends in artificial intelligence development and smart city construction, experts discussed how technology changes life; taking robot technology development as an entry point, they looked ahead to the application prospects of intelligent technology; starting from The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon and traditional Chinese medicine culture, they helped students understand the profound heritage of fine traditional Chinese culture… During the activities, experts visited multiple schools, and applause rang out continuously. The children listened attentively and learned seriously.
“I hope Hong Kong students can draw strength from the spirit of perseverance of research predecessors who have remained dedicated for decades, learn the spirit of young scientists stepping up to shoulder heavy responsibilities, and closely link personal growth with Hong Kong’s future and the nation’s development, contributing their youthful strength to building a strong country and national rejuvenation,” said Shen Beili (沈蓓莉), vice chairperson of the China Song Qingling Foundation.
Feeling the Pulse of Technology and Cultivating Deep Feelings for Family and Country
Our staff reporter Fu Zimei (富子梅)
“Among lychee shells, rust on an iron pot, and eggshells, which one is a Chinese medicine?” “What is the use of astronomy?” “What will a future smart city be like?” “How many caves and how many murals are there in Dunhuang?” … On July 2, at the auditorium of the Macau University of Science and Technology, experts from the national scientific and cultural fields deeply attracted the Macau children present as soon as they began to speak.
A few days ago, the China Song Qingling Foundation’s “Master Lecture for Children” entered Macau. Six experts gave 深入浅出 (shēn rù qiǎn chū – “enter deeply, emerge shallowly,” to explain profound ideas in simple terms) explanations of achievements in frontier fields such as astronomical exploration, cultural relic protection, traditional Chinese medicine and big health, artificial intelligence and robotics, aerospace engineering, and future energy, guiding Macau young people to approach science, experience culture, and understand the motherland.
“Zhao Wenhai (赵文海), a renowned master of Chinese orthopedic medicine, vividly explained the medicinal effects of common items in our daily life, such as lychee shells and star anise. I couldn’t help but recall that last year when my toe was fractured and displaced, it was traditional Chinese medicine that treated me using traditional bone-setting techniques, avoiding an operation,” said Jiang Ailin (江艾霖), a student at Pui Ching Middle School (澳门培正中学) in Macau. “After listening to the lecture, I am even more determined to study Chinese medicine, become a Chinese medicine practitioner when I grow up, and work hard to use medical skills to benefit more people. I also firmly believe that Macau’s traditional Chinese medicine and big health industry will have broad development prospects.”
At Macau’s Escola Secundária Pui Tou (澳门培道中学), Zhang Qiao (张峤), a space station system R&D expert, gave simple explanations to unveil the mysteries of human spaceflight for the children — from the core technology tackling of the space station, to on-orbit operation support, and to future plans for expanding the space station’s capabilities. “What physical conditions are needed to become an astronaut?” “If I want to explore the space field in the future, what knowledge should I focus on accumulating now?” In the interactive session, the children asked questions enthusiastically, and Zhang Qiao patiently answered each one. Combining his personal experience in participating in the design and construction of the Chinese space station, Zhang Qiao vividly described the perseverance and dedication behind every space mission, allowing the children to truly feel the hardcore strength of China’s space program and the mission commitment of space workers.
From the Chang’e lunar missions to Tianwen’s Mars exploration, from the “artificial sun” chasing energy dreams to the “China Sky Eye” gazing at the stars, from AI changing daily life to traditional Chinese medicine going global… The experts visited seven middle schools including Tong Sin Tong Middle School (同善堂中学), Hou Kong Middle School (劳校中学), and Pui Va Middle School (培华中学), interacting with children and extending the master lecture to more Macau young people.
“Although I have never been to Dunhuang, the expert’s talk on ‘Digital Dunhuang’ deeply impressed me — high-definition murals of the caves and panoramic tours can be viewed anytime, and there is also an English version,” said Zhang Ziyu (张子瑜), a student at Hou Kong Middle School (澳门濠江中学) in Macau. “I really want to go to Dunhuang this summer vacation, and I feel even more sincerely proud of the country’s cultural relic protection, development and utilization that keep pace with the times!”
After listening to the expert lectures, Zheng Bowei (郑博玮), a student at Hou Kong Middle School in Macau, expressed his feelings: “What is the significance of technology for humanity? The experts not only taught professional knowledge in scientific fields, but also led us to think deeply.”
Wang Guohui (王国辉), a teacher at Hou Kong Middle School in Macau, said: “Through face-to-face exchanges with the experts, students have learned about the great achievements of the motherland’s development, touched the pulse of cutting-edge science, and understood the profound heritage of Chinese culture. They have also further deepened their sense of national identity, belonging, and ethnic pride, cultivating deep feelings for family and country.”
“Dear students, behind these achievements lie the decades-long perseverance and dedication of generations of scientists and cultural workers. Now, they have come to your side, hoping to sow in your hearts a seed of science, a seed of culture, and a seed of feelings for family and country, which will grow strong with you,” said Chen Jimin (陈季敏), vice chairman of the Board and Secretary-General of the Macau University of Science and Technology, with heartfelt words.
“Seeing the light of thirst, excitement, and determination shining in the children’s eyes, I look forward to the ‘Master Lecture for Children’ being held again next year!” said Jin Xin (金鑫), a teacher at Macau’s Escola Secundária Pui Tou.
Return to TopA few days ago, the "Two Shores, One Heart; Basketball Path, Same Dream" 2026 Zhejiang-Taiwan Youth Three-on-Three Basketball Invitational Tournament opened in Deqing County (德清县), Huzhou City, Zhejiang. Multiple Taiwan youth basketball teams from Taipei, Chiayi, Kaohsiung, and other places, together with mainland youth basketball teams, used the competition to meet through basketball, enhance understanding, and build friendship.
The picture shows the competition scene.
Photo by Yao Haixiang (姚海翔) of People's Vision (人民视觉).
By: 长 乐
Recently, tourism operators from Shanghai and Fujian who applied to conduct scouting trips (踩线, i.e. on-the-ground coordination of accommodations, attractions, reception, and the like) in the island area have been flatly rejected by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP; 民进党) authorities. A scouting trip is an utterly normal industry procedure, yet the DPP authorities have politicized and complicated it, forcibly imposing a prerequisite threshold of prior consultation through the so-called "small两会" (small-scale cross-strait tourism negotiation mechanism). Their attempt to create the illusion that the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS; 海协会) and the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF; 海基会) have resumed consultation is 昭然若揭 (zhāo rán ruò jiē - "clear as if uncovered," completely obvious). This move has aroused strong discontent among tourism groups and operators within the island, who have repeatedly called for "less political manipulation and letting tourism go first."
The arrival of mainland tourists in Taiwan brings a source of customers to the island, revitalizes the island's consumer market, and has long been eagerly anticipated by Taiwan's tourism operators. Similarly, many Taiwanese compatriots are eager to travel to the mainland. In recent days, tourism groups within the island have one after another stated clearly that there is a significant demand on the island for travel to the mainland, and have called on the DPP authorities to lift the "group travel ban" (禁团令) on travel to the mainland and the so-called "orange alert" (橙色警戒). The high pitch of the industry's appeal fully reflects the mainstream public opinion in Taiwanese society, which wants peace, wants development, wants exchange, and wants cooperation.
The mainland has always upheld the concept of "cross-strait family" (两岸一家亲), actively promotes the normalization of personnel exchanges across the strait and the regularization of exchanges in various fields, and has taken the lead in introducing a series of facilitation measures. Since 2024, it has successively resumed the travel of residents from Fujian and Shanghai to Kinmen and Matsu. Over the past year or more, the cumulative number of Fujian residents traveling to Kinmen and Matsu for tourism alone has exceeded 200,000 person-trips, bringing tangible benefits to the tourism industries of Kinmen and Matsu. Promoting the resumption of the pilot program for individual travel to the island area by residents of Shanghai and Fujian is precisely a positive measure that responds to the mainstream public opinion of Taiwanese society and promotes the peaceful development of cross-strait relations.
Facts have once again proven that the crux and obstacle of cross-strait tourism issues lie in the interference and obstruction of the DPP authorities. The DPP authorities, ignoring the survival difficulties of Taiwan's tourism operators and the livelihood demands of ordinary people, have set up barriers and obstacles with various untenable excuses, artificially blocked the channel for tourism market recovery, and sought selfish political interests at the expense of the vital interests of the Taiwanese people. This not only damages the livelihoods of Taiwan's tourism operators but also deprives Taiwanese compatriots of the opportunity to learn about the true face of the mainland — it is 不折不扣 (bù zhé bù kòu - "not a fold not a buckle," out-and-out) an act that harms and damages the people.
The will of the people cannot be defied, and the general trend cannot be blocked. The two sides of the strait share mountains and waters and have the same cultural origins. No force can stop the common aspiration of compatriots on both sides of the strait to draw closer and become more intimate. Statistics show that in 2025, as many as 4.89 million person-trips of Taiwanese residents came to the mainland. We warmly welcome Taiwanese compatriots to come to the mainland to look around and travel, and we look forward to more compatriots on both sides of the strait crossing the strait to visit and exchange, continuously enhancing compatriot friendship and bringing hearts closer together.
Return to TopBy: 江 琳 曾海萌
In the U.S. state of Florida, there is a street sign named after a Chinese person: “Gim Gong Rd” (锦浓路). At the Overseas Chinese History Museum of China (中国华侨历史博物馆) in Beijing, before the exhibit board for “Gim Gong Rd” in the themed exhibition “Stories of People-to-People Friendly Exchanges between China and the US in Cultural Relics” (文物里的中美民间友好交往故事), Meng Letian (孟乐天), an American doctoral student at Beijing Foreign Studies University, stood and watched.
Behind the street sign lies a moving story. In the late 19th century, the citrus industry in Florida, USA, was plagued by frost damage, and fruit farmers suffered heavy losses. Liu Jinnong (刘锦浓), then in the United States, combined traditional Chinese grafting techniques with Western cultivation methods to develop the “Liu Orange,” which was cold-resistant, storable, and of excellent fruit quality, enabling Florida citrus to be sold throughout the United States. The street sign named “Jinrong” bears witness to a warm chapter of joint cultivation by the Chinese and American peoples.
A few days ago, the “Stories of People-to-People Friendly Exchanges between China and the US in Cultural Relics” Sharing Meeting and the “Rereading China · Elite Dialogue” (再读中国·菁英对话会) were held at the Overseas Chinese History Museum of China. The event was co-hosted by the Overseas Chinese History Museum of China and the Beijing Association of Chinese Universities for International Exchange (北京中国高校对外交流协会), with the theme “Passing on Emotion through History · Youth Joining Hands · Development and Win-Win,” aiming to look back on the history of people-to-people exchanges between China and the US through the themed exhibition “Stories of People-to-People Friendly Exchanges between China and the US in Cultural Relics,” to carry out dialogue and exchanges among international students in China, and to promote and deepen friendly people-to-people exchanges between China and the US.
Rusty railroad spikes, yellowed menu paper, faded flight suits… The themed exhibition “Stories of People-to-People Friendly Exchanges between China and the US in Cultural Relics” is divided into five chapters: “Sails and Culture,” “Golden Mountain Footprints,” 勠力同心 (lù lì tóng xīn - “strive with united hearts,” to work together with one mind), “Harmony Shines,” and “Continuing the Friendship.” Through objects, it narrates history; through history, it conveys emotion, telling the more-than-200-year history of friendly people-to-people exchanges between the Chinese and American peoples.
“Food has always been one of the simple, direct ways of cultural exchange.” Standing before an 1870 U.S. newspaper print showing the back kitchen of a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco’s Chinatown, Sun Kai (孙凯), an American doctoral student at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, examined it closely. In the center of the image, Chinese laborers were cooking at narrow stoves, with cured meats hanging nearby. The small kitchen fires sustained their homesickness while also spreading Chinese culinary and festive culture.
On the exhibit board beside it, menus from Chinese restaurants such as Xinghua Lou, Gonghe Lou, Shanghai Lou, and Yuandong Lou recorded the footsteps of Chinese cuisine as it moved from Chinatown to the urban centers of the United States, becoming vivid evidence of cross-cultural transmission. “From Cantonese cuisine and Americanized Chinese food to hotpot, cross-bridge rice noodles, and so on, the integration of Chinese food into American history illustrates the soft yet solid friendly people-to-people exchanges between China and the US,” Sun Kai exclaimed. He noted that the preciousness of food lies in making culture participatory. He recalled childhood experiences of sharing food from their lunchboxes with friends. “In everyday little things, we slowly came to understand each other’s family backgrounds, living habits, and food culture. Many times, it is through sharing and tasting meals, one meal at a time, that cultures deepen mutual understanding.”
From the “Empress of China” in 1784, which inaugurated direct trade between China and the US, to the Chinese stone stele inscribed with excerpts from Yinghuan Zhilüe (瀛寰志略) that crossed the ocean and was set into the Washington Monument; from large numbers of Chinese students going to study in the US to overseas Chinese making contributions to American social development… “The connections between the Chinese and American peoples are longer and deeper than I imagined.” Rui Daowen (芮道文), an American student at the Yenching Academy of Peking University, was deeply touched by the exhibition. “These stories show that the US-China relationship is not just a relationship between governments, but a relationship between peoples. Although US-China relations experience ups and downs and there may be differences, looking at history, the Chinese and American peoples have always maintained exchange and cooperation in trade, education, culture, science and technology, agriculture, and daily life.”
Before the exhibit board displaying the Chinese translation of Xixue Dongjian Ji (西学东渐记) by Rong Hong (容闳), an early Chinese overseas student, Bao Li (宝丽), an American student at the University of International Business and Economics, was deeply moved. Rong Hong went to study in the United States in the 1840s and 1850s. During his time in the US, he actively disseminated Chinese culture, and after returning to China, he promoted the sending of a large number of young children to study in the US.
“Rong Hong brought Chinese culture to the United States, allowing foreign friends to learn about China through the bits and pieces of daily interaction,” Bao Li said. Rong Hong’s story made her realize that she should act as a “bridge.” “In this age of information explosion, I prefer to tell my American friends about my personal experiences in China—for example, a store clerk using a translation app to ask me how I felt about Chinese food, or making zongzi with friends for the Dragon Boat Festival, or new friends warmly putting dishes into my bowl…” She exclaimed that real experiences are irreplaceable, and she hopes more American friends will come to China and feel this authenticity and warmth firsthand.
“China and the US cannot be ‘separated.’” Louis, an American teacher at the University of International Business and Economics who has lived in China for about 17 years, was deeply impressed by the story of the Kuliang (鼓岭) connection and the heart-to-heart people-to-people bonds behind it. In his view, during that era, exchanges between China and the US were not frequent, yet the ordinary people took the initiative to get to know each other, communicated sincerely, and their emotions were truly moving. “I will share the Kuliang story on social media platforms so that more American friends, especially young people, can learn about it.”
At the event site, Wang Lingui (王灵桂), Chairman of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese (中国侨联), exchanged views with the student representatives on topics such as China-US people-to-people friendship and mutual learning among civilizations. He offered words of encouragement to international students in China and young Chinese Americans, hoping that they would cherish the time of cross-border exchange, build youthful bridges of people-to-people connection and civilizational communication, and continuously consolidate the popular foundation for friendly China-US exchanges.
Each cultural relic and exhibit spanning a century deeply moved the American youth students present: “What shapes US-China relations is not only diplomats but also countless ordinary people. Today, the younger generation should, through their own practice, let the people-to-people friendship between China and the US endure and grow.”
Return to TopSinology is the common spiritual wealth of all humanity, and also an important window to understand Chinese civilization and Chinese-style modernization (中国式现代化). The Third World Sinologists Conference was held in June in Dunhuang, Gansu. Sinologists from various countries gathered in the ancient Silk Road city to jointly explore paths to integrate Chinese and foreign wisdom and jointly respond to global changes. Sinologists from Albania, Mongolia, Russia, and Italy shared their reflections with our reporter, telling stories of decades of dedicated scholarship, translation and interpretation of classics, deep cultivation of people-to-people exchange, and companionship with sinology and journeying together with China.
Albanian Sinologist Iljaz Spahiu (斯巴修)
Using Literature to Make Friends, Re-understanding the World through Sinology
By Qu Pei (屈佩), our reporter
In the 1970s, at the age of 19, Iljaz Spahiu came to Beijing from Albania, beginning his academic journey. Over four years, he studied successively at Beijing Language and Culture University and Peking University, thus beginning his bond with China. He said: "China has become an important part of my life, and Chinese culture and philosophical thought have reshaped my spiritual world."
The process of learning Chinese and approaching China was also a process of witnessing China steadily moving to the center of the world stage. As global attention on China continuously increased, Spahiu found that outsiders' perceptions of China were sometimes "one-sided and stereotyped." "China is not an abstract symbol, but a real, diverse, and constantly evolving society." To introduce China to more people, he devoted himself to the translation and introduction of Chinese classics and contemporary works. From the Dao De Jing to Chinese Thought and Culture Terms (中华思想文化术语), from literary works to books introducing China's economic development experience, China's classical thought and contemporary development process, through his promotion, entered the view of Albanian readers. "Only by understanding a country's history and culture can one truly understand that country," Spahiu said.
Mo Yan’s novel Frog was the first work of contemporary Chinese literature that Spahiu translated. In 2012, Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and global attention on contemporary Chinese literature rose unprecedentedly. "Translating Chinese literary works directly into Albanian is not an easy task. It requires not only a solid language foundation but also deep insight and understanding of Chinese society, history, and the era’s background," Spahiu frankly stated. It is precisely because he studied and lived in China for many years and had the experience of personally experiencing this land that "I have the confidence to take on the challenge of this translation."
After the Albanian edition of Frog was published, it sparked an enthusiastic response in the local literary community and among readers. Subsequently, Spahiu also translated Red Sorghum Clan, To Live, Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, and other contemporary Chinese literary works. One translation after another allowed him to forge friendships with Chinese writers such as Mo Yan and Yu Hua. To his surprise, these Chinese writers also learned about this Balkan country through Albanian literature, film, and television works, and developed a special affection for this distant land. "The power of cultural exchange is enduring and profound; it can transcend time and space, leaving lasting impressions in people's hearts," Spahiu said with emotion.
To continue this cross-border cultural resonance, Spahiu led the establishment of the Albania-China Cultural Exchange Association (阿中文化交流协会) in 2015, dedicated to promoting sinology, cultivating young sinology talent, and accumulating new strength for people-to-people exchange between the two countries. He observed that cultural exchanges between Albania and China are increasingly active, especially in the publishing field where cooperation has yielded fruitful results. Over ten years, more than 100 China-themed books have been published in Albania, covering areas such as history, culture, philosophy, thought, and economic dynamics. "These books not only satisfy the eager demand of Albanian people to understand China in depth, but also help decision-makers and academia better understand China’s development path," he said.
"Sinology not only brought me closer to China, but also allowed me to re-understand the world, learning to think about the common problems facing humanity from more diverse perspectives," Spahiu said. Decades of sinological research have given him a deeper understanding of Chinese civilization. In his view, an important reason why Chinese civilization has lasted for thousands of years without interruption is its ability to constantly maintain self-renewal. The holistic view, balanced view, and the concept of 和而不同 (hé ér bù tóng - "harmony but not sameness," to seek harmony while respecting differences) contained in Chinese traditional thought provide important inspiration for addressing today’s complex global challenges.
Facing an increasingly diverse and complex international communication environment, Spahiu is thinking about the new mission of sinologists. During the Third World Sinologists Conference, he reached a consensus with scholars from various countries through discussion: In the past, everyone focused more on how to translate Chinese works outward; today, sinologists are exploring new communication methods to allow China’s ancient civilizational wisdom and contemporary development experience to better engage in dialogue with the world, and to enable different countries to learn from each other and achieve symbiotic prosperity when facing governance challenges.
Mongolian Sinologist Chimidtseye (其米德策耶)
Beauty Shared and Mutual, Chinese Traditional Culture Holds Wisdom
By Qu Pei (屈佩), our reporter
With refined manners, modest speech, frequently citing classics when speaking Chinese, and showing 如数家珍 (rú shǔ jiā zhēn - "like counting one’s family treasures," extremely familiar) with Chinese ancient texts, when the reporter met Mongolian sinologist Chimidtseye at the Third World Sinologists Conference, he was sharing his reflections on many years of sinological research with colleagues from various countries, under the title "How Much Do We Know About China."
"Chinese civilization is one of the oldest and most enduring civilizations in the world. Looking around the globe, few countries have such a long history, so many ethnic groups, and such profound cultural connotations. To devote oneself to it, is it not a pleasure?" These words expressed the original aspiration of Chimidtseye in devoting himself to sinological research.
Chimidtseye graduated from Beijing Language and Culture University in 1987. He is now director of the Translation Research Center at the Confucius Institute at the National University of Mongolia (蒙古国立大学孔子学院), and the first translator from Mongolia to receive the Special Contribution Award for Chinese Books. Since the last century, he has deeply cultivated Chinese language teaching, dedicated himself to translating and introducing Chinese works, and promoted the spread of Chinese culture in Mongolia.
"Confucius is my spiritual idol," Chimidtseye said. His WeChat profile picture is a statue of Confucius. In his view, to understand China, one must first understand the Chinese philosophy of life, among which Chinese traditional classics and Confucian thought are key. "This is not only the spiritual wealth of the Chinese nation, but also a cultural treasure shared by all humanity," he said.
Cherishing this original intention, Chimidtseye devoted a great deal of effort to successively translating Chinese classics such as The Analects, Mencius, The Great Learning, The Doctrine of the Mean, Dao De Jing, and The Art of War into Mongolian. These works have been very popular in Mongolia. "Culture is the foundation for a nation to stand independently in the world and to endure for a long time," Chimidtseye believes. A translator must not only have bilingual ability but also cross-cultural literacy, so as to accurately present the ideological essence of the original works to readers. "From the Four Books, one can comprehend the Confucian concepts of benevolence, loyalty and forgiveness, filial piety and fraternal duty, and the way of cultivating oneself, regulating the family, governing the state, and bringing peace to all under heaven; from the Dao De Jing, one can feel the Chinese pursuit of 天人合一 (tiān rén hé yī - "heaven and man unite as one," harmony between nature and humanity), the wisdom of 无为而治 (wú wéi ér zhì - "govern by non-action," ruling without excessive intervention), and a deep understanding of the origin of the universe; from The Art of War, one can grasp the ideas of caution in war and not waging war. These ancient wisdoms still have important practical significance today." He hopes that through these translations, the Mongolian people can better perceive the spiritual world of the Chinese.
"Reading literary works is an important way to feel the cultural depth of a country," Chimidtseye said. The Four Great Classical Novels are like "four mirrors" for the Chinese: Dream of the Red Chamber reflects the elegance of life, Water Margin highlights the spirit of chivalry, Journey to the West conveys the power of faith, and Romance of the Three Kingdoms displays a grand view of the world. "Sinologists need to continuously pay attention to the development of Chinese literature, and deeply reflect on it, in order to transmit the myriad manifestations of Chinese culture to more readers." Chimidtseye has translated a large number of Chinese literary works into Mongolian, and recently completed the translation and publication of Liu Zhenyun’s novels A Word is Worth Ten Thousand Words and One Day, Three Autumns.
Over more than 40 years of reform and opening up, China has taken a unique path of modernization and achieved leapfrog development. The Mongolian people are eager to understand China comprehensively. In 2022, China and Mongolia signed a memorandum of understanding on mutual translation and publication of classic works, and exchanges in the field of translation between the two countries have become closer. Chimidtseye and his colleagues jointly participated in compiling the Mongolian edition of Dictionary of Chinese Cultural Knowledge (中国文化知识辞典), systematically introducing excellent traditional Chinese culture, covering aspects such as thought and philosophy, aesthetic interest, folk customs, science and technology, and many others.
As a sinologist, Chimidtseye pays close attention to China’s Global Civilization Initiative (全球文明倡议). In his view, this initiative provides an important opportunity to activate the contemporary value of excellent traditional Chinese culture. "The supreme pursuit of the development of human civilization is contained within Chinese traditional wisdom—each appreciates its own beauty, appreciate the beauty of others, share and appreciate beauty together, and the world is one great harmony. Different systems, different cultures, and different ethnic groups together constitute a colorful human society. Facing civilizational differences, people should uphold a mindset as broad as the ocean (海纳百川, hǎi nà bǎi chuān - "the ocean receives a hundred rivers," broad-minded and inclusive), and strive to achieve 和而不同 (harmony in diversity). Only in this way can we fundamentally eliminate estrangement and avoid conflict," he believes.
"The joy of life lies in knowing each other’s hearts." Chimidtseye uses this to summarize his forty-year journey of bonding with China, with sinology, and with the translation cause. "In the future, I hope to excavate the rich connotations of Chinese culture by translating more works, and to show the charm of Chinese civilization to more readers."
Russian Sinologist Olga Pronkina (奥莉娅·普隆金娜)
Exchange and Mutual Learning, the Fundamental Driving Force for the Endless Continuity of Civilization
By Zeng Yichen (曾亦辰), our reporter
"The nine-colored deer is always happy to lend a helping hand to others. I also like to help others. I share a spiritual connection with the nine-colored deer." Olga Pronkina opened a Dunhuang painting album, her gaze resting on the familiar Illustration of the Deer King's Jataka (鹿王本生图). This Russian scholar, who has lived in Gansu for nearly twenty years, spoke of her connection with Dunhuang and the nine-colored deer with an enthusiasm as intense as when she first encountered them.
Pronkina’s connection with Dunhuang began with translation work. She once worked at the Gansu Cultural Translation Center (甘肃文化翻译中心) and participated in the written and on-site translation tasks for the first and second Dunhuang International Cultural Expos (敦煌文博会) in Gansu Province. Over the years, meticulously polishing texts word by word, the flying apsaras on the murals and the deities in the painted sculptures gradually came to "life" in her heart, and the nine-colored deer became her favorite cultural image. "The Deer King always selflessly rescues others, which fits very well with my life beliefs." This spiritual resonance made her happy to continuously promote cross-cultural exchange.
Pronkina settled in Lanzhou in 2009, and first entered the Mogao Caves in 2015. "When the thousand-year-old murals and painted sculptures truly appeared before my eyes, the profound history and ultimate art struck my heart directly." At that moment, she made a wish: to deeply cultivate Dunhuang studies, and to tell the story of Dunhuang comprehensively and three-dimensionally to the Russian-speaking world and beyond.
From 2015 to the present, Pronkina has systematically organized, translated, and introduced various Dunhuang documents, and participated in the Russian translation of multiple authoritative works on Dunhuang studies. She also regularly participates in the promotion of traditional Chinese folk customs such as paper-cutting and Dunhuang art as intangible cultural heritage, conducting various cultural experience activities in universities, museums, and communities. Pronkina once offered a creative course that combined traditional Russian snowflake paper-cutting with Dunhuang caisson patterns, allowing students to intuitively feel the beauty of the fusion of Eastern and Western art through practice. She said: "Immersive experience is far more infectious than text on paper, and can better let people touch the beauty of intangible cultural heritage." With the support of official translation cooperation platforms and the Russia-China Classic Works Mutual Translation Project (俄中经典著作互译工程), Pronkina’s promotion of Dunhuang has received strong support, and Dunhuang culture has entered the view of more Russian-speaking readers.
At the sub-forum "Civilizational Mutual Learning: Dialogue and Exchange in the History of Sinology" of the Third World Sinologists Conference, Pronkina shared her deep thoughts on Dunhuang: "Dunhuang culture is an important testimony of civilizational fusion on the Silk Road, and an important window for the world to understand China and to understand Eastern civilization." Multiple field visits to the Mogao Caves allowed her to understand that the ritual music of the Central Plains, the art of the Western Regions, Buddhist traditions, and nomadic customs interwove and coexisted here, creating a unique form of civilization that is inclusive and eclectic. Through the Dunhuang remains, she felt the common values of humanity that transcend regions: regardless of East or West, different civilizations all incline towards goodness and beauty, advocate the beauty of art, and record human thoughts on life, ideals, and the future.
"The countries along the ancient Silk Road exchanged needed goods and learned from each other, creating the splendor of Silk Road civilization. This fully confirms that exchange and mutual learning are the fundamental driving force for the survival and endless continuity of civilizations." Pronkina hopes to pass on these thoughts to more people, promoting different civilizations to jointly enrich humanity’s spiritual home through mutual learning and mutual nourishment. "China has always absorbed the excellent cultures of various countries with an open attitude. Various regions and universities continuously expand transnational people-to-people exchanges, and the atmosphere of non-governmental exchange is increasingly strong. These practices provide valuable experience for resolving civilizational estrangement and deepening international cooperation, and are of profound significance to the long-term development of human civilization."
Setting up special exchange funds, funding overseas researchers, jointly building joint research centers... China has provided scholars from various countries with rich documentary resources and academic exchange opportunities. As a foreign scholar deeply engaged in sinology, Pronkina is well aware that she has benefited from China’s measures to support the global development of sinology: "Now, without leaving home, I can access high-definition images of Dunhuang caves and communicate and discuss online with colleagues from various countries at any time. This was unimaginable in the past."
Pronkina stated that she will strive to complete the collation and translation of more Dunhuang documents and Silk Road classics, while actively building bridges to promote the establishment of long-term scientific research cooperation mechanisms between Russia, Central Asian countries, and Chinese universities, jointly carrying out a series of topics on Silk Road civilization. "Letting more people hear the story of Dunhuang is my mission," Pronkina said.
Italian Sinologist Luo Qiya (罗齐亚)
Ancient and Modern Reflecting Each Other, Witnessing the Beauty of Civilizational Fusion and Mutual Learning
By Xie Yahong (谢亚宏), our reporter
Entering the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, immersed in the thousand-year-old murals of Silk Road civilizational fusion; at the Hunan Provincial Museum, viewing the Mawangdui unearthed artifacts bearing the life scenes of ancient Chinese... Luo Qiya, professor at Roma Tre University and director of the Center for China and East Asian Studies (中国与东亚研究中心), said: "China is a rich and interesting country. Understanding China can help us better understand ourselves."
Luo Qiya has visited China many times before, this time to attend the Third World Sinologists Conference. She often marvels that China has a unique "magic" to connect the world: "Scholars from India, Slovenia, Tunisia, and other countries meet in China and come to know each other through sinology."
"In the Mogao Caves at Dunhuang, I saw the most representative cultural treasures of Chinese civilization, among which the Library Cave, which houses precious documents, left a particularly deep impression on me. For centuries, the multilingual manuscripts preserved here have engraved the imprint of the fusion of diverse civilizations, allowing me to truly feel the unique value of Dunhuang in connecting Chinese and foreign civilizations." This immersive visit allowed Luo Qiya to closely experience the profound history of mutual learning and fusion among different civilizations, and also deeply moved her by the exquisite skills and steadfast original intention of the ancients who refined enduring artistic masterpieces in the Gobi desert.
Luo Qiya studied under the famous Italian sinologist Federico Masini. She pursued advanced studies at Peking University and Beijing Normal University, deeply researching Sino-Western linguistics, Chinese language teaching, and Chinese social change. "Comparing different academic research in Europe and China has greatly broadened the boundaries of my thinking," Luo Qiya said. The paradigms and thinking logics of European and Chinese linguistic research differ significantly. Long-term bidirectional comparative research has helped her see the cultural core and civilizational differences behind language, and has also become her main motivation to promote academic exchanges between different countries. At Roma Tre University, she teaches the course "Language and Cultural Mediation," focusing on the cultivation of cross-cultural communication skills, dedicated to cultivating composite talents who are well-versed in diverse civilizations and skilled in equal dialogue.
In Luo Qiya’s view, estrangement and differences still exist in today’s world. Inclusiveness, mutual learning, and effective communication are the keys to breaking down barriers to cultural exchange. She highly agrees with the Global Civilization Initiative proposed by China. The Global Civilization Initiative upholds a view of civilization based on equality, mutual learning, dialogue, and inclusiveness. It advocates respecting the diversity of world civilizations, promoting the common values of all humanity, valuing civilizational heritage and innovation, and strengthening international people-to-people and cultural exchanges and cooperation. It powerfully refutes the "clash of civilizations theory," provides value guidance for the harmonious coexistence of different civilizations and the promotion of building a community with a shared future for mankind (人类命运共同体), and injects inexhaustible impetus into civilizational exchange and mutual learning.
As Roma Tre University’s representative for cooperation with China, Luo Qiya actively promotes the establishment of cooperation platforms between Roma Tre University and multiple Chinese universities such as Nankai University, Beijing Normal University, and Tongji University, regularly carrying out faculty and student exchanges, academic seminars, and teaching exchanges, using academic cooperation to support Italy-China civilizational exchange and mutual learning.
"China on screen is splendid and diverse, but China in reality is even more charming." Luo Qia hopes that more Italian youth will learn Chinese and come to China, experiencing firsthand the vitality and vigor of China in the new era. In her view, the common emotional pursuits and yearning for beauty of humanity have never changed. The encounters, mutual understanding, mutual learning, and mutual appreciation among different civilizations are ultimately processes of understanding others and understanding oneself, and also the profound significance of civilizational dialogue.
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After 9 years, China’s supercomputing has returned to the world’s top! At the international supercomputing conference held not long ago, the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen (国家超级计算深圳中心) released the new-generation “Lingsheng” supercomputing system, whose measured sustained performance reaches 2.19 EFLOPS (exaflops per second), making it the world’s first supercomputing system with sustained performance exceeding 2 EFLOPS. And this “reaching the summit” is the first time since 2017 (when Sunway TaihuLight held the top spot) that our country’s supercomputing has again ranked first globally.
How fast does “Lingsheng” compute? Put vividly, estimating on the basis of one computation per second per person, the amount of computation completed by “Lingsheng” in one second is equivalent to what 7 billion people could do in continuous computation for nearly 10 years, and its peak computing performance has taken a great leap. This brilliant achievement is not a simple change in numbers; it is full of real substance — supercomputing can be called a great power’s vital instrument, a concentrated expression of a country’s scientific research level, high-end manufacturing capability, and other strengths. Returning to the world’s top is a landmark breakthrough in the field of computing power in our country, breaking through technological barriers and moving toward self-reliance and self-strengthening, and it is inseparable from the strong support of the industrial base.
Examining the supercomputing report card and judging true technological strength depends not only on the speed of computation but also on the level of autonomous control over core technologies. In the past, many key technologies and products in the supercomputing field relied on imports, and “bottleneck” (卡脖子) problems to a certain extent restricted the high-quality development of our country’s computing power field. The supercomputing system that this time “reached the summit” achieved full-stack domestic production of key components, marking that our country’s supercomputing industry is accelerating toward a development situation of independent research and development, independent iteration, and independent leading. At present, global scientific and technological competition is becoming increasingly fierce. Core key technologies cannot be bought, begged, or exchanged — only independent innovation can let us grasp the initiative in development. The substance of this return of supercomputing to the world’s top lies precisely in the increasingly powerful autonomous and controllable capability in the high-tech field.
Looking at it on a deeper level, this report card full of substance is rooted in an increasingly complete modern industrial system and innovation ecosystem. Behind a major scientific research achievement, there is often a series of technological breakthroughs and whole-chain industrial supporting. From the perspective of the supercomputing field, relying on the advantages of a complete industrial system and broad application scenarios over many years, our country’s supercomputing technology research and development and scenario application have advanced in coordination, gradually building a complete industrial chain ecosystem covering key hardware, basic software, scenario application, and talent cultivation. From this perspective, only by accelerating the improvement of the completeness, advanced nature, and security of the modern industrial system can we cultivate a fertile soil that stimulates innovation vitality.
This real substance also lies in the broad application prospects for empowering industrial development and cultivating new quality productive forces (新质生产力). In the scientific research field, ultra-high computing power is expected to provide important support for strengthening basic research and overcoming scientific difficulties; empowering emerging industries and future industries, ultra-high computing power can achieve great things in areas such as new material research and development, biomedical sequencing, aerospace simulation testing, etc., effectively reducing enterprise research and development costs and shortening product upgrade and iteration cycles; in the field of guaranteeing people’s livelihood, it will improve the level of public services such as weather forecasting, disaster early warning, and ecological governance, making social governance more refined. In promoting development and benefiting people’s livelihood, technological innovation displays its weight.
“Lingsheng” reaching the top is both a phased success and a new starting point. The digital economy is booming, and demand for high-end computing power is steadily rising across all industries. In the future, our country’s supercomputing industry must maintain strategic resolve, persist with sustained effort (久久为功), continue to deeply cultivate core technology iteration and innovation, constantly expand diverse application scenarios in civilian, industrial, and scientific research fields, and continuously improve the whole-chain industrial ecosystem.
Innovation is the primary driving force for development. To build a modern socialist great power, the key lies in scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening. Looking at it from a broader scope, standing at the new starting point of the 15th Five-Year Plan (十五五), accelerating high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening is a question that must be answered. We must seize the historical opportunity of the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, enhance the overall effectiveness of the national innovation system, comprehensively strengthen independent innovation capability, constantly foster new quality productive forces, and use scientific and technological innovation to provide inexhaustible new momentum for achieving high-quality development.
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Some have 400 needles, rotate at up to 1800 revolutions per minute, suitable for mass production of embroidery on whole rolls of fabric; some specialize in automotive heated seats, able to precisely sew heating wires into seat cushions; and others have only a single needle, yet can complete multiple techniques such as tape embroidery, towel embroidery, laser embroidery, etc., designed specifically for private customization... Small computer embroidery machines embroider myriad exquisite details into the lives of thousands of households.
In the computer embroidery machine industry, Zhuji City, Shaoxing, Zhejiang has outstanding strength: the entire industry chain output value exceeds 15 billion yuan, accounting for about 90% of the domestic market share and about 80% of the global market share, with a growth rate of over 20% for six consecutive years.
From a small agricultural machinery factory to being 家喻户晓 (jiā yù hù xiǎo - "known in every household," widely known): a "Flying Eagle" strings together an industry.
In Zhuji's Huandong Street, over 50 computer embroidery machine complete machine production enterprises and more than 80 parts and components supporting manufacturers gather here. From control systems to precision machinery, from parts to complete machine assembly, the entire embroidery machine industry chain is fully laid out.
In Huandong Street, there is a name that can be called known in every household. That is Flying Eagle — Zhejiang Flying Eagle Sewing Equipment Co., Ltd. It is the starting point of the local computer embroidery machine industry, and also an unavoidable collective memory.
According to Chen Zhenming, president of the Zhuji Computer Embroidery Machine Industry Association, in the 1970s, there was a lime-burning workshop locally. The handcarts always broke down, so the workshop specially set up a repair team. Gradually, this team began repairing agricultural machinery, and later simply established an agricultural machinery factory, which was the predecessor of Flying Eagle. Chen Zhenming's father was the then factory director. As business expanded, the factory secured the production business for parts of Shanghai's Butterfly brand sewing machines.
In 1989, the Shanghai Sewing Machine Factory developed a computer embroidery machine. The news reached Zhuji, and everyone became restless. Chen Zhenming recalled that his father's generation calculated an account: at that time, the parts factory's annual output value was less than 2 million yuan, but developing a computer embroidery machine required an investment of more than 200,000 yuan. However, one machine could sell for more than 100,000 yuan, and making 10 machines would roughly equal the factory's entire annual output value.
In 1992, despite both opportunities and risks coexisting, this small rural factory still made a bold decision: to launch the embroidery machine project and enter the complete machine field. So the factory borrowed 400,000 yuan from the bank, formed a 10-person R&D team, and also hired technicians from Shanghai. Six months later, the factory's first computer embroidery machine successfully came out. Compared to the large enterprises' machines with 9 needles and 12 heads, Flying Eagle, based on the actual needs of customers at the time, positioned the equipment at 1 needle and 6 heads.
"Small equipment was more suitable for the development of enterprises at that time, as it could both meet production needs and reduce costs, because large equipment cost more than 300,000 yuan per unit, while Flying Eagle's was only 100,000 yuan," Chen Zhenming said.
As soon as the product came out, it was first noticed by a shirt factory in Yiwu. Subsequently, sock factories in Zhuji's Datang Street and sweater factories in Haining, Jiaxing also came to place orders. The following year, Flying Eagle's embroidery machine output value exceeded 10 million yuan, and two years later, annual production exceeded 3,000 units, with production and sales ranking first in Zhejiang and second in the country. It was also around that time that overseas customers began to come attracted by reputation, tentatively placing some small-batch orders.
In 1998, Flying Eagle completed its restructuring. After that, the factory's technical and sales key personnel began to start their own businesses one after another, and thus the Zhuji embroidery machine industry entered a period of rapid development. "At that time, hundreds of embroidery machine enterprises suddenly emerged in Zhuji, and the persons in charge were either technicians who had come out of Flying Eagle or salespeople." Chen Zhenming also founded Zhejiang Shengming Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. that year.
At the same time, a group of Zhuji natives who were outside and had sensed business opportunities also returned to their hometowns to start businesses, and the embroidery machine industry grew larger and larger.
Today, from parts to complete machine manufacturing, from control systems to intelligent supporting facilities, Zhuji has formed a complete industrial ecosystem, sweeping the top 6 of the "Top Ten of China's Embroidery Machine Industry."
It is worth mentioning that the local leading computer embroidery machine enterprise — Zhejiang Xinsheng Technology Co., Ltd. passed the review of the Beijing Stock Exchange listing committee in March 2026. Zhuji is about to welcome the first domestically listed company with embroidery machine as its main business.
From silently catching up to proudly leading the race: practicing "embroidery skills" hard to knock open the global market.
Industrial development has never been 一帆风顺 (yī fān fēng shùn - "one sail, smooth wind," smooth sailing). Around 2008, Zhuji had over 300 computer embroidery machine enterprises, most of them crowded on the low-end track, fighting price wars with 头破血流 (tóu pò xuè liú - "head broken, blood flowing," to fight fiercely). Finally, two-thirds of the enterprises were integrated and eliminated, and the ones that survived basically relied on innovative development.
Zhou Weilu, deputy director of Huandong Street Subdistrict Office, said that over the years, the street has been guiding enterprises to increase investment in core technologies, pushing enterprises to increase annual R&D investment by more than 15%.
In this process of industrial breakout, upgrading, and moving towards the global high-end market, we must mention a key player — Zhejiang Dahao Technology Co., Ltd. Its parent company, Beijing Dahao Technology Co., Ltd., is the pioneer of China's computer embroidery machine industry, having achieved a breakthrough from 0 to 1 in domestically produced embroidery control systems.
As early as 1987, Beijing Dahao Technology successfully developed the first domestically produced embroidery machine electronic control system with independent intellectual property rights. In 2005, Zhejiang Dahao Technology settled in Huandong Street, deeply rooted in the core domestic embroidery industry cluster. In 2008, to be close to the industrial cluster and quickly respond to the needs of complete machine customers, Zhejiang Dahao Technology invested in building an 11-mu supporting service and intelligent manufacturing production base in Zhuji. After years of expansion and upgrading, the base has now expanded to 34 mu, with nearly 600 employees, and the production capacity of the Beijing headquarters is gradually and orderly transferred to the Zhuji industrial base. Automation, digital intelligence, and personalized innovation have always been the R&D direction of Zhejiang Dahao Technology. Currently, over 80% of Zhuji's embroidery machine complete machine enterprises have installed the "intelligent core" developed by Zhejiang Dahao Technology.
"In the future, we will continue to embrace cutting-edge new technologies, deeply strengthen the application of frontier technologies such as artificial intelligence on the company's full series of electronic control product platforms, continuously iterate intelligent electronic control solutions, and continuously expand domestic and international market share," said Wu Di, administrative manager of Zhejiang Dahao Technology.
Zhejiang Dahao Technology also invested and incubated Zhuji Light Industry Era Robot Technology Co., Ltd. in the local area. Recently, technicians from Light Industry Era are busy assembling and optimizing the intelligent dual-spool bobbin winder robot. This product was recognized as a "First Set (Set) of Equipment in Zhejiang Province," and after multiple upgrades, it was launched to the market this year with a new look, driving the company's first-quarter orders to increase by more than 30% year-on-year.
"Our robot series products have great potential in the fields of embroidery, sewing, and knitting," said Xu Haimiao, general manager of Light Industry Era. The company invests about 8% of its revenue into R&D each year, responding to the hot market on the demand side with continuous innovation on the supply side.
With the "brain" of Zhejiang Dahao Technology and the "hands and feet" of Light Industry Era, the embroidery machine complete machine enterprises have reached 更上层楼 (gèng shàng céng lóu - "go up another floor," to reach a higher level).
Zhejiang Pumeike Intelligent Embroidery Equipment Co., Ltd. is one of the outstanding ones. This enterprise integrates technologies such as artificial intelligence, visual positioning, and graphics computing power assistance into its products. The ultra-high-speed embroidery machine it launched has higher precision, and its embroidery speed is increased by more than 30% compared to traditional products. It became a market hit as soon as it was launched. In the first four months of this year, the company achieved sales revenue of 538 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 46%.
In Huandong Street, there is also a group of enterprises that have chosen differentiated tracks.
Zhejiang Xingyue Sewing Equipment Co., Ltd. has shifted to R&D of household small computer embroidery machines since 2008, mainly targeting the European and American markets. The desktop embroidery machine the company is currently debugging supports functions such as photo embroidery, graffiti embroidery, text embroidery, and its speed is not inferior to large embroidery machines, and is expected to be launched by the end of the year.
Shengming Technology's self-developed fully automatic winding embroidery machine, called a "special machine" in the industry, is mainly used for manufacturing automotive heated seats. It can precisely sew heating wires into seat cushions, and now occupies one-third of the global market share.
At the same time, the local area is accelerating exploration of the possibility of cross-border integration between the embroidery machine industry and other characteristic industries — relying on the Datang hosiery and Yaojiang footwear clusters, combining fine embroidery with socks and shoes; exploring AI embroidery customization for pet clothing in Paitou Town; integrating pearl elements from Shanxiahu Town into embroidery techniques; developing embroidery cultural tourism products in Xishi's hometown...
"After more than 20 years of development, the most important factor for the continued prosperity of the Zhuji embroidery machine industry to this day is hard practice of 'embroidery skills', turning attention to the international high-end market," said Guo Xuefeng, director of Huandong Street Subdistrict Office. The continuous emergence of new technologies and new products has made Zhuji embroidery machines more and more famous in the industry, and their market share has also become higher and higher.
From selling products to participating in standard setting: "Zhuji Smart Embroidery" embroiders to the world.
During interviews in Huandong Street, almost every enterprise can tell one or two stories about dealing with overseas customers. The machines here have long been operating not only in workshops in Zhejiang.
Today, Zhuji embroidery machines have been sold to more than 80 countries and regions. Among them, India, Pakistan, Turkey, and Egypt are the main markets. In 2025, Zhuji's total export amount of embroidery machines reached 798 million US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 53.01%.
Under the guidance of the local government and the Zhuji Computer Embroidery Machine Industry Association, enterprises going overseas has become the norm. The embroidery machine association was established in 2004, currently has 95 member companies, and regularly organizes enterprises to participate in international exhibitions, conduct market research, and participate in standard setting.
"From OEM to independent brands, from selling products to exporting technology, Zhuji embroidery machines are moving up step by step on the global value chain," Chen Zhenming said.
As a leading enterprise in Zhuji's embroidery machine export, Zhejiang Yuelong Sewing Equipment Co., Ltd.'s products are sold far to Europe, America, and countries jointly building the "Belt and Road." In 2025, sales exceeded 1.2 billion yuan. At last year's China International Sewing Equipment Exhibition, Yuelong Sewing's exhibited lace positioning embroidery products shone with 大放异彩 (dà fàng yì cǎi - "to emit extraordinary brilliance," to shine brilliantly), with production efficiency doubled compared to traditional models. Before the official launch, they had already received hundreds of orders. Currently, the company's orders are scheduled for production until September, with overseas orders accounting for over 70%.
Relying on solid technical strength and stable production capacity, Yuelong Sewing's single-head computer embroidery machine has realized the combination of tape embroidery, towel embroidery, and laser embroidery, becoming a hot choice in the high-end customization market. "In the past, Zhuji enterprises chased after overseas customers; now customers come to us proactively," said Chen Tianchi, chairman of Yuelong Sewing.
Facing challenges such as changes in the international market and exchange rate fluctuations, Zhuji embroidery machine enterprises have also shown strong resilience. On one hand, they actively explore diversified markets. While maintaining traditional markets such as India and Pakistan, the export growth rate to Central Asia and Latin America has accelerated significantly. On the other hand, they increase R&D investment to enhance product added value, using technological advantages to offset price competition. The proportion of high-end model exports has increased from about 20% two years ago to nearly 40% currently.
At present, Zhuji is stepping up the construction of an embroidery machine future industry community, planning a "one corridor, two wings" layout — the core corridor tackles "bottleneck" (卡脖子) technologies, one wing strengthens high-end manufacturing, and the other wing enlivens cultural and creative consumption and aesthetics fields. Many leading enterprises have confirmed their settlement to solve the "brain" and "heart" problems of embroidery machines.
"In the next five years, the goal for the entire industry chain of Zhuji embroidery machines is to exceed 30 billion yuan," said Gao Song, member of the Standing Committee of the Zhuji Municipal Committee and Vice Mayor. Huandong Street will continue to vigorously promote the development of the embroidery machine industry towards intelligent, high-end, and international directions, consolidate its global leading position, and let "Zhuji Smart Embroidery" embroider across the country and to the world.
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Making a frontline summary of green finance well is no small challenge. The editorial team of this book took a media perspective, went down to the front line, and fished out and organized scattered cases—this is highly valuable. The entire book contains 20 cases, categorized into five major product types: green credit, green bonds, green funds, green insurance, and green leasing. They cover diverse scenarios from central to local, from state-owned enterprises to private enterprises, and from domestic to overseas, relatively completely restoring the frontline ecology of China's green finance.
Reading carefully, one will find that these cases are not a mere pile of fragmented samples, but rather implicitly follow the three-layer development脉络 (vein) of China's green finance market:
The first layer is international alignment at the sovereign level. For example, the Ministry of Finance's issuance of the first green RMB sovereign bonds—essentially, against the backdrop of diverse international green finance standards, this proactively exports Chinese standards and expands the international space for RMB green assets. The second layer is model innovation at the industrial level. For instance, Mengniu's overseas issuance of the world's first sustainability-themed "dim sum bonds" in the global dairy industry deeply binds green financial instruments with the transformation needs of traditional agriculture and animal husbandry, providing a replicable market-based solution for green financing of high-emission traditional industries. The third layer is inclusive exploration at the livelihood level. For example, CITIC Financial Leasing, through an industry-finance integration model, connects distributed photovoltaics to farmers' rooftops, exploring a local path for inclusive green finance. The simultaneous advancement of these three layers of practice is precisely the distinctive feature that distinguishes China's green finance from other markets—it is not a single-dimensional market evolution, but a systemic transformation driven jointly by national strategy, industrial demand, and livelihood value.
Behind these cases lies the underlying logic of China's green transformation. The deep driving force of China's green transformation has always been the two-wheel drive of "institutional guidance plus market endogenous forces." All successful practices, in essence, are sustainable paths ultimately explored by business entities actively seeking a balance between commercial value and social responsibility within a given institutional environment. This kind of exploration is often accompanied by breakthroughs in original business boundaries and reconstruction of traditional profit models, and inevitably goes through repeated trials and adjustments. This is precisely the consistent logic of China's economic development: the general direction is anchored by national strategy, while the specific paths and methods are explored, verified, and optimized by countless micro-entities in practice.
From a research perspective, this book also has a special value: it provides solid empirical material for the localized study of green finance. The cases recorded in the book—such as green financing for agriculture and animal husbandry, county-level photovoltaic leasing, and linkage between domestic and overseas markets—are original explorations based on China's national conditions, which cannot be simply explained by Western theories. They offer China's reference for developing countries promoting green transformation, a path different from that of Europe and America.
Green transformation is a long, systemic change that requires both continuous improvement of top-level design and constant frontline practice, trial, and accumulation. Systematically gathering the exploratory experience scattered across various institutions and fields is both a micro-review of the past decade of green finance development and a practical mirror for later practitioners and researchers, ultimately promoting the two-way iteration of theory and practice. The authors of this book have patiently done this "slow work"—they did not stop at simple interpretation of policy, nor were they satisfied with a plain narrative of cases. Instead, they truly plunged into the front line, capturing the practical texture of China's green finance and writing out the thinking and action of business entities amid transformation.
(The author is Dean of the Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, and Boya Distinguished Professor of Peking University.)
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On the basketball court of Haibin Middle School (海滨中学) in Shenzhen, Guangdong, a young person suddenly collapsed and lost consciousness during exercise, experiencing cardiac arrest. Teachers and students present quickly used an AED (automated external defibrillator) to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the young person, saving their life. On the football field of Lanzhou University in Gansu, a foreign exchange student suddenly suffered cardiac arrest while playing football and lost consciousness. A doctor present immediately began rescue efforts, and soon the student regained consciousness... Recently, multiple people in cardiac arrest have been successfully rescued by bystanders, which is deeply reassuring.
Mastering first aid skills can save lives at critical moments. People who encounter sudden accidents such as trauma, cardiac arrest, or airway obstruction, if they cannot receive scientific rescue in the first instance, are likely to suffer irreversible damage or even lose their lives. Taking cardiac arrest as an example: once cardiac arrest occurs, blood oxygen cannot reach the brain, and the oxygen and blood sugar in brain cells will be depleted within a few minutes. Because the sudden illness strikes abruptly, many people miss the optimal rescue opportunity due to a lack of first aid knowledge. Increasing the popularization rate of social first aid knowledge and skills, enabling more people to know how to give first aid and dare to give first aid, can save many lives.
As early as May 2022, 13 departments including the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委), the Ministry of Education (教育部), and the Red Cross Society of China (中国红十字会总会) jointly issued the "Notice on Carrying out the 'Care for Life, Rescue at Hand' (关爱生命 救在身边) Activity," requiring localities to configure first aid equipment in public places and strengthen first aid training for practitioners in transportation, sports, scenic spots, schools, and other sectors. Over the past four years, the activity has achieved good results. Data released by the Red Cross Society of China shows that as of the end of 2025, the national Red Cross system had conducted a total of over 6.21 million person-times of emergency rescue certification training, and configured over 86,000 AEDs in places such as schools, subway stations, train stations, and airports.
However, it should also be noted that compared to the huge population base, the number of people in our country who possess first aid knowledge and skills is not large enough, the proportion of people with first aid training certificates to the total population is relatively low, and the AED configuration rate in public places is still not high enough. Therefore, it is still necessary to strengthen first aid knowledge and skills training, enhance the configuration of first aid equipment, and improve the first aid capabilities of the entire population.
Place the focus of first aid training on skills training. Often, when encountering an emergency, people have basic first aid knowledge but do not know how to operate, and can only be anxious in vain. Therefore, when carrying out first aid training, in addition to basic first aid knowledge, it is necessary to repeatedly train trainees' operational skills. Only when skills are up to standard can trainees be issued training certificates. Under normal circumstances, if a skill is not used frequently, people are likely to forget it after a long time. Therefore, first aid training cannot be a once-and-for-all effort (一劳永逸, yī láo yǒng yì - "one effort, eternal ease," meaning a permanent solution) and needs to be re-trained after a period of time. Particularly in public places such as stations, gymnasiums, schools, and scenic spots, where the probability of accidents is higher, repeated first aid training for staff should be carried out so that first aid skills become their essential skills.
Increase the configuration rate of first aid equipment in public places. When encountering an accident, if there are no first aid equipment and tools, rescue is likely to fail. For example, in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, besides artificial respiration and chest compressions, using an AED to help the heart resume beating is also a key step. Therefore, in conspicuous locations in public places with high foot traffic such as stations, gymnasiums, schools, scenic spots, and office buildings, first aid kits (bags), AEDs, medical boxes, etc., should be equipped to facilitate the public's quick search and use. In the past two years, some places have explored setting up "mobile AEDs," achieving preliminary results. For instance, cities such as Beijing and Shenzhen have piloted ride-hailing vehicle-mounted AED volunteer services, with drivers becoming "mobile emergency rescue pioneers" and commercial vehicles transforming into "mobile emergency response units."
The law protects the rights and interests of rescuers, enabling more people to dare to extend a helping hand. Some people worry that they might cause harm to the person being rescued during rescue and thus bear responsibility. Article 184 of our country's Civil Code clearly stipulates: "If a person voluntarily implements emergency rescue conduct and causes damage to the recipient, the rescuer shall not bear civil liability." This provides legal protection for well-intentioned rescuers and eliminates the rescuers' 后顾之忧 (hòu gù zhī yōu - "worries from behind," lingering concerns about consequences).
First aid concerns everyone's life safety. Strengthening the construction of first aid capabilities is an inherent part of building a Healthy China. The "Healthy China Initiative (2019–2030)" (健康中国行动（2019—2030年）) proposes encouraging the development of mass emergency rescue training, and by 2030 raising the proportion of people who have obtained first aid training certificates to 3% or above. Achieving this goal requires everyone to work together. When everyone learns first aid, knows first aid, and dares to give first aid, life gains an extra measure of safety, and society gains an extra measure of peace of mind.
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A girl who had long suffered from diabetes throws away her insulin pen, enjoying a sweet birthday cake without worrying about the “sweet burden”; a patient with end-stage heart failure receives a domestically made artificial heart, sitting in a sunlit ward and looking forward to the future with her loved one; a stroke patient, wearing an EEG cap, uses his mind to drive the “Lingxi Finger (灵犀指),” once again picking up a small spoon for eating…
For patients, what medical innovation should bring are tangible changes—the peace of mind to return to normal life, to eat without worry, to fall asleep peacefully, to travel alone, and the reassurance that their life plans will no longer be interrupted by disease at any moment. Only when it makes patients’ lives “sweeter” does the taste of medical innovation become sweet.
From identifying problems in the clinic to solving them in the laboratory; from verifying value clinically to amplifying value in industry… In recent years, facing the new demands of the people for life and health, Tianjin has vigorously cultivated new quality productive forces in health, promoted deep integration of medical science and technology innovation with industrial innovation, and enabled more cutting-edge technologies to move from the “laboratory” to the “production line,” from “samples” to “products,” and from the “first case” to “universal access.”
Looking at original innovation from a single cell
Recently, a patient at Tianjin First Central Hospital (天津市第一中心医院) said goodbye to insulin and welcomed the third “new life anniversary” of her life.
In 2023, the world’s first chemically reprogrammed stem cell-derived islet transplant surgery was completed at Tianjin First Central Hospital. A woman in her early twenties, diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 16, had her life almost “tied down” by glucose meters and insulin pens. She had undergone two liver transplants and one pancreas transplant, yet still could not escape the shadow of complications. The team of Deng Hongkui (邓宏魁) at Peking University, the teams of Shen Zhongyang (沈中阳) and Wang Shusen (王树森) at Tianjin First Central Hospital, and Hangzhou Ruipu Chenchuang Technology Co., Ltd. (杭州瑞普晨创科技有限公司) collaborated to carry out a clinical research project on islet transplantation derived from chemically reprogrammed pluripotent stem cells. She became the first clinical trial participant. On the 75th day after surgery, she completely stopped using insulin. One year later, she climbed Mount Tai alone at night and sent Wang Shusen a WeChat message from the summit: “The sunrise is truly beautiful!” Recently, she has completed a three-year post-transplant follow-up, and all indicators remain in a state of functional cure.
In September 2024, this clinical achievement was published in the top international journal Cell and was named the Best Paper of the Year. This achievement fills the gap in curing major metabolic diseases with stem cells, marks the successful clinical functional cure of type 1 diabetes through China’s islet transplant technology, and establishes China’s global leadership position in this field.
Ten years ago, China’s diabetes researchers faced a “chokepoint” problem. The country lacked standardized human islet resources, and the vast majority of research could only rely on islets from mice or pigs, resulting in huge differences from human physiological data, severely restricting clinical translation.
In 2018, Wang Shusen, director of the Cell Therapy Department at Tianjin First Central Hospital, led his team to establish the country’s first “Human Islet Resource Sharing Center,” build a standardized human islet preparation system, and take the lead in formulating industry norms and standards such as the Chinese clinical islet preparation technical operation specification and human islet standards. This move not only resolved the predicament of scientific research having 无米之炊 (wú mǐ zhī chuī - “cook without rice,” an impossible task due to lack of basic resources) but also laid the resource foundation for independent innovation in China’s diabetes field.
A reporter saw at the Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) laboratory in the Shuixi campus of Tianjin First Central Hospital that the research team, relying on internationally advanced preparation processes, was meticulously maintaining the activity and function of islets, making final preparations for their entry into clinical use and the restoration of patients’ blood glucose stability.
In recent years, the team has completed a key leap from technological breakthroughs to system establishment: taking the lead in formulating four industry guidelines, including the Technical Operation Specification for Islet Transplantation Clinical Practice and the Chinese Expert Consensus on Clinical Islet Preparation Technology, and promoting this standardized and replicable Chinese solution to more than ten medical centers across the country.
Standing at a new starting point, Wang Shusen’s team is targeting future directions for tackling key problems: on one hand, delving deeply into the mechanisms of long-term islet survival and functional maintenance to solve core difficulties in the later stages of transplantation; on the other hand, building a standardized technology promotion system to accelerate clinical translation and enable cutting-edge technologies to benefit more patients. At the same time, by deepening the construction of the human islet resource sharing platform, opening up the production-academia-research chain, and stimulating the source innovation vitality of China’s diabetes field, they aim to light a beacon of hope for hundreds of millions of diabetes patients worldwide with Chinese technology and Chinese standards.
By the shore of Bolong Lake in Binhai High-tech Zone, the Cell Ecology Haihe Laboratory (细胞生态海河实验室) stands quietly. Inside the laboratory, clean workshops, testing platforms, and incubation spaces are orderly distributed, and scientific explorations around cell ecology, cell therapy, and gene therapy are advancing.
As the core of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei “Cell Valley,” the laboratory focuses on five major directions: cell ecology system, cell ecology and immunity, cell ecology imbalance and major diseases, cell ecology reconstruction, and cutting-edge technologies. It actively promotes original innovation “from 0 to 1” and the transformation of achievements “from 1 to N.”
“In the past, some scientific research achievements were considered complete once a paper was published. But to truly face patients and industry, we need to keep going,” said Hao Sha (郝莎), deputy director of the Cell Ecology Haihe Laboratory. “One of our important goals is to connect basic research, clinical research, and achievement transformation, so that original achievements can leave the laboratory faster.”
Relying on the first provincial-level regional preparation center for cell and gene products in northern China, the laboratory is accelerating the opening of the “last mile” of achievement transformation, becoming a powerful engine driving the high-quality development of the regional biomedical industry. To date, the laboratory has incubated and introduced a total of 54 enterprises and has opened the international transport route for the first Chinese domestic intellectual property CAR-T cell drug.
Looking at medical-engineering integration from one heart
On June 16, an artificial heart implantation surgery was performed at Tianjin TEDA International Cardiovascular Hospital (天津泰达国际心血管病医院). Hospital director Liu Xiaocheng (刘晓程) personally performed the operation, replacing the heart of a patient with end-stage heart failure with the “Rocket Heart 2.0 (火箭心2.0)” artificial heart.
Liu Xiaocheng explained that the artificial heart does not simply replace the human heart; it uses a ventricular assist device to help the failing heart unload and continuously pump blood into the arterial system. It can serve as a bridge while waiting for a heart transplant or as a long-term life support solution. This small “pump” implanted in the body tests core technologies including materials, power, fluid dynamics, control, and anticoagulation, as well as the comprehensive ability of the clinical team to manage patients over the long term.
Since 2009, Tianjin TEDA International Cardiovascular Hospital, together with the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (中国运载火箭技术研究院) and other units, has developed an implantable magnetically levitated ventricular assist device, named the “Rocket Heart.”
From the healthy survival of the experimental sheep “Tianjiu” implanted with the “Rocket Heart,” to the successful completion of the first life-saving surgery using the “Rocket Heart,” and then to the successful minimally invasive artificial heart implantation, the “Rocket Heart” has gone through more than ten years of tackling key problems. Being lighter, smaller, and more reliable is the direction of iteration. The new generation “Rocket Heart 2.0” weighs about 75 grams, further lightweighted and miniaturized compared with its predecessor, with continuous optimization in blood compatibility, magnetic suspension design, and other aspects. To date, the hospital has performed more than one hundred “Rocket Heart” implantation surgeries, treating patients ranging in age from 5 to 76 years old.
The birth of an artificial heart relies on a complete system of medical-engineering collaboration. Doctors best know what the patient’s body needs and are most familiar with every challenge the device may encounter after entering the human body; engineers use materials, structures, and algorithms to respond to each clinical problem one by one. Every real-time feedback on the operating table and every subtle change in follow-up records can become the starting point for the next generation product iteration.
Liu Xiaocheng said: “True medical-engineering integration is deep collaboration between doctors and engineers, focusing for a long time on solving patients’ clinical problems together.” Countless discussions, experiments, and improvements have ultimately accumulated into the innovation capability of domestic high-end medical devices and provided a new engine for life for end-stage heart failure patients.
In November 2025, the artificial heart was included in Tianjin’s medical insurance, greatly reducing patients’ financial burden. In April 2026, the new generation artificial heart “Rocket Heart 2.0” began a national multi-center clinical trial. With the world’s lightest volume and weight, super anticoagulation ability, and other performances, it became a global benchmark for the third generation of artificial hearts, achieving a historic leap from following to leading for domestically made artificial hearts.
In the ward, 53-year-old Mr. Xu sits by the bed, chatting casually with his wife who is accompanying him. He is a beneficiary of the “Rocket Heart 2.0” artificial heart. Previously, congestive heart failure repeatedly pushed him into danger. As the disease progressed to the end stage, conventional drug treatment had limited effect, and heart transplantation faced a shortage of donors. Receiving a domestically made artificial heart became his only hope for extending life. Now, although he still needs to carry a charging device on his back, with this “heart” accompanying him, he can live a normal life again.
At present, the medical team and engineering team at Tianjin TEDA International Cardiovascular Hospital continue to deepen their integration, tackling the key technology for wireless charging of the artificial heart. In the near future, patients implanted with an artificial heart may be able to charge wirelessly outside the body, completely bidding farewell to wired charging devices.
Looking at clinical translation from one EEG cap
“Don’t move your hand, just think with your mind.” At Tianjin Huanhu Hospital (天津市环湖医院), Mr. Zhang put on an EEG cap with 64 electrodes, and staff fixed the “Lingxi Finger” device to his wrist. After a few minutes of preparation, he began to try to “command his fingers with his mind.” The screen recorded changes in EEG signals, the device responded accordingly, and his fingers completed the action, stacking two blocks together.
In 2023, Mr. Zhang suddenly suffered a stroke, severely impairing the function of his right side. He could not walk or eat independently. After a strict evaluation by physicians, he was enrolled in a brain-computer interface rehabilitation training program. “I train about one hour a day. After practicing a few times, the motor ability of my hand and arm improved significantly. Suddenly one day, I could pick up a small spoon, and soon I started eating by myself,” he said.
This is a real case from the nation’s first comprehensive brain-computer interface clinical trial ward. By collecting EEG signals, identifying motor intentions, and giving external feedback, doctors and researchers aim to help stroke, traumatic brain injury, and other patients re-establish active rehabilitation training pathways.
Huanhu Hospital has established deep cooperation with Tianjin University (天津大学), co-building the Clinical Center of the Haihe Laboratory of Brain-Computer Interaction and Human-Machine Integration (脑机交互与人机共融海河实验室临床中心), comprehensively opening up the full-chain development path of brain-computer interface from basic research, technology translation, clinical application, to benefiting patients. Huanhu Hospital has also built an EEG database and a brain function assessment center. For different patients with cerebrovascular disease, traumatic brain injury, disorders of consciousness, neurological rehabilitation, cognitive impairment, epilepsy, etc., it integrates artificial intelligence algorithms, big data analysis, brain structure imaging, clinical diagnosis and treatment information, and rehabilitation assessment data to perform deep mining, feature extraction, pattern recognition, and intelligent decoding of EEG signals.
At the Brain-Computer Interface Future Industry Conference held during the 2026 World Intelligence Industry Expo, the “Shengong-Shenchi (神工—神驰)” brain-spinal cord-body high-performance composite neural regulation rehabilitation system, collaboratively translated by the Haihe Laboratory of Brain-Computer Interaction and Human-Machine Integration, the National Engineering Research Center for Neuromodulation (神经调控国家工程研究中心), Huanhu Hospital, Suishi Intelligence (燧世智能), Pins Medical (品驰医疗), and Tianjin Brain-Computer Interface Industry Group (天津市脑机接口产业集团), made its international debut, marking the entry of the “Shengong” series into a new stage of development.
This year, Tianjin University’s undergraduate major “Brain-Computer Science and Technology” was approved for establishment, becoming the country’s first brain-computer interface major recruiting undergraduate students; Huanhu Hospital’s brain department (brain-computer interface direction) was approved as a national key clinical specialty construction project. From talent cultivation to technology research and development, and then to clinical application, Tianjin is forging a complete path on the future industry track of brain-computer interfaces.
As one of the earliest domestic teams engaged in brain-computer interaction research, the Haihe Laboratory of Brain-Computer Interaction team, led by Tianjin University, has built the world’s largest patent pool for brain-computer interaction. Three core indicators—EEG recognition accuracy, number of control commands, and information transmission rate—have reached internationally leading levels, forming a system of achievements with fully independent intellectual property rights.
Brain-computer interface related research primarily targets stroke patients and others, requiring comprehensive assessment of onset time, neural plasticity, underlying diseases, and training tolerance to ensure safety. In the ward, patients undergo non-invasive EEG cap signal acquisition. The system builds personalized models based on the discharge patterns of brain regions corresponding to different actions, then provides feedback through repeated training. The hospital is also equipped with an infrared motion capture system to quantitatively record changes in patients’ gait, limb movements, etc., so that rehabilitation effects are not just “feeling better” but are supported by data, indicators, and comparability.
To date, Huanhu Hospital has completed more than 80 cases of non-invasive brain-computer interface research exploration and, in cooperation with Tianjin University, has collected approximately 600 hours of clinical data. Preliminary observations show that some patients have improved limb function after training; however, some patients experienced regression in effects after discharge, indicating that brain-computer interface rehabilitation cannot stop at inpatient training but also requires exploration of home continuation therapy and long-term follow-up models.
The more the technology attracts attention, the cooler the heads must remain. Tong Xiaoguang (佟小光), Party secretary and director of Huanhu Hospital, stated that brain-computer interfaces are not “mind reading” and are far from reaching the stage of “directly conversing with the brain.” Whether invasive or non-invasive, they are essentially still at the stage of signal recognition, instruction simulation, and repeated training. Many current studies are still small-sample, case-based explorations. To truly enter clinical application, multi-center studies, controlled trials, and long-term observations are needed.
“Not envying the 繁花似锦 (fán huā sì jǐn - ‘riot of flowers like brocade,’ flourishing splendor) upstairs, but willing to be the bedrock pillar downstairs.” Tong Xiaoguang said that Huanhu Hospital places great importance on laying a solid foundation. On one hand, it insists on starting with lower-risk non-invasive brain-computer interfaces, emphasizing the principle of minimal harm to patients; on the other hand, it establishes a rapid ethical review mechanism to improve research efficiency while complying with regulations. This prudence is precisely the greatest confidence for clinical translation.
Starting from an EEG cap, Huanhu Hospital is putting “future technology” to the test within clinical rules, using clinical evidence as the basis and patient safety as the bottom line, striving to ensure that every innovative technology withstands the test of time.
Wang Xudong (王栩冬), director of the Tianjin Municipal Health Commission (天津市卫生健康委), said: “During the ‘15th Five-Year Plan’ period, we will start from four links—technological source creation, technology translation, application scenarios, and ecological incubation—to strive to build Tianjin into a healthy and livable city and a national medical highland, allowing the people to share the sweet fruits of medical innovation.”
Return to TopBy: 峭 岩
In today's fireworks
Above the space-time
I see standing bones and standing blood
The Long March, a bold, world-startling verse
A group of people in straw sandals and puttees
How imposing they are
They lived before us
Lived with human dignity, becoming stars and banners
They live on after us
Still with the eagle's vigor, the shape of fire
In times of peril there is always the courage of fire
The edge of a sword
The Long March, flashing from the map
A sharp sword
A torrent of iron
Pointing straight to the heavens
The Red Army were those who pierced the sky
Using blood to hold aloft the red flag
Renaming the earth
Rewriting the course of a war
These people, named the Red Army by the era
Climbed snow-covered mountains, crossed grasslands
Stepped over the cold moon of Jiajin Mountain
Breached the iron chains of the Dadu River
They were men who carried thunder in their bosoms
Who tucked their heads into their belts
The heroic spirit turned into a rainbow
Spreading out as a road
Ninety years have passed
The fog has dispersed, the snow has melted
The sky has cleared, the flowers have bloomed
This is what our predecessors experienced
A history of iron and blood
This is what is carved by the knife, forged by iron
The Long March
This is what is watered by blood, fought with fire
The Long March
No matter how life evolves
No matter how the times change
It is engraved on the chest of history
Shining with the sun and moon
Sounding in unison with mountains and rivers
On my writing desk
There is a "three-edged stone"
With a temperature below zero, cold like iron
Sharp as a sword, with the power of flame
It comes from a martyr's grave along the Long March
It is a drop of blood I picked up
It accompanies my life
Fording the storms of existence
When I picked it up, it was already dusk
The west wind fierce, tearing at my clothes
I do not know whether it was reluctant to let go of my steps
Or I could not bear to part with its gaze
Bending down to pick it up
A piece of the martyr's soul
A fragment of remembrance and reverence
Three rough edges
One side is blood
One side is fire
One side is itself
Oh, the eternally不朽 Long March
Oh, those burning, striving lives
Upholding us
Singing all the way
Trudging through dust all the way
Bones, still jointing
Blood and spirit, still rising
By: 南风子
There is a name that, upon seeing it for the first time, I could not forget and was deeply shaken by.
It is called "Geng Huang" (耕荒). "Geng" is the "geng" of plowing and sowing; "Huang" is the "huang" of barren sand. Reading the two characters together is like a hoe striking into the soil — resounding, powerful, carrying a kind of stubbornness.
The person who gave this name to his child was Lan Diyu (蓝蒂裕), from Dianjiang, Sichuan (now part of Chongqing), a member of the Communist Party. He had worked as a distributor of the Xinhua Daily (新华日报) for the Chongqing Seamen's Union and secretly handled internal Party communications and liaison work. In the winter of 1948, he was unfortunately arrested and eventually imprisoned in the Zhazidong (渣滓洞) detention center at the foot of Geleshan (歌乐山). The character "Lan Huzi" (蓝胡子) in the novel Red Crag (红岩) and the film Immortality in Flames (烈火中永生) was modeled on him.
The name "Geng Huang" was given at the birth of his eldest son in 1944. This name is rich in profound meaning.
In October 1949, Chongqing was in the darkness just before dawn. Behind the iron bars, he knew that he might not live to see the light of day.
What could he leave as a farewell to his eldest son?
He wrote a letter to his family.
This family letter was very special — it was a poem, not long, 76 characters. He wrote:
"You — Geng Huang / my beloved child / come from the barren sand / go into the barren sand."
He did not call his child "darling" or "treasure." He called him by his name. "Geng" means labor, means reclamation; "Huang" means the reality that must be changed. By putting these two characters into his child's name, he packed into them all his understanding of the world. He was reminding his child: you did not come into this world to enjoy yourself, but to dare to enter harsh environments, to face the sword-wind and knife-frost, and to struggle.
"Tonight / I must bid you farewell forever."
Reading this, my heart suddenly tightened. At the threshold of life and death, he calmly told a five-year-old child: tonight, Papa is leaving forever. That tone was calm — a calm of 静水流深 (jìng shuǐ liú shēn - "still water flows deep," profound calmness): all a father's tenderness, restraint, and reluctance were swallowed into these few words.
"Wolf-dogs fill the streets, brambles cover the ground / What last words can I give you / my child!"
He made the child open his eyes and see the true face of China at that time: brambles growing thick, 满目疮痍 (mǎn mù chuāng yí - "eyes full of ruin," devastated as far as the eye can see).
"From now on / May you, with the spirit of turning autumn into spring / Turn the barren sand of the motherland / Into a beautiful garden by plowing and planting!"
After seeing the reality, then what? You can change it, and you must change it with your own hands. He expected his child, like a pioneer, to build beautiful gardens out of barren sand. Yes, if one has a heart that can "turn autumn into spring," then even in the bleak autumn wind flowers can burst into bloom, and green can grow from barren sand.
As a father, the last words he gave his child were not blessings for smooth sailing and everything going as wished. In real life, there cannot be only spring breezes; some blessings are very sweet, yet too light, without strength. What he gave his child was a heart for struggle, a heart that believes, no matter how desolate the circumstances, that one can create spring. This is the most precious spiritual gift a father can give his child.
The poem was finished. He said to his fellow prisoner: if anyone gets out, please give this to my child, Geng Huang.
He was taken to the execution ground at Daping in Chongqing and died a martyr's death 从容就义 (cóng róng jiù yì - "calmly uphold righteousness," to die a martyr with composure), at only 33 years old. Unfortunately, the poem manuscript was lost. But luckily, his fellow prisoner memorized it by heart, and it was only after his release that it spread to the world.
Later, Lan Genghuang (蓝耕荒) saw this special letter from his father. His eyes brimmed with tears 热泪盈眶 (rè lèi yíng kuàng - "hot tears fill the eye sockets," eyes brimming with tears), and he sobbed uncontrollably 泣不成声 (qì bù chéng shēng - "choking sobs prevent speech," choke with sobs). At age 16, he signed up to join the military. Because of his outstanding performance, he received many commendations, and his deeds were published in the PLA Pictorial (解放军画报).
In 2009, the 60th anniversary of Lan Diyu's martyrdom. Lan Genghuang, already over sixty, picked up his pen to write a reply to his father — also a poem: "…Your persistent pursuit of the communist ideal, / your loyalty and faith to the motherland and the people, / are an inexhaustible spiritual food for us, / a magnificent poem inspiring us to advance."
In 2021, on the CCTV program First Lesson (开学第一课), the host connected with Lan Genghuang via video. This man over seventy years old held a dialogue across time and space with his father. With tears in his eyes, he poured out his longing for his father and his expectations for children across the country, speaking to hundreds of millions of viewers. People were moved: a father's 76-character last words illuminated his son's entire life; a son's perseverance kept the father's spirit alive more than seventy years later.
I am a writer of children's literature. I once had a puzzle: should literary works for children be soft and sweet, showing more flowers in full clusters and less rugged mountain paths? Should we create for children a world smeared with honey—can children only accept candy and flowers?
It was not until I read this letter that the puzzle found an answer.
What struck me first was Lan Diyu's trust in his child—he told the five-year-old son the social truth as it was: there are "wolf-dogs" in the world, there are "brambles" in life, there is "barren sand" in the nation. He believed a child could bear this reality.
Then he gave a ray of light. He firmly inspired his child: "wolf-dogs" can be eliminated, "brambles" can be cleared, "barren sand" can be changed, and truth, goodness, and beauty can be pursued. This faith can give a child infinite strength.
He concretized this ray of light into a spirit—the spirit of reclaiming wasteland. A child can bear the truth because deep in his heart there is a shining faith; and for faith to take root, one needs the spirit of reclaiming: bend down, hoe by hoe, turn autumn back into spring. The seeds of spring are in the hands of the tiller.
The spark of spirit that a father left to his son not only illuminated the son's entire life but also illuminates everyone who reads it. It makes one truly feel: beauty needs to be cultivated, happiness needs to be created. Children's literature should be like this: provide children with calcium for the soul, make them courageous, make them willing to take responsibility; transmit the light of the spirit to children, so they forever pursue truth, goodness, and beauty.
Today's children sometimes inevitably encounter difficulties—perhaps the heavy burden of schoolwork, perhaps the confusion of growing up, perhaps the sudden cold rain of life… I think what creators should do is to integrate the spirit of "turning autumn into spring" into their works, transforming it into spiritual energy for children.
May every child be a creator of beauty and a messenger of spring.
By: 陈崇正
Nowadays, AI (artificial intelligence) technology changes with each passing day; a novice writer can also use AI to produce smooth and coherent writing with profound ideas. Only the top 5% of writing at the summit is irreplaceable. I term this the "5% Rule." Of course, 5% is also just an approximate figure, indicating a very small minority; as technology develops, it could be 1%, or even less.
The leveling effect of technology brings a severe aesthetic crisis to literature. Many novice writers can now use AI to skip the most basic writing training, no longer needing to improve their writing ability through extensive reading and painstaking word choice — through 字斟句酌 (zì zhēn jù zhuó - "measure words and weigh sentences," to choose one's words with great care), as was necessary in the past. As a result, it can very easily impair the aesthetic judgment of literary words, phrases, and sentences.
Those who are deeply versed in the art of writing know that for this ancient craft, the very first gate of practice lies in being summoned and ignited by the strong linguistic feel of great writers to awaken one's own inner language. Or, to put it another way, it is using linguistic feel to touch linguistic feel, thereby opening the inner flow of language. For example, when we read Lu Xun's essays during our student years, we would learn to imitate Lu Xun's tone in our own compositions. This is because concentrated reading generates a powerful inertia of linguistic feel — one flow state activates another flow state. This is the most fundamental secret of writing training. If this stage is skipped by relying on AI, novice writers will find it difficult to truly understand the emotions and logic behind the words, and hard to comprehend what difference one more word or one fewer character makes. A beginner in writing, if they have not gone through the stage of 眼高手低 (yǎn gāo shǒu dī - "eyes high, hands low," having high standards but low ability), and have not corrected their creative feeling bit by bit, will soon be unable to distinguish high quality from low when facing AI's enormous output capacity. Therefore, novice writers must consciously create a "zero-AI training environment" for themselves.
People often ask me whether reading is still necessary nowadays. Whenever this happens, I always think of the writer Shi Tiesheng. No matter how capable AI is, it cannot truly 感同身受 (gǎn tóng shēn shòu - "feel as if it were experiencing it itself," truly empathize). It can become Shi Tiesheng's wheelchair, but it cannot become Shi Tiesheng; it cannot synchronize with our souls or express those visceral feelings laced with pain. In the present moment, AI has no soul; it can only simulate a soul, but it cannot replace our joys and pains. This is the final barrier between it and humans, especially between it and writers and readers.
Literature must ultimately be a creation of the mind; the most fundamental meaning of AI must still be endowed by humans. Over the past two years, I have experimented with AI-assisted creation of varying lengths, and the conclusion is that there is an essential difference between creations of the mind and creations of machine wit (here I extend the meaning of the word "wit" to refer to machine intelligence). The former is more capable of producing textual astonishment. Although creations of machine wit also strive to use various rhetorical devices, they rarely bring unexpected delight. Literary language is a balancing act, requiring the ability to walk a tightrope. The language we like is often not that which follows rules strictly, but rather a dance on a balance beam — swaying gracefully, seemingly about to fall, yet standing firmly. Moreover, compared to borrowing leverage at the level of linguistic expression, the core creation of a work — such as creative brainstorms, story settings, and the spiritual heights they produce — is clearly more precious.
Of course, technology will continue to upgrade; the computing power per unit for each article or each sentence may keep increasing, and in the future it will certainly be possible to customize texts in various styles. After AI's ability to process language improves, its textual quality may surpass that of most writers. But whether it is carving ice flowers or carving tofu flowers, it still requires the writer to wield a carving knife and possess the ability to judge beauty from ugliness. This principle will not change.
Of course, there is no need to harbor an "AI shame complex." Even though AI has many problems yet to be resolved, I still advocate embracing technology. Completely abandoning exploration, or even advocating for the superiority of manual work, is not the optimal solution. After all, the "5% Rule" determines that most literary works will eventually be sifted away by time. Literature is an open-book exam; the world is a scene of 千帆竞发 (qiān fān jìng fā - "a thousand sails competing to set out," describing vigorous competition). Those that are retained must have crystallized the most exquisite creations of the mind.
Return to TopWatercolor "Night Mooring" (夜泊), by Zhou Lingzhao (周令钊), in the collection of the National Art Museum of China (中国美术馆).
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Load carriers — they were written about in old Chinese language textbooks, but most young people are not very familiar with them, because they are rarely seen nowadays.
Climbing mountains or transporting goods can be done by cable car, but cable cars have fixed stations; the shops and restaurants on the mountain are not all located next to the cable car stations, and drones cannot deliver items to every place. Added to this, some veteran load carriers are still unwilling to retire, so there are still some tourist areas on the mountains that hire them to carry goods.
There is no doubt that being a load carrier is very hard. Ordinary tourists carrying small backpacks and using trekking poles are already exhausted and panting from the climb, while load carriers have to carry loads of dozens or even a hundred jin, and sometimes go up and down the mountain several times a day. Carrying loads requires skill. Most of them are locals who have been climbing mountains since childhood, and even with loads they can walk faster than tourists. I once observed a load carrier on a mountain path. He was not panting heavily and trudging quickly like me; instead, he walked a rhythmic zigzag step, the carrying pole trembling slightly on his shoulder, like a taut string playing a tune. When I rested by the stone steps, leaning on my knees, he turned his head and grinned at me: "Don't rush, the road becomes more alive the more you walk it." At that moment I realized that although the goods on his shoulders were heavy, he had tamed the mountain path with his feet, possessing a kind of composure in dealing with steepness.
In my heart, the title "load carrier" is especially impressive. What they carry is goods, yet they are called "mountain carriers" — this inherently carries a sense of momentum. They seem to be carrying a great mountain on their shoulders, day after day, year after year, becoming a moving sight on the mountain.
There is a very famous photograph: a middle-aged man at Chongqing's Chaotianmen dock, holding the hand of his four- or five-year-old son, with an oversized bundle on his shoulder. He is a local "bangbang" porter. Through his arduous labor, he not only supports his family of several people but also bought an apartment near his workplace, becoming a new citizen of Chongqing. He is not a load carrier, yet he is no different from one — what he carries is also a great mountain. And what about those delivery riders and couriers who zip through the city on electric scooters? They transport goods with their hands and shoulders — are they not another kind of load carrier?
"Carrying a mountain" has never been merely about the weight on the shoulders; it is also about the heavy burden of life. Whether on mountain paths or in city streets, there will always be people who "carry a mountain" and "shoulder a load" in their own way. This silent tenacity is the most unadorned and most powerful posture ordinary people take when confronting fate. When we grit our teeth for a responsibility, when we climb the steep slopes of life for the people we love, every ordinary person with heavy steps is, in fact, a load carrier on their own life's journey. The mountains differ, the loads vary, but that drive to tread rough terrain into a smooth road is the same.
Even as technology develops and there will be fewer and fewer load carriers on the mountains, I will not forget them. I sincerely admire their spirit. Their figures, rooted in the great mountains, advancing steadily, and achieving lasting results through persistent effort 久久为功 (jiǔ jiǔ wéi gōng - "long-lasting effort achieves success," persevering over time to accomplish something), have long since grown together with the mountains.
By: 李跃平
My father spent half his life engaged in the mounting and framing of calligraphy and painting, and in our hometown he ranked among the top figures in the mounting world. Because of his work mounting paintings, he also practiced calligraphy in his spare time; his style followed that of Zhao Xi (赵熙), with the brush tip carrying the elegant grace of the Zhao style yet concealing a certain tenacity. However, though he wrote, I never saw him offer his work to others; he always said his writing was not good enough. At festivals and New Year, when he wrote Spring Festival couplets for neighbors, he never signed them. I thought that perhaps, having seen so much, his standards had risen, and that was why he lacked the confidence to give his calligraphy away. Later I understood that I had been mistaken.
The proverb says, “At thirty, one should stand firm” (三十而立 — sān shí ér lì — “at thirty, establish oneself”). That year, I was exactly at an age when I ought to have been establishing a career, yet I received a notice of termination of labor contract. My daughter was still young, and the performance of my wife’s workplace was also poor; the survival of the whole family became a problem. My wife was chopping vegetables in the kitchen; the sound of the knife striking the edge of the porcelain bowl, sometimes light, sometimes heavy, each stroke struck my taut nerves. For several days in a row, I had been looking for work at the job market, but the “hard bar” of age shut me out from employment. All day long, aside from being dejected and despondent, I truly could come up with no ideas. Once a person’s way of thinking becomes negatively fixed, he no longer has any confidence in life.
At the dinner table, my wife said, “How about we open a gallery?” Her voice was very soft, but it was like a stone thrown into my heart. How could I have forgotten? My father was an expert in mounting. I had been 耳濡目染 (ěr rú mù rǎn — “ears soaked, eyes dyed,” to be imperceptibly influenced by what one constantly sees and hears) since childhood. Though I had never actually practiced it, I could still explain every procedure of calligraphy and painting mounting in considerable detail. I remembered my father saying, “If a painting is damaged, it can be repaired; but if a person’s heart collapses, that is difficult.” My father’s words struck heavily on my heart.
“The living room is empty; if we tidy it up, it can serve as a studio, and we don’t need to rent a shopfront.” My wife’s mind was still quite sharp.
The next day, I got up early to clean up the living room. My wife crouched beside me, spreading a banner-cloth on the floor. I dipped a brush in cinnabar and wrote, stroke by stroke, “Shenghua Calligraphy and Painting Decoration Center” (生花书画装饰中心). My wife pasted the cut-out characters onto the banner-cloth one by one. The word “Shenghua” (生花) was my father’s trademark, taken from the phrase “妙笔生花” (miào bǐ shēng huā — “magic brush that makes flowers bloom,” brilliant writing or painting).
The day the signboard was hung, I stood at the door and looked at it for a long time. Ten frames for mounting paintings were neatly arranged in a row, like soldiers following orders. I glanced again at my wife; there was also a trace of unease hidden in the corners of her eyes. Day after day passed, but no customer came. A thin layer of dust accumulated on the workbench. My wife no longer said “wait for customers.” Once, I saw her staring blankly at the empty frames.
“Maybe I should go find work at the construction site?” As I spoke, my wife was sewing a button onto our daughter’s clothes. Without lifting her head, she said, “Wait a little longer.” Our daughter was drawing a picture beside us. She drew our gallery, and the characters on the signboard were colored bright red.
One day, Gatekeeper Old Yang delivered a thick registered envelope and a money order for 30 yuan. There was no sender’s name written. I looked — the postmark was from our own city. I recognized the handwriting on the envelope; my father had written calligraphy his whole life, and I had been familiar with it since childhood. I tore open the envelope. A three-foot calligraphic scroll fell out, reading: “In poetry, calligraphy, painting — character is foremost; in talent, spirit, pride — backbone comes first.” Inside the envelope was a letter, with the following sentence: “I learned that you were laid off, so I am sending this calligraphy scroll, to be considered the first transaction of your gallery.”
“Father has really gone out of his way.” My wife came over. I turned to look at her and found tears in her eyes as well. Our daughter said from the side, “Grandpa’s calligraphy is really beautiful.” The gallery had opened. I took out the 30 yuan, found a clean piece of glass, and pressed the money underneath it. I said, “This is the first income of our gallery. This money — unless absolutely necessary, it will never be used.”
Father has been gone for many years, but this scroll of his has always been the support of my life. It has given me the confidence to overcome difficulties.
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The soil in central Hunan is very suitable for planting sweet potatoes. In summer, casually plant them on hillsides or in vegetable plots; come autumn, what you dig out are long and sturdy sweet potatoes. In our dialect, we don’t say “plant” or “cultivate” for sweet potatoes; we say “stick” — sticking sweet potatoes. Clear a vegetable plot, take a small pointed hoe, dig a small hole, apply a little fertilizer, place a sweet potato seedling, mound soil to cover the roots, water a bit, and 万事大吉 (wàn shì dà jí - “all things are greatly auspicious,” everything is fine and complete), as simple as a child playing a game.
Sweet potatoes can be eaten raw — wash, peel, and crunch crunch, crisp and tasty. They can also be steamed or roasted. When cooking and stir-frying, bury them in a pile of burning firewood ash; generally, by the time the meal is done, they can be taken out, broken open, steaming hot, charred aroma spreading everywhere, making people ‘过齿不忘 (guò chǐ bù wàng - “pass the teeth and not forget,” unforgettable after tasting).’
Sweet potatoes can also be made into sweet potato chips. Every household made them when I was a child; every household had them. The process from sweet potatoes in the soil to sweet potato chips in jars and pots is much more complicated than planting sweet potatoes. You have to slice, boil, turn, and sun-dry. In my childhood, I saw my mother making sweet potato chips. First, repeatedly wash the mud-covered sweet potatoes until the skin is clean and shiny. Then take a large wooden basin about one meter in diameter, invert a long wooden board fitted with a slicer onto it, clamp it tight. With one hand pressing the board, use the other hand to quickly push and pull the washed sweet potatoes back and forth; thin sweet potato slices fall like 天女散花 (tiān nǚ sàn huā - “heavenly maiden scatters flowers,” describing things falling in abundance) into the wooden basin, leaving only very thin edges. After slicing the sweet potatoes, put them in a large pot and boil until cooked but not mushy, with a moderate hardness and softness. As for the leftover small edges, they can be a hearty meal for the pigs in the pen.
The boiled sweet potato slices are not yet set and need to be sun-dried. Sun-drying sweet potato slices requires good weather — it needs strong sunlight, preferably crisp autumn weather. My mother often did not sun-dry sweet potato slices in front of or behind the house, but chose the field ridges after the autumn harvest. In late autumn and early winter, at dawn, the fields are covered with morning frost, and the weeds are white as bilberry tea. My mother spread rice straw on the field ridges, then placed the freshly boiled sweet potato slices one by one with appropriate spacing. Several surrounding field ridges suddenly became a huge array of steaming sweet potato slices. “Heaven and earth are steaming, and all things are transformed and purified.” As the sun dispersed the morning mist, it also began to absorb the moisture from the sweet potato slices. Spread out in the early morning, occasionally turned to dry, and gathered at sunset — after three to five days like this, they are fully dried.
Sweet potato chips dried this way have a chewy texture. Tear them into narrow strips and chew slowly; the fragrance of sunlight and earth spreads between your lips and teeth. The sweet potato chips are naturally sweet and fragrant, requiring no saccharin intervention, and are certainly not so delicate as to need preservatives to maintain quality. Dried sweet potato chips can be sealed and stored like tea, in jars or pots. When guests come, take some out by turning over the jars and pots — it can serve as a tasty snack.
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