Summary: During an inspection in Shanghai on July 15, Xi Jinping, accompanied by Shanghai Party Secretary Chen Jining and Mayor Gong Zheng, emphasized the importance of high-quality urban renewal as a key driver of modernization, calling for a people-centered approach and concrete improvements to old residential communities. Xi stressed the need to address residents' practical concerns with "meticulous craftsmanship" and to enhance community governance by empowering grassroots institutions. He also highlighted the current flood prevention period, urging vigilance and risk mitigation to protect lives and property. Central Party Office Director Cai Qi accompanied the inspection.
Summary: Xi Jinping's forthcoming article in *Qiushi* journal reflects on the Communist Party's 105-year history, highlighting its achievements and unique strengths. It calls for continued adherence to the Party's路线方针 and warns against complacency. The piece emphasizes the need to build a community with a shared future for mankind and to uphold global development initiatives. No direct reference to the United States or U.S.-China relations appears in the text. The article is published without mention of any accompanying officials.
Summary: The article details Xi Jinping's "four rathers" (四个宁可) principle—prioritizing over-preparation over under-prevention—first articulated during his tenure as Zhejiang Party secretary in response to frequent typhoons. It highlights Xi's shift from passive disaster response to proactive prevention, emphasizing people-first and bottom-line thinking in risk governance. The piece recounts Xi's 2004 late-night return to the provincial flood control headquarters during Typhoon Ranna, where he insisted on "prevention and avoidance" over direct confrontation. It notes that under Xi's guidance, Zhejiang pioneered mass evacuations, transferring millions before storms, and institutionalized grassroots disaster management. The article frames these methods as core to Xi's broader governance philosophy, linking them to current national disaster response policies under his leadership.
Summary: The article reports on the July 15 launch of the fifth volume of *Xi Jinping: The Governance of China* in Astana, Kazakhstan, co-hosted by Chinese and Kazakh institutions. Kazakh officials, including Presidential Administration Chief Yeernur Baissenbayev and President’s Central Communications Head Askar Umarov, praised the book as a vital resource for understanding Chinese modernization and governance philosophy relevant to Kazakhstan’s own reforms. Director Gulnar Shaimergenova of Kazakhstan’s China Research Center noted China’s role as a global economic engine and contributor to international stability. The event featured exchanges on building a China-Kazakhstan community with a shared future and Belt and Road cooperation. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Chinese Vice President Han Zheng met with former New Zealand Prime Minister John Key in Beijing on July 15. Han praised Key’s contributions to bilateral ties and noted that the China-New Zealand comprehensive strategic partnership has entered its second decade. He expressed willingness to deepen cooperation and implement consensus between the two countries’ leaders. Han stated that China’s development provides positive energy and certainty to the world, and that China remains committed to peace and stability in the Pacific region. John Key highlighted China’s growth as a market opportunity for New Zealand and reaffirmed New Zealand’s view of China as a friend, calling for stronger cooperation in trade, investment, and agriculture.
Summary: The article reports the release of the traditional Chinese edition of *Chronicle of Governance in the New Era* Volume 1, published by Joint Publishing (Hong Kong) at the 36th Hong Kong Book Fair. The volume compiles 26 Xinhua news articles and 41 photos of Xi Jinping, illustrating his leadership and the practical power of Xi Jinping Thought. Officials from the Hong Kong SAR Government's Secretariat for Administration and the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in Hong Kong attended the launch, along with representatives from patriotic groups, political organizations, and youth sectors. The book is intended to help readers in Hong Kong and Macau deepen their understanding of Xi Jinping Thought and strengthen national consciousness. It is now available for sale in major bookstores across Hong Kong and Macau.
Summary: At a July 15 press conference, National Bureau of Statistics Deputy Director Mao Shengyong, accompanied by spokesperson Wang Guanhua, summarized China's first-half economic performance using four keywords: "stability," "resilience," "new," and "excellence." Mao reported that GDP grew 4.7% year-on-year, with the largest half-year increment in five years, while employment, prices, and the balance of payments remained stable. He highlighted strong resilience in energy supply, food security, and foreign trade despite global headwinds. New growth drivers, including high-tech manufacturing and digital economy, contributed over 40% of economic growth. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The National Public Security Directors' Conference was held in Nanjing, chaired by Minister Wang Xiaohong, who is also a Secretary of the CCP Central Secretariat. Wang emphasized implementing Xi Jinping's directives on efficient governance, calling for enhanced precision in prevention, control, and enforcement to promote high-quality security and development. He demanded adherence to Party leadership and a people-centered approach, advocating for proactive and preventive policing. Wang stressed innovation to boost the police's new productive combat capabilities and improve digital governance. The meeting did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Xi Jinping, during an inspection in Shanghai, stressed that high-quality urban renewal is a key driver of modernization, calling for meticulous and thorough implementation. He highlighted the historic resolution of the "bucket toilet" issue in old residential areas as an example of sustained, people-centered effort. The approach must involve consulting residents, tailoring plans to each district, and using public feedback as the benchmark for success. The ultimate goal, Xi said, is to make city life more convenient and comfortable, with a clear roadmap for the 15th Five-Year Plan period.
Summary: The article highlights Xi Jinping's "four rathers" principle—prioritizing proactive disaster prevention over reactive response—first articulated during his tenure as Zhejiang Party secretary in response to typhoons. It details his directive to shift from "passive disaster relief" to "active prevention," emphasizing people-centered governance and bottom-line thinking. The report notes Xi's personal involvement in 2004's Typhoon Rammasun and subsequent mass evacuations, with millions transferred ahead of storms. It underscores the principle's continuity from Xi's local posts to his national leadership, framing it as a core methodology for grassroots risk management and integrated development-security governance. No mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations appears.
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Summary: Foreign journalists visiting China observed that AI has moved from labs to widespread application across industries, enhancing productivity and daily life through innovations like autonomous buses and smart agriculture. They noted China's vibrant AI innovation ecosystem, supported by strong policy, a vast market, and collaborative industry development. The journalists highlighted China's dual focus on AI development and governance, including initiatives to bridge the digital divide and promote equitable global access. China advocates for open cooperation and shared benefits, positioning AI as a public good for global development, particularly for the Global South. The article features reports from journalists representing media outlets in Brazil, Pakistan, Cambodia, Cuba, Belgium, Thailand, South Korea, Kazakhstan, and South Africa.
Summary: The 2026 World AI Conference and High-Level Meeting on AI Global Governance opens in Shanghai on July 17, themed "Intelligent Partners, Co-creating the Future," featuring over 140 forums and 1,400 guests. China will release the "China Smart, Benefit World" case studies and an AI cooperation action plan to promote inclusive AI and support Global South digital transformation. The exhibition spans over 100,000 square meters with 1,100 exhibitors and 300 global premieres, alongside city-wide immersive experiences. The conference aims to advance global AI governance dialogue, balancing development, innovation, and safety. It is co-hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, multiple Chinese ministries, and the Shanghai Municipal Government.
Summary: The promotion event for the fifth volume of *Xi Jinping: The Governance of China* was held in Astana, Kazakhstan, with attendees including Yernur Bessenbayev of the Kazakh Presidential Administration and Askar Umarov of the Central Communications Service. They described the book as reflecting Xi Jinping Thought and providing a key read for understanding Chinese modernization, emphasizing China and Kazakhstan as partners on the path to modernization. Bessenbayev called the event a "new milestone" in bilateral cultural exchange, noting the value of Xi's governance philosophy for Kazakhstan’s own reforms. Umarov highlighted China’s achievements as a source of lessons, while researcher Gulnar Shaimergenova praised Xi's ideas for contributing to global consensus and stability. The event was jointly organized by Chinese state institutions and attended by over 200 representatives from both countries.
Summary: The article reports on the China-Europe International Business School's 12th European Forum, held simultaneously in Brussels and Shanghai, where participants discussed "coopetition" and cooperation opportunities in AI development. Chinese Ambassador to the EU Cai Run stated that China and Europe are partners, not rivals, and should leverage complementary strengths in AI. Former European Council President Charles Michel, now a CEIBS professor, called for "responsible cooperation" in AI to avoid exacerbating global inequalities. The forum highlighted China's strengths in large-scale AI application and cost control, while Europe excels in research, regulation, and standards. No direct mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations was made.
Summary: A joint statement by the United States, the Philippines, and a few other countries marked the tenth anniversary of the South China Sea arbitration ruling, attacking China’s policies and claims. The article criticizes these nations for hypocrisy, exposing a "use when convenient, discard when not" approach that prioritizes military posturing and geopolitical confrontation over genuine peace. It accuses the U.S. of double standards by preaching peaceful dispute resolution while deploying forces and backing an invalid ruling, and of undermining international law while avoiding its own obligations. The piece also highlights U.S. environmental hypocrisy, noting its military activities harm marine life while it supported Japan’s Fukushima water discharge. It concludes that external interference destabilizes the South China Sea and urges respect for China’s sovereignty and rights.
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Summary: The Central Office for Reducing Burdens at the Grassroots Level, in coordination with the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, has publicly criticized three cases of formalism. In Fujian, Zhangzhou and Nanping cities failed to rectify statistical fraud, with some counties still manipulating data and even rewarding造假 units. The China Traditional Chinese Medicine News Company incurred over 74 million yuan in losses due to reckless investments in a "smart media" system and a health TV show. The China Enterprise Confederation illegally collected 13.48 million yuan in fees from forums co-hosted with local governments. The notice emphasizes the need to implement Xi Jinping's thought on party-building and to resolutely combat formalism and bureaucracy to ease grassroots burdens.
Summary: The article summarizes a report by He Rong, Minister of Justice and Party Secretary, at a policy briefing on ensuring and improving people's livelihoods through high-quality development. He Rong outlined the "two greater focuses" for rule of law under President Xi Jinping's guidance, emphasizing synergy between law and reform, development, and stability, as well as safeguarding social fairness and justice. She detailed key tasks for the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, including strengthening domestic and foreign-related legal systems to counter suppression and "long-arm jurisdiction" by countries like the United States. The report stressed the need to build a market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized business environment to support high-quality development. Accompanying He Rong were officials from the Central Propaganda Department, Central and State Organs Work Committee, Ministry of Education, Central Military Commission Political Work Department, and Beijing Municipal Committee.
Summary: President Xi Jinping's forthcoming article in *Qiushi* journal, marking the 105th anniversary of the CPC, emphasizes the Party's historic achievements and its unique qualities—such as commitment to truth, rootedness in the people, and strategic initiative—as the key to its enduring success. Xi outlines the Party's mission for the new era, including adhering to core socialist values, advancing high-quality development, and deepening reform. He calls for vigilance against risks, promoting a community with a shared future for mankind, and continuing anti-corruption efforts. The article warns against complacency and urges the Party to remain humble, struggle, and lead the nation toward new historical accomplishments. No U.S. or bilateral relations are discussed.
Summary: China's National Meteorological Center issued multiple weather warnings on July 15, including heavy rain, severe convection, and high temperatures, while the Ministry of Water Resources and China Meteorological Administration jointly issued orange flash flood and yellow geological disaster warnings. The State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters maintained emergency responses for Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, and Shandong, and dispatched working groups to assist flood control efforts. The Ministry of Water Resources held a special meeting on the Songhua and Liao river basins, raising the flood defense emergency response for Jilin to Level III after Typhoon Bavi triggered the first flood of 2026 on the Lalin River. The National Disaster Relief Commission activated a Level IV response for Jilin, with the National Development and Reform Commission allocating 30 million yuan for post-disaster recovery and 9,000 relief items distributed. In Liaoning, the national flood control office sent additional flood-fighting materials including 500,000 woven bags and 100,000 square meters of geotextile to support local emergency operations.
Summary: On July 13, heavy rain in Shenyang stranded pregnant woman Zhang Lan, who was suffering severe abdominal pain, at a bank kiosk. Firefighter Gao Yujin, a 24-year-old squad leader with six years of experience, led his team to rescue her, carrying her on his back through knee-deep floodwater to a fire truck and then to the hospital. They coordinated a fast-track medical channel for her. From July 13 to 14, the Shenyang fire rescue brigade handled 491 flood-related incidents, deploying 509 vehicles and 2,252 personnel to safely evacuate 723 people. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article contrasts the necessity of speed in emergency rescues, such as fire trucks racing through storms, with the deliberate caution required for evacuating pregnant women to protect unborn lives. It argues that this balance of fast and slow actions reflects the principle of "everything for the people." No specific officials or their statements are reported, and the article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article discusses China's response to U.S. trade friction and technological pressure, emphasizing the Chinese Communist Party's "dare to struggle and be good at struggle" spirit as articulated by Xi Jinping. It details China's countermeasures, including reciprocal tariffs, overcoming "bottleneck" technologies, and expanding openness amid "decoupling" efforts. The piece highlights Xi's principle of "unyielding on principles, flexible on tactics," citing examples like poverty alleviation and the Chang'e lunar program. It asserts that struggle transforms risks into opportunities, with China maintaining cooperation while defending core interests against U.S. pressure.
Summary: The article argues that traditional industries must adapt and innovate rather than persist blindly, using examples like a printing company boss pivoting to anime merchandise. It highlights Youyu County’s afforestation success under successive party secretaries, notably the 12th secretary Yuan Haoji, who pushed for coordinated farming, forestry, and animal husbandry despite criticism. Another example is Luochuan apples, which evolved from selling raw fruit to building a billion-yuan brand and now targeting global e-commerce. The piece emphasizes that deep commitment must be paired with strategic flexibility—knowing when to add and when to prune. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The author, a national rural crafts master and provincial inheritor of Yi embroidery, recounts her return to Yunnan to revive traditional techniques after her child's plea. She catalogued 72 traditional stitches, rescued 14 endangered ones, and modernized designs through collaboration with Southeast University and 13 domestic and international brands. Government policies, including a 37-measure support package, enabled the craft to appear at fashion weeks and on UN global showcases. The narrative highlights how state-backed cultural modernization bridges heritage and market demands, allowing Yi embroidery to transcend regional boundaries. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports that the 2026 Yellow River water and sediment regulation operation has been completed, utilizing advanced technologies such as real-time sediment monitoring systems, smart hydrological boats, unmanned vessels, and ground-based synthetic aperture radar to achieve its goals. No specific officials or their statements are mentioned, and there is no discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article analyzes the popularity of the "Xinjiang Little Sheep" doll, attributing its success to consumption upgrades that cater to emotional and personalized needs, similar to "handmade economy" trends. It highlights how the doll fosters cultural tourism by serving as a memory of Xinjiang travel and strengthening emotional connections to the region. Local governance responded to surging demand with coordinated services like free refreshments, exemplifying effective public management. The doll also promotes ethnic unity, as its diverse designs showcase Xinjiang’s aesthetics and the inclusiveness of Chinese civilization. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations are mentioned.
Summary: The article highlights a viral video showing foreigners easily naming Chinese brands like Huawei and BYD, reflecting the global integration of Chinese products. It notes that overseas perceptions of China are shifting, citing U.S. political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s praise for China’s model and a *New York Times* piece stating China “has begun to guide the future direction.” This cognitive change is attributed to China’s tangible development achievements, long-term stability, and the opportunities it offers the world. The piece concludes that China’s continuous progress on the path of Chinese-style modernization is reshaping global understanding.
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Summary: At a July 15 press conference, People’s Bank of China (PBOC) Deputy Governor and spokesperson Zou Lan stated that key macro-financial indicators reflect a moderately accommodative monetary policy, with ample social financing conditions and improved efficiency in serving the real economy. He was joined by PBOC spokespersons Yan Xiandong and Xie Guangqi, who detailed first-half financial data showing M2 growth of 8.0% and social financing growth of 7.4%, both outpacing nominal GDP. Structural monetary tools have been expanded to support technology, innovation, and private enterprises, including a 1 trillion yuan private enterprise relending facility and a 1.2 trillion yuan tech and equipment upgrade lending program. Zou Lan emphasized that the PBOC will enhance policy forward-looking, flexible, and targeted measures while strengthening counter-cyclical and cross-cyclical adjustments in the second half of the year. No reference was made to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Li Xiuqin, a community Party secretary in Shanghai's Pudong district since 2011, was reported to have overcome advanced gastric cancer and returned to work, leading residents to transform a garbage-filled woodland into a public "little forest" and resolve chronic parking disputes through participatory governance. She emphasized finding the "starting point" to change habits and participation, stating "a happy life is achieved through hard work." Accompanied by her Party branch and resident volunteers, she developed the "Xiuxin Studio" in 2021 to train over 16,000 community workers, turning multiple "problem neighborhoods" into governance models. No references to the United States or U.S.-China relations appear in the article.
Summary: Vice Chairperson of the National People's Congress Standing Committee Tie Ning led a vocational education law enforcement inspection team in Ningxia from July 13 to 15. She emphasized following Xi Jinping's directives on vocational education and fully implementing the Vocational Education Law to support China's modernization. Tie Ning called for aligning vocational training with economic and industrial needs, and promoting the integration of industry, education, science, and talent development. The team held symposiums and conducted field inspections, acknowledging local achievements and urging resolution of key challenges.
Summary: Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Yang Zhen attended and addressed the opening of the 27th China Qinghai Green Development Investment and Trade Fair in Xining. He reiterated Xi Jinping's emphasis on Qinghai's ecological role as the "Chinese water tower" and a matter of national significance. Yang called on Qinghai to steadfastly protect its ecology while leveraging the fair's platform to convert ecological advantages into development gains. The fair's theme is "open cooperation, green development," and Yang toured the exhibition halls afterward. No mention was made of the United States or bilateral relations.
Summary: In Jiangsu's Taixing, the Yanling Street Huatai Community launched a public summer daycare program featuring courses in reading, science, safety, and cultural activities. The program aims to balance safety supervision with skill development for children. A photo shows a teacher leading students in hand-drum practice at the community service center.
Summary: The All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce released its 2026 report on private enterprises’ social responsibility, based on a survey of 102,800 firms. It found that in 2025, these enterprises deepened innovation—with listed firms’ R&D intensity 1.6 percentage points above the market average—and expanded in “four new” sectors by over 6%. In green development, Chinese private firms accounted for six of the top ten global EV sellers and all top five wind turbine makers. Over 99% adopted consumer protection measures, and 64.47% implemented anti-bribery and anti-corruption practices. The report underscores private enterprises’ growing role in supporting high-quality economic development.
Summary: The article reports the completion of the 13,325-meter Changlinggang tunnel, the longest on the new Chongqing-Wanzhou high-speed railway, with chief engineer Qi Zhenhan and his team employing advanced technologies like AI, BIM, and robotic safety systems to overcome complex geological challenges. The tunnel is part of a broader 251-kilometer line designed for 350 km/h, a key component of China's "Eight Vertical and Eight Horizontal" high-speed rail network that will significantly reduce travel times between Chongqing and major cities like Beijing, Shanghai, and Xi'an. The railway also supports the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle, the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and the Belt and Road Initiative by improving regional connectivity and leveraging local industrial, agricultural, and tourism resources. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations were mentioned.
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Summary: The article highlights how China’s agricultural branding initiative, embedded in the “15th Five-Year Plan,” has transformed rural economies, using the example of Yangshan peaches in Wuxi, where brand-driven sales lifted per-kilogram prices to 30-50 yuan domestically and over 500 yuan in Dubai. It notes that digital technologies like blockchain and smart logistics have enabled traceability and quality assurance, boosting premium prices and farmer incomes—Yanshan’s per capita disposable income reached 71,800 yuan, 1.5 times the city average. The piece also covers the rise of new-generation farmers and e-commerce as catalysts for industrial upgrading, with over 3.6 million green, organic, and geo-indication-certified agricultural products added since 2021. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article discusses the importance of branding for premium Chinese agricultural products like Wuchang rice and Yunnan Pu'er tea, emphasizing that standardization and quality control enable higher prices and sustainable market recognition. It argues that true brand value, unlike short-term speculation, generates long-term benefits for farmers by turning traditional farming into a structured, profitable industry. The piece calls for patience and strategic planning to cultivate more widely recognized agricultural brands. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations were mentioned.
Summary: The article profiles Dongluo Village in Jiangsu’s Xinghua city, highlighting its transformation into a UNESCO-recognized "Best Tourism Village" as of October 2025. Party Secretary Luo Guokang is quoted describing the village’s shift from a waterlogged "pot-bottom" area reliant on boat transport to a diversified tourist destination offering seasonal attractions like rapeseed flowers and crab feasts. Luo emphasized balancing tourism development with preserving local character, avoiding over-commercialization by retaining structures like a 1953 auditorium. The village adopted a "government + social capital + village collective" cooperation model, with returning youth opening businesses like cafes and a brand selling local rice and crabs. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: In the first half of 2026, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region's total import and export value reached 2.58 trillion yuan, a 16.2% year-on-year increase, accounting for 10.1% of China's national total. Exports grew 11.8% to 770.06 billion yuan, while imports rose 18.1% to 1.81 trillion yuan. Beijing contributed 69.3% of the region's trade, with its own imports and exports up 16.5%. Trade with Belt and Road Initiative countries totaled 1.37 trillion yuan, or 53% of the region's total, while trade with 53 African nations grew 21.0%. Mechanical and electrical products dominated exports, rising 17.4% to 458.32 billion yuan, representing 59.5% of the region's outbound shipments.
Summary: Song Tao, director of the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, attended the opening of the 6th Cross-Strait Youth Culture Month in Suzhou on July 15, co-hosted by the office and the Jiangsu provincial government. He stated that Xi Jinping attaches great importance to youth work and called on cross-strait youth to uphold Chinese culture, oppose “cultural Taiwan independence,” and resist external interference. The event, themed “同心同行 青春力量,” features over 70 activities across Jiangsu through late September, with an expected 3,500 Taiwanese youth participants.
Summary: In Sichuan’s Dongxing District, villagers are drying palm leaves and processing palm-leaf fans during hot weather. The area has developed a palm cultivation and fan processing industry, with over 6,000 mu of planting bases producing more than five million fans annually for export to multiple regions. The report includes no statements by or actions of officials, nor any mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports that the 2026 Xinhua-Baltic International Shipping Centre Development Index shows Shanghai surpassing London to rank second globally, while Ningbo Zhoushan rose to sixth. Among the seven Chinese cities in the top 20, five moved up one position compared to the early 14th Five-Year Plan period, including Shanghai, Ningbo Zhoushan, Guangzhou, Qingdao, and Tianjin. The report highlights that competition among global shipping centers now extends beyond port scale and network to include green transition, digital innovation, influence over shipping rules, and resource allocation capabilities. It notes that Asia-Pacific shipping centers maintain strong resilience, and emerging economies' centers are enhancing their global shipping resource allocation. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Zhu Fenglian, spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, reported at a press conference that cross-strait exchanges rose 22.1% year-on-year in the first half of 2024, with 2.85 million Taiwanese visiting the mainland—a 24.9% increase. She stated this refutes the Democratic Progressive Party’s narrative that the mainland is dangerous, demonstrating that peace and cooperation remain the mainstream opinion in Taiwan. Zhu welcomed more Taiwanese, especially youth, to visit for tourism, study, or business, pledging enhanced facilitation.
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Summary: The article describes efforts by Chinese authorities to disseminate the Party's innovative theories—specifically Xi Jinping Thought—to rural communities. By employing accessible language, local dialects, digital tools, and integrating theoretical宣讲 with cultural performances, officials aim to make abstract concepts relatable. These methods are designed to overcome the "last mile" of ideological transmission, ensuring villagers understand and embrace the message. The goal is to consolidate grassroots support for rural revitalization and the consolidation of poverty alleviation achievements. No specific officials are quoted, and there is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article analyzes Xi Jinping's thought on party building, highlighting its theoretical charm, practical power, and historical insight as articulated in his speech for the 105th anniversary of the CPC. It emphasizes the "Ten Persistences" as a systematic framework that addresses the central question of building a long-term Marxist ruling party. The piece details how Xi's leadership has strengthened centralized Party authority, achieved strategic results in anti-corruption, and transformed party organization and ideology. It further argues that strong party building has driven historic achievements in China's economic, political, cultural, social, and ecological development. The author, former director of the Central Party History Research Office, concludes that Xi's thought provides a foundational guide for national rejuvenation.
Summary: The State Council issued the "Beautiful China Construction 15th Five-Year Plan," which emphasizes new pollutant governance and builds on achievements from the 14th Five-Year Plan period. The National People's Congress passed the Ecological Environment Code in March 2026, legally mandating a coordinated new pollutant control system. The plan designates "coordinated new pollutant governance" as a major project, supported by inter-ministerial coordination and a dynamic list of priority pollutants. The article, authored by a Chinese Academy of Engineering academician, calls for strengthening institutional mechanisms, task implementation, and technological innovation to achieve effective environmental risk control by 2035. No reference is made to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports that Xingcheng's swimsuit industry, led by company head Liu Xu and officials Zong Jiapeng (director of the Swimsuit Industry Development Center) and Ren Lei (director of the Industry and Information Technology Bureau), has achieved "off-season prosperity" through smart manufacturing and cross-border e-commerce. Zong noted that the industry now operates over 40,000 online stores and 22 overseas warehouses in countries including the United States, Germany, and Australia, with cross-border sales driving growth. Ren highlighted that the industry has built a three-tier brand structure, with the "Xingcheng Swimsuit" regional brand valued at 9.742 billion yuan. Liu Xu stated that AI design systems allow his company to launch over 500 new styles per month, while consumer feedback from global markets is now directly visible to designers. The article emphasizes that intelligent upgrades have boosted production efficiency threefold and enabled Xingcheng to supply over 40% of China's domestic market and 25% of the global market.
Summary: A bus driver in Yancheng, Jiangsu, gave one yuan to an elderly woman who forgot her senior card, and she later waited an hour at a reverse stop to repay him, sparking online praise for their mutual kindness. The article highlights similar acts across China, such as "love fridges" offering free water to workers, where donations often exceed consumption—illustrating a trend of reciprocal goodwill. During recent typhoons and floods, citizens organized relief efforts, with a citizen in Guangxi raising over 100,000 yuan in supplies and a driver hauling them free, reflecting solidarity among strangers. The narrative emphasizes that such small gestures—from a yuan to a bottle of water to a truck of vegetables—carry weight not in monetary value but in human connection. No officials or U.S.-China relations are discussed in the article.
Summary: The article reports on the launch of the online version 5.0 of the Chinese encyclopedia *Cihai*, which adds over 22,000 new entries and features AI-enhanced tools. It also covers the establishment of 260 summer care stations for children in Hainan, and the conclusion of Inner Mongolia’s first rural race. Additionally, it notes that Sichuan will equip 66 high-altitude workers’ stations with oxygen supply devices by September. The piece further mentions the launch of a data service platform in Guizhou and the use of acoustic monitoring technology to create “voice IDs” for wildlife in Qinghai. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: The article reports that Wuhu city in Anhui has launched "Harmonious Village Live Streaming Rooms" to address local livelihood issues, integrating policy explanation, income support for farmers, and dispute mediation. Meanwhile, Anhui Normal University has organized volunteer student teams to use live streaming for promoting agricultural products, aiming to expand market access and boost rural incomes.
Summary: The article reports on a "24-hour checkout" policy being piloted at a hotel in Wuhan, China, allowing guests to stay a full day from check-in, addressing consumer complaints about paying for a full day after only a few hours of rest. Expert Luo Zibai of the China Tourism Academy's Yangtze River Tourism Research Base noted this reflects the hotel industry's exploration of more diversified service models. However, challenges include increased operational costs, technical demands on booking systems, and potential drops in room turnover during peak seasons. The article suggests alternatives like late checkout, shared facilities after checkout, and short-stay products for late arrivals near transit hubs. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Qi Ping, the 63-year-old village party secretary of Zhouyi Village in Zhouzhi County, Shaanxi, reported that a digital kiwi demonstration base funded by Su-Shaanxi collaboration improved fruit quality and doubled prices, with 95% of households now involved in the industry and comprehensive income exceeding 1 billion yuan. The article also notes that Chen Bo, chairman of Sanqin Fruit Industry, stated that the company has exported approximately 80,000 tons of kiwis overseas, with last year's exports reaching 8,000 tons. A new logistics route via Jiangsu's Taicang Port reduced overall costs by nearly half and shortened customs clearance time to 1-2 days.
Summary: The article reports on the Min-Ning cooperation's success in developing Yanchi County’s Tan sheep industry in Ningxia. Wang Qin, deputy manager of Ruimu Food Technology, explained that the sheep are exercised on ecological trails for about 10,000 steps daily to improve meat quality. Li Shixin, a section-level official at Yanchi County’s Agriculture and Rural Bureau, noted that Min-Ning cooperation funds have enabled the industry to modernize into a high-standard, full-chain operation. The Min-Ning Tan Sheep Industry Development Integration Park, established in 2021 with 86.73 million yuan in collaborative funds, has upgraded the sector from traditional farming to integrated breeding, processing, and digital sales. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports on the urban renewal of Dashi Kou, an old commercial center in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, following a series of completed city-upgrade projects. Jingkou District Commerce Bureau Director Hu Tao stated that the district is proactively guiding comprehensive complexes to adjust and has established a dedicated service team, while also launching the “Jingxi Dashi Kou” consumption brand with weekly events. Dashi Kou Subdistrict Office Director Ding Fangpin noted that removing dense billboards along Zhongshan Road improved visual clarity, drawing on advanced practices. Jingkou District Housing and Urban-Rural Construction Bureau Director Zhu Weiguang outlined four categories of精细化 (meticulous) renovation: old residential areas, road nodes, backstreets, and public spaces, including a night-tour project on the ancient canal. Jiankang Road Subdistrict Party Secretary Tan Jie highlighted the “Business-Residence Alliance” formed last August, which empowers merchants and residents to lead planning, maintenance, and event organization, while leveraging the “Suchao” sports tournament to boost local consumption.
Summary: In Linyi’s Lanshan District, cultural staff member Cao Zhen observed and directed a dragon dance performance at a community square. The district has implemented a "cultural village chief" system, selecting nearly 60 art leaders from local associations to help communities plan events and provide training. These chiefs operate under a "menu-style" assignment mechanism, integrating district-level coordination, association support, and community resources. For example, cultural village chief Bai Zhenhua noted that Cao Zhen and other professionals assisted in organizing large-scale cultural markets and community galas. To date, the program has coordinated over 700 cultural activities.
Summary: Tianjin's Heping District held a creative anti-fraud campaign for the elderly at Munan Park, featuring games like ring toss to teach scam recognition. A 72-year-old participant, Zhang, successfully identified a "fake relative asking for help" target and received a prize after answering police questions. The event moved traditional lectures into recreational settings, integrating fraud prevention tips into interactive activities. Future plans include regular community visits by police, grid staff, and volunteers to assist elderly residents, particularly those living alone, with disabling overseas calls and sharing real-case warnings. The campaign aims to instill the principle of "no greed, no high-interest schemes" to safeguard seniors' pensions.
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Summary: At a recent press conference, National Healthcare Security Administration (NHSA) officials reported that basic medical insurance enrollment grew by over 4 million year-on-year as of May 2026, with the insured rate stable at 95%. Deputy Director Zhang Chenguang noted that the NHSA plans to remove household registration restrictions for flexible workers in mega-cities to expand coverage. Director Huang Xinyu stated that the 2025 drug catalog had already benefited 12.25 million patients, and the 2026 catalog adjustment is underway. Deputy Director Liu Juan highlighted progress on long-term care insurance, now covering 320 million people, and on maternity benefits, with 278 regions achieving zero out-of-pocket costs for inpatient childbirth. Director Gu Rong reported that anti-fraud inspections recovered 16.35 billion yuan in H1 2026, while drug price governance reduced spending on 320 frequently resold drugs by 19.2 billion yuan.
Summary: A Chinese government article reports flood-season safety warnings from several Guizhou officials, including Deputy Director Li Yangchun of the provincial Geological Environment Monitoring Institute and Instructor Dong Nanjiang of the Qiandongnan Fire Rescue Training Base, who emphasized risks to rural homes and infrastructure. Director Teng Weihua of the provincial Emergency Management Department called for optimized monitoring and early warning systems, while Xu Mingjin of the Water Resources Department stressed coordinated evacuation and care for vulnerable groups. Dai Xiangrong of Southern Power Grid Guizhou warned against charging electric vehicles outdoors and advised checking electrical safety after flooding. The guidance focuses on self-protection measures such as evacuating from unstable structures and avoiding flooded roads, with no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: On July 15, the National Health Commission held a press conference marking the start of the "dog days," with spokesperson Hu Qiangqiang highlighting the health risks of peak summer heat and humidity. He emphasized the need for heat prevention, proper scheduling, and outdoor activity management. Dr. Yang Ge from Guang'anmen Hospital advised elderly individuals, especially those with heart conditions, to use air conditioning set at 26–28°C and to dry off before entering cooled spaces after sweating. The briefing focused on seasonal health guidance without discussing U.S. relations.
Summary: In Xinjiang's Qiemo County, heavy rains caused flash floods that trapped two employees of a local enterprise. Herdsman Kaisaer Masumu and his wife Nu'erhan Maimaiti used a weighted rope tied to their vehicle to rescue the stranded individuals. The couple provided food, water, and clothing until rescue teams arrived. The victims later thanked them, with Kaisaer stating, "This is what we should do—help each other in times of difficulty." The article contains no references to officials or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Inner Mongolia education department and market supervision bureau, along with five other agencies, jointly conducted a safety inspection of all off-campus training institutions in the region. The inspection targeted illegal practices such as unlicensed operations, disguised subject-based tutoring, false advertising, and safety violations including fire hazards and blocked exits. Local authorities have established a multi-department coordination mechanism and created ledgers for all institutions and rectification records. No mention was made of U.S.-China relations or any official statements in the report.
Summary: The Kunming Veterans Affairs Bureau and the Kunming Charity Federation jointly launched the "Spring City Glow" public welfare fund, establishing the city’s first specialized assistance platform for veterans and entitled groups. A bureau official stated the fund will be used exclusively to support needy veterans and families of martyrs. The initiative is part of Kunming’s broader effort to improve social support for military personnel, including job placement, entrepreneurship parks, and financial aid.
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Summary: A recent Ministry of Natural Resources report shows China's seawater desalination capacity reached 307.7 tons/day by end-2025, up 22.1 tons/day from 2024, with the "15th Five-Year Plan" designating it a strategic industry. In Zhejiang's Zhoushan, party secretary Lin Jianjun stated the technology is shifting from emergency backup to a pillar of island water security, with projects like Huni Island's 10,000-ton/day facility now supplying stable drinking water. In Tianjin, Xianda Company's Yang Hongfei announced plans to expand capacity to 300,000 tons/day, supporting industrial green transitions; researcher Xiang Wenxi noted desalination aids water conservation and recycling. Wotton Technology's Fang Yong reported exporting over 30,000 desalination membranes in 2025 to Belt and Road countries, including a 65,000-ton/day plant in Egypt, showcasing China's globally competitive technology. The article highlights China's desalination products and services gaining international recognition, with exports to over 130 countries and regions.
Summary: The article argues that amending China's E-commerce Law is a timely and necessary step to align legal frameworks with the rapid evolution of the platform economy, emphasizing improvements in regulation, development, governance, and ecosystem building. It highlights that current platform responsibility provisions are insufficient relative to platforms' growing economic and social roles, calling for a more systematic and matched liability system. The author, a director at the Internet Law Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, stresses that platforms must bear greater obligations for managing merchants, protecting consumers, and fostering innovation. The amendment aims to codify industry best practices, enhance legal clarity, and support high-quality development of the digital economy. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports that the Agricultural Bank of China's Anhui branch has positioned itself as a leading bank for rural revitalization and a main bank for the real economy, aligning with Anhui's "Three Bases and One Zone" strategy. It highlights the bank's support for technological innovation and industrial upgrading, including a full lifecycle financial service system for tech firms and significant loan growth to strategic emerging industries. The bank also focuses on rural revitalization, with loans to counties and farmers exceeding 520 billion yuan and 101.2 billion yuan respectively by mid-2026. Additionally, it emphasizes green finance, with green loan balances reaching 283.1 billion yuan, and supports major projects, consumption, and small enterprises through targeted financial products. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article reports on the revival of Sichuan's Zizhong medium-sized stick puppet show, a national intangible cultural heritage, led by troupe director Hu Hai. Hu Hai integrated cultural elements like face-changing and fire-spitting, and emphasized innovation to attract younger audiences, with deputy director Long Shihao among the young performers. The troupe has performed in over 20 countries, including the United States and Germany, for cultural exchanges. Hu Hai noted that audiences' love for the puppets sustains the tradition, as the troupe adapts performances to local needs. The article highlights the troupe's efforts to pass on the art through school programs and immersive experiences.
Summary: A self-driving minibus in Guiyang, Guizhou, has been repurposed as a mobile digital library, offering free access to millions of e-books and audiobooks. Luo Jing, director of the Digital Cultural Service Center of Guizhou Provincial Library, explained that the initiative targets tourists and families, aligning with the library’s goal of promoting全民阅读. The service integrates with an upgraded app optimized for short trips, featuring AI recommendations and local cultural content. Luo stated that the library aims to break free from physical constraints to achieve "readable everywhere, anytime, for everyone." No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports that Hangzhou police, in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, deployed a biomimetic robotic shark in West Lake for ecological monitoring and security. Ecological Police Officer Liu Yuping explained that the robot, modeled after a lemon shark, can dive to 10 meters, swim autonomously for four hours, and transmit real-time underwater data without disturbing wildlife. Captain Gong Yingqiang stated that the device addresses the inefficiencies of manual patrols and helps locate dropped electronics, covering underwater blind spots. The system integrates with ground and aerial police networks to form a three-dimensional prevention and control grid. No reference to the United States or U.S.-China relations appears in the article.
Summary: The 36th Hong Kong Book Fair, organized by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, opened on July 15, featuring 55 mainland Chinese publishing units showcasing 16,000精品 books. The mainland exhibition area, spanning 544 square meters, emphasizes quality display, cultural exchange, and industry cooperation. Yunnan is highlighted as the themed province, with activities including an illustration exhibition and book talks. No mention was made of U.S.-China relations or any official statements.
Summary: A research team led by Professor Zhang Yuzhou at Northwest A&F University has discovered that plant roots exhibit "decay avoidance," actively steering away from pathogen-rich zones created by decomposing plant matter. The study, published in *Science*, found that roots sense acidic microenvironments produced by fungi colonizing decay, using epidermal cells as an "acid compass" to grow toward less acidic areas. This behavior was observed in crops including rapeseed, tomato, and wheat, helping plants evade harmful pathogens. The article does not mention any U.S. official, U.S.-China relations, or political figures.
Summary: The second Taicang German Enterprise Deep Practice Camp, organized by the Saarland Institute of Intelligent Manufacturing at Shanghai Institute of Technology, has commenced at the Sino-German Industry-Education Integration Industrial Park in Jiangsu Province. Approximately 50 university students are participating in a two-week practical learning program hosted at a German-funded enterprise in Taicang. The initiative focuses on providing students with hands-on technical training, including electrical practical operations.
Summary: A memorial site for classical Chinese literature scholar Ye Jiaying was inaugurated at Nankai University on July 14, located in the central garden near the lotus pond and her former study. The site features a three-layer concentric design with a lotus center inscribed with her verse, symbolizing her enduring spirit and lifelong dedication to Chinese poetry. No officials or accompanying figures were mentioned in the report, and no references to the United States or U.S.-China relations were included.
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Summary: The article reports on the horse racing industry in Youyu County, Shanxi, highlighting its transformation from a barren region to a "green oasis" through decades of afforestation. The county has developed a comprehensive speed-horse racing industry chain, including breeding, training, events, and auctions, which now attracts nearly 300,000 tourists annually and generates significant economic benefits. The Youyu County Party Committee's main responsible person stated that the county is leveraging its ecological strengths and sports events to pursue a high-quality development path that integrates ecology, cultural tourism, and people's livelihoods. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations were mentioned.
Summary: Chinese tennis player Guo Hanyu, partnering with France's Kristina Mladenovic, won the 2026 Wimbledon women's doubles title by defeating the second seeds 6-3, 7-5. Guo expressed disbelief and excitement, noting she stayed calm by focusing on each point rather than the score. She credited her partner for believing in her and said their chemistry on and off the court, including sharing meals, strengthened their bond. Guo aims to improve her singles ranking to top 100 while continuing doubles success, and she aspires to win a gold medal at the upcoming Asian Games. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Spain defeated France 2-0 in the 2026 World Cup semifinal on July 15, advancing to the final. The other semifinal, between England and Argentina, took place on July 16. The winner will face Spain in the final scheduled for July 20.
Summary: China's rhythmic gymnastics team won one gold, one silver, and one bronze at the Milan World Cup, which concluded July 13. The gold came in the 3 hoops + 2 clubs event, the bronze in the 5 balls, with a silver in the all-around from the previous day. The squad of Ding Xinyi, Liu Miaoting, Pu Yanzhu, Wang Lanjing, Zhang Xinyi, and Zhao Wanzhu competed in the group events, while Wang Zihan and Wang Qi participated in individual events. This performance secured China its third consecutive annual overall World Cup series title in the group all-around, along with the annual title in the 5 balls event. The article does not address the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The 2026 National Table Tennis Doubles Championships opened in Changsha, with preliminaries from July 13–15 and main draws starting July 16. The Chinese Table Tennis Association separated doubles into a standalone event, allowing cross-province pairings. Notable mixed doubles pairs include Wang Chuqin (Beijing) and Sun Yingsha (Hebei), as well as Lin Shidong (Hainan) and Kuang Man (Jiangsu). In men's doubles, former champions Ma Long and Xu Xin reunited, while women's doubles features Chen Yi and Fan Shuhan preparing for the Asian Games.
Summary: The article reports on the "Baba Basketball" tournament in Qingchuan County, Sichuan, where the Qingchun Zhengxie team won the monthly championship. The open-entry competition, held in public spaces, has hosted over 22,000 games since October 2023, with more than 75% of teams formed by local residents. Ma Dongmei, director of the Qingchuan County Sports Affairs Center, stated that the event has spurred the construction of new basketball facilities and full coverage of fitness centers across all 20 townships. The tournament has also boosted the local economy by creating a "spectating + dining + shopping" consumption zone and integrating with cultural events. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article examines overtourism in Bruges, Barcelona, and Phuket, detailing measures such as limiting tour group sizes, banning buses from historic centers, restricting short-term rentals, and implementing environmental controls. In Barcelona, tourism manager Hernández emphasized the need to balance resident quality of life with tourism development. In Phuket, tourism association head Thane noted that diverting visitors to lesser-known areas helps reduce core site pressure and spread economic benefits. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: China's strategic energy management, including reducing oil purchases to counter global price spikes, has stabilized its own market and provided a "cooling-off period" for the volatile international oil market. The *Wall Street Journal* and U.S. think tank Foreign Policy in Focus have acknowledged China's role as a key stabilizing force for the global economy. By building a resilient energy system centered on renewable alternatives and the world's largest clean-energy supply chain, China has insulated itself from external shocks. Its experience demonstrates that developing countries can pursue both industrialization and low-carbon transition simultaneously, challenging the zero-sum logic of traditional energy security. China is now shifting from exporting energy products to exporting entire green power system solutions, offering a low-cost, independent transition path for the Global South.
Summary: Multiple Japanese civic groups issued a joint statement opposing Japan's development of nuclear-powered submarines, arguing it contradicts Japan's anti-nuclear stance and "exclusive defense" principle. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova stated that Japan should adhere to its pacifist constitution and fully recognize the results of World War II, while also rejecting Japanese protests over Russia-China joint military exercises. A South Korean Foreign Ministry official urged Japan to faithfully implement UNESCO decisions regarding the Sado gold mine, which include reflecting the history of forced Korean labor during colonial rule.
Summary: China and Russia held a joint fish stocking event on July 14 in Tongjiang, Heilongjiang, under their bilateral protocol on fishery resource conservation in the Heilong and Wusuli rivers. China released over 5.68 million fish, including sturgeon and economic species, and used fluorescent marking to monitor effectiveness. Since 2008, the two sides have conducted 18 such events, releasing over 20 million sturgeon juveniles and jointly carrying out 27 border water patrols. Officials from China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Heilongjiang provincial government, and the Russian Embassy in Beijing attended. The two sides pledged to continue enhancing stocking, enforcement against illegal fishing, and scientific and marine fishery cooperation.
Summary: In 2025, South Korea's 70+ employed population reached 2.162 million, up 9.2% year-on-year, while those aged 60+ outnumbered 50+ workers for the first time, signaling a major shift in the labor market. Economic necessity drives this trend: the poverty rate for those aged 66+ stands at 39.7%, far above the OECD average of 14.8%, with 51.3% of older job-seekers citing living expenses as their primary motivation. The government has expanded support through anti-age-discrimination laws, financial incentives for employers, and a plan to create 1.152 million senior jobs by 2026, alongside a goal to enable employment up to age 65 by 2033. Ewha Womans University professor Jeong Soon-doo called for greater focus on job quality and public financial education to reduce elderly poverty. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations were discussed.
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Summary: The 14th National People's Congress Standing Committee passed a revised Trademark Law on June 26, effective January 1, 2027, targeting rampant issues like malicious registration, hoarding, and deceptive “mind-game trademarks” that harm consumers. The law establishes a clear red line by denying registration for applications lacking genuine intent to use and exceeding normal business needs, and empowers authorities to revoke unused “zombie trademarks” after three years. To protect consumers, it penalizes misleading use of registered trademarks with fines and potential revocation, while allowing any individual or entity to file complaints. The law also aids Chinese firms going global by enabling confirmation of well-known marks for overseas protection and cracking down on unethical cross-border agency practices. Additionally, it strengthens agency oversight through mandatory备案, higher fines for aiding malicious registration, and enhanced industry self-regulation.
Summary: The article features four National People's Congress deputies discussing how to accelerate technological self-reliance during the critical "15th Five-Year Plan" period. Xia Yong (China Mobile Chongqing) calls for strengthening AI empowerment of industries through better computing infrastructure and application scenarios. Zhao Ziyi (Guizhou University of Finance and Economics) emphasizes long-term support for young researchers and reforming evaluation systems. Li Shaoping (Hubei Three Gorges Laboratory) stresses improving R&D investment efficiency by coordinating government, enterprise, and social capital. Zhang Fan (China Electric Equipment Group) advocates building a shared industrial data ecosystem and industry-specific AI models to boost manufacturing. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports that Henan province enacted a regulation on May 28, 2024, to legally protect and promote Yuju (Henan opera) as a national intangible cultural heritage. Li Shujian, chairman of the Henan Drama Association, stated this marks the first time provincial legislation systematically governs the preservation and development of a traditional opera genre. Wu Yaming, director of the Henan Academy of Culture and Arts, noted the regulation requires Yuju protection to be included in local economic and social plans with dedicated fiscal funding. Jia Gaofeng, head of the Henan Yuju Theater Third Troupe, said the law encourages innovation, digital broadcasts, and integration with internet platforms to revitalize the art form.
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Summary: The article details China's enhanced online reporting mechanism, where citizens report illegal content (gambling, pornography, AI-generated disinformation) to platforms like the Central Cyberspace Affairs Office’s reporting center (www.12377.cn). It highlights the role of public tips in takedowns and legal referrals, with a dedicated channel for AI-related abuses opened in June 2026. The piece also covers the joint rumor-debunking system, exemplified by the rapid correction of a false claim about the Yingxian Wooden Pagoda. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations. The report concludes with a call from the Center’s responsible person to strengthen public participation and improve reporting efficiency.
Summary: China’s new *Interim Provisions on Basic Rights Protection for Over-Age Workers*, effective July 1, 2025, and issued by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, is the first national regulation specifically safeguarding the pay, rest, and work injury rights of older workers. The rule addresses a growing demographic as China’s aging population expands, filling gaps in existing labor law after courts added new case categories for such disputes in 2025. The article notes persistent challenges including lack of written contracts, employer evasion of responsibilities, and workers’ fear of retaliation, urging stronger enforcement, unified judicial standards, and greater legal awareness to turn “paper rights” into real protections.
Summary: A Guangzhou tech company defrauded college students of over 24 million yuan by advertising fake "remote internships" at major firms, charging fees for bogus offers, training, and fake certificates. The scheme involved employees posing as recruiters, mentors, and issuing forged documents with counterfeit seals. Six company leaders, including Luo, Chen, and Fu, were convicted of telecom fraud and sentenced to prison. A judge warned that paid internships and fake certificates violate legal and ethical standards, carrying serious consequences for students in background checks. No U.S.-China relations were mentioned.
Summary: The article reports that two former illegal bird traders, Zheng and Wang, were caught at a market in Taiyuan in June 2025 but received a non-prosecution decision due to minor culpability. Instead of fines, they were required to serve as legal propagandists at the same market, using their own experience to educate others. Deputy Procurator Tian Jiantao emphasized that punishment is not the end and that the goal is to turn destroyers into protectors. Chief Procurator Ma Hui noted that this "work in lieu of compensation" approach fosters ecological restoration and crime prevention more effectively than simple monetary penalties. The article highlights a broader shift in judicial philosophy from punitive measures to restorative justice, with the upcoming Ecological Environment Code expected to provide clearer legal guidance.
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Summary: The National Radio and Television Administration released a report showing that average daily TV drama viewing per household in the first half of 2026 reached 79 minutes, with total viewership of 112.3 billion人次, both up year-on-year. The number of premiere dramas increased 2.8% to 73, with prime-time premieres rising 10.9%, indicating growing confidence in content supply. Top-rated dramas like *The Protagonist* (4.210% rating) and *Life Tree* successfully engaged audiences by focusing on cultural heritage and ecological themes, demonstrating that quality storytelling, not genre, drives viewership. The report highlighted that cross-platform viewing and social media discussions have extended the lifecycle of hit dramas, with *The Years of Peace* achieving record ratings for historical dramas. The author, a deputy director of the agency, concluded that the industry is shifting from chasing traffic to prioritizing creative quality, as evidenced by the viewing data.
Summary: The author, president of the Jiangsu Kunqu Opera Theatre, reflects on the tradition of "chuan bang dai" (passing down skills, guarding the heart, and continuing cultural lineage) within the company. He describes learning from master Shi Xiaomei, who emphasized conveying spirit and emotion over mere imitation. In 2024, the theatre revived *Nanke Dream* with three generations of performers, ensuring classic repertoire and artistic continuity. The author stresses that this practice preserves Kunqu's heritage while adapting to modern times, including new media. He concludes with Shi Xiaomei's advice to cherish the short journey from stage entrance to exit, symbolizing a lifetime of dedication.
Summary: The article describes the original musical "Black Flag Command," which depicts Liu Yongfu's Black Flag Army's journey from aiding Vietnam against France to defending Taiwan against Japan. The authors, the musical's artistic director and composer, detail their creative approach blending traditional Chinese instruments and regional cultures with modern musical forms to evoke national spirit. They note the musical is directed by Taiwanese director Li Xiaoping, emphasizing cross-strait collaboration and shared heroic memory. The work incorporates Minnan folk songs and Taiwanese opera elements in scenes of the Black Flag Army's resistance against Japanese invasion in Taiwan, underscoring the inseparable bond between the two sides. The musical aims to transform historical figures into spiritual symbols for contemporary audiences.
Summary: Wu Suzhen, a Yu opera actress of the Chen School, described her journey reviving the classic "White Snake" as a "beauty born from nothing," emphasizing the precision of her mentor Niu Shuxian's coaching in vocal technique and movement. She noted that inheriting Chen School opera requires "neither too much nor too little" nuance, and she used numerical marks to master the subtle vibrato. After facing sparse applause during grassroots tours, she recalled her teacher's advice not to "underestimate the audience's taste" nor chase instant ovation. She brought Chen School classics to the Avignon Festival in France, where repeated curtain calls proved that "beautiful art needs no translation." Now developing a new historical drama about the Shang dynasty general Fu Hao, she affirmed that artistic legacy must be "lived and performed for contemporary audiences" rather than sealed in a museum.
Summary: The Suixi lion dance troupe from Zhanjiang, Guangdong, won the 17th China Folk Literature and Art Shanhua Award for their performance "Lingnan Lion Leaps Over Knife Mountain and Fire Sea." Liang Qihuang, a third-generation performer, noted that lion dance was once a symbol of village pride and martial arts culture, but now faces challenges like frequent injuries and low off-season income. Coach Li Guolian emphasized the need for constant innovation in routines to survive market competition, as even award-winning moves are quickly copied. Under local government coordination, the troupe performs at cultural events and street interactions, drawing tourists from across China. The tradition has evolved from a festive ritual to a year-round attraction, connecting communities and gaining new fans.
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High-quality advancement of urban renewal is an important lever for urban modernization. We must fully practice the people's city concept, insist on asking the people about their needs, asking the people for their advice, and asking the people about the effectiveness, do deeply, meticulously, and solidly in all work of urban renewal, and continuously enhance the residents' sense of gain, happiness, and security.
The Party Central Committee attaches great importance to urban work, clearly stating that we must build innovative, livable, beautiful, resilient, civilized, and smart modern people's cities, and renovating old urban residential communities is an important part. In work, we must firmly establish and practice the correct view of political achievements, think what the masses think, be anxious about what the masses are anxious about, formulate and implement effective policy measures, persist with 久久为功 (jiǔ jiǔ wéi gōng - "persist for a long time to achieve success"), handle the matters of concern to the common people one by one well, and continuously improve people's livelihood and well-being. We must use 绣花功夫 (xiù huā gōng fu - "embroidery skill," meticulous attention to detail) to continuously improve community property management and convenience service levels, striving to satisfy the residents.
"Every twig and leaf is always a matter of concern." The lives of the common people are family affairs, and even more so state affairs. The Communist Party exists to serve the common people. Only when the people live and work in peace and contentment, and live comfortably, can the Party and government feel at ease.
Community is the basic unit of the urban governance system. We must raise the level of community governance, promote the sinking of resources, services, management, etc., to the grassroots frontline, and continuously reduce burdens and empower the grassroots. We must further strengthen Party building leadership, actively explore new models of coordinated operation of residents' committees, owners' committees, and property service enterprises under the leadership of community Party organizations, build complete communities and convenient living circles, and with heart and feeling do good deeds, practical things, and solve difficult problems for residents.
Currently, it is the critical period for flood prevention. All regions and relevant parties must firmly establish bottom-line thinking and extreme thinking, closely monitor rainfall conditions, flood conditions, and typhoon situations, conduct in-depth and meticulous risk hazard investigations, solidly carry out flood prevention and flood fighting, emergency rescue and disaster relief work, and effectively safeguard the safety of people's lives and property.
Our newspaper, Shanghai, July 15. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, emphasized during his inspection in Shanghai on the 15th that high-quality advancement of urban renewal is an important lever for urban modernization. We must fully practice the people's city concept, insist on asking the people about their needs, asking the people for their advice, and asking the people about the effectiveness, do deeply, meticulously, and solidly in all work of urban renewal, and continuously enhance the residents' sense of gain, happiness, and security.
On the afternoon of the 15th, accompanied by Chen Jining, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee, and Mayor Gong Zheng, Xi Jinping came to the Bansongyuan Road Street Citizen New Village Residential Area (半淞园路街道市民新村居民区) in Huangpu District for inspection and research.
Four buildings built in the 1950s in the Citizen New Village Residential Area, through renovation and renewal, setting up independent kitchens and bathrooms, installing elevators, have seen living conditions significantly improved. Xi Jinping entered the community comprehensive service point, listened to introductions about Shanghai's promotion of upgrading and renovating old houses without sanitary facilities, historically solving the "carrying chamber pots" problem for residents in old urban areas, and community renovation, and asked on-site staff in detail about relevant circumstances. Xi Jinping emphasized that the Party Central Committee attaches great importance to urban work, clearly stating that we must build innovative, livable, beautiful, resilient, civilized, and smart modern people's cities, and renovating old urban residential communities is an important part. In work, we must firmly establish and practice the correct view of political achievements, think what the masses think, be anxious about what the masses are anxious about, formulate and implement effective policy measures, persist with 久久为功, handle the matters of concern to the common people one by one well, and continuously improve people's livelihood and well-being. We must use 绣花功夫 to continuously improve community property management and convenience service levels, striving to satisfy the residents.
At the home of retired resident Zhu Guoli (朱国莉), Xi Jinping carefully inspected the living conditions. Zhu Guoli told the General Secretary that now they have their own kitchen and bathroom, life is much more convenient. Xi Jinping was very happy to hear that. He said, "Every twig and leaf is always a matter of concern." The lives of the common people are family affairs, and even more so state affairs. The Communist Party exists to serve the common people. Only when the people live and work in peace and contentment, and live comfortably, can the Party and government feel at ease. I hope you will arrange your retirement life well and make your family construction even better.
Subsequently, Xi Jinping came to the community Party and mass service station, inspected the fruit and vegetable supply situation at the convenience vegetable stall, and had a cordial exchange with resident representatives, street cadres, community workers, etc. in the "citizens' living room." Xi Jinping pointed out that community is the basic unit of the urban governance system. We must raise the level of community governance, promote the sinking of resources, services, management, etc., to the grassroots frontline, and continuously reduce burdens and empower the grassroots. We must further strengthen Party building leadership, actively explore new models of coordinated operation of residents' committees, owners' committees, and property service enterprises under the leadership of community Party organizations, build complete communities and convenient living circles, and with heart and feeling do good deeds, practical things, and solve difficult problems for residents.
During the inspection, Xi Jinping emphasized that currently, it is the critical period for flood prevention. All regions and relevant parties must firmly establish bottom-line thinking and extreme thinking, closely monitor rainfall conditions, flood conditions, and typhoon situations, conduct in-depth and meticulous risk hazard investigations, solidly carry out flood prevention and flood fighting, emergency rescue and disaster relief work, and effectively safeguard the safety of people's lives and property.
Cai Qi, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the General Office of the Central Committee, accompanied the inspection.
Responsible comrades from relevant departments of the Central Committee and state organs accompanied the inspection.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 15 - The 14th issue of Qiushi (求是) magazine to be published on July 16 will carry an important article by Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, titled "Speech at the Celebration of the 105th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China."
The article emphasizes that over the past 105 years, our Party has united and led the people of all ethnic groups across the country in unremitting struggle, creating the great achievements of the new democratic revolution, the socialist revolution and construction, reform and opening up and socialist modernization, and socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era, and writing the most magnificent epic in the thousands of years of history of the Chinese nation. One hundred and five years of unremitting struggle have fundamentally changed the future and destiny of the Chinese people, opened up the correct path to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, demonstrated the powerful vitality of Marxism, profoundly influenced the course of world history, and forged a strong Communist Party of China.
The article points out that the reason why the Communist Party of China has been able to continuously create brilliance in its 105 years of struggle, and the reason why history and the people have chosen the Communist Party of China, fundamentally lies in the fact that our Party has excellent qualities that other political parties and political forces cannot match: unswervingly pursuing truth, always keeping the forward direction accurate; deeply rooted among the people, always possessing a solid foundation; bravely shouldering historical mission, always grasping strategic initiative; following the tide of development, always staying at the forefront of the times; daring to fight and being good at fighting, always maintaining confidence in victory; paying attention to strengthening itself, always being full of vitality and vigor. These excellent qualities are the key code to why the Communist Party of China can succeed. We must combine with new realities, constantly carry forward and develop the Party's excellent qualities, ensure that the Party never changes its nature, never changes its color, never changes its flavor, and always has strong creativity, cohesion, and combat effectiveness.
The article points out that to realize the Party's mission and tasks on the new journey of the new era requires all Chinese Communists to firm up confidence, continue the struggle, and constantly create new achievements worthy of the times and the people. Must adhere to the Party's basic theory, basic line, and basic strategy, uphold the Party's overall leadership and the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, deeply implement the Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, strengthen confidence in the path, theory, system, and culture, carry forward the cause and forge ahead into the future, and uphold fundamental principles and break new ground. Must closely rely on the people to create historical achievements, practice the people-centered development philosophy, fully stimulate the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of hundreds of millions of people, comprehensively advance the Five-Sphere Integrated Plan (五位一体) and coordinate the Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy (四个全面), fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development philosophy, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, and solidly promote high-quality development. Must actively respond to risks and challenges on the path forward, strengthen awareness of potential dangers, uphold bottom-line thinking, carry forward the spirit of struggle, enhance the ability to fight, better coordinate the two overall situations of domestic and international, and coordinate development and security. Must continuously promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, hold high the banner of peace, development, cooperation, and win-win, promote the common values of all mankind, advance the implementation of the Global Development Initiative (全球发展倡议), the Global Security Initiative (全球安全倡议), the Global Civilization Initiative (全球文明倡议), and the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议), and inject more positive energy into world peace and development. Must persistently advance full and strict governance of the Party, fully implement the Thought on Party Building for the New Era (新时代党建思想), improve the system for full and strict governance of the Party, take the Party's political construction as the lead to strengthen all aspects of Party building, resolutely fight the battle against corruption as a tough battle, a protracted battle, and an overall battle, continuously enhance the Party's political leadership, ideological guidance, mass organization, and social appeal, and ensure that the Party always remains the strong leading core in the historical process of upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era.
The article emphasizes that the 105-year glorious history of the Communist Party of China makes us proud, but we must never become arrogant and complacent or stop and stand still. All comrades in the Party must remain true to the original aspiration and keep the mission firmly in mind, must remain modest and prudent and work hard, must dare to fight and be good at fighting, closely rely on and unite and lead the people of all ethnic groups across the country to forge ahead on the new journey and make contributions in the new era, and strive to create new historical brilliance.
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“Better to have ten precautions that prove unnecessary than to have a single lapse in defense; better to hear scolding beforehand than to hear weeping afterwards; better to assume it will come than to assume it will not; better to assume it will be severe than to assume it will be mild.”
The recently published Study Reader on Important Discourses of Xi Jinping Concerning Methods of Grassroots Work (《习近平关于基层工作方法的重要论述学习读本》) records that more than 20 years ago, Comrade Xi Jinping, then Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, faced with frequent typhoons and flood disasters, after in-depth investigation and practical combat, put forward the important concept of the "four rathers" (四个宁可, sì gè nìng kě - "four would-rathers," a set of guiding principles prioritizing precaution and preparedness over risk), firmly established bottom-line thinking and extreme-scenario thinking, promoted a major transformation from "passive disaster resistance" to "active disaster prevention and avoidance," continuously built a solid institutional system for flood and typhoon prevention and a sturdy fortress for grassroots disaster prevention and reduction, and established a scientific methodology and a firm fundamental guideline for flood and typhoon prevention, disaster prevention and reduction, and grassroots risk governance.
Putting the People First: The "Four Rathers" Manifest a Consistent Commitment to the People
Zhejiang is located on the southeastern coast and is one of the provinces most frequently affected by typhoons in the country. Flood and typhoon prevention is not only a battle against wind and rain but also a defensive battle for the people and relying on the people.
In the late hours of July 11, Typhoon Bavi (巴威), the 9th typhoon this year, made landfall in Zhejiang, with maximum winds near its center reaching Force 13. About 12 hours before the typhoon's arrival, Zhejiang Province fully activated the Level I emergency response for typhoon prevention. As of 19:00 that day, the province had cumulatively relocated over 2.68 million people; 12,154 primary and secondary schools, kindergartens, and other institutions were fully suspended; 830 construction sites under construction were all shut down...
The entire province resolutely implemented the important directives of General Secretary Xi Jinping on flood prevention and disaster relief work, kept in mind the requirements of the "four rathers," seized the "window of opportunity" before the typhoon made landfall, and conducted re-inspections, re-confirmations, and re-roll calls for key locations, facilities, and the transfer of key personnel, ensuring no household was missed and no person was left behind, firmly holding the bottom line of safety.
One cannot help but recall a scene from 22 years ago.
In August 2004, Typhoon Rananim (云娜), the 14th typhoon of the year, struck Zhejiang head-on. Comrade Xi Jinping, then Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, interrupted his grassroots investigation and returned overnight to the Provincial Flood and Drought Prevention Headquarters.
"Rather than saying 'resist,' the key point is 'prevent.' It is not that resisting a typhoon means standing in the eye of the storm; rather, it is about doing all preparatory work well before the typhoon arrives, mainly prevention and avoidance," Comrade Xi Jinping explicitly demanded at the televised telephone conference held overnight to deploy work against Typhoon No. 14.
"Putting the people first and life first" has since become the unshakable fundamental orientation for Zhejiang's flood and typhoon prevention.
For Typhoon Matsa (麦莎) in 2005, Zhejiang relocated 1.24 million people in advance; for Saomai (桑美) in 2006, over 1 million were relocated; for Haikui (海葵) in 2012, over 1.54 million; for Chan-hom (灿鸿) in 2015, over 1.1 million... In the years that followed, guided by the important concept of the "four rathers," Zhejiang took the lead in the country in exploring and implementing a "mass relocation" strategy. Relocating people from dangerous areas in advance before each typhoon strike became an ironclad discipline.
Each of the profound connotations of the "four rathers" embodies the value orientation of "putting the people first":
Between "ten precautions proving unnecessary" and "a single lapse in defense," between "hearing scolding beforehand" and "hearing weeping afterwards," the choice is made unhesitatingly to prioritize the safety and well-being of the people.
Gehai Village (隔海村), Shitang Town (石塘镇), Wenling City (温岭市), Taizhou (台州), is surrounded by the sea on all sides. Of its 172 permanent residents, 95% are left-behind elderly. Before Typhoon Bavi arrived, Chen Xiaohua (陈小花), an 81-year-old elderly person living alone, guarded her own house and was reluctant to leave. Huang Chenbin (黄琛彬), Secretary of the Village Party Branch, visited twice and finally helped the elderly person down the mountain to a shelter.
"In the face of danger, there can be no room for侥幸 (luck or fluke) when it comes to the lives of the people," Huang Chenbin said.
Grassroots governance involves a myriad of tasks, but in the final analysis, it is governance for the people. Protecting the lives and property of the masses is the greatest民生 (people's livelihood) and the most fundamental bottom line.
While working in Fujian, Comrade Xi Jinping adhered to the principle of "better to have ten precautions that prove unnecessary than to have preparations but no use"; in Zhejiang, he repeatedly promoted "mass relocations of millions" during flood and typhoon prevention; while working in Shanghai, he proposed "achieving zero deaths, fewer injuries, and less loss."
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, facing severe and complex flood prevention situations, General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized, "We must make every effort to organize rescue and relief operations, treatment of the injured, and resettlement of the affected people, minimizing casualties to the greatest extent," and "ensure the safety of people's lives and property."
In the face of natural disasters, risks, and challenges — from combating typhoons and flood disasters to responding to emergencies, from relocating the masses and conducting rescue operations to post-disaster reconstruction and material support — our Party has always placed the safety of people's lives and their health first.
Bottom-Line Thinking: The "Four Rathers" Contain the Governance Wisdom of Coordinating Development and Security
Natural disasters are sudden and difficult to predict. How to respond to unknown risks? The "four rathers" provide the answer:
Proceed from the worst-case scenario; estimate difficulties more fully; think about risks more deeply; prepare countermeasures more comprehensively. The core connotation is coordinating development and security, the bottom-line thinking of being vigilant in peacetime and preventing trouble before it occurs.
Security is the prerequisite for development; development is the guarantee of security. Coordinating development and security is an important concept that General Secretary Xi Jinping has long upheld.
When working locally, whether on the front lines of major emergencies or at production sites, Comrade Xi Jinping always bore safety work and the people's safety in mind: In Fujian, upon learning that a typhoon was about to make landfall, Comrade Xi Jinping, who was investigating within the province, rushed back to Fuzhou overnight, headed straight for the flood prevention headquarters, and worked with the staff until dawn to study and deploy work; in Zhejiang, on the eve of the Spring Festival, he descended into a mine nearly a kilometer deep to visit workers, urging them to "cherish the life of every miner, ensuring everyone goes down happily and returns home safely"; in Shanghai, when investigating the flood prevention department, he pointed out: "For flood and typhoon prevention work, adhere to prevention as the main focus and grasp the initiative"...
The "four rathers" embody a distinct governance logic of "safety redundancy," highly consistent with the principle of "prevention first, combining prevention, resistance, and relief" in modern emergency management, and are in the same vein as the requirement in the holistic approach to national security (总体国家安全观) to "integrate safe development into all fields and throughout the entire process of national development."
Adhering to bottom-line thinking requires preparing before it rains and preventing before events occur.
Over the years, guided by the important concept of the "four rathers," Zhejiang Province has accumulated multifaceted experience in conjunction with flood prevention and disaster reduction practices:
Drawing a "five-color risk预警 map" (风险预警"五色图") based on data from 126,000 key risk points and real-time departmental monitoring information; forming a "list of eight risks" (八张风险清单) focusing on key areas such as personnel避灾 transfer, flash floods in small watersheds, and geological disasters; creating a flood and typhoon prevention "1833" joint command system (防汛防台风"1833"联合指挥体系) integrating mechanisms for early warning response and emergency response linkage; successively launching water infrastructure projects such as the "Thousand-Reservoir Safety" (千库保安), "Strengthening Dikes and Solidifying Houses" (强塘固房), "Five Water Co-governance" (五水共治), and "Hundred Projects, Trillions of Investment" (百项千亿) projects...
To ensure effective risk prevention and control, the focus is on perfecting the emergency decision-making and command mechanism.
From July to October 2005, Zhejiang was successively hit by five strong typhoons — Haitang (海棠), Matsa (麦莎), Talim (泰利), Khanun (卡努), and Longwang (龙王) — a frequency, intensity, rainfall volume, and scope of impact rarely seen in history.
Comrade Xi Jinping personally promoted the establishment of a flood and typhoon prevention consultation and decision-making mechanism led by leaders, with expert participation and departmental linkage, emphasizing that "we must coordinate resources from all sides and conduct scientific analysis and dispatch."
During the typhoon defense period, Comrade Xi Jinping held many overnight consultation meetings, bringing together experts in meteorology, water resources, emergency management and other fields to precisely analyze typhoon paths, intensity changes, and impact ranges, scientifically formulate prevention and control plans, make precise deployments, and implement an emergency command model of "provincial-level leaders directly connecting with city and county front-line commands."
Coordinating development and security requires conceptual reshaping and responsibility implementation.
During his work in Zhejiang, Comrade Xi Jinping focused on development with one hand and on safety with the other. In response to the intertwined situation at the grassroots level at that time, where reform and development tasks were heavy and conflicts and disputes were numerous, Comrade Xi Jinping pointed out: "Promoting economic development is a political achievement; maintaining social harmony and stability is equally a political achievement."
Since the 18th National Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping has taken a long-term view on coordinating development and security, making a series of major deployments. The "15th Five-Year Plan" outline proposes to "enhance in an integrated manner the capacity for disaster reduction prevention, disaster resistance fortification, and disaster relief support." Not long ago, the "15th Five-Year Plan" for the Construction of a Modern Emergency Response System was issued, providing a "construction guide" for the modern emergency response system in the 15th Five-Year Plan period.
Consolidating the foundation of "prevention," enhancing the effect of "reduction," and improving the capability of "relief" — since the new era, China's distinctive major-country emergency response system has been advanced in a coordinated manner, continuously weaving a solid safety net for disaster security.
Practical Responsibility: The "Four Rathers" Guide a Pragmatic and Capable Grassroots Governance Style
"Woo — woo — woo!" Late on the 11th, Typhoon Bavi, carrying violent winds and rain, pounded fiercely against the doors and windows of the Yueqing City Civic Activity Center in Wenzhou, Zhejiang.
As the largest typhoon避灾 shelter in Yueqing, outside the wind and rain raged, but inside the lights were bright and the evacuated people were orderly. Along the coast of Zhejiang, there are more than 19,000 such "ever-burning lamp" shelters.
To cope with this ferocious typhoon, grassroots Party members and cadres in Zhejiang worked tirelessly through the night, jointly building a solid line of defense to protect the safety of the people, striving to win this battle of flood and typhoon prevention.
Disaster prevention and relief are critical at the grassroots level.
On July 26, 2005, at a meeting reporting on Wenzhou City's typhoon relief efforts, Comrade Xi Jinping emphasized, "The foundation of typhoon prevention and resistance lies at the grassroots level, and the main body is the masses. In particular, townships and villages must give full play to the role of their organizations, effectively achieving 'townships fight their own battles, villages fight their own battles,' and being able to mobilize and organize the masses in moments of crisis."
From that time on, Zhejiang persisted in focusing heavily on the grassroots to strengthen the foundation and consolidate the base. Under the leadership of grassroots Party organizations, it continuously improved the grassroots disaster prevention work system, promoted the establishment of independent and complete flood and typhoon prevention command systems in townships, equipped them with prevention and control forces, sufficient emergency supplies, and detailed emergency plans, enabling them to independently carry out hazard investigation, personnel relocation, and险情 disposal. At the village level, grid management was fully implemented, with natural villages and村民 groups acting as grid units, clearly designating grid responsible persons, transfer liaison persons, and evacuation guides, achieving early detection of risks, early relocation of people, and early handling of emergencies.
In the face of the great test of wind and rain, only rigorous work styles, solid measures, and pragmatic actions can build an indestructible dike of safety.
Since the beginning of this year's flood season, extreme weather has been frequent in China, with obvious rain belts in both the north and south, making the flood prevention situation severe and complex.
The Party Central Committee, with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, attaches great importance to flood prevention, disaster resistance, and relief work. On June 30, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee to study and deploy flood prevention and drought relief work. In response to disasters occurring in Guangxi, Hubei, Gansu and other places, General Secretary Xi Jinping recently issued important instructions.
"All localities and relevant departments must implement the established deployment and measures, resolutely overcome the mentality of麻痹 (complacency) and侥幸 (taking chances)"... "firmly tighten and consolidate disaster prevention and relief responsibilities, deeply carry out risk hazard investigation and rectification for rivers and lakes, dangerous reservoirs, areas prone to geological disasters, etc."... "strengthen monitoring, early warning, and emergency rescue preparations, solidly carry out all work in disaster prevention and relief, and ensure the safety of people's lives and property"...
Grasping implementation, consolidating responsibilities, working solidly... the character "实" (shí, meaning solid, substantial, pragmatic) has become the core requirement for doing a good job in flood prevention, disaster resistance, and relief work.
Grasping implementation requires a sense of responsibility that one is "always concerned" (时时放心不下).
"I have always been thinking of the affected people," this interprets General Secretary Xi Jinping's dedication to the people, setting aside the self.
Currently, all localities and departments, based on preparing for major floods and strong typhoons, are fully consolidating political responsibilities; consolidating the main responsibilities of local Party committees and governments, the regulatory responsibilities of industry departments; consolidating the primary responsibility for flood safety of the main responsible persons of relevant enterprises and public institutions; and grassroots Party organizations and the vast number of Party members and cadres are giving full play to their role as战斗堡垒 and vanguard and exemplary roles, bravely shouldering heavy burdens and charging ahead on the front lines of flood prevention, drought relief, rescue, and disaster relief.
Grasping implementation requires the action force of "having a clear picture in mind for everything" (事事心中有底).
In August 2020, during an inspection at the Mengwa flood storage area in Anhui Province, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that to comprehensively build a modern socialist country, we must enhance our ability to resist disasters and reach a modern level in resisting natural disasters.
Since the 18th National Congress, China has continuously improved its basin defense system, strengthened measures for预报, early warning, rehearsal, and contingency plans, and achieved an overall leap in flood and drought disaster prevention capabilities.
Facing the severe and complex flood prevention and disaster resistance situation, all localities and departments, based on moving the关口 forward and prioritizing prevention, are continuously improving emergency plans, enhancing early warning capabilities, strengthening the linkage between early warning and response, giving full play to the disaster prevention and reduction role of the flood control engineering system, and ensuring timely and efficient handling of险情 and disasters.
The more turbulent the wind and waves, the more evident the role of a mainstay; the more towering the waves, the more visible the brave and resilient responsibility.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Disaster prevention, reduction, and relief are related to the safety of people's lives and property, related to social harmony and stability. They are an important aspect of measuring the leadership of the ruling party, testing the execution capacity of the government, evaluating the national mobilization capacity, and reflecting the cohesive force of the nation."
Establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements ultimately means adhering to putting the people first.
Currently, the flood prevention situation is severe and complex, and the tasks of disaster prevention and relief are arduous and heavy. Party committees, governments at all levels, and the vast number of Party members and cadres, by deeply studying and comprehending the concept of the "four rathers," upholding the original aspiration of serving the people, consolidating bottom-line thinking, and forging a pragmatic work style, by doing risk prevention and control in advance, implementing livelihood services in detail, and shouldering governance responsibilities to the full, will surely deliver a satisfactory answer to the Party and the people amid the baptism of wind and rain.
(Xinhua News Agency, Hangzhou, July 15)
Return to TopAstana, July 15 (People's Daily — Reporters Qu Song (曲颂) and Li Qiang (李强)) — The Kazakhstan promotional event for Volume V of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China was held on the 15th in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan.
Participating guests believe that Volume V of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China comprehensively and systematically reflects the latest achievements of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, providing an authoritative reading for helping the international community understand Chinese-style modernization and comprehend contemporary China. China and Kazakhstan are fellow travelers on the path of modernization. The exchange of governance and administration experiences between the two countries centered on President Xi Jinping’s important works is of great significance for promoting the building of a China-Kazakhstan community with a shared future.
Yernur Beisenbayev (叶尔努尔·贝森巴耶夫), Director of the Internal Policy Department of the Presidential Administration of Kazakhstan, stated that the promotional event for Volume V of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China is a new milestone in the exchange and mutual learning of civilizations between Kazakhstan and China. Kazakhstan is carrying out a series of economic and social reforms, accelerating modernization based on its national conditions. The two countries share many similarities in advancing their modernization processes. The governance philosophy and development strategy contained in President Xi Jinping’s work are extremely valuable for Kazakhstan.
Askar Umarov (阿斯卡尔·乌马罗夫), Director of the Central Communications Service of the President of Kazakhstan, stated in his address that over the past few decades, China has achieved great successes that have attracted worldwide attention in the fields of economy, science and technology, culture, rule of law, and diplomacy. The experience therein is worthy of in-depth study and extensive reference by Kazakhstan. Volume V of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China reflects the key directions of contemporary China’s development. The deeper our understanding of China’s development logic and long-term goals, the more effective the exchanges and cooperation between Kazakhstan and China will be.
Gulnar Shaymergenova (古丽娜尔·沙伊梅尔格诺娃), Director of the Kazakhstan China Research Center, expressed that as global changes accelerate, China has always been an important engine of global economic growth and a key force in maintaining international stability. President Xi Jinping’s works have been translated into dozens of languages and are widely followed around the world. President Xi Jinping’s thought and concepts have made important contributions to building global consensus and solving world development challenges.
During the event, the Chinese side presented to the Kazakh guests copies of Volume IV of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China in the Kazakh-language edition and Volume V in the Russian-language edition. Representatives from think tanks, enterprises, and universities of China and Kazakhstan shared vivid stories of benefiting local people through practical cooperation. Participating experts engaged in exchanges and discussions on topics such as the China-Kazakhstan community with a shared future and the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative.
This event was co-hosted by the State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China, China International Communications Group, and the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Kazakhstan. More than 200 guests and representatives from various sectors including publishing, media, think tanks, universities, and enterprises from China and Kazakhstan attended the event.
Return to TopBeijing, July 15 (People's Daily) — On July 15, Vice President Han Zheng met with former New Zealand Prime Minister John Key in Beijing.
Han Zheng stated that China appreciates Mr. John Key’s long-term important contributions to the development of China-New Zealand relations. At present, the China-New Zealand comprehensive strategic partnership has entered its second decade, and the development of bilateral relations faces an even broader prospect. China is willing to work with New Zealand to jointly implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, expand and deepen exchanges and cooperation in various fields, and promote the continuous forward development of China-New Zealand relations. China’s development provides positive energy and certainty to the world, and it will continue to be committed to promoting peace, stability, development, and prosperity in the Pacific region.
John Key stated that China’s sustained rapid development has provided New Zealand with enormous market opportunities. Currently, New Zealand-China relations are developing steadily. The New Zealand side has always regarded China as a friend, and hopes that the two sides will further strengthen cooperation in trade, investment, agriculture and other fields, and through dialogue and communication join hands to address regional and global challenges. I am willing to continue to contribute to the development of New Zealand-China relations.
Return to TopOur newspaper Hong Kong, July 15 (correspondent Li Xia) — The traditional Chinese edition of Volume 1 of Chronicle of Governance in the New Era (新时代治国理政纪实) was recently published and distributed by the Joint Publishing (Group) Company Limited (联合出版（集团）有限公司). On July 15, the first day of the 36th Hong Kong Book Fair, a new book launch was held.
Volume 1 of Chronicle of Governance in the New Era contains a total of 26 long-form dispatches from Xinhua News Agency and 41 news photographs of General Secretary Xi Jinping, presenting in text and pictures the extraordinary journey of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s far-sighted leadership in steering China toward rejuvenation, and vividly demonstrating the truth power and practical might of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. The publication and distribution of the traditional Chinese edition of this volume will help readers from all walks of life in Hong Kong and Macao deeply grasp the core essence and distinctive practical characteristics of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, truly appreciate General Secretary Xi Jinping’s lofty strategic thinking, deep affection for the people, and noble spiritual demeanor, and provide an important study reader for all sectors of Hong Kong and Macao society in developing the economy, improving people’s livelihoods, and enhancing national consciousness and patriotic spirit.
Officials from the Government Secretariat of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特别行政区政府政务司) and the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in Hong Kong (中央政府驻港联络办), representatives of patriotic and pro-Hong Kong institutions, political groups and associations, representatives from the political-economic and cultural-educational sectors of Hong Kong, and youth representatives of Hong Kong attended the new book launch. Officials from the Hong Kong Chinese Enterprises Association (香港中国企业协会) and the Hong Kong Federation of Education Workers (香港教育工作者联会) accepted book donations on site. Effective immediately, the traditional Chinese edition of Volume 1 of Chronicle of Governance in the New Era is fully stocked and prominently promoted for sale at major bookstores in Hong Kong and Macao.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘志强 王云杉
Since the beginning of this year, the external environment has been intertwined with changes and disruptions, and domestically, new situations and old problems have interwoven and overlapped. Facing a complex situation, under the strong leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, various regions and departments have taken proactive measures and implemented comprehensive policies, effectively responding to external shocks and challenges. The Chinese economy, withstanding pressure, has continued its overall stable, new-oriented, and quality-improving development trend, demonstrating strong resilience and vitality. At a press conference held by the State Council Information Office (国务院新闻办) on July 15, Mao Shengyong (毛盛勇), Deputy Director of the National Bureau of Statistics (国家统计局), used four key words — 稳, 韧, 新, and 优 — to summarize the basic situation of China's economy in the first half of the year.
稳
In the first half of the year, the GDP increment was the largest for the same period in the past five years.
"In the first half of the year, the gross domestic product (GDP) totaled 69.6 trillion yuan, up 4.7% year-on-year at constant prices. The growth rate is in line with the annual economic growth target, laying a good foundation for achieving the annual development expectations. Compared with the first half of last year, the GDP increment was 3.6 trillion yuan, the largest for the same period in the past five years," Mao Shengyong said. For an economy as large as China's, achieving 4.7% growth is commendable.
"Since the beginning of this year, especially since the second quarter, new changes have emerged in the world economy. Some international institutions expect that the growth rates of major economies in the second quarter will decline to varying degrees." In Mao Shengyong's view, although China's economic growth rate also declined in the second quarter, the fundamentals of stable economic operation and the trend toward new and quality improvement have not changed —
Employment is stable. In the first half of the year, the average surveyed urban unemployment rate nationwide was 5.2%, unchanged from the same period last year, and down 0.1 percentage point from the first quarter.
Prices are stable. In the first half of the year, the national consumer price index (CPI) rose 1.0% year-on-year, the core CPI excluding food and energy prices rose 1.2%, and the national producer price index (PPI) rose 1.5%. Against the backdrop of a sharp increase in inflationary pressure in most economies around the world, it is indeed not easy for CPI and PPI to operate within the reasonable range of 1% to 2%.
The balance of payments is stable. In the first half of the year, the scale of goods trade reached a new high, foreign exchange reserves remained stable at over 3.4 trillion US dollars, and the renminbi exchange rate appreciated by about 3% compared with the beginning of the year.
"From the perspective of the second quarter, monthly indicators such as industry, services, imports and exports, and the manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) have been improving month by month," Mao Shengyong said. China's overall macroeconomy is stable, and major indicators are operating within a reasonable range. There are solid conditions and support for achieving the main annual expected targets.
韧
Energy supply is sufficient, and imports are independently controllable.
"Under the complex and volatile external environment, the resilience of the Chinese economy has been very strong." Mao Shengyong analyzed from multiple aspects.
Energy supply guarantee has resilience. Since March this year, the geopolitical conflict in the Middle East has impacted global energy supply. China has focused on both independent production and diversified imports. In the first half of the year, domestic crude oil, natural gas, and electricity production all hit record highs for the same period. Production of major energy products was stable, imports were independently controllable, and energy supply was sufficient, well meeting the various energy needs of production and life. China's policies to ensure supply and stabilize prices have been effective, and the refined oil product price adjustment mechanism was promptly initiated. The CPI rose moderately with little fluctuation.
Food security has resilience. In the first half of the year, various regions and departments continued to focus on agricultural production, and the agricultural and rural economy maintained a good development momentum. Summer grain production overcame the adverse effects of large-scale late sowing of winter wheat and heavy rainfall, achieving a bumper harvest. Summer grain output reached 301.49 billion jin, exceeding the 300 billion jin mark for the first time, an increase of 20 billion jin over the previous year. This further consolidated the foundation of food security and laid a solid foundation for year-round grain production, price stability, and livelihood protection.
Foreign trade has resilience. Since the beginning of this year, global trade growth has slowed, but China's imports and exports have shown strong resilience. In the first half of the year, the total value of goods imports and exports reached 25.5 trillion yuan, of which exports grew by 13.4% and imports grew by 22.1%. In the first quarter, China's foreign trade share of the global total increased by about 0.8 percentage points year-on-year.
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The contribution rate of new drivers exceeds 40%.
"According to preliminary calculations, in the first half of this year, new drivers represented by high-end manufacturing, digital economy, and modern services contributed over 40% to economic growth in the first half of the year. The characteristics of the economy moving toward new and quality are very distinct," Mao Shengyong said. Wang Guanhua (王冠华), spokesperson of the National Bureau of Statistics and head of the Department of Comprehensive Statistics of National Economy (国民经济综合统计司), analyzed the specific performance of new drivers.
A batch of new industries with high technological content and strong resilience provided strong support. In the first half of the year, the added value of high-tech manufacturing above designated size and the digital product manufacturing industry increased by 13.3% and 12.3% respectively, both accelerating compared with the first quarter. According to preliminary calculations, in the first half of the year, new drivers represented by high-tech manufacturing and digital product manufacturing, with an added value share of just over 20%, contributed nearly 50% of industrial growth, serving as an important engine driving industrial growth.
A batch of new products that fit the green and low-carbon trend grew rapidly. In the first half of the year, the development of clean energy drove the production of nuclear power generator sets and hydropower generator sets to increase by 92.0% and 51.9% respectively; the increase in demand for new energy vehicles and energy storage drove the production of lithium-ion batteries to increase by 39.3%. Within traditional industries such as petrochemicals and chemical fibers, a number of bright green sub-sectors emerged. The biomass fuel processing industry within the petroleum processing industry above designated size grew by 33.0%.
A batch of new demands adapted to industrial upgrading and quality consumption were released faster. From the investment perspective, enterprises pay more attention to R&D and innovation, continuously increasing investment in patents, software, databases, and other fields. In the first half of the year, the proportion of intellectual property product investment in fixed asset investment reached 13.8%, up 1.4 percentage points from the first quarter. From the consumption perspective, smart, green, and healthy consumption is gradually becoming a new trend. In the first half of the year, retail sales of wearable smart devices including smart glasses more than doubled, and retail sales of high-efficiency household appliances increased by more than 30%.
A batch of new enterprises with abundant innovation vitality and deep cultivation in niche areas emerged. In the first half of the year, the added value of industrial enterprises above designated size that are specialized and sophisticated 'little giant' enterprises (专精特新 '小巨人' 企业) increased by 10.4% year-on-year. Currently, there are 17,600 national-level specialized and sophisticated 'little giant' enterprises, mostly distributed in key links of the industrial chain.
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The share of manufacturing value added in GDP increased by 0.4 percentage points compared with three years ago.
"In the first half of the year, quality and efficiency improved and optimized, and the economic development was very substantial," Mao Shengyong explained.
The share of manufacturing has stabilized and increased. In the first half of the year, manufacturing value added accounted for 26.2% of GDP, an increase of 0.4 percentage points over three years ago.
Corporate profits and expectations improved. From January to May, the profits of industrial enterprises above designated size increased by 18.8% year-on-year, maintaining double-digit growth since the beginning of the year. In June, the manufacturing PMI was 50.3%, and the services business activity index was 50.4%, respectively up 0.3 and 0.1 percentage points from the previous month, indicating that market expectations are generally stable.
Energy consumption intensity declined. The optimization of industrial structure, the continuous promotion of energy-saving technologies, and the green and low-carbon transition drove a steady decline in energy consumption. Preliminary calculations show that energy consumption per unit of GDP fell by 1.9% year-on-year in the first half of the year.
The increase in the contribution of services and the continuous optimization of industrial structure are also characteristics of the economic operation in the first half of the year. "In the first half of the year, the added value of the service industry was 41.4 trillion yuan, up 5.2% year-on-year, 0.5 percentage points faster than the economic growth rate; it accounted for 59.5% of GDP, making it the largest industry in the national economy; its contribution to economic growth reached 66.1%, an increase of nearly 6 percentage points over the same period last year, making it the main driver of economic growth," Wang Guanhua said. Since the beginning of this year, the service industry has generally grown steadily, playing an important role in supporting industrial upgrading and meeting people's livelihood needs. From the consumption side, service consumption is increasingly becoming an important area for releasing consumption potential and expanding consumption space. In the first half of the year, retail sales of services grew by 5.3% year-on-year, 4.2 percentage points faster than retail sales of goods.
In the first half of the year, the national fixed asset investment (excluding rural households) was 22,637 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 5.7%. "When observing fixed asset investment, structure, quality, and efficiency are more important than total volume and speed," Mao Shengyong believed. Although the investment growth rate was negative in the first half of the year, the scale reached 22.6 trillion yuan, which is still very considerable. "From the first half data, investment has played a huge role in promoting the development of new quality productive forces (新质生产力), technological innovation, industrial upgrading, and improvement of people's livelihood and well-being. At present, China's per capita capital stock is significantly lower than that of developed countries, and there is still broad room for expanding effective investment in the next stage."
Reporter's Notes
Strengthen confidence, continue to strive, and do a good job in the economic work of the second half of the year.
The performance of China's economy in the first half of the year has further strengthened confidence in achieving the annual development goals and tasks.
Confidence comes from the solid and stable economic fundamentals. Under multiple shocks such as geopolitical conflicts and international energy shortages, China's economy has developed steadily, showing many structural highlights. Overall, the trend of "stability" has not changed, and the foundation for "progress" has become more consolidated.
Confidence comes from the effective and powerful macro policies. The optimized implementation of the policy of trading in old consumer goods for new (消费品以旧换新) responds to the demand for consumption upgrading; the construction of the "six networks" (六张网) lays the foundation for digital-intelligent transformation (数智化转型)... Promoting the macro policies to take effect and release their potential, development potential will continue to be released.
Strengthening confidence is to continue the struggle. Doing a good job in the economic work of the second half of the year is very important. We must resolutely implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, and effectively consolidate and expand the trend of economic stability and improvement. On the one hand, accelerate the development of new quality productive forces and consolidate the strategic support of the modern industrial system. On the other hand, adopt systematic and effective policy measures to further stabilize investment, expand consumption, stimulate vitality, and smooth circulation, and continuously enhance the internal driving force of economic development.
Responding to various uncertainties with the certainty of its own development, China's economy in the second half of the year will surely continue the stable performance of the first half and smoothly achieve a good start to the 15th Five-Year Plan (十五五).
Return to TopNanjing, July 15 (Reporter Zhang Tianpei) — The National Symposium of Public Security Department (Bureau) Directors was held from July 14 to 15 in Nanjing, Jiangsu. Wang Xiaohong, Secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Public Security, attended and delivered a speech. He emphasized the need to deeply study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important directives on high-efficiency governance 高效能治理 (gāo xiào néng zhì lǐ), steadfastly uphold the "two establishments" (两个确立), resolutely achieve the "two upholds" (两个维护), establish and practice a correct view of performance, adhere to the combination of targeted governance with systematic governance, law-based governance, comprehensive governance, and source governance, focus on foundational elements, strengthen precise prevention, fine-tuned control, and accurate strikes, and better promote high-level security and high-quality development.
Wang Xiaohong demanded upholding the leadership of the Party to ensure high-efficiency governance always advances in the correct direction; upholding the primacy of the people by adopting more forceful measures to protect the people's safety, safeguard their interests, benefit their livelihoods, warm their hearts, and resolve their concerns; upholding systematic policy implementation by carrying out proactive policing and preventive policing, strengthening systematic planning, coordinated cooperation, comprehensive response, and holistic advancement to achieve maximum governance synergy and optimal results; upholding innovation-driven development by advancing the new-quality combat capability enhancement project of public security organs and making every effort to improve the efficacy of digital-intelligence governance 数智治理 (shù zhì zhì lǐ); upholding the strengthening of foundations and consolidation of fundamentals by promoting the downward shift of focus, the downward deployment of police forces, and the downward tilt of support, turning grassroots "nerve endings" into governance "outposts"; and upholding meticulousness and pragmatism by precisely identifying and discovering problems, and carrying out fine-tuned prevention, fine-tuned control, and precise strikes.
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High-quality advancement of urban renewal is an important lever for urban modernization. General Secretary Xi Jinping, during his inspection tour in Shanghai, set forth clear requirements for properly carrying out all work related to urban renewal, emphasizing "doing it in depth, in detail, and in earnest."
The renovation of old residential communities connects on one end to the well-being of the people's livelihood, and on the other end to urban development. After more than 30 years of continuous hard work, Shanghai has historically resolved the problem of residents in old city districts "carrying chamber pots." This enlightens us: the more a matter concerns the immediate interests of the people, the more we must persevere over a long period and use meticulous "embroidery-like effort" to do it well and do it properly.
How to do it in depth, in detail, and in earnest? Adhering to asking the people about their needs, asking the people for their advice, and asking the people about the effectiveness is an important method. Think what the masses think, be urgent about what the masses are urgent about, focus on the masses' needs, customize plans with "one district, one policy," incorporate the masses' "golden ideas" and "good suggestions" into the entire renovation process, and take whether the common people are satisfied or not, whether their life is convenient or not, as the criteria for evaluation — this will surely gather a strong joint force for urban renewal.
The core of the city is the people. Doing a good job of urban renewal work aims to make the people's lives more convenient, more comfortable, and better. The timetable, task book, and roadmap for urban renewal during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period have been clarified. We must comprehensively practice the concept of people's cities, sink down to the frontline to do practical things, throw ourselves into work to ensure implementation, and promote urban development and better benefit the people with concrete actions and actual results.
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“Better to have ten defenses and nine empty than to fail in a single defense; better to hear complaints beforehand than to hear weeping afterward; better to believe it will come than to believe it will not; better to believe it will be severe than to believe it will be light.”
The recently published Study Reader on Xi Jinping’s Important Discourses on Grassroots Work Methods records that more than twenty years ago, Comrade Xi Jinping, then Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, faced frequent typhoon and flood disasters. Through in-depth research and practical combat, he distinctly put forward the important concept of the “four rathers” (四个宁可), firmly established bottom-line thinking and extreme thinking, promoted the major transformation from “passive disaster resistance” to “active disaster prevention and avoidance,” continuously consolidated the institutional system for flood and typhoon prevention and the solid fortress of grassroots disaster prevention and mitigation, and established a scientific methodology and a fundamental guideline for flood and typhoon prevention, disaster prevention and mitigation, and grassroots risk governance.
People First: The “Four Rathers” Manifest a Consistent Sentiment of Serving the People
Zhejiang is located on the southeast coast and is one of the provinces most frequently affected by typhoons in the country. Flood and typhoon prevention is not only a battle against wind and rain but also a defensive war for the people and relying on the people.
Late on the night of July 11, Typhoon Bavi, the ninth typhoon of this year, made landfall in Zhejiang, with maximum winds near the center reaching Force 13. About 12 hours before the typhoon’s arrival, Zhejiang Province fully activated the Level I emergency response for typhoon prevention. As of 19:00 that day, the province had cumulatively relocated over 2.68 million people, completely suspended classes at 12,154 primary and secondary schools and kindergartens, and halted all work at 830 construction sites under way…
The entire province resolutely implemented the important directives of General Secretary Xi Jinping on flood prevention and disaster relief work, kept in mind the requirement of the “four rathers,” seized the “time window” before the typhoon’s landfall, and conducted re-inspections, re-confirmations, and re-roll calls for key sites and locations and the relocation of key personnel, ensuring that no household was missed and no person was left behind, firmly holding the safety bottom line.
People cannot help but recall a scene from 22 years ago.
In August 2004, Typhoon Rananim, the 14th typhoon of the year, struck Zhejiang head-on. Comrade Xi Jinping, then Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, interrupted his grassroots research and rushed back overnight to the Provincial Flood and Drought Control Headquarters.
“Rather than saying ‘resist,’ the key point is ‘prevent.’ Now it is not about resisting the typhoon by standing in the eye of the wind, but about doing all preparatory work well before the typhoon arrives, mainly prevention and avoidance.” At the teleconference on defending against Typhoon Rananim held that night, Comrade Xi Jinping put forward clear requirements.
“Putting the people first, life first” has since become the unshakable fundamental orientation of Zhejiang’s flood and typhoon prevention.
In 2005, Typhoon Matsa prompted Zhejiang to relocate 1.24 million people in advance; in 2006, Typhoon Saomai relocated over 1 million people; in 2012, Typhoon Haikui relocated over 1.54 million; in 2015, Typhoon Chan-hom relocated over 1.1 million… In the many years since, guided by the important concept of the “four rathers,” Zhejiang took the lead in the country in exploring and implementing the “mass relocation” strategy. Every time a typhoon approaches, relocating people from dangerous areas in advance has become an iron discipline.
Every one of the profound connotations of the “four rathers” embodies the value orientation of “putting the people first”:
Between “ten defenses and nine empty” and “a single failure in defense,” between “hearing complaints beforehand” and “hearing weeping afterward,” the choice is made without hesitation to put the safety of the people first.
Gehai Village, Shitang Town, Wenling City, Taizhou, is surrounded by sea on all sides. Of its 172 permanent residents, 95% are left-behind elderly. Before Typhoon Bavi arrived, 81-year-old solitary elderly woman Chen Xiaohua (陈小花) guarded her own house and was reluctant to leave. Village Party Branch Secretary Huang Chenbin (黄琛彬) went to her door twice and finally helped the elderly woman down the mountain to a shelter.
“In the face of danger, there is no room for luck when it comes to the safety of the people’s lives,” Huang Chenbin said.
Grassroots governance has a thousand threads, but in the final analysis it is governance for the people. Protecting the safety of people’s lives and property is the greatest livelihood and the most fundamental bottom line.
While working in Fujian, Comrade Xi Jinping insisted on “rather ten defenses and nine empty than have preparations unused”; in Zhejiang’s flood and typhoon prevention, he repeatedly promoted the “relocation of millions of people”; while working in Shanghai, he proposed “achieving zero deaths, fewer injuries, and less loss.”
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, in the face of severe and complex flood prevention situations, General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized, “Make every effort to organize rescue and relief, treatment of the injured, and resettlement of the masses, and minimize casualties,” and “ensure the safety of people’s lives and property.”
In the face of natural disasters and risk challenges—from combating typhoons and flood disasters to responding to emergencies, from relocating the masses and rescue operations to post-disaster reconstruction and material support—our Party has always placed the safety of the people’s lives and their health first.
Bottom-Line Thinking: The “Four Rathers” Contain the Governance Wisdom of Coordinating Development and Security
Natural disasters are sudden and difficult to predict. How to respond to unknown risks? The “four rathers” provide the answer:
Proceed from the worst-case scenario, estimate difficulties more fully, think about risks more deeply, and prepare response measures more thoroughly. The core connotation is the bottom-line thinking of coordinating development and security, being vigilant in peace time, and preventing trouble before it occurs.
Security is the prerequisite for development, and development is the guarantee of security. Coordinating development and security is an important concept that General Secretary Xi Jinping has long upheld.
While working at the local level, whether at the scene of major dangers or on the front line of production operations, Comrade Xi Jinping always kept safety work and the safety of the people in mind: In Fujian, upon learning that a typhoon was about to make landfall, Comrade Xi Jinping, who was conducting research in the province, rushed back to Fuzhou overnight and went straight to the flood control headquarters, working with the staff to study and deploy work until dawn; in Zhejiang, on the eve of the Spring Festival, he descended into a mine nearly a kilometer deep to visit workers, urging “be sure to cherish the life of every miner, let everyone go down the mine happily and return home safely”; in Shanghai, when investigating the flood control department, he pointed out: “In flood and typhoon prevention work, adhere to prevention as the main approach and grasp the initiative”…
The “four rathers” embody a distinct governance logic of “safety redundancy,” highly consistent with the principle of “prevention first, combining prevention, resistance, and relief” in modern emergency management, and are in the same line as the requirement in the holistic approach to national security that “safe development runs through all fields and the entire process of national development.”
Adhering to bottom-line thinking requires preparing for a rainy day and preventing problems before they occur.
Over the years, under the guidance of the important concept of the “four rathers,” Zhejiang Province has accumulated multifaceted experience in combination with flood prevention and disaster reduction practice:
Based on data from 126,000 important risk points and real-time monitoring information from departments, a “five-color map” of risk warnings has been drawn; focusing on key areas such as personnel evacuation and shelter, small-watershed flash floods, and geological disasters, an “eight-risk checklist” has been formed; integrating mechanisms such as early-warning call-and-response and emergency response linkage, the “1833” joint command system for flood and typhoon prevention has been created; water conservancy infrastructure projects such as the “Thousand-Reservoir Safety” (千库保安), “Strengthen Dikes and Consolidate Houses” (强塘固房), “Five Water Co-governance” (五水共治), and “Hundred Projects, Trillions of Investment” (百项千亿) have been successively carried out…
To do a good job in risk prevention and control, the key is to improve the emergency decision-making and command mechanism.
From July to October 2005, Zhejiang was successively hit by five strong typhoons—Haitang, Matsa, Talim, Khanun, and Longwang—a frequency, wind intensity, rainfall volume, and scope of impact rarely seen in history.
Comrade Xi Jinping personally promoted the establishment of a flood and typhoon prevention consultation and decision-making mechanism led by leaders, with expert participation and departmental linkage, emphasizing that “we must coordinate resources from all sides and make scientific judgments and deployments.”
During the defense against typhoons, Comrade Xi Jinping repeatedly held consultation meetings late at night, bringing together experts from meteorology, water conservancy, emergency management, and other fields to accurately analyze typhoon paths, intensity changes, and impact ranges, scientifically formulate prevention and control plans, make precise deployments, and implement an emergency command model of “provincial leaders directly connecting with city and county front-line commands.”
Coordinating development and security requires reshaping concepts and implementing responsibilities.
During his work in Zhejiang, Comrade Xi Jinping grasped development in one hand and safety in the other. In response to the intertwined situation of heavy reform and development tasks and numerous conflicts and disputes at the grassroots level at that time, Comrade Xi Jinping pointed out: “Promoting economic development is a political achievement; maintaining social harmony and stability is equally a political achievement.”
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has thought long-term about coordinating development and security and has made a series of major deployments. The “15th Five-Year Plan” outline proposes “integrally enhancing disaster reduction prevention, disaster resistance fortification, and disaster relief support capabilities.” Not long ago, the “15th Five-Year Plan for the Construction of a Modern Emergency System” was issued, providing a “construction guide” for the modern emergency system during the 15th Five-Year Plan period.
Consolidating the foundation of “prevention,” enhancing the effect of “mitigation,” and improving the capacity for “relief”—since the new era, the large-country emergency system with Chinese characteristics has been advanced in a coordinated manner, continuously weaving a solid safety net for disaster security.
Practical Responsibility: The “Four Rathers” Guide a Pragmatic and Capable Grassroots Governance Style
“Woo—woo—woo!” Late on the 11th, Typhoon Bavi, carrying violent winds and torrential rain, fiercely pounded the doors and windows of the Yueqing City Civic Activity Center in Wenzhou, Zhejiang.
As the largest typhoon shelter in Yueqing, outdoors the wind and rain raged, but indoors the lights were bright and the sheltered masses were orderly. Along the coast of Zhejiang, there are more than 19,000 such “ever-burning lamp” shelter sites.
To cope with this ferocious typhoon, grassroots Party members and cadres in Zhejiang worked busily through the night, jointly building a solid line of defense to protect the safety of the masses and striving to win this battle of flood and typhoon prevention.
Disaster prevention and relief depend on the grassroots.
On July 26, 2005, at a briefing on typhoon resistance and disaster relief in Wenzhou City, Comrade Xi Jinping emphasized: “The foundation of typhoon prevention and resistance work lies at the grassroots level, and the main body is the masses. In particular, how townships and villages give full play to the role of organizations, effectively achieving ‘townships fight their own battles, villages fight their own battles,’ and at critical moments being able to mobilize and organize the masses.”
From that time on, Zhejiang has insisted on vigorously strengthening the grassroots, consolidating the foundation, and under the leadership of grassroots Party organizations, continuously improved the grassroots disaster prevention work system, promoted the establishment of independent and complete flood and typhoon prevention command systems at the township level, equipped with prevention and control forces, stocked sufficient emergency supplies, refined emergency plans, and autonomously carried out hazard investigation, personnel relocation, and danger handling; at the village level, grid management was fully implemented, with natural villages and villagers’ groups as grid units, clarifying grid responsible persons, relocation liaison officers, and evacuation guides, ensuring early detection of risks, early relocation of personnel, and early handling of dangers.
In the face of the great test of wind and rain, only a rigorous style, solid measures, and pragmatic actions can build an indestructible safety embankment.
Since the start of this year’s flood season, extreme weather has occurred frequently in China, with obvious north-south rain belts, and the flood prevention situation is severe and complex.
The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core attaches great importance to flood prevention, typhoon resistance, and disaster relief work. On June 30, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee to study and deploy flood prevention and drought relief work. In response to disasters in Guangxi, Hubei, Gansu, and other places, General Secretary Xi Jinping recently made important instructions.
“All localities and relevant departments should implement the established deployments and measures, resolutely overcome paralytic thinking and侥幸心理 (jiǎoxìng xīnlǐ - “luck mentality,” wishful thinking)”, “tighten and consolidate disaster prevention and relief responsibilities, deeply carry out risk hazard investigation and rectification in rivers and lakes, dangerous reservoirs, geological disaster-prone areas, etc.”, “strengthen monitoring, early warning, and emergency rescue preparations, solidly carry out all disaster prevention and relief work, and ensure the safety of people’s lives and property”…
Grasping implementation, consolidating responsibilities, doing solid work… One word “solid” (实) has become the core requirement for doing a good job in flood prevention, typhoon resistance, and disaster relief.
To grasp implementation, one must have a sense of responsibility that is “always concerned and unable to let go.”
“I have always been concerned about the disaster-stricken masses” interprets General Secretary Xi Jinping’s sentiment of “I will serve the people selflessly, living up to the people’s trust.”
At present, all localities and departments, based on preparing for major floods and strong typhoons, are fully consolidating political responsibilities, consolidating the main responsibilities of local Party committees and governments and the regulatory responsibilities of industry departments, consolidating the first-responsibility responsibility of the main responsible persons of relevant enterprises and institutions for flood safety, and grassroots Party organizations and the vast number of Party members and cadres are giving full play to their role as battle fortresses and vanguard models, bravely shouldering heavy burdens and charging ahead on the front line of flood prevention, drought relief, rescue, and disaster relief.
To grasp implementation, one must have the action power of “having a clear picture in mind for everything.”
In August 2020, when inspecting the Mengwa flood storage area in Anhui Province, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that in building a modern socialist country in an all-round way, we must improve our ability to resist disasters and reach a modern level in resisting natural disasters.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China has continuously improved the river basin defense system, strengthened forecasting, early warning, pre-drills, and pre-plan measures, and achieved an overall leap in flood and drought disaster prevention capabilities.
Facing the severe and complex flood prevention and resistance situation, all localities and departments, based on moving the threshold forward and prevention first, continuously improve emergency plans, enhance forecasting and early warning capabilities, strengthen the linkage between early warning and response, give full play to the disaster prevention and mitigation role of the flood control engineering system, and ensure timely and efficient handling of dangers and disasters.
The more the wind and waves, the more the pillar stands firm; the more the raging waves, the more the courageous and responsible.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “Disaster prevention, mitigation, and relief concern the safety of people’s lives and property and social harmony and stability. It is an important aspect for measuring the leadership of the ruling party, testing the execution of the government, judging the mobilization capacity of the state, and reflecting the cohesion of the nation.”
Establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements ultimately means adhering to putting the people first.
At present, the flood prevention situation is severe and complex, and disaster prevention and relief work is arduous and heavy. Party committees and governments at all levels and the vast number of Party members and cadres, through deeply studying and comprehending the concept of the “four rathers,” adhering to the original aspiration of serving the people, consolidating bottom-line thinking, and tempering a pragmatic style, doing risk prevention and control in advance, implementing livelihood services in detail, and shouldering governance responsibilities to the full, will surely deliver a satisfactory answer to the Party and the people amid the baptism of wind and rain.
(Xinhua, Hangzhou, July 15)
Return to TopCurrently, artificial intelligence technology is accelerating its iterative evolution, profoundly changing human production and life and reshaping the global industrial landscape. In the midst of this wave, China is using innovation to drive its own leapfrog development and actively participating in global AI governance with inclusiveness and universal benefit, attracting an increasing number of foreign journalists to observe its practical achievements and explore its successful experiences. In their view, China consistently adheres to a people-centered approach and AI for good, striving to make the outcomes of intelligent technology benefit people of all countries more and more fairly, injecting strong momentum into global AI development.
“AI+ (人工智能+)” empowers thousands of industries
On the streets of Guiyang, Guizhou, several round, tech-heavy “Potato Buses” shuttle back and forth—no steering wheel, driverless. This scene greatly impressed Talita dos Santos, editor-in-chief of Brazil’s Workers’ Television. “It’s incredible! It looks like the future world,” she said excitedly, filming with her phone and sharing the ride experience with Brazilian viewers in her report. “This car relies on intelligent recognition and other technologies to achieve safe driving, bringing an advanced and convenient new experience to local residents and tourists.”
From Guizhou, Jiangxi to Ningxia, intelligent mining in mines, AI-powered follow-up visits in hospitals, and technology empowering the development of ethnic minority characteristic embroidery industries... Along the way, many people-centered application scenarios touched dos Santos deeply. “In China, AI technology and its achievements have been widely applied, truly achieving technology grounded in people’s livelihoods and bringing benefits to the people.”
Furqan Rao, Secretary-General of the Islamabad National Press Club in Pakistan, has visited China many times for interviews. He said that “Ask AI when in doubt” has become part of Chinese people’s daily life; in factory workshops, unmanned production lines and human-machine collaboration have become a “trend,” with AI greatly improving production quality and efficiency; in the fields, driverless agricultural machinery has changed the hardship of traditional farming. Rao exclaimed that the large-scale application of AI, along with the large number of technological innovation enterprises that 应运而生 (yìng yùn ér shēng – “arise in response to the times,” emerge at the right moment), demonstrates China’s innovation vitality and potential. “In the field of AI, China is undoubtedly a pioneer of the times.”
“The biggest feeling I have from interviewing in China is that AI has moved from the laboratory to thousands of industries, continuously releasing innovation efficiency and becoming an important force driving China’s high-quality development,” said Sovanna, Director of the News Department of Cambodia’s Apsara Television. At Huawei, he saw the deep integration of AI with cloud computing, big data and other digital technologies, providing intelligent solutions for manufacturing, transportation, finance and other industries, constantly improving production efficiency and management levels; at China Southern Power Grid (南方电网), he learned that the Chinese side uses intelligent algorithms to enhance the safety, stability and operational efficiency of the power system, while providing important technical support for the large-scale integration of clean energy such as wind and solar into the grid. “China develops AI to serve the real economy and empower green development, which reflects the long-term vision of valuing sustainable development,” Sovanna said.
“China insists on being problem-oriented, allowing AI technology to serve people’s livelihoods and public governance,” said Dilbert Reyes, deputy editor-in-chief of Cuba’s Granma newspaper. He cited examples: AI helps precision irrigation in agriculture, saving water and increasing efficiency; scenic area management departments optimize resource allocation and enhance visitor experience through big data analysis of tourist demand trends.
Innovation ecosystem stimulates deep momentum
In 2025, China’s AI core industry scale exceeded 1.2 trillion yuan, with more than 6,200 enterprises; a total of 42 ten-thousand-card-level intelligent computing clusters have been built, and the number of generative AI users exceeded 600 million; the cumulative downloads of domestic open-source large models ranked first globally, and China became the world’s largest holder of AI patents, accounting for 60% of the global total...
“China has a vibrant and highly resilient AI innovation ecosystem,” said Maxime Deschamps, editor-in-chief of Belgium’s Deschamps magazine. He stated that China’s huge domestic market, massive user base, and healthy and orderly competition drive enterprises to continuously expand technological boundaries and achieve innovation iteration.
Ponteeva, a reporter from Thailand’s National Television, believes that the key to China’s rapid AI development comes not only from technological breakthroughs but also from an open, collaborative, innovative and vibrant industrial development ecosystem. She said, from basic research to achievement transformation, and then to rich application scenarios continuously feeding back technology upgrades, “various innovation entities in China collaborate closely to form a virtuous cycle of mutual promotion among technology R&D, industrial application, and market demand.”
“China is gradually building a self-developed AI development path with its own characteristics,” said Choi Hyeon-gyu, head of the China headquarters of Korea’s NewsPim News Agency. He stated that China’s rapid AI development benefits from two core driving forces: first, the government’s strong policy support, including improving relevant regulations and laying out a multi-level computing power system; second, local enterprises accelerating the construction of an autonomous and controllable industrial chain and domestic value chain, effectively promoting technology implementation and industrial upgrading.
Serik Korzhumbayev, editor-in-chief of Kazakhstan’s Delovoy newspaper, said that the rapid development of AI has greatly enhanced humanity’s ability to understand and transform the world, but also led to the widening of the digital divide, intelligence divide, development divide, and governance divide. “All countries need to join hands, strengthen communication and coordination, deepen international cooperation, and jointly explore the rule framework and cooperation mechanism for global AI governance. The 2026 World AI Conference and High-Level Meeting on AI Global Governance (2026世界人工智能大会暨人工智能全球治理高级别会议) to be held in China is of great significance, providing a valuable platform for all parties to build consensus on governance.”
Concepts and actions jointly promote AI for good
AI development is both a major opportunity for all countries and a major global challenge. As the pace of technological iteration constantly refreshes the boundaries of human cognition, how to ensure that AI always works for good and benefits all of humanity has become a topic of the times that the international community faces together.
“China has always placed equal emphasis on AI development and governance, setting an example for most countries in the world,” Rao said. The popularization of AI is an important direction for the development of human society, and actively embracing this trend is 大势所趋 (dà shì suǒ qū – “the trend of the times,” an inevitable trend). The key is to ensure that governance keeps pace with the speed of technological development. China has proposed the “AI Capacity Building for Universal Benefit Plan” (人工智能能力建设普惠计划), the “AI Global Governance Action Plan” (人工智能全球治理行动计划), and the “AI+ International Cooperation Initiative” (人工智能+国际合作倡议), and is promoting their transformation from conceptual consensus to practical cooperation, “providing not only institutional guarantees for the vigorous development of China’s AI industry but also contributing Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to global AI governance.”
Choi Hyeon-gyu said that China practices true multilateralism and promotes the construction of a widely-participated, jointly-beneficial global AI governance system. At the same time, China is actively helping developing countries share in the fruits of AI development. “China is committed to bridging the intelligence divide and promoting the establishment of a safe and reliable AI standard system, becoming an important leader in global AI governance,” Choi said.
Reyes said that AI is a common wealth of all humanity. While helping Global South countries strengthen capacity building through practical cooperation, China has also put forward a series of specific propositions and suggestions regarding the potential risks of AI technology development, demonstrating the responsibility and sense of duty of a major country.
“China advocates equal emphasis on development and security, and the parallel pursuit of open cooperation and fair universal benefit, striving to promote AI as a public good for common global development, which is highly consistent with the common expectations of developing countries,” said Ponteeva. More and more Chinese enterprises, through digital infrastructure construction, talent training, and technical cooperation, are sharing digital development experiences with Southeast Asian countries and helping them improve their AI application capabilities. “China is not only an important participant in global AI innovation, but also, with its open and inclusive concepts and practical cooperation, makes positive contributions to improving the global AI governance system and benefiting humanity,” Ponteeva said.
“China enables more countries to share the fruits of AI development through international cooperation,” said Ayanda Hlolo, head of BRICS TV Africa Channel. He cited an example: China applied AI technology to intelligent inspection, equipment monitoring, and operational management of South Africa’s railway system, which not only improved railway operation efficiency and safety levels but also provided new solutions for the digital transformation of South Africa’s infrastructure. China’s initiatives and practical actions in AI development and governance are inspiring. He looks forward to further deepening digital technology cooperation between Africa and China in the future, letting AI better benefit the Global South and promote common development.
(Beijing, Bangkok, Rio de Janeiro, Islamabad, Mexico City, Brussels, Seoul, Astana, Johannesburg, July 15 dispatch — Reporters Chen Shangwen (陈尚文), Bai Yuanqi (白元琪), Shi Yuanhao (时元皓), Zhao Yipu (赵益普), Wang Xiaobo (王骁波), Niu Ruifei (牛瑞飞), Wang Siyuan (汪思源), Li Qiang (李强), Dai Kairan (戴楷然))
Return to TopOur newspaper, Shanghai, July 15 (Reporter Shen Wenmin) — The 2026 World AI Conference and High-Level Meeting on AI Global Governance will open in Shanghai on the 17th. This year’s conference, themed “Intelligent Partners, Co-creating the Future,” is structured around six major sections: forum sessions, exhibitions and displays, awards and competitions, application experiences, innovation incubation, and talent recruitment and attraction.
The conference has planned over 140 forums, bringing together more than 1,400 Chinese and international guests. Numerous top global scientists will engage in in-depth discussions on cutting-edge topics such as world models, agents, and AI governance.
The total exhibition area exceeds 100,000 square meters for the first time. Over 1,100 enterprises are participating, displaying more than 3,000 exhibits, of which over 300 products will make their global debut. The two major tracks of intelligent computing and embodied intelligence gather more than 200 enterprises, with multiple new products making a collective appearance. The conference continues to improve its competition matrix; in addition to traditional events such as the Youth Outstanding Paper Award, new competitions such as the Youth Investment Leader List have been added, building a multi-tiered talent cultivation platform and focusing on tapping into the innovative potential of young people.
Beyond the professional sections, the conference creates a full-cycle empowerment ecosystem and an immersive city experience. It constructs a closed-loop full-service process to promote the implementation of industrial scenarios and precise capital matching, having already reached 16.2 billion yuan in intended cooperation. At the same time, a city walk activity is launched, with six themed check-in routes, paired with diverse activities such as robot interaction, AI music creation, brain-computer experiences, and evening events, creating a city-wide interactive experience season that allows citizens and tourists to experience the charm of AI up close.
At this conference, China will release the “China’s Wisdom Benefits the World” case collection (《中国智·惠世界》案例集) and the “AI Cooperation and Development Action Plan” (《人工智能合作发展行动计划》), promoting the inclusive sharing of AI and assisting the digital transformation of Global South countries. The conference has invited high-level representatives from multiple countries to participate, conduct multilateral dialogues, implement the consensus on AI global governance, and promote the building of a people-centered, AI for good (智能向善), fair and inclusive (公平普惠) global AI governance system.
Serving both as a window for showcasing cutting-edge technology and a platform for all parties to strengthen dialogue and exchange, the conference will continue to practice the concept of openness and cooperation, balancing industrial development, technological innovation, and security governance, helping Shanghai accelerate its construction into a global AI innovation highland, and promoting AI to better benefit all of humanity.
This year’s conference is jointly hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, the Cyberspace Administration of China, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the China Association for Science and Technology, and the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government.
Return to TopAstana, July 15 (People's Daily) — (Reporters Qu Song (曲颂), Li Qiang (李强)) A promotion event for Volume V of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China was held in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, on the 15th.
Attending guests believe that Volume V of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China comprehensively and systematically reflects the latest achievements of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, providing an authoritative reading for the international community to understand Chinese-style modernization and grasp contemporary China. China and Kazakhstan are fellow travelers on the path of modernization. The two countries' in-depth exchange of governance experience centered around President Xi Jinping's important works is of great significance for promoting the building of a China-Kazakhstan community with a shared future.
Yernur Besenbaev, Director of the Department of Internal Policy of the Presidential Administration of Kazakhstan, stated that the promotion event for Volume V of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China is a new milestone in the exchange and mutual learning of civilizations between Kazakhstan and China. Kazakhstan is carrying out a series of economic and social reforms, accelerating modernization based on its own national conditions, and the two countries have many similarities in the process of advancing toward modernization. The governance philosophy and development strategies contained in President Xi Jinping's work are extremely precious to Kazakhstan.
Askar Umarov, Director of the Central Communications Service of the President of Kazakhstan, said in his address that over the past few decades, China has achieved great accomplishments that have attracted worldwide attention in fields such as the economy, science and technology, culture, rule of law, and diplomacy. The experience gained therein is worthy of in-depth study and extensive reference by Kazakhstan. Volume V of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China reflects the key directions of contemporary China's development. The more deeply we understand China's development logic and long-term goals, the more substantive the exchanges and cooperation between Kazakhstan and China will be.
Gulnar Shaymergenova, Director of the China Studies Center of Kazakhstan, stated that as changes in the world accelerate, China has always been an important engine of global economic growth and a key force for maintaining international stability. President Xi Jinping's works have been translated into dozens of languages and have received widespread attention around the world. President Xi Jinping's thoughts and concepts have made important contributions to building global consensus and solving world development challenges.
During the event, the Chinese side presented the Kazakh language edition of Volume IV and the Russian language edition of Volume V of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China to Kazakh guests. Representatives from think tanks, enterprises, and universities of China and Kazakhstan shared vivid stories of benefiting local people through practical cooperation. Attending experts engaged in exchanges and discussions on topics such as the China-Kazakhstan community with a shared future and the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative.
This event was co-hosted by the State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China (国务院新闻办公室), the China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration (中国外文局), and the Chinese Embassy in Kazakhstan. More than 200 guests and representatives from publishing, media, think tanks, universities, and enterprises from China and Kazakhstan attended the event.
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The 12th Europe Forum Brussels session of the China Europe International Business School (中欧国际工商学院) was recently held simultaneously in Brussels, Belgium and Shanghai, China. On the large screen at the venue, Brussels and Shanghai were connected in real time. Representatives from Chinese and European political, business, academic, and technology circles engaged in discussions around the theme of “Competition-Cooperation Symbiosis: Opportunities for Cooperation in China-EU Artificial Intelligence Development.” Participants generally believed that strengthening China-EU AI cooperation would not only help both sides enhance their innovation capabilities and industrial competitiveness, but also help promote the healthy, safe, and orderly development of AI.
Andrea Renda, Research Director of the Centre for European Policy Studies, believes that the current global AI competition is moving beyond large language models, extending into fields such as industrial applications, embodied intelligence, infrastructure, and energy efficiency. China excels in large-scale application, engineering, and cost control, while Europe has a strong foundation in scientific research, professional talent, and regulatory governance. The two sides have broad space for cooperation.
Song Haitao (宋海涛), President of the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (上海人工智能研究院), believes that China has accumulated practical experience in trustworthy, safe, and cost-controllable large-scale AI applications, while Europe has prominent advantages in rules, standards, testing, and risk assessment. The two sides can promote the alignment of technical standards, mutual recognition of testing systems, and coordination of industrial chains through industry-university-research cooperation.
Li Binjie (李斌杰), Senior Vice President of Unitree Technology (宇树科技), stated that for robots to move from technical prototypes to large-scale application, they need the joint support of market demand, supply chain, cost control, and real-world scenarios. China’s manufacturing system and diverse application demands provide favorable conditions for rapid iteration of robots; Europe’s experience in industrial standards, safety regulations, and precision manufacturing can help related technologies improve reliability and applicability.
AI transcends national borders, and issues such as algorithmic safety, data use, intellectual property, privacy protection, and attribution of responsibility are also becoming increasingly global. Eric Cornuel, Global President of the European Foundation for Management Development, stated that while AI brings opportunities for innovation, productivity improvement, and economic growth, it also raises issues of governance, responsibility, and trust. “Technology development may be 日新月异 (rì xīn yuè yì - “daily new, monthly different,” changing rapidly), but the choices that determine its impact must ultimately be borne by people.”
Charles Michel, former President of the European Council, former Prime Minister of Belgium, and Distinguished Professor at CEIBS, believes that AI concerns economic competition, national security, sovereignty, and global governance. All parties should engage in “responsible cooperation” in the AI field, through dialogue, multilateral mechanisms, and enhanced mutual trust, so that AI can better serve economic and social development, rather than exacerbating division and inequality.
Cai Run (蔡润), Head of the Chinese Mission to the European Union, stated that this year is the starting year of the second 50 years of China-EU relations. China and the EU, as two major forces promoting multipolarity, two major markets supporting economic globalization, and two major civilizations advocating cultural diversity, have cooperation far greater than competition, and consensus far greater than differences. The two sides are partners, not rivals. China-EU economic and trade cooperation is large in scale and broad in scope; it is not surprising that differences and frictions arise. The key is to properly resolve issues through dialogue and consultation, providing a more stable, positive, and predictable development environment for enterprises of both sides. China and the EU must adhere to the main theme of cooperation. The two sides can complement each other’s advantages and leverage their respective strengths in the AI field to jointly promote AI development.
Gwen Sonck, Executive Director of the EU-China Trade Association, stated that despite the current rise in geopolitical uncertainty, Europe and China still have strong complementarity in terms of markets, industrial capabilities, and innovation ecosystems. China is an important market and innovation center for European enterprises. The deep participation of European enterprises in the Chinese market is of great significance for maintaining their global competitiveness.
Liang Linlin (梁淋淋), Director of Communication and Research at the China Chamber of Commerce to the EU (欧盟中国商会), stated that Chinese enterprises value the European market and are optimistic about the prospects of China-EU cooperation. Many enterprises are willing to engage in long-term cultivation in Europe and participate in local industrial development and innovation cooperation.
“What we truly need is unity and trust,” said Pu Fangke (濮方可), Co-Dean (European side) of CEIBS. The real question is not whether competition will continue, but whether competition can be transformed into constructive exchange and cooperation.
Participants generally believed that China and the EU can conduct dialogue on issues such as product safety, algorithm testing, data quality, risk assessment, and responsibility mechanisms, promoting the formation of more open, compatible, and actionable technical standards. The two sides can also strengthen communication on international multilateral platforms to contribute more to improving global AI governance.
(This newspaper’s Brussels dispatch)
Tearing off the disguise of the United States and other countries in the South China Sea issue and the global maritime domain, what is exposed is nothing but the calculation of “use when it suits, discard when it does not.” The peace and stability of the South China Sea do not need extra-regional countries to repeatedly create political topics, and even less do they need to promote bloc confrontation in the name of international law.
On July 12, the United States, the Philippines, and a few other countries issued a so-called joint statement “commemorating the tenth anniversary of the South China Sea arbitration case ruling,” under the names of “international law,” “peaceful settlement of disputes,” and “rules-based,” openly speaking up for the illegal “ruling” and attacking and denouncing China’s South China Sea policy and legitimate claims. Tearing off the disguise of the United States and other countries in the South China Sea issue and the global maritime domain, what is exposed is nothing but the calculation of “use when it suits, discard when it does not”: on one hand, loudly proclaiming peace and rule of law, while on the other hand, fanning flames and passing knives, destroying rules; on one hand, accusing other countries of “unilateral actions” and “coercion and bullying,” while on the other hand, placing domestic law above international law and wantonly imposing sanctions on other countries. This statement is like a mirror, reflecting the serious double standards of the United States and other countries, where they are 表里不一 (biǎo lǐ bù yī – “outside and inside not one,” saying one thing and doing another).
— Speaking of “peaceful settlement” with their mouths, but practicing “gunboat diplomacy” with their hands.
The United States and other countries in the declaration preach that maritime disputes must be “resolved through peaceful means,” but in reality they pursue “gunboat diplomacy.” In the South China Sea, when neighboring countries of the South China Sea continue to promote the resolution of differences through peaceful means such as dialogue and consultation, the United States, however, joins with extra-regional countries such as Japan and Australia to strengthen military deployments, 横冲直撞 (héng chōng zhí zhuàng – “dash about recklessly, charge recklessly”) and 煽风点火 (shān fēng diǎn huǒ – “fan the flames, stir up trouble”). This practice is the main challenge facing the stability of the current situation in the South China Sea.
The South China Sea is not a testing ground for extra-regional countries to display military power. The United States deliberately stirs up China’s relations with countries within the region, from supporting the Philippines in carrying out the so-called “South China Sea arbitration,” to roping in regional countries to conduct large-scale joint military exercises, to pressuring relevant countries in the region to “choose sides,” sowing discord and undermining normal regional cooperation. Does such a practice reduce differences and maintain peace, or does it escalate tensions and increase risks? The international community sees this very clearly.
— Under the guise of “abiding by the rule of law,” engaging in “judicial double standards.”
The statement emphasizes that the “ruling” has “finality, legal binding force, and decisive significance,” yet from the initiation of the procedure, jurisdiction, to the substantive conclusions, this “ruling” is untenable from beginning to end. It is just an illegal and invalid scrap of paper, a concentrated exposure of the United States’ judicial double standards of “use when it suits, discard when it does not.”
In 2013, when the government of Benigno Aquino III of the Philippines unilaterally initiated the “South China Sea arbitration case,” the United States was manipulating behind the scenes. American lawyer Paul Reichler participated in planning the “South China Sea arbitration case,” and some senior officials of the U.S. government also supported the Philippines in filing the “arbitration.” A columnist for the Philippines’ Manila Standard stated bluntly that Aquino III, who originally initiated the arbitration case, actively followed the U.S. so-called “Asia-Pacific rebalancing” policy, misleading the Philippine people and inciting hostility toward neighboring countries. On the South China Sea issue, “the Filipinos are 火中取栗 (huǒ zhōng qǔ lì – “pull chestnuts out of the fire,” to be a cat’s paw) for the United States.” A country that regards international judicial institutions as tools to safeguard its own interests now holds an illegal “ruling” and demands that China “abide by” and “implement” it—this is a mockery of international law.
— Using “unilateral” as an excuse to practice “bullying.”
The statement vehemently opposes “unilateral actions” in the region, but this is precisely a portrayal of the United States’ own conduct. China carries out rights protection and law enforcement actions in the South China Sea strictly in accordance with international law and domestic law, and has never undermined peace and stability in the South China Sea. In contrast, the United States, which is still not a state party to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), has long promoted the so-called “freedom of navigation program,” challenging the legitimate maritime rights and interests of other countries through unilateral military actions.
To maintain its maritime hegemony, the United States has created the concept of “international waters,” forcibly including contiguous zones and exclusive economic zones into it, implementing “absolute freedom” equivalent to the high seas. U.S. military ships and aircraft brazenly intrude into other countries’ internal waters and territorial seas, conducting close-in reconnaissance and 耀武扬威 (yào wǔ yáng wēi – “flaunt one’s strength, parade one’s power”), and carrying out military surveys, intelligence collection, and targeted exercises in other countries’ exclusive economic zones, seriously threatening the national security of coastal states. A country that abuses unilateral military means to undermine regional stability falsely accuses China of carrying out rights protection and law enforcement in its own maritime areas under its jurisdiction as “unilateral actions”—its hegemonic logic and double standards are 昭然若揭 (zhāo rán ruò jiē – “clear as if exposed, abundantly clear”).
— Peddling “international rules,” manipulating “America First.”
The statement once again boasts about a “rules-based Indo-Pacific order,” but the so-called “rules-based order” of the United States is nothing more than an “order based on rules beneficial to the United States.” The United States has long regarded itself as the interpreter and umpire of the Convention. When it needs to use the Convention, it declares that its rules have constituted customary international law; when the Convention imposes constraints on it, it evades responsibilities and obligations by claiming non-party status.
In the development of deep-sea resources, the essence of destroying rules under the guise of rules is 暴露无遗 (bào lù wú yí – “exposed completely, laid bare”). On one hand, the United States uses the Convention to obtain benefits, supporting its domestic commercial mining companies to strengthen the development of deep-sea minerals in the maritime areas under the jurisdiction of Pacific island countries, and encouraging relevant countries to sue the International Seabed Authority before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea; on the other hand, it uses domestic law to open a separate unilateral channel, accelerating the approval of unilateral exploration and exploitation of deep-sea minerals. This is a typical case of wanting to enjoy the institutional dividends of the Convention while openly violating the “common heritage of mankind principle” and refusing to undertake international obligations. The Secretary-General of the International Seabed Authority stated that the United States, bypassing the Convention and the International Seabed Authority, has unauthorizedly authorized exploration and development activities of international seabed resources, which is an illegal act violating international law.
— Claiming to be “environmental guardians,” but in reality being “environmental destroyers.”
In recent years, the United States and other countries have continuously played up the so-called “China is a marine environment destroyer.” Some U.S. politicians claim to be “environmental guardians,” touting the United States as a “leader” in the field of environmental protection. In fact, the United States itself is the destroyer of the marine ecological environment. The United States has deployed large numbers of military sonar systems in the Pacific Ocean, and has long conducted underwater explosions and sonar training, causing enormous harm to marine life. The U.S. Navy’s 2026 environmental assessment showed that sonar and explosive training in the waters of Hawaii alone has caused more than 3 million instances of harm to marine mammals.
In August 2023, the Japanese government, ignoring strong doubts and opposition from the international community, unilaterally started the discharge of nuclear-contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the sea. As of now, it has carried out more than 20 discharges of nuclear-contaminated water. Faced with this long-term, large-scale marine environmental risk, the United States and other countries expressed support. This further proves that the United States and other countries are not based on genuine protection of the marine ecology on marine environmental issues, but rather a typical case of “ecological double standards.”
Facts have repeatedly proven that the peace and stability of the South China Sea do not need extra-regional countries to repeatedly create political topics, and even less do they need to promote bloc confrontation in the name of international law. Truly upholding international rule of law should start with breaking “double standards”; truly maintaining regional peace should start with respecting facts and respecting the legitimate rights and interests of other countries. We advise the United States and other extra-regional countries to earnestly respect China’s territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests, stop stirring up trouble, and stop undermining maritime peace and stability.
Return to TopAhead of the 15th of July, Xinhua News Agency, Beijing. Recently, the Office of the Central-level Special Work Mechanism for Rectifying Formalism and Reducing Burdens at the Grassroots, jointly with the General Office of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, issued a circular通报 on three typical problems of rectifying formalism and reducing burdens at the grassroots. The details are as follows:
1. The cities of Zhangzhou and Nanping in Fujian Province have been ineffective in rectifying statistical fraud, and the problem of data fraud in some counties, cities, and districts remains relatively prominent. Statistical inspections have found that in 2025, some counties, cities, and districts in Zhangzhou and Nanping used methods such as instructing numbers to be reported, filling in and reporting on behalf of others, and packaging fraudulent projects to interfere with statistical work. Some distributed "guidance numbers" in envelopes point-to-point, some fabricated false approval documents to "green-light" the entry of fraudulent projects into the database, and some directly filled in and reported enterprise data on their behalf. In the first half of 2026, after the National Bureau of Statistics反馈ed (provided feedback) to Zhangzhou and Nanping on the existence of statistical fraud in Longhai District, Jian'ou City, and Shunchang County, they still rated their 2025 assessment results as "excellent." After the Central-level Special Work Mechanism for Rectifying Formalism and Reducing Burdens at the Grassroots made arrangements to rectify statistical fraud, the falsification rate of the total industrial output value of enterprises above designated size in Changtai District of Zhangzhou from January to May 2026 was still as high as 28.28%. Some semi-stopped enterprises were required to report that total industrial output value could not be lower than the same period of the previous year, and some enterprises falsely reported total industrial output value after being interfered with.
2. The China Traditional Chinese Medicine News Co., Ltd. (中国中医药报社有限公司), being eager for quick success and instant benefits, blindly decided to build a "smart media" system and film a health variety show, resulting in losses of state-owned assets. From 2018 to 2022, the leadership team of China Traditional Chinese Medicine News Co., Ltd. deviated from reality, violated regulations, and expanded projects. In February 2020, without sufficient demonstration and collective decision-making, and when the existing information system basically met work needs, the newspaper invested 14.632 million yuan to build a new generation "smart media" system. The new system has now been discontinued because the blockchain evidence-storage module seriously deviated from reality and had major security vulnerabilities. In June of the same year, the newspaper filmed a health variety show without collective decision-making, involving 8.8907 million yuan in funds, with cumulative revenue of only 8,600 yuan. From 2018 to 2022, the newspaper incurred cumulative economic losses of over 74 million yuan due to a series of violations such as blindly launching projects.
3. The China Enterprise Confederation (中国企业联合会) illegally co-hosted annual meetings and forums with local governments and repeatedly charged illegal fees. In recent years, the China Enterprise Confederation violated relevant management regulations on forums held by social organizations, co-hosted annual meeting activities with local governments, and repeatedly charged illegal fees at the forums it held, involving a large amount of money. In 2024, the China Enterprise Confederation illegally co-hosted the 30th National Entrepreneurs Activity Day and China Entrepreneurs Annual Conference with a local government. In addition to requiring the local government to provide meeting venues and conference services, it also charged 4 million yuan in cooperation fees. From 2024 to 2025, the China Enterprise Confederation illegally collected 13.48 million yuan in brand promotion fees and high conference fees at 10 forums it sponsored or hosted.
Among the above problems, some localities have been ineffective in rectifying statistical fraud, only assessing without verification, punishing without rewards, leading to the problem of fraud being corrected even as it recurs, repeatedly prohibited; some state-owned enterprises have deviations in their view of political performance, pursuing "digital innovation" and "business transformation" regardless of reality, resulting in waste of funds and resources; some social organizations deviate from their service purpose, treating the holding of festivals, exhibitions, and forums as "treasure bowls" and "cash cows," increasing the burden on localities and enterprises, exposing that the Party organizations of some localities, state-owned enterprises, and social organizations are not yet fulfilling their primary responsibility for comprehensive strict Party governance, and are not strict or solid in implementing the relevant requirements for rectifying formalism and reducing burdens at the grassroots and the "Six Rectifications" (六个纠治 - "six rectifications").
All regions and departments must fully implement Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, deepen the study and education on establishing and practicing a correct view of political performance, continuously strengthen ideological understanding, firmly shoulder the primary responsibility, resolutely fight the tough and protracted battle of rectifying formalism and reducing burdens at the grassroots, and continuously use the results of rectification to thicken the Party's governing foundation and advance the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. Leading organs at all levels must take the lead in examining their own problems of formalism and bureaucratism, lead by example in implementing various decisions and arrangements for reducing burdens at the grassroots, and strengthen supervision and management over systems, fields, subordinate enterprises and institutions, and social organizations. Special work mechanisms for rectifying formalism and reducing burdens at the grassroots at all levels must focus on key areas, closely monitor prominent problems, adhere to the simultaneous investigation and governance of formalism and bureaucratism, strengthen the notification and rectification of typical problems, continuously reduce burdens for the grassroots, so that grassroots cadres have more time and energy to serve the masses and promote development.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张 璁
Editor's note: Recently, the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Central Committee of the CPC Work Committee for the Central and State Organs, the Ministry of Education, the Political Work Department of the Central Military Commission, and the Beijing Municipal Committee jointly held in Beijing the series of situation and policy report meetings on "Ensuring and Improving People's Livelihoods amid High-Quality Development". On July 6, He Rong, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Justice, delivered a special report entitled "Implement the 'Two Greater Emphases' (两个更加注重) and Build a Higher-Level Socialist Rule-of-Law State". The "Two Greater Emphases" were proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping in his important instructions on comprehensive rule of law work in November 2025, namely, "pay greater attention to the coordination of rule of law with reform, development, and stability, and pay greater attention to safeguarding and promoting social fairness and justice." The content of the special report is now published in summary in the form of questions and answers.
Deeply Understand and Grasp the Historic Achievements of Comprehensive Rule of Law in the New Era and the Important Decisions and Deployments of the CPC Central Committee on Comprehensive Rule of Law during the 15th Five-Year Plan Period
Reporter: What important decisions and deployments has the CPC Central Committee made on comprehensive rule of law during the 15th Five-Year Plan period?
He Rong: Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has positioned, laid out, and rigorously implemented rule of law from an overall and strategic height, comprehensively advanced scientific legislation, strict law enforcement, impartial justice, and universal compliance with the law, comprehensively promoted the legalization of all aspects of national work, coordinated domestic rule of law and foreign-related rule of law, and led the building of a rule-of-law China through historic changes and historic achievements. In November last year, the CPC Central Committee convened the Central Conference on Comprehensive Rule of Law again after a five-year interval. In his important instructions, General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly pointed out: "Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the CPC Central Committee has incorporated comprehensive rule of law into the Four Comprehensives (四个全面) strategic layout and advanced it forcefully; the overall pattern of comprehensive rule of law has basically taken shape; the socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics has been continuously improved; and the path of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics is growing wider and wider." This is a succinct summary of the historic achievements of comprehensive rule of law in the new era, fully demonstrating confidence in the rule of law. At this conference, Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law added "adhere to the organic unity of law-based governance and rule-based governance over the Party" as the "twelfth adherence", and the "fifth adherence" developed into "adhere to comprehensively building a modern socialist country on the track of rule of law". This is a major enrichment and development of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law.
The 15th Five-Year Plan period is a critical period for consolidating the foundation and exerting full strength to basically achieve socialist modernization. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, the Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan, and others have made systematic deployments for advancing comprehensive rule of law. First, in terms of the goal, the Fourth Plenary Session included "achieving a higher level of socialist rule-of-law state construction" among the main economic and social development targets for the 15th Five-Year Plan period. In his important instructions, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized the need to "focus on building a more complete socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics and building a higher-level socialist rule-of-law state", establishing new grand goals for comprehensive rule of law on the new journey. Second, in terms of principles and requirements, adhering to taking promoting high-quality development as the theme, taking reform and innovation as the fundamental driving force, and taking meeting the people's ever-growing needs for a better life as the fundamental purpose are important elements of the guiding ideology and principles to follow for economic and social development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period. In his important instructions, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed the "Two Greater Emphases", clarifying from the two levels of insisting on serving the overall situation and insisting on the people's standpoint the principled requirements and practical paths for comprehensive rule of law on the new journey. Third, in terms of key tasks, the Fourth Plenary Session made strategic deployments for coordinating the advancement of scientific legislation, strict law enforcement, impartial justice, and universal compliance with the law; the Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan also set a special chapter for "advancing comprehensive rule of law", and at the same time each chapter contains rule-of-law-related content or key tasks deployed and advanced using rule-of-law thinking and rule-of-law methods, which will push deeper integration of rule-of-law construction into the overall economic and social development.
Deeply Understand and Grasp the New Situation and New Requirements Facing Comprehensive Rule of Law during the 15th Five-Year Plan Period
Reporter: How to understand the new situation and new requirements facing comprehensive rule of law during the 15th Five-Year Plan period?
He Rong: During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, China's development environment faces profound and complex changes, being in a period where strategic opportunities and risks challenges coexist and uncertain and unpredictable factors increase. It is necessary to better leverage the important role of the rule of law in consolidating the foundation, stabilizing expectations, and benefiting the long term. The work of comprehensive rule of law bears greater responsibilities and heavier tasks.
Coordinating the advancement of the Four Comprehensives strategic layout urgently requires better playing the foundational and safeguarding role of comprehensive rule of law. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the CPC Central Committee has proposed and formed the Four Comprehensives strategic layout for coordinated advancement. Currently, this strategic layout has put forward new and higher requirements for comprehensive rule of law. First, from the perspective of comprehensively building a modern socialist country, it is necessary to further strengthen rule-of-law construction in the economic, political, cultural, social, ecological civilization, and other fields, use the rule of law to solve various social contradictions and problems, and comprehensively advance the legalization of all aspects of national work. Second, from the perspective of comprehensively deepening reform, it is necessary to focus on the institutional and mechanism obstacles that restrict high-quality development, attach importance to using rule-of-law thinking and rule-of-law methods, leverage the standardizing, promoting, and safeguarding role of the rule of law, and ensure that major reforms have legal basis. Third, from the perspective of comprehensively governing the Party strictly, it is necessary to deeply study and implement Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building and Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, adhere to the organic unity of law-based governance and rule-based governance over the Party, better leverage the complementary role of law-based governance and rule-based governance over the Party, and lead China's governance with the governance of the Communist Party of China.
Accelerating the promotion of high-quality development urgently requires building a world-class, market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized business environment. The Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan clearly requires building a rule-of-law economy and a credit economy, and creating a world-class, market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized business environment. The rule of law is the best business environment, and the socialist market economy is essentially a rule-of-law economy. First, high-quality development requires high-quality institutional supply. In recent years, the Ministry of Justice, together with relevant departments, has drafted and reviewed a number of important economic laws and regulations, such as the Private Sector Promotion Law (民营经济促进法), the Foreign Trade Law (对外贸易法), the Maritime Law (海商法), the Commercial Mediation Regulation (商事调解条例), and the Regulation on Ensuring Payment of Sums Owed to Small and Medium Enterprises (保障中小企业款项支付条例), to promote and stimulate the endogenous driving force and innovation vitality of economic development. As high-quality development deepens, it is also necessary to continue strengthening legislative supply. Second, high-quality development requires equal protection for all types of business entities. An important aspect of what various business entities expect from the rule of law is to obtain equal legal status, enjoy equal legal rights, and receive equal legal protection. In accordance with the deployments of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, in 2024 the Central Office for Comprehensively Governing the Country by Law took the lead in coordinating and carrying out a cleanup of laws, regulations, and policies involving unequal treatment of enterprises, revising and abolishing 11,000 various types of institutional documents. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, it is still necessary to continue implementing the principles and requirements of equal treatment and equal protection to safeguard high-quality development. Third, high-quality development requires the formation of a unified national market. Currently, China's economic situation is generally stable and improving, demonstrating strong resilience and vitality, while also facing some difficulties and challenges. The Ministry of Justice will, in accordance with the deployments of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, work with relevant departments to accelerate the drafting of the Regulation on Building a Unified National Market (全国统一大市场建设条例), creating a law-based business environment through rigid institutional rules.
Better meeting the people's aspirations for a better life urgently requires using the rule of law to safeguard the people's peaceful life and work. In daily life and work, the people's demands for the rule of law are mainly prominent in three aspects: first, when violated or harmed, they can receive timely and just relief and protection. To protect the legitimate rights and interests of the people, the CPC Central Committee attaches great importance to advancing strict law enforcement and impartial justice. Rule-of-law work departments at all levels strengthen comprehensive governance and source governance, severely crack down on all types of illegal and criminal acts, and handle litigation cases impartially in accordance with the law. The people's sense of security and satisfaction has remained above 98% for five consecutive years. Second, when encountering disputes and contradictions, they can find efficient and authoritative channels for resolution. With a population of over 1.4 billion, this national condition determines that China cannot become a "litigation giant" and needs to use multiple channels to resolve disputes and contradictions. Mediation is a non-litigation dispute resolution method with Chinese characteristics. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, China's over 3.1 million people's mediators mediated nearly 80 million disputes of various types. It is also necessary to give full play to the fundamental role of mediation in resolving social disputes and contradictions, resolving disputes and contradictions at the grassroots level and in the bud. Third, when encountering legal issues, they can obtain convenient and high-quality legal services. China has basically built a public legal service system covering both urban and rural areas. The country has over 800,000 lawyers, 16,000 notaries, 69,000 arbitrators, 42,000 judicial appraisers, and 13,000 legal aid workers, handling over 56 million various cases each year. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, it is necessary to make efforts from the rule of law level, actively respond to the people's new demands and new expectations, safeguard and promote social fairness and justice, and continuously enhance the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security.
The accelerated breakthrough of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation urgently requires coordinating development and security on the track of rule of law. In today's world, digital technology, artificial intelligence, and other new technologies and new industries are changing our production and lifestyle at an unprecedented speed and breadth. In particular, artificial intelligence has become a strategic technology leading the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, bringing both unprecedented development opportunities and unprecedented risk challenges. On the one hand, development needs to be promoted. It is necessary to seize the new round of historical opportunities, accelerate high-level scientific and technological self-reliance, win the initiative in development, and seize the high ground of development. On the other hand, regulation needs to be strengthened. Currently, there are some risks in the development of artificial intelligence, such as the risk of illegal abuse of AI technology, the risk of user privacy and database leakage, and ethical risks. This year, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council clearly stated that AI governance should be improved, and the State Council's legislative work plan also listed accelerating the advancement of comprehensive AI legislation. The Ministry of Justice is accelerating the study and formulation of the Artificial Intelligence Law (人工智能法) together with relevant departments, focusing on strengthening regulation and promoting development.
Effectively safeguarding national sovereignty, security, and development interests urgently requires accelerating the construction of foreign-related rule-of-law systems and capabilities. Currently, the world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century, with anti-globalization sentiments rising, and some countries constantly imposing containment, blockade, and maximum pressure on China. The Third and Fourth Plenary Sessions of the 20th CPC Central Committee both made deployments for countering sanctions, interference, and long-arm jurisdiction (长臂管辖). Implementing this task faces three urgent requirements: first, foreign-related legislation still needs to be intensified. Some weaknesses and gaps remain in the foreign-related laws and regulations system, and there is still a certain gap from the requirement of being systematic and complete. Second, the capacity for foreign-related law enforcement and justice needs to be further improved. Using rule-of-law means to carry out international struggles requires daring to struggle and being good at struggling. It is also necessary, under the unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee, to do a good job in legal countermeasures against sanctions, interference, and long-arm jurisdiction, resolutely safeguarding national interests and the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises. Third, foreign-related legal service institutions are still not numerous or strong enough. Since 2023, implementing General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions and requirements, we have adopted a series of concrete and forceful measures to accelerate the construction of internationally first-class arbitration institutions and law firms, achieving significant results. At the same time, problems still exist such as the overall insufficient strength of China's foreign-related arbitration institutions and foreign-related lawyers, the small number of foreign-related cases handled, and a considerable gap in actual combat capability. There is an urgent need to intensify construction and nurturing efforts to enhance international competitiveness.
Increase Efforts to Advance the High-Quality Development of Comprehensive Rule of Law and Judicial Administration Work during the 15th Five-Year Plan Period
Reporter: During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, what are the main key tasks to focus on regarding the high-quality development of comprehensive rule of law and judicial administration work?
He Rong: The Central Office for Comprehensively Governing the Country by Law is located in the Ministry of Justice. The Ministry of Justice specifically undertakes the implementation of comprehensive rule-of-law tasks and important responsibilities such as government legislation, law-based administration, criminal execution, public legal services, rule-of-law publicity and education, and foreign-related rule of law. We will deeply study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important July 1 speech, firmly uphold Party leadership, implement the "Two Greater Emphases", establish and practice a correct view of political achievement, and better take on roles and show initiative in "building a more complete socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics and building a higher-level socialist rule-of-law state".
Firmly uphold Party leadership. Party leadership is the soul of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics and the fundamental guarantee for advancing comprehensive rule of law. We will focus on three tasks: First, firmly support the Two Establishments (两个确立) and resolutely achieve the Two Upholds (两个维护). Further strengthen the awareness of being a political organ, implement firm support for the Two Establishments and resolute achievement of the Two Upholds into the actual results of performing duties and responsibilities, and implement Party leadership throughout the entire process and in all aspects of various work. Second, deeply study and implement Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building and Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law. Adhere to integrating learning with application and applying what is learned, continuously push forward the deep integration of Party building and rule-of-law work, and truly transform the learning outcomes into vivid practices of building a higher-level socialist rule-of-law state. Third, unswervingly follow the path of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics. Firmly grasp the "Chinese characteristics" as the defining attribute, highlight Chinese characteristics, practical characteristics, and contemporary characteristics, and on major issues such as upholding Party leadership and ensuring the people as the masters of the country, always remain very clear-headed and very firm in stance.
Pay greater attention to coordination of rule of law with reform, development, and stability. Focusing on advancing reform, development, and stability on the track of rule of law to achieve the organic integration and coordinated progress of the three, we will focus on five tasks: First, adhere to the unity of reform and rule of law. For laws and regulations urgently needed for further comprehensively deepening reform, adhere to establishing what is urgently needed first, clarify institutional norms, and guarantee the reform process; for those where practical conditions are not yet ripe and need pilot testing first, actively advance legislative authorization and regulatory adjustment work in accordance with legal procedures; for laws and regulations that do not meet reform requirements, promptly amend and abolish them; for those that have proven effective in practice, promptly elevate them to laws and regulations, confirming and consolidating reform experience and achievements in legislative form. Second, strengthen legislation in key areas and emerging fields. Work with relevant parties to accelerate the formulation and revision of important laws and regulations such as the Tax Collection and Administration Law (税收征收管理法) and the Securities Company Supervision and Management Regulation (证券公司监督管理条例), and promote the construction of a high-level socialist market economic system; formulate and revise laws and regulations such as the Space Law (航天法) and the Satellite Navigation Regulation (卫星导航条例); and study and improve legislation in emerging fields such as the platform economy, digital economy, and aviation, to promote the development of new quality productive forces. Third, coordinate the implementation of responsibilities for advancing law-based government construction. Deeply carry out demonstration creation activities for the construction of a law-based government nationwide, conduct rule-of-law supervision of leading cadres' handling of affairs in accordance with the law, and supervise the implementation of responsibilities for law-based government construction; increase the legality review of major administrative decisions, administrative normative documents, and major administrative law enforcement decisions, and improve the work norms and standard guidelines for legality review. Fourth, maintain and promote social safety and stability. Fully and accurately implement the criminal policy of combining leniency and severity, punish illegal and criminal acts in accordance with the law, deepen the five tasks of education and reform, community correction, assistance and education linkage, dispute resolution, and rule-of-law publicity, and improve the quality and efficiency of penalty execution. Give full play to the important role of mediation, arbitration, administrative reconsideration, etc., in resolving social conflicts and disputes, especially the important role of administrative reconsideration in resolving administrative disputes, and promote the source-based, diversified, and orderly resolution of conflicts and disputes. Fifth, accelerate the construction of a foreign-related rule-of-law system and capability commensurate with high-quality development and high-level opening up. Focus on the overall work of the Party and the state, strengthen foreign-related rule-of-law coordination, deepen forward-looking thinking and overall planning, and use concrete and forceful measures to advance foreign-related legislation, law enforcement, justice, compliance with the law, legal services, and training of rule-of-law talents as an integrated whole.
Pay greater attention to safeguarding and promoting social fairness and justice. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and the Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan emphasize respecting the people's principal position, closely relying on the people, safeguarding the people's fundamental interests, and promoting social fairness and justice. Based on the functions of the Ministry of Justice, we will focus on four tasks: First, strengthen institutional guarantees for social fairness and justice. Further focus on livelihood security, and around the people's medical, food, housing, transportation, education, elderly care, employment, public safety governance, and other aspects, accelerate the formulation and revision of important laws and regulations such as the Drug Administration Law (药品管理法), the Food Safety Law (食品安全法), the Real Estate Registration Law (不动产登记法), the Elderly Care Services Law (养老服务法), the Teachers Law (教师法), the Employment Promotion Law (就业促进法), and the Flood Control Law (防洪法). Second, comprehensively advance strict, standardized, fair, and civilized law enforcement. Based on the duty of administrative law enforcement supervision, improve the long-term mechanism for regulating law enforcement involving enterprises, and promote the standardization of administrative law enforcement. Adhere to the rule-of-law principle, be strict where the law requires strictness and lenient where leniency is appropriate, and push for continuously intensified strict law enforcement in key areas that concern the people's vital interests, such as food and drugs, work safety, and the ecological environment. Third, improve the public legal service system covering both urban and rural areas. Adhere to taking political construction as the guide, comprehensively promote the balanced and inclusive development of the legal service industry, strengthen the education and management of practitioners such as lawyers, notaries, arbitrators, judicial appraisers, legal aid workers, and mediators, and continuously improve the ability and quality of serving the overall situation and the people. Fourth, deeply advance rule-of-law publicity and education. Implement the Law on Public Education on the Rule of Law (法治宣传教育法) well, fully implement the "Ninth Five-Year Plan for Dissemination of Legal Knowledge" (九五普法规划), continuously improve the targetedness and effectiveness of legal publicity, and strive to make respecting, learning, abiding by, and applying the law a common pursuit and conscious action of all the people.
Return to TopBEIJING, July 15 (Xinhua) -- The 14th issue of Qiushi journal, to be published on July 16, will carry an important article by Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, titled "Speech at the Gathering Celebrating the 105th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China."
The article emphasizes that over the past 105 years, our Party has united and led the Chinese people of all ethnic groups in unremitting struggle, creating great achievements in the New Democratic Revolution, the Socialist Revolution and Construction, Reform and Opening Up and Socialist Modernization, and Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, writing the most magnificent epic in the millennia-long history of the Chinese nation. The 105 years of unremitting struggle have fundamentally changed the future and destiny of the Chinese people, opened up the correct path for realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, demonstrated the powerful vitality of Marxism, profoundly influenced the course of world history, and forged a strong Communist Party of China.
The article points out that the fundamental reason why the Communist Party of China has been able to continuously achieve brilliance in its 105 years of struggle, and why history and the people have chosen the Communist Party of China, lies in the fact that our Party possesses excellent traits unmatched by other political parties and political forces: persistently pursuing truth, always keeping the direction of advance correct; deeply rooted among the people, always possessing a solid foundation; bravely undertaking historical missions, always mastering strategic initiative; conforming to the trend of development, always staying at the forefront of the times; daring and adept at struggle, always maintaining confidence in victory; focusing on strengthening itself, always full of vitality and vigor. These excellent traits are the key code to why the Communist Party of China can. We must, in light of new realities, continuously carry forward and enhance the Party's excellent traits, ensuring that the Party never deteriorates, never changes its color, never changes its flavor, and always possesses strong creativity, cohesion, and combat effectiveness.
The article points out that fulfilling the Party's mission and tasks in the new era and new journey requires all Chinese Communists to strengthen confidence, continue the struggle, and constantly create new achievements worthy of the times and the people. It is necessary to adhere to the Party's basic theory, basic line, and basic strategy, adhere to the Party's overall leadership and the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, thoroughly implement the Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era (新时代中国特色社会主义思想), strengthen confidence in the path, theory, system, and culture (道路自信、理论自信、制度自信、文化自信), 继往开来 (jì wǎng kāi lái - "inherit the past and open up the future," carry forward the cause and forge ahead into the future), and uphold fundamental principles and break new ground (守正创新). It is necessary to firmly rely on the people to create historic achievements, practice the people-centered development philosophy, fully stimulate the initiative, creativity, and activity of hundreds of millions of people, coordinate the promotion of the "Five-Sphere Integrated Plan" (五位一体总体布局) and the coordinated advancement of the "Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy" (四个全面战略布局), fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development philosophy (新发展理念), accelerate the construction of a new development pattern (新发展格局), and solidly promote high-quality development. It is necessary to actively respond to risks and challenges on the path forward, strengthen awareness of potential dangers, adhere to bottom-line thinking (底线思维), carry forward the spirit of struggle, enhance the ability to struggle, better coordinate the domestic and international situations, and coordinate development and security. It is necessary to continuously promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind (人类命运共同体), hold high the banner of peace, development, cooperation, and mutual benefit, promote the common values of all humanity (全人类共同价值), and promote the implementation of the Global Development Initiative (全球发展倡议), the Global Security Initiative (全球安全倡议), the Global Civilization Initiative (全球文明倡议), and the Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议), injecting more positive energy into world peace and development. It is necessary to 持之以恒 (chí zhī yǐ héng - "persist with constancy," persevere unremittingly) advance full and rigorous Party governance, fully implement the Party building thought for the new era, improve the system for full and rigorous Party governance, take the Party's political construction as the lead to strengthen all aspects of Party building, resolutely fight the tough, protracted, and all-out battle against corruption, continuously enhance the Party's political leadership, ideological guidance, mass organization, and social appeal, and ensure that the Party always remains the strong leading core in the historical process of upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era.
The article emphasizes that the 105-year glorious history of the Communist Party of China is admirable, but we must never become complacent or stop advancing. All comrades in the Party must never forget the original aspiration and keep the mission firmly in mind, must remain modest, prudent, and hardworking, must dare to struggle and be adept at struggle, firmly rely on, unite, and lead the Chinese people of all ethnic groups to forge ahead on the new journey and make achievements in the new era, striving to create new historical brilliance.
Return to TopAt 18:00 on July 15, the National Meteorological Center (中央气象台) continued to issue a yellow alert for heavy rain, a blue alert for severe convective weather, and a yellow alert for high temperature; the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) and the China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局) jointly issued an orange meteorological alert for mountain torrents; the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部) and the China Meteorological Administration jointly issued a yellow meteorological risk alert for geological disasters.
On the morning of the 15th, the Office of the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters (国家防总办公室) and the Ministry of Emergency Management (应急管理部) continued to organize a multi-department joint consultation to study and judge the recent flood control situation and the critical period of "seven-lower, eight-upper" (七下八上, the period from late July to early August), and to deploy prevention and response work in key areas. The State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters maintained a Level III emergency response for flood control for Liaoning and Jilin, and a Level IV emergency response for flood control for Heilongjiang and Shandong. The working groups dispatched by the Office of the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters continued to assist and guide flood control work in Liaoning and Jilin.
On the evening of the 14th, the Ministry of Water Resources held a special consultation meeting at the Songliao Water Resources Commission (水利部松辽水利委员会) to analyze and judge the impact of Typhoon Bavi and the flood situation in the Songhua River and Liao River basins, and to further arrange and deploy flood defense work for the Songhua River and Liao River basins. On the 15th, affected by rainfall, the Lalin River, a tributary of the Songhua River, experienced the No. 1 flood of 2026. The Ministry of Water Resources raised the emergency response for flood defense for Jilin to Level III in advance. Affected by the heavy rainfall brought by Typhoon Bavi, there are still 41 rivers in the Songliao basin that are above the warning level, among which 12 rivers, including the Huifa River, Gaya River, and Mudan River, exceed the guaranteed level. The Information Center of the Ministry of Water Resources continued to issue a yellow flood alert.
On the 15th, the National Commission for Disaster Prevention, Mitigation and Relief (国家防灾减灾救灾委员会) initiated a national Level IV disaster relief emergency response in response to the severe impact of Typhoon Bavi and heavy rainfall on Jilin. The National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) urgently arranged 30 million yuan of central budget investment to support Jilin in post-disaster emergency recovery from the typhoon, rainstorm, and flood disaster. The Office of the National Commission for Disaster Prevention, Mitigation and Relief and the Ministry of Emergency Management, in response to the impact of the rainstorm and flood disaster in Jilin, together with the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration (国家粮食和物资储备局), allocated 9,000 pieces of central disaster relief materials to Jilin, including folding beds, mattresses, blankets, and family emergency kits.
A reporter learned from the Liaoning Provincial Meteorological Bureau (辽宁省气象局) that, affected by the peripheral cloud system of Typhoon Bavi, from 20:00 on the 12th to 00:00 on the 15th, the average rainfall in nine prefecture-level cities in Liaoning reached the magnitude of heavy rainstorm. On the 14th, at the request of the Liaoning Provincial Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters, the Office of the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters, together with the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration, allocated additional central flood control materials to Liaoning, including 500,000 woven bags, 100,000 square meters of long-filament geotextile, and 150 sets of levee inspection lighting groups, to support Liaoning in flood control and emergency rescue work.
On the 15th, 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 alert for geological disasters: from 15:00 on the 15th to 15:00 on the 16th, in Chengde City (Chengde County (承德县), Kuancheng Manchu Autonomous County (宽城满族自治县), Pingquan City (平泉市), Xinglong County (兴隆县)) and Tangshan City (Qianxi County (迁西县), Zunhua City (遵化市)), the risk of geological disasters such as collapses and landslides is relatively high (yellow alert).
(Comprehensive report by reporters from this newspaper Jiang Xuehong (蒋雪鸿), Liu Wenxin (刘温馨), Deng Jianyang (邓剑洋), Liu Zhiqiang (刘志强), Wang Donghui (王东辉), Liu Jiahua (刘佳华), and Shi Ziqiang (史自强).)
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“Ms. Zhang Lan (pseudonym), hello. I am a doctor from the Ninth Hospital, following up. How are you recovering now? Has your abdominal pain eased?” On July 15, a doctor from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Ninth People’s Hospital of Shenyang, Liaoning Province, dialed Zhang Lan’s mobile phone. On the other end of the line, Zhang Lan said: “Much better. My stomach doesn’t hurt anymore, and my mood has steadied.”
On the morning of the 13th, Shenyang was hit by a torrential rainstorm. Early that day, a sudden, persistent abdominal pain sent Zhang Lan, who was already in the late stages of pregnancy, into a panic. “My mind went blank at the time. I just thought of hurrying to the hospital to see if the baby was okay.” After packing her prenatal checkup documents quickly, she took an umbrella and left the house alone.
On the way, murky, yellow floodwater blocked the path. The invisible pits and undercurrents made Zhang Lan afraid to wade through recklessly. A dragging sensation in her lower abdomen made it impossible for her to stand steadily. She could only move into a roadside bank self-service kiosk, lean against a corner, and shiver all over.
At 8:49, the Baogong North Street Fire Rescue Station in Tiexi District received an urgent dispatch from the command center: a pregnant woman trapped in a bank self-service kiosk, suffering severe abdominal pain, requiring immediate transport. Alarm bells suddenly rang. Gao Yujin (高玉金), the 24-year-old squad leader with six years of rescue experience, immediately led his team members to suit up and board the truck.
Red-and-blue emergency lights pierced the curtain of rain. The fire truck sped through the water, parting the waves. “Faster, a little faster,” Gao Yujin said to the driver as he watched the road surface.
The vehicle stopped near the bank self-service kiosk. Gao Yujin and his team jumped into water that came up to their knees and waded to Zhang Lan’s side. Gao Yujin bent down: “Come, I’ll carry you on my back to the truck. Move gently.” Though Zhang Lan hesitated, the abdominal pain left no time for delay, so she gently leaned onto his back.
Two teammates flanked her left and right for support. The three of them moved in unison, walking slowly, avoiding the impact of the current, and carefully carried Zhang Lan onto the fire truck.
Once inside the cab, Zhang Lan, trembling, dialed her husband, who was out of town, and recounted the recent danger. Gao Yujin silently handed her a tissue and softly reassured her: “Don’t worry, we’ll drive the whole way at low speed and steady pace to get you to the hospital.”
At 9:05, the fire truck arrived at Shenyang Ninth People’s Hospital. The grounds around the hospital were also heavily flooded. Gao Yujin again bent down to carry Zhang Lan off the truck, walked slowly to the outpatient entrance, and then coordinated to open a fast-track medical access channel.
When Zhang Lan turned back to express her thanks, several orange figures had already quickly returned to the fire truck. A new dispatch order came over the walkie-talkie.
From 5:00 on the 13th to 20:00 on the 14th, the Shenyang Fire Rescue Detachment handled a total of 491 flood-related emergency calls, dispatched 509 fire trucks, 2,252 fire rescue personnel, and 207 boats and assault craft, and safely evacuated 448 members of the public.
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In rescue and disaster relief operations, there must be a determination to be fast. At critical moments, every second and minute concerns the safety of the masses. Fire trucks racing through the rainstorm carry the sound of "faster, just a little faster."
When conducting scientifically based rescue, there must be a judgment to be slow. In the face of a pregnant woman, every single movement may endanger the fetus. Fire trucks moving at low speed and with steady progress are meant to protect the new life being nurtured.
Speed manifests the hard-core strength of rescue; slowness embodies the sincere original intention of protection. The choice to balance fast and slow is precisely a vivid interpretation of "everything for the masses." Exerting every effort to protect, caring with heart and feeling — this is where our confidence lies, where our strength lies.
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Having both the courage to dare to struggle and the methods for being good at struggle, one can turn risks and challenges into a ladder for climbing toward a higher developmental realm, and open up new horizons for the undertaking through tenacious struggle.
In these years when economic and trade frictions have disturbed the world, how has China responded? Facing escalating tariff barriers, it has taken reciprocal countermeasures, firm and forceful; facing step-by-step tightening technological blockades, it has overcome one key core technology after another, and the list of bottlenecks grows ever shorter; facing the clamor of "decoupling and severing supply chains," it has steadfastly expanded high-standard opening up, safeguarding the global free trade system and the stability and smooth flow of production and supply chains… Even amid high winds and rough waves, "all suppression and containment will only ignite the will and enthusiasm of the Chinese people."
At the ceremony celebrating the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping incisively summarized the six outstanding qualities of the CPC, among which "daring to struggle and being good at struggle, always maintaining unwavering confidence in victory" is an important aspect. This quality is forged in the hundred-year journey of suffering and glory, and manifested in the myriad practices of the new era.
Daring to struggle is the distinct character of Communists. For over 100 years, our Party was born in struggle, developed in struggle, and grew strong in struggle. Through struggle it opened a way forward and found opportunities; "fearing no sacrifice and fighting valiantly" was integrated into the great founding spirit of the Party (伟大建党精神), and "daring to struggle, being good at struggle" was written into the "three imperatives" (三个务必). Our Party has relied on struggle to reach where it is today, and it must inevitably rely on struggle to win the future.
Before major risks and challenges, daring to confront the real and tackle the tough reveals a political party's spirit of struggle. Rectifying conduct and combating corruption have cleansed deep-seated maladies; the declaration "offend hundreds and thousands, but fail not the 1.4 billion" is 掷地有声 (zhì dì yǒu shēng - "hit the ground with a sound," forceful and resounding). Our Party has used the courage to turn the blade inward and 刮骨疗毒 (guā gǔ liáo dú - "scrape the bone to cure the poison," to take drastic measures to address a problem). In the face of external containment and suppression, we resolutely safeguard national sovereignty, security, and development interests. Against the rampant arrogance of anti-China forces destabilizing Hong Kong and external hostile forces, the Hong Kong National Security Law (香港国安法) — "one law stabilizes Hong Kong" — became the watershed for Hong Kong's transition from chaos to order. The backbone, integrity, and courage of not believing in evil, not fearing ghosts, and not being spineless — the greater the battle and the test, the more distinct they become.
General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out: 寸步不让 (cùn bù bù ràng - "not yield a single step," uncompromising) on matters of principle, flexible and agile on matters of strategy. Struggle has never been about displaying a mere individual's brute courage; struggle is an art. Its excellence lies in being justified, advantageous, and measured; its value lies in attending to timing, degree, and effectiveness.
In winning the battle against poverty, nearly 100 million rural poor shook off poverty. 255,000 village-based work teams, and over 3 million first secretaries and village-based cadres climbed high mountains and traversed dangerous roads, adopting one policy per household and tailoring measures to individuals — the "precision" working method turned the impossible into the certain.
The lunar exploration project is vast in scale, complex in system, and highly integrated. The National Space Administration and other departments coordinated overall; nearly 3,000 units collaborated in tackling difficulties, and about 100,000 people participated together. The "ten thousand people, one gun" approach of the new nationwide system (新型举国体制) achieved one victory after another.
The ten-year fishing ban on the Yangtze River led to the withdrawal from fishing and transition to other industries for over 200,000 fishermen along the river — the depth of interest adjustment was unprecedented. On one hand, they focused on banning and withdrawing fishing; on the other, they focused on job transition and resettlement, both safeguarding the clear river waters and securing the bottom line of people's livelihoods. Now the finless porpoise frequently appears, and fish leap in competition. Not trading long-term foundations for short-term gains — only then is the foresight of one good at struggle revealed.
Having both the courage to dare to struggle and the methods for being good at struggle, one can turn risks and challenges into a ladder for climbing toward a higher developmental realm, and open up new horizons for the undertaking through tenacious struggle.
At present, anti-globalization undercurrents surge, protectionism rears its head. Seeking unity, cooperation, and win-win results through struggle tests a higher level of wisdom in struggle. We firmly safeguard core interests, yet also open the door of cooperation ever wider.
Signing the protocol to upgrade the free trade area to version 3.0 with ASEAN; implementing zero tariffs on 100% of tariff items for the 53 African countries with which we have diplomatic ties, and establishing "green channels" for agricultural product exports to China… The higher the barriers, the more the value of cooperation stands out; the stronger the headwind, the more steadfast the conviction in opening up.
Turning pressure into motivation, transforming challenges into opportunities. The more suppression we encounter, the more it ignites the spirit of tackling difficulties and overcoming obstacles. "Seek security through struggle, and security exists"; "seek development through struggle, and development flourishes" — truths repeatedly proven by history and practice become even more distinct in the practice of the new era.
"After a thousand grindings and ten thousand blows, it remains sturdy and strong; let the wind blow from east, west, south, or north." As we march on the journey of comprehensively building a strong country and advancing the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization, carrying forward the spirit of struggle, enhancing the capacity for struggle, and strengthening unwavering confidence in victory, our Party will certainly, with the iron will to remain 岿然不动 (kuī rán bù dòng - "towering and unmovable," steadfast and unshakable) no matter the storm, unite and lead the people of the entire nation from victory to new victory.
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Recently, I saw an interesting small matter: a printing company boss in her forties suddenly started chasing anime and watching anime series, chatting about each character 头头是道 (tóu tóu shì dào - "head head is way," speaking with logic and clarity), bluntly saying, "I want to plunge into the two-dimensional (二次元) circle and start a second venture." It turned out that she was jumping out of the red ocean of traditional graphic and text printing, and going all out into the "guzi (谷子) track" represented by trendy toys and hand-painted figures, color card peripherals, and the like, preparing to carve out new territory in a subdivided field.
This seemingly "unconnected" transformation is precisely a vivid footnote for traditional industries seeking change and striving for survival. Today, with rapid economic and social development, only by being good at looking all around and making breakthroughs from wrong positions can one develop and develop well.
From this, I think that when doing things and starting enterprises, what is valuable is 久久为功 (jiǔ jiǔ wéi gōng - "long long for merit," persevere over time), quietly and deeply cultivating, but deep cultivation does not mean "working with your head down." If you do not look at the general trend, do not distinguish the direction, deep cultivation may become "deep mire." This point is especially clear in the intergenerational replacement of industries. For example, some mobile phone brands once created glory, but fell behind because they missed the development opportunity of smartphones.
Only by constantly breaking shackles, continuously making dynamic adjustments, liberating oneself from 不合时宜 (bù hé shí yí - "not fit the times," untimely) fixed mindsets, inherent patterns, and path dependencies, actively recognizing change, responding to change, and seeking change, can one jump out of the vortex carried by inertia and let one's steps step on the correct drumbeat. This is something as important and as difficult as persistence.
More than 20 successive county party committee teams in Youyu, Shanxi (山西右玉) engaged in relay afforestation, turning a 不毛之地 (bù máo zhī dì - "not hair of place," barren land) into a 塞上绿洲 (sài shàng lǜ zhōu - "frontier oasis," oasis in the border region). But the preciousness of this deep cultivation was never mechanical repetition; it was persistence in innovation and innovation in persistence, thereby benefiting the people’s unremitting pursuit and pragmatic action.
When the twelfth secretary in that place, Yuan Haoji (袁浩基), first took office, his investigation proposed the policy of "planting grass and trees, developing animal husbandry, promoting agricultural and sideline products, and getting rich as soon as possible." At that time, some people questioned "putting grass planting ahead of forestry is to lose the dignity of an advanced forestry county," worrying about "toppling the green flag of Youyu." In the following years, Yuan Haoji, under pressure, pushed forward the coordinated development of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and sideline industries, guiding Youyu onto a two-wheel-drive path of desert control and income growth, which not only increased the forest coverage rate but also further enriched the people's pockets.
Inheritance is not copying; persistence is not repetition. Without continuous innovation, there is no way out. Why does some deep cultivation become wider and wider, while others become narrower and narrower? The difference lies in the fact that the former treats it as a process, the latter treats it as a goal. With different cognitive stances, the paths finally taken are completely different. In work, we might often ask ourselves: have we fallen into the comfort zone of "we did it this way in the past, and we still do it this way now"? Can we use new methods to achieve better results, not wasting opportunities?
Upholding the right path without being conservative, using persistence to resist impatience, using evolution to respond to change — only then can undertakings be ever new and ever green.
Shaanxi's Luochuan (陕西洛川) apples are also a typical case of deep cultivation of one industry. At first, the local area relied on natural conditions to "sell fruit." Later, by extending the industrial chain and upgrading the value chain, they "sold brands." Last year, the brand value of "Luochuan apples" exceeded 100 billion yuan. Now, the local area is accelerating digital and intelligent transformation, and making efforts in cross-border e-commerce to "sell globally." In May this year, a batch of 5.7 tons of fresh Luochuan apples was put on the shelves of Australian supermarkets, taking a new step toward internationalization. Biting the green mountain without relaxing, and also biting innovation without relaxing — only then did small apples become a big industry.
The way of deep cultivation requires doing addition well, 锲而不舍 (qiè ér bù shě - "carve without stopping," persevere) day after day, and also doing subtraction well, being able to "give up" at critical moments. It is like the growth of a tree: it needs constant attentive care, and also cannot do without clear and decisive pruning. Only by understanding how to 固本培元 (gù běn péi yuán - "strengthen the root and cultivate the vitality," consolidate fundamentals) and daring to 去芜存菁 (qù wú cún jīng - "remove weeds and keep pure," eliminate the dross and keep the essence) can one gather the potential energy for upward growth and let the main trunk thrive.
For example, Lincang, Yunnan (云南临沧) coffee once fell into a low-price, high-volume model of "planting everything," and farmers at one time did not make money or even lost money. Later, more and more estates abandoned simply pursuing yield, began to narrow their product lines, prioritized ensuring the flavor base of the variety, and transformed toward "premiumization and branding." In the past five years, Lincang coffee has won eight championships in international competitions, gradually realizing a metamorphosis from "selling raw materials by the ton" to "selling premium products by the gram." The way of deep cultivation requires both the ability to "hold firm" and the courage to "break through."
To do things and start enterprises, one must have a heart for deep cultivation and also the wisdom to be good at change. Burying one's head is kung fu; raising one's head reveals wisdom. Only by using persistence to build up the foundation, and using innovation to break the situation and improve quality, can one always stand at the forefront in the tide of the times and rush toward a broader distance.
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I will never forget that early morning at 4 a.m. — in order to apply for a co-branding with a world-class event, we made our fifth attempt to produce a new Yi embroidery keychain. Every stitch was made with care, not only because the keychain was very small, but also because this opportunity was a "major test" for Chuxiong Yi embroidery, testing not only craftsmanship but also the effectiveness of the modernization of this intangible cultural heritage.
Speaking of craftsmanship alone, I was not worried. We had already thoroughly mastered the skills. I began learning Yi embroidery at the age of 8. My grandmother and mother were renowned embroiderers for miles around. Supporting my family to live a good life through every stitch has always been my dream. I once went out to work as a migrant laborer, but a phone call made me decide to return to my hometown. "Mom, I'm almost forgetting what you look like." Hearing my child's voice, my tears fell instantly. Why not use the embroidery needle to embroider a path of flowers, achieving both a livelihood and family togetherness?
After returning home, I traveled to every village and hamlet in Nanhua County, Yunnan Province, visiting over 20 elderly Yi embroiderers and compiling 72 traditional stitching techniques, 14 of which cannot be replaced or imitated by machines. The bloodline of culture must not be severed. I rescued stitching techniques on the verge of being lost, such as seed stitch, spiral stitch, and padded stitch, took up the baton of intangible cultural heritage transmission, and taught these techniques to more embroiderers. Together, everyone "embroiders flowers and supports the family," passing down skills and improving lives. Cultural heritage development is spiritual nourishment and also contains the direction for a better life. Following it, one can light up more hope.
Yi embroidery is called "history worn on the body," but an old craft cannot become an "old antique." Once, I took products to an exhibition outside the province. Colors that were too gaudy and patterns that were complicated and old-fashioned made it hard for many customers to accept them. Times change, aesthetics evolve, and people hope that old crafts can integrate into new trends. How to integrate? Find ideas from what the public thinks and what the market needs. Only by listening to the voice of the times, keeping pace with the times, daring to innovate, and embracing innovation can intangible cultural heritage step out of the "display case" and onto the "shelf," dyed with new charm and woven with new splendor.
Creativity flows naturally in the minds of young people. Southeast University provides targeted assistance to Nanhua County, and our ideas were completely refreshed. We designed over 260 types of products, such as the "Green Feather Immortal Trail" series featuring the green peacock as the main element. We also incorporated elements from the Dunhuang Mogao Caves to innovate a series of works, expressing the grand and broad vision of Chinese civilization. After my daughter graduated, she also joined the workshop. With the help of young people, we have co-branded with 13 domestic and international brands, allowing Yi embroidery to radiate brilliance once again. For an old craft to regain vitality, it needs fresh blood. Innovation is a dialogue between youth and ancient culture, and also the transmission of cultural bloodlines across millennia.
The passion for innovation needs protection, and institutional support is indispensable. "A thousand people, a thousand embroideries" is the charm of Yi embroidery, but the resulting uneven quality has also become an obstacle to development. Relevant departments formed a cross-departmental special task force and issued 37 full-chain support policies, paving a path of modern development for Chuxiong Yi embroidery. As a result, Chuxiong Yi embroidery has appeared at fashion weeks, been featured in international fashion publications, and been selected as a UNESCO global demonstration case. Chinese intangible cultural heritage has crossed regional boundaries and stepped onto the world stage. When discussing the modernization of culture, one cannot talk only about culture, but must focus on the modernization of the entire civilization and engage in systematic expression.
On that small co-branded keychain, there were seven main colors, including red, black, yellow, and blue. Each color has a story in Yi culture. In the narrative of civilization, different ethnic groups and different cultures also have their own colors. Only by keeping all colors continuously bright and all cultures forever young can the story of the modernization of human civilization see a hundred flowers bloom and spring eternal.
(The author is a National Rural Artisan Master and a provincial-level representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage representative item (Yi ethnic costume). This article was compiled from an interview by Zhang Chi, a reporter for this newspaper.)
Return to TopRecently, the 2026 Yellow River water and sediment regulation reservoir operation concluded. During the sediment discharge period, the automatic sediment monitoring system sensed in real time the sediment concentration of the outflow water; medium and large intelligent hydrological boats and small unmanned vessels were applied to carry out unmanned testing; ground-based synthetic aperture radar monitoring equipment scanned the downstream slope of the main dam 24 hours a day, rapidly monitoring minute deformations of the main dam and slopes… Empowered by technology, this water and sediment regulation successfully achieved its set goals.
This is exactly:
Turbid waves vast and mighty roll the gray-yellow,
Ten thousand li long drive rushing to the sea frontier.
A thousand washes, ten thousand filtrations, the sand and silt cleared,
Wisdom tames the raging waves to protect the homeland.
Shen Qiuwen (沈丘文)
By: 新 言
In recent times, the "Xinjiang Little Sheep (新疆小羊)" doll has drawn considerable attention. This soft, adorable, and beautiful "Xinjiang Little Sheep" has caught the rhythm of the times, caught fire to become a phenomenon, and condensed into an IP (intellectual property (知识产权)), from which many insights can be gained.
For example, it reveals the distinct characteristics of consumption upgrading. How to match the embroidered cap, how to cut the clothes, how to adorn the accessories — all can be "customized," maximizing emotional value; consumers who participate in related online hot topics can also obtain psychological satisfaction and social value. The "explosive point" of this little sheep lies precisely in its alignment with consumers' spiritual-level needs.
Whether it is the "handcrafted economy" that maintains craftsmanship and emphasizes personalization, or emotional consumption that meets psychological needs, both are products of consumption upgrading. Only by keenly capturing the direction of industrial development can new types of consumption more fully release their potential.
Another example is seeing the vast horizon of cultural and tourism integration. As tourists have said, owning this "Xinjiang Little Sheep" is not simply about buying a doll. It carries the unique memory of a trip to Xinjiang and establishes an emotional connection regarding "poetry and the distant place."
Extending this logic, if tourism is to become a people's livelihood industry and a happiness industry, cultural and tourism integration is the necessary path. This is not only what tourists love but also what development requires. The dazzling and 目不暇接 (mù bù xiá jiē - "the eyes cannot take it all in," an overwhelming abundance of things to see) magnificent scenery and the splendid, rich cultural resources provide infinite possibilities for integrated development.
Another example is seeing the positive response of fine governance. Faced with the surging flow of people, local authorities, starting from the perspective of tourist safety and comfort, actively coordinated venues, provided free watermelon and mung bean soup to relieve the heat, demonstrating sincere hospitality and also reflecting the city's level of public service and management.
Catching the "torrential flow of traffic" is not only the work of the cultural and tourism departments but also requires multi-departmental coordination. Only by actively responding with a combination of speed and warmth can tourists arrive with high spirits and leave fully satisfied.
There is also the genuine expression of ethnic unity. On the journey of interaction, exchange, and integration, horizons broaden, friends increase, and hearts draw closer. From the beautiful adornments of each "Xinjiang Little Sheep," netizens from various places learn the differences between different small embroidered caps, are amazed by the warmth of Xinjiang's color aesthetics, and even more so, come to understand the inclusiveness and breadth of Chinese civilization.
We look forward to more and more cultural and creative merchandise showcasing local characteristics becoming popular and breaking out of their circles, allowing us to capture the charm of a region from small entry points and feel the warmth of worldly life.
(Excerpted and compiled from Xinjiang Daily, originally titled "The Inner Logic Behind the Popularity of the 'Xinjiang Little Sheep'")
Return to TopBy: 张向阳
Some time ago, a street interview video in Mexico sparked heated discussion on short-video platforms. "Please name three Chinese brands." "Huawei, BYD, Anta…" People from different countries blurted out China's mobile phones, new energy vehicles, sporting goods and other brands.
This cannot help but remind people of other scenes: unmanned autonomous cleaning vehicles carrying the melody of "Orchid Grass" slowly passing by the banks of the River Thames in London, UK in the early morning; the warning sound "Reversing, please pay attention" echoing in the streets and villages of Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe and America… These scenes reflect a fact: Chinese brands have gradually become embedded in the fabric of people's lives around the world.
Seemingly ordinary details can often reflect real changes in mindset. On overseas social media platforms, topics such as "Chinese-style health preservation" and "electric tricycles" have received wave after wave of attention; "China travel" and "China shopping" are hot, more and more foreign tourists see for themselves, marveling at China's safety, vitality and charm… The appreciation and spontaneous dissemination by ordinary people of China's economic development, technological application and social life break the stereotypes of "colored lenses", penetrate the deliberately constructed "information cocoons", and let more people "re-understand China".
What overseas people are re-understanding is not only China's actual situation, but also the path China has taken. Francis Fukuyama, the American political scientist once famous for his "End of History" thesis, said bluntly in a recent interview that the Chinese people have created a very remarkable model. The New York Times published an article stating, "Today's China has begun to guide the direction of the future." China's achievements and China's path are increasingly being seen, affirmed, and learned from by the international community.
Changing perceptions has never been easy. Why has "re-understanding China" emerged?
It stems from China's solid development achievements. It has taken only a few decades to complete the industrialization journey that developed countries have taken hundreds of years to traverse; in the new era, it has written new chapters of the two miracles of rapid economic development and long-term social stability; in eight years, it has lifted nearly 100 million rural poor out of poverty, historically solving the problem of absolute poverty. China can, the Chinese Communist Party can – this is the confidence that everyone in the world can see.
It stems from the long-term certainty of China's development. Working year after year, the Taklamakan Desert edge-fixing project was selected as one of the "2025 Global Top Ten Engineering Achievements"; stepping step by step, China's new energy vehicle production and sales have been first in the world for 11 consecutive years; hammering blow after blow, the Pinglu Canal (平陆运河) has been fully opened to water, opening a new channel of win-win cooperation between China and ASEAN… The Chinese people are always undaunted by wind and rain, 埋头苦干 (mái tóu kǔ gàn - "bury head in hard work," to work hard and steadfastly), moving forward toward set goals and along set directions – this is the certainty that everyone in the world can feel.
It stems from the opportunities brought by China's development. From the "new three items" (新三样) to the "new new three items" (新新三样), Chinese products allow people in more countries and regions to afford and access emerging technologies; from Chinese large models being frequently used by overseas users to Chinese cross-border e-commerce logistics services winning over foreign netizens, Chinese services bring tangible dividends to foreign people; from the formation of a national-level "exhibition matrix" including the China International Import Expo (进博会), the Canton Fair (广交会), the China International Fair for Trade in Services (服贸会), and the China International Consumer Products Expo (消博会), to the continuous reduction of the negative list for foreign investment access, China opens its doors to build, bringing market opportunities, investment opportunities, and growth opportunities to the world. China continuously provides new opportunities for the world with its own new development.
Looking deeper, the reason China has been able to achieve these results lies in its unwavering adherence to the path of Chinese-style modernization. Such a path not only conforms to China's actual conditions but also provides a new option for human modernization. China's development enlightens the world that every country can take a modernization path suited to its own national conditions. As someone said, Chinese-style modernization is "a gift to the world."
Developing itself while also benefiting the world. A nation committed to rejuvenation, a country that is 笃行不怠 (dǔ xíng bù dài - "sincere action without slack," to steadfastly practice without slacking) on the path of Chinese-style modernization, is constantly refreshing people's perceptions.
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 吴秋余
“Overall, the important macro-financial indicators reflecting financial operations fully embody the state of a moderately accommodative monetary policy, social financing conditions are relatively loose, and the quality and efficiency of financial services to the real economy are continuously improving.” At a press conference held by the State Council Information Office (国务院新闻办) on July 15, People’s Bank of China (中国人民银行) spokesperson and Deputy Governor Zou Lan (邹澜) introduced the implementation of monetary policy and financial statistics data for the first half of this year.
The financial data for the first half of the year released on the 15th show that as of the end of June, China’s broad money (M2) balance grew by 8.0% year-on-year, and the stock of aggregate social financing grew by 7.4% year-on-year. The growth rates of both indicators continued to be higher than the nominal GDP growth rate, demonstrating the effectiveness of monetary policy in supporting the real economy. Zou Lan stated that since the beginning of this year, the People’s Bank of China has implemented a moderately accommodative monetary policy, maintained ample liquidity, and supported the economy’s transformation toward innovation and high quality, as well as a good start to the Fifteenth Five-Year Plan.
Reasonable growth in aggregate financial volume, stable operation of financial markets
Since the beginning of this year, the People’s Bank of China has continued to implement a moderately accommodative monetary policy. On the basis of existing policies continuing to take effect, a series of structural monetary policy measures were introduced at the beginning of the year. Recently, People’s Bank of China Governor Pan Gongsheng announced several measures to reform and improve the monetary policy framework at the Lujiazui Forum. “At present, various measures have been accelerated and implemented with visible results,” Zou Lan said.
Data show that since the beginning of this year, China’s aggregate financial volume has grown reasonably. In the first half of the year, new RMB loans increased by 10.72 trillion yuan, bond financing increased by 8.51 trillion yuan, and the proportion of bond financing rose. The credit structure continued to optimize. As of the end of June, the balance of inclusive small and micro enterprise loans grew by 8.3% year-on-year, the balance of medium- and long-term industrial loans grew by 5.9% year-on-year, and the balance of medium- and long-term loans to the service sector excluding real estate grew by 9.2% year-on-year, all higher than the growth rate of total loans. The comprehensive social financing cost was at a historically low level. In June, the weighted average interest rate on newly issued corporate loans was about 3.0%, about 20 basis points lower than the same period last year; the interest rate on newly issued personal housing loans was about 3.1%, basically flat with the same period last year.
“The increment in aggregate social financing grew reasonably, and the financial system relatively well met the funding needs of the real economy,” said Yan Xiandong (闫先东), spokesperson for the People’s Bank of China and Director of the Department of Survey and Statistics. In the first half of the year, China’s aggregate social financing increment was 20.84 trillion yuan. In terms of structure, after deducting repayment amounts, the net increase in new RMB loans issued by financial institutions to the real economy was 10.76 trillion yuan. At the same time, corporate direct financing increased significantly year-on-year, and its proportion rose markedly. In the first half of the year, net bond financing of non-financial enterprises was 2.07 trillion yuan, an increase of 916.7 billion yuan year-on-year; stock financing of non-financial enterprises was 293.3 billion yuan, an increase of 122.4 billion yuan year-on-year.
In the first half of the year, China’s financial market operated stably, the capital market remained active, and the bond market operated smoothly. Currently, the 10-year government bond yield is running at around 1.73%. The RMB exchange rate stabilized and appreciated. At the end of June, the RMB appreciated by 4.7% against a basket of currencies compared with the end of last year, and appreciated by 3% against the US dollar compared with the end of last year.
Structural monetary policy tools strongly support technological innovation and the private economy
This year, the People’s Bank of China introduced a series of structural monetary policy measures to strengthen support for key areas and weak links of the economy. These include: establishing a 1 trillion yuan private enterprise relending facility, bringing medium-sized private enterprises into the policy support scope of relending; increasing the quota of relending for technological innovation and technological transformation; merging and establishing a risk-sharing tool for bonds of technological innovation and private enterprises; expanding the support scope of tools such as carbon emission reduction support tools and relending for services, consumption, and elderly care. At the same time, the interest rate on structural tools was lowered by 0.25 percentage points.
Xie Guangqi (谢光启), Director of the Monetary Policy Department of the People’s Bank of China, introduced that currently, structural monetary policy tools have covered the five areas of the “five major articles of finance” (金融五篇大文章). When financial institutions issue loans to key areas and weak links that require policy support, they can obtain relending from the People’s Bank of China at relatively favorable interest rates.
Currently, the total quota for relending for technological innovation and technological transformation is 1.2 trillion yuan, with the main role being to encourage financial institutions to strengthen financial services for small and medium-sized technology enterprises and large-scale equipment updates. “As of the end of April, banks had issued 1.5 trillion yuan in loans for technological innovation and technological transformation, of which 218.8 billion yuan were for technological innovation loans, and 21,000 technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises that previously had no loans obtained their first loans. The loans for technological transformation and equipment updates have so far provided financial support for 8,250 equipment update projects in key areas,” Xie Guangqi said.
Data show that this year, loans to technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises maintained a relatively high growth rate of about 20%. In the first five months, investment in equipment and tool purchases increased by 9.3% year-on-year, with the growth rate 2.2 percentage points higher than the same period last year.
Currently, the balance of private enterprise relending has exceeded 760 billion yuan. Xie Guangqi introduced that from the perspective of incentive effects, as of the end of the first quarter of this year, loans by local corporate financial institutions to small, medium, and micro private enterprises increased by 4.2% compared with the beginning of the year, about 1 percentage point higher than the increase in various loans of financial institutions compared with the beginning of the year. In terms of interest rates, in the first quarter, the weighted average interest rate on loans to small, medium, and micro private enterprises issued by local corporate financial institutions fell by 45 basis points compared with the same period last year, with the decline 24 basis points larger than the decline in interest rates on various loans of financial institutions.
Xie Guangqi stated that in the next step, the People’s Bank of China will continue to leverage the incentive and guiding role of structural monetary policy tools, while strengthening coordination between monetary policy and fiscal policy to smooth the transmission of monetary policy.
Enhance the forward-looking, flexible, and targeted nature of monetary policy, strengthen counter-cyclical and cross-cyclical adjustment
Zou Lan stated that in the second half of the year, the People’s Bank of China will enhance the forward-looking, flexible, and targeted nature of monetary policy, strengthen counter-cyclical and cross-cyclical adjustment, and create a suitable monetary and financial environment for stable economic growth, high-quality development, and stable operation of financial markets.
In terms of quantity, the People’s Bank of China’s toolkit is currently very rich, including reserve requirements, reverse repos, medium-term lending facilities, and government bond trading, among others. Among them, reserve requirement cuts mainly focus on injecting long-term liquidity, while reverse repos and medium-term lending facilities mainly provide short- and medium-term liquidity.
In terms of interest rates, the foundation for the economy to continue to improve steadily still needs further consolidation. From the perspective of prices, influenced by external imported factors, the PPI (Producer Price Index for Industrial Products) has rebounded relatively significantly, but the CPI (Consumer Price Index) increase is relatively moderate.
Zou Lan stated that the People’s Bank of China will continue to play the role of structural monetary policy tools and other monetary and financial policies, take financial supply-side structural reform as the main line, continuously improve the quality and efficiency of financial services to the real economy, and optimize the credit structure. On the one hand, implement well the series of structural monetary policy measures introduced at the beginning of the year, continuously improve tool design and management, and if necessary, increase tool quotas and optimize policy elements according to market demand to strengthen support for key areas such as expanding domestic demand, technological innovation, and small, medium, and micro enterprises; on the other hand, guide financial institutions to scientifically assess risks, implement differentiated policies, support some and control others, and improve the efficiency of fund utilization.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 曹玲娟
From ordinary social worker to general Party branch secretary of a residential area, since 2011 Li Xiuqin (李秀勤) has successively performed community work in six residential areas under Puxing Road Subdistrict (浦兴路街道), Pudong New Area, Shanghai. Along the way, she relied on the pragmatic work style of 实地、实事、实干 (shí dì, shí shì, shí gàn - "on-the-ground, practical matters, solid work") to crack governance problems and win the recognition of community residents.
In the eyes of residents, Li Xiuqin is not tall, has a capable short haircut, and always seems to have inexhaustible energy. She keeps matters of the masses — whether big or small — in her heart.
In 2014, Li Xiuqin served as assistant to the director of the Hewu Neighborhood Committee (荷五居委) and threw herself into her work, earning praise from residents. Not long after, however, she was diagnosed with mid-to-late stage gastric cancer, with four-fifths of her stomach removed. After her serious illness, Li Xiuqin lost a full 20 jin (10 kg), but she insisted on returning to her post. She said, community cadres give a lot to residents, and they gain even more from residents. "When I had surgery, many residents came to see me, which warmed my heart," Li Xiuqin said.
From December 2016 to May 2020, Li Xiuqin successively served as deputy secretary and then secretary of the general Party branch of Zhongda Residential Area (中大居民区). In this old neighborhood, Li Xiuqin's first target was a "garbage belt" — at the time, there was a stand of dawn redwoods in the compound where people often dumped trash.
Although she had just arrived, Li Xiuqin said nothing, rolled up her sleeves, and took the lead in cleaning up the garbage. She also organized a series of open-discussion meetings, pulling residents into a "brainstorming" session: How to change the community's appearance? How to govern it? By pooling wisdom, a solution soon emerged. The neighborhood brought in co-building units and landscape designers, effectively merging resident self-governance with pluralistic co-governance. The small woods that had lain barren and unattended for 18 years turned into a 3,000-plus-square-meter natural "oxygen bar" — 我们的小森林 (wǒmen de xiǎo sēnlín - "Our Little Forest").
"What is the 'ox's nose' of community governance? I think it is essential to find that starting point that can change residents' habits and willingness to participate," Li Xiuqin summarized from practice.
Under her leadership, community residents actively threw themselves into the construction of a "beautiful homeland." Micro-landscapes and micro-revitalization projects such as 四合园 (sì hé yuán - "Four Harmony Garden"), 我们的小森林 ("Our Little Forest"), 沁心角 (qìn xīn jiǎo - "Refreshing Corner"), and 都市农园 (dūshì nóngyuán - "Urban Farm Garden") transformed the look of this old neighborhood.
In May 2020, Li Xiuqin became general Party branch secretary of Changdao Road Residential Area (长岛路居民区), and this year she also became director of the neighborhood committee. This is a neighborhood built in 1997, and new difficulties lay before Li Xiuqin — "people old, houses old, parking hard; trees strung with clotheslines, vegetables planted on the ground"…
On her first day in office, Li Xiuqin led all Party members in a meeting. Gloves, tongs, and spades were readied; as soon as the meeting ended, they immediately started work, carpet-cleaning corridors, green belts, and so on.
The harder problem was parking. The neighborhood has over 2,000 households, with a permanent population of about 6,000. By day, old sofas and discarded bicycles sat on parking spaces. At night, cars returning from work were blocked at the entrance. Parking disputes were endless; on the busiest day, Li Xiuqin handled eight related disputes.
To solve the problem, Li Xiuqin led the two committees of the residential area in in-depth investigation, held many meetings to discuss solutions, and invited resident representatives to participate. After four months, a set of parking management measures was formulated, submitted to and approved by the homeowners' assembly, and formally implemented in January 2021. The measures were continuously refined, shifting parking management from "crude control" to "targeted policy."
With the environment improved, the neighborhood's spirit also lifted. "A happy life is built by hard work," Li Xiuqin said.
Li Xiuqin not only rushed to the front herself, but also, in long-term grassroots governance practice, summarized and refined a distinctive working method that linked together the co-governance force of property management, volunteers, and residents.
During her work in Changdao Road Residential Area, Li Xiuqin spearheaded the improvement of the work network of one residential-area general Party branch, eight area-segment Party branches, and 71 building-group Party cells, built the 幸福岛 (xìngfú dǎo - "Happiness Island") project, cultivated ten core volunteer teams, and formed a pluralistic-participation grassroots governance structure.
In May 2021, the 秀勤工作室 (xiù qín gōngzuòshì - "Xiuqin Studio") was formally inaugurated. Li Xiuqin shared her experience with community workers, telling them how Changdao Road Residential Area turned the Party's political and organizational strengths into grassroots governance effectiveness, successfully pushing multiple neighborhoods from "problem neighborhoods" into "governance model rooms." Since its founding, the Xiuqin Studio has trained nearly 200 sessions, covering 16,000 trainees, supplying a large number of cadres for grassroots governance.
Return to TopYinchuan, July 15 (Reporter Qi Yukun (亓玉昆)) — From July 13 to 15, Tie Ning (铁凝), Vice Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, led the law enforcement inspection team for the Vocational Education Law to carry out inspections in Ningxia. She emphasized the need to thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions and important directive instructions on vocational education, deeply understand and grasp the new situation and new tasks, comprehensively and effectively implement the Vocational Education Law, and promote vocational education to achieve new progress and reach a new level.
Tie Ning pointed out that it is necessary to actively adapt to the needs of economic and social development and industrial transformation, promote the coordinated development of vocational education with the regional economy and industrial structure, use the integration of industry and education to drive the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent, and cultivate more high-quality technical and skilled personnel for Chinese-style modernization. It is necessary to optimize the pattern of vocational education provision, improve the key schooling capabilities of vocational schools, accelerate the construction of a modern vocational education system, and promote the high-quality development of vocational education through legal thinking and legal methods.
The inspection team held a symposium and conducted inspections in Yinchuan and other places, affirming the effectiveness of Ningxia's implementation of the Vocational Education Law, and expressed the hope that, in light of local realities, it would focus on hot and difficult issues in the field of vocational education, urge all relevant parties to earnestly fulfill their duties, and ensure that the legal provisions are implemented in place.
Return to TopXINING, July 15 (Xinhua) -- The 27th China·Qinghai Green Development Investment and Trade Fair opened in Xining on July 15. Yang Zhen, Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech.
Yang Zhen stated that President Xi Jinping has always cared about Qinghai's development, pointing out that "Qinghai's greatest value lies in its ecology, its greatest responsibility lies in its ecology, and its greatest potential also lies in its ecology," and that "protecting Qinghai's ecological environment is a matter of national significance," emphasizing the need to continuously advance the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, and to strive to write the Qinghai chapter of Chinese-style modernization.
Yang Zhen stressed that Qinghai must unswervingly act as the guardian of the Chinese water tower (中华水塔), continuously expand the platform effect of the Qinghai Green Development Investment and Trade Fair, fully promote the transformation of ecological advantages into development advantages, bravely shoulder the mission and forge ahead with determination in the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, and explore new pathways and accumulate new experience for national ecological civilization construction.
This year's Qinghai Green Development Investment and Trade Fair is themed "Open Cooperation · Green Development." After the opening ceremony, Yang Zhen toured the exhibition halls of this year's fair.
Return to TopDuring the summer vacation, Huatai Community (华泰社区) in Yanling Subdistrict (延令街道), Taixing City (泰兴市), Jiangsu Province, set up a public-interest summer daycare class, offering courses such as reading, science popularization, safety lectures, and sports and cultural activities, balancing safe companionship with character cultivation so that children can spend a fulfilling holiday. The picture shows teachers of the public-interest summer daycare class leading students in learning to play hand drums inside the Huatai Community Party and Mass Service Center (党群服务中心). Photo by Gu Jihong (顾继红).
Return to TopThis newspaper, Beijing, July 15 (electric) (Reporter Yang Hao (杨昊)) — The All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (全国工商联) released on the 14th the China Private Enterprise Social Responsibility Report (2026). The report’s data come from a questionnaire survey involving 102,800 private enterprises nationwide, combined with publicly available information from relevant departments, presenting the main characteristics and practical progress of private enterprise social responsibility in 2025.
The report points out that in 2025, the vast number of private enterprises deeply implemented the new development concept, actively aligned with major national strategies, and took proactive actions in areas such as scientific and technological innovation, stabilizing employment, green and low-carbon development, compliant operations, and ensuring people’s livelihood. Their role in supporting high-quality economic and social development became increasingly prominent.
The report shows that in 2025, private enterprises continuously strengthened their independent innovation. The R&D intensity of listed private enterprises was 1.6 percentage points higher than that of the entire market. The number of “Four New” (四新 - new technologies, new industries, new business forms, and new models) private enterprises increased by over 6% year-on-year. The concept of green development continued to deepen: among the global top 10 in new energy vehicle sales, Chinese private enterprises occupied 6 seats; the top five in wind turbine installed capacity were all private enterprises. Consumer rights protection became more comprehensive: 96.3% of enterprises adopted sustainable production measures, and over 99% of enterprises adopted consumer rights and information protection measures. Employee rights protection continued to improve: private enterprises strengthened vocational skills training and employee growth support, and reinforced the protection of the rights and interests of workers in flexible employment.
The report indicates that in 2025, private enterprises actively participated in building a modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics. Market order continued to be standardized: 64.47% of enterprises proactively took anti-commercial bribery and anti-corruption measures and regularly conducted relevant training, further enhancing enterprise competitiveness through intellectual property protection, supply chain responsibility management, and other means.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘新吾
Not long ago, with the final excavation, the longest tunnel on the newly built Chongqing-Wanzhou High-Speed Railway (New Yuwang High-Speed Railway) — the Changlinggang Tunnel, with a total length of 13,325 meters — was successfully broken through, marking the completion of all 56 tunnels on the main line of the high-speed railway. Looking back on the arduous battle of more than 1,000 days and nights, at the moment of the tunnel's rendezvous, Qi Zhenhan (齐振涵), chief engineer of the Changlinggang Tunnel project of China Railway 12th Bureau Group Co., Ltd. (中铁十二局集团有限公司), and his colleagues could hardly contain their excitement, feeling both the joy of traversing a “geological museum” and the pride of participating in its construction.
The Changlinggang Tunnel is located among the continuous mountains at the junction of Banan District and Fuling District in Chongqing, with an extremely complex geological environment. Qi Zhenhan still remembers when he first received the design drawings; the dense markings of geological risks on them made them 望而却步 (wàng ér què bù - “look and step back,” to be daunted by the sight). Seven types of surrounding rock interspersed and distributed, two fault fracture zones crossing the tunnel body, and eight shallow-buried sections with weak geology prone to collapse. In addition, it had to pass through a 6,271-meter section of gas and toxic/harmful gases, and a 3,822-meter complex karst area. More challenging was the well-developed groundwater system, with a maximum daily water inflow exceeding 30,000 cubic meters. Multiple risks such as micro gas emission, karst collapse, water and mud inrush, and bedding collapse could interweave and erupt at any time.
If the conventional construction method of bidirectional excavation from the entrance and exit were followed, it would not only be difficult to drain the water inflow and gas, but also unfavorable for comprehensively understanding the geological environment. To break the excavation dilemma and resolve safety risks, the engineering team excavated one inclined shaft, two adits, and one parallel heading in the mountain. This system of auxiliary tunnels, like crisscrossing blood vessels, entered the main tunnel from multiple directions, simultaneously opening multiple excavation faces, attacking in sections and in a 分进合击 (fēn jìn hé jī - “advance separately, strike together,” pincer attack) manner. The team also built an integrated ventilation, smoke exhaust, and drainage roadway to more precisely grasp tunnel risks.
To penetrate the “fog” of the rock layers and gain a complete picture of the underground, they performed a full-scale “geological CT” on the mountain, comprehensively utilizing multiple technical means such as transient electromagnetic, geological radar, and seismic wave detection to fully understand the surrounding rock structure, rock fissures, hidden karst caves, and groundwater distribution. They repeatedly identified concealed adverse geological hazards in advance, promptly optimized support plans, and reinforced the surrounding rock structure, safely and smoothly chiseling out a stable and secure underground passage in the loose and fragmented complex rock layers.
The team also applied tunnel mechanized construction equipment and an intelligent information management system, using advanced equipment to reduce and replace personnel, thereby increasing the safety factor of tunnel excavation. Relying on BIM (Building Information Modeling), combined with drone tilt photography technology, they built a centimeter-level high-precision digital tunnel model. Before tunnel excavation began, the mountain terrain, rock folds, natural fissures, and geologically weak areas were already clearly visualized. The 3D laser scanning equipment deployed at the construction site could monitor surrounding rock settlement and tunnel convergence changes in real time, capturing subtle geological variations around the clock, enabling early detection and early treatment of risks.
During the excavation process, the team carried out intelligent innovation and research and development. Combining key processes such as tunnel advanced geological prediction, drilling and blasting, and arch frame assembly and installation, they configured large mechanical equipment such as intelligent geological drilling jumbos and fully computerized three-boom rock drilling jumbos, established a “one tunnel, thirteen lines” full-process mechanized equipment system, and organically linked them using an intelligent construction management and control core platform, achieving intelligent control of the construction workflow.
The team actively applied AI (artificial intelligence) technology, developing an intelligent safety emergency robot named “Walli” (瓦力) and an AI-identified fire extinguisher, which can patrol and warn of tunnel risks 24 hours a day without interruption, installing an intelligent “safety lock” on high-risk tunnels.
The increase in technological content has yielded tangible construction results: the comprehensive tunnel construction efficiency has been stably maintained above 85%, the average monthly excavation distance in the Grade IV surrounding rock section can reach 120 meters, and the number of tunnel construction personnel input has been reduced by more than half.
Tunneling through the mountain and chiseling rock has not only built a super tunnel but also formed a set of intelligent construction technical systems for complex geological tunnels. Now, the 13,325-meter Changlinggang Tunnel has been successfully broken through. Under the verdant mountains, a modern high-speed railway underground passage has taken shape. In the future, speeding trains will shuttle through the tunnel at 350 kilometers per hour, passing through the former obstacles in just over two minutes.
Extended Reading
How Important Is the New Yuwang High-Speed Railway
As an important backbone line of the national high-speed railway network, the New Yuwang High-Speed Railway is a key component of the Beijing-Kunming and Baotou-Hainan main corridors of China’s “Eight Vertical and Eight Horizontal” high-speed railway master plan. It is also a critical support for Chongqing’s “rice-shaped” high-speed railway network and an important supplement to the Yangtze River high-speed railway corridor.
After the completion of the New Yuwang High-Speed Railway, it will improve the western high-speed railway network and consolidate Chongqing’s status as a national comprehensive railway hub. By then, the time-space distance between Chongqing and other regions will be greatly compressed: Chongqing to Xi’an about 2 hours 10 minutes, to Zhengzhou 3 hours 40 minutes, to Beijing and Shanghai about 6 hours, saving nearly 1 hour compared to existing lines. It will provide solid transportation support for the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing Dual-City Economic Circle, the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and the linked development of the high-quality Belt and Road Initiative.
The line starts from Chongqing East Station, passes through five stations including Nan’an, Banan, and Zhongxian, and ends at Wanzhou North Station. The main line is 251 kilometers long, with a design speed of 350 km/h and a construction period of 4.5 years. The line extends along both banks of the Yangtze River, passing through Dongwenquan Mountain, Huangcao Mountain, Waduan Mountain, etc. The bridge-tunnel ratio is as high as 87%. The Shituo Yangtze River Bridge is the controlling engineering project of the entire line, while the Changlinggang Tunnel and the Xinqiao Double-Track Super Major Bridge are key and difficult projects.
Along the line, cultural and tourism resources are abundant, the industrial foundation is solid, and the advantages of characteristic agriculture are obvious. In terms of culture and tourism, it clusters attractions such as Fuling Baiheliang and Zhongxian Shibaozhai. In terms of industry, it has multiple industrial parks such as Fuling Industrial Park, Baitao Chemical Park, and Wanzhou Economic Development Zone. In terms of agriculture, Fuling pickled mustard and Chinese medicinal herbs, and Zhongxian citrus each have their highlights. The resource endowment is rich and the development potential is sufficient.
(Compiled by reporter Liu Xinwu (刘新吾))
Reporter’s Note
Team Wisdom Breaks Through the Long Tunnel
Traveling through the Changlinggang Tunnel of the New Yuwang High-Speed Railway, this 13.3-kilometer underground corridor, every meter bears the mark of the builders’ struggle against complex geological conditions.
Here, intelligent construction and other technologies have become effective forces for breaking the deadlock. The team actively applied new technologies and new equipment, optimized construction processes, and while reducing labor costs, greatly improved construction efficiency and project quality.
Here, the builders worked year after year, with the tenacity of “biting firmly into the green mountain and not relaxing” to gnaw through this hard bone. Throughout the construction process, the builders always prioritized project quality and construction safety, strictly advancing each procedure according to specifications, and strictly controlling key links such as tunnel excavation, support, and waterproofing, ensuring the tunnel is safe and reliable after completion.
The breakthrough of the Changlinggang Tunnel is a concentration of the team’s wisdom and perseverance, and also a concentrated manifestation of China’s hard construction strength.
By: 本报记者 常 钦
At 4:30 in the early morning, in Wuxi's Huishan District, Yangshan Town (阳山镇), the sky just barely light, new peach farmer Gao Miaojie (高淼洁) of Taoyuan Village (桃园村) had already transported the first batch of honey peaches picked that day to the village-head warehouse. Bagging, boxing, sticking on labels, rushing to send them nationwide before the sun rose higher. "Now I sell peaches while sitting at home; the buyers' calls are so many I can't even answer them all!"
Five years ago, Gao Miaojie returned to her hometown to take over a 20-mu peach orchard. Now, her Douyin account records the four seasons of the orchard, and a single video can bring in hundreds of cases of orders. In Yangshan Town, the small honey peach is using branding as a fulcrum to pry open a path of industrial revitalization from agricultural product to "big brand."
The outline of the Fifteenth Five-Year Plan proposes to coordinate the development of science and technology agriculture, green agriculture, quality agriculture, and brand agriculture, and to build agriculture into a modern major industry.
Data from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) shows that currently, 30 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) in China have established provincial-level agricultural brand catalogs, with over 1,400 regional public brands, 2,000 enterprise brands, and 2,300 product brands included in provincial catalogs for key cultivation. From "hawking from baskets" to "hot sales at the fingertips," more and more agricultural products are relying on the power of brands to blaze a development path with higher quality, better benefits, and a more optimized structure.
Branding — a value leap from "selling by the jin" to "selling by the piece"
Driven by both rural revitalization and consumption upgrading, agricultural branding has become a "must-choose" for modern agriculture and an important marker of a strong agricultural nation. The most direct change it brings is the leap in the value of agricultural products.
Ten years ago, Yangshan peach farmers were still worried about sales channels, with farm-gate purchase prices of only a few yuan per jin. Now, in high-end domestic supermarkets, a single fruit sells for 30 to 50 yuan; in the Hong Kong region, over 100 yuan per fruit; and in the Dubai market, over 500 yuan per fruit. From "selling by the jin" to "selling by the piece," the brand has given a single peach the right to be repriced. The total output value of the Yangshan honey peach whole industry chain has risen from less than 1 billion yuan ten years ago to nearly 2 billion yuan in 2025, with per-mu output reaching 35,000 yuan, and net benefit exceeding 20,000 yuan after deducting costs.
Calculations by China Agricultural University (中国农业大学) show that the 320 regional public brands included in the Agricultural Brand Boutique Cultivation Program have an average premium rate of 33% on large e-commerce platforms; additionally, sampling 20% of the regional public brands from provincial brand catalogs, the average premium rate over the past 10 years exceeds 24%. The premium rates of leading brands such as Wuchang rice and Yanchi Tan sheep meat even exceed 100%.
Brand premium is not only reflected in financial statements, but also in the smiling faces of farmers. The per capita disposable income of Yangshan farmers reaches 71,800 yuan, 1.5 times the average level of Wuxi city. Han Yijun (韩一军), director of the National Agricultural Market Research Center (国家农业市场研究中心) at China Agricultural University, stated that high-quality products and stable quality are the fundamental foundation for the sustainable development of brands.
In Dazeshan Town (大泽山镇), Pingdu City, Qingdao, Shandong, the same story is unfolding. Before 2020, Dazeshan grapes also faced the dilemma of "high yield but not high price." Since systematically promoting the construction of regional public brands, Dazeshan Town has linked every link from variety cultivation, digital traceability to cold chain logistics. Now, the per-mu average income of standardized planting farmers has jumped from 8,000 yuan to 15,000 yuan. Dazeshan grapes have been rated as a national famous, special, superior, and new agricultural product, and won the gold award in Shandong Province's first grape competition.
What the brand brings is not only a price increase, but also a reshaping of market discourse power. In Cuijiaji Town (崔家集镇), Qingdao, digital traceability has equipped tomatoes with a "data brain." Consumers scan a QR code to view the complete file from seedling to market. As a result, the order volume of Cuijiaji tomatoes increased by 30% year-on-year, and the selling price per jin increased by 0.5 to 1 yuan.
Since the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan, the country has added over 36,000 green, organic, famous-special-superior-new, and geographical indication agricultural products, an increase of 70% compared to the end of the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan.
Data chain — a digital intelligence transformation from "relying on experience" to "looking at data"
The foundation of brand agriculture lies in quality, and the stability and improvement of quality cannot be separated from the digital empowerment of the entire industry chain.
In the core production area of Taiping Houkui tea in Huangshan District (黄山区), Huangshan City, Anhui, a digital intelligence transformation is taking place. Huangshan District has applied blockchain technology to the entire tea industry chain and developed the Taiping Houkui Geographical Indication Protection Tea Product Certification System. As of May this year, the platform has covered 90.7% of the tea gardens in the district, cumulatively issuing over 145,000 traceability labels, achieving "one box, one code." When consumers scan with their phones, the tea garden's GPS positioning, soil moisture, picking time, stir-frying master, and other information are all clear. In 2025, the brand value of Taiping Houkui rose to 5.298 billion yuan.
At the Yangtze River Seed Industry Company (扬子江种业公司) in Gaoyou, Jiangsu, the local talent department, centered on the enterprise's needs, helped introduce expert talent from the Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences (上海农科院), jointly developing rice-assisted molecular design breeding technology. The developed "Yangjing Simiao" (扬晶丝苗) rice variety increased yield by 10% and reached the national first-class standard. The company introduced internationally advanced high-end color sorters to finely screen rice, relying on high-precision optical sensors and intelligent algorithms to remove off-color grains, impurities, and invisible defective particles at the micron level, greatly improving rice cleanliness. In May 2025, "Yangjing Simiao" obtained a new plant variety rights certificate from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, with annual sales reaching 13.72 million yuan, helping to promote the "Yangzhou Rice" regional public brand.
How to sell good quality at a good price? Li Xiaozhong (李孝忠), expert from the Heilongjiang Provincial Green Food Science Research Institute (黑龙江省绿色食品科学研究院), said with deep feeling: "Through technologies such as blockchain, quality is transformed into verifiable data, solving the trust problem, and allowing good products to truly be sold at a good price."
The "cross-province travel" of high-quality agricultural products requires support from a stronger supply chain system. In Qingdao, Shandong, Dazeshan Town has built a 18,000-square-meter cold chain storage and smart logistics distribution center, extending the preservation period of grapes by 3 months, supporting off-peak listing. During the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan period, China implemented a project for the construction of cold storage and preservation facilities at production sites, newly building about 98 million cubic meters of facilities. 78% of the entities are equipped with mechanized grading, washing, packaging and other post-harvest processing equipment, improving post-production commercialization levels. 93% of entities have expanded their sales scope, achieving a shift from nearby sales to distant sales, and from domestic sales to export sales.
New ecology — industrial reshaping from "a single flower" to "fragrance filling the garden"
Brand agriculture is not only a mode of production, but also an industrial ecology, attracting the return of talent, reshaping the face of the countryside, and also spawning new consumption scenarios.
In Changsha, a team of new farmers who are educated, understand technology, good at management, and skilled in administration is growing rapidly. Zhang Ting (张婷) has targeted the localized farming of Australian freshwater lobsters, turning experiential exploration into a replicable farming process, while also smoothing out the "village collective + company + farmer" cooperation model, enabling farmers to dare to follow and make money. Zhang Jianxin (章建新) has installed a "data brain" on Huangxing Guangpi peppers, with field sensors monitoring soil moisture in real time, drones accurately identifying pests and diseases, and the superior product rate increasing by 30%; peppers with traceability QR codes go from the field into high-end supermarkets. Currently, Changsha has recognized 170 leading talents in modern agricultural industries, 2,723 new-type professional farmers, and 1,020 rural artisans.
In Yanghe Town (洋河镇), Jiaozhou City, Qingdao, Shandong, returning home to start a business, new farmer Bu Qinlong (卜钦龙) used ten years of persistence to turn a "small wild grass" into a "golden brand" with an annual output value exceeding 10 million yuan. The "Youai Workshop" (有艾工坊) he established has developed more than 20 kinds of deep-processed products such as mugwort health hammers and mugwort velvet pillows. A seemingly simple mugwort health hammer, driven by both e-commerce and livestreaming, can sell 1.2 million units annually. The cooperative has driven nearly a hundred nearby farmers to achieve employment at their doorstep, with per capita annual income increasing by 12,000 yuan.
Brand awareness is also forcing the acceleration of the integration of the three industries. Bihu Town (碧湖镇), Lishui City, Zhejiang, has activated the resource endowments of "thousand-year-old ancient weir, thousand-year-old ancient camphor tree, thousand-mu plum forest, thousand-year-old ancient village," attracting over 1.9 million tourists in 2025. The town has extended the bayberry industry chain, drying fresh fruit into dried fruit and brewing it into fruit wine, with prices several times higher than fresh fruit. Now, the added value of one jin of bayberry has jumped from ten yuan in the past to nearly one hundred yuan, forging a new path of common prosperity from "red fruit" to "golden fruit."
New e-commerce models are iterating and upgrading, from livestreaming to community group buying. Branded agricultural products are reaching consumers in faster and more convenient ways. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, together with relevant departments, vigorously promotes the training of rural e-commerce talent. It continues to carry out training on farmers' mobile phone application skills. As of the end of 2025, the cumulative training audience has exceeded 300 million person-times. Farmers who once held hoes have now transformed into "field livestreamers" and "village livestreamers," telling brand stories in vivid ways.
Through the path of agricultural products' advancement, it can be clearly seen: technology, data, and brands are reshaping the genes of Chinese agriculture. Brand agriculture, together with technology agriculture, green agriculture, and quality agriculture, complement and advance in coordination, jointly constituting the path to building modern agriculture with Chinese characteristics.
Return to TopBy: 张伟昊
Wuchang rice, Gannan navel oranges, Yangshan honey peaches, Yunnan Pu'er tea, Enshi small potatoes… These well-known, high-quality specialty agricultural products are popular in the market because they have identified the right development direction — make the product excellent, make the brand big.
Brand building establishes a standardized quality system and a trustworthy market identifier for agricultural products, promotes standardization in planting and normalization in quality control, and enables “good quality” to match “good price.” Stable quality and recognized reputation naturally generate brand premium. This premium is a reasonable value return for green planting, meticulous management, and high-quality products.
At the same time, agricultural branding truly benefits farmers and enriches the people. Unlike the inflated prices brought by short-term market speculation, the long-term value of agricultural brands is embedded in the industrial chain and realized in farmers’ incomes, transforming farming from a livelihood reliant on weather into an industry with standards and prospects.
To cultivate more agricultural brands that are solidly established, well-recognized, and have broad reach, it is necessary to persist in excellent quality and meet consumer demand while strengthening the patience to cultivate brands and adopting a long-term planning perspective, so as to help more local specialties build their reputations and give farmers a sweet taste and agriculture a bright future.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 白光迪
The sky is clear for ten thousand li, a lake breeze gently brushes. Stepping into Dongluo Village (东罗村), Qianduo Town (千垛镇), Xinghua City (兴化市), Taizhou, Jiangsu, a small path of blue flagstones winds and stretches, a grand auditorium of red bricks and gray tiles stands quietly, and dried vegetables airing on the street waft bursts of fragrance.
Dongluo Village is located in the core area of the Xinghua Duotian (兴化垛田) — a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System and a World Heritage Irrigation Structure. More than 600 years ago, people “piled earth into duotian (垛, raised fields) and used duo as fields,” creating a unique landform of crisscrossing lakes and marshes, 星罗棋布 (xīng luó qí bù - “scattered like stars and chess pieces,” spread out widely). In October 2025, Dongluo Village was selected for the United Nations World Tourism Organization’s “Best Tourism Villages” (最佳旅游乡村) list.
“In spring we see rape flowers, in summer there are bonfire parties, in autumn we enjoy chrysanthemums and taste crabs, in winter we sit around the stove and brew tea. Our village’s tourism scene is getting richer and richer, and tourists love to come more.” Luo Guokang (罗国康), secretary of the Dongluo Village Party General Branch, said that the hometown deep in the duotian has become a popular tourist destination, attracting more and more tourists.
Luo Guokang introduced that Dongluo Village is in the hinterland of the Lixiahe (里下河) region. In the past, villagers could not do without boats for production and daily life. After the rice ripened, they had to transport it out boat by boat; after the wheat was harvested, they relied on boats to pull it out to sell. When the rainy season came, low-lying areas easily accumulated water, and the villagers often said this place was a “pot-bottom depression” (锅底洼). Later, the muddy roads were repaired into cement roads, and the village was also pondering new development paths.
Riding the east wind of Jiangsu’s launch of 特色田园乡村建设 (tèsè tiányuán xiāngcūn jiànshè - “characteristic idyllic rural construction”), Dongluo Village explored the development of rural tourism, attempting to adopt a new cooperation model of “government + social capital + village collective” (政府+社会资本+村集体). The government is responsible for infrastructure and public services, enterprises are responsible for construction and operation, and the village collective participates in coordination and resource integration, collaboratively exploring a new path for 乡村振兴 (xiāngcūn zhènxīng - “rural revitalization”).
At the beginning, not everyone was optimistic about this project. “If the village becomes a scenic area, won’t it no longer feel like home?” some villagers worried.
“Only by improving the quality of villagers’ lives and preserving the village’s unique character can rural tourism be done better,” Luo Guokang said. It is necessary to develop rural tourism while also avoiding excessive commercialization and scenic-area-ization. Taking the grand auditorium built in 1953 in the village as an example, during renovation only structural reinforcement and repairs were done, and the red-brick exterior walls were preserved. Today, the grand auditorium is still a place for villagers to discuss affairs, watch performances, and hold events. The original old homestead platforms (老庄台) and the blue bricks and black tiles (青砖黛瓦) in the village were also preserved as much as possible.
The villagers also felt the new changes, and many have begun to “eat the tourism meal.” The 58-year-old villager Luo Baofang (罗宝芳) is a 土生土长 (tǔ shēng tǔ zhǎng - “born and raised locally,” native) Dongluo person. More than ten years ago, she and her husband opened a small shop, and their son was away working for a long time, so the family was often apart — 聚少离多 (jù shǎo lí duō - “gather little, part much,” often separated). As the number of tourists in the village increased, the son returned to his hometown and took up property management at a tourism company. The couple also converted their home into a farmhouse (农家乐), both operating a guesthouse and receiving tourists for meals, and the family income increased significantly.
With more tourists, jobs in cleaning, landscaping, property management, performances, reception, etc., have also increased. Young people have returned; some have opened coffee shops, some are doing cultural creative products. By the lakeside, in the “Ji Mu Coffee” (几木咖啡馆), many tourists sit by the window. The coffee shop owner tries to incorporate Xinghua agricultural products into drinks; Longxiang taro and Sunshine Rose grapes have become new pairings for beverages. The village also created the “Eighty-Eight Granaries” (八十八仓) brand to sell quality agricultural products such as Xinghua rice and hairy crabs to the market. “The peak tourism season is only a few months; we have explored the path of agriculture-culture-tourism integration (农文旅结合) to make rural tourism go further,” Luo Guokang said.
At present, Dongluo Village is pushing forward phase three construction, and new guesthouse clusters and waterside walkways are being planned. In the future, tourism routes will continue to extend to a larger area.
At dusk, the lights by the lake gradually light up. On the stage, a performance troupe begins rehearsal; the sound of gongs and drums travels far across the water. Tourists stroll along the lake, children chase and run on the shore. In the distance, a small boat glides slowly past. From a water town that could only be reached by boat to a 美名远扬 (měi míng yuǎn yáng - “good reputation spreads far and wide,” famous) tourist village, Dongluo Village continues to write a new movement of development.
Return to TopBeijing, July 15 (Our Correspondent) — (Reporter Ouyang Jie (欧阳洁)) According to statistics from Beijing Customs (北京海关), in the first half of 2026, the total import and export value of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region was 2.58 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 16.2%, accounting for 10.1% of the nation's total import and export value. Among this, exports were 770.06 billion yuan, up 11.8% year-on-year, and imports were 1.81 trillion yuan, up 18.1% year-on-year.
Since the beginning of this year, the import and export value of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region has maintained year-on-year growth for six consecutive months. Among this, exports in June were 140.13 billion yuan, marking the first time the monthly figure has broken through the 140 billion yuan threshold; imports were 348.84 billion yuan, setting a new monthly historical high.
Imports and exports of all three areas in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region achieved growth. In the first half of the year, the import and export values of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei increased by 16.5%, 2.4%, and 33.2% year-on-year respectively. Among them, Beijing's import and export value was 1.78 trillion yuan, accounting for 69.3% of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region's total import and export value, driving the region's import and export value growth rate by 11.4 percentage points.
Trade ties with emerging markets have become closer. In the first half of the year, the import and export value of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region with countries co-building the Belt and Road was 1.37 trillion yuan, accounting for 53.0% of the region's total import and export value. In addition, the import and export value with the 53 African countries that have diplomatic relations with China was 237.34 billion yuan, up 21.0% year-on-year.
Exports are progressing toward new and toward good, with electromechanical products accounting for about six-tenths. In the first half of the year, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region exported electromechanical products worth 458.32 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 17.4%, accounting for 59.5% of the region's export value in the same period.
Return to TopOur newspaper Suzhou, July 15 (Reporter Zhang Shuo (张烁)). The Sixth Cross-Strait Youth Culture Month, jointly hosted by the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council (国务院台办) and the Jiangsu Provincial People’s Government, opened on the 15th in Suzhou, Jiangsu. The Culture Month takes “With One Heart, Walking Together: The Power of Youth” as its theme and “New Expressions of Traditional Culture” as its main thread, building an interactive and experiential exchange platform for cross-strait youth, promoting exchange, interaction, and integration among youth on both sides of the strait.
Before the opening ceremony, a special promotion conference for Jiangsu Province’s support for the development of Taiwan youth and a symposium on the inheritance and development of Chinese culture by cross-strait youth were held. Song Tao, head of the Taiwan Work Office of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央台办) and the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, arrived and interacted and exchanged with Taiwan youth. He stated that General Secretary Xi Jinping attaches great importance to youth work, hoping that youth from both sides of the strait will learn from each other and draw on each other’s strengths, depend on and accompany each other, be of one heart and walk together, run the relay baton of history well, and contribute youthful strength to realize national rejuvenation. Chinese culture has always been the deepest, most enduring, and most resilient bond linking compatriots on both sides of the strait. He hopes that youth from both sides will strengthen cultural confidence, firmly take a stand on the side of the nation, firmly identify with the Chinese nation, Chinese culture, and the great motherland, and enhance the ambition, backbone, and confidence to be upright Chinese people; jointly inherit the spirit of Chinese culture, firmly stand on the correct side of history, unite the broad masses of Taiwan compatriots to resolutely resist political manipulations such as “cultural Taiwan independence” (文化台独), and wage a resolute struggle against “Taiwan independence” separatism and external interference; take promoting the excellent traditional Chinese culture as a bond, and jointly promote the development and prosperity of Chinese culture in strengthening exchange and mutual learning.
Approximately 1,500 people from all walks of life and youth representatives from both sides of the strait attended the opening ceremony and main venue activities. According to the introduction, the Culture Month will run from mid-July to late September. During this period, various locations in Jiangsu will hold over 40 main venue supporting activities and over 30 branch venue activities, including culture and arts, technological innovation, sports competitions, intangible cultural heritage study tours, innovation and entrepreneurship, etc. It is expected that over 3,500 Taiwan youth will participate.
Return to TopIn the height of summer, in Jinzui Village (金银嘴村), Yangjia Town (杨家镇), Dongxing District (东兴区), Neijiang City, Sichuan Province, villagers are taking advantage of the fine weather to hurry the drying of Chinese fan palm leaves and the processing and making of palm-leaf fans. The locality has developed the Chinese fan palm cultivation and palm-leaf fan processing industry in accordance with local conditions, and has built a Chinese fan palm cultivation base of over 6,000 mu, with an annual processing and production of more than 5 million palm-leaf fans, which are sold far to many places. The picture shows villagers turning over Chinese fan palm leaves to dry on July 15.
Photo by Lan Zitao (兰自涛) / Visual China (中国视觉)
Return to TopThis newspaper Beijing July 15 (reporter Han Xin (韩鑫)). The Xinhua-Baltic International Shipping Centre Development Index Report (2026) was released recently. The report shows that Shanghai has surpassed London for the first time, with its comprehensive strength rising to second place globally, while Ningbo Zhoushan has jumped to sixth place globally. Compared to the beginning of the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, among the seven Chinese shipping hub cities ranked in the top 20, five have seen varying degrees of upward movement in their rankings: Shanghai, Ningbo Zhoushan, Guangzhou, Qingdao, and Tianjin have each risen by one place. Chinese shipping hubs have completed the key transition from "scale leadership" to "grade leadership."
As one of the widely influential evaluation systems in the international shipping field, the Xinhua-Baltic International Shipping Centre Development Index conducts a comprehensive evaluation of 43 global international shipping hub cities across three dimensions: port conditions, shipping services, and the comprehensive environment. The report points out that competition among international shipping hubs has expanded from competition over port scale and route networks to comprehensive competition in green transition capability, digital innovation capability, influence over shipping rules, and global resource allocation capability. Overall, shipping hubs in the Asia-Pacific region maintain strong development resilience, while shipping hubs in emerging economies continue to serve as important engines for enhancing global shipping resource allocation capability.
Return to TopThis newspaper Beijing, July 15 (Reporter Jiang Lin (江琳)) In the first half of this year, the willingness of Taiwanese compatriots to come to the mainland for exchanges continued to rise, and the number of participants in many cross-strait exchange activities repeatedly reached new highs. Spokesperson of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council (国务院台办) Zhu FengLian (朱凤莲) stated at a regular press conference on the 15th that, according to statistics from the National Immigration Administration (国家移民管理局), from January to June this year, cross-strait personnel exchanges totaled 3.119 million person-times, a year-on-year increase of 22.1%, of which Taiwanese compatriots came to the mainland 2.85 million person-times, a year-on-year increase of 24.9%. These relevant data fully demonstrate that the desire for peace, the desire for development, the desire for exchange, and the desire for cooperation are the mainstream public opinion of Taiwanese society and the common aspiration of compatriots on both sides of the strait. The lie of "the mainland is very dangerous" deliberately fabricated by the Democratic Progressive Party authorities has long since collapsed of itself.
Zhu FengLian said that more and more Taiwanese compatriots, especially young friends, have already or are planning trips or exchanges to the mainland, measuring the vast and magnificent great rivers and mountains with their feet, feeling the brilliant and splendid Chinese civilization with their hearts, observing the booming economy and technology with their eyes, and experiencing the compatriot affection of mainland people and the ubiquitous 烟火气 (yān huǒ qì - "firework smoke," the lively atmosphere of everyday life) with their emotions. 耳听为虚，眼见为实 (ěr tīng wéi xū, yǎn jiàn wéi shí - "what is heard is false, what is seen is true," seeing is believing). We warmly welcome more Taiwanese compatriots to the mainland for exchange visits, study and internships, employment and entrepreneurship, sightseeing and tourism, and business inspections, and we will provide more convenience and create better conditions for this.
Return to TopBy: 徐雷鹏
The Party's innovative theory (党的创新理论) is the precious spiritual wealth of our Party. In recent years, all localities and departments have deeply studied and implemented 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), working hard both on theoretical interpretation and on popularization propaganda, telling the vivid thought vividly and telling the thorough theory thoroughly, promoting the Party's innovative theory to enter townships and villages, and striving to open up the "last kilometer" of theoretical dissemination.
Only by using down-to-earth, vibrant, and attractive mass language can a bridge be built for theory to reach the masses. In terms of propaganda form, we adhere to 守正创新 (shǒu zhèng chuàng xīn – "uphold the fundamentals and innovate," to maintain orthodoxy while innovating), organically combining theoretical propaganda with artistic performances, red stories, etc., allowing the masses to perceive the power of thought in 喜闻乐见 (xǐ wén lè jiàn – "glad to hear and see," meaning popular and enjoyable); in terms of technical means, we actively use digital technology to carry out online live streaming and cloud classrooms, expanding coverage and timeliness; in terms of discourse transformation, we focus on using "rural dialect and local sayings" to thoroughly explain principles, turning theoretical terms into the language of the common people, so that the masses can understand, remember, and apply; in terms of position construction, propaganda venues extend from conference rooms to cultural squares, fields, and farmhouse courtyards, forming a three-dimensional dissemination pattern.
The Party's good voice transforms into the strongest voice driving development, echoing in thousands of households. Through a series of pragmatic measures, the Party's innovative theory has taken root in the vast countryside, effectively consolidating the ideological consensus of the peasant masses, providing a strong ideological guarantee and spiritual strength for continuously consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation and promoting comprehensive rural revitalization.
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Comrade Xi Jinping’s important speech at the celebration of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China made a strategic blueprint for the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation, including Party building in the new era, and issued to the entire Party the great call to “strive to create new historical brilliance.” At this important historical juncture, deeply studying Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building and systematically grasping its theoretical charm, practical power, and historical insight are of great and far-reaching significance for us to build the Party stronger and more robust on the new journey.
Deeply understanding the theoretical charm of Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “The vitality of theory lies in constant innovation; promoting the continuous development of Marxism is the sacred duty of Chinese Communists.” This important exposition profoundly reveals the fundamental source of theoretical charm—both adhering to basic principles without wavering and courageously advancing theoretical innovation. Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building, with the “Fourteen Perseverances” (十四个坚持) as its scientific connotation, constructs a theoretical system that is complete, rigorous in logic, 博大精深 (bó dà jīng shēn - “broad and profound”), and directly reaching people’s hearts, demonstrating extraordinary theoretical charm.
A scientific answer to the questions of the era. The lasting charm of Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building stems from its unprecedented scientific answer to the major era-specific question of what kind of long-term Marxist ruling party to build and how to build a long-term Marxist ruling party, which is epitomized by the “Fourteen Perseverances.” This thought explicitly proposes that upholding the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee is the highest political principle, elevating the Party’s leadership to an unprecedented height; clearly proposes upholding 全面从严治党 (quán miàn cóng yán zhì dǎng - “comprehensive and strict Party governance”), opening up a new realm of Party management and governance; profoundly proposes taking the Party’s political construction as the guide, reshaping the overall logic of Party building; creatively proposes promoting in an integrated manner the deterrence, inability, and unwillingness to be corrupt, achieving a leap in the anti-corruption strategy from treating symptoms to 标本兼治 (biāo běn jiān zhì - “treating both symptoms and root causes”); etc. The reason these important theses are original contributions and principled achievements is that they adhere to upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground, revealing objective laws that predecessors could not reveal. A theory, only when it expresses the voice of the times, answers questions that predecessors have not answered, and can promote the progress of the times, possesses the charm of 经世致用 (jīng shì zhì yòng - “governing the world and practical application”). Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building constructs an ideological edifice responding to the questions of the era with the “Fourteen Perseverances” as the 四梁八柱 (sì liáng bā zhù - “four beams and eight pillars,” main supporting framework).
The value orientation of putting the people first. The soul of Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building is the people-centered nature that runs through it. From the grand historical view that “the country is the people, and the people are the country” to the childlike devotion of “I will have no self, and I will live up to the people,” the deep people-centered foundation of this thought is everywhere manifested. Under the guidance of Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building, Party organizations at all levels lead Party members and cadres to go deep into the grassroots, promptly solving the urgent, difficult, and worrying problems of the people. Discipline inspection and supervision organs across the country have investigated and dealt with problems violating the Central Committee’s Eight-Point Regulation (中央八项规定) spirit, and have investigated and dealt with corruption and work style issues involving people’s livelihood, fully demonstrating the firm determination to persistently rectify work style and enforce discipline. The people’s sense of gain, happiness, security, and satisfaction have been significantly enhanced. This clear people’s standpoint endows Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building with a moral force that inspires people.
The pragmatic style of problem orientation. Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building has a strong problem awareness and sense of responsibility, always facing the prominent contradictions, problems, and risk challenges in Party building. In response to the problem of weakened Party leadership, it proposes upholding the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee; in response to the lax and soft management and governance of the Party, it proposes comprehensive and strict Party governance; in response to the slide in ideals and beliefs, it proposes remaining true to our original aspiration and keeping our mission firmly in mind; in response to corruption as the greatest threat, it proposes promoting in an integrated manner the deterrence, inability, and unwillingness to be corrupt; etc. These measures exhibit the ideological sharpness that penetrates reality and leads change.
The theoretical architecture of systematic integration. Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building is an organic whole composed of the “Fourteen Perseverances.” The highest principle of Party leadership is “upholding the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee”; the strategic policy of Party building in the new era is “upholding comprehensive and strict Party governance”; the purpose, stand, and value orientation of the Party are “upholding remaining true to our original aspiration and keeping our mission firmly in mind.” On this basis, political construction clarifies the direction, ideological construction solidifies the foundation, Party spirit tempering forges the soul, the organizational system builds a solid base, the cadre contingent provides support, work style construction shapes the image, discipline construction strengthens constraints, the anti-corruption struggle is systematically tackled, system-based governance and rule-based governance of the Party provide guarantees, and the political responsibility for managing and governing the Party is implemented. The “Fourteen Perseverances” 环环相扣 (huán huán xiāng kòu - “interlinked like rings”), exert force in the same direction, forming a scientific system that is closely connected and logically rigorous. The formation of the scientific system marks that our Party’s understanding of the laws of building a Marxist political party has reached a new height.
The reason Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building possesses extraordinary theoretical charm is that its profound answer to the questions of the era endows the theory with a scientific character, its adherence to putting the people first endows the theory with moving feelings, its adherence to problem orientation endows the theory with practical attention, and its adherence to systematic integration endows the theory with a rigorous logical framework. The combined effect of these factors demonstrates extraordinary theoretical charm.
Comprehensively grasping the practical power of Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “Empty talk harms the country, while solid work makes it flourish. Only by truly grasping can we overcome difficulties, and only by solid work can dreams come true.” Since the new era, the “Fourteen Perseverances” have been fully implemented in the practice of managing and governing the Party, and historic and pioneering achievements have been made in Party building. More importantly, the significant results of Party building have been further transformed into a powerful guiding force and driving force for the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation, yielding fruitful results in advancing Chinese-style modernization.
The centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee has been fundamentally strengthened. The Party leadership system has been systematically improved. The entire Party deeply understands the decisive significance of the “Two Establishments” (两个确立), enhances the “Four Consciousnesses” (四个意识), strengthens the “Four Confidences” (四个自信), and achieves the “Two Upholds” (两个维护), always maintaining a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core in thought, politics, and action, ensuring the authority and centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, ensuring that the Party’s role as the core of leadership in commanding the overall situation and coordinating all parties is better implemented. The entire Party is more united and unified, and the cohesion and combat effectiveness of Party organizations at all levels have been greatly improved. In the battle against poverty, the entire Party went all out, historically solving the problem of absolute poverty. In the fight against the century-long pandemic, more than 4.6 million grassroots Party organizations fully played their role as battle fortresses, tens of millions of Party members rushed to the forefront, maximizing the protection of the people’s life safety and health. The Party’s overall leadership has been transformed from principled requirements into institutional guarantees and conscious actions, and the Party’s leadership and appeal have been unprecedentedly enhanced.
Comprehensive and strict Party governance has achieved strategic results. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has adhered to the principle that to forge iron, one must be strong itself. Starting with the formulation and implementation of the Central Committee’s Eight-Point Regulation as a breakthrough, it proposed and implemented the general requirements for Party building in the new era, using the Party’s political construction to lead all aspects of Party building. Inner-Party political life has become more serious, political inspections have been strengthened, the Party has 持之以恒 (chí zhī yǐ héng - “persisted with constancy”) in rectifying work style and enforcing discipline, curbing some unhealthy practices that had long been unchecked, correcting some stubborn and chronic diseases that had persisted for years, achieving an overwhelming victory in the anti-corruption struggle and comprehensively consolidating it, forming a relatively complete inner-Party regulatory system, promoting the entire Party to firm up ideals and beliefs, tighten the organizational system, and strictly enforce discipline and rules. The practice of comprehensive and strict Party governance since the 18th National Congress proves that the Communist Party of China has the courage and the ability to solve its own problems.
The Party’s organizational system and cadre contingent have taken on a new look. Our Party has proposed and adhered to the Party’s organizational line for the new era, established a clear orientation for focusing on the grassroots, continuously rectified weak and lax grassroots Party organizations, and continuously expanded the Party’s organizational coverage and work coverage. By the end of 2025, the total number of Communist Party of China members reached 101.286 million, and the number of primary-level Party organizations reached 5.431 million, making it the world’s largest ruling party with significant global influence. Adhere to the principle of the Party managing cadres, emphasizing political standards in selecting and appointing talents. Since the 18th National Congress, the Party has successively carried out the Mass Line Education and Practice Activity, the “Three Stricts and Three Honests” (三严三实) Special Education, the “Two Studies, One Action” (两学一做) Learning and Education, the “Remain True to Our Original Aspiration and Keep Our Mission Firmly in Mind” (不忘初心、牢记使命) Theme Education, the Party History Learning and Education, the Theme Education on Studying and Implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the Party Discipline Learning and Education, the Learning and Education on Deeply Implementing the Central Committee’s Eight-Point Regulation Spirit, and the Learning and Education on Establishing and Practicing a Correct View of Political Achievements. Inner-Party centralized education is 环环相扣 (repeated—noted earlier, so no gloss), and the exemplary and vanguard role of the vast number of Party members is fully demonstrated.
The ideological unity and consolidation of the entire Party and society have been further strengthened. Since the new era, our Party has insisted on arming the whole Party with the Party’s innovative theories, educating the people, and guiding practice, leading to a global and fundamental transformation in the ideological field. Adhere to the simultaneous development of ideological Party building and system-based Party governance. In the continuous inner-Party centralized education, the vast number of Party members have consolidated the foundation of faith, supplemented the calcium of the spirit, and steered the rudder of thought, making their faith in Marxism, belief in socialism with Chinese characteristics, and confidence in realizing the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation more steadfast. The core socialist values have 深入人心 (shēn rù rén xīn - “penetrated people’s hearts”), and the spirit of patriotism and collectivism has been widely promoted. Unity of thought is the deepest unity, and cohesion of spirit is the most enduring cohesion. The entire Party and society, united under the Party’s banner like “a solid piece of steel,” are the fundamental guarantee for us to overcome all difficulties and obstacles and continuously march from victory to victory.
Strengthening the Party leads to a strong country, advancing the “Five-Sphere Integrated Plan” (五位一体) with historic achievements. In economic construction, through continuous struggle, we have realized the millennia-old dream of moderate prosperity for the Chinese nation. We have adhered to targeted poverty alleviation, won the largest battle against poverty in human history. All 832 poverty-stricken counties across the country have been lifted out of poverty, and nearly 100 million rural poor have been lifted out of poverty. China’s GDP has risen from 54 trillion yuan in 2012 to over 140 trillion yuan in 2025, firmly ranking second in the world. The scale of manufacturing and foreign exchange reserves rank first in the world. The world’s largest high-speed railway network and expressway network have been built. The pace of self-reliance and self-improvement in high-level science and technology has been accelerated, basic research and original innovation have been continuously strengthened, strategic emerging industries have grown stronger, and major breakthroughs have been made in manned spaceflight, lunar and Mars exploration, supercomputing, satellite navigation, quantum information, and other fields. In political construction, whole-process people’s democracy has been comprehensively developed, the institutionalization, standardization, and proceduralization of socialist democratic politics have been comprehensively advanced, socialist consultative democracy has been widely carried out, people’s role as masters of the country has become more solid, the overall framework of law-based governance has basically taken shape, and the guarantee of social fairness and justice has become more solid. In cultural construction, we have established and adhered to the fundamental system of Marxism’s guiding position in the ideological field, the Party’s innovative theories in the new era have taken root in the hearts of the people, the core socialist values have been widely disseminated, the excellent traditional Chinese culture has undergone creative transformation and innovative development, cultural undertakings have become increasingly prosperous, the online ecosystem has continued to improve, the cultural confidence of the entire Party and the people of all ethnic groups nationwide has been significantly enhanced, and their spiritual outlook has become more motivated and high-spirited. In social construction, the people’s living standards have improved in all aspects. The world’s largest education system, social security system, and medical and health system have been built. The housing conditions of urban and rural residents have significantly improved. The people’s sense of gain, happiness, and security have become more substantial, more guaranteed, and more sustainable, and new achievements have been made in common prosperity. In ecological civilization construction, we have adhered to the concept that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets, strengthened ecological and environmental protection in all aspects, regions, and processes, made the ecological civilization system more complete, deepened the battle against pollution, taken solid steps toward green, circular, and low-carbon development, and achieved historic, transformative, and global changes in ecological and environmental protection. Our motherland has bluer skies, greener mountains, cleaner water, and a more beautiful ecological environment. These achievements fully prove: to strengthen the country, the Party must first be strengthened; when the Party is strong, the country is strong and the nation prospers.
The reason Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building possesses mighty practical power is that the effect of “strengthening the Party” is first reflected in the strength of the Party itself, especially the strengthening of the Party’s overall leadership, and then in all aspects such as reform, development, stability, internal affairs, diplomacy, national defense, and the governance of the Party, the country, and the military. From “strengthening the Party” to “strengthening the country” powerfully proves that Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building has extraordinary practical power.
Accurately understanding the historical insight of Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “History, reality, and the future are connected. History is reality of the past, and reality is history of the future.” This important exposition profoundly reveals the essence of historical insight—a thought can gain the power to transcend time and space only by connecting history, grasping reality, and guiding the future. Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building profoundly perceives historical laws, draws on historical wisdom, focuses on the great cause for millennia, and demonstrates a deep insight and far-reaching guiding significance that transcend time and space.
Upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground: the foundation of historical insight. Whether a thought can transcend time and space ultimately depends on whether it has revealed important laws that predecessors have not revealed and whether it possesses the power of truth. The upholding of fundamental principles and innovation on Marxist Party-building theory is the foundation of why Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building can make original contributions, form principled achievements, and thus obtain far-reaching historical insight.
Upholding fundamental principles ensures the scientific foundation of the thought. Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building always adheres to the basic principles of Marxist Party-building theory, upholds the nature and purpose of the Marxist political party, upholds the Party’s leadership as the highest political principle, upholds democratic centralism as our Party’s fundamental organizational system and leadership system, and upholds the requirements of the Marxist political party’s advanced nature and purity. The adherence to these “unchanging” elements constitutes the “ballast stone” of the theory. This is the basic premise of historical insight.
Breaking new ground endows the thought with vitality to keep pace with the times. On the basis of upholding fundamental principles, Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building has made a series of original contributions. For example, it puts forward the major thesis that “the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics is the leadership of the Communist Party of China, and the greatest strength of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics is the leadership of the Communist Party of China,” intrinsically unifying the Party’s leadership and socialism from the height of the essence of the system; it puts forward “using the Party’s political construction to lead all aspects of Party building,” reshaping the internal logic of Party building; it puts forward “promoting in an integrated manner the deterrence, inability, and unwillingness to be corrupt,” achieving a major transformation in the anti-corruption strategy; etc. These major innovations reflect the profound historical insight and vigorous vitality contained in this thought.
The dialectical unity of upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground enables Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building to have both the scientific anchoring power of “unchanging” and the era vitality of “responding to changes.” It is the close combination of upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground that enables this thought to summarize and refine a series of regular understandings. The richer and deeper the laws revealed, the longer the vitality of the thought, and the more it can possess the power to transcend time and space.
Summarizing historical experience: the historical depth of historical insight. If upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground is the foundation of historical insight, then the profound summary and sublimation of historical experience endow historical insight with deep historical depth. History is the best textbook and the best sobering agent. A thought, if it can draw wisdom and refine laws from the depths of history, can obtain lasting value that transcends a particular time and matter.
Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building connects history, reality, and the future, profoundly summarizing the rise and fall of ancient and modern China and abroad. This thought deeply analyzes the historical tragedy of Chinese feudal dynasties where “their rise was swift, and their fall was also sudden” (其兴也勃焉，其亡也忽焉); systematically expounds the painful lessons of the Soviet Union’s collapse and the drastic changes in Eastern Europe; incisively summarizes the successful experience of the Communist Party of China in its struggle for more than a hundred years. On the basis of Comrade Mao Zedong’s first answer of “letting the people supervise the government,” after practical exploration in the new era, it gives a second answer—self-revolution. The two answers complement and support each other inside and outside, forming a complete plan to break the historical cycle.
This kind of penetrating summary of historical experience is not a matter-of-fact talk of a particular time and event, but a true insight extracted from the long river of history spanning hundreds or even thousands of years. When a thought can support its theses with ironclad historical facts, it can obtain irrefutable persuasiveness and undiminished vitality.
Grasping the historical orientation: the era coordinate of historical insight. With a theoretical foundation and historical depth, accurate era positioning is also needed. The precise grasp and foresight of the historical orientation enable Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building to obtain a clear era coordinate, able to clearly answer where we are, what problems we face, and where we are going.
Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building is based on the new historical orientation of China’s development that “socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era.” From the global perspective, major changes unseen in a century are accelerating, and uncertain and unpredictable factors have increased significantly. From the national perspective, the principal contradiction in Chinese society has undergone major changes, and advancing Chinese-style modernization faces many deep-seated contradictions. From the Party’s perspective, the “Four Tests” (四大考验) and the “Four Dangers” (四种危险) exist long-term. Based on this precise grasp, Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building makes a systematic summary with the “six ‘how to always’” (六个如何始终), endowing this thought with a deep sense of urgency and long-term warning function.
The great cause of national rejuvenation: the practical destination of historical insight. The power of theory ultimately must be implemented in practice, and the historical insight of thought ultimately must be reflected in the promotion of the historical process. The far-reaching consideration and vigorous advancement of the great cause of national rejuvenation are the practical destination of the historical insight of Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “The great struggle, the great project, the great cause, and the great dream are closely linked, interconnected, and interact with each other, among which the decisive factor is the Party building new great project.” This important thesis intrinsically links Party building with national rejuvenation. The quality of Party building directly determines the process of national rejuvenation; the prospects of national rejuvenation will in turn test the effectiveness of Party building. The practice of Party building since the new era has strongly proved: the deeper the great cause of national rejuvenation advances, the more the scientific nature of Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building will be verified by practice.
More importantly, Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building carries out long-term consideration and strategic layout for the great cause of millennia. This thought proposes that “comprehensive and strict Party governance is always on the road,” meaning this is not a phased task but a long-term strategy; this thought proposes the Party’s organizational line for the new era, indicating that its consideration is not a particular time or event, but the comprehensive and long-term development of the Party’s organizational construction; this thought emphasizes building a system for comprehensive and strict Party governance, indicating that it pays attention to using the stability of the system to ensure the long-term peace and stability of the Party and the country. This kind of strategic planning based on the present and looking to the long-term endows this thought with historical depth that transcends one generation or one period. The political foundation laid by Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building for national rejuvenation is a far-reaching plan that benefits the present and yields benefits in the long term.
The reason Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building possesses powerful historical insight is that upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground forge the “body” of historical insight; summarizing historical experience endows historical insight with its “source”; grasping the historical orientation anchors the “position” of historical insight; and laying the foundation for national rejuvenation achieves the “destination” of historical insight. Body, source, position, and destination—these four aspects, from inner character to historical origin, from era positioning to practical destination, fuse the power of thought, the power of history, the power of the era, and the power of mission into one furnace, forging an ideological lighthouse that illuminates the path ahead, jointly revealing the deep logic of historical insight.
The tree of theory is evergreen, the river of practice surges, and the light of history shines. Deeply studying and comprehending the internal logic of Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building, one can find that its theoretical charm, practical power, and historical insight are progressively layered and interconnected. Deepening understanding of them is conducive to enhancing the consciousness of studying and implementing Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building, improving the effect of applying what is learned, and further solving the problems of “firm belief,” “vigorous action,” and “long-term vision.” On the new journey of the exam, we must consistently arm our minds, guide practice, and promote work with Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building, combine with new realities, continuously carry forward the Party’s excellent qualities, ensure that the Party never changes its nature, its color, or its flavor, always possesses strong creativity, cohesion, and combat effectiveness, and ensure that the great ship of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation sails against the wind, 乘风破浪 (chéng fēng pò làng - “riding the wind and breaking the waves”), and 行稳致远 (xíng wěn zhì yuǎn - “moving steadily and reaching far”).
(The author is the former vice president of the Central Party School)
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日前，国务院印发《美丽中国建设“十五五”规划》（以下简称《规划》）。《规划》部署了深入打好蓝天碧水净土保卫战、全面实施固体废物和新污染物治理行动。新污染物治理是“十四五”时期党和国家进行战略谋划并系统推进的重要任务，已取得显著成效。国务院办公厅印发的《新污染物治理行动方案》得到全面贯彻实施，成立由国务院生态环境主管部门会同有关部门共同组成的新污染物治理部际协调小组，发布首批重点管控新污染物清单，制定新污染物监测和风险评估体系与配套标准，全面淘汰8种类重点管控新污染物，初步建立协同推进工作机制，新污染物治理能力明显增强。
Recently, the State Council issued the Beautiful China Construction "15th Five-Year" Plan (hereinafter referred to as the Plan). The Plan deploys the thorough fighting of the battle to defend blue skies, clear waters, and pure soil, and the comprehensive implementation of actions for solid waste and new pollutant governance. New pollutant governance was an important task strategically planned and systematically promoted by the Party and the state during the "14th Five-Year" period, and has achieved notable results. The Action Plan for New Pollutant Governance issued by the General Office of the State Council has been fully implemented. An inter-ministerial coordination group for new pollutant governance, composed of the competent department of ecology and environment under the State Council (Ministry of Ecology and Environment, 生态环境部) jointly with relevant departments, was established. The first batch of a list of key controlled new pollutants was released. A system for monitoring and conducting environmental risk assessment of new pollutants, along with supporting standards, was formulated. Eight categories of key controlled new pollutants were comprehensively phased out. A working mechanism for coordinated advancement was preliminarily established, and the capacity for new pollutant governance has been significantly enhanced.
2026年3月，第十四届全国人民代表大会第四次会议通过《中华人民共和国生态环境法典》，将“国家建立持久性有机污染物等新污染物协同治理和环境风险管控体系”写入法典，为强化新污染物治理奠定了法治基石。《规划》将“新污染物协同治理”列为重大工程之一，为强化新污染物治理提供政策支撑。我们要以习近平生态文明思想为指引，立足“十四五”新污染物治理工作基础，锚定到2035年新污染物环境风险得到有效管控的目标，从体制和机制建设、清单和任务落实、科技和产业支撑等方面强化新污染物治理，以新污染物治理实效助力美丽中国建设。
In March 2026, the Fourth Session of the Fourteenth National People's Congress adopted the Ecological and Environmental Code of the People's Republic of China, incorporating into the Code the provision that "the state establishes a system for coordinated governance and environmental risk management and control of new pollutants such as persistent organic pollutants," thus laying a legal foundation for strengthening new pollutant governance. The Plan lists "coordinated governance of new pollutants" as one of its major projects, providing policy support for strengthening new pollutant governance. We must take Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization as our guide, build on the foundation of new pollutant governance work during the "14th Five-Year" period, anchor our efforts to the target of effectively controlling environmental risks from new pollutants by 2035, and strengthen new pollutant governance in areas such as institutional and mechanism development, implementation of lists and tasks, and support from science, technology, and industry, so as to contribute to the construction of a Beautiful China through tangible results in new pollutant governance.
完善新污染物协同治理和环境风险管控体系。生态环境法典规定：“国务院生态环境主管部门会同有关部门，分析研判新污染物环境风险管控形势，制定完善相关标准，组织开展调查监测，有效降低新污染物环境风险。”持续完善由国务院生态环境主管部门会同有关部门共同组成的新污染物治理部际协调小组机制，定期会商，联合行动，不仅可以确保国家层面的战略和政策有效传达和落实，而且能推动县级以上地方人民政府及其有关部门加强化学物质污染风险管控，形成“国家统筹、省负总责、市县抓落实”的工作格局。在部门层面，打通壁垒，建立健全生态环境信息共享机制和监测预警机制，打破“数据孤岛”，让新污染物的生产、进口、储存、运输、销售、使用、处置等全环节信息能够互通共享，为精准治理提供支撑。在地方层面，建立多部门参与的联席会议制度，共同开展联合调查、联合执法，共享数据和信息，避免“各管一摊”。以新污染物治理为抓手，推动化学物质环境风险管理条例的制定和发布，加快制修订化学物质污染风险评估、新污染物调查监测等一系列技术标准，为筛查、评估和管控提供统一规范和科学标尺。强化考核衔接，将新污染物治理任务纳入美丽中国先行区建设、污染防治攻坚战等考核目标，加快与现有环境管理制度深度融合，将新污染物的环境风险筛查评估要求纳入生态环境影响评价，并将其管控要求融入排污许可管理，从源头准入到事中事后监管，实现覆盖新污染物全生命周期的风险管控。推动新污染物治理与现有的生态环境监测、生态环境保护监督执法等制度体系相融合，将其逐步纳入污染防治常规工作范畴。加强对重点管控新污染物的执法监管，要求相关企业依法公开污染物排放信息、温室气体排放信息等生态环境信息，接受社会监督。
Improve the system for coordinated governance and environmental risk management and control of new pollutants. The Ecological and Environmental Code stipulates: "The competent department of ecology and environment under the State Council, jointly with relevant departments, shall analyze and assess the situation of environmental risk management and control of new pollutants, formulate and improve relevant standards, organize and conduct investigation and monitoring, and effectively reduce environmental risks from new pollutants." Continuously improving the mechanism of the inter-ministerial coordination group for new pollutant governance, composed of the competent department of ecology and environment under the State Council jointly with relevant departments, through regular consultations and joint actions, can not only ensure the effective communication and implementation of strategies and policies at the national level, but also promote local people's governments at or above the county level and their relevant departments to strengthen risk management and control of chemical substance pollution, forming a work pattern of "national coordination, provincial responsibility for overall management, and municipal and county implementation of specific tasks." At the departmental level, break down barriers, establish and improve mechanisms for sharing ecological environment information and for monitoring and early warning, break "data islands," so that information on all links of the production, import, storage, transport, sale, use, and disposal of new pollutants can be interconnected and shared, providing support for precise governance. At the local level, establish a joint meeting system involving multiple departments to jointly conduct joint investigations and joint law enforcement, share data and information, and avoid "each managing its own stall." Using new pollutant governance as a lever, promote the formulation and issuance of regulations on the environmental risk management of chemical substances, accelerate the creation and revision of a series of technical standards for risk assessment of chemical substance pollution, investigation and monitoring of new pollutants, etc., providing unified norms and scientific benchmarks for screening, assessment, and management and control. Strengthen the linkage of assessments, incorporate new pollutant governance tasks into the assessment targets for the construction of pilot zones for a Beautiful China and the battle against pollution, accelerate deep integration with existing environmental management systems, incorporate the requirements for environmental risk screening and assessment of new pollutants into ecological and environmental impact assessments, and integrate their management and control requirements into pollutant discharge permit management, achieving risk management and control covering the full life cycle of new pollutants, from source access to ongoing and ex-post supervision. Promote the integration of new pollutant governance with existing institutional systems such as ecological and environmental monitoring, and ecological and environmental protection supervision and law enforcement, and gradually bring it into the scope of routine pollution prevention and control work. Strengthen law enforcement and supervision over key controlled new pollutants, requiring relevant enterprises to publicly disclose ecological environment information such as pollutant discharge information and greenhouse gas emission information in accordance with the law, and accept social supervision.
推动新污染物治理清单和任务落实。我国是化学物质生产和使用量最大、种类最多的国家之一，必须结合我国经济社会发展水平和技术可行性，循序渐进开展新污染物治理工作。生态环境法典规定：“国务院生态环境主管部门会同有关部门，组织开展化学物质污染风险评估，制定公布重点管控新污染物清单并适时调整，明确禁止、限制等环境风险管控措施。”重点管控新污染物清单是衔接科学评估与行政管理、统筹国家目标与地方执行、贯通国际承诺与国内行动的关键载体，必须做到科学精准、操作性强。建议新污染物治理专家委员会成立专门的清单审查工作组，制定清单动态调整技术规范，对拟新增纳入重点管控新污染物清单的化学物质进行审查。我国不同区域（流域）、省市和行业新污染物问题差异很大，可探索建立“G+X”新污染物清单制度，因地制宜防控新污染物的环境风险。其中，“G”是国家统一要求管控的新污染物，筑牢全国统一管控底线；“X”是根据区域（流域）、省市、行业新污染物特点要求管控的物质。部分省市在“十四五”时期已经开展了探索实践。新污染物治理是美丽中国和健康中国建设的必然要求，也是高质量发展的重要内容，必须将治理工作思路从“被动应对”转向“主动作为”。落实生产、进口、储存、运输、销售、使用、处置等全环节新污染物环境风险管控任务，明确重点任务清单、责任单位和完成时限，确保任务闭环管理。
Promote the implementation of the list and tasks for new pollutant governance. China is one of the countries with the largest production and use volumes and the greatest variety of chemical substances. It is necessary to carry out new pollutant governance in a step-by-step manner, in light of the country's level of economic and social development and technical feasibility. The Ecological and Environmental Code stipulates: "The competent department of ecology and environment under the State Council, jointly with relevant departments, shall organize and conduct risk assessment of chemical substance pollution, formulate and publish a list of key controlled new pollutants and adjust it in a timely manner, and specify environmental risk management and control measures such as prohibition and restriction." The list of key controlled new pollutants is a key vehicle connecting scientific assessment with administrative management, coordinating national objectives with local implementation, and linking international commitments with domestic actions. It must be scientifically precise and highly operable. It is recommended that the Expert Committee on New Pollutant Governance establish a dedicated list review working group, formulate technical specifications for the dynamic adjustment of the list, and review chemical substances proposed for addition to the list of key controlled new pollutants. The problems of new pollutants vary greatly across different regions (basins), provinces and cities, and industries in China. The exploration of a "G+X" system for the list of new pollutants could be pursued, so as to prevent and control the environmental risks of new pollutants according to local conditions. Here, "G" refers to new pollutants subject to unified national control requirements, consolidating the baseline of nationwide unified management and control; "X" refers to substances subject to control based on the characteristics of new pollutants in particular regions (basins), provinces and cities, or industries. Some provinces and cities have already carried out exploratory practices during the "14th Five-Year" period. New pollutant governance is an inevitable requirement for the construction of a Beautiful China and a Healthy China, and is also an important component of high-quality development. It is essential to shift the thinking on governance from "passive response" to "proactive action." Implement the tasks of environmental risk management and control of new pollutants in all links including production, import, storage, transport, sale, use, and disposal, clarify the list of key tasks, the responsible units, and the completion deadlines, and ensure closed-loop management of tasks.
加快新污染物治理科技和产业发展。新污染物治理也是发达国家正致力于解决的问题，值得借鉴的成功经验非常有限。为此，应加强新污染物治理科技专项顶层设计，聚焦持久性有机污染物、环境内分泌干扰物、抗生素等药物和个人护理品等环境风险较高的新污染物，充分运用大数据、人工智能、新材料及创新技术范式，系统开展“筛、评、控”全链条攻关，研发监测、预警、治理和绿色替代等关键技术。坚持一体推进教育科技人才事业发展，为强化新污染物治理赋能。推动建设国家级和省部级重点实验室、工程技术中心，支持科技领军企业牵头联合高校、科研院所和中小企业等创新主体组建新污染物治理创新联合体，为新污染物治理打造国家战略科技力量。在京津冀、粤港澳、长三角、成渝等经济发展重点区域，布局建设新污染物智慧识别、全程防控、精准阻控、绿色替代等应用场景，通过战略引领、技术突破和产业实践的有机融合，构建“源头创新—技术转化—产业升级”的完整闭环，建设一批有示范引领作用的新污染物协同治理工程，将新污染物治理挑战转化为绿色低碳技术突破的机遇和产业升级的动力。
（作者为中国工程院院士、北京师范大学未来技术学院院长）
Accelerate the development of science, technology, and industry for new pollutant governance. New pollutant governance is also a problem that developed countries are working to solve, and the successful experience worth drawing on is very limited. To this end, it is necessary to strengthen the top-level design of special science and technology programs for new pollutant governance, focus on new pollutants with relatively high environmental risks such as persistent organic pollutants, environmental endocrine disruptors, antibiotics and other pharmaceuticals, and personal care products, fully utilize big data, artificial intelligence, new materials, and innovative technology paradigms, systematically carry out all-chain breakthroughs in "screening, assessment, and control," and research and develop key technologies such as monitoring, early warning, treatment, and green substitution. Adhere to the integrated advancement of education, science and technology, and talent development to empower the strengthening of new pollutant governance. Promote the construction of national and provincial/ministerial-level key laboratories and engineering technology centers. Support leading science and technology enterprises to take the lead in forming new pollutant governance innovation consortia with innovation entities such as universities, research institutes, and small and medium-sized enterprises, thereby building national strategic scientific and technological strength for new pollutant governance. In key economic development regions such as the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Chengdu-Chongqing area, lay out and build application scenarios for intelligent identification, full-process prevention and control, precise blocking and control, and green substitution of new pollutants. Through the organic integration of strategic guidance, technological breakthroughs, and industrial practice, construct a complete closed loop of "source innovation—technology transformation—industrial upgrading," build a number of new pollutant coordinated governance projects with exemplary and leading roles, and transform the challenge of new pollutant governance into opportunities for breakthroughs in green and low-carbon technologies and driving forces for industrial upgrading.
(The author is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and dean of the School of Future Technology, Beijing Normal University.)
By: 葫芦岛日报记者 金 鑫 王 华
In July, the height of summer. In Xingcheng (兴城市), Huludao, Liaoning, the sea breeze carries heat.
Summer is the peak season for swimsuit sales, but it is the off-season for production. However, most swimsuit enterprises in Xingcheng are "not slack in the off-season" — machines still run nonstop, and orders keep coming. At a swimsuit production company in Xingcheng, the person in charge, Liu Xu, opens a computer, clicks the mouse, and on the screen system interface he can directly see the daily sales situation.
Under the fully managed model, Liu Xu only needs to send the swimsuits directly to Guangzhou, Guangdong. After that, cross-border transportation is handled by the managed platform, selling to many places around the world. Then, clicking on "Product Reviews," he can see feedback messages left by consumers from various countries under the product link.
"In the past, market feedback could only be guessed from order quantities. Now, comments and photos left by consumers can be seen by designers at any time, and then adjustments can be made quickly," Liu Xu said.
"Intelligent manufacturing leads upgrading. Xingcheng swimsuit enterprises have entered multiple major domestic and international e-commerce platforms, and cross-border business has become the main growth driver," said Zong Jiapeng, Director of the Xingcheng Swimsuit Industry Development Center (兴城市泳装产业发展中心). Currently, the city has over 40,000 swimsuit e-commerce online stores, 80% of domestic swimsuit e-commerce orders are shipped from Xingcheng, and online sales account for more than 70% of total industry sales. The "small orders, quick turnaround" (小单快返) model is highly mature. At the same time, 22 overseas warehouses have been established in more than 10 countries and regions including the United States, Germany, and Australia, and multiple leading cross-border logistics enterprises have been brought in, building a logistics distribution system.
Today, Xingcheng has gathered over 1,300 swimsuit production enterprises and about 300 supporting enterprises, producing about 200 million pieces (sets) of swimsuits annually, with an annual output value of the industrial cluster of about 15 billion yuan. In terms of market share, Xingcheng swimsuits account for over 40% of the domestic market and over 25% of the international market, with products exported to more than 140 countries and regions.
Xingcheng's swimsuit industry began in the 1980s, with local people mainly "sewing at night and selling from baskets on the beach during the day." In the 1990s, small workshops gradually transformed into processing points, and products began to be sold abroad while also doing OEM for foreign brands. In 2011, the local government timely guided industrial agglomeration, gradually improved infrastructure, held swimsuit expos, and built production-sales docking platforms. Local swimsuit production enterprises quickly exceeded 1,000, forming a layout "centered on the urban area, covering all villages," and the reputation of "China's Famous Swimsuit City" gradually grew. In the past five years, riding the tailwind of cross-border e-commerce, Xingcheng swimsuits have carried out large-scale "intelligent transformation and digital transformation" (智改数转), accelerating and upgrading the entire industry's development.
"Intelligent transformation is an unstoppable trend," Liu Xu said. Intelligent equipment such as digital printing machines and automatic fabric spreaders have been fully applied in the company. Relying on an AI design system, the company can launch more than 500 new swimsuit styles in one month.
Currently, among the 33,000 production equipment units in Xingcheng, 30% are internationally advanced intelligent equipment. The utilization rate of digital equipment among enterprises above designated size exceeds 90%. Automatic laser cutting machines, digital printing machines, etc., are fully普及, and production efficiency has increased by more than three times compared to traditional models. Over 1,000 enterprises in the city have applied AI design systems, compressing the new product development cycle for swimsuits from the previous 20 days to one minute, generating hundreds of design plans with one click, precisely matching the fragmented order demands of cross-border e-commerce.
The intelligent transformation has brought a leap in quality, and Xingcheng swimsuits have also passed multiple international certifications.
"Cross-border sales profits of independent brands far exceed OEM. More and more enterprises are deeply cultivating original design. Currently, the Xingcheng swimsuit industry has two China Well-Known Trademarks and 28 Liaoning Province Famous Trademarks," introduced Ren Lei, Director of the Xingcheng Bureau of Industry and Information Technology (兴城市工业和信息化局). Today's Xingcheng swimsuits have built a three-tier echelon of "leading brands + backbone brands + small and medium independent brands," forming differentiated competition. In 2025, the regional brand value of "Xingcheng Swimsuit" reached 9.742 billion yuan.
Now, Xingcheng is focusing on extending, supplementing, and strengthening the chain, supported by brand enhancement and talent cultivation, to fully promote the high-quality development of the swimsuit industry, allowing the "Xingcheng Swimsuit" business card to shine with new brilliance in the global market.
Return to TopBy: 杨笑雨
On the streets of Yancheng, Jiangsu, a heartwarming scene recently unfolded. An elderly lady forgot to bring her senior citizen card while taking the bus and had only a 10-yuan bill on her; in her embarrassment, she intended to get off. The bus driver, 二话不说 (èr huà bù shuō - "not say a second word," without the slightest hesitation), pulled out a one-yuan coin and covered the fare for her. To everyone's surprise, after getting off, the lady waited at the opposite-direction stop for nearly an hour, just to return that one yuan. On one side, a spontaneous good deed; on the other, a stubborn insistence on repayment. This mutual tenderness, a 双向奔赴 (shuāng xiàng bēn fù - "two-way rush," a mutual reaching out), won praise from countless netizens.
One yuan – it is as light as a feather; one yuan – it is also as heavy as a mountain.
The one yuan the driver took out was a warmhearted, kind act between total strangers – no overthinking, no calculation, just a spontaneous helping hand. The one hour the elderly lady waited was the 念念不忘 (niàn niàn bù wàng - "to remember constantly," an abiding recollection) after receiving a favor – though the money was small, gratitude must not be owed. In that single offer and that single return, goodwill completed its circle and touched the softest depths of countless people's hearts.
Such warmth is not an isolated case. Since the start of summer, "love fridges (爱心冰柜)" have quietly appeared on streets across many parts of the country, filled with ice-cold water for sanitation workers, food-delivery riders, and others to take freely. From a small wooden table placed at the entrance of a hot-pot restaurant in Chengdu, Sichuan, offering free water, to the community volunteer team on Changxing North Street in Taiyuan, Shanxi, persisting for years in replenishing various cooling supplies in a timely manner, to more than 1,500 locations across Sichuan Province distributing over 3 million bottles of water... bottle after bottle of water threads together the temperature of city after city. Even more interestingly, the water in the fridges often "increases the more it is taken" – someone takes a bottle, then carries back a case; someone takes a bottle, then quietly stuffs in 50 yuan. Kindness is often a 你来我往 (nǐ lái wǒ wǎng - "you come, I go," reciprocal exchange) of two-way interaction.
Now shift our gaze from the street corners to a broader view – recently, as typhoons and floods struck, the mutual help among ordinary people in moments of crisis was equally moving. A citizen of Zhaoping (昭平), Guangxi, posted an appeal on his social media late at night; within just two days, more than 100,000 yuan worth of supplies were raised, and truck drivers volunteered to haul the goods. Vegetable farmers in Taishan (台山), Guangdong, sent their own vegetables to the disaster areas... Strangers who normally brush past one another on the street were at that moment tightly linked by the same concern. Though the floodwaters were fierce, they could not wash away the spirit of 守望相助 (shǒu wàng xiāng zhù - "to watch over and help each other," mutual support in times of need) among people.
From a one-yuan coin on a bus, to a bottle of water in a street-corner fridge, to a truckload of vegetables rushed in from a thousand miles away – the measure of goodwill has never been reckoned in monetary sums. What is hidden in these small matters is the precious foundation of this era. There is no 惊天动地 (jīng tiān dòng dì - "to shake heaven and earth," earth-shattering) spectacle, no 五花八门 (wǔ huā bā mén - "five flowers, eight doors," all manner of gaudy) packaging; there is only the simple bond between ordinary people: you give me a hand, I repay you tenfold; you hand me a bottle of water, I give you back "a case-full of sentiment."
The weight of one yuan lies not in its face value, but in the human heart. May there be more such "one-yuan" stories…
Return to TopCihai online version 5.0 launched
Wen Hui Bao Shanghai July 15 dispatch (reporter Xu Yang (许旸)) Cihai online version 5.0 recently launched, marking another important stage in its digital development. Cihai online version 5.0 adds 22,056 valid entries on the mature system of version 4.0, with a validity rate of 99.25%. Among them, 11,314 lexical entries are supplemented, deepening the Chinese vocabulary system of idioms, set phrases, and other expressions, and innovatively launching an idiom variant smart recommendation function. This version also launches a batch pinyin editing tool and a full-loop online error correction system, greatly improving the efficiency of content updates and corrections; on the smart application side, it continuously iterates AI (artificial intelligence) reading and smart error correction capabilities, creating an immersive digital knowledge search experience.
Hainan to set up 260 summer love care stations
Hainan Daily Haikou July 15 dispatch (reporter Li Mengnan (李梦楠)) This summer, Hainan Province will set up 260 township (street) "love care stations" to carry out daily care, ideological guidance, homework tutoring and other care service activities, alleviating the difficulty of family care during summer. The care targets are mainly primary school students aged 6 to 13 in townships (streets) and communities, with priority given to scattered orphans in society, children in family (self or guardian) difficulties, left-behind children, children of urban migrant workers, and children of new employment groups.
Inner Mongolia's first "village run" concludes
Xinhua News Agency dispatch: On July 12, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region's first "village run" — the 2026 Cross West Ujimqin Banner (西乌珠穆沁旗) Grassland No. 99 Highway Beautiful Village Run and the 10th "Grassland King" Challenge — concluded in West Ujimqin Banner, Inner Mongolia. The event lasted three days and attracted over 1,600 outdoor sports enthusiasts from 25 countries and regions. The event categories included a bike-run sprint, a 23-kilometer grassland run, and a 10-kilometer beautiful village run.
Sichuan 66 snowy plateau workers' homes to be equipped with oxygen generation and supply equipment
This newspaper Chengdu July 15 dispatch (correspondent Liu Fei (刘飞)) It is expected that by the end of September this year, 66 "snowy plateau workers' homes" at altitudes above 2,800 meters in Sichuan will be successively equipped with oxygen generation and supply facilities and equipment. In recent years, the Sichuan Provincial Federation of Trade Unions has cumulatively implemented 77 "snowy plateau workers' home" construction projects, and this year it launched the work of equipping oxygen generation and supply facilities and equipment. After comprehensive assessment, a total of 66 are included in the equipping scope, and they will be equipped in a classified manner using a combination of three types of facilities and equipment: centralized oxygen supply, diffuse oxygen generators, and desktop oxygen generators.
Guizhou dataset (corpus) service platform launched
Guizhou Daily Guiyang July 15 dispatch (reporter Chen Siyu (谌思宇)) On July 10, the Guizhou dataset (corpus) service platform was officially launched. This platform is a comprehensive public service platform integrating functions such as corpus resource aggregation, quality evaluation, transaction circulation, and model training. Currently, the platform has gathered over 240 ecological partners including data suppliers, demand enterprises, and service institutions.
Qinghai establishes "voice ID cards" for animals
Qinghai Daily Xining July 15 dispatch (reporter Song Minghui (宋明慧)) As of July 1, Qinghai has selected six typical representative nature reserves as pilot areas, applied voiceprint intelligent monitoring technology, and precisely deployed 60 voiceprint monitoring points. Voiceprint intelligent monitoring technology achieves 24-hour automatic field audio data collection, with monitoring equipment automatically collecting audio around the clock and intelligently converting and calculating it. Based on the collected massive acoustic data, long-term continuous monitoring algorithms suitable for wildlife with high acoustic activity and strong concealment, such as birds and nocturnal mammals on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and voiceprint intelligent recognition algorithms for local species have been developed, establishing "voice ID cards" for animals.
Recently, in many places in Wuhu City, Anhui, "Harmonious and Beautiful Countryside Live Streaming Rooms" (和美乡村直播间) have been established, focusing on the people's livelihood matters close to the masses. For example, the "Harmonious and Beautiful Countryside Live Streaming Room" in Wanzi District integrates functions such as policy interpretation, helping farmers increase income, and mediating public sentiment, bringing beneficial policies such as social security, medical insurance, and agricultural subsidy benefits onto the "cloud." Anhui Normal University organized a team of college student volunteers to go deep into rural areas, building a "cloud-based agricultural assistance" (云端助农) bridge through forms such as live-streaming product sales and agricultural assistance publicity, pushing high-quality agricultural products from the countryside to a broader market. This not only broadens income-increasing channels for farmers but also injects momentum into the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.
Return to TopBy: 新华社记者 胡林果 王自宸 赵佳乐
Resting for just a few hours yet having to pay for a full day's room charge — facing this consumer "pain point," some hotels have introduced a "24-hour checkout system," meaning checkout is calculated from the time of check-in, allowing guests to stay a full 24 hours before checking out, which has garnered considerable praise. This highlights the necessity for the hotel industry to undergo transformation and exploration in response to diverse demands.
"We are implementing the '24-hour checkout system.' It is currently 5 PM; you can choose to check out at 5 PM tomorrow, and the room rate for this period will be calculated as one day." Recently, at a hotel in Wuhan, Hubei, a front desk staff member responded to a guest's inquiry.
After consulting online platforms, a reporter learned that currently, hotels capable of offering 24-hour checkout are still relatively limited; however, many hotels can already allow late checkout until 2 PM or even 4 PM. "The hotel industry is continuously exploring more diversified and differentiated service models," said Luo Zibo (罗兹柏), chief expert of the Yangtze River Tourism Research Base of the China Tourism Academy (中国旅游研究院).
The promotion of the "24-hour checkout system" still faces numerous issues. First is cost pressure; compared to other hotels, the operational and management costs of this Wuhan hotel have increased significantly. At the same time, there are still some technical problems in implementing the "24-hour checkout system" at the current stage. It requires the hotel management system to accurately record guests' check-in and checkout times, and promptly remind front desk and housekeeping staff to arrange subsequent work, which places higher demands on existing management systems. Experts believe that hotel industry operating costs are fixed; if fully implemented, it may face challenges such as a decline in room turnover rate. During the peak tourist season, if popular hotels strictly enforce this system, it could lead to tight room supply and booking difficulties.
Luo Zibo explained that for the vast majority of consumers, the most critical need for accommodation remains overnight lodging, and more diversified flexible options can be explored. In recent years, many hotels in China have already allowed late checkout based on the characteristics of the domestic market. Even if some hotels still enforce a fixed checkout time, they can provide shared facility services after checkout. For travelers arriving late at night, hotels near airports and train stations can introduce "short-stay" products. Hotels can offer more flexible checkout policies during the off-season, and communicate in advance through the booking system during the peak season. Additionally, industry associations can formulate more detailed service guidelines, allowing hotels to choose a suitable checkout model based on their own circumstances.
(According to Xinhua News Agency)
Return to TopBy: 陕西日报记者 郝 颖
In Zhouzhi County (周至县), Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province, 63-year-old Qi Ping (齐平) arrived early at the kiwifruit orchard in Zhouyi Village (周一村), Louguan Town (楼观镇).
Twenty-eight years ago, when he had just taken up the post of village Party branch secretary, Zhouyi Village was still a typical traditional agricultural village, with villagers relying on experience to grow fruit and relying on the weather for their meals. Today, on a smartphone one can see soil moisture and irrigation conditions, and field cameras record the growth process of the kiwifruit in real time.
The change began with a collaboration spanning a thousand li. In 2022, relying on Jiangsu-Shaanxi collaboration funds, Zhouyi Village invested more than 3 million yuan to create a digital kiwifruit demonstration base. In the autumn of 2024, the first batch of planted kiwifruit reached maturity — large in size, uniform in shape, and good in quality — and the price nearly doubled. Qi Ping explained that in these years, 95% of the village’s households have participated in the kiwifruit industry development, and the comprehensive income from the kiwifruit industry has exceeded 100 million yuan.
At the other end of the industrial chain, Chen Bo (陈博), chairman of Xi’an Sanqin Fruit Industry Co., Ltd. (西安市三秦果业有限公司), is also thinking about how to bring Zhouzhi kiwifruit to a larger market. From building the China Kiwifruit Network (中国猕猴桃网) to constructing overseas sales platforms, to rushing to domestic and international fruit and vegetable exhibitions in search of customers, the team has continuously explored the path for kiwifruit export. “As of now, we have exported a total of approximately 80,000 tons of kiwifruit, and last year the export volume reached 8,000 tons,” Chen Bo said.
In January of this year, the first batch of Zhouzhi kiwifruit was shipped overseas via Taicang Port (太仓港) in Jiangsu. Taicang Port not only has an advantage in customs clearance efficiency but also effectively reduces transportation costs, cutting comprehensive costs by nearly half. At the same time, relying on the green-channel service, the time for inspection declaration and customs declaration has been shortened to one to two days. This more efficient logistics channel has given the specialty industry deep in the Qinling Mountains a more stable and more convenient path to go overseas.
Return to TopBy: 福建日报记者 林清智
In the vast pastures, shepherds drive flocks of sheep as they run... Within the Minning Tan Sheep Industry Development and Integration Park in Yanchi County, Wuzhong City, Ningxia, ten characters stand out prominently among the grass: "Walk ten thousand steps daily to raise fine Tan sheep."
"The Tan sheep here run about seven kilometers, or roughly ten thousand steps, every day on ecological grazing trails, so that the distribution of muscle and fat is more even," explained Wang Qin, deputy manager of Yanchi Tan Sheep Industry Group Ruimu Food Technology Co., Ltd.
Over the 30 years of Fujian-Ningxia collaboration, the distinctive industries jointly cultivated by the two provinces and regions account for more than 88% of Ningxia's total agricultural output value, and over 40% of farmers' operating income comes from these distinctive industries. The Tan sheep are a shining hallmark among them. Fujian-Ningxia collaboration has consistently prioritized the Tan sheep industry as a key focus for funding, striving to strengthen the leading industry and build a development pattern spanning the entire industrial chain.
Li Shixin, a Section-Level Principal Staff Member (二级主任科员) of the Yanchi County Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau, said: "In recent years, relying on Fujian-Ningxia collaboration funds, the entire Tan sheep industrial chain has now developed into large-scale, high-standard modern breeding, effectively driving up the incomes of the masses."
The Minning Tan Sheep Industry Development and Integration Park is precisely an important achievement of the Fujian-Ningxia collaboration mechanism in recent years. Established in December 2021, the park brings together six enterprises and has accumulated a total investment of 86.73 million yuan in Fujian-Ningxia collaboration funds. Its aim is to promote the upgrade of the Tan sheep industry from traditional breeding to a full-chain transformation encompassing "germplasm resource protection, intelligent processing, and digital sales." The park has built a breeding base for ten thousand purebred Tan sheep, while also planting high-quality forage, constructing forage processing points and warm sheds for breeding, and supporting slaughtering and processing plants as well as by-product facilities, laying a solid foundation for scaled production. The continuous deepening of Fujian-Ningxia collaboration has broadened the path for comprehensive rural revitalization in Yanchi County, bringing tangible benefits to the local people.
Return to TopBy: 新华日报记者 晏培娟 薛 诚
Dashi Kou (大市口), an old commercial district located in the city center of Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province. Since the beginning of this year, as a batch of urban renewal projects have been completed one after another, Dashi Kou has quietly achieved a new look.
"In the early stage, we guided the综合体 (comprehensive complexes) to proactively adjust and reform; after the projects were implemented, we established a dedicated team to provide services," said Hu Tao (胡涛), Director of the Commerce Bureau of Jingkou District (京口区), Zhenjiang. At the same time, Jingkou District has created the "Jingxi Dashi Kou" (京喜大市口) consumption brand, and also held events such as a hamburger festival, a coffee market, and a guochao (国潮, "national trend") party, with activities almost every week and a theme every month.
Walking along Zhongshan Road (中山路) through Dashi Kou, many observant citizens have noticed: the once densely packed billboards on the high-rise buildings along the route have disappeared, and the view has become more "refreshing." "This is an important measure that draws on advanced experience to improve the cleanliness of the urban interface," said Ding Fangpin (丁方品), Director of the Dashi Kou Subdistrict Office (大市口街道办事处) in Jingkou District.
Such changes are only a microcosm. Zhu Weiguang (朱伟广), Director of the Housing and Urban-Rural Construction Bureau of Jingkou District, introduced that urban renewal focuses on four categories of refined renovation: first, old residential communities — 17 areas have completed pipeline network renewal and facade renovation; second, the renovation of multiple important road nodes to unclog the city's "micro-circulation" (微循环); third, backstreets and alleys — the creation of civilized streets has made the "capillaries" clean; fourth, public spaces — the improvement of the upper section of the Ancient Canal (古运河) and the night tour project, as well as the pocket parks at Hujiu Bridge (虎踞桥) and Zhengdong Road (正东路), have been completed one after another, providing residents with more leisure spaces.
In August last year, the Health Road Subdistrict (健康路街道) in Jingkou District established a "Business-Residence Alliance" (商居联盟), with merchants and residents both becoming members and participating in neighborhood governance. "Merchants and residents have become the 'protagonists' in planning, environmental maintenance, and event organization," said Tan Jie (谭捷), Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Health Road Subdistrict. The Health Road Sports Park has also channeled the traffic from the "Su Chao" (苏超, Jiangsu Super League) matches into the streets and alleys, making this a new window for releasing the consumption vitality of the "Su Chao."
Return to TopBy: 本报通讯员 高源贵
In early July, on the square of Caojiazhuang Community (曹家王庄社区), Lanshan Street (兰山街道), Lanshan District (兰山区), Linyi City (临沂市), Shandong Province, two “colorful dragons” accompanied by the sonorous and powerful sounds of gongs and drums wove through the yangge dance team. Team members cooperated with tacit understanding, adjusting their formations from time to time to the rhythm, and the wonderful performance drew rounds of applause from the audience. Cao Zhen (曹臻), a staff member of the Lanshan District Cultural Center who had been standing at the edge of the square watching attentively, gave on-site guidance with a megaphone in hand.
In recent years, Lanshan District has innovatively established a “Literary and Artistic Village Chief (文艺村长)” system to help villages (communities) plan and organize activities, carry out public-interest training, and form literary and artistic teams, thereby activating the cultural genes of grassroots communities. The “Literary and Artistic Village Chief” system establishes an “order-based selection” (点单式选派) mechanism, comprehensively organizes the literary and artistic talent database and village-level demand lists, selects “Literary and Artistic Village Chiefs” from the district’s literary and artistic associations, and forms a three-level linkage promotion system of “district-level coordination + literary and artistic association support + resource integration of each village and community.”
There is high demand for large-scale community activities, and the masses also have a high degree of participation in literary and artistic performances. Bai Zhenhua (白振华), the Literary and Artistic Village Chief of Caojiazhuang Community, introduced that professional teachers such as Cao Zhen came into the community to help plan multiple large-scale literary and artistic activities, including themed cultural market fairs and community village evening galas.
At present, Lanshan District has selected and appointed nearly 60 literary and artistic backbones to serve as “Literary and Artistic Village Chiefs,” and has planned and carried out more than 700 literary and artistic activities.
Return to TopBy: 本报通讯员 付 昱
A few days ago, Munan Park in Tianjin's Heping District was bustling with activity, as a highly creative anti-fraud promotional event for the elderly was held there. At the ring-toss booth, 72-year-old Grandpa Zhang successfully looped a target post labeled "Impersonating a Relative Asking for Help." After answering the police officer's anti-fraud questions, Grandpa Zhang received a fine souvenir. "Learning while playing — I immediately remembered those swindlers' tricks. From now on, I'll stay vigilant," Grandpa Zhang said.
This was one of the recent series of anti-fraud promotional activities for the elderly carried out in Tianjin. Tianjin has moved its anti-fraud classrooms into cultural and tourism venues, focusing on the telecom and online fraud tactics that elderly groups are prone to encounter, bringing practical and easy-to-learn identification and protection skills to the people.
The event site broke away from traditional formats such as lectures, cleverly integrating anti-fraud knowledge into fun game segments like "ring toss" and "lucky wheel," carrying out the promotion in the form of a "garden party," making a serious and hard-to-understand topic tangible and accessible.
In the future, a regular offline promotional network will be rolled out across all districts of Tianjin. Community police officers, grid workers, and volunteers will focus on visiting empty-nest elderly and the very old, going door-to-door to help disable overseas call functions, explaining with real cases, and simultaneously launching multiple themed special events, guiding the elderly to firmly remember the basic principles of "not coveting bargains, not getting involved in high interest rates," and safeguarding their "money bags" for old-age support.
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 孙秀艳
The National Healthcare Security Administration recently held its routine press conference for the first half of 2026 in Beijing, introducing the work situation of medical security in the first half of this year. Accelerating the promotion of the long-term care insurance system, promoting the coordinated development and governance of the three medical systems (sān yī - "three medical systems," referring to medical insurance, medical services, and pharmaceuticals), deepening the governance of pharmaceutical prices, severely cracking down on insurance fraud, optimizing and improving the level of medical insurance management services, deepening the digital and intelligent empowerment of medical insurance, and other key medical insurance tasks are advancing in an orderly manner, and the operation situation meets expectations.
The basic medical insurance participation structure has been further optimized. Zhang Chenguang (张晨光), Deputy Director of the Department of Planning, Finance and Regulations of the National Healthcare Security Administration, introduced that in 2026, the number of basic medical insurance participants has steadily increased. As of the end of May, the number of basic medical insurance participants increased by more than 4 million compared with the same period last year, and the participation rate remained stable at 95%. In 2025, 69.82 million flexible employment personnel and other persons participated in employee medical insurance, an increase of more than 20 million compared with the early period of the 14th Five-Year Plan. Among them, 389 million people participated in employee medical insurance, an increase of 9.0778 million over the previous year, an increase of 2.4%. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the number of employee medical insurance participants increased by an average of 8.8 million per year, with an average annual growth rate of 2.4%. The basic medical insurance participation structure has been further optimized.
To encourage flexible employment personnel, migrant workers, and persons in new forms of employment to participate in basic medical insurance, the National Healthcare Security Administration is planning to carry out special actions to solidly advance the work of expanding coverage and improving quality of medical insurance participation. It will continue to promote megacities to cancel the household registration restrictions for flexible employment personnel to participate in insurance at their place of employment or permanent residence. Flexible employment personnel participating in employee medical insurance can choose flexible payment methods on their own. At the same time, it also encourages all localities to include flexible employment personnel and others within the coverage of maternity insurance.
Zhang Chenguang introduced that the operation of the medical insurance fund has remained generally stable. In 2025, the total revenue of the national basic medical insurance (including maternity insurance) fund was 3.59 trillion yuan, and the total expenditure was 3.01 trillion yuan. Among them, the revenue of the employee medical insurance pooling fund (including maternity insurance) was 1.83 trillion yuan, and expenditure was 1.36 trillion yuan. The revenue of the resident medical insurance fund was 1.12 trillion yuan, and expenditure was 1.07 trillion yuan.
The medical insurance drug catalog stipulates the scope of drugs covered by the medical insurance fund, that is, the reimbursement scope for insured persons' medication, which has always attracted widespread attention. Huang Xinyu (黄心宇), Director of the Department of Medical Services Management of the National Healthcare Security Administration, introduced that the current medical insurance drug catalog is the 2025 edition, with a total of 3,253 Western medicines and 892 prepared slices of Chinese crude drugs in the catalog. At the same time, the first edition of the commercial insurance innovative drug catalog (shāng bǎo chuàng xīn yào mù lù) and the basic medical insurance catalog have been implemented since January 1, 2026, and the implementation is progressing smoothly.
Huang Xinyu stated that from January to May, the medical insurance fund spent 2.636 billion yuan on new varieties added to the 2025 edition catalog, driving drug sales of 3.946 billion yuan, and 12.2533 million person-times have used the new varieties added to the 2025 catalog. In particular, some products with high public attention have seen significant volume increases. For example, Inclisiran for the treatment of hyperlipidemia has entered nearly 1,700 designated medical institutions and retail pharmacies, making it more convenient for patients to purchase drugs.
He introduced that the adjustment work for this year's medical insurance catalog and commercial insurance innovative drug catalog has been launched, and 818 application materials have been received, with the overall number further increasing compared to 2025. The National Healthcare Security Administration will carry out expert review, calculation and negotiation, and other work according to procedures, and it is expected to release the new edition catalog in November.
Promote the construction of a full-chain, full-process, full-cycle maternity security system. "The National Healthcare Security Administration actively serves the national population development strategy, focuses on the one old, one young (yī lǎo yī xiǎo - "one old, one young," referring to the elderly and children), implements the long-term care insurance system, optimizes the maternity insurance policy, continuously releases policy dividends, and the policy effects continue to manifest." Liu Juan (刘娟), Deputy Director of the Department of Treatment Security of the National Healthcare Security Administration, introduced that in terms of long-term care insurance, the expansion of the system is being accelerated. Currently, 17 provinces including Hebei and Shanxi have issued provincial implementation plans, 100 pooling areas have been implemented and operated, and insurance coverage has reached 320 million people. At the same time, unified procedures are being standardized, and the professional care team is being expanded. Currently, the number of certified long-term care workers has exceeded 50,000.
In terms of maternity insurance, efforts are focused on expanding coverage, strengthening guarantees, and optimizing services, promoting the construction of a full-chain, full-process, full-cycle maternity security system. In 2025, the number of maternity insurance participants was 260 million, with 4.8064 million person-times receiving allowances, and the average maternity allowance per insured female employee was nearly 30,000 yuan. At the end of last year, the National Medical Security Work Conference proposed a clear goal: to strive to basically achieve no out-of-pocket expenses (wú zì fù) for hospitalized childbirth within the policy scope. As of now, 278 pooling areas in 28 provinces have promoted implementation 因地制宜 (yīn dì zhì yí - "adapt measures to local conditions"), providing full coverage of medical expenses incurred by insured female employees for hospitalized childbirth that meet management regulations such as the medical insurance catalog and designated payment. Nine provinces including Jiangsu, Fujian, and Ningxia have further extended no out-of-pocket expenses to resident medical insurance.
Continue to carry out special actions to crack down on illegal and irregular problems in the field of medical insurance drugs. The safety and sustainability of the medical insurance fund is the foundation for the implementation of the medical insurance system. Gu Rong (顾荣), Director of the Department of Fund Supervision of the National Healthcare Security Administration, introduced that the medical insurance department insists on promoting the special rectification work for illegal and irregular activities in medical insurance funds in an extraordinary and high-quality manner. From January to June, the national medical insurance system inspected a total of 330,000 designated medical institutions, handled 280,000 institutions with illegal or irregular activities, recovered 16.35 billion yuan of medical insurance funds, handled 130,000 persons with illegal or irregular activities, and exposed 16,000 typical cases.
He stated that in the first half of this year, national flight inspections have basically covered all provinces, inspecting a total of 2,926 designated medical institutions in 227 prefectures and cities, and investigating and dealing with suspected illegal and irregular amounts of 1.16 billion yuan.
In terms of solidly carrying out special governance, focusing on the chronic problem of reselling returned drugs, fully applying drug traceability codes, and continuing to carry out special actions to crack down on illegal and irregular problems in the field of medical insurance drugs. Currently, more than 140,000 leads have been issued, 11,000 institutions with illegal or irregular activities have been investigated and dealt with, 10.17 million yuan of medical insurance funds have been recovered, 2,517 institutions have been transferred to market supervision, drug administration, health and other departments, 85 persons have been transferred to public security organs, and 41 persons have been transferred to disciplinary inspection and supervision organs. In the first half of this year, the medical insurance expenditure for 320 key monitored drugs prone to resale and return decreased by 19.2 billion yuan compared with 2025, a year-on-year decrease of 20%.
Comprehensively promote pre-event reminders, and continuously strengthen industry self-discipline. From January to June, the national self-inspection and self-correction returned 7.2 billion yuan of medical insurance funds, accounting for 44% of the recovered medical insurance funds, and the compliance awareness of designated medical institutions has significantly improved.
At the press conference, Fan Weidong (樊卫东), Director of the Medical Security Business Management Center of the National Healthcare Security Administration, introduced the situation of optimizing the medical insurance payment prepayment settlement mechanism. He stated that real-time settlement currently covers 315,500 designated medical institutions, accounting for 78.52% of the total number of designated medical institutions nationwide, an increase of nearly 10 percentage points compared with the end of last year; the proportion of real-time settlement in monthly settlement funds reached 94.94%, an increase of 17 percentage points compared with the end of last year. This year, 339 pooling areas nationwide prepaid 92.7 billion yuan of medical insurance funds.
In terms of pharmaceutical price governance, Wang Xiaoning (王小宁), Director of the Department of Pharmaceutical Prices and Tender Procurement of the National Healthcare Security Administration, introduced that this year, the National Healthcare Security Administration has fully launched the governance of drug and consumable prices. For 855 drugs and 55 categories of consumables with abnormal prices detected through monitoring, through interviews, enterprises are urged to lower excessively high prices and guide enterprises to set prices fairly and reasonably. Since the beginning of this year, it has promoted reasonable price reductions for 33 types of medical consumables in 10 major categories, such as defibrillators and heart valves, which are large in quantity, high in price, and have high circulation markups, and are of concern to the public.
Regarding the construction of the medical insurance imaging cloud, which is of concern to patients seeking medical treatment in different places, Cao Wenbo (曹文博), Deputy Director of the Big Data Center of the National Healthcare Security Administration, stated that the overall promotion pace is currently stable and orderly. As of the end of June 2026, 31 provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the central government, and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps have uploaded a total of nearly 440 million index data items to the National Healthcare Security Administration. The problems of medical imaging being "unaffordable to store, unfindable, difficult across provinces, and slow to retrieve" are being systematically alleviated.
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Many places have entered the critical phase of the flood season one after another, short-duration strong convective weather occurs frequently, and risks of disasters such as flash floods and landslides continue to rise. Due to complex terrain and relatively weak infrastructure, special attention needs to be paid to the safety of rural living environments and wading travel safety. How to screen for potential home safety hazards? What are the precautions for wading travel?
If dangerous signals are found in a house, evacuate promptly; do not take shelter from rain under simple structures.
Rural houses, courtyards, and ancillary facilities near mountainous areas are susceptible to the effects of rainwater infiltration, slope surface convergence, and soil softening, which gradually destroy the stability of house foundations, courtyard wall foundations, and slope soil mass. If the courtyard structure has defects, there may be safety hazards under rainfall conditions.
"Old rural houses and houses adjacent to slopes and ditches are the main risk carriers during the flood season," summarized Li Yangchun (李阳春), deputy director of the Guizhou Provincial Institute of Geo-Environment Monitoring (贵州省地质环境监测院). A large number of old rural houses in mountainous areas are of rammed earth or brick-wood structure, built at the foot of mountains and along gullies, lacking professional foundation reinforcement and slope support design at the time of construction. In normal times the structure appears stable, but once the flood season arrives, after continuous rainwater soaking, house foundations are prone to uneven settlement, and walls are prone to cracking, deformation, and leakage due to unbalanced stress. Houses at the foot of slopes and in low-lying areas are at higher risk, as rainwater erosion can easily trigger small landslides and rockfalls, threatening residential safety. If subtle changes are noticed in daily life, such as new cracks in walls, dampness and bulging on the ground, or sporadic soil falling from slopes, evacuate and take shelter promptly to avoid collapse risks from the source.
Do not take shelter from rain under simple structures. Rural self-built courtyard walls and various temporary sheds are easily overlooked safety weaknesses. Dong Nanjiang (董南江), instructor of the training base of the Guizhou Qiandongnan (黔东南) Fire Rescue Detachment, explained that rural courtyard walls are mostly built with shallow foundations, relying only on their own weight for stability. After rainwater soaking, the foundation becomes soft and prone to tilting and collapse. And structures such as livestock sheds and vehicle sheds are mostly simply built from bamboo, wood, and iron sheets, with poor wind and rain resistance, and most are located in low-lying areas, near ditches, or under slopes. In heavy rain they are very prone to overturning and damage and cannot be used as shelter from rain or rest places. Before the flood season, timely clear out materials, and demolish or reinforce structurally unstable old sheds as soon as possible.
"Smooth drainage is a fundamental guarantee for disaster prevention in rural houses," added Li Yangchun. Residents can routinely clean up debris in ditches in front of and behind houses. Low-lying courtyards can set up diversion and water-retaining facilities in advance, and drain water and remove silt promptly after rain to prevent water accumulation from soaking the foundation.
Pay attention to observing mountain and water conditions; do not take risks to travel.
Regarding wading safety during the flood season, Dong Nanjiang reminds attention to the following matters:
Do not force crossing a flood-drowned bridge. Flood-drowned bridges are a high-frequency cause of casualties during the flood season. A seemingly shallow current has very strong impact force; a 30-centimeter rapid can push a motor vehicle, 60 centimeters of accumulated water can make an ordinary car float, and underwater there are hidden dangers such as scoured bridge piers and whirlpool undercurrents. The avoidance principle must be firmly remembered — as long as water covers the bridge or road, regardless of depth, always detour; do not stop to test, and do not force wading.
Do not stay or fish on river banks or in river channels. Rainfall in upstream mountainous areas or reservoir discharge can cause river water to surge in a short time. Do not graze cattle, catch fish, or wash clothes on river beaches or banks. Once you notice the river water becoming turbid, a large amount of branches floating, or a roaring water sound coming, immediately evacuate to high ground on both sides; never run along the river channel.
Do not approach field ditches. After rain, ditch currents are rapid, the edges are muddy and slippery, and underwater there are hidden mud pits; people and livestock can easily slip and be trapped. When working in the fields, try to stay away from ditch edges; do not wade across ditches, and do not stay on old wooden bridges. If ditches are blocked and water overflows the fields, timely clear and divert the water to prevent accumulated water from submerging roads and farmland.
Do not go to fish ponds or reservoirs. The pond banks are muddy and slippery, making it very easy to slip and fall. Every village's fish ponds and reservoirs must set up conspicuous warning signs. Parents must supervise minors throughout; strictly prohibit children from playing at the pond edge or entering water to catch fish; do not walk or work on pond embankments during heavy rain to prevent embankment breaches from injuring people.
Pay attention to observing mountain and water conditions, and be vigilant against flash floods and landslides. Continuous heavy rain can easily trigger landslides and debris flows. The precursors to such disasters are very clear, for example, sudden increase and turbidity of mountain spring or well water, cracks appearing on the ground, continuous soil falling from the mountain, abnormal animal behavior, and dull sounds coming from underground. When these signs are discovered, immediately evacuate to high ground on both sides of the slope, avoiding gullies, river bends, and houses cut into slopes at the foot of mountains.
If traveling to rural areas during the flood season, please implement the "three checks and three avoids" (三查三避). Rather take the risk of canceling the trip than take risks to travel. Before traveling, check weather warnings, check road risk conditions, check emergency equipment; actively avoid river channels and gullies, avoid geological disaster points, and avoid undeveloped wild scenic spots. During the trip, closely monitor changes in stream water — if the water becomes turbid, suddenly rises, or an unusual sound is heard, immediately escape to high ground on both sides of the valley; never run along the river channel. In case of danger, call 110, 119, or 120 immediately, stating clearly the location and number of trapped people. If communication is cut off, wave brightly colored clothing during the day or flash a flashlight at night (three short, three long, three short), hold your position on high ground and wait for rescue; do not blindly wade through water or force relocation.
"Meteorology, water resources, natural resources, and other departments should optimize the layout of rainwater monitoring station networks, increase monitoring frequency, do a good job of rolling forecasts, and transmit early warning information at the first time, to achieve early detection, early warning, and early disposal of risks," said Teng Weihua (滕伟华), director of the Guizhou Provincial Office for Prevention, Reduction, and Relief of Disasters (贵州省防减救灾办) and head of the Provincial Department of Emergency Management (省应急管理厅).
"When encountering a flood, listen to the unified command of the village's two committees (村两委), help each other among neighbors, pay special attention to special groups such as left-behind children, empty-nest elderly, and disabled persons, and evacuate and take shelter according to the predetermined route. Before the flood recedes, do not return home privately to retrieve items," said Xu Mingjin (许明金), head of the Flood and Drought Disaster Prevention Division (水旱灾害防御处) of the Guizhou Provincial Department of Water Resources (贵州省水利厅).
Dai Xiangrong (代湘蓉), senior manager of the metering management team of the Marketing Department of China Southern Power Grid Guizhou Power Grid Company (南方电网贵州电网公司市场营销部), reminded that currently it is the main flood season, and continuous rainfall and high-humidity weather have significantly increased the risk of household electricity use. If water enters the house, first disconnect the main power supply; never touch any damp electrical appliances or wiring before disconnecting the power. If there is already water on the floor, be sure to wear insulating rubber shoes or stand on a dry wooden stool when operating, to avoid direct contact with water forming a conductive circuit. Strictly prohibit charging electric bicycles or agricultural machinery outdoors in the open, and avoid working with live electricity.
High humidity will cause the insulation performance of wires to decline, especially obvious for old wires; poor contact between socket connectors and electrical equipment may burn out connectors; the heads of household charging piles or household appliance plugs may discharge after being soaked by water. It is recommended to have an electrician inspect the household wires, plugs, and electrical appliances every five years. If the rural self-built house has not been properly laid with a ground wire, be sure to install a leakage protection switch.
New energy vehicles and electric bicycles are strictly prohibited from charging outdoors in heavy rain. After rain, before charging, first dry the gun head and interface, blow dry the pins with cold air, let it sit for 5 minutes before inserting the gun. For rooftop photovoltaic systems, check the firmness of the brackets and the sealing of the cabinet doors; strictly do not go onto the roof during thunderstorms. Smart home adapters are always live; after getting damp, they may short-circuit and catch fire; during the flood season, it is advisable to move them to a dry, high place.
After the rain stops, the danger may not be eliminated. The surface of appliances soaked by water may be dry but the inside may not be dry; they must be tested by professionals before being powered on. After a gas stove gets damp, ignition becomes sluggish; if it repeatedly fails to light, do not use an open flame to assist ignition. When encountering outdoor wires falling or being soaked in water, maintain a sufficient safe distance and immediately call the service hotline for disposal.
Return to TopThis newspaper, Beijing, July 15 (Reporter Bai Jianfeng (白剑峰)). July 15 marked the start of the dog days. The National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委) held a press conference to introduce the situation concerning seasonal solar terms and health.
Hu Qiangqiang (胡强强), spokesperson for the National Health Commission, said that during the Minor Heat and Major Heat solar terms, it is midsummer, with the strongest summer heat, intertwined dampness and heat, making it the time of year with the highest temperature and the most oppressive humidity. It is also a critical period for summer disease prevention and health maintenance. Attention should be paid to heatstroke prevention and cooling, and reasonable arrangement of work, rest, and outdoor activities.
Yang Ge (杨戈), chief physician of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences Guang'anmen Hospital (中国中医科学院广安门医院), suggested that summer heat is combined with dampness, and elderly people should not only pay attention to heatstroke prevention and cooling but also protect their yang qi. Elderly people have reduced thermoregulation ability, especially patients with coronary heart disease, heart failure, etc. In high-temperature and high-humidity environments, they are prone to symptoms such as chest tightness, palpitations, and shortness of breath. It is recommended to turn on the air conditioner in time, control the room temperature at 26 to 28 degrees Celsius, and when humidity is high, activate the dehumidification function. When sweating heavily after going out or exercising, it is recommended to first wipe the body dry, change into dry clothes, and then enter the air-conditioned room.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 尚嵘峥
In late June, in Qiemo County (且末县), Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture (巴音郭楞蒙古自治州), Xinjiang, it rained for several consecutive days, causing water levels in local river channels to surge sharply, and flood hazards appeared on many road sections. On the evening of June 22, when Yuan Guangchao (袁广超), an employee of a certain enterprise, and his companion were driving through a river channel section in Oyayilake Town (奥依亚依拉克镇), a sudden flood occurred in the river channel. The water was swift and fierce, and the rapid current carried a large amount of sediment, instantly submerging the road, and the vehicle was washed into the river channel.
“The situation was very urgent at the time. We quickly opened the car door and got out, standing next to the wheels, but we were washed to a farther position by the current,” Yuan Guangchao recalled. The deepest part of the flood reached up to the calf, and the impact of the water was very strong. The two tried to rescue themselves, wanting to slowly move to the bank, but they could not stand steady at all, and were knocked down again and again by the surging flood, their bodies covered with mud and sand. Yuan Guangchao also had abrasions on his legs, so he had to return to the vehicle to wait for rescue.
When the two were 一筹莫展 (yī chóu mò zhǎn - “no plan to unfold,” at a loss as to what to do), they saw someone in the distance running toward them. It was herdsman Kaisaier Masumu (凯赛尔·麦苏木) and his wife Nuerhan Maimaiti (努尔罕·麦麦提). “We were returning home from the pastoral area. When we reached the river, the flood blocked our way. While we stopped and waited, we saw a car about to be washed away by the flood, so we quickly ran over to rescue the people,” Kaisaier said.
Kaisaier took out two ropes that he usually kept as spares from the car, tied them together, and threw them forcefully into the water, intending to pull the two to the bank with the ropes. But because the distance was far and the weight was insufficient, the ropes could not reach Yuan Guangchao and his companion.
“I suddenly thought we could take off our socks, fill them with stones, and tie them to the rope,” Nuerhan said, having a 灵机一动 (líng jī yī dòng - “a flash of inspiration,” a sudden clever idea). After adding weight to the rope, they tied one end of the rope to their own car, adjusted the angle, and tried throwing it again.
This time, Yuan Guangchao and his companion finally caught this “life-saving rope.” They tied the rope firmly around their waists, and Kaisaier and Nuerhan on the bank pulled hard to bring them back. Yuan Guangchao and the other man held tightly to the “life-saving rope” and staggered through the flood toward the bank. When they were only two or three meters from the bank, they accidentally slipped and nearly were washed away by the flood again. Seeing this, Kaisaier on the bank rushed forward with a swift step, grabbed the rope, and pulled hard, and the two finally reached the bank safely.
“Is there anyone else in the car?” Nuerhan asked urgently. Only after receiving the answer “No one” did she feel relieved. After Yuan Guangchao and his companion came ashore, they immediately contacted the rescue team. Kaisaier and his wife brought out food, drinking water, and spare clothes to help them replenish their strength and restore their body temperature. Only after the rescue team arrived and took the two away did Kaisaier and his wife leave.
The day after being rescued, Yuan Guangchao and his companion went to the home of Kaisaier and Nuerhan to thank them in person. “Thank you very much. You gave us a second life,” Yuan Guangchao said. “This is what we should do. When encountering difficulties, we must help each other,” Kaisaier said.
(Rexiti Yimin (热西提·依敏) participated in the writing.)
Return to TopHohhot, July 15 (Reporter Li Zhiyao (李祉瑶)) — The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Department of Education (内蒙古自治区教育厅), Market Supervision Administration (市场监督管理局), and seven other departments recently jointly launched a safety production inspection of off-campus training institutions across the region.
This inspection covers all subject-category (学科类) and non-subject-category (非学科类) off-campus training institutions in the region. The inspection content mainly includes: strictly investigating various problems such as non-subject-category training institutions operating without licenses or permits, having incomplete licenses and permits, conducting operations beyond their scope, and establishing teaching sites without approval or conducting cross-region illegal operations; strictly investigating whether institutions are engaging in disguised (隐形变异) subject-category training in violation of regulations, whether non-subject-category training institutions are illegally conducting subject-category training, whether there are illegal pricing, false advertising, training behaviors that violate laws and regulations related to contract administrative supervision, whether training courses and training materials comply with relevant national regulations, whether they are illegally hiring personnel without professional qualifications or in-service teachers to teach; strictly investigating problems such as training venues not meeting safety standards, missing or expired fire-fighting facilities, blocked safety passages, failure to implement safety management systems, and failure to carry out safety hazard investigation and rectification.
All areas of Inner Mongolia have established a collaborative working mechanism linking multiple departments and units, established ledgers for off-campus training institutions within their jurisdictions, and a mechanism for investigating and rectifying safety hazards in off-campus training institutions.
Return to TopKunming, July 15 (Reporter Yang Wenming (杨文明)). On the 15th, the Kunming Municipal Veterans Affairs Bureau (昆明市退役军人事务局) jointly with the Kunming Charity Federation (昆明市慈善总会) held the signing and donation ceremony for the "Spring City Rongguang (春城戎光)" public welfare fund, marking the official establishment of Kunming's first dedicated public welfare assistance platform exclusively for veterans and entitled groups (优抚对象).
In recent years, Kunming has continuously improved its socialized system of supporting the military and providing preferential treatment to entitled groups, forming a guarantee model that coordinates policy safety nets, entrepreneurship support, and social assistance. It has continuously optimized the officer assignment scoring and two-way placement process, strictly implemented the equivalent employment placement policy for accompanying military family members, and high-quality positions in government agencies and state-owned enterprises have continued to absorb veterans. To assist veterans in their transformation and development, Kunming has built specialized military entrepreneurship parks, opening up a complete service chain of skills training, employment matching, and business incubation. The parks have introduced substantive support policies such as venue fee reductions, discounted interest on start-up loans, and tax and fee reductions, and regularly hold activities such as investment and financing matchmaking and military entrepreneurship specialty product exhibitions and sales. For situations such as living difficulties and serious illness treatment, assistance is provided in a timely manner, achieving targeted assistance and rapid safety nets. Fund management is open and standardized throughout the entire process, and it actively accepts supervision from all sides.
A relevant official from the Kunming Municipal Veterans Affairs Bureau stated that the "Spring City Rongguang" public welfare fund is used exclusively for its designated purpose, focusing on assisting veterans in difficulty, family members of martyrs (烈属), and other groups.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘诗瑶
The 15th Five-Year Plan outline proposes to "expand marine emerging industries such as marine biomedicine and seawater desalination." Not long ago, the Department of Marine Strategic Planning and Economy of the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部) released the 2025 National Seawater Utilization Report. The report shows that as of the end of 2025, the country had 167 seawater desalination projects in operation, with a total capacity of 3.077 million tons per day, an increase of 221,000 tons per day compared with 2024. Seeking water from the sea is moving from an "emergency option" toward a "strategic choice." China's seawater desalination industry is accelerating its transition from a backup water source into sectors such as people's livelihoods and industry.
Seawater desalination technology will play an increasingly important role in safeguarding people's livelihoods and serving development.
Huni Island (湖泥岛) is located in Putuo District (普陀区), Zhoushan City (舟山市), Zhejiang Province. There are no rivers on the island, rainfall is highly seasonal, and there are basically no natural freshwater resources. The island once faced a situation of "relying on the sky for drinking water, with limited time and quantity." In 2024, the Huni Island seawater desalination construction project was awarded through public bidding to PowerChina Huadong Engineering Corporation Limited (中国电建集团华东勘测设计研究院有限公司).
"From the formal start of construction in December 2024 to the achievement of stable water supply in October 2025, we took less than a year to give local residents access to clean fresh water," said Zhang Jianzhong (张建中), director of the Seawater Desalination Engineering Center of PowerChina Huadong Engineering Corporation. The seawater desalination project on Huni Island currently produces 10,000 tons of fresh water per day, supplying water 24 hours a day without interruption.
What initially worried Zhang Jianzhong was whether local enterprises and residents would accept desalinated seawater. In fact, after the project was completed, the stability of industrial production water use at the island's shipyard and supporting industries increased significantly. Shipyard employees said: "In the past, water cuts and production stoppages happened frequently; now water is stable, production is not restricted, and confidence in the industry is stronger." With the stable supply of desalinated seawater, the demand for replenishing fresh water by ship transport has markedly decreased, bringing down water supply costs and greatly easing the burden.
At the same time, as clear, odorless desalinated seawater flowed from the taps of local households, earlier doubts — such as "water made from seawater is still salty" and "undrinkable" — gradually dissipated. Some villagers reported: "This water is available at any time, tastes good, and the kettle has no scale."
Lin Jianjun (林建君), Secretary of the Party Committee and Board Chairman of the project owner, Zhoushan Tap Water Co., Ltd. (舟山市自来水有限公司), said that in the past, seawater desalination was an emergency supplement, and in most people's minds it was "only used when there was no other choice." Now, it has become the pillar of water supply security for Zhoushan's islands.
A responsible official from the Department of Marine Strategic Planning and Economy of the Ministry of Natural Resources stated that seawater desalination is not affected by climate, does not compete for water with inland areas, can be scaled up or down, and can supply multiple islands from a single plant. It liberates islands from "water shortage anxiety" and constitutes a solid water security barrier for island people's livelihoods. Seawater desalination technology will play an increasingly important role in safeguarding people's livelihoods and serving development.
"In the next step, we will take Huni Island as a model and deploy small and medium-sized seawater desalination facilities on water-deficient islands such as Xiazhi Island (虾峙岛), Taohua Island (桃花岛), and Dongji Island (东极岛), improve the submarine water transmission pipeline network, achieve 'one plant supplying multiple islands, multiple plants interconnected,' and enhance water supply resilience," Lin Jianjun said. "We will make every effort to ensure high-quality water supply and contribute to the water security of the islands."
Assisting high water-consumption enterprises in embarking on a green transformation path of water conservation, pollution reduction, and recycling.
Huadian Nangang Thermal Power (华电南港热电), located in the Nangang Industrial Zone (南港工业区) of Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area, is a typical large-scale industrial enterprise with high water consumption. It has a large demand for water and high water quality standards, leading to a prominent supply-demand contradiction.
Given the insufficient endowment of natural freshwater resources, how can the water demands of large-scale industrial enterprises with high water consumption, such as the ethylene complex and thermal power, be met? How can the question of green transformation be answered well?
The key to breaking the impasse lies in seawater desalination technology.
"In the past, we long relied on conventional municipal fresh water as our industrial water source. The total water supply was limited and could not match the water demand and quality standards required for sustained industrial development," said a relevant official from Huadian Nangang Thermal Power.
The seawater desalination technology of Xianda Seawater Resources Development Company (先达海水资源开发公司) effectively resolved the potential difficulties facing Huadian Nangang Thermal Power in its development.
Coastal seawater is continuously drawn and transported to Xianda's desalination equipment. After undergoing several sophisticated and complex desalination processes, it is 'transformed' into clear fresh water meeting industrial requirements. The two companies have formed a typical model of "wall-to-wall supply, interconnected recycling." Huadian Nangang Thermal Power requires high-purity deionized water for production. After switching to desalinated seawater, the deionized water production rate increased by more than 15%, water consumption and wastewater discharge were greatly reduced, and annual production costs could be saved by tens of millions of yuan. Seeing that Huadian Nangang Thermal Power had achieved green transformation and cost savings through the use of desalinated seawater, other enterprises in the park actively began experimenting with different applications of desalinated seawater.
With technical support from the Institute of Seawater Desalination and Multipurpose Utilization, Ministry of Natural Resources (Tianjin) (自然资源部天津海水淡化与综合利用研究所), Xianda's seawater desalination projects were gradually put into operation. The Nangang Industrial Zone reversed its previous situation of insufficient conventional fresh water supply and became a chemical industrial park using desalinated seawater as its main water source. Currently, the project has achieved stable water supply, and the water price is on par with municipal tap water.
"Based on the stable operation of Phase I with a capacity of 150,000 tons per day, we will gradually begin preparatory work for the Phase II project. In the future, the total desalinated seawater capacity will be expanded to 300,000 tons per day, further enhancing water supply capability and fully meeting the long-term industrial water demand of the Nangang Industrial Zone," said Yang Hongfei (杨宏飞), a relevant official from Xianda Company. Xiang Wenxi (相文玺), Director of the Institute of Seawater Desalination and Multipurpose Utilization, Ministry of Natural Resources (Tianjin), stated that seawater desalination projects, from the four dimensions of increasing water sources, improving water quality, reducing costs, and promoting recycling, not only fill the water gap but also optimize water costs and quality, helping high water-consumption enterprises embark on a green transformation path of water conservation, pollution reduction, and recycling.
In addition, the team from the Institute of Seawater Desalination and Multipurpose Utilization, Ministry of Natural Resources (Tianjin), using concentrated brine from seawater desalination as raw material, optimized the pre-enrichment process of the mineral solution, continuously improved the grade of the raw material, steadily narrowed the gap between the technology and industrial production, and completed the entire process flow. This has laid a solid technical foundation for moving potassium extraction from seawater from the laboratory to the production line. Currently, this technology is undergoing pilot-scale verification in Qingdao (青岛), Shandong (山东), and efforts are being made to push forward its industrialization.
Strong technical expertise and innovation capability have earned international recognition for China's seawater desalination products and services.
Egypt has a typical tropical desert climate, with high temperatures and drought year-round, leading to an extreme scarcity of freshwater resources. Especially in the densely populated main urban belt, there has long been a gap in demand for water for people's livelihoods and industry.
Under the Belt and Road Initiative, the seawater desalination technology and products of China's Vontron Technology Company (沃顿科技) have successfully gone abroad. At a seawater desalination plant in Matruh, Egypt, with an installed capacity of 130,000 tons per day, the seawater desalination membranes independently developed by Vontron Technology were successfully applied to 65,000 tons per day of the facility. Currently, the system operates well with stable performance, effectively alleviating local water scarcity.
"The smooth progress of the project has tested the reliability of our seawater desalination technology and products. In 2025, the company exported more than 30,000 seawater desalination membrane elements to countries along the Belt and Road, corresponding to a daily desalination capacity of over 300,000 tons," said Fang Yong (方勇), a relevant official from Vontron Technology.
The international recognition of China's seawater desalination products and services stems from strong technical expertise and innovation capability.
Experts analyze that China has a vast territory with immense differences in water sources between the north and south, east and west. The water composition, pollution indicators, and water quality conditions of surface water, groundwater, industrial wastewater, and high-salinity brackish water are complex and varied. China's research institutes and innovative enterprises, rooted in actual conditions, have independently developed technologies and complete sets of equipment capable of adapting to the country's complex water quality and stably solving various water treatment pain points.
China's seawater desalination technology is highly versatile and can easily adapt to water treatment application scenarios with different water sources and different needs across the globe, giving it a prominent international competitive advantage.
Fang Yong introduced that the company has produced membrane products in more than 200 specifications, including seawater desalination membranes, anti-fouling membranes, and anti-oxidation membranes, and sells them to over 130 countries and regions.
Vontron Technology also benefits from exporting its products. "We can use complex overseas water conditions to complete product validation, benchmark against international standards, and feed back into domestic substitution in the high-end domestic market, breaking the long-standing monopoly of foreign brands in the domestic reverse osmosis membrane market," Fang Yong said. Vontron Technology's project support also includes ensuring the implementation of major cooperative projects such as ports, industrial parks, and energy, promoting the coordinated development of energy and water affairs. China's water treatment technology, standards, and entire industrial chain are also accelerating their overseas expansion together.
A responsible official from the Department of Marine Strategic Planning and Economy of the Ministry of Natural Resources stated that the increasing number of enterprises engaged in seawater desalination going overseas reflects the reliable quality of China's high-end membrane materials and equipment, which will contribute to the development of China's marine economy.
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The amendment to the E-Commerce Law is an important measure that summarizes industry practical experience and conforms to the healthy and orderly development of the platform economy. It holds significant meaning for the sustained healthy development of the e-commerce industry and the high-quality development of the platform economy.
With the rapid iteration of the platform economy, e-commerce has become an important force driving economic growth and facilitating people's livelihoods. As a foundational law in the field of the platform economy, the E-Commerce Law provides legal safeguards for the standardized development of the industry. Faced with the emergence of new business forms, the frequent occurrence of novel legal issues, and the expectations of all sectors of society for regulating the order of the online market, it is imperative to further improve relevant institutional rules and optimize governance concepts.
The amendment to the E-Commerce Law is an important measure that summarizes industry practical experience and conforms to the healthy and orderly development of the platform economy. It holds significant meaning for the sustained healthy development of the e-commerce industry and the high-quality development of the platform economy, which is specifically reflected in four dimensions: standardization, development, governance, and ecology.
At the standardization level, mature industry practices can be elevated into legal rules, matching the legal safeguard needs of new business forms, refining the standards for legal application, providing clear behavioral guidance for all parties, protecting the legitimate rights and interests of platforms, merchants, consumers, workers in new forms of employment, and other entities, and promoting the standardized development of the industry.
At the development level, it can strengthen the orientation towards synergy and mutual benefit between platforms and multiple entities, guide the industry to focus on quality improvement and innovative development, stimulate the innovation vitality of business entities, promote the transformation of the e-commerce industry towards quality and innovation, and align with the requirements for high-quality development of the platform economy.
At the governance level, it promotes the construction of a systematic platform responsibility system, pushes platforms from compliance with duties towards active innovation, summarizes and promotes experience in diversified collaborative governance, builds an e-commerce governance system featuring multi-party co-governance and mutual benefit, and enhances the effectiveness of industry governance.
At the ecology level, it is expected to promote the formation of a mutually beneficial e-commerce ecosystem, facilitate the deep integration of e-commerce and the real economy, summarize experience in the healthy development of the industry, and inject lasting momentum into the high-quality development of the platform economy.
The field of e-commerce involves a wide range of areas and numerous related entities. From a practical perspective, certain illegal or non-compliant behaviors of e-commerce platforms warrant attention. For example, if a platform fails to fulfill its obligation to review qualifications, it can lead to unqualified merchants entering and selling substandard goods, infringing upon the personal and property rights and interests of consumers. Compared with fields such as personal information protection and minor protection, the provisions on platform responsibility in the current E-Commerce Law do not match the important status and influence of e-commerce platforms in the e-commerce field, and the degree of responsibility fit is clearly too low.
The amendment to the E-Commerce Law is a requirement of the times for the high-quality development of the platform economy, and it comes at an opportune moment. China has shifted to a stage of high-quality development. As one of the important engines of high-quality development, the development model of the platform economy is transitioning towards refinement, standardization, and innovative development. Against this backdrop, e-commerce platforms have transformed from mere transaction service carriers into hubs of the platform economy, coordinators and organizers of online transactions, and guardians of consumer rights and interests, assuming more social responsibilities and public governance functions.
The responsibilities borne by a platform should match the role it plays and the functions it performs in economic and social development. This is both a fundamental manifestation of the principle of fairness under the rule of law and an inevitable requirement for promoting the healthy development of the industry. Currently, e-commerce platforms have become deeply integrated into various fields of production and life, and their influence in economic operations and social governance is increasingly prominent. Correspondingly, e-commerce platforms should assume responsibilities that match their own status and functions. They must not only regulate their own business conduct but also fulfill their obligations to manage, guide, and safeguard the entities within the platform.
Amending the E-Commerce Law requires further summarizing the characteristics and patterns in the field of platform governance and platform responsibility, drawing on the mature experience of legislation in various areas of network rule of law, further refining the responsibilities and obligations of e-commerce platforms in various fields, promoting a more systematic and standardized platform responsibility system, achieving coordinated integration between the e-commerce field and the overall network rule of law system, ensuring that platform responsibilities truly match their roles and functions in the economy and society, and laying a solid legal foundation for the healthy development of the e-commerce industry.
(The author is the Director of the Internet Rule of Law Research Center at the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
Return to Top2026 is the first year of the Fifteenth Five-Year Plan. The Agricultural Bank of China Anhui Branch (中国农业银行安徽省分行, hereinafter referred to as ABC Anhui Branch) has always resonated at the same frequency with local economic development, firmly upholding the positioning of "leading bank in serving rural revitalization, main bank in serving the real economy," anchoring the construction strategy of Anhui's "three regions and one zone" (三地一区), deeply cultivating the "five major articles" (五篇大文章) of finance, using financial living water to drip-irrigate the real economy, and contributing ABC's strength to striving to write the Anhui chapter of Chinese-style modernization.
As of the end of June this year, the total loan balance of ABC Anhui Branch exceeded one trillion yuan, with real economy loans increasing by 86.5 billion yuan compared to the beginning of the year, and it has ranked among the top for seven consecutive years in the Anhui Provincial Government's evaluation of the performance of financial institutions in supporting local development.
Closely following technological innovation and industrial upgrading, activating new quality productive forces
The modern industrial system is the material and technological foundation of Chinese-style modernization. ABC Anhui Branch launched the "Anhui Gathering Strength · Innovation Engine" (徽聚合力・创新引擎) action, serves the construction of a modern industrial system, and builds a financial empowerment system covering the entire lifecycle of enterprises.
Supporting technological innovation. Focusing on "accelerating high-level self-reliance and self-strengthening in science and technology," it comprehensively connects with institutions such as Keda Silicon Valley (科大硅谷), achieving full coverage of cooperation with leading enterprises. It takes supporting the development of science and technology enterprises as a key point, establishes a head office-level science and technology financial service center, sets up 16 key science and technology financial sub-branches, creates a dedicated credit service system, and provides science and technology enterprises with full lifecycle financial services from the start-up to maturity stage as well as integrated financial services of "loan, equity, bond, fund, leasing, advisory" (贷股债基租顾). In the first half of this year, loans to science and technology enterprises increased by 31 billion yuan net, and the number of science and technology enterprises with loan balances increased by 2,660 net. Coordinating with ABC Investment, ABC Financial Leasing, etc., it made equity investments of 1.5 billion yuan in Gotion High-tech (国轩高科) and Chery Holding (奇瑞控股) projects, and supported the WeiNeng Battery (蔚能电池) project with 1.1 billion yuan. Supporting emerging industries. Centering on Anhui Province's "1188" modern industrial system (1188现代化产业体系), it innovatively applies the industrial financial service platform and the "Hui Ke Yun" (徽客云) service platform, deeply studies key industries such as intelligent connected new energy vehicles, new-generation information technology, and artificial intelligence, and implements precise outreach and differentiated services for enterprises on the industrial chain. In the first half of this year, manufacturing loans increased by 35.5 billion yuan, and strategic emerging industry loans increased by 41.1 billion yuan net.
Focusing on comprehensive rural revitalization, adding color to the new picture of rural development
Anhui is a major grain-producing region in the country. ABC Anhui Branch takes serving agriculture, rural areas, and farmers (三农) as its foundation, allowing financial living water to reach the fields and homesteads. As of the end of June this year, the balance of county-level loans and farmer household loans exceeded 520 billion yuan and 101.2 billion yuan respectively, with net increases of 55.5 billion yuan and 12.6 billion yuan compared to the beginning of the year. It implemented the financial support action for the construction of the "Thousand-Billion-Jin Jianghuai Granary" (千亿斤江淮粮仓), focusing on the "Four Good and Two Excellent" (四良两优) project, actively promoting products such as "Good Farmland Loan" (良田贷), and supporting farmland improvement and renovation construction as well as "Farmland+" projects such as facility agriculture and smart agriculture. As of the end of June this year, the loan balance in key grain areas was 27.2 billion yuan, a net increase of 6.7 billion yuan compared to the beginning of the year. It closely monitors 72 county-level characteristic industry clusters, implements "one county, one product" and "one county, one plan," establishes an industrial financial ecological map, formulates service plans, and supports the development of rural characteristic industries. As of the end of June this year, rural industry loans increased by 26.7 billion yuan net compared to the beginning of the year. It implemented the special action "Anhui Gathering Strength · Enriching the People and Revitalizing Villages" (徽聚合力·富民兴村), built 108 agricultural service stations, and provided service coverage to 249 townships without banking outlets, opening up the "last mile" of rural financial services, and using financial strength to serve agricultural efficiency enhancement, rural beautification, and farmer income increase.
Focusing on the field of people's livelihood and consumption, consolidating the foundation of high-quality development
ABC Anhui Branch deeply grasps the political and people-centered nature of financial work, consolidating the foundation of high-quality development with comprehensive financial supply. Centering on the "Two Heavy and Two New" (两重两新) fields, it establishes a work mechanism of "parallel processing + green channel + priority settlement," innovates products such as "pre-project loan," "demolition loan," and "urban renewal loan," and disburses 38 billion yuan in major project loans. It solidly promotes the special action of "Ten Banks, Thousand Trillions, Ten Thousand Enterprises" (十行千亿万企), driving the realization of "able to borrow, fast to borrow; should borrow, all borrowed; should renew, all renewed" for small and micro enterprises. As of the end of June this year, the total inclusive finance loans reached 176.5 billion yuan. It deeply carries out the "Double Increase and Double Promotion" (双增双促) benefiting people's livelihood action, increasing support for the health industry, elderly care industry, and silver economy. It continuously conducts brand activities such as "Anhui Beautiful Consumption" (皖美消费), "Anhui Beautiful Travel" (皖美出行), and "Anhui Beautiful Landscapes" (皖美山水), creating characteristic financial scenarios, supporting and meeting residents' consumption needs. As of the end of June this year, the personal loan balance reached 413.7 billion yuan.
Exerting the role of green finance, serving comprehensive green transformation
Green development is the distinctive background of Chinese-style modernization. ABC Anhui Branch uses green finance to assist advanced manufacturing in cultivating new development momentum. It deeply implements the "dual carbon" (双碳) strategy, increasing credit allocation to key carbon emission reduction areas such as new energy power generation and green upgrading of infrastructure. As of the end of June this year, the green finance loan balance reached 283.1 billion yuan, an increase of 36 billion yuan compared to the beginning of the year. Focusing on the improvement of the living environment, it promotes the model of "rural living environment improvement + rural tourism + traditional village protection," assisting in the protection and enhancement of traditional villages, historical and cultural cities, towns, and villages. Centering on the "Hundred Scenic Spots Upgrade" (百景提升) action, it actively implements the Anhui Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government's plan for the high-quality development of all-for-one tourism, assisting in the quality upgrade of key scenic spots such as Huangshan and Jiuhua Mountain. As of the end of June this year, the cultural tourism industry loan balance was 20 billion yuan.
Data source: Agricultural Bank of China Anhui Branch
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 游 仪
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Zizhong (资中) medium-sized rod puppet show (资中中型杖头木偶戏) in Sichuan flourished during the Guangxu period of the Qing dynasty and was inscribed on the national intangible cultural heritage representative project list in 2014. Constrained by difficulties in talent and funding, Zizhong puppet show was once on the verge of extinction. The Zizhong County Puppet Troupe (资中县木偶剧团) upholds tradition while innovating, with young actors taking over, integrating cultural elements such as face-changing, fire-spitting, calligraphy, and long-silk dance, bringing the ancient theatrical form back to brilliance. With an average of over 300 performances per year and footprints in more than 20 countries and regions... more and more people have come to love puppet shows.
The drumbeats suddenly quicken, the lights are as bright as day. Holding the life rod in the left hand and manipulating the hand sticks with the right, as the force of the fingertips changes, the puppet turns, waves its sleeves, and nods, becoming vivid and lively. Suddenly, the puppet opens its mouth and "spits" out a burst of flame, drawing gasps from the audience.
Not long ago, inside the Zizhong Theater in Sichuan, a special medium-sized rod puppet show — Shu Feng Ou Yun (蜀风偶韵) — amazed the audience. Zizhong medium-sized rod puppet show originated in the Qing dynasty and is a rare local theatrical form. "In the past, folk artists carried 'three sticks' from village to village; now, we have stepped into the spotlight of theaters at home and abroad, performing an average of over 300 shows a year," said Hu Hai, head of the Zizhong County Puppet Troupe.
Adhering to tradition and boldly innovating, an ancient theatrical form is radiating new vitality.
"If you do puppetry, you must love the line you are in."
As a child, what made Hu Hai happiest was watching puppet shows. On the rural stage, with gongs and drums clanging, the child stood on tiptoe to peer at the stage, seeing the puppets swinging their water sleeves, 栩栩如生 (xǔ xǔ rú shēng - "vividly as if alive," lifelike). The dream of "becoming a puppet show actor" took root in Hu Hai's heart.
Hu Hai entered the profession at age 16. Every day he had to lift an 8-jin puppet and stand still, practicing for an hour or more at a time. With precise movements, stable puppets, and flexible manipulation, he practiced basic skills until thick calluses formed on his palms. To deepen his understanding of puppet shows, Hu Hai also followed a master to learn the craft of making Zizhong puppets... At age 36, Hu Hai became the head of the Zizhong County Puppet Troupe. That year, the Zizhong County Cultural Troupe, Sichuan Opera Troupe, and Puppet Troupe merged and reorganized. Among the 23 staff members, only 4 truly understood puppet show performance, and the youngest was already over 30.
"The veteran artists retired one after another, and young people were unwilling to come," Hu Hai said. Some veteran artists secretly went to do odd jobs to supplement their family income, and some successively submitted resignations. But Hu Hai always remembered his father's admonition: "If you do puppetry, you must love the line you are in!"
With a gap in talent (青黄不接 - qīng huáng bù jiē - "green and yellow do not meet," a gap in succession) and insufficient funds (捉襟见肘 - zhuō jīn jiàn zhǒu - "pull the lapel and expose the elbow," to be in financial straits), what to do? Lacking funds, they set up a performance company and rented out lighting equipment; short of actors, the puppet troupe reopened public recruitment in 2008 to take in new people; lacking skills, Hu Hai taught personally, teaching not only puppet shows but also singing, skits, Sichuan opera, and other techniques.
Long Shihao, born after 1995, is now the deputy head of the troupe. In 2008, Long Shihao noticed that the Zizhong County Puppet Troupe was recruiting and signed up on a trial basis. "Currently the troupe has over 20 actors, aged between 17 and 35," Long Shihao said. From the initial master's hands-on teaching to today's young people independently taking charge (独当一面 - dú dāng yī miàn - "to take charge of one side," to assume responsibility independently) in rehearsals and performances, the continuous addition of new generations has allowed the puppet show to be passed down like a torch (薪火相传 - xīn huǒ xiāng chuán - "the fire is passed from one piece of firewood to another," to pass on the torch).
"Traditional skills must innovate, and puppets must also become 'trendy'."
With a lift of the hand, the nearly one-meter-high rod puppet's cape flings open with a whoosh; with a twist of the head, the puppet's facial makeup instantly switches from a black face to a red face. In Panlongsi Village (盘龙寺村), Gongmin Town (公民镇), Zizhong County, the troupe brought performances to the countryside, presenting a wonderful puppet show for the villagers.
Hu Hai said, "Traditional skills must innovate, and puppets must also become 'trendy'." Both Sichuan opera and puppet shows are traditional cultures of Sichuan, so why not combine the two? With this idea, puppet maker Tang Youmin led a team to start tackling the problem.
The puppet "learning" face-changing required integrating Sichuan opera face-changing with the puppet. Tang Youmin and his colleagues repeatedly studied and adjusted special devices. After more than four months, a puppet that could change faces and spit fire appeared on stage. "When the puppet completed the transformation of eight faces for the first time and also spat out flames, the applause from the audience was extremely enthusiastic," Hu Hai said with a smile. Many viewers came specially, and the troupe received continuous performance invitations.
If the puppet was too heavy, manipulation became difficult, so the team changed the puppet's head from being carved from hemp willow wood to being pasted with paper shell; they added elements such as calligraphy and long-silk dance to the performance, enriching the content; they removed the curtain of traditional puppet shows, allowing actors to walk from behind the scenes to the front, increasing interaction with the audience...
Innovation accompanies the "growth" of the puppets. In Hu Hai's studio, large and small puppets fill the shelves, with different cartoon-style puppets, lively and agile... Today's Zizhong puppets have more modern features in their makeup and styling.
"We have always been thinking about how puppet shows can attract more young people, especially children." In Hu Hai's view, innovation is key. Nowadays, puppet toys of various shapes have become local bestsellers. Audiences can not only watch puppet shows but also take small puppets home.
"More and more people are falling in love with China's excellent traditional culture."
When the stage lights of the Berlin Youth Palace in Germany lit up, Zizhong puppets appeared amid the sound of gongs and drums. The actor manipulated the puppet to lift a brush and write "China-Germany Friendship". In 2025, spanning thousands of kilometers, the Zizhong County Puppet Troupe shone at the 10th "Children's Theater Week" held in Berlin, Germany.
Puppet shows going abroad is not the first time. As early as 1995, plays such as The Ruby (红宝石) featuring Hu Hai traveled to Kazakhstan for artistic exchange, which was also his first overseas performance with the troupe. "After the performance, the audience was reluctant to leave. Children rushed forward, ran onto the stage to take photos with the puppets, and the organizer temporarily added an extra month of performances," Hu Hai said.
Actor Xiao Xue has also performed abroad many times. She said that the moment she stands on the international stage, a sense of pride arises in her heart: "Through our performances, more and more people are falling in love with China's excellent traditional culture."
Hu Hai opened the tour log in his hand, from South Korea to the United States, from theaters in Kazakhstan to campuses in New Zealand, recording the troupe's overseas performance footprints. As of now, Zizhong puppet show has traveled to more than 20 countries and regions for over 50 cultural exchanges. The small puppet tells Chinese stories to more people.
Overseas, the puppet troupe attracts many foreign fans through performances; in the county, students experience study tours at the troupe's puppet making craft exhibition hall. "To let more young people understand Zizhong puppet show, we display collected puppets, props, and other items," Hu Hai said. In 2023, the troupe began to develop study tour experience projects, with over 5,000 people coming each year to immerse themselves in the charm of Zizhong puppet show.
With living transmission, Zizhong puppet show has a broader stage. Nowadays, carrying out cultural benefit activities such as a hundred puppet shows entering schools, sending culture to the countryside, and the Zizhong Grand Stage has become the norm for the troupe.
"When entering schools, we combine children's favorite cartoon characters, animations, etc., with Zizhong puppet show. When sending culture to the countryside, we perform excerpts from operas, skits, and also integrate dance elements," Hu Hai said. The troupe arranges whatever the audience needs. "Everyone's love for 'wooden heads' will support us to keep going. As long as the audience is still applauding, tradition can continue to grow."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 陈隽逸
In the Guanshanhu District of Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, vehicles come and go, and a driverless minibus shuttles among them, with eye-catching QR codes and recommended book titles printed on its windows. Ms. Sun, a tourist from Zunyi, brought her child to ride and sightsee. After sitting down and scanning the code, she was immediately attracted by a vast collection of audiobooks. "Listening to books while riding is very suitable, and since the child doesn't know many characters, putting on earphones lets them hear the whole story." AI-powered reading recommendations, reading and listening spaces, children's reading... most people can find the functions and resources they want.
Moving the digital reading platform into a driverless minibus to create a mobile library that travels with the vehicle is a new attempt by the Guizhou Provincial Library to expand the boundaries of public services.
In April of this year, a driverless loop line developed and built by Guizhou Hankaisi Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (贵州翰凯斯智能技术有限公司) began trial operation in the Guanshanhu District of Guiyang. The loop line connects museums, libraries, commercial areas, scenic spots, etc., and a one-way trip takes only 20 minutes. "We analyzed the passenger flow structure and found that tourists and parent-child groups account for the highest proportion, and these are precisely the target groups for our nationwide reading promotion," introduced Luo Jing (罗静), director of the Digital Culture Service Center of the Guizhou Provincial Library. "Short-distance travel is well suited for lightweight, auditory reading, and it highly aligns with the platform positioning of 'Cloud Guizhou Library, Scholarly Plateau' (云上贵图 书香高原)."
This set of digital resources "hidden" inside the driverless minibus is built upon the Guizhou Digital Library. This year, the Guizhou Provincial Library has completely upgraded its mini-program, aggregating 1 million e-books, 1.5 million audiobook episodes, and 36,000 video lectures, all fully open and free of charge. To adapt to mobile scenarios, the mini-program has specially optimized sections such as listening to books, picture books, and reading recommendations, integrated local characteristic culture, and embedded an intelligent agent that analyzes book summaries with one click and automatically pushes similar book titles, lowering the reading threshold for ordinary readers.
It is not just the driverless minibus. In recent years, the Guizhou Provincial Library has continuously promoted the extension of reading scenarios to all areas.
"In 2025, we will build cultural tourism smart study rooms in Pingyuan Ancient Town (平远古镇) of Zhijin County, Bijie, and in Qingyan Ancient Town (青岩古镇) of Guiyang," Luo Jing said. Currently, 45 digital rural libraries have been built across the province, promoting the integration of QR codes into grassroots rural libraries, public bus routes, airports, and other everyday scenarios, using incentive mechanisms to attract citizens to participate in reading.
"Traditional libraries are limited by their buildings and geographical locations; many citizens have no time to make a special trip to visit. We need to let reading step out of the library and enter the daily lives of the masses," Luo Jing believes. The integration of online and offline is one of the development directions for nationwide reading. In the past, digital libraries focused more on academic resources such as theses and ancient texts, serving only teachers, researchers, and the like. The existing mini-program is simple to operate, rich in audio-visual content, and suitable for all age groups. "The driverless minibus uses technological means to build a scenario. This is both a cultural tourism scenario and a reading promotion space. We are currently exploring cooperation in study tours and scenario integration, so that more people can enjoy the high-quality public services provided by the library," Luo Jing said.
"Our goal has never been to hold fast to a single library building, but to realize 'readable everywhere, readable anytime, readable by everyone' (处处可读、时时可读、人人可读)," Luo Jing said. Whether they are urban tourists, rural farmers, school students, or urban white-collar workers, everyone can equally access high-quality cultural resources. The driverless minibus carrying reading resources as it travels through the city is a vivid illustration of Scholarly Guizhou (书香贵州): high-quality public cultural services flow with daily life, reaching every ordinary person.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 窦瀚洋
“Quick, look in the lake — why is there a ‘shark’?” Over the weekend, on the Su Causeway and along the long bridge near Leifeng Pagoda in the West Lake Scenic Area of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, many tourists boating on the lake asked. Looking out, this “shark” was entirely black, with a body length of sixty to seventy centimeters, and it had fish eyes, a fish mouth, fish fins, a fish tail, 一应俱全 (yī yīng jù quán - “all present and complete,” everything needed is there).
“This is no shark at all; it is a biomimetic robotic fish custom-designed for the West Lake setting.” Liu Yuping (刘钰萍), ecological police chief of the West Lake Scenic Area Branch of the Hangzhou Public Security Bureau (杭州市公安局西湖风景名胜区分局), revealed the mystery. “Its appearance is modeled after a lemon shark; it weighs four to five kilograms, and a strong person can lift it with one hand.” The biomimetic fish’s exterior is a gray special material with a texture that closely resembles fish skin; its torso is wrapped in a sealed cabin containing a built-in battery and control system, and two high-resolution underwater cameras are embedded in its head.
“This ‘fish’ has a considerable background; it was jointly developed by us and the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院自动化研究所).” Gong Yingqiang (龚英强), captain of the Environmental Food and Drug Brigade (环食药大队) of the West Lake Scenic Area Branch of the Hangzhou Public Security Bureau, introduced that the R&D team spent nearly a year overcoming technical difficulties such as flexible tail fin propulsion, underwater obstacle avoidance, and ultra-low noise operation, allowing the biomimetic fish to hide underwater, achieve round-the-clock duty, and coordinate with the air-ground police array and roadside smart devices to build a three-dimensional prevention and control network.
Power is the key to the biomimetic fish’s movement in water. Liu Yuping introduced that its tail is made of flexible material, capable of simulating the swinging of real fish, and is the power source for its turning in water; on both sides of the fish body, the two “fins” are the key to its lurking in the lake, and it can dive to waters below 10 meters without any problem.
As technicians control it from the control center, the “shark” can swim straight, turn, dive, and accelerate. “This power system allows the biomimetic fish to achieve 360-degree free movement in the lake, with a battery life of up to 4 hours.” Liu Yuping said that the biomimetic fish’s swing frequency is between 1 and 5 hertz, its propulsion speed can reach 0.3 meters per second, and when swimming in shallow water it produces almost no obvious water flow disturbance.
Indeed! When passing by water birds, the biomimetic fish automatically slows down, and the water birds are not disturbed. “Not only does it not interfere with normal biological activities, it can also autonomously avoid obstacles such as underwater rocks and water plants, avoiding secondary disturbance to the water environment.” Liu Yuping added.
“The main role of the biomimetic fish is to protect the ecology and assist security.” Gong Yingqiang said. “In the past, patrol, investigation, and salvage operations in West Lake waters mainly relied on manual labor, with low efficiency and easy disturbance to the water ecology.” He frankly stated that, based on these work pain points, the biomimetic fish 应运而生 (yìng yùn ér shēng - “emerge in response to the times,” to arise at the right moment).
Using the two high-resolution underwater cameras and related sensors on its head, the biomimetic fish can transmit underwater conditions to the command center in real time during its patrol. “It can carry out monitoring of water temperature and pH value, and accurately identify invasive alien species and other ecological monitoring and species identification work.” Liu Yuping introduced.
In West Lake scenic area, tourists often drop electronic items such as mobile phones into the lake. In the past, salvage poles were used; now the biomimetic fish can also help. “Salvage poles have difficulty reaching deep water or silt areas, while the biomimetic fish can enter shallow areas, waterweed zones, and other regions, covering blind spots in underwater patrol.” Gong Yingqiang indicated that the biomimetic fish has brought a new water area policing model of non-intrusive patrol, silent protection, and precise prevention and control to West Lake scenic area, transforming the advantages of the science and innovation system into practical effectiveness in grassroots safety governance.
Return to TopHong Kong, July 15 (Our reporter Li Xia (李霞)) — The 36th Hong Kong Book Fair, hosted by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (香港贸发局), opened on July 15 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (香港会展中心). This year's Book Fair takes "Reading the World from Hong Kong: Cultural and Creative Heritage, Joyful Travel Life" as its annual theme. Fifty-five mainland publishing and cultural units brought 16,000 fine books to Hong Kong for exhibition and sale.
The mainland publishing and cultural units' exhibition area at this year's Book Fair totals 544 square meters, with "fine display, cultural mutual learning, industrial cooperation" as its core positioning. The participating units include publishing groups, local publishing houses, university academic presses, and distribution institutions. The Book Fair specially designates Yunnan as the theme province for the mainland exhibition area, with "Drinking from the Same River, Reading Ten Thousand Books Together" as the core theme. During the Book Fair, a Yunnan-published book illustration visual image exhibition will be held, and special sharing activities such as "What is Yunnan" and "Where the Heart Goes: There is a Life Called Yunnan" will be launched.
Return to TopOur newspaper Xi'an, July 15 (Reporter Jia Fengfeng). The research team of Professor Zhang Yuzhou (张余周) of the College of Life Sciences at Northwest A&F University (西北农林科技大学) discovered that plant root systems possess "rot-avoidance," that is, the ability to actively detour around areas where plant decay has caused an accumulation of pathogenic microorganisms. This scientific research result was recently published in the international academic journal Science.
Biological decomposition is a key process in the nutrient cycle of ecosystems, and decomposition areas are also "danger zones" where pathogenic microorganisms are highly active and may cause harm to living plants. The research team found that when plant roots directly contact decaying plant tissue, root growth is rapidly inhibited or even stops, and genes related to biotic stress, pathogen defense, and immune response are significantly activated. When facing localized decay areas, plant roots actively deviate from the direction of gravity and bend to grow in a direction that detours around the decaying plant material. This phenomenon is widely present in crops such as rapeseed, tomato, and wheat.
According to the introduction, during the process of plant decomposition, fungi colonizing the decaying plant material can release large amounts of acidic metabolites into the surrounding environment, forming a stable localized acidic microenvironment. This environment is not easily disturbed by factors such as rainfall and is an important signal guiding roots to avoid decay areas. At the mechanistic level, the team discovered that root epidermal cells are the roots' "acidic compass"—the more acidic the area around the decaying material, the higher the "danger coefficient," and the root tip can thus judge the direction and grow toward the side with weaker acidity, thereby detouring around the "minefield" and preventing itself from being infected by harmful pathogenic bacteria.
Return to TopThe second session of the Shanghai Dianji University Kaiserslautern Intelligent Manufacturing College Taicang German Enterprise Deep Practice Camp (第二届上海电机学院凯撒斯劳滕智能制造学院太仓德企深度实践营) recently opened at the Jiangsu Province Taicang Sino-German Industry-Education Integration Industrial Park (江苏省太仓中德产教融合产业园). Nearly 50 university students entered a German-invested enterprise in Taicang (太仓) to carry out two weeks of practical learning.
The picture shows university students from Shanghai Dianji University conducting electrical practical training on July 14. Photo by Ji Haixin (Image China, 影像中国).
Return to TopThis newspaper, Tianjin, July 15 (by reporter Gong Xiangjuan (龚相娟)). On July 14, the commemoration site for Mr. Ye Jiaying (叶嘉莹) was inaugurated at Nankai University.
Nankai University designed and built this special commemoration site in the central garden of the Bali Tai Campus to commemorate the lofty style of this scholar of Chinese classical literature research, and to inherit and carry forward the spirit of Chinese poetry education. The commemoration site is located in the southeastern part of the central garden of Nankai University's Bali Tai Campus, adjacent to the lotus pond, and facing the Jialing Academy (迦陵学舍). The commemoration site adopts a three-layer concentric circle design, with a lotus core in the center, engraved with Mr. Ye Jiaying's poetic line: "The lotus seed has a heart and should not die; life is easy to age, but the dream is stubbornly foolish; a thousand springs still await its lush flourishing." The shape unfolds layer by layer outward from the center, symbolizing Mr. Ye Jiaying's spirit and the cause of Chinese poetry culture inheritance to which she devoted her life, 生生不息 (shēng shēng bù xī - "unceasing growth," continual reproduction).
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 郑洋洋 周人杰
With the starting gun’s report, the gates swing fully open; fine horses gallop at speed, dust and sand flying into the air. At the Yulong International Racecourse (玉龙国际赛马场) in Youyu County (右玉县), Shuozhou City, Shanxi Province, on the 1600-meter sand track, the racehorses chase the wind and flash like lightning, sprinting with all their strength — the scene is tense and fierce.
“Horse No. 1 leads the whole way. Horse No. 5 is catching up — they’re neck and neck! 并驾齐驱 (bìng jià qí qū - “to drive side by side,” to advance at the same speed). Whose home will the flowers fall upon?” The on-site commentary makes the atmosphere of the event even more heated.
As a major event in speed horse racing, the Yulong International Race Meeting runs from May to September this year, with 119 races planned. The horse racing industry has become an important fulcrum for Youyu to showcase its county-level charm and leverage the upgrading of its entire regional industry.
Accumulation brings opportunity
得天独厚 (dé tiān dú hòu - “to receive exceptional natural endowment,” possessing uniquely favorable natural conditions) conditions for horse breeding
Jockey Li Rongchang (黎荣昌) from Guangdong, riding Horse No. 1, crosses the finish line after one final surge. A high-speed camera determines that Horse No. 1 won the championship by a margin of less than 0.1 seconds.
Competing year-round in major racecourses across the country, the sun has tanned Li Rongchang’s skin a deep black. Li Rongchang says he comes to Youyu every season and has long grown accustomed to the rhythm of the track and the climate conditions here.
In Youyu, the culture of horses runs deep. Located at the Shahukou Fortress (杀虎口要塞) on the border between Shanxi and Inner Mongolia, Youyu has since ancient times been a hub where the Central Plains’ agrarian civilization and the northern nomadic civilization blend and interact. From ancient peoples’ horseback archery and border-defence horse-herding, to the merchant horse-training on the “Journey West through the Pass” (走西口) and the prevalence of folk horse racing… over a thousand years, horse culture has deeply saturated this land, laying a solid foundation for the modern horse racing industry.
“Youyu’s conditions for horse breeding are 得天独厚: it happens to lie on the globe’s 40° north latitude golden horse-breeding belt. The average altitude here is 1,400 meters, the average summer temperature is 20 degrees Celsius, and negative oxygen ions are abundant — it is a natural summer resort and an ideal place for sports and wellness,” said Bai Xianguo (白显国), head of the competition department of the Youyu Yulong Horse Industry Company (右玉玉龙马业公司).
“Horses competing in hot, humid environments easily tire and lose accuracy. Youyu’s cool climate and high-quality pastures mean the horses are in good form all year round, suitable for long-term training and high-intensity races,” said Li Rongchang.
Youyu was once a treeless wasteland on the edge of the Mu Us Sandy Land, with a forest-and-grass coverage rate of less than 0.3%. Through over 70 years of continuous sand-fixing and afforestation, Youyu’s forest-and-grass coverage rate has now climbed to 57%. For eight consecutive years it has been selected for the “China’s Most Beautiful Counties” list, transforming from “yellow sand blotting out the sky” into an “oasis on the frontier beyond the Great Wall.” The improvement in ecological conditions has spurred the emergence of sports events.
Accumulation brings opportunity. In 2008, Youyu County began to lay out a modern horse racing industry, gradually moving away from the traditional folk free-range model. In 2017, regular horse racing events were officially launched, driving industrial upgrading. The horse racing IP has given new life to the thousand-year-old horse culture of the western pass.
At the Yulong Cultural and Sports Industrial Park (玉龙文体产业园), ecological scenery and professional facilities are seamlessly integrated. The 1600-meter international-standard sand track is flat and compact; the equestrian obstacle course and professional training track are fully equipped; vast contiguous meadows are open and lush; 15 standardised smart stables are neatly arranged, capable of housing over 500 racehorses for on-site training and care.
The racecourse connects to the market
A complete industrial chain is built
While the races are hot, the horse auctions off the track are equally fervent. On the eve of the new season, the Yulong Horse Industry Auction Centre is packed with guests and buzzing with voices.
Under the spotlight, one fine thoroughbred after another is led calmly around the arena, their bearing elegant. Horse breeders from all over the country take turns raising their paddles for fierce bidding.
Horse owner Li Yong (李勇) from Xi’an, Shaanxi, has witnessed the entire process of Youyu’s horse racing industry from its inception to its takeoff. Ten years ago, he was an ordinary wild-riding enthusiast who had never heard of this small frontier town beyond the Great Wall.
“In 2015, I came to Youyu for the first time to buy horses, and I was immediately captivated by the environment here,” says Li Yong. He then joined the local speed horse racing club and has been deeply engaged in the horse racing industry ever since.
A mature racing system makes horses quality assets. “After a horse achieves results in competition, its value can multiply several times over.” At his peak, Li Yong had over 70 racehorses in his stable.
“Thoroughbreds enter their prime racing period at age 2, reach peak condition at 7, and the sports career of a high-quality horse can extend to 9,” Li Yong explains. From auction purchase, training and racing, to breeding and secondary auction, at every link the horse’s value can be enhanced.
Relying on the pull of events, Youyu has built a complete horse racing industrial chain. As a National Sports Industry Demonstration Project and a Shanxi Provincial Cultural Industry Demonstration Base, Yulong Horse Industry has formed an internationally oriented industrial layout integrating horse breeding, boarding and training, event hosting, talent training, auction trading, and horse culture research. Today, Yulong Horse Industry typically keeps nearly 1,000 racehorses in its stables and breeds about 100 foals annually, with stable and considerable returns.
To address the talent gap in the industry, the company has co-established the International Horse Racing College with Taiyuan University of Technology, training specialized professionals such as jockeys, trainers, equine veterinarians, event operations and maintenance, and stable management on a targeted basis, supplying fresh force for the long-term development of the industry. In addition, the industry’s dividends have continuously benefited local people: the local alfalfa forage-planting industry has developed at scale, and single larger planting households can achieve annual operating revenues of over 5 million yuan from supplying fodder to the racecourses.
The racing season overlaps with the summer holidays
Boosting rural cultural tourism
The speed craze on the track has also ignited rural cultural tourism and the ecological wellness industry. Tourists who have finished watching the races wander through the countryside, enjoying the greenery, savouring local food, and relaxing. “Youyu’s vegetation coverage is very high, the air is fresh. Eating lamb here and watching horse races — my whole family feels very comfortable and happy,” says tourist Chen Jiajia (陈佳佳).
The Zhongling Lake Tourist Attraction (中陵湖旅游景区), with a planned total area of 6,000 mu, is built along the lake. Thirty water-borne space-capsule guesthouses are scattered across the lake surface, creating a delightful interplay with the landscape. Tourists stroll in the woods or rest by the lakeshore in small groups, forming a poetic tableau. “The weather in Youyu is cool, and the horse racing season is long. Every summer, with racing season overlapping with school holidays, rooms are really hard to come by!” says guesthouse manager Zhao Yufeng (赵玉凤). The scenic area has also been equipped with sports facilities such as beach volleyball, deeply integrating ecological sightseeing, health-and-wellness vacations, and sports.
The entire region’s cultural tourism format is blossoming in multiple spots and upgrading comprehensively. Relying on cultural tourism resources such as Zhongling Lake, Shahukou, and Xiaonanshan (小南山), Youyu has created a batch of rural wellness projects, continuously upgraded sports projects such as the Yulong Horse Culture and Sports Industrial Park and the youth football summer training base, linked up high-quality tourism routes across the entire region, and relied on local special products like sea buckthorn and ecological lamb to continuously enhance the visitor experience.
In Youyu, the horse racing industry attracts nearly 300,000 domestic and international tourists annually, provides nearly 200 direct jobs, drives over 1,000 indirect jobs in forage planting, cultural tourism reception, and event services, and spurs about 400 million yuan in increased consumption revenue from local dining, accommodation, shopping, and leisure.
Today in Youyu, a cultural tourism development pattern of “watch horse races in summer, enjoy sports in all seasons, tour the oasis across the entire region” is taking shape. The soaring, galloping frontier horses are a vivid microcosm of Youyu’s thriving sports industry. “As a cultural tourism and wellness demonstration zone, Youyu County is actively exploring its own advantages, using sports as a medium and greenery as a foundation, to walk a path of high-quality development that prioritises ecology, empowers culture and sports, and enriches the people,” said a Youyu County Party Committee official.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李 硕
At the moment she converted the championship point, Guo Hanyu (郭涵煜) was excited and could hardly believe it: “Is this real?”
On July 12 local time, in the women’s doubles final of the 2026 Wimbledon Championships, Chinese player Guo Hanyu (pictured left, photo by Xinhua reporter Li Ying (李颖)) partnered with French player Kristina Mladenovic to defeat the second seeds Gabriela Dabrowski and Luisa Stefani 6-3, 7-5, winning the title. The 28-year-old Chinese woman finally realized her dream of a Grand Slam championship, and her doubles world ranking also broke into the top ten for the first time.
“The last game was our serve for the match, and I was already a little excited, but I tried to calm myself down and not think about the score,” Guo Hanyu reminded herself. “Focus, keep your eye on the ball, react a little faster.” After winning the last point, she raised both arms and hugged her partner tightly.
At the start of the main draw, walking through the Wimbledon Champions’ Gallery and seeing photos of last year’s champions holding the trophy, Guo Hanyu blurted out: “The trophy is so beautiful, I want it too.” After saying it, she didn’t take it too seriously herself. It was precisely this burden-free desire that allowed her to stay relaxed throughout the tournament.
What truly made Guo Hanyu feel “we can do it” was after defeating the top seeds in the quarterfinals. Before the match, her partner Mladenovic kept telling her: “Believe that we can compete with any pair and have the ability to beat them.” Going on court with a “nothing to lose” mentality, Guo Hanyu played at an extremely imposing level. This victory greatly encouraged her.
In the final against the second seeds, Guo Hanyu/Mladenovic once led 5-0 in the first set. When it was narrowed to 5-3, Guo Hanyu was not flustered. “We were still leading, dominating in every aspect, so there wasn’t much psychological fluctuation. We just kept reminding each other to focus on every point in the moment.” In the end, the two joined hands to win their first Grand Slam title as a partnership.
At the awards ceremony, Guo Hanyu thanked everyone in fluent English. She sincerely said to Mladenovic: “Thank you for choosing me and believing in me. We will create many more beautiful memories together in the future.”
This connection began with a pure trust. At the end of last year, Mladenovic, who had just returned from injury with no ranking, actively invited Guo Hanyu. The two won the women’s doubles title in their first tournament together, the WTA 250 Auckland. “Our playing styles and on-court ideas are very compatible, somehow fitting,” Guo Hanyu said with a smile. During Wimbledon, she and her team cooked Chinese food in their rented house and also invited Mladenovic to join them. After eating, they all watched the US-Canada-Mexico World Cup matches. “Our relationship is getting closer and closer, and we are more in sync both on and off the court.”
As her doubles continues to make breakthroughs, Guo Hanyu also longs to achieve something in singles. Last year, she worked hard to improve her ranking in lower-level tournaments, but still failed to enter the US Open singles qualifying. “I was very anxious last year, wanting to reach my goals quickly and prove myself,” she said. This year at the French Open, she fought through qualifying and entered the main draw of a Grand Slam singles event for the first time. Coincidentally, the first day of qualifying was her birthday. “The breakthrough at the French Open seemed like encouragement from heaven, patting me on the shoulder, giving me the courage and confidence to keep moving forward,” Guo Hanyu said.
After winning the Wimbledon title, Guo Hanyu remains clear-headed. “Do what I should do, step by step.” Regarding the future, Guo Hanyu is very clear: “My goals are more in singles; I hope to first get my ranking into the top 100. In doubles, I’ll do my best and hope to have the chance to achieve more Grand Slam successes.”
She is also full of anticipation for the Asian Games to be held this year. At the 2019 Naples Universiade, she won gold in women’s team and women’s doubles. At the 2023 Chengdu Universiade, she served as the flag bearer for the Chinese delegation at the opening ceremony and won the women’s singles gold medal. “I hope to win an Asian Games gold medal. I will strive hard for it,” Guo Hanyu said.
Return to TopBeijing time, July 15, in the semifinal of the 2026 FIFA World Cup in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, the Spanish team defeated the French team 2:0 to advance to the final. The photo shows Spanish team player Polo (left) scoring a goal.
The other semifinal will be held at 3:00 a.m. Beijing time on July 16, between the England team and the Argentina team. The winner will enter the final to compete with the Spanish team for the championship. The final will be held at 3:00 a.m. Beijing time on July 20.
Photo by Xinhua reporter Hu Xingyu (胡星宇)
Return to TopBeijing, July 15 (Reporter Tao Xiang’an) On Beijing time the 13th, the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup Milan leg concluded. The Chinese team won the gold medal in the 3 hoops 2 clubs apparatus final and the bronze medal in the 5 balls apparatus final. Combined with the silver medal obtained the previous day in the group all-around event, the Chinese team ended this leg of the World Cup with a record of 1 gold, 1 silver, and 1 bronze.
This leg was the final battle of this year’s World Cup series, and also the last major international event before the 2026 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships. This leg attracted a total of 32 teams to compete in the group events and 86 gymnasts to compete in the individual all-around event, with fierce competition. The Chinese team sent Ding Xinyi (丁欣怡), Liu Miaoting (刘妙婷), Pu Yanzhu (蒲彦竹), Wang Lanjing (王澜静), Zhang Xinyi (张馨艺), and Zhao Wanzhu (赵婉竹) to participate in the group events, and Wang Zihan (王籽涵) and Wang Qi (王淇) to participate in the individual events.
This season, the Chinese rhythmic gymnastics team’s group set choreographed the 5 balls routine “Her Poem That Transcends the Times” and the 3 hoops 2 clubs routine “Battle of the Harsh Winter.” They performed excellently in the previous World Cup legs, winning the gold medal in the 5 balls apparatus final in the Sofia leg, and sweeping all three gold medals in the group all-around, 5 balls, and 3 hoops 2 clubs apparatus finals in the Tashkent leg. Combined with their outstanding performance in the Milan leg, the Chinese team won the World Cup series group all-around annual overall championship for the third consecutive year, and also won the World Cup series 5 balls apparatus annual overall championship.
Return to TopThis newspaper Changsha, July 15 (Reporters Yang Xun, Sun Longfei) — The 2026 National Table Tennis Championships (Doubles) recently commenced in Changsha, Hunan. The competition lasts for seven days, with July 13 to 15 being the preliminary rounds and July 16 onward entering the main draw.
The National Table Tennis Championships is the highest-level competition in national table tennis. In 2026, the Chinese Table Tennis Association listed the doubles events of the National Championships as a separate standalone stop, while also allowing cross-province team formation for pairings.
A total of 122 pairs are competing in mixed doubles. Wang Chuqin of the Beijing Men's Team No. 1 and Sun Yingsha of the Hebei Women's Team No. 1 have joined forces to compete; Lin Shidong of the Hainan Men's Team and Kuai Man of the Jiangsu Women's Team No. 1 are partnering. A total of 94 pairs are competing in men's doubles. Ma Long / Xu Xin, who won the National Championships title in 2020, are teaming up again; Lin Shidong / Wen Ruibo and Huang Youzheng / Xiang Peng are also competing. A total of 90 pairs are competing in women's doubles. Chen Yi / Fan Shuhan, who are about to participate in the Asian Games, are making their first appearance after pairing up.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 季 芳
The basketball park in Qingchuan County (青川县), Guangyuan City, Sichuan Province was brightly lit, as the monthly championship match of the Qingchuan Three-Person "Baba Basketball" (坝坝篮球) Challenge Tournament was being held there. In the end, the Qingchuan Political Consultative Conference Team (青川政协队) defeated the Qingchuan Hound Team 21:11, winning the monthly championship of the 2025–2026 season, and the applause and cheers of the spectators by the court echoed for a long time. The tournament does not set age, occupation, or gender restrictions; anyone who loves basketball can register. The competition adopts a progressive tournament structure of daily matches, weekly matches, monthly matches, and annual finals. Recently, the tournament's popularity has continued to rise, and the visibility of this small town in northern Sichuan has also increased accordingly.
"Before, after dinner I was always curled up on the couch watching TV; now if I don't play a game of basketball I feel uncomfortable all over," said Chen Yongchao (陈永超), a resident of Qiaozhuang Town (乔庄镇). The Qiaozhuang Town basketball team he is on once won a weekly championship, and team members gather in their spare time to watch games and practice.
The "Baba Basketball" Challenge Tournament was founded in October 2023. "Baba" refers in the Sichuan dialect to open ground or an outdoor square; the competition is not limited to professional stadiums — county town squares and community open spaces can all serve as venues, allowing ordinary people to show their skills at their doorstep.
Dong Zhengrong (董正蓉), 51 years old, is a "sharpshooter" in the challenge tournament. On ordinary days he is a carpenter; when he steps onto the court he becomes the focus of the team. In a daily match last August, he made five three-pointers in a row, leading the team to victory, and 一战成名 (yī zhàn chéng míng - "one battle, become famous," to achieve fame overnight with a single feat). "Men and women, old and young — when they stand on the court, they are full of energy," said Dong Zhengrong. Playing basketball not only exercises the body but also has allowed him to make many friends. From "Carpenter Dong" to "Three-Point King," his life has quietly changed, and the small basketball also makes life more vigorous and more colorful.
As of now, the "Baba Basketball" Challenge Tournament has cumulatively held over 22,000 matches, of which spontaneously formed teams by local people account for more than 75%, achieving the goal of 因地制宜 (yīn dì zhì yí - "measure according to local conditions," to adapt to local circumstances) organizing competitions and broad public participation, and has also driven the flourishing development of mass sports in the locality. Ma Dongmei (马冬梅), director of the Qingchuan County Sports Affairs Center (青川县体育事务中心), introduced that by relying on the tournament, Qingchuan has in recent years built 1 new basketball park and 13 standardized basketball courts, renovated and upgraded 2 comprehensive gymnasiums, achieving full coverage of fitness centers for the 20 townships and sports fitness facilities for 178 villages (communities) across the county.
The tournament gathers popularity and also injects new vitality into economic development. Centered on the county town basketball park, the surrounding commercial streets continue to expand and upgrade, with restaurants, supermarkets, and shops moving in one after another, gradually forming a one-stop consumption circle of "viewing matches + dining + shopping + leisure." To convert the tournament's traffic into economic growth, Qingchuan has launched over 20 special activities such as the Baba Music Festival and Baba Food Festival, expanding service formats and deepening the integration of "tournaments + cultural tourism." During popular sessions, the commercial area around the basketball park can receive over 3,000 consumers in a single day, with on-site transaction volume exceeding 200,000 yuan.
This down-to-earth mass basketball tournament is becoming a characteristic IP for Qingchuan to nurture civilization, benefit people's livelihood, and empower development. Ma Dongmei stated that Qingchuan is actively promoting the implementation of the "1+20+N" model — "1" refers to the county town basketball park as the main venue, "20" refers to radiating to the 20 townships across the county to create demonstration points, and "N" refers to connecting diverse business formats such as rural guesthouses, specialty agricultural products, and intangible cultural heritage experiences, allowing mass tournaments to take root in the local soil, gather daily vitality, and benefit the people.
The night grows deeper, but the lights in the basketball park are still dazzling, with sounds of laughter and cheerful voices coming from time to time.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 牛瑞飞 颜 欢 白元琪
For many cities around the world, the booming development of tourism, while bringing economic benefits, can also affect the normal life of local residents due to overdevelopment and competition for urban space. In recent years, popular tourist destinations such as Bruges, Belgium; Barcelona, Spain; and Phuket, Thailand have all suffered from "overtourism." Local governments have taken measures such as limiting the number of tourists, regulating accommodation prices, and collecting city taxes, exploring efforts to balance tourism development with local livelihoods and alleviate the governance pressure brought by "overtourism."
Belgium Bruges—
Control tour group size, ban buses from entering the old city core.
The northwestern Belgian city of Bruges, known as the "Venice of the North," has medieval architecture and canals 纵横交错 (zòng héng jiāo cuò - "crisscrossed," meaning interwoven in a complex way). In 2000, UNESCO inscribed the historic center of Bruges on the World Heritage List. Every peak tourist season, the areas around popular attractions in Bruges are densely crowded, with tour groups, bicycles, horse-drawn carriages, and residents' daily commutes intermingling. Statistics show that the historic center of Bruges received approximately 8 million day-trippers and overnight visitors in 2024, with an average of about 27,000 tourists per day.
The boom in tourism has also squeezed the living space of old city residents. The old city's narrow streets, dense historic buildings, and limited public space capacity are factors. Official data show that in the historic urban area, shops catering to tourists—restaurants, chocolates, souvenirs—are increasing, while community stores serving local residents are correspondingly decreasing. How to strike a balance between developing the tourism economy and ensuring residents' quality of life has become an important issue for local governance.
Bruges has explored and implemented a comprehensive governance path, mainly including limiting new hotels and tourist accommodation facilities in the historic city to prevent excessive diversion of housing resources to tourism; using urban planning and traffic management to guide major tourist activities to areas between popular attractions such as the Market Square, the Beguinage, and the 's Zand Square, minimizing disturbance to residential neighborhoods. In recent years, the Bruges tourism department has further adjusted its tourism development philosophy, no longer simply pursuing an increase in tourist numbers, but paying more attention to the comprehensive value that tourism brings to residents, operators, and tourists, placing residents' interests in an important position in tourism strategy. Starting from March 2026, Bruges will reduce the maximum size of each tour group from the previous 25 people to 20 people, hoping to reduce the occupation of street and square space by large tour groups and reduce the impact of noise and congestion on residents' lives.
Bruges prohibits tourist buses from entering the core area of the old city, prohibits random boarding and alighting in the city center, and sets up parking and boarding/alighting areas on the periphery of the old city. After arrival, tourists mainly enter the historic city area on foot or by public transport. This practice reduces pressure on old city roads and also helps protect historic buildings and the pedestrian environment. Electric accessible shuttle buses operate in the city center to compensate for insufficient public transport coverage in some parts of the old city. Since July 1 last year, Bruges residents with a resident card can continue to ride for free, while ordinary tourists and temporary visitors need to pay a fare of 3 euros per ride. In addition, local canal boats are gradually adopting electric boats to reduce the impact of exhaust fumes, noise, and water waves on the urban environment and historic buildings.
The Bruges tourism department is also exploring the organization of cultural festivals, improving museum construction, etc., to develop "slow tourism" and "deep tourism" with more cultural content, allowing tourists to extend their stay, avoid peak hours, and deeply experience local history and culture. Local resident Nicola told reporters: "We welcome tourists from all over the world. As long as management is proper, tourists and local residents can achieve a win-win situation."
Spain Barcelona—
Limit tourism apartment operations, strengthen regulatory tools such as tourism tax.
In the evening, Barcelona's La Rambla is bustling with activity, with the sounds of street musicians' instruments, conversations in cafes, and the rumble of suitcase wheels on cobblestones interwoven.
As a popular tourist city, Barcelona has a permanent population of about 1.7 million, while the number of tourists it receives each year is several times that. Tourism brings employment, investment, and international influence to the city, but also pushes up housing prices, exacerbates crowding in popular neighborhoods, and puts pressure on transportation, public space, and urban services. "In the past, there were grocery stores and bakeries downstairs; now they have become souvenir shops and short-term rental apartments, which is very noisy," a local resident could not help complaining. A B&B owner named Pablo told reporters that short-term rentals here have legal operating permits, but the noise and chaos they bring often become the trigger for neighborhood conflicts.
Barcelona has in recent years taken measures from multiple aspects to address "overtourism." In terms of housing policy adjustment, short-term rental apartments have sprung up in the old city, the Gothic Quarter, and the Barceloneta seaside community, making it increasingly difficult for nearby residents to find reasonably priced rental housing. The city government has announced that by 2028 it will cancel the operating permits for about 10,000 tourist apartments across the city, hoping to return more housing to the long-term rental market. At the same time, no new hotel construction will be approved in the city center, and the total scale of tourist accommodation in the city will be controlled within 156,000 beds.
Cruise tourism is also a focus of governance. As one of the important Mediterranean cruise ports, Barcelona is gradually reducing the number of cruise terminals and prioritizing the development of cruise routes that use Barcelona as a home port and have longer stays, to reduce the pressure from large numbers of tourists flooding into the city center in a short time. The local government is also continuously strengthening economic adjustment measures, for example, tourists staying overnight must pay a tourism tax of up to 12.5 euros per night. The related revenue will be used to improve public spaces, upgrade cultural facilities, and strengthen tourism management, so that tourism benefits more feedback to urban development.
"Tourism helped Barcelona complete its transformation from an industrial city to an international metropolis, but now the more important thing is how to strike a balance between residents' quality of life and tourism development," said Hernandez, general manager of the Barcelona Tourism Board, to reporters. The local tourism department has adjusted its promotion strategy, focusing more on attracting tourists who stay longer, have stronger cultural experience needs, and have higher consumption quality. At the same time, using artificial intelligence and big data technology to analyze tourist flows, guiding tourists from popular areas to other neighborhoods and surrounding areas.
Thailand Phuket—
Strengthen dynamic environmental monitoring, guide diversion to surrounding scenic spots.
Blue sea, silver sand, sunset glow, tropical charm... The uniquely endowed natural resources have long placed Thailand's Phuket among the world's popular tourist destinations. Tourism injects vitality into the local economy, but also puts the resource and environmental carrying capacity of this "Pearl of the Andaman Sea" under severe test.
As the main transportation gateway to and from the island, Phuket International Airport handled 17.47 million passengers in 2025, far exceeding its design capacity of 12 million, leading to long check-in queues and low customs clearance efficiency. Every peak season, the main road connecting the airport and popular scenic spots is congested for several kilometers, and local residents suffer from traffic jams.
The overload of tourists places a heavy burden on the local natural ecology. Due to dense boat departures and frequent snorkeling by large numbers of tourists, 50% to 70% of the coral in the Andaman Sea around Phuket has severely bleached. At the same time, the surge in waste far exceeds the processing capacity of the local sanitation system. Currently, the island generates about 1,200 tons of domestic waste per day, while the daily processing capacity of incineration facilities is only 700 tons. A large amount of waste that cannot be processed in time pollutes the offshore ecology and the main island's mangrove reserve.
In recent years, the Thai tourism department has gradually moved away from the extensive model of "blindly pursuing quantity," striving to balance economic benefits with livelihood protection. Phuket International Airport is continuously undergoing digital upgrades. The recently activated automatic passport inspection gates have reduced the departure clearance time for international passengers from 45 seconds to less than 30 seconds, greatly improving efficiency. The government also plans to spend about 10 billion Thai baht (1 yuan is about 5 baht) to expand Phuket International Airport Phase II, raising the design capacity to 18 million passengers.
To alleviate ecological pressure on scenic spots, major national parks in Phuket have banned the entry of disposable plastic products, foamed plastics, and non-eco-friendly sunscreen. Tourism police have increased patrol frequency and impose heavy fines for littering on beaches and damaging the environment. Phuket's national parks and ecological reserves are also gradually establishing dynamic management mechanisms. Once the risk of coral bleaching is detected to be rising, the relevant sea areas will be temporarily closed, and marine garbage cleanup will be simultaneously strengthened. At the same time, relying on a digital reservation system, the local government strictly controls the number of tourists in areas such as mangroves and popular beaches, guiding tourist flows to surrounding scenic spots in an orderly manner. Among them, the Sirinat National Park in northern Phuket and the surrounding sea turtle nesting grounds have strict restrictions on tourist activities during specific seasons, and some areas are closed at night, effectively promoting sea turtle reproduction and coastal ecological restoration.
The local government is actively promoting the "Community Cultural Tourism Balance Plan," guiding tourists to niche beaches and traditional villages, and developing deep tourism products such as local handicraft experiences and rural eco-tourism. Thanet Tantipiriyakit, head of the Phuket Tourism Association, said that relevant measures, while reducing the carrying pressure on core scenic spots, also promote the flow of tourism revenue from large chain groups to more ordinary island residents.
Return to TopBy: 万 喆
Since the beginning of this year, geopolitical conflicts and supply chain disruptions have intertwined, and the international energy market has experienced violent roller-coaster-like fluctuations. Soaring oil prices once pushed the global economy toward the risk of "stagflation," where high inflation coexists with low growth. Against this backdrop, China, as the world's largest crude oil importer, through phased strategic adjustments and its early-mover positioning in energy transition, has not only stabilized the fundamentals of its own energy market but also injected precious stabilizing force into the fragile world economy.
When the Strait of Hormuz was blocked and market panic expectations pushed up oil prices, China did not join the global "oil rush." Instead, by actively reducing short-term procurement volumes and using domestic inventories to hedge against external supply fluctuations, it provided a rare "cooling-off period" on the demand side for the "persistently feverish" crude oil market. This counter-cyclical adjustment, to a certain extent, alleviated the pressure for continued rises in the global energy market and helped stabilize the overall global economy. The Wall Street Journal reported that China is becoming a key force supporting the world economy, "easing the tight crude supply situation in Asia by reducing oil purchases." The U.S. think tank "Foreign Policy in Focus" also published an article stating, "China has become an indispensable global anchor of stability, and its industrial depth and strategic stability provide support to prevent the global economy from experiencing a free-fall decline."
Facing an international environment of intertwined turbulence and change, strategic planning and pragmatic construction are the important foundation and confidence for dealing with external risks. In addressing energy security and promoting energy transition, China has demonstrated extremely strong strategic resolve and long-termism. By basing itself on its own resource endowments and its positioning as a major developing country, it has constructed a resilient energy security system of "safety net + diversified supply + green substitution." China has formed the world's most complete new energy industry chain. Its installed capacity of wind power and photovoltaics firmly ranks first globally, and its production of photovoltaic modules accounts for over 80% of the global total. In sectors such as transportation and industry, it promotes "replacing oil with electricity" and "replacing gas with electricity." This has not only significantly reduced its own transition costs but also effectively withstood the impact of external technology blockades and global supply chain fluctuations, making it the "equipment warehouse" and "cost ballast stone" for global energy transition.
An important revelation that China's practice brings to the world is that energy security and low-carbon transition are not a "either-or" single-choice question. Currently, constrained by resource endowments, industrial foundations, and development stages, global energy transition presents differentiated paths. Developed economies, relying on their first-mover advantages, generally maintain emission reduction as a priority and attempt to reshape their domestic clean energy supply chains through industrial policy adjustments. The vast number of developing economies, on the other hand, face the dual pressure of eliminating energy poverty and ensuring industrial growth, and on the basis of promoting electricity普及, they gradually expand the share of clean energy. China's development experience proves that developing countries can simultaneously advance low-carbon transition in the process of industrialization and urbanization; the two can support each other rather than hinder each other.
From a deeper perspective, China's "dimension-raising" thinking on energy security is rewriting the geopolitical logic of global energy security. In the past, the thinking on energy security was a zero-sum game, namely controlling resources; but the path China demonstrates is to break free from dependence on resources through technological innovation. With the development of the new energy system, the core of global energy trade will shift from "resource endowments" to "technology and manufacturing capabilities," and energy may be restored from a "geopolitical weapon" to a "commodity that can be obtained at affordable prices."
Looking to the future, China will further assist the global energy clean-up process. From the industrial perspective, China is shifting from exporting "energy products" to exporting "energy paradigms." It not only exports photovoltaic panels and electric vehicles, but has also begun to export a complete set of green power system solutions covering "generation, transmission, storage, and utilization." China's leading experience in areas such as ultra-high voltage, new energy storage, and smart grids is providing a technical framework for global power interconnection and interoperability, and offering a "low-cost, self-reliant" transition path reference for the vast number of developing countries.
(The author is a researcher at the Belt and Road Institute of Beijing Normal University (北京师范大学一带一路学院).)
Return to TopMultiple Japanese civic groups issue statement opposing Japan's possession of nuclear-powered submarines
Xinhua News Agency, Tokyo, July 14 (Xinhua) — (reporters Chen Ze'an, Liang Chen) In response to the Japanese government's attempt to develop nuclear-powered submarines, multiple Japanese civic groups issued a joint statement on the 14th opposing Japan's possession of nuclear-powered submarines.
The statement points out that Japan has long advocated for the abolition of nuclear weapons, and Japan's Atomic Energy Basic Law (原子能基本法) stipulates that the use of nuclear energy is limited to peaceful purposes only. Possessing nuclear-powered submarines would mean Japan is negating this position of its own accord.
The "Peace Boat" organization, which participated in issuing the joint statement, said on its website that the relevant recommendations put forward by Japan's ruling party and government expert panel on possessing nuclear-powered submarines are a very dangerous trend. Nuclear-powered submarines are equipment for long-distance submerged navigation and attack; possessing nuclear-powered submarines would seriously deviate from the exclusively defense-oriented (专守防卫) principle that Japan upholds.
An expert panel of Japan's Ministry of Defense hinted in a report last September that the next-generation submarine could use a nuclear propulsion system. Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi also stated in the Diet that "we should not regard it as a taboo; it is necessary to discuss it." The Japan Innovation Party (日本维新会), which forms a coalition government with Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, also called in June this year for the early introduction of nuclear-powered submarines. These related trends have triggered strong protests from various sectors in Japan.
The "Peace Boat" organization said that more than ten groups signed the above joint statement.
Russian Foreign Ministry: Japan should adhere to the peace constitution and fully recognize the results of World War II
Xinhua News Agency, Moscow, July 15 (Xinhua) — (reporter Hou Ming) Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on the 15th that Japan should adhere to its peace constitution and fully recognize the results of World War II.
In a written response to a related question from a Xinhua reporter, Zakharova stated that the Japanese side is accelerating its "remilitarization" and continuously expanding the scope of its military activities; the Russian side is closely monitoring this.
Zakharova also pointed out that the Russian side firmly rejects the representations made by the Japanese side regarding the joint military exercises between Russia and China, which are fully in line with international law.
South Korea urges Japan to faithfully reflect the history of forced labor at the Sado Gold Mine World Heritage site
According to Xinhua News Agency, Seoul, July 15 (Xinhua) — (reporters Zhang Can, Sun Yiran) According to Yonhap News Agency on the 15th, a South Korean Foreign Ministry official commented that day on the UNESCO World Heritage Committee's determination that Japan still has deficiencies in fulfilling its commitments regarding the inscription of the Sado Gold Mine (佐渡金山), urging the Japanese side to faithfully implement the relevant decisions of the World Heritage Committee and its own commitments.
According to reports, after evaluating the "Report on the State of Conservation of the Sado Gold Mine" submitted by Japan, the World Heritage Committee distributed a draft decision to member states on the 15th. The draft decision points out that Japan still has shortcomings in implementing the Committee's requirements and developing interpretation and displays that can reflect the "overall history" of the Sado Gold Mine, and recommends that Japan comprehensively display the history of the entire process of mine development and closely consult with relevant countries to further improve on-site interpretation, display strategies, and related facilities.
Yonhap quoted a South Korean Foreign Ministry official as saying that the "overall history" mentioned by the World Heritage Committee includes the history of Japan forcibly conscripting Korean laborers to work at the Sado Gold Mine during its colonial rule. The draft decision reflects the South Korean side's position; the South Korean government will continue to maintain close consultations with UNESCO and relevant countries to urge the Japanese side to implement the relevant decisions and commitments.
According to Yonhap, the Sado Gold Mine was inscribed on the World Heritage List in July 2024 at the 46th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee. To secure South Korea's cooperation, the Japanese government had promised to hold a memorial ceremony for the victims of forced conscription of Korean laborers. However, Japan never acknowledged the historical fact of forced labor during the preparation and holding of the memorial ceremony, causing the related events to fall into chaos for two consecutive years and fail to be held normally.
The Sado Gold Mine is located in Sado City, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. According to South Korean media disclosures, during World War II, in order to secure supplies for the war, Japan forcibly conscripted approximately 1,500 Korean Peninsula laborers to engage in heavy labor at this gold mine. Due to the harsh working environment and severe oppression, many laborers later died of pneumoconiosis and other diseases.
Return to TopBeijing, July 15 (Reporter Yu Jingxian (郁静娴)) — To implement the provisions of the Protocol on Cooperation in the Protection, Regulation and Enhancement of Fishery Resources in the Border Waters of the Heilongjiang and Wusuli Rivers (《关于黑龙江、乌苏里江边境水域合作开展渔业资源保护、调整和增殖的议定书》) between China and Russia, and to jointly conserve fishery resources in the border waters of China and Russia, the 2026 China-Russia Joint Stock Enhancement and Release Activity in Border Waters was held on the 14th in Tongjiang City (同江市), Heilongjiang Province.
In this activity, the Chinese side released into the Heilongjiang River 200 individuals of large-size Amur sturgeon (施氏鲟), 480,000 individuals of kaluga sturgeon (鳇) and Amur sturgeon fry over 5 cm in length, and 5.2 million individuals of the commercial fish species silver carp and grass carp fry. Technologies such as fluorescent implant marking were used to conduct tracking and monitoring of sturgeon fry and to scientifically evaluate the release effect. Since 2008, China and Russia have successfully carried out 18 joint stock enhancement and release activities in border waters, releasing a cumulative total of over 20 million individuals of sturgeon fry into the Heilongjiang and Wusuli Rivers, which has played a positive role in maintaining biodiversity in the border waters. At the same time, the two sides have jointly conducted 27 joint law enforcement inspections in border waters, and the fishery production order in the border waters has continued to improve.
In the next step, the two sides will continue to conserve fishery resources in border waters, optimize the layout of stock enhancement and release, and improve the effectiveness of stock enhancement and release; strengthen law enforcement cooperation, strictly crack down on illegal fishing and other acts that damage fishery resources, and maintain the fishery production order in border waters; deepen fishery cooperation in marine fishing, scientific and technological exchanges, and other areas, and work together to promote the sustainable development of fisheries between China and Russia.
Representatives from China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the relevant departments of the People’s Government of Heilongjiang Province, and the Embassy of Russia in China attended the release activity.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 汪思源
According to the latest data released by South Korea’s National Data Agency, in 2025, the employed population aged 70 and above in South Korea reached 2.162 million, an increase of 9.2% year-on-year, and its proportion of the total employed population rose from 4.5% in 2018 to 7.5%.
In recent years, South Korea’s population aging has further intensified, and it officially entered a “super-aged society” in 2024. The latest data show that in 2025, South Korea’s population aged 65 and above reached 10.8408 million, an increase of 584,000 people over the previous year, a growth rate of 5.69%, accounting for 21.21% of South Korea’s total registered population. In terms of employment numbers, the proportion of silver-haired workers has further increased. In 2025, the employed population aged 60 and above in South Korea reached 6.834 million, a year-on-year increase of 5.3%; the employed population in their 50s decreased by 0.4% year-on-year to 6.679 million. The number of employed persons aged 60 and above exceeded that of the 50s age group, the first time this has occurred since South Korea began relevant statistics in 1963, indicating that the elderly working population has become an important component of the South Korean job market.
According to a report by South Korea’s Dong-a Ilbo, economic factors remain the main reason for the elderly to continue working. A report released by South Korea’s National Data Agency shows that the “income poverty rate” for the elderly aged 66 and above reached 39.7%, far higher than the average of 14.8% among member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Under circumstances where pension protection is relatively limited and income sources after retirement are insufficient, continuing to work has become a realistic choice for many elderly South Koreans. According to statistics, among the elderly aged 65 to 79 who wish to continue working, 51.3% listed “maintaining living expenses” as the primary reason.
At the same time, the South Korean government has in recent years strengthened the employment support system for the elderly, promoting employment for the elderly age group through legal guarantees, financial incentives, and public services. According to South Korea’s government plan, the number of jobs for the elderly in 2026 is expected to increase to 1.152 million, an increase of 54,000 over the previous year, a record high. At the policy level, South Korea has passed the Act on Prohibition of Age Discrimination in Employment and Promotion of Employment of the Elderly (禁止就业年龄歧视及促进高龄者就业法), prohibiting employers from engaging in unreasonable age discrimination in recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, and dismissal, and providing financial support to enterprises through measures such as continued employment incentive payments to reduce the cost of hiring elderly workers. At the same time, facing the income gap problem caused by increased population aging and the raising of the pension eligibility age, the South Korean government is actively advancing institutional reforms to extend workers’ careers, researching the establishment of a continuous employment mechanism, with the goal of achieving an institutional arrangement for workers to work until age 65 around 2033.
South Korean public opinion analysis believes that the future focus of elderly employment policy should not only remain on increasing the number of jobs but should pay more attention to employment quality. Ewha Womans University professor Jeong Soon-doo stated that financial planning education for the public during the retirement phase should be strengthened to reduce the risk of elderly poverty at its source, while further optimizing the basic pension system so that resources are more tilted toward vulnerable elderly groups. In addition, the expansion of jobs for the elderly should be promoted, and a multi-level support system involving the joint participation of government, enterprises, and society should be built to provide more stable and diverse employment opportunities for the elderly age group.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 倪 弋
Trademarks are an important component of intellectual property rights. They are both a carrier of goodwill and a symbol of integrity, and also an important tool for enterprises to participate in market competition. Our country is already a veritable trademark power. As of the end of 2025, the number of valid registered trademarks within China (excluding Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan) was 49.877 million. Among the world’s top 5,000 brands, the value of Chinese brands reached 1.81 trillion US dollars, ranking second in the world.
Currently, some new situations and new problems have also emerged in the field of trademarks. Malicious trademark registration acts persist despite repeated bans; the phenomenon of “valuing registration, belittling use” of trademarks is relatively common, and improper use of trademarks takes on ever-new forms; trademark infringement remains high, while phenomena such as trademark registrants over-asserting rights and malicious lawsuits occur from time to time, etc.
The 23rd session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People’s Congress voted on June 26 to pass the newly revised Trademark Law, which will take effect on January 1, 2027. What are the highlights of the newly revised Trademark Law? How does it solve the new problems that plague industry development and help protect the interests of business entities and the legitimate rights and interests of consumers? A reporter conducted interviews.
Draw a clear red line for registration, curb the chaos of malicious hoarding at the source. “In the past, we were always worried that someone would ‘free-ride’ on our brand, and just handling trademark oppositions consumed a lot of energy,” said Ms. Wang, legal director of a children’s smartwatch company (Company A) in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. The trouble she spoke of stemmed from a peer company that appended the characters “Cool Cover” (酷盖) to Company A’s trademark name and repeatedly submitted registration applications starting from April 2021. Although each application was legally rejected, the other party immediately turned around and sold products with similar marks on e-commerce platforms. This kind of behavior of “knowing it cannot be done yet doing it anyway” is precisely the typical malicious registration that the newly revised Trademark Law focuses on cracking down on.
“In recent years, malicious trademark registration acts have continued to run at a high level, and phenomena such as ‘hoarding trademarks,’ ‘free-riding on famous brands,’ and ‘cashing in on hot topics’ have persisted despite repeated bans, seriously disrupting market order and squeezing the development space of entities operating in good faith,” said Du Ying, professor at the Law School of the Central University of Finance and Economics. Data from the China National Intellectual Property Administration show that in the first half of 2023 and the first half of 2024, 249,000 and 205,000 cases of malicious registration were cracked down on respectively.
The newly revised Trademark Law directly targets this chronic problem, clearly stipulating: “Trademark registration applications that are not for the purpose of use and that clearly exceed the needs of normal production and operation shall not be registered.” It also specifies the specific circumstances of malicious trademark registration applications, and clarifies that if such acts cause adverse effects, the department responsible for trademark law enforcement shall issue a warning and may also impose a fine of not more than 100,000 yuan.
The newly revised Trademark Law also strengthens the trademark withdrawal mechanism, clarifying that the trademark administration department of the State Council may cancel a registered trademark that has become a generic name or has not been used for three consecutive years without justifiable reason. “This means that ‘zombie trademarks’ that are ‘registered but not used’ will be actively cleaned up by administrative organs,” analyzed Yu Jun, professor at the School of Intellectual Property of East China University of Political Science and Law. “When the cost of hoarding trademarks significantly exceeds the potential benefits, the behavioral logic of business entities will truly change. By granting the competent authority the power to actively cancel, the newly revised Trademark Law effectively compresses the space for those who rely solely on hoarding trademarks to make profits.”
“Trademarks are not ‘collectibles’ but ‘utilities’; their value comes from the goodwill accumulated in the process of market use, not from the registration certificate itself,” said Ma Yide, dean of the School of Intellectual Property at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. The newly revised Trademark Law highlights the orientation of “combining registration and use,” allowing trademark resources to better serve real business activities.
Rectify “scheming trademarks” (心机商标), build a solid protective net for consumer rights and interests. “Labeled ‘120W,’ but the charging speed is as slow as a snail!” Mr. Zhang, a consumer in Beijing, purchased a charger advertised as “120W fast charging” on an e-commerce platform, but the actual performance was greatly disappointing. It turned out that the actual power of the product was far lower than the indicated value, and “120W” was actually a registered trademark, not a truthful description of product performance. Similarly, “hand-made” noodles are actually machine-produced, “free-range pigs” are actually standardized farming… These “scheming trademarks” that use trademark registration to evade responsibility for false advertising once operated on the edge of regulatory oversight.
The newly revised Trademark Law clearly “draws its sword” against this: for using a registered trademark in a way that misleads the public, it orders correction within a time limit; if the illegal business turnover is 50,000 yuan or more, a fine of up to five times the illegal business turnover may be imposed; if there is no illegal business turnover or the turnover is less than 50,000 yuan, a fine of up to 250,000 yuan may be imposed; if correction is not made within the time limit, the registered trademark shall be canceled. “The term ‘scheming trademark’ itself reflects strong consumer dissatisfaction. Linking the continuation of trademark rights directly to the compliance of use behavior and stipulating that the trademark can be ‘delisted’ fundamentally shakes the interest foundation of lawbreakers,” said Yu Jun.
It is noteworthy that the newly revised Trademark Law clarifies that “any unit or individual” has the right to complain and report on the illegal acts of “scheming trademarks.” “This reflects that trademark governance is further moving toward social co-governance, and every consumer can become a ‘whistleblower’ for maintaining market order,” Ma Yide believes. Organically combining social supervision with administrative supervision can not only effectively reduce the cost of consumer rights protection but also help improve the quality of trademark examination from the source and compress the living space of “edge balls” (exploiting loopholes).
The trademark “Luckin Coffee” was preemptively registered in Thailand, and the trademarks “Shaoxing Huadiao Wine” and “Nü’er Hong” were preemptively registered in Japan… As more and more Chinese enterprises and brands “go global,” the acts of individual agencies carrying out or assisting overseas malicious preemptive registration have already impacted Chinese enterprises’ overseas layout.
The newly revised Trademark Law stipulates that during the examination, review, or handling of trademark cases abroad, if it is necessary to prove that a trademark is well known to the relevant public within China, upon the request of the party, the trademark administration department of the State Council may, in accordance with regulations, confirm the well-known status of the trademark. “This will to a certain extent curb the phenomenon of preemptive registration of well-known trademarks abroad, and at the same time facilitate Chinese enterprises’ well-known trademarks to obtain well-known trademark protection when they encounter preemptive registration and infringement abroad,” said Du Ying.
In addition, the newly revised Trademark Law further regulates cross-border trademark agency behavior, strengthens supervision over acts of handling overseas trademark affairs through fraudulent and other improper means, and prevents problems such as malicious preemptive registration and irregular agency from extending overseas.
Optimize the agency ecosystem, guide enterprises to return to business itself. In recent years, the problem of disorderly competition in the trademark agency market has been prominent. Illegal acts such as trademark agencies participating in or assisting malicious preemptive registration, hoarding and reselling trademarks have occurred frequently, with ever-new forms, even forming a gray industrial chain.
“In the past, many companies’ trademark strategies were ‘occupation-style’—registering across all classes, casting a wide net, and occupying first before anything else,” said Lu Yong, partner at Beijing Hengdu Law Firm. After the implementation of the newly revised Trademark Law, applications that “clearly exceed the needs of normal production and operation” will directly face the risk of rejection, and enterprises must shift to precise applications based on actual business needs. The boundary between “reasonable defensive registration” and “malicious hoarding” will become increasingly clear.
The case of Blue Girl Beer Company v. Jin Company is a cautionary example. Jin Company, as a competitor in the same industry, between 2017 and 2022 entrusted a certain intellectual property agency to repeatedly apply for more than 10 trademarks highly similar to “Blue Girl,” such as “Blue Taste Beer,” “Blue Charm Beer,” and “Zheng Han Blue Girl.” After some applications were rejected, Jin Company continued to apply and licensed some of the trademarks to others for profit.
The court ultimately determined that Jin Company constituted unfair competition; the agency that provided its agency services was also ordered to bear joint liability. The newly revised Trademark Law strikes hard at such acts: it clarifies that trademark agencies are subject to record-filing management, and those assisting malicious preemptive registration may be fined up to 200,000 yuan; if the circumstances are serious, the trademark administration department of the State Council may decide to stop accepting their trademark agency business.
“The difficulty in governing the trademark agency market lies in the uneven quality of practitioners and the insufficiently sound management norms of industry organizations,” Lu Yong pointed out. The newly revised Trademark Law not only strengthens the record-filing management of trademark agencies and their practitioners but also adds content related to the definition and functions of trademark agency industry organizations.
The newly revised Trademark Law stipulates that trademark agency industry organizations are self-regulatory organizations of the trademark agency industry, and they shall strengthen industry self-discipline, formulate industry self-regulatory norms and disciplinary rules, carry out business training and education on professional ethics and practice discipline, organize and guide members to engage in trademark agency business in accordance with laws and regulations, continuously improve the industry service level, and impose disciplinary sanctions on members who violate industry self-regulatory norms. “Industry self-discipline, as a useful supplement to government regulation, can give full play to the self-management function and professional advantages of industry organizations, forming a benign interactive pattern of mutual cooperation and mutual promotion between government regulation and industry self-discipline,” Du Ying said.
“During the transition period before the implementation of the newly revised Trademark Law, enterprises can begin to inventory their trademark assets,” Lu Yong suggested. For trademarks that exceed business needs, have been idle for a long time, and have no use plan, enterprises may consider voluntarily canceling them to avoid being identified as malicious hoarding; for core retained trademarks, it is necessary to systematically organize the chain of use evidence, such as packaging, contracts, invoices, online store pages, etc., to prevent cancellation ex officio. Future trademark layout should adhere to the principle of “registration on demand” and prudently carry out large-scale, all-class defensive registration.
Return to TopThe “15th Five-Year Plan” period is a critical period of攻坚 for building a strong nation in science and technology. How to accelerate the advancement of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening, and solidly support and lead Chinese-style modernization with scientific and technological innovation? Our reporter interviewed four deputies to the National People’s Congress.
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Xia Yong (夏泳), deputy to the National People’s Congress, Secretary of the Party Committee, Chairman, and General Manager of China Mobile Communications Group Chongqing Company (中国移动通信集团重庆公司):
Open up the “last kilometer” of AI empowering industrial innovation
To promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, it is necessary to focus on building a solid digital-intelligent foundation, deepening scenario empowerment, and improving the mechanism for integrated innovation, so as to open up the “last kilometer” of AI (artificial intelligence) empowering industrial innovation.
Focus on computing-power-electricity collaborative foundation-building to consolidate the hard support for industrial science and technology innovation. Continuously promote the coordinated layout and linked development of computing power infrastructure and green renewable energy, effectively solving the high energy consumption problem of large-scale and industrialized AI application. At the same time, vigorously support the iterative upgrading and large-scale application of domestic computing power chips and supporting software and hardware ecosystems, providing basic guarantees for the transformation and implementation of scientific and technological innovation achievements.
Deepen AI scenario integration and empowerment, lowering the threshold for industrial science and technology innovation transformation. Promote deep cooperation between information technology enterprises and leading enterprises in traditional manufacturing, energy and other industries, focusing on key areas such as R&D design, intelligent production scheduling, quality inspection, and precise management and control, to create a number of replicable and scalable “AI + industry” demonstration application scenarios. Targeted measures to reduce the cost of digital transformation and intelligent upgrading for small and medium-sized enterprises, promoting AI technology from concept demonstration and scenario “showing off skills” to real economy applications.
Improve the mechanism for integrated innovation and cultivate a benign industrial science and technology innovation ecosystem. Give play to the leading and driving role of leading enterprises in the industrial chain, promote the formation of innovation consortia by science and technology enterprises and traditional manufacturing enterprises, build an integrated development platform for technology sharing, capability interoperability, talent co-cultivation, and achievement co-utilization, and help China seize the development high ground in the new round of scientific and technological industrial transformation.
(Compiled from an interview by our reporter Liu Xinwu (刘新吾))
Zhao Ziyi (赵子铱), deputy to the National People’s Congress, Vice President of Guizhou University of Finance and Economics (贵州财经大学):
Let young scientific and technological talents stand out
The future of science lies in youth. Enabling more and more young scientific and technological talents to stand out and shoulder heavy responsibilities is crucial for accelerating the advancement of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening.
Pay attention to the early cultivation and long-term stable support of young scientific researchers. Young scientific and technological talents are in a critical stage of starting their research career and accumulating capabilities, and they need a stable research environment and continuous resource guarantees even more. It is necessary to optimize the way of supporting scientific research, weaken the frequency of short-term assessments, provide long-cycle, normalized funding and platform support, so that young talents can settle down to deeply cultivate basic research, tackle hard-core science and technology, and steadily accumulate original scientific research achievements.
Continuously optimize the talent evaluation system and purify the research environment. Intensify efforts to break the inertia of the “Four Onlys” (唯论文、唯职称、唯学历、唯奖项 - only papers, only titles, only degrees, only awards), deepen the governance of “hats” (帽子 - titles and labels), adhere to evaluation standards centered on innovation value, academic ability and actual contribution, let scientific research evaluation return to academic essence, and guide young researchers to do real research steadily and devote themselves to original innovation.
Unblock channels for science and technology innovation investment and financing, and empower youth innovation with financial strength. Guide financial capital to invest early, invest small, invest long-term, and invest in hard technology, innovate special financial services such as intellectual property pledge and science and technology guarantee, solve the financing difficulties of young science and technology innovation entities, and inject lasting financial “living water” into youth scientific and technological innovation.
(Compiled from an interview by our reporter Ni Yi (倪弋))
Li Shaoping (李少平), deputy to the National People’s Congress, legal representative and executive deputy director of Hubei Three Gorges Laboratory (湖北三峡实验室):
Ensure that 真金白银 (zhēn jīn bái yín - “real gold and white silver,” genuine investment) is invested in place and used well
While the whole society’s R&D expenditure continues to grow, problems such as waste of research funds and inefficient duplication of science and technology investment exist to varying degrees in actual work.
To improve the efficiency of science and technology innovation investment, from a macro perspective, it is necessary to coordinate three types of resources: government special funds, enterprise R&D investment, and social capital, and make precise efforts. Government funds ensure frontier basic research and major strategic topics, enterprise funds focus on technological iteration and pilot-scale production, and social capital empowers the early incubation of science and technology innovation projects. Through precise coordination of fund allocation, ensure that genuine investment is both invested in place and used well, fully activating the science and technology innovation efficiency of talent, platforms, achievement transformation, and industrial chain synergy.
Taking the R&D practice of Hubei Three Gorges Laboratory as an example, relying on diversified funding support, we have formed a high-quality R&D team with 93% master’s and doctoral degree holders. Adhering to the mechanism of “market sets the questions, laboratory answers, industry grades the papers,” taking the effectiveness of industrialization implementation as the core criterion for fund performance evaluation, effectively solving the problem of disconnection between research and industry, smoothing the achievement transformation chain, and forming a benign innovation closed loop of diversified investment, talent drive, technological breakthrough, and industrial empowerment.
We must continue to improve the performance management system for science and technology innovation investment and optimize the allocation of innovation resources. Improve the evaluation mechanism centered on industrial contribution, technological breakthrough, and actual effectiveness, promote the transformation of science and technology innovation investment from focusing on quantity to focusing on quality and efficiency, and serve high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening.
(Compiled from an interview by our reporter Fan Haotian (范昊天))
Zhang Fan (张帆), deputy to the National People’s Congress, Deputy General Manager of China Electric Equipment Group Co., Ltd. (中国电气装备集团有限公司):
Integrate forces to jointly build an industrial data ecosystem
Artificial intelligence technologies represented by large models and embodied intelligence are penetrating the manufacturing industry at an unprecedented speed and breadth, injecting new momentum into high-quality industrial development. However, currently, there are many categories of manufacturing industries, and the foundations of various industries are different. On the one hand, low-level redundant construction easily leads to resource dispersion; on the other hand, there is also a shortage of composite talents, resulting in few high-quality industrial data and difficulty in sharing, which restricts the improvement of AI model training efficiency and generalization ability.
To enhance the efficiency of scientific and technological innovation, it is necessary to integrate resources and forces, build a mechanism for jointly building industrial datasets under government guidance, market leadership, and multi-party coordination, innovate data trading and revenue sharing models, break through key technological bottlenecks such as blockchain, and promote two-way empowerment and mutual promotion between AI and manufacturing. It is suggested to jointly build industry AI innovation centers, collaboratively create industry vertical large models, take multiple measures to jointly build a high-quality industrial data ecosystem, and accelerate the cultivation of AI composite talents.
In the wave of the new round of scientific and technological revolution, digitalization and intelligence have become key to competition. It is necessary to further promote AI technology to empower new industrialization in an all-round, deep-level, and high-level manner, promote the deep integration of the real economy and digital technology with an open attitude, and push China’s manufacturing industry to a higher level.
(Compiled from an interview by our reporter Ju Yunpeng (巨云鹏))
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 亓玉昆
“If you keep the common people in your heart, they will with one heart and one mind sail the same boat with you, sharing wind and rain as you row together...” Not long ago, in the auditorium of the Central Party School (中央党校) (National Academy of Governance), the long, melodious strains of Henan Opera filled the air. The modern Henan Opera Jiao Yulu was performed there with heartfelt dedication, and nearly a thousand enrolled students watched the performance together.
This play was created and staged by the Third Troupe of Henan Henan Opera Theater (河南豫剧院三团). Over the course of the two-hour-plus performance, applause rang out more than ten times. The students received a profound spiritual baptism while immersed in the art.
As one of the major local opera genres and a national intangible cultural heritage item, Henan Opera has a broad and deep influence nationwide. On May 28 of this year, the Henan Province Henan Opera Protection, Inheritance, and Development Regulations (河南省豫剧保护传承发展条例, hereinafter Regulations) were reviewed and adopted at the 24th session of the 14th Henan Provincial People’s Congress Standing Committee, and took effect on August 1.
“This is the first time Henan has systematically regulated the protection, inheritance, and development of an opera genre in the form of provincial-level local legislation,” said Li Shujian, chairman of Henan Dramatists Association. The promulgation of the Regulations means that the protection of Henan Opera now has a legal basis, moving from ‘soft constraints’ to ‘hard support.’
“Brother Liu, your words are too biased,” “Dear in-laws, please sit down”… The melodies of Henan Opera flow in the blood of many people. Yet, as times change, Henan Opera also faces systemic difficulties such as the loss of traditional repertoire, an aging population of inheritors, and the survival struggles of grassroots troupes.
The Regulations consist of 7 chapters and 41 articles, making comprehensive and systematic provisions covering protection and inheritance, talent cultivation, innovative development, and safeguard measures. A relevant official from the Henan Provincial People’s Congress Standing Committee (河南省人大常委会) stated that this not only draws a clear legal path for Henan Opera’s 守正创新 (shǒu zhèng chuàng xīn - “uphold the fundamentals and innovate,” maintaining orthodoxy while innovating) and long-term development but also provides important legal guidance for the coordinated protection and linked development of local Henan opera genres such as Qu Opera (曲剧) and Yue Tune (越调).
“Legislating for the protection and inheritance of Henan Opera is a major event in the history of its development,” said Wu Yaming, president of Henan Provincial Academy of Culture and Arts (河南省文化艺术研究院), who participated in the entire legislative process of the Regulations. He said that the Regulations explicitly require that the work of protecting, inheriting, and developing Henan Opera be incorporated into the national economic and social development plan at the corresponding level, and that the necessary funds be included in the fiscal budget at that level. This will strongly stimulate the enthusiasm of Henan Opera practitioners and provide solid support for the flourishing of Henan Opera.
The key to opera inheritance lies in people, and the difficulty also lies in people.
Adhering to the basic procedural requirements of open recruitment, reasonably determining recruitment methods, and introducing outstanding Henan Opera professional personnel; in professional title evaluations, for Henan Opera technical talent working long-term at the grassroots front line, focusing on assessing their actual work performance, and appropriately relaxing requirements on education, academic achievements, and length of service; works may be evaluated equivalently to papers and monographs… The Regulations directly confront the long-standing practical problems of grassroots opera talent being “unable to enter, unable to stay, and unable to obtain titles,” and make institutional arrangements for talent cultivation.
The Regulations clearly state that Henan Opera performing troupes should go deep into life, take root among the people, face the grassroots and the market, organize and adapt traditional repertoire, compile new historical plays, and create modern works, in order to enhance the timeliness and transmission power of their works.
“With laws to follow and policy support, we opera artists must make even greater efforts to move forward. This year we will also create and stage new plays such as Baoshui (宝水), striving to bring more good works before the audience,” said Jia Gaofeng, head of the Third Troupe of Henan Henan Opera Theater. The troupe will keep pace with the pulse of the times, focus on realistic themes, and innovate on the basis of preserving the artistic roots.
The Regulations encourage Henan Opera performing troupes to strengthen cooperation with Internet platforms, using new technical means such as artificial intelligence to build online theaters, digital theaters, and the like.
As dusk fell, the stage front at Luowan Ancient Town (漯湾古镇) in Luohe City was 人头攒动 (rén tóu cuán dòng - “heads of people bobbing and moving,” a jostling crowd of people). An opera fan took the initiative to go on stage and sing. Multiple phone stands had set up live-streaming positions, and the bullet comments on the screen scrolled rapidly.
This was a live-streaming scene from the online opera account “Central Plains Grand Opera Stage” (中原大戏台). Its person in charge, Zhao Shichong, said that live-streaming not only expands the radius of transmission but also reshapes the relationship between opera and its audience. Some netizens have transformed from onlookers into participants—this is the vitality that new business formats and new channels bring to traditional opera.
“The Regulations empower the development of Henan Opera from multiple dimensions, allowing it to put down deep roots and sprout new shoots,” said a relevant official from the Henan Provincial People’s Congress Standing Committee. “Henan has responded to the era’s question of how to pass down and make an ancient art popular in contemporary times through precise legislation. We look forward to the art flower of Henan Opera blooming even more brightly under the sunshine of the rule of law.”
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“Hello, I want to report an illegal online link involving gambling!” One day not long ago, the telephone rang at the Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province Internet Illegal and Harmful Information Reporting Center (浙江省温州市互联网违法和不良信息举报中心). Staff quickly recorded and responded in a timely manner. Soon, the relevant website was shut down, and the illegal clues were transferred to the public security authorities.
Cyberspace is like a vast ocean: the free flow of information brings infinite possibilities, but also conceals dangerous undercurrents.
Actively providing clues, promptly securing evidence, cooperating with relevant investigations... For all kinds of illegal and harmful information on the internet, the lawful reporting by the vast number of netizens has become an important aid to governance. In recent years, the cyberspace administration and other departments have promoted the work of receiving and handling internet reports, achieving notable results, and effectively safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of the people.
Safeguarding legitimate rights and interests, and cleaning up cyberspace (清朗网络空间)
The World Cup football matches are in full swing. Shanghai netizen Xiao Li, in order to exchange feelings about watching the matches with more people, joined a “Five Lakes and Four Seas Football Watching Group” on a certain social platform.
But Xiao Li, who had just joined the group, sent a sentence supporting a star player of a certain team, instantly attracting a “siege” from fans of the opposing team.
“I originally thought it was just chatting about football, but I didn’t expect them to get more and more excessive.” Xiao Li said that the other side had numbers and strength, and the argument quickly escalated from on-field performance to personal attacks, with obscene words scrolling across the screen. Later, someone even “dug up” his real name and school information and pasted them all at once in the group.
Xiao Li’s fingertips turned cold, but he still suppressed his anger and did not “go head-to-head”: “The other side has already been suspected of infringement. I want to use legal means to protect my rights.” Following the internet reporting promotional tips he had seen before, Xiao Li clicked the “≡” button in the upper right corner of the group chat, scrolled to the bottom, selected “Report this group”, checked the categories “doxxing, personal attacks”, and uploaded the complete chat screenshot.
Within less than an hour of submitting the report, Xiao Li received feedback from the platform: the involved account was dealt with, and all personal information leaked in the group was forcibly retracted.
Disclosure of privacy, insults and abuse, slander and defamation... For all kinds of online infringement against citizens, various reporting channels have become increasingly smooth, becoming an important handle for netizens to protect their rights.
Now, the cyberspace administration departments have guided 2,976 website platforms to set up clear reporting channels for illegal and harmful information. A relevant staff member of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission Illegal and Harmful Information Reporting Center (中央网信办违法和不良信息举报中心, hereinafter referred to as the “Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission Reporting Center”) introduced that the specific reporting channels include: first, report to the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission Reporting Center, by logging onto www.12377.cn, or scanning the QR code to download the “Internet Reporting” client, or by sending a private message on the “National Internet Reporting” WeChat public account or Weibo; second, report to the reporting platform of the provincial (autonomous region, municipality) cyberspace affairs office; third, report to the website platform.
“It is not only infringement against individuals. For illegal and harmful information such as violent terrorism, pornography, vulgarity, gambling, and rumors, the vast number of netizens can actively report them.” A relevant staff member of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission Reporting Center said that reports from netizens have become an important force in cracking down on online illegal acts and building a clean cyberspace.
“Clicking into a pop-up for ‘free film and television resources’, I unexpectedly found a gambling website.” Earlier this year, when browsing information, netizen Lao Liu from Shaoyang City, Hunan Province was attracted by the words “free film and television resources” in a page pop-up. After clicking in, he found that the website contained multiple online gambling recharge channels, and also mixed with a large amount of pornographic and vulgar content.
Lao Liu did not directly close the page, but copied the URL, and submitted the clue and page screenshot through the www.12377.cn reporting platform.
After receiving the report, the cyberspace administration department quickly verified and collected evidence, confirmed that the website illegally disseminated gambling and pornographic information, legally removed the relevant content, and simultaneously transferred the relevant illegal clues to the public security authorities for investigation.
It is understood that in June 2026 alone, the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission Reporting Center guided all levels of internet reporting work departments nationwide and major website platforms to receive 17.874 million reports of illegal and harmful information such as pornography, gambling, infringement, and rumors, promoting the construction of a good online ecosystem.
Carrying out special governance for prominent issues
In addition to smoothing daily reporting and rights protection channels, relevant departments also carry out special governance for prominent issues.
The chaos in AI (artificial intelligence) application is an important aspect of this.
“×× City has suffered a flood! Most of it is submerged! 27 people missing!”
One day, citizen Lin Mou from a certain city in Fujian Province scrolled to a short video with a sensational title, and the images were very realistic. But when Lin Mou looked, the “disaster area” mentioned in the video was near his own home, and there was no flood there. Looking more closely, the text of the “slogan” on the wall in the video was written incorrectly, and the expressions of the “disaster victims” were dull.
“This looks like it was generated by AI.” After confirming from multiple sources, Lin Mou thought the video was false information generated by AI. Then, Lin Mou logged onto www.12377.cn, clicked on the entrance of the “Special Reporting Zone for AI Application Chaos” (涉AI应用乱象举报专区) in a prominent position, filled in the link to the harmful information, description of the false content, uploaded the video screenshot and evidence for refuting the rumor, checked the box promising the content is true... Not long after, when Lin Mou searched for the video again, he found it had been taken down.
Producing and publishing false and untrue information, impersonating and counterfeiting others, security issues of training data for large models, AI data “poisoning” problems... For some time, many chaos in the application of AI technology have polluted the online environment. And this has become a key focus of internet reporting work.
Starting from June this year, the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission Reporting Center opened a “Special Reporting Zone for AI Application Chaos” on the www.12377.cn reporting platform, specially accepting 14 categories of problems such as inadequate implementation of labels for AI-generated and synthesized content, using AI to “magically modify” classics and generate “digital slop”, and producing and publishing false and untrue information.
Relying on an unverified “tip-off” and a few sensational headlines, online “black mouths” can destroy the goodwill accumulated by a company over many years in an instant — besides the special handling of AI application chaos, internet reporting involving enterprises is another important content of internet reporting work.
“This employee of our company is clearly still working normally, how can they say he has passed away?”
Last summer, the Beijing Illegal and Harmful Information Reporting Platform (北京市违法和不良信息举报平台) received a report from a certain company, stating that a news website had published an article claiming that the company “had a work safety accident, and a worker unfortunately died”. The company said that no safety accident had occurred, the worker mentioned in the article was working normally, and the article’s content was completely fictitious.
After reviewing the evidence materials submitted by the company, confirming the relevant facts with the industry competent department, and determining that the company had not had a fatal accident, the reporting platform immediately demanded that the involved website handle the relevant infringing articles in accordance with laws and regulations. Soon, the involved website deleted the relevant content.
As early as 2023, the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission issued the “Work Specifications for Website Platforms to Accept and Handle Reports of Enterprise-Related Online Infringement Information” (网站平台受理处置涉企网络侵权信息举报工作规范). In recent years, it has also guided local cyberspace administration departments to continuously improve the quality and efficiency of enterprise-related infringement reporting, helping enterprises to report and protect their rights quickly and effectively. In Beijing alone, in June this year, the municipal reporting platform received 22,000 reports of enterprise-related online infringement information, and the key websites under its jurisdiction accepted 269,000 reports of enterprise-related online infringement information, of which 137,000 were valid reports.
In addition, the cyberspace administration departments have also made special efforts to solve netizens’ urgent, difficult, and anxious problems, opening special reporting channels such as those involving “minors” and “counterfeit and fake websites”, striving to solidify the foundation and improve the efficiency of internet reporting work.
Establishing a rumor-refuting mechanism and optimizing publicity and guidance
Online rumors cause great harm, and the governance of online rumors cannot do without the active feedback of netizens. In recent years, the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission Reporting Center has guided the China Internet Joint Rumor Refutation Platform (中国互联网联合辟谣平台) and rumor refutation platforms at all levels to actively do a good job in online rumor refutation.
“The Yingxian Wooden Pagoda (应县木塔) is about to be dismantled for major repairs! This month is the last chance to see the original appearance of the Yingxian Wooden Pagoda!”
Earlier this year, a self-media published the news that “Shanxi Yingxian Wooden Pagoda is about to be completely dismantled for major repairs”, which immediately sparked heated discussion on the internet.
“Such a precious cultural relic, even if undergoing major repairs, should not be dismantled.” “The local cultural heritage protection department is too unprofessional!” ... Many netizens expressed concern and confusion. At the same time, some netizens said that they had “participated in related work, and ‘complete removal’ does not match reality”, and reported the relevant information to the cyberspace administration department as an online rumor.
Soon, the China Internet Joint Rumor Refutation Platform released information: “Relevant competent departments have verified and confirmed that the relevant information is a rumor.” “Relevant parties are carrying out deformation monitoring, comprehensive surveying and mapping, and information model building of the wooden pagoda, and advancing partial reinforcement work.”
For a time, the anxiety of netizens was calmed down.
The rapid response is inseparable from the linkage working mechanism of “netizen report — multi-department verification — authoritative rumor refutation”. The China Internet Joint Rumor Refutation Platform, hosted by the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission Reporting Center, has been online for 8 years and has become the main platform and main battlefield for China’s online rumor refutation work. In 2025 alone, the platform received 18,200 reports of rumor information, published over 17,000 rumor-refuting articles (pieces), with a total readership of 620 million.
In addition to building a good main rumor refutation position, the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission Reporting Center also does a good job in rumor refutation in areas where online rumors are frequent. For example, in May 2026, targeting widely circulated and harmful pseudo-science content, the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission Reporting Center, together with the Science Popularization Department of the China Association for Science and Technology (中国科协科普部), released the “Ten Cases of Resisting Pseudo-Science” (抵制伪科普十大案例), exposing ten major pseudo-science tricks such as “cell resonance device curing diseases”, “rice soup replacing breast milk”, and “energy metaphysics health preservation”, covering key areas such as health and medical care, maternal and child parenting, and people’s livelihood consumption, piercing the disguise of rumors for the public.
For internet reporting and internet rumor refutation work to further play a role, more public support is needed. The 2026 National Internet Reporting Series Promotion Activities (全国网络举报系列宣传活动) are underway. All regions are also actively adopting various methods to make internet reporting and rumor refutation more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
A relevant responsible person from the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission Reporting Center stated that internet reporting is a right granted to citizens by law, and internet rumor refutation is a weapon that can be taken up at any time. In the next step, it is necessary to strengthen the publicity of internet reporting and internet rumor refutation work, guide netizens to actively participate in online co-governance, continuously smooth internet reporting channels, enhance the efficiency of handling internet reports, strengthen the authority and timeliness of internet rumor refutation, and use a clean cyberspace ecology to safeguard the high-quality development of the digital society and protect the people’s better life.
(Wang Zifeng (王子锋), People’s Daily Online reporter, contributed to this article.)
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The introduction of the new regulations allows the labor value of over-age workers (超龄劳动者) to be respected at the institutional level, and also gives them 有章可循 (yǒu zhāng kě xún - "have rules to follow," to have clear procedures to rely on) in rights protection.
From July 1, the "Interim Provisions on the Protection of Basic Rights and Interests of Over-Age Workers" (超龄劳动者基本权益保障暂行规定) issued by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源社会保障部) and others came into formal effect. This is China's first regulation specifically protecting the rights and interests of over-age workers, focusing on stipulating basic rights such as labor remuneration, rest and leave, and work-related injury protection, filling a gap in the current labor legal system.
As the health level of the people improves and the process of population aging accelerates, the scale of China's over-age worker group continues to expand. Among them are both retired rehired technical backbone personnel and industry experts, as well as ordinary workers engaged in security, cleaning, housekeeping, logistics, and other jobs. Over-age workers continue their labor value, fill the labor gap in basic urban services, and contribute "silver-haired force" (银发力量) to promoting economic and social development.
For some time, many over-age workers have faced difficulties: a 62-year-old security guard encountered a car accident during a night shift and was denied work-related injury recognition by the employer; a 58-year-old cleaner slipped and fell, receiving only half compensation for injuries... Difficulty in demanding wages and difficulty in rights protection have triggered a certain number of labor dispute cases.
Protecting the legitimate rights and interests of over-age workers is a legal response to actively addressing population aging, and also concerns the bottom line of social fairness. In 2025, the Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院) announced the addition of independent causes of action for "over-age worker employment disputes" and "over-age worker labor contract disputes," which came into formal effect on January 1 of this year. In judicial practice, people's courts, by lawfully hearing cases involving the rights and interests of over-age workers, strive to help workers relieve their worries about "having something to do in old age" (老有所为). The introduction of this regulation breaks the inherent perception that "labor relations are linked to labor protection and social insurance," clarifies the main content of basic rights protection and relief channels, and provides clear institutional guarantees for over-age workers who continue to shine and generate heat in their positions.
The introduction of the new regulations allows the labor value of over-age workers to be respected at the institutional level, and also gives them rules to follow in rights protection. But it must also be seen that the implementation of rights protection for over-age workers still faces some practical difficulties. In many industries, employment relies on acquaintance introductions, and the absence of written agreements is common, making the cost of providing evidence high; some employers are unwilling to bear the corresponding employment costs, harboring a fluke mentality to lower compensation, evade social insurance payments, and shirk work-related injury responsibilities; many over-age workers are unfamiliar with legal provisions, afraid that "making a fuss will cost them their jobs," and endure wage arrears and overtime work in silence, 忍气吞声 (rěn qì tūn shēng - "swallow anger and suppress voice," to endure humiliation silently). These hidden implementation obstacles, if not resolved in time, may leave even the best regulations on paper.
"Law alone cannot put itself into practice." Human resources and social security departments and others should actively carry out targeted legal popularization, increase efforts to investigate and punish labor protection violations, so that infringements are corrected in a timely manner. Arbitration institutions and people's courts should unify adjudication standards as soon as possible, solve problems such as "different judgments for the same case" (同案不同判), and better protect the basic rights and interests of over-age workers. Employers should strictly comply with relevant regulations, earnestly fulfill employment responsibilities, and standardize employment management. Over-age workers themselves should also enhance their rights awareness and have the courage to defend their rights according to law when their rights are damaged. Only through multi-party coordination and precise efforts can the system play its role and "grow teeth."
"Having something to do in old age" has never been just a warm slogan; every honest labor should not be ignored. When the rigid constraints of the system are implemented in every employment scenario, turning "rights on paper" into "guarantees in hand," the vast number of silver-haired workers (银发就业者) can work with peace of mind and with a sense of security.
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One day, a college student named Li (李某) saw on a certain platform a so-called advertisement for "internal referral for a 'big-company' internship." The other party told him that as long as he paid several thousand yuan, they would "100% issue an offer (letter of employment notification)." Li thought to himself, could this be a scam? But when Li searched online, he found that many people said they had spent money to "buy" similar internship opportunities and that they were all real.
Li also thought that nowadays it is indeed not easy to find an internship opportunity at a large enterprise, so he gritted his teeth and paid the money. Soon, someone contacted Li for an "interview." A few days later, someone claiming to be the internship company's "mentor supervisor" told Li that the internship had already started. Since it was a "remote internship," the person assigned work tasks to Li online.
Gradually, Li sensed something was wrong. The so-called work was just collecting some materials online, and throughout the entire internship period, he had never been to the company, nor had he even contacted any employee other than the "mentor supervisor."
After the internship ended, Li received the internship certificate as promised. But when he compared it with the certificates of other classmates who had interned at the same company, he found that the format and wording were completely inconsistent, and it looked very fake. It seemed he had encountered scammers, so Li reported the case to the public security authorities. The public security authorities quickly intervened and launched an investigation.
It turned out that a certain technology company in Guangzhou had long been engaged in related activities. In the company, some people were specifically responsible for posting advertisements on platforms, falsely claiming that the company could, through an "internship internal referral" model, enable student clients to undertake "remote internships" at well-known domestic and international enterprises; after the internship, they could issue internship certificates and support background checks. Subsequently, the company's so-called "sales personnel" would add the students' WeChat accounts, and following a script, they would trick the student clients into signing contracts with the company and making payments. Then the so-called "back-end department" would pose as personnel from the internship enterprise, conduct interviews with the students, and send internship offers to the students in the name of the internship enterprise. Finally, company personnel would again pose as the internship enterprise's "mentor supervisor" and remotely assign internship tasks to the students via WeChat. After the tasks were completed, they would issue fake internship certificates and recommendation letters, stamped with forged electronic seals. From recruitment to interview to internship and issuing certificates, it can be described as a "one-stop fraud chain."
According to the investigation, from January 2023 to September 2024, this gang defrauded a total of over 24 million yuan through the above methods.
Soon, the public security authorities transferred the company's key members, Luo (罗某), Chen (陈某), Fu (付某), and others — six persons in total — to the procuratorial organs on suspicion of fraud for review and prosecution, and the procuratorial organs then prosecuted them in court.
After trial, the court held that the relevant personnel, for the purpose of illegal possession, used methods of fabricating facts and concealing the truth to defraud others of property through telecommunications and networks, and the amounts were extremely large; their actions had already constituted the crime of fraud. Ultimately, the six defendants were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment.
Summer vacation has arrived, and the urgent desire of college students to find internships is understandable, but they must still keep their eyes open. It is understood that some so-called "paid internships" on the market, like this case, are outright fraud; others involve collusion between internal enterprise staff and intermediaries, where the money is collected and the intern works as "black labor" for the intermediary, with the intern never entering the company's HR system, and remote internships are even more of a disaster area.
The judge reminds that paid internships and purchasing fake internship certificates violate the principle of good faith and are suspected of being illegal. Many students mistakenly believe that spending money to buy an internship is just embellishing their résumés and carries no risk. But that is not the case. If one purchases or uses forged internship certificates and company seal documents, not only will it be uncovered during job background checks, but if the circumstances are serious, one may also bear legal liability.
By: 本报记者 周人杰
"Chestnut-flanked white-eye, red-billed leiothrix — both are nationally protected wild birds. If you see anyone buying or selling them, you must report it promptly." On an early Sunday morning, outside the old west gate of Wenying Park (文瀛公园) in Yingze District (迎泽区), Taiyuan City, Shanxi, the bird market opened as usual with lively bustle. Two legal education propagandists wearing red armbands moved among the stalls, holding popular-legal-education materials in their hands, explaining bird-protection laws to the vendors one by one.
But no one would have imagined that a year earlier these two had actually engaged in catching and selling birds. Now they have become guardians of the ecological environment. Not long ago, a reporter learned from the Yingze District People's Procuratorate that behind the transformation of these two legal education propagandists' identities lies an update in judicial philosophy — from "fine and be done with it" to "restoration as the foundation."
Going back to June 2025, based on clues transferred from the third round of central ecological and environmental protection inspections, multiple departments in Taiyuan City conducted a joint inspection of the bird market outside Wenying Park, catching Zheng and Wang on the spot while they were illegally selling wild birds.
"The two individuals' actions already constituted a crime, and they should have been investigated for criminal responsibility according to law. After comprehensive consideration, the two were first-time offenders with relatively minor subjective malice, the criminal circumstances were slight, and after the case came to light they voluntarily returned all illegal gains and voluntarily confessed and accepted punishment. The procuratorial organ made a relative non-prosecution decision against the two according to law," introduced Zhang Yuxiu (张玉秀), a prosecutor at the Yingze District People's Procuratorate.
Exemption from criminal punishment absolutely does not mean exemption from liability.
"Through civil public interest litigation, we requested that the two bear the cost of ecological resource losses for wild birds. According to relevant provisions of the Wildlife Protection Law, administrative organs will also impose administrative fines on them according to law," Zhang Yuxiu said.
However, fines are easy to pay, but ecology is hard to restore, and people's hearts are hard to mend. Pure economic accountability cannot solve the key problem of "who will restore, and how to restore." For this reason, grassroots prosecutors held multiple consultations with departments such as planning and natural resources, and forestry, attempting to find a more reasonable and effective accountability method from the perspective of giving equal weight to punishment, prevention, and restoration.
At the same time, the governance difficulty of the bird market still lay before their eyes. In several joint inspections, the relevant departments successively discovered the chaos of illegally selling wild birds again.
"At that time, some people said that this bird market was spontaneously formed by the people, and we might as well just shut it down directly," recalled Tian Jiantao (田建涛), deputy chief procurator of the Yingze District People's Procuratorate. But he did not agree with this approach.
"The bird market is a cultural memory of old Taiyuan. To fundamentally solve the problem, on the one hand we need to strengthen supervision and form a long-term mechanism for wildlife protection within the jurisdiction; on the other hand, we also need to make legal education penetrate into people's minds and hearts, raising the vendors' legal awareness and bird-protection consciousness," Tian Jiantao said.
It is necessary both to impose necessary punishment on lawbreakers and to balance legal principle and human sentiment; both to strictly enforce the law and not simply confiscate and be done with it. The Yingze District Procuratorate decided to work along two lines simultaneously, advancing administrative public interest litigation and civil public interest litigation in parallel. A single procuratorial suggestion opened a good prescription for resolving the case —
On April 20 this year, a procuratorial suggestion was issued to the relevant administrative competent organ; starting from April 26, every Sunday when the bird market opened, a joint multi-department special legal education campaign on wild bird protection was carried out as scheduled. Zheng and Wang also, according to the final decision of the Yingze District Procuratorate, offset part of the wild bird ecological resource loss fees by participating in public welfare labor and serving as legal education propagandists, reporting to the bird market every Sunday to conduct legal education, using their own experience as a teaching material to 现身说法 (xiàn shēn shuō fǎ - "appear in person to explain," to use one's own experience as an example).
"Punishment is not the terminal station; the purpose of justice is to make destroyers become guardians, radiating and influencing more people to know the law, abide by the law, protect birds, and love birds," Tian Jiantao said. "We also set up a legal education bulletin board at the bird market, posting pictures of various common nationally protected birds, and the propaganda effect has been remarkable."
When "bird catchers" quietly transform into "bird protectors," the value of public interest litigation is thus demonstrated. Ma Hui (马晖), chief procurator of the Yingze District People's Procuratorate, introduced that the flexible enforcement method of "substitute labor for compensation (以劳代偿)" has moved ecological restoration from cold written judgments into the streets and alleys, and extended legal education from the solemn courtroom to the lively market. "Compared with simply paying ecological damage compensation, this accountability method has more long-term significance for crime prevention and ecological environment restoration."
The ultimate aim of public interest litigation is to achieve genuine restoration of the damaged public interest. From illegal bird hunters to ecological guardians, this is not only an individual transformation but also reflects the unique value of public interest litigation in ecological environment protection and governance. Before long, the Ecological Environment Code of the People's Republic of China will be formally implemented. It will elevate practical explorations such as preventive justice and restorative justice into legal norms, providing clearer guidance for handling such cases. "We will continue to fully leverage the functional positioning of public interest litigation as 'a lawsuit of supervision, a lawsuit of coordination,' striving to achieve the comprehensive effect of 'handle one case, govern one area, restore one region,'" Ma Hui stated.
(People's Daily Online reporter Wang Yanru (王晏如) participated in the reporting and writing.)
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Whether a TV drama is good or not, the audience has the greatest say. On July 11, the National Radio and Television Administration (国家广播电视总局) released the viewing report for domestically produced TV dramas for the first half of 2026. CVB (China Audio-Visual Big Data, 中国视听大数据) shows that in the first half of the year, the average daily viewing time per household for dramas on national satellite channels was 79 minutes, with a total viewership scale of 112.3 billion person-times; both indicators were higher than the same period last year. This means that, in an era of increasingly diverse cultural consumption choices, TV dramas still firmly occupy the "living room time" of countless households.
Looking closely at the report, one change is worth noting. In the first half of the year, national satellite channels broadcast 753 dramas, a slight increase of 0.4% year-on-year, with the total volume basically stable. However, first-run dramas reached 73, up 2.8% year-on-year; among them, prime-time first-run dramas numbered 61, an increase of 10.9%. The total viewing duration of first-run dramas was 4.32 billion hours, a year-on-year increase of 4.5%.
The increase in the number of first-run dramas indicates that the industry has the capacity to produce more new works, and that broadcasting platforms are willing to reserve good time slots for them. For the audience, this means there are more new stories to watch during prime time and a greater range of choices.
This is not a natural process — new dramas entail higher production costs and market risks. The channels' willingness to increase the proportion of first-run drama scheduling reflects a growing dual confidence on the part of both the production side and the broadcasting side in their ability to supply content.
Audiences are not picky about subject matter; what they picky about is the level of effort put into the work.
Several works in the first half of the year attracted attention.
The Leading Role (主角) topped the first-half rankings with a rating of 4.210% and a viewership scale of 1.4 billion person-times. This drama tells the story of the ups and downs of a Qinqiang (秦腔) opera performer, a subject that by conventional standards is not a "traffic-generating genre." Yet after it aired, "Qinqiang" became a trending term on social media. A single drama bringing an ancient local opera into the topics discussed by young people — this kind of cultural awakening power cannot be measured by simple rating data. It shows that stories deeply rooted in Chinese soil are not far from the audience's heart. So-called "niche" subjects often merely lack a good story as an entry point.
Also in the realist genre, Tree of Life (生命树) — during its broadcast on CCTV, 20 episodes entered the top two in ratings among all types of programs in their time slots, and it ranked first on iQiyi's realist drama popularity chart. "Under the Tree of Life, See Qinghai" became a hot search topic; one drama added an ecological business card for a province. Looking at Golden Customs (金关) and Family Court (家事法庭), the former focuses on customs passenger inspection, the latter on family court trials — two seemingly "specialized" fields — yet their ratings reached 3.339% and 3.051% respectively, ranking third and fourth in the first half. The aerospace-themed drama Star and Moon Journey (星月征途) also made it to the top of the charts with a rating of 2.741%.
These realist works touch on public issues such as traditional cultural heritage, ecological civilization construction, national security, judicial fairness, and technological innovation. Their common ground lies in portraying "people," portraying emotions, and portraying the choices and perseverance of ordinary people. The audience watches the fate of the characters in the drama and thinks about their own lives. This kind of empathy is the power that truly allows a work to pierce through the screen.
The historical drama The Peaceful Year (太平年) provides another dimension of reference. When it first aired on CCTV, it achieved a rating of 2.490%, setting the highest record for historical dramas since CVB records began. More convincing is that after its first run ended, The Peaceful Year was rebroadcast multiple times on multiple CCTV channels and on ten channels including Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Hunan satellite TVs, with catch-up and on-demand data continuing to rise. It was not a "passing fad" of popularity but one that settled and endured.
Period dramas also stood out in the first half. Among the top 15 in ratings, period dramas occupied five slots, with a total first-run viewership exceeding 2.8 billion person-times. The Good Times (好好的时光) ranked second with a rating of 3.789%, while My Mountains and Seas (我的山与海), Love in a Pure Era (纯真年代的爱情), Winter Goes, Spring Comes (冬去春来), and Small Town, Big Event (小城大事) all had ratings above 1.7%. The ability of such works to "stick" to the audience relies not on fast pacing, but on a delicate and honest restoration of bygone years — the elderly see their own youth, the middle-aged see their parents' shadows, and the young see a life that is unfamiliar yet warm. In an era of accelerating change, period dramas offer an emotional look back and a sense of comfort.
Revolutionary history subjects, costume dramas, urban romance, and police/criminal investigation genres also achieved gains. Wind and Tide (风与潮) had a rating of 2.789%, ranking fifth; Eight Thousand Miles of Clouds and Moon (八千里路云和月) had a first-run viewership of 530 million person-times; Family Legacy (家业), focusing on the culture of Huizhou ink sticks, sparked 2.7 billion topic discussions on Weibo; the urban romance drama Honey Words (蜜语纪) led the local satellite TV ratings chart; and criminal investigation dramas occupied five slots in the top ten of local satellite TV ratings.
When these works are viewed together, a pattern emerges: what audiences love to watch are those that, within their respective genres, achieve top-tier quality; audiences are not picky about subject matter — what they picky about is the level of effort put into the work.
There are no boundaries for the spread of good works.
Equally noteworthy is that the dissemination path of TV dramas is undergoing profound changes.
Take The Leading Role as an example. Its total viewing duration across live broadcast, catch-up, and on-demand on the large TV screen reached 869 million hours, of which catch-up and on-demand accounted for about 16%. This means that nearly one-sixth of the viewership came from audiences actively seeking it out after the first broadcast. Data from the small screen also corroborates this. Audiences have taken the lead over time, thus greatly extending the life cycle of good content.
At the same time, online platforms and social media constitute another "public opinion field." The Weibo topic reading volume for The Peaceful Year exceeded 11.2 billion, for Tree of Life reached 7 billion, and for The Leading Role was 4.18 billion. Some people follow a trending topic to catch a drama, others finish a drama and then post comments, and discussions bring in new viewers. A cycle of mutual feed forms between the large screen and the small screen.
In the past, once a drama finished airing, that was it; word of mouth spread, but inefficiently. Now, for a truly good drama, there are real-time discussions on social media during its broadcast, on-demand and catch-up viewing after broadcast to carry long-tail traffic, and it can be rebroadcast on different channels to reach new audiences. The dissemination chain has lengthened, and the efficiency of spreading good content has increased. This is the most direct encouragement for creators — work done with care will not be buried.
Looking back at this report card for the first half of the year, what is most reassuring is not which drama broke a certain record, but a change in industry trends. Traffic or quality? This was a confusion that once lay across the industry in previous years. The first-half ratings data give a clear answer: winning both ratings and word of mouth relies not on piling up traffic, but on taking creation itself seriously.
Behind this is a deep adjustment that the industry is undergoing: shifting from "shoot whatever subject is hot" to "how well can I shoot this subject"; shifting from "which stars can bring traffic" to "does this story itself have power." The adjustment process cannot be accomplished all at once (一蹴而就, yī cù ér jiù - "can be accomplished in one step," meaning to achieve quickly in one go). But as long as effort is devoted to creation, the audience will vote with their time.
Whether a TV drama is good or not, the ultimate test is whether it makes the audience feel, after watching, that the time was well spent. 79 minutes, 112.3 billion person-times — behind these numbers are the real choices of hundreds of millions of viewers, a direct expression of the people's pursuit of high-quality spiritual and cultural life.
(The author is the Deputy Director of the Academy of Radio and Television Planning of the National Radio and Television Administration (国家广播电视总局广播电视规划院).
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I entered the gate of Kunqu in my youth, from studying at Jiangsu Provincial Drama School (江苏省戏剧学校) to putting down roots in Jiangsu Provincial Kunqu Opera Theatre (江苏省昆剧院). Over more than twenty years, I have always been wrapped in the warmth and perseverance passed down from generation to generation. The morning light of the rehearsal ground, the whispered voices backstage at Lanyuan Theater (兰苑剧场), and the scenes of teachers and students accompanying each other through the generations are all fixed in my memory.
When I first entered the master’s tutelage, I became a disciple of Master Shi Xiaomei (石小梅). When teaching opera, the Master was never confined to a single movement or a single note. During singing and recitation, she would analyze each word’s articulation and rhyme, the rise and fall of the melodic line, polishing every line dozens of times, demanding that each recitation be full and forceful; without thoroughly memorizing the script, one could not enter the rehearsal ground. In performance, the raising of a hand, the stepping of a foot, the shifting of the gaze—the finest details were carefully unpacked. She told me that the beauty of Kunqu is never mere imitation of outward form, but conveying spirit through form and moving people through emotion. Not only the Master, but many seniors in the theatre also poured out all the experience accumulated over half a lifetime on stage, taking apart the classic plays they had performed countless times and, holding nothing back, placing them into the hands of us, the younger generation. In Jiangsu Provincial Kunqu Opera Theatre, everyone is a transmitter of skills, and everyone is a keeper of the art.
Kunqu is an art of teamwork; every brilliant performance depends on the mutual support of those on stage and behind the scenes. In 2024, when we revived The Dream of Nanke (《南柯梦》), the third-generation masters and fourth-generation backbone of the theatre all went into action, guiding the fifth-generation newcomers hand in hand in rehearsals. They went over each segment meticulously, polished each scene, and not only imparted performance techniques but also recounted the stories from the original creation and staging, as well as their artistic understanding, in unhurried detail. On stage were young, fresh faces; off stage were the focused gazes of the seniors. Every beat, every glance, every smile — in repeated rehearsals, the handover of art was completed. Such scenes are enacted year-round in Jiangsu Provincial Kunqu Opera Theatre. The practice of passing on, helping, and leading (传帮带) is precisely to ensure that classic plays are not distorted and that the artistic lineage is not broken.
The passing on, helping, and leading in Jiangsu Provincial Kunqu Opera Theatre has three layers of meaning: transmitting skills, guarding the original heart, and continuing the cultural vein. Transmitting skills is the foundation. The specialties of Kunqu are finely divided, with each role type — sheng, dan, jing, mo, chou — having its own rules. The seniors pass down their signature plays from generation to generation, preserving in complete form the authentic style of Southern Kunqu. Our generation took from our predecessors such classics as The Peony Pavilion (《牡丹亭》), The Peach Blossom Fan (《桃花扇》), and The White Silk Gown (《白罗衫》), and then taught them word by word to the younger "Fifth Generation of Kunqu" — this is precisely the hope that these artistic treasures, tempered by time, can be continued in their original flavor. The rotation of repertory and regular special performances force young people to accumulate plays and hone their skills, and the new generation grows quickly in combat.
Guarding the original heart is the deepest core of passing on, helping, and leading. "First cultivate virtue when learning art; first establish one's character when performing." The seniors taught us to perform, but even more they taught us how to conduct ourselves. The older generation of artists once lived through a time when traditional art had no market; sometimes there were more stage crew than audience for a performance. But they persevered, completing every performance earnestly and seriously. This pure love for Kunqu and reverence for the stage are far more precious than skill. The seniors also often urged us that Kunqu is an elegant art, and that performers must settle their hearts, must be able to endure poverty and withstand loneliness. Now, when we guide the younger generation, we also tell them that choosing Kunqu means choosing a life of perseverance. Only by cherishing passion in the heart and keeping one's feet on the ground can one go far. The transmission of this spirit is silent yet powerful, enabling each generation of Kunqu artists to guard the original heart and quietly keep the art amid the clamor of the world.
Continuing the cultural vein is the ultimate significance of passing on, helping, and leading. Kunqu is a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity and a gem of China's fine traditional culture. Passing on, helping, and leading is not about clinging to old things or sticking to outmoded conventions (墨守成规, mò shǒu chéng guī - "stubbornly adhere to established rules," to be rigidly conservative); rather, on the basis of upholding tradition, it makes ancient Kunqu adapt to the new era. From reviving classics to creating new works, from the traditional stage to new media dissemination, seniors guard the artistic baseline, young performers embrace new forms, layer upon layer, generation after generation — only then can 600-year-old Kunqu continuously win over young audiences and radiate entirely new vitality in the new era.
Master Shi Xiaomei once said to me: "From the entrance door to the exit door on stage is only a few short steps; I hope you will spend your life walking them well." Passing on, helping, and leading is not a simple transfer of skills; it is the foundation of the torch passed from generation to generation (薪火相传, xīn huǒ xiāng chuán - "pass on the firewood from torch to torch," to carry on a tradition from generation to generation), the lifeblood of Kunqu's ceaseless vitality (生生不息, shēng shēng bù xī - "endlessly generating," unceasing), and even more, the warmth of a group of Kunqu workers entrusting themselves to one another and moving forward with one heart.
(The author is the director of the Kunqu Opera Theatre of Jiangsu Performing Arts Group)
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The original musical Black Flag Command (黑旗令) tells the surging and magnificent journey of the late-Qing famous general Liu Yongfu leading the Black Flag Army from “assisting Vietnam against France” (援越抗法) to “resisting Japan and defending Taiwan” (抗日保台). How to use this story to make the national backbone truly stand up on stage was the first issue we had to resolve in creation.
We must seek the Chinese people’s own aesthetic expression within the texture of the music. In material selection and musical language, we adhere to the concept of “drawing water from the source and connecting with the contemporary” (从源头引水，与当代接轨), weaving the excellent traditional Chinese culture and regionally distinctive local cultures into the work.
Based on the needs of the plot, we fused the approachability of pop music with the grandeur of symphonic music, and extensively employed traditional Chinese instruments such as the ruan, suona, pipa, xun, qudi, and tanggu. This fusion both preserves the auditory characteristics of musical theater as a modern art form and highlights the Chinese style of the work, ensuring the musical depth and dramatic tension of the piece.
For example, in the aria “Anger of the Sea Wind” (海风之怒), on the basis of pop orchestral music, we extensively used the timbres of the suona such as flutter-tonguing and vibrato, depicting the fierce battles of resisting Japan and defending Taiwan and the heroic and fearless momentum of the Black Flag Army. For the role of the storyteller, we used the zhongruan plucking and singing, combined with the string ensemble and the qudi to enhance the layering of timbre, while enriching the stage expression forms and auditory diversity, preserving the worldly flavor of traditional folk art. In the “Iron Head” aria in “Building a Hometown Together” (且筑乡), and the “Black Tiger General” (黑虎将军) aria in the second half, we incorporated the ban style (板式) and danqiang (弹腔, i.e., pihuang qiang) of Gui opera (桂剧), combined with the shapes and choreography of Guangxi intangible cultural heritage puppets, forming a Gui-style rap (桂韵说唱) with regional distinctiveness.
Black Flag Command uses thematic material to thread through the entire musical. We designed the “Black Flag Army Theme” and Liu Yongfu’s “Beidou” (北斗), Meilan’s “South Wind” (南风), and Aya’s “Return Home” (回家) — four themes with completely distinct characters and meanings. Then we made them constantly change, develop, interweave, and echo throughout the play, organizing the work into an organic unified whole. We regard each musical theme as a different storyteller of the same story, experiencing this group of people, this period of history, and this land from different perspectives. This is not only following the inherent laws of music and drama creation, but also the inevitable process from “drinking from the source” to “dramatic closure.”
The musical Black Flag Command is directed by Taiwanese director Li Xiaoping (李小平), with artists from both sides of the strait continuously communicating and jointly polishing the work during field research and creation. In the play, the Black Flag Army led by Liu Yongfu is one of the typical representatives of the Chinese people’s anti-aggression struggle in modern times. The Black Flag Army’s action of resisting Japan and defending Taiwan was aimed at safeguarding national unification and territorial integrity. Their struggle deeds are 可歌可泣 (kě gē kě qì - “worthy of song and tears,” moving and heroic), and they are a shared heroic memory of both sides of the strait.
Based on this, in the second half’s scenes of the Black Flag Army’s “resisting Japan and defending Taiwan,” we paid special attention to the interweaving of Southern Fujian folk songs and Taiwanese opera, in order to reflect the fact that both sides of the strait are 同根同源 (tóng gēn tóng yuán - “same root and same source,” sharing the same origin) and inseparable. These musical elements are concentrated in two places: first, in the “Treaty of Shimonoseki” (马关条约) scene, where the plot is set against the background of Liu Yongfu leading the Black Flag Army together with the Taiwanese people to resist the Japanese invasion after the Qing court signed the Treaty of Shimonoseki with Japan; the music incorporates the distinctive Southern Fujian Xiamen Gezai narrative singing (歌仔说唱). Second, in the aria “Anger of the Sea Wind” (海风之怒) that depicts the battle against the Japanese forces, it draws on the gong-and-drum patterns and interval relationships from the Taiwanese Gezai opera (歌仔戏) “Romance of the Three Kingdoms — Single Sword at the Meeting” (三国演义——单刀赴会), singing out the heroic feats of the Black Flag Army fighting fiercely to kill the enemy in the campaign to resist Japan and defend Taiwan.
The musical creation of Black Flag Command has once again made us realize: truly moving literary and artistic works originate from reverence for history, firm confidence in the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and unremitting adherence to the laws of art. It is precisely because of adhering to this concept that this creation has made Liu Yongfu and his Black Flag Army no longer just names in history books, but transformed into spiritual power that directly reaches people’s hearts.
(The authors are respectively the artistic director and composer of the musical Black Flag Command.)
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A set of white garments, a paper umbrella. The boatman leads the way; Bai Suzhen, with delicate steps gently swaying, steps onto the phantom boat. Entirely relying on her figure, the posture of wandering on the lake, boarding the boat, and the tilting of the light skiff is vividly presented. For Yu opera actor Wu Suzhen (吴素真), The Legend of the White Snake is a 无中生有 (wú zhōng shēng yǒu - “create something from nothing,” a beauty created out of nothing) journey of beauty—transplanted from Peking opera, carrying the proper rhyme of the Central Plains, steadily lifting Lady White onto the stage.
The spirit of Yu opera is naturally multifaceted: it has the majestic, soaring high pitch of “Henan Ou” (河南讴, a style of singing) and the gentle, winding grace of the Xiangfu tune (祥符调). A hundred years ago, Chen Suzhen (陈素真), the founding master of the Chen School (陈派), was not only the “Queen of Yu Opera” and the “King of Bangzi Opera” but was also revered as “a goddess of beauty on stage.” What Wu Suzhen must do is to present this kind of beauty anew before the audience’s eyes.
Born in an ordinary rural village in southern Henan, Wu Suzhen became attached to Yu opera because her maternal grandmother took her to rural market performances to listen to opera. The seed of opera thus took root in her heart. She diligently practiced her skills, and at the age of 12, she was admitted to the Suiping County Yu Opera Troupe (遂平县豫剧团), and then continued to improve step by step, entering the Henan Yu Opera Troupe No. 2 (河南省豫剧二团). In 2009, she was admitted to the first undergraduate Yu opera class at the China Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts (中国戏曲学院), as if she had uprooted herself and then replanted. She said: “Leaving family and home to come to Beijing, if I waste even one minute, I would be letting myself down, and also letting my family down.” During those four years of full-time study, she received direct instruction from famous Yu opera masters such as Ma Jinfeng (马金凤) and Zhang Baoying (张宝英), like a sponge, desperately absorbing the nutrients of opera theory. It was also during this period that she became a disciple of Niu Shuxian (牛淑贤), a direct disciple of Chen Suzhen. The master would pick apart the singing method word by word, adjust the body movements move by move, leading her to the profound and weighty gate of the Chen School.
Stepping into the Chen School, a very high threshold lay before her. Wu Suzhen’s foundational play, The Cosmic Blade (《宇宙锋》), was the pinnacle work of Chen Suzhen’s later years, and together with Mei Lanfang’s Peking opera version and Chen Bohua’s Han opera version, they are called the “Three Cosmic Blades.” The singing style of the Chen School emphasizes storing breath deep in the dantian; listeners feel it is 游刃有余 (yóu rèn yǒu yú - “moving the blade with ample room,” effortlessly skillful), but the singer’s heart is already 百转千回 (bǎi zhuǎn qiān huí - “a hundred turns and a thousand twists,” full of complex emotions). “Too big, it’s excessive; too small, it’s not enough,” Wu Suzhen said. Sometimes a single melodic curve carries three kinds of sound and multiple layers of emotion, always missing that fine touch of perfect flavor. To precisely grasp the undulations of the vibrato, she clumsily used numbers to mark the rhythm.
After graduating in 2013, she and her classmates formed the core of the Henan Yu Opera Academy Youth Troupe (河南豫剧院青年团). The first major play in which she served as the leading pillar was The Legend of the White Snake, with Niu Shuxian as artistic director. This classic had been interpreted by many opera types and schools; Chen Suzhen had attempted it earlier but it did not get passed down on stage. During their school days, Wu Suzhen and her master began to conceive it, ultimately using the Xiangfu tune for the singing and the Chen School’s body movements for the performance, giving the well-known Lady White an additional Yu opera image. Now, this play has become a staple repertoire of the Youth Troupe.
During grassroots touring performances, Wu Suzhen once encountered neglect: she performed the Chen School repertoire, which emphasizes civil plays, with 一丝不苟 (yī sī bù gǒu - “not one thread is careless,” meticulous attention to detail), but there was sparse applause from the audience. She inevitably wavered: should she lower her standards or change her approach to cater to them? Her master advised: “Do not underestimate the audience’s aesthetic taste, nor excessively pursue a full house of applause.” As time passed, today’s audience no longer only satisfies listening to the singing, but turns to savor the spirit and charm on stage, to understand the artistic conception in the play, step by step entering the courtyard of “beauty” she has carefully constructed. This 姗姗来迟 (shān shān lái chí - “late and slow in coming,” belated) understanding made her firmly believe that 念念不忘 (niàn niàn bù wàng - “always keep in mind,” persistent remembrance) of artistic beauty will inevitably bring an echo. When she won the Plum Blossom Award in 2019 for the Yu opera The Legend of the White Snake, Wu Suzhen’s hot tears streamed: it was the answer sheet submitted after ten years of polishing the play, and also the stunning return of the beauty of Yu opera’s Chen School.
In her view, inheritance is not about sealing art in a museum, isolating it from the worldly life, but about performing it vividly for contemporary audiences. She successively revived multiple out-of-print Chen School classics such as Fanwang Palace (《梵王宫》), The Match of Spring and Autumn (《春秋配》), and Three Flicks of the Sleeve (《三拂袖》), bringing characters like Yelü Hanyan, Jiang Qiulian, and Jiang Qinqin back to the stage. She took The Cosmic Blade and Fanwang Palace to the Avignon Festival in France; after performances, the curtain calls ended repeatedly, but the audience was still reluctant to leave. The art of beauty can reach the heart directly without translation.
Now, she has thrown herself into the newly compiled historical play Fu Hao (《妇好》), portraying the first recorded female general of the Shang Dynasty in Chinese history. Starting from going to Yinxu (殷墟) in Anyang for field research, she approaches this queen, general, and priestess from over 3,000 years ago step by step. Wu Suzhen, who has long played the qingyi (leading female role), takes up weapons and martial arts props again, practicing hard in the gaps between performances. She says that new plays need a process to be accepted, but the prerequisite is that the work is solid enough to withstand the test of time and the audience.
In her view, behind the praise of Chen Suzhen as “goddess of beauty on stage” lies the lifelong pursuit of “not stopping until the art is astonishing.” Excellence in singing, recitation, acting, and acrobatics, and mastery over both civil and martial roles, male and female roles—these are the benchmarks the predecessors left for later generations. She sighs that Yu opera and the Chen School are 博大精深 (bó dà jīng shēn - “broad, great, profound and deep,” extensive and profound): “If I can preserve the flavor, I will be at ease; if I can take a step forward, it is even more difficult.” The beauty of art may have a threshold, but once you truly step across it, you can appreciate the endless elegance deep within the pear orchard (the world of opera). What she can do in the latter half of her life is not to lower this threshold, but to raise the aesthetic standard together.
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At 4:30 PM, at the lion dance base in Longwan Village, Suixi, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, the drum sounds rang out on time. Without cheers and applause from an audience, the drumming remained vigorous and powerful. The performers moved in tacit coordination, one raising both arms high to mimic the lion's nimble head movements, the other gripping the waistband of the first and following closely behind, leaping, tumbling, and rolling, light as if flying.
It was this lion dance troupe that, with their work Lingnan Lion Leaps Over Knife Mountain and Fire Sea, won the 17th Shanhua Award (山花奖) for Chinese Folk Literature and Art. Suixi County (遂溪县) is the "Home of the Chinese Lion Dance," and the Suixi lion dance (遂溪醒狮) is among the first batch of national-level intangible cultural heritage. Having won the Shanhua Award three times, the Suixi lion dance, saturated with the flavors of everyday life and culture, attracts countless tourists who come specifically to see it.
Liang Qihuang (梁其晃) of the Suixi Longwan Dragon and Lion Dance Troupe has three generations of his family who have lived alongside the lion dance; the sounds of gongs and drums were woven into his childhood. "In the early years, virtually every village in Suixi had a martial arts school, the spirit of martial arts was flourishing, and everyone loved to practice a few moves. The lion dance was the 'face' of the martial arts school, a symbol of the village's spirit and energy." He recalled with a smile: "Back then, a village with a lion dance team held its head higher, and outsiders dared not bully it casually."
In the late 1990s, the high-stake lion dance (高桩醒狮) emerged in Guangdong, and the Suixi lion dance also borrowed techniques from places like Foshan and transformed into the high-stake lion dance. Rooted in martial arts schools, with martial arts as its bones and culture as its soul, the Suixi lion dance thrived vigorously in the countryside of Suixi. Lion dance troupes of all sizes, large and small, sprang up like bamboo shoots after rain (雨后春笋 - yǔ hòu chūn sǔn, "like bamboo shoots after rain," emerging rapidly). To this day, the entire county has approximately 300 folk lion dance troupes, 38 high-stake teams, 258 ground lion (地狮) teams, and over 10,000 performers, creating a lively scene where "everyone loves the lion dance, and every household has the sound of the lion."
When speaking of the past, Liang Qihuang's eyes were full of warmth: "The lion dance is not a profession; it is a joy etched into the bones. Everyone loves to watch it and is willing to cheer for it." In the blink of an eye, decades have passed, and Liang Qihuang has become a senior figure of the Suixi Longwan Dragon and Lion Dance Troupe, taking up the burden of his fathers and personally wielding this lion dance that carries hometown nostalgia and heritage.
Training lion dance athletes is extremely difficult. They often grow up with injuries; each injury takes several days to several months to recover from. Since tearing his anterior cruciate ligament during training, Liang Qihuang has been away from the plum blossom stakes for seven months. A high-stake lion dance performance earns an average of 3,000 yuan in income, which seems generous, but the off-season is long, and it is still like a cup of water for a cartload of firewood (杯水车薪 - bēi shuǐ chē xīn, "a cup of water for a cartload of firewood," an utterly inadequate measure). Survival is not easy, but the Suixi lion dance has always persevered.
Li Guolian (李国廉), the lead coach of the Longwan Dragon and Lion Dance Troupe, frankly stated that the whole world uses the same set of plum blossom stakes (梅花桩). If a troupe is satisfied with a fixed set of movements and does not innovate, it will be difficult for the lion dance troupe to survive in the fierce market competition. Even the Shanhua Award-winning work is quickly imitated. "New, high-level, difficult, and dangerous" — these are both an artistic pursuit and a necessity imposed by reality. "Only by improving our skills can we win more performance opportunities and allow this folk art to continue."
"Come, touch the lion's head for good luck!" Under the coordinated organization of the local government, at events such as the "One-Hour Folk Culture Boutique Performance" and the opening ceremony of the Zhanjiang City Cultural Arts Center, the Suixi lion dance is always present.
Having packed up the cart of props needed for the performance, the Longwan Dragon and Lion Dance Troupe hurriedly shuttled between the big and small stages in the city — without stopping the horse's hooves (马不停蹄 - mǎ bù tíng tí, "without stopping the horse's hooves," nonstop). Sometimes they go into the streets and alleys for close interaction with residents; sometimes they climb the plum blossom stakes, stretching their postures to perform the latest polished, high-difficulty movements, leaping and flipping, drawing exclamations from the gathered crowd. Adults and children alike clustered around, vying to reach out and touch the lion's head.
Once upon a time, the lion dance parade was an indispensable folk ritual for the people of Suixi during festivals and holidays. Today, this intangible cultural heritage treasure hidden at the "doorstep" of Zhanjiang residents has stepped out of the countryside, attracting tourists from all corners of the land (五湖四海 - wǔ hú sì hǎi, "five lakes and four seas," every corner of the country) who come specifically to see it.
"Even if it's not the New Year, you can still see this flavor of everyday life anytime." Jia Ziyi (贾子熠), a man from Henan who married a woman from Zhanjiang, was moved by this folk custom. Every Spring Festival and Lantern Festival, he stands on time in the village, watching the lion dance thread through the alleys in parade, delivering blessings to doorsteps, and understanding the New Year's flavor and warmth of Zhanjiang amidst the sounds of gongs and drums. Besides festivals, for village weddings, funerals, or shop openings, the lion dance acts like an invisible bond, linking neighborly affections and gathering the heart and soul of the countryside.
"When I was little, I was always taken by my grandparents to watch Leizhou opera and lion dances. Back then I thought these intangible cultural heritages were rustic and outdated, but now the more I watch, the more flavor they have," said Lin Ya (林雅), a Zhanjiang resident, with a smile.
From the Zhanjiang Intangible Cultural Heritage Gathering of Talents to the Guangdong BA and Guangdong Super League events, the stage for the Suixi lion dance has grown larger. Lin Ya often brings friends and relatives from far away to watch. Seeing her hometown's intangible cultural heritage loved by more and more people, and watching the Suixi lion dance continually win new "fans," her heart is filled with pride.
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