Summary: The document outlines a comprehensive reform plan to strengthen China's natural resource asset management system, with the goal of establishing a fully operational system by 2035. It emphasizes unified state ownership, improved property rights, and market-based allocation mechanisms to enhance resource efficiency and conservation. Key measures include systematic resource surveys, clarification of use rights, competitive allocation for mining and water rights, and integrated supervision of asset performance. The policy also mandates stronger ecological protection linkages, asset income management, and transparency through mandatory reporting to people's congresses. No reference is made to the United States or bilateral relations.
Summary: The 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on AI Global Governance will be held in Shanghai from July 17 to 20. President Xi Jinping is scheduled to attend the opening ceremony and deliver a keynote speech. The announcement was made by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson on July 13. No other officials were named as accompanying President Xi. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A promotion event for Volume V of *Xi Jinping: The Governance of China* was held in Bishkek, co-hosted by Chinese and Kyrgyz authorities. Former Kyrgyz President Otunbayeva and State Secretary Koichiev joined SCO Deputy Secretary-General Piao Yangfan in praising the book’s insights on Chinese modernization and the vision of a community with a shared future for mankind. Otunbayeva highlighted how the Belt and Road Initiative has helped transform Kyrgyzstan into a Eurasian hub. Koichiev urged studying Xi’s works to better understand 21st-century Marxism and practical cooperation with China. The event drew approximately 300 representatives from political, media, and think-tank circles in both countries.
Summary: Premier Li Qiang chaired an economic symposium on July 13, joined by Vice Premier Wu Zhenglong and experts including Huang Hanquan and Yang Zhiyong. Participants assessed that amid global turbulence, China's economy remained stable with growing new drivers, countering external uncertainties. Li emphasized comprehensively understanding the economic situation, maintaining high-quality development, and increasing counter-cyclical adjustments. He called for boosting domestic demand through service sector expansion, infrastructure investment, and human capital spending, while accelerating digital transformation and AI commercialization. Li urged entrepreneurs to seize upgrade opportunities and experts to provide forward-looking research, underscoring stable employment and optimized business environments.
Summary: The 11th World Chinese Overseas Chinese Associations Conference opened in Beijing on July 13. Wang Huning, Politburo Standing Committee member and chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, met with all delegates and conveyed greetings on behalf of the Party Central Committee. Li Ganjie, Politburo member and head of the United Front Work Department, attended and addressed the opening ceremony. Li stated that overseas Chinese are key participants in Chinese-style modernization and crucial bridges linking China to the world, urging them to follow Xi Jinping’s "root, soul, and dream" discourse and contribute to national rejuvenation and global peace. The conference, themed "Unite Overseas Chinese, Gather Their Strength, Seek Development," brought together over 400 leaders of overseas Chinese associations from 140 countries.
Summary: The State Council issued the National Health "15th Five-Year Plan," emphasizing Xi Jinping Thought and the socialist health development path. The plan sets a target of raising average life expectancy to 80 years by 2030, with major health indicators reaching high-income country levels. It outlines 24 key tasks across five areas, including optimizing universal health services and strengthening public health security. The plan also calls for accelerating high-quality, integrated medical systems and enhancing health-centered governance. Implementation will be coordinated by the National Health Commission, with monitoring and evaluation to ensure progress.
Summary: The State Council approved the "Expand Consumption 15th Five-Year Plan," emphasizing the need to boost domestic demand through service and goods consumption upgrades. The plan calls for improving consumption environments and establishing long-term mechanisms to enhance consumption's foundational role in economic growth. Provincial governments are directed to prioritize consumption expansion and tailor implementation to local conditions during the 2026-2030 period.
Summary: President Xi Jinping, at the July 2025 Central Urban Work Conference, stressed using urban renewal to drive structural optimization, energy transition, quality improvement, green transformation, cultural preservation, and governance efficiency. The "15th Five-Year Plan for Urban Renewal" was issued in May to translate these priorities into concrete actions. Examples include community upgrades in Nanjing’s Beiyuan, Chengdu’s Wenmiao Yinxiang heritage district revitalization, Guangzhou’s forest trail construction, and Chongqing’s underground pipe network rehabilitation. The plan targets renovating 115,000 old residential communities, adding 20,000 hectares of parkland and 20,000 km of greenways, and building/upgrading 770,000 km of urban underground pipelines by 2030. No mention of the United States or bilateral relations appears in the report.
Summary: The article emphasizes President Xi Jinping’s call to strengthen rural spiritual civilization as a core component of rural revitalization, stressing the integration of material and spiritual progress and the elimination of outdated customs like high bride prices. It notes Xi’s 2017 visit to Ma Zhuang in Jiangsu, where he highlighted the need to improve farmers’ spiritual outlook. The piece reports on grassroots initiatives such as “village talks” and “help groups” that spread civilized norms, and references the “15th Five-Year Plan” for implementing a rural civilization construction project. It also highlights the cultural and economic impact of “village brands” like “Village Super League,” which boosted rural tourism and incomes. Additionally, the article notes that by the end of 2025, over 15.1 million people had returned to rural areas for entrepreneurship, with 1,574 cultural envoys deployed to villages.
Summary: The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) jointly released the "Expanding Consumption 15th Five-Year Plan," with officials answering questions about its background and goals. The Plan aims to sustain consumption growth into the "15th Five-Year" period, targeting total retail sales of consumer goods to reach approximately 60 trillion yuan. It emphasizes people-oriented benefits, systematic coordination, and innovation-driven measures such as digital consumption and first-store economy. Key tasks include upgrading service and commodity consumption, fostering new consumption models, improving consumer capacity, and optimizing the consumption environment across 28 specific measures. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: The article profiles Jia Zhennan, a worker at Hengdian Group's Dongci Company in Zhejiang, who specializes in ferrite magnet manufacturing—a material widely used in electronics and new energy vehicles. It describes how the industry has transformed through automation, AI, and green technologies, with Jia’s role shifting from manual inspection to managing AI-driven optical detection equipment. In 2025, the occupation of ferrite magnet maker was officially recognized as a new profession by China’s Ministry of Human Resources, establishing clearer career advancement pathways from skilled worker to engineer. The report notes that growing demand from new energy and AI sectors has driven technical innovation, with Jia and his team repeatedly solving quality issues for high-end products. It concludes that the profession is attracting more educated young people, supporting both industrial upgrading and employment opportunities.
Summary: The article argues that China's traditional industries, transitioning toward intelligent, green, and integrated development, urgently need young skilled workers to prevent talent shortages, as human judgment remains essential even in digital workshops. It highlights Dongci Company as an example where roles like ferrite magnet manufacturing require high cognitive and technical skills. The report suggests accelerating new occupational standards and certification for policy, while enterprises should improve training and dual career paths for skills and management. This alignment of industrial transformation with young people's pursuit of skill-based careers will drive mutual reinforcement between human development and new productive forces.
Summary: China's Logistics Performance Index for June reached 50.6%, up 0.3 percentage points from the previous month, with multiple sub-indices in expansion territory. China Logistics Information Center Deputy Chief Economist Hu Han attributed the improvement to rising demand, balanced regional development, and strengthened endogenous momentum, noting that the business volume and new orders indices have risen for consecutive months. China Logistics Information Center Director Liu Yuhang highlighted ongoing efforts to build a logistics network that better supports industrial development, alongside the implementation of multimodal transport and urban logistics efficiency measures. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: On July 13, farmers in Chexihe Community, Chentoushan Town, Li County, Changde City, Hunan Province, were transporting late rice seedlings during the busy "double rush" farming season. The event was captured by photographer Bai Yipu for People's Vision. No officials or policy statements are reported in the article, and there is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article outlines a directive from the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee and State Council to reform the natural resource asset management system, emphasizing unified ownership, efficient allocation, and asset preservation. It sets goals for 2030 and 2035, focusing on improved survey, registration, property rights, protection, and supervision mechanisms. The directive specifies measures including enhanced inventory accounting, market-based allocation rules, and strengthened oversight via audits and public reporting. No specific officials or their accompanying counterparts are mentioned. The text does not address the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: President Xi Jinping will attend the opening ceremony of the 2026 World AI Conference and deliver a keynote speech. The article argues that narrow zero-sum thinking must be abandoned in favor of open, win-win cooperation to build a fair and inclusive global AI governance system. It warns against the use of AI governance as a tool by some countries to maintain competitive advantage—an implicit reference to the United States—and highlights growing global AI divides. China promotes its Global AI Governance Initiative and opposes technology monopolies, advocating for multilateral cooperation under the UN. The piece calls for collective action to ensure AI benefits all nations, especially developing countries.
Summary: President Xi Jinping will attend the opening ceremony of the 2026 World AI Conference and High-Level Meeting on AI Governance in Shanghai from July 17–20, delivering a keynote speech outlining China's AI policies and positions. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian briefed the press, stating the conference theme is "Intelligent Partners, Creating the Future Together." Lin emphasized that China is advancing AI governance in line with Xi's global initiatives and the Global AI Governance Initiative, while supporting Global South capacity-building. He expressed hope the conference will build trust, consensus, and cooperation to promote healthy, safe, and orderly AI development. The article makes no direct reference to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Sithisay Saiyavong, President of Savannakhet University and former director of the China Study Center at the National University of Laos, attributed the Chinese Communist Party’s success to its principles of serving the people and combining traditional Chinese culture with Marxist views. Reflecting on his decades of travel between Laos and China, he highlighted China's rapid development in green energy, infrastructure, and public security as outcomes of the Party’s long-term planning and global vision. He noted that China’s assistance, including building Laos’s first modern railway and highways under the Belt and Road Initiative, demonstrates a major power’s responsibility in driving shared development. Saiyavong praised China’s targeted poverty alleviation as a model for Laos, and emphasized the importance of educational cooperation and youth exchanges. He commended the CCP’s organizational efficiency and its commitment to a people-centered, future-oriented approach to building a community with a shared future for mankind.
Summary: China criticized external countries, particularly the United States, Japan, Australia, and the EU, for marking the tenth anniversary of the "illegal and invalid" South China Sea arbitration ruling, accusing them of geopolitical manipulation and destabilizing the region. The statement urged these non-regional actors to cease interfering and warned certain Southeast Asian states to abandon the arbitration and return to bilateral negotiations and the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties. China reaffirmed its historical and legal rights in the South China Sea, declaring the ruling has no bearing on its sovereignty and maritime claims. It condemned U.S. hypocrisy for invoking the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea while not having ratified it, and Japan for its wartime aggression in the region. The article concluded that regional peace must be safeguarded by regional countries alone, and that China will firmly counter any infringements on its rights.
Summary: At a Hong Kong conference marking the 10th anniversary of the South China Sea arbitration ruling, Chinese Foreign Ministry director Qi Dahai called the ruling a "political manipulation wrapped in a legal cloak," asserting it is illegal and invalid. He emphasized China’s historical and legal rights in the South China Sea and opposed "extraterritorial countries" using the ruling or "freedom of navigation" to interfere in regional affairs—a clear allusion to the United States. He was accompanied by officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Department of Treaty and Law. International legal experts, including British lawyer Stephen Fietta, argued the ruling has had minimal impact on international law and has been widely criticized. Wu Shicun of the Huayang Ocean Center added that the ruling serves as a "glue" for states seeking to legitimize a "China threat narrative."
Summary: Chinese Embassy in Tokyo Deputy Chief of Mission Shi Yong lodged a strong protest with Japanese Foreign Ministry official Kaneko Masaki over Japan's remarks on the tenth anniversary of the South China Sea arbitration ruling. Shi stated that the ruling is illegal, invalid, and non-binding, and that China rejects any claims based on it. He emphasized that Japan has unaddressed historical guilt on the South China Sea issue and lacks the right to comment. Shi condemned Japan's interference and political manipulation of the ruling as undermining regional stability and post-war international order. He warned that China will resolutely counter Japan's provocations to defend its territorial sovereignty and maritime rights.
Summary: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Kazakh Foreign Minister Murat Nurtleu in Beijing on July 13. Wang stated that under the strategic guidance of Presidents Xi Jinping and Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, China-Kazakhstan relations remain resilient, and noted that Tokayev will soon attend the 2026 World AI Conference and High-Level Meeting on AI Global Governance in China. Wang welcomed Kazakhstan’s accession to the International Mediation Institute and stressed jointly upholding international fairness. The Kazakh minister congratulated the Chinese Communist Party on its 105th anniversary and expressed confidence in China’s early development goals under Xi’s leadership.
Summary: The article reports that the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced that Thai Prime Minister Anutin will pay an official visit to China from July 16 to 20 at the invitation of Premier Li Qiang. No mention is made of any U.S. or U.S.-China relations. The visit is framed as a diplomatic engagement between the two countries.
Summary: The Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway (KCIC) reached 1,000 days of safe operation by July 12, 2026, having carried over 16.58 million passengers with a single-day record of 26,700. The China-Indonesia operational team has applied Chinese high-speed rail management expertise to establish local technical standards and systems. Efforts are ongoing to train Indonesian personnel for key roles such as drivers, maintenance, and safety management, facilitating gradual localization. No U.S.-China relations or official statements were mentioned in the report.
Summary: A China-U.S. youth music exchange program, organized by the China Education International Exchange Association, will take place in Xinjiang from July 12 to 20. Forty members of the U.S. One Voice Children’s Choir will join local students in collaborative learning, cultural activities, and visits to factories and smart cotton fields. Two joint music concerts are scheduled to showcase youth friendship between the two countries.
Summary: The article reports on a ceremony marking the third-phase large-scale trial harvest of China’s hybrid dry rice in Barbados, an importer of rice, signaling an expansion from demonstration to promotion. Barbados’ Minister of Agriculture, Food and Nutritional Security, Chantal Munro-Knight, attended and stated that her government values long-term agricultural cooperation with China across the entire industrial chain. She expressed hope that both sides will continue to advance outcomes that benefit local agriculture. The event highlights China’s agricultural cooperation with Barbados, with no mention of the United States.
Summary: Chinese authorities mobilized across multiple regions to combat Typhoon Bavi and heavy rainfall, with the National Defense Office, Ministry of Water Resources, and other agencies issuing red alerts for geological and flood disasters. The Central Meteorological Observatory forecasted the typhoon's movement northeastward, warning of torrential rain in provinces including Liaoning, Jilin, and Shandong. In response, the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters raised its emergency response for Liaoning and Jilin to Level III, while the National Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Committee activated a Level IV response for Hebei's flood damage. The National Development and Reform Commission allocated 300 million yuan for post-disaster recovery in Hebei, and Jiangsu deployed thousands of relief workers and equipment. Zhejiang province, having evacuated over 2.68 million people before the typhoon, ended its emergency response as flights and railways resumed normal operations.
Summary: Heavy rainfall triggered severe flooding in Shenyang on July 13, prompting emergency responses. Local Communist Party officials, including community party secretaries Bǐng Jīnmíng and Pān Yǐng, mobilized over 3,500 flood control personnel and organized party groups to evacuate residents, clear drainage, and operate pumps. Police officer Yù Zhèngyīng led 20 trips to rescue 35 elderly residents from a senior home. Party leaders emphasized that “a party branch is a fortress” and “responsibility goes to each person,” coordinating efforts through the night. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A recent shoe factory fire in Jinjiang, Fujian, has underscored critical safety failures, with President Xi Jinping's repeated call to "always stay vigilant on production safety" serving as the article's central reference. The piece criticizes enterprises for complacency, risk-taking for profit, and disregard for safety regulations, while also faulting regulators for lax enforcement. It argues that safety must be treated as the essential foundation of business operations, requiring constant vigilance, legal compliance, and a culture of shared responsibility across all roles. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports on Dongguan's expansion of public rental housing to non-local workers, highlighting the case of a young migrant who secured a subsidized apartment without local household registration. An official from the Songshan Lake High-Tech Zone Management Committee’s Urban Construction Bureau outlined the eligibility conditions, including no local property ownership and a valid labor contract. The deputy general manager of Dongguan Songshan Lake Anju Service Company noted that the Songhu Happy Garden complex has over 90% occupancy and offers amenities like children’s play areas. Ye Huiming, Deputy Secretary-General of Dongguan City and Director of the Development and Reform Bureau, stated that the city will dynamically adjust housing policies to accommodate its large migrant population. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports that Xiong’an New Area in Hebei has deepened its administrative reforms by launching a "full-region processing" service model, enabling same-city processing with Beijing. This model includes four methods—same authority for city and county, remote acceptance, multi-location joint processing, and Beijing-Xiong'an coordinated service—to facilitate local access for enterprises and residents. Currently, 24 high-frequency items can be completed on-site, while 1,447 district-level and 1,440 county-level items are available cross-regionally, and 625 Beijing-level items can be handled in Xiong'an. A "cloud assistance" online platform has also been established to provide real-time guidance. The service will be extended to additional locations such as the high-tech zone and Zhongguancun to improve the business environment.
Summary: The article reports that China's National Supercomputing Internet core node has officially launched, forming the country's first 100,000-card-level computing resource pool integrating supercomputing and AI computing. It provides advanced computing support for large model development, scientific AI, industrial simulation, biomedicine, and cybersecurity. New users receive a bundled resource package including 200 card-hours of computing power and 10 million token queries, with additional grants for academic researchers. The network, guided by the Ministry of Science and Technology, debuted in April 2024 and now serves over 1.4 million registered users with 7300+ applications and 1500+ adapted large models.
Summary: President Xi Jinping emphasized at the July 2025 Central City Work Conference that urban renewal should be a key driver for optimizing city structures, transforming growth drivers, and improving quality, green development, cultural heritage, and governance. The "15th Five-Year Plan" for urban renewal was released in May, translating these priorities into concrete actions, with examples including community upgrades in Nanjing’s Beiyuan, historic street revitalization in Chengdu, forest trail construction in Guangzhou, and underground pipeline repairs in Chongqing. The plan targets renovating 115,000 old residential communities, creating 15,000 pocket parks, and building or upgrading 77,000 km of underground pipelines nationwide by 2030. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Wang Daming, former chairman and Party secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), died at age 96 on June 3, 2026. Central leaders expressed condolences to his family. A longtime Communist Party member since 1946, he held key posts including Beijing Party propaganda chief, deputy director of the CCP Central Propaganda Department, and Beijing deputy Party secretary. He also served as vice chairman and then chairman of the Beijing CPPCC, and was a standing committee member of the Ninth National CPPCC. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Li Yan, former deputy head of the Central Propaganda Department, died in Beijing at age 97. Central leaders expressed condolences to his family. He served as Hu Yaobang's secretary from 1959 to 1964 and held key propaganda roles. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: In an article marking the CCP’s 105th anniversary, Xi Jinping is cited for identifying the Party’s ability to “always stay at the forefront of the times” as a key trait. It recounts China’s historical lag during the “lost 200 years” and frames the Party as the force that enabled the nation to catch up and now “lead the era.” The piece stresses the need for continuous adaptation, citing examples like free-trade zones and tech innovation. No mention is made of the United States or bilateral relations.
Summary: The article reports on China’s push to strengthen diversified dispute resolution mechanisms, highlighting the Supreme People's Court’s collaboration with 18 entities including the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development to establish a "head-to-head" platform. It cites local examples, such as Hubei Jianzhi County’s multi-agency resolution of an eight-year property dispute involving over 1,700 owners, and Beijing Changping’s use of arbitrators, mediators, and lawyers for disputes involving workers in new employment forms. The piece emphasizes shifting governance focus toward public needs, integrating legal mechanisms with grassroots resources, and prioritizing substantive resolution and satisfaction over procedural metrics. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article argues that historic buildings and districts require active human use to maintain vitality, rather than being merely preserved. It cites China’s “15th Five-Year Plan” for urban renewal, which emphasizes protection through utilization. Examples include Shanghai’s Butterfly Bay, where old buildings now serve community functions, and locations in Yulin, Jilin, and Beijing that blend heritage with new commercial and cultural activities. The piece stresses avoiding homogenized designs and instead tailoring reuse to each site’s unique history. Ultimately, it calls for balancing preservation, modern functionality, and economic value to keep heritage “alive.”
Summary: The Ministry of Civil Affairs recently issued a guideline for establishing a three-tier elderly care service network, covering county-level platforms, township centers, and village/community facilities. The directive specifies the setup and functions of each tier to improve resource allocation and meet the diverse needs of older adults. No specific official was quoted or accompanied in the report. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations. The summary focuses solely on the domestic policy announcement.
Summary: The article discusses the Chinese concept of "留白" (leaving blank) as a governance philosophy, illustrated by Xi'an's Daming Palace National Heritage Park using translucent cards to evoke the Tang dynasty's palace outlines without altering ruins. It extends this aesthetic principle to urban development, where traditional buildings are preserved in balance with economic growth, and to ecological management, citing the Yangtze River's ten-year fishing ban as an example. The piece also highlights Xiong'an New Area's strategic foresight in reserving land for future projects, framing "留白" as a tool for long-term planning and sustainable development. No specific officials or U.S.-China relations are mentioned.
Summary: The article reports on the success of the fourth China International Supply Chain Expo (Chain Expo), highlighting its role as a platform for global cooperation amid economic uncertainty. It notes that 85 countries and international organizations participated, with leading global firms making up over 60% of exhibitors, and emphasizes growing collaborative exhibits such as SK Hynix partnering with Chinese firms and Apple showcasing alongside Chinese suppliers. The piece describes China's large market as a "hardcore gym" for global businesses, presenting over 160 innovations and positioning the country as an innovation hub. It stresses that the Expo seeks long-term linkages beyond transactions, including technology sharing, green transformation, and policy dialogue. The article concludes that China's increasingly proactive openness provides stability and leadership, though it makes no explicit mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: Gu Songfen, a renowned aerodynamicist and the only dual academician in China's aviation sector, was celebrated for his 70-year career, including designing China's first jet trainer (Jian-1) and the Jian-8 fighter series, which advanced China from first- to second-generation fighters. To solve the Jian-8's tail vibration issue, he personally flew as a passenger in a Jian-6 to observe airflow, identifying the problem and ensuring the aircraft's success. He later served as chief designer for the Jian-8II, contributing to its mid-range interception capabilities and earning multiple national awards. The article notes his passing on May 31, 2026, at age 96, and highlights his humility and enduring influence on Chinese aviation. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Liu Qingqing, deputy director of the Salt Lake Industry Co. Resource Development Center, stated that the company's annual potassium fertilizer capacity has reached 5 million tons—about 60% of China's total—and that its lithium extraction technology supports the new energy vehicle and energy storage industries. He also noted that the company now produces 80,000 tons of battery-grade lithium carbonate annually, achieved through multi-level resource utilization. Wu Guangya, deputy general manager of the scenic area, reported that tourist visits to Qarhan Salt Lake surged from 500,000 in 2023 to over 1.43 million in 2025, with a projected 1.8 million in 2026, as the site integrates industrial production with tourism. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: In Shanshuigou Village, Ningxia, a district-led greenhouse renovation project initially stalled due to top-down decision-making. District Party Secretary Song Xi then instructed township officials that "people's welfare is the greatest political achievement" and that the project must succeed. Township Party Secretary Li Ling and village official Guo Jincai shifted to a participatory model, allowing villagers to set compensation tiers and construction details. Guo personally visited reluctant villagers multiple times to secure agreements. The project ultimately rebuilt 300 greenhouses, integrating a leading enterprise for organic farming, with Li Ling noting that deeper public participation made the initiative a success.
Summary: Shandong Jinan High-tech Industrial Development Zone is improving its business environment and building a modern industrial system. It is strengthening three core industries: next-generation information technology, smart equipment, and biomedicine. The zone is also expanding into emerging sectors such as artificial intelligence, low-altitude economy, and synthetic biology. These efforts aim to drive high-quality regional economic development. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations are mentioned.
Summary: Li Guike, a retired doctor and Communist Party member, remained in Shishiping Village, Yunnan, after decades treating leprosy patients, stating the elderly there “cannot leave me, and I cannot leave them.” He recalled that as a Party member he chose to stay in difficult conditions, refusing a transfer. After curing all patients by 1990, he led rehabilitation efforts including building roads, a school, and now a leprosy history museum. He has received honors such as “National Outstanding Communist Party Member.” No U.S. or U.S.-China relations are mentioned in the article.
Summary: Seven Chinese government departments, including the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, jointly convened in Beijing to launch a nationwide campaign targeting the illegal production, sale, and use of banned pesticides and veterinary drugs. The campaign will run from July 2026 to March 2027, emphasizing cross-department coordination to crack down on entire illegal supply chains. The initiative focuses on “striking hard” at major cases and severing black market networks. No specific official was quoted, and the report made no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports that the Long March 5 Y14 rocket, tasked with launching the Chang'e-7 mission, has arrived safely at the Wenchang Space Launch Site. It will undergo assembly and testing together with the Chang'e-7 probe, which had already been transported to the site. Preparatory work for the mission is proceeding as planned by the various systems at the launch site. No officials are quoted, and no reference is made to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: A Ministry of Commerce report highlights that multinational corporations in China are shifting from "manufacturing in China" to "co-creation with China," with foreign R&D centers upgrading from local adaptation to global innovation hubs. He Yadong, Commerce Ministry spokesperson, noted that the share of scientific research and technical services in actual FDI has risen steadily, reaching nearly one-fifth of total FDI in 2025. Samsung announced a new biotech R&D center in Beijing, while Bosch, Tesla, and Schneider Electric are deepening investments in high-tech and green sectors. The report attributes China’s continued appeal to its vast market, complete industrial system, and improving business climate, with actual FDI exceeding $100 billion for 16 consecutive years. A 15-point action plan was released to stabilize foreign investment, focusing on market access, investment facilitation, and R&D support.
Summary: The article reports on a local government initiative in Hangzhou's Gongshu District addressing childcare shortages for infants aged 6–12 months. The district converted idle street-level space into a government-subsidized daycare offering "low-age classes" with medical integration, specialized caregiver training, and extended hours. Families pay 3,900 yuan monthly—far less than private nannies—with real-time monitoring via a government app. By April 2025, Hangzhou aims for 4.84 daycare slots per 1,000 children and has piloted low-age classes in five districts, featuring a 1:4 caregiver-to-child ratio and fees as low as 1,050 yuan. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: China is expanding affordable childcare (普惠托育) through diverse models—comprehensive centers, community services, kindergarten toddler classes, employer-run facilities, and regulated family care. By 2025, the country had 6.657 million childcare slots, supported by ultra-long special treasury bonds, utility rate reductions, and a 3,600-yuan annual subsidy per child to age 3. Quality improvements include standardized services, new vocational programs, and national skill standards for caregivers. The 15th Five-Year Plan calls for social forces to provide diversified affordable childcare. These efforts aim to reduce family burdens and promote a pro-natalist society.
Summary: China's Ministry of Civil Affairs and 13 other departments jointly issued a three-year action plan (2026–2028) to expand and upgrade the rehabilitation assistive devices industry. The plan outlines six major tasks, including application demonstration, industrial optimization, and innovation capacity enhancement, aiming to form a new development pattern by 2028. It targets breakthroughs in key sub-sectors like brain-computer interfaces and rehabilitation robots, and aims for 500+ large-scale enterprises. The plan also sets goals for over 80 new products for health and elderly care, and at least 60 new standards. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports on President Xi Jinping's emphasis on rural spiritual civilization as key to comprehensive rural revitalization, calling for the cultivation of civilized customs through improved governance, family traditions, and cultural enrichment. It details grassroots efforts across China to replace outdated practices like high bride prices and wasteful spending, citing examples such as the "Help-the-Wedding Group" in Shandong and mobile cultural services in Sichuan. The piece highlights the role of "village brands" like "Cun Chao" (village soccer) in boosting local economies and cultural confidence, noting that over 1,510 million returnees have joined rural entrepreneurship by 2025. It also references the 15th Five-Year Plan's directive to strengthen rural cultural services, with 1,574 cultural special agents deployed in Zhejiang alone to foster community arts. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) has approved nine provincial-level market regulatory departments—including Hebei, Liaoning, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, and Guizhou—to pilot a credit-based classification and tiered supervision system for honest metering in markets, running until June 2027. Based on the "Evaluation Standards for Honest Metering in Markets," the pilot uses six core indicators—such as basic management, equipment, behavior, dispute resolution, public credit evaluation, and penalties for violations—to establish a four-tier credit rating system. This shifts oversight from universal inspections to targeted, differentiated supervision, reducing checks on highly-rated markets and tightening scrutiny on violators. The initiative aims to protect consumer rights and ensure fair trading in everyday goods like vegetables and grains. SAMR will later expand the pilot results to strengthen legal, credit, and smart regulation nationwide.
Summary: The 17th Tianjin-Taiwan Investment and Trade Fair was held July 7-12 in Tianjin, co-hosted by the Tianjin municipal government, the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits, and the Tianjin CPPCC. Under the theme "Gathering New Wisdom, Sharing New Opportunities," about 350 participants from political, business, youth, and grassroots circles on both sides of the strait focused on AI, health, and biotech cooperation. The fair included events such as a Tianjin-Taiwan AI industry cooperation forum and a cross-strait health industry exchange, along with youth camps and community exchanges. Officials from the Tianjin Taiwan Affairs Office noted that the city has approved 2,718 Taiwanese-invested enterprises with total investment exceeding $19 billion. In 2025, 88 key Taiwanese enterprises in Tianjin reported revenue of 78.19 billion RMB and total profit of 7.89 billion RMB.
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Summary: The article emphasizes that "systemic thinking" is central to Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law, requiring coordination across all aspects of legal construction, national governance, and reform, development, and stability. Xi Jinping is quoted as stating that the medium- and long-term goals of rule-of-law construction must consider domestic and international situations, legal progress, and public needs in coordination with modernizing governance. The "15th Five-Year Plan" sets the goal of building a higher-level socialist rule-of-law state, with a focus on enhancing synergy in legislation, enforcement, judiciary, and compliance. The piece advocates for aligning rule-of-law efforts with high-quality development and national security to support Chinese-style modernization, while stressing the need for coordination in foreign-related legal affairs and addressing major contradictions.
Summary: The article discusses Xi Jinping’s emphasis on a correct view of political achievement, urging officials to base decisions on objective laws and people’s welfare rather than personal recognition or career advancement. It identifies "political achievement anxiety"—manifested as impatience, fear of poor evaluations, or short-sighted competition—and attributes it to both internal motives and external factors like overly rigid performance metrics. The piece argues that aligning performance evaluations with long-term, people-centered outcomes and improving cadre selection mechanisms can mitigate this anxiety. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: President Xi Jinping emphasized that the digitalization of text, imagery, and reading necessitates adapting to new forms of literary and artistic creation under internet conditions. The article defines "new mass literature and art" as a participatory, digitally-driven cultural form supported by China's traditional heritage, highlighting three innovations: expanded creative subjects, hybrid digital-traditional content forms, and interactive, platform-based dissemination mechanisms. It acknowledges challenges such as homogenization, low-quality content, weak intellectual property protections, and insufficient international reach. To address these, the article calls for value-oriented guidance, improved创作 ecosystems, and optimized multi-platform传播 strategies to enhance the global influence of Chinese culture. No mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations appears in the text.
Summary: The article emphasizes that primary healthcare institutions are the foundation of China’s medical system and key to the Healthy China strategy, citing President Xi Jinping’s call to prioritize grassroots health services. It reports Xi’s statements that basic medical services should be government-funded and that the medical workforce must focus on rural and community areas. The article outlines measures under the 15th Five-Year Plan, such as bolstering financial support, training doctors (e.g., Shanghai’s program), expanding family doctor contracts (e.g., Xiamen’s “three-manager” model), and using digital tools (e.g., Jiangsu’s “digital health cockpit”). The authors, researchers from the National Health Commission’s Health Development Research Center, stress improving accessibility and quality while reducing patient costs.
Summary: The article reports on safety warnings from multiple Chinese traffic police officials regarding driving during heavy rainfall and flooding. Shanghai police officer Yu Zhouming advised checking weather alerts and vehicle conditions, while Tianjin’s Sun Xun emphasized inspecting brakes, wipers, and tires. Xinjiang’s Song Yang warned against disabling electronic stability systems and urged fuel car drivers to turn off auto start-stop to prevent engine damage. Guizhou’s Wang Jia noted that if a vehicle stalls in water, drivers must not restart it, and Liaoning’s Ma Longfei recommended parking on elevated, stable ground. The guidance also covered specific precautions for electric vehicles, such as avoiding immediate charging after water exposure.
Summary: The article highlights a security guard at Ningbo's Tianyi Pavilion who delayed closing to shelter tourists from rain, reflecting flexible management that allows empathy within rule enforcement. The museum’s policy, which authorizes such discretion during bad weather, is praised as a model for balancing rigidity with human warmth. Similar examples include allowing an elderly war veteran a courtesy vehicle at Longmen Grottoes and permitting a waste collector on campus at Lanzhou University. The piece argues that such “intentional blank spaces” in regulations foster goodwill, improve service, and enhance social civilization. No mention is made of U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) and the National Healthcare Security Administration (NHSA) jointly conducted inspections of medical institutions and drug wholesalers in Inner Mongolia and Shanxi, using drug traceability code data to identify irregularities. The two agencies focused on key issues in medical insurance fund management and drug distribution, targeting anomalies in drug tracing and duplicate insurance claims. The NMPA emphasized intensifying source-level governance and cracking down on illegal activities in the pharmaceutical sector. It also called for accelerating improvements to the drug traceability system and deepening inter-departmental coordination on data sharing and case referrals. The inspections are part of efforts to strengthen drug safety controls and ensure compliance in the supply chain.
Summary: The article reports that China's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, along with eight other departments, has expanded a pilot occupational injury protection program for workers in new employment forms to all 31 provinces and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, effective July. The program, initially launched in July 2022, covers three sectors—ride-hailing, instant delivery, and intra-city freight—across 11 major platforms in 17 provinces, with 29.902 million workers insured as of June 2026. Newly added platforms include T3出行, 花小猪出行, and 盒马鲜生, among others. Provinces will progressively incorporate smaller local platforms within the year on a "mature one, include one" basis, aiming to broaden coverage for this workforce. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: On July 13, in Houchang Village, Jinlan Town, Qianxi City, Guizhou, a village official (second from left) demonstrated lifebuoy usage to residents. The event educated villagers on summer drowning prevention and traffic safety. It aimed to enhance their self-protection awareness and emergency response capabilities.
Summary: Gansu Province's Human Resources and Social Security Department has issued a new mechanism to shift migrant worker wage arrears management from post-incident handling to prevention, outlining 16 measures across five areas. A provincial-to-county government system will be established, with anti-arrears performance included in high-quality development evaluations and funded by special incentives. A digital platform called "Longmingong" will monitor projects over 3 million yuan, enabling real-time tracking of wage accounts and early warning interventions. The mechanism mandates three training sessions: pre-construction warnings, mid-construction compliance checks, and pre-completion wage settlement verification to ensure workers are paid before leaving. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations were mentioned in the report.
Summary: During the “15th Five-Year Plan” period, Tibet aims to build 1,000 highland beautiful villages, building on the 1,000 such villages already completed during the “14th Five-Year Plan.” The announcement was made at a press conference held by the Tibet Autonomous Region government. Priority will be given to villages along highways, border areas, near towns, tourist sites, and industrial clusters. The article reports on the government’s commitment to modernizing rural living conditions, citing improvements in toilet access and human-animal separation rates. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article offers professional guidance on "sanfu patch" (三伏贴), a traditional Chinese medicine therapy, quoting chief physician Li Dong and主治医师 Li Sai of Peking University Third Hospital. They explain the therapy is suitable for specific constitutions and chronic respiratory conditions, not a universal wellness treatment, and detail contraindications and precautions for application. The article advises consulting a professional Chinese medicine practitioner for proper diagnosis before use. No political figures, U.S. relations, or official statements are referenced.
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Summary: The article reports that the National Climate Center predicts a generally poor climate during China's main flood season, with increased extreme weather and a northward shift of the rain belt, as explained by chief forecaster Chen Lijuan. Chen attributed this shift to the strengthening and northward expansion of the Western Pacific subtropical high, coupled with sea temperature oscillations and global warming. Experts including Liu Changjun of the China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research and Zhong Linhao of the National Institute of Natural Hazards highlighted new challenges such as inadequate flood control standards in the north and the risk of compound disasters like “drought-flood abrupt alternation.” Li Chenliang of the Ministry of Water Resources emphasized the need for enhanced monitoring, forecasting, and emergency response measures. The article concludes that while the shifting rain belt may alleviate some water scarcity, it does not solve the region's fundamental water shortage issues.
Summary: The article reports on Typhoon Bavi's landfall and northward path, causing severe rainfall across multiple Chinese provinces. Central Meteorological Observatory chief forecaster Dong Quan explained that the typhoon maintained tropical storm intensity due to sustained moisture and energy from southerly airflows, with terrain amplifying rainfall and winds in specific areas. Researcher Zhao Dajun added that northward typhoon movement depends on intensity, thermal conditions, and guidance from subtropical highs and mid-latitude westerly troughs. The article notes that under global warming, typhoon landfall locations are shifting northward, leading to an increase in northern China typhoon activity—urging officials and the public to abandon outdated assumptions and strengthen disaster preparedness. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: China’s grassland ecology has continued to improve, with healthy and sub-healthy areas reaching 2.7 billion mu (over 70% of total grassland). The National Forestry and Grassland Administration’s Grassland Management Department official stated that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, China will enhance grassland governance, integrate grass planting with greening and desert control, implement graded ecological restoration, and strengthen protection against illegal reclamation. The official also noted China will leverage the UN’s 2026 International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists to showcase its achievements in ecological restoration, monitoring, and pastoralist livelihoods. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations were mentioned.
Summary: In Heilongjiang's Heihe, the Beidahuang Group's Beian branch is in the critical summer management period for densely planted soybeans. Farms use soil nutrient big data and crop growth data to tailor NPK and micronutrient fertilizers for each zone. They are also implementing fertilizer reduction and the "one spray, three preventions" summer management technique. A agricultural drone is shown spraying a customized "nutrition meal" on the soybean fields. No officials or U.S.-China relations are mentioned in the article.
Summary: The Ministry of Ecology and Environment and the State Administration for Market Regulation jointly released the Chishui River Basin Water Pollutant Discharge Standards. The standards divide the basin into three control zones—enhanced, key, and general—with differentiated discharge limits tailored to local water quality needs. They target two main pollutant sources: urban wastewater treatment plants and the alcohol and baijiu industries, setting daily and instantaneous limits for COD, ammonia nitrogen, and total phosphorus. The standards also tighten unit-product baseline water discharge for top-tier polluters, aiming to promote water conservation and cleaner production. This regulation seeks to improve the basin’s water ecology and support sustainable development of key industries.
Summary: The Tarim Oilfield, a key source for China's West-East Gas Pipeline, has supplied over 400 billion cubic meters of gas to the network. Since the pipeline's first line began operation in 2004, the oilfield has contributed one-third of the total gas transported. This gas reaches 15 provinces and over 120 major cities across central and eastern China. To enhance supply capacity, the oilfield has optimized development and expanded key hub stations, raising maximum annual capacity from 12 billion to 40 billion cubic meters. Notably, the Kela-2 gas field maintains the highest average single-well output in China, with seven wells each producing over 10 billion cubic meters cumulatively.
Summary: In Minqin County, Gansu, senior forestry engineer Gao Feng demonstrated a new "using sand to control sand" method, replacing traditional straw grids with biodegradable polylactic acid bags filled with local sand to stabilize dunes. The bags, developed with the Gansu Desert Control Research Institute, naturally degrade over years, providing nutrients for saplings. Gao emphasized that the technique reduces wind erosion, retains moisture, and avoids pollution from imported straw. The county has since achieved a "double reduction" in desertified and sandified land, with over 2.61 million mu of artificial forest and a 380-km green belt. A combined system of sand barriers, vegetation, and photovoltaic panels now forms an integrated ecological protection framework.
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Summary: The article reports that Chinese cooling appliances, such as portable air conditioners from Midea and ice makers from Huikang, are seeing surging sales in Europe amid a heatwave. Midea's European director Xiong Xueqin noted that portable split ACs are selling rapidly, with some channels sold out, while product manager Zhao Ali highlighted easy installation features developed by a joint R&D team. Huikang's trade director Zheng Li said Europe's share of their ice maker exports rose from 5% to 15% in early 2024, and chairman Chen Yuepeng credited China's supply chain for product innovation. Chinese brands' market share in EU air conditioners rose to 41% from 27% in 2023, with total EU exports up 43.2% year-on-year. European demand is driven by installation difficulties due to historic buildings and high labor costs, making portable units attractive.
Summary: Xu Haoyu, chairman of Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group, stated in an interview that the 15th Five-Year Plan's push to "accelerate building a healthy China" and "strengthen the TCM industry" presents new opportunities for Chinese pharmaceutical firms. He emphasized that TCM cultural confidence must be built through demonstrable health benefits, and called for standardized planting, digital transformation of ancient texts, and a national quality credit database to address public concerns over herbal medicine quality. Xu defended the company's diversification into wellness products like astragalus coffee as an extension of "food as medicine" principles, leveraging the firm's clinical and manufacturing expertise. On innovation, he affirmed a balanced strategy across chemical, biological, and traditional drugs, stressing that both generics and novel drugs must serve public health needs. Finally, he noted that overseas "TCM fever" must be converted into lasting trust through rigorous evidence-based research, localized cultural communication, and international R&D hubs.
Summary: The Financial Regulatory Administration has released a public consultation draft of the "Banking and Insurance Industry Cybersecurity Management Measures," consisting of 8 chapters and 72 articles. The draft aims to strengthen cybersecurity supervision over banking, insurance, and financial holding firms, emphasizing unified group-level management, coordination between technology and business, and multi-layered defense. It builds on past regulatory experiences to formalize practical measures into institutional rules. The regulation introduces graded and categorized management, with enhanced requirements for critical information infrastructure. No specific official statements or references to the U.S. or bilateral relations are included in the article.
Summary: A photo from July 13 shows a large number of Chinese-made cars assembled at Lianyungang Port in Jiangsu province for export. The accompanying caption states that the port’s automobile export business experienced rapid growth in the first half of 2026. The image was taken by Wang Chun. No statements or actions by officials are reported, and there is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Jiangsu Province announced a three-year action plan (2026–2028) to upgrade traditional industries, focusing on high-end, intelligent, green, and integrated development. The plan targets sectors including light industry, textiles, metallurgy, chemicals, building materials, and machinery. It outlines five key actions: high-end leap, green transformation, product upgrading, integrated innovation, and layout optimization. The goal is to accelerate the formation of new quality productive forces. By 2028, the province aims to optimize industrial structure, improve production efficiency, and enhance high-end supply capacity.
Summary: Liang Yunying, a village Party secretary and National People's Congress deputy in Dawu County, Hubei, led research trips to Henan and Anhui to develop yellow tea processing, transforming low-value summer-autumn leaves into a profitable product. She facilitated the return of entrepreneur Wang Shidong, who introduced digital production lines from Anhui Agricultural University, increasing incomes for over 2,200 tea farmers. The county also expanded into matcha production through targeted investment, with Deputy Mayor and County Party Secretary Yu Haiqun reporting a comprehensive industry structure and a total output value of 2.8 billion yuan from nearly 300,000 mu of tea fields.
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Summary: The article reports on Chenzhou, Hunan, shifting from blanket inspections to targeted, problem-solving oversight to reduce grassroots burdens. Party Secretary Chen Guanzhou of Maqiao town noted that previous top-down pressure on straw burning failed until officials like Yu Zhenzhen helped find solutions, such as connecting farms with cattle feed needs. Village Party Secretary Cao Haiou said work groups were cut from 70 to 5, while Inspector Hu Yalan and Assessment Director Cao Bo detailed a 91% reduction in planned inspections and a 92.8% cut in municipal indicators. The "dual assignment" system, described by Beihu District Inspector Hu Jun, tied city, district, and street levels to clear a long-stalled road project. The overhaul aims to let grassroots cadres focus on development and public services, with officials like Hu Jiansong praising direct, unannounced field visits.
Summary: The article critiques the phenomenon of "supervision without guidance" in Chinese local governance, where inspections prioritize identifying problems over solving them, increasing grassroots burdens. It notes that some officials treat the number of issues found as performance metrics while shifting responsibility downward. To address this, Chenzhou (郴州) has implemented reforms such as a "dual assignment" system and "no-disturbance inspections," enabling higher-level authorities to coordinate resources and solve problems collaboratively with grassroots units. The piece calls for reducing formalism and fostering shared accountability to restore the original purpose of inspections. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports on Hefei traffic police, represented by officer Xu Dong, introducing "time-limited parking spaces for restroom use" (15-minute limit) after a citizen complained on their WeChat account about parking difficulties near public toilets. Xu stated that the police tested two spots in a high-tech zone, measuring the time limit themselves, and after positive feedback, expanded to over 40 spots near commercial areas, hospitals, and schools. They also partnered with map apps to mark the spaces for easier navigation. The piece presents this as an example of urban governance shifting from management to service by listening to public feedback and implementing precise, people-oriented measures.
Summary: The Ministry of Justice released eight cases of record review of regulations and rules, focusing on correcting issues that hinder the unified national market and violate higher-level laws. The cases addressed problems such as improper interference in enterprise autonomy, illegal administrative fees, and increased burdens on new employment groups. The Ministry coordinated with the National People's Congress Legislative Affairs Commission and local authorities to push for revisions. It emphasized the role of the record review system in ensuring central directives are implemented and legal uniformity is maintained. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports the launch of the 2026 Taiwan university student internship experience in Guangzhou on July 12, attracting over 130 participants from 37 Taiwanese and 30 mainland universities. These students will intern at more than 50 enterprises and organizations in the city, with 700 high-quality positions offered. Organizers, including the Guangzhou Taiwan Affairs Office and other municipal bodies, will also arrange visits to high-tech firms, cultural immersion activities, and a “Impression Guangzhou” short video contest. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations are mentioned.
Summary: The article reports on the 2026 Cross-Strait Peace Little Angels exchange activity in Chongqing from July 8-13, themed "Yu Jian Nature • Zhi Lian Liang An." Organized by the All-China Federation of Taiwan Compatriots and hosted by the Chongqing Taiwan Compatriots Federation, 40 teenagers from Taiwan and Chongqing participated to deepen mutual understanding. A photo shows the youths experiencing virtual reality at a robot AI application center. No officials are quoted or mentioned accompanying the event, and there is no reference to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports on Yuanbaoshan District in Inner Mongolia, where a "one-meter service" model delivers meals and care to elderly and child residents, as voiced by 72-year-old resident Li Jingde. The district provides door-to-door meal delivery, daycare, and health services for seniors, along with after-school programs and summer classes for children. It leverages grassroots Party organizations, building-level Party member liaisons, and a closed-loop system for collecting and resolving resident requests. Regular home visits by Party members and grid workers, along with 171 affiliated units and 90 volunteer teams, are mobilized to offer errand-running and emergency aid. The initiative aims to enhance social governance and make welfare services more accessible and responsive.
Summary: The article reports the deployment of the first cross-regional labor arbitration self-service terminal in Xiong'an, linking with Beijing's arbitration system to enable remote case filing, document submission, and hearings. This addresses the growing issue of Beijing employees working in Xiong'an facing travel burdens for labor disputes, as firms relocate due to non-capital function dispersal. The terminal provides a "fast track" for dispute resolution, reducing costs and time for workers and enterprises. Future cooperation between Beijing and Xiong'an will expand to include joint tribunal construction and mutual arbitrator appointments. No mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Nanjing, Jiangsu, is implementing a clear list of duties for townships and subdistricts to address blurred responsibilities, poor inter-department coordination, and heavy assessment burdens. The system links duty lists to specific posts and institutions, with assessments strictly limited to listed items to reduce grassroots burdens. In Gulou District, duties are refined into job-setting guidelines to ensure accountability, freeing up energy for public services and conflict resolution. At Ninghai Road Subdistrict, the list enables joint patrols with police, urban management, and market regulators to solve resident complaints like commercial photography disturbances. Lişhui District has further established a coordination mechanism for cross-departmental cases, creating a case database and clarifying lead and supporting responsibilities for a closed-loop process.
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Summary: The Shanghai Women's Federation, led by Party Secretary and Chair Zhang Hua, launched the "Home+Bookstore" family education initiative in 2024, establishing 250 sites across cultural venues to create a "15-minute community family education service circle." Zhang stated the project responds to new public expectations by offering parenting classes, family activities, and social networks, integrating resources from bookstores, libraries, and sports parks. Officials such as Minhang District Women's Federation Chair Liu Fen emphasized systematic curriculum alignment with school education. The initiative has been included in Shanghai's 2025–2026 municipal government practical projects and the 2026–2028 Party committee’s people-benefit projects.
Summary: The article argues that despite the rise of AI and fragmented online information, authoritative dictionaries like *Xinhua Zidian* and *Xiandai Hanyu Cidian* remain essential for language standardization and reliable knowledge. It emphasizes that these works have evolved through digital platforms and AI features, such as the *Cihai*’s expanded entries and the *Encyclopedia of China*’s dynamic online system. The author, an editor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, notes that a recent consultation with teachers from Beijing, Nanyang, and Wugang showed that daily use of dictionaries improved students’ literacy. The piece concludes that classic dictionaries anchor rigorous inquiry and support lifelong learning in a data-driven age. No reference to the United States or U.S.-China relations appears.
Summary: Harbin Engineering University President Yin Jingwei led students to the National Deep Sea Base Management Center in Qingdao for a discussion with alumnus and submersible pilot Zhang Yi by the "Jiaolong" manned submersible. Zhang Yi prompted students to reflect on the school's legacy of creating China’s first experimental submarine and other Cold War-era innovations, with students responding that such efforts embodied the mission of "strengthening the country and its military." The university has expanded ideological and political education beyond classrooms into workshops, warships, and field sites to instill a commitment to marine power and national defense. The article notes that over 70% of its graduates now work in national industrialization, informatization, and defense modernization, driven by the value of "taking the needs of the motherland as the first need." No mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations appears in the report.
Summary: The first national "Education Rumor Debunking Salon" was held in Beijing, launching a comprehensive platform matrix under the Ministry of Education. This matrix integrates WeChat, web, mini-programs, and video accounts to clarify education-related rumors and policy misinterpretations, covering topics such as college admissions, study abroad certification, and teacher qualification. During the salon, officials and experts from cyberspace, education departments, universities, and internet platforms discussed strategies for combating AI-generated rumors and promoting collaborative governance. They also issued a joint initiative urging coordinated efforts from education authorities, schools, media, and society to maintain a clean online environment.
Summary: During the summer vacation, Nanfeng County in Jiangxi Province launched a public service program for left-behind children, offering safety education, art courses, and fun activities. The report highlights a July 13 event at the Taiyuan Village Party and Mass Service Center, where volunteers and children made handicrafts together. No specific officials are quoted or named as accompanying the activities. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Pan Jianwei, a Chinese Academy of Sciences academician and professor at the University of Science and Technology of China, has been awarded the third Mendeleev International Prize in Basic Science by UNESCO for his pioneering contributions to large-scale secure quantum communication and scalable quantum computing. He is the first Chinese scholar to receive this honor. UNESCO recognized Pan as a global leader in quantum optics, quantum communication, and quantum computing. His team developed the Mozi quantum satellite, achieving quantum key distribution and teleportation over thousands of kilometers, and demonstrated quantum computing advantages, marking the transition of global quantum networks from theory to reality. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Beijing held a conference to advance integrated ideological and political education across its primary, secondary, and tertiary schools. The event announced a second batch of reform pilot zones and regional innovation consortiums, including new zones in four districts and one economic development area. Twenty-six universities, including Peking, Tsinghua, and Renmin University, will lead 30 consortiums. The city has established a coordinated work mechanism led by municipal officials and reported over 500 practice cases and 1,000 teaching materials. Future plans focus on strengthening the integrated education chain, technology empowerment, and evaluation reforms with Beijing-specific characteristics.
Summary: The article highlights the efforts of researchers and conservators at the Kizil Caves in Xinjiang, including Zhao Li, who spent years tracking down and digitally reassembling murals removed from the site, and restorer Yang Jie, who meticulously cleans fragile wall paintings. Zhao Li collected high-definition images of nearly 500 murals from over 20 overseas museums, and by 2020, most murals had been digitally restored and published. The work also involves manual copying of murals for preservation and exhibition. No mention is made of any political officials or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The 2026 Yuelu Mountain Youth Drama Season opened on July 12 in Changsha, Hunan, featuring nearly 50 invited works and 170 performances through August 19. The event includes a youth drama talent incubation program and cross-sector ART+ collaborations. It is deeply integrated with cultural tourism, distributing nearly 5,000 discounted tickets and creating two dedicated theater travel routes to stimulate consumption through a "ticket stub economy." Since its launch in 2020, the season has attracted over one million participants. This year’s edition emphasizes youth engagement and local roots, lowering barriers with affordable tickets and workshops while boosting original productions and talent development.
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Summary: The National Film Administration and State Administration for Market Regulation jointly issued a notice promoting the transformation of cinemas into comprehensive cultural experience spaces through "movie+" innovations. The policy highlights efforts in cities like Hangzhou, where theaters now feature VR experiences, themed dining, and children's fire safety education. In Mianyang, Zhonghuan Cinema has become a youth "social charging station," hosting children's film festivals and cultural exchange activities. Guiyang's Yuejie Cinema leveraged the hit film *Ne Zha 2* to integrate non-heritage performances and dining, transforming into a cultural "living room" that boosted local consumption by 45%. A Zhejiang Provincial Propaganda Department official stated their goal is to use film as a catalyst for consumption and cultural growth.
Summary: Scientists have developed a new method to date dinosaur fossils by analyzing calcite cement within bones, bypassing limitations of traditional volcanic ash dating. The technique was applied to a well-preserved dinosaur fossil discovered in Longchang, Sichuan, in 2021, which was excavated by a team led by Professor Hou Mingcai from Chengdu University of Technology. Using uranium-lead isotopic analysis of the "time capsules" in the calcite, the team determined the dinosaur lived approximately 165 million years ago. This finding provides a precise temporal anchor for the Jurassic dinosaur fauna sequence in the Sichuan Basin. The research was reported by Chengdu University of Technology researcher and journalist Song Haoxin.
Summary: The article is a travelogue extolling the attractions of Yining (Yining City), the capital of Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang, highlighting its colorful, musical, and slow-paced character. It details the city’s temperate climate, the scenic Ili River, and local cuisine such as handmade ice cream and traditional dishes. Key sights include the blue-walled historic Kazanqi district and the hexagonal Liuxing Street, known for its multi-ethnic heritage and a hand-pulled accordion museum. No Chinese officials or U.S.-China relations are mentioned in the piece.
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Summary: In 2025, Africa’s renewable energy capacity grew by 15.9% (≈11.3 GW), the fastest pace in recent years, with solar PV additions surging 54% year-on-year. Africa Solar Industry Association head Zuoyilen stated that the accelerating development of solar and other renewables could drive the continent’s industrialization and green transition. Major projects include South Africa’s 240 MW Mooiplaats solar plant, Namibia’s planned $10 billion green hydrogen base, and Ethiopia’s 120 MW Aysha wind farm. The article highlights deepening China-Africa green cooperation, citing Chinese-built projects like Tanzania’s 50 MW Shinyanga solar farm and South Africa’s 100 MW Redstone CSP plant. It notes that Africa still faces challenges such as weak grids and financing gaps, but that expanding China-Africa renewable energy partnerships can inject strong momentum into the region’s sustainable development.
Summary: Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis stated that China’s support during Greece’s debt crisis and the Piraeus port project exemplify a mutually beneficial partnership, ending “16 years of negative history” as Greece exited the EU’s macroeconomic monitoring list. The article highlights how Chinese investment revitalized the Port of Piraeus, boosting its container throughput to over 5.6 million TEUs and making it a key node in the Belt and Road Initiative. Mitsotakis noted that the project has driven Greek economic recovery and social development, reinforcing the value of China as a friend. No references to the United States or U.S.-China relations were present in the article.
Summary: UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged the United States and Iran to urgently resume negotiations to de-escalate tensions in the Gulf region, warning that renewed hostilities would bring catastrophic consequences. The article also reports that the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak has spread to five provinces, with over 1,800 confirmed cases. In Japan, a stabbing in Oita Prefecture left four injured and a suspect arrested. Additionally, the Philippines saw foreign direct investment plummet to its lowest monthly level since 2016 in April.
Summary: Indonesia announced a 26.34 trillion rupiah economic stimulus package for the second half of 2025, targeting consumption, employment, and food aid. Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto stated the plan aims to sustain purchasing power and support the 5.4% annual growth target. The package follows earlier measures, as the rupiah has depreciated about 8% against the U.S. dollar this year due to global energy price volatility and financial uncertainty. It includes transportation subsidies, tax incentives for creative industries, a national internship program, and major food aid for over 32 million people. Senior researcher Deni Friawan from the Centre for Strategic and International Studies noted that external pressures are weakening growth momentum and urged supply-side measures beyond consumption stimulus.
Summary: A Sun investigation revealed that in 2025, fewer than 8% of 184,000 burglaries in England and Wales were solved, with over a third of neighborhoods reporting zero clear-ups. Chronic underfunding and police cuts since 2010 have shifted resources away from “low-level” crimes, leading to widespread public dissatisfaction. In response, the UK government in January 2026 created a new national police service and appointed a National Police Commissioner, while the Home Office pledged to deploy 3,000 community officers. A recent policing reform white paper also outlines a shift from fragmented local forces to a clearer division between local and national policing. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: 21 young leaders from 16 African countries and 21 political parties visited Zhejiang and Beijing, observing China's modernization and governance. They praised rural development in Lizu Village and Yiwu's global trade ecosystem, attributing success to the Communist Party's proactive, people-centered governance. Multiple delegates, including Francis Mwamba and Enock Dambuzo, emphasized that China's experience shows the importance of long-term planning and party leadership. They noted that China's peaceful development and economic growth provide opportunities for Africa, without mentioning the United States. The visitors expressed hope that African countries would adapt China's lessons to their own contexts, fostering deeper China-Africa cooperation.
Summary: The article, written by a senior Kenyan official from the United Democratic Alliance, reflects on his visit to Yiwu, China, where he observed how grassroots entrepreneurship supported by strong institutions and infrastructure creates vibrant markets. He argues that African countries should focus on stable government policies and public investment to unlock the potential of ordinary people, rather than relying on large projects. The official emphasizes that China’s success is rooted in long-term planning, institutional discipline, and a people-centered development approach that links national goals to daily life. He highlights the critical role of vocational education and technical training, noting that Africa’s youth population can only become an asset if equipped with job-ready skills. Finally, he advocates for learning from China’s methodology—tailored to local realities—while deepening non‑China youth cooperation in areas like digital economy and agriculture.
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Summary: The article reports on four individuals from China’s new employment groups—a delivery rider, a courier, a taxi fleet organizer, and a truck driver—who were honored at the Communist Party’s 105th anniversary ceremony on July 1. Wang Kehao, a national outstanding party worker, received his certificate from Xi Jinping, while the others also received awards. They emphasized their commitment to serving the people and the Party, describing initiatives such as building party branches among mobile workers and providing community services like free rides for the elderly and disaster relief.
Summary: The article emphasizes that Party leadership is the most essential attribute of socialism with Chinese characteristics, as articulated in Xi Jinping's "14 Persistences." It reports Xi's visits to Shandong (where he spoke with farmers about building a better home under Party leadership) and to Hebei Xiong'an (where he stressed that new cities are built for the people's well-being). The piece highlights Xi's July 1 speech on the Party's six excellent traits, and it frames the Chinese path to modernization as breaking the "Westernization = modernization" myth. It also attributes technological and national achievements to the centralized leadership of the Party and the "concentrate resources to accomplish large tasks" institutional advantage. The article concludes that upholding the Party's leadership is fundamental to China's past successes and future progress.
Summary: A disciplinary inspection in Gaizhou, Liaoning, investigated a village cold storage project lacking refrigeration equipment. Street official Cui initially claimed the equipment was stored elsewhere and enlisted villager Cong to provide false testimony, which collapsed under scrutiny. Cui was detained and confessed to embezzling over 1 million yuan through fraudulent contracts and invoices in multiple village projects. The case highlights weak oversight of village-level projects and the misuse of "small power" by grassroots officials. The commentary calls for strengthened supervision of rural collective assets and better education to ensure policy benefits reach the people.
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Summary: The article argues that outdated assumptions about audiences, rather than traditional themes, are being phased out in China’s cultural market. It criticizes creators who rely on simplified user profiles, such as young people lacking patience, and instead highlights successful works like *Taiping Year* and *The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru* that resonate across demographics. The piece warns against conflating data-driven catering with genuine respect, noting that over-reliance on formulas—as seen in the Marvel Cinematic Universe—leads to fatigue. It calls for creators to anticipate audience emotions rather than merely react to trends, and to actively cultivate new viewers. Ultimately, the article emphasizes that rejuvenating cultural supply requires a renewed, sophisticated understanding of the audience.
Summary: The article reports that AI technology is reshaping China's film industry, reducing filming starts in places like Hengdian and Xi’an while prompting studios to sign digital actors, such as a Hong Kong actor licensing his youthful likeness for AI use. It notes that AI-generated short dramas accounted for over 95% of new micro-dramas in Q1 but only 4% of core viewership, indicating audiences still favor real actors. The piece argues AI will eliminate superficial performances rather than the acting profession, with actors responding by honing their craft or returning to stage. It adds that Chinese judicial and industry bodies are strengthening protections for actors’肖像, voice, and performance rights against illegal AI “face-swapping.” The article concludes that technological evolution historically refines acting, and AI will ultimately pressure actors toward more authentic, human-centered performances.
Summary: The article argues that short dramas, while a new media format, are a modern return to traditional storytelling, meeting audience needs for emotional reassurance and justice through familiar tropes like "boss" and "rebirth." It traces this narrative lineage from classical works like *The Romance of the West Chamber* and *The Water Margin* to foreign classics such as *The Count of Monte Cristo*. The piece notes that short dramas compress lengthy narratives into brief, digestible episodes, offering emotional catharsis in fragmented time. Despite their popularity, the article acknowledges that most short dramas lack depth and quality compared to literary classics. It concludes that the genre’s future lies not in abandoning narrative archetypes but in expanding thematic range to include everyday life and historical themes.
Summary: The article reports on an original play, "Walking Through the Endless Road," produced by the Central Academy of Drama to mark the 90th anniversary of the Long March. The play focuses on the logistics unit, using the act of "walking" as a central motif to depict the soldiers' physical and spiritual journey. Characters like "Big Head" and "Red Scarf" grapple with personal loss and duty, ultimately finding strength in revolutionary faith. The climax on the Songpan Grassland highlights how hope emerges from despair, and the finale calls for a renewed "departure." The piece draws a parallel between the historical Long March and today's "new Long March" of national rejuvenation, emphasizing the enduring power of belief.
Summary: The article reviews the Chinese TV drama *Maze Wall*, highlighting a striking scene where falling plaster reveals 30 million yuan in cash. It explores how the sudden wealth exposes the characters' desires, fears, and moral struggles, updating the ancient conflict between righteousness and profit. The hidden money serves as a metaphor for the "heart wall" between spouses—built from poor communication, misplaced expectations, and life pressures. As the couple confronts danger together, they rediscover their lost connection. The drama ultimately argues that true happiness comes not from wealth but from tearing down these internal walls and embracing loved ones with honesty.
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To improve the natural resource asset management system, implement the unified fulfillment of duties by owners of all-people-owned natural resource assets, and promote the secure, efficient, and sustainable utilization of natural resources as well as the preservation and appreciation of asset value, the following opinions are hereby proposed with the approval of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council.
I. General Requirements
Adhere to using Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as guidance, deeply implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and successive plenary sessions of the 20th Central Committee, earnestly implement the deployments of the Fourth Plenary Session, comprehensively implement Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, firmly establish and practice the concept that 绿水青山就是金山银山 (lǜ shuǐ qīng shān jiù shì jīn shān yín shān - "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets," emphasizing that ecological protection is essential for economic development), respect nature, adapt to nature, and protect nature, properly handle the relationship between high-quality development and high-level protection, take the improvement of the natural resource asset property rights system as the main thread, strengthen the overall protection of natural resources, promote the efficient allocation of natural resource assets, safeguard the rights and interests of natural resource asset owners, improve the natural resource asset management institutional mechanisms, strengthen supervision and management, and hold firm to the bottom line of resource security, providing strong support and guarantees for advancing modernization where humanity and nature coexist in harmony.
The main goals are: By 2030, the natural resource asset management system will be more sound, the subjects of duty fulfillment will be clearer, the asset inventory will be more distinct, overall protection will be more powerful, asset allocation will be more efficient, and assessment and supervision will be more complete; various types of natural resource assets and the entire national territory will receive effective protection, and the level of natural resource asset management will significantly improve. By 2035, the natural resource asset management institutional mechanisms will operate smoothly, a systematic and complete natural resource asset management system will be fully established, and the level of natural resource asset management will be comprehensively improved.
II. Clarifying the Natural Resource Asset Inventory
(1) Improve the unified natural resource investigation, monitoring, and evaluation system. Cover all types of natural resources such as land, minerals, forests, grasslands, wetlands, water, oceans, and deserts, as well as national parks and other territorial spaces, and improve the unified investigation standard system. Coordinate the implementation of land surveys and annual change surveys, specialized natural resource investigations and monitoring, and territorial space dynamic monitoring; carry out marine comprehensive investigations in a systematic manner, and optimize forest, grassland, wetland, and desert investigation and monitoring to comprehensively grasp the natural resource baseline. Promote the construction of a new basic surveying and mapping system, and construct a "single map" for natural resource management and territorial space planning based on a unified spatio-temporal reference. Strengthen the analysis and evaluation of investigation and monitoring data based on the territorial space basic information platform, and improve the application and sharing mechanisms for natural resource investigation, monitoring, and evaluation results. Accelerate the digital transformation of investigation and monitoring work.
(2) Improve the natural resource asset inventory, statistics, and accounting system. Integrate and utilize the results of natural resource investigations, territorial space monitoring, rights confirmation and registration, and classification and graded valuation to regularly carry out natural resource asset inventories, clarify physical quantities, explore the accounting of value quantities, clarify the natural resource asset base, and sort out the status of use rights. Establish an annual update mechanism for natural resource asset inventory results and strengthen the analysis and application of inventory results. Improve the statistical system for all-people-owned natural resource assets. Improve the system for preparing natural resource asset balance sheets and promote routine preparation. Explore the implementation of natural capital accounting.
III. Improving the Natural Resource Asset Property Rights System
(3) Improve the rights system including usufructuary rights of natural resource assets. Adhere to the principles that resources are publicly owned and property rights are statutory, establish and protect natural resource asset use rights according to law, and promote the separation of natural resource asset ownership from use rights. Establish and improve the natural resource asset rights system, clarify corresponding rights content and methods of exercise, and solve problems such as unclear rights when resource types overlap. Explore the separate establishment of construction land use rights for deep underground space, and improve the underground space rights system to be compatible with planning, protection, and utilization methods. Promote the establishment of state-owned agricultural land use rights and improve the state-owned agricultural land rights system. Improve the connection mechanism for the conversion of sea area use rights to land use rights after land reclamation. Construct a rights system for uninhabited sea islands. Promote water use rights reform according to laws and regulations, and clarify the boundaries of water use rights for various regions and all types of water users.
(4) Comprehensively promote the unified confirmation and registration of natural resources and real estate. Deepen the reform of the natural resource rights confirmation and registration system, and promote the unified rights confirmation and registration of natural resources such as water currents, forests, mountains, grasslands, wasteland, tidal flats, sea areas, uninhabited sea islands, and mineral resources with proven reserves, as well as territorial spaces such as national parks, nature reserves, and natural parks (including scenic areas), to clarify the property right subjects and ownership boundaries of natural resource assets. Consolidate the achievements of the unified real estate registration reform, and enhance the level of registration standardization and convenience. Deepen the application of updated results from the registration of rural collective land ownership. Standardize and efficiently carry out real estate registration for forest rights, sea area use rights, and uninhabited sea island use rights. Accelerate the improvement of cadastral databases and promote the formation of a unified property rights base.
IV. Strengthening Overall Protection of Natural Resources
(5) Promote the preservation and appreciation of natural resource asset value. Establish a natural resource asset management indicator system and play a guiding role, strengthen overall protection and reasonable utilization, strictly abide by the red lines for the protection of cultivated land and permanent basic farmland, strengthen the bottom-line constraints of ecological protection red lines, and strictly control urban development boundaries. Combined with the preparation and implementation of territorial space planning, promote mixed land development, composite spatial utilization, and the lawful and reasonable conversion of land uses. Improve the main functional zone system, guiding various regions to leverage their comparative advantages based on their resource endowments, and fully tap into and enhance the value of natural resource assets. Strengthen ecological protection, restoration, and systematic governance throughout the entire process of natural resource development and utilization, improve market-oriented and diversified investment mechanisms, and promote the preservation and appreciation of natural resource asset value through protection and restoration. Improve the mechanism for realizing the value of ecological products, and explore the establishment of market-based trading mechanisms for resource rights indicators, a balance mechanism for the occupation and restoration of mainland natural coastlines, and an incentive mechanism for the trading of construction land withdrawal indicators within ecological protection red lines, to achieve shared protection costs and shared ecological benefits.
(6) Optimize the natural resource asset reserve and management mechanism. Improve the hierarchical management of land reserves, incorporating all state-owned construction land with undetermined use rights into reserve management. Explore the implementation of integrated collection and storage of natural resource assets, formulate natural resource asset reserve plans, and implement classified management of reserve assets; for natural resource assets with obvious public welfare characteristics, primarily implement routine management, while for natural resource assets with obvious commercial characteristics, necessary preliminary development and temporary utilization may be conducted. Explore having qualified subjects such as professional natural resource asset operating institutions, state-owned forestry or agricultural management units, and others undertake specific natural resource asset management and maintenance work.
V. Promoting Efficient Allocation of Natural Resource Assets
(7) Improve natural resource asset market systems and rules. Deepen the reform of the compensated use system for natural resource assets, establish and improve allocation rules for natural resource assets such as allocation, assignment, leasing, contribution in kind (as capital/shares), joint venture, and contract management according to laws and regulations, improve relevant natural resource asset allocation contracts, clarify the rights, obligations, and responsibilities of all parties, and implement life-cycle management. Explore the establishment of a compensated use system for state-owned agricultural land. Comprehensively promote the competitive assignment of mining rights and strictly control negotiated assignments. Gradually increase the proportion of market-based allocation of sea area use rights. Cultivate and regulate the water use rights trading market. Formulate rules for the classification and graded valuation of natural resource assets according to laws and regulations, and improve the natural resource asset price system. Improve natural resource asset trading mechanisms, strengthen market dynamic monitoring and supervision, establish a market credit system, and maintain the order of the natural resource asset market.
(8) Construct new models and new paths for natural resource asset allocation. According to national economic and social development plans and territorial space planning, explore the preparation of natural resource asset allocation plans, distinguish between public welfare and commercial assets, and, according to local conditions, demarcate reserve areas and allocation units within territorial space planning, coordinate the planning of natural resource asset reserves, allocation, value realization, and revenue management, and form asset portfolio targets. Strengthen the synergy between natural resource asset allocation plans and territorial space planning, and combined with the implementation of requirements regarding land and space use nature, development intensity, etc., in detailed planning, clarify and refine the scale, use, structure, form, method, and sequence of natural resource asset allocation. Improve the rules for multi-factor natural resource asset portfolio allocation and the technical evaluation system; where the use of multiple types of natural resource assets by the same user is involved within a specific territorial space, portfolio allocation may be implemented according to law. Incorporate the use conditions, development requirements, starting prices, revenue accounting, and ecological protection and restoration requirements of various types of natural resource assets into the portfolio target allocation plan, and announce them to society and sign asset allocation contracts together, with relevant departments conducting supervision according to their duties. Explore and research methods for accounting the returns of natural resource asset portfolio allocation by resource type, and ensure coordination with the natural resource asset revenue distribution and management system.
VI. Improving Natural Resource Asset Supervision and Assessment
(9) Strengthen the management of natural resource asset revenue. Establish a unified management system for the revenue of all-people-owned natural resource assets, and incorporate all related income into the government budget. Improve the revenue and cost accounting system for all-people-owned natural resource assets and strengthen the management of natural resource asset revenue. Improve the distribution mechanism for value-added income from the entry of rural collective commercial construction land into the market.
(10) Strengthen the supervision of natural resource asset management. Formulate management measures for the inventory of ownership of all-people-owned natural resource assets, compile the ownership resource inventory, and clarify subjects, objects, rights, obligations, and responsibilities. Strengthen full-process supervision of natural resource protection and utilization, and solidify the protection responsibilities of the subjects of duty fulfillment. Coordinate the implementation of natural resource asset management responsibility assessments, and explore the assessment and evaluation of subjects of duty fulfillment for natural resource assets. Better play the role of the national natural resource supervision mechanism, and carry out supervision of the fulfillment of duties and the maintenance of rights and interests of owners of all-people-owned natural resource assets according to their duties. Explore the establishment of a compensation mechanism for damage to state-owned natural resource assets, and ensure coordination with the procuratorial public interest litigation system and the ecological environment damage compensation system; the subjects fulfilling ownership duties and the subjects undertaking management and maintenance work shall, according to their statutory duties or the inventory management items, bear the responsibility for the discovery, verification, claim, and reporting of asset damage, and have the right to demand that the infringer stop the infringement, restore the original state, compensate for losses, and act as a plaintiff to file a lawsuit in court according to law.
(11) Improve the unified reporting system for natural resource assets. Improve the mechanism for the government to submit special reports to the Standing Committee of the People's Congress at the same level regarding the management of state-owned natural resource assets. Establish a reporting mechanism for natural resource asset management and duty fulfillment status. Publicly disclose the status and management of state-owned natural resource assets according to law and accept social supervision.
VII. Strengthening Organization and Implementation
Adhere to the centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee over natural resource asset management work. According to the requirements of central coordination, provincial responsibility for overall duties, and municipal and county-level implementation, strengthen the organizational coordination of natural resource asset management work. All regions and relevant departments must establish and practice a correct view of political achievements, coordinate closely, promote integrated governance through full-chain collaboration, strengthen monitoring and early warning of all types of risks, enhance risk prevention and control capabilities, and ensure that various natural resource asset management systems are implemented and put into effect. Discipline and rules must be strictly enforced, supervision and accountability must be strengthened, and the continuous deepening of rectifying conduct, strictly enforcing discipline, and combating corruption in the field of natural resources must be carried out. Improve legislation in the field of natural resource assets, and ensure strict law enforcement and impartial justice. Improve scientific and technological support capabilities, and strengthen the construction of relevant disciplines and talent teams for natural resource assets. Strengthen the information technology construction of natural resource asset management and promote information sharing. Improve the quality and efficiency of green financial services, and guide financial institutions to increase financial support for fields such as natural resource protection and utilization in accordance with market-oriented and rule-of-law principles. Establish incentive mechanisms to encourage various regions to carry out differentiated reform explorations based on actual conditions. The Ministry of Natural Resources shall, in conjunction with relevant departments, promptly research and resolve new situations and problems that arise during the implementation of these opinions. Major matters shall be promptly submitted to the CPC Central Committee and the State Council for instruction or report according to procedure.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 13)
Return to TopBEIJING, July 13 (Xinhua) -- A spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on the 13th that the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence will be held in Shanghai from July 17 to 20. President Xi Jinping will attend the opening ceremony of the conference and deliver a keynote speech.
Return to TopBishkek, July 13 (People's Daily) — (Reporter Qu Song (曲颂)) The Kyrgyzstan promotion conference for the fifth volume of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China was held on the 13th in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan.
The attending guests believed that, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, it is of great significance that people from all walks of life in China and Kyrgyzstan, as well as representatives of the SCO family, conducted exchanges and discussions around the fifth volume of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China. This important work systematically explains the theory and practice of Chinese-style modernization (中国式现代化), vividly presents China's vision and proposals for promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind (构建人类命运共同体), and is both an authoritative work for understanding Chinese-style modernization and reading contemporary China, and also provides important guidance for China and Kyrgyzstan to deepen exchanges on governance experience and strengthen alignment of development strategies.
Former President of Kyrgyzstan Otunbayeva pointed out that the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind is an idea and proposition of world influence put forward by President Xi Jinping, and the high-quality joint construction of the Belt and Road has brought us new development opportunities, helping Kyrgyzstan gradually transform into an important hub of the Eurasian continent. She stated that in-depth study of the internal logic, governance mechanisms, and long-term planning of China's development has important practical value.
State Secretary of Kyrgyzstan Koychiev said in his speech that China is the most successful country in the localization of Marxism, and has accumulated rich experience on the path of combining Marxism with its own national conditions. To understand Marxism in the 21st century, one should seriously study the works of President Xi Jinping. Reading the work Xi Jinping: The Governance of China helps to deeply think about Kyrgyzstan's relations with China and with the world, and inspires us to enhance mutual learning among civilizations and promote development and prosperity through pragmatic cooperation.
Deputy Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Pu Yangfan (朴扬帆) said that China and Kyrgyzstan, as founding member states of the SCO, have made unique contributions to the construction and development of the "Shanghai Five" mechanism. This important work includes important speeches by President Xi Jinping on building a China-Central Asia community with a shared future and an SCO community with a shared future, pointing the direction for deepening solidarity and cooperation among regional countries, consolidating the security and stability environment, strengthening alignment of development strategies, and promoting people-to-people connectivity.
During the event, the Chinese side presented to the Kyrgyz guests copies of the third volume in Kyrgyz and the fifth volume in Russian of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China. Representatives of Kyrgyz medical staff and journalists shared stories of cooperation between the two countries in jointly practicing the people-centered philosophy. The attending experts focused on topics such as Chinese-style modernization, building a community with a shared future for mankind, the Global Governance Initiative, the joint construction of the Belt and Road, and mutual learning among civilizations, engaging in exchanges and discussions.
This event was co-hosted by the State Council Information Office of China, China International Communications Group, and the Chinese Embassy in Kyrgyzstan. About 300 representatives from political parties, media, think tanks, and other sectors of China and Kyrgyzstan attended the event.
Return to TopBeijing, July 13 (Xinhua) -- Li Qiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Premier of the State Council, chaired a symposium on the economic situation with experts and entrepreneurs on the afternoon of July 13, to hear opinions and suggestions on the current economic situation and next steps in economic work.
At the symposium, Huang Hanquan (黄汉权), Yang Zhiyong (杨志勇), Wang Wen (王文), Zhang Jun (章俊), Hou Qijun (侯启军), Yu Donglai (于东来), Wang Zhijian (王志坚), and Li Jun (历军), among others, spoke in turn. They believed that against the backdrop of a turbulent and increasingly volatile international situation, in the first half of the year, China’s economy was generally stable, new drivers of growth accelerated in their expansion, and the certainty of its own development effectively countered the uncertainty of the external environment. Although still facing some risks and challenges, the staying power of high-quality development continued to strengthen. They also put forward opinions and suggestions on resolving the contradictions and problems existing in economic operation.
After listening to the experts and entrepreneurs, Li Qiang said that since the beginning of this year, under the strong leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, all regions and departments have earnestly implemented the national macro policies, overcome various adverse factors, strived to promote the sustained improvement of the economy, and focused on advancing high-quality development. It is necessary to have a comprehensive and objective understanding of the current economic situation, fully affirm the achievements made, while clearly recognizing the existing problems. For the new changes and new trends emerging in economic operation, it is necessary to conduct in-depth analysis and reflection, be good at investigating mechanisms and analyzing principles, so as to better 趋利避害 (qū lì bì hài - “pursue benefit and avoid harm,” to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages). Attention should be paid to grasping the economic situation as a whole, especially to see that China’s economy is fully transitioning onto the track of high-quality development, and the internal support for long-term improvement is more solid.
Li Qiang emphasized that doing a good job in the economic work of the second half of the year is directly related to the achievement of the annual development goals and to a good start for the “15th Five-Year Plan.” It is necessary to follow the decisions and deployments of the Central Committee of the Party, maintain strategic resolve for high-quality development, increase the intensity of counter-cyclical adjustments, make full and good use of existing policies, pre-research and reserve incremental policies, and effectively consolidate and expand the economy’s trend of stable improvement. It is necessary to systematically implement policies to unleash the potential of domestic demand, do a good job in implementing the policy of expanding capacity and improving quality in the service industry, expand the supply of high-quality services, and accelerate the cultivation of new growth points for consumption. Persist in the coordinated exertion of investment in things and investment in people, strive to advance the construction of major infrastructure networks, strengthen investment in human capital such as education and training, improve public services such as medical care, elderly care, and childcare, and expand domestic demand while improving people’s livelihoods. It is necessary to promote the smooth and orderly transition of old and new drivers of growth, accelerate the digital and intelligent transformation of manufacturing, promote the deep integration of advanced manufacturing and modern service industries, promote the large-scale and commercial application of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, and cultivate more new industries and new tracks. It is necessary to do a thorough job in stabilizing employment and stabilizing enterprises, implement the action of stabilizing posts, expanding capacity, and improving quality, actively expand new occupations and new positions, and ensure the overall stability of employment. It is necessary to respond promptly to the concerns of enterprises, continuously optimize the business environment, focus on using reform methods to stimulate market vitality, and support enterprises to develop better.
Li Qiang expressed the hope that the vast number of entrepreneurs will strengthen their confidence in development, deeply explore opportunities from demand upgrading and industrial upgrading, continuously strengthen the real economy, and make more contributions to stabilizing employment and promoting development. He hoped that experts and scholars will leverage their professional advantages, strengthen strategic and forward-looking research, and offer more constructive opinions.
Wu Zhenglong attended the symposium.
Return to TopBeijing, July 13 (Reporter Kuang Xixi (邝西曦)) — The 11th World Overseas Chinese Communities Friendship Conference (第十一届世界华侨华人社团联谊大会) opened in Beijing on July 13. Wang Huning, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, met with all the representatives attending the conference and had a group photo taken. On behalf of the CPC Central Committee, he extended a warm welcome to everyone and sent sincere regards to overseas Chinese around the world.
Li Ganjie, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and head of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee (中央统战部), attended the meeting and delivered a speech at the conference's opening ceremony. He pointed out that overseas Chinese, as important members of the great family of the Chinese nation, are important participants in Chinese-style modernization and an important bridge and bond connecting China and the world. He hoped that the vast number of overseas Chinese would keep in mind President Xi Jinping's important discourse on "root," "soul," and "dream," seize historical opportunities, keep pace with the times, actively devote themselves to the great cause of national rejuvenation, actively promote world peace and development, actively promote unity and cooperation among overseas Chinese communities, and contribute new overseas Chinese strength to realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and enhancing friendly cooperation between China and other countries.
The World Overseas Chinese Communities Friendship Conference is an important platform for the friendship and exchange of major overseas Chinese communities worldwide. This year's conference has the theme of "gathering overseas Chinese hearts, pooling overseas Chinese strength, seeking development." More than 400 representatives of overseas Chinese communities from 140 countries and regions attended the conference.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 13 – The State Council recently issued the National Health '15th Five-Year' Plan (hereinafter referred to as the Plan), making arrangements for accelerating the construction of a Healthy China during the '15th Five-Year' period.
The Plan emphasizes that it is necessary to adhere to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as the guide, unswervingly follow the path of health development with Chinese characteristics, unswervingly implement the guiding principles for health and hygiene work in the new era, promote a greater focus on health-centeredness in the development mode of medical and health, pay greater attention to improving quality and efficiency in the service system, pay greater attention to systematic coordination in reform and governance, enhance the equity and accessibility of health services, encourage the people to pay more attention to proactive health, accelerate the formation of production and lifestyle patterns and economic and social development models conducive to health, comprehensively improve the health level of the population, and consolidate the health foundation of Chinese-style modernization.
The Plan proposes that by 2030, a system of health-priority development strategy will be gradually established; the health promotion policy system will be further improved; the basic medical and health system with Chinese characteristics will be more complete; public health security capabilities and the ability of primary-level disease prevention, treatment, and health management will be significantly enhanced; the allocation of medical and health resources will be more optimized; the multi-level medical security system will be further improved; the integrated development pattern of education, science and technology, and talent oriented toward people's life and health will be basically formed; China's leading position in the world's traditional medicine development will be further consolidated; decisive progress will be made in building a Healthy China; average life expectancy will reach 80 years; major health indicators will enter the ranks of high-income countries; and a solid foundation will be laid for building a Healthy China by 2035.
The Plan deploys 24 key tasks in five areas: optimizing comprehensive and full-cycle health services for the entire population; continuously building a high-level health security barrier; accelerating the improvement of a high-quality, efficient, and integrated medical and health service system; focusing on fostering new drivers of high-quality health development; and deeply promoting health-centered high-efficiency governance. At the same time, it proposes major projects and programs such as high-quality health services, high-level health security, modernization of the health service system, major innovations oriented toward people's life and health, and public hospital reform and high-quality development, as well as guiding principles for the allocation of medical and health resources during the '15th Five-Year' period.
The Plan requires that the leadership of the Party be implemented throughout the entire process and in all aspects of health work. All regions and departments should implement the Plan in light of local conditions in conjunction with the Outline of the "Healthy China 2030" Plan. The National Health Commission should strengthen overall coordination, work with relevant departments to conduct monitoring and evaluation of the Plan's implementation, and study and optimize tasks and measures based on actual conditions to ensure that all tasks of the Plan are implemented.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 13 (Xinhua) -- According to a message from the Chinese government website on the 13th, the State Council issued an official reply regarding the "Expanding Consumption '15th Five-Year Plan'", approving in principle the "Expanding Consumption '15th Five-Year Plan'".
The official reply points out that the implementation of the plan must adhere to the strategic base point of expanding domestic demand, deeply implement special actions to boost consumption, expand service consumption, upgrade commodity consumption, enrich business formats and scenarios, enhance consumption capacity, optimize the consumption environment, improve systems and policies, perfect the long-term mechanism for expanding resident consumption, and better play the fundamental role of consumption in economic development.
The official reply requires that the people's governments of all provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government take expanding consumption as an important task for the region's economic and social development during the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, strengthen organizational leadership, clarify work responsibilities, explore effective ways to expand consumption 因地制宜 (yīn dì zhì yí - "according to local conditions," adapting measures to local circumstances), and implement the goals and tasks set forth in the plan in light of actual circumstances.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李心萍 姚雪青 宋豪新
Cities are important carriers of modernization.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized at the Central Urban Work Conference (中央城市工作会议) held in July 2025: “Take the promotion of urban renewal as an important starting point, vigorously promote the optimization of urban structure, transformation of growth drivers, quality improvement, green transformation, continuation of cultural context, and enhancement of governance efficiency.”
This May, the Urban Renewal 15th Five-Year Plan (城市更新“十五五”规划) was issued, transforming key deployments into specific action plans.
Entering Beiyuan Er Village (北苑二村) of Beiyuan Community (北苑社区) in Beiyuan Residential Quarter (北苑小区), Xuanwu District (玄武区), Nanjing, Jiangsu, clear laughter becomes a vivid footnote to urban renewal.
On a summer weekend, on the all-age-friendly square of Beiyuan Er Village, a cultural performance was underway. Children watched intently, while the elderly fanned themselves and laughed.
Two years ago, this place was a different scene. When the plum rain season arrived, the corners of walls would grow mold, and the rooms would become damp; motor vehicles were parked haphazardly, electric bicycles had no place to charge, and the only public space was a bare patch of open ground.
Starting from July last year, Beiyuan Er Village and San Village (三村) began the renovation of old residential communities. The local authorities did not adopt a 一刀切 (yī dāo qiē - “cut with one knife,” a one-size-fits-all approach), but instead adhered to “first examine, then inquire about needs, then renew.” Through consultation meetings, questionnaire surveys, and other methods, they precisely collected demands, achieving residents “ordering” and the government “serving dishes.”
The community welcomed a “内外兼修” (nèi wài jiān xiū - “internal and external simultaneously cultivated,” improving both inside and outside) renewal. It repaired the “inner lining” by redoing the exterior wall waterproofing to solve the problem of seepage and dampness; revitalized space by tidying up idle corner land, demarcating 20 parking spaces and 2 non-motor vehicle sheds with charging piles; improved services by building a new one-stop convenience service center integrating functions such as smart payment, household quick repairs, and community canteens.
Beiyuan Residential Quarter consists of Yi Village (一村), Er Village, and San Village. The good renovation of Er Village and San Village stirred the renovation enthusiasm of residents of Yi Village. “According to the plan, besides facility repairs, smart security, and landscape creation, Yi Village will also revitalize idle open space and build its own small square and convenience service space,” introduced Wu Xiaoyan (吴小燕), Secretary of the Party Committee of Beiyuan Community.
This year is the first year of the “15th Five-Year Plan” period, and various localities are using the plan as a “task book” to turn schemes into practice.
——Using the “newness” of space to carry the “warmth” of people’s livelihood, creating high-quality urban living spaces.
Not long ago, the Wenmiao Yinxiang (文庙印巷) Intangible Cultural Heritage Living Street in Wenjiang District (温江区), Chengdu, Sichuan, opened to the public. Hairpin flowers welcomed guests, tea ceremonies gathered friends, and Sichuan opera melodies lingered in the air, interweaving a sense of history with the vitality of daily life.
The street that now thrives with daily life once faced development difficulties. A few years ago, a large number of old buildings here were unused and unrepaired, illegal structures were everywhere, and the old cityscape was chaotic.
Urban renewal brought new life to the street. “We insisted on not carrying out 大拆大建 (dà chāi dà jiàn - “large-scale demolition and construction,” wholesale demolition and construction), and under the premise of protecting historical relics, we optimized space, enriched business formats, and innovated scenarios based on local conditions (因地制宜 yīn dì zhì yí - “according to the conditions,” adapting measures to local conditions),” introduced Zhang Nana (张娜娜), Director of the Urban Organic Renewal Center of Wenjiang District, Chengdu.
In response to pain points such as the single business format and severe homogenization of traditional historical streets, Wenmiao Yinxiang persistently empowered the industry with culture, introducing intangible cultural heritage experience spaces, artist workshops, etc., achieving a stylish first store, deeply rooted old stores, and lively small shops.
During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the country will start the renovation of 115,000 old urban residential communities, implement complete community construction and renovation in 5,000 communities, and carry out the repair and improvement of 300 historical and cultural districts, making every effort to create high-quality urban living spaces.
——Using the “green” of ecology to consolidate the “foundation” of development, promoting the green and low-carbon transformation of urban development.
A single trail, the green pulse of a city. This year, the 40-kilometer forest trail in Baiyun District (白云区), Guangzhou, Guangdong, opened to the public. Once a marginal forest with overgrown weeds, unclear paths, and outdated facilities, it has become a safe, smooth, well-equipped, and vibrant green corridor.
“With the greenway, we have a ‘natural oxygen bar’ at our doorstep,” said Li Zheng (李正), a 65-year-old retired teacher, who often takes his grandson for walks on the greenway for leisure and exercise. The forest trail not only effectively restores the urban ecology but also provides high-quality, inclusive ecological public goods for citizens.
During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the country will renovate and upgrade 20,000 hectares of urban park green spaces, add 15,000 pocket parks, construct and renovate 20,000 kilometers of urban greenways, restore urban ecosystems, and promote the green and low-carbon transformation of urban development.
——Using the “smoothness” of pipeline networks to safeguard the “safety” of cities, enhancing urban safety and resilience.
On Huakai Road (华凯路), Jiulongpo District (九龙坡区), Chongqing, everything is normal on the surface, but several meters underground, a “minimally invasive surgery” on the city’s underground “blood vessels” is underway.
Workers are seen slowly feeding a hose wrapped in a special resin material into the old pipe through a manhole. Then, high-temperature steam is injected into the hose, causing it to expand, tightly adhere to the old pipe wall, and quickly solidify and take shape, completing a high-strength “pipe lining.” The entire process does not require large-scale excavation of the road surface.
After decades of operation, problems such as corrosion, leakage, and misconnection in some sewage pipeline networks in Chongqing’s central urban area have gradually emerged. This deep underground renewal aims to reduce the risk of waterlogging and overflow at the source, allowing rainwater and sewage to 各行其道 (gè xíng qí dào - “each goes its own way,” travel separately).
The journey of a drop of water, from cloud to rain, from reservoir to plant, is 循环往复 (xún huán wǎng fù - “cycle back and forth,” endlessly circulating) and 生生不息 (shēng shēng bù xī - “endless generation,” perpetually regenerating). The urban underground pipeline network is precisely the important infrastructure that supports this “water cycle.”
Construction and renovation of 770,000 kilometers of urban underground pipeline networks, including about 200,000 kilometers of gas pipelines, about 175,000 kilometers of drainage pipelines, about 175,000 kilometers of water supply pipelines, about 100,000 kilometers of sewage pipelines, and about 120,000 kilometers of heating pipelines… During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, China will strive to build safe and reliable resilient cities.
From the “micro-renovation” of old residential communities, to the “ecological stitching” of urban greenways, and then to the “minimally invasive surgery” of underground pipeline networks, urban renewal is reshaping our living space at a visible speed, making every city more livable, more vibrant, and warmer.
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Civilized rural customs connect with good family traditions and simple folk customs, serving as the spiritual bond for comprehensive rural revitalization.
Nourishing people's hearts, moralizing people's hearts, uniting people's hearts, strengthening rural spiritual civilization construction — General Secretary Xi Jinping has always been concerned about this. The General Secretary profoundly pointed out: "Improve the rural governance system, deepen the practice of villagers' self-governance, effectively play the role of village rules and regulations and family traditions and family customs, and cultivate civilized rural customs, good family traditions, and simple folk customs." "Prosper rural culture, promote the transformation of customs and habits, and build livable, workable, and beautiful villages."
The 15th Five-Year Plan outline proposes: "Strengthen rural spiritual civilization construction in the new era, prosper and develop rural culture, and implement the civilized rural customs construction project."
Under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Culture (习近平文化思想), China's rural spiritual civilization construction has taken on a new look and opened up a new situation. The quality of rural cultural life continues to improve, nourishing the spiritual world of farmers and cultivating the new trends of the times.
Enhance the power of thought; promote the transformation of customs and habits
Villagers strike clappers, college students narrate gently... In Mazhuang Village (马庄村), Pan'anhu Subdistrict (潘安湖街道), Jiawang District (贾汪区), Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province, there are many "celebrity speakers among the people" (百姓名嘴) who, combining people around them and events around them, carry out diversified micro-lectures on theory.
In both major and minor matters, in exchanges and discussions, the Party's innovative theories enter the mind and heart.
In December 2017, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Mazhuang Village and clearly pointed out: "Rural spiritual civilization construction is very important. The view that matter becomes spirit and spirit becomes matter is a dialectical viewpoint. To implement the rural revitalization strategy, we must grasp both material civilization and spiritual civilization, and especially pay attention to improving the spiritual outlook of farmers."
"Dear fellow villagers, today let's talk about the relationship between the 15th Five-Year Plan outline and each of us — how the village roads are built, how the fields are cultivated, how conflicts are resolved..." In the Beautiful and Harmonious Village (和美乡村) livestream room of Zhangji Village (张集村), Tianji Town (田集镇), Funan County (阜南县), Fuyang City, Anhui Province, in just 90 minutes, 60,000 people poured in, with the online peak exceeding 3,000. "The plain language made the policies clear and touched the heart," a netizen commented.
Now, "ridge lectures," "courtyard classes," and "civilization caravans" are active in the countryside. In the fields and on online platforms, "celebrity speakers among the people" speak to the masses, and role models around them speak to those around them. The broad masses of people are deeply influenced and inspired. The Party's innovative theories consolidate the soul, and the power of thought transforms into the driving force that stirs up energy, inspires people, and unites them in progress.
Promoting rural modernization requires not only material prosperity but also spiritual abundance. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Popularize scientific knowledge, promote the transformation of customs and habits in rural areas, and eradicate bad habits and outdated practices such as high bride price, comparison and competition in social interactions, lavish funerals while neglecting parents in life, and extravagance and waste."
In Dachang Town (大场镇), West Coast New District (西海岸新区), Qingdao City, Shandong Province, there is a "Help-Wedding Group" (帮喜团). More than 60 villager volunteers walk through the countryside, promoting new wedding customs of keeping weddings simple.
Not long ago, a match almost fell through because of high bride price. Members of the "Help-Wedding Group" either dissolved the estrangement with warmth or patiently communicated using their own family experiences, untangling the knots in the hearts of both sets of parents. On the wedding day, members of the "Help-Wedding Group" arrived at the scene at 5 a.m. to help. The wedding retained the charm of traditional customs while abandoning the bad habit of extravagance and waste.
"This is a good way to hold a joyous event — no need to waste money, yet the affection is in no way diminished, and the heartfelt intent is full," praised a villager who came to watch the ceremony.
With persistent effort, customs are transformed and habits are formed. The No. 1 Central Document has repeatedly made arrangements for the work of transforming customs and habits in rural areas. Many places have established and improved Red and White Councils, Moral Appraisal Councils, etc., revised village rules and regulations, and discarded outdated practices. The new trend of civilization subtly integrates into daily life, becoming the value orientation and code of conduct of the fellow villagers.
Enrich the countryside with literature and art; nurture good customs and habits
In the Daliang Mountains of Sichuan, at the Xide Station on the Chengdu-Kunming Railway, the "small slow train" No. 5633 slowly pulls into the platform. In recent years, bookshelves and desks have been added inside the carriages. Children from the mountains ride the train to school, villagers go to market, and they can casually pick up a book to read, gaining a quiet nourishment.
In Wangjiatuan Village (王家疃村), Zhangcun Town (张村镇), Huancui District (环翠区), Weihai City, Shandong Province, thousands of miles away, Wang Mengxin (王萌鑫), a post-90s villager who has loved reading since childhood, arrived early at the farmhouse library (农家书屋). In recent years, farmhouse libraries have abundant collections, good environments, and allow interlibrary loans across the city, so many people enjoy immersing themselves in a sea of books in their spare time. Dong Yingxia (董迎霞), a post-80s villager, is the librarian. "When villagers have needs, we also organize reading clubs, parent-child reading activities, etc., so that everyone can enjoy high-quality services without leaving the village."
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Promote the revitalization of rural culture, strengthen rural ideological and moral construction and public cultural construction." "Improve the rural cultural infrastructure network, increase the total supply of rural public cultural services, and narrow the gap between urban and rural public cultural services."
In recent years, the integrated construction of urban and rural public cultural service systems has been solidly promoted — look at the venues: cultural halls, farmhouse libraries, and rural stages are spread across the countryside; new-type public cultural spaces with "high aesthetic value" have been built one after another, better meeting villagers' needs for reading newspapers and engaging in cultural and sports activities. Look at the services: villagers "order" services, and mobile book vans, stage trucks, and film projection vans shuttle through the mountains, set up stages beside the forests, and sing by the riverside, bringing spiritual nourishment to everyone.
The 15th Five-Year Plan outline proposes: Adhere to cultural benefits for the people, implement actions to improve the quality and efficiency of public cultural services, and promote the direct delivery of high-quality cultural resources to the grassroots. Benefiting from the infiltration of high-quality culture and frequent reading, villagers' horizons are expanding; by often taking the stage, they are becoming more generous and cheerful; through constant interaction, neighborly relations are becoming more harmonious and congenial.
Chen Shuangyan (陈双燕), a villager from Daitou Village (埭头村), Daruoyan Town (大若岩镇), Yongjia County (永嘉县), Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, never imagined that the heartwarming scene she captured in the village with her mobile phone would be selected for the provincial photography exhibition. Farming fun, intangible cultural heritage inheritance, good family traditions, civilized rural customs, delicious food and beautiful scenery... Recently, the "Village-Wide Photo Shoot" (全民村拍) Excellent Works Exhibition of Zhejiang Province was held in Yongjia County, with all 547 works taken by villagers.
Since 2017, the Zhejiang Provincial Cultural Center has consecutively held the "Beautiful Life" National Mobile Phone Photography Competition, receiving nearly 300,000 entries. When villagers hold up their phones to aim at their own courtyards, the ancient trees at the village entrance, and the smiling faces of their neighbors, everyone consciously cleans their courtyards and protects the ecology. The concept of neighborly harmony and love for home and village has taken root in people's hearts.
In September last year, 7 departments including the Central Propaganda Department jointly issued the "Enrich the Countryside with Literature and Art" Work Plan (2025–2027) (《“文艺赋美乡村”工作方案（2025—2027年）》). Nourished by literature and art, more and more villagers are coming to love beauty, explore beauty, create beauty, and transmit beauty, leading a more fulfilling, healthy, and civilized life.
Promoting kinship among relatives and harmony among neighbors, 守望相助 (shǒu wàng xiāng zhù - "watch and help each other," mutual aid), being honest and valuing propriety... Rural culture is rich in elements of excellent traditional Chinese culture. Protecting and inheriting rural cultural heritage is of great significance. By the end of 2025, the country had built over 14,900 intangible cultural heritage workshops, driving employment for more than 1.3 million people. More old crafts, old tunes, old customs and other intangible cultural heritage have been protected and inherited. Many places have built village museums with distinctive exhibitions and displays, and the stories behind them are thought-provoking. Tangible cultural heritage is full of deep nostalgia...
Develop the humanities economy; multiply cultural confidence
On a summer evening, the "Village Super League" (村超) heat remains undiminished. On the football field in Rongjiang County (榕江县), Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture (黔东南苗族侗族自治州), Guizhou, players are in the thick of a fierce contest. The sidelines are packed with layers of people, and the cheering surges wave after wave.
During the halftime break of the players, the audience took the stage: girls in splendid costumes sang the Dong Grand Song, and men, women, old and young danced the Duoye Dance... "Our family came after hearing about it. The match was exciting, and the folk performances were also wonderful," said Wang Xiao (王笑), a tourist from Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. "I couldn't bear to miss any program."
In recent years, the "Village Super League," "Village BA" (村BA), village song contests, etc., have flourished. Farmers create, farmers perform, farmers enjoy — farmers have transformed from sidelines spectators into protagonists on the stage, and their local identity and cultural confidence have continuously strengthened.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Promote the integration of agriculture, culture, and tourism." "Use culture to empower economic and social development."
A few days ago, a summer "Village Evening Gala" (村晚) was held in Pailou Village (牌楼村), Donghekou Town (东河口镇), Jin'an District (金安区), Lu'an City, Anhui Province. At the scene, intangible cultural heritage songs and dances, red-themed recitations, and folk custom performances were splendid and diverse. The villagers were generous and confident. Beside the stage, a unique intangible cultural heritage market and interesting farming projects gave tourists a "full experience."
"I saw the high-spirited spiritual outlook of the fellow villagers and savored the colorful rural life. It was a worthwhile trip," said Xu Yaqiao (徐雅乔), a tourist from Hubei, while praising and placing orders, "I'm buying some agricultural specialty products and cultural and creative products to send home and share with family and friends."
Culture empowers the economy; the economy "activates" culture. "Village-brand" events have prospered culture, spurred the economy, and written a brilliant chapter of the humanities economy. "According to statistics, in 2024, more than 2,200 'village-brand' events with online views exceeding 100,000 generated economic benefits of 13.09 billion yuan. 'Village-brand' events have the huge potential to leverage a trillion-yuan agricultural, cultural, and tourism market," said a relevant official from the Department of Rural Social Undertakings Promotion of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
"Return to the hometown!" With beautiful scenery, distinctive culture, and the ability to increase income and become prosperous, many young people are returning to their hometowns. By the end of 2025, the cumulative number of various types of returnees starting businesses nationwide exceeded 15.1 million. These "new farmers" (新农人) open homestays, engage in study tours, create cultural and creative products, and do livestreaming, showing their skills on the vast fields, injecting vigorous vitality into promoting the integration of agriculture, culture, and tourism and improving the level of rural governance.
Among Zhejiang villagers, "cultural special envoys" (文化特派员) is a high-frequency word. Since 2024, 1,574 cultural special envoys have been dispatched to townships and paired villages, holding more than 53,000 cultural and artistic activities of various types, forming over 5,200 grassroots cultural teams, and helping the dispatched locations increase their income by more than 480 million yuan. The sense of gain among the fellow villagers is tangible.
In May this year, the selection and dispatch of the second batch of cultural special envoys in Zhejiang Province was officially launched. With both the external assistance of "sending culture" and the internal drive of "planting culture," combining "sending" and "planting" has better activated the "spring water pond" of grassroots cultural construction.
Comprehensive rural revitalization requires both shaping the form and forging the soul.
Now, on the hopeful fields, farming civilization is inherited and continued, modern civilization concepts are deeply rooted, the cultural life of farmers is more fulfilling, and their striving spirit is more high-spirited, unfolding a picture of livable, workable, and beautiful villages with coordinated development of material civilization and spiritual civilization.
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Recently, the Expanding Consumption ‘15th Five‑Year Plan’ (扩大消费“十五五”规划, hereinafter referred to as the Plan) was issued, clarifying the guiding ideas, objectives, key tasks, and policy measures for the development of the consumption sector during the 15th Five‑Year Plan period. Why was the Plan issued? What are the key deployments of the Plan? Relevant officials from the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) and the Ministry of Commerce (商务部) answered reporters’ questions.
Q: What is the background for the issuance of the Plan?
A: During the 14th Five‑Year Plan period, China’s ultra‑large market advantage continued to be brought into play, the consumer market developed with remarkable results, the scale of consumption steadily expanded, the consumption structure was increasingly optimized, new types of consumption flourished, and the policy system for promoting consumption became more complete. In 2025, total retail sales of consumer goods reached 50.1 trillion yuan, breaking through the 50 trillion yuan mark. During the 14th Five‑Year Plan period, the average contribution rate of final consumption expenditure to economic growth was 58.8%, an increase of 10 percentage points over the 13th Five‑Year Plan period. Looking toward the 15th Five‑Year Plan, China’s consumer market development will enter a critical period of expanding quantity and improving quality. The consumption foundation is solid and stable, consumption upgrade trends are evident, and the vitality of consumption scenario innovation is sufficient, which will provide solid support for the growth of the consumer market. At the same time, it must be noted that the consumption sector still faces some contradictions and problems, which objectively constrain the further release of consumption potential.
To implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, to continuously expand domestic demand and vigorously boost consumption, the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Commerce, together with relevant parties, conducted in‑depth research and judgment on the consumption development situation and stage‑specific characteristics during the 15th Five‑Year Plan period, comprehensively planned the thinking, objectives, and major measures for expanding consumption in the 15th Five‑Year Plan, widely solicited opinions and suggestions, and drafted and formed the Plan.
Q: What are the characteristics of the Plan?
A: First, it highlights serving the people and benefiting the people. Expanding consumption must adhere to putting people’s livelihood first. The Plan adheres to closely combining benefiting people’s livelihood with promoting consumption, focusing on the consumption upgrade needs of residents such as elderly care, childcare, culture and tourism, and health in institutional arrangements, and through measures such as expanding high‑quality supply, enriching platform carriers, and strengthening support and guarantees, it improves the quality of people’s lives.
Second, it highlights coordinated advancement. Expanding consumption must adhere to a systemic perspective. The Plan focuses on properly handling the relationships between short‑term and long‑term, supply and demand, government and market, consumption policies and other economic and social policies, and adheres to the integrated advancement of specific measures in the consumption sector with improving consumption capacity, optimizing the consumption environment, and perfecting institutional policies, promoting positive interaction between supply and demand, coordinating market dominance and government guidance, and building a policy system more conducive to promoting consumption.
Third, it highlights innovation‑led development. Expanding consumption must adhere to reform and innovation. Combining the current trends of consumption structure optimization and upgrading, and the continuous emergence of new business formats, new models, and new scenarios, the Plan makes institutional arrangements for developing digital consumption, promoting the first‑release economy (首发经济) according to local conditions, and cultivating experiential consumption. By improving relevant supporting policies, it actively cultivates new growth points for consumption and injects new momentum into consumption development.
Q: What considerations are there in the target setting of the Plan?
A: The Plan fully aligns with the Outline of the 15th Five‑Year Plan (十五五规划纲要) and proposes the objectives for the development of the consumption sector during the 15th Five‑Year Plan period:
The overall scale of the consumer market continues to expand. The consumption rate of residents increases markedly, the consumption of goods and services in the whole society grows rapidly, total retail sales of consumer goods reach approximately 60 trillion yuan, and the driving role of consumption in economic growth is further strengthened.
The consumption structure becomes more optimized. The proportion of per capita service consumption expenditure in per capita consumption expenditure of residents steadily rises, development‑oriented and improvement‑oriented consumption continues to grow, the scale of digital consumption continuously expands, and the consumption gap among urban and rural areas, regions, and groups gradually narrows.
Consumption capacity continuously improves. New progress is made in high‑quality full employment, residents’ income growth is synchronized with economic growth, the social security system is further optimized and more sustainable, and residents have more confidence, more stable expectations, and stronger confidence in consumption.
Consumption supply becomes more optimized. The quality of goods and services continuously improves, the supply system becomes more complete, consumption business formats, models, and scenarios become richer, and the adaptability of supply and demand is further enhanced.
The consumption environment is notably improved. The standard system and credit system for important products and services become more complete, consumption infrastructure is further improved, and the convenience, comfort, and satisfaction of consumption are greatly enhanced.
The institutional mechanisms for promoting consumption are further improved. Positive results are achieved in clearing and optimizing unreasonable restrictive measures in the consumption sector, the long‑term mechanism for expanding residents’ consumption becomes more complete, the coordination and linkage between consumption policies and other economic and social policies are further strengthened, and a higher‑level and more dynamic consumer market is formed.
Q: What key tasks are deployed in the Plan?
A: The Plan consists of three parts. Part One is the general requirements, clarifying the guiding ideology and development objectives for expanding consumption during the 15th Five‑Year Plan period. Part Two is the key tasks, focusing on six aspects: promoting service consumption to improve quality and benefit the people, promoting the expansion and upgrading of goods consumption, cultivating and creating new consumption business formats, models, and scenarios, striving to enhance consumption capacity, vigorously optimizing the consumption environment, and strengthening the improvement of institutional mechanisms for promoting consumption. It deploys 28 key task measures for expanding consumption during the 15th Five‑Year Plan period. Part Three is the organization and implementation, proposing safeguard measures such as upholding the leadership of the Party, ensuring the implementation of the Plan, strengthening consumption statistics, and conducting monitoring and evaluation. At the same time, it sets up nine special columns around the silver economy, childcare products and services, cultural and tourism consumption, health consumption, automobile consumption, etc., and proposes specific implementation measures in related fields.
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From the toy magnets we played with as children, to mobile phone wireless charging pads, and then to new energy vehicles, magnets are everywhere around us.
China is the largest producer of magnetic materials. Among them, ferrite magnet materials are widely produced and used due to advantages such as abundant raw materials, low cost, high resistivity, and good high-frequency characteristics. In recent years, driven by industries such as new energy and artificial intelligence, the ferrite magnet manufacturing industry has been transforming towards intelligent, green, and integrated development. The professionalization and skill levels of hundreds of thousands of industrial workers have been continuously improved.
Jia Zhennan (贾振楠), an employee of the Soft Ferrite Plant 8 of Hengdian Group DMEGC Magnetics Co., Ltd. (横店集团东磁股份有限公司) in Dongyang City (东阳市), Zhejiang, is one of them. In August 2022, after graduating from Sichuan University, he joined DMEGC. “According to what the seniors said, in the past the workshop had heavy dust, many processes, and most of the handling and inspection relied on manual labor, with considerable labor intensity. The workshop I saw was different — automated guided vehicles for material delivery, robotic arms for precise operation, and artificial intelligence equipment for high-speed inspection.”
Jia Zhennan is mainly responsible for the automated optical inspection segment. His work content has gradually changed with the development of the industry. “Previously we had to inspect products with the naked eye, which was inefficient and could lead to missed inspections. Now we use AI equipment for inspection, and we are responsible for managing the equipment, adjusting parameters, and handling anomalies. Efficiency has increased more than tenfold, and accuracy is more stable,” Jia said. “The times when we rely on physical strength are fewer; the times when we rely on technology and brainpower are more.”
A bigger change occurred in 2025, when ferrite magnet manufacturing worker was selected as one of the seventh batch of new occupations released by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源社会保障部) and other departments. From junior to intermediate to senior, from skilled talent to engineer, this occupation now has a clearer promotion pathway.
“Having a pathway for development, and the ability to improve treatment, gives me more motivation to strengthen my professional abilities,” Jia Zhennan felt sincerely.
Last year, a high-end product was about to go into mass production, but due to prominent product cracking issues, production progress was affected. With tight deadlines and high pressure, as a technical backbone, Jia Zhennan stepped up. Together with his masters, he first manually identified crack characteristics, then adjusted the automated optical inspection equipment item by item, adjusting lighting angles, improving camera resolution, and optimizing the AI recognition program. They accurately fed back the problems to the preceding processes and collaboratively improved the product pressing process.
Similar technical challenges have become more frequent in the past two years. The company has received many orders from new energy and AI companies, and customers have very high quality requirements, which severely test the professional skills of manufacturing workers.
“Industrial development pushes us forward. To become an excellent ferrite magnet manufacturing worker, you must learn to be friends with new technology, and do things that are more technical and more valuable,” Jia said.
Today, in DMEGC’s ferrite magnet factories, skill positions such as process optimization, quality control, and intelligent operation and maintenance are increasing. DMEGC systematically cultivates ferrite magnet manufacturing workers through full-process job rotation, allowing young people to become familiar with the entire production line and grow into composite skilled talent.
“As long as there is electricity and smart equipment, ferrite magnet manufacturing workers have a place to use their skills.” With his bachelor’s degree and frontline experience, Jia Zhennan is preparing to apply for assistant engineer professional title.
Small magnets connect to a big industry; new occupations achieve new youth. With the continuous cultivation of new quality productive forces (新质生产力), the establishment of the new occupation of ferrite magnet manufacturing worker not only supports the high-quality development of the basic materials industry but also opens up new employment space for the vast number of young people. “More and more highly educated young people are entering factories and joining the ranks of ferrite magnet manufacturing workers, becoming witnesses and participants in the industry’s transformation and upgrading,” said Xu Dalong (徐大龙), director of DMEGC’s Inspection and Sorting Workshop.
This issue coordinated by: Zhang Anyu (张安宇).
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Currently, China's traditional industries are transitioning in the directions of intelligent, green, and integrated transformation. This process urgently requires the participation of young skilled talents. No matter how intelligent a workshop becomes, tasks such as debugging intelligent equipment, analyzing process data, and participating in continuous improvement still cannot do without workers who possess judgment, learning ability, and innovation — this precisely matches the characteristics of young people, such as active thinking, high digital literacy, and strong ability to accept new technologies.
In the digital workshop of Dongci Company (东磁公司), the work of ferrite magnet manufacturing workers requires high levels of mental effort and technical skill. Without the participation of a large number of young skilled talents, industrial upgrading can easily face problems such as a talent gap.
Facing this issue, at the policy level, we might accelerate the establishment of new occupational standards and the certification of skill talent levels, so that new occupations such as ferrite magnet manufacturing worker gain more social recognition; at the enterprise end, we can promote the humanization of production organization methods, improve internal training mechanisms, and establish dual promotion development channels for skills and management.
The continuous advancement of transformation in traditional industries will form a resonance with young people's career pursuit of "establishing oneself through skills." A two-way interaction where comprehensive human development and the cultivation of new quality productive forces promote each other will continuously unfold in industrial upgrading.
(The author is a researcher at Zhejiang University School of Marxism (浙江大学马克思主义学院), compiled by our reporter Liu Junguo (刘军国).)
Return to TopThis newspaper Beijing, July 13 (Reporter Ouyang Jie) The China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing (中国物流与采购联合会) released that in June the China Logistics Prosperity Index was 50.6%, up 0.3 percentage points from the previous month.
Looking at the sub-indices, multiple indices such as the total business volume index, new orders index, and average inventory index are all in the expansion range; the total business volume index, new orders index, and inventory turnover index have rebounded month-on-month. “The demand side continues to pick up, the total business volume index and the new orders index have rebounded consecutively, development among regions is balanced, the endogenous impetus of business entities has strengthened, the foundation for recovery is steadily being consolidated, and market expectations are generally stabilizing,” said Hu Han (胡焓), deputy chief economist of the China Logistics Information Center (中国物流信息中心).
The total business volume index has rebounded consecutively. The total business volume index was 50.6%, up 0.3 percentage points month-on-month. By region, the eastern region, central region, and western region were 50.1%, 50.2%, and 51.1% respectively, all in the expansion range, with month-on-month increases ranging from 0.1 to 0.4 percentage points. The rebound momentum is relatively good in industries such as electronic machinery and equipment manufacturing, communication equipment manufacturing, transportation equipment manufacturing, and energy-saving home appliance manufacturing. The logistics demand for household consumption is stable; holiday consumption has driven rebounding business in commercial wholesale, retail chains, and some supermarkets and department stores; e-commerce online shopping activities are vigorous but with a divergent trend; platform e-commerce is generally stabilizing.
The logistics investment index is basically stable. The fixed-asset investment completed amount index rebounded 0.2 percentage points month-on-month, among which the fixed-asset investment completed amount indices for railway transport, air transport, pipeline transport, and postal express delivery are in the expansion range above 50%; the fixed-asset investment completed amount indices for air transport and water transport rebounded 0.6 and 0.3 percentage points month-on-month respectively.
The new orders index rebounded, and market expectations remain in expansion. The new orders index was 50.3%, up 0.1 percentage point month-on-month. The enterprise business activity expectations index was 55.9%, remaining in the expansion range.
“In June, the cost pressure on enterprise operations continued; fuel cost pressure eased at a high level, but other operating costs remained relatively high. The main business cost index of logistics enterprises still remained above 52%, higher than the total business volume index and the main business profit index,” said Hu Han. Close attention must be paid to logistics enterprise costs such as taxes and fees, labor, and depreciation.
Liu Yuhang (刘宇航), director of the China Logistics Information Center, introduced that China is steadily advancing the construction of the “six networks” (六张网), among which the logistics network will continuously enhance the adaptability and supporting capacity of logistics facilities for industrial development, unblock the foundational network, link the digital-intelligent network, and densify the value network. At the same time, the multimodal transport assault action (多式联运攻坚行动) and the metropolitan area logistics efficiency linkage plan are being continuously implemented; policy benefits will help the market maintain stable expectations.
Return to TopOn July 13, in Chexihe Community (车溪河社区), Chengtoushan Town (城头山镇), Li County (澧县), Changde City, Hunan Province, farmers were transporting late rice seedlings. The local area is in the busy 双抢 (shuāng qiǎng - "double rush," the intense period of harvesting early rice and transplanting late rice) season, and the vast grain farmers are seizing the farming season to transplant late rice. Photo by Bai Yipu (柏依朴) (People's Visual (人民视觉)).
Return to TopTo improve the management system for natural resource assets, implement the unified exercise of the owner’s responsibilities for natural resource assets owned by the whole people, promote the safe, efficient, and sustainable use of natural resources and the preservation and appreciation of asset value, with the consent of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council, the following opinions are hereby put forward.
1. General Requirements
Adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想), thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and all previous plenary sessions of the 20th Central Committee, earnestly carry out the deployments of the Fourth Plenary Session, fully implement Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization (习近平生态文明思想), firmly establish and practice the concept that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets (绿水青山就是金山银山 - lǜ shuǐ qīng shān jiù shì jīn shān yín shān, "clear waters and green mountains are gold and silver mountains," the idea that a good ecological environment is itself a source of wealth), respect nature, conform to nature, and protect nature, properly handle the relationship between high-quality development and high-level protection, take improving the property rights system for natural resource assets as the main line, strengthen the overall protection of natural resources, promote the efficient allocation of natural resource assets, safeguard the rights and interests of the owners of natural resource assets, improve the management system and mechanisms for natural resource assets, strengthen oversight and supervision, firmly guard the bottom line of resource security, and provide strong support and guarantees for advancing the modernization of harmony between humanity and nature.
The main objectives are: by 2030, the management system for natural resource assets will be more complete, the entities responsible for performing duties will be more clearly defined, the asset base will be more clearly understood, overall protection will be stronger, asset allocation will be more efficient, and assessment and supervision will be more refined. All types of natural resource assets and all territorial space will be effectively protected, and the level of natural resource asset management will be significantly improved. By 2035, the management system and mechanisms for natural resource assets will operate smoothly, a systematic and complete management system for natural resource assets will be fully established, and the level of natural resource asset management will be comprehensively improved.
2. Ascertain the Baseline of Natural Resource Assets
(1) Improve the unified survey, monitoring, and evaluation system for natural resources. Cover all types of natural resources, including land, minerals, forests, grasslands, wetlands, water, oceans, and deserts, as well as territorial spaces such as national parks, and improve the unified survey standard system. Coordinate the implementation of territorial surveys and annual change surveys, special surveys and monitoring of natural resources, and dynamic monitoring of territorial space; systematically carry out comprehensive marine surveys; optimize survey and monitoring of forests, grasslands, wetlands, and deserts; and comprehensively grasp the natural resource baseline. Promote the construction of a new fundamental surveying and mapping system, and build a "single map" for natural resource management and territorial space planning based on a unified spatiotemporal benchmark. Based on the basic information platform for territorial space, strengthen the analysis and evaluation of survey and monitoring data, and improve the application and sharing mechanism for the results of natural resource survey, monitoring, and evaluation. Accelerate the digital transformation of survey and monitoring work.
(2) Improve the system for inventory, statistics, and accounting of natural resource assets. Integrate and apply the results of natural resource surveys, territorial space monitoring, rights confirmation and registration, classification, grading and valuation, etc., regularly carry out inventory of natural resource assets, ascertain the physical quantities, explore accounting for value quantities, clarify the baseline of natural resource assets, and clarify the status of use rights. Establish an annual update mechanism for the results of natural resource asset inventory, and strengthen the analysis and application of inventory results. Improve the statistical system for natural resource assets owned by the whole people. Improve the system for compiling natural resource balance sheets and promote their regular compilation. Explore the conduct of natural capital accounting.
3. Improve the Property Rights System for Natural Resource Assets
(3) Improve the system of usufructuary and other rights of natural resource assets. Adhere to public ownership of resources and statutory property rights, establish and protect the right to use natural resource assets in accordance with the law, and promote the separation of ownership and use rights of natural resource assets. Establish and improve the system of rights over natural resource assets, clarify the content and exercise methods of corresponding rights, and resolve issues such as unclear rights when resource types overlap. Explore the separate establishment of construction land use rights for deep underground spaces, and improve the underground space rights system that matches the protection and utilization methods of planning. Promote the establishment of use rights for state-owned agricultural land, and improve the rights system for state-owned agricultural land. Improve the conversion mechanism from sea area use rights to land use rights after land reclamation from the sea. Construct a rights system for uninhabited islands. Promote reform of water use rights in accordance with laws and regulations, and clarify the boundaries of water use rights for various regions and types of water users.
(4) Comprehensively promote unified rights confirmation and registration of natural resources and real estate. Deepen the reform of the rights confirmation and registration system for natural resources, promote unified rights confirmation and registration of natural resources such as watercourses, forests, mountains, grasslands, wasteland, tidal flats, sea areas, uninhabited islands, and mineral resources with proven reserves, as well as territorial spaces such as national parks, nature reserves, and natural parks (including scenic and historic interest areas), and clarify the property rights subjects and ownership boundaries of natural resource assets. Consolidate the achievements of the reform of unified real estate registration, and improve the standardization level and convenience of registration. Deepen the application of updated results of collective land ownership registration in rural areas. Standardize and efficiently handle real estate registration for forest rights, sea area use rights, and uninhabited island use rights. Accelerate the improvement of the cadastre database, and promote the formation of a unified property rights baseline.
4. Strengthen Overall Protection of Natural Resources
(5) Promote the preservation and appreciation of natural resource assets. Establish a management indicator system for natural resource assets and give play to its guiding role, strengthen overall protection and rational use, strictly guard the red line for protection of arable land and permanent basic farmland, strengthen the binding role of the ecological protection red line, and strictly control the development boundary of cities and towns. In conjunction with the preparation and implementation of territorial space planning, promote mixed land development, composite use of space, and legal and reasonable conversion of land use. Improve the functional zoning system, guide all regions to leverage their comparative advantages based on resource endowments, and fully tap and enhance the value of natural resource assets. Throughout the entire process of natural resource development and utilization, strengthen ecological protection and restoration and systematic governance, improve market-based and diversified investment mechanisms, and promote the preservation and appreciation of natural resource assets through protection and restoration. Improve the mechanism for realizing the value of ecological products, explore the establishment of market-based trading mechanisms for resource rights and interests indicators, a mechanism for balancing the occupation and restoration of natural coastlines on the mainland, and an incentive mechanism for trading indicators for the release of construction land within the ecological protection red line, so as to achieve shared protection costs and shared ecological benefits.
(6) Optimize the reserve and management and protection mechanism for natural resource assets. Improve the tiered management of land reserves, and include all state-owned construction land for which the right holder has not been determined into reserve management. Explore the implementation of comprehensive acquisition and storage of natural resource assets, formulate plans for the reserve of natural resource assets, and implement classified management and protection of reserved assets. For natural resource assets with obvious public welfare characteristics, mainly implement daily management and protection; for natural resource assets with obvious commercial characteristics, necessary preliminary development and temporary utilization may be carried out. Explore the possibility of qualified entities, such as professional natural resource asset operation agencies, state-owned forestry or agricultural management units, undertaking management and protection of specific natural resource assets.
5. Promote Efficient Allocation of Natural Resource Assets
(7) Improve the market system and rules for natural resource assets. Deepen the reform of the paid use system for natural resource assets, establish and improve allocation rules for natural resource assets such as allocation by administrative decree, transfer, lease, valuation-based contribution (shareholding), joint operation, and contractual management in accordance with laws and regulations, improve the corresponding contracts for allocation of natural resource assets, clarify the rights, obligations, and responsibilities of all parties, and implement full life-cycle management. Explore the establishment of a paid use system for state-owned agricultural land. Comprehensively promote competitive transfer of mining rights, and strictly control negotiated transfer. Gradually increase the proportion of market-based allocation of sea area use rights. Cultivate and regulate the water use rights trading market. Formulate rules for classification, grading, and valuation of natural resource assets in accordance with laws and regulations, and improve the price system for natural resource assets. Improve the trading mechanism for natural resource assets, strengthen dynamic market monitoring and supervision, establish a market credit system, and maintain the order of the natural resource assets market.
(8) Construct new models and new pathways for the allocation of natural resource assets. Based on the national economic and social development plan and territorial space planning, explore the formulation of allocation plans for natural resource assets, distinguish between public welfare and commercial assets, designate reserve zones and allocation units in territorial space planning according to local conditions, and coordinate the planning of reserve, allocation, value realization, and revenue management of natural resource assets to form asset combination targets. Strengthen the synergy between the allocation plan for natural resource assets and territorial space planning, and in conjunction with implementing the requirements of detailed plans regarding land and space use nature, development intensity, etc., clarify and refine the scale, use, structure, form, method, and timing of allocation of natural resource assets. Improve the allocation rules and valuation technical system for combined multi-factor natural resource assets. Where, within a specific territorial space, a single user needs to use multiple types of natural resource assets as a whole, combined allocation may be implemented in accordance with the law. Incorporate the conditions of use, development requirements, starting price, revenue accounting, and ecological protection and restoration requirements for each type of natural resource asset into the combined target allocation plan, announce it to the public simultaneously, sign an asset allocation contract, and relevant departments shall supervise according to their duties. Explore and study methods for accounting revenue from combined allocation of natural resource assets by resource type, and ensure connection with the revenue distribution and management system for natural resource assets.
6. Improve Oversight and Assessment of Natural Resource Assets
(9) Strengthen revenue management of natural resource assets. Establish a unified revenue management system for natural resource assets owned by the whole people, with all related revenues included in the government budget. Improve the revenue and cost accounting system for natural resource assets owned by the whole people, and strengthen revenue management of natural resource assets. Improve the mechanism for distributing value-added revenue from the market entry of rural collective commercial construction land.
(10) Strengthen supervision of natural resource asset management. Formulate measures for managing the resource list of ownership rights for natural resource assets owned by the whole people, compile the resource list of ownership rights, and clarify the subjects, objects, rights, obligations, and responsibilities, etc. Strengthen full-process supervision of natural resource protection and utilization, and firmly enforce the protection responsibilities of the entities performing duties. Coordinate the conduct of responsibility assessment for natural resource asset management, and explore assessment and evaluation of the entities performing duties for natural resource assets. Better leverage the role of the national natural resource supervision mechanism, and, in accordance with duties, supervise the performance of the owner’s responsibilities and the protection of rights and interests concerning natural resource assets owned by the whole people. Explore the establishment of a compensation mechanism for damage to state-owned natural resource assets, and ensure connection with the procuratorial public interest litigation system and the ecological environment damage compensation system. The entities responsible for performing the owner’s duties and the entities undertaking management and protection work shall, according to statutory duties or matters in the list management, bear the responsibilities for discovering, verifying, claiming, and reporting asset damage, and have the right to require the infringer to cease the infringement, restore the original state, compensate for losses, and file a lawsuit in court as the plaintiff in accordance with the law.
(11) Improve the unified reporting system for natural resource assets. Improve the mechanism for the government to submit special reports on the management of state-owned natural resource assets to the standing committee of the people’s congress at the same level. Establish a reporting mechanism for natural resource asset management and duty performance. Publicly disclose the status and management of state-owned natural resource assets to the society in accordance with the law, and accept social supervision.
7. Strengthen Organizational Implementation
Adhere to the centralized and unified leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China over natural resource asset management. In accordance with the requirements of central-level overall planning, provincial-level overall responsibility, and municipal and county-level implementation, strengthen the organization and coordination of natural resource asset management. All regions and relevant departments shall establish and practice a correct view of performance, closely coordinate and cooperate, promote integrated governance through full-chain collaboration, strengthen monitoring and early warning of various risks, enhance risk prevention and control capabilities, and ensure that all systems for natural resource asset management are implemented and effective. Strict discipline and rules must be enforced, supervision and accountability for discipline enforcement must be strengthened, and efforts to rectify work style, enforce discipline, and combat corruption in the natural resources field must be continuously deepened. Improve legislation in the field of natural resource assets, strictly enforce laws, and ensure fair administration of justice. Enhance the capacity for scientific and technological support, and strengthen the construction of disciplines and talent teams related to natural resource assets. Strengthen the informatization construction of natural resource asset management, and promote information sharing. Improve the quality and efficiency of green financial services, and guide financial institutions to increase financial support in areas such as natural resource protection and utilization in accordance with market-oriented and rule-of-law principles. Establish incentive mechanisms, and encourage all regions to carry out differentiated reform explorations based on actual conditions. The Ministry of Natural Resources shall, together with relevant departments, promptly study and resolve new situations and new problems that arise during the implementation of these opinions. Major matters shall be promptly reported to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council for instruction in accordance with procedures.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, [date])
Return to TopOnly by abandoning the narrow thinking of zero-sum game, adhering to the cooperation concept of open and win-win, and jointly building a fair, reasonable, universally beneficial and inclusive global artificial intelligence governance system, can the development achievements of intelligent technology benefit the people of all countries more and more equitably, and let the light of science and technology illuminate the long-term path of common development of mankind.
The 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance will be held in Shanghai from July 17 to 20. President Xi Jinping will attend the opening ceremony of the conference and deliver a keynote speech. Since its inception in 2018, the conference has been successfully held for eight consecutive sessions, becoming an important multilateral platform for the international community to conduct AI dialogue and build consensus on global governance. This year's conference, with the theme of "Intelligent Partners Co-Create the Future", embodies the development vision of AI empowering thousands of industries and serving production and life. The international community's eyes are on the banks of the Huangpu River, looking forward to taking this conference as an opportunity to jointly discuss technological innovation, jointly promote achievement empowerment, jointly build an inclusive ecosystem, promote AI for universal benefit and good, and inject new impetus into global AI development.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation represented by artificial intelligence is giving birth to new modes of production, lifestyles, learning methods, and work methods with accelerated breakthroughs, promoting development in many aspects, while also bringing some potential hidden dangers, placing new and higher demands on us to make good use of opportunities to pursue development and strengthen governance to avoid risks. At present, the global wave of intelligentization is surging forward, innovations in the field of AI continue to achieve group breakthroughs, and technology is accelerating out of laboratories and into all scenarios of production and life. From major economies accelerating strategic deployments, to the iterative upgrading of large models and the continuous expansion of application scenarios, AI is becoming an important driving force for the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, injecting new momentum into economic growth, and also providing important support for the implementation of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
At the same time, the risks and challenges brought by AI are also increasingly prominent, and the urgency of strengthening governance is unprecedented. "AI may become the most powerful engine for development, but the harm it may cause is equally worthy of attention." The warning from UN Secretary-General Guterres is 发人深省 (fā rén shēn xǐng - "set people thinking deeply," thought-provoking). The first preliminary assessment report released in July by the UN's "Independent International Scientific Panel on AI" shows that the speed of AI technology development and the breadth of its potential applications pose major challenges to policymakers, and that large-scale, uncontrolled rapid deployment of AI technology brings huge risks. The fragmentation trend of the global AI governance system is also worthy of vigilance, as individual countries have alienated governance into a tool to maintain their own competitive advantages, artificially raising the coordination costs of global governance.
Faced with the continuous widening of the global intelligence divide, the imbalance in the distribution of resources such as computing power, data, and talents has become increasingly prominent. The World Bank's "2025 Digital Progress and Trends" report shows that high-income countries occupy the vast majority of seats on the global TOP500 list of high-performance computing, and low- and middle-income countries have a significant gap in system quantity and computing power scale; the Africa Data Center report shows that the vast majority of global data center capacity is concentrated in developed economies, with Africa accounting for less than 1%. Without coordinated intervention, the development gap in the AI field will further evolve into a North-South development divide, exacerbating the imbalance of global development.
How to make AI truly used and controlled by humans, and become an international public good that benefits all humanity? This is not a purely technical proposition, but a correction of development concepts, a reconstruction of governance rules, and even more a collective major test of global governance capabilities. Faced with this common issue, China has always been based on the common well-being of all humanity, actively contributing Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to promote the healthy and orderly development of AI in a beneficial, safe, and fair direction.
Adhere to putting people first and AI for good, calibrating the value direction for global AI development. Currently, there are two distinct development logics in the AI field: some media have summarized them as "oil thinking" and "water flow thinking" – the former regards data and computing power as exclusive scarce resources, generating barriers, blockades, and zero-sum games; the latter regards AI as a universally beneficial public good, nurturing connectivity, sharing, and mutual benefit and win-win. The vitality of technology lies in open flow. The development of AI must never move towards a confined technological monopoly that is 画地为牢 (huà dì wéi láo - "draw a circle on the ground as a prison," to confine oneself), but should always anchor on the fundamental goal of serving humanity. China has proposed the "Global AI Governance Initiative (全球人工智能治理倡议)", opposing the use of AI as a tool to seek hegemony, opposing the exclusive possession of resources, dominating rules, and building exclusive "small circles", opposing the artificial creation of technological barriers to hinder the development of other countries. This initiative upholds the principles of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits, has gathered cooperation consensus for global AI development, and has received broad support and response from the international community.
Adhere to extensive consultation, joint contribution, and multilateral collaboration, consolidating the institutional foundation for improving global AI governance. AI inherently has cross-border and cross-domain attributes. In the face of the risks and challenges it brings, no country can 独善其身 (dú shàn qí shēn - "alone perfect one's self," i.e., remain untouched or aloof). The fragmented governance model dominated by a few countries cannot adapt to the governance needs of global technological change. China firmly supports the United Nations in playing the main channel role in AI governance, deeply participates in the discussion and formulation of global ethical norms and technical standards, and effectively guarantees the right of all countries to participate equally in rule-making. From launching the "Global AI Governance Action Plan (人工智能全球治理行动计划)" to promote the transformation of existing consensus into practical measures; to initiating the "AI+" (人工智能+) international cooperation initiative to broaden the practical path of AI empowering sustainable development; to proposing the establishment of the World AI Cooperation Organization (世界人工智能合作组织) to build a permanent platform for multilateral cooperation and governance... China has always used dialogue to resolve differences and consultation to gather consensus, promoting the alignment of development strategies, coordination of governance rules, and mutual recognition of technical standards among countries, continuously expanding the greatest common denominator of global governance consensus.
Adhere to open sharing, universal benefit and inclusiveness, injecting pragmatic impetus into bridging the global intelligence divide. The intelligence divide is a concentrated manifestation of global development imbalance in the digital age. Bridging the divide cannot stop at paper consensus; the key is to transform it into solid and concrete actions. Recently, at the first "Global Dialogue on AI Governance (人工智能治理全球对话)" held in Geneva, Switzerland, all parties generally expressed that they do not want to see an "AI iron curtain", and the calls for sharing knowledge achievements, open-source technology, and promoting cultural diversity are growing stronger. China promoted the UN General Assembly to adopt by consensus a resolution on strengthening international cooperation on AI capacity building, incorporating capacity building of developing countries into the important agenda of global AI governance; proposed and implemented the "AI Capacity Building Universal Benefit Plan (人工智能能力建设普惠计划)", initiated the establishment of the Group of Friends for International Cooperation on AI Capacity Building (人工智能能力建设国际合作之友小组), and carried out multi-dimensional technical and talent collaboration; continuously promoted technology open source, knowledge sharing, and industrial synergy, relying on the World AI Conference to promote the cross-regional flow of high-quality AI resources. A series of measures have turned the vision of universal benefit into practical results, helping developing countries make up for shortcomings in intelligent transformation, and earnestly fulfilling the development commitment of "leaving no one behind".
The great tide of intelligent transformation is surging forward. Whether AI can become a universal engine for global development in the 21st century depends on whether the international community can complete a systematic reshaping from concept to action in the wave of accelerating technological evolution. The upcoming 2026 World AI Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance is precisely an important opportunity for all parties to build consensus and deepen cooperation. Only by abandoning the narrow thinking of zero-sum game, adhering to the cooperation concept of open and win-win, and jointly building a fair, reasonable, universally beneficial and inclusive global AI governance system, can the development achievements of intelligent technology benefit the people of all countries more and more equitably, and let the light of science and technology illuminate the long-term path of common development of mankind.
Return to TopBeijing, July 13 — (Reporter Chen Xirui (陈熙芮)) The 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global Artificial Intelligence Governance will be held in Shanghai from July 17 to 20. President Xi Jinping will attend the opening ceremony of the conference and deliver a keynote speech. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian (林剑) introduced the overall situation of the conference at a regular press conference on the 13th.
Lin Jian said that the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global Artificial Intelligence Governance will be held in Shanghai from July 17 to 20, with the theme “Smart Partners, Creating the Future Together” (智能伙伴 共创未来). President Xi Jinping will attend the opening ceremony of the conference and deliver a keynote speech, comprehensively and systematically expounding China’s policy stance and conceptual propositions regarding the development and governance of artificial intelligence. China has extensively invited government officials from various countries, people from industry, academia, and research sectors, as well as heads of international organizations, to come to China to jointly participate in this grand event.
Lin Jian stated that currently, artificial intelligence technology innovation is showing group breakthroughs, entering an unprecedented period of activity, bringing both opportunities and challenges to the international community, and has become a major epochal issue of global governance.
Lin Jian said that in recent years, China has continuously promoted the implementation of the four global initiatives proposed by President Xi Jinping and the Global AI Governance Initiative (全球人工智能治理倡议) in the field of artificial intelligence, always committed to being a provider of international public goods, actively advocating and promoting the development of global artificial intelligence for good and inclusive benefit through concrete actions, helping Global South countries strengthen capacity building, and receiving high appreciation from the international community.
“We look forward to taking this conference as an opportunity to build a platform for all parties to enhance mutual trust, consolidate consensus, and deepen cooperation, jointly promoting the healthy, safe, and orderly development of artificial intelligence, making this conference a milestone in the history of artificial intelligence development,” Lin Jian said.
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"Setting up the Party for the public, exercising governance for the people, and serving the people wholeheartedly are important reasons for the success of the Communist Party of China." On the occasion of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, Sithixay Sayavong, President of Savannakhet University and former Director of the Lao National University's China Research Center, said in an interview with this newspaper that the Communist Party of China has combined the idea of "the people are the foundation of the state" 民为邦本 (mín wéi bāng běn - "the people are the foundation of the state") from China's fine traditional culture with the Marxist view of the masses, and "adheres to a people-centered development philosophy, which is very worthy of reference for Laos."
In the 1990s, Sithixay studied at Shandong University. "At that time, there was no direct flight between Vientiane, Laos, and Jinan. I had to take a plane to Bangkok, Thailand, then transfer to Kunming, then take a train through Shanghai to Jinan. The journey took more than 40 hours, and sometimes I had to wait several days in line to buy a ticket," Sithixay said.
"Over the past 30 years, I have traveled between Laos and China many times, witnessing China's development and changes and the vigorous growth of bilateral relations. China has developed rapidly in areas such as green and low-carbon, urban and rural landscapes change with each passing day 日新月异 (rì xīn yuè yì - "changing with each passing day, rapid development"), and public security is getting better and better." In Sithixay's view, China's rapid development benefits from the Communist Party of China's long-term development strategies that conform to the trend of the times. "The Communist Party of China has a broad world vision, is able to adapt to China's national conditions and the development of the times, and has both long-term goals such as the Two Centenary Goals (两个一百年) and phased objectives such as the Five-Year Plan (五年规划)."
This year marks the 65th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Laos and the "China-Laos Friendship Year." In early June, Thongloun Sisoulith, General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Central Committee and President of Laos, paid a state visit to China, and the two sides announced the building of a new-era all-weather China-Laos community with a shared future. "The political mutual trust between the two parties and two countries has been further deepened, and comprehensive strategic cooperation has entered a new stage of higher level and deeper depth." Sithixay said that the high-quality joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative (一带一路) between Laos and China is well-planned for the long term. With China's help, Laos has installed power grids, built expressways, and gained its first modern railway... "China uses concrete actions to drive the common development of developing countries including Laos, reflecting the responsibility of a major party and a major country," Sithixay said.
In recent years, Laos has made significant progress in the field of poverty reduction. "More and more Lao officials go to China to inspect and learn from poverty reduction experiences, bring back ideas and methods suitable for Laos' national conditions, and lead the people to escape poverty and become prosperous," Sithixay said. "China's poverty reduction achievements highlight that the Communist Party of China firmly stands together with the people, thinks together with the people, and works together with the people. The CPC's concept of achieving targeted poverty elimination (精准脱贫) through targeted poverty alleviation (精准扶贫) provides an important reference for Laos."
Sithixay has been engaged in education for more than 20 years. He highly praises the CPC's concept of prioritizing education development. He believes that national development depends on talent, and national rejuvenation relies on talent. "I hope that in the future, more Chinese universities will cooperate with Savannakhet University to provide more opportunities for Lao students to study in China, and promote youth exchanges and people-to-people connectivity between the two countries."
Sithixay has a deep understanding of the CPC's "insistence on improving an organizational system that is coherent from top to bottom and efficient in execution." "From the grassroots to the central level, the CPC can achieve consistency from top to bottom, clear powers and responsibilities, and efficient execution. This is also why the CPC can 'concentrate resources to accomplish major tasks,' implement major infrastructure projects, and improve people's living standards." Sithixay said, "In the future, I believe the CPC will continue to adhere to a people-oriented approach, keep pace with the times (yǔ shí jù jìn - "keep pace with the times"), promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, lead the Chinese people, and work with all countries to create a better future together."
Return to TopRecently, some external countries have hyped the tenth anniversary of the issuance of the "South China Sea arbitration award (南海仲裁案裁决)." We advise the relevant external countries to recognize the overall trend and immediately stop raising winds and stirring up waves (兴风作浪, xīng fēng zuò làng - "raise winds and stir up waves," to create trouble or stir up conflict) in the South China Sea. Individual regional countries should also recognize the sinister intentions of external forces, and return as soon as possible to the correct track of consultations between the parties concerned to handle maritime disputes, and to abide by and implement the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (南海各方行为宣言).
Recently, some external countries, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the so-called "South China Sea arbitration award," issued a joint statement that ignores historical facts and basic norms of international law, erroneously denies China's legitimate rights and interests in the South China Sea, groundlessly accuses China of its legitimate jurisdiction and rights protection actions in the South China Sea, and delusionally seeks to bolster the so-called "award" which was illegal and invalid from the start. The so-called "South China Sea arbitration case," a political manipulation driven by geopolitical selfish interests, is essentially an attempt to stir up the situation in the South China Sea, sacrifice regional peace and stability and the welfare of the people, and its sinister intentions are as clear as day (昭然若揭, zhāo rán ruò jiē - "clearly exposed as if uncovered," to be glaringly obvious).
The South China Sea is not a "hunting ground" for external countries, and still less should it become an "arena" for great power rivalry. The United States, Japan, Australia and others, as well as the European Union, are not parties to the South China Sea issue. They should have maintained an objective and neutral position on the sovereignty disputes in the South China Sea, but out of geopolitical strategic selfishness, they have repeatedly endorsed and supported the illegal and invalid so-called "award." These external countries have cobbled together exclusive small circles in the South China Sea, carrying out confrontation under the name of "cooperation," showing off military muscle under the name of "freedom," creating regional chaos under the name of "order," deliberately stirring up regional tensions, instigating and conniving the Philippines to take rights-infringing and provocative actions, and meticulously and calculatingly (处心积虑, chǔ xīn jī lǜ - "to have long harbored intentions and carefully planned," to deliberately scheme) sowing discord in relations between regional countries. Under circumstances where the South China Sea situation has remained generally stable, these practices of external forces completely run counter to (背道而驰, bèi dào ér chí - "to run in the opposite direction," to be completely contrary to) the common aspiration of the people of regional countries for peace and development, and are extremely irresponsible acts towards the interests of regional countries and the peace and stability of the international community.
Some external countries have a history of troublemaking with a long record of misdeeds (劣迹斑斑, liè jì bān bān - "with many traces of misdeeds," having a bad track record). The various major international crises they have created in the Middle East, Europe, and elsewhere have not subsided, and turbulence and division are still ongoing. Now, these countries want to follow the same recipe (如法炮制, rú fǎ pào zhì - "to follow a recipe and make the same concoction," to copy a pattern) and divert the trouble towards the South China Sea, and their attempt to stir up trouble and provoke China is as clear as day. The United States has not yet ratified the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (hereinafter referred to as the Convention) (《联合国海洋法公约》), but often acts as a "judge," arbitrarily accusing and grossly interfering in the legitimate and lawful maritime activities of other countries, exposing its hegemonic logic and hypocritical face. During World War II, Japan committed heinous crimes in China, including illegally occupying China's islands and reefs in the South China Sea, bringing profound disasters to China and the Chinese people. Japan, instead of engaging in self-reflection (反躬自省, fǎn gōng zì xǐng - "to examine oneself and reflect," to introspect and repent), under the banner of so-called "stakeholder," again tries to meddle in the South China Sea, which will only remind the people of the world of Japan's history of foreign aggression and expansion, and increase vigilance against Japan's "remilitarization" scheme.
Lies do not become truth because of repetition, and illegality does not become legality because of hype. The so-called "South China Sea arbitration case" is a political farce wrapped in the cloak of law unilaterally initiated by the Philippines with the encouragement and support of external forces, and the so-called "award" has had no legal force from the start. From procedure to substance, this so-called "award" is untenable (站不住脚, zhàn bù zhù jiǎo - "cannot stand on one's feet," to be unsound or indefensible) in every way: Territorial sovereignty issues are not within the scope of regulation of the Convention. As early as 2006, China made an exclusionary declaration under Article 298 of the Convention, excluding disputes such as maritime delimitation from compulsory dispute settlement procedures. The Philippines unilaterally initiated "arbitration," violating bilateral consensus between China and the Philippines and also violating the dispute settlement principles established by the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (hereinafter referred to as the Declaration). The "arbitral tribunal" exceeded its jurisdiction and perverted the law, and its conclusions were riddled with errors, in particular, it ruled that Taiping Island (太平岛), the largest island in the Nansha (Spratly) Islands, covering 500,000 square meters, is a rock. By this logic, the islands and reefs of some external countries will likewise lose the basis for claiming maritime rights and interests. Does the endorsement of the "award" by these countries mean they are willing to voluntarily give up? We advise the relevant countries to think clearly first before pointing fingers (指手画脚, zhǐ shǒu huà jiǎo - "to point with hands and draw with feet," to make arbitrary criticisms or gestures) at China.
China's sovereignty and related rights and interests in the South China Sea were formed over a long historical process and have full historical and legal basis. The Chinese people have been active in the South China Sea for over 2,000 years. China has sovereignty over the islands in the South China Sea and their adjacent waters, enjoys sovereign rights and jurisdiction over the relevant waters and their seabed and subsoil, and has historic rights in the South China Sea. China's exercise of jurisdiction and its law enforcement actions for rights protection on relevant islands and reefs and in relevant waters in the South China Sea fully comply with China's domestic law and international law, including the Convention, and are professional, restrained, reasonable and lawful. China's sovereignty and related rights and interests in the South China Sea are not affected in the slightest by the so-called "award."
China has always firmly safeguarded its territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests, always firmly maintained peace and stability in the South China Sea, and always insisted on properly handling maritime differences through dialogue and consultation. Some external countries accuse China of engaging in so-called "coercive" and "destabilizing" actions in the South China Sea, which is completely a fabrication from nothing (无中生有, wú zhōng shēng yǒu - "to create something out of nothing," to fabricate baseless allegations). Over the years, China and ASEAN countries, adhering to the spirit of mutual respect and consensus, have fully and effectively implemented the Declaration, steadily advanced the consultation on a Code of Conduct in the South China Sea, continuously deepened practical cooperation in maritime search and rescue, marine environmental protection, disaster prevention and mitigation, and have forged a path of maritime governance that suits regional realities and accommodates the legitimate concerns of all parties. At present, the overall situation in the South China Sea remains stable, and there are no problems with the freedom of navigation and overflight that all countries enjoy in accordance with the law. Facts have fully proven that China and regional countries are fully capable and wise enough to properly manage differences, resolve conflicts, and jointly safeguard peace and tranquility in the South China Sea. In response to all acts of infringement and provocation, China will take resolute and forceful measures in accordance with the law to counter them, firmly safeguarding national sovereignty, security, and development interests.
The peace, stability, and prosperous development of the South China Sea can only be led and guarded by the regional countries themselves; they do not need and will never accept any interference or disruption from external forces. We advise the relevant external countries to recognize the overall trend and immediately stop raising winds and stirring up waves in the South China Sea. Individual regional countries should also recognize the sinister intentions of external forces, and return as soon as possible to the correct track of consultations between the parties concerned to handle maritime disputes, and to abide by and implement the Declaration.
Return to TopOur newspaper Hong Kong, July 13 (Reporter Chen Ran (陈然)). The South China Sea Security Roundtable Dialogue and the launch of New Refutation of the South China Sea Arbitration Ruling were held in Hong Kong on the 13th. More than one hundred experts and scholars, government officials, and representatives of international organizations from countries and regions including China, the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, and Australia attended.
This event was co-hosted by the Huayang Ocean Research Center (华阳海洋研究中心), the National Institute for South China Sea Studies (中国南海研究院), and the Asian Academy of International Law (亚洲国际法律研究院). Participants engaged in in-depth discussions on topics including "New Refutation of the South China Sea Arbitration Ruling: The Tribunal's Jurisdiction, Legal Defects, and Practical Dilemmas," "Assessment of the South China Sea Security Situation and Risk Response," and "Maintaining Stability in the South China Sea: Laws, Rules, and Order."
Qi Dahai (齐大海), Director-General of the Department of Treaty and Law of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stated that this year marks the tenth anniversary of the so-called "South China Sea arbitration ruling." This "ruling" is essentially a political manipulation cloaked in the guise of law. The "arbitral tribunal" exceeded its jurisdiction and erroneously applied international law, rendering the "ruling" illegal and invalid. China has sufficient historical and legal grounds for the South China Sea islands and the relevant waters, and enjoys territorial sovereignty, maritime rights and interests, and historic rights in accordance with the law. China's activities in the South China Sea are consistent with international law. China has always adhered to the peaceful resolution of disputes through bilateral negotiation and consultation, comprehensively and effectively implemented the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (南海各方行为宣言), actively advanced consultations on a Code of Conduct in the South China Sea (南海行为准则), and is willing to work with regional countries to jointly maintain peace, stability, and maritime order in the South China Sea, while opposing interference in South China Sea affairs and disruption of regional peace and stability by extra-regional countries under the pretext of the so-called "ruling" and "freedom of navigation."
Stephen Fietta, founder of the London-based law firm Fietta LLP, emphasized that ten years of state practice, international judicial practice, and academic research have shown that the so-called "South China Sea arbitration ruling" has had very limited influence on the development of the international law of the sea. Subsequent jurisprudence from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), among others, has generally avoided or not adopted the "ruling"'s core arguments concerning Article 121 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (联合国海洋法公约) and historic rights. Meanwhile, several former presidents of the ICJ and ITLOS, as well as renowned international law of the sea scholars, have systematically criticized the so-called "ruling" on issues such as treaty interpretation, the regime of islands, and historic rights. Taken together, the so-called "ruling" has not formed any rule of international law with universal influence, nor has it ever gained broad acceptance from the international community.
Wu Shicun (吴士存), Chairman of the Board of the Huayang Ocean Center and Chairman of the Academic Committee of the National Institute for South China Sea Studies, said that the so-called "ruling" has become a glue binding the interests of the Philippines and all countries that try to create a "China South China Sea threat theory" and to package and "whitewash" illicit gains through the so-called "ruling." In fact, this illegal "ruling" has not brought, and absolutely cannot bring, peace and tranquility to the South China Sea. In the future, we still need to continue to provide necessary responses and resolute countermeasures to the so-called "ruling" and to the claims and actions that arise from it.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Tokyo, July 13 — In response to the Japanese Foreign Minister’s remarks on the tenth anniversary of the so-called “ruling on the South China Sea arbitration case” and Japan’s issuance of a joint statement together with other countries, Minister Shi Yong (施泳) of the Chinese Embassy in Japan on the 13th made solemn representations and a strong protest to Kanai Masaaki, Director-General of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Chinese side stressed that the so-called “ruling” violates the basic norms of international law, severely damages the seriousness and authority of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, severely impacts international rule of law, and is an illegal, invalid, and non-binding piece of scrap paper. China 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 are under no circumstances affected by that “ruling.” Japan bears historical culpability on the South China Sea issue and has not yet settled accounts, and is not qualified to make irresponsible comments. Japan persists in meddling in the South China Sea issue and politically manipulating the illegal “ruling.” Its odious words and deeds challenge the post-war international order and international rule of law, undermine peace and stability in the South China Sea, run counter to the common interests and will of regional countries, and arouse high vigilance from regional countries and the international community. China will resolutely and forcefully counter Japan’s provocations and steadfastly defend its own territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 13 (Reporter Wu Mengtong (吴梦桐)) — Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi held talks here on the 13th with Kazakh Foreign Minister Kosharbayev.
Wang Yi stated that under the strategic guidance and personal push of President Xi Jinping and President Tokayev, China-Kazakhstan relations have demonstrated strong resilience and vigorous vitality. President Tokayev will soon come to China to attend the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance, and the two heads of state will conduct in-depth strategic communication, injecting new impetus into the development of bilateral relations. China welcomes Kazakhstan to join the International Mediation Court (国际调解院) and is willing to join hands with Kazakhstan to defend international fairness and justice.
Kosharbayev congratulated the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, expressing the belief that under the wise leadership of President Xi Jinping, China will surely achieve a great rejuvenation at an early date.
Return to TopThis newspaper, Beijing, July 13 (Reporter Chen Xirui (陈熙芮)) — The Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced on the 13th: At the invitation of Premier Li Qiang of the State Council, Thai Prime Minister Anutin will pay an official visit to China from July 16 to 20.
Return to TopJakarta, July 13 (Our Newspaper) — (Reporter Cao Shiyun (曹师韵)) As of July 12, 2026, the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway (雅万高铁) has achieved 1,000 days of safe and orderly operation, with a cumulative total of over 16.58 million passenger trips sent, a single-day maximum of 26,700 passenger trips sent, EMU trains safely operating over 8.02 million kilometers, a cumulative total of 52,730 passenger trains operated, transportation safe, stable, and orderly, passenger flow scale continuously growing, and comprehensive operation quality continuously improving.
Since the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway officially commenced operation on October 17, 2023, the China-Indonesia operations team has comprehensively drawn on China's advanced high-speed railway operation and management experience, continuously improving work in operation management, passenger transport organization, equipment maintenance, safety control, etc., gradually establishing a high-speed railway technical standard and operation management system that conforms to Indonesia's actual conditions, laying the foundation for long-term safe and stable operation. At the same time, the team has vigorously cultivated local Indonesian high-speed railway technical personnel, through theoretical training, simulated operation, and methods such as “master-apprentice” (师带徒) to promote the gradual localization of the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway’s operation. Currently, an increasing number of Indonesian employees have participated in positions such as passenger service, high-speed train drivers, equipment maintenance, and safety management.
Return to TopURUMQI, July 12 (Xinhua) — (Reporters Wang Mingyu, Gao Han) From July 12 to 20, the "Music Without Borders, Youth with a Promise" China-U.S. Youth Music Exchange Event, hosted by the China Education Association for International Exchange (中国教育国际交流协会), will be held in Korla, Urumqi, and other locations in Xinjiang. Forty young members of the One Voice Children's Choir from Utah in the United States will join hands with students from local schools, singing a youthful song of building friendship together.
Over the course of nine days, Chinese and American youth will participate together in classroom learning, jointly engage in artistic rehearsals, and experience hands-on intangible cultural heritage handicraft-making, gaining a deeper understanding of the characteristics of China's basic education and the charm of fine traditional Chinese culture through deep interaction; they will jointly film themed flash mobs, visit natural and cultural scenic spots, and investigate 5G smart factories and smart cotton fields, experiencing the vitality of Xinjiang's development through walking and dialogue, and telling the story of Xinjiang in a multi-dimensional manner; they will also hold two China-U.S. youth music exchange sessions, showcasing the achievements of friendly exchanges between the youth of the two countries.
Return to TopBRIDGETOWN, July 11 (Xinhua) -- (Reporters Li Jiaxu (李佳旭), Tian Defeng (田德丰)) The harvest commencement ceremony for the third phase of large-scale trial planting of China's upland rice was recently held in Pine Basin, central Barbados, marking the further expansion of China's hybrid upland rice from experimental demonstration to broader promotion in this rice-importing country. Barbados Minister of Agriculture, Food and Nutritional Security Chantal Munro-Knight said that the Barbadian side values the long-standing pragmatic agricultural cooperation with the Chinese side across the full industrial chain, and looks forward to both sides continuing to promote relevant outcomes to benefit more people.
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In recent days, all regions and departments have made every effort to confront Typhoon Bavi (台风“巴威”) and the heavy rainfall weather, solidly carrying out flood prevention and rescue operations and post-disaster emergency recovery work for rainstorm and flood disasters, ensuring the safety of people's lives and property.
Meteorological monitoring shows that at 17:00 on July 13, the center of this year's No. 9 typhoon, Typhoon Bavi (tropical storm level), was located within the territory of Xinyi (新沂市), Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province, with a maximum wind force of 8 on the periphery (18 meters per second). The National Meteorological Center (中央气象台) forecasts that Typhoon Bavi will move northeastward at a speed of 10–15 kilometers per hour, with little change in intensity; during the daytime on the 14th it will pass through the Shandong Peninsula and move into the northern waters of the Yellow Sea, and during the night of the 14th it will gradually transform into an extratropical cyclone. Over the next three days, areas including Liaoning, Jilin, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Jiangsu, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, Sichuan, Guangdong, and Guangxi will experience heavy to torrential rain; parts of Liaoning, Jilin, and other areas will see extremely heavy rain, with locally exceptionally heavy rain. At 18:00 on the 13th, the National Meteorological Center continued to issue a blue alert for typhoon, an orange alert for rainstorm, and a blue alert for severe convective weather.
At 18:00 on the 13th, the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部) and the China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局) jointly issued a red meteorological risk warning for geological disasters. It is forecast that from 20:00 on the 13th to 20:00 on the 14th, parts of northeastern Hebei, northeastern Liaoning, and central-southern Jilin face high meteorological risk of geological disasters (orange warning), and local areas in northeastern Liaoning face very high meteorological risk of geological disasters (red warning). At 18:00 on the 13th, the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) and the China Meteorological Administration jointly issued a red meteorological warning for mountain torrent disasters. It is forecast that from 20:00 on the 13th to 20:00 on the 14th, parts of eastern Liaoning and eastern Jilin have a high possibility of mountain torrent disasters (orange warning), and local areas have a very high possibility of mountain torrent disasters (red warning).
On the 13th, affected by rainfall, the Shuiyang River, a tributary of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, experienced the No. 2 flood of 2026; the Mayi River in Heilongjiang Province experienced the No. 1 flood of 2026; the Hun River in Liaoning Province experienced the No. 1 flood of 2026; and the Changjiang River of the Poyang Lake water system experienced the No. 2 flood of 2026. The Ministry of Water Resources closely monitored the development of the flood situation, strengthened monitoring, forecasting, and early warning of rain and water conditions, initiated in advance a Level IV emergency response for flood defense targeting Anhui, Jiangsu, Heilongjiang, and Jiangxi, and at 18:00 on the 13th raised the Level IV emergency response for flood defense targeting Liaoning and Jilin to Level III. On the 13th, at the request of the Liaoning Provincial Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters (辽宁省防指), the National Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters Office (国家防办), together with the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration (国家粮食和储备局), urgently allocated over 2,600 items of central flood control materials such as laminated woven fabric to support Liaoning in carrying out flood prevention and rescue work.
On the 13th, the National Commission for Disaster Prevention, Mitigation and Relief (国家防灾减灾救灾委员会) activated a national Level IV disaster relief emergency response for the rainstorm and flood disaster in Hebei Province, dispatched a work team to the disaster area to inspect the disaster situation on site, and guided and assisted local authorities in carrying out disaster relief work such as ensuring the basic living needs of the affected people. 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 meteorological risk warning for geological disasters on the 13th, and the Office of the Hebei Provincial Commission for Disaster Prevention, Mitigation and Relief (河北省防灾减灾救灾委员会办公室) activated a Level IV response to the Hebei Province Natural Disaster Relief Emergency Plan at 14:00 on the 13th. The National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) urgently arranged 30 million yuan from central budget investment to support Hebei in carrying out post-disaster emergency recovery from the rainstorm and flood disaster.
Our reporter learned from the Jiangsu Provincial Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters (江苏省防指) that from 14:00 to 17:00 on the 13th, precipitation occurred in all areas of Jiangsu Province except the southeastern region, with heavy precipitation mainly in the Xuzhou area. Xuzhou City is fully prepared to confront the typhoon: 6 national and provincial professional rescue teams stationed in Xuzhou and 43 social rescue teams are all on standby; 332 boats and vessels, 34 drainage pump trucks, and 316 drainage pumps are ready for deployment; and over 190,000 items (sets) of living and relief materials are adequately stockpiled.
In recent days, Zhejiang has actively carried out various defense and emergency work. As of 19:00 on the 11th, before Typhoon Bavi made landfall, Zhejiang Province had transferred over 2.68 million people and opened more than 19,000 disaster avoidance and resettlement sites. After consultation and assessment, the Zhejiang Provincial Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters (浙江省防指) decided to end the typhoon defense emergency response at 17:00 on the 13th. Currently, highway traffic across Zhejiang Province has been fully restored, and flights and railway services are also resuming operations.
(Comprehensive reporting by our reporters Jiang Xuehong (蒋雪鸿), Deng Jianyang (邓剑洋), Liu Wenxin (刘温馨), Liu Zhiqiang (刘志强), Wang Donghui (王东辉), Shi Ziqiang (史自强), Yao Xueqing (姚雪青), Jiang Nan (江南), Liu Junguo (刘军国), and Dou Hao (窦皓))
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 辛 阳
Rain poured down as if the basin had been overturned. Torrential rain, red alert.
On July 13, Shenyang, Liaoning, activated a Level I emergency response for flood control. A maximum hourly precipitation of 74.4 millimeters came with fierce winds. In many parts of Shenyang, old bungalows, underpass tunnels, and underground garages quickly accumulated water; roadside trees toppled, roads were cut off, and urban waterlogging hazards emerged one after another.
Flood-control orders traveled along the grid network directly to streets and lanes. More than 3,500 municipal, county, township, and village-level flood-control responsible persons, and 16,849 flood-control guarantee-responsible persons at four levels threw themselves into this sudden battle.
At 00:30 on the 13th, Bing Jinming (邴金明), Party branch secretary of Lüyuan Community (绿园社区) in Lingxi Subdistrict (陵西街道), Yuhong District (于洪区), sent three consecutive messages in the group chat: "Party members of each group report for duty immediately! Group One is responsible for evacuating residents in the bungalow area; Group Two goes to intersections to set up barricades and advise detours; Group Three keeps a close eye on the underground garage and hurry to block the water!" Three grid Party groups accepted the tasks on the spot, and 22 Party members were all in place within 15 minutes.
The rain fell more and more intensely, and the accumulated water grew deeper and deeper. Gao Qingyun (高青云), deputy Party committee secretary of Lüyuan Community, waded through murky water up to his thighs, his voice hoarse: "Two people per team carry sandbags to block unit doors; two people go to pry open the grate; the rest follow me to check the pumps."
In the critical moment of the citywide rescue, safely evacuating the masses was the "primary responsibility" of community Party members and cadres. They went from village to village and door to door, checking person by person, using their backs as bridges to safely transfer residents with limited mobility to unified rescue points.
Blue-and-white lifeboats repeatedly shuttled and jolted through the rain-flooded streets. Party members and cadres waded into chest-deep floodwaters to rescue people trapped in houses and vehicles.
Thirty-five elderly people were trapped at the Xinruyi Nursing Home (鑫如意老年公寓) on Dongling Road, Shenhe District (沈河区), and the water level kept rising. Most of the elderly were ill and had difficulty moving; the situation was critical. Yu Zhengying (喻正英), section chief of the Comprehensive Section of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Shenhe Branch Public Security Bureau, led police officers to make more than twenty round trips, ultimately safely transferring all the trapped elderly.
At the same time, in Fangjialan Road Second Alley (方家栏路二巷), Wanlian Subdistrict (万莲街道), Shenhe District, an area of contiguous low-lying bungalows was flooded by backflow from the rain. The courtyards of 12 households had water up above the ankles. The Wanlian Subdistrict, together with the Party committee of Qingquan Community (清泉社区), organized cadres dispatched from higher authorities, grid workers, police officers from the local station, and volunteers into three Party group shock teams, dividing the area into parcels with assigned responsibilities.
The alley was narrow, so large drainage equipment could not be brought in. Party members took turns swinging shovels to clear silt, their trouser legs plastered with mud and water. "Quick! There's a 70-year-old person in the house; water has already entered. Male comrades come to carry him on your back, hurry!" Pan Ying (潘颖), Party secretary of Qingquan Community, shouted through a loudspeaker, walking back and forth in the alley: "Ensure no household is missed, ensure no person is left behind — this is our hard task!" Two hours later, all 49 residents in the area were safely evacuated.
"Party groups are assigned to areas, responsibility goes to the individual. Wherever there is accumulated water, that group of Party members stays on watch until the end," said Wang Peng (王鹏), Party secretary of Gujiaozi Community (孤家子社区) in Hunnan District (浑南区). He explained that the community had pre-divided four Party member responsibility zones, and after the rainstorm struck, four Party groups quickly went down to the grassroots level to simultaneously handle risks such as loose power lines in bungalow areas and power outages due to waterlogging.
On the front line of drainage on main urban roads, Shenyang Water Drainage Group (沈阳水务排水集团) deployed across the board, using Party branches as units. On severely waterlogged streets, they bustled about in knee-deep water, operating drainage equipment, clearing debris from drainage outlets, and guiding passing vehicles and pedestrians to safe passage. At drainage pumping stations, they stood fast at their posts, closely monitoring the operation of equipment.
Night fell, but the rain did not let up; various rescue operations were still under way in tense progression. From 00:00 to 17:00 on the 13th, the average precipitation in Shenyang reached 129.5 millimeters, and the maximum precipitation at a single rainfall station reached 339 millimeters.
The wind and rain did not cease; the duty watches did not stop. "One branch is a fortress, one group is a line of defense — 拧成一股绳 (níng chéng yī gǔ shéng - "twist into a single rope," to unite as one), and work together in concerted effort to fight the wind and rain!" said Bing Jinming.
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Recently, the fire tragedy at a shoe factory in Jinjiang (晋江市), Quanzhou, Fujian, has sounded an alarm with profound lessons and painful costs. Enterprise development has strengths and weaknesses, but safety is the most important foundation; one loss and nothing remains (一失万无).
General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized the need to "always keep the string of production safety taut." To implement this requirement, the key lies in "always," and the focus is on "taut"; not a single moment, not a single bit can be relaxed.
Break down paralytic thinking, firmly establish bottom-line thinking and extreme thinking. Nowadays, some enterprises when grasping production safety still have problems of inertial thinking and empiricism, believing that "nothing happened before, so nothing will happen now." Harboring a fluke mentality, it is easy to lose defenses layer by layer in what is 司空见惯 (sī kōng jiàn guàn - "commonly seen, become accustomed," a commonplace occurrence). An inconspicuous cigarette butt, a neglected aging wire, a non-standard operation — any of these could become the fuse for an accident.
Accidents may seem capricious, but they show signs and leave traces in details. Whether production units or regulatory departments, they must harbor a sense of urgency, adhere to a systematic view, closely watch the bottom line that "can be imagined," prepare to deal with the extreme that is "hard to imagine," strengthen preemptive investigation and dynamic prevention and control of weak links and risk points, discern various risks before they sprout and resolve them before they occur, and build a stronger safety foundation.
Eradicate risk-taking psychology, firmly establish rule-of-law thinking. Today, various laws and regulations have drawn the "high-voltage line" for production safety, clarifying production norms, safety guarantees, and supervision mechanisms. But why do safety accidents still occur? In the final analysis, it is because the relevant responsible subjects lack reverence for laws and regulations, and implementation is too lenient and too soft.
Laws and regulations cannot only be the basis for post-event accountability; they must become rules strictly observed throughout all work. In some safety accidents, the relevant enterprises are not lacking safety knowledge, nor do they not understand safety operation procedures; mostly, they deliberately violate and take risks for profit. Only by running rule-of-law thinking through the entire chain and entire cycle, making compliance requirements a daily practice, and resolutely eliminating thoughts of violating rules and reckless advancement through strict law enforcement and sure punishment for violations, can production safety have a solid rule-of-law defense.
Curb the mentality of perfunctory response, firmly establish a consciousness of being earnest. In many accident investigation reports, there is a distressing point: even when receiving production safety rectification requirements, the relevant enterprises respond perfunctorily, procrastinate and do not rectify. The reasons lie in the enterprises feeling "it won't be so unlucky," or not wanting to rectify because it increases costs, or thinking to first catch up on the construction schedule and rectify after finishing; also in the regulatory departments being negligent and slack, not following up on implementation in a timely manner after issuing notices.
Such fluke psychology and "make-do" actions will strangle the opportunity to block accidents. Once a hidden danger is discovered, regardless of the cost or whether it delays the schedule, it must be thoroughly investigated and rectified; there must be no "let it pass this time" (下不为例).
Abandon the bystander mentality, firmly establish the consciousness that everyone is responsible. The hidden danger may be caused by just one link or one person, but when a problem actually occurs, it affects the entire production chain and endangers the life and property of everyone. Preventing risks is not only the responsibility of relevant departments, enterprise managers, and safety officers; every post and every employee cannot stay aloof; they are all in a safety community.
Eliminating risks is everyone's responsibility; there cannot be thoughts of "it's none of my business" or "it's far from me." Taking an extra look, paying an extra bit of attention in daily work, and promptly reporting problems is being responsible for production safety and also for one's own safety.
If thought relaxes by one inch, hidden dangers will expand by one foot. To block the risk of one in ten thousand, one must exert ten thousandfold efforts. Only by going all out to ensure the implementation of various safety responsibility measures can we effectively safeguard the life and property of the people, and escort economic and social development to proceed steadily and far (行稳致远).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王云娜
In Dongguan, Guangdong, at dusk, Xiao Xie, a 28-year-old woman from Jiangxi, rode her electric bicycle after work and returned to her home in the Songhu Xingfu Garden Community (松湖幸福花园小区) in just over ten minutes.
The apartment has one bedroom and one living room; it is not large, but very cozy. "Even without a local household registration, I can move into public rental housing (公租房). I feel a strong sense of belonging," Xiao Xie said.
In July 2024, Xiao Xie came to the Dongguan Songshan Lake High-tech Industrial Development Zone (hereinafter referred to as the "Songshan Lake High-tech Zone" (松山湖高新区)) to look for a job. While applying at a company in the zone, the recruiter explained the zone's public rental housing policy to her. Learning that migrant workers could also apply for public rental housing, she immediately decided to stay and work here.
"I used to work in other cities, and due to a limited budget, the apartments I rented were in poor condition," Xiao Xie said. She had not moved her household registration out of her hometown, and Dongguan's housing security that does not restrict household registration helped resolve a major concern for her.
After she started work, the company helped Xiao Xie submit application materials online. In less than a month, she moved into the public rental housing in the Songhu Xingfu Garden Community as she had wished.
In 2014, Dongguan City began to explore housing security reforms such as expanding the scope of public rental housing. That year, on the premise of achieving full coverage of public rental housing (可保尽保) for disadvantaged groups with local household registration, Dongguan, based on its still-surplus stock of public rental housing, included employees newly employed without housing and migrant workers stably employed in Dongguan into the scope of public rental housing security.
The Songshan Lake High-tech Zone gathers emerging industries such as biomedicine, equipment manufacturing, and new energy, and has a high demand for talent. The Administrative Committee of the Songshan Lake High-tech Zone has built five public rental housing communities in batches in various areas, with a total of approximately 11,900 units, to meet the housing needs of enterprises' employees nearby. At the same time, based on the actual conditions of the zone, the Administrative Committee has tailored a public rental housing management system to reduce the housing burden on enterprise employees.
The relevant person in charge of the Urban Construction Bureau of the Administrative Committee of the Songshan Lake High-tech Zone introduced that the applicant unit must be an employer registered in the zone, and employees applying for housing must meet four mandatory conditions: the applicant and their spouse and children have no self-owned property in Dongguan City; have signed a labor contract of more than one year with the employer; pay social insurance in Dongguan City or declare individual income tax within the Songshan Lake zone; and are not simultaneously renting other subsidized housing or supporting dormitories in the zone, etc.
"Through the Songshan Lake High-tech Zone public rental housing management system, the employer submits applications online for employees. After there are corresponding available housing units, after online approval and public announcement by relevant departments, the employee can sign the contract and move in," the person in charge said.
Xiao Xie gave careful consideration before choosing the Songhu Xingfu Garden Community. The community is about four or five kilometers from her company, with tree-lined paths making cycling commuting smooth and worry-free. The community entrance is adjacent to a bus stop, and there is a subway station one kilometer away. There are also supermarkets and fresh food stores nearby, making life very convenient. The community offers various unit types such as studios, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom apartments, allowing free choice. The one-bedroom apartment Xiao Xie rents is about 50 square meters, and the rent plus property management fees totals only a little over 500 yuan per month.
"We do a good job of operation and maintenance, continuously improving the living experience for talent," introduced the relevant person in charge of Dongguan Songshan Lake Anju Service Co., Ltd. (东莞松山湖安居服务有限公司). As a state-owned enterprise subordinate to the Songshan Lake High-tech Zone, the company undertakes the entire process of leasing, maintenance, and daily care of public rental housing in the zone. The Songhu Xingfu Garden Community was put into use in 2018, and its occupancy rate has exceeded 90%. To meet the needs of different groups, the company revitalizes the idle stilt floors (架空层) in the buildings, installing children's play facilities, sports grounds, etc., to enrich everyone's leisure life.
The continuously improving public rental housing facilities have become a new advantage for enterprises in the Songshan Lake High-tech Zone to attract talent, drawing many young technical professionals to work here.
The relevant person in charge of the Dongguan Municipal Bureau of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (东莞市住房和城乡建设局) introduced that Dongguan has optimized its security policies, expanded the coverage of monetary subsidies, and knitted a tighter housing security net. As of now, Dongguan has built a total of 22,700 government public rental housing units, covering 20 towns, subdistricts, and zones (镇街/园区) across the city.
" Situations such as Dongguan's large migrant population, high mobility, and large housing demand will persist for a long time," said Ye Huiming (叶惠明), Deputy Secretary-General of the Dongguan Municipal People's Government and Director of the Municipal Development and Reform Bureau. "Dongguan will closely follow the pace of industry and population changes, dynamically improve public service policies such as housing security, so that people who come here to settle and strive can have a happy and secure residence and equally enjoy the fruits of urban development."
Return to TopThis newspaper, Shijiazhuang, July 13 (Reporter Shao Yuzi) — The reporter learned: Hebei’s Xiong’an New Area continues to deepen reform of government services, and on the basis of full-process online processing availability for matters, has innovatively launched the “whole-region processing” (全域通办) service model, meeting the needs of enterprises and the public for handling affairs nearby through four processing methods — same authority between city and county, remote acceptance, multi-location joint processing, and Beijing-Xiong’an same-city.
At present, the first batch of 24 high-frequency matters at the new area’s own level can be processed at multiple points and concluded on-site; 1,447 matters at the new area’s own level and 1,440 matters at the county level have achieved cross-regional nearby processing; and 625 Beijing municipal-level matters can be received without distinction and processed in a standardized manner at Xiong’an’s government service halls at all levels. At the same time, a “cloud help-office” (云帮办) online service platform has been built, allowing enterprises and the public to connect in real time with window staff to obtain exclusive guidance, realizing the response “one call works” for public appeals, and making every effort to build a “15-minute government service circle.”
It is understood that Xiong’an New Area will also continue to expand the scope of services, extending the “whole-region processing” service to more service points such as the High-tech Zone and Zhongguancun, making every effort to create a business environment of “seeking no favor when handling affairs, approval without face-to-face meeting, at most one visit,” and burnishing the “Xiong’an Service” golden signboard.
Return to TopThis newspaper, Beijing, July 13 (Reporter Gu Yekai) The reporter learned from the National Supercomputing Internet (国家超算互联网) platform: The core node of the National Supercomputing Internet has recently been formally put into operation. As the nation's first computing power resource pool integrating 100,000-card-level supercomputing and intelligent computing, this core node will provide advanced computing power support for scenarios such as large-model research and development, scientific intelligent agents, industrial simulation, biomedicine, and network security.
After the core node went online, the National Supercomputing Internet has launched an inclusive resource package for new users, containing 200 card-hours of computing power and a 10-million-token call quota, with the option to use mainstream large models. In addition, after completing a research profile and filling in their research field and computing preferences, users can also obtain an additional 20 card-hours of exclusive computing power. University faculty, students, and young research teams can complete model testing, algorithm verification, and scientific computing experiments at lower cost; AI developers and small and medium-sized enterprises can quickly complete application prototype construction and model verification before formal investment.
The National Supercomputing Internet, guided and initiated for construction by the Ministry of Science and Technology (科技部), was formally launched in April 2024. It aims to bring efficient and inclusive computing services to a variety of cutting-edge application scenarios, allowing computing power to flow freely and be efficiently and easily used like water and electricity. At present, the National Supercomputing Internet has established the nation's largest-scale integrated computing network and application service platform, aggregating over 3.5 million CPU (central processing unit) cores and 250,000 GPU (graphics processing unit) cards. The platform has over 1.4 million registered users, has access to over 7,300 application services, has adapted over 1,500 large models, and has a monthly average visit volume exceeding 11.3 million.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李心萍 姚雪青 宋豪新
The city is an important carrier of modernization.
At the Central Urban Work Conference held in July 2025, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: “Take the promotion of urban renewal as an important lever, vigorously drive urban structure optimization, kinetic energy conversion, quality improvement, green transformation, cultural continuity preservation, and governance efficiency enhancement.”
In May of this year, the “Urban Renewal 15th Five-Year Plan” (城市更新“十五五”规划) was issued, transforming key deployments into specific action plans.
Entering Beiyuan Residential Area (北苑小区) Beiyuan Er Village (北苑二村) of Beiyuan Community (北苑社区), Xuanwu District, Nanjing, Jiangsu, sounds of cheerful laughter become vivid footnotes to urban renewal.
On a summer weekend, on the all-ages friendly square of Beiyuan Er Village, a cultural performance is underway. Children watch intently, elderly fan themselves and laugh.
Two years ago, the scene was different. During the rainy season, walls grew mold, rooms became damp; motor vehicles were parked haphazardly, electric bicycles had nowhere to charge, and the only public space was a bare open lot.
Starting last July, Beiyuan Er Village and Beiyuan San Village (北苑三村) initiated renovation of old residential communities. The local authorities did not adopt a 一刀切 (yī dāo qiē – “cut with one knife,” one-size-fits-all approach) but insisted on “first inspect, then assess needs, then renew.” Through discussion meetings, questionnaire surveys, and other methods, they precisely collected demands, achieving “ordering” by residents and “serving dishes” by the government.
The residential area ushered in a renewal that “cultivates both interior and exterior.” Renovating the “lining” involved redoing exterior wall waterproofing to solve water seepage and dampness problems; revitalizing space meant regularizing odd leftover corners, marking out 20 parking spots and two non-motor vehicle sheds with charging piles; improving services meant building a new one-stop convenience service center integrating functions such as smart payment, home rapid repair, and community cafeteria.
Beiyuan Residential Area is composed of Beiyuan Yi Village (北苑一村), Beiyuan Er Village, and Beiyuan San Village. The successful renovation of Beiyuan Er and San Villages sparked renovation enthusiasm among the residents of Beiyuan Yi Village. “According to the plan, in addition to facility repair, smart security, and landscaping, Beiyuan Yi Village will also revitalize idle open spaces to build its own small square and convenience service space,” introduced Wu Xiaoyan (吴小燕), Party Committee Secretary of Beiyuan Community.
This year is the start of the 15th Five-Year Plan period. All localities are using the plan as a “task book,” turning schemes into practice.
— Carrying the “warmth” of people’s livelihood with the “newness” of space, creating high-quality urban living spaces.
Not long ago, the Wenmiao Yin Lane Intangible Cultural Heritage Living Block (文庙印巷非遗活态街区) in Wenjiang District, Chengdu, Sichuan, opened to the public. Hairpin flowers welcome guests, tea-tasting gatherings bring friends, Sichuan opera melodies linger — historical sense and everyday vitality intertwine.
The streets and lanes now thriving with activity had once faced development difficulties. A few years ago, a large number of old buildings here were idle and unrepaired, illegal constructions were everywhere, and the old city’s appearance was chaotic.
Urban renewal brought new life to the streets and lanes. “We insist on not undertaking large-scale demolition and construction; on the premise of protecting historical relics, we optimize space according to local conditions, enrich business formats, and innovate scenarios,” introduced Zhang Nana (张娜娜), Director of the Chengdu Wenjiang District Urban Organic Renewal Center (成都温江区城市有机更新中心).
Targeting pain points such as the single business format and severe homogenization of traditional historic districts, Wenmiao Yin Lane insists on empowering industry with culture, introducing intangible cultural heritage experience spaces and artist workshops, achieving that flagship stores have style, old stores have depth, and small stores have everyday vitality.
During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the country will newly begin renovating 115,000 old urban residential communities, implement complete community construction and renovation in 5,000 communities, and carry out repair and upgrading of 300 historic cultural districts, fully striving to create high-quality urban living spaces.
— Building the “foundation” of development with the “green” of ecology, promoting green and low-carbon transformation of urban development.
One trail, a city’s green pulse. This year, a 40-kilometer forest trail in Baiyun District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, opened to the public. Once a marginal woodland overgrown with weeds, with unclear paths and old facilities, it has become a safe, smooth, well-equipped, and vibrant green corridor.
“With the greenway, we have a ‘natural oxygen bar’ right at our doorstep,” said Li Zheng (李正), a 65-year-old retired teacher who often takes his grandson for walks and exercise along the greenway. The forest trail not only effectively restores the urban ecosystem but also provides the public with high-quality, universally accessible ecological public goods.
During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the country will renovate and upgrade 20,000 hectares of urban parks and green spaces, add 15,000 pocket parks, build and renovate 20,000 kilometers of urban greenways, restore urban ecosystems, and promote the green and low-carbon transformation of urban development.
— Safeguarding urban “safety” with the “smooth flow” of pipeline networks, enhancing urban safety and resilience.
On Huakai Road (华凯路) in Jiulongpo District, Chongqing, the road surface is as usual, but several meters underground, a “minimally invasive surgery” on the city’s underground “blood vessels” is underway.
Workers are seen slowly feeding a hose wrapped with special resin material into an old pipeline through a manhole. Then, high-temperature steam is injected into the hose, causing it to expand, adhere tightly to the inner wall of the old pipe, and rapidly solidify and take shape, forming a high-strength “pipe liner.” The entire process requires no large-scale excavation of the road surface.
After decades of operation, problems such as corrosion, leakage, and misconnection in some sewage pipelines in Chongqing’s central urban area have gradually emerged. This deep underground renewal aims to fundamentally reduce the risk of waterlogging and overflow, allowing rainwater and sewage to 各行其道 (gè xíng qí dào – “each travels its own path,” separate flows).
The journey of a single drop of water, from cloud to rain, from reservoir to plant, cycles endlessly and 生生不息 (shēng shēng bù xī – “born born without cease,” continuous cycle). The urban underground pipeline network is precisely the important infrastructure supporting this “water cycle.”
Constructing and renovating 770,000 kilometers of urban underground pipelines, including approximately 200,000 km of gas pipelines, 175,000 km of drainage pipelines, 175,000 km of water supply pipelines, 100,000 km of sewage pipelines, and 120,000 km of heating pipelines... During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, China will strive to build safe and reliable resilient cities.
From the “micro-renovation” of old residential communities, to the “ecological stitching” of urban greenways, to the “minimally invasive surgery” on underground pipeline networks, urban renewal is reshaping our living spaces at a visible pace, making every city more livable, more vibrant, and more charming.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 10 (Xinhua) -- Comrade Wang Daming (王大明), former chairman and Party secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (北京市政协), died of illness in Beijing on June 3, 2026, at the age of 96.
After Comrade Wang Daming's passing, relevant leading comrades from the Central Committee expressed condolences in various ways and extended their sympathies to his family.
Wang Daming, also known as Ai Min (艾民), Li Min (李民), and Li Zhenwen (李正文), was born in December 1929 in Nanhai (南海), Guangdong. He joined the Communist Party of China and participated in revolutionary work in July 1946. From July 1946 to February 1949, he successively served as secretary of the underground Party branch (地下党支部书记) at Beiping Higher Institute of Industrial Technology, and as a member of the middle school and primary school committees of the CPC underground Party in Beiping. From February 1949, he successively served as secretary of the Southeast District Committee of the Beijing Youth Committee (北京市青委), deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League (团市委), and head of the Industrial Group of the Policy Research Office of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee (市委政策研究室), among other positions. From May 1966 to November 1972, he was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution and sent down to perform manual labor (下放劳动). From November 1972, he successively served as director of the General Office of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Chemical Industry (北京市化学工业局), deputy director and deputy Party secretary of the Bureau, director of the Beijing Municipal Economic Commission (市经济委员会), and head of the Industrial Work Department of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee (市委工业工作部), among other positions. From August 1984 to July 1985, he served as member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and head of its Propaganda Department. From July 1985 to March 1987, he served as deputy head of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee (中央宣传部). From March 1987 to January 1988, he served as deputy secretary of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee. From January 1988 to February 1993, he served as vice chairman of the Seventh Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (政协北京市第七届委员会). From February 1993 to January 1998, he served as chairman and Party secretary of the Eighth Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. In March 2004, he retired (离休).
Wang Daming was a standing committee member of the Ninth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (政协第九届全国委员会) and deputy director of its Committee for Social and Legal Affairs (社会和法制委员会).
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 10 – Comrade Li Yan (李彦), former Vice Minister of the Central Propaganda Department (中央宣传部), died of illness in Beijing on June 23, 2026, at the age of 97.
After Comrade Li Yan's passing, relevant leading comrades of the Central Committee expressed condolences in various ways and extended sympathy to his family.
Li Yan, also known as Li Zhongyue (李钟岳), was born in August 1928 in Beijing. He joined the Communist Party of China in October 1945 and began participating in revolutionary work. From 1947, he served as a member of the Central Land Reform Work Team. From 1949, he successively held positions such as researcher in the Research Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and head of the League History Group of the General Office of the Communist Youth League Central Committee. From 1959 to 1964, he served as secretary to Comrade Hu Yaobang in the Communist Youth League Central Committee. From 1964 to 1966, he served as a member of the Communist Youth League Central Committee and Deputy Director of the Propaganda Department of the Communist Youth League Central Committee. From 1966 to 1973, he labored at the Communist Youth League Central Committee's "May Seventh" Cadre School (五七干校). From 1973 to 1982, he successively served as head of the magazine China Youth (中国青年), head of the Propaganda Group of the Office of the Campaign of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, deputy director of the Political Department, and director of the Party Committee Propaganda Department. From 1982 to 1983, he served as a member of the Party Leadership Group of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院) and concurrently as Secretary of its Party Committee for Directly Affiliated Organs, and as a member of the Academy Affairs Committee. From 1983 to 1991, he successively served as Secretary-General and then Vice Minister of the Central Propaganda Department. From 1991 to 1996, he served as Vice Chairman and Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the All-China Journalists Association. He retired in March 2004.
Li Yan was a delegate to the 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
Return to TopBy: 李 斌
Having traversed 105 years of wind and rain, our Party has always stood bravely at the forefront of the times, walked in the front ranks of the times, issued the pioneering voice of the times, leading the giant ship named China to 乘风破浪 (chéng fēng pò làng - "ride the wind and break the waves," to forge ahead boldly) and sail steadily and far.
Time is the most faithful recorder, and also the most objective witness.
China has experienced the historical pain of the "lost two hundred years": Western countries advanced rapidly, but China missed again and again the opportunities of the Industrial Revolution, the opportunities of globalization, the waves of technological revolution and industrial transformation, merely "crawling like a snail."
"We must 后来居上 (hòu lái jū shàng - "later arrivals come to the top," to catch up from behind) and retrieve the 'lost two hundred years,'" the resolute oath turned into the unremitting struggle of an ancient civilization to catch up from behind, and the Chinese nation achieved a great leap from "catching up with the times" to "leading the times."
How did the great change occur? At the celebration of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping incisively summarized the six outstanding qualities of the Communist Party of China, and "following the trend of development, always walking in the forefront of the times" is an important aspect among them.
Our Party upholds a high degree of historical self-awareness and a broad world vision, clearly grasps China's national conditions and the theme of the times, and from the overall situation, long-term perspective, and general trend, steadies the direction and plans the overall layout.
More than a hundred years ago, when the land was in turmoil, what spring thunder could resound through the silent China? When "all roads were blocked," our Party took on the historical mission of achieving national independence and the liberation of the people.
We still remember the beginning of reform and opening up, when our Party deeply grasped the historical trend and the world's general situation, made the major strategic judgment that peace and development are the themes of the times, adhered to taking economic construction as the center, actively participated in economic globalization, and initiated a great revolution in the history of the development of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation.
Entering the new era, bearing in mind the two overall situations, grasping the times and the trends, the crises and the opportunities, our Party, with the spirit of historical initiative, overcomes difficulties, battles risks, meets challenges, concentrates its efforts on doing its own work well, continues to write new chapters of the two miracles of rapid economic development and long-term social stability, and strives to create a new situation in the construction of Chinese-style modernization.
Having traversed 105 years of wind and rain, our Party has always stood bravely at the forefront of the times, walked in the front ranks of the times, issued the pioneering voice of the times, leading the giant ship named China to ride the wind and break the waves, sailing steadily and far.
To adapt to changes in the situation, we must actively recognize changes, respond to changes, and seek changes, forge ahead with determination, and promote the Party's work in all fields to embody the character of the times, grasp the laws, and be full of creativity.
Since the new era, the pilot free trade zones have boldly experimented and boldly forged ahead, with over 480 institutional innovation achievements replicated and promoted at the national level; deepening the reform of the science and technology system, continuous breakthroughs in areas such as manned spaceflight and deep space exploration, the entire integrated circuit industry chain, and basic software and hardware for artificial intelligence... Our Party insists on accurately recognizing changes, scientifically responding to changes, and proactively seeking changes, advancing comprehensive deepening of reforms with a determined and pioneering attitude, and continuously opening up new horizons in the construction of Chinese-style modernization.
Leading the country and the nation to advance in the logic of historical progress and develop in the tide of the times, our Party has become the worthy vanguard of the times and the backbone of the nation.
与时俱进 (yǔ shí jù jìn - "advance with the times," to keep pace with the times) and leveraging the momentum, one can achieve 事半功倍 (shì bàn gōng bèi - "half the effort, double the result," to achieve greater effect with less effort) and gain the initiative.
From establishing the development strategy of "prospering commerce to build the city (兴商建市)," to using reform to "put a larger garment on a fast-growing child," Yiwu, Zhejiang, achieved a transformation from "exchanging chicken feathers for candy" to "world supermarket," relying on keeping close to the trend of the times, knowing change and seeking change, and seizing opportunities.
Digital machine tools operate efficiently, welding robots work flexibly, 3D printed products are precisely formed, and the century-old Shanxi Yangquan Valve Co., Ltd. was selected as a national-level specialized and new (专精特新) "little giant" enterprise, relying on firmly grasping the development trend of new quality productive forces and driving the enterprise's 脱胎换骨 (tuō tāi huàn gǔ - "cast off the old and create the new," a fundamental transformation) through technological innovation.
Following the trend of development and always walking in the forefront of the times is a distinctive character forged by our Party's century-long struggle, and also a valuable experience that must be persistently upheld on the new journey of the "examination." On the new journey, changes and opportunities coexist, and tackling difficulties and pioneering go hand in hand. Only by being good at seeing the general trend from the long cycle of history, and also good at discerning changes in things from the smallest details, can we cultivate new opportunities amid crises, open new prospects amid changes, and firmly grasp the initiative in development.
"History only favors the steadfast, the enterprising, and the fighters, and will not wait for the hesitant, the slack, and the fearful." In an era 前所未有 (qián suǒ wèi yǒu - "never before in the past," unprecedented) of change, undertaking a great cause 前无古人 (qián wú gǔ rén - "no predecessors," unprecedented), we must always maintain the sober self-awareness of following the trend and staying in the forefront. The wheels of history roll forward, the tide of the times is 浩浩荡荡 (hào hào dàng dàng - "vast and mighty," surging forward). We have the confidence, the ability, and the bottom line to create more miracles on the new Long March.
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While we must promote the下沉 of dispute-resolution resources and the innovation of working methods, it is even more necessary to calibrate the governance coordinates from the perspective of the masses, enhance coordination efficiency through the rule-of-law mechanism, and ensure that the focus of governance and the expectations of the people always resonate on the same frequency.
When resolving complex conflicts and disputes, how can we better achieve emotional de-escalation and then rebuild consensus? Bringing in more "insiders" from the relevant field to participate in mediation and seeking solutions acceptable to all parties within the legal framework is a "good prescription" that balances emotion, reason, and law. In recent years, the Supreme People's Court has successively established a "general-to-general" (总对总) diversified dispute resolution mechanism with 18 units including the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (全国工商联), the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (全国总工会), and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (住房城乡建设部). This mechanism breaks down departmental barriers, introduces targeted industry professional mediation forces, and builds an authoritative and efficient dispute resolution platform, effectively enhancing the efficiency and intensity of dispute resolution, ensuring that the people's troublesome and worrying matters are not only handled by someone but are handled properly.
Only when the "illness" is accurately diagnosed can the "prescription" be correctly written. In Jianshi County (建始县), Hubei, faced with a property dispute that had festered for eight years and involved more than 1,700 property owners, the local court did not simply "settle it with a judgment." Instead, it coordinated with the housing and construction department, the town government, and the neighborhood committee for joint mediation and resolution. By breaking down the large dispute into smaller problems and clarifying the focal points of conflict and the boundaries of responsibility, they not only resolved the immediate dispute but also coordinated both sides to further refine the content of the community's property management, preventing risks and hidden dangers at the source. Such professionalized mediation better safeguards the rights and interests of the parties, extends the tentacles of governance further upstream, and provides stronger protection for the public interest of society.
Currently, the public's awareness of the rule of law is continuously increasing, and more and more people tend to safeguard their rights and interests through litigation—a manifestation of progress in the rule of law. However, at the same time, disputes in areas such as property, online infringement, and intellectual property rights are common and frequent, while new types of disputes continue to increase, exhibiting characteristics such as strong specialization, complex legal relationships, great difficulty in handling, and even spillover effects, posing new challenges for social governance.
To properly resolve such conflicts and disputes and better meet the new expectations of the masses, we cannot rely solely on the judicial department fighting alone. Only by strengthening "point-to-point" (点对点) connections with administrative competent departments, industry associations, and social forces, and integrating law, policy, and practical experience, can we untie both the "legal knot" and the "emotional knot."
Good governance outcomes are the unity of process and result; effective dispute resolution is the same. Data such as the case closure rate within the trial period and the civil mediation and withdrawal rate are process indicators. The substantive resolution rate of conflicts, the effectiveness of rights and interests realization, and public satisfaction are the ultimate yardsticks.
In this sense, establishing and improving professionalized and diversified dispute resolution mechanisms and proactively integrating and assembling mediation resources are not only meant to reduce the cost of dispute resolution and improve its efficiency but, more importantly, to give full play to the rule of law's role in consolidating foundations, stabilizing expectations, and benefiting the long term, so as to achieve the comprehensive restoration of social relations and long-lasting harmony.
To resolve conflicts and disputes at the grassroots level and nip them in the bud, we must both promote the下沉 of dispute-resolution resources and the innovation of working methods, and even more so calibrate governance coordinates from the perspective of the masses, enhance coordination efficiency through the rule-of-law mechanism, and ensure that the focus of governance and the expectations of the people always resonate on the same frequency.
For example, targeting workers in new forms of employment, Changping District, Beijing has introduced the strength of arbitrators, mediators, labor relations coordinators, lawyers, and experts and scholars to jointly participate in the comprehensive mediation of disputes. For physically disabled individuals, the Togtoh County (托克托县) Court of Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, provides services such as dedicated staff accompaniment and agency, and prioritized and expedited case filing, demonstrating judicial warmth through a "green channel." As times change and society develops, accurately identifying the differentiated needs of various groups is the way to enhance governance effectiveness and deeply cultivate a foundation for serving the people.
Good governance must reach the sentiments of the people, and reaching their sentiments requires closeness to them. The Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan proposes effectively maintaining social safety and stability. From precisely mediating individual cases to governing common problems at their source, from passively resolving conflicts to actively preventing risks, in the final analysis, it must highlight the word "people." Finding more methods for the parties involved, integrating more resources, and further smoothing and standardizing channels for the masses to express their demands, coordinate interests, and safeguard their rights and interests will surely promote the resolution of more conflicts and disputes at the source, through diversified means, and in an orderly manner, allowing the people to truly feel that fairness and justice are right by their side.
Return to TopBy: 史 哲
Many people have had this experience: if no one has lived in an old house in one's hometown for a long time, the moment you push open the door again, you feel it has "aged" a lot, while an old house that has been lived in year-round, even if full of the marks of time, still carries a bit of vitality.
A house needs to be cared for by people; with human presence, the home is lively, and the house has life. Compared to the passage of time and the erosion of wind and rain, historic buildings and traditional residences are more afraid of the lack of maintenance after 人去楼空 (rén qù lóu kōng - "people gone, building empty," to be deserted). In a sense, for an old building to maintain its vitality, it must be "needed."
Is it not the same for a street, a city? 岁月不居 (suì yuè bù jū - "time does not dwell," time passes relentlessly), the cultural lineage is long. Toward old houses, old neighborhoods, old city areas, we must have a heart of cherishing, a heart of reverence. But cherishing and reverence do not mean freezing them in place; instead, more people should understand them, get close to them, let them "live" in the present. The Urban Renewal '15th Five-Year' Plan (城市更新“十五五”规划) issued some time ago proposed "upholding protection first, protecting all that should be protected, promoting protection through use" and "vitalizing and utilizing immovable cultural relics, historic buildings, industrial heritage, historic and cultural districts, historic areas, etc."
To let old buildings "live" in the present, we must break out of the rut of "emphasizing protection while neglecting utilization" and integrate them into daily life, making them a daily necessity.
Take Butterfly Bay (蝴蝶湾) in Shanghai's Jing'an District as an example. Three old buildings are arranged like fluttering butterflies, standing by the Suzhou River. Today, this place has become a community Party-mass service position. The "Butterfly Food Workshop" (蝴蝶食坊) community canteen provides affordable meals, the "Brother Courier Station" (小哥加油站) gives couriers and delivery drivers a place to rest, the "Rose Charity Station" (玫瑰益站) provides sanitary products for female riders... The renovated red-brick old foreign-style houses not only retain their historical appearance but also add age-friendly functions, becoming a popular "check-in spot" for young people. This shows that, under the premise of doing a good job in protection, reasonable vitalization and utilization can both preserve urban memory and inject vitality into old buildings.
History and culture are the soul of a city, and also the charm of a city. For buildings and neighborhoods rich in historical and cultural memory, the best protection is to let them live in the people's daily lives.
To let old buildings "live" in the present, we must also find a point of integration between humanity and economy.
After renovation, the Plum Blossom Tower (梅花楼) area in Yulin, Shaanxi, has integrated intangible cultural heritage displays, ice and snow sports, and other business types, hosting various themed activities, which both drive consumption upgrades in the area and showcase the ancient city's cultural charm; after protective repairs, the Jilin Provincial Concert Hall (吉林省音乐厅) held a music market in its outdoor atrium square, allowing citizens to enjoy high-quality public cultural services while experiencing the charm of a century-old historic building.
These explorations inspire us that only by reasonably introducing new business types and functions, empowering the economy with culture and activating culture with the economy, can cultural values be manifested in vitalized utilization and economic values be increased in the inheritance of the cultural lineage.
To let old buildings "live" in the present, we must also avoid "a thousand streets one face, a thousand buildings one look." Historic buildings and cultural districts are distinct markers of a city; vitalized utilization must be based on characteristics and 因地制宜 (yīn dì zhì yí - "according to local conditions, make suitable arrangements," to adapt to local conditions). "A thousand streets one face, a thousand buildings one look" can hardly achieve recognizability or competitiveness, let alone fully release the charm of old buildings.
How to avoid this? The key is to excavate the historical depth of the building itself, and organically integrate the building style, historical appearance, etc., with modern life, creating "memory points." In Nanluoguxiang, Dongcheng District, Beijing, the rooftop terraces of one-story houses continuously introduce new business types, becoming cultural meeting rooms; in Taikoo Li, Chengdu, Sichuan, ancient Buddhist temple ruins, Western Sichuan residential architecture, and modern business types blend together, with the rustic and the fashionable reflecting each other. By deeply excavating building characteristics and letting the new and the old 相辅相成 (xiāng fǔ xiāng chéng - "mutually assist and mutually complete," to complement each other), old buildings can better "live" in the present.
The vitalization and utilization of old buildings is a proposition about balance, requiring us to find balance between protection and utilization, between commercial logic and cultural value, between cultural inheritance and functional renewal. Answering this proposition is not easy. But we believe that as we continuously solve the problem, old buildings will gain robust human presence and new business types that keep pace with the times, becoming a wealth full of vitality.
Return to TopNot long ago, the Ministry of Civil Affairs released the Guidelines for the Construction and Management of a Three-Tier Urban and Rural Elderly Care Service Network (城乡三级养老服务网络建设管理指引), which specifies the setup methods and functional positioning of three tiers: the county-level comprehensive elderly care service management platform, the township (street) regional elderly care service centers, and the village (community) elderly care service facility stations. This helps provide guidance for localities to improve the three-tier elderly care service network, promotes the coordinated utilization of elderly care service resources and the matching of supply and demand, and better meets the multi-level and diversified elderly care service needs of older persons.
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The twilight scene of mulberry and elm outshines the beauty of spring.
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Recently, the "leaving blank space (留白)" style of ruin restoration at the Daming Palace National Heritage Park (大明宫国家遗址公园) in Xi'an, Shaanxi, has taken the internet by storm. On the premise of not filling in broken walls or damaging the site, the park cleverly uses giant transparent cards to restore the magnificent outline of Tang Dynasty palaces, drawing waves of praise from netizens.
The ancient rammed earth is a witness to historical truth, silently telling the rise and fall of dynasties; the park has set up perspective display cards printed with outlines of ancient buildings. When visitors view them from a specific angle, the lines of the ancient buildings on the cards can combine with the actual ruined walls, building an imaginary bridge to the glorious Tang Dynasty. In the interweaving of virtual and real, people can conceive in their minds what the glorious Tang looked like—carved beams and painted rafters, golden towers and jade steps—all free to imagine.
"Leaving blank space" is a common technique in Chinese ink wash painting, where the artist intentionally leaves some blank space, allowing the viewer to perceive a unique artistic conception. The "leaving blank space" style ruin restoration at the Daming Palace National Heritage Park is precisely a practice of transforming this aesthetic wisdom into cultural relic protection. Not only in the field of cultural relic protection, but the dialectical thinking and long-term vision embodied in "leaving blank space" are now being projected into all aspects of economic and social development.
For example, in the process of urbanization, traditional buildings are no longer simply demolished to make way for economic development, but instead coexist harmoniously with the city in a balance between development and protection. Appropriate "leaving blank space" preserves the city's distinctiveness, leaving behind the root and soul of culture.
Another example is "leaving blank space" in the ecological field, giving nature time to recuperate and leaving a beautiful ecological space of green mountains and clear waters for future generations. To protect and restore the ecological environment of the Yangtze River, in 2021, key waters in the Yangtze River basin fully initiated a ten-year fishing ban. Now, the beautiful scene of "a river of clear water flowing eastward" has reappeared, and the recovery of aquatic biological resources is generally improving. Facts have proven that ecological "leaving blank space" has not only not hindered development, but has also consolidated the foundation for high-quality development.
Yet another example is "leaving blank space" in development planning, demonstrating valuable strategic foresight. From the very beginning of its construction, Xiong'an New Area in Hebei reserved projects and plots for long-term planning, consciously "leaving blank space" for the future. This restraint of not seeking excessive scale and completeness has avoided the later cycle of "demolish and build, build and demolish," attracting batches of high-quality projects and emerging industries to settle.
Understanding "leaving blank space" and being good at "leaving blank space" tests governance capability. It is advisable to accurately identify one's own position in the overall situation, and use "leaving blank space" to create more possibilities and brilliance in undertaking work and starting businesses.
(Excerpted from Shaanxi Daily (陕西日报), originally titled "The Wisdom of Leaving Blank Space")
Return to TopBy: 夏晓伦
More confident, more open. More open, more prosperous.
The recently concluded fourth Chain Expo is proof of this. Enterprises and institutions from 85 countries, regions, and international organizations participated; the proportion of Fortune Global 500 and industry-leading enterprises exceeded 60 percent; 115 enterprises and institutions have already secured their participation slots for the next edition… This gathering that spans mountains and seas showcases the allure of an open China.
At the Chain Expo, the number of enterprises that collaborate by exhibiting “hand in hand” has increased with each edition. Taking this edition as an example, South Korea’s SK Hynix appeared on stage together with eight local Chinese partners; McDonald’s joined hands with supply-chain partners such as Beijing Capital Agribusiness Group (首农集团), McCain Foods (麦肯), and Shunxinhui (顺新晖) to participate; Apple Inc. showcased its products alongside three suppliers — Sunny Optical (舜宇光学), AAC Technologies (瑞声科技), and Korien (科瑞恩) — at the same venue.
On an open and inclusive platform, enterprises can, by relying on mature cooperation mechanisms, provide whole-industry-chain solutions; they can also 顺藤摸瓜 (shùn téng mō guā - “follow the vine to feel for the melon,” to track down something by following clues along the chain) to discover new demands and meet new partners. Such collaboration involves not only precise, targeted efforts in which each party leverages its strengths, but also the 美美与共 (měi měi yǔ gòng - “the beauty of each shared together”) of advancing hand in hand.
Acting as both a provider of value and a discoverer of opportunities — this is precisely where the allure of linking lies. From the practice of the Chain Expo, effective open cooperation is the optimal solution for coping with uncertainty, and even more so a multiplier that amplifies innovation opportunities.
At present, the global economic landscape is undergoing profound adjustment, and the uncertainty surrounding world economic recovery is rising. Yet a larger-scale, more open Chinese big market is “the world’s hardest-core gym.” This edition of the Chain Expo intensively unveiled over 160 innovative achievements that were first launched, first exhibited, or first presented; supply and production chains in fields such as digital-intelligent technology, advanced manufacturing, and clean energy were displayed in a panoramic view. From product R&D to scenario implementation and further to ecosystem building, China’s role as a source of innovation is increasingly evident.
Many exhibitors and buyers came with specific questions to seek answers here — for example, how to make new-energy vehicles “lose weight,” what application potential smart glasses have, and so on. It is precisely because they value China’s innovation advantages that a growing number of foreign enterprises have chosen to set up R&D centers in China and to upgrade their manufacturing bases in China into innovation centers.
Advancing together toward the future depends on the vision of gathering momentum into a chain, and even more on the steadfast action of personally irrigating and cultivating. Since its inception, the Chain Expo has pursued not temporary transactions, but long-term linkages.
Negotiation time far exceeds the five-day session; the Expo never closes — 365 days a year. The location is not limited to the exhibition hall; interested groups can travel to localities for in-depth inspections. What is communicated is not only projects and orders, but also policy suggestions and the future of the industry. The latest research achievements released at this edition of the Chain Expo — such as the 2026 edition of the Global Supply chain Promotion Report and the Global Supply Chain Resilience Index Matrix — are a manifestation of such a long-term perspective.
Long-term cooperation is measured by sincerity and breadth of mind. When the dimension of cooperation extends to deep-level areas such as technology sharing, green transformation, and talent exchange, the significance of the Chain Expo goes beyond linking present opportunities — it also brings greater clarity to the future rules of development and future prospects.
Openness gathers momentum; win-win cooperation reaches far. Today’s China opens its door ever wider, takes an ever more proactive posture, provides ever more certainty, and demonstrates ever stronger leadership. From the white mountains and black waters to the shores of the South China Sea, from the Central Plains hinterland to the western borderlands, the spring breeze of China’s continuously expanded high-level opening up will benefit every party committed to development.
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 邱超奕
Gu Songfen (顾诵芬), former Deputy Director of the Science and Technology Committee of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (中国航空工业集团有限公司), was a renowned Chinese aircraft aerodynamicist and the only academician of both the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering in China's aviation field. He delved deeply into the aviation field for over seventy years and made outstanding contributions to the development of China's aviation industry.
During his childhood, the seed of serving the country through aviation was planted in Gu Songfen's heart. In 1937, when the Japanese army bombed Beiping, the then 7-year-old Gu Songfen made up his mind: "In the future, I want to build airplanes."
After graduating from high school, Gu Songfen entered Shanghai Jiao Tong University and began systematically studying professional aviation knowledge.
In 1956, China's first aircraft design institution—the Shenyang Aircraft Design Office of the Aviation Industry Administration (航空工业管理局沈阳飞机设计室)—was established. As one of the first members, the 26-year-old Gu Songfen, along with his colleagues, embarked on the journey of China's independent aircraft design starting from a state of 一穷二白 (yī qióng èr bái - "one poor, two white," a state of being extremely impoverished and lacking basic resources).
The first aircraft model Gu Songfen participated in designing was China's first independently designed jet trainer, the JJ-1. Previously, relevant Chinese parties had all manufactured aircraft exactly according to Soviet blueprints under the guidance of Soviet experts, leaving the field of aircraft design almost a blank. With no technology, no system, no experience, and no data, Gu Songfen devoted himself to exploration, proposing aerodynamic parameter design criteria for subsonic aircraft and engineering calculation methods for aerodynamic characteristics, and excellently completed the aerodynamic layout design of the JJ-1 aircraft.
What required Gu Songfen to pour even more heart and soul into was the J-8 aircraft, which began development in 1964; this was China's first independently designed high-altitude, high-speed fighter. He first served as the deputy chief designer responsible for aerodynamic design, and thereafter fully presided over the development work of the aircraft.
During the early stages of the J-8 test flights, the development personnel encountered a thorny problem—when the aircraft speed approached transonic speeds, severe buffeting would occur at the tail. This not only affected flight speed but could even lead to the disintegration of the aircraft.
Ground tests had been conducted many times, yet the problem remained unresolved. Gu Songfen, who had never received flight training, made a bold decision: "If it cannot be seen clearly on the ground, then go up into the sky to see it."
Gu Songfen organized personnel to paste red wool lines onto the aircraft's tail to observe the state of the airflow as it passed over the fuselage at high altitudes. He himself sat in the co-pilot seat of a JJ-6, enduring the pressure of G-force and discomfort, to record the disturbance of the wool lines at close range at an altitude of ten thousand meters. After three follow-up flights, he finally discovered the crux of the problem and successfully overcame the buffeting problem.
The successful development of the J-8 aircraft realized China's leap from first-generation combat aircraft to second-generation combat aircraft. In 1985, the J-8 aircraft was awarded the Special Class Prize of the State Science and Technology Progress Award.
In 1980, the J-8II aircraft project was initiated for development, and its combat performance requirements were far higher than those of the J-8 aircraft; Gu Songfen again served as the chief designer of this model. He formulated the aerodynamic layout scheme for side air intakes and solved a series of difficult problems such as the design of binary supersonic adjustable air intakes.
On June 12, 1984, a slender-bodied fighter soared into the sky from a certain airport in Shenyang, and the crowd on the scene erupted in jubilation. China's independently developed side-intake, single-seat twin-engine fighter with medium-range interception combat capability—the J-8II—successfully completed its maiden flight.
The J-8II holds great significance for improving the equipment of our military and strengthening national defense capabilities. In 2000, the J-8II aircraft was awarded the First Class Prize of the State Science and Technology Progress Award.
Reviewing the development process of the J-8 series aircraft, a total of 16 models and technology demonstrators were derived, with more than 350 aircraft equipped in the troops, becoming the main combat equipment of our military in the 20th century. The development of the J-8 series aircraft not only drove the construction of a relatively complete aviation industry system but also promoted the development of industries such as metallurgy, chemical engineering, and electronics.
In 1986, Gu Songfen left the Shenyang Aircraft Design Institute, where he had worked for 30 years, and transferred to the work of the Aviation Industry Science and Technology Committee. He served as a technical consultant or head of expert groups for multiple models; from guiding and promoting the development of the J-15 carrier-based aircraft and the JJ-9 carrier-based trainer to participating in the establishment of the domestic large aircraft special project, and then to the technical pre-research of stealth combat aircraft, he was always at the forefront of China's aviation cause, cultivating a large number of leading talents in aviation science and technology for our country.
National Outstanding Scientific and Technological Worker, May 1st Labor Medal, National Model Worker, Outstanding Communist Party Member of Central Enterprises... Despite receiving many honors, Gu Songfen always maintained humility: "Reflecting on the past, I can only say that I did not waste my time and did some things for the country."
On May 31, 2026, Gu Songfen passed away in Beijing at the age of 96. His scientific spirit and patriotism will forever inspire aviation professionals to 砥砺前行 (dǐ lì qián xíng - "grind and sharpen, move forward," to forge ahead through hardships) and to work with one heart and one mind to strive for the construction of an aviation powerhouse.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 尹 婕 申少铁 江 萌
"The salt lake is like green juice; photos can't capture its beauty." At the Qinghai Chaerhan Salt Lake (察尔汗盐湖) scenic area, Ms. Zhang, a visitor from Qingdao, Shandong, held up her phone by the salt field, taking several photos in a row, yet still felt she hadn't captured the salt lake's beauty.
Before her eyes was emerald green brine, behind her were white salt blooms, and in the distance the pipes of the brine extraction pump station were faintly visible. This expanse of water is both a key link in the potash fertilizer production chain and a "land palette" in tourists' lenses — industrial production and tourism coexist here in harmony.
Beneath the emerald green surface, the brine is undergoing a journey lasting tens of days and flowing over a hundred kilometers: first it is spread and evaporated in salt fields to separate sodium salt, then floated to extract potassium, and the remaining tail liquid enters the workshop to produce lithium carbonate... One "drop of brine" is reused and extracted in a cascade until resources such as potassium and lithium are "eaten dry and squeezed out." The Chaerhan Salt Lake, located deep in the Qaidam Basin of Qinghai Province and covering an area of 5,856 square kilometers, is China's largest salt lake.
Potassium was the first treasure discovered in this salt lake. In the 1950s, workers building the Dunhuang-Golmud Highway found the water here somewhat bitter. After testing, they discovered it contained potassium chloride. In 1958, technicians successfully produced 10 kilograms of potash fertilizer from brine on a trial basis, leading to the establishment of the Chaerhan Potash Fertilizer Plant — today's Qinghai Salt Lake Industry Co., Ltd. (青海盐湖工业股份有限公司, hereinafter referred to as "Salt Lake Co.") — which that year produced 950 tons of potash fertilizer, filling a gap in China's potash fertilizer production.
"Potassium is one of the three essential nutrient elements for crop growth," explained Liu Qingqing (刘青青), deputy director of the Resource Development Center of Salt Lake Co. Increasing domestic potash fertilizer output is of great significance for safeguarding national food security.
For more than 60 years, successive generations of salt lake people have made unremitting efforts, successively breaking through key technologies such as large-area deep-water salt field solar evaporation, carnallite water-harvesting vessels (dual-cutter floating crawler harvesters), and conversion of low-grade potassium ore from solid to liquid. The company's independently developed "reverse flotation-cold crystallization" process has substantially increased China's potash fertilizer self-sufficiency rate. Liu Qingqing noted: "Today, our annual potash fertilizer production capacity is 5 million tons, accounting for about 60% of the national total."
If potash fertilizer is the traditional pillar industry of Chaerhan Salt Lake, then lithium extracted from brine is sustaining a new growth pole. To address the high magnesium-to-lithium ratio characteristic of Chaerhan Salt Lake, Salt Lake Co. has developed a coupled "adsorption + membrane separation" lithium extraction technology, selectively extracting lithium ions using independently developed adsorbents, then combining membrane separation technology for further purification, eventually producing battery-grade lithium carbonate, providing support for China's new energy vehicle industry and energy storage industry. Liu Qingqing said the company already has an annual production capacity of 80,000 tons of lithium carbonate.
"Through multi-level utilization of the various resources in salt lake brine, we maximize resource utilization efficiency and minimize environmental impact," Liu Qingqing said.
In 2021, after Qinghai's "Four Places" industrial construction (产业'四地'建设) — world-class salt lake industry base, national clean energy industry highland, international eco-tourism destination, and green organic agricultural and livestock product output base — was proposed, Salt Lake Co. began promoting industrial tourism development. In 2023, the Chaerhan Salt Lake scenic area received more than 500,000 tourists; in 2024, that rose to 1 million; and in 2025, it exceeded 1.43 million. "This year's tourist reception is expected to reach 1.8 million," introduced scenic area deputy general manager Wu Guangya (吴光亚). He said the current open area of the scenic spot is nearly 10 square kilometers. In the next step, based on further improving hardware facilities, more new business forms will be developed and more new scenarios created. "We hope that when tourists come here, they not only enjoy the beautiful scenery but also gain more knowledge and culture related to the salt lake," Wu Guangya said.
As more and more tourists capture the emerald green surface of Chaerhan Salt Lake with their lenses, this salt lake, having bid farewell to its single identity as a traditional mining area, is being seen by more people in another way.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 徐元锋 焦思雨
A “hot potato” in Shanshuigou Village (山水沟村) has been firmly caught.
Shanshuigou Village is located in Guojiagou Township (郭家桥乡), Litong District (利通区), Wuzhong City, Ningxia. In 2024, Litong District was selected as one of the first batch of national modern facility agriculture innovation pilot zones, and coinciding with the state’s 2025 ultra-long-term special government bonds supporting the renovation and upgrading of facility agriculture policy window, the district seized the opportunity to roll out a “government sets the stage, policy guides, market operates” model, planning and renovating 600 daylight greenhouses in a unified manner across Guojiagou Township, Jinji Town, and Dongta Temple Township, with 300 old and dilapidated greenhouses in Shanshuigou Village included.
Funding was secured, the project was finalized — this should have been good news. When the news reached the township, however, cadres were stumped — would this project be pushed forward smoothly in Shanshuigou Village? Would it “stir up a hornet’s nest”?
Shanshuigou Village was only placed under Litong District’s jurisdiction in 2005. It is remote, has many leftover historical problems, and petitions and complaints have been constant. Members of the village Party branch leadership were once dealt with for violating discipline and the law, and the Party organization was once weak and lax. “It has only gotten better with difficulty in recent years, but with such a big project, I really had no confidence,” village Party secretary Guo Jincai (郭金财) frankly admitted.
But the 18-year-old greenhouses simply could not hold on any longer. Most of these greenhouses were built around 2008. At the time they were regarded by the villagers as “treasure bowls” — they grew tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers, helping many farm households escape poverty. Eighteen years later, the greenhouse poles are rusted, the walls are weathered, the insulation has failed, and pests and diseases get worse every year — nothing planted will grow.
“Let alone making money, the land cannot even produce anything anymore,” said villager Yang Hongyun (杨宏云), who had farmed in greenhouses for over a decade. Most of the village’s greenhouses had been abandoned, and the rest were dilapidated, with some steel frames even half-collapsed.
Renovation was the only way out, but how to renovate was not simple. In 2022, Guojiagou Township secured 1 million yuan in industrial integration funds, planning a subsidy of 10,000 yuan per greenhouse, with farmers paying over 30,000 yuan out of pocket. But when the villagers ran the numbers, the net annual income from one greenhouse was only about 10,000 yuan, so investing over 30,000 yuan meant working for nothing for two or three years. “Nobody was willing to do it, and the plan fell through,” said Li Ling (李玲), Party secretary of Guojiagou Township.
It failed last time — could it work this time?
Song Xi (宋喜), Party secretary of Litong District, said to the comrades of the township Party committee: “We cannot have funding secured and a project decided but fail to advance it. We must truly implement the principle that ‘serving the people and bringing them benefit is the greatest political achievement (为民造福是最大政绩).’”
The old greenhouse renovation became the number one “hard bone” for Guojiagou Township. The cadres sat down to review and 条分缕析 (tiáo fēn lǚ xī — “analyze thread by thread,” to analyze in detail): in the past, good intentions did not produce good results — the root cause was “making decisions behind closed doors without letting the masses participate”; this time the masses must be made the protagonists and have the final say.
Once thinking was unblocked, methods became flexible. Township and village cadres moved the meeting site to the fields and farms, listened to opinions household by household, and revised the plan round after round.
The biggest dispute was over the compensation standard. Initially it was a “one-size-fits-all” approach: a uniform lump-sum subsidy per greenhouse. But everyone objected — some greenhouses had long been abandoned, leaving only earthen walls; others still had their steel frames but had stopped planting; still others were still under normal cultivation. “The same compensation is unfair!” The township adopted the opinions and set three compensation categories: those with only earthen walls and completely lost planting capacity received 2,000 yuan; those with steel frames still present but planting stopped received 3,000 yuan; those still under normal cultivation with quilts and plastic film received 10,000 yuan. The precise compensation removed the biggest “roadblock tiger.”
Some worried about backroom deals — “those with connections get more compensation.” The township photographed and archived every greenhouse, graded and categorized them, and signed agreements, each in five copies, with the compensation amounts written 白纸黑字 (bái zhǐ hēi zì — “white paper, black characters,” in black and white). The reporter flipped through the ledger: villager Ma Chunsheng’s (马春生) greenhouse was classified as Category Three, with a compensation of 10,000 yuan; the agreement bore the signatures of the village Party secretary, the surveyor, and the township work team reviewer.
A few households simply refused to sign, and would not say why. Guo Jincai could not find them during the day, so he went at night, visiting seven or eight times — the villagers would dodge him when they saw him. He still swallowed his pride and went to their doors, and also asked acquaintances to help persuade them; the parties eventually signed. “I might have ‘offended’ some people in the past, and I took this opportunity to resolve those issues,” Guo Jincai said.
How to build the greenhouses was also left to the masses to decide. The design institute’s drawings were beautiful, but the growers were not convinced: “The usable area of the old greenhouses was only 0.82 mu — too small”; “The insect netting has to be replaced every year”; “The quilts are too thin — they don’t keep warm in winter”… The staff recorded every point one by one, lengthening the greenhouses from 70 meters to 80 meters, switching to thicker insect netting, and adjusting the quilts according to actual needs. During construction, some villagers discovered that galvanized pipes might rust over long-term use, so an additional anti-corrosion treatment was added.
Villagers also acted as “supervisors,” selecting 5 to 10 grower representatives to oversee the entire process.
Once the new greenhouses were built, they had to be well used. How to deliver benefits to the masses? Guojiagou Township established a model of “unified management by the village collective, standardized leasing by growers”: 270 greenhouses were prioritized for the village’s own growers, with consideration for low-income and vulnerable groups; the remaining 30 greenhouses were leased to the leading enterprise “Nature Star (自然之星)” to serve as an organic vegetable demonstration, solving order and marketing channels. The industry was also upgraded simultaneously — in the past only tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers were grown; now the village is trial-planting morel mushrooms, grapes, figs, and more in a specialty industrial park, driving income growth for 25 surrounding farm households.
“This greenhouse renovation taught us a lesson — scientific decision-making is not drawing blueprints behind closed doors; the deeper the masses participate, the smoother the work goes, and only then can good things truly be done well,” Li Ling said.
Under the bright sun, villager Zhao Yun (赵云) patted the steel frame of the new greenhouse and smiled: “Old greenhouses take on a new look — the ‘treasure bowl’ is back!”
Return to TopIn recent years, the Jinan High-tech Industrial Development Zone in Shandong has continuously optimized its business environment, accelerated the construction of a modern industrial system, and on the basis of strengthening the three leading industries of new-generation information technology, intelligent equipment, and biomedicine, has laid out industries such as artificial intelligence, low-altitude economy, and synthetic biology, continuously empowering high-quality regional economic development. The picture shows a staff member of a company debugging laser cutting equipment. Photo by Shi Jiamin (史家民) (Image China).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李茂颖 人民网记者 符 皓
In summer, Shanshiping Village (山石屏村) is surrounded by green trees, vibrant with life.
After waking up, Li Guike habitually goes to the rooms of some elderly villagers to check on them. If the elderly have needs, he helps them cut nails, trim hair, and so on, helps them to the courtyard to bask in the sun, chats with them… After finishing care for the elderly, he sits at his desk, turns on the computer, and begins organizing materials for the leprosy history museum.
Li Guike, now 68 years old, has long had gray temples. Even though he has retired from his post as a doctor at the Shanshiping Sanatorium (山石屏疗养院) in Eryuan County (洱源县), Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, Li Guike still stays in Shanshiping Village. By common sense, at home, he has also reached the age where he should be cared for by his children, but in Shanshiping Village, he remains the support of the elderly in the village.
“The elderly in the village cannot do without me, and I cannot do without them,” Li Guike said, his words full of deep emotion.
“Shanshiping Village always makes me worry.” In Li Guike’s narration, his story with Shanshiping Village over more than 40 years gradually becomes clear…
Shanshiping Village is located on the bank of the Heihui River (黑潓江) within Eryuan County. In 1953, the Shanshiping Sanatorium was built here, and it admitted 462 leprosy patients from Dali and various places in northwest Yunnan. Because leprosy is contagious, people outside dared not come in, and people inside dared not go out.
In 1981, Li Guike, who had just started working, and his colleagues, wearing protective suits, walked into the Shanshiping Sanatorium. At that time, the sanatorium housed 181 leprosy patients.
To prevent infection, Li Guike and his colleagues could only live in a village 5 kilometers away from the Shanshiping Sanatorium, walking back and forth every day to treat the patients. He recalls that every time he and his colleagues finished treatment and returned to their lodgings, the sanatorium’s patients would see them off to the riverbank, until they crossed the river by boat. After walking far away, looking back, they could still see a group of people standing by the river. The leprosy patients’ longing for recovery deeply moved Li Guike: “They badly need doctors, they badly need us to treat them.”
Examinations, writing medical records, diagnosis and treatment… The treatment work proceeded methodically. As he gained deeper understanding of leprosy knowledge and had closer contact with leprosy patients, Li Guike gradually eliminated his fear of leprosy.
Not long after he was stationed at the Shanshiping Sanatorium, a county unit wanted to transfer Li Guike away. “I am a Communist Party member; the more difficult the place, the less I can retreat.” Li Guike chose to stay.
With the updating of prevention and treatment drugs and methods, by 1990, all leprosy patients at the Shanshiping Sanatorium were cured.
At this point, Li Guike had a second chance to leave. In view of the prevention and treatment results achieved at the Shanshiping Sanatorium, the health and epidemic prevention department of Dali Prefecture wanted to transfer him to work in the prefecture. But the new situation facing the Shanshiping Sanatorium made him choose to stay again.
Although the leprosy patients’ bodies were cured, they still had psychological shadows. “They worry that they are not fully recovered and dare not go out, and people outside also have concerns and dare not come in,” Li Guike said.
Li Guike became busy again. With the help of the local Party committee, government, and all sectors of society, he led the recovered patients of the Shanshiping Sanatorium to build roads, bridges, houses, and develop production, step by step improving the living environment of Shanshiping Village, and strengthening the recovered patients’ confidence in life through labor and production. He also set up a primary school at the Shanshiping Sanatorium, serving as principal, to facilitate schooling for the children of leprosy recovered patients.
At the same time, Li Guike invited outside college student volunteers and rural cultural troupes to come into the village to carry out activities, and took villagers out to visit and inspect planting and breeding projects… The barriers between the sanatorium and the outside world gradually disappeared.
As time passed, Li Guike’s hair grew thinner and whiter, and the Shanshiping Sanatorium also became Shanshiping Village. The villagers’ lives improved and became prosperous, and the village attracts many tourists every year to visit, learn, and play.
Persevering in Shanshiping for decades, Li Guike has received honors such as “China’s Good Doctor,” “National Advanced Individual in Disease Prevention and Control,” “China’s Good Person,” and “National Outstanding Communist Party Member.”
After retiring in 2017, Li Guike chose to stay again. He wanted to build a leprosy history museum in Shanshiping Village to popularize leprosy knowledge and assist leprosy prevention and treatment efforts.
By the courtyard wall of the leprosy history museum, two stacks of old wooden boxes of varying sizes are placed, piled layer upon layer, very conspicuous.
Every time someone comes to visit Shanshiping Village, Li Guike takes them to the boxes and introduces their origin. “For every leprosy patient who came to the Shanshiping Sanatorium, our carpenter would make a box for the patient to use,” Li Guike said, caressing the weathered boxes one by one. “I want to write out the story of each box’s owner, make it into a QR code and stick it on the box, so that more people know the stories of the box owners.”
On the ground floor of the Shanshiping Sanatorium building, several red characters attract people’s attention: “Treat the sanatorium as home, live in harmony, respect life, love life, be kind to others, and care for each other.”
“This is the spiritual inheritance of Shanshiping Village,” Li Guike said. Not far away, a stone tablet stands, with two striking red characters carved on each side of the tablet — on one side is “Dedication,” on the other side is “Perseverance.”
(Xue Dan (薛丹) contributed to the reporting and writing.)
Return to TopBeijing, July 13 (Reporter Zhu Jun (朱隽)) — Seven departments, including the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部), the Supreme People’s Court (最高人民法院), the Supreme People’s Procuratorate (最高人民检察院), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部), the Ministry of Public Security (公安部), the State Administration for Market Regulation (国家市场监督管理总局), and the All China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives (中华全国供销合作总社), recently convened a meeting in Beijing to deploy and launch a comprehensive rectification action to further regulate the production, operation, and use of pesticides and veterinary drugs.
It is understood that the comprehensive rectification action will be launched in July 2026 and conclude at the end of March 2027. It will focus on banned and restricted pesticides and veterinary drugs, adhere to a nationwide “one-chessboard” (yī pán qí - “one game of chess,” coordinated nationwide approach) approach, with departments coordinating and linking efforts in law enforcement and case handling. It will strengthen striking at sources, eliminating dens, investigating major cases, and “strike hard” (xià hěn shǒu - “use a heavy hand,” take resolute action) to rectify prominent problems, resolutely cutting off illegal chains. The comprehensive rectification action will, in accordance with the law, carry out full-link and full-chain rectification of the production, operation, online sales, and use of banned and restricted pesticides and veterinary drugs, and severely crack down on illegal production, operation, and use of banned and restricted pesticides and veterinary drugs.
Return to TopBeijing, July 13 (People's Daily) — (Reporter Liu Shiyao (刘诗瑶)) According to the China Manned Space Engineering Office (中国载人航天工程办公室), on July 13, 2026, the Long March 5 Y14 carrier rocket, which will execute the Chang'e-7 mission, was safely transported to the Wenchang Space Launch Site. Subsequently, the rocket will undergo assembly and testing at the launch site together with the Chang'e-7 probe that arrived earlier. At present, the various participating test systems at the launch site are carrying out preparations for the Chang'e-7 mission as planned.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 罗珊珊
The report "Multinational Corporations in China: Innovation and Collaboration Build an Ecosystem, Industrial Integration Looks to the Future" recently released by the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation (商务部国际贸易经济合作研究院) under the Ministry of Commerce shows that the world economic recovery is slow, and international direct investment is under pressure to move forward amidst uncertainty. Stable, safe investment destinations with long-term value have become the common choice and general expectation of the global business community. China, with its super-large-scale domestic demand market, complete industrial supporting system, continuously optimized business environment, and steadily enhanced innovation capacity, provides enterprises from all countries with predictable, reliable, and value-adding development space. As of 2025, China's actual utilized foreign capital has remained above 100 billion US dollars for 16 consecutive years.
Practice has proven that China has always been a hot land for foreign investment and business, and a strategic anchor point for global enterprises to lay out their future. What new trends and new directions does "Invest in China" have? Journalists conducted interviews.
From "R&D in China" to "Co-creation with China"
The reporter recently learned from Samsung: Samsung Biologics (China) Co., Ltd. (三星生物科技（中国）有限公司) has been established in Beijing. This is the first overseas biopharmaceutical R&D center established by Samsung Epis Holding Co., Ltd. (三星艾匹斯控股有限公司), the biopharmaceutical sector company under Samsung.
The implementation of this project reflects Samsung's strategic transformation in deepening its presence in China, based on China's innovation and development opportunities and increasing investment layout in emerging industries. In recent years, Samsung has continuously increased its high-end manufacturing and R&D layout in China. As of the end of 2025, Samsung's cumulative investment in China exceeded 55 billion US dollars, among which investment in cutting-edge industries accounts for nearly 90%.
The biopharmaceutical R&D center established this time is located in one of the hot spots for global ADC (antibody-drug conjugate) R&D — Beijing Zhongguancun Life Science Park (北京中关村生命科学园), leveraging the region's complete scientific research support, industrial resources, and innovation ecosystem, and is committed to building a world-class innovative drug R&D platform with international competitiveness.
Jin Jing'er (金敬兒), President and CEO of Samsung Epis, said: "We will fully rely on China's advanced technology infrastructure as a global ADC innovation highland, gather top global scientific research forces, and continuously enhance the R&D capabilities of next-generation biotherapies."
From "produce in China" to "R&D in China", and then to "co-create with China", China, with its complete industrial system and vast market space, provides multinational enterprises with an efficient transformation path from "R&D concept" to "commercial product". Multinational companies deeply integrate China's local talents, technologies, industrial chain and other innovation resources on a global scale, driving global technology iteration and product innovation, and gaining new momentum in international competition.
Ministry of Commerce spokesperson He Yadong (何亚东) said that many multinational companies' "manufacturing bases" in China are upgrading to "innovation sources", and foreign-invested R&D centers in China are upgrading from localized adaptation to global innovation fulcrums. In 2025, the actual utilized foreign capital in China's scientific research and technical services sector accounted for nearly one-fifth of China's total actual utilized foreign capital, a proportion that has been steadily rising for seven consecutive years, and is 3.8 times that of 2018. In 2025, 14,000 new foreign-invested enterprises were established in this sector, a year-on-year increase of 27.2%.
Upgrading from "Market + Manufacturing" to comprehensive deep integration
The light electric drive system production base of Bosch Commercial Vehicle Group in Nanchang, Jiangxi, and the new steering system plant in Jinan, Shandong, are progressing construction as planned; Bosch Comfort Technology is setting up a global R&D center in Wuxi, Jiangsu, and building a high-end compressor manufacturing base in Guangzhou, Guangdong, promoting the intelligent and green upgrading of the HVAC industry...
"Currently, the global automotive industry chain is accelerating its restructuring. Open collaboration and linked innovation are key to enhancing supply chain resilience and promoting high-quality industrial development." said Xu Daquan (徐大全), President of Bosch (China) Investment Co., Ltd. Bosch has always deeply cultivated local innovation, adhered to the concept of basing itself in China and serving the world, and empowered the global market with local R&D achievements. At the same time, relying on its complete global network and compliance experience, it assists Chinese automakers in steadily going overseas, continuously promoting the common development of the Chinese and foreign automotive industries.
Against the backdrop of profound adjustments in the global economic landscape and accelerated restructuring of industrial and supply chains, cooperation between multinational companies and China is upgrading from "market + manufacturing" to comprehensive deep integration. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the operating revenue of foreign-invested enterprises reached 262.7 trillion yuan, and profits reached 21.4 trillion yuan, with both indicators growing at an average annual rate of around 5%.
Multinational companies are not only importers of capital and technology, but also participants and co-builders deeply embedded in China's economic and industrial system. From industrial support to regional coordination, from market dividends to capital returns, from local deep cultivation to overseas expansion, multinational companies and China collaborate closely, accelerating the formation of a new cooperation pattern of symbiotic development, multi-dimensional win-win, and jointly going overseas.
For any multinational enterprise that insists on innovation and pursues global leadership, if it wants to verify technical concepts, polish product solutions, and hone core competitiveness, thereby securing an advantageous position in global competition, it must deeply cultivate the Chinese market. Relying on the rigorous training of the Chinese market, a complete industrial ecosystem, and rich application scenarios, enterprises can continuously improve their comprehensive strength, and then carry out healthy and reasonable market-based competition globally — this is also the inevitable choice for foreign-invested enterprises to base themselves globally and sustain development.
McKinsey China Chairman Ni Yili (倪以理) described the Chinese market as "the world's most hardcore gym", believing that it has honed highly competitive enterprises.
Continuously expand opening up, build the "Invest in China" brand
In June, three events conveyed China's voice of continuously expanding opening up:
At the 7th Qingdao Summit of Multinational Corporation Leaders (第七届跨国公司领导人青岛峰会), 57 key projects were signed; just after the 4th China International Supply Chain Expo (第四届链博会) concluded, 115 Chinese and foreign enterprises and institutions have already secured advance "tickets" for the 5th Chain Expo; at the Summer Davos Forum, over 1,700 guests from more than 90 countries and regions came to attend this "Eastern Appointment"...
On June 22, the "Action Plan for Stabilizing and Optimizing the Use of Foreign Capital" (《利用外资固稳促优行动方案》) jointly issued by the Ministry of Commerce, the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委), and the Ministry of Finance (财政部) was released to the public, focusing on common issues of concern to foreign-invested enterprises, introducing 15 new measures to stabilize foreign capital.
"We have noted the action plan. It proposes specific measures in areas such as expanding market access, improving investment convenience, supporting R&D in China, and strengthening service guarantees. China's continuous expansion of opening up will enhance enterprises' confidence in long-term investment." said Tao Lin (陶琳), Global Vice President of Tesla. China has always been one of Tesla's most important markets. Tesla's layout in China has long been not just sales, but covers manufacturing, R&D, supply chain, charging network, service system, and energy business. The Shanghai Gigafactory is an important base in Tesla's global manufacturing and export system, and the Shanghai Megafactory for energy storage also extends Tesla's layout in China from complete vehicles further to energy products.
A stable, transparent, and predictable institutional environment is the core confidence and key guarantee for multinational companies to take root in China and develop long-term. In recent years, China has deepened the reform of the foreign investment management system, orderly expanded market access, strengthened fair competition, used institutional innovation to escort enterprise development, used policy certainty to respond to external uncertainty, and focused on building the "Invest in China" brand, constructing a more solid policy foundation for multinational companies to invest and operate in China.
"China has a complete industrial system, a super-large-scale market, and a continuously optimized business environment. It is a stabilizer and innovation source of the global industrial chain." said Yin Zheng (尹正), Executive Vice President of Schneider Electric, President of China and East Asia Region. Schneider Electric has established a strong production system and supply chain system in China, with 30 factories and logistics centers, 1,600 supplier partners, and has built a resilient and efficient end-to-end green supply chain system. The local procurement rate of the supply chain in China has reached over 90%.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 窦 皓
At 8 a.m., Zeng Tao (曾涛), who lives in Xiangfu Street (祥符街道), Gongshu District (拱墅区), Hangzhou, Zhejiang, was preparing to drive to work, and on the way he took his child Xiaoman (小满) to the community nursery.
"The cost of a nanny is too high, and we're not at ease leaving him with his grandparents. We're both working parents, and we used to quarrel over this all the time." After his wife's maternity leave ended and she returned to the workplace, Zeng Tao had been at a loss more than once: the child was still young, and they encountered the problem of caring for a very young infant — what to do?
"I didn't expect the answer was right at our doorstep." Zeng Tao pointed to a place not far away: to meet the needs of the community residents, the street had used idle space, which after renovation became a nursery. In addition to the regular nursery class, it also set up a low-age nursery class (低龄托班) for infants aged 6–12 months.
Cribs, diaper changing tables, a breast milk refrigerator, a bottle warmer... Stepping into the low-age nursery class, there were no tables and chairs; instead, there were soft crawling mats and soft bumpers on the wall corners. Also posted on the walls were guiding standards such as "Standard Feeding Operation Flowchart" and "Milk Powder Preparation Flowchart".
"Taking into account the characteristics of very young infants, we enroll them in a gradual care approach. After the preceding baby gradually adapts to the nursery environment and establishes a sense of trust in the caregiver, we then arrange for the next baby to be enrolled, balancing the professionalism of care with the infant's sense of security, so as to better fit the needs of very young infants," said Sun Yue (孙悦), the caregiver of the low-age nursery class.
During breaks at work, Zeng Tao would open his phone to check what Xiaoman was doing. Sleep, feeding, exercise... By opening the "One-Click Childcare" (养育照护一键通) function of the Zhejiang Office (浙里办) app, he could check Xiaoman's status at the nursery.
Behind this is a professional system. The nursery signs a contract with community pediatric health doctors (儿保医生). The pediatric health doctors provide training and guidance to the caregivers. The pediatric health doctors visit the nursery at least once every two months to conduct personalized screening and care guidance for the nursery class and for children with weak health. "The doctors give professional feedback, and we also comprehensively adjust the children's activity plans," Sun Yue said.
In Gongshu District, caregivers for the low-age nursery class must not only obtain a caregiver work certificate, but also participate in specialized training on the integration of medicine and childcare (医育结合), go to the children's health clinic for on-the-job learning, pass an assessment, and obtain the "Work Certificate for Very Young Infant Care Practitioners" (小月龄段保育从业人员上岗证).
At 4:30 p.m., it was time to leave the nursery. That day, because the couple needed to work overtime temporarily, they could only pick up the child later. "Based on parents' needs, we have launched extended services for early drop-off and late pick-up. For example, we start receiving children around 7:30 a.m., and the latest pick-up can be delayed to 7:30 p.m.," said Zhai Juan (翟娟), the principal of Huamei Yimiguo Nursery (华媒一米国托育园).
"The teachers are professional and the fees are reasonable," Zeng Tao said. Compared to hiring a nanny which often costs seven or eight thousand yuan a month, Xiaoman's nursery class costs only 3,900 yuan per month, which is both money-saving and affordable.
"Our nursery was renovated from part of the street's office space, and the government waives the rent and water and electricity fees," Zhai Juan explained. As a publicly built, privately operated inclusive nursery (公建民营型普惠托育园), the street provides the venue, and a professional third-party nursery institution operates it, achieving affordable prices and high-quality services. Moreover, the local government also provides a one-time subsidy and daily operating subsidies for nursery institutions that open low-age nursery classes.
By the end of 2025, Hangzhou will have 4.84 nursery places per thousand population for children under 3 years old. In April of this year, Hangzhou took the lead in promoting low-age nursery class trials in five districts including Shangcheng and Gongshu, opening public inclusive small nursery classes (托小班) for children aged 1–2 years old, with a monthly minimum price of 1,050 yuan, a teacher-child ratio of no less than 1:4, and professional care integrating medicine and childcare, in response to the public's "urgent, difficult, worrisome, and desired issues" (急难愁盼) of "difficulty in enrolling children in nursery, high cost of childcare, and weak care services."
Return to TopBy: 高丙成
Before the age of 3, who will care for the child? Inclusive childcare is becoming a quality option.
Constructing comprehensive childcare service centers, developing community childcare services, encouraging kindergartens to open nursery classes, promoting employer-run childcare, and regulating family childcare points... All localities adapt to local conditions and adopt multiple measures simultaneously, exploring diverse forms of childcare services. In 2025, the number of childcare slots nationwide reached 6.657 million, and the childcare supply network is becoming increasingly dense.
To alleviate the problem of "high cost of childcare," the diversified input guarantee mechanism continues to improve. Ultra-long-term special government bonds list childcare construction as a supported area; childcare institutions implement residential living prices for water, electricity, gas, and heating; and a childcare subsidy of 3,600 yuan per child per year is issued until the age of 3... A series of investments have reduced the operating costs of childcare institutions and lightened the burden of childbirth and child-rearing on families.
It must be affordable, manageable, and also of good quality. On the one hand, taking the national childcare quality improvement campaign as a lever promotes service standardization and refinement; on the other hand, adding infant and toddler childcare-related majors, issuing national vocational skill standards for childcare workers and infant caregivers, and consolidating the talent foundation continuously enhance the professional core and warm character of childcare services, protecting children's precious childhood.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" outline proposes supporting social forces to provide diversified inclusive childcare services, developing multiple models such as employer-run childcare, community-embedded childcare, and family childcare points. When childcare services truly achieve quality accessibility, affordable prices, and parental peace of mind, the picture of long-term balanced population development and a childbirth-friendly society will become increasingly clear.
(The author is a deputy researcher at the China National Academy of Educational Sciences (中国教育科学研究院), and the article was compiled by our reporter Ding Yasong (丁雅诵).)
Return to TopBeijing, July 13 (Reporter Wu Chuqi (吴储岐)) — A reporter learned from the Ministry of Civil Affairs (民政部) that: In order to develop and strengthen the rehabilitation assistive devices industry, achieve an overall leap in the industrial system, and improve people's livelihood and well-being, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and 14 other departments recently jointly issued the Rehabilitation Assistive Devices Industry Capacity Expansion and Quality Improvement Three-Year Action Plan (2026–2028) (《康复辅助器具产业扩能提质三年行动方案（2026—2028年）》).
The plan deploys more than 20 specific measures around six key tasks: the application demonstration and leadership action, the industrial optimization and upgrading action, the innovation capability enhancement action, the policy effectiveness improvement action, the market environment optimization action, and the talent team empowerment action, and proposes that by 2028, a new development pattern for the rehabilitation assistive devices industry will be formed, characterized by the growth of entities, support from carriers, brand improvement, an active market, and innovation leadership.
The plan specifies: continuously expand the scale of application, in key areas such as elderly care and disability support, accelerate the large-scale deployment of rehabilitation assistive device products and services, promote the application of intelligent products, rely on existing facilities to build comprehensive service centers for rehabilitation assistive devices, and designate a number of demonstration application promotion scenarios or bases. Continuously optimize the industrial layout, strengthen, optimize, and expand 6 to 8 key sub-industries such as brain-computer interfaces, health and wellness robots, prosthetics and orthotics, and hearing aids, break through 50 key industrial technologies (products), rely on existing platforms to build a number of national and provincial-ministerial key laboratories, innovation centers, and industrial technology engineering centers, and develop no fewer than 80 key products in areas such as health, aging, and elderly care.
The plan also specifies: significantly improve effective supply capacity, strive for the number of rehabilitation assistive device enterprises above designated size nationwide to exceed 500, cultivate a number of specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative little giant enterprises (专精特新“小巨人”企业) and manufacturing single-champion enterprises (制造业单项冠军企业); support eligible enterprises in listing and financing. Improve the support system, perfect the standard system, and issue no fewer than 60 standards; cultivate a number of rehabilitation assistive device product inspection, testing, and certification institutions.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 郑海鸥
Civilized rural customs are linked to good family traditions and honest folkways, and serve as the soul bond of comprehensive rural revitalization.
Nourishing people’s hearts, moralizing people’s hearts, and uniting people’s hearts — strengthening the construction of rural spiritual civilization has always been on General Secretary Xi Jinping’s mind. The General Secretary profoundly pointed out: “Improve the rural governance system, deepen the practice of villagers’ self-governance, effectively utilize the roles of village rules and folk agreements (村规民约), family teachings and traditions, and cultivate civilized rural customs, good family traditions, and honest folkways” and “Prosper rural culture, advance 移风易俗 (yí fēng yì sú - “change customs, alter habits,” to transform social customs), and build livable, workable, and harmonious villages.”
The Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan (十五五规划纲要) proposes: “Strengthen the construction of rural spiritual civilization in the new era, prosper and develop rural culture, and implement the civilized rural customs construction project (文明乡风建设工程).”
Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Culture, China’s rural spiritual civilization construction has taken on a new look and opened up a new situation. The quality of rural cultural life has continuously improved, nourishing the spiritual world of farmers and cultivating new trends of the times.
Strengthen the Power of Thought Advance the Transformation of Customs
Villagers beat clappers, university students speak eloquently… In Ma Village (马庄村), Pan’anhu Subdistrict, Jiawang District, Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province, there are many “folk eloquent speakers (百姓名嘴),” who combine the people and matters around them to carry out diverse theoretical micro-lectures (理论微宣讲).
In major and minor matters, in exchanges and discussions, the Party’s innovative theories 入脑入心 (rù nǎo rù xīn - “enter the brain and enter the heart,” to be deeply understood and internalized).
In December 2017, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Ma Village and clearly pointed out: “The construction of rural spiritual civilization is very important. The transformation of matter into spirit and spirit into matter is a dialectical view. In implementing the rural revitalization strategy, we must grasp both material civilization and spiritual civilization together, and especially pay attention to improving the spiritual outlook of farmers.”
“Dear fellow villagers, today let’s talk about the relationship between the Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan and each of us — how the village roads should be built, how the fields should be farmed, how disputes should be resolved…” In the Harmonious Village Live Broadcast Room of Zhangji Village (张集村), Tianji Town, Funan County, Fuyang City, Anhui Province, 60,000 person-visits poured in within just 90 minutes, with an online peak exceeding 3,000 people. “Plain language explained the policy thoroughly and reached the heart,” netizens commented.
Today, “Field Ridge Lecture Halls (田埂讲堂),” “Courtyard Classrooms (小院课堂),” and “Civilization Caravans (文明大篷车)” are active in the countryside. In the fields and on online platforms, “folk eloquent speakers” speak to the masses, and role models nearby speak to people nearby; the broad masses are deeply influenced and inspired. The Party’s innovative theories 凝心铸魂 (níng xīn zhù hún - “coalesce the heart and cast the soul,” to unite and strengthen people’s will), and the power of thought is transformed into the motivation to stimulate energy, inspire people, and unite in striving forward.
To advance rural modernization, not only must material life be prosperous, but spiritual life must also be abundant. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “We must popularize scientific knowledge, advance the transformation of customs in rural areas, and eliminate 厚葬薄养 (hòu zàng bó yǎng - “elaborate funerals, meager care for the living,” wasteful funeral practices while neglecting elderly care), 铺张浪费 (pū zhāng làng fèi - “extravagantly wasteful,” lavish and wasteful), and other 陈规陋习 (chén guī lòu xí - “outdated regulations and bad habits,” outdated customs and practices) such as high bride prices and social comparison in favors.”
In Dachang Town (大场镇), West Coast New Area, Qingdao City, Shandong Province, there is a “Help with Joy Group (帮喜团),” with over 60 villager volunteers walking through the countryside to popularize new wedding customs that advocate simple weddings.
Not long ago, a match nearly fell through due to high bride prices. Members of the “Help with Joy Group” either used warmth to dissolve estrangement or patiently communicated with their own experiences, untangling the knot in the hearts of both sets of parents. On the wedding day, members of the “Help with Joy Group” arrived at the scene at 5 a.m. to help. The wedding both preserved the charm of traditional wedding customs and discarded the bad habit of extravagance and waste.
“This way of holding a happy event is good — it doesn’t waste money, and the emotional ties are not at all diminished; the heartfelt intentions are abundant,” praised the villagers who came to observe the ceremony.
Use sustained effort, let it 成风化俗 (chéng fēng huà sú - “become custom through influence,” to gradually transform social practices). The No. 1 Central Document (中央一号文件) has repeatedly made deployments for the work of transforming customs in rural areas. Many places have established and improved Red and White Councils (红白理事会), Moral Evaluation Boards (道德评议会), etc., revised village rules and folk agreements, and discarded outdated customs and bad habits. The new wind of civilization 潜移默化 (qián yí mò huà - “imperceptibly influence,” to exert a subtle, transformative influence) integrates into daily life, becoming the value orientation and code of conduct for the villagers.
Arts and Literature Beautify the Countryside Nurture Good Social Trends
In the Daliang Mountains of Sichuan, at Xide Station (喜德站) on the Chengdu-Kunming Railway, the “Little Slow Train (小慢车)” No. 5633 slowly pulls into the platform. In recent years, bookshelves and desks have been added to the carriages. Children from the mountains take the train to school, and villagers travel to market; reaching out they can open a book and gain a quiet nourishment.
In Wangjiatuan Village (王家疃村), Zhangcun Town, Huancui District, Weihai City, Shandong Province, a thousand li away, Wang Mengxin (王萌鑫), a post‑90s villager who has loved reading since childhood, arrives early at the farmhouse bookstore (农家书屋). In recent years, the farmhouse bookstore has been rich in collection, has a good environment, and can be borrowed and returned across the city. Many people like to immerse themselves in the sea of books in their free time. Dong Yingxia (董迎霞), a post‑80s villager, is the administrator of the bookstore. “When the villagers have needs, we also organize activities such as reading groups and parent‑child reading, so that everyone can enjoy high‑quality services without leaving the village.”
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “We must promote the revitalization of rural culture, strengthen the construction of rural ideology and morality and public culture”; “Improve the network of rural cultural infrastructure, increase the total supply of rural public cultural services, and narrow the gap between urban and rural public cultural services.”
In recent years, the integrated construction of the urban‑rural public cultural service system has been solidly advanced — looking at the positions, cultural halls, farmhouse bookstores, and village stages are spread across the countryside, and “high‑face‑value” new public cultural spaces have been built one after another, better meeting the needs of villagers for reading, newspapers, and cultural and sports activities; looking at services, villagers “place orders,” and mobile book vans, stage vehicles, and film screening vehicles shuttle through the mountains, set up stages by forests, and sing by riversides, bringing spiritual sustenance to everyone.
The Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan proposes to adhere to cultural benefits for the people, implement actions to improve the quality and efficiency of public cultural services, and promote the direct delivery of high‑quality cultural resources to the grassroots. Benefiting from the infiltration of high‑quality culture, through regular reading, the villagers’ horizons are increasingly broadened; through frequent stage performances, they become more generous and cheerful; through constant interaction, neighborhood relations become increasingly harmonious and amiable.
Chen Shuangyan (陈双燕), a villager of Daitou Village (埭头村), Daruoyan Town, Yongjia County, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, never imagined that the warm scene she captured with her mobile phone in the village would be selected for a provincial photography exhibition. Farming fun, intangible cultural heritage inheritance, good family traditions, civilized rural customs, delicious food and beautiful scenery… Recently, the Zhejiang Province “Village Shots by All (全民村拍)” Outstanding Achievements Exhibition was held in Yongjia County, with all 547 works taken by villagers.
Since 2017, the Zhejiang Provincial Cultural Center (浙江省文化馆) has successively held the “Beautiful Life (美好生活)” National Mobile Phone Photography Competition, receiving nearly 300,000 works in total. When villagers raise their mobile phones and aim at their own courtyards, the ancient trees at the village entrance, and the smiling faces of neighbors, everyone consciously cleans their yards, protects the ecology, and the concepts of neighborly friendliness and love for home and village deeply enter people’s hearts.
In September last year, the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee and seven other departments jointly issued the Work Plan for “Arts and Literature Beautify the Countryside” (2025–2027) (《“文艺赋美乡村”工作方案（2025—2027年）》). Under the nourishment of arts and literature, more and more villagers fall in love with beauty, explore beauty, create beauty, and transmit beauty, leading a more fulfilling, healthy, and civilized life.
敦亲睦邻 (dūn qīn mù lín - “promote kinship and neighborliness,” to foster close relationships among relatives and neighbors), 守望相助 (shǒu wàng xiāng zhù - “watch and assist each other,” to help one another in times of need), 诚信重礼 (chéng xìn zhòng lǐ - “uphold integrity and value rites,” to be honest and respect propriety)… The local culture contains rich elements of excellent traditional Chinese culture. Protecting and inheriting rural cultural heritage is of great significance. As of the end of 2025, the country had built over 14,900 intangible cultural heritage workshops, driving the employment of more than 1.3 million people; more old crafts, old tunes, old customs and other intangible cultural heritages have been protected and inherited. In many places, rural museums have been built, with distinctive exhibitions and displays; the stories behind them are thought‑provoking; tangible cultural heritages are laden with deep nostalgia…
Develop the Humanistic Economy Multiply Cultural Confidence
On a summer evening, the “Village Super League (村超)” heat persists. On the football field in Rongjiang County (榕江县), Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou, players are locked in intense competition. The sidelines are packed with people sitting in layers, and the cheering waves rise one after another.
During the halftime break, the audience took the stage: girls in splendid costumes sang the Grand Song of the Dong, and men, women, and children danced the Duoye Dance… “Our family came here because of its fame. The game is exciting, and the folk performances are wonderful too,” said Wang Xiao (王笑), a tourist from Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. “I can’t bear to miss any program.”
In recent years, the “Village Super League,” “Village BA (村BA),” village song competitions, etc., have flourished. Farmers create, farmers perform, farmers enjoy — they have transformed from sideline spectators to on‑field protagonists, and their local identity and cultural confidence have been continuously strengthened.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: “Promote the integration of agriculture, culture, and tourism” and “Empower economic and social development with culture.”
Recently, in Pailou Village (牌楼村), Donghekou Town, Jin’an District, Lu’an City, Anhui Province, a summer “Village Evening (村晚)” was held. On site, intangible cultural heritage songs and dances, red‑themed recitations, and folk performances were splendid and diverse; the villagers were poised and confident. Beside the stage, a unique intangible cultural heritage market and interesting farming projects gave tourists a “full experience.”
“I saw the uplifting and progressive spirit of the villagers, and savored the richness and diversity of rural life. It’s been a worthwhile trip,” praised Xu Yaqiao (徐雅乔), a tourist from Hubei, while placing orders, “I’ll buy some specialty agricultural products and cultural creative products to send home and share with family and friends.”
Culture empowers the economy, and the economy “revitalizes” culture. The “Village‑Brand (村字号)” has prospered culture and boosted the economy, writing a brilliant answer sheet for the humanistic economy. “According to statistics, in 2024, more than 2,200 ‘Village‑Brand’ activities with online views exceeding 100,000 brought about economic benefits of 13.09 billion yuan. The ‘Village‑Brand’ already possesses huge potential to leverage a trillion‑yuan agricultural, cultural, and tourism market,” said a relevant official from the Rural Social Undertakings Promotion Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部农村社会事业促进司).
“Return to the village!” With beautiful scenery, distinctive culture, and the ability to increase income and become prosperous, many young people return to their hometowns. As of the end of 2025, the cumulative number of various types of people returning to their hometowns to start businesses nationwide exceeded 15.1 million. The “New Farmers (新农人)” run homestays, engage in study tours, do cultural creative work, build workshops, and start live streams, 大显身手 (dà xiǎn shēn shǒu - “showcase one’s talents,” to fully display one’s abilities) in the vast fields, injecting vigorous vitality into promoting the integration of agriculture, culture, and tourism and improving the level of rural governance.
Among Zhejiang villagers, “Cultural Special Envoys (文化特派员)” is a high‑frequency word. Since 2024, 1,574 cultural special envoys have been stationed in townships and paired villages, holding more than 53,000 various cultural and artistic activities, forming over 5,200 grassroots cultural teams, and helping the stations increase revenue by more than 480 million yuan. The villagers’ sense of gain is tangible.
In May this year, the selection of the second batch of cultural special envoys in Zhejiang Province was officially launched. With both the external assistance of “sending culture (送文化)” and the internal drive of “planting culture (种文化),” the combination of “sending” and “planting” has better activated the “pool of spring water” of grassroots cultural construction.
The comprehensive revitalization of the countryside requires both shaping the form and casting the soul.
Today, on the fields of hope, agricultural civilization is 赓续传承 (gēng xù chuán chéng - “continuously passed down,” inherited and carried forward without interruption), modern civilization concepts are deeply rooted, farmers’ cultural life is richer, and their striving spirit is more vigorous, unfolding pictures of livable, workable, and harmonious villages where material civilization and spiritual civilization develop in coordination.
Return to TopBeijing, July 13 (Reporter Lin Lili (林丽鹂)) — Recently, the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR, 市场监管总局) approved and agreed to Hebei, Liaoning, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou and other 9 provincial-level market regulation departments to carry out a pilot program for tiered and categorized credit-based metrological supervision in marketplaces (集贸市场诚信计量分级分类监管试点). The pilot period ends on June 30, 2027.
This pilot is based on metrological credit evaluation of marketplaces, takes tiered and categorized metrological supervision as the path, and aims to create a reassuring and fair consumption environment and protect consumers' lawful rights and interests. It promotes metrological supervision for people's livelihoods to shift from “comprehensive census” to “precise profiling,” from “post-event punishment” to “credit governance,” and to create a model of credit-based metrology for safeguarding fair transactions in the people’s “vegetable basket” and “rice bag.”
This pilot, in accordance with the requirements of the “Specification for Credit-Based Metrological Evaluation of Marketplaces” (《集贸市场诚信计量评价规范》), focuses on six core indicators: basic management, instrument management, behavioral norms, dispute handling, results of comprehensive public credit evaluation, and handling of abnormal operations and serious illegal and dishonest conduct. It establishes a four-level credit-based metrological grading evaluation system, implements tiered and categorized, precise policy application, and differentiated precision-targeted supervision, effectively raising the level of standardization, refinement, and scientific management of metrological supervision in marketplaces. For marketplaces with excellent credit ratings, inspection frequency will be significantly reduced; for those with poor credit, supervision will be tightened strictly.
Next, the SAMR will summarize the pilot experience, strengthen legal, credit-based, and smart supervision of metrology for people’s livelihoods, continuously polish the foundation of fair trade, and consolidate the people’s livelihood foundation of the national unified large market through refined metrological governance, providing solid metrological support for the high-quality development of marketplaces.
Return to TopTianjin, July 13 (Reporter Li Jiating) - The 17th Tianjin-Taiwan Investment and Cooperation Fair (第十七届津台投资合作洽谈会), jointly hosted by the Tianjin Municipal People's Government (天津市人民政府), the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council (国务院台办), the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (海峡两岸关系协会), and the Tianjin Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (天津市政协), was held in Tianjin from the 7th to the 12th. This year's Tianjin-Taiwan Fair, under the theme "Gathering Wisdom for New Development, Sharing New Opportunities" (聚智新发展 共享新机遇), brought together approximately 350 representatives from political and business circles across the strait, as well as young entrepreneurs and grassroots people's representatives, to conduct exchanges and cooperation in fields such as artificial intelligence, big health, and biomedicine.
This year's Tianjin-Taiwan Fair was carried out around three major sections: deepening understanding, economic cooperation, and people-to-people exchanges. Multiple events such as the Tianjin-Taiwan Artificial Intelligence Industry Cooperation Exchange and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei-Taiwan Big Health Industry Exchange expanded the space for industrial cooperation, and a series of activities including the Youth Study Camp, Community Exchanges, and the Cross-Strait Media Tour were held. The Tianjin-Taiwan Fair has been held for 16 sessions and is an important platform for cross-strait economic and trade exchanges and industrial cooperation. According to an introduction from the relevant person in charge of the Tianjin Taiwan Affairs Office (天津市台办), as of now, Tianjin has approved the establishment of 2,718 Taiwan-invested enterprises, with a total investment exceeding 19 billion US dollars. For the full year 2025, the operating revenue of 88 key Taiwan-invested enterprises in Tianjin was 78.19 billion yuan, and the total profit was 4.339 billion yuan.
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Adhering to systems thinking is one of the important components of the worldview and methodology of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out: "The medium- and long-term goals of legal construction must comprehensively consider the international and domestic situation, the process of legal construction, and the people's demand for the rule of law, and be coordinated with the requirements of advancing the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity." Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law runs the adherence to systems thinking through all domains and the entire process of law-based governance in all respects, focusing on promoting mutual coordination among all links and all elements of legal construction at various levels, promoting coordination between the rule of law and reform, development, and stability, and guiding and promoting socialist rule-of-law construction with Chinese characteristics and national governance to be more systematic, holistic, and coordinated. The "15th Five-Year Plan" outline has explicitly designated "building a socialist rule-of-law country to a higher level" as a goal to be achieved in economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, and has made important deployments for "advancing law-based governance in all respects." We must deeply study and implement Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, place greater emphasis on coordination in the process of advancing law-based governance in all respects and building a higher-level socialist rule-of-law country, and thereby lay a solid and stable legal foundation for advancing Chinese-style modernization.
Emphasizing coordination is an important manifestation of adhering to systems thinking in the field of the rule of law. General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out: "Systems thinking is a fundamental way of thinking and working." Our country is a large developing country, still in the primary stage of socialism, undergoing extensive and profound social changes. Advancing reform, development, and adjusting interest relations often affect the whole if one part is touched. Adhering to systems thinking requires observing and grasping the laws of development of things from the perspective of universal connection, comprehensive system, and development and change, and promoting reform and driving development. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has run adhering to systems thinking through the entire process of advancing Chinese-style modernization, extensively applying it to all domains, aspects, and links of reform, development, and stability, internal affairs, foreign affairs, and national defense, and governance of the Party, the military, and society.
Emphasizing coordination is a concrete manifestation of adhering to systems thinking in the field of the rule of law. General Secretary Xi Jinping, at the Central Conference on Law-Based Governance in All Respects in 2020, demanded "jointly advancing law-based governance, law-based exercise of state power, and law-based administration, and building an integrated construction of a law-based state, a law-based government, and a law-based society," reflecting the coordination of the work layout of law-based governance in all respects; in 2021, at the 35th Collective Study Session of the Political Bureau of the 19th CPC Central Committee, he demanded "comprehensively advancing the construction of the system of legal norms, the system of law enforcement, the system of judicial supervision, the system of legal guarantees, and the system of intra-Party regulations," reflecting the coordination of the construction of the socialist rule-of-law system with Chinese characteristics; in 2025, he made important instructions on law-based governance in all respects, demanding "focus on building a more complete socialist rule-of-law system with Chinese characteristics and building a higher-level socialist rule-of-law country," reflecting the coordination of the goals of rule-of-law China construction; in December 2025, the meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee emphasized "coordinated advancement of sound legislation, strict law enforcement, impartial justice, and law-abiding by all citizens, comprehensively advancing the legalization of all aspects of national work," reflecting the coordination of important links in law-based governance in all respects; and so on.
Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law upholds systems thinking, positioning, laying out, and vigorously implementing the rule of law from a strategic height concerning the long-term stability of the Party and the state. It promotes mutual coordination among different links and different elements within legal construction and legal work, and also promotes coordination between the rule of law and other aspects of the Party and state affairs. The reason for placing greater emphasis on coordination in legal construction is that the rule of law, as a fundamental way of governing the country, is an important guarantee for economic and social development. Only by placing the rule of law within the overall framework of the work of the Party and the state for forward-looking thinking, overall planning, strategic layout, and holistic advancement, and by promoting the formation of coordinated synergy among the various links of the rule of law's own operation—sound legislation, strict law enforcement, impartial justice, and law-abiding by all citizens—as well as between the rule of law and other aspects of the Party and state affairs, can the guaranteeing role of the rule of law in consolidating foundations, stabilizing expectations, and benefiting the long term be fully realized. This means that the rule of law is not regarded as a static closed system, but is understood as an open system that continuously interacts and dynamically develops with all aspects of the Party and state affairs. It is precisely for this reason that Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law surpasses the Western rule-of-law mode of isolated, confrontational thinking and development methods, as well as the simple logic that the rule of law can be basically achieved through mutual checks and balances of power. It depicts a new ecology of rule-of-law operation that emphasizes coordination, stresses linkage, and realizes complementarity, making an important original contribution to the development of human rule-of-law civilization.
Focusing on the overall situation of Chinese-style modernization to grasp the key points of coordination. General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out: "The rule of law is an important guarantee for Chinese-style modernization." To advance law-based governance in all respects and build a higher-level socialist rule-of-law country, it is necessary to focus on the overall situation of Chinese-style modernization and place greater emphasis on coordination. To this end, it is necessary to grasp some key directions. Several aspects are listed here.
Coordination in the systematic project of law-based governance in all respects. General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out: "We must grasp law-based governance in all respects within the strategic layout of the 'Four Comprehensives' and deeply understand the relationship between law-based governance in all respects and the other three 'Comprehensives'." "Law-based governance in all respects is a systematic project; it must be planned as a whole, with greater attention to systematicness, holism, and coordination." Law-based governance in all respects is a profound revolution in national governance. It has foundational significance for advancing the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, and is a strategic measure for comprehensively building a modern socialist country. Law-based governance in all respects involves various domains such as reform, development, and stability; internal affairs, foreign affairs, and national defense; and governance of the Party, the military, and society. Only by making overall plans based on the overall situation and the long term, exerting effort on coordinated advancement, and exerting force on integrated construction can systematicness, holism, and coordination be improved. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, advancing and expanding Chinese-style modernization has placed new and higher demands on the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, and it is necessary to build a higher-level socialist rule-of-law country. This requires that advancing law-based governance in all respects must further strengthen coordination, both summarizing the experiences in China's socialist legal construction and proposing new viewpoints and measures full of reform and innovation spirit aimed at practical problems. It requires both a high vantage point to strengthen top-level design and down-to-earth efforts to ensure practical effectiveness; it requires both focusing on near-term achievements and seeking long-term effects; it requires both strengthening overall advancement and promoting breakthroughs in key areas, continuously promoting law-based governance in all respects to exert force as a whole and develop in coordination.
Coordination between the rule of law and reform, development, and stability. General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized: "Place greater emphasis on coordination between the rule of law and reform, development, and stability." Reform, development, and stability form an organic whole. From "achieving unity between reform and the rule of law" to "placing greater emphasis on coordination between the rule of law and reform, development, and stability," the coordinating thinking of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law has continuously deepened, and the scope of coordination has expanded from the single aspect of the rule of law and reform to the organic whole composed of the rule of law and reform, development, and stability. Reform, development, and stability are important fulcrums for China's modernization. Reform solves development problems, development consolidates the foundation of stability, and stability provides the prerequisite for reform and development. The three are organically unified in the practice of Chinese-style modernization. To solidly advance Chinese-style modernization, it is necessary to correctly handle the relationship among reform, development, and stability. Placing greater emphasis on coordination between the rule of law and reform, development, and stability, so that the rule of law and reform, the rule of law and development, and the rule of law and stability promote each other and 相得益彰 (xiāng dé yì zhāng - "each shining more brightly in the other's company," to bring out the best in each other), is a concrete manifestation of using the rule-of-law mindset and methods to handle the relationship among reform, development, and stability. It can bring the interactive relationship among the three into the track of legalization through institutional norms, achieving dynamic balance and positive interaction among the three at the underlying logic of the rule of law. Placing greater emphasis on coordination between the rule of law and reform, development, and stability highlights the theoretical consciousness and historical consciousness of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law in actively making legal construction meet the needs of Chinese-style modernization, pointing the way forward and providing fundamental guidance for comprehensively building a modern socialist country on the track of the rule of law.
Legal coordination of high-quality development and high-level security. General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out: "Adhere to统筹发展和安全 (tǒng chóu fā zhǎn hé ān quán - "overall planning of development and security"), adhere to placing equal emphasis on development and security, and achieve positive interaction between high-quality development and high-level security." Development and security are a pair of major relationships affecting the overall situation of Chinese-style modernization. Development is the foundation, security is the prerequisite. High-quality development is the primary task of comprehensively building a modern socialist country, and high-level security is an inherent requirement and important guarantee for achieving high-quality development. High-efficiency governance is a key measure to better统筹发展和安全 (tǒng chóu fā zhǎn hé ān quán - "overall planning of development and security"). Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law makes clear that law-based governance is the most reliable and stable governance. High-efficiency governance inevitably requires law-based governance, using the rule-of-law mindset and methods to promote positive interaction between high-quality development and high-level security. On the one hand, legal construction closely follows the needs of high-quality development, proactively responds to industrial changes and technological challenges, improves systems for property rights protection, market access, fair competition, etc., creates a first-class business environment, provides stable and transparent institutional guarantees, can achieve alignment between the rule of law and the laws of high-quality development, optimize resource allocation, and stimulate innovation vitality; on the other hand, the rule of law, by clarifying rights and obligations, establishing and perfecting a legal system for safeguarding national economic security, and properly resolving international economic disputes using international legal means, can effectively regulate economic order and social life order, promote the proper resolution of social conflicts within the framework of the rule of law, ensure national security, prevent and control various risks, and create a safe and stable social environment for sustained and healthy economic and social development. It is necessary to implement the holistic view of national security, perfect the national security legal system, promote the realization of high-efficiency governance under good laws and good governance, use high-efficiency governance to promote positive interaction between high-quality development and high-level security, and lay a solid foundation for the steady and long-term advancement of Chinese-style modernization.
Placing greater emphasis on coordination in legal construction during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a crucial period for consolidating the foundation and comprehensively exerting force to basically realize socialist modernization. Our country's development environment is facing profound and complex changes, and the problems of unbalanced and inadequate development remain prominent. General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized: "Legal work departments must earnestly fulfill their duties and responsibilities, take the initiative to assume responsibility, and all departments and domains must strictly act according to law, jointly creating a new situation in rule-of-law China construction." To be good at governing the country using systems and laws, and ensure that decisive progress is made in basically realizing socialist modernization, it is necessary to deeply implement Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, comprehensively consider the international and domestic situation, the process of legal construction, and the people's demand for the rule of law, place greater emphasis on coordination in legal construction, and comprehensively and coordinately advance the operation of all domains and aspects of work on the track of the rule of law.
Party leadership is the fundamental guarantee for placing greater emphasis on coordination in legal construction. It is necessary to adhere to the organic unity of Party leadership, the people being the masters of the country, and law-based governance, fully leveraging the Party's leadership core role of commanding the overall situation and coordinating all parties; deeply study and implement Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, continuously enhance the political consciousness, ideological consciousness, and action consciousness of studying, understanding, and practicing Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, continuously improve the ability to use Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law to arm the mind, guide practice, and promote work, ensure that all elements of rule-of-law China construction are aligned in goals, direction, and pace, and transform the power of truth into a vivid practice of advancing law-based governance in all respects and building a higher-level socialist rule-of-law country.
Law-based governance in all respects is a systematic project, involving legal work in legislation, law enforcement, judiciary, law-abiding, and many other aspects. Scientifically applying coordinating thinking, the key point is to coordinately advance sound legislation, strict law enforcement, impartial justice, and law-abiding by all citizens, achieving mutual interconnection and mutual promotion among the legal work of each link. For example, in the aspect of legislation, it is necessary to perfect the legislative work pattern with Party committee leadership, people's congress dominance, government reliance, and participation from all sides,统筹立改废释纂 (tǒng chóu lì gǎi fèi shì zuǎn - "comprehensively plan legislation, amendment, abolition, interpretation, and codification"), place greater emphasis on coordination in legislation in key domains, emerging domains, and foreign-related domains, and the specific legislation in related domains itself must also pay more attention to coordination. For another example, in the aspect of foreign-related rule of law, it is necessary to统筹国内和国际 (tǒng chóu guó nèi hé guó jì - "comprehensively plan domestic and international"),统筹发展和安全 (tǒng chóu fā zhǎn hé ān quán - "overall planning of development and security"), adhere to forward-looking thinking, overall planning, strategic layout, and holistic advancement, form a large coordination pattern for foreign-related legal work, and strengthen coordination of relevant rules in foreign-related law enforcement and judiciary. For yet another example, to resolve major contradictions according to law, it is necessary to adhere to and develop the "Fengqiao Experience" in the new era, adhere to systematic governance, law-based governance, comprehensive governance, and source governance, perfect the social governance system of joint construction, joint governance, and shared benefits, and enhance the synergy of all parties.
At the same time, the concept of the rule of law, the rule-of-law mindset, the rule-of-law methods, and the rule-of-law mechanisms should be implemented in all aspects of the work of the Party and the state, effectively ensuring that economic construction, political construction, cultural construction, social construction, and ecological civilization construction are comprehensively advanced on the track of the rule of law, providing legal guarantees for high-quality development, effectively protecting the people's rights and interests, improving people's wellbeing, and safeguarding national security and social stability.
(The author is the Dean of the School of Law, Peking University.)
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The view on political achievements (政绩观) is a matter of fundamental importance. General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized: "A correct view on political achievements requires us to adhere to proceeding from reality, act in accordance with laws, and through scientific decision-making and solid, hard work, create achievements that can stand the test of practice and history, truly benefit the people, and gain public recognition." This important requirement provides an important guideline for leading cadres to create tangible achievements that can withstand examination. Leading cadres must neither be inactive in office nor act recklessly, but must also produce more political achievements and gain public recognition; inevitably, they sometimes develop anxiety. For example, some have "urgency-type anxiety," eager to prove personal ability and wanting to quickly produce visible results to attract organizational attention; some have "worry-type anxiety," worrying that low assessment rankings will lead to being summoned for talks and held accountable, worrying that long-term tasks such as pollution control, risk prevention, resolution of historical problems will be difficult to show results in the short term, worrying about falling behind in competition for industries, projects, and talent; and so on. Establishing and practicing a correct view on political achievements is an important breakthrough for untangling "political achievement anxiety" and correcting impetuous short-sightedness and utilitarian narrow-mindedness.
The aiming point for undertaking work and creating enterprises is the interests and needs of the people, not personal honor and achievements. It is understandable that leading cadres have a strong desire to display their talents and ambitions; the key is to precisely direct their own abilities and passion for work toward the right things, landing on enhancing the people's welfare. Calculate more the political account of benefiting the people, and less the small abacus of personal promotion. From recent practice, establishing and delivering on annual lists for education assistance, medical and health care, elderly care and childcare, etc., has become an important part of aligning with the people's will, benefiting people's livelihoods, and warming people's hearts in many places. Not all political achievements need to be earth-shattering; carrying out practical matters solidly and doing good things well, making the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security more substantial, more guaranteed, and more sustainable — as long as it ultimately lands on benefiting the people, it is all establishing and practicing a correct view on political achievements.
The attainment of political achievements has its own objective laws; it requires both the exertion of human subjective initiative and conformity with actual circumstances and alignment with development needs. Getting a clear picture of the situation, accurately identifying problems, and proposing concrete countermeasures can not only create tangible political achievements but also prevent 心浮气躁 (xīn fú qì zào - "heart floating, spirit impetuous," impetuous and irritable) and 急功近利 (jí gōng jìn lì - "eager for merit, close to profit," eager for quick success and instant benefit) from the source. In the pursuit of rapid "carbon reduction," some have shut down entire "three-high" (三高 - high energy consumption, high pollution, high emissions) industries, resulting in compliant enterprises being implicated and people's employment being affected; in following trendy hot industries, blindly attracting corporate investment with tax incentives, resulting in production capacity not being effectively utilized... The root of these problems lies in the lack of scientific decision-making and respect for laws. Only by making reform ideas, development plans, and governance schemes conform to development laws and scientific requirements can we consolidate the foundation of high-quality development through genuine hard work.
Looking deeper, behind the view on political achievements lie the view on power and values. General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out: "An incorrect view on political achievements starts from personal or small-group interests, characterized by impetuosity, eagerness for quick success, 弄虚作假 (nòng xū zuò jiǎ - "engage in falsehood, make pretence," deceive by trickery), and 盲目蛮干 (máng mù mán gàn - "blindly and recklessly act," act blindly and rashly)." If those in governance are selfless in heart and 公私分明 (gōng sī fēn míng - "public and private clearly distinguished," be scrupulous in separating public and private interests), the development of their undertakings will naturally have broad horizons. If political achievements are treated as a "personal show," coveting "winning rankings," 寅吃卯粮 (yín chī mǎo liáng - "eat the grain of the Mao year in the Yin year," live beyond one's means), 劳民伤财 (láo mín shāng cái - "toil the people, hurt wealth," waste manpower and money), engaging in fraud and 欺上瞒下 (qī shàng mán xià - "deceive superiors, hide from those below," fool those above and below), what is ultimately left will be a mess. Only by clarifying the boundary between public and private can one produce political achievements that can withstand the test of time.
The purpose of establishing and practicing a correct view on political achievements is to calibrate the value coordinates, rectify the orientation of work, and identify the direction, clarify the interests and harms, and find the goals between the small self and the greater self, private interests and public benefits, superficiality and practicality, the immediate and the long-term. Finite life and infinite enterprise are inherently a pair of contradictory unity. Recognizing that time is limited, one should naturally enhance abilities, improve efficiency, seize opportunities, and do more practical things; recognizing that the enterprise is boundless, one needs to be 脚踏实地 (jiǎo tà shí dì - "feet on solid ground," down-to-earth) and 久久为功 (jiǔ jiǔ wéi gōng - "long, long to achieve success," persevere over time), hand over each baton well, and take every step steadily.
"Political achievement anxiety" is not only influenced by internal factors; external factors cannot be ignored either. For example, assessment and evaluation that place too much emphasis on hard indicators such as economic growth rate, scale of investment attraction, and fixed asset investment, and the existence of "numbers-only theory" and "projects-only theory" in cadre selection and appointment, etc., may all induce "political achievement anxiety." Therefore, a correct view on political achievements cannot be separated from the escort and support of pragmatic and effective institutions. On the one hand, improve the assessment and evaluation system, increase the weight of "hidden achievement" (潜绩) indicators such as improvement of people's livelihood and ecological benefits, and give full play to the "baton" role of assessment; on the other hand, optimize the orientation for selecting and appointing cadres, support and encourage cadres who dare to chew on hard bones, and ensure that cadres who work hard in obscurity are put in important positions. At the same time, it is necessary to improve the fault-tolerance and error-correction mechanism in line with the needs of reform and development, and further reverse the mindset of "doing more leads to more mistakes, doing less leads to fewer mistakes, and doing nothing leads to no mistakes."
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General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “Due to developments such as the digitization of text, the picturization of books, and the networking of reading, literature and art, and even social culture, are facing major changes. We must adapt to the development of the situation, and do a good job of online literary and artistic creation and production.” This important discourse profoundly grasps the general trend of the evolution of digital civilization, and provides directional guidance for the innovative development of literature and art under internet conditions. The “Fifteenth Five-Year Plan” outline proposes “to prosper the new mass literature and art (新大众文艺) under internet conditions.” This is of great significance for prospering literature and art in the new era and meeting the people’s growing spiritual and cultural needs.
The new mass literature and art refers to a new type of literary and artistic form that, under the leadership of the Party, relying on the deep nourishment of China’s excellent traditional culture, conforming to the in-depth integration trend of digitization, networking, and intelligence, with the people participating in literary and artistic production and dissemination on an unprecedented scale and depth, using new technologies and new tools to break through the traditional processes of literary and artistic production and dissemination, and presenting co-creation and sharing. The “newness” of the new mass literature and art is embodied in three aspects. First, the subject is new. Unlike traditional mass literature and art where the creative group mostly consists of professional literary and artistic workers, the creative group of the new mass literature and art presents unprecedented mass character and diversity. Second, the form is new. In terms of content expression, the new mass literature and art includes both emerging forms such as online literature, micro-short dramas, and also the digital transformation of traditional opera and folk art; in terms of expression form, multiple forms such as text, images, audio, and video interweave to form new literary and artistic forms such as hypertext narrative and interactive experience; in terms of aesthetic pursuit, it inherits the core spirit of Chinese aesthetics, integrates the sense of technology in the digital age, and forms a new era aesthetic standard that unifies “the flavor of everyday life (烟火气), Chinese style (中国风), and technological sense (科技感).” Third, the mechanism is new. The new mass literature and art has built a diversified and interactive ecosystem. The borderless communication network of digital platforms, the bullet-screen interaction of short video platforms, and the sharing and forwarding of social media enable the dissemination of literary and artistic works to break through the limitations of time and space, greatly improving dissemination efficiency and coverage, and forming a diversified evaluation system of “public evaluation + expert evaluation + market testing.”
While paying attention to the huge potential contained in the new mass literature and art, we must also face squarely the problems existing in its growth process. For example, some works have tendencies toward homogenization and vulgarization, “information cocoons” leading to aesthetic fixation, the intellectual property protection mechanism is still not perfect, the effectiveness of international communication needs to be improved, and so on. To prosper the new mass literature and art under internet conditions, we must adhere to Xi Jinping Thought on Culture as guidance and build a healthy and orderly new cultural ecosystem.
Adhere to value guidance and consolidate the ideological foundation. Adhering to correct value orientation is the fundamental guarantee for the healthy development of the new mass literature and art. We must deeply study and implement Xi Jinping Thought on Culture, guide creators to establish correct views of history, ethnicity, nation, and culture, deeply grasp the core essence of the “people-centered creative orientation,” immerse themselves deeply in life, and write works on the land of the motherland. Strengthen content guidance, promote the transformation of creation from quantity growth to quality improvement. Encourage the creation of excellent works that reflect the spirit of the times and are close to people’s lives, launch more fine works with backbone, morality, and warmth, so that those excellent works rooted in life, eulogizing struggle, and warming people’s hearts receive more attention, and promote the high-quality development of the new mass literature and art. Resist unhealthy tendencies, resolutely oppose erroneous trends of thought such as historical nihilism, money-worship, and hedonism, severely rectify unhealthy literary and artistic phenomena such as vulgarization, homogenization, and falsification, and guard the spiritual high ground of literature and art.
Create a good creative ecosystem and stimulate innovation vitality. We must improve the support mechanism and expand the main creative team. Support the creative practice of grassroots creators and young creators, encourage literary and artistic workers to participate in the creation of the new mass literature and art, deepen the cross-border integration model, promote exchanges and cooperation between professional creators and amateur creators, and form a creative pattern of diverse coexistence and 百花齐放 (bǎi huā qí fàng – “a hundred flowers bloom,” letting diverse forms flourish). Protect intellectual property rights and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of creators. Improve laws and regulations on intellectual property protection, establish and improve mechanisms for copyright registration, trading, and rights protection of online literary and artistic works, crack down on infringements such as plagiarism and misappropriation, and fully stimulate the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of creators. Build display platforms to realize the sharing of creative achievements by the whole people. Run well various regular competitions, exhibitions, and performance activities of the new mass literature and art, promote the sinking of high-quality literary and artistic resources to the grassroots and serve the masses.
Optimize the dissemination mechanism and improve dissemination effectiveness. We must build an all-media communication matrix to achieve the unity of wide coverage and precise dissemination. Adapt to the development trend of digital technology, build a comprehensive, multi-level, and wide-ranging dissemination system, make full use of emerging dissemination forms such as short videos and live streaming, expand the channels and space of dissemination, and enhance the communication power, guiding power, influence, and credibility of high-quality literary and artistic works. Innovate dissemination methods to stimulate the dissemination vitality of the whole people. Use big data and artificial intelligence to analyze audience needs, aesthetic preferences, and dissemination patterns, strengthen innovation in dissemination technology, and build a good dissemination pattern. Support the overseas dissemination of new mass literary and artistic works. Explore high-quality IP (intellectual property) with international communication power, optimize translation and dissemination strategies, use overseas social media platforms to build a communication network, upgrade from “content output” to “connotation integration,” and enhance the international influence of Chinese culture.
(The author is from the Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
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Primary-level medical and health institutions are the foundation of China’s medical and health service system, the “nerve endings” of Healthy China construction, and the “first line of defense” in safeguarding the people’s health. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has placed the people’s health in a strategic position of priority development, put forward the work guidelines for health and health work in the new era, and emphasized taking the primary level as the focus to continuously meet the practical needs of residents for “seeing a doctor nearby and seeing a doctor easily.” The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan has made important deployments such as “implementing the project to strengthen the foundation of medical and health care and strengthening the operational guarantees of medical institutions at the county, district, and primary levels.” It is necessary to deeply understand the significance of improving the quality of primary-level medical and health services, strengthen the construction of the primary-level medical and health service system, provide the people with more high-quality and efficient health services, and provide important support for the construction of Healthy China.
Primary-level medical and health services are the cornerstone of Healthy China construction. Primary-level medical and health institutions are numerous and cover a wide area, being the medical and health service institutions closest to the broad masses of the people. In recent years, through strengthening the construction of the primary-level medical and health service system, the fairness, accessibility, and convenience of primary-level medical and health services have been continuously improved. They have the characteristics of low cost, wide coverage, and high efficiency, and can meet the basic health needs of the broad masses of the people to the greatest extent, especially suitable for China’s basic national conditions of a large population base and unbalanced development between urban and rural areas. To promote the improvement of quality and efficiency of primary-level medical and health services, it is necessary to deeply implement the project to strengthen the foundation of medical and health care, promote the implementation of primary-level first diagnosis, facilitate hierarchical diagnosis and treatment, reasonably guide patients to seek medical treatment in an orderly manner, and reduce patients’ financial burden. Concrete efforts can be made from the following aspects.
Strengthen the operational guarantees of primary-level medical institutions. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “Basic medical and health services refer to the most basic and core part of medical and health services, which should mainly be guaranteed by the government and obtained fairly by all the people.” Strengthening the operational guarantees of medical institutions at the county, district, and primary levels is a major policy arrangement for maintaining public welfare. Primary-level medical and health institutions mainly provide basic medical care, basic public health, and other health services. They should be given sufficient financial guarantees in terms of development, construction, and operation, while leveraging the role of central and provincial fiscal transfer payments to provide subsidies for difficult areas, ethnic areas, border areas, etc. For example, Zhejiang Province has promoted the reform of the compensation mechanism for primary-level medical and health institutions, implementing a new mechanism of “combining special subsidies with paid purchases, and linking financial compensation with service performance,” which has provided a solid guarantee for the high-quality development of primary-level medical and health services and also implemented the principle of more pay for more work and better pay for excellent work.
Build a strong primary-level medical and health talent team. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “Develop and expand the medical and health team, and focus the work on rural areas and communities.” It is necessary to continuously increase the training of primary-level health personnel and establish a targeted training system covering general practice, specialty specialties, and shortage specialties. Stabilize the annual enrollment scale of rural order-oriented free medical students, increase nursing staff in community health service centers and township health centers, steadily expand the team of primary-level pharmaceutical service personnel, focus on improving the salary and treatment of primary-level health personnel and occupational security, and promote the continuous optimization of the primary-level health talent team. For example, Shanghai has continuously delivered talents to the primary level through general practice residency training, suburban order-oriented targeted training, and general practice transfer training, giving preference to general practice in terms of residency recruitment, degree衔接, subsidies, and evaluation. In 2024, the number of general practitioners in Shanghai exceeded 12,500, of which locally trained residency general practitioners accounted for more than 30% of the total number of general practitioners in the city.
Promote the high-quality development of family doctor contract service. Currently, health work is shifting from treatment-centered to health-centered, and family doctors are gradually becoming the new force in health management. It is necessary to implement measures to enhance the sense of experience in family doctor contract service, improve the accessibility and convenience of contract service, implement appointment referral services, provide convenient medication services, support personalized contract services, and encourage contracted residents to strengthen their own health management. For example, the “three-division co-management” (三师共管) family doctor contract service model in Xiamen, Fujian Province promotes the formation of service teams composed of specialist physicians from large hospitals, primary-level general practitioners, and health managers to provide continuous, integrated health and health services to patients, enhancing people’s satisfaction and sense of gain.
Empower the upgrade of primary-level medical and health services with digital intelligence. Digital intelligence technology is deeply integrating into the health industry, which helps optimize the primary-level health service system and improve service accessibility. It is necessary to strengthen the application of key business functions and data resource sharing of national and provincial primary-level health comprehensive management platforms, build a comprehensive primary-level telemedicine collaborative service network, and achieve full coverage of remote outpatient services, emergency dispatch, remote imaging diagnosis, and remote electrocardiogram diagnosis. Promote the medical artificial intelligence-assisted diagnosis and treatment system, and explore innovative applications of digital intelligence technology empowering the primary level. For example, Dongtai (东台市), Jiangsu Province, uses digital technology to empower the construction of county-level medical communities, creating a “digital health cockpit” (数字健康驾驶舱) to realize functions such as intelligent prescription review, remote diagnosis and treatment, medical dispatch, and health follow-up, effectively narrowing the gap between urban and rural medical services.
(The authors are both researchers at the Health Development Research Center of the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委卫生发展研究中心).)
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Since the start of the flood season, heavy rainfall has occurred frequently in many areas, with short-duration torrential rain and continuous overcast rain bringing many safety hazards to road traffic. Wet and waterlogged road surfaces in rainy conditions, along with obstructed visibility, can easily lead to dangers such as vehicle sideslip, stalling, and entrapment. What preparations should be made before traveling? How to avoid risks while driving? How to park? What are the precautions for fuel vehicles and new energy vehicles? The public security traffic management department has issued safety reminders.
Carefully inspect vehicle condition before travel. When driving in rain, carefully inspect vehicle condition before travel—this is the first safety defense for travel during the flood season.
"Drivers need to check weather warnings and road condition information in advance. When a red rainstorm warning is issued, do not travel unless necessary. If traveling, avoid low-lying, flood-prone areas and sections along mountain bodies and rivers. Carefully inspect key vehicle components before travel," reminded Yu Zhouming (俞宙明), police officer of the Command and Intelligence Center of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau Traffic Management Corps (上海市公安局交管总队). He cautioned that when driving in rain, one must not harbor a fluke mentality; a complete pre-departure vehicle inspection is the basic guarantee against rainstorm risks.
Sun Xun (孙逊), instructor of the Second Brigade of the Synthetic Operations Detachment of the Tianjin Public Security Bureau Traffic Management Corps (天津市公安局交通管理总队), reminded that drivers must complete basic self-checks before departure: focus on checking whether the braking device, windshield wipers, headlights, position lights, fog lights, and hazard warning flashers are functioning properly to ensure clear vision and adequate warning in rainstorm weather; check tire pressure and wear level—on urban slippery roads and waterlogged markings, it is very easy to skid, and tire condition directly determines driving stability; promptly clear drainage holes in sunroofs and doors to avoid blockage and backflow of water that could soak interior wiring and upholstery.
Turn off the auto start-stop function when getting in the car. Many car owners have noticed that in the early stage of rain, rainwater mixes with dust, oil, and dirt on the road to form a thin oil-water mixed film, which separates the tires from the road like lubricating oil, causing a decrease in road friction and reduced tire grip.
In this regard, Song Yang (宋扬), instructor of the Traffic Management Brigade of the Hoxud County (和硕县) Public Security Bureau of the Bayingolin Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture (巴音郭楞蒙古自治州) in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, reminded that car owners should not arbitrarily turn off the electronic stability program system. This system is in the default on state; if it is rashly turned off, then when driving in rain, especially on slippery sections, it can easily cause the vehicle to skid or roll over.
When driving in rain, fuel vehicle owners should first turn off the auto start-stop function after getting in the car. "If you do not turn it off, when driving through waterlogged sections in rain, the vehicle will attempt a second ignition when it stalls, easily causing engine damage," Song Yang said.
Traffic police remind that when driving in rain, one must maintain low speed and slow driving throughout the journey, reducing speed by 20 to 30 percent compared to usual and keeping a safe following distance of more than double the usual. Avoid sudden acceleration, sudden braking, and sharp steering to prevent vehicle sideslip and loss of control. When passing through waterlogged sections, one must carefully assess; if the water is too deep or the current is swift, detour is necessary; do not risk wading through water.
In addition, the use of lights is very particular. In light rain, turn on the low-beam headlights; never use high-beam headlights to avoid light reflecting off the rain interfering with one's own vision and that of oncoming drivers. When visibility is obstructed in heavy rain or rainstorm, promptly turn on the fog lights and hazard warning flashers to alert passing vehicles.
Do not restart the engine if the vehicle stalls or loses power while wading. What to do if the vehicle stalls or loses power while wading? Wang Jia (王佳), Senior Police Chief of Level Three of the Guizhou Provincial Public Security Department Traffic Management Corps (贵州省公安厅交通管理总队), introduced that the general rule for all vehicle models is: if the vehicle stalls or loses power in water, it is strictly forbidden to restart the engine or power on again. A second start may directly damage key components such as the engine and high-voltage battery.
If the vehicle unexpectedly stalls while driving and is trapped in a waterlogged section, the first thing is to open the door and escape. If the water level rises rapidly and the door cannot be opened, immediately use a safety hammer to strike the four corners of the windows to break them and escape, or evacuate through the trunk or sunroof. Quickly move to safe areas such as high ground or steps by the roadside, staying away from dangerous facilities such as utility poles and billboards.
When parking, choose high not low, choose stable not dangerous. When parking during the flood season, choosing the right location helps avoid hazards. Remember the following principle: choose high not low, choose stable not dangerous. For safe parking, the first choice is open, high-elevation outdoor level parking spaces and formal ground parking lots, with good drainage and no obstruction hazards, which can maximize avoidance of rainwater backflow and vehicle submersion.
Yu Zhouming reminded that urban parking needs to actively avoid three high-risk areas: stay away from the exterior walls, balconies, air conditioner external units, and hanging debris of high-rise buildings to prevent falling objects from high altitudes from hitting the car in strong winds; avoid roadside large trees, streetlights, billboards, and enclosure facilities to prevent them from toppling and damaging the vehicle; avoid low-lying areas, old underground garages, and parking areas with poor drainage to prevent water submersion.
During the flood season, are there special considerations for parking in rural areas? Rural terrain is complex, with many hazards from ditches, earth slopes, old houses, and field roads, which differ greatly from urban parking lots. Traffic police remind: Heavy rain can easily soften soil, causing slope collapses, rolling gravel, and falling trees, posing a higher risk of hitting the vehicle. When encountering heavy rain in rural areas, be careful not to park on riverbanks and beaches, farmland soft mud, low-lying dirt roads, or under old courtyard walls; after heavy rain, it is very easy for water to backflow or for riverbanks to overflow, making it difficult to move the vehicle at best, or causing the vehicle to be washed away at worst.
Ma Longfei (马龙飞), chief of the Traffic Order and Emergency Management Guidance Detachment of the Liaoning Provincial Public Security Department Traffic Management Corps (辽宁省公安厅交通管理总队), stated that if conditions permit, one can use pads or bricks to raise one side of the vehicle's chassis; prioritize choosing safe parking positions, such as hardened high ground in the village, the compound of the village committee, or elevated drying grounds.
Fuel vehicles and electric vehicles should take targeted protective measures. Traffic police remind that with the increase in new energy vehicles, the rain prevention points for fuel vehicles and electric vehicles differ, and targeted protection is needed.
"Fuel vehicles need to drive at low speed and steady when wading, without stopping or shifting gears halfway. Once water causes stalling, it is absolutely forbidden to restart the engine; otherwise, it will cause engine damage and insurance will not cover it. Although new energy vehicles have basic waterproof capability, it is only suitable for passing through shallow water," Yu Zhouming explained.
Sun Xun introduced that the wading height of a fuel vehicle depends on the height of the engine air intake. If water mixes in during the air-fuel mixing process, it can cause the engine to "choke" and stall. If the water depth is found to exceed half the height of the tires, water may enter the engine air intake; in that case, it is not recommended to drive through water. Pure electric passenger cars do not have this problem, but the battery pack is located at the vehicle's chassis, and during driving, it may encounter water flow impact, chassis scraping, etc. It is recommended that electric vehicles also use half the tire height as a reference standard for wading.
In addition, after driving in rain, the inspection precautions for fuel vehicles and electric vehicles also have different emphases. For fuel vehicles, focus on checking whether the engine has water ingress; if no stalling occurred, there is generally no problem. Secondly, check the braking system by repeatedly lightly pressing the brake to check whether braking force has decreased.
For electric vehicles, focus on checking whether the in-car instruments are displaying normally and whether there are circuit fault prompts. Do not charge immediately after wading; let the vehicle sit for about 4 hours before charging to prevent high-voltage line short circuits and leakage hazards. If an electric vehicle loses power or breaks down after wading, immediately move away from the vehicle, especially if it is submerged while charging; beware of high-voltage leakage injuries, and do not approach it yourself for inspection or repair.
When driving in rain, stability is the foremost principle, caution is the priority. When traveling during the flood season, keep in mind: careful inspection beforehand, steady driving en route, quick evacuation when encountering danger. Distinguish the risk-avoidance points for fuel vehicles and electric vehicles. Cast aside the fluke mentality, operate according to regulations, drive cautiously and slowly, to maximize avoidance of driving risks in rain and ensure a safe journey every time.
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The flexible arrangement in working methods "authorizes" individual behavior, leaves leeway for implementing regulations, and carves out space for goodwill to grow.
At the Tianyi Pavilion in Ningbo, Zhejiang — a library imbued with profound humanistic heritage — a new tale of goodwill has recently been added.
The scenic area had already reached its closing time, when a heavy downpour trapped dozens of visitors under the eaves of the southern gate. Security guard Master Cao did not clear the area on schedule as usual, nor did he urge people to leave. Instead, he silently accompanied everyone waiting under the eaves. Only after an hour, when the rain gradually subsided and all visitors had safely departed, did he lock the gate. This heartwarming gesture earned praise from netizens. One comment captured the sentiment of many: "This wait did not just shelter people from the wind and rain; it also held up the warm底色 (background tone) of the city."
We are always moved by stories that carry warmth. At the Longmen Grottoes scenic area in Henan, where vehicle access is prohibited, a sightseeing car was arranged for an elderly veteran of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea (抗美援朝). At Lanzhou University, which operates a reservation system, the school tacitly allowed a scrap-picking elderly person to enter the campus to collect discarded items — an act later written into a student's dissertation acknowledgments. A well-functioning society depends on the rigid constraints of rules, but when special circumstances arise, putting oneself in another's shoes (将心比心) — "waiting a little longer," "doing a little more" — conveys the warmth of humanistic care and also measures the height of social civility.
Details reflect warmth and also the precision of management. Master Cao "dared" to delay closing the gate in the rain; this sense of responsibility stemmed from the kindness in his heart and was also underpinned by the scenic area's management system. Staff at the Tianyi Pavilion Museum explained that the scenic area had repeatedly emphasized during training that, in the event of severe weather or similar situations, security personnel could appropriately delay closing time under the premise of ensuring visitor safety, and that this practice would continue to be followed in the future. This kind of flexible arrangement in working methods "authorizes" individual behavior, leaves leeway for implementing regulations, and also carves out space for goodwill to grow.
From commercial services to grassroots governance, such explorations of cleverly "leaving blank space" (留白) in management are numerous: Some shopping malls and catering enterprises grant "autonomous decision-making power" to frontline employees — employees gain a sense of fulfillment, customers improve their consumption experience, and the companies earn a better reputation. In many cities, public bus companies stipulate that drivers may reroute on their own in emergencies, and many critical moments have been turned into safety thanks to the drivers' decisive actions.
The heartwarming story under the eaves of Tianyi Pavilion, captured on camera by rain-sheltering citizens, liked and reposted by netizens, completed a warm circuit. Goodwill is transmitted, good practices are emulated, and together they will converge into more upwardly virtuous forces.
Return to TopBeijing, July 13 (Reporter Shen Shaotie (申少铁)) The National Medical Products Administration (国家药监局) and the National Healthcare Security Administration (国家医保局) recently formed a joint inspection team and, based on screening clues from drug traceability codes, conducted joint inspections of medical institutions and drug wholesale enterprises in some prefectures and cities in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Shanxi Province. It is understood that the joint inspection by the two departments focused on prominent issues in medical insurance fund management and key links in drug operation and distribution. Taking abnormal drug traceability and clues of duplicate medical insurance settlements as entry points, the inspection covered some medical institutions and pharmacies, and any violations found will be seriously investigated and punished in accordance with the law.
The National Medical Products Administration emphasized deepening source governance and severely cracking down on illegal and non-compliant behaviors in the drug operation field. It is necessary to accelerate the improvement of the drug traceability system and use the traceability system to accurately identify problems. It is necessary to continuously deepen departmental coordination and linkage, improve working mechanisms such as data sharing, clue transfer, and joint inspection, and firmly guard the bottom line of drug safety.
Return to TopBeijing, July 13 (Reporter Qiu Chaoyi) — A reporter learned from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security that, in accordance with the deployment of the Notice on Expanding the Pilot of Occupational Injury Protection for Workers in New Forms of Employment jointly issued by nine departments including the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the pilot of occupational injury protection for workers in new forms of employment has been fully rolled out in 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities as well as the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps starting from July.
Given the characteristics of workers in new forms of employment, such as high mobility and multi-platform employment, the occupational injury protection pilot adopts the methods of daily insurance enrollment, per-order fee calculation, monthly premium payment, and overall enrollment and overall coverage, ensuring that workers in new forms of employment can be included in the institutional protection and that platform enterprises can conveniently enroll. At the same time, social forces are innovatively introduced to participate in handling services, further improving the quality and efficiency of system operation. The pilot was launched on July 1, 2022, and has so far covered all order-takers of 11 major platform enterprises in three industries — ride-hailing, instant delivery, and intra-city freight — across 17 provinces. As of the end of June 2026, the cumulative number of insured persons under the pilot had reached 29.902 million, and the protective function for occupational injuries — especially major fatal accidents — of workers in new forms of employment has been effectively brought into play.
The platform enterprises newly added to the pilot include T3 Chuxing, Huaxiaozhu Chuxing, Sunshine Chuxing, Ruqi Chuxing, Xiangdao Chuxing, Jishi Yongche, Fengyun Chuxing, Shouqi Yueche, Meituan Dache, Xiaoxiang Supermarket, Hema Fresh, Dingdong Maicai, Pupu Supermarket, UU Paotui, and others. On this basis, all provinces will, following the principle of "as batches mature, include them in batches," bring small and medium-sized platform enterprises registered in the province within the three pilot industries into the pilot scope within the year as a whole, and by then more workers in new forms of employment will be covered.
Return to TopJuly 13, in the Houchang Village (猴场村), Jinlan Town (金兰镇), Qianxi City (黔西市), Guizhou Province, a village cadre (second from left) demonstrates the use of a lifebuoy to villagers. On that day, Houchang Village organized an activity to explain to villagers summer drowning prevention and traffic safety education knowledge, enhancing villagers’ self-protection awareness and emergency response capabilities.
Photo by Zhou Xunchao (周训超) / People's Vision (人民视觉)
Lanzhou, July 13 (Reporter Zeng Yichen (曾亦辰)) The Gansu Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security (甘肃省人社厅) recently issued the Mechanism for Moving the Threshold Forward to Address the Problem of Wage Arrears to Migrant Workers, promoting the transformation of wage arrears governance from post-incident handling to pre-incident prevention, specifying 16 concrete measures in 5 areas, and focusing on building a governance system of source prevention, dynamic oversight, and efficient handling. Gansu will establish a province-city-county three-level government-linked wage arrears governance work system, incorporate wage arrears governance into the comprehensive performance assessment for high-quality development with increased weighting, and allocate special funds for supervision and incentives. Relying on digital intelligence empowerment, it will input project information for construction contracts of 3 million yuan or more into the Longminggong (陇明公) platform, build a digital rights protection system of “one-click complaint, immediate response to the complaint,” monitor in real time and dynamically the implementation of systems such as real-name management, special wage accounts, and general contractor distribution, and promptly intervene and resolve early warning information identified and pushed. According to the requirements of the mechanism, relevant departments should conduct three lessons and provide proactive services. Before construction begins, conduct the first lesson, providing special training and warning education for heads of construction and building units, labor and wage supervisors, and migrant workers. During construction, conduct the second lesson, strengthening routine inspections and urging the implementation of systems such as special wage accounts, real-name management, and deposit funds. Before project completion, conduct the third lesson, requiring migrant workers to sign a wage settlement confirmation form when leaving the site, verifying wage payment before project completion, and not permitting projects with wage arrears to pass acceptance.
Return to TopLhasa, July 13 (Reporter Qiongda Zhuoga (琼达卓嘎)) — The reporter learned at a press conference held by the Information Office of the Government of the Tibet Autonomous Region that during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, Tibet plans to construct 1,000 plateau harmonious and beautiful villages (高原和美乡村), continuously driving agricultural and pastoral areas to be equipped with modern living conditions.
During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, Tibet cumulatively built 1,000 plateau harmonious and beautiful villages; the rural household toilet coverage rate and the human-livestock separation rate reached 84.41% and 98.95% respectively, and the living environment was significantly improved.
According to the introduction, in the specific selection of villages, priority will be arranged for villages along highway routes, border frontlines, around towns and cities, tourist scenic areas, and key industry agglomeration areas. Support will be focused on villages with a relatively large permanent population, those whose village plans have already been compiled and approved, those with a good industrial foundation, those with obvious infrastructure shortcomings, and those with complete grassroots organizations — villages of the agglomeration and upgrading type (集聚提升类).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 陆凡冰
This year, the sanfu (三伏) began on July 15, lasting a total of 40 days, 10 days more than last year, making it a long sanfu. Many people are preparing to apply "sanfu tie (三伏贴)." What is "sanfu tie"? Who is suitable for application? What precautions should be taken when applying?
Li Dong (李东), chief physician of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine at Peking University Third Hospital, introduced that "sanfu tie" belongs to the characteristic external treatment therapy of traditional Chinese medicine for "preventive treatment of disease" (治未病). It follows the traditional Chinese medicine theory of syndrome differentiation, selecting acrid-warm types of medicinals with effects such as dispelling cold and unblocking the meridians to make an application paste. During the sanfu period, when yang qi is most vigorous and temperature is highest in the year, it is applied to corresponding acupoints on the human body. By leveraging the yang qi of the season to assist the body's own upright qi, it achieves the effect of preventing disease and regulating and treating deficiency-cold type disorders.
Li Sai (李赛), attending physician of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine at Peking University Third Hospital, reminded that "sanfu tie" is not a universal health-preservation therapy. This therapy is more suitable for people with yang-deficiency constitution or long-standing accumulated cold-dampness in the body. It is mainly targeted at patients with chronic respiratory diseases that recur and worsen every spring, autumn, and winter, including those with chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; it is also suitable for the elderly and children who are physically weak, frequently catch colds, have year-round cough and wheezing, or recurrent respiratory infections. If one does not belong to the above constitution and disease conditions, it is not recommended to blindly apply "sanfu tie." Instead, a professional Chinese medicine practitioner can perform syndrome differentiation and replace it with a suitable Chinese medicine regulation plan.
In addition, those who suffer from various febrile diseases, are in the febrile period of infectious diseases, or have active pulmonary tuberculosis; those with internal heat that is relatively severe such as coughing up yellow thick phlegm, nosebleeds, oral ulcers; those with trauma, ulcers, or infection on the skin at the application site; and those with severe skin allergies or scar constitution are all unsuitable for use. Patients with diabetes, blood diseases, malignant hypertension, severe cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, severe liver and kidney dysfunction, bronchiectasis, and malignant tumors should use with caution during the acute attack or exacerbation period of the above diseases. Pregnant women and infants under 2 years old should also use with caution.
The selection of acupoints for "sanfu tie" is strictly particular, requiring a professional Chinese medicine practitioner to differentiate the syndrome and match acupoints. Routine acupoint selection includes: bilateral Feishu, Geshu, Gaohuang on the Foot Taiyang Bladder Meridian; bilateral Zhongfu on the Hand Taiyin Lung Meridian; bilateral Dingchuan as extra-meridian points; single acupoint Dazhui on the Du Meridian, single acupoint Danzhong on the Ren Meridian. In clinical practice, Dazhui is often used in combination with Danzhong. For those with cardiac insufficiency, Xinshu can be selected; for those with spleen-kidney yang deficiency, Pishu and Shenshu can be selected. For a single application, 3–4 shu points (6 application spots) are selected, used in rotation. It is recommended to give priority to Dazhui, Danzhong, bilateral Feishu, and bilateral Geshu points.
The traditional application time is the three sanfu periods of the lunar calendar, generally the first sanfu (chufu), middle sanfu (zhongfu) (and intercalary middle sanfu if any), and last sanfu (mofu). Conventionally, application begins from the first day of each sanfu period. For adults, apply continuously for 3 days each sanfu, once a day, each application for 6–8 hours; those prone to allergies may appropriately shorten the time. For children, apply 3 times each sanfu, with an interval of 3 days between each application, each application for 1–4 hours. Bathing is allowed 4–6 hours after removing the application.
After application, if the skin appears flushed, hot, slightly stinging, itchy, or has a few small blisters, these are all normal reactions to drug stimulation. If only small blisters occur, no special treatment is needed; just keep the affected area dry and clean, and wait for the blisters to absorb and subside on their own. Once severe conditions such as large-area skin redness and swelling, large blisters, or even skin ulceration, pus oozing, or bleeding appear, immediately stop application and promptly go to the hospital for treatment.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李红梅 王 浩 刘温馨
The National Climate Center (国家气候中心) predicts that during the main flood season this year, China’s overall climatic condition will be relatively poor, with an increase in extreme weather and climate events. In the eastern region, flooding will outweigh drought, and there will be two rainy belts, one in the north and one in the south. The northern rainy belt is located in the Northeast region, northeastern Inner Mongolia, North China, and northern East China, among other areas. Over the next five years, the feature of more rainfall in the north will continue on the whole. In the Northeast region and most of North China, the probability of above-normal precipitation is high, and the risk of disasters from heavy rain and severe convection is high. In the Northwest region, the risk of phased and regional meteorological drought is relatively high.
As global climate change progresses, the traditional climatic pattern of “drought in the north, flood in the south” (北旱南涝) is quietly changing, and extreme rainfall weather in the north is becoming more frequent. Especially since June of this year, frequent rainfall weather has occurred in the north. Beijing’s cumulative precipitation in June was nearly twice the average for the same period in the previous ten years, and the average precipitation in North China in June was the highest in the last ten years. Has the rain belt really “shifted northward”? What challenges does flood control in the northern region face?
The rainy belt in the northern region is shifting westward and expanding northward; the summer rainy belt exhibits significant interdecadal variations in north-south movement
“What the public perceives this year as a ‘northward shift of the rain belt’ is, to be precise, that in recent years there has been a significant rainy belt appearing in northern China during summer, coexisting with the rainy belt in the south,” said Chen Lijuan (陈丽娟), chief forecaster at the National Climate Center. According to meteorological observation data since 1951, the appearance of a rainy belt in northern China is a characteristic of interdecadal variation. The summer rainy belt exhibits significant interdecadal variations in north-south movement. For example, precipitation in the northern region was above normal from the 1950s to the 1970s, below normal from the 1980s to the 2000s, and above normal after 2010.
Against the background of global warming, the climatic pattern of China’s northern region (Northeast, North China, and Northwest) has taken on new features: the rainy belt is shifting westward and expanding northward; compared with the 1990s, in the past five years the area of China’s humid and semi-humid climate zones has expanded by more than 300,000 square kilometers; the extremity of precipitation in the northern region has increased, with both the frequency and intensity of heavy rain rising—the number of heavy rain days has increased by 55.6%, and the comprehensive intensity of heavy rain has increased by 55.3%.
Why has the rainy belt shifted westward and expanded northward? Chen Lijuan analyzed: First, the enhancement and northward expansion of the western Pacific subtropical high (西太平洋副热带高压, hereafter “subtropical high”) is the most direct cause of the westward shift and northward expansion of the rainy belt since 2010. China’s precipitation is concentrated in summer and has typical summer monsoon precipitation characteristics. The location and intensity of the rainy belt are deeply influenced by the summer monsoon circulation, especially the subtropical high. When the subtropical high is significantly farther north than normal, it enables more water vapor to be transported to the northern region. Since the 21st century, especially after 2010, the northern boundary of the subtropical high has shown a marked northward trend, while the western section of the subtropical high has clearly strengthened and extended westward, facilitating the transport of warm and moist air from the western Pacific and the Indian Ocean along the northwestern side of the subtropical high toward the north, thereby creating better water vapor conditions for increased precipitation in the north.
Second, the in-phase superposition of the interdecadal fluctuations of sea surface temperatures in the North Pacific and North Atlantic provides an oceanic signal background for the westward shift and northward expansion of the rainy belt. Generally, both the North Pacific Oscillation and the North Atlantic Oscillation have fluctuation periods of 20 to 40 years. When the former is in a negative phase or the latter is in a positive phase, both favor a stronger summer monsoon, transporting more water vapor to the northern region. Since 2010, the negative phase of the North Pacific Oscillation and the positive phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation have produced a superposition effect, which, while enhancing the East Asian summer monsoon, has also pushed the subtropical high further north.
In addition, global warming and human activities have intensified the occurrence of extreme heavy precipitation in the north. Research shows that for every 1 degree Celsius rise in global temperature, the water vapor content in the atmosphere increases by about 7%. Since 2010, China’s temperature has risen rapidly, and the atmosphere’s water-holding capacity has clearly increased. Under favorable atmospheric circulation conditions, this has led to frequent occurrences of extreme heavy precipitation events, exerting an important influence on the increase in annual precipitation in the north. The combined effect of the above factors has driven the westward shift and northward expansion of China’s rainy belt and increased precipitation in the north.
Extreme heavy precipitation events in the northern region show an increasing trend; measures need to be taken focusing on the new characteristics of compound disasters
Extreme heavy precipitation events in China’s northern region show an increasing trend. Statistics show that from 1961 to 2025, a total of 451 regional heavy rain events occurred during the flood season (June to September) in China’s northern region, with 61.6% of the heavy rain events concentrated in July and August. The number of heavy rain events during the flood season in the northern region and their comprehensive intensity show a trend of increase and intensification. Specifically, the average annual number of heavy rain events increased from 6.2 per year in the 1990s to 7.1 per year in the most recent ten years, and in the most recent five years it has reached an average of 9.2 per year. The comprehensive intensity of heavy rain events has increased by 3.7% on average every ten years, and in the most recent five years it has been 50.6% higher than the long-term average for the same period. The extremity of heavy rain in the northern region is highlighted under the influence of typhoon systems, with multiple extreme heavy rain events caused by typhoon systems in recent years.
For the northern region, what new challenges does the westward shift and northward expansion of the rainy belt bring? Liu Changjun (刘昌军), director of the Institute of Flood and Drought Disaster Reduction (防洪抗旱减灾研究所) of the China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (中国水利水电科学研究院), explained that some rivers in the northern region have short sources and swift flows, steep terrain with deep gullies, and thin soil layers. Once a short-duration, high-intensity heavy rain event occurs, it can easily quickly form slope runoff, flash floods, and floods in small and medium-sized rivers, and trigger landslides, collapses, and mudslides. The randomness, compounded nature, and disaster-inducing capacity of flood and waterlogging disasters have significantly increased.
Zhong Linhao (钟霖浩), researcher and deputy director of the Meteorological Disaster Research Center (气象灾害研究中心) of the National Institute of Natural Hazards (国家自然灾害防治研究院) of the Ministry of Emergency Management (应急管理部), explained that, first, against the background of climate change, a contradiction has emerged between the standards of flood control engineering in the north and the evolution of natural laws. China’s flood control standards mainly refer to the magnitude of flood that hydraulic engineering can withstand, expressed as a “return period.” Historically, large floods have been few in northern rivers, and the standards for embankments are often lower than those of the main streams in the south. However, over 70% of precipitation in the north is concentrated in the period from late July to early August (七下八上), and the problem of short-duration heavy rainfall is particularly prominent against the background of the westward shift and northward expansion of the rainy belt. Therefore, in the face of the westward shift and northward expansion of the rainy belt, strengthening research on climate risk prediction and scientifically setting flood control standards according to the new situation of climate change is an urgent priority for future flood control engineering measures in the north.
Second, when responding to flood control in the north under the westward shift and northward expansion of the rainy belt, measures need to be taken focusing on the new characteristics of compound disasters, fully considering the working condition of “rapid alternation between drought and flood” (旱涝急转). The contradiction between “early-stage drought resistance and water conservation” and “pre-flood-season reservoir drawdown for flood control” tests dispatch decision-making. It is necessary to establish a dynamic control mechanism for flood-limited water levels based on meteorological and hydrological forecasting, and to consider adding bottom outlets for flood discharge or emergency spillways, giving reservoirs the engineering capacity to rapidly empty storage capacity under emergency circumstances.
Finally, the northern region is facing the dual test of intertwined geological disaster and urban waterlogging risks. On the one hand, mountainous areas in the north are mostly covered by loess or have fragmented rock masses. After long-term drought, the soil contracts and cracks, and the soil-fixing capacity of vegetation decreases. When sudden heavy rain strikes, rainwater rapidly infiltrates along the fissures, easily triggering group-occurring geological disasters such as landslides and mudslides, whose destructive power far exceeds that of the perennially humid areas in the south. On the other hand, the design standards of urban pipe networks in the north mostly refer to historically low precipitation, and the redundancy of drainage systems is insufficient. Under short-duration extreme heavy rain, the frequency and disaster severity of waterlogging in old residential communities, sunken overpasses, and the like have risen sharply. To effectively respond to disasters in such key areas and specific hazard-bearing bodies, a shift is needed from “engineering rigid defense” to “resilience governance.”
Follow the laws, adapt to local conditions, and enhance flood control and disaster relief capabilities in the northern region
Flood control should prioritize prevention, and strengthening monitoring, forecasting, and early warning is an important means. Li Chenliang (李琛亮), director of the Fourth Division of Flood Control (防汛四处) of the Department of Flood and Drought Disaster Prevention (水旱灾害防御司) of the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部), explained that water authorities are accelerating the construction of a “three lines of defense” for rainfall and water regime monitoring and forecasting, integrating meteorological satellites, weather radars and water conservancy rain-measuring radar networks, rainfall station networks, and hydrological station networks into a coupled system. This extends the flood forecast lead time and improves the accuracy of flood forecasting. Water authorities urge relevant regions to implement responsible persons for the safe operation of reservoirs during flood season, strengthen patrol and defense, and scientifically respond to various dangerous situations; they also urge reservoirs with defects to operate empty during the main flood season and implement measures for the safe operation of hydraulic engineering under construction.
“Changes in the rain belt have put some small and medium-sized rivers that historically have had fewer floods and weak management foundations under greater flood control pressure,” Liu Changjun suggested. It is necessary to comprehensively strengthen the defense against floods and flash floods in small and medium-sized rivers, enhance forward-looking research and judgment, monitoring warnings, and emergency response. For river-related construction enterprises, migrant workers, tourists, and key groups such as the elderly, weak, sick, disabled, and children, responsibilities should be refined down to the smallest work units such as enterprises, construction sites, scenic spots, and village groups. When necessary, the public should be promptly relocated through means such as manual door-knocking, gong-beating, and whistle-blowing.
At the same time, does the westward shift and northward expansion of the rainy belt mean that the water shortage problem in the northern region has been resolved?
Liu Changjun explained that increased precipitation in some parts of the northern region is beneficial for replenishing river and lake water resources and groundwater, and for improving the ecological environment of grasslands, wetlands, and some arid and semi-arid areas. “However, the northern region has strong evaporation and large interannual fluctuations in precipitation. An increase in precipitation in individual years does not mean that the water resource shortage problem has been fundamentally resolved.”
Experts say that it should be clearly recognized that changes in the rain belt are reshaping the spatial pattern of flood and waterlogging disaster risks in China. The flood risk in the traditional rainy southern region still exists, while some parts of the northern region face new pressure from increased extreme heavy rain, flash floods, and floods in small and medium-sized rivers. Therefore, it is necessary to follow the laws of climate change and flood evolution, base actions on the different natural conditions and defense foundations of the south and north, compensate for shortcomings according to local conditions, and do more work that lays a foundation and has long-term benefits.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李红梅
Typhoon "Bavi" made landfall successively in Yuhuan (玉环), Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, and Yueqing (乐清), Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province. Thereafter, it moved from the northwestern part of Zhejiang Province into the southeastern part of Anhui Province and continued northward. Under the influence of "Bavi," on the 12th, heavy rainfall occurred in parts of Hebei, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other areas, with locally extreme rainstorms; during the day on the 13th, heavy to torrential rain occurred in parts of Jilin, Liaoning, Shandong, Jiangsu and other areas. Under the influence of "Bavi" and long-distance moisture transport, from the 13th to the 14th, there will be heavy rainfall in Liaoning, Jilin, Shandong, Anhui and other areas, with locally extreme rainstorms.
The typhoon has made landfall for two days; why does its intensity still remain at the tropical storm level? Why can it continue moving northward, bringing heavy rainfall to many areas? Experts provide interpretation.
Dong Quan (董全), chief forecaster of the Central Meteorological Observatory (中央气象台), explained that this typhoon is mainly supported by southerly airflow from near the equator; the continuous supply of moisture and energy has slowed the process of its intensity decay. It is expected to maintain tropical storm level before entering the sea, resulting in relatively long-lasting wind and rain impacts and a relatively wide range of influence. In addition, topography affects the wind and rain of the typhoon. On the windward side, as terrain elevation rises, airflow is forced to lift, leading to enhanced precipitation. In terms of wind, the "narrow-tube effect" (狭管效应) easily generated by special terrains such as mountain passes and funnel-shaped openings further intensifies local gust strength.
Dong Quan explained that a typhoon is like the "engine" of a very long moisture conveyor belt. Driven by it, warm and moist airflow from the ocean is transported northward over long distances to North China, Northeast China, and other areas, causing heavy precipitation in those regions. After Typhoon "Bavi" penetrated deep inland, although its central wind force weakened, its rainfall intensity did not weaken, and its impact range on China's land areas became wider.
Why can a typhoon continue moving northward, even delivering heavy rainfall to Northeast China, which is thousands of li away from its landfall location?
Zhao Dajun (赵大军), a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (中国气象科学研究院), explained that whether a typhoon moves northward depends on the typhoon's own intensity, thermal conditions, and so on. A typhoon usually moves along the periphery of the subtropical high, guided by it. Mid- to high-latitude westerly troughs and cold air activity also play a key role. During its northward movement, as the typhoon gradually approaches the mid-latitude westerly belt, strong jet streams will make the typhoon move faster.
In addition, a typhoon moving northward also requires certain thermal conditions. If the sea surface temperatures of the East China Sea, the Yellow Sea, or even further north are relatively high, and the ocean heat content is relatively sufficient, then it provides continuous energy supply for the typhoon's northward process, extending its maintenance time.
According to statistics, northward-moving typhoons frequently occur in July and August each year; typhoons in this period are "stronger" and can "withstand" the consumption of the northward process.
Statistics show that from the generation of a tropical disturbance to the moisture transport affecting the entire northern region, the overall life history of a northward-moving typhoon is about 5 to 10 days; after landfall, its circulation can still be maintained for 2 to 3 days or even longer, and the inland movement distance can reach 700 to 800 kilometers. Both the post-landfall duration and movement distance are far greater than those of westward-moving typhoons.
Topography plays an "amplifier" role. Taking the Taihang Mountains on the western side of North China as an example, as a natural barrier stretching across the North China Plain, the mountains can force the uplift of northward-moving warm and moist airflow, gather local moisture, and convert the abundant moisture carried by the typhoon into torrential rain, becoming an important driver of extreme rainstorms in North China.
Northward-moving typhoons may also be accompanied by multiple secondary disasters, forming a compound disaster chain — in northern mountainous areas, short-duration heavy rainfall easily triggers secondary disasters such as flash floods, mudslides, and landslides; when a typhoon passes along the coasts of the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea while moving northward, it brings storm surge risks to coastal areas; at the same time, the periphery of a northward-moving typhoon may also trigger severe convective weather such as tornadoes.
Against the background of global warming, the landfall locations of typhoons in China show a northward shift trend; the number of typhoons affecting China's northern regions has increased significantly, and their intensity has strengthened. To this end, experts propose that relevant departments and the public both need to discard outdated perceptions such as "no typhoons in the north," understand northward-moving typhoon disasters comprehensively and across the entire chain, fill the shortcomings in northern typhoon defense, and comprehensively improve the flood and typhoon prevention capabilities of the northern regions.
Return to TopBeijing, July 13 (Our reporter Dong Siyu (董丝雨)) A reporter learned from the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (国家林草局) that in recent years, China's grassland ecological conditions have been continuously improving, the ecological functions and productivity of grassland ecosystems have significantly increased, and the area of healthy and sub-healthy grasslands has reached 2.7 billion mu, accounting for more than 70%.
China is a large grassland country, with a grassland area of nearly 4 billion mu, ranking first in the world. In recent years, China has adhered to the principle of giving priority to protection, combining natural restoration with artificial restoration, coordinating the integrated protection and systematic governance of mountains, rivers, forests, farmlands, lakes, grasslands, and deserts (山水林田湖草沙), continuously optimizing the top-level design for grassland protection and restoration, continuously increasing the intensity of grassland protection and restoration, continuously implementing major ecological projects, strengthening the supervision of grassland resources, deeply implementing the grassland ecological award and subsidy policy (草原生态奖补政策), comprehensively implementing the system of grazing bans and rest periods on grasslands (草原禁牧休牧) and the grass-livestock balance system (草畜平衡制度), and promoting the overall improvement of the national grassland ecological situation.
During the 14th Five-Year Plan period (十四五时期), China has restored an average of more than 46 million mu of degraded grasslands per year, prevented and controlled grassland rodent and insect pests on an average area exceeding 100 million mu per year, and the annual fresh grass output of grasslands has exceeded 600 million tons.
A relevant person in charge of the Grassland Management Department (草原管理司) of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration stated that during the 15th Five-Year Plan period (十五五时期), China will continue to improve the grassland governance system and continuously enhance grassland governance capacity. It will coordinate and promote the organic integration of grass planting with greening, desertification control, and industry, and vigorously develop ecological grass-based livestock farming. It will adhere to graded and classified implementation of ecological restoration of degraded grasslands, increase efforts in cultivating and promoting high-quality grass seeds, and improve the supply capacity of high-quality forage grasses. It will continuously strengthen the protection of grassland resources, implement the fourth round of the grassland ecological protection subsidy and reward policy (第四轮草原生态保护补助奖励政策), and severely crack down on various illegal acts such as destroying grasslands for reclamation.
In 2022, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring 2026 as the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (国际牧场和牧民年), aiming to strengthen grassland governance capacity through international cooperation and promote ecological restoration and economic resilience. Around this theme, China will hold a series of activities to comprehensively showcase China’s achievements in grassland ecological protection and restoration, grassland monitoring and supervision, rational use of grasslands, development of grass-based livestock farming, and increase of herders’ incomes.
Return to TopIn Heihe, Heilongjiang, the large-ridge dense-planting soybeans planted by the Beian Branch of Beidahuang Agricultural Reclamation Group Co., Ltd. (北大荒农垦集团有限公司北安分公司) are in the critical period of summer management. Relying on soil nutrient big data and soybean growth status, each farm customizes nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and trace element formula fertilizers for each sub-district, while implementing the summer management techniques of chemical fertilizer reduction application and "one spray, three preventions" (一喷三防), thereby consolidating the foundation for a high soybean yield.
The photo shows a plant protection drone spraying a customized "nutrition meal" for a soybean field.
Photo by Lu Wenxiang (陆文祥) (Image China (影像中国))
Return to TopBeijing, July 13 (Xinhua) — (Reporter Kou Jiangze (寇江泽)) The Ministry of Ecology and Environment (生态环境部) and the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局) recently jointly issued the "Water Pollutant Discharge Standards for the Chishui River Basin (赤水河流域水污染物排放标准)."
This standard, following the principle of "problem-oriented, precise policy implementation" and aligning with current laws and regulations, proposes differentiated discharge control requirements by zone and category. First, in light of the water ecological environment quality improvement needs of different water bodies, the basin is divided into enhanced protection zones, key control zones, and general control zones, with differentiated discharge control requirements proposed for each. Second, focusing on two main discharge sources within the basin — centralized urban sewage treatment facilities and the fermentation alcohol and baijiu (white liquor) industries — the standard scientifically determines the daily average and instantaneous values of three major pollutants: chemical oxygen demand, ammonia nitrogen, and total phosphorus. While strengthening pollution reduction and improving discharge stability, it also enhances the efficiency of supervision and law enforcement. Third, on the basis of national standards, the standard tightens the baseline water discharge per unit product regulations for pollutant discharge units implementing the first-level standard, thereby promoting industrial water conservation and cleaner production, and strengthening ecological water quantity guarantees. The issuance and implementation of this standard play an important role in improving the water ecological environment quality of the basin and promoting the green development of key industries in the basin.
Return to TopOur newspaper Urumqi, July 13 (Reporter A'er Dake) The reporter learned from China National Petroleum Corporation's Tarim Oilfield (中国石油塔里木油田) that the main gas source of the West-East Gas Pipeline Project (西气东输工程) — CNPC's Tarim Oilfield — has cumulatively supplied gas to the West-East Gas Pipeline network exceeding 400 billion cubic meters, reaching 400.03394 billion cubic meters.
As China's largest ultra-deep oil and gas production base and the main gas source for the West-East Gas Pipeline, since the first line of the West-East Gas Pipeline was officially put into operation in 2004, the Tarim Oilfield has supplied one-third of the total gas volume transmitted through the West-East Gas Pipeline network. The high-quality natural gas produced from the Tarim Oilfield, through a crisscrossing pipeline network, reaches 15 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government along the route and more than 120 large and medium-sized cities, becoming an indispensable energy support for China's central and eastern regions.
The Tarim Oilfield has also taken multiple measures, such as refined development and station optimization and expansion, to enhance the supply guarantee capacity of the West-East Gas Pipeline. For example, the Kela 2 gas field (克拉2气田) has achieved high-quality development throughout its full life cycle, giving birth to seven high-yield gas wells with cumulative production of over 100 billion cubic meters each, forming China's largest cluster of hundred-billion-cubic-meter high-yield gas wells, and maintaining the highest record for average single-well production among individual gas fields in China. Currently, the daily average production of a single well in this gas field is as high as 800,000 cubic meters. To further enhance the gas supply guarantee capacity, the Tarim Oilfield has carried out three rounds of expansion of the key hub stations connecting various gas source areas and the West-East Gas Pipeline network, raising the maximum annual gas supply capacity from the initial 12 billion cubic meters to 40 billion cubic meters.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 曾亦辰
Standing on the sand dunes of the "Three-North" Shelterbelt Project operation area in the Baitujing region of Minqin County, Wuwei City, Gansu, Gao Feng, a senior forestry engineer at the Minqin County Forestry and Grassland Bureau, half-squatted down and patted the bulging "sand bags" beneath his feet. These cylindrical fabric bags, filled with yellow sand, are arranged into a "1.5-meter × 1.5-meter" grid on the sand surface, tightly trapping the shifting sand.
"In the past, sand control relied on wheat straw; now we can also 'use sand to control sand' (以沙治沙)." Gao Feng pointed at the sand bags and explained, "These bags will naturally degrade after a few years, supplementing nutrients for the Haloxylon ammodendron seedlings."
Minqin County is surrounded by the Tengger and Badain Jaran deserts on its east, west, and north sides; at one point in the last century, the desertification area exceeded 90%. To lock down the yellow sand, the people of Minqin began exploring methods as early as the 1950s. Under the guidance of technical experts, locals learned to make "straw checkboards." However, "Minqin does not produce wheat straw locally; the materials are mainly transferred from outside. Wheat straw is prone to weathering and fragmentation, and if the Haloxylon ammodendron used to fix the sand has not yet grown sturdy, when the wind rises, the straw must be re-laid," said Gao Feng.
In recent years, inspired by research on bio-based degradable materials, the Minqin County Forestry and Grassland Bureau, in cooperation with the Gansu Institute of Desertification Control and other research institutes, proposed an idea: use degradable materials to make cylindrical bags, directly fill them with shifting sand on the dunes, and use the sand itself to fix the sand.
What material to choose? The Minqin sandlands are already barren and fragile; the sand control material must absolutely not introduce new pollution. The team started with biomass raw materials such as corn starch and cassava, generated small-molecule lactic acid through microbial fermentation, and then performed polycondensation and melt spinning. This bio-based polylactic acid fiber sand bag not only has excellent UV resistance but can also gradually undergo hydrolysis and enzymatic degradation under the action of microorganisms, ultimately completely decomposing into water and carbon dioxide, achieving natural degradation.
"Using sand to control sand — the principle is actually quite ingenious." Gao Feng pointed at the junction between the sand bag and the surrounding sandland and explained. When the wind rises, the shifting sand near the surface hits the sand bag, and most of its force is dissipated. The sand spins around inside the grid, instead becoming more compacted, "welding" the sand bag onto the sand surface — this is 一脉相承 (yī mài xiāng chéng - "come down in one continuous line," consistent with) the traditional wisdom of "borrowing the wind's force, borrowing force to control sand." The rough surface of the sand bag further weakens the near-surface wind speed, keeping the sand surface stable for a long time.
Even more ingeniously, the sand bag is water-permeable and retains moisture. Rain or irrigation water seeps through the bag body into the sand layer but is not easily evaporated. "Its operation is relatively simple; its ability to fix sand, intercept flow, and resist wind erosion is relatively strong; after the material degrades, it helps the vegetation inside the sand barrier grow." Gao Feng opened a section of a half-degraded sand bag; the vegetation inside was already half a foot tall.
Today, in Minqin County, the preserved area of人工造林 (artificial afforestation) has reached more than 2.61 million mu, the enclosed and nurtured natural sandy vegetation covers more than 3.25 million mu, and a 380-kilometer ring-oasis lock-edge forest and grass belt forms a fully closed loop around the oasis. The county's desertified land and sandified land have achieved a "dual reduction" (双缩减) in both area and degree. Looking out, the degradable sand bag grid in the Qingtu Lake area is interspersed among the straw checkboard sand barriers, with Calligonum, Haloxylon ammodendron, and Nitraria having made their "home" within the grids. The model combining photovoltaic panels to form "power generation above the panels, sand fixation below the panels, and planting between the panels" further constructs a comprehensive protection system integrating "fixation, obstruction, and conveyance," exploring a new path of ecological priority and green development for arid desert areas.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李 刚 窦瀚洋
Recently, many parts of Europe have experienced a widespread heatwave, and Chinese-brand air conditioners and other electrical appliances have been favored by the European market. Why are Chinese cooling appliances so popular? Our reporters visited Zhejiang, Guangdong and other places to investigate relevant home appliance companies, to see how Chinese cooling appliances, with their innovation capabilities and complete supply chains, provide reliable products and services to overseas consumers. — Editor
Inside the Midea air conditioner production base in Nansha District (南沙区), Guangzhou, Guangdong, portable split air conditioners are being assembled in an orderly manner, with forklifts shuttling between the warehouse and the platform. "The factory with dedicated production lines is stepping up production to meet the demand of overseas markets," said Xiong Xueqin (熊学勤), Director of Midea Air Conditioner Overseas Europe Region.
At 17:17 on July 10, the X8120 train departed on time from Guangzhou International Port (广州国际港), carrying 55 containers of home appliances including air conditioners to Europe. "We implement the 'three priorities' measures of priority assembly, priority marshalling, and priority dispatch for portable air conditioner products, ensuring that the trains are shipped as much as possible, quickly and efficiently," said Zheng Puyang (郑蒲洋), supervisor of Guangzhou International Port. From April to June, China Railway Guangzhou Group Co., Ltd. (中国铁路广州局集团有限公司) shipped portable air conditioners and key accessories worth approximately US$52 million via China-Europe Railway Express, with the shipment of complete units exceeding 100,000 units.
As Europe experiences continuous high temperatures, portable split air conditioners produced by Chinese home appliance companies are selling well in the European market. Xiong Xueqin introduced that Chinese-brand air conditioners are favored in the European market, especially portable split air conditioner products, with sales growing rapidly, and some sales channels have already sold out.
The low penetration rate of air conditioners in European households stems from the influence of multiple factors: many urban buildings are historically protected, and the law prohibits drilling holes in external walls to install outdoor units; installation in ordinary apartments requires approval from the homeowners' association, a process that can take months; the installation fee for a single air conditioner by a certified technician is generally between 1,000 and 2,000 euros, far exceeding the price of the air conditioner itself.
Zhao Ali (赵阿立), Midea Air Conditioner Europe Product Manager, introduced that Midea's portable split air conditioner grasps user pain points, adopting a window-mounted design that allows consumers to complete assembly within 10 minutes without professional installation.
"This product was jointly developed by domestic and international R&D and design teams," said Zhao Ali. To facilitate user installation, Midea built the compressor into the indoor unit, while making the outdoor unit small and lightweight to fit European window sizes. At the same time, combined with a localized bracket design, consumers can quickly install it by hand, creating a plug-and-play product solution.
Data shows: In the first half of this year, Midea's overall air conditioner sales in the Western European market increased by more than 70% year-on-year, with sales of the portable split air conditioner single product in the German market exceeding 60,000 units in half a year, and the estimated annual sales across Europe reaching 200,000 to 300,000 units. "Since the product was launched three years ago, more and more channel distributors have come to us proactively seeking supply," said Xiong Xueqin.
Facing rapid order growth, Midea has urgently coordinated factory overtime production and is accelerating shipment to Europe via China-Europe Railway Express, with a total transit time of 15 to 25 days, about 25 days shorter than sea freight.
Data from the General Administration of Customs (海关总署) shows that in the first half of this year, China's air conditioner exports to the EU reached US$3.76 billion, a year-on-year increase of 43.2%, setting a record high for the same period. Exports of no-installation mobile air conditioners increased by more than 70%, making it one of the fastest-growing sub-sectors. The market share of Chinese air conditioner brands rose from 27% in 2023 to 41%. Companies such as Gree and TCL also stated that in France, Italy, Spain and other countries, actual air conditioner sales from January to June this year increased significantly year-on-year.
Products that bring "coolness" to Europe are not limited to air conditioners. Inside the production workshop of Zhejiang Ningbo Huikang Industrial Technology Co., Ltd. (惠康工业科技股份有限公司), from the start of final assembly to automatic packaging, a small ice maker rolls off the line every 15 seconds. Entering July, although the peak shipping season has passed, the company's production lines are still busy, producing about 25,000 ice makers per day.
The freshly produced ice makers are transported to large trucks for container loading. The shipping dispatcher directed while saying, "Normally there are more than twenty containers a day, of which about a quarter are sent to Europe." Beside him, Zheng Li (郑莉), the company's international trade director, introduced that the European market is growing rapidly, with the export share rising from 5% last year to 15% in the first five months of this year.
Behind the expansion of market space is the company's more than 20 years of continuous innovation. Entering the company's exhibition hall, a first-generation ice maker from 2003 came into view. "At that time, we could only use off-the-shelf refrigerator compressors, which were large and not suitable for European kitchens," said Zheng Li.
In response, Huikang Technology focused on making the product smaller. Taking a certain ice maker as an example, since its launch in 2003, it has undergone five iterations and upgrades, with its volume reduced by about 80%. On the other hand, the company adjusts product design according to consumer preferences in different regions. "Different ice shapes match different scenarios and can also provide certain emotional value," Zheng Li introduced.
In the view of Chen Yuepeng (陈越鹏), chairman of Huikang Technology, the rapid development of the ice maker industry is inseparable from the support of a complete industrial chain. In Cixi City (慈溪市), Ningbo, all the parts needed to manufacture a small home appliance can be found within two hours, and enterprises on the chain continue to innovate and upgrade. "Taking the compressor, a key component of ice makers, as an example, starting from 2006, we have jointly developed with multiple compressor suppliers, researching and developing related components inside the compressor, customizing smaller compressors, and redesigning the refrigeration system, so that the ice production volume has not decreased but increased," said Chen Yuepeng.
This year, Huikang Technology's new ice maker is selling well in the European market. The new ice maker is smaller in size but has improved ice-making efficiency, producing a batch of ice every 6 to 8 minutes with a power of only 95 watts. "Small size and low power consumption are the main selling points that European consumers value," said Zheng Li.
Data from Ningbo Customs (宁波海关) shows that from January to May this year, the city exported cooling home appliances such as electric fans, refrigerators, air conditioners, and ice makers to Europe worth 2.73 billion yuan, of which ice makers increased by 36.8% year-on-year. In the sub-sector of household ice makers, Huikang Technology holds a 31% global market share.
In Area 2 of Yiwu International Trade City, Zhejiang, many cooling products are hot items for foreign businessmen. At the shop of Hao Chen Electrical Appliances (浩宸电器), a waist-hanging fan that looks like a stylish waist bag is selling well. The person in charge, Ding Jun (丁俊), introduced that unlike traditional hand-held fans, this product can be hung around the neck or clipped to the waist, making it more convenient to carry. At the shop of Xingbao Umbrella Industry (星宝伞业), the person in charge, Zhang Jiayuan (张佳媛), demonstrated a parasol with a built-in fan inside the umbrella, and under the handle, a tube can be connected to a bottle of water to spray water mist for cooling. "After multiple iterations, the product has not only upgraded the charging port, but the umbrella ribs have also been upgraded from a long-handled version to a more portable three-fold version," said Zhang Jiayuan.
Data from the Yiwu Cross-Border E-Commerce Association (义乌跨境电商协会) shows that from January to May this year, Yiwu achieved cross-border e-commerce transaction volume of 81.175 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10.23%, of which exports of mobile air conditioners, electric fans and other products to Europe increased by more than 70% year-on-year, with the cooling category becoming an important engine driving export growth.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 吴 燕 韩文榕
The “15th Five-Year Plan” (十五五) outline proposes to “accelerate the building of a Healthy China (健康中国)” and “expand and strengthen the traditional Chinese medicine industry.” What new opportunities face Chinese pharmaceutical enterprises? How can they open up new channels and new markets, and promote industrial innovation and upgrading? A reporter recently conducted a face-to-face exchange with Xu Haoyu (徐浩宇), Party Secretary, Chairman, and President of the Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group (扬子江药业集团), to discuss hot topics in the pharmaceutical and health industry.
— Editor
“Confidence in traditional Chinese medicine culture will not be established out of thin air; it must form recognition through health benefits”
Q: Traditional Chinese medicine is increasingly loved by young people. How can we further promote traditional Chinese medicine culture?
A: Confidence in traditional Chinese medicine culture will not be established out of thin air; it must form recognition through health benefits. The first thing to look at is efficacy, and efficacy is the prerequisite for trust.
On the one hand, we should leverage the unique advantages of traditional Chinese medicine in chronic disease management, rehabilitation, and other fields, normalize the promotion of science popularization at the grassroots level, and bring practical health-preservation methods to everyone; on the other hand, by developing light health-preservation products, we can increase the reach of traditional Chinese medicine among young people, enabling them to become fans and disseminators of traditional Chinese medicine while improving their health.
In addition, digital means can be used to strengthen the protection and transformation of ancient Chinese medical texts and classic prescriptions, which can be achieved through modern technological innovation and upgraded manufacturing processes.
Q: Some market chaos has caused public concern about the quality of Chinese medicinal materials. How can this concern be resolved?
A: China’s area for planting Chinese medicinal materials exceeds 50 million mu, and the scale is still expanding. However, because standardization of planting has not been fully covered, some problems have arisen. It is necessary to continuously strengthen quality control of Chinese medicinal materials.
For example, accelerating the construction of a whole-industry-chain quality credit assurance system for the Chinese medicinal materials industry can, at a high starting point, build a batch of regional smart ecological planting comprehensive demonstration zones in the seven major genuine medicinal material key producing areas, thereby driving standardized planting and processing, and improving the protection of germplasm resources. In addition, a unified national quality credit archive database for Chinese medicinal material business entities can be established, strengthening the linkage between quality credit evaluation and regulation, so as to both protect the reasonable income of medicinal herb farmers and innovate development guarantee mechanisms.
Q: The Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group has developed light health-preservation products such as astragalus coffee. Some people think that a pharmaceutical company making coffee is “not attending to its proper business.” What is your view?
A: The public needs both therapeutic drugs for life-threatening moments and daily health management. These products can be understood from two levels: first, using popular product types as a carrier to incorporate the health-preservation value of traditional Chinese medicine; second, as a modern extension of the concept of “medicine and food homology” (药食同源), integrating traditional wisdom with the living habits of contemporary people through innovation, so that traditional Chinese medicine can be integrated into daily life more quickly and better.
Q: What advantage does a pharmaceutical company have in entering the large health industry?
A: Persisting in safeguarding health is the root of running a good pharmaceutical enterprise. For 55 years, we have always been focused on the matter of health. What consumers value most when choosing large health products is safety and efficacy, and the professional reputation and brand口碑 accumulated by pharmaceutical enterprises in clinical research and quality control can generate natural trust among consumers. Pharmaceutical enterprises have a systematic understanding of physiological functions and disease prevention, enabling them to accurately pinpoint daily health pain points and develop products that meet needs. Coupled with mature industry chain control capabilities, they can ensure controllable raw material quality and stable production rhythm and costs.
“Whether making generic drugs or innovative drugs, we must meet the health needs of the people”
Q: The Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group has continuously launched innovative drugs. Does this mean a strategic shift from generic drugs to innovative drugs?
A: Whether making generic drugs or innovative drugs, we must meet the health needs of the people. Only by making good drugs can a company be a qualified pharmaceutical and health enterprise.
Currently, competition in innovative drugs is also very fierce. We adhere to a “three-drug simultaneous development” approach of traditional Chinese medicine, chemical drugs, and biological drugs, advancing both generic drugs and innovative drugs simultaneously, not simply pursuing profit but upholding social responsibility.
Q: Some patients feel that “original research drugs are more stable and have fewer side effects.” How do you evaluate the development of domestic generic drugs? How should public doubts be dispelled?
A: This concern reflects a high level of attention to drug quality, which we fully understand. After years of development, a large number of domestic generic drugs in China have passed consistency evaluation, reaching the same level as original research drugs in terms of quality, safety, and efficacy. Dispelling public doubts requires multi-party efforts.
On the one hand, it is necessary to strengthen science popularization, explain the research and development process and quality standards of generic drugs, so that the public understands that the manufacturing processes of generic drugs are safe, credible, and effective; on the other hand, the pharmaceutical industry and regulatory authorities need to further improve the interpretation of relevant professional data, ensure that information is true, accurate, authoritative, and traceable, and provide simplified explanations of key information. At the same time, strengthen long-term follow-up guidance for patients on medication use, so that patients can feel the efficacy during use.
“The healthy development of private enterprises, just like a person’s health, requires investment, learning, and perseverance”
Q: A “traditional Chinese medicine craze” has appeared on overseas social media platforms. Has the overseas expansion of traditional Chinese medicine become easier than before? How can this craze be transformed into long-term trust?
A: The overseas “traditional Chinese medicine craze” in recent years has indeed created a favorable public opinion atmosphere and market foundation for the overseas expansion of traditional Chinese medicine. Many foreign friends specifically visit Chinese medicine hospitals when traveling to China. To turn the craze into long-term trust, multi-dimensional and systematic promotion is still needed.
First, strengthen evidence-based support, which is the basis for recognition by overseas regulatory systems and the international medical community. We cannot only talk about traditional experience; we must proactively align with international standards, conduct clinical research that meets international norms, and use modern scientific methods to clearly explain the efficacy and safety of traditional Chinese medicine.
Second, cultural dissemination must also be done well. Traditional Chinese medicine is not only a medical technology but also carries the health concept of “preventing disease before it occurs” (未病先防) and Eastern culture. Use localized language and communication methods to convey the value of traditional Chinese medicine, dissolve cultural cognitive differences, and enable them to transform from curiosity and trying something new to value recognition.
In addition, traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes treatment based on syndrome differentiation. The overseas expansion of traditional Chinese medicine cannot stop at the product sales level. Where conditions permit, research, production, and sales centers can be established overseas, local talent can be recruited, products and services can be optimized according to local health needs, and better adaptation to local regulatory requirements and consumer demands can be achieved.
Q: As a chain leader in the industry, you have access to a large amount of industry data. Will this data help the company expand new business models?
A: The pharmaceutical field has accumulated massive amounts of data. Under the premise of ensuring data security and compliance, and strict desensitization and declassification, pharmaceutical data can be assetized. There are three directions.
First, shorten the R&D cycle. Relying on full-chain pharmaceutical data, combined with new technologies such as artificial intelligence, reduce the cost of trial and error. For example, a large amount of data is accumulated during the new drug R&D process, and after processing, this data can become a commodity for trading.
Second, coordinate the entire industry chain. Break down data barriers across all links of medicinal material planting, production processing, and market circulation, creating an uninterrupted data chain from the source to the end user. This can effectively control product quality while reducing costs, and improve the operational efficiency of the entire industry chain, enhancing the industry’s ability to resist risks.
Third, the “pharmaceutical+” ecosystem business model. Promote the integration of pharmaceutical data with health services, finance and insurance, and other fields. For example, using compliantly desensitized public data to provide data support for insurance institutions to develop precise health insurance products related to health.
Q: In your view, how can private enterprises achieve healthy development?
A: The healthy development of private enterprises, just like a person’s health, requires investment, learning, and perseverance. Only by understanding who you are learning for can you truly achieve success in learning. Private enterprises cannot only pursue making money; they must practice social responsibility and hold onto the root of the enterprise in order to walk straight, walk steadily, and walk far.
Return to TopOur newspaper Beijing, July 13 (Reporter Qu Xinming (屈信明)). In order to strengthen the cybersecurity supervision and management of banking financial institutions, insurance financial institutions, and financial holding companies, and to regulate cybersecurity work, the National Financial Regulatory Administration (金融监管总局) has drafted the Management Measures for Cybersecurity in the Banking and Insurance Industries (Draft for Public Comment), which is now open for public comment.
The Measures consist of 8 chapters and 72 articles, putting forward clear requirements in areas such as cybersecurity governance, cybersecurity construction and operational management, and cybersecurity risk monitoring. They summarize the effectiveness of science and technology regulatory work in recent years, transform practical experience into institutional achievements, and improve work mechanisms.
The Measures take into account the business characteristics of banking and insurance financial institutions, promote the implementation of cybersecurity protection responsibilities, embody the concept of big cybersecurity, and emphasize the cybersecurity governance philosophy of unified management across the entire group, coordination between technology and business, and co-governance through the coordinated efforts of the three lines of defense. They reflect tiered and categorized management. On the basis of putting forward overall cybersecurity management requirements for banking and insurance financial institutions, they set higher requirements for the management of critical information infrastructure.
Return to TopOn July 13, at the dock of the Dongfang Port Branch (东方港务分公司) of Lianyungang Port in Jiangsu Province, large quantities of domestically produced automobiles were gathered at the port, ready for loading onto ships for export abroad. In the first half of 2026, the automobile export business at Lianyungang Port in Jiangsu Province presented a trend of rapid growth. Photo by Wang Chun (王春) (Image China (影像中国)).
Return to TopOur newspaper Nanjing, July 13 (Reporter Wang Weijian (王伟健)) The reporter learned from the Jiangsu Province Traditional Industry Renewal Work Promotion Meeting that: Jiangsu Province has formulated and issued a three-year action plan for traditional industry renewal and upgrading (2026–2028), proposing a clear roadmap for Jiangsu’s traditional industry renewal work. The action plan proposes that the renewal of traditional industries revolves around the development directions of high-end, intelligent, green, and integrated transformation, focusing on industry sectors such as light industry, textiles, metallurgy, chemicals, building materials, and machinery, and implementing the actions of high-end leapfrogging, green transformation, product upgrading, integrated innovation, and layout optimization (高端跃升、绿色转型、产品提档、融合创新、布局优化), so as to promote key industries to improve quality and increase efficiency, and accelerate the formation of new quality productive forces (新质生产力). In addition, the action plan specifies that by the end of 2028, Jiangsu’s traditional industrial structure will be further optimized, with development quality and benefits steadily improving. The level of production line intelligence and process digitization will continuously rise, and high-end supply capacity will be significantly enhanced.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 范昊天
In summer, in the ten-thousand-mu tea garden of Xincheng Town, Dawu County, Xiaogan City, Hubei Province, machinery hums as 45-year-old tea farmer Liang Chuyang (梁初阳) from Changling Village carries a portable electric tea plucking machine on his back, gently sweeping the tea tips with the tool; the tender green fresh leaves are neatly harvested and fall into the collection bag.
"Our family has grown tea plants for over 30 years. In the past we only plucked the buds and leaves of spring tea; the old leaves from summer and autumn could not be sold at a good price. Now summer-autumn tea can also bring income," says Liang Chuyang. Having once worked in Guangdong, he returned to his village last year and, through selling tea, working locally, and other means, earns an annual income of over 100,000 yuan.
Dawu County is a key tea-producing county. However, over a long period the tea production model was relatively simple: tea farmers concentrated on plucking just one season of spring tea to make premium green tea, while the bitter-tasting, low-priced summer-autumn tea was often ignored.
Liang Yunying (梁云英), Party branch secretary of Zhuwan Village, Xincheng Town, was determined to change this situation. After being elected a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress in 2023, she led teams multiple times to conduct research in tea-producing areas such as Henan and Anhui. The yellow tea processing technique researched by Anhui Agricultural University (安徽农业大学) made her eyes light up.
"The classification of China's six major tea categories is not based on the tea plant variety but on differences in processing techniques and degree of fermentation," says Liang Yunying. Yellow tea is a lightly fermented tea; after processing, the originally bitter summer-autumn tea can achieve a dual improvement in quality and value.
In August of that year, through Liang Yunying's connections, local worthy Wang Shidong (王仕栋) returned to his hometown of Dawu County, introduced Anhui Agricultural University's full-process digital production line technology, and established Hubei Honglühuang Tea Industry Co., Ltd. (湖北红绿黄茶业有限公司) in Zhuwan Village.
Entering the company's production workshop, the fragrance of tea fills the air. After processes including spreading and withering, rolling, yellowing, drying, and enhancing aroma with charcoal fire, baskets of dried tea leaves with a tender yellow color come out fresh.
"Insufficient yellowing makes the taste bitter; excessive yellowing makes the taste sour," says Wang Shidong. The company innovatively adopts the "three yellowings, three dryings, charcoal fire aroma enhancement" process, precisely setting the yellowing time according to different temperatures and the tenderness of the fresh leaves. Yellow tea processed from summer-autumn fresh leaves can sell for up to 480 yuan per jin.
As of now, Hubei Honglühuang Tea Industry Co., Ltd. has cumulatively purchased more than 600,000 jin of fresh leaves, driving more than 2,200 tea farmers in 12 surrounding townships to increase income and become prosperous. The company has also developed more than ten derivative products such as yellow tea sesame candy, rice wine, and pastries.
"Starting from late May, we began harvesting summer tea; we have already sold about ten thousand yuan," says Liang Chuyang. Developing the yellow tea industry does not increase the area of tea gardens, yet per-mu income can increase by over 2,000 yuan.
What "turns waste into treasure" is not only yellow tea. Entering Jindun Village, Hekou Town, neat and uniform tea ridges roll continuously; fully automatic tea-plucking vehicles shuttle among them. Fresh tea greens harvested from the fields can reach the production line in 15 minutes. In a constant temperature and humidity environment, after deep processing such as de-stemming, de-enzyming, roasting, and grinding, the leaf flesh ultimately becomes fine and delicate matcha powder.
"Matcha has extremely high requirements for raw materials. We carefully select excellent varieties such as Zhongcha 108 and Longjing 43, overcome key technologies like shade cultivation. Fresh leaves are harvested from one season per year to three seasons per year; processed into matcha, the per-mu income exceeds 30,000 yuan, four to five times that of traditional premium tea," introduces Zhang Xia (张霞), head of the matcha workshop of Hubei Banbingwei Tea Industry Co., Ltd. (湖北半兵卫茶业有限公司). The company has become a matcha supplier for many well-known brands and exports to Europe and America.
In 2017, Dawu County precisely attracted investment to bring in Hubei Banbingwei Tea Industry Co., Ltd., transferring 3,500 mu of land in Jindun Village to build a matcha base and modern processing production line, increasing annual village collective income by 200,000 yuan. Currently, the company produces 500 tons of matcha annually, with an output value of 120 million yuan, and has enabled 158 villagers to become nearby industrial workers.
Yu Haiqun (余海群), Vice Mayor of Xiaogan City and Party Secretary of Dawu County, says that through innovative techniques and developing primary and deep processing of tea, Dawu County has formed an industrial pattern of "spring, summer, and autumn three-season harvesting, and full categories of black, green, yellow, white, and matcha." The county has 24 tea products certified with "two products and one standard" (two products: pollution-free agricultural products and green food; one standard: geographical indication), and last year the county's nearly 300,000 mu of tea achieved a comprehensive output value of 2.8 billion yuan, with 100,000 people increasing their incomes along the tea industry chain.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 孙 超
In a ginger field in Maqiao Town (马桥镇), Rucheng County (汝城县), Chenzhou City, Hunan Province, town Party secretary Chen Guanzhou (陈贯周) stepped on the ridge, bent down, grabbed a handful of crushed straw returned to the field and said: “It’s all rotted through; the land is very fertile this year.”
More than a year ago, straw burning was still a headache for cadres in Maqiao Town. The local area has a long history of growing ginger, and the common people were accustomed to burning ash to fertilize the soil; smoke would always rise from the field edges every now and then.
Regarding the ban on burning, the province had regulations, and cities and counties had supervision and guidance. Once a fire point appeared, the township would be notified and also required to rectify within a time limit. All the necessary steps were present, but the problem of straw burning had still not been completely resolved. “On the one hand, I felt pressure; on the other hand, I was indeed somewhat confused,” Chen Guanzhou admitted frankly.
This kind of layer-by-layer supervision added a considerable amount of work, yet could not truly solve the problem, and instead brought great pressure to the grassroots.
The change stemmed from an adjustment in the inspection method. “In the past, inspections were full-coverage investigations and undifferentiated notifications; townships spent all day dealing with inspections. Now it is targeted supervision: problem inspection and professional guidance are synchronized, precise and pragmatic,” said Yu Zhenzhen (余珍珍), a cadre in the Inspection Office of the Rucheng County Party Committee (汝城县委).
Addressing Maqiao Town’s problems, inspection cadres brought in neighboring townships for comparative analysis and found that Maqiao Town had insufficient absorption capacity and lacked technical means — this was the deep-seated reason why straw burning continued despite repeated bans. Subsequently, the Rucheng County Party Committee Inspection Office proactively connected Maqiao Town with cattle farms that needed straw, and coordinated with agricultural machinery companies to modify harvesters for agricultural machinery cooperatives, raising the town’s level of comprehensive straw utilization and crushed-straw return to the field. “It both points out problems and helps find a way out; the change in inspection method has greatly benefited the grassroots!” Chen Guanzhou said.
Behind this is a shift in the philosophy of supervision, inspection, and assessment. Chenzhou City comprehensively promotes “non-disturbance inspection” (无扰督查) and explores “combining inspection with assistance” (督帮结合), pushing for a reduction in quantity and improvement in quality of supervision, inspection, and assessment.
For reduction in quantity, how to pinpoint the crux and reduce the true involution-style burdens?
“Before, there were over 70 work groups on my phone, ranging from the city level to the town level, often demanding materials and data layer by layer; now there are only five left, much quieter,” said Cao Hai’ou (曹海欧), Party branch secretary of Tashui Village (塔水村), Huatang Town (华塘镇), Beihu District (北湖区). His words expressed the common feeling of many grassroots cadres.
“In response to the problem of too many and too frequent supervision, inspection, and assessment, Chenzhou adheres to ‘no inspection without planning’ (无计划不督), ‘no inspection without procedures’ (无程序不督), ‘code-assigned inspection’ (赋码督查), and ‘group inspection’ (组团督查), clearly specifying that similar items should be merged where possible. The proportion of unannounced visits conducted using the ‘four noes and two directs’ (四不两直) method (no notification, no greeting, no briefing, no escort reception; go straight to the grassroots, go straight to the site) is no less than 90%. During inspections, no meetings are convened, no briefings are heard, and no materials are required to be provided. The city’s planned items have been continuously reduced from 172 items in 2019 to 15 items by 2026, a reduction rate of 91%; this year, the city’s recorded items for supervision, inspection, and assessment have also been reduced to 10,” introduced Hu Yalan (胡娅兰), inspection commissioner of the Chenzhou Municipal Party Committee (郴州市委).
The “baton” of city-level assessment also underwent a “major slimming down.” In terms of quantity, it was reduced from 1,940 items to 139 items, a reduction rate of 92.8%. “For special assessments such as Peaceful Construction (平安建设), Comprehensive Rural Revitalization (乡村全面振兴), and Ecological Environment (生态环境), we did not simply copy the indicators and press them onto counties, cities, and districts; instead, we classified and refined work tasks and integrated them into the indicators required by higher authorities. All assessments targeting counties, cities, and districts implement ‘once a year, one team, one completion,’ and make greater use of data sharing, daily supervision, and other methods,” introduced Cao Bo (曹波), director of the Assessment and Evaluation Office of the Organization Department of the Chenzhou Municipal Party Committee (郴州市委组织部).
After quantity reduction, improving quality is even more important. How can supervision avoid disturbing the grassroots while thoroughly investigating and solving problems? Chenzhou deployed a series of combined measures.
Coordinate and regulate multiple-head inspections: enter once, inspect multiple matters.
In May this year, Chenzhou experienced continuous heavy rainfall, making flood prevention safety inspections urgent. Departments including emergency management, housing and urban-rural development, water resources, fire protection, and natural resources all had responsibilities. From May 20 to 26, the Inspection Office of the Chenzhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government took the lead, integrated the strength of six departments, formed four special supervision teams, and carried out comprehensive supervision.
“The time used for risk removal and levee patrol was already precious; in the past, departmental inspections took turns, and the grassroots were overburdened. Joint supervision allowed each to perform its own duties without overlapping, greatly improving efficiency,” recalled Hu Quanfeng (胡荃峰), then leader of the first supervision team. “In seven days, we visited over 120 units and identified more than 150 hidden dangers.”
It changed from merely transmitting pressure to jointly solving difficult problems.
On Yanquan Street (燕泉街道) in Beihu District, a 176-meter-long “broken road” (断头路) (duàn tóu lù – literally “broken-head road,” a road that cannot be completed due to obstacles) had been left unresolved for eight years. It was both a “livelihood road” that the masses eagerly awaited to be unblocked, and a 烫手山芋 (tàng shǒu shān yù – “hot potato,” a troublesome issue) in the eyes of street cadres. At the end of June last year, the Chenzhou Municipal Party Committee urged supervision, demanding that Beihu District open Luoxian Middle Road (骆仙中路) as soon as possible.
“The time window for construction and opening to traffic was less than two months. How to persuade individual relocated households, whether approvals could be efficient and smooth, whether funds could be in place in time — just thinking about it was difficult. I was afraid that higher authorities would only press tasks layer by layer, and all these matters would have to be handled entirely by district-level departments and street offices,” said Hu Jun (胡俊), director of the Inspection Office of the Beihu District Party Committee (北湖区委).
Unexpectedly, it coincided with the Municipal Party Committee Inspection Office introducing a “dual assignment” (双交办) system: the Municipal Party Committee Inspection Office supervises municipal departments, the District Party Committee Inspection Office supervises district-level units, and a reverse-countdown schedule “ties” together the three levels of city, district, and street departments. Fund guarantees and approval coordination were borne by the city and district levels, while cadres of Yanquan Street only needed to focus on mass work and assist in daily site management. In the end, the project was completed on time, the former urban “bottleneck” was unblocked, and the traffic layout was further optimized.
Go directly to the site to find problems, without adding burden to the grassroots.
“Workers not wearing safety helmets properly, not fastening safety ropes, steel pipes stacked illegally…” Recalling an unannounced inspection last year, Hu Jiansong (胡剑松), director of the Rucheng Longhu Reservoir Management Office (汝城龙虎洞水库管理所), had a fresh memory. Reporters from the Chenzhou TV (郴州电视台) program Red Line (《红线》) brought professional cadres from the Municipal Water Resources Bureau (市水利局) to directly rush to the construction site. The problems were exposed at a meeting of the Municipal Party Committee Standing Committee, and the county Party secretary watched remotely and synchronously. “The method of going directly to the site both freed us from the pressure of submitting materials and receiving inspections, and exposed problems, making the responsibility for implementing daily safety production work truly hang over our heads,” Hu Jiansong said.
To reduce the cumbersome reception and layer-by-layer escalation in supervision, inspection, and assessment, since 2023, the Chenzhou Municipal Party Committee has established a special team for “unannounced visits to look for problems” (暗访看问题). Reporters, together with professional cadres, go directly to the front line to find problems, without occupying grassroots resources or adding burden to the grassroots. Over three years, more than 3,000 problems have been exposed, forming a work closure loop of “exposure — rectification — look-back.” “During the rectification stage, inspection cadres and I solidly walked along the canal for dozens of kilometers, fighting side by side with us, discussing countermeasures together,” Hu Jiansong said.
From “only inspecting without guiding” (只督不导) to “empowering layer by layer” (层层赋能), Chenzhou uses a change in work style to drive a change in efficiency, allowing grassroots cadres to travel light and be more motivated and faster in areas such as economic development, comprehensive rural revitalization, and livelihood security.
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Supervision is an important means to promote grassroots-level vigorous implementation. However, in some places, supervision has deviated and gone stale: some, upon discovering problems, 蜻蜓点水 (qīng tíng diǎn shuǐ - "dragonfly skims the water," to do something superficially), leave behind a rectification notice and then walk away; others only emphasize the process of "supervision" (督), but neglect the responsibility of "guidance" (导), treating problem discovery as an achievement, and pushing the task of how to solve difficulties to the grassroots. This kind of supervision that only takes the pulse but does not prescribe medicine, only names names but does not point the way, appears to be strict at every level, but in reality becomes a mere formality, increasing the burden on the grassroots, and even giving rise to a phenomenon where the more frequent the supervision, the weaker the implementation.
The existence of the "supervision without guidance" phenomenon stems from some localities and departments regarding "how many problems have been found" and "how many circulars have been issued" as work achievements, while "hanging up high" the responsibility for solving problems. To change this situation, on the one hand, we should start from the character "supervision" (督), streamline supervision matters, slim down assessment indicators, and put an end to meaningless layer-upon-layer escalation and repeated supervision; on the other hand, we should land on the character "guidance" (导), transforming "only supervision without guidance" into "supervision combined with assistance." By implementing the "dual-handover system" (双交办) and "non-intrusive supervision" (无扰督查), Chenzhou has emerged from the predicament of higher-level assignment and grassroots-level fighting alone. Faced with grassroots difficulties, higher-level departments go down to the front line, coordinate resources, and jointly tackle challenges, replacing "only managing handovers" with "integration of supervision and assistance," which both reduces the burden on the grassroots and promotes the resolution of difficulties.
Only with less formalism and more sense of responsibility for jointly answering the same questions can supervision, inspection, and assessment return to their original purpose and better play their role.
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Multi-channel listening to the public voice and gathering public opinion, based on the actual situation and precise policy implementation, can make urban governance targeted, with both precision and warmth.
Driving on the road, suddenly needing to use the restroom, finding a public toilet but no parking space, and fearing a fine for illegal parking if stopping at the roadside — many drivers have experienced such an awkward situation.
Now, on the streets of Hefei, Anhui, the appearance of "time-limited parking spaces for restroom use" (如厕专用限时停车位), with a small parking spot and a 15-minute time limit, has resolved the "urgent need" (燃眉之急) of the public in their travels.
The improvement originated from a citizen's message. "A citizen left a message on our WeChat public account, reflecting the difficulty of finding a restroom and parking when driving in the city," said Xu Dong (徐东), a police officer from the Traffic Science and Facilities Management Brigade of the Hefei Public Security Bureau Traffic Management Detachment. "Although it is a small matter, once encountered, it is truly embarrassing."
Urban governance cannot evade the pain points of people's livelihood. Hefei traffic police held multiple meetings to discuss solutions, and the idea of designating dedicated parking spaces was born. But how many parking spaces to designate? Where to set them? How to manage them? ... A series of difficulties confronted the Hefei traffic police.
Every call must be answered. The Hefei traffic police decided to first designate two "time-limited parking spaces for restroom use" in the Hefei High-tech Zone (高新区) for trial use. Considering the practicality of the parking spaces and traffic convenience, they had to avoid busy main roads with heavy traffic, stay more than 150 meters away from intersections, and not cause too much impact on existing traffic; they had to be adjacent to public toilets, avoiding the need for drivers to cross green belts, etc. In addition, the parking spaces were equipped with reflective signs, clearly visible under the illumination of car headlights at night. "As for the 15-minute time limit, we also obtained it through our own actual measurements, aiming to make the parking spaces more efficient and prevent long-term occupation," Xu Dong said.
"After a trial period, the feedback from drivers was very good, so we then listened to public opinions from multiple sources and promoted this practice in other places," Xu Dong told reporters. At present, Hefei has more than 40 "time-limited parking spaces for restroom use," distributed in areas near commercial districts, hospitals, schools, etc. The police have also actively cooperated with several map apps to mark the dedicated parking spaces, making it convenient for drivers to find them.
How to turn the annoying matters of the people into heartwarming affairs — such details are numerous in Hefei. The traffic police have rationally marked emergency parking spaces on elevated bridges, so that in case of emergencies, drivers can quickly pull into the parking spaces and wait safely for rescue; they have installed exclusive signal lights for non-motorized vehicles, giving them a certain amount of priority passage time...
Urban governance is a major subject, but also a meticulous task. Changes are reflected in every small detail. From paying attention to citizens' messages to the city-wide implementation of convenient practical matters, a measure for public convenience reflects the transformation of urban governance philosophy from emphasizing management to emphasizing service. Multi-channel listening to the public voice and gathering public opinion, based on the actual situation and precise policy implementation, can make urban governance targeted, with both precision and warmth.
(The author is a reporter from the Anhui branch of this newspaper)
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This newspaper, Beijing, July 13 (electronic) — (Reporter Zhang Cong (张璁)) The Ministry of Justice (司法部) recently released 8 cases of regulations and rules filing review work, mainly concerning the implementation of major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, the correct implementation of important laws and regulations, and the lawful guarantee of people's livelihoods and the safeguarding of public interests, among other aspects. The typical cases released this time come from problematic regulations and rules that the Ministry of Justice reviewed and handled in 2025, and they have relatively high reference value for the legislative and filing review work of various regions and departments.
From the perspective of the problems corrected, some of these cases hindered enterprises' autonomous operation and improperly intervened in market competition, deviating from the requirements of the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on deepening the construction of a nationally unified large market and optimizing the business environment; some exceeded their powers by adding administrative permits involving enterprises, reduced the severity of penalties for illegal acts, and narrowed the scope of projects requiring mandatory construction supervision, violating provisions of superior laws such as the Civil Code, the Administrative Licensing Law, and the Administrative Penalty Law; some illegally set administrative fees and increased the responsibilities of workers in new forms of employment, increasing the operational burden on business entities and damaging the employment environment for new employment groups. By correcting these problems, the important role of the filing review system in ensuring that the Party Central Committee's orders are carried out without fail, guaranteeing the implementation of the Constitution and laws, and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises and the public has been effectively demonstrated.
The Ministry of Justice communicated with the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会法工委), relevant local people's congress standing committees, and people's governments, reaching consensus, and the relevant regulations and rules-making organs actively promoted revision work, fully demonstrating the strong joint force of all filing review work organs and regulations and rules-making organs in insisting on jointly answering the same question (同题共答) and jointly maintaining the unity of the national legal system.
In the next step, the Ministry of Justice will continue to adhere to the principle of "all regulations that should be filed must be filed, all that are filed must be reviewed, and all errors must be corrected," taking deepening the construction of a nationally unified large market as the focus, concentrating on prominent issues such as illegally setting market access and exit barriers, excluding and restricting competition, and intensifying review efforts.
Return to TopThis newspaper’s Guangzhou, July 13 dispatch (reporter Luo Aihua (罗艾桦)). The 2026 Taiwan University Student Guangzhou Internship Experience Activity was launched on the 12th in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province. This internship experience activity attracted nearly 300 Taiwan university students from 37 universities in Taiwan, 30 universities in mainland China, and some overseas universities to register, and ultimately more than 130 people entered over 50 enterprises and public institutions in Guangzhou for internships.
Before the activity, the organizers focused on state-owned enterprises, public institutions, private enterprises, Hong Kong-Macau-Taiwan enterprises, research institutes, and other units in Guangzhou, collecting over 700 high-quality internship positions to maximize opportunities for Taiwan university students. During the internship period, the organizers will also organize Taiwan university students to carry out series of activities such as visits to high-tech enterprises, immersive experiences of intangible cultural heritage, and Lingnan culture study tours. At this event, the “Impression Guangzhou (印象广州)” short video contest was simultaneously launched, encouraging Taiwan university students to use their lenses to record Guangzhou’s high-quality development appearance and internship experiences.
This activity was guided by the Guangdong Cross-Strait Exchange Promotion Association (广东省海峡两岸交流促进会), jointly organized by units including the Guangzhou Municipal Taiwan Affairs Office (广州市台办), the Municipal Education Bureau (市教育局), the Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau (市人力资源和社会保障局), and Guangzhou Daily Press (广州日报社), and undertaken by the Guangzhou Sui-Tai Economic and Cultural Exchange Center (广州市穗台经济文化交流中心).
Return to TopFrom July 8 to 13, the 2026 Cross-Strait Peace Little Angels Exchange Activity with the theme "Yu Meets Nature, Smart Connects Two Sides" (渝见自然·智联两岸) was held in Chongqing. This activity was hosted by the All-China Federation of Taiwan Compatriots (全国台联) and organized by the Chongqing Federation of Taiwan Compatriots (重庆市台联). Forty young people from Taiwan and Chongqing participated in the activity, drawing closer to each other through learning.
The photo shows cross-strait youths experiencing virtual reality interaction at the Chongqing Robot AI Application Demonstration Center (重庆机器人AI应用展示中心) on July 11. Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Shuo (陈朔) photo.
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"Community canteens can deliver meals to your door; it is really much more convenient." These words from Li Jingde (李井德), a 72-year-old resident of Xinhua Community (新华社区), Pingzhuang East City Street (平庄东城街道), Yuanbaoshan District (元宝山区), Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, voiced the thoughts of many elderly people. To promote the下沉 (sinking) of resources for elderly and childcare services to the grassroots and directly to the people, Yuanbaoshan District has implemented the "One Meter Service" (一米服务) work model, establishing files and cards for the elderly, empty-nest elderly, and disadvantaged elderly, with one file per person, pairing and contracting for support, and tailoring measures to needs. At the same time, it has built and operated community canteens and daytime care stations, providing door-to-door meal delivery, in-home cleaning assistance, health consultations and free clinic services, and has served more than 98,000 elderly persons cumulatively. In addition, Yuanbaoshan District has also launched the "4:30 Class" (四点半课堂) and summer public-interest care classes, supplemented with distinctive services such as science popularization practice, manual creation, and extracurricular tutoring, effectively alleviating the pressure on families in raising children.
In recent years, Yuanbaoshan District has fully leveraged the role of grassroots Party organizations as battle fortresses, implementing systems such as grassroots micro-governance and Party member building chiefs (unit chiefs) (党员楼栋长（单元长）), forming a service closed loop of "appeal collection—rapid response—completion and feedback." It has normalized the sending of on-duty Party members and full-time grid workers to conduct household visits and solve problems for the people. It has deepened the Party-building joint construction mechanism, linking 171 units including medical institutions and property management companies in the jurisdiction to sink into communities and serve the masses. It has extensively recruited retired Party members, enthusiastic members of the public, and young volunteers to form 90 convenience service teams, carrying out errand-running and emergency assistance, making benefit-oriented services more heartwarming and social governance more refined.
Return to TopBeijing, July 13 (Reporter Pan Junqiang (潘俊强)) — A reporter learned from the Beijing Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau (北京市人力资源和社会保障局) that the first Beijing-Xiong'an cross-regional labor arbitration integrated self-service terminal has recently been installed at the Hebei Xiong'an New Area Government Service Center (河北雄安新区政务服务中心). This device operates in real-time linkage with Beijing’s arbitration case-handling system, enabling full-process off-site self-service procedures for labor dispute case filing, document submission, case inquiry, document printing, and more, realizing the goal of “Xiong'an handles nearby, Beijing reviews remotely, data runs back and forth, and the masses run fewer errands.”
As the relocation of Beijing’s non-capital functions continues to advance, a large number of Beijing-based enterprises have established operations in Xiong'an New Area, and many Beijing employees have taken up positions in Xiong'an. The situation where the place of labor contract registration is separated from the place of performance has become increasingly common. In the past, when workers encountered disputes over resignation, work-related injuries, or contract issues, they needed to apply to Beijing arbitration institutions to assert their rights, requiring a dedicated round trip to Beijing, facing problems such as long distances, high costs, and time-consuming processes. Now, after the installation of this convenient new device, once the parties submit their materials online, the platform automatically synchronizes them to the Beijing arbitration institution for review. Subsequently, the entire process can be completed through remote trials and online rulings, greatly facilitating workers seeking rights protection across different locations and effectively reducing the administrative burden on enterprises, providing a “fast track” for dispute resolution for enterprises and workers in both places.
Going forward, Beijing and Xiong'an will also strengthen collaborative coordination in areas such as the construction of model labor dispute tribunals in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the upgrading of self-service terminals, mutual appointment of arbitrators, commissioned investigations and evidence collection, commissioned service of documents, regular case discussions, and joint business training.
Return to TopNANJING, July 13 (People's Daily) -- (Reporter Bai Guangdi (白光迪)) In response to problems such as unclear boundaries of responsibilities at the grassroots level, unsmooth inter-departmental coordination, and a relatively heavy assessment burden, the city of Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, has continuously promoted the implementation and effective application of the list of履职事项 (performance-of-duties items) for towns and subdistricts. It has strengthened post-based management, improved departmental coordination mechanisms, strictly determined the matters included in the assessment of towns and subdistricts based on the list of履职事项, and, in principle, matters that fall outside the scope of the list are no longer included in the assessment. This promotes a shift of the list from being "compiled" to being "used," thereby reducing burdens and empowering the grassroots.
Nanjing promotes the alignment of the list with post management. The functional organs of each town and subdistrict are comprehensively set up as the "Seven Offices and One Center" (七办一中心) or the "Eight Offices and One Center" (八办一中心), further refining matters down to specific posts and personnel, ensuring that matters are managed and responsibilities are shouldered. Gulou District (鼓楼区), under the framework of the subdistricts' existing functional organs, follows the logic of forming a closed-loop workflow around "one matter" or "one category of matters," establishing a guiding catalog for post setup and specifying the division of responsibilities item by item. After the implementation of the list, the efficiency of grassroots governance has continuously improved, with subdistricts devoting more energy to people's livelihood services and conflict resolution. Ninghai Road Subdistrict (宁海路街道) in Gulou District included "deepening and expanding regionalized Party building and strengthening the construction of a Party building community" in its basic履职事项. Relying on the joint Party building conference, the merchant alliance, and the discussion platform, it coordinates with public security, urban management, market supervision, and other departments to carry out inspections and governance, resolving the issue of commercial photography disturbing residents, a problem that the masses have repeatedly reported.
To solve problems such as multi-headed management and coordination difficulties in grassroots governance, Lishui District (溧水区) formulated a work system for coordination and collaboration on supporting matters related to the list of履职事项 for towns and subdistricts. Centered on problems that the masses have repeatedly reported, it established a case guidance database, clearly defining the division of responsibilities among the lead departments, coordinating departments, and townships and subdistricts, forming a full-chain closed-loop workflow encompassing matter initiation, joint consultation and assessment, escalation for joint handling, and result evaluation.
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In megacities, how can the needs of family development be better met? In response to this question, the Shanghai Women's Federation (上海市妇女联合会) has carried out active exploration.
Starting in 2024, the Shanghai Women's Federation joined hands with social forces to create the “Home + Bookstore” (家+书屋) family education new space. “Innovatively building the ‘Home + Bookstore’ is to actively respond to the new expectations and new demands of the people, and to explore a new path for urban family building work in the new era.” Zhang Hua (张华), Party Secretary and Chairperson of the Shanghai Women's Federation, said, “The ‘Home + Bookstore’ revolves around three major functions — the parent-child growth camp, the parent refueling station, and the community happiness circle. This project has already established 250 sites, and last year a total of 8,177 activities were carried out.”
To enable the “Home + Bookstore” family education new space to play a broader role, they must be built in places where families are willing to go, often go, and like to go. Most of the “Home + Bookstore” family education new spaces are located in bookstores, libraries, cultural venues, and other places, providing families with a wide-coverage social service network.
Surrounded by the greenery of Minhang Sports Park, there is a glass-box-style building full of the fragrance of books and warmth. This is precisely the “Home + Bookstore” (Minhang · Qibao Store). Stepping inside, children lie on the carpet flipping through three-dimensional picture books, while teenagers participate in science experiments. “The bookstore can integrate scattered social resources,” said Gao Huining (高慧凝), a post-90s operator of the bookstore. The surrounding cultural resources are rich; through the linkage of the new space, families can experience immersive aesthetic education classes at the art museum, follow sports coaches for morning exercises, and so on.
Each new space has its own characteristics. There is the 1927 Lu Xun and Uchiyama Memorial Bookstore (1927·鲁迅与内山纪念书局), which integrates culture and history with innovation; there is the “Field-Head Book Bar” built in a tomato planting base; there are villagers who have transformed their own courtyards into “Windy Courtyard,” giving the countryside a parent-child space full of artistic atmosphere; there is the mobile bookstore van, extending family education services to the outer suburbs… The Shanghai Women's Federation takes the lead in building a “Home + Bookstore” central kitchen, uniting public service institutions, professional social organizations, market-oriented entities, etc., to provide 65 types of family education courses in six major categories. Through the form of online ordering by the chief operator, offline delivery by institutions, and online registration by parents, it precisely reaches all kinds of families.
“Our relationship with the Women's Federation is a mutual running towards each other.” Zhu Bing (朱兵), General Manager of the Zhongshuge (钟书阁) Xuhui Store, said that with the implementation of the “Home + Bookstore” family education new space, the bookstore holds various activities according to residents' needs, attracting more parent-child families to actively participate. “Because of this, we have achieved the best performance among all Zhongshuge stores nationwide.”
The brush of an ancient book restorer gently sweeps across yellowed pages; beside it, a child stands on tiptoe, eyes wide open. In front of a bookshelf, a mother and daughter read a picture book with heads close together. Inside an activity room, several parents sit together listening to a teacher explain child psychological development knowledge… These warm scenes scattered in every corner of the city are strung together like beads into a chain, forming a “15-minute community family education service circle,” constructing a new space for home-school-society collaborative education.
“This is exactly what our mass organization should do — under the leadership of the Party committee, become the adhesive between the government, society, and families; through projects, move all parties, fill gaps, provide precise services on the basis of extensive connections, and effectively guide on the basis of services,” said a relevant comrade from the Shanghai Women's Federation.
Since 2015, the Shanghai Women's Federation has embarked on the path of mass organization reform. Over more than ten years, the four-level Women's Federation organizational structure has been gradually improved, and family work has gradually become an important task of the Women's Federation. Relying on the “Home + Bookstore” family education new space brand, the Shanghai Women's Federation has “twisted policy resources and social forces into a single rope,” gathering more young families through services.
The Yangpu District Green Tile Sports Bookstore (杨浦区绿瓦体育书店) is also a “Home + Bookstore” family education new space. Every so often, operator Zhang Hailan (张海岚) and Shanghai University of Sport jointly hold a “New Sports Night,” inviting figures from the sports world to come and share professional knowledge with everyone. In more new spaces, children boldly speak out at “Family Open Mic,” allowing parents to see their children's needs; the “Family Green Notes Plan” takes parent-child families into nature and to observe life, making them disseminators of the concept of sustainable development; the “Family Has Book Fragrance Recite Classics · Family Book-Telling Contest” makes reading something the whole family is enthusiastic about…
“It is hoped that through various activity arrangements, parents and children can grow together.” Liu Fen (刘芬), Chairperson of the Minhang District Women's Federation, introduced that the district has incorporated the “Home + Bookstore” family education new space into the overall planning of the regional education layout, taking family education as the main line, promoting the upgrade from scattered activities to a systematic co-education curriculum system, and realizing that family education and school courses go in the same direction and walk together.
The “Home + Bookstore” family education new space has been consecutively included in the 2025 and 2026 Shanghai Municipal Government's practical projects for the people, and for the first time has been included in the 2026–2028 Shanghai Municipal Party Committee's popular sentiment project.
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How long has it been since you last seriously flipped through a dictionary? In the age of AI (artificial intelligence), a fingertip tap brings a flood of information, and some people feel dictionaries are already obsolete and can be discarded.
Classic dictionaries are an important source of knowledge. When encountering unfamiliar or uncertain words and searching online, search engines and AI tools may give a wide variety of answers, most of which are patchworks and combinations of scattered online information. Where is the standard for judgment? This requires returning to dictionary products published by authoritative publishing institutions to ensure that checks are based on solid evidence and usage follows norms.
The more fragmented information proliferates and online slang becomes a mix of the good and the bad today, the more precious authoritative classic dictionaries become. They are not only basic tools for recognizing characters, distinguishing meanings, correcting pronunciation, and clarifying principles, but also the benchmark for language norms, the cornerstone of knowledge services, and the carrier of cultural heritage.
Classic dictionaries are a "key" to opening the world of reading. Since its publication in 1953, the Xinhua Dictionary (《新华字典》) has undergone more than ten revisions and improvements, accompanying the growth of several generations. The Modern Chinese Dictionary (《现代汉语词典》), with the focus on promoting Putonghua and standardizing the Chinese language, released a reversed-order edition of its 7th edition this March, further updated, with multi-character entries arranged in clusters according to "same last character," for example, under the character "文" (wén), more than 100 related multi-character entries such as those for writing and style are grouped together, facilitating readers' classified lookup and systematic memorization, making standardized word usage more efficient.
In fact, dictionaries have been constantly innovating and staying close to the public. The third edition online version of the Encyclopedia of China (《中国大百科全书》) breaks through the limitations of paper, establishing a dynamically updated, intelligently searchable knowledge system covering all disciplines. The eighth edition of Cihai (《辞海》) expands capacity and improves quality, with the number of entries expanded to about 200,000, an overall scale increase of over 40 percent. Online knowledge platforms such as the Commercial Press's "Hanfen" (涵芬) and Shanghai Lexicographical Publishing House's "Judian" (聚典), leveraging AI semantic analysis technology, have achieved multi-terminal synchronization and quick lookup. Targeting different audiences such as children, middle-aged and elderly groups, and special populations, dictionaries have launched student editions, Braille editions, and personalized functions such as scanning codes to look up characters, four-corner indexing, and audio reading. Actively adapting to modern reading habits through innovation, dictionaries are transforming from "desk lookup tools" to "reading companions for the whole people," making heavy knowledge more vivid and perceptible, helping to make reading classics a new trend of the times.
Earlier this year, we jointly held a reader opinion solicitation meeting on dictionary revisions with a publishing institution. Frontline primary and secondary school teachers from Beijing, Nanyang in Henan, Wugang in Hunan, and other places mentioned that after organizing students to read the Xinhua Dictionary and the Modern Chinese Dictionary together every day for a period of time, the students' language literacy had noticeably improved. Classic dictionaries and national reading are mutually reinforcing and synergistic. Dictionaries use rigorous, standardized, systematic, and accurate knowledge to guide people to settle down and read deeply and reflect, cultivating a spirit of seeking knowledge; and the deep advancement of national reading also prompts dictionary compilation to be more attuned to people's hearts and grounded, better serving diverse reading needs.
Language dictionaries consolidate the foundation of language, encyclopedic dictionaries build bridges of knowledge, and digital converged media dictionaries empower lifelong learning. When encountering doubts while reading or putting pen to paper, one may as well take the initiative to open a dictionary, allowing the habit of rigorous inquiry and diligent verification to become part of daily life. Only by protecting and making good use of classic dictionaries can we steady our minds amidst the complex waves of digital intelligence, and inject inexhaustible momentum into building a knowledge-based society and an innovative country.
(The author is Deputy Director of the Xinhua Dictionary Editorial Office, Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. This article is a project of the Key Laboratory of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, project number 2024SYZH001.)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 祝大伟
“To explore the deep sea, one must face endless darkness, unknowns, and dangers. Why did you choose to become a submersible pilot?” “In school, I always heard teachers say that the motherland’s blue territory needs to be explored and defended.”
At the National Deep Sea Base Management Center (国家深海基地管理中心) located in Qingdao, Shandong, Harbin Engineering University (哈尔滨工程大学) President Yin Jingwei (殷敬伟), together with students from the School of Future Technology, engaged in an exchange with submersible pilot and alumna Zhang Yi (张奕). In front of the “Jiaolong” (蛟龙) manned submersible, a vivid ideological and political lesson (思政课) opened a dialogue on deep-sea exploration and spiritual inheritance.
“During the Harbin Military Engineering Institute (哈军工) period, our school built the first experimental submarine, the first shipborne electronic computer, and dozens of other ‘firsts of the Republic.’ Why did our predecessors work so hard?” Zhang Yi asked with a smile. “To strengthen the country and the military!” “This is the mission, honor, and responsibility passed down by the school.” The students answered enthusiastically.
“Exploration requires courage, but even more requires responsibility.” “Though the deep sea is far, faith is even farther.” “Only by integrating personal ideals into the cause of building a maritime power can youth carry more weight.” … The students one after another wrote their reflections in their notebooks.
Ocean-going ships, islands and reefs in the South China Sea, experimental platforms, historical sites, offshore launch base sites… Ideological and political lessons are no longer confined to the classroom. In recent years, Harbin Engineering University has explored building a three-dimensional education scene of “Red Lecture Hall + Practical Research Study” (红色讲堂+实践研学), moving ideological and political classrooms into workshops, naval vessels, and fields, guiding young students to integrate their personal growth into the construction of a maritime power.
“At one point I thought the principle of the release mechanism was not difficult.” Wang Jiafeng (王佳峰), a graduate student at the School of Underwater Acoustic Engineering, once participated in deep-sea sea trials with his research group. In harsh weather, he took seasickness medicine, lowered the winch in the early hours, and measured hydrological data during the day. When the team’s self-developed full-ocean-depth acoustic release mechanism sank to a depth of 5,000 meters on the seabed, the four characters “release successful” (释放成功) popped up, and everyone cheered loudly. “At that moment, I truly felt that the technology we are researching has great significance,” Wang Jiafeng said with deep emotion.
“Students go into nuclear power plants, shipyards, deep-sea equipment laboratories, etc., to carry out immersive practice, enhancing their professional competence and sense of mission in real scenarios,” said Song Yingdong (宋迎东), Party Secretary of Harbin Engineering University.
“To the places where the motherland needs us most.” Doctoral graduate Wang Chunyang (王春阳) now steadfastly works in the field of ship research, design, and development, putting into practice the oath of “scaling the heights of science and technology, fortifying the Great Wall at sea” (攀科技高峰，固海上长城). Wang Chunyang said that the experience of entering a shipyard and closely observing the process of ship design and construction clarified his direction of struggle.
At present, over 70% of Harbin Engineering University graduates devote themselves to the national industrialization, informatization, and defense modernization. More and more students, carrying the value pursuit of “taking the motherland’s needs as the first need, taking national defense demands as the first mission, and taking the people’s satisfaction as the first standard” (以祖国需要为第一需要，以国防需求为第一使命，以人民满意为第一标准), integrate their personal ideals into the cause of strengthening the country and the military.
Return to TopThis newspaper Beijing, July 13 (Reporter Ding Yasong (丁雅诵)): A reporter learned from the Ministry of Education: the first session of the National “Education Rumor Debunking Salon” was held recently, and the National Education Rumor Debunking Platform Matrix (全国教育辟谣平台矩阵) was officially launched and put into operation. The National Education Rumor Debunking Platform Matrix integrates WeChat public accounts, a website, mini-programs, and video accounts. It is supervised by the Ministry of Education and hosted by the China Education Press (中国教育报刊社), and is an information release and comprehensive service platform for clarifying rumors in the education field, correcting misinterpretations of policies, and guiding societal cognition. The platform has centrally released a batch of reminders and rumor-debunking information, covering areas such as college admissions, study-abroad credential verification, and teacher qualification certification, methodically dismantling each set of tricks and providing response guidance.
At the first session of the National “Education Rumor Debunking Salon,” professionals from cyberspace administration and education administrative departments, colleges and universities, internet platforms, and public opinion research fields discussed new characteristics of educational rumors, rapid verification mechanisms, rumor-debunking dissemination strategies, and collaborative governance pathways, and formed governance consensus on AI (artificial intelligence) rumor governance and full-domain collaborative rumor debunking. In addition, the National Education Rumor Debunking Platform Matrix, together with representatives of online social platforms, jointly launched the “Cyber Clarity Assisting Education Power Action Initiative (网络清朗助力教育强国行动倡议),” calling on education departments, schools, media platforms, and all sectors of society to work together to create an environment where rumors are not believed, not spread, and actively debunked.
Return to TopDuring the summer vacation, Nanfeng County (南丰县), Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province, launched public interest care services (公益托管服务) for left-behind children (留守儿童), providing them with safety education, art courses, and fun activities to enrich their holiday life. The photo, taken on July 13, shows volunteers and children making handicrafts together at the Party and Mass Service Center (党群服务中心) in Taiyuan Village (太源村), Taiyuan Township (太源乡), Nanfeng County. Photo by Xie Dong (谢东) (Image China (影像中国)).
Return to TopHefei, July 13 (Reporter Xu Jing) — From the University of Science and Technology of China (中国科学技术大学), the reporter learned that recently, UNESCO announced that Pan Jianwei, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) and professor at the University of Science and Technology of China, was awarded the third Mendeleev International Prize in Basic Science for his “pioneering contributions to large-scale secure quantum communication and scalable quantum computing.”
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the proposal of the periodic table by Russian scientist Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, UNESCO established the Mendeleev International Prize in Basic Science in 2019, aiming to promote scientific progress, science popularization, and international cooperation. The prize is awarded annually to two scientists who have made breakthrough discoveries in basic science or have had significant socioeconomic impact. Professor Pan Jianwei is the first Chinese scholar to receive this honor.
UNESCO noted that Professor Pan Jianwei is an internationally leading scientist in the fields of quantum optics, quantum communication, and quantum computing. His team successfully developed the Mozi (墨子号) quantum science experimental satellite, achieving quantum key distribution and quantum teleportation over a range of thousands of kilometers. The team also successfully demonstrated quantum computational advantage. These achievements mark the transition of global quantum networks from theory to reality, laying a solid foundation for building a secure and efficient quantum information infrastructure.
Return to TopThis newspaper, Beijing, July 13 (Reporter Wu Dan) — The Beijing Municipal Work Conference on the Integrated Development of Ideological and Political Education in Universities, Secondary Schools, and Primary Schools was recently held at the Beijing Youth Palace. The conference released the list of the second batch of pilot zones for integrated reform and innovation and the list of regional demonstration innovation consortia.
Dongcheng District, Fangshan District, Changping District, Yanqing District, and Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area were selected for the second batch of pilot zones for integrated reform and innovation; 30 integrated consortia, led by 26 universities including Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Renmin University of China, were selected as regional demonstration innovation consortia.
In recent years, Beijing has placed the integrated development of ideological and political education in universities, secondary schools, and primary schools in a prominent position, establishing a collaborative mechanism for ideological and political work in universities, secondary schools, and primary schools led by municipal leaders. At the same time, it has issued guiding opinions on integrated development, with 21 achievements selected as national typical work cases; established an integrated "golden course" alliance; launched over 500 practical cases and over 1,000 sets of teaching materials; built 95 ideological and political integrated consortia; and set up 164 integrated research topics.
In the next step, Beijing will take the high-quality implementation of the project to foster virtue and nurture the next generation in the new era (新时代立德树人工程) as the driving force, continuously improve the mechanism for the integrated development of ideological and political education in universities, secondary schools, and primary schools, offer high-quality ideological and political courses at all school levels, perfect the integrated education chain, deeply promote technological empowerment and evaluation reform, and build an integrated education model with Beijing characteristics.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李亚楠
Lifting the hand like a lotus, tilting the head reveals grace. The scenes in the large-scale original dance drama Qiuci (《龟兹》) from Xinjiang reenact the ancient music and dance of the Kucha cave murals. The story of the dance drama also mirrors the unremitting efforts of the cultural relics workers at the Xinjiang Qiuci Academy (新疆龟兹研究院).
The Qiuci Academy administers nine cave sites, with over 700 grottoes in total, containing nearly 8,000 square meters of murals. Among them, the Kizil Caves (克孜尔石窟) are the earliest large-scale caves among the existing cave temples in China.
Zhao Li (赵莉), a research librarian at the Qiuci Academy, has been engaged in the study of cave murals for more than 30 years. In 1992, she discovered that the area of murals peeled off from the Kizil Caves was nearly 500 square meters, involving 59 grottoes. In 2012, taking the opportunity of being a visiting scholar, Zhao Li went to the Museum of Asian Art, Berlin in Germany, where she photographed and recorded over 4,000 pieces of Xinjiang cultural relics collected by the museum, leaving behind first-hand materials. In the following years, she collected high-definition images of nearly 500 murals from more than 20 museums abroad.
After verifying the original positions of the murals, Zhao Li began "puzzle-matching" the murals on her computer. "Some murals have severely damaged edges; some large murals were cut into small pieces and peeled off, and after being shipped overseas, they were incorrectly reassembled." Zhao Li repeatedly compared the missing parts with hundreds of photos on her computer, conducting research, and every grotto and every photo was deeply imprinted in her mind.
In 2020, most of the murals in the Kizil Caves had their original positions found and achieved image restoration. The researchers compiled the restored murals into a publication titled Research on the Restoration of the Kizil Caves Murals (《克孜尔石窟壁画复原研究》), which includes over 1,200 plates.
Now, Zhao Li devotes more energy to the digitalization of the murals: "We are building a digital exhibition center, so that the murals can meet the public in another form."
Apart from the vast work of image splicing, another group of people are racing against natural erosion on the cliff walls, measuring by the millimeter. Mural restorer Yang Jie (杨杰) is one of them.
For more than half of each year, Yang Jie is immersed in the grottoes, facing fragile murals that are hollow, flaking, or even crumble at a touch. He uses a small bamboo knife to pick away hard accretions bit by bit, uses a brush to sweep off loose dust, gently rolls a cotton swab, and uses a specific reagent to soften the remaining overlay. "Every time I clean a patch, it feels as surprising as winning a prize," Yang Jie said.
As a "fresco doctor" with 16 years of experience, Yang Jie compares mural restoration to "a craft more delicate than embroidery." In his toolbox, there are more than a dozen types of brushes alone, some of which are made by the restorers themselves: "We shave and polish bamboo chopsticks to make miniature bamboo blade knives, used to clean mud stains on the murals." Entering the grotto carrying a small lamp in the morning, and coming out when the sky is already dark, with naan bread and bottled water as lunch — this is Yang Jie's daily routine. He sighs: "Sometimes it takes ten days to half a month to clean a half-square-meter mural. There are too many murals that need restoration and protection, and I always feel there is not enough time."
In the grottoes, one must also learn to live with solitude. "Almost no one talks or chats; the moisture exhaled affects the murals. Some murals with severe flaking would peel off if you blow on them," Yang Jie said.
In the studio, a pot of gelatin is being boiled. Copyist Li Fo (李佛) is comparing various mineral pigments one by one. "Gelatin and water must be mixed with mineral pigments. The pigments have to be layered, and the ratio of glue to water is different for each layer," Li Fo explained. Mural copying is mainly for record-keeping; it not only records the current state of the murals but also attempts to complete the damaged parts through consulting and organizing materials.
Copying murals takes time; each copyist can only complete about 3–5 square meters per year. Today, as digital technology becomes increasingly mature, the importance of copying lies in passing on the mural-making techniques. Li Fo said that the murals that have been copied are now "going" to exhibitions in other places, allowing more people to see the beauty of the murals.
Research, restoration, copying… These "cave guardians" deep in the Gobi, day after day, tirelessly explore, only to protect the original appearance of the cultural relics. When the music of Qiuci plays, what has been taken away by time will eventually be found again through love and perseverance.
Return to TopOur newspaper Changsha, July 13 (Reporter Yang Xun (杨迅)). The 2026 Yuelu Mountain Youth Drama Season opened on the evening of the 12th in Changsha, Hunan. This drama season, with the theme “Star City Fun, Youth Have Drama,” will run until August 19, bringing together nearly 50 specially invited plays and nearly 170 performances.
The “Drama Also CITY” series launches 9 events including a youth drama talent incubation plan and ART+ art cross-border linkage. This drama season deeply integrates with cultural tourism consumption, distributing nearly 5,000 policy-discount tickets, creating two drama tourism special routes, and using the “ticket stub economy” to leverage integrated cultural tourism consumption.
Since its inception in 2020, the Yuelu Mountain Youth Drama Season has been held for six consecutive editions, attracting over one million citizens and tourists cumulatively. This drama season further emphasizes youth attributes and local foundation, lowering the artistic threshold through low ticket prices and public welfare workshops, continuously increasing investment in original incubation and talent cultivation, providing a platform for display and growth for young drama talents.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 窦 皓 王永战 程 焕
Recently, the China Film Administration and the State Administration for Market Regulation jointly issued the Notice on Promoting Diversified Operations of Cinemas and Prosperously Developing Cinema Culture, proposing to promote innovation in cinema business formats, models, and services, and to build cinemas into comprehensive cultural experience spaces that integrate film viewing, social interaction, entertainment, and consumption.
From special-themed screening halls to the superposition of composite business formats, from parent-child study platforms to urban cultural landmarks… Nowadays, cinemas in many places use “film+” as a starting point to break business format boundaries, better meeting the people’s diversified, multi-level, and personalized spiritual and cultural needs, injecting momentum into activating consumption potential and prospering the film market.
— Editor
“Eating delicious food while watching movies” becomes a reality
On a weekend afternoon, Chen Wei (陈伟), a 25-year-old programmer, came to the Zheying Shidai Cinema (浙影时代影城) (West Lake Cultural Plaza branch) in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, ready to unlock a new and different film-viewing experience.
In April this year, at the launch site of the Film Culture Carnival guided by the China Film Administration and hosted by China Media Group and the Zhejiang Provincial Government, a batch of “cinema industry models” that transformed from cinemas into “film+” comprehensive cultural entities were recommended, and the Zheying Shidai Cinema (West Lake Cultural Plaza branch) was one of them.
Putting on a VR (virtual reality) headset and gripping the interactive controller, as the scene before his eyes changed, Chen Wei already “stood” on the streets of Chang’an during the High Tang. Under his feet was the tactile sensation of a bluestone-paved road, in his ears were the vendors’ hawking sounds, and the crowd coming toward him made him instinctively step aside to avoid them. This was not a traditional film screening, but an interactive scene created by the immersive VR film Eternal Tang — the audience is no longer a bystander outside the screen, but a “person inside the drama” placed within the plot.
Going up to the third floor, in the fire safety experience hall, a group of elementary school students were trying on mini firefighter suits. When the simulated smoke duct emitted a faint orange-gray glow, the little child Lele (乐乐) turned the metal valve of the fire hydrant prop and, holding a miniature water gun, “extinguished” a virtual fire on the electronic screen. “Unexpectedly, you can also take a fire safety lesson in a cinema,” said Lele’s mother, recording this scene with her phone and repeatedly praising.
This “film building” with an area of over 13,000 square meters not only strengthens technological empowerment, but also lays out multi-level, multi-themed characteristic consumption spaces: from the underground space’s film restaurant, the first floor’s candy house and VR immersive interactive cinema, to the third floor’s children’s themed screening hall and fire safety base, and then to the fifth floor’s film bookstore and the sixth floor’s smart Party-building base, with rich business formats to meet diverse cultural needs.
Also in Hangzhou, cinemas are seeing more and more new consumption scenarios.
Saturday evening, in the hotpot screening hall of Hangzhou Xingguang Jiaying Cinema (杭州星光嘉映影城) (Shangcheng Tiandi branch), the red oil broth was bubbling, rising with steam, while on the giant screen in front, a film was playing. “The dining table lights are relatively dim, not affecting dining nor film viewing, you can experience ‘double happiness’,” said Ms. Li, who brought her family to watch the film, praising it repeatedly. This cinema, which opened at the end of November 2025, has carefully set up differentiated themed screening halls such as a hotpot hall and a pet hall, attempting to break through the traditional single consumption model of “film + popcorn.”
The wave of business format upgrading is expanding from Hangzhou to more cities in Zhejiang. At the Ningbo Huanying Cinema (宁波寰映影城) Hankyu branch, in addition to featured screening halls, it has also introduced supporting shops such as flower shops and nail salons, and has launched a series of benefit-oriented measures for different groups — opening a love channel for the elderly, creating study and film viewing classes for teenagers, and holding public benefit special sessions for special groups.
Data shows that in 2025, Zhejiang opened 63 new cinemas and conducted over a thousand “film+” activities. “In the next step, we will take film as the medium and culture as the core, promote the transformation and upgrading of more Zhejiang cinemas, and make ‘film+’ a new driving force for stimulating consumption,” said a relevant person in charge of the Film Department of the Propaganda Department of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (浙江省委宣传部电影处).
Creating a Youth “Social Charging Station”
Not long ago, a unique children’s film carnival kicked off at a branch of Zhonghuan Cinema (中环影城) in Mianyang, Sichuan. In the dubbing show segment, children took the stage to dub the film Thirty Thousand Li of Chang’an (长安三万里), their vivid imitations drawing rounds of laughter and applause. Subsequently, several children took the stage to sing loudly, a girl beat a drum set, and children wearing red scarves danced gracefully, with the scene converging into a sea of joy.
Zhonghuan Cinema has persisted for more than 10 years in holding the children’s film carnival activity every year. By exploring the new “film+” integration model, Mianyang Zhonghuan Cinema is building the cinema into a parent-child study platform, a youth social platform, and a red Party-building platform, creating a new multi-level service ecosystem covering cultural activities, dining consumption, and social experiences.
Parent-child study makes the cinema an extension of family education. “We have set up themed screening halls, showing excellent children’s films such as Put Down the Phone (放下手机) and Seeking Nature: The Code of Life (寻秘自然：生命密码) that incorporate intangible cultural heritage elements and popular science content,” introduced Wang Zheng (王征), person in charge of Zhonghuan Cinema. The cinema organized parent-child classes such as “Appreciate Intangible Cultural Heritage, Learn Popular Science, and Do Dubbing with Films,” allowing audiences to experience diverse film-viewing entertainment immersively. In addition, the cinema also launched various popular science experience activities. In a recently held aerospace-themed activity, over 200 parents and children gathered at the cinema to watch the film Moon Landing (登月), read aerospace knowledge books, and participate in interactive Q&A, continuously raising the cultural “gold content” of the cinema.
At the same time, the cinema also built a new type of social platform for youth groups. Previously, the film Love Letter to Grandma (给阿嬷的情书) became hugely popular and broke out of its niche, attracting large numbers of young people to the cinema. “We took the opportunity to hold film-viewing exchange activities, inviting young people to share their experiences and exchange understandings of qiaopi culture (侨批文化) and Chaoshan culture,” said Wang Zheng. Taking this as an opportunity, many young people exchanged contact information, formed social groups, and regularly discussed cultural topics.
Over the years, Zhonghuan Cinema, by holding art exhibitions and supporting extended spaces such as a gym and a food-and-drink bar, has further enriched the exchange scenarios for youth. “Now, our cinema has also become a ‘social charging station’ for young people,” Wang Zheng said.
Along with the nurturing of the multi-level service ecosystem, the traffic dividend of the cinema continues to be released. Dining and entertainment businesses around the cinema also benefit from it. Now, Zhonghuan Cinema’s annual revenue maintains high growth, and it is advancing toward the goal of developing into an important node of local cultural life services in Mianyang.
Transforming into an Urban Cultural “Living Room”
In 2025, during the release of Ne Zha: The Devil Child Stirs Up the Sea (哪吒之魔童闹海), relying on Asia’s widest IMAX GT screen at 32.16 meters, Guiyang Yuejie Cinema (贵阳越界影城) had already “crossed borders and broken out of its circle,” attracting film fans from all over the country to come in droves, repeatedly topping the daily box office charts.
Popularity is fleeting; how to precipitate “traffic” into “retention”? Yuejie Cinema chose to take a path of exploring a “film+” comprehensive cultural entity.
In Ne Zha: The Devil Child Stirs Up the Sea, there is a segment of ethereal and fantastic rhythm of the Dong Grand Song (侗族大歌). Last February, during the hot screening of Ne Zha: The Devil Child Stirs Up the Sea, Yuejie Cinema invited the original scoring team of this rhythm. When the Dong song sounded, the entire audience was entranced. Before the melody ended, the welcoming door-blocking wine had been filled, red eggs were handed into hands, and intangible cultural heritage handicrafts quietly shone on the display stands… The cinema entrance suddenly became crowded with people, as if a grand folk festival was simultaneously staged beyond the screen.
This “immersive sound” linkage opened the prelude to Yuejie Cinema’s “film + intangible cultural heritage” cross-border practice. Anshun Earth Opera (安顺地戏) made a resounding appearance, with mythological heroes on the screen and bronze masks on the stage engaging in a dialogue across space; the “Long-Horned Miao” (长角苗) performance of Liuzhi Special District (六枝特区), with its primitive and unrestrained songs and dances and gorgeous costumes, elicited bursts of amazement…
In the blend of traditional culture and modern light and shadow, Yuejie Cinema is turning into an open, warm, and participatory urban cultural living room. In 2025, the cinema attracted 17 counties and districts from the entire province to conduct 47 intangible cultural heritage performances, covering 10 national-level intangible cultural heritage projects and 11 provincial-level intangible cultural heritage projects.
Subsequently, the cinema joined forces with Happy Twist (开心麻花) and Chunqian Society (春黔社) to bring magic, sitcoms, Qian-style crosstalk (黔派相声), concerts, etc., into the screening halls, making the cinema a new performance space; introduced the “Guiyang Gift” (贵阳礼物) intangible cultural heritage cultural and creative store, constructing an immersive space integrating display, experience, and social interaction, allowing film fans to feel Guizhou’s cultural heritage and intangible cultural heritage accumulation up close; launched an intangible cultural heritage food city, allowing film fans to unlock Guizhou’s intangible cultural heritage cuisine in one stop while watching films…
Transitioning from traditional screening to immersive experiences, allowing audiences to feel historical and humanistic charm within technology, from box office popularity to cultural landmark, Yuejie Cinema uses cultural charm to unlock new scenarios and new ways of playing, forming a virtuous cycle of “films hot, surrounding areas hot, cultural tourism prosperous.” Through a series of cultural activities, the cinema drove a 45% month-on-month increase in surrounding dining and accommodation consumption, and the daily average sales of intangible cultural heritage products exceeded 100,000 yuan.
By: 齐 靓
How many years has a single fossil traversed? On museum exhibit labels, those numbers precise to the million-year mark—where do they actually come from? In the last issue, we discussed the mystery of “before present” in the carbon-14 dating method; in this issue, let us stretch the scale of time a bit further and turn our gaze to dinosaur fossils—those behemoths that have slumbered for over 100 million years—how do scientists “determine the age” for them?
——Editor
Walking into a natural history museum, many visitors pause in front of dinosaur fossil exhibit signs. The number on that sign, precise to the million-year mark—“approximately 165 million years ago”—always makes people unable to resist curiosity: Do these cold bones really hold the time code that spans hundreds of millions of years?
Fossils cannot speak, but scientists have ways to measure their age.
Traditional dating relies on the “neighbors” around the fossil. Researchers look for volcanic ash in the rock layers; the zircon in volcanic ash contains uranium and lead. By measuring their isotope ratios, they can calculate the time of strata formation, and then infer the fossil’s “birth year.” This is equivalent to finding a date on the “pages” of the strata.
But this method does not always work. The Sichuan Basin is one of the most important Jurassic dinosaur fossil sites globally, but suitable volcanic ash is not always found in the strata here. Even if found, later disturbance, erosion, and transportation of the strata may cause the date on the “pages” to not match the true age of the fossil. More troublesome is that the biogenic apatite contained in dinosaur bones undergoes complex diagenetic alteration during the long burial process, like an old book soaked in water, the writing smudged, making it impossible to accurately read the time.
Is there a more reliable way to measure time?
Scientists have found a new “time capsule” in dinosaur bones—calcite cement.
After a dinosaur died, its bones were quickly buried underground. Groundwater carrying minerals precipitates in the bone pores, forming calcite cement. Under ideal conditions, once these calcite crystals form, they become sealed with a “time seal,” almost no longer exchanging substances with the outside.
In 2021, at a construction site in Longchang (隆昌市), Sichuan, deep brown “patterns” appeared on strip stones. A fossil enthusiast keenly sensed that these might be dinosaur fossils. The local government responded quickly, and a team led by Professor Hou Mingcai (侯明才) from Chengdu University of Technology (成都理工大学) promptly arrived at the site. After excavation, a well-preserved dinosaur fossil was moved into the laboratory.
Together with other members of the team, I carefully examined the bones of this fossil and found that the calcite cement in the bone pores was clearly separable from the original bone structure, clean, dense, with almost no traces of later geological disturbance. They were like individual “time capsules” sealed within the bones, locking in that moment approximately 165 million years ago.
So, can calcite cement be used to determine the age of fossils? With this idea, the team used mass spectrometry analysis to measure the uranium-lead isotope system in the calcite. Uranium slowly decays into lead; by measuring the ratio of the two, the precise time of calcite formation can be calculated. The result was exciting: the age of this Longchang dinosaur is about 165 million years. This data provides a precise temporal anchor point for the evolutionary sequence of the Jurassic dinosaur fauna in the Sichuan Basin.
Next time you walk into a museum, when you see the words “approximately 165 million years ago” on a dinosaur fossil exhibit label, you might pause for a moment: behind that number is an ancient code deciphered by scientists from the bone “time capsules,” and also a long letter written by the Earth across hundreds of millions of years to people today.
(The author is a researcher at the Institute of Sedimentary Geology, Chengdu University of Technology (成都理工大学沉积地质研究院). It was compiled from an interview by our reporter Song Haoxin (宋豪新).)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李亚楠
“Does the sound of the bayan still drift through Six-Star Street? Has Aleksandr’s bakery taken the lieba out of the oven yet?…” When the familiar melody reaches your ears from different directions, it means you have already arrived in Yining.
Yining is the capital of the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang, and it still preserves that comfortable “small-town feel.” The unique charm of that “small-town feel” can be summed up as: colorful, sonorous, and slow-paced — this is a small, colorful city where you can settle down, slow down, and stroll smiling for an entire day.
The Ili River Valley, where Yining is located, has abundant water and a dense network of rivers, creating a humid microclimate. Influenced by the valley’s topography and the westerlies, Yining’s climate is temperate and moist, with neither severe cold in winter nor intense heat in summer, forming a sharp contrast with the aridity of most of Xinjiang. Walking through it, one has the illusion of being in the water towns south of the Yangtze River.
The Ili River, which flows through the city, is worth seeing. Its 49-kilometer winding shoreline nourishes Yining’s unique landscape. Standing on the riverbank and gazing into the distance, the setting sun hangs at the edge where water meets sky, the glow of sunset saturating the entire river, shimmering with ripples. Wetlands stretch along the banks, reeds sway, and occasionally white egrets startle into flight, together with the distant buildings sketching out a tranquil scene of a valley town.
If you are a food lover, Yining will not disappoint you. Its ice cream is handmade from fresh milk, eggs, and honey, without adding a single drop of water, yielding a dense, rich texture. The Gulandam (古兰丹姆) Ice Cream Shop on Six-Star Street is popular, but you can also taste authentic treats from handcarts in the alleys. As you stroll through the Six-Star Street and Kazanqi (喀赞其) neighborhoods, baked samsa, hand-grabbed rice, yogurt, and more will also bring new experiences to your palate.
June through September is the best season to visit Yining, but winter also holds surprises: fewer tourists, cheaper accommodation, and the small town returns to tranquility. Sipping tea while listening to the dombra (冬不拉) has a distinctive charm of its own.
Yining is also a transportation hub in Xinjiang, very well suited as a “supply station” for the Ili loop route. With it as the center, the surrounding area includes such well-known attractions as Sayram Lake, Guozigou, Nalati Grassland, and the Duku Highway.
Among the most worthwhile attractions within Yining city, Kazanqi is indispensable.
Kazanqi is called a blue “living ancient town.” Its name comes from the Uyghur phrase for “people whose trade is casting pots.” It has a history of nearly 300 years, with over 300 buildings from the Qing Dynasty to the Republican period scattered throughout. As you step into the Kazanqi neighborhood, the crisp sound of bells accompanied by the clatter of hooves reaches your ears. Don’t rush off — take a horse-drawn carriage (hadik, 哈迪克) through the streets and alleys, and travel into a museum of handmade crafts: saddle making, ironwork, wood carving… Many artisans work by the roadside. Step into the “Pujiang Leather Workshop” and you can even make a small leather souvenir with your own hands.
Kazanqi is better suited for a morning visit — the light is good, there are relatively fewer tourists, and the blue walls are especially photogenic in the sunlight.
After finishing Kazanqi in the morning, you can head in the afternoon to the hexagonal “musical fairy tale” — Six-Star Street (六星街).
Six-Star Street was planned and designed in the 1930s. Viewed from above, it is a regular hexagon, with six main streets radiating out from a central square. It is a microcosm of multi-ethnic cohabitation.
Walking along Six-Star Street, the lake-blue courtyard walls, bright-yellow wooden doors, emerald-green window lattices… the entire neighborhood looks as if a paint palette had been knocked over. This “dopamine color scheme” was not created for tourists; it is the generations-old life aesthetic of the local residents.
Six-Star Street is like a maze. The main attractions are all in the hexagonal area where Jiefang West Road and Gongren Street meet. If you use navigation, you must be precise about “Six-Star Street Accordion Museum” or “Main Entrance of the Six-Star Street Historical and Cultural District”; otherwise, it is easy to get lost in the crisscrossing lanes.
Inside the Accordion Museum, the 800-plus antique accordions collected by local Russian resident Alexander Sergeyevich Zazulin are stacked from the corners of the walls all the way to the dome. Among them are both 19th-century wooden antique accordions and modern electronic ones; the smallest is no larger than a palm, and the heaviest weighs over 16 kilograms. On weekend afternoons, small concerts are held, with local accordionists performing live. The sound of the instruments drifts through the glass windows out into the street, and even elderly passersby stop to listen.
Strolling through Six-Star Street, you might encounter a “concert” anytime, anywhere. As soon as an impromptu guitar-and-song session by a street-side bar band ends, following the drumbeat a few steps further, the sound of a bayan reaches your ears, and turning around, you can join a “Black Walking Horse” (Kazakh dance) procession.
A five-minute walk brings you to the intangible cultural heritage workshop: state-level intangible cultural heritage items such as Kazakh embroidery, Uyghur musical instrument making, and traditional dairy product preparation… Here, visitors can personally experience intangible cultural heritage techniques.
But note: the Accordion Museum stops admitting visitors at 18:30, and the intangible cultural heritage workshop is closed on Mondays — you must plan your timing carefully.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 戴楷然
The International Renewable Energy Agency's latest released 2026 Renewable Energy Capacity Statistics (《2026可再生能源装机容量数据统计》) shows that in 2025, Africa's renewable energy installed capacity increased by approximately 11.3 GW, a year-on-year increase of 15.9%, the fastest growth rate in recent years. Taking photovoltaics as an example, in 2025 Africa's newly added photovoltaic installed capacity was about 4,500 MW, a year-on-year increase of 54%. At present, the new energy industries of many African countries are putting on an "acceleration," speeding up the transformation of abundant renewable resource advantages into development advantages that solve the energy shortage problem. The head of the African Solar Industry Association (非洲太阳能产业协会), Zuilien (祖伊伦), stated that the further acceleration of the development of new energy industries such as Africa's photovoltaic power generation is expected to become an important driving force for promoting Africa's industrialization and green transition.
New energy projects accelerate implementation
African countries possess abundant renewable resources, including approximately 60% of the world's high-quality solar resources. The East African Rift is also considered one of the most geothermally potential resource belts globally, while countries such as Namibia, South Africa, and Kenya have world-class wind energy resources.
In the vast desert area of South Africa's Northern Cape Province, more than 410,000 photovoltaic panels are neatly arranged. The Mooi Plaats photovoltaic project (穆伊普拉茨光伏项目), commissioned in March this year, has a total installed capacity of 240 MW and is expected to produce approximately 360 GWh of clean electricity annually. The project will provide a large amount of green electricity for local mining enterprises and will operate in coordination with wind power and energy storage facilities to improve power supply stability. As the scale of new energy installations continues to expand, South Africa's energy storage facility construction is significantly accelerating. This year, South Africa's SOLA Group has launched the construction of the Naos-1 large-scale solar-plus-storage project, planning to deploy an 855 MWh energy storage system.
In the desert area of southern Namibia near the Atlantic coast, large engineering machinery is leveling the site. Here, one of Africa's largest green hydrogen industry bases will be constructed. The Namibian government signed an agreement with the domestic enterprise Hiven Hydrogen Energy Company (海芬氢能公司), planning to invest more than US$10 billion to build a large-scale green hydrogen production base along with photovoltaic and wind power generation facilities. After completion, the project will produce about 2 million tonnes of green ammonia annually and drive the development of mineral processing, manufacturing, and port logistics.
Significant progress has also been made in wind and geothermal energy development. The Ayisa Wind Power Project (阿伊萨风电项目) in Ethiopia's Somali Region has a total installed capacity of 120 MW. Currently, the first phase of 32 wind turbines has been installed and has begun grid-connected power generation. At the same time, the Kenyan government is continuously expanding the scale of geothermal development. Currently, about 90% of the country's electricity comes from renewable energy, of which geothermal power generation accounts for nearly half, at a globally leading level.
The report of the International Renewable Energy Agency analyzes that Africa's renewable energy development has gradually shifted from individual project construction to large-scale development. With the continued decline in equipment costs such as photovoltaic modules and energy storage batteries, as well as the continuous advancement of grid upgrades and regional energy interconnection, more and more African countries are beginning to explore the "new energy + energy storage + industry" integrated development model, combining new energy development with mineral processing and manufacturing, thereby transforming resource advantages into industrial advantages.
Boosting industrial green transition
Africa's population accounts for about 20% of the world's total, while its energy consumption accounts for about 6%. With the rapid advancement of industrialization and urbanization, Africa's energy demand continues to grow. With the rapid development of industries such as solar energy, energy storage, and green hydrogen, new energy can not only alleviate Africa's electricity shortage but also drive industrial upgrades in key mineral development and green manufacturing, enhancing the value chain of local industries. The African Union's Agenda 2063 explicitly calls for accelerating the process of energy green transition and industrial development. Last year, 48 African countries signed the Dar es Salaam Energy Declaration (《达累斯萨拉姆能源宣言》), supporting the expansion of attracting investment in new energy industries, advancing energy reforms, and expanding grid coverage.
A growing number of African countries are incorporating new energy industry development into national strategic planning and setting clear targets. In 2025, Kenya released its National Energy Policy (2025-2034) (《国家能源政策（2025—2034）》), which proposes further expanding the development of geothermal, wind, and distributed solar power, consolidating the dominant position of green electricity in the power structure. Namibia has issued the Green Hydrogen Strategy (《绿色氢能战略》), planning to build multiple "hydrogen valley" projects, hoping to rely on its abundant solar and wind energy resources to become a globally important green hydrogen production and export base. Countries such as Zambia and Botswana have also successively released energy transition roadmaps, focusing on solar energy, energy storage, and regional grid interconnection as key development directions.
In East African countries such as Rwanda and Tanzania, distributed energy is becoming an important pathway to solving power supply issues in remote areas. Relying on the rural electrification project jointly launched by the Rwanda Energy Group and the World Bank, off-grid power supply now covers more and more remote communities, and some villages that once relied on kerosene lamps for lighting have achieved stable power supply. The International Renewable Energy Agency believes that for African countries with dispersed populations and relatively weak grid infrastructure, the "photovoltaic + energy storage + microgrid" model has strong applicability.
With increased policy support and industrial investment from African countries, new energy is gradually transforming from a supplementary energy source into an important engine boosting industrial green transition. However, the energy transition is not "all green lights." The report Financing for Universal Electricity Access in Africa (《为非洲电力普及融资》) released by the International Energy Agency at the end of last year estimates that to achieve the goal of universal electricity access in Africa by 2030, the region still needs to invest about US$15 billion annually in power access construction, and further attract more private capital to participate in energy infrastructure construction. The report analyzes that Africa still faces challenges such as weak transmission and distribution networks and high financing costs. It is necessary for African countries to further promote regional grid interconnection and energy market reforms, expand the attraction of foreign investment, and increase public and private capital input to accelerate the energy green transition.
Deepening China-Africa green cooperation
In recent years, energy cooperation between China and African countries has gradually expanded from traditional hydropower construction to cooperation in green industry chains such as photovoltaics, energy storage, and power grids. A batch of large-scale photovoltaic, wind power, energy storage, and integrated energy projects have been successively implemented, promoting China-Africa green energy cooperation to deepen and solidify.
In February this year, the 50 MW Shinyanga photovoltaic project in Tanzania, contracted by PowerChina, achieved grid-connected power generation. This is Tanzania's first large-scale grid-connected photovoltaic power station project and an important node in the country's energy transition. The project is expected to generate about 72 GWh of electricity annually, significantly alleviating the power supply shortage in the Lake Victoria region. The Tanzanian government stated that this project opens a new phase of large-scale photovoltaic development in Tanzania.
In South Africa, the Redstone 100 MW tower molten salt solar thermal power station (红石100兆瓦塔式熔盐光热电站) contracted by a Chinese enterprise has entered the operational phase. The project uses molten salt heat storage technology and can achieve 24-hour continuous power supply. It is regarded as one of the most advanced solar thermal power generation projects in Africa. The Oya hybrid energy project (奥亚混合能源项目) contracted by a Chinese enterprise combines photovoltaic, wind power, and energy storage. After completion, it will provide reliable and stable clean energy to the South African power grid.
African countries' imports of energy storage batteries, inverters, and photovoltaic modules from China continue to grow. "Made in China" promotes the decline in global photovoltaic and energy storage costs, improving the economic feasibility of African new energy projects. Some Chinese new energy enterprises have begun to advance localized production and technical training, helping Africa enhance its green industrialization capacity by building industrial parks and training local technical personnel.
"With the rapid development of new energy equipment, energy storage, and electric vehicle industries, Africa-China green cooperation space is further expanding," said Humphrey Moshi (汉弗莱·莫希), Director of the China Studies Center at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. Africa is accelerating its energy green transition, but still faces challenges such as insufficient financing, weak power grids, and a shortage of technical talent. Against the backdrop of profound adjustments in the global energy landscape, strengthening Africa-China green energy cooperation will inject strong momentum into Africa's sustainable development.
(This newspaper's Johannesburg, July 13 electrical dispatch.)
Return to TopBy: 韩秉宸
“Are you Chinese? I want to thank you!” As soon as the taxi stopped in front of the Chinese Embassy in Greece (中国驻希腊大使馆), the driver gave a thumbs-up toward the Five-Starred Red Flag fluttering above the embassy compound. That simple expression of gratitude warmed the heart of this writer, who was revisiting Athens after several years. Strolling through Athens, the old city streets are 游人如织 (yóu rén rú zhī - “visitors like weaving,” crowded with tourists), and the shopfronts lining the streets are brightly lit; in the new coastal district, tower cranes stand thickly clustered, commercial complexes and high-rise buildings are growing up; even streets that used to see little congestion now often show slow-moving traffic.
Not long ago, the European Commission announced it would remove Greece from its “Macroeconomic Imbalance Monitoring List,” acknowledging that the Greek economy continues to demonstrate strong resilience against a backdrop of intensified global uncertainty, with GDP in 2025 growing 2.1 percent year on year and the expectation of maintaining stable growth in the future. Athens several years ago, however, presented an entirely different scene of desolation. The shadow of the sovereign debt crisis hung over the entire city — long lines in front of ATMs, the anxiety of the public under capital controls, 此起彼伏 (cǐ qǐ bǐ fú - “here rising, there falling,” rising and falling in succession) sounds of protest in the squares… It was as if the whole city had had the lifeblood sucked out of it — that was the deep impression Greece left on this writer back then.
Looking back on this trajectory, when Greece’s debt crisis erupted in 2010, it once stood on the precipice of exiting the eurozone; after going through the difficult adjustments of multiple bailout programs, the period of enhanced surveillance from 2018 to 2022, and now the formal removal from the macroeconomic imbalance monitoring system, more than ten years of climbing slopes and crossing obstacles have finally brought the economy back to a “completely normal state.” Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis commented that this decision “brings to an end a negative chapter that began 16 years ago.”
On Greece’s long trajectory of recovery, the Port of Piraeus (比雷埃夫斯港) is a key coordinate that cannot be bypassed. Located on the Saronic Gulf (萨罗尼科斯湾) south of Athens, the port was first built in the 5th century BCE and is the European hub port closest to the Suez Canal, with 得天独厚 (dé tiān dú hòu - “uniquely favored by heaven,” exceptionally advantageous) geographical advantages, radiating across the vast regions of the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, and the Middle East and North Africa. Relying on its superior maritime conditions, Piraeus once ranked among Europe’s top ten ports and the world’s top fifty ports. Yet, due to aging equipment, inefficient operations, and lagging management, it once fell to the margins of the Mediterranean shipping network.
In 2008, in order to cope with the impact of the international financial crisis, the Greek government initiated the privatization of Piraeus. COSCO Pacific Limited successfully won the bid and obtained a 35-year concession for Pier 2 and Pier 3 container terminals, planting the seeds of recovery for this century-old port. The terminals were formally taken over in 2010, and within just a few years, Piraeus’s container terminal throughput grew from 685,000 TEUs in 2010 to 3.034 million TEUs in 2015. In 2015, after Greece defaulted on its debt due to the failure to receive rescue funds in time, when the tender for the majority stake in the Piraeus Port Authority S.A. was relaunched, the potential competitors that had previously expressed interest all chose to pull out. The Chinese company became the only bidder willing to invest in Piraeus.
In 2016, COSCO Shipping (Piraeus) Port Company Limited formally took over full operation of Piraeus, opening a new chapter for the old port’s rebirth. In the ten years since the takeover and operation, port upgrades and renovations have continued steadily; the China-Europe Land-Sea Express Line (中欧陆海快线) extends outward from here, linking more than 1,500 service points across nine European countries and reaching a population of 71 million, opening up a major land-sea combined transport corridor from the Mediterranean coast deep into Central and Eastern Europe, catapulting Piraeus into an important node of high-quality Belt and Road cooperation and the third logistics corridor for China-Europe trade.
Today, Piraeus is already one of the busiest ports in the Mediterranean, with annual container throughput exceeding 5.6 million TEUs and a global ranking that has risen as high as twenty-fifth; its ferry transport leads the industry, its high-speed ro-pax capacity is the top in Europe and among the world’s leaders, with annual passenger traffic exceeding 18 million person-trips; the project has directly created thousands of quality jobs, indirectly driven tens of thousands of employment opportunities, and furthermore spurred the overall upgrading of the local logistics, manufacturing, and supply chain industries, becoming a powerful engine of Greece’s economic recovery. The story of Piraeus is not merely these economic figures. The “COSCO Shipping Piraeus Kunpeng Scholarship” (中远海运比港鲲鹏奖学金) broadens growth pathways for Greek youth; the Piraeus Port Park adds public recreational space for nearby residents; the dividends of mutually beneficial cooperation continue to permeate the fine grain of local society, and the human warmth beyond trade and economic cooperation is equally touching.
Mitsotakis once stated plainly that Greece had received China’s support during the difficult days of the debt crisis, that the Piraeus project is a model of mutual benefit and win-win outcomes, that it has effectively promoted Greece’s economic recovery and social development, that it aligns with the fundamental interests of the Greek state and its people, and that it has also allowed the Greek people to truly understand the weight of the word “friend.”
The taxi driver’s sincere expression of gratitude is precisely a vivid footnote to how China-Greece cooperation benefits the people’s livelihood. As Piraeus steadily advances toward its goal of becoming a world-class port, future visits to Athens will surely bring more such warm voices, here on the shores of the Mediterranean.
Return to TopUN Secretary-General urges US and Iran to resume negotiations
Xinhua United Nations, July 12 (Xinhua) -- The UN Secretary-General's spokesperson issued a statement on the 12th saying that Secretary-General Guterres is deeply concerned about the serious escalation of the situation in the Gulf region and the resurgence of military confrontation, urging Iran and the United States to urgently resume negotiations and resolve outstanding issues through diplomatic channels.
The statement said that attacks must cease entirely. The Secretary-General calls on all parties to exercise maximum restraint, avoid actions that would further escalate the situation, and take immediate measures to de-escalate.
The statement said that the Secretary-General stressed that a return to full-scale hostilities would bring disastrous consequences for the people of the region, international peace and security, and the global economy, and reiterated the necessity of restoring complete freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.
DRC Ebola epidemic expands to 5 provinces, over 1,800 confirmed cases
According to Xinhua Kinshasa, July 12 (Xinhua) -- (Reporter Shi Yu (史彧)) The Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) released the latest epidemic report on the 12th, showing that the affected areas of the country's current Ebola epidemic have increased to five provinces, with a cumulative total of 1,873 confirmed cases reported, including 672 deaths.
Tshopo Province and Haut-Uele Province have been included among the provinces affected by the epidemic for the first time. The report said that the cases found in the two provinces are all related to the Nyanya area of Ituri Province. Previously, the areas affected by the DRC Ebola epidemic were Ituri Province, North Kivu Province, and South Kivu Province. According to the report, 763 patients are undergoing isolation or hospitalization, and the cumulative number of cured cases is 306.
Stabbing incident occurs in Oita Prefecture, Japan
According to Xinhua Tokyo, July 13 (Xinhua) -- (Reporters Chen Ze'an (陈泽安) and Liang Chen (梁晨)) According to Japanese media reports on the 13th, a stabbing incident occurred on the morning of the same day in Saiki City, Oita Prefecture, Japan, leaving four people stabbed and the suspect arrested.
Oita Broadcasting Company reported that at 9:47 a.m. local time on the 13th, the fire department received a report of someone being stabbed with a knife. The incident site is the parking lot of a store in Saiki City. All four injured have been taken to hospital. The suspect, a 44-year-old man, has been arrested. Local police are conducting further investigations.
Philippines' foreign direct investment in April drops sharply
According to Xinhua Manila, July 13 (Xinhua) -- (Reporters Li Meng (李萌) and Zhao Chenjie (赵晨捷)) The latest data released by the Philippine central bank recently shows that in April 2026, the Philippines' net inflow of foreign direct investment was 250 million US dollars, the lowest monthly level since June 2016.
Philippine media reported on the 12th, citing data from the Philippine central bank, that in April, the Philippines' net foreign direct investment fell by 58.8% compared to the same period in 2025. In the first four months of this year, the Philippines' net inflow of foreign direct investment was approximately 2 billion US dollars, a year-on-year decrease of 26.5%.
Recently, the International Monetary Fund and the Asian Development Bank have respectively lowered their economic growth expectations for the Philippines for the next two years, citing the Philippines' poor economic performance in the first quarter of 2026 and the impact of the Middle East conflict on Philippine inflation and economic activity exceeding expectations.
By: 本报记者 曹师韵
Recently, the Indonesian government announced the launch of an economic stimulus plan for the second half of 2026, with a total amount of 26.34 trillion Indonesian rupiah (1 yuan renminbi is approximately equivalent to 2630 Indonesian rupiah), covering multiple areas such as transportation subsidies, food assistance, vocational training and internship programs, and industrial support. Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto stated that this economic stimulus plan aims to maintain public consumption, enhance purchasing power, help sustain the momentum of national economic growth until the end of the year, and provide support for achieving the full-year economic growth target of 5.4%.
Since the beginning of this year, affected by international energy price fluctuations and rising uncertainty in global financial markets, the Indonesian rupiah's exchange rate against the US dollar has depreciated by about 8% cumulatively, repeatedly hitting historical lows. The weakening exchange rate further increases imported inflationary pressure, bringing challenges to household consumption and enterprise production costs. In response, the Indonesian government has successively introduced multiple measures. In May, Indonesia launched an economic stimulus package totaling 7.8 trillion Indonesian rupiah, boosting household consumption and residents' purchasing power through measures such as transportation subsidies. The Indonesian central bank has stabilized the financial market through strengthening foreign exchange market intervention, expanding the application scope of the local currency settlement mechanism, and consecutive interest rate hikes. In May-June, the Indonesian central bank raised the benchmark interest rate three times consecutively, with a cumulative rate hike of 100 basis points to 5.75%. The economic stimulus plan for the second half of the year now launched is a further continuation and supplement of the Indonesian government's previous stable growth policies.
According to introductions, this round of economic stimulus plan includes a total of 8 policies, mainly divided into three pillars: consumption and business stimulus, employment support, and food assistance. In the field of consumption and business, the Indonesian government has focused on introducing transportation subsidies and creative industry support measures. During school holidays and the Christmas and New Year periods, trains, passenger ships, and domestic flights will offer fare discounts, expected to benefit nearly ten million passengers; the tax rate on royalty income for domestic authors will be uniformly reduced to 1.5% to support the development of the creative industry. In terms of employment, the government launched the second phase of the National Internship Program in July, and expanded the scale of vocational training, focusing on helping college graduates, vocational high school graduates, and workers affected by layoffs to improve skills and achieve employment.
In terms of stabilizing prices and ensuring people's livelihood, food assistance is the focus of this round of stimulus plan, with the relevant budget accounting for nearly 70% of the total scale of the entire stimulus plan. The Indonesian government will distribute rice assistance from July to September, covering more than 32 million people; provide subsidies for soybeans to stabilize the prices of staple food items. The Indonesian government has also introduced a series of industrial support measures, such as providing zero import tariff preferences for liquefied petroleum gas, plastic raw materials, and aircraft parts, to cope with the cost pressure brought by fluctuations in the international market.
Deni Friawan, a senior researcher at the Economics Department of the Indonesian Center for Strategic and International Studies, analyzed that Indonesia's economic fundamentals were good in the first quarter, with a growth rate of 5.61%, but the increasing uncertainty in the external environment continues to put pressure on Indonesia's economy, weakening the momentum of industrial growth. Future stimulus measures should not only focus on boosting consumption, but also strengthen supply-side capacity building, providing more solid support for long-term economic growth through creating employment and improving production capacity.
(People's Daily, Jakarta, July 13th dispatch)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 许立群
Recently, an investigation by the UK's Sun disclosed that in 2025, among the 184,000 burglary cases "closed" by police in England and Wales, the actual clearance rate was less than 8%, and in more than one-third of neighborhoods there were even cases of zero burglaries solved; a total of 143,000 burglary cases were closed without a suspect being identified. This has led to considerable public dissatisfaction and criticism.
According to UK media reports, since 2010, the UK has implemented fiscal austerity policies. Constrained by funding issues, England and Wales cut more than 20,000 police officers, resulting in many communities not having patrol officers. Police resources are more concentrated on dealing with terrorism, violent crime, drug crime, etc., while so-called "minor crimes" such as burglary are neglected. When handling theft and other cases, the British police often only ask victims if they can provide valid leads or information; if not, the police will hastily close the case.
Currently, theft crime in the UK is further showing trends of being organized, intelligent, and transnational. Burglaries are mostly committed by itinerant criminals, making tracking difficult, while the police lack sufficient capacity in data screening, electronic forensics, cross-border collaboration, etc. A report from HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services indicates that the system used by the National Crime Agency is outdated and cannot meet mission requirements. The National Crime Agency currently does not include any regional organized crime datasets, nor does it have plans to connect to the National Law Enforcement Data Service. Data from the Office for National Statistics shows that over the past nine years, British public satisfaction with police work has been declining.
In judicial procedures, British criminal proceedings have strict standards for determining criminal evidence. Theft cases mostly involve circumstantial evidence, which often does not meet prosecution standards. According to official UK statistics, as of the fourth quarter of 2025, the number of backlogged cases in the Crown Court exceeded 80,000, the highest level since 2016. During the same period, 22% of hearings in Magistrates' Courts and 26% in the Crown Court were not held on schedule. For some minor crime cases, even if prosecuted and convicted, sentences are generally light, lacking deterrence.
Facing the threat of theft and public security crisis, the British government has introduced some countermeasures. In January 2026, the British government established a new National Police Service agency, which will integrate professional talent and advanced technology to address increasingly complex crime threats. The UK will also appoint a National Police Commissioner, as the highest-level police chief nationwide, to oversee the operation of this agency. The Home Office stated that it will deploy 3,000 community policing and support police personnel as soon as possible for patrols and combating street crime. The British police also carry out special crackdowns, conduct surprise inspections of fencing operations, encourage the public to install surveillance and smart alarm devices, and have communities form joint defense teams to share surveillance data with the police, etc.
Some British media commentators believe that short-term special operations only address symptoms, not root causes. To rebuild British public confidence in the police, it is necessary to systematically rebuild police forces, upgrade technical equipment, and improve judicial efficiency. In January this year, the UK released a policing reform white paper, and the British policing system will shift from the current fragmented structure to a new model with clearer division of labor between local and national policing.
(People's Daily London, January 30)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘军国 宋亦然
Recently, 21 young leaders from 16 African countries and 21 political parties visited Zhejiang and Beijing successively. In the vivid practice of Chinese-style modernization, they perceived change; in the mutual learning of governance experience, they gained wisdom; in the interaction of diverse cultures, they enhanced friendship. They hope that African countries can learn from China's development experience, adhere to a people-centered approach, and explore modernization paths that suit their own national conditions.
“From the development of a single city like Yiwu, one can glimpse China's development strength.”
In the impression of Engbertus Kavante, Central Committee member of the SWAPO Party Youth League of Namibia and Secretary of Kavango West Region, the countryside means vast farmland and heavy agricultural labor. But in Li Zu Village (李祖村), Houzhai Subdistrict (后宅街道), Yiwu City, Zhejiang Province, the scene before him changed his perception. “The village roads are clean, public spaces are orderly, and there are tourists visiting the village. Rural development takes on multiple forms,” Kavante said. “The level of modernization here is comparable to that of the city.”
“The villagers’ mental state attracted my attention even more.” James Losikani, Human Resources Management Director of the United Democratic Alliance of Kenya, observed that there are many 精神矍铄 (jīng shén jué shuò – “spirit robust and vigorous,” describing elderly people in good spirits and hale) centenarians in the village. “It is clear that the development of Li Zu Village is reflected not only in the renewal of houses and the beautification of the environment, but also in the support that public services such as community care provide to ordinary people. In the village, regardless of age, everyone can enjoy the fruits of development,” Losikani said.
At the Yiwu International Trade Market in Zhejiang, the delegation members saw another face of Chinese-style modernization. The 琳琅满目 (lín láng mǎn mù – “a dazzling array of beautiful things,” describing a multitude of fine goods) array of goods, along with a stable supply chain, mature market system, and global sales network, made the delegation members frequently stop to inquire. Albert Muyabusinge, a member of the National Executive Committee of Rwanda, was not unfamiliar with Yiwu’s goods. “Rwanda’s own domestically produced goods are limited, and many rely on imports. Yiwu goods are very common in the Rwandan market,” he said. He proactively engaged with a shop, hoping to promote the export of goods to Rwanda. “For Rwanda, Yiwu provides not only a source of goods but also the ability to organize goods and serve customers for the global market.”
“Yiwu’s value lies not only in its complete range of categories, reasonably priced goods, and sales network reaching the whole world, but even more in the opportunities it provides for ordinary people to find employment and start businesses, allowing more families to improve their lives through commercial operations.” Mze Hirazi, Principal of the Youth League School of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi of Tanzania, believes, “This is not a simple trading venue; it is a complete ecosystem linking production, procurement, logistics, export, and employment. It is a place of hope for ordinary people to start undertakings, create businesses, and change their lives.”
“Before coming to Yiwu, I had heard the story of how it grew from ‘trading chicken feathers for candy’ (鸡毛换糖) into a global small-commodity trade hub.” Francis Mwamba, a member of the National Management Committee of the United Party for National Development of Zambia, said, “Seeing it with my own eyes confirms to me that Yiwu lives up to its reputation. From the development of a single city like Yiwu, one can glimpse China’s development strength.”
“The proactive actions of a political party can be transformed into the vitality of economic and social development.”
What power has brought about the transformation of Li Zu Village and Yiwu’s development achievements? Mwamba believes that whether it is the improvement of rural infrastructure or the cultivation of business entities, none can be achieved without the proactive actions of the ruling party. “For many African countries, how to optimize the business environment, reduce trade costs, improve administrative efficiency, and raise residents’ living standards are all important issues in their own development. China’s experience shows us that the proactive actions of a political party can be transformed into the vitality of economic and social development,” Mwamba said.
In the view of Israel-Abdulai Ayodije, a member of the National Executive Committee and National Youth Leader of the All Progressives Congress of Nigeria, the bustling international trade market and the beautiful new countryside have both developed through long-term planning and sustained investment. “Turning long-term goals into sustained actions, and deepening and solidifying market cultivation, industrial upgrading, and opening up and cooperation—these are all manifestations of the governance capacity of the Communist Party of China,” Ayodije said.
“Only when a ruling party upholds the supremacy of the people can it continue to gain popular support and effectively lead national development.” Sylvester Wamp, District Youth Chairman of the Unity Party of Liberia, believes that the experience of the Communist Party of China shows that only by taking root at the grassroots, valuing the people’s needs, and continuously strengthening its governance capacity can a party provide strong support for long-term, stable national development.
“The Communist Party of China has always adhered to its original aspiration of seeking happiness for the people; this is a key reason why China can continuously advance high-quality development. To understand China’s governance, the key lies in understanding the Communist Party of China,” Mwamba said. “I learned at the former residence of Chen Wangdao (陈望道) that he translated The Communist Manifesto into Chinese, igniting the torch of thought. Now, the Communist Party of China has already gone through 105 glorious years. Comprehensively governing the Party with strict discipline (全面从严治党) and daring to self-reform (勇于自我革命) are the keys to the ruling party eternally maintaining its vitality. Generations of Chinese Communists have 前赴后继 (qián fù hòu jì – “advance wave after wave,” to keep moving forward), and only then have today’s development achievements of China come about. They also made us realize that ‘the taste of truth is very sweet’ (真理的味道非常甜).”
“The governance practice of the Communist Party of China proves that modernization must be people-centered and deeply rooted in the national development vision.” Enoch Dambudzo, Director of the Legal Bureau of the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front, stated that modernization is not only about building infrastructure and developing science and technology; it is even more about creating opportunities for the people and maximizing the creativity of the broad masses. “During this inspection tour, I saw how the people-centered development concept is transformed into national practice, and also witnessed how a political party, through long-term planning and 久久为功 (jiǔ jiǔ wéi gōng – “persist for a long time to achieve success,” sustained effort) execution, turns one blueprint after another for development into reality.”
“African countries must combine their own actual conditions and explore a modernization path suitable for themselves.”
“China has achieved its current international status not by flaunting military force or bullying other countries, but by achieving sustained economic growth and social prosperity and stability.” Paul Amodag, Secretary for Student Affairs of the National Democratic Congress of Ghana, said, “A peacefully developing China makes the destinies of Africa and China 休戚与共 (xiū qī yǔ gòng – “share joys and sorrows,” meaning solidarity and shared destiny), and their futures closely connected.”
“Africa’s development cannot be separated from China,” Ayodije said. China is Africa’s largest trading partner. China’s development not only means its own progress but also brings opportunities to African countries. Thanks to China’s vast market and stable supply chain, African countries can more conveniently obtain a variety of affordable goods. “We look forward to China further expanding its opening up, promoting the process of globalization, and better supporting Africa’s development.”
“The development stage that China has gone through is also the process that Africa is now experiencing; we are all walking on the development path towards our dreams,” Dambudzo said. “China’s practice proves that there is more than one path to development. African countries must combine their own actual conditions and explore a modernization path suitable for themselves.” He believes that different civilizations should not fall into zero-sum game competition, but should promote common progress through exchange and mutual learning. “It is precisely because of long-term mutual respect and understanding that Africa-China relations and traditional friendship can continuously deepen.”
“African youth are not only beneficiaries of Africa-China practical cooperation, but should even more become participants in Africa’s modernization construction,” Wamp said. Many African engineers have studied or received training in China. “After seeing China’s development achievements with their own eyes, they urgently hope to bring China’s experience back to their motherlands and build their hometowns.”
“Many African countries hope to learn from China’s development experience to seek long-term national stability,” Mwamba said. “I very much look forward to African countries’ political parties and the Communist Party of China continuing to deepen cooperation, relying on normalized exchanges in fields such as education, culture, science and technology, trade, and agriculture, jointly upholding the people-centered development concept, and promoting the joint building of an all-weather Africa-China community with a shared future in the new era.”
Return to TopBy: 詹姆斯·洛斯坎尼
During my visit to China, Yiwu left a deep impression on me. This place, once famous for "exchanging chicken feathers for candy," has now become a small-commodity trade hub connecting the global market. At the Yiwu Global Digital Trade Center and the International Trade City, what I saw was not just commodity orders and logistics systems, but the development logic behind them: when the entrepreneurial spirit of ordinary people is supported by institutions, infrastructure, and policy environments, small businesses can converge into a large market, and grassroots vitality can be transformed into an important driving force for national development.
In many African countries, ordinary workers, small traders, and young entrepreneurs have always been the most dynamic groups in the economy and society. The question is whether this vitality can be effectively organized and whether it can gain support from markets, finance, logistics, technology, and public services. The valuable inspiration Yiwu gave me lies precisely here. Development cannot rely on waiting for large projects to drive it; rather, through the government's stable institutional arrangements and sustained public investment, it should create opportunities for millions of ordinary people to improve their lives and generate wealth.
My trip to China made me realize the importance of robust institutional development for long-term growth. The Communist Party of China has always placed great emphasis on organizational building, long-term planning, and policy continuity. For political parties in African countries, how to build a political organization with a clear mission, strict discipline, and a sustained commitment to serving the people is a question that must be answered in the process of advancing modernization.
Chinese experience has made me deeply aware that development must be people-centered. Modernization cannot remain merely at the level of macroeconomic data, nor can it only manifest as high-rise buildings in cities. Whether farmers can increase their incomes, whether young people can acquire skills, whether enterprises can operate smoothly, and whether ordinary families can enjoy the fruits of development—these are the vivid textures of modernization. China's practices in infrastructure, industrial cultivation, agricultural science and technology, and vocational education demonstrate that development that connects national goals with the daily lives of the people is truly effective development.
In China, I once again experienced the important role of education and skills training in enhancing national competitiveness. At Jinhua University of Vocational Technology, I saw students learning knowledge and skills in engineering, intelligent manufacturing, digital technology, and drone design. They are not just pursuing diplomas, but are striving to better integrate into the modern industrial system. Africa has a huge youth population—this is our advantage, but also a heavy responsibility. If young people cannot acquire vocational skills, they will have no opportunities for employment or entrepreneurship, and the demographic advantage will naturally be difficult to transform into development momentum. Strengthening vocational education, technical training, and industrial cooperation should become an important direction for African countries to learn from China.
Learning from China's experience does not mean completely copying China's path. Every country has its own unique history, culture, and resource endowments, and is at a different stage of development. The important lesson China offers us is precisely that the development path must be based on a country's own realities. What Africa should learn from China's experience is not a fixed template, but a method and a logic: that is, to adhere to long-term planning, improve institutional construction, invest in people's capabilities, enhance grassroots vitality, and firmly grasp the initiative in development in one's own hands.
My trip to China has made me more convinced that modernization is not a distant future, but a goal that can be achieved step by step through institutional planning and people's efforts. Young people bear a special responsibility in this process. I very much look forward to continued exchanges between African and Chinese youth, and to carrying out in-depth and pragmatic cooperation in areas such as policy research, vocational education, the digital economy, agricultural modernization, and innovation and entrepreneurship, so that exchanges and learning can truly be transformed into the power to change reality.
(The author is Head of Human Resources Management, United Democratic Alliance of Kenya)
Return to TopOn July 1, the grand gathering celebrating the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China was held in Beijing. Multiple representatives from the 'Two Excellences, One Advanced' (两优一先 - "Two Excellences, One Advanced," a campaign recognizing outstanding Party members, Party affairs workers, and grassroots Party organizations) from new employment groups entered the Great Hall of the People to receive commendations. Among them were truck drivers, couriers… Days earlier, reporters interviewed some of the commended individuals, gaining in-depth understanding of their advanced deeds and listening to their experiences and insights. They all expressed that they will cherish the honor, strengthen their convictions, follow the Party wholeheartedly, and resolve to make new contributions.
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National Outstanding Party Affairs Worker, Rider Wang Kehao
“Gather more industry practitioners”
Reporter You Yi
On July 1, at the Great Hall of the People, the grand gathering celebrating the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China was solemnly held. Wang Kehao, Party branch secretary of the 'Little Bull Brother · Pioneer Riders' volunteer service team in Niushikou Subdistrict, Jinjiang District, Chengdu, Sichuan, as a representative of National Outstanding Party Affairs Workers, walked onto the podium and received the certificate of honor from General Secretary Xi Jinping. “This honor belongs to the tens of thousands of new employment groups rushing about in the city, and to all the riders who participate in grassroots governance and serve millions of households,” Wang Kehao said.
Wang Kehao, born in 1992, has been a Party member for 13 years. He has been delivering food for many years with a continuous “zero negative reviews”. It is precisely this experience that made him keenly feel the plight of his peers: a broken-down bike on the roadside with no one to turn to for repairs; Party organizational relationships left hanging in the air, like a kite with a broken string; disputes and grievances often with no one to tell.
The change came in 2020. One day, he passed by a community bulletin board and a poster for a “Mobilization Order for Mobile Party Members” caught his eye. He scanned the code, registered, and uploaded his information. That very day, the subdistrict Party Working Committee called him. At that moment, Wang Kehao felt he had “found a home”. Under the leadership of the subdistrict Party Working Committee, the “Little Bull Brother · Pioneer Riders” volunteer service team was established, and he, along with eight other mobile Party members, were the first to transfer their organizational relations to the subdistrict.
Because of his willingness to take responsibility and contribute, Wang Kehao was elected as the Party branch secretary. With no fixed time, he initiated a lunchtime “micro-Party-lesson”, each lasting 15 minutes, explaining the latest policies and telling stories from everyday life; he also established a “Party member contacts rider” system, where each Party member is assigned to regularly contact 10 to 15 riders. Whatever needs the riders have, he records them one by one and actively reports them. Government departments, the subdistrict, and enterprises quickly responded: a 24-hour “Little Bull Brother · Take a Break” service station was built, a legal service station was opened, and training on delivery skills, traffic safety, emergency rescue, etc., was held regularly. “Every small matter is a big deal in the hearts of riders,” Wang Kehao said.
Niushikou Subdistrict has many old residential compounds. An 80-year-old elderly man surnamed Yuan living alone is Wang Kehao’s paired assistance target. The old man has difficulty moving about, so Wang Kehao visits his home every month, carrying fruits and vegetables, and chats with him.
The power of one person is ultimately limited; Wang Kehao deeply understands this principle. Therefore, under the guidance of the Jinjiang District Committee Organization Department and the District Committee Social Work Department, he worked together with the subdistrict and community to establish a “two-way service list” for grassroots governance of new employment groups. The riders formed long-term assistance pairs with 50 difficult households in the jurisdiction.
Currently, the volunteer service team has over 700 people. They have become “mobile grid members”, participating in volunteer projects such as environmental protection and “casual photo-taking” of hazards. “In the future, we will polish our Party member identity, gather more industry practitioners, and push everyone to keep moving forward on the road of serving the people, running every single trip with heart,” Wang Kehao said.
National Outstanding Communist Party Member, Courier and Parcel Delivery Worker Zhe Fagui
“Take every ‘small matter’ to the extreme”
Reporter Zhang Chi
“Master Zhe, when will my package arrive?” “Master Zhe, how do I issue this electronic receipt?” …
At the SF Express Huijin Building service point in Wuhua District, Kunming, Yunnan Province, parcels are unloaded from delivery vans and sorted by district along a conveyor belt. Zhe Fagui, a courier and parcel delivery worker at Yunnan SF Express Co., Ltd., just hung up a customer’s call and casually helped a colleague operate on a mobile phone.
In 1994, Zhe Fagui put on a military uniform and joined the Party honorably in the army. Three years later, he was discharged and returned to his hometown, where he was elected as a village group leader. In 2008, he walked into the newly established Yunnan SF Express Co., Ltd. and became a courier and delivery worker. After several changes in identity, the sentiment of serving the people, etched in his bones, remained fervent.
When he first entered the trade, the service radius exceeded 10 kilometers, and the road conditions were complex. He recorded every alley and every house number in a notebook, and over several years accumulated a hand-drawn map. In 2022, when the company launched an electronic map, he proactively became a “maintainer”, calibrating locations while collecting and delivering parcels to make the data more accurate.
In order to avoid backtracking, he etched the routes into his mind and optimized them daily; in order to make packages sturdy and neat, he practiced packing techniques hard, wrapping tape, filling cushioning, sealing the box mouth, all in one smooth motion. To date, he has handled over 600,000 parcels for collection and delivery, traveled a cumulative distance of over 200,000 kilometers, and has always maintained “zero complaints.”
Regarding work, Zhe Fagui is strict and 精益求精 (jīng yì qiú jīng - “already fine, seek to be finer,” to constantly strive for perfection). For matters outside work, Zhe Fagui also responds whenever called upon. “As long as it’s within my ability, I try my best to do it,” he said.
One night at around 10 PM, when Zhe Fagui was about to rest, he received a call from his supervisor: “A customer is urging us to deliver a package tonight, very urgent.” It turned out that a medicine urgently needed by a customer had not been delivered during the day because the phone number was wrong and they could not make contact. The delivery location was several tens of kilometers from the service point. Without any hesitation, Zhe Fagui got on his motorcycle and left. By the time it was delivered, it was already late at night.
Another time, Zhe Fagui delivered a dining table purchased online to an office worker in his responsible area. The package was very heavy. After moving it into the office, the recipient found that the address had been filled in incorrectly. “Don’t worry, after work, I’ll help you take it to your home,” Zhe Fagui said. That evening, he helped deliver it. Seeing the customer struggling to assemble it on his own, he then lent a hand, and the two successfully assembled it together.
Helping take out the trash when delivering packages to elderly people living alone, buying medicine for elderly people with limited mobility, and immediately contacting the community for quick handling when encountering a dangerous wall in a village within the city… Over the years, the “casual small deeds” that Zhe Fagui has done are countless.
In July 2026, Zhe Fagui received the title of “National Outstanding Communist Party Member”. “I am very honored, and I feel a greater sense of responsibility. The Party and government care about us, so we must pass on this care and this warmth,” Zhe Fagui said.
Now, Zhe Fagui leads nearly 200 couriers at the service point in continuously optimizing delivery plans. He said: “The small packages carry the expectations of the people; they must be delivered intact into their hands. Taking every ‘small matter’ to the extreme, making the people feel convenient and satisfied, is an amazing ‘big matter’.”
National Advanced Grassroots Party Organization, Huang Feihua Love Car Team Party Branch
“Run out the acceleration of serving the people”
Reporter Liu Junguo
“Without the Party organization’s support all the way, without the car team’s Party members advancing shoulder to shoulder, there would be no honor today,” said Huang Feihua, Party branch secretary of the Huang Feihua Love Car Team, holding the certificate of “National Advanced Grassroots Party Organization” at the Party and Community Service Center of Yingjiaqiao Community, Zhaohui Subdistrict, Gongshu District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, emotionally.
Speaking of the ins and outs of forming the car team and establishing the Party branch, Huang Feihua’s words were simple, and his eyes had light.
The seed of goodness was planted in Huang Feihua’s heart as early as his youth. At age 18, Huang Feihua followed his mother pedaling a human-powered tricycle to deliver goods. His mother always told him that when he returned empty, he should pick up elderly people who were walking and reluctant to spend money on rides. Over the years, through 耳濡目染 (ěr rú mù rǎn - “ears soaked, eyes dyed,” to be imperceptibly influenced by what one constantly sees and hears), helping passers-by became Huang Feihua’s habit. In 1996, Huang Feihua officially joined the Party.
In May 1998, Huang Feihua switched to driving a taxi. Once, he discovered that his wife Deng Minjuan had been insisting on voluntary blood donation for many years. His wife’s spirit of dedication deeply moved him. He made an operational commitment, posting preferential terms on his service qualification certificate: elderly people aged 70 and above, pregnant women, disabled people, and military personnel ride free of the flag-fall fare. In addition, he regularly kept free motion sickness medicine, disposable rain ponchos, sewing kits, reading glasses, etc., in his car for passengers to use at any time.
One person’s goodwill is limited; only when a group of people gathers together can they weave a warm service net covering the masses. Under the coordinated push of Zhaohui Subdistrict, the Huang Feihua Love Car Team was officially established in 2014. One year later, the team established a Party branch, providing a stable position for mobile Party members. Now, the Huang Feihua Love Car Team gathers over 600 volunteer taxi and ride-hailing drivers, with 5 registered Party members and over 40 mobile Party members.
With the Party branch as the backbone, the wheels have a clearer and more determined direction. With the support of the Hangzhou Municipal Transportation Bureau, the Party branch holds a class for new employment groups every late month, gathering ride-hailing drivers, food delivery riders, etc. Every summer, the Party branch also carries out convenience services such as distributing love haircut coupons.
“All members of the Party branch 凝心聚力 (níng xīn jù lì - “focus minds, gather strength,” to unite as one) and play the exemplary vanguard role,” Huang Feihua said. Party member Kou Lianshan regularly provides convenience haircut services. Huang Feihua and the car team members punctually take patients to the hospital for hemodialysis at 6:35 AM every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and pick them up from the hospital at noon. So far, over 20 patients have benefited from the team’s help. The Party branch also regularly assists elderly people in need, equipping them with love wheelchairs, accompanying them at home, holiday condolences, and psychological companionship, not missing a single item. In addition, the Party branch carries out a canal ecological protection project, providing free rides for extremely poor masses to tour the canal…
Three generations of Huang Feihua’s family have taken turns to contribute, becoming a much-told tale. His wife Deng Minjuan has persisted in voluntary blood donation for 30 years; his son Huang Jialv took a voluntary blood donation as his 18th-year coming-of-age ceremony; his young granddaughter donates her New Year’s money every year to the “Spring Breeze Action” (春风行动).
“Party member is the identity I cherish most. Without the Party organization building the platform, coordinating resources, and guiding the direction, I could not have done so many good deeds,” said Huang Feihua. Now, holding the honor, he is even more motivated. He said, “The Party branch will do more refined and normalized public welfare services in areas such as medical transport and elder care, emergency rescue, community convenience, and ecological assistance, so that the wheels will always run in the direction guided by the Party flag, running out the acceleration of serving the people.”
National Outstanding Party Affairs Worker, Truck Driver Long Bing
“Build a strong Party branch on wheels”
Reporter Sun Chao
On July 1, the grand gathering celebrating the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China was solemnly held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Long Bing, a truck driver from Taoyuan County, Hunan, received commendation as a National Outstanding Party Affairs Worker, his heart 心潮澎湃 (xīn cháo péng pài - “heart tides surging,” to be overwhelmed with emotion).
Just half a month before setting off for Beijing, Long Bing and his fellow drivers experienced a large-scale rescue spanning over a hundred kilometers. A sudden rainstorm and flood disaster struck the Huping Mountain area of Shimen County, Hunan, nearly 200 kilometers away, and urgently needed a large amount of cement, gravel, and other materials to clear the roads. He led more than ten Party members and volunteers in delivering a total of 600 tons of cement and other materials to support the affected points. “Only collect fuel costs, no freight charges. Everyone volunteered to fight. Party members must be able to be deployed and step up at critical moments,” Long Bing said.
After retiring from the military in 2007, Long Bing returned to his hometown of Taoyuan County and became an individual truck driver. For over a decade, his wheels rolled across the vast lands.
In September 2020, Long Bing participated in the grassroots representative symposium held by General Secretary Xi Jinping during his inspection tour in Hunan. At that moment, he became even more determined to draw closer to the Party organization. In June 2021, Long Bing joined the Party honorably, and he made a promise: “No matter what position I am in, as long as the people need me, I will always be a ‘soldier’ charging ahead.”
He turned his promise into action. During the severe flood disaster in Henan in 2021, Long Bing loaded disaster relief supplies and drove a thousand kilometers to Xinxiang. After unloading, without taking a rest, he rolled up his trousers and jumped into the mud-clearing team. In 2024, when Taoyuan County encountered rare rainstorms and the Tuanzhouyuan embankment burst in Huarong County, Yueyang, he again organized fundraising and mobilized more than 30 trucks to transport emergency stone materials overnight…
In December 2022, the Zoushi Modern Logistics Industrial Park Joint Party Branch in Taoyuan County was established, with Long Bing serving as the Party branch secretary. At the beginning, the branch had only 3 directly managed Party members and 13 mobile Party members. Truck drivers are constantly traveling outside, and Party members are scattered and difficult to gather, which is a common problem faced by Party building in new business forms.
Long Bing, familiar with the pain points of the industry, explored a Party building path that suits the reality of freight transportation. He set up a “mobile learning network”, where Party members participate in learning simultaneously through WeChat groups and “Cloud Party Building” platforms, listening to micro-Party lessons while driving, achieving “people are thousands of miles away, but the organization is by their side.”
He had to focus on learning, but also on solving problems. Long Bing, who has been in freight for over a decade, understands best the hardships of truck drivers: “difficulty parking, difficulty eating, difficulty bathing.” He continuously called for the promotion of “Driver’s Home” construction in service areas and logistics parks across the province, facilitating the implementation of multiple sites, benefiting tens of thousands of truck drivers. In daily life, many drivers face economic pressure due to car loans and unstable supply of goods, inevitably leading to negative emotions. Long Bing mobilized Party branch members to pair up in conversations and provide psychological guidance, and coordinated resources to connect stable goods sources for struggling drivers.
Now, this Party branch, established for just over three years, has developed 2 Party members and cultivated 4 Party applicants. More and more truck drivers are proactively drawing closer to the Party organization. Long Bing said: “As long as the engine is started, one is not afraid of a long road; as long as the heart is towards the Party, one is not afraid of difficult tasks. This honor inspires me to continue grasping Party building, leading the team, gathering people’s hearts, and building a strong Party branch on wheels.”
Return to TopBy: 张 洋
Party leadership is the fundamental and lifeblood of the Party and the country, and the interests and destiny of all ethnic groups in the nation. Xi Jinping's thought on Party building clearly puts forward the Fourteen Perseverances (十四个坚持), with "Persisting in Party leadership is the most essential characteristic of socialism with Chinese characteristics (中国特色社会主义最本质的特征)" occupying the first place.
Firmly grasping the "most essential characteristic" lies in forever preserving the Party's original aspiration and founding mission.
On the eve of July 1st, coinciding with the summer sowing season, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Dezhou, Shandong, walked into the fields, asked about soil moisture and farming matters, and said, "I wish the villagers, under the Party's leadership, to build their homes more and more beautiful." Applause and cheers lasted for a long time.
To seek happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation, our Party has always fulfilled its original aspiration and mission. "105 years of unremitting struggle have fundamentally changed the destiny of the Chinese people."
Winning the people's hearts with the original aspiration, the Party's leadership status is the choice of history and the people. The core of the "most essential characteristic" lies in "firmly standing together, thinking together, and working together with the people."
In the first year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," a study and education campaign to establish and practice a correct view of political performance is being carried out across the Party. General Secretary Xi Jinping visited Xiong'an New Area in Hebei and emphasized that building a city of the future is "not for a beautiful new city, but precisely building the new city is for the common people to have a better life."
Taking the people's heart as the heart is both the Party's original aspiration and its enduring will. Whether in the past, present, or future, the Party will always be the backbone of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation.
Firmly grasping the "most essential characteristic" lies in understanding the Party's innovative theories.
For a nation to walk at the forefront of the times, it cannot for a moment be without theoretical thinking, nor for a moment without correct ideological guidance.
Since modern times, various political forces have come and gone in succession, "ideals always unattainable." 大浪淘沙 (dà làng táo shā - "great waves sift sand," to sift out the finest through severe tests), revealing true gold; the Communist Party of China ascended the historical stage. From then on, "China, beset by 内忧外患 (nèi yōu wài huàn - "internal worries and external troubles," domestic and foreign troubles), 积贫积弱 (jī pín jī ruò - "accumulated poverty and weakness," long-standing poverty and weakness), began 翻天覆地 (fān tiān fù dì - "overturn heaven and earth," earth-shaking) historical changes."
Why the Communist Party of China can, why socialism with Chinese characteristics is good – ultimately it is because Marxism works, because the Sinicized and modernized Marxism works. Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era has been based on the foundation of the times, answered the questions of the times, led the changes of the times, and guided the Party and national undertakings to achieve historic achievements and undergo historic transformations.
In his important speech on July 1st, General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly summarized our Party's six excellent qualities, the first being "unswervingly pursuing truth, always keeping the forward direction on course." Understanding the "most essential characteristic" lies in understanding the Party's innovative theories.
The 20th National Congress of the Party summarized and deeply expounded the theory of Chinese-style modernization (中国式现代化), attracting much attention. "Chinese-style modernization" has broken the myth of "modernization = Westernization." It is a socialist modernization led by the Communist Party of China, the product of Two Integrations (两个结合), the embodiment of Four Confidences (四个自信), and a brand-new form of human civilization. On the new journey of the new era, with strong theory, clear direction, firm steps, and bright prospects.
Firmly grasping the "most essential characteristic" lies in manifesting the Party's institutional advantages.
Recently, the 2025 National Science and Technology Awards were announced, with a total of 258 projects and 11 science and technology experts selected. What do these award-winning achievements and innovative breakthroughs rely on? Fundamentally, they rely on the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee over science and technology work.
Looking back, the new nationwide system for mobilizing resources has been continuously improved, independent innovation capabilities have been significantly enhanced, and our country has become one of the fastest-rising countries in innovation capacity. Facing the future, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "The '15th Five-Year Plan' period is a critical period for tackling the construction of a strong science and technology country. We must fully grasp the implementation of the Party Central Committee's various deployments regarding science and technology undertakings."
The Party exercises leadership over everything in the Party, government, military, civilian, and academic spheres, in all directions across the country. The Party's leadership system is China's fundamental leadership system.
Winning the battle against poverty, fighting the defense of blue skies, clear waters, and clean soil, promoting integrated urban-rural development and coordinated regional development... The Party exercises overall leadership and coordinates all parties, leading hundreds of millions of people in united struggle, fully demonstrating the institutional advantage of "concentrating resources to accomplish major undertakings." "The biggest national condition of China is the leadership of the Communist Party of China. What is Chinese characteristic? This is Chinese characteristic."
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Return to TopNot long ago, the Gaizhou Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervisory Commission (盖州市纪委监委) received a lead concerning a village under a certain subdistrict that had built a constant-temperature storage project but had not equipped it with a refrigeration unit. The municipal commission immediately formed a verification team and went straight to the project site.
Entering the constant-temperature storage, it was empty inside, with no refrigeration equipment to be seen. The subdistrict office project director, a certain Cui, explained: "The refrigeration unit has already been purchased, but because the warehouse floor still needs moisture-proof treatment, it has been temporarily placed in the village office warehouse." Cui also summoned a villager, a certain Cong, to testify.
Although Cong's account was consistent with Cui's, his gaze never dared to meet the staff members' eyes, and his speech was halting and hesitant. When the verification team pressed further on details such as the equipment model, purchase price, and transport process, Cong's answers were riddled with 漏洞百出 (lòu dòng bǎi chū - "a hundred loopholes," full of flaws and contradictions). In the end, Cong admitted that Cui, in order to cover up the problem, had instructed him to provide false testimony to the disciplinary inspection and supervisory organs.
The verification team then decided to take detention measures against Cui. During the period of detention, Cui truthfully confessed that, by taking advantage of his position managing projects to strengthen the village collective economy, he had, in multiple village-level engineering projects, used methods such as signing construction contracts under borrowed credentials, forging engineering design drawings, falsely reporting quantities of work, and fabricating invoices to embezzle and misappropriate more than one million yuan in project funds. Ultimately, Cui was held accountable in accordance with regulations, party discipline, and law.
[Commentary by the discipline enforcer] Cui disregarded party discipline and state law, turning projects that benefit the people into a "money tree," misappropriating special funds, and instructing others to give false testimony, severely harming the interests of the masses. This case exposes weak links in the supervision of some village-level engineering projects and irregularities in the operation of "small-scale powers." Disciplinary inspection and supervisory organs should continue to deepen the rectification of prominent problems in the management of rural collective "three types of assets" (三资), strengthen education, supervision, and management of grassroots cadres, guide them to know reverence, maintain fear, keep the bottom line, and ensure that policies benefiting the people truly reach the people.
(Reported and compiled by Liu Hongchao, our staff reporter)
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What will truly be eliminated by the times is not old subject matter, but old imaginings of the audience. Only by re-understanding the audience can we re-understand creation and improve the supply of cultural and artistic products.
Why can a film of perfectly decent quality fail to find its audience? Why does a stage performance where actors read from a teleprompter provoke audience dissatisfaction? Why does a promotional line asking the audience to “put in an appearance for the sake of face” (走个面儿) spark controversy? Behind all this lies the relationship between creation and the audience. An old question is encountering new challenges today.
The most typical phenomenon is that preset judgments about the audience are failing. Some say young people no longer care about history; others say today’s audience can only accept fast-paced, high-stimulus content. But the TV drama The Peaceful Year (太平年) plunges headlong into the deep history of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, with dialogue half literary and half vernacular and intricately tangled character relationships — yet large numbers of young people still 乐此不疲 (lè cǐ bù pí - “enjoy it and never tire,” to delight in something and not get bored) in following the drama and looking up historical records. A documentary film without genre spectacle, The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru (里斯本丸沉没), a Love Letter to Grandma (给阿嬷的情书) without the halo of celebrity, and The Leading Role (主角) without narrative suspense — all have been identified and lifted up by the audience.
Never underestimate the audience — this is a truth already proven by history and the market. Today, amid the changed media environment and cultural ecology, we need to understand its rich connotations even more.
First, do not underestimate the audience’s aesthetic. Today, an ordinary audience member watches both foreign blockbusters and domestic films, listens to pop music and subscribes to history podcasts, while also following TV series, scrolling through short videos, and playing 3A games. He may not have received professional art education, but he possesses something that ordinary audiences of the past did not: a vast sample for comparison. This explains why, as soon as an actor delivers a half-hearted line, the audience can already tell; as soon as the music starts, the audience knows the director is trying to make them cry; as soon as a mysterious character appears in a suspense drama, the bullet comments have already listed three possible endings. The audience is not getting harder to please — they are getting harder to fool.
Yet at just such a moment, some creators lose patience before the audience does. They do not believe the audience can enter complex characters, do not believe emotions can grow slowly, and do not believe unfamiliar subject matter can be attractive. So they keep simplifying, speeding up, intensifying, and explaining. For historical dramas, fearing young people won’t understand, they simplify character relationships. For literary adaptations, fearing the audience lacks patience, they manufacture a conflict every three minutes. For films, fearing awkward silence, they cram in music, laugh lines, and twists. For characters, fearing the audience cannot comprehend, they speak every subtext out loud. In the end, the work becomes a product that defends against the audience’s departure on all sides. What they fail to realize is that the so-called “audience cannot understand complex subject matter” is often just that the creator has not found the connection between complex subject matter and the life experience of the present moment. Truly 深入人心 (shēn rù rén xīn - “penetrate deep into people’s hearts,” to be deeply rooted in people’s hearts) historical stories never send the audience back to the past, but let the audience see today’s themselves in the past. For the audience to enter a character, they do not need to share the same life — they only need to have experienced similar emotions in their own lives. To believe in the audience’s aesthetic is, to some extent, to believe that good art can always communicate between hearts and win resonance and empathy.
Second, do not equate user profiles with real audiences. Some creators and investors constantly talk about the audience — studying the audience’s age, gender, region, consumption habits, viewing duration, drop-off points. There is more and more data about the audience, yet the “audience” as a person becomes ever more blurred. The real audience is finally compressed into a few crude and simplistic judgments: young people have no patience, middle-aged and elderly people love nostalgia, women need emotion, men love war, Generation Z likes internet memes. Then, armed with these user profiles, they carry out targeted production to achieve precise “feeding.”
The fact is, a 25-year-old youth can be obsessed with the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms; a 70-year-old may also like animation. A person who knows nothing about opera can understand Yi Qin’e (忆秦娥); a young person who has never experienced war can still weep for the strangers aboard the Lisbon Maru. Take “youthification” as an example — there has always been a cognitive misunderstanding that young people only care about consumption, romance, and internet memes. In fact, every generation of young people has always cared about the most fundamental questions: Who am I? What do I believe in? What am I willing to give for? How should I live this life so that it is not in vain? What art connects people is not age, region, or labels, but dignity, passion, loyalty, faith — it is social reality and the way of the world and the heart of the people.
Third, do not mistake pandering to the audience for respecting the audience. What some works call “respect for the audience” is really just following the data. If the data shows audiences like twists, the story twists again and again. If the data shows a certain topic is hot, every project squeezes into it. Sometimes, before a film has even started shooting, the topic it intends to discuss has already been repeatedly ignited in public sentiment. All the creator has to do is to put faces, lines, and scenes on that already-burning sentiment.
Blind pandering brings the audience 审美疲劳 (shěnměi píláo - “aesthetic fatigue,” tiredness from overexposure to similar aesthetic stimuli). The Marvel Cinematic Universe is precisely like this. It spent over a decade integrating comic book characters, serialized narrative, Easter egg culture, and global marketing into a super box-office machine. Every film feels like a trailer for the next one, every ending like a pitch for the next phase. Characters carry ever-heavier universe missions, while the film itself becomes lighter and unable to stand on its own. The more creators fear failure, the more they superstitiously rely on formulas; the more they rely on formulas, the easier it is to fail. In the end, the audience grows tired of superheroes — and even more tired of being repeatedly fed the same emotion by the assembly line.
The true responsibility of the creator is to take half a step forward beyond the audience’s familiar experience — not a hundred steps. A hundred steps ahead may well be mere 自我陶醉 (zì wǒ táo zuì - “self-intoxication,” being complacently self-satisfied). Half a step ahead means that when the audience cannot yet articulate why they are moved, you have already captured that feeling; when they cannot yet describe their confusion, you have already given shape to that confusion. The creator’s lead is not about being smarter than the audience, but about arriving at the audience’s heart earlier than they do.
Finally, creation is not only about finding an audience, but also about creating an audience. Today’s cultural market is already extremely fragmented — film, TV drama, short video, and games are all competing for the same person’s time. A work with vitality makes someone who originally had no need suddenly discover: I need this. The audience does not entirely exist in the form of “target users”; sometimes it is a specific work that summons them into being.
This is also the difference between art and algorithms. Algorithms are good at finding interests that already exist; the most precious ability of art is to awaken feelings in people that they themselves did not know existed. Creating an audience is also about helping the audience open up new horizons, discover the world, and discover themselves. A truly powerful story can always cross age, region, algorithms, and eras to find the person who did not originally know they were waiting for it.
What will truly be eliminated by the times is not old subject matter, but old imaginings of the audience. Only by re-understanding the audience can we re-understand creation and improve the supply of cultural and artistic products. In any case, the prerequisite for the birth of good work is respect for the script, respect for the genre, respect for performance, respect for the market — and most importantly, respect for the audience and for the audience’s trust.
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Since the beginning of this year, the number of productions starting filming in film and television cities such as Hengdian and Xi'an has declined, and some young actors with professional training have no roles to play. Some film and television companies and video platforms have begun to sign digital actors in batches and build AI (artificial intelligence) artist libraries. Hong Kong well-known actor Wu Qihua has authorized an AI film to use his 20-year-old likeness for shooting. In just a few years, the impact of AI technology on the film and television industry has extended from post-production special effects to front-end filming. While improving efficiency and reducing costs, it is accelerating the squeezing of the performance space for real actors, impacting the underlying logic of the film and television industry.
This change is actually the result of the combined action of three parties: the market, the industry, and technology. From a market perspective, the fragmented consumption mode on mobile terminals has created a huge content gap, which to a certain extent has become the realistic soil for the rise of virtual actors and digital idols. From an industry perspective, the film and television industry has long faced problems such as high costs and long time consumption, while digital assets with controllable costs, predictable cycles, and lower risks meet the core demands of reducing costs and increasing efficiency. At the technological level, large models for video generation are iterating rapidly, solving early pain points such as stiff and incongruous virtual performances, and can accurately replicate actors' micro-expressions, body details, and tones, to a certain extent reducing a crew's dependence on real actors.
At the same time, another set of data provides an interesting contrast. According to statistics, among the micro-short dramas launched in the first quarter of this year, AI-generated content accounted for over 95%, but the core viewership only accounted for 4%. This means that even though AI actors have "snatched" away some role assignments, the vast majority of viewers have still voted with their clicks for real actors. It can be seen that what AI intends to eliminate are rigid, superficial, and content-lacking performance routines and outdated, crude, repetitive, and inefficient production models, not the actor profession itself, and certainly not the performance industry. Truly capable and substantive good actors will not only not lose their jobs, but will become even more precious. Based on this, delving into acting skills and honing more delicate and vivid performances have become the breakthrough direction for more and more actors. Some actors choose to return to the stage of spoken drama, tempering the precision and depth of their performance through day-to-day live feedback. Others choose to shift toward content production that collaborates with AI, extending their professional space. In addition to the self-improvement of practitioners, actors' core professional rights and interests such as their likeness, voice, and performance style also urgently need to be effectively protected. Currently, judicial organs, relevant departments, and industry organizations have taken measures to combat illegal "face-swapping" and other infringements in AI short dramas, and are also advancing routine infringement monitoring across the entire network, notarization and evidence fixation, and batch rights protection, building a stronger moat for actors' rights and interests.
Technological iteration never stops, but the humanistic core of art endures. Looking back at the history of film and television art, every technological innovation has reshaped and enriched the forms of performance, yet never dissolved the core value of performance. When silent films were just replaced, actors who were accustomed to conveying emotion through exaggerated expressions and body movements once fell into occupational panic, but this labor pain gave birth to a new dimension of performance, making line delivery skill an important quality of actors. With the arrival of 4K high-definition, every minute flaw in performance is revealed in vivid detail before the lens, which also forced actors to pay special attention to micro-expression control and the authenticity of emotional outbursts. When green screen special effects and motion capture technology intervened in live-action filming, the belief and imagination in performing without props became a new yardstick for measuring acting skill.
Nowadays, facing the rapid development of AI, the actor profession and even the entire literary and artistic field need all the more to uphold the dominant position of humans in creation, and pursue expressions with more humanistic warmth and performances with more life texture. AI will not eliminate good actors; it will only force out "good acting skills."
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In this era of information explosion, short videos and livestreaming emerge in an endless stream, yet what truly occupies a large amount of users' time is still stories. Many people treat short dramas as "bedtime stories," binge-watching several in one evening and drifting off to sleep with satisfaction. Seen in this light, although short dramas are a new type of literature and art, they are not a new species; rather, they return to the most ancient form of "storytelling."
In the history of popular culture — from the 评书 (pingshu - "storytelling") and 大鼓 (dagu - "drum songs") savored idly in teahouses and storytelling venues, to the martial arts novels passed "hand to hand" among neighbors and classmates; from the television series watched together by the whole family, to the web novels read freely on small screens — the vehicles of stories tailored to people's daily lives have been constantly renewed. These literary and artistic forms, by virtue of their accessible expression, tight plots, and vivid conflicts, have filled moments of leisure and rest, allowing people to relax their nerves after toil.
What short dramas continue is precisely this popular literary and artistic vein of "storytelling." People often use words like "addictive," "accessible," and "algorithmic recommendation" to explain the popularity of short dramas. Behind these labels, what is truly worth discussing is how they manage to tell stories that people want to hear and love to hear, and why those "formulas" that have long been ridiculed as simplistic still make people unable to resist "watching just one more episode."
This must be approached from several main narrative modes of short dramas: the 霸总 (bàzǒng - "domineering CEO"), the 重生 (chóngshēng - "rebirth"), and the 逆袭 (nìxí - "counterattack"). These cannot withstand logical scrutiny, yet they accurately strike the psychological needs of contemporary audiences. Some provide a sense of certainty in life and emotion: unconditional love, steadfast support, exclusive guardianship — a stable and assured emotional experience that offers spiritual solace. Others offer spiritual compensation for life's regrets: the rebirth narrative constructs a hypothetical fate, using the protagonist's actions to question and answer — if given another chance, could I live as another version of myself? Still others vividly respond to simple value pursuits: evil is immediately punished, effort always yields results, those who fall to the bottom eventually turn the tables and win, and the arrogant will inevitably reap what they sow — direct, passionate, and never dragging, the plot reversals earn resounding applause.
From the perspective of literary and art history, these "formulas" are not novel. The Story of the Western Wing (西厢记), with its perfect match of talented scholar and beautiful lady, embodied the world's longing for sincere love; Water Margin (水浒传), with its resistance through fraternal chivalry, carried the masses' desire for justice and righteousness. Even the classic foreign masterpiece The Count of Monte Cristo, with its main plot of revenge and reversal, identity twist, and vindication, is highly similar to today's "face-slapping counterattack" short dramas. Of course, we must also soberly recognize that a large number of short dramas fall short in production quality, depth of thought, and other aspects, let alone being comparable to classics. The growing short drama industry must also stand the test of time and produce more quality works.
From ancient times to the present, the core of narrative has not changed; what has changed are the forms of dissemination, pace, and medium. In the past, character development and plot reversals that required hundreds of pages to unfold are now compressed into short drama units of a dozen minutes; in the past, an emotional marathon that required months of following serial installments and savoring carefully can now be fully experienced in one evening's fragmented time. The forms of popular culture are always changing, but one thing remains unchanged: people need to draw strength from stories. In this sense, the explosive popularity of short dramas is a victory of storytelling, a return of ancient popular narrative in a new era context.
The path of short dramas' advancement is neither to abandon the core of popular narrative and blindly seek "anti-formula," nor to pile up reversals and create gratification doubly; rather, it is to use richer, more time-appropriate subject matter to extend the vitality of classic narratives. The mundane daily life of ordinary people, the ups and downs of the workplace, the tender bonds of family, the vast panorama of history — all can continuously provide new narrative resources for short dramas, so that stories go beyond mere emotional compensation, and so that short dramas break through to new heights as they grow.
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Over the past 90 years, the story of the Long March has been continuously written and interpreted, and innovation itself has become a “Long March.” To commemorate the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Red Army’s Long March, faculty and students of the Central Academy of Drama have produced an original play, Through Heaven and Earth There Is Still a Road (走过天涯还有路), turning their gaze “downward” to focus on the rear-service collection team, telling the story of this unremarkable unit receiving the wounded, transporting supplies, and carrying out propaganda and education work.
The creative team refined “walking” (行走) as the core action running through the entire play. The spatial design, stage choreography, plot advancement, and the fates of the characters all unfold layer by layer along the imagery of the “road.” From the packing and farewells at the departure from Ruijin, to the treatment of wounded soldiers after the bloody battle at the Xiang River; from the jubilation during the recruitment expansion at Zunyi, to the mutual confidences on the banks of the Chishui River; from the heroic charge on the Luding Bridge, to the desperate struggle for survival on the Songpan Grassland… The team members carry heavy loads, hobble, fall, support each other, drag, and crawl — “walking” in different postures. Every segment of the Long March was a crossing between life and death, and even more so a spiritual baptism. “Walking” is not just a theatrical device; it becomes an artistic interpretation of the essence of the Long March: what sustained this long march was revolutionary conviction. This conviction was tempered and elevated on the Long March road.
Thus, the director, on the road of desperate reality, excavates inward the characters’ path of transformation. In the collection team, each person is walking at a crossroads in life: Big Head (大头) was once a “sharpshooter” of the Third Army Corps; after being wounded, he stayed in the collection team. Though he urgently wished to return to the front line, he ultimately submitted to the overall situation and took on the responsibility of team leader. Red Scarf (红围脖) joined the Red Army to find her husband; after learning of her beloved’s death, she set aside personal love for the collective mission… They are Red Army soldiers, but also ordinary people — they can be confused, impulsive, and afraid, but after every struggle, the revolutionary faith pulls them back onto the upward “road.” Everyone’s “road,” seemingly separate, ultimately converges into the same mighty torrent, winding endlessly, surging forward.
This road is tortuous, full of danger, hunger, exhaustion, and pain, but it is also ascending; every time someone falls, another stands up; every loss makes people more resolute and fearless. On the Songpan Grassland, the climax of the entire play is especially striking. When Ink (墨水) can no longer open his eyes, and Tangyuan (汤圆) starves to death by the cauldron, this unit almost reaches a dead end. But true hope comes precisely from resisting despair — it is precisely after walking the dead end that they are able to continue on the road.
In the play’s finale, the Red Army triumphantly joins forces. The red Long March route map slowly lights up, winding from the ground to the sky. The soldiers stand like sculptures, gradually turning into silhouettes. Everyone has survived the dead end and reached the geographical destination. Big Head, toward the team members and also toward the audience, issues the assembly order once again: “Comrades, we are about to set off again, to hit the road again!” This is the final elevation of the Long March road on stage, and it completes the dialogue between stage and audience, between history and reality. Today, we no longer need to cross snow mountains and grasslands, to walk the perilous path of the Long March again. But from the individual’s path of struggle to the national path of rejuvenation, it is equally full of challenges. The most moving aspect of the play lies precisely in using the real, vivid, and living stories of these ordinary Red Army soldiers to let us see the face of faith once more.
On stage, the curtain falls. Those young figures disappear into the light, but the road beneath their feet extends beyond the theater. Ninety years later, we are walking on the New Long March road, still facing various challenges; but as long as we forge our conviction firmly enough, there are no snow mountains or grasslands we cannot cross! This is the Long March — and this is also what this campus drama brings to us.
Return to TopIn the TV drama The Enigma Wall (迷墙), there is a scene that leaves a deep impression: the wall plaster suddenly falls off, and 30 million yuan in cash comes crashing down like an avalanche. The characters in the drama are stunned, and the audience's hearts also tremble. This huge sum of money is like a knife, cutting open the life of an ordinary family, causing the desires, fears, and struggles deep in everyone's heart to burst forth. The work uses a story tinged with absurdity to give new meaning to the ancient proposition of "righteousness and profit."
That wall hiding the money is the key image of the drama. It is not just a wall, but also that "heart wall" between husband and wife: poor communication, misaligned expectations, life pressures, etc. This couple, because of this windfall, together face danger, solve troubles, and regain the tacit understanding of their original love. And the drama's title itself is a metaphor; what it seeks to break is the physical wall that hides the money, the wall of estrangement between husband and wife, and even more the spiritual wall in which people are besieged by material desires. The moment when we push down the heart wall and sincerely embrace the people around us, that is true happiness.
(Beijing Haidian District (海淀区), Zhang Zixiang (张子祥))
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Birth, aging, illness, and death—experiences that every person must go through—are all closely tied to “medicine,” and thus medical dramas have always been a genre that attracts considerable attention. Wenxin (问心) won audience acclaim and widespread buzz with its vivid doctor-patient stories. Wenxin 2, polished over three years, meets its audience from a high starting point and with high expectations. The sequel strives to avoid repetitive patterns: not only is the main character’s growth arc expanded, but new motivations, new steps, and new perspectives are used to deepen and broaden the medical drama’s depth, scope, and thickness, extending the radius of the doctor-patient relationship into a wider social space.
Wenxin 2 inherits the workplace and family relationships of its predecessor. Zhou Xiaofeng’s experience aiding Guizhou gives him a sense of mission that transcends professional medical skill. He wants not only to be a good doctor, but also to become a middle-level hospital administrator who serves more doctors and more patients, using a higher “position” to shoulder greater responsibility. It is precisely this aspiration that gives Zhou Xiaofeng a new starting point, and also brings new narrative space to the television series.
On the one hand, the work retains genre-drama characteristics, such as the surgical sequences where Zhou Xiaofeng and Lin Yi “join internal and external (medicine) to be invincible under heaven”; on the other hand, it more fully displays a realist底色 (dise - “underlying color,” realistic foundation). Driven by new growth motivations, Zhou Xiaofeng acts from a managerial perspective, holding fast to his conscience amid medical systems, industry rules, resource interests, and bioethics, thereby presenting the complexity of individual choices and revealing more macroscopic medical reform and institutional progress. The backwardness of medical conditions in remote areas, the intricate connections between hospitals and pharmaceutical/medical-device companies, the conceptual differences brought by patients’ diverse sociocultural backgrounds, and the ethical choices doctors make between life and death—these real issues often sidestepped in genre-drama formulas are fully developed in the new work. The hospital is not merely a setting for doctor-patient relationships; it is a microcosm of society. Thus the work elevates itself from a medical genre drama into a more serious medical realist drama, and its ideological depth is deepened.
The stories in the drama break out of the single-diagnosis-and-treatment narrative of conventional medical episodic dramas, laying out real-world issues that go beyond illness and pain. For example, rural woman Zhang Diao’e has a fatal hidden heart condition, but her husband’s family values sons over daughters and insists she risk pregnancy; long-term verbal oppression leaves her caught in a dilemma. After being hospitalized, Zhang Diao’e runs into her childhood friend Long Jiaojiao, who suffers from epilepsy and, after being betrayed emotionally, develops suicidal thoughts and is fortunately rescued in time by Zhang Diao’e. The doctors’ skilled hands and benevolent hearts not only cure the disease but also give the women the dignity and confidence to start over. The intertwining of physical suffering and life challenges in the characters’ choices transcends ordinary dramatic conflict, giving the characters more three-dimensional images and also enabling the audience to gain a deeper understanding of real-world issues.
Within an authentic medical landscape, Wenxin 2 conveys an idealism to the audience. Characters such as Zhou Xiaofeng, Fang Xiaoran, Lin Yi, and Fang Zhuqing, though differing in identity and personality, all hold fast to the original aspiration of healing the wounded and rescuing the dying, and of a physician’s benevolent heart. This main theme was embodied through doctor-patient relationships in the predecessor; in the new work it is elevated through the physicians’ mindset of embracing the world. For instance, when a heart donor becomes available, Lin Yi places the professional baseline of medical fairness above the life-and-death of his own flesh and blood—this is precisely a steadfast commitment to “putting the patient at the center.” The difficult choices the doctors make in the drama between ideal and reality, individual and system, sentiment and survival, reflect the era’s change as quality medical resources sink to the grassroots, and moreover reflect the coordinated advancement of physicians’ humanistic quality improvement, humanistic care construction in medical and health institutions, and the promotion of lofty professional spirit.
Looking at it as a whole, Wenxin 2 faces contradictions and reality head-on, expresses medical ideals and humanitarian convictions, possessing both the drama and tension of a medical genre show and the authenticity and seriousness of realism. This creative approach is considerably more difficult than that of its predecessor, and also offers inspiration for medical dramas and industry dramas: only by seeking truth can one approach authenticity, and only by approaching authenticity can one reach goodness.
(The author is a professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University.)
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