Summary: In a July 1 speech marking the CPC’s 105th anniversary, Xi Jinping stressed the need to persistently advance full and rigorous party governance to improve the party’s long-term governance capacity and maintain its close ties with the people. He traced the evolution of party discipline from his own “six regulations” in Zhengding County in 1983 to the central eight-point rules launched after the 18th CPC Congress, emphasizing that party conduct directly affects public trust and national success. Xi warned against the resurgence of undesirable work styles, calling for sustained efforts to “drive the nail deeper” and institutionalize discipline. He highlighted the importance of genuine, people-centered governance, citing examples of cutting inflated economic data and reducing burdens on grassroots officials. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: During a July 15 inspection in Shanghai, Xi Jinping stressed the need to firmly establish and practice a correct view of performance, prioritizing people's concerns and steadily improving wellbeing. The article then reports on various local governments' implementation of this directive, including Shanghai's refined urban governance, Hubei's water supply projects, and Sichuan's elderly care reforms. It also covers efforts to resolve long-standing disputes (e.g., forest rights in Guangxi) and establish long-term mechanisms for infrastructure maintenance and school uniform procurement.
Summary: Li Xi, a member of the Politburo Standing Committee and secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, conducted an inspection in Chongqing from July 15 to 17, accompanied by Yuan Jiajun. He emphasized the need to thoroughly study Xi Jinping's thought on party building and implement the central纪委's five plenary session directives, stressing the importance of correct performance views and high-quality disciplinary work. Li visited communities and enterprises, calling for grassroots anti-corruption efforts and enhanced supervision of state-owned enterprises to support high-quality development. He also urged strict disaster prevention responsibilities and deeper party governance at universities. At a symposium, Li demanded stronger political oversight, improved political ecology, and a crackdown on misconduct that harms public interests.
Summary: President Xi Jinping emphasized the need to accelerate technological self-reliance and overcome "bottleneck" issues to secure core technologies and the equipment manufacturing sector. The article reports that in the first half of the year, value-added output of equipment manufacturing grew 9.3% year-on-year, with all eight sub-sectors expanding. Notable achievements include China’s largest pile-driving vessel heading to Brazil, the world’s first 20MW offshore wind turbine, and a domestically developed heavy-duty gas turbine securing overseas orders. Key officials cited include Wang Bangxu, deputy general manager of XCMG’s Oceania operation center, and an unnamed representative from General Technology Group, who highlighted breakthroughs in heavy forging presses and industrial robots. The article concludes that China aims to deepen integration of technological and industrial innovation to solidify the equipment manufacturing sector as a pillar of the economy.
Summary: The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (Jing-Jin-Ji) region is accelerating integrated technological innovation, with the regional collaborative innovation index growing from 100 in 2013 to 388.0 in 2024. Highlighting this momentum, President Xi Jinping noted that the region must strengthen industrial collaboration to serve as a demonstration model for achieving high-level scientific and technological self-reliance. The report details how the three regions are integrating innovation chains with industrial chains, specifically in sectors such as hydrogen energy, biomedicine, and aerospace. Local officials, including Tianjin Vice Mayor Zhai Lixin and Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission Director Zhang Jihong, emphasized the importance of building platforms for scientific achievement transformation and institutional reform to facilitate the free flow of innovation resources.
Summary: A foreign LNG carrier docked at the National Pipeline Network Group's Tianjin LNG terminal on July 19, marking the 500th such vessel since the facility began operations in 2013. The arrival of stable clean energy supplies helps bolster storage reserves and support regional gas demand during the summer peak season. The photo was taken by Du Penghui for Xinhua News Agency.
Summary: The article highlights three key topics: converting talent advantages into high-quality development, addressing the challenges of artificial intelligence in education, and a milestone in China's space solar power station project. It reports that the country has taken a critical step toward generating electricity from space.
Summary: The article reports that China's H1 GDP grew 4.7% year-on-year, with the largest increment in five years, driven by AI, digital economy, and modern services. It highlights Beijing-based AI company Moonshot AI’s Kimi model advances, including a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-source model and a 400% surge in overseas paying users. Beijing Municipal Development and Reform Commission Deputy Director Lin Jianhua is quoted stating the city will accelerate AI innovation through nine major actions and newly added computing power. The piece also emphasizes the need for AI firms to balance rapid innovation with sustainable business models.
Summary: The article profiles Sun Yu, a wind turbine blade repair technician in Inner Mongolia, who transitioned from a communications engineering background to this growing field. It highlights his precision repair work, training, and adaptation to new technologies like drones and sensors. The piece notes that China's wind power capacity expansion has created demand for such roles, with the occupation recently added to the national job list. No U.S. relations are discussed.
Summary: The article discusses how China's rapidly growing wind power industry—with 120 GW of new capacity added in 2025, a 51% increase—is creating new job opportunities for professionals from fields like communications engineering, AI, and IoT. It highlights a growing demand for cross-disciplinary talent in wind turbine maintenance, driven by technologies such as drone inspections and smart sensors. To address talent shortages, the piece calls on schools to cultivate composite skills and on enterprises to broaden recruitment. It also encourages students to explore emerging sectors enabled by "new productive forces." No U.S. or U.S.-China relations are mentioned.
Summary: The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development released a revised draft of the "Good Housing" Construction Guidelines for a second round of public comment. The guidelines define four core attributes—safety, comfort, green, and smart—covering the entire process from planning to maintenance. The new version focuses on addressing common living pain points such as leakage, poor sound insulation, and high energy consumption. It also adds technical requirements for elderly- and child-friendly design, smart communities, and flexible spaces. No U.S. or bilateral relations were mentioned in the report.
Summary: In Wenshang County, Shandong, agricultural socialized services like drone spraying and precision seeding are boosting efficiency and yields for farmers. Drone operator Lu Dunmeng and large-scale farmer Zhao Hailong discussed the benefits of ordering services through a local cooperative alliance. Zhao noted he rarely goes to the fields anymore, as professionals handle planting and management. County Agriculture Bureau Director Zhu Wenjun reported that the service network covers over 97% of farming operations, reducing costs and supporting grain output. The article focuses on domestic agricultural modernization and does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, China's major power enterprises invested a cumulative total of 4.7 trillion yuan in power source construction, a 163.6% increase over the 13th Five-Year Plan period. Wind and solar power investments reached 2.9 trillion yuan, accounting for 62.5% of total power investments. This data was reported by the China Electricity Council, highlighting the accelerated green and low-carbon transformation of China's energy structure.
Summary: During his July 15 inspection in Shanghai, Xi Jinping stressed the need to adopt a correct view of performance and persistently address people's concerns. The article then details local implementations of this principle across China, including street management, water supply, elderly care, infrastructure, and urban renewal projects. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations are mentioned.
Summary: The 2026 World AI Conference in Shanghai issued a chairman’s statement and multiple action plans, emphasizing China’s push to drive AI innovation and global governance. International media highlighted China’s AI industry exceeding 1.2 trillion yuan and its efforts to bridge digital divides through open-source models and cooperation with Global South countries. US media reported a Pew survey showing China is increasingly seen as a more reliable partner globally. China advocated for a fair, transparent global AI governance system, positioning AI as both an economic driver and a key governance domain.
Summary: China reaffirmed its commitment as a reliable partner for all Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) participants, following the 2026 BRI Advisory Council meeting in Urumqi, Xinjiang. The meeting, attended by council members, focused on deepening international cooperation amid global uncertainty, emphasizing connectivity and mutual development. Since President Xi Jinping proposed the BRI in 2013, it has grown into a widely accepted international public good, with over three-quarters of countries participating and more than 4,000 projects totaling over $1 trillion in investment. China highlighted the BRI’s role in providing a development-oriented solution to global challenges, contrasting with rising unilateralism and protectionism. The article stressed that China will continue to promote high-quality BRI cooperation, expanding its win-win path for shared prosperity.
Summary: Luigi Gambardella, president of the China-EU Digital Association, reported that during his recent visit to China he observed AI being used practically on factory floors, such as a robotic arm learning assembly from human demonstrations and an AI system detecting tiny product defects. He stated that China’s complete manufacturing system, large market, and rich application scenarios enable AI to move rapidly from labs to industry, and that this serves as a model for converting technology into industrial capability. Gambardella emphasized the need for open cooperation between countries, particularly between Europe and China, to reduce misunderstandings and build trust in AI development. He noted that European strengths in industrial sectors and Chinese experience in digital transformation create a strong basis for collaboration on specific applications, talent exchange, and AI governance. The article does not reference the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Japan and the Philippines initiated bilateral negotiations on exclusive economic zone and continental shelf delimitation without China's involvement, which the article characterizes as a provocative signal. China responded with lawful enforcement patrols east of Taiwan, asserting its rights under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. The piece argues that such bilateral talks violate international law by potentially harming third-party rights, especially given Taiwan's concave coastline requiring equitable delimitation. It connects the move to Japan's deepening military cooperation with the Philippines, including participation in US-led "Balikatan" exercises and arms deals. The author warns that these actions, backed by US alliance dynamics, represent a geopolitical challenge to China's sovereignty and maritime claims.
Summary: The article reports that 29 countries from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe signed an agreement in Shanghai to establish the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization, marking a significant step in China’s initiative. The organization will prioritize enhancing AI capacity-building for developing countries, promote "AI+" actions and open-source collaboration, and support a fair global governance system under the UN framework. The agreement, which outlines the group’s structure and principles, is designed as a flexible platform that does not impose constraints on members’ existing partnerships.
Summary: The article reports that the China-Thailand railway, a flagship project of the Belt and Road Initiative, is the first high-speed railway in Thailand built to Chinese standards. It describes recent construction progress at the Mor Lek Bridge site in Saraburi province, where workers from China Railway Tenth Group are advancing the project. No official statements or accompanying persons are mentioned. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article highlights how Hunan Province is addressing employment challenges through targeted skill training programs, featuring three workers: tour guide Hu Jiangpeng, who improved his English and inbound tourism skills; drone entrepreneur Liu Zhihong, who expanded his business to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area; and data annotator Liu Zhiliang, who retrained as an AI trainer after being displaced by automation. These stories illustrate Hunan’s policy of aligning training with market demand, supported by coordinated fiscal, industrial, and investment measures. The provincial government has implemented initiatives such as the "Four Orders" training model and employment policy consistency evaluations to facilitate workforce transitions. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article praises a grassroots official in Shimen County, Hunan, who averted a bridge collapse by conducting two patrols at dawn, spotting structural issues, and closing the bridge to over 100 vehicles with no casualties. It argues that such "carrying heavy burdens" reflects true responsibility, contrasting it with negligence that leads to safety failures. The piece highlights the importance of a "sense of responsibility always on guard" and cites examples like mediator Ma Shanxiang and engineer Zhong Jue. It calls on officials to embrace challenges and improve their capabilities for high-quality development. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: President Xi Jinping stressed the need to accelerate technological self-reliance and overcome “bottleneck” issues to secure key core technologies and equipment manufacturing. The article reports that China’s equipment manufacturing sector grew 9.3% year-on-year in the first half of 2025, with all eight sub-industries expanding and global records set in engineering machinery, shipbuilding, and new energy vehicles. Notable achievements include the world’s largest pile-driving ship headed to Brazil, the first 20MW offshore wind turbine, and the G50 heavy-duty gas turbine winning overseas orders. Domestic breakthroughs in industrial mother machines (e.g., a 21-meter seamless forged ring and a nine-axis six-link intelligent machining center) are highlighted, along with China becoming a net exporter of industrial robots in 2025. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The National Standardization Administration issued two new standards on data asset management, drafted by the Ministry of Finance. The "Classification and Codes for Data Assets" categorizes data into structured, semi-structured, and unstructured types with 16 subcategories. The "Guidelines for Data Asset Registration" establishes principles, procedures, and requirements for initial, change, and cancellation registration. These standards aim to integrate data assets into asset management informatization and support high-quality digital economy development. No mention was made of U.S.-China relations or any accompanying officials.
Summary: The article reports that the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) collaborative innovation index surged from 100 to 388.0 between 2013 and 2024, with Hebei leading the nation in absorbing technology contracts from Beijing and Tianjin. Citing Xi Jinping’s directive to strengthen collaborative innovation and industrial cooperation, officials including Zhang Jihong (Beijing Science and Technology Commission) and Gao Jianfeng (Hebei Science and Technology Department) stress deepening institutional reforms and building an integrated innovation ecosystem. Examples such as “black-light labs” and rocket components illustrate cross-regional R&D and manufacturing. The piece highlights policy support for the Beijing (BTH) International Science and Technology Innovation Center and efforts to remove barriers in talent, finance, and data flow. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Wan Shaofen, former Party secretary of Jiangxi Province and deputy head of the United Front Work Department, died in Beijing on June 25, 2026, at age 96. Central leaders expressed condolences to her family. Born in 1930, she joined the revolution in 1949 and the Communist Party in 1952. She served as Jiangxi Party secretary from 1985 to 1988, later as vice-chairman of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions and deputy head of the United Front Work Department. She was also a member of the 12th and 13th Central Committees and a deputy to multiple National People's Congresses.
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Summary: The article underscores the Communist Party of China's (CPC) commitment to comprehensive and strict party governance as essential for maintaining its strength and leading role. It highlights Xi Jinping's characterization of party building as a "great project" and a key "magic weapon" for the nation's rise, emphasizing that governance must advance with the development of the party and people's cause. The piece references historical party discipline documents and notes that the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection has published data on enforcing the Eight-point Regulation for 153 consecutive months. Foreign observers, including a German writer and a Hungarian editor, are cited praising the CPC's self-reform and ability to identify and correct problems. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article highlights China's expanding economic cooperation with Africa, noting that bilateral trade exceeded 1.14 trillion yuan in the first five months of this year, a record high. It emphasizes China's zero-tariff policy for 53 African nations, framed as a gesture of sincerity and mutual benefit rather than zero-sum competition. The piece contrasts this approach with tariff barriers and zero-sum thinking, implicitly criticizing U.S. trade policies. It argues that China's strategy—exemplified by initiatives like the Belt and Road and vocational training programs—fosters long-term trust and shared prosperity. The article concludes that the world is large enough for all countries to develop together through open cooperation.
Summary: Chinese cities including Yichang, Nanchang, and Guiyang have revised parking fee rules to replace "rounding up" with per-minute billing and extended free parking periods, reflecting a shift toward more precise urban service management. The commentary frames these changes as an effort to align public services with citizens' actual needs, moving beyond technological constraints and path dependency. It also cites examples such as time-slot-based scenic spot entry, precise hospital appointment scheduling, and public transit transfer discounts as similarly fine-tuned improvements. The article emphasizes that addressing longstanding pain points—like missing street numbers or narrow gates—requires proactive governance and attention to neglected details. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Ministry of Education's General Office issued a notice on 2026 summer safety for primary and secondary schools and kindergartens, urging strict adherence to local, departmental, and school responsibilities. The notice emphasizes vigilance to ensure a healthy, safe, and fulfilling holiday for children. No specific officials were named as accompanying the announcement, and the article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: In response to Typhoon Bawi, town cadre Zhao Beilei led the evacuation of全镇万人大转移 (10,000 residents) in Xiaguan, Cangnan, Zhejiang. Zhao stated she received the order at 10 p.m. the previous night and slept only two hours before starting work. She refused to be filmed, saying it “looks too much like a publicity stunt,” reflecting a pragmatic, low-key work ethic. The article highlights similar grassroots officials—such as a 00s-born village party secretary who made three visits to persuade residents to evacuate—and emphasizes their commitment to safety over visibility.
Summary: China has introduced domestically produced 103-octane racing fuel, ending reliance on imports for high-performance motorsport gasoline. The fuel reduces static risks and improves combustion efficiency, marking progress in高端 manufacturing. The article highlights broader industrial upgrades, citing Xi Jinping's emphasis on transforming traditional industries through technological innovation. Examples include AI-driven drilling efficiency gains and "oil-to-electric" forklift conversions, illustrating how legacy industries can achieve green and intelligent development. The piece concludes that such transformations underpin China's economic vitality and resilience.
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Summary: The Siping Campaign Memorial Hall’s Party branch trains explainers through regular research and competitions, led by deputy branch secretary Yuan Yuan, to vividly recount heroic stories. Curator Li Xiufeng reported that annual visitors surged from under 100,000 in 2020 to 630,000 in 2025, with over 2 million total. The branch expanded red education into schools, recruited volunteers including veteran Zhao Zhijun (who donated relics), and collected 588 revolutionary artifacts while conducting oral histories with 10 surviving veterans.
Summary: In Shenyang, Liaoning, community party secretary Zhang Yi led staff and城管 officers to clear mud and repair a flowerbed after a July 13 rainstorm that stranded 25 vehicles. Zhang organized residents, volunteers, and police to push cars to higher ground, and agreed to hold 25 car keys for owners awaiting tow trucks—a gesture of trust. She noted the keys were returned without error, emphasizing the community party committee's duty to resolve urgent problems.
Summary: Wu Xianfeng, the village Party branch secretary of Langshi Village in Fushun, Liaoning, was reported rescuing a 92-year-old woman during severe flooding on July 4. He swam into a flooded home, held the elderly woman on a foam board for over 40 minutes, and was assisted by village official Jin Yanlong. After nearly collapsing from exhaustion, he re-entered the floodwaters with a lifebuoy and safely extracted her. Wu stated, “I am a Party member and village secretary; when people face difficulties, I must rush to the front.” The article notes that despite two rounds of extreme rainfall, the village suffered no casualties.
Summary: During a landslide rescue in Pengshui County, Chongqing, officials from the municipal planning and natural resources bureau, including Gao Jiansong, monitored real-time deformation data and coordinated with geological teams to assess secondary disaster risks. Xiao Longjiang, a highway emergency station chief, led crews clearing roads and debris to maintain supply lines for rescue operations. Grid worker Xu Linwei conducted daily patrols and evacuation checks in nearby communities. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Dr. Wang Tao, director of the trauma center at Tongji Hospital affiliated with Tongji University, reported that his team has reduced average emergency treatment time to under 30 minutes and achieved a 95% survival rate for severe trauma cases through innovations like a dedicated trauma resuscitation room and a "first-contact treatment system." He emphasized the importance of shortening the distance between medical care and patients, recalling a patient who moved his home and business near the hospital after a close call. Wang also advocates for "sequential medical care" to create a full-lifecycle health protection chain, integrating prevention, pre-hospital care, in-hospital treatment, and rehabilitation with a focus on humanistic warmth. Additionally, he founded the "Da Yi Xiao Hu" medical science popularization volunteer team, which has produced thousands of original works with over 1 billion online views, and teaches "medical communication science" at multiple medical schools. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports the launch of the 2026 China Environmental Protection Century Tour in Xining, Qinghai, organized by the General Office of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPCSC). A responsible official from the NPCSC General Office stated at the launch that this year’s theme focuses on implementing the ecological environment code and strengthening ecological protection on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, while promoting Xi Jinping’s thought on ecological civilization. The official emphasized linking publicity of Qinghai’s achievements in plateau protection and high-quality development with broader advocacy of the “lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets” concept. The launch was attended by Qinghai provincial officials from the People’s Congress, government, and relevant departments, as well as national legislators working on the front lines of ecological protection. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: In Changde, Hunan, the "2026 Grain Production (Early Specialized, Late Superior) Demonstration Zone" in Lixian's Chengtoushan Town saw its early rice mature, prompting local authorities to deploy harvesting machinery for timely collection. The accompanying image shows harvesters working the fields. No officials were quoted or reported as accompanying the event. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: An article in *People's Daily* reports on over 100 vacant housing units in Zhuming Town, Hezhang County, Guizhou, originally planned as relocation housing for poverty alleviation but later converted to public rental housing. Deputy Director Xie Yizhong of the county's Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau stated the project was stalled due to policy changes, developer funding gaps, and land certificate disputes, adding that the small 35-square-meter units are now unpopular. The county's Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau, which took over the assets, admitted it has not communicated with the town on revitalization. However, a Zhuming Town government official claimed the units were actually built as 70-square-meter two-bedroom apartments, that infrastructure is adequate, and that many locals want to rent them, but the town never received formal handover. The stalemate highlights bureaucratic fragmentation and conflicting accounts among local authorities.
Summary: The article reports on rural environment renovation in Yongshou County, Shaanxi, where villagers criticized the removal of decades-old trees (walnut, cherry, magnolia) in Mafang and Ganjing towns without adequate consultation. The trees provided shade and nostalgia, but were replaced by cement roads and squares, leaving residents with fewer places to cool off and a sense of lost rural identity. The author argues that such renovations should prioritize local needs and character rather than blindly imitating urban models.
Summary: A recent article describes how a company in China arranged for a mobile blood collection vehicle to visit its premises, enabling over 60 eligible employees to donate blood voluntarily without leaving work. The piece notes that many Party and government organs as well as large enterprises face similar scheduling difficulties. It recommends that blood centers nationwide adopt this model by establishing appointment hotlines and dedicated teams for on-site collection. The goal is to increase blood reserves by making it easier for busy workers to participate. No officials or U.S.-related content were mentioned.
Summary: The article warns that adding rain canopies to electric bicycles, while offering sun and rain protection, creates significant safety risks, including increased wind resistance, reduced stability, and obstructed rider vision. It notes that such modifications may violate China's Road Traffic Safety Law, which mandates that non-motor vehicles meet safety standards. The author calls on authorities to enforce regulations against illegal modifications and urges riders to prioritize safety over temporary comfort.
Summary: The article reports a follow-up visit to Dazu Village in Chongqing, where previous water supply issues had been exposed. Yongle Town Party Secretary Xing Ping stated that the village’s water infrastructure had been repaired, new reservoirs built, and management agreements signed with residents, with a major reservoir set to begin storage in autumn. County Water Resources Bureau Director Tang Chengwei noted that a unified water management system covering 369 villages was being implemented, along with water quality testing showing an 89.5% pass rate. Local authorities also took enforcement action against nearby pig farms for pollution. The report showcases local government responsiveness to public grievances and systemic improvements in rural water security.
Summary: The article announces a joint initiative by People's Daily's "Readers' Letters" section and the People's Net "Leader Message Board" to solicit public reports and suggestions on "safety production risks and hidden dangers." Readers are directed to submit their concerns via email, the People's Daily mobile app's "Exposure Platform," or the "Leader Message Board" mobile interface. No official statements or accompanying figures are mentioned.
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Summary: During a July 15 inspection in Shanghai, Chinese President Xi Jinping stressed the need for "bottom-line thinking" and "extreme thinking" in flood prevention, urging close monitoring of rain, floods, and typhoons, as well as thorough risk inspections. He called for robust efforts in flood control, disaster relief, and protection of people's lives and property. The article notes that various regions and departments have since mobilized, with party members and officials leading rescue and recovery operations in areas such as Chongqing, Guangxi, Liaoning, and Hubei. It frames these efforts as a demonstration of party-led collective resilience. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article argues that China is transitioning from a demographic dividend to a talent advantage, which is essential for achieving Chinese-style modernization. President Xi Jinping is quoted stating that implementing strategies such as invigorating China through science, education, and talent will provide strategic support for modernization. It highlights that China's labor force is increasingly educated, with higher education enrollment exceeding 60% and average schooling years rising, and that the talent pool, particularly in STEM fields, is driving growth in high-tech industries like EVs and robotics. The article emphasizes that leveraging this talent advantage is crucial for sustaining high-quality development and global competitiveness. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: At the 105th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, President Xi Jinping stressed that the Party must maintain "unwavering determination" in its new journey, particularly through persistence in governance. He emphasized the importance of policy continuity and long-term planning, warning against frequent changes or short-term thinking. Xi highlighted examples of ecological and poverty alleviation efforts as models of sustained commitment. He called for leaders to calculate long-term, overall benefits rather than seeking immediate personal achievements. The speech urged officials to overcome impulsive tendencies and maintain strategic focus during China’s critical period of modernization.
Summary: The article cites President Xi Jinping's emphasis on making high-quality full employment a priority for economic and social development. It analyzes how AI technology both creates new job categories and threatens low-skilled positions, while also improving job matching and labor conditions. The piece notes that AI's uneven application may exacerbate regional and demographic employment disparities. It recommends integrating employment strategies into AI initiatives, expanding lifelong learning and digital skills training, and strengthening protections for gig workers through transparent algorithmic oversight.
Summary: The article discusses enhancing China’s international communication by targeting global youth (Generation Z) through precise, segmented approaches as urged by President Xi Jinping. It emphasizes building a discourse system that resonates with youth culture, leveraging mobile, social, and visual media trends like short videos and VR. The piece advocates shifting young audiences from passive recipients to active storytellers via co-creation platforms and multilingual digital tools. It calls for systematic collaboration among media, universities, and social organizations to establish sustainable cross-cultural engagement mechanisms. No specific official appearances or references to the United States or U.S.-China relations are noted.
Summary: The 2026 World AI Conference in Shanghai (July 17-20) highlighted AI’s integration with education, featuring officials including Tsinghua President Li Luming, Shanghai Jiao Tong President Ding Kuiling, and Xuhui Education Bureau Director Zhou Gang. Li Luming emphasized universities must redefine their value as knowledge becomes easily accessible, while Ding Kuiling noted declining classroom engagement and called for new teaching models. Yao Qizhi warned that traditional research standards in disciplines like math and physics will fundamentally change within 3-5 years. Zhou Gang introduced new talent paradigms such as "OPC" (one-person company) and "FDE" (frontier deployment engineer), urging curricula to shift from knowledge memorization to problem-definition. No U.S. or bilateral relations were discussed.
Summary: The article reports on Hangzhou's integration of AI and digital technology into primary and secondary education. In a second-grade Chinese class, teacher Zhu Xiaolu used a voice-response system that converts students' spoken answers into text and categorizes them in real time. High school students use an AI tutor, "Xuejun Xiaojunshi," to correct essays and provide personalized guidance, while the city-wide platform "Science Leading Hangzhou" offers AI-powered learning assistants. Digital tools also monitor student health, including a "Sunshine Run" system for exercise tracking and emotional data collection via AI. The Hangzhou Education Bureau official stated the city will continue deepening the fusion of digital technology and AI with education to build a new smart education landscape.
Summary: The article reports on the July 17 press conference in Hong Kong for the inaugural World Chinese Literature Conference and World Chinese Literature Award, co-organized by the World Chinese Literature Foundation and the China Literature Foundation with funding from the Hong Kong SAR government’s Cultural and Creative Industries Development Office. The event aims to leverage Hong Kong’s role as a global hub for Chinese-language communities. The conference is scheduled for February 28, 2027, and will feature awards in five categories (novel, novella, short story, poetry, and prose) plus two to three Outstanding Contribution Awards. No specific officials were named as accompanying the announcement, and no mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports on the 20th anniversary concert and exhibition of the Central Digital Television Calligraphy and Painting Channel, held in Beijing under the theme "Art for the People." The event reviewed the channel's achievements in cultural heritage, public access, and international exchange over two decades. Since its 2006 launch, the channel has produced over 50,000 hours of programming, including 413 courses taught by more than 300 calligraphers and painters. It has also conducted public outreach across 20 provinces and engaged in cultural exchanges with over 20 countries and regions. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations content was mentioned.
Summary: The article reports that the Shanghai Ballet performed its original ballet "Searching for Muqam" at the Urumqi Grand Theater in Xinjiang from July 18 to 19. Troupe leader Ji Pingping stated that over three years, they made six trips to Xinjiang to integrate the local Uyghur Muqam art with ballet. This effort represents a shift from simply exporting classics to co-creating shared cultural works. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The 36th Tourism Nadam of Inner Mongolia opened in Xilingol on July 18, featuring traditional "three skills of men" competitions and over 20 new experiential activities, drawing more than 100,000 participants on the first day. The event will run through August, including music, motorcycle, and food Nadam festivals, alongside a regional intangible cultural heritage shopping month. The article notes that traditional festivals are increasingly serving as a platform for promoting ethnic integration, boosting herder and farmer incomes, and advancing cultural-tourism integration. No U.S.-China relations or references to the United States were mentioned.
Summary: A "Silk Road·Dunhuang" themed concert was held on the evening of July 18 at the Hunan Provincial Museum in Changsha, as the first performance of the museum's "Hunan Moon·Museum Garden Night" series under its "Museum Under the Stars" nighttime cultural brand. The concert featured classical pieces such as "Dunhuang," "Silk Road Camel Bells," and "Great Union of the Silk Road," whose melodies echoed the museum's ongoing "Dunhuang—Great Cultural Treasure" exhibition. The museum has extended its opening hours to 20:30 daily from July 1 to August 31 to provide new nighttime cultural consumption options for the public. No officials were reported as accompanying the event.
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Summary: Zhejiang province is refining its cadre selection mechanism by deploying professional officials to frontline economic and service roles, with a focus on matching skills to key positions. Jiang Guozheng, deputy director of the provincial market regulation bureau's economic development office, joined a team assisting foreign trade enterprises in Ningbo, analyzing issues such as intellectual property protection and cost pressures. Ma Yong, formerly at a research institute under Zhejiang's Tsinghua Yangtze Delta Region Institute, was assigned to Lishui Economic Development Zone, where he used digital twin modeling to address environmental challenges. Chen Jun, from the provincial data bureau, was sent to Tongxiang for a temporary post, with ongoing training and evaluation to ensure effective performance. The province emphasizes performance-based assessment and breaks seniority barriers to place capable cadres in key economic roles.
Summary: In Pengshui County, Chongqing, four grid workers (wanggeyuan) risked their lives by moving against the evacuation flow to alert residents of an impending landslide, with one worker, Peng Di, being struck by falling rocks. The article highlights their actions as embodying the “people first” principle, referencing Xi Jinping’s “four rathers” disaster prevention guideline from the recently published *Study Reader on Xi Jinping’s Important Discourses on Grassroots Work Methods*. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Ministry of Public Security and the National Cultural Heritage Administration held a meeting in Beijing to advance the "Cloud Owl" special operation against cultural relic crimes. They called for intensified efforts to crack down on crimes such as illegal excavation, theft, trafficking, and smuggling, while strengthening coordination between law enforcement and cultural heritage departments. Authorities emphasized the use of hotlines and information platforms to trace stolen artifacts and improve case investigation. Since the operation began on May 15, over 170 cases have been filed, more than 390 suspects arrested, and over 2,700 artifacts recovered, including 230 precious items.
Summary: Jinjiang District of Chengdu has assisted Luhuo County in Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture by establishing a "flying land" industrial park with over 400 modern vegetable greenhouses, using a model of pooled land, centralized investment, and unified management. The park grows strawberries, tomatoes, and cucumbers for both domestic and international markets, helping the high-altitude pastoral area overcome weak agricultural foundations. The report notes the park's produce is sold abroad, implying integration into global supply chains. No specific officials or their remarks are cited.
Summary: The State Administration for Market Regulation issued a notice on safety requirements for "Pindu" (拼豆) products, targeting those intended for children under 14. Products within the scope of mandatory CCC certification must obtain it, and cannot be bundled with household appliances at the factory. For Pindu products not requiring CCC certification, components and heating parts must meet relevant toy safety standards, with heating parts limited to 24V. Products marketed to those over 14 cannot use images of young children or imply suitability for children. The notice also mandates compliance responsibilities for producers, sellers, and e-commerce platforms, with local regulators to enforce penalties.
Summary: Jiamusi University announced its 80th anniversary, tracing its origins to 1947 as a military medical school during the Liberation War and later consolidating multiple institutions in 1996. The university emphasizes its role in serving national strategies and Heilongjiang’s revitalization, highlighting achievements such as a clinical medicine discipline in ESI top 1% and over 600,000 graduates. It outlined plans to build a high-level local comprehensive university by 2030 under the “Seven Jiamu” strategy, aligning with provincial development goals. The announcement did not mention any specific official figures accompanying the statement, nor did it discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article discusses the persistent problem of high bride prices and extravagant weddings in rural China, which burdens many families despite their desire to avoid social pressure. It advocates for systemic reforms such as revising village regulations, promoting collective weddings, and setting positive examples to reduce economic strain and foster respect. Grassroots participation, including public deliberations and party members leading by example, is emphasized to ensure these changes gain local acceptance. The piece underscores that transforming customs requires sustained effort and patience to cultivate a lasting civilized rural culture. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: Meihekou, a small city in Northeast China not traditionally a pine nut产区, has developed into a global processing hub handling about 70% of the world's pine nuts through entrepreneurship and government support. Mayor Liu Tieduo stated the city provides proactive, precise services to enhance industrial clustering, while Party Secretary Zhu Huan praised the local "pointing to gold" spirit and pledged continued policy backing in research, finance, and talent. The article traces the industry's evolution from manual labor to automated global trade, with 2025 output value reaching 6.2 billion yuan. No mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations appears.
Summary: The article describes how Meihekou developed a pine nut industry valued at over 6 billion yuan through hard work, policy support, and chain extension. It highlights the role of local government in providing targeted loans and streamlining bureaucratic processes to help businesses grow. The industry advanced from small workshops to global sourcing and sales, while also expanding into upstream cultivation and downstream processing. The piece concludes that industrial success depends on bold experimentation, innovation, and local adaptation rather than solely on resource endowment. No U.S.-China relations or specific official statements are discussed.
Summary: Huishan District in Wuxi has attracted 59 Chinese and foreign academicians and over 60 academician-led projects through mechanism innovation and tailored services, including a new institute co-signed by academician Zhu Di. Academician Li Hejun’s team, which broke foreign tech monopolies in carbon-based composites, established a company there in 2022 and achieved production within a year, leveraging the local aerospace supply chain. Academician Wang Lijun’s high-performance optical chip project, from the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, began production in March 2025. The district employs a “one town, one institute, one industry” model, a “拨投结合” (grant-investment combination) funding mechanism, and a “专班服务” (dedicated team service) to support commercialization. These efforts have yielded over 100 incubated tech firms and significant economic output, including 6.39 billion yuan from the quantum measurement industrial park in 2025.
Summary: A Chinese ice cream company, Xile Bingxue of Hebei, exported over 30,000 football-shaped ice pops to the U.S. ahead of the 2026 World Cup, with company deputy manager Li Jiangbo expressing excitement about the order. Local customs, led by deputy head Dong Shiwei, expedited clearance through "7×24 hour" emergency response and tailored regulatory support to help the firm navigate international standards. The article highlights how Chinese "cultural creative" frozen treats, including museum-themed popsicles, are expanding overseas with official assistance.
Summary: On July 18 evening, a cultural fair and intangible heritage carnival was held along the Baisha River in Qingdao's Chengyang district, drawing many citizens and tourists for leisure shopping. The event featured the Qingdao 2026 Intangible Heritage Carnival and the Chengyang Liuting Hu Yiyang Cultural Fair.
Summary: The article highlights Chengdu's "strengthening counties and activating districts" strategy to boost industrial development, exemplified by a local firm's breakthrough in glass-based chip packaging for high-performance computing. R&D head Xue Sen explained that the company drills micro-holes thinner than a hair into glass substrates to enable vertical chip stacking. Chengdu's Economic and Information Bureau Director Zhao Chungan stated that the city has integrated 50 specialized industrial parks, which now host 58% of the city's large-scale industrial firms, and pledged to create over 30 benchmark parks. At the Tianfu Changdao Digital Creative Park, manager Zhu Yunkai said the park will leverage its platform and policy advantages to advance the digital creative industry. To improve the business environment, Chengdu launched a "visit enterprises, solve problems, optimize environment, promote development" campaign, establishing online and offline government-enterprise communication channels covering over 7,500 key firms.
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Summary: Chinese enterprises deeply participated in the 2026 FIFA World Cup hosted by the United States, Canada, and Mexico, showcasing a shift from brand exposure to value co-creation through technologies like LED displays, AI tactical systems, and VAR display technology. The article highlights that Yiwu supplied approximately 70% of global World Cup merchandise, while Chinese electric buses and light-rail trains provided transportation services in host cities. Non-heritage Yunnan embroidery also became an officially licensed product, blending Chinese culture into the global event. Experts quoted in the report note that Chinese brands are leveraging top-tier sports events to transition from OEM to high-end original innovation, demonstrating the full-chain strength of China's manufacturing industry. The piece underscores that product quality, technical capability, and service networks are key to building lasting brand loyalty overseas.
Summary: The 2026 Chinese National Table Tennis Championships concluded with Lin Shidong and Kuai Man winning the mixed doubles title, Ma Long and Xu Xin taking the men's doubles gold, and Qin Yuxuan and Kuai Man securing the women's doubles crown. Lin and Kuai rallied from a 2-1 deficit to defeat Liaoning's Yuan Licen and Wang Yidi 3-2, repeating as mixed doubles champions. Ma Long and Xu Xin swept Huang Youzheng and Xiang Peng 3-0 for their third national men's doubles title together. Kuai Man earned two golds in the tournament, also winning women's doubles with Qin Yuxuan. Lin Shidong and Kuai Man are set to compete in this year's Asian Games alongside Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha.
Summary: The 11th Gansu Provincial Ethnic Minority Traditional Sports Games opened in Tianshui on July 19, featuring 19 delegations. Main events run from July 19 to 24, with equestrian events held earlier in Zhangye. The quadrennial games include 14 competition events and three performance categories. New events this year include ethnic horse racing, firecracker ball, wooden ball, and shuttlecock. No official statements or U.S.-related content were reported.
Summary: On July 19, the 2026 Qiantang River Crossing event was held in Hangzhou, with 3,475 swimmers covering a distance of about 1.2–1.3 kilometers. The event featured three groups: pioneer, invited swim teams, and a public crossing group that included parent-child slots. Wang Zihao won the pioneer group for men in 23 minutes and 31 seconds, while Xu Wenqian was the first female finisher in 24 minutes and 40 seconds. The event was guided by the Chinese Swimming Association and hosted by the Hangzhou Sports Bureau and Zhejiang Social Sports Guidance Center. A three-dimensional safety network using drones, rescue boats, lifeguards, and medical stations was deployed to protect participants.
Summary: Xuyi County in Jiangsu has repurposed idle rural properties into "civilization practice small courtyards" to address the "last mile" of grassroots ideological and cultural outreach. These courtyards integrate theoretical propaganda, cultural services, healthcare, and便民 services, operating on a "mass order, center dispatch, volunteer accept, mass evaluate" feedback loop. Over 20 county-level departments, including healthcare and judicial units, regularly provide services on-site, with more than 180 departmental service activities conducted this year. The initiative also cultivates local volunteer teams of over 18,000 people to foster civic virtue and self-governance. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article reports on ongoing discrimination against Japan's Ainu indigenous people, highlighting right-wing politician Hyakuta Naoki's denial of their legal status and Ishida Takahito's claim that Japan is a "single-ethnic nation." It notes that Sapporo Mayor Akimoto Katsuhiro allowed a historically distorted exhibition citing "freedom of speech," while former Deputy Prime Minister Aso Taro previously made similar remarks. The piece details systemic issues, including slow repatriation of Ainu ancestral remains—only 5% of 1,500 held by universities have been returned since 2018—and a lawsuit filed in May 2025 demanding the return of over 200 remains. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Thailand’s central bank raised its 2026 GDP growth forecast to 2.3%, following 2.8% year-on-year expansion in Q1 driven by exports, consumption, and domestic investment. Exports surged 17% in the first five months, led by electronics, computers, and automobiles. Tourism remains a key pillar, with over 16.2 million international arrivals this year, though numbers slightly declined. The government launched a 175 billion baht consumption stimulus plan, and the Board of Investment approved 65 billion baht in new projects. Prime Minister Anuthin, accompanying the Eastern Economic Corridor initiative, stated the focus has shifted from construction to attracting foreign investment.
Summary: A growing "C Style" trend among South Korea's MZ generation (millennials and Gen Z) is driving demand for Chinese consumer goods, from tea and smartwatches to home appliances and EVs. The article attributes this to high cost-performance, with Chinese brands offering competitive quality at lower prices than local or international rivals. It also highlights technological strength, citing market leader Roborock in robot vacuums and BYD's rapid sales growth in Korea. Cultural resonance through "Chinese-style sensibility" in design and cuisine (e.g., Pop Mart, Haidilao) has further solidified the phenomenon. The report concludes that this reflects a long-term shift in Chinese manufacturing toward quality, technology, and brand building.
Summary: European countries face severe wildfires due to extreme heat and drought, with France's Fontainebleau forest experiencing its worst fire since 1921, prompting evacuation of 1,000 residents and deployment of nearly 1,000 firefighters. Spain reported 13 deaths from fires in Almería, while Italy's Piedmont region warned that forest ecosystem recovery could take 50-70 years. The EU Climate Monitor and World Weather Attribution noted successive unprecedented heatwaves. The European Commission stated that climate change has lengthened fire seasons and that single countries cannot handle such disasters, leading to activation of civil protection mechanisms and pre-deployment of 777 firefighters and aircraft in high-risk areas.
Summary: Iran condemned a U.S. "terrorist attack" on its under-construction Darhowein nuclear plant, alleging American artillery struck the site. Separately, U.S. Central Command confirmed two American soldiers were killed and one missing in a Jordan attack blamed on Iranian ballistic missiles and drones. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Rudenko labeled Japan’s drone collaboration with Ukraine a hostile act, warning that such weapons and production facilities are Russian military targets. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced an "all-hands-on-deck" response to a severe wildfire season caused by extreme heat and drought.
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Summary: China Petroleum's Dushanzi Petrochemical launched its phase two ethylene project in Xinjiang on July 16, touted as the nation's first full-chain green low-carbon ethylene facility. The project features green electricity direct supply, carbon capture, electric-driven compressors, and a hydrogen-nitrogen fertilizer chain to achieve near-zero emissions. It boasts 99% domestic equipment localization, with 10 of 11 major units using Chinese proprietary technology, including the first domestically developed large-scale extruder. The plant's electrification rate is nearly double that of traditional ethylene facilities. No officials or U.S.-China relations were referenced in the report.
Summary: China's GDP grew 4.7% year-on-year in the first half of 2024, with the economy operating within a reasonable range despite a complex global environment. Four international experts—including Ding Chun (Fudan University), Hua Sheng Xia (Brazilian Vargas Foundation), Gu Qingyang (National University of Singapore), and Leith White (University of Pretoria)—analyzed China's shift toward high-quality development, highlighting resilience driven by structural advantages, new productive forces, and coordinated old-new growth drivers. The experts emphasized that China's continued high-standard opening-up and stable growth provide crucial certainty for the global economy.
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Summary: The People's Bank of China, the National Financial Regulatory Administration, and the All-China Women's Federation jointly issued a document to boost financial support for women's employment and entrepreneurship, addressing barriers like guarantee thresholds and gender bias in risk models. The article frames this within China's broader employment-first strategy, emphasizing the need to balance short-term relief with long-term skill upgrades amid structural employment challenges. It calls for integrating job creation metrics into fiscal and financial evaluations for industrial upgrades and infrastructure projects. The piece also highlights the importance of stabilizing existing jobs in SMEs while fostering new opportunities through entrepreneurship and emerging sectors. No mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations appears in the article.
Summary: The article reports on Yunnan's inclusive finance initiatives, highlighting how "backpack banks" and credit rating systems have enabled ethnic Dulong farmers to access loans for cash crops like cao guo. It describes efforts by local rural credit cooperatives to provide targeted loans for specialty industries, such as coffee and grapes, overcoming the lack of collateral. The piece quotes People's Bank of China Yunnan branch head Li Tao, emphasizing the need to build a sustainable inclusive finance system to support rural revitalization and small businesses. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article traces the historical evolution of the Chinese ethical concepts of "yi" (righteousness) and "li" (profit) from ancient dynasties through modern times, emphasizing their role in shaping economic ethics. It notes that traditional "yi-li" debates required private economic activity to submit to political and moral order, but modern China, after embracing Marxism and capitalist market principles, has reconfigured these ideas. The author argues that contemporary China rejects both excessive "li" (leading to market failure) and excessive "yi" (stifling incentives), instead promoting a balanced "yi-li both considered" approach. This synthesis provides an ethical foundation for the socialist market economy, guiding high-quality development, equitable distribution, and international mutual benefit. The piece does not mention any specific official or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article, authored by a researcher from the Ministry of Natural Resources' National Ocean Technology Center, argues that ocean energy is critical for China's multi-energy system and deep-sea development. It notes that globally, ocean energy is entering a competitive phase, with countries adopting policies like contracts-for-difference and subsidies, while China has made technical advances with megawatt-scale devices now grid-connected. Domestically, the sector is shifting from "single-point breakthroughs" to "systematic promotion," supported by a new joint guideline on scaling up ocean energy use. However, challenges remain, including high costs relative to wind and solar, reliability issues in harsh marine environments, and incomplete standards and testing services. The author urges China to accelerate from demonstration to large-scale deployment to gain an edge in the coming marine energy competition.
Summary: The article reports that the "Zhu Ri Project 2.0" team at Xidian University, led by academician Duan Baoyan and professor Li Xun, achieved the world's first "one-to-many" dynamic microwave wireless power transmission system for moving targets. Duan stated that this breakthrough overcomes key challenges in precise beam control and miniaturization, marking a critical step toward China's planned space solar power station, which could serve as "space charging stations." The team reached 20.8% DC-DC efficiency at 100 meters, successfully powering a drone in flight. The article notes that China is the only nation to have demonstrated full-chain, multi-target dynamic transmission, ahead of the United States, Japan, and other countries. The project follows a national roadmap aiming for a megawatt-class orbital test station by 2030 and a gigawatt-class station by 2050.
Summary: A Chinese steel plant worker developed a robotic labeling system for hot steel coils (350-750°C) that previously required three days of cooling before manual labeling. The team overcame heat-induced visual distortion by creating a "thermal correction model" that compensates for thermal glare, allowing the robot to accurately apply labels. After eight months of testing, the fully automated system achieved over 98% success rate at Liuzhou Steel in early 2025. It has replaced manual labor, improving efficiency and creating annual savings of over one million yuan. The worker now focuses on applying AI to steel manufacturing.
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Summary: Fu Ya wrote a "battlefield love letter" to her husband, General Chen Geng, in a new diary on March 5, 1949, before the Yangtze Crossing Campaign, expressing support and hope for victory. Chen Geng, commander of the Fourth兵团, responded with a diary entry vowing to record the historic operation. In a 1957 letter from Nanjing, Chen Geng told Fu Ya he wept at the Yuhuatai martyrs' memorial, seeing fallen comrades, and reflected on his duty to keep fighting despite fatigue. He also expressed longing for his family but stated he "could not return early," prioritizing revolutionary work. The article highlights Chen Geng's combination of iron will and tender emotions, as preserved in the exhibit at a village in Jingxing County.
Summary: The article redefines "书生气" (scholarly temperament) as a positive trait for Chinese officials, countering its common negative association with impracticality. It cites Mao Zedong's praise of youthful scholarly spirit and historical figures like Liu Qian and Chen Wangdao to illustrate the value of knowledge and integrity. The piece encourages grassroots cadres to maintain scholarly enthusiasm while applying knowledge through practical work, warning against losing this quality amid social pressures. It emphasizes the importance of blending learning with serving the people, using examples of township officials who combine book study with field experience. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article is a personal narrative from a rural Chinese woman who, after enduring family tragedies and a life of domestic labor, found purpose and dignity through joining the Beijing-based "Pigeon Village New Workers' Literature Group." She describes how reading and writing, inspired by fellow migrant worker Fan Yusu, transformed her self-perception and allowed her to overcome depression and social isolation. Her published works, including *I Work as a Housekeeper in Beijing*, have been featured in literary outlets and brought her recognition from institutions like the Chinese Writers Association. The piece emphasizes that literature, though not a source of wealth, gave her inner strength and a stable identity beyond her traditional roles. No officials or U.S.-China relations are mentioned.
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Summary: The article poetically describes the seasonal appearance of fireflies in Sichuan’s Zhongyan Temple, Tiantai Mountain, Anlong Village, and Tianjing Gully, emphasizing their brief life cycles and the pristine natural environments they depend on. It notes that historical figures like Su Shi and Lu You once visited these sites, while modern locals—such as a ranger and a paper-cutting artist—observe and preserve the fireflies’ habitats. The narrative underscores the delicate relationship between ecological health and human activity, suggesting fireflies serve as silent indicators of environmental change. No mention is made of any official statements, actions, or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article is a poem reflecting on the act of welding, using the imagery of a chipping hammer and weld seams as metaphors for life’s burdens and imperfections. It describes the process of removing slag after each layer, comparing the gesture to a mother picking sand from cotton. The poem concludes that wholeness begins with accepting imperfection, and the final weld becomes a silent mediator between heaven and earth. No officials, political figures, or U.S.-China relations are mentioned.
Summary: The article describes the seasonal harvesting and culinary preparation of "wangchao," a small octopus-like creature found in tidal flats. It details traditional cooking methods, such as tenderizing the meat by pounding, and notes evolving local preferences from chewy to quick-blanched preparations. The piece emphasizes the creature's unique flavor and cultural significance in coastal Chinese cuisine. No political figures, officials, or references to the United States or U.S.-China relations appear in the text.
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By: 本报记者 李 翔 邝西曦
On July 1, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out at the celebration of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China: “To strengthen confidence and continue the struggle, we must persistently advance full and rigorous Party governance” and “focus on improving the Party’s long-term governance capacity, maintaining the Party’s advanced nature and purity, preserving the Party’s flesh-and-blood bond with the masses, and perfecting the system for full and rigorous Party governance.”
The Party’s work style and image affect the Party’s creativity, cohesion, and combat effectiveness, and determine the success or failure of the Party’s and the country’s undertakings.
Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building clearly proposes “persisting in promoting the normalization and long-term effectiveness of work style improvement,” pointing out the effective path to preserving the Party’s flesh-and-blood bond with the masses.
“When the Party’s work style is upright, the people’s hearts are at ease, and the Party and the people can share weal and woe.” Since the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping has deeply discerned the problems existing in the Party’s work style construction, emphasized strengthening the Party’s work style construction, and rectified the 四风 (sì fēng - “four winds,” the four undesirable work styles of formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism, and extravagance) with the spirit of driving a nail, bringing a completely new look to the Party’s conduct, government conduct, and social conduct.
The Party’s work style affects the hearts of the Party and the people; when the Party’s work style is upright, the people’s hearts are united.
Zhengding, Hebei, is the place where Comrade Xi Jinping began his political career. Tracing the thought and exploring the development process from the “Six Regulations” to the “Eight Regulations” provides inspiration.
In 1983, a document titled “Several Provisions of the Zhengding County Party Committee on Improving Leadership Work Style” attracted widespread attention. This was formulated under the leadership of Comrade Xi Jinping when he served as the secretary of the Zhengding County Party Committee. It was over 1,200 characters with six articles, known as the “Six Regulations (六项规定).” The cadres took the lead in implementing them, the work style took on a completely new look, and the spirit of the entire county’s people was greatly uplifted.
From the “Six Regulations” to the great practice of full and rigorous Party governance in the new era, the courage to turn the blade inward has been 一以贯之 (yī yǐ guàn zhī - “to thread through with one consistency,” consistently adhered to).
After the 18th National Congress of the Party, in the face of various problems and malpractices within the Party, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core began by formulating and implementing the Central Eight Regulations to break the ice. This was the Party’s act of 徙木立信 (xǐ mù lì xìn - “move the log to establish trust,” to gain public trust by demonstrating credibility) in the new era.
During this year’s two sessions, when participating in the deliberation of the Jiangsu delegation, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “We must adhere to simultaneously grasping Party spirit, Party conduct, and Party discipline, and integrate rectifying conduct, enforcing discipline, and combating corruption, so as to win the people’s trust with the actual results of full and rigorous Party governance.”
The results of winning the people’s trust are reflected in the research trips with 轻车简从 (qīng chē jiǎn cóng - “light carriage and few attendants,” traveling with minimal retinue), in the meetings that 求真务实 (qiú zhēn wù shí - “seek truth and be pragmatic,” are realistic and pragmatic), and in the simple meals.
Work style construction must establish trust through actual achievements and verify effectiveness through public reputation.
During the two sessions in 2017, General Secretary Xi Jinping participated in the deliberation of the Liaoning delegation. When talking about taking action against falsification of economic data, some delegates spoke bluntly.
“Clear the numbers, expose them to the bottom, squeeze out the water. Although the numbers you present may not look very good, I think they actually look very good,” the General Secretary emphasized. “We pursue development that is solid and without water, development that can withstand the test of practice, the test of the people, and the test of history.”
Work style construction connects on one side the iron rules and hard red lines of turning the blade inward, and on the other side the people’s sense of gain, happiness, and security. Transforming the actual results of full and rigorous Party governance into tangible achievements that benefit the people is the inherent requirement of establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements.
Promoting work style construction to go deeper and more solid — the General Secretary 念兹在兹 (niàn zī zài zī - “think of this and be mindful of this,” constantly keeps it in mind): praising Comrade Jiao Yulu for “having the entire people in his heart, but not himself”; requiring leading cadres at all levels to learn from Comrade Gu Wenchang and erect a monument in the hearts of the people; in response to phenomena such as the impulse for political achievements, blind recklessness, rushing to achieve quick results, as well as “changing tracks” and “leaving traces” that easily appear after a change of term, advocating the spirit of “achievements do not necessarily have to be mine, but achievements must have me in them”…
The Party’s good work style is continuously consolidated, and one after another concrete matters of people’s livelihood are implemented. Facts have proven that only when a strict and solid work style becomes the norm will the form of political achievements shift from “visible forms” to “tangible benefits.” When the cadres’ work style is solid, the common people smile more, their hearts are at ease, and the foundation of Party-mass unity is truly strengthened.
Work style construction has no rest stop; it is always on the way.
On July 15 this year, when inspecting Shanghai, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized, “Continue to reduce burdens and empower the grassroots” and “with heart and feeling do good things, practical things, and solve difficult things for the residents.”
“Continue to reduce burdens for the grassroots, so that village cadres have more time and energy to serve the masses and promote development.” On June 24 this year, when inspecting Dezhou, Shandong, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized.
In March 2025, General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Guizhou and Yunnan. In the Zhaoxing Dong Village, the “bench forum” was unique; in Lijiang Ancient City, traveling with light carriage and few attendants, the arrival of the General Secretary stirred the streets and alleys.
At that time, a study and education campaign focusing on thoroughly implementing the spirit of the Central Eight Regulations was being carried out throughout the Party. Speaking about the far-reaching considerations of the Party Central Committee in deciding to launch this study and education campaign, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: “Over the years, the Eight Regulations have indeed promoted fundamental changes. The atmosphere has taken on a completely new look, and most of the deeply ingrained problems that were difficult to reverse in the past have disappeared. At the same time, we must see that some places have loosened up, some aspects still have blind spots and dead corners, and some unhealthy practices have rebounded and resurged. Driving a nail — drive it a few more times, 久久为功 (jiǔ jiǔ wéi gōng - “persist for a long time to achieve success”), and turn it into a custom.”
Persisting for a long time to achieve success, grasping the regular, grasping the detailed, grasping the long-term — from amending the Party Constitution to strengthening discipline enforcement and supervision, from institutional constraints to conscious discipline, work style construction continues to go deeper and more solid.
“The Party’s work style is the Party’s image, and it concerns the support or opposition of the people, and the life or death of the Party.” Our Party bears in mind that the country is the people and the people are the country, adheres to building the Party for the public and governing for the people, consciously practices the fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, and firmly stands with the people, thinks with the people, and works with the people, possessing a solid foundation that no storm can shake.
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On July 15, when inspecting Shanghai, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: “In work, we must firmly establish and practice the correct concept of performance, think what the masses think, be anxious about what the masses are anxious about, formulate and implement effective policies and measures, persist in sustained effort, handle the matters of concern to the common people one by one, and continuously improve people’s livelihood and well-being.”
Since the commencement of study and education on establishing and practicing the correct concept of performance, all regions, departments, and units have earnestly implemented the general requirements of “establishing the party for the public, seeking well-being for the people, making scientific decisions, and working in a down-to-earth manner,” focusing on solving the masses’ urgent, difficult, worried, and anxious problems, and carrying out work that benefits people’s livelihood, warms people’s hearts, and conforms to people’s will to the very hearts of the masses.
Clear bottlenecks to benefit people’s livelihood
In Shanghai, outdoor seating has become an important carrier for citizens’ daily socializing and for tourists to experience the Shanghai-style atmosphere. How should outdoor seating be arranged? How to seek the greatest common divisor between business operations, residents’ tranquility, and pedestrian passage? The Huaihai Middle Road Subdistrict (淮海中路街道) of Huangpu District in Shanghai firmly establishes and practices the correct concept of performance, strengthens governance and services with the effort of embroidery, so that the city has both “the flavor of daily life” and a sense of order.
Huaihai Middle Road Subdistrict uses flower boxes to replace hard barriers, making them safe and beautiful; implements the “three guarantees in front of the door” responsibility system to ensure the environmental hygiene of the neighborhood; innovates the “retreat half a meter” design for narrow roads, creating space for pedestrians under compliant conditions. Through the model of “government guidance + enterprise self-governance + social co-governance,” a shop alliance was established, and twenty articles of the “door responsibility system” were formulated, which not only improved problems such as noise pollution and light pollution, but also transformed merchants from “passive management” to “active service,” balancing commercial development with people’s livelihood and well-being.
Each business segment of China Rongtong Group (中国融通集团) actively integrates into local development, testing the results of study and education with actual effectiveness. Rongtong Real Estate (融通地产) takes the quality and efficiency improvement of existing old assets as an entry point, adheres to the “one building, one policy” precise approach, and focuses on eliminating safety hazards. Rongtong Medical Health (融通医疗健康) adheres to the purpose of serving the people, opens green channels for critically ill patients, refines and implements convenient and beneficial medical treatment measures, and continuously deepens targeted medical assistance. Rongtong Tourism Development (融通旅发) actively practices the green development concept, promotes energy conservation and consumption reduction, low-carbon operation, and continuously improves public satisfaction with practical measures.
Urban and rural water supply is connected to people’s livelihood on one side and development on the other. During study and education, Suizhou City (随州市), Hubei Province, focused on solving the problem of drinking water safety for the masses. Sui County (随县) of Suizhou City integrated 28 township water plants and laid 358 kilometers of township pipelines. Guangshui City (广水市) of Suizhou City implemented the “three-line connection” water diversion and transfer project, opened up the interconnection pipelines of water plants, built new standardized booster pump stations, and solved the water supply problem in highland and remote village groups. Zengdu District (曾都区) of Suizhou City included the improvement of water supply in suburban villages into key livelihood projects, extended the urban municipal pipeline network, achieved seamless connection between urban and rural pipeline networks, and greatly improved rural water supply capacity.
Qu County (渠县), Sichuan Province, promoted the study and education to go deeper and more practical, organizing party members and cadres to go down to the front line for visits. In response to issues such as the inconvenience of home-based care for the elderly, Qu County coordinated civil affairs, housing and construction, and other departments, worked together in a joint effort, implemented precise measures, and strove to solve the difficulties and bottlenecks in elderly care services. Qu County strengthened the age-friendly renovation of home-based care, from laying anti-slip floors to installing bedside handrails and bathroom handrails, to equipping health monitoring devices, striving to make the age-friendly renovation precisely suitable, practical, and safe. In terms of integrating medical care with elderly care, it continuously expanded the supply of preventive health services, optimized the process of seeking medical treatment, and helped solve the “difficulty in seeing a doctor” problem for the elderly.
Tackle hard problems to clear old accounts
Diverting water to irrigate fields and fundamentally curing drought and waterlogging was the wish of the peasant masses in Tangyuan County (汤原县), Heilongjiang Province. In the last century, the Tangyuan Water Diversion Project (引汤工程) broke ground but was twice suspended due to a shortage of funds. After decades of continuous efforts, partial irrigation of farmland was initially achieved, but the irrigation shortcomings of the northern townships could not be made up. To solve the historical legacy problem, Tangyuan County took the opportunity of carrying out study and education, with party members and cadres jointly tackling difficulties. At present, the main body of the project has been successfully completed, the 81.2-kilometer main canal is fully open, covering 8 townships and 3 state-owned farms, and the irrigation area has expanded to 402,400 mu.
Since the commencement of study and education, Baise City (百色市), Guangxi, has launched a campaign to clear up difficult and accumulated cases, targeting and precisely resolving them. Some time ago, a forestland ownership dispute that had lasted for 46 years saw a turning point for resolution. The disputed forest is located at the junction of Yandian Village (岩佃村), Lingyun County (凌云县), and Daping Village (大坪村), Leye County (乐业县), covering 310.8 mu and involving more than a hundred masses. The early forestland agreement had defects, compounded by issues of administrative division adjustments and title certificate processing, leading to a deadlock in defining ownership. In response, Baise City built a four-level case responsibility tackling system, verified and sorted out the context of the dispute, determined right and wrong on the basis of evidence; focused on the disputed points for centralized research and classified measures, put forward a plan of block-by-block confirmation of rights and balancing interests; strengthened interpretation and guidance, bringing the management and operation of the forest back on track. At present, both sides have signed a mediation agreement. “The knot in the heart is untied, and I finally feel at ease,” said a villager.
Among the more than 300,000 registered population of Anyi County (安义县), Jiangxi, 180,000 people work away from home all year round. To facilitate meals for the elderly, in 2019, each administrative village in the county set up a “home for the aged” (颐养之家). However, in some villages with small populations, due to high operating pressure, the homes for the aged were forced to close one after another.
Since the commencement of study and education, Anyi County has taken improving the operational effect of rural homes for the aged as a concentrated livelihood problem to tackle, promoting the “neighboring village joint operation” model — setting up a central site for the home for the aged, radiating to multiple surrounding meal assistance points. At present, Anyi is piloting 7 central sites for homes for the aged in two townships, covering 73% of the elderly with meal needs. Next, Anyi will promote this model, establish a pre-allocation mechanism for meal assistance subsidies, so that the homes for the aged can run better.
Establish rules and systems to promote long-term effectiveness
During study and education, in response to the long-standing livelihood problem plaguing the grassroots of “difficult handover and lack of maintenance” after the completion of engineering projects, Jianye District (建邺区), Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, carried out a net-style review of more than 90 completed but not yet handed over projects in the district, set a reverse timeline to promote handover, and simultaneously fully incorporated the completed municipal facilities in the region into the standardized management and maintenance system, improving the level of refined urban management.
In the process of governing such problems, Jianye District improved the system assessment to solve the problem of “new officials ignoring old accounts,” revised and improved the implementation measures for the comprehensive assessment of high-quality development in Jianye District, and incorporated seven negative situations such as “falsifying to create ‘digital performance’” into it. At the same time, it formulated a handover checklist for changes in the main person in charge of the leading body, clarifying the “five must-receive” contents of major projects, cadre personnel, petition risks, inspection and patrol, and audit rectification, promoting “outgoing and incoming officials jointly manage old accounts.”
Since the commencement of study and education, Changchun City, Jilin Province, has focused on urban renewal, taking the quality improvement of old residential communities, the renovation of underground pipelines, and the installation of elevators in existing residential buildings as the “examination room” for testing the effectiveness of serving the people and benefiting them, systematically planning and establishing rules and systems, and solidifying the mature experience of grassroots governance into a long-term mechanism. For example, in response to the problem of lack of long-term maintenance after the installation of elevators in old residential communities, the city issued a plan, introducing a mechanism of maintenance upfront and “one elevator, one account,” to prevent disputes over later repairs and management deficiencies from the source. In response to the problem of “emphasizing the exterior facade while neglecting underground pipelines” in some renovation projects during urban renewal, the city coordinated the forces of housing and construction, water affairs, planning and resources, street offices, etc., and promoted a renovation model integrating building repair, underground pipeline renewal, overhead cable remediation, and elevator installation. Relying on standardized and institutionalized measures to consolidate the achievements of urban renewal, continuously enhance the sense of gain, happiness, and security of residents.
In response to prominent problems such as non-standard procurement processes for school uniforms in some schools, blind spots in supervision, high bidding risks, and weak home-school coordination, Banan District (巴南区), Chongqing, has made efforts from three dimensions: institutional norms, digital empowerment, and benefit services, implementing a closed-loop management model of “four-step filing” for school uniform procurement work plans, information release, procurement contracts, and work summaries, relying on a digital platform to achieve full-process online traceability and verifiability, standardize procurement processes, reduce procurement costs, and improve service quality and efficiency. In addition, in response to the problems of “emphasizing construction investment while neglecting routine maintenance” and lack of operation and maintenance in community governance, Banan District established a differentiated long-term maintenance system. For communities with property management, the performance of property duties and community maintenance conditions are linked to credit ratings and project renewal; for the problem of no one managing old residential communities and single buildings, the community party organization takes the lead, sets up a property service center, formulates work procedures, coordinates various resources, and provides property services such as security patrols and facility repairs, achieving refined and normalized community governance.
(Reporters from this newspaper: Meng Xiangfu (孟祥夫), Meng Haiying (孟海鹰), Cao Lingjuan (曹玲娟), Yin Xiaoyu (尹晓宇), Fang Yuan (方圆), Fan Haotian (范昊天), Zhang Yunhe (张云河), Wang Xinyue (王欣悦), Zhou Huan (周欢))
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Chongqing, July 19 (Xinhua) -- Li Xi, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (中央纪委), conducted research in Chongqing from the 15th to the 17th. He emphasized that discipline inspection and supervision organs must deeply study and implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, earnestly study and comprehend the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech on July 1, more profoundly understand the decisive significance of the two establishments (两个确立 - "two establishments," referring to the establishment of Xi Jinping's core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole, and the establishment of the guiding role of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era), resolutely achieve the two upholds (两个维护 - "two upholds," upholding General Secretary Xi Jinping's core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole, and upholding the authority and centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee), comprehensively implement the deployments of the Fifth Plenary Session of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (中央纪委五次全会), 慎终如始 (shèn zhōng rú shǐ - "cautious to the end as at the beginning," to be careful from start to finish) grasp the study and education on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, continuously strengthen the standardized, law-based, and regularized construction of discipline inspection and supervision work, and strive to promote the high-quality development of discipline inspection and supervision work on the new journey.
Li Xi came to Yubei Community (渝北社区) on Guanyinqiao Street (观音桥街道) in Two Jiang New Area (两江新区), and Fangniu Village (放牛村) on Nanshan Street (南山街道) in Nan'an District (南岸区), engaging in in-depth exchanges with cadres and the masses, and listening to opinions and suggestions on rectifying conduct, enforcing discipline, and combating corruption. He pointed out that the concentrated rectification of unhealthy practices and corruption around the people is a major practical matter that brings tangible benefits to the common people and wins the hearts of our Party. It is necessary to grasp implementation with the spirit of driving nails, and promote the extension of full and rigorous governance over the Party to the grassroots. At the Changan Technology Industrial Park (长安科技产业园) of China Changan Automobile Group (中国长安汽车集团), Li Xi required discipline inspection and supervision organs to fulfill their supervisory duties, strengthen the work on Party conduct, integrity, and anti-corruption in state-owned enterprises, and better serve high-quality development. At the Nan'an District Nanbin Road Flood Control Emergency Duty Point (南岸区南滨路防洪应急值守点), Li Xi emphasized the need to closely monitor and compactly solidify disaster prevention and relief responsibilities, and with a sense of responsibility of "always being unable to rest assured," promote full efforts in flood control, drought relief, emergency rescue, and disaster relief work, effectively implement all decisions and deployments of General Secretary Xi Jinping and the Party Central Committee, and ensure the safety of people's lives and property. Li Xi also came to Southwest University of Political Science and Law (西南政法大学), emphasizing the continuous deepening of full and rigorous governance over the Party in universities, and solidly advancing the construction of the discipline of discipline inspection and supervision.
At the municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervisory Commission (市纪委监委), Li Xi learned in detail about the progress of discipline inspection and supervision work, and visited discipline inspection and supervision cadres. During the research, Li Xi presided over a symposium and emphasized that discipline inspection and supervision organs, as an important force in promoting full and rigorous governance over the Party, must walk in the front and set an example in studying and implementing Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, consciously use it to arm the mind, guide practice, and lead all work of discipline inspection and supervision, ensuring that it 落地生根 (luò dì shēng gēn - "fall to the ground and take root," to become established) throughout the system and bears rich fruit. It is necessary to firmly establish and practice a correct view of performance, continuously prevent and rectify prominent problems of deviation in the view of performance, promote the improvement of a pragmatic and effective long-term mechanism, and ensure that the study and education achieves 善始善终 (shàn shǐ shàn zhōng - "good beginning, good end," to complete something well from start to finish) and is good at doing and good at achieving. It is necessary to earnestly implement the deployments of the Fifth Plenary Session of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, focus on practicing the two upholds, resolutely and forcefully strengthen political supervision, deepen political inspection tours, and ensure that the Party Central Committee's orders are carried out and prohibitions are heeded (令行禁止, lìng xíng jìn zhǐ - "orders are carried out, prohibitions are heeded," to strictly obey commands); focus on purifying the political ecosystem, 持之以恒 (chí zhī yǐ héng - "persevere with constancy," to persist unremittingly) advance the rectification of conduct, enforcement of discipline, and combating corruption, increase the intensity of integrated advancement of the three non-corruptions (三不腐 - "three non-corruptions," referring to not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt), and resolutely eradicate the soil and conditions that breed corruption; focus on enforcing discipline and law for the people, continuously deepen the rectification of unhealthy practices and corruption around the people, so that the masses have a greater sense of gain; focus on forging an excellent team, deeply advance the three-ization (三化 - "three-ization," referring to standardization, law-based governance, and regularization) construction year action, and complete the annual goals and tasks with high quality.
Li Xi also came to the Hongyan Revolution Memorial Hall (红岩革命纪念馆) to learn and commemorate the deeds of revolutionary martyrs, and required discipline inspection and supervision cadres to inherit and carry forward the Hongyan spirit (红岩精神), forge loyalty to the Party, strengthen mission and responsibility, and continuously create new achievements worthy of the times and the people.
Yuan Jiajun (袁家军) participated in the research.
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Equipment manufacturing industry, the backbone of industry.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "We must 时不我待 (shí bù wǒ dài - 'time waits for no one') advance scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening, 只争朝夕 (zhǐ zhēng zhāo xī - 'seize the day and night') break through 'bottleneck' problems, and strive to keep key core technologies and the equipment manufacturing industry in our own hands."
Opening this year's China economic semi-annual report, the equipment manufacturing industry has performed brilliantly.
In the first half of the year, the added value of the equipment manufacturing industry above designated size increased by 9.3% year-on-year, accounting for 37.0% of all industries above designated size, an increase of 1.5 percentage points year-on-year; the added value of all eight sub-sectors of the equipment manufacturing industry achieved growth, with multiple sub-sectors maintaining relatively high growth rates.
Stepping beyond the data and turning our gaze to the fiery practice across the land of China, the feeling is more tangible.
By the Yangtze River, the world's largest pile-driving vessel, the "China Railway Construction Bridge Pile 1" (铁建大桥桩1), is poised for action. It is about to depart for Brazil, with a pile-driving capacity of 700 tons and centimeter-level precision, assisting in the construction of Latin America's largest sea-crossing cable-stayed bridge.
On the southeast coast, the world's first 20-megawatt offshore wind turbine stands against the wind, with a swept area equivalent to 10 standard football fields, allowing a single unit to meet the electricity needs of 44,000 households annually, generating more power at lower cost.
On the land of Bashu (巴蜀大地), the domestically produced G50 heavy-duty gas turbine developed by Dongfang Electric Corporation (东方电气) has secured multiple overseas orders, accelerating the pace of expanding overseas markets.
Major national heavy equipment is iterating and updating, the industry maintains a good development momentum, and the equipment manufacturing industry demonstrates its "backbone" responsibility.
Striving to forge long boards, advantageous industries continue to lead
In May, the 2026 list of the world's top 50 construction machinery manufacturers was announced, with 13 Chinese companies on the list, and XCMG Group (徐工集团) rising to third globally.
The pace of innovation by Chinese enterprises has never stopped. The "Zero-Carbon Pioneer" customized by XCMG Group for the global mining enterprise Fortescue made its debut: an all-electric loader with a working load capacity of up to 26 tons; an all-electric wheeled bulldozer with a rated power of 783 kilowatts, both setting new world records.
Wang Bangxu (王邦旭), Deputy General Manager of the XCMG Loading Machinery Oceania Operations Center, introduced, "The large-capacity, high-rate power batteries we independently developed for these two devices charge in just 35 minutes, increase work efficiency by 21%, and can still operate in high temperatures of 55 degrees Celsius."
It is not just the construction machinery industry. The three major indicators of the shipbuilding industry continue to lead the world; in the first half of the year, production and sales of new energy vehicles both exceeded 7 million units, and cumulative automobile exports reached 5.096 million units... China's advantageous areas in the equipment manufacturing industry continue to lead.
Concentrating efforts to shore up short boards, accelerating the tackling of key technologies
Machine tools (工业母机), known as the "tool for making tools," determine the level of a country's equipment manufacturing industry.
In January this year, an ultra-large seamless forged ring with a diameter of 21 meters was successfully produced in Jinan, Shandong. This "giant" is a key component for major equipment in fields such as water conservancy and hydropower, and high-end petrochemical refining. The 22,000-ton free forging press, the 22-meter ring rolling mill, and the 300-ton manipulator used to manufacture it were all independently developed by China.
A relevant person in charge from China General Technology Group (通用技术集团) introduced that the 22,000-ton free forging press, as the world's largest tonnage "steel strongman," can apply pressure to giant metal billets to complete plastic deformation; the 300-ton manipulator, like a pair of dexterous "steel giant hands," can steadily grasp and flexibly flip red-hot billets weighing hundreds of tons, cooperating tacitly with the press to gradually "carve" the metal billet into shape; the 22-meter ring rolling mill, like a precise "rolling pin," repeatedly rolls to make the metal ring wall thinner, the diameter larger, and finally form the shape.
"The powerful combination of the three machine tools gives the production line the ability for high-precision control, large-tonnage coordination, and adaptation to complex working conditions, highlighting China's independent innovation capability in heavy forging equipment," the person in charge said.
Wuhan Heavy Duty Machine Tool Group (武重集团) developed a nine-axis six-link intelligent milling and boring compound machining center, successfully solving the processing difficulties of deep-sea equipment; the high-precision gantry machining center developed by Genertec Machine Tool Company (通用技术机床公司) successfully controlled the repeated positioning accuracy to within 0.008 millimeters... Through solid innovation, China's machine tool industry has made considerable progress.
The change in the export structure of machine tools is evidence. Customs statistics show that in the first quarter, exports of high-end machine tools increased by 40% year-on-year, and Chinese machine tools are steadily advancing into the high-end market.
Going all out to cultivate new boards, seizing new fields and new tracks
Industrial robots are a new field in the equipment manufacturing industry. In 2025, China became a net exporter of industrial robots for the first time. In the first half of this year, China's industrial robot product output increased by 28.0% year-on-year, exports increased by 18.6%, and were sold to 141 countries and regions, helping the global manufacturing industry transform towards intelligence.
Behind the sales volume is a leap in strength.
Automotive body welding is known as the "ultimate examination room" for testing the high-end performance of industrial robots. Not long ago, nearly a hundred SIASUN (新松) high-load industrial robots completed batch deployment in the welding workshop of Geely's Yiwu base in Zhejiang, competing on the same stage with imported equipment.
To tackle this "hard bone" of the main automotive welding line, the SIASUN team and the Geely team deeply coordinated and jointly tackled difficulties. After nearly four years of research, they overcame more than 1,000 technical problems one by one, achieving 100% independent and controllable key core technologies.
Now, nearly a hundred SIASUN robots are neatly arrayed, with welding position errors controlled within 0.06 millimeters, synchronized in rhythm and equal in performance to imported equipment.
It is not just industrial robots. In the field of humanoid robots, innovation achievements are equally brilliant.
Honor's "Lightning" robot (荣耀“闪电”机器人) won the Beijing Yizhuang Humanoid Robot Half Marathon championship with a time of 50 minutes and 26 seconds, breaking the human record; Unitree Robotics' (宇树科技) G1 humanoid robot successfully completed the world's first laparoscopic cholecystectomy on a living animal; the Zhiyuan Expedition A3 Ultra (智元远征A3 Ultra) transformed into an "all-around butler," not only able to prepare healthy meals but also to autonomously frame and take photos for tourists...
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology predicts that this year, China's humanoid robot complete machine output is expected to exceed 100,000 units, and the humanoid robot industry is accelerating towards large-scale production and commercial implementation.
Reviewing the first half of the year, by forging long boards, shoring up short boards, and cultivating new boards, China continues to strengthen and expand the equipment manufacturing industry. Looking to the future, by promoting the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, China will continuously make breakthroughs in high-end equipment, intelligent manufacturing, and other fields, constantly consolidating the industry's role as a "ballast stone" (压舱石) for the economy.
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The report of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Collaborative Innovation Index (2026) (《京津冀协同创新指数（2026）》) shows that from 2013 to 2024, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei collaborative innovation index grew from 100 to 388.0, with an average annual growth rate of 13.1%.
Among the 199 award-winning projects of the 2025 Tianjin Science and Technology Award, more than half were completed through collaborative research by Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei scientific research teams.
In 2025, Hebei Province’s absorption of technology contract transaction value from Beijing and Tianjin reached 127.17 billion yuan, ranking first nationwide for two consecutive years.
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Xi Jinping pointed out: “As one of the three major important power sources leading the nation’s high-quality development, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region possesses a large number of first-class universities and high-end research talent, with a solid innovation foundation and strong capabilities. It is necessary to strengthen collaborative innovation and industrial coordination, and play a demonstrative and leading role in achieving high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening.”
Thoroughly implementing the important guiding principles of General Secretary Xi Jinping, the three places of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei have clenched their fingers into a fist, using scientific and technological innovation to stimulate new momentum for coordinated development, and a large number of new industries, new scenarios, and new achievements have emerged one after another.
In the height of summer, a reporter followed the “Vibrant China Research Tour” (活力中国调研行) themed interview group to travel through Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei, experiencing the surging vitality of scientific and technological innovation in the three places.
Collaborative innovation, deep integration of innovation chain and industrial chain
Developing new quality productive forces (新质生产力) cannot be separated from basic research and original innovation.
Beijing, which possesses the nation’s top scientific and educational resources, has ranked first among global research cities for many consecutive years, with R&D expenditure intensity remaining at around 6%; it is the core source of innovation in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
The “AI + lights-out laboratory” (黑灯实验室) of Beijing Daina Experimental Technology Co., Ltd. (北京戴纳实验科技股份有限公司) is committed to restructuring the underlying logic of basic research. “The company combines its independently developed vertical AI large model with advanced experimental instruments, achieving unmanned operation and full-process closed-loop control, capable of efficiently completing experimental procedures that are highly repetitive, demanding in precision, highly dangerous, or requiring special environmental conditions,” said Chi Haipeng (迟海鹏), the company’s chairman.
In the laboratory, there is a seemingly insignificant step—pipetting. When experimental personnel use a pipette to transfer liquid, the tip is extremely fine, and the liquid is prone to “stringing,” with errors often 50 to 60 times the normal value. An experimentalist with many years of experience said that relying on hand feel, he made an average of 20 mistakes before successfully completing one correct transfer.
“We replaced this kind of ‘hand feel’ with algorithms,” said Chi Haipeng. The algorithm system independently developed by Daina Technology “has never made a mistake on the third try”—after the first two trial-and-error attempts, the system enters the correct phase, and “once it gets it right once, it stays right forever.”
The SPECT/PET/CT integrated machine jointly developed by Ruishi Xinhe (Hebei) Medical Technology Co., Ltd. (瑞石心禾（河北）医疗科技有限公司), CNGC Nuctech Co., Ltd. (中核集团同方威视技术股份有限公司), and Tianjin Medical University Cancer Hospital (天津医科大学肿瘤医院) has received support from the National Major Scientific Research Instrument Project and the Nuclear Technology R&D Project. Its core components are 100% independently controllable, a single scan is expected to complete whole-body precise quantitative imaging within 10 minutes, and dynamic imaging capability supports millisecond-level 4D visualization.
Against the backdrop of the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei, collaborative innovation has moved from blueprint to reality. In 2025, the technology contract transaction value in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region reached 1.4 trillion yuan, 1.8 times that of 2020. During the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, the technology contract transaction value flowing from Beijing to Tianjin and Hebei exceeded 320 billion yuan, with an average annual growth of 23%, 1.7 times that of the “13th Five-Year Plan” period, highlighting Beijing’s innovation-driven radiation and leading role.
With the expansion of the Beijing International Science and Technology Innovation Center into the Beijing (Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei) International Science and Technology Innovation Center, the collaborative innovation pattern among the three places has accelerated, its momentum continues to rise, and the innovation chain and industrial chain are deeply integrated. The three places have jointly mapped out six key industry chain maps, including hydrogen energy and biomedicine, and the level of the advanced manufacturing clusters they have jointly built is accelerating.
At the Daina Manufacturing Factory in Baoding, Hebei, robotic arms are assembling key modules of the “lights-out laboratory,” which undertakes the product R&D and production tasks of the “lights-out laboratory.” “Our R&D headquarters is in Beijing, the production base is in Baoding, and many of our customers are in Tianjin and Hebei,” said Chi Haipeng.
Located next to the Sancha River Estuary in Tianjin, the China Coal Technology and Engineering Group Beijing Huayu Tianjin R&D Base (中国煤科北京华宇天津研发基地) was originally a waterfront plaza built in 1988. After renovation and industrial introduction, this 38-year-old building has become a central enterprise R&D platform.
Geng Yanbing (耿延兵), deputy general manager of the settled enterprise Zhongxuan Zhikong (Tianjin) Technology Co., Ltd. (中选智控（天津）科技有限公司), introduced that since establishing its R&D center in Tianjin in 2022, the company has successively brought in more than 20 master’s and doctoral degree holders as well as specialized technical talent, and many intelligent products and core technologies have been completed and applied in Tianjin.
Hollysys Group (和利时集团), located in Beijing Yizhuang, is also a typical microcosm of collaborative innovation in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. On the Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed railway line featuring 350 km/h automated driving intelligent EMUs, Hollysys provides the wireless blocking center as well as the train overspeed protection and automatic train operation systems. These key equipment form the “central nervous system” of train operations, ensuring safe and stable train travel.
From original breakthroughs in the laboratory, to process innovations on the production line, to promotion and application in the vast market, a complete innovation chain is rapidly being connected across Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei.
Building platforms, forging highlands for achievement transformation
In Tianjin, which has a profound manufacturing foundation, a profound transformation concerning the pattern of emerging industries is taking place.
“We are actually an enterprise that makes ‘helmets’ for rockets, except this kind of ‘helmet’ must be both light and strong,” said Zhang Yi (张毅), chairman of Tianjin Aisida Aerospace Technology Co., Ltd. (天津爱思达航天科技股份有限公司).
As a key component at the top of a rocket, the carbon-fiber composite fairing is one of the technically most difficult components of a rocket. Compared to traditional metal fairings, Aisida’s self-developed all-carbon-fiber honeycomb structure can reduce weight by 25% to 30%, allowing the rocket to carry more payload into space.
“We continue to tackle technical difficulties and achieve serialized, modular mass production of rocket fairing products,” said Zhang Yi. The company’s R&D is in Beijing and Tianjin, some structural parts of the rocket are manufactured in Tianjin, and supporting molds and parts come from Tangshan, Gu’an, and other places in Hebei. “The company’s products are a typical result of collaborative innovation among the three places of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei.”
In Tianjin’s Dongli District, where Aisida is located, more than 90 enterprises in the aerospace industry chain have gathered, forming a complete industrial cluster covering rocket, satellite, and drone R&D and manufacturing, inspection and testing, and aerospace application services.
“We will continue to deepen Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei industrial coordination, strengthen the support of innovation elements, smooth the channels for industry-academia-research linkage among the three places, improve the full aerospace chain layout, and solidify the collaborative model of ‘Beijing R&D, Tianjin transformation,’” said Li Quanli (李全利), deputy district mayor of Tianjin’s Dongli District.
In the chain of sci-tech achievement transformation, concept validation is very important. As one of the larger concept validation platforms in the Beijing area, Beijing Yuli Technology Co., Ltd. (北京昱栎技术有限公司) has completed 205 validation projects from universities and research institutes.
“In the ‘intelligent surgical robot + exoskeleton’ project in cooperation with Tsinghua University, our team not only assisted in optimizing the mechanical structural design but also proposed a modular solution through market research, reducing product cost by 40%,” said Li Xujin (栗旭锦), chairman of Beijing Yuli Technology Co., Ltd.
Pilot-scale testing is a critical link in the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. In May of this year, Tianjin released the “Implementation Plan for the Innovative Development of Pilot-scale Platforms in Tianjin’s Manufacturing Industry,” proposing to build more than 20 manufacturing pilot-scale platforms that are clearly positioned, open and shared, and distinctive in key industrial sectors by 2028.
“Tianjin will continue to build the Tiankai Higher Education Science and Innovation Park (天开高教科创园) with high standards, creating a source of technological innovation, an incubator for scientific research achievements, and an ecosystem for scientific innovation services. It will improve the multi-tiered financial service system encompassing venture capital, credit, insurance, and leasing, and promote the transfer of more scientific and technological achievements from the laboratory to the production line,” said Zhai Lixin (翟立新), vice mayor of Tianjin.
As one of the important carriers for deepening collaborative innovation between Beijing and Hebei, the Xiongan New Area Zhongguancun Science Park (雄安新区中关村科技园) has consistently adhered to the collaborative path of “Beijing-Xiongan R&D, regional transformation” since its inauguration in 2023. The Xiongan New Area Zhongguancun Science Park has attracted 284 science and technology enterprises and facilitated the landing and transformation of more than 1,400 scientific and technological achievements.
To promote achievement transformation, Hebei opens up application scenarios to facilitate matchmaking, adhering to the principle of “finding technologies for scenarios and finding scenarios for technologies.” Hebei actively liaises with relevant Beijing-Tianjin departments, universities and research institutes, and science and technology enterprises, allowing new technologies and new products to first undergo verification, pilot-scale amplification, and demonstration application in Hebei, making Hebei the first choice for pilot testing of Beijing-Tianjin scientific and technological achievements.
Breaking down institutional barriers, cultivating fertile soil for scientific and technological innovation
Continuously flowing innovation elements cannot be separated from institutional reform support. Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei persistently break down barriers in talent, government services, and industry, strengthening policy mutual recognition, resource sharing, platform co-building, and project co-research, promoting the free flow and complementary advantages of innovation elements, and continuously activating the momentum of regional scientific and technological innovation.
At the opening ceremony of the 2026 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference, multiple departments jointly launched 40 support policies for the Beijing (Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei) International Science and Technology Innovation Center, covering aspects such as strengthening the layout of strategic scientific and technological forces, promoting deep integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation, attracting and gathering global top talent, strengthening fiscal and financial policy linkages, and improving the scientific and technological service system.
In June of this year, Beijing released the “Beijing Implementation Plan for Accelerating AI-Empowered Scientific Research (2026–2028)” (《北京市加快推进人工智能赋能科学研究实施方案（2026—2028年）》), systematically deploying key tasks such as autonomous laboratory construction, scientific model building, and scientific data supply, striving to build a global scientific intelligence innovation hub and support the construction of the Beijing (Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei) International Science and Technology Innovation Center.
Hebei has established a regular liaison mechanism with students from Hebei Province enrolled at eight Beijing universities, including Tsinghua University and Peking University; it has promoted more than 200 science and technology cooperation projects between provincial backbone universities and Beijing-Tianjin universities; and it uses the “angel investment computing power” (天使投算力) resource pool to provide support for innovation teams.
The infusion of sci-tech financial “living water” injects momentum into the collaborative innovation of the three places. Beijing leverages the advantages of national funds such as the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Venture Capital Guidance Fund to drive social capital investment in science and technology innovation. Tianjin focuses on industrial clusters such as information and innovation technology, biomedicine, and equipment manufacturing, expanding the implementation of the “Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Industrial Chain Financial Support Plan” (京津冀产业链金融支持计划). As of the end of last year, the balance of financial support projects for Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development in Tianjin reached 775.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 11.8%, nearly double the growth since data statistics began in 2017.
Promote the smooth flow of factor resources. “Collaborative innovation hinges on ‘smooth flow,’” said Gao Jianfeng (高建锋), deputy director of the Hebei Provincial Department of Science and Technology. Hebei promotes platform co-construction, instrument sharing, and talent co-utilization, allowing innovation resources to flow freely and be efficiently allocated across Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei. This includes cooperative co-construction to achieve “strong-strong combination” with tangible project implementation; the Yanzhao Laboratory (燕赵实验室) “forming a group to debut,” empowering industrial upgrading; and resource sharing to “break down barriers,” continuously reducing innovation costs.
“From top-level design to practice in the three places, from collaborative innovation to industrial coordination, the pace of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei collaborative innovation is increasingly solid, continuously bursting with new vitality. The three places will build an even closer collaborative innovation community, continuously enhance the output and transformation capacity of major original achievements, and construct an integrated collaborative innovation ecosystem,” said Zhang Jihong (张继红), Party Secretary and Director of the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission and the Zhongguancun Administrative Committee (北京市科委、中关村管委会).
(Reporters of this newspaper: Ge Mengchao (葛孟超), Wang Haonan (王昊男), Meng Siqi (孟思奇), Wang Zhou (王洲), Pan Junqiang (潘俊强), Wang Zikai (王子凯), Jin Bo (靳博), Gong Xiangjuan (龚相娟), Li Jiading (李家鼎), Shao Yuzi (邵玉姿), Sun Yahui (孙亚慧), Zhang Tengyang (张腾扬), Zhang Jihong)
Return to TopOn July 19, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier from overseas smoothly docked at the berth of PipeChina (国家管网) Tianjin LNG Terminal.
This is the 500th LNG vessel unloaded since the PipeChina Tianjin LNG Terminal was put into operation in 2013. The steady arrival of clean energy further enriches gas storage and supply resources, providing energy security for the regional summer peak gas consumption.
Photo by Du Penghui (杜鹏辉).
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Better transform talent advantages into high-quality development advantages
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Decoding: High-quality and Balanced Development of Education
How education responds to the major test of artificial intelligence
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China's space solar power station construction takes a key step
Electricity comes from space
By: 本报记者 王昊男
In the first half of the year, China's gross domestic product grew by 4.7% year-on-year, with the increment being the largest for the same period in nearly five years.
The huge increment comes from the sustained发力 of various细分赛道的持续发力: domestic-made artificial intelligence large models continually iterate, industrial-grade 3D printing equipment runs at high speed, new kinetic energy represented by high-end manufacturing, digital economy, and modern services pulls economic growth; green electricity direct supply projects are being accelerated, releasing the "benefit the long term" (利长远) role of new-type infrastructure investment; the continuous flow of customers in shopping malls and storefronts witnesses the expansion and upgrading of service consumption and commodity consumption; "Chinese equipment" accelerates its exit from the country, demonstrating strong growth momentum in foreign trade…
Starting today, this edition launches the "Mid-Year Data Micro-Perspective" series of reports, starting from highlight data, probing from subtle aspects the endogenous driving force of China's economy's stable operation, moving toward the new and the excellent.
-- Editor
10.7%
In the first half of the year, the service industry grew steadily, with modern service industry developing positively. The added value of information transmission, software and information technology services increased by 10.7%.
At midnight, in a meeting room in Haidian District, Beijing, discussion was intense. On the whiteboard, the characters "fast" and "accurate" were heavily circled.
To overcome the technical difficulty of agent cluster (智能体集群), such arguments and work pace are not unfamiliar to Wang Huan (王欢), an algorithm researcher at Beijing Moonshot AI Technology Co., Ltd. (北京月之暗面科技有限公司), and his colleagues.
What is an agent cluster? "In the past, one agent was like a capable assistant; now, we want it to become the project leader for organizational collaboration." Wang Huan gave an analogy: a family preparing to move—some people pack books, some contact the moving truck, some check the list, and finally unified acceptance inspection. "An agent cluster is similar; the main agent judges how to break down the task, then dispatches multiple sub-agents to process in parallel," Wang Huan said.
Artificial intelligence, the "key variable" of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation. "The agent cluster is a new dimension for the scaling of models," said Yang Zhilin (杨植麟), founder of Moonshot AI. "New technology iteration and upgrading urge us to maintain a sense of urgency that 时不我待 (shí bù wǒ dài - "time does not wait for me," a sense of urgency)."
In January this year, Moonshot AI released and open-sourced the Kimi K2.5 model, introducing the agent cluster capability for the first time, significantly reducing the key steps for complex tasks. Three months later, the Kimi K2.6 model was launched, supporting 300 sub-agents to execute 4,000 collaborative steps in parallel, and even capable of autonomous operation for up to five days under an active agent framework. On July 16, the smarter new-generation model Kimi K3 came online, with a parameter scale of 2.8 trillion, currently the world's largest open-source model by parameter count.
The deeper the roots of technology are planted, the more luxuriant the branches and leaves of industry. As of mid-June this year, Moonshot AI's annual recurring revenue had already tripled that of March, with model API call revenue accounting for over 70%. Business head Huang Zhenxin (黄震昕) said: "Paid overseas users have grown fourfold, and products have entered more than 200 countries and regions."
Beijing is accelerating the construction of an AI innovation highland, deeply implementing nine major actions such as technological innovation source creation, intelligent computing autonomous ecosystem foundation strengthening, and high-quality data energy aggregation.
"We will further leverage the advantage of dense talent, improve the policy system, and lay out a batch of major projects around technological breakthroughs, common platforms, demonstration applications, etc., to accelerate the cultivation of new forms of intelligent economy." Lin Jianhua (林剑华), deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Development and Reform Commission, introduced that in the first half of this year, Beijing newly launched computing power of 22,000 PFLOPS (petaflops), with total scale reaching 82,000 PFLOPS.
In the field of artificial intelligence, innovative enterprises are growing like bamboo shoots. Positioning itself as "building a token factory (词元工厂) for the AI era," Beijing Silicon-based Flow Technology Co., Ltd. (北京硅基流动科技有限公司) has over 10 million registered users on its platform. Aiming at a general world model, Beijing Shengshu Technology Co., Ltd. (北京生数科技股份有限公司) has served more than 40 million individual users and over 10,000 enterprise customers in more than 200 countries and regions…
"In the second half of the year, we will continue to adhere to the open-source route, investing in research and development around efficient model architectures, long context, and stronger agent cluster capabilities," said Yang Zhilin. "We will provide more inclusive AI technological achievements through solid underlying technological innovation and an open mind."
Planning coordination for this issue: Qi Jiarun (祁嘉润)
Reporter’s Notes
Run fast, but more importantly run steady
Global artificial intelligence technological innovation has entered an unprecedented period of activity. From empowering content creation, to restructuring travel modes, to accelerating new drug R&D, technological upgrading and iteration advance at 一日千里 (yī rì qiān lǐ - "a thousand li in one day," rapid progress).
Not innovating is not allowed; innovating too slowly is also not allowed. The window period passes in a flash. Only by actively recognizing, adapting to, and seeking change can we seize the first opportunity in global competition.
Run fast, but more importantly run steady. Technological leadership does not equal commercial feasibility. From "burning money" to "self-hematopoiesis," this is a required question for the healthy development of the AI industry. For enterprises, they must not only focus on tackling key technologies, but also keenly perceive market rhythms. By responding to real needs, solving real problems, and exploring replicable and scalable profit models in real scenarios, technological innovation can gain lasting vitality.
Let technology take root in the fertile soil of industry, let commerce feed back R&D iteration—only then can artificial intelligence move steadily and far (行稳致远, xíng wěn zhì yuǎn - "steady walking reaches far," to make steady progress for long-term success), and run a new world on the track of high-quality development.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 赵景锋
Buzz—early in the morning, at a wind farm in Xilin Gol League, Inner Mongolia, a drone ascends to a height of 100 meters, flying close to a wind turbine blade. The camera mounted on the drone slowly rotates, capturing high-definition images from blade tip to blade root and transmitting them back to the ground in real time.
“Blade No. 2 has an anomaly!” On the ground, Sun Yu, a 27-year-old blade maintenance worker at Sinoma Science & Technology (Xilin Gol) Wind Power Blade Co., Ltd., stared intently at the screen. In the transmitted images, a fine crack appeared near the nacelle. Because the damage was minor and the location was hidden, it had not yet triggered a sensor alarm.
After determining the extent of the damage, Sun Yu and his colleagues put on safety equipment, boarded a hanging basket, ascended to over 70 meters in the air, and 小心翼翼 (xiǎo xīn yì yì - “cautious and respectful,” very carefully) approached the crack. They cleaned the damaged area, laid fiberglass cloth, injected epoxy resin, and heated for curing… The “surgery” lasted more than six hours, and the blade’s “wound” was repaired.
For nearly 200 days a year, Sun Yu conducts inspections at wind farms. Yet this young man, who is 游刃有余 (yóu rèn yǒu yú - “moving the blade with ample room,” highly skilled and handling with ease) at blade maintenance, often jokingly calls himself a “layman.”
In 2021, Sun Yu, who was studying communication engineering at Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology, accidentally saw recruitment information for a related position at a campus recruitment presentation. Before this, he had never heard of the blade maintenance position. After learning more, Sun Yu developed a strong interest in this job—
Looking at the prospects: China’s cumulative installed wind power capacity ranks first in the world. The rapid growth of wind power installations has opened up broad employment space for specialized trades such as blade maintenance.
Looking at growth: Blade maintenance requires high precision, and with the continuous introduction of new technologies and equipment, there is an urgent demand for talent with backgrounds in data communication, artificial intelligence, and other fields.
Looking at compensation: Compared with ordinary mechanical operation and maintenance, blade maintenance work offers higher income.
Sun Yu was tempted, but also encountered considerable resistance—
His parents worried about his safety: “Exposed to wind and sun, and often working at heights, it’s too dangerous.”
His teacher worried about his career prospects: “Blade maintenance doesn’t sound closely related to your major; you might as well find a job that better matches your field.”
Sun Yu, with a “give it a try” attitude, attended the interview. In response to his confusion and concerns, the interviewer addressed them one by one: “Workers must hold relevant qualifications for working at heights before they can take up the post. The company also has comprehensive and standardized safety assurance measures. Some dangerous operations can even be replaced by smart equipment. The wind power industry is developing rapidly, and there is greater demand for talent in intelligent operation and maintenance, inspection, etc., and the promotion space for related positions is also larger.”
Under the patient explanation of the interviewer, Sun Yu gradually dispelled his concerns. After comparing several options at hand, Sun Yu, who wanted to challenge himself, decided to test the waters in this new track.
Wind turbine blades are made of multiple composite materials, and the repair process is comparable to a precise “minimally invasive surgery.” Practitioners need to master knowledge and skills such as blade material properties and repair techniques. For Sun Yu, who graduated in communication engineering, these were precisely his weaknesses. After joining the company, how to quickly adapt to the job requirements became the first hurdle in front of Sun Yu.
Sun Yu participated in a three-month intensive training provided by the company for newcomers. The training was not 走马观花 (zǒu mǎ guān huā - “riding a horse to view flowers,” to do something superficially), but combined theory with practice—in the lay-up course, they had to personally lay fiberglass cloth layer by layer into the mold; in the mold-closing course, they had to be able to skillfully identify and repair various defects. After the training, experienced veteran workers provided hands-on guidance, accumulating first-hand experience in practice.
A few months later, Sun Yu’s notebook was densely filled with various parameters and mnemonics. But more important than the notebook content was the intuition and acumen gradually cultivated in practice—such as how much force to use when grinding for the best effect, how to quickly identify the number of layers of blade damage, etc. After mastering the basic skills of blade maintenance, Sun Yu also began to try applying his professional knowledge in communication engineering, using smart equipment such as sensors and ultrasonic testing to analyze and judge problems, improving work efficiency.
In recent years, with the rapid development of the wind power industry, various new technologies and equipment have 层出不穷 (céng chū bù qióng - “emerging one after another,” appearing continuously). While expanding employment space, they also place higher demands on practitioners.
Keeping up with new changes in the blade maintenance field, Sun Yu gradually mastered the operation and application of equipment such as drones and endoscopic trolleys.
After five years of work, Sun Yu was promoted to after-sales supervisor, managing a team of more than 20 people. “One must have an open mind and continuously update knowledge and skills to better adapt to changes in the industry,” Sun Yu said.
In 2025, wind farm blade maintenance worker was included in the new job categories released by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and other departments. This position, which has grown with the development of emerging industries, is attracting increasing attention from graduates. At Sinoma Science & Technology Wind Power Blade Co., Ltd., there are nearly 300 engineers specializing in wind turbine blade maintenance. Their professional backgrounds have expanded from single fields such as materials and energy to diverse fields including communication engineering, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and automation. Many universities have also responded to market demand by offering related majors such as wind power engineering technology, and increasing the proportion of applied courses such as wind turbine blade maintenance and intelligent wind turbine operation and maintenance.
This issue coordinator: Cui Bin
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Majoring in communication engineering, yet choosing to engage in wind farm blade maintenance. At first glance, this seems to lack connection, but behind it lies the new employment opportunities brought about by industry development.
In recent years, China’s wind power industry has developed rapidly. In 2025, the nation’s newly installed wind power capacity reached 120 million kilowatts, a year-on-year increase of 51%. Today, new methods and technologies such as drone inspection, smart sensing, and ultrasonic diagnosis are gradually becoming widespread, and wind power maintenance has an increasing demand for professionals in related fields such as communication engineering, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things.
At the same time, the problem of insufficient talent supply is also becoming increasingly prominent, and closing the gap requires efforts from all sides. On the school side, keep pace with the development trends of the wind power industry and cultivate composite talents who understand both wind power processes and cross-domain technologies. On the enterprise side, optimize recruitment concepts and recruit talent from different professional backgrounds. Students, for their part, can broaden their employment thinking and see the new employment opportunities brought by new quality productive forces (新质生产力).
New quality productive forces give rise to new tracks, and new tracks bring new opportunities. By unblocking the bottlenecks between talent and industry, job seekers can open up a broader blue ocean of employment, and the high-quality development of the wind power industry will also gain a steady stream of living water of talent.
(The author is the Vice Dean of the College of Electric Power at Inner Mongolia University of Technology (内蒙古工业大学电力学院); the article was compiled from an interview by this newspaper’s reporter Zhao Jingfeng (赵景锋).)
Return to TopBeijing, July 19 (Our newspaper) — (Li Xinping (李心萍), Wang Shuyan (王澍言)) A reporter learned from the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (住房城乡建设部) that: The "Good Housing (好房子) Construction Guidelines (Trial) (Draft for Comments)", which was publicly solicited for comments in March this year, after undergoing relevant revisions, has recently been publicly solicited for comments again.
The new version of the draft for comments is divided into five major parts: the connotation and implementation pathways of "Good Housing", safety and durability, comfort and health, green and low-carbon, and smart and convenient. It systematically defines the four core connotations of "Good Housing" in the new era: safety, comfort, green, and smart. It covers the entire process of housing planning, design, construction, and operation and maintenance. It clearly specifies implementation pathways such as improving standards, carefully designing, selecting optimal materials, constructing with fine workmanship, and providing long-term operation and maintenance.
It is understood that the new version focuses more on the pain points of residents' living, detailing technical requirements from dimensions such as site structural safety, indoor healthy environment, energy-saving and carbon-reduction technology, smart community and smart home, while also taking into account humanized designs such as age-friendly and child-friendly, all-age-friendly, pipe separation, and variable space, striving to solve living pain points such as leakage, poor sound insulation, odor and blockage, and high energy consumption.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王 者
In Caoliu Village (漕流村), Wenshang County (汶上县), Jining City, Shandong Province, in the fields, four plant-protection drones were parked side by side, ready to carry out aerial spraying operations.
"Up!" The drone operator Lu Dunmeng (路敦萌) moved the remote control joystick; the drone rose into the air. After hovering and positioning, he controlled the nozzle to open, and the herbicide turned into extremely fine droplets, which were evenly sprayed onto the corn leaves.
"Old Zhao, our corn is growing quite well," Lu Dunmeng said to the large grain grower Zhao Hailong (赵海龙). "In a couple of days, you place the order in advance, and we'll do the second aerial spraying."
"No problem. With agricultural machinery socialized services, my confidence in growing grain is even stronger," Zhao Hailong said.
Wenshang County's land transfer rate exceeds 80%. In recent years, the county's Agriculture and Rural Bureau took the lead in establishing the "Wen Nong Fu" (汶农服) cooperative alliance, providing socialized services for the county's farmers in the stages of plowing, planting, protection, and harvesting.
Zhao Hailong has transferred 1,200 mu of land, with two crops a year, planting wheat and corn. Talking about the new changes in the fields, he said: "From sowing to field management, I haven't really been in the fields much this year. Professionals do professional work."
How to place an order for socialized services? "If there is a need, just say it in the grid group, and the service will be delivered to the field the next day." Zhao Hailong took out his phone to show it.
The "Wen Nong Fu" cooperative alliance has aggregated more than 120 agricultural productive service organizations and related enterprises and institutions, building a three-level service network of county-level dispatch centers, township-level service stations, and village-level grid groups. As one of the organizations in the alliance, Zhuorong Agricultural Service Co., Ltd. (卓荣农业服务有限公司) is responsible for serving farmers in more than 30 villages around Nanzhan Subdistrict in Wenshang County. "Farmers 'place orders' in the group; after we receive the order, we arrange personnel to provide door-to-door service nearby," introduced Li Jinbing (李进兵), the person in charge of the company.
What does agricultural machinery socialized service include? From sowing and drip irrigation tape laying to aerial spraying for weeding and topdressing, various agricultural machinery services arrive in the fields on time.
During this year's summer planting period, Zhao Hailong "placed an order" for sowing services, and he did not worry about anything from seed selection to the sowing process. When selecting seeds, Zhuorong Company recommended varieties with good comprehensive resistance and outstanding stable yield. When sowing, Lu Dunmeng drove an air-suction seeder to the door, performing precision seeding, with more than 6,000 seeds sown per mu. While sowing, the drip irrigation tape was also laid into the ground at the same time, so that before the corn filling stage, 2 to 3 additional applications of large-element water-soluble fertilizer could be applied, and it is expected that the per-mu yield could increase by nearly 200 jin.
Can socialized services save money? Service organizations clearly mark prices and charge according to the area of the service plot: summer harvest 55 yuan per mu, sowing 20 yuan per mu, aerial spraying 5 yuan per mu...
"Accounts are not afraid of being calculated; the more you calculate, the clearer it becomes." Zhao Hailong counted on his fingers and said, "Take this aerial spraying for example. The service organization uniformly purchases large-packaged pesticides, and the cost is 30% lower than if we farmers buy them ourselves. Just this one item saves quite a bit."
"In the past, it was 'fighting alone'; now it is 'group service.'" Zhu Wenjun (朱文君), director of the Wenshang County Agriculture and Rural Bureau, introduced that during this year's "three summers" (三夏) period, the county's agricultural socialized service area reached more than 730,000 mu, and the coverage rate of agricultural machinery operation services exceeded 97%. "It not only reduces production costs but also supports grain yield increase through technologies such as precision pesticide application, precision seeding, and integrated water and fertilizer management."
After the drone work was completed, Zhao Hailong walked into the field, bent down and parted a corn plant; the leaf heart was tender green, clean and fresh. "In another two months or so, this field should be ready for harvest." He was full of anticipation.
Return to TopFrom Our Newspaper Beijing, July 19 (Reporter Wang Yunshan (王云杉)) The reporter learned from the China Electricity Council (中国电力企业联合会): During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the cumulative completed investment in power source project construction by the nation's major power enterprises reached 4.7 trillion yuan, an increase of 163.6% compared to the 13th Five-Year Plan period, with an average annual completed investment of 931.6 billion yuan. Among them, wind and solar power investment cumulatively completed 2.9 trillion yuan, with an average annual completed investment of 582.1 billion yuan, accounting for 62.5% of total power source investment, reflecting that during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, our country's energy structure green and low-carbon transformation has accelerated, and new energy has become the main direction of power source investment.
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On July 15, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized during his inspection in Shanghai: "In work, we must firmly establish and practice a correct view of political performance, think what the masses think, urgently address what the masses urgently need, formulate and implement effective policy measures, persist in making long-term efforts (久久为功, jiǔ jiǔ wéi gōng - "persist for a long time to achieve success," to make unremitting efforts), handle each and every matter of concern to the common people well, and continuously improve people's livelihood and well-being."
Since the study and education campaign to establish and practice a correct view of political performance (正确政绩观) was launched, all regions, departments, and units have earnestly implemented the general requirements of "establishing the Party for the public, benefiting the people, making scientific decisions, and working earnestly and pragmatically," focusing on solving the problems the masses are most anxious and eager to resolve, and carrying out work that benefits people's livelihood, warms people's hearts, and conforms to people's wishes to the hearts of the masses.
Unblocking Bottlenecks to Benefit People's Livelihood
In Shanghai, outdoor seating has become an important carrier for citizens' daily socializing and tourists' experience of Shanghai-style culture. How should outdoor seating be arranged? How to seek the greatest common divisor between business operations, residents' tranquility, and pedestrian traffic? Huaihai Middle Road Subdistrict (淮海中路街道) in Shanghai's Huangpu District firmly establishes and practices a correct view of political performance, strengthening governance and services with embroidery-like precision, so that the city has both a "lively atmosphere" and a sense of order.
Huaihai Middle Road Subdistrict uses flower boxes to replace hard barriers, which is both safe and aesthetically pleasing; implements the "three guarantees in front of the door" responsibility system (门前三包责任制) to ensure the environmental hygiene of the block; and innovatively adopts a "setback of half a meter" design for narrow roads to free up space for pedestrians under compliant conditions. Through the model of "government guidance + enterprise self-governance + social co-governance," a shop alliance was established, and 20 articles of "door responsibility system" (门责制) were formulated, which not only improved problems such as noise pollution and light pollution but also shifted businesses from "passive management" to "active service," balancing commercial development with people's livelihood and well-being.
Each business segment of China Rongtong Group (中国融通集团) proactively integrates into local development, testing the results of the study and education campaign with practical outcomes. Rongtong Real Estate (融通地产) takes the quality and efficiency improvement of existing aging assets as an entry point, adheres to the "one building, one policy" targeted approach, and focuses on eliminating safety hazards. Rongtong Medical Health (融通医疗健康) upholds the purpose of serving the people, opens green channels for critically ill patients, refines and implements convenient and beneficial diagnosis and treatment measures, and continuously deepens targeted medical assistance. Rongtong Tourism Development (融通旅发) actively practices the concept of green development, promotes energy conservation, consumption reduction, and low-carbon operations, and continuously improves public satisfaction with pragmatic measures.
Urban and rural water supply is linked to people's livelihood on one end and development on the other. During the study and education campaign, Suizhou City (随州市) in Hubei focused on solving the drinking water safety problem of the masses. Sui County (随县) in Suizhou integrated 28 township water plants and laid 358 kilometers of township pipelines. Guangshui City (广水市) in Suizhou implemented a "three-line connection" water diversion and transfer project, opened interconnection pipelines between water plants, and built standardized booster pump stations to solve water supply difficulties in highland and remote village groups. Zengdu District (曾都区) in Suizhou incorporated the improvement of water supply for suburban villages into key people's livelihood projects, extended urban municipal pipelines, achieved seamless connection between urban and rural pipeline networks, and greatly enhanced rural water supply capacity.
Qu County (渠县) in Sichuan promoted the study and education campaign to go deeper and more practical, organizing Party members and cadres to go down to the front line for visits. In response to problems such as the inconvenience of home-based care for the elderly, Qu County coordinated departments including civil affairs and housing and urban-rural construction, linked forces, and applied targeted policies to strive to resolve difficult and blocked points in elderly care services. Qu County strengthened the age-friendly renovation work for home-based care, from laying anti-slip floors to installing bedside handrails and bathroom handrails, to equipping health monitoring devices, striving for precise adaptation, practicality, and safety in age-friendly renovation. In terms of integrating medical care with elderly care, it continuously expanded the supply of preventive health services, optimized the process of seeking medical treatment, and helped address the "difficulty in seeing a doctor" problem for the elderly population.
Taking Real Action to Clear Old Accounts
Diverting water to irrigate fields and fundamentally curing droughts and floods are the desires of the farming masses in Tangyuan County (汤原县), Heilongjiang. In the last century, the Tang Diversion Project (引汤工程) broke ground but was suspended twice due to funding shortages. After decades of continuous efforts, some farmland irrigation was initially realized, but the irrigation shortfall in northern townships was not filled. To resolve the historical legacy issues, Tangyuan County took the study and education campaign as an opportunity, with Party members and cadres jointly tackling difficulties. At present, the main body of the project has been successfully completed, with 81.2 kilometers of main canals fully connected, covering 8 townships and 3 state-owned farms, and the irrigation area expanded to 402,400 mu.
Since the study and education campaign was launched, Baise City (百色市) in Guangxi initiated a campaign to clear up difficult old cases, targeting treatment and accurately resolving them. Some time ago, a 46-year-long dispute over mountain forest ownership saw a turning point for resolution. The disputed forest is located at the junction of Yandian Village (岩佃村) in Lingyun County (凌云县) and Daping Village (大坪村) in Leye County (乐业县), totaling 310.8 mu, involving hundreds of people. Early forest land agreements had flaws, compounded by issues of administrative division adjustments and title certificate processing, leading to a deadlock in defining ownership. In response, Baise City built a four-level case-contracting tackling system, verified and sorted out the dispute context, determined right and wrong based on evidence; focused on the disputed points through centralized research and classified measures, introduced a plan for block-by-block determination of rights and balanced interests; strengthened interpretation and guidance to get mountain forest management back on track. Currently, both sides have signed mediation agreements. "The knot in the heart is untied, and finally I feel at ease," said a villager.
Among Anyi County's (安义县) registered population of over 300,000 in Jiangxi, 180,000 work away from home year-round. To facilitate meals for the elderly, in 2019, all administrative villages in the county set up homes for the aged (颐养之家). However, in some villages with smaller populations, due to high operational pressure, the homes for the aged were forced to close one after another.
Since the study and education campaign was launched, Anyi County has taken improving the operational effectiveness of rural homes for the aged as a concentrated livelihood problem to tackle, promoting a "neighboring village joint operation" model—setting up central hub sites for homes for the aged that radiate to multiple nearby meal assistance points. Currently, Anyi County is piloting 7 central hub sites for homes for the aged in two townships, covering 73% of the elderly with meal needs. Next, Anyi will promote this model and establish a pre-allocation mechanism for meal assistance subsidies to make the homes for the aged run even better.
Establishing Rules and Systems to Promote Long-Term Effectiveness
During the study and education campaign, in response to the long-standing grassroots livelihood problem of "difficulty in handover and lack of maintenance" after the completion of engineering projects, Jianye District (建邺区) in Nanjing, Jiangsu, conducted a net-style inventory of over 90 projects in the district that had been completed but not yet handed over, reversed the timeline to push forward handover, and simultaneously brought all completed municipal facilities in the area into a standardized management and maintenance system to improve the refined level of urban management.
In the process of governing such problems, Jianye District improved the system assessment to solve the problem of "new officials ignoring old accounts," revised and improved the implementation measures for the comprehensive assessment of high-quality development in Jianye District, incorporating seven negative scenarios such as "fabricating 'digital political performance'" into it. At the same time, it formulated a handover list for changes in the principal responsible persons of leading bodies, clarifying the "five must-take-over" (五必接) contents, including major projects, cadre personnel, petition risks, inspection tours, and audit rectification, promoting "outgoing and incoming officials jointly managing old accounts."
Since the study and education campaign was launched, Changchun City in Jilin has focused on urban renewal, treating the quality improvement of old residential communities, renovation of underground pipelines, and installation of elevators in existing residential buildings as a "test hall" for verifying the effectiveness of benefiting the people, systematically planning and establishing rules and systems to consolidate mature grassroots governance experiences into long-term mechanisms. For example, in response to the lack of long-term maintenance after elevators were installed in old residential communities, the city issued a plan, introducing a mechanism of maintenance upfront and "one elevator, one account," cutting off disputes over later repairs and management absence at the source. In response to the problem in urban renewal that some renovation projects "emphasize exterior facades but neglect underground pipelines," the city coordinated housing and construction, water affairs, planning and resources, and street-level forces, promoting a renovation model integrating building repair, underground pipeline renewal, overhead cable rectification, and elevator addition. By relying on standardized and institutionalized measures to consolidate the results of urban renewal, it continuously enhances residents' sense of gain, happiness, and security.
In response to prominent problems such as non-standard procurement procedures for school uniforms in some schools, blind spots in supervision, high bidding risks, and weak home-school coordination, Banan District (巴南区) in Chongqing has made efforts from three dimensions: institutional norms, digital empowerment, and public services, implementing a closed-loop management model of "four-step filing" (四步备案) including uniform procurement work plans, information release, selection contracts, and work summaries. Relying on a digital platform, the entire process is recorded online, traceable and verifiable, standardizing procurement procedures, reducing procurement costs, and improving service quality and efficiency. In addition, in response to the problems of "emphasizing construction investment, neglecting routine maintenance" and lack of operation in community governance, Banan District established a differentiated long-term maintenance system. For communities with property management, property performance and community maintenance are linked to credit ratings and project renewal; for the problem of no one managing old residential communities and single buildings, the community Party organization takes the lead, establishes a property service center, formulates work procedures, coordinates resources from all sides, and provides property services such as security patrols and facility repairs, achieving refined and normalized community governance.
(Reporters: Meng Xiangfu (孟祥夫), Meng Haiying (孟海鹰), Cao Lingjuan (曹玲娟), Yin Xiaoyu (尹晓宇), Fang Yuan (方圆), Fan Haotian (范昊天), Zhang Yunhe (张云河), Wang Xinyue (王欣悦))
Return to TopFrom July 17 to 20, the 2026 World AI Conference and High-level Meeting on Global AI Governance was held in Shanghai. The conference issued the Chair's Statement of the 2026 World AI Conference and High-level Meeting on Global AI Governance, and released a series of outcomes including the AI Cooperation and Development Action Plan, the International Action Plan on AI Ethical Governance, and the Global Cooperation Initiative on Trust, Interconnection, and Interoperability of Intelligent Agents. Multiple international media outlets reported that global AI technology innovation has entered an unprecedented period of activity, and China is actively driving technological innovation, bridging the digital and intelligence divide, and improving global governance, injecting momentum to promote the development of global AI in a direction that is upward and good, beneficial to humanity.
“An engine driving productivity in multiple fields and improving public services”
Facing the accelerated evolution of the world’s once-in-a-century transformation, and the accelerated breakthroughs of a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, China is actively seizing and responding to the opportunities and challenges brought by AI. In 2025, the scale of China’s AI core industry exceeded 1.2 trillion yuan, with more than 6,200 enterprises. It is expected that by the end of the “15th Five-Year Plan,” the scale of China’s AI-related industries will exceed 10 trillion yuan, moving towards broader growth space.
“A striking feature of China’s scientific and technological innovation lies in the close integration of scientific exploration and industrial application.” Nigeria’s Sun reported that AI particularly exemplifies this feature. China’s AI is accelerating its integration into fields such as manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, education, agriculture, logistics, and urban management, “becoming a driving engine for enhancing productivity in multiple fields and improving public services.”
Mexico’s Daily Newspaper published an article stating that China actively promotes the accelerated shift of AI technology to large-scale application, making it a “foundational technology that empowers the real economy.” The report believes that while accelerating the development of the AI industry, China also attaches importance to global AI governance and advocates for its development in a direction that benefits human well-being.
Saudi Arabia’s Arab News published an article stating that the open-source AI models developed by China are winning favor from more and more enterprises. The transparency and sharing characteristics of open source are themselves “the best way to build trust.”
Austria’s Today expressed that in the field of AI, China is committed to systematically integrating technology into infrastructure. This reduces the marginal cost of deploying AI in various industries and paves the way for the wide application of the technology.
“Jointly promoting the development of global AI for good and inclusive benefit”
The AI Cooperation and Development Action Plan proposes eight actions including inclusive intelligent computing power, shared open-source ecosystem, joint cultivation of digital and intelligent talent, and joint building of rules and standards. China continues to propose Chinese solutions and contribute Chinese wisdom around bridging the digital divide and development divide. China encourages open source, openness, cooperation and sharing, adding intelligent strength to the common development of all countries.
Indonesia’s Jakarta Globe published an article stating that Chinese AI technology helps the local area “improve mining safety and sustainable development levels.” The article also specifically mentioned that Chinese enterprises plan to expand AI training for Indonesian students, engineers, and industry personnel, and strengthen cooperation with Indonesian universities.
Kenya’s The Standard reported that the influence of open-source AI models launched by Chinese enterprises in Africa continues to rise. The report quoted Lawrence Nderu, researcher at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, saying: “With open-source models, African teams can deploy systems locally to create solutions that meet Africa’s development needs.”
“China will strengthen ties with Global South countries to jointly promote the development of global AI for good and inclusive benefit.” Cuba’s Latin American News Agency reported that the World AI Conference, held since 2018, has become an important international platform for discussing AI technology development, innovation, and global governance. China is actively conducting extensive international cooperation in the AI field with countries around the world, so that AI achievements benefit people of all countries more widely.
Pakistan’s Independent News Service reported that China’s introduction of AI technology in education, healthcare, public services, and industrial production has provided valuable experience for Pakistan, helping Pakistan address the challenges of AI development, especially breaking bottlenecks in talent building.
Kenya’s Streamline Media website published an article stating that China deeply implements the “AI+” action, providing reference for the AI development of Global South countries. China has proposed a series of AI action plans and cooperation initiatives, encouraging African countries to share the digital dividend.
“It is both a driver of economic growth and a key area of global governance”
Currently, AI technology is accelerating its iterative evolution, profoundly changing the way humans produce and live, and reshaping the global industrial landscape. China attaches great importance to the development and governance of AI, and is willing to strengthen alignment and coordination with all parties in development strategies, governance rules, technical standards, etc., and work with all countries to build a fair and reasonable global AI governance system.
“The international community urgently needs to form broader consensus on AI governance.” Cuba’s Granma emphasized, “China actively advocates promoting innovative applications of AI on the basis of common governance rules, so that AI can better enhance human well-being and promote the progress of human civilization.”
Brazil’s TV 247 reported that the World AI Conference is one of the largest AI events globally and an important platform for discussing global AI governance. The report quoted expert views that the Chinese government has continuously improved the AI governance system in recent years, committed to promoting the establishment of a “development model of win-win cooperation among countries,” and establishing relevant norms around principles such as transparency, fairness, safety, and trustworthiness.
US NBC published a report saying that a survey released by the Pew Research Center on July 15 showed that the view that “China is a more reliable partner” is gaining recognition in many regions around the world, and China has a vision of viewing AI as a “global public good.”
“AI is both a driver of economic growth and a key area of global governance.” Pakistan’s Express Tribune reported that the 2026 World AI Conference and High-level Meeting on Global AI Governance provides an important platform for international cooperation, technological innovation, and global rule-making in the rapidly developing AI field. “China has been committed to enhancing international cooperation in the AI field, actively promoting the implementation of global AI governance initiatives, and formulating relevant action plans.”
“The measure of progress is not only the acceleration of technological development, but also the enhancement of its ability to serve humanity.” Côte d’Ivoire News Agency published an article stating that China proposes to establish the World AI Cooperation Organization, adhering to the principle of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits, upholding the people-centered principle, practicing true multilateralism, and enabling technology to better empower global development.
(Our correspondents in Beijing, Johannesburg, Mexico City, Berlin, Nairobi, Rio de Janeiro, Islamabad, Bangkok, Cairo, and Washington, July 19 — reporters Guan Haoyu, Zheng Xiang, Cheng Shijie, Liu Zhonghua, Huang Weixin, Shi Yuanhao, Zhao Yipu, Zhang Jinruo, Huang Peizhao, Jiang Jiuchen)
Return to TopChina will always be a reliable partner for all parties jointly building the Belt and Road (一带一路), working together to promote the steady and sustained progress of Belt and Road international cooperation, and making this broad road of mutual benefit, win-win cooperation, and shared prosperity ever wider and smoother.
Recently, the 2026 meeting of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation Advisory Committee (一带一路国际合作高峰论坛咨询委员会) was held in Urumqi, Xinjiang. Focusing on the theme of "how to carry out Belt and Road international cooperation more effectively and efficiently amid a volatile and intertwined international situation," the committee members conducted in-depth exchanges on topics such as seizing new opportunities, addressing new challenges, and deepening connectivity. Against the backdrop of rising global economic uncertainty, countries jointly building the Belt and Road are committed to connectivity, common development, and mutually beneficial international cooperation, injecting positive energy of solidarity, cooperation, and win-win outcomes into the world, and playing a stabilizing role in a turbulent world.
In 2013, President Xi Jinping pioneered the proposal of the Belt and Road Initiative, providing the world with a plan for common prosperity and development imbued with Eastern wisdom. At a time when the international situation is volatile and intertwined, the uniqueness and forward-looking nature of the Belt and Road Initiative have become increasingly prominent. The Advisory Committee members highly appraised the global significance and contemporary value of the Belt and Road, believing that it provides resilience and growth potential for the world economy. Over the past 13 years, the Belt and Road has evolved from a Chinese initiative into international practice and has become a widely welcomed international public good. More than three-quarters of the world's countries have joined the Belt and Road family, with over 4,000 cooperation projects launched and project investment exceeding one trillion US dollars. With tangible cooperation results, it has paved a "belt of development" that benefits the world and a "road of happiness" that benefits all parties.
With the joint efforts of all parties, the Belt and Road has entered a new phase of high-quality development. The "hard connectivity" of infrastructure is continuously improving, the "soft connectivity" of rules and standards is constantly deepening, and the "people-to-people connectivity" among the people of partner countries is growing ever closer. In the ten years since the China-Europe Railway Express (中欧班列) unified its brand, its annual number of trips has increased by 10.8 times, providing solid support for the stability and smooth flow of global supply chains. In the ten years since a Chinese enterprise took over the operation of Greece's Piraeus Port, the once-old port has transformed from "a corner of the Mediterranean" to a "global hub." The transmission line of the China-Laos 500 kV interconnection project has been fully completed; this "electricity expressway" injects abundant momentum into Laos's development. From major landmark projects to "small yet beautiful" livelihood projects, each road, bridge, port, industrial park, and equipment project drives the export of Chinese technology, standards, and equipment, more precisely aligns with the rigid development needs of various countries, and meets the people's livelihood expectations, allowing the dividends of cooperation to take root and benefit millions of households.
Faced with an ever-lengthening "list of world problems," the Belt and Road Initiative offers a new approach that starts with "development" to solve the puzzle. It not only brings development opportunities to partner countries but also contributes Chinese wisdom to global governance. When unilateralism, protectionism, and bloc-based thinking continue to impact the multilateral international order and tear apart the global cooperation landscape, the Belt and Road adheres to the principles of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits, and is committed to enhancing political mutual trust, economic integration, and people-to-people exchanges among countries, as well as promoting trade and investment liberalization and facilitation. In the first half of this year, China's imports and exports with Belt and Road partner countries reached 12.97 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 14.8%, accounting for 50.9% of total foreign trade, fully demonstrating that China's determination to open up is unwavering and its door is opening wider and wider. Mari Pangestu (冯慧兰), former Managing Director of the World Bank, praised: "China has taken the initiative to build multilateral cooperation platforms and propose solutions. Today, the Belt and Road has become a core platform for maintaining open global trade and technology transfer." In response to global challenges such as climate change, public health crises, and digital governance imbalances, China actively promotes future-oriented international cooperation under the Belt and Road in fields such as green and low-carbon development, the digital economy, and artificial intelligence, and works with all parties to build a Green Silk Road, a Health Silk Road, and a Digital Silk Road, continuously drawing new blueprints and expanding new space for global development and governance.
Looking to the future, China will always be a reliable partner for all parties jointly building the Belt and Road, working together to promote the steady and sustained progress of Belt and Road international cooperation, and making this broad road of mutual benefit, win-win cooperation, and shared prosperity ever wider and smoother.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 牛瑞飞
“In China, artificial intelligence is not stuck in conceptual demonstrations; it is concretely applied on production lines and in workshops.” Not long ago, a trip to China prompted Luigi Gambardella, president of the China-EU Digital Association (中欧数字协会), to express this heartfelt sentiment. Recently, in an interview with this newspaper’s reporter, he said that what left a deep impression on him during this trip to China was this scene: in the production workshop of an intelligent manufacturing enterprise in Shenzhen, after a worker repeatedly demonstrated the operation process three times, the mechanical arm was able to accurately replicate the assembly motions and independently complete the assembly task. A few meters away, an artificial intelligence quality inspection system was rapidly scanning, and product defects that were difficult to detect with the naked eye were immediately identified.
“These scenes are a microcosm of China’s AI development.” Gambardella said that everything happening in Chinese factories gave him an intuitive sense of the potential unleashed by the combination of artificial intelligence and manufacturing — it raises enterprise production efficiency and improves product quality. “Artificial intelligence has become an important force driving China’s economic transformation and upgrading,” he said.
Gambardella has long followed the digital economy and EU-China sci-tech cooperation, and in recent years he has paid particular attention to the development of artificial intelligence. He said that China possesses a complete manufacturing system, a huge market scale, and rich application scenarios, which provide important support for artificial intelligence technology to move from the laboratory to the industrial site. Especially in an innovative city like Shenzhen, technology enterprises and manufacturing enterprises are closely connected, and technological innovation can relatively quickly enter the stage of practical application.
“China’s development practice in artificial intelligence provides the world with an important sample of technology being transformed into industrial capability.” Gambardella said that for Europe, understanding China’s AI development requires not only following technology news and macro data, but also going into enterprises, going into factories, and going into real application scenarios. Only in this way can one more accurately understand the changes brought by artificial intelligence to China’s industries and society.
At present, artificial intelligence is reshaping the global industrial landscape. In Gambardella’s view, the future of artificial intelligence does not belong solely to any one country, one type of enterprise, or one technological route. Countries need to open up and cooperate; different industries, different markets, and different innovation systems need to strengthen exchanges. Different countries have each accumulated their own experience in the process of developing AI, and each has its own problems to solve. By strengthening dialogue and cooperation, misunderstandings can be reduced, trust can be enhanced, and artificial intelligence can be pushed to develop in a direction that is upward toward goodness and benefits humanity.
Gambardella believes that there is no shortage of a foundation for cooperation between China and Europe. European enterprises have long been deeply engaged in fields such as industrial manufacturing, automobiles, energy, healthcare, and environmental protection; China has accumulated a great deal of experience in digital technology application, manufacturing upgrading, and the development of emerging industries. The two sides’ cooperation around artificial intelligence can proceed from specific industries and real scenarios, seeking more points of convergence in aspects such as technology application, enterprise matching, and personnel exchange, so that artificial intelligence becomes a bridge connecting innovation resources, industrial capabilities, and market demand, providing solutions for addressing global challenges in fields such as energy, healthcare, and environmental protection.
Gambardella believes that both Europe and China have their respective strengths and can fully achieve complementarity of advantages through practical cooperation. The value of Europe-China artificial intelligence cooperation lies not only in technological complementarity, but also in jointly exploring how AI can better serve human development. The two sides can strengthen communication on AI governance, attaching importance to rule-building while encouraging innovation, so that the development of artificial intelligence can better serve the well-being of humanity.
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Not long ago, Japan and the Philippines announced the launch of negotiations on the delimitation of the exclusive economic zone and continental shelf between the two countries. By conducting maritime delimitation negotiations that leave out China, Japan and the Philippines have violated the principles of sovereign equality and good faith under international law, and have undoubtedly sent a highly provocative signal to China. China immediately carried out law enforcement patrols in waters east of Taiwan Island in accordance with the law; these control measures are well-founded and fully consistent with the relevant provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, and are a正当 measure to safeguard its own sovereignty and legitimate maritime rights and interests.
The maritime delimitation in waters east of Taiwan Island involves three parties: China, Japan, and the Philippines. The exclusive economic zones and continental shelves claimed by the three countries form a large area of overlap in these waters, with the vast majority of the area falling within the overlapping claims of the three parties. From the perspective of international practice, it is not uncommon for bilateral delimitation negotiations to be initiated first in areas where maritime claims overlap, but international law has always made clear a core principle: bilateral maritime delimitation must not harm the legitimate maritime rights of a third party.
According to the basic principles of international law and long-standing judicial practice, when three parties' continental shelf rights overlap, bilateral delimitation agreements must not harm the right claims and legal rights of a third country. This rule has been universally followed by the international community, and no bilateral arrangement may carve up the relevant maritime area in a manner that excludes the continental shelf rights of a third country. Some argue that Japan and the Philippines can conduct delimitation negotiations without affecting China's maritime rights claims based on Taiwan Island, as long as their boundary lines take into account China's relevant 200‑nautical‑mile claims. But it must be pointed out that the delimitation situation in waters east of Taiwan Island has special characteristics; this so‑called "technical circumvention" that bypasses China is, from a practical perspective, neither feasible nor lawful.
From the perspective of the geographical elements of delimitation, Taiwan Island is situated in a concave coastal geography. According to international judicial and arbitral practice, under special coastal geographical forms such as concavity, the mechanical application of a strict equidistance line would lead to manifest injustice. It must be based on the principle of equity to mitigate the unreasonable results brought about by special geographical conditions, and to fully protect the maritime rights corresponding to the territory located in the concave position. Japan and the Philippines bypassing China to first conduct bilateral delimitation negotiations itself violates the basic principle of equity recognized in the field of maritime delimitation.
From the perspective of the effect of rights in delimitation, although Japan's Yaeyama Islands and some islands and reefs in the northern part of the Philippines can theoretically claim a 200‑nautical‑mile exclusive economic zone and continental shelf, their actual effect in maritime delimitation has not yet been clarified. At the same time, China also has some islands and reefs close to the coast of the Philippines; the determination of the effect of these islands and reefs will directly have a critical impact on the outcome of maritime delimitation. Without the expression of China's position and factual participation, the results of delimitation negotiated unilaterally by Japan and the Philippines cannot at all ensure that China's maritime rights and interests will not be infringed.
Many practices in international maritime delimitation have set a benchmark of good practice for fully respecting and taking into account the interests of all parties and properly resolving tripartite delimitation disputes. After the International Court of Justice rendered its judgment in the North Sea Continental Shelf cases in 1969, Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands conducted multiple rounds of trilateral consultations based on the delimitation rules established by the judgment, and finally formally delimited the continental shelf boundary of the relevant maritime area in 1971. Japan and the Philippines bypassing China to carry out bilateral delimitation not only violates the principle of good faith and the obligation of international cooperation under international law, but also does not conform to the good practices already formed internationally.
What is worth vigilance is that this delimitation negotiation is by no means a simple maritime legal matter; behind it lurks a clear geopolitical calculation. Recently, Japan has been constantly and aggressively meddling in South China Sea affairs, continuously deepening its military cooperation with the Philippines, and taking the opportunity to push for its own military unbinding. In April this year, Japanese Self‑Defense Force vessels conspicuously transited the Taiwan Strait; shortly after, Japan participated for the first time as a formal member in the US‑Philippines "Balikatan" joint military exercise and launched offensive weapons outside its territory. Japan also plans to export warships and other military equipment to the Philippines; the two sides have successively signed the Reciprocal Access Agreement and the Agreement on Mutual Provision of Materiel and Services, and have reached consensus on launching negotiations on the Military Intelligence Protection Agreement, with military entanglement escalating step by step. This high‑profile announcement by Japan and the Philippines of delimitation essentially uses maritime issues to create confrontation, thereby provoking China.
International law has never had a rule that only requires one party to exercise self‑restraint while indulging the other party in wanton provocation. Maintaining regional peace and stability depends on all parties respecting each other, exercising mutual restraint, and fulfilling their obligations under international law in good faith, and absolutely not on placing their own interests above the legitimate rights and interests of other countries. Any act that wantonly provokes China's sovereignty and maritime rights and interests will eventually boomerang.
(The author is from the Wuhan University China Institute of Boundary and Ocean Studies (武汉大学中国边界与海洋研究院).)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Shanghai, July 19 (Xinhua) -- (Reporters Sun Nan (孙楠), Zhou Rui (周蕊)) The signing ceremony for the Agreement on the Establishment of the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (世界人工智能合作组织) was held in Shanghai on the 16th, with 29 countries from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe signing the agreement on site and becoming founding member states. The reporter learned from relevant parties that this marks an important phased progress in the initiative advocated by the Chinese side to promote the establishment of the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization. In the next stage, the Chinese side will work together with the founding member states of the Cooperation Organization to promote the early launch and operation of the organization. In the future, the Cooperation Organization will focus on three main areas of work.
First, it will take strengthening international cooperation on artificial intelligence capacity building as a priority, through policy exchanges, technical cooperation, personnel training, joint research, and other means, to promote the accessibility of artificial intelligence technologies and services, continuously release the intelligent dividend, and ensure that developing countries benefit equally in the new wave of intelligence.
Second, on the basis of conducting communication and dialogue, building policy consensus, and sharing best practices, it will effectively play the role of a supply-demand matching platform, promote the deep integration and complementarity of the advantageous resources of various countries, advance the "AI+" action in light of each country's national conditions, strengthen scientific, technological, and industrial cooperation, encourage the co-building of an open-source ecosystem, and create a batch of practical cooperation outcomes that are grounded and accessible.
Third, it is committed to firmly upholding the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, supporting the better role of the United Nations, implementing the Global Digital Compact (全球数字契约) and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and promoting the building of a fair and reasonable global governance system in the field of artificial intelligence.
It is understood that the agreement signed on the 16th includes specific content such as the organization's purpose, basic principles, functions, organizational structure, decision-making procedures, and membership qualifications, laying a solid political consensus and legal foundation for the formal establishment and subsequent operation of the organization. The Cooperation Organization is a platform for international exchange and cooperation; joining the Cooperation Organization does not affect the cooperation of member states with third parties, nor will it impose unnecessary constraints or restrictions on the development of artificial intelligence in various countries. Member states of the Cooperation Organization will uphold the principles of sovereign equality, mutual respect, and consultation and co-construction, and will in the future explore cooperation with international and regional organizations such as the United Nations to jointly promote the beneficial and inclusive development of artificial intelligence.
Return to TopThe China-Thailand Railway (中泰铁路) is a flagship project of the two countries' high-quality joint construction of the Belt and Road (一带一路), and it is also Thailand's first high-speed railway designed and built using Chinese standards. The picture shows the scene recently at the construction site of the Molet Bridge (莫莱特大桥) on Lot C3-1 of the China-Thailand Railway in Saraburi Province (沙拉武里府), where builders from China Railway Tenth Group (中铁十局) are seizing the favorable construction opportunity to fully ensure the project's construction progress.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 袁 泉 孙 超
In Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, tour guide Hu Jiangpeng (胡姜鹏) uses English to introduce the beauty of the landscape to foreign tourists; in Hengyang, entrepreneur Liu Zhihong (刘志宏)'s drone business has expanded from the local area to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area; in a data annotation enterprise in Changsha, Liu Zhiliang (刘志良), who has achieved re-employment, handles various annotation tasks.
Hunan takes high-quality full employment as a priority goal for economic and social development, promotes the close integration of skills training with market demand, and achieves coordinated linkage and concerted efforts among fiscal, industrial, investment, consumption, regional development and other policies with employment policies.
How can a policy precisely anchor the coordinates of employment? How can a worker achieve a career breakthrough amid the wave of industrial transformation? Reporters visited many places in Hunan and recorded vivid stories of skills training promoting employment and entrepreneurship.
How a traditional job finds a new path
Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, lush with greenery. On a winding mountain path, tour guide Hu Jiangpeng, speaking fluent English, tells several foreign tourists about the geological changes here over hundreds of millions of years.
After graduating from Changsha University with a major in English, Hu Jiangpeng has been working as a tour guide. As competition in the tourism industry has intensified, he once felt that his career development path was becoming narrower.
Personal bottlenecks reflect industry pain points. Zhangjiajie, as the "golden signboard" of Hunan's inbound tourism, has long had a low proportion of foreign-language tour guides, and guides who can accurately understand the cultural needs of foreign tourists and provide in-depth commentary services are even scarcer. The contradiction of "having scenery but no one to explain it, having guests but no one to receive them" is prominent.
The change came in 2025. Hunan issued the "Twelve Measures to Promote the Development of Inbound Tourism in Hunan," which clearly proposed strengthening the talent support for inbound tourism: supporting key tourism cities such as Changsha and Zhangjiajie to implement a system of small-language interpreters during peak seasons; supporting tourism enterprises to jointly run schools with colleges and universities, carrying out training, practice, and employment cooperation; continuously implementing the tour guide talent revitalization project, promoting the overall quality improvement of foreign-related tourism service teams, etc.
In March 2025, recommended by his company, Hu Jiangpeng went to a tour guide studio to receive inbound tourism training.
"I was shocked on the first day I went," Hu Jiangpeng recalled. The studio took trainees to do real airport pickups, teaching through each reception detail. "Foreign tourists' eating habits are very different from ours. Some are not used to eating spicy food, some are allergic to nuts. On the way from the airport to the hotel, you need to ask clearly whether the tourists have any dietary restrictions."
Compared with the conventional training of "sitting in a classroom listening to lectures," this training model of "real-scene teaching + following tours and learning" allowed Hu Jiangpeng to personally experience the transition from theory to practice. "From small things like communication methods to large things like service procedures, I have more confidence," Hu Jiangpeng said.
Starting from 2025, Hunan's inbound tourism services achieved a comprehensive upgrade, and Hu Jiangpeng's personal career also successfully transformed. "Not to mention anything else, my income has really increased by a large margin!" Hu Jiangpeng said.
How an emerging job can grow
From a drone enthusiast to founding a drone enterprise, Liu Zhihong took less than two years.
In May 2024, Liu Zhihong, who liked operating drones, signed up for a public welfare drone pilot skills training class held by Zhurong College (祝融学院) in Hengyang City.
"The drones in the training class were not trivial toys, but real machines that could go into forests and construction sites," Liu Zhihong said. The curriculum closely followed the needs of the low-altitude economy industry, covering civil aviation regulations, practical operation of large industrial drones, power line inspection, agricultural and forestry plant protection, heavy-load building material lifting, etc., adopting a model of real-machine training plus pre-exam tutoring.
During the training, Liu Zhihong picked up skills quickly. The instructor, combining industry development trends, suggested he further obtain a civil aviation drone license. In October 2024, he went to Guangdong to take the exam, successfully obtained the license, and gained the qualification to operate heavy-load industrial drones.
In November 2025, Liu Zhihong registered and established Zhiyan Hangfei Drone Technology Co., Ltd. (智雁航飞无人机技术有限公司), targeting three major businesses—power line inspection, agricultural and forestry plant protection, and aerial lifting of industrial and commercial building materials. "Transporting large infrastructure materials in mountainous areas has always been a big problem. Some places have no roads, vehicles cannot enter, but drones can fly directly over," he said.
Currently, Liu Zhihong's company is operating well, and has also set up a permanent operation point in Guangzhou, Guangdong, expanding its business to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
As the first province in the country to expand the pilot of comprehensive low-altitude airspace management reform, in 2025, relevant departments in Hunan issued the "Hunan Province Low-Altitude Economy Development 2025 Work Priorities." In response to this plan, Hunan's human resources and social security departments proactively tracked the labor gaps of major projects and key enterprises. According to statistics, relevant departments cumulatively published over 1,200 low-altitude industry-related positions on the "Xiang Employment" platform (湘就业), and guided cities and prefectures such as Changsha and Zhuzhou to conduct drone operator training for more than 4,000 person-times.
Facing the ever-expanding business map, Liu Zhihong also realized that his team's ability to expand customer sources online was weak. With the support of the human resources and social security department, he returned to Zhurong College again to study, participated in live-streaming entrepreneurship training, and worked hard to make up for the shortcomings in new media operations.
How to transition steadily in the face of new technology
In a data annotation company in Changsha, 30-year-old Liu Zhiliang is staring at a computer screen, precisely annotating various images and data.
Liu Zhiliang was once a front-end programmer. Two years ago, he was experiencing dual pressure from work and health. Prolonged sitting and high-pressure work caused Liu Zhiliang's lumbar disc herniation to worsen, and he had to undergo surgical treatment. At the same time, his previous company introduced artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted programming. "Many people became code reviewers, and the salary and benefits of some positions also declined," Liu Zhiliang said.
In April 2025, Liu Zhiliang participated in a free AI trainer training class held by the Human Resources and Social Security Bureau of Furong District (芙蓉区), Changsha. Over 10 days, from the basic architecture of AI large models to data annotation, the teacher explained various knowledge points in a simple and profound way, 深入浅出 (shēn rù qiǎn chū - "deep in, shallow out," explaining profound things in simple terms). "Through the training, I gained a basic understanding of the overall framework of the AI field, and also learned about the complete chain of the related industry chain." After the training, Liu Zhiliang obtained an AI trainer certificate.
Now, Liu Zhiliang has transitioned into a data annotation engineer. "I go to and from work on time every day, and work and life are more balanced," Liu Zhiliang said. More importantly, he has a long-term career plan. "Hunan's manufacturing industry has a great demand for artificial intelligence. Aiming at the 'AI+' action (人工智能+), I am also self-studying new knowledge."
New technologies bring new jobs, but may also impact old jobs. How to make the transition steady?
Put assessment first. Starting in 2024, Hunan implemented employment policy consistency evaluation work. At the end of 2024, a large logistics enterprise planned to promote an unmanned vehicle trial operation project in Hunan. The human resources and social security department, in response to the possible short-term impact of "machines replacing people" (机器换人) on logistics workers, proposed the suggestion of steady advancement in "small scope, multiple batches." As of now, the three levels of province, city, and county in Hunan have received over 1,000 applications for employment policy consistency evaluation, promoting the issuance of more than 700 documents with obvious effects in promoting employment.
Put training into practice. Since the beginning of this year, Hunan has deeply promoted the "Skills Revitalize Sanxiang, One Person One Skill" vocational training plan (技兴三湘 一人一技), and innovatively launched the "four orders" training model (四单) of youth groups placing orders, human resources and social security departments dispatching orders, training institutions receiving orders, and enterprise job positions ordering. As of the end of June, the total number of subsidized training person-times and enterprise training person-times across industries reached 710,800, completing 71% of the annual "big training" task (大培训). These trainings closely follow industrial needs, helping workers find new "anchors" in the wave of technology.
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In Shimen County, Changde, Hunan, a successful case of bridge collapse avoidance was commended by the Ministry of Emergency Management (应急管理部): grassroots cadres conducted two midnight inspections, keenly detected signs such as loosening of the bridge foundation and subsidence of the roadbed, decisively closed the bridge, stopped more than 100 vehicles, and there were no casualties.
Upon seeing this commendation, a sentence came to mind: “There is no such thing as a peaceful and quiet life; it is just that someone is carrying the heavy burdens for you.”
Safeguarding the peace of a locality carries the weight of duty; promoting the development of a locality carries the weight of tackling tough problems; serving the people of a locality carries the weight of people’s livelihood. Whenever one undertakes a task and starts a career, there must be heavy burdens on the shoulders. Whether it is bearing a heavy burden or becoming a heavy load, the difference of a single thought separates solid work from empty gestures, and fulfilling duty from going through the motions.
Knowing the weight and bearing the weight (知重负重) will stimulate a strong sense of responsibility; enduring hardship and toil is then a matter of duty, not a burden.
Today, the river-chief system and lake-chief system (河长制、湖长制) ensure that every river and every lake has someone to manage and protect; the lifelong responsibility system for the red line of arable land (耕地红线终身责任制) and the “rice bag” and “vegetable basket” responsibility systems (米袋子、菜篮子责任制) give ordinary people the sense of security of “holding their rice bowl firmly” and the sense of gain of “vegetable freedom.” This is precisely because the vast numbers of Party members and leading cadres fulfill their duties and responsibilities, do not shift blame, do not slack off, and do not go through the motions, turning institutional strength into governance effectiveness.
Reviewing some safety accidents — it is not that systems were lacking or that there were no warning signs, but that some people harbored侥幸 (jiǎoxìng - "trust to luck," wishful thinking that things will go well) and were derelict in their duties, causing systems to spin their wheels and responsibilities to be lost. One lesson after another serves as a profound warning: only by maintaining a sense of responsibility that is “always unable to rest assured” (时时放心不下) can we always hold and secure the bottom line.
“When evaluating a leading cadre, a very important criterion is whether he has a sense of responsibility and whether he has a spirit of taking responsibility.” On the same post and with the same tasks, whether one has a sense of responsibility determines the difference in work attitude and spirit, the difference in demands on oneself, and, still more, the difference in results.
Knowing the weight and bearing the weight will give rise to a sense of mission to dare to gnaw on hard bones and courageously scale the heights. Contradictions and difficulties then become topics to be tackled rather than “hot potatoes.”
Grassroots contradictions are complex and trivial. Ma Shanxiang (马善祥), a retired cadre from the Guanyinqiao Subdistrict Office in Chongqing, has been enthusiastically mediating disputes for more than 30 years. The “Old Ma Work Method” (老马工作法) has become a model for mediators nationwide. “Bottleneck” technologies constrain development. Zhong Jue (钟掘), an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, from the First Five-Year Plan to the 15th Five-Year Plan, has continuously attacked fortresses and taken strongholds on the scientific research front line, pushing China’s aluminum processing technology to the forefront of the world. One work method manifests the initiative to break new ground in work; one timeline bears witness to the faith of constant self-renewal and serving the country through science. What drives them is no longer some assessment indicator, but passion and mission.
On the new journey, the sticking points of high-quality development, the blockage points in the deep-water zone of reform, and the difficulty points in grassroots governance are all tests that cannot be dodged or bypassed. Only by bearing the heavy burden and moving forward can one break through the situation and accomplish things; fearing difficulties and shirking responsibility will only lead to standing still.
Knowing the weight and bearing the weight will give rise to an urgent sense that one cannot afford to wait, cannot afford to be slow, and cannot afford to sit still, and it will spontaneously prompt one to enhance one’s ability to bear the weight.
“To successfully complete the goals and tasks of the 15th Five-Year Plan period, it is imperative to strive to improve the Party’s ability and level in leading economic and social development.” At present, the “unfamiliar domains” and “new things” that Party members and leading cadres encounter emerge one after another. If one lacks sufficient knowledge, has a narrow horizon, or is weak in capability, and is at a loss when facing a complex situation, how can one seize opportunities and break new ground?
The Party’s innovative theories contain nourishment and methods; study them often and they are ever new, use them and they become ever more effective. How can development shortcomings be turned into springboards? How can one leverage differentiated advantages according to local conditions? How can one find solutions that satisfy both sides in dilemma problems? Without putting effort into study and practice, it is impossible to get the thinking method right, nor is it possible to see problems from a high vantage point, analyze problems deeply, or carry out work accurately.
The greater the weight one can bear, the greater the achievement one can create. The new journey is a new examination paper for taking responsibility and fulfilling duty, and it is also a great stage for making contributions and building achievements.
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Equipment manufacturing industry, the backbone of industry.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "We must seize the moment to advance scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening, race against time to break through 'bottleneck' (卡脖子) problems, and strive to keep key core technologies and the equipment manufacturing industry in our own hands."
Opening this year's semi-annual report on China's economy, the equipment manufacturing industry performed remarkably.
In the first half of the year, the added value of equipment manufacturing above designated size increased by 9.3% year-on-year, accounting for 37.0% of all industrial enterprises above designated size, up 1.5 percentage points year-on-year; the added value of all eight sub-sectors of equipment manufacturing achieved growth, with multiple sub-sectors maintaining relatively high growth rates.
Stepping beyond the data and turning our gaze to the fiery practice across the land of China, the feeling becomes more tangible.
By the Yangtze River, the world's largest pile-driving vessel, "China Railway Construction Bridge Pile 1" (铁建大桥桩1), is poised for action. It is about to head to Brazil, with a pile-driving capacity of 700 tons and centimeter-level precision, to assist in the construction of Latin America's largest sea-crossing cable-stayed bridge.
On the southeastern coast, the world's first 20-megawatt offshore wind turbine stands tall against the wind. With a swept area equivalent to 10 standard football fields, a single unit can meet the electricity needs of 44,000 households annually, generating more power at lower cost.
On the land of Bashu, the domestically produced G50 heavy-duty gas turbine (G50重型燃气轮机) developed by Dongfang Electric (东方电气) has secured multiple overseas orders, accelerating the pace of expanding into international markets.
Major national heavy equipment is iterating and updating, the industry maintains a good development momentum, and the equipment manufacturing industry demonstrates its "backbone" responsibility.
Striving to strengthen long boards, advantageous industries continue to lead
In May, the 2026 list of the world's top 50 construction machinery manufacturers was unveiled. A total of 13 Chinese companies made the list, with XCMG Group rising to third globally.
The pace of innovation by Chinese enterprises has never stopped. XCMG Group's "Zero-Carbon Pioneer" customized for the global mining enterprise Fortescue (福德士河) made its debut: an electric wheel loader with a working load capacity of up to 26 tons; an electric wheeled bulldozer with a rated power of 783 kilowatts, both setting new world records.
Wang Bangxu, Deputy General Manager of XCMG Loading Machinery Oceania Operations Center, introduced: "The large-capacity, high-rate power batteries we independently developed for these two devices charge in just 35 minutes, increase work efficiency by 21%, and can still operate in high temperatures of 55 degrees Celsius."
It is not just the construction machinery industry. The three major indicators of the shipbuilding industry continue to lead globally; in the first half of the year, production and sales of new energy vehicles both exceeded 7 million units, and cumulative automobile exports reached 5.096 million units... China's advantageous areas in the equipment manufacturing industry continue to lead.
Concentrating efforts to shore up short boards, accelerating the tackling of key technologies
Machine tools, known as the "tools for making tools," determine the level of a country's equipment manufacturing industry.
In January this year, an ultra-large seamless forged ring with a diameter of 21 meters was successfully produced in Jinan, Shandong. This "giant" is a key component for major equipment in fields such as water conservancy and hydropower, and high-end petrochemical refining. The 22,000-ton free forging press, the 22-meter ring rolling mill, and the 300-ton manipulator used to manufacture it were all independently developed by China.
A relevant person in charge from Genertec (通用技术集团) introduced that the 22,000-ton free forging press, as the world's largest tonnage "steel strongman," can apply pressure to giant metal billets to complete plastic deformation; the 300-ton manipulator, like a pair of dexterous "steel giant hands," can steadily grasp and flexibly flip red-hot billets weighing hundreds of tons, cooperating seamlessly with the press to gradually "carve" the metal billet into shape; the 22-meter ring rolling mill, like a precise "rolling pin," repeatedly rolls to make the metal ring wall thinner, the diameter larger, and finally form the shape.
"The strong combination of the three machine tools gives the production line the ability to achieve high-precision control, large-tonnage coordination, and adaptability to complex working conditions, highlighting China's independent innovation capability in heavy forging equipment," the person in charge said.
Wuhan Heavy Duty Machine Tool Group (武重集团) developed a nine-axis six-link intelligent milling and boring composite machining center, successfully solving the processing difficulties of deep-sea equipment; the high-precision gantry machining center developed by Genertec Machine Tool Company successfully controlled the repeated positioning accuracy within 0.008 millimeters... Through solid innovation, China's machine tool industry has made significant progress.
The change in the export structure of machine tools is evidence. Customs statistics show that in the first quarter, exports of high-end machine tools increased by 40% year-on-year, and Chinese machine tools are steadily advancing into the high-end market.
Going all out to cultivate new boards, seizing new fields and new tracks
Industrial robots, a new field in equipment manufacturing. In 2025, China became a net exporter of industrial robots for the first time. In the first half of this year, China's industrial robot product output increased by 28.0% year-on-year, exports increased by 18.6%, and were sold to 141 countries and regions, helping the global manufacturing industry transform towards intelligence.
Behind the sales volume is a leap in strength.
Automotive body welding is known as the "ultimate examination room" for testing the high-end performance of industrial robots. Not long ago, nearly a hundred SIASUN (新松) large-load industrial robots completed batch deployment in the welding workshop of Geely's Yiwu base in Zhejiang (浙江义乌), competing on the same stage with imported equipment.
To tackle this "hard bone" of the main automotive welding line, the SIASUN team and the Geely team deeply coordinated and jointly tackled difficulties. After nearly four years of research, they overcame more than 1,000 technical problems one by one, achieving 100% independent controllability of key core technologies.
Now, nearly a hundred SIASUN robots are neatly arrayed, with welding position error controlled within 0.06 millimeters, synchronized in rhythm and equal in performance to imported equipment.
It is not just industrial robots. In the field of humanoid robots, innovation achievements are equally brilliant.
The Honor "Lightning" robot won the Beijing Yizhuang (北京亦庄) humanoid robot half-marathon championship with a time of 50 minutes and 26 seconds, breaking the human record; Unitree (宇树科技) G1 humanoid robot successfully completed the world's first laparoscopic cholecystectomy on a living animal; Zhiyuan Expedition A3 Ultra (智元远征A3 Ultra) transformed into an "all-around butler," not only able to prepare healthy meals but also to autonomously frame and take photos for tourists...
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology predicts that this year, China's humanoid robot complete machine output is expected to exceed 100,000 units, and the humanoid robot industry is accelerating towards large-scale production and commercial implementation.
Looking back at the first half of the year, by strengthening long boards, shoring up short boards, and cultivating new boards, China continues to expand and strengthen the equipment manufacturing industry. Looking ahead, by promoting the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, China will continue to make breakthroughs in high-end equipment, intelligent manufacturing, and other fields, continuously consolidating the industry's role as a "ballast stone" for the economy.
Return to TopBeijing, July 19 (Reporter Qu Zhehan) — The National Standardization Administration recently officially released the Asset Management — Data Asset Classification and Codes and the Asset Management — Data Asset Registration Guide. The two standards were drafted by the Ministry of Finance and provide operational guidance for embedding data assets into the informatization process of asset management and for carrying out data asset management in a standardized and orderly manner, which is conducive to unleashing the potential of data assets and promoting the high-quality development of the digital economy.
The Asset Management — Data Asset Classification and Codes follows the classification and coding principles of the Basic Classification and Codes for Fixed Assets and Other Assets, focuses on the basic attributes of data elements, and divides data assets into three categories: structured data, semi-structured data, and unstructured data, as well as 16 specific subcategories. It is further subdivided by major, medium, and minor categories, balancing granularity of classification with practicality.
The Asset Management — Data Asset Registration Guide establishes the general principles for data asset registration, clarifies the implementing parties, registration content, registration procedures, and requirements for data asset registration. It focuses on the three stages of initial, change, and cancellation registration of data assets, proposes specific requirements for asset ledger registration and accounting book registration, and forms a data asset registration management system with clear job responsibilities and standardized procedures.
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The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Collaborative Innovation Index (京津冀协同创新指数) (2026) report shows that from 2013 to 2024, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei collaborative innovation index grew from 100 to 388.0, with an average annual growth rate of 13.1%;
Among the 199 award-winning projects of the 2025 Tianjin Municipal Science and Technology Award (天津市科学技术奖), more than half were completed through collaborative research by Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei scientific research teams;
In 2025, Hebei Province’s absorption of technology contract transaction value from Beijing and Tianjin reached 127.17 billion yuan, ranking first in the country for two consecutive years;
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General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “As one of the three major power sources leading the nation’s high-quality development, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region possesses numerous top-tier universities and high-end research talents, with a solid innovation foundation and strong capabilities. It must strengthen collaborative innovation and industrial cooperation, and play a demonstrative and leading role in achieving high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening.”
Thoroughly implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions, the three places of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei 攥指成拳 (zuàn zhǐ chéng quán - “clench fingers into a fist,” to unite forces), using scientific and technological innovation to stimulate new momentum for coordinated development. A large number of new industries, new scenarios, and new achievements have emerged one after another.
In the height of summer, reporters followed the “Vibrant China Research Tour” (活力中国调研行) themed interview group as they traveled through Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei, experiencing the surging vitality of scientific and technological innovation across the three regions.
Collaborative innovation, deep integration of innovation chain and industrial chain
Developing new quality productive forces (新质生产力) cannot be separated from basic research and original innovation.
Beijing, possessing the nation’s top scientific and educational resources, has ranked first among global research cities for many consecutive years, with R&D expenditure intensity maintained at around 6%. It is the core innovation source of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
Beijing Daina Experimental Technology Co., Ltd. (北京戴纳实验科技股份有限公司)’s “AI + black-light laboratory” (黑灯实验室) is dedicated to reconstructing the underlying logic of basic research. “The enterprise combines its self-developed vertical AI large model with advanced experimental instruments, achieving unmanned operation and full-process closed-loop control, enabling efficient completion of experimental procedures that are highly repetitive, require strict precision, involve high danger, or have special environmental requirements,” introduced Chi Haipeng (迟海鹏), chairman of the company.
In the laboratory, there is a seemingly insignificant step — pipetting. When experimenters use a pipette to transfer liquid, the tip is extremely fine, and the liquid easily “strings,” with errors often 50 to 60 times the normal value. An experimenter with many years of experience said that relying on feel, he averages 20 errors before completing one accurate transfer.
“We replaced this kind of ‘feel’ with algorithms,” Chi Haipeng said. Daina Technology’s self-developed algorithm system “has never made a mistake on the third try” — after two trial-and-error attempts, the system enters the correct phase, and “once it gets it right once, it will keep getting it right.”
The SPECT/PET/CT integrated machine jointly developed by Ruishi Xinhe (Hebei) Medical Technology Co., Ltd. (瑞石心禾（河北）医疗科技有限公司), CNNC Nuctech Technology Co., Ltd. (中核集团同方威视技术股份有限公司), and Tianjin Medical University Cancer Hospital (天津医科大学肿瘤医院) has received support from national major scientific research instrument projects and nuclear technology R&D projects. Its core components are 100% independently controllable. A single scan is expected to complete whole-body precise quantitative imaging within 10 minutes, and dynamic imaging capability supports millisecond-level 4D visualization.
Against the backdrop of the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei, collaborative innovation has moved from blueprint to reality. In 2025, the technology contract transaction value in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region reached 1.4 trillion yuan, 1.8 times that of 2020. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the technology contract transaction value flowing from Beijing to Tianjin and Hebei exceeded 320 billion yuan, with an average annual growth of 23%, an increase of 1.7 times compared to the 13th Five-Year Plan period. Beijing’s innovation radiation and driving role has become prominent.
As the Beijing International Science and Technology Innovation Center (北京国际科技创新中心) expanded to become the Beijing (Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei) International Science and Technology Innovation Center (北京（京津冀）国际科技创新中心), the pattern of collaborative innovation among the three regions has accelerated, momentum continues to rise, and the innovation chain and industrial chain are deeply integrated. The three regions jointly mapped out six key industrial chain roadmaps, including hydrogen energy and biomedicine, and the level of advanced manufacturing clusters they are jointly building is accelerating.
At the Daina Smart Manufacturing Factory (戴纳智造工厂) in Baoding, Hebei, robotic arms are assembling key modules of the “black-light laboratory,” which undertakes the product R&D and production tasks for the “black-light laboratory.” “Our R&D headquarters is in Beijing, the production base is in Baoding, and many customers are in Tianjin and Hebei,” Chi Haipeng said.
Located beside the Sancha River estuary in Tianjin, the China Coal Technology & Engineering Group Beijing Huayu Tianjin R&D Base (中国煤科北京华宇天津研发基地) was formerly the Binshui Square (滨水广场) built in 1988. After renovation and industrial introduction, this 38-year-old building has become a central enterprise R&D platform.
Geng Yanbing (耿延兵), deputy general manager of the resident enterprise Zhongxuan Intelligent Control (Tianjin) Technology Co., Ltd. (中选智控（天津）科技有限公司), introduced that since establishing an R&D center in Tianjin in 2022, the enterprise has successively brought in more than 20 master’s and doctoral graduates and specialized technical personnel. Multiple intelligent products and core technologies have been developed and applied in Tianjin.
Hollysys Group (和利时集团), located in Yizhuang (亦庄), Beijing, is also a typical microcosm of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei collaborative innovation. On the Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed railway’s 350 km/h autonomous driving intelligent EMU line, Hollysys provided the wireless block center as well as the train overspeed protection and automatic driving systems. These key equipment form the “central nervous system” of train operation, ensuring safe and stable train travel.
From original breakthroughs in the laboratory, to process innovations on the production line, to promotion and application in the broad market, a complete innovation chain is accelerating its connection across Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei.
Building platforms, creating highlands for achievement transformation
In Tianjin, which has a deep manufacturing heritage, profound changes concerning the pattern of emerging industries are unfolding.
“We are actually an enterprise that makes ‘helmets’ for rockets, except that this kind of ‘helmet’ must be both light and strong,” said Zhang Yi (张毅), chairman of Tianjin Aisida Aerospace Technology Co., Ltd. (天津爱思达航天科技股份有限公司).
As a key component at the top of a rocket, the carbon fiber composite fairing is one of the most technically difficult components of rocket technology. Compared with traditional metal fairings, Aisida’s self-developed all-carbon fiber honeycomb structure can achieve a weight reduction of 25% to 30%, allowing the rocket to carry more payload into space.
“We continue to tackle technical challenges, achieving serialized and modular mass production of rocket fairing products,” Zhang Yi said. The enterprise’s R&D is in Beijing and Tianjin, some structural parts of the rocket are manufactured in Tianjin, and supporting molds and parts come from Tangshan, Gu'an (固安), and other places in Hebei. “The enterprise’s products are a typical result of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei tri-regional collaborative innovation.”
In Dongli District (东丽区), Tianjin, where Aisida is located, more than 90 enterprises in the aerospace chain have gathered, forming a complete industrial cluster covering rocket, satellite, and drone R&D and manufacturing, as well as inspection, testing, and aerospace application services.
“We will continue to deepen Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei industrial collaboration, strengthen the guarantee of innovation elements, smooth the channels for industry-university-research linkage across Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei, improve the full-chain layout of aerospace, and solidify the collaborative model of ‘Beijing R&D, Tianjin transformation,’” said Li Quanli (李全利), deputy district mayor of Tianjin’s Dongli District.
In the chain of scientific and technological achievement transformation, concept validation is very important. As one of the larger-scale concept validation professional platforms in the Beijing area, Beijing Yuli Technology Co., Ltd. (北京昱栎技术有限公司) has completed 205 validation projects from universities and research institutes.
“In the ‘intelligent surgical robot + exoskeleton’ project in cooperation with Tsinghua University, our team not only assisted in optimizing the mechanical structure design but also proposed a modular solution through market research, reducing the product cost by 40%,” said Li Xujin (栗旭锦), chairman of Beijing Yuli Technology Co., Ltd.
Pilot testing is a key link in the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. In May this year, Tianjin released the “Tianjin Municipal Manufacturing Pilot Platform Innovation Development Implementation Plan” (天津市制造业中试平台创新发展实施方案), proposing to build more than 20 manufacturing pilot platforms with clear positioning, open sharing, and distinctive features in key industrial sectors by 2028.
“Tianjin will continue to build the Tiankai Higher Education Science and Technology Innovation Park (天开高教科创园) to high standards, creating a source of scientific and technological innovation, an incubator for scientific research achievements, and an ecosystem for science and technology services. It will improve the multi-level financial service system covering venture capital, credit, insurance, and leasing, and promote the transformation of more scientific and technological achievements from the laboratory to the production line,” said Zhai Lixin (翟立新), vice mayor of Tianjin.
As one of the important carriers for deepening collaborative innovation between Beijing and Hebei, the Xiong'an New Area Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park (雄安新区中关村科技园) has consistently adhered to the collaborative path of “Beijing-Xiong'an R&D, regional transformation” (京雄研发、区域转化) since its inauguration in 2023. The Xiong'an New Area Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park has attracted 284 technology enterprises and facilitated the transformation and implementation of more than 1,400 scientific and technological achievements.
To promote achievement transformation, Hebei opens up scenarios to facilitate matching, adhering to the principle of “finding technologies for scenarios and finding scenarios for technologies” (为场景找技术、为技术找场景). Hebei actively connects with relevant departments, universities, research institutes, and technology enterprises in Beijing and Tianjin, ensuring that new technologies and new products first choose Hebei for verification, maturation, pilot scale-up, and demonstration application, making Hebei the preferred location for pilot testing of Beijing-Tianjin scientific and technological achievements.
Institutional barrier-breaking, cultivating fertile soil for scientific and technological innovation
The continuous flow of innovation elements cannot be separated from the support of institutional reform. Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei persistently break down barriers in talent, government affairs, and industry, strengthen mutual recognition of policies, sharing of resources, joint platform construction, and collaborative project research, promote the free flow and complementary advantages of innovation elements, and continuously activate the momentum of regional scientific and technological innovation.
At the opening ceremony of the 2026 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference, multiple departments jointly introduced 40 support policies for the Beijing (Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei) International Science and Technology Innovation Center, covering aspects such as strengthening the layout of strategic scientific and technological forces, promoting deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, attracting and gathering global outstanding talents, strengthening fiscal and financial policy coordination, and improving the science and technology service system.
In June this year, Beijing released the “Beijing Implementation Plan for Accelerating AI-Empowered Scientific Research (2026-2028)” (北京市加快推进人工智能赋能科学研究实施方案（2026—2028年）), systematically deploying key tasks such as autonomous laboratory construction, scientific model building, and scientific data supply, striving to build a global scientific intelligence innovation hub and support the construction of the Beijing (Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei) International Science and Technology Innovation Center.
Hebei has established a regular contact mechanism with students from Hebei Province studying at eight Beijing universities, including Tsinghua University and Peking University, promoted more than 200 science and technology cooperation projects between provincial key universities and Beijing-Tianjin universities, and used the “angel investment computing power” (天使投算力) resource pool to support innovation teams.
The irrigation of “living water” from science and technology finance injects momentum into the collaborative innovation of the three regions. Beijing leverages the advantages of national funds such as the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Venture Capital Guidance Fund (京津冀创业投资引导基金) to leverage social capital investment in scientific and technological innovation. Tianjin focuses on industrial clusters such as information technology innovation, biomedicine, and equipment manufacturing, expanding the implementation of the “Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Industrial Chain Financial Support Plan” (京津冀产业链金融支持计划). As of the end of last year, the balance of project financing supporting Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development in Tianjin reached 775.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 11.8%, nearly doubling compared to when data statistics began in 2017.
Promote the smooth flow of factor resources. “Collaborative innovation, the key lies in ‘connectivity,’” said Gao Jianfeng (高建锋), deputy director of the Hebei Provincial Department of Science and Technology. Hebei promotes joint platform construction, shared instruments, and shared talent, allowing innovation resources to flow freely and be efficiently allocated across Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei. This includes cooperation and joint construction of “strong-strong alliances” to achieve tangible results from projects; the “group debut” (组团出道) of Yanzhao Laboratory (燕赵实验室) to empower industrial upgrading; and resource sharing to “break barriers,” continuously reducing innovation costs.
“From top-level design to tri-regional practice, from collaborative innovation to industrial cooperation, the pace of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei collaborative innovation is becoming increasingly solid, continuously bursting with new vitality. The three regions will build a closer collaborative innovation community, continuously enhance the output and transformation capacity of major original achievements, and construct an integrated collaborative innovation ecosystem,” said Zhang Jihong (张继红), secretary of the Party Leadership Group and director of the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission and Zhongguancun Management Committee.
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Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 16 — Comrade Wan Shaofen (万绍芬), former Secretary of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee and former Deputy Director of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee, passed away in Beijing on June 25, 2026, due to illness, at the age of 96.
After Comrade Wan Shaofen's passing, relevant leading comrades of the Central Committee expressed condolences in various ways and extended sympathy to her family.
Comrade Wan Shaofen, female, was born in August 1930 in Nanchang, Jiangxi. She joined the revolutionary work in May 1949 and was admitted to the Communist Party of China in July 1952. From 1948 to 1949, she studied in the Economics Department of Jiangxi National Zhongzheng University and participated in underground peripheral organizations of the CPC and student movements. Starting in 1949, she assisted the Military Control Commission in taking over school work. From 1950 to 1966, she successively served as General Branch Secretary of the China New Democratic Youth League in Nanchang, Jiangxi; member of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee of the Youth League; and alternate member of the Central Committee of the Youth League. She was persecuted during the "Cultural Revolution." Starting in 1970, she successively served as Deputy Director and Party Group Member of the Jiangxi Provincial Labor Bureau; Standing Committee Member of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee and Director of the Organization Department. From 1985 to 1988, she served as Secretary of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee. In 1988, she served as Vice Chairman and Deputy Secretary of the Party Group of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (at the ministerial level). From 1988 to 1995, she served as Deputy Director of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee (at the ministerial level). In 1993, she was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the Eighth National People's Congress and Vice Chairman of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress. In 1998, she was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress and Vice Chairman of the Internal and Judicial Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress. She retired in April 2004.
Comrade Wan Shaofen was a member of the 12th and 13th CPC Central Committees, a member of the 14th CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, and a deputy to the 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th National People's Congresses.
Return to TopBy: 邹 翔
Continuously deepen the great practice of exercising full and rigorous governance over the Party in the new era, build the Party to be even stronger and more powerful, and we will be able to always stay at the forefront of the times, 任凭风浪起、稳坐钓鱼台 (rèn píng fēng làng qǐ, wěn zuò diào yú tái - "let the wind and waves rise, sit firmly in the fishing boat," to remain unshaken amid turmoil).
To handle China's affairs well, the key lies in the Party, and the key lies in upholding the principle that the Party must supervise itself and govern itself strictly and comprehensively.
Beijing, the Museum of the Communist Party of China. At the special exhibition "The People's City — How the Communist Party of China Took Over and Governed Cities Before and After the Founding of New China," a series of precious documents such as the "Military Commission's Forwarding of the Northeast Field Army's Code of Discipline for Entering Cities" from June 1948 demonstrate the high importance our Party attached to strengthening discipline building during the revolutionary era.
The words are silent, yet they 振聋发聩 (zhèn lóng fā kuì - "deafen the deaf, awaken the dull," to rouse the ignorant and awaken the unenlightened), containing the code for our Party to maintain eternal youth and vitality. At the meeting celebrating the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping succinctly summarized the six outstanding qualities of the Communist Party of China, among which "focusing on strengthening itself, always full of vitality and vigor" is an important aspect.
Keeping pace with the development requirements of the times, continuously advancing theoretical innovation, practical innovation, and institutional innovation in Party building, thus never becoming rigid or stagnating.
From the very beginning of the Communist Party of China's founding, it prominently emphasized Party building. The first "Constitution of the Communist Party of China" had a dedicated chapter on "Discipline," proposing nine disciplinary rules concerning organization, propaganda, and Party members' occupations.
"To whatever stage the cause of the Party and the people develops, full and rigorous governance over the Party must keep pace." Xi Jinping's thought on Party building is a major theoretical innovation achievement formed in the new era's exploration of the laws governing the building of a Marxist ruling party, and it has significant practical and long-term guiding significance for strengthening the Party and the country.
Thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, continuously deepen the great practice of exercising full and rigorous governance over the Party in the new era, build the Party to be even stronger and more powerful, and we will be able to always stay at the forefront of the times, letting the wind and waves rise while sitting firmly in the fishing boat.
Always strengthen the sense of urgency, be safe but not forget danger, exist but not forget perishing, be in order but not forget chaos, only then can the original aspiration remain unchanged and the true character remain as before.
Faced with the question "What is special about the Communist Party of China?" German writer Michael Geiger said: "Even though it has achieved remarkable development achievements, the Communist Party of China still maintains a sober and pragmatic attitude."
This is a 一以贯之 (yī yǐ guàn zhī - "to thread it all together," consistent throughout) state of mind: from the profound warning "We will never be Li Zicheng" to the solemn declaration "We must forever maintain the sobriety and firmness of 'taking the examination,'" breaking through countless difficulties and dangers, crossing thousands of mountains and rivers, full and rigorous governance over the Party is always on the way.
This is a 一脉相承 (yī mài xiāng chéng - "to inherit from one continuous line," to follow a consistent tradition) fine style of work: from putting forward the "Two Musts" on the eve of winning a comprehensive victory in the revolution and taking state power, to putting forward the "Three Musts" when successfully achieving the first centenary goal, after 千锤百炼 (qiān chuí bǎi liàn - "a thousand hammers, a hundred refinements," thoroughly tempered) and enduring 千磨万击 (qiān mó wàn jī - "a thousand grindings, ten thousand strikes," enduring many trials), the heart of vigilance remains unchanged, and the will to strive becomes stronger.
Zhang Fuqing hid his merits and achievements all his life, silently cultivating; Huang Xuhua, for the development of nuclear submarines, "willingly became an anonymous person"... Not caring about personal gains and losses, not coveting enjoyment, our Party remains sober in the face of achievements, flowers, and applause. The "Four Tests" and "Four Dangers" exist for a long time, the tasks on the new Long March are more arduous and the situation more complex, but we possess a high degree of self-reflection and incomparable confidence.
Only by adhering to full and rigorous governance over the Party and treating it as the Party's long-term strategy and eternal subject can we fear neither wind nor rain and remain forever young.
General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out: "Promoting Party building as a great project, and always adhering to the principle and policy that the Party must supervise itself and govern itself strictly, is a great innovation of our Party and also a great magic weapon for establishing the Party and the country, and for rejuvenating the Party and strengthening the country."
The Central Eight-Point Regulation "one move lands," and work style building "the whole game comes alive"; improving the working mechanism for promoting the "three non-corrruptions" in an integrated manner; amending the "Supervision Law of the People's Republic of China"... The cage of institutions is being tightened more and more, continuously compressing the space for work style alienation and power abuse.
"He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty." Our Party is good at examining itself with the development requirements of the times, alerting itself with a strong sense of urgency, perfecting itself with the spirit of self-reform, insisting on grasping Party spirit, Party conduct, and Party discipline together, integrating rectifying conduct, enforcing discipline, and combating corruption, and winning the trust of the people with the actual results of full and rigorous governance over the Party. On June 24, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission published for the 153rd consecutive month a summary of nationwide cases of violations of the Central Eight-Point Regulation spirit. A 2025 survey by the National Bureau of Statistics showed that 95.5% of respondents affirmed the effectiveness of implementing the Central Eight-Point Regulation spirit, and 92.2% of respondents were satisfied with the effect of the transformation of Party conduct and government conduct driving the improvement of social atmosphere.
As András Bencsik, editor-in-chief of the Hungarian weekly Demokrata, said, "This ability to proactively identify problems and self-improve is the secret to the Communist Party of China's enduring prosperity."
Comprehensively implement Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, implement the general requirements for Party building in the new era, continuously enhance political leadership, ideological guidance, mass organization, and social appeal. The Communist Party of China, which has traversed a history of more than one hundred years, will surely, in grasping historical initiative and advancing the great cause, unite and lead the people of all ethnic groups across the country to create new great miracles.
(This series of commentaries concludes here.)
Return to TopBy: 孟繁哲
This planet is vast enough to accommodate the common development and common prosperity of all countries, and has the conditions to allow more people to truly benefit from openness and cooperation.
Rwanda is located on the East African Plateau; its chili peppers are high in spiciness and good in quality; Hunan people cannot live without spicy food, which is exactly a "match in taste." Zero-tariff customs clearance, "green channel" for immediate application and review… Batches of Rwandan dried chili peppers cross the ocean to arrive at the China-Africa Economic and Trade Cooperation Innovation Promotion Demonstration Park (中非经贸合作创新促进示范园) in Changsha, Hunan, where they are transformed into chili sauce in processing workshops, and then placed on supermarket shelves in multiple provinces within China. Africa's good ingredients and China's big market together make a good business.
In the first five months of this year, China's imports and exports to African countries reached 1.14 trillion yuan, breaking the 1 trillion yuan mark for the first time in the same historical period, a year-on-year increase of 18.2%. Today, South African fresh apples, Egyptian fresh oranges, and Kenyan fresh avocados are placed on Chinese shelves, while China's new energy vehicles and photovoltaic modules enter the African market. In the 70 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, facing various storms, how has the road of China-Africa cooperation become wider and wider?
Only by interacting with sincerity can mutual benefit and win-win be achieved. From May 1 this year, China fully implemented zero-tariff measures for 53 African countries with which it has diplomatic relations, becoming the first major economy in the world to achieve unilateral, full-coverage zero-tariff treatment for all African countries with diplomatic relations and all least developed countries with diplomatic relations. Tariffs reduced to zero, customs clearance accelerated; what is reduced is the real cost of money, and what is delivered is tangible sincerity. Some may ask: with such a large concession of benefits, what is the goal?
In state-to-state relations, if one only focuses on the immediate account of "how much profit," the path will only become narrower the more one calculates. Only by abandoning zero-sum game thinking can the development cake be made bigger. The China International Import Expo is held as scheduled every year, the China International Supply Chain Expo emerged as the times require, and high-quality Belt and Road cooperation is deepened and solidified… China's development is becoming an opportunity for all countries. Balancing righteousness and benefit, putting righteousness first, exchanging short-term concessions for long-term mutual trust — this account becomes clearer the more it is calculated.
Good friends are exchanged with genuine hearts. In Madagascar, Chinese expert teams have successfully cultivated a variety of high-yield hybrid rice seeds suitable for local soil and climate. Breeding, seed production, planting, processing, and sales… Today, Madagascar has a complete hybrid rice industry chain, and locals affectionately call hybrid rice "Tsarabe" (擦拉贝) (meaning "the best thing"). The Luban Workshop (鲁班工坊) implemented in multiple African countries delivers vocational skills to the doorstep, enabling more young people to master skills for making a living. True friends not only give fish but also teach fishing; they are willing to help the other side establish industries and develop skills.
Win-win cooperation also allows for mutual growth. With the opening and operation of the China-Laos Railway, Laos has achieved a historic leap from a "land-locked country" to a "land-linked country," while Chinese enterprises have honed their tunnel construction techniques along the railway line, which is known as a "geological museum." Looking around the world, Chinese enterprises going abroad have struggled and fought in unfamiliar markets, bringing back not only contracts and orders but also a firsthand understanding of international rules and an in-depth knowledge of different cultures. Each leverages its strengths and borrows from the other; cooperation is never a one-way gift but a mutual achievement.
The boat of friendship can withstand storms. In the 1971 United Nations General Assembly vote, 26 affirmative votes from Africa helped China restore its lawful seat. After the resolution was passed, many African representatives present could not help but dance. This friendship is always remembered by the Chinese people. Assisting in the construction of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway, building communication networks, constructing hydropower stations, sending medical teams continuously for over 60 years, and supporting vaccines and supplies when the century-old pandemic struck… "A strong wind tests the strength of the grass, and blazing fire tests the quality of gold." The reason China-Africa relations have endured and grown stronger is that both sides have always upheld the principle of sincerity, real results, amity, and good faith (真实亲诚), never absent when the other needed it most, and have forged unbreakable mutual trust through action.
Is the development of other countries a threat or an opportunity? Under the logic of zero-sum games, tariff barriers are layered on top of each other, seemingly protecting one's own industries, but in reality pushing up commodity prices and increasing the burden on people's lives. Actively lowering thresholds to allow high-quality goods from various countries to enter the Chinese market gives consumers more choices; helping other countries establish industries allows the dividends of development to benefit a wider range of people. This planet is vast enough to accommodate the common development and common prosperity of all countries, and has the conditions to allow more people to truly benefit from openness and cooperation.
Open the door wide, and you will eventually see a bigger world. Interacting with sincerity and achieving mutual success — this is the experience China and Africa have gained over 70 years, and is it not also what state-to-state relations should look like?
Return to TopBy: 徐 阳
【Key words】Parking fee charged by the minute
【Event】Clearly only exceeding by 1 minute, yet being charged for 1 hour — for a long time, problems such as "rounding up" in parking fee collection have been criticized by many consumers. Recently, multiple places have successively optimized their parking fee rules, implementing refined fee models such as precise time-based billing and short-term free parking.
【Commentary】
As a high-frequency expense, parking fees affect the experience of daily travel and also reflect the refinement of urban governance.
In the early years, manual fee collection and mechanical timing, limited by technological conditions, made hourly billing indeed a practical consideration. Today, smart parking systems and electronic payment cover urban and rural areas, and implementing billing precise to the minute has long had no technical obstacles. Continuing to use the extensive model of "rounding up" is less a matter of cost constraints than of path dependence.
The optimization of services often consists in moving from "a bit off" to "a bit precise." Nowadays, in Yichang, Hubei, government-priced parking lots have abolished tiered rounding-up in billing; Nanchang, Jiangxi, has extended free parking periods, with night parking spaces having a low capped price; in Guiyang, Guizhou, some road sections are piloting compressing the minimum billing unit for curbside parking to 1 minute, truly achieving "park however long, be billed for that duration"… The exploration paths of different places vary, yet they point in the same direction: aligning the yardstick of public services with the genuine feelings of the masses — doing existing services with greater refinement, and filling in overlooked areas with greater comprehensiveness.
When rule design takes one more step in the direction of humanization, the masses' sense of gain increases by several degrees. The refinement of parking fee billing is a microcosm; similar logic is reflected in many areas.
Scenic spots have refined from "full-day all-in-one tickets" to time-segmented entry; with visitor flow staggered, queuing time naturally shortens. Hospital registration has refined from vague "morning numbers" and "afternoon numbers" to precision in fifteen-minute slots; patients no longer need to spend most of the day waiting for consultations. Public buses and subway have moved from "each calculating its own accounts" to offering transfer discounts within 90 minutes, effectively reducing the cost of multi-leg journeys. These services did not start from zero, but rather, within the existing framework, they break down processes more finely and make connections smoother, revealing true quality in subtle details.
If refinement tests the precision of services, then eliminating blind spots tests the self-awareness of governance. Some long-standing blind spots and frequently complained-about bottlenecks, precisely because they have "always been this way," have instead become forgotten "corners."
For example, in some old residential communities in Shanghai, due to historical reasons, there are no standard house numbers; packages are misdelivered, food delivery drivers take detours, and visiting friends and relatives cannot find the door — this not only creates daily hassles but also poses safety risks. A "micro-update" added exclusive house numbers for the community, resolving the trouble of getting lost. In a certain community in Tianjin, a small gate was less than 1 meter wide, causing severe congestion from mixed pedestrian and vehicle traffic during morning and evening peaks. Community cadres listened to the opinions of the masses and widened the gate to 1.8 meters; a problem that had troubled them for years was 迎刃而解 (yíng rèn ér jiě - "splits as it meets the blade's edge," referring to problems being solved smoothly and readily).
A house number plaque, a small gate — the changes are not big, the costs are not high, yet they precisely hit the pain points in the masses' lives. Many service upgrades lack not conditions, but rather eyes that discover problems and a consciousness of proactive action. Only by stepping out of inertial thinking and maintaining close ties with the masses can we identify and resolve those easily overlooked pain points one by one.
For matters that benefit the people, even a silk-thread's worth of effort must be undertaken. From "rounding up" to "per-minute billing," from "full-day all-in-one tickets" to "time-segmented reservations," from "cannot find the door" to "located by a single number plate"… The warmth of urban governance is hidden in seemingly inconspicuous details. We look forward to more places and more departments striving more on precision, looking more into blind spots, and implementing the people-centered development philosophy (以人民为中心的发展思想) in every corner of the construction of a modern people's city.
Summer safety issues have drawn significant attention. Not long ago, the General Office of the Ministry of Education (教育部) issued the Notice on Doing a Good Job of Summer Safety Work for Primary and Secondary Schools and Kindergartens in 2026, emphasizing that all localities and schools must strictly implement the territorial management responsibility, departmental regulatory responsibility, and the primary responsibility of schools. Only by keeping the string of safety taut at all times can we ensure that children have a healthy, safe, and fulfilling vacation.
So it is that:
In summer play and haste,
Safety touches every side.
Join hands to guard and brace,
Protect the years long and wide.
Xu Zhi (徐之)
Return to TopBy: 王 彬
Recently, Xiaguan Town (霞关镇), Cangnan, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, affected by Typhoon Bavi, initiated a town-wide evacuation of ten thousand people. Town cadre Zhao Beilei (赵蓓蕾) stated that she received the evacuation task at 10 p.m. the previous night and had only slept two hours before throwing herself into the evacuation work. Facing the camera, she appeared somewhat embarrassed, repeatedly waving her hands and saying, “This looks too much like a photo op; you’d better not film me.”
This grassroots cadre’s reaction to a “photo op” reflects a simple and pragmatic character. When some people are figuring out how to “be seen,” she does not value such an opportunity to “show her face.” Why? Because she cares more about whether the work has been done properly, whether the masses for whom she is responsible have all been safely evacuated, and whether those “invisible” risks and hazards have been thoroughly eliminated. Facing the reporter’s greeting, she suddenly burst into tears; in those tears were the tension of bearing heavy responsibility for the first time, the exhaustion of continuous hard struggle, and even more the anxiety of fearing she had not done well enough, as well as the sense of responsibility to do everything in her power to get things done.
Unaccustomed to placing their sweat under the spotlight, willing to silently give, persistently hold fast, and use one hundred percent effort to 查漏补缺 (chá lòu bǔ quē - “check leaks and fill gaps,” to identify and remedy deficiencies). Low-key, introverted, pragmatic — how could such grassroots cadres not be moving?
In the face of extreme natural disasters, the evacuation window may be only one or two days, yet all the masses facing danger must be orderly moved to safe places. Tasks that seem “impossible to accomplish” are in reality accomplished time and again. This cannot be separated from scientific decision-making and command, and even more cannot be separated from the silent dedication of millions upon millions of grassroots cadres.
Such conscientious front-line workers are 比比皆是 (bǐ bǐ jiē shì - “everywhere, all over,” to be found in great numbers); they silently exert themselves in different posts: there is a post-00s village Party branch secretary who persuaded villagers to evacuate three times to ensure no one was left behind, there is a bridge maintenance worker who braved the wind to inspect and safeguard bridge safety, and there are young volunteers who ensured the elderly had hot meals during the typhoon.
To make work solid, one must use heart and feeling. Some shelters distributed two eggs per person as a “reassurance reward”; some village cadres and grid workers beat gongs and patrolled the streets, using local dialects to shout messages, sending typhoon prevention information into every household. The interests of the masses are above all else; the reputation among the masses surpasses everything. Using grassroots workers’ “hardship index” to exchange for the masses’ “safety index” and “satisfaction index” — this account, however you calculate it, is worth it.
Grassroots workers who fear “photo ops” are not afraid of hardship and perseverance. Their sweat, the common people can see; their solid work, the common people trust.
(Excerpted from Zhejiang Daily)
Return to TopBy: 靳 山
【Phenomenon】At gas stations, one often sees 92, 95, and 98 octane gasoline. The octane rating here generally refers to RON (Research Octane Number), which reflects the gasoline's resistance to knocking — the higher the number, the less likely the gasoline is to auto-ignite prematurely under the high-temperature, high-pressure conditions inside an engine. Not long ago, China's domestically developed and produced 103-octane racing gasoline was officially put into use in Xinjiang. This breakthrough filled the gap in domestically produced high-performance racing fuel and ended the long-standing situation in which China's top-tier event fuel relied on imports.
【Commentary】
"Promote the high-end, intelligent, and green development of manufacturing" — how does the production of gasoline connect with this goal?
Look at "high-end." The use of 103-octane racing gasoline can effectively reduce the risk of static electricity accumulation during high-flow refueling in events. Its olefin content is controlled at about 1%, which helps improve combustion efficiency and power response speed, and contributes to raising the standardization and professional level of China's high-end event fuel.
Look at "green." From 92-octane to 103-octane gasoline, from the National I (国一) emission standard to National VI (国六), China has completed in just over 20 years an oil product upgrade journey that took developed countries in Europe and America more than half a century. Compared with the National I standard, the National VI b (国六b) emission standard, fully implemented in 2023, has seen substantial reductions in sulfur, olefin, and aromatic hydrocarbon content in gasoline, greatly reducing pollutant emissions.
Then look at "intelligent." In the upstream production link, some oilfields are using AI (artificial intelligence) to activate the development potential of shale gas. By building a dedicated knowledge base covering geology, drilling, fracturing, etc., they have increased the efficiency of drilling incident handling by 48%. Some enterprises are leveraging intelligent agents to shift drilling equipment management from experience-driven to data-driven, accumulating cost savings of over 3.3 million yuan.
Moving toward the new, borrowing from intelligence, climbing to the heights — traditional industries, including petrochemicals, are "sprouting new shoots, growing new branches, blooming new flowers, and bearing new fruit." General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "The traditional industries within the real economy must not be abandoned; they must achieve transformation and upgrading through technological innovation." The "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五) Outline devotes a dedicated chapter to "optimizing and upgrading traditional industries." How to make old enterprises radiate new vitality is a practical question for promoting high-quality development.
It is worth drawing on the wisdom of horticulture.
Do a fine job of "pruning." Outdated processes, high safety and environmental pressure, and high costs are common difficulties faced by many old chemical plants. Tianyuan Shanxi Chemical Co., Ltd. (天源山西化工有限公司) replaced its process with a fully enclosed new one, reducing the raw coal consumption per ton of ammonia to 0.966 tons and cutting costs by over 100 yuan, while the coal powder rate dropped from 12.66% to 7.46%, achieving a win-win for environmental protection and economic benefit.
Transformation and upgrading are not easy. Only by carefully "pruning" away the "dead branches" of high pollution and low efficiency can resources be better concentrated and breakthroughs targeted.
Do a meticulous job of "grafting." In 2020, it took the lead in launching "oil-to-electric" forklifts; in the past two years, following the wave of digital and intelligent transformation, it has equipped forklifts with an "AI brain"; currently, it is transitioning from "selling products" to "selling solutions," tailoring complete digital and intelligent solutions for customers... One development experience of Jiangsu Zhongli Forklift Co., Ltd. (江苏中力叉车有限公司) is to skillfully leverage the power of technology to empower and improve product quality.
"Grafting" is not simple, mechanical splicing; it is about introducing external resources, through structural upgrading, system optimization, and process reengineering, to create new growth points for high-quality development.
Put sufficient effort into "banking up soil." When the home appliance market gradually became saturated, Sanjiang Electric Group (三江电器集团) once blindly followed trends and switched tracks, but ultimately chose to deepen its work in the motor field where it had expertise, growing into a national-level "specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative" (专精特新) "little giant" enterprise. Ansteel Group Benxi Steel Plate Co., Ltd. (鞍钢集团本钢板材公司) targeted transformation trends, launched world-leading ultra-wide cold-rolled automotive sheet products, and found its position on the high-value-added track.
Professionalism, refinement, and distinctiveness are the foundation of an enterprise's standing. By finding the right positioning, giving full play to strengths, and deepening roots in the field one is "good at," "being a better version of oneself" will yield broader room for growth and stronger development momentum.
"Old trees sprout new shoots," "small trees grow into big trees," "single trees become forests" — ten thousand trees vie in beauty, 生生不息 (shēng shēng bù xī - "endless generation, ceaseless growth," continuous and unending). The vitality and resilience of China's economy are contained within this.
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 孟海鹰
In the early morning, in front of the Siping Campaign Memorial Hall (四平战役纪念馆) in Jilin Province, visitors lined up in an orderly manner, quietly waiting to enter. Inside the hall, docents arrived early at their posts and began basic skills training.
“On the day the battle began, the trees had not yet grown leaves; now, the poplar leaves are already too old to eat. The changes in people are also not small! Before the battle, our entire company had 160 men; only 76 comrades came to take the photo.”
The battlefield diary of martyr Ji Qingxiang (纪庆祥) struck directly at people's hearts. Yuan Yuan (袁源), deputy secretary of the Party branch of the Siping Campaign Memorial Hall (四平战役纪念馆党支部), led several docents in front of the diary display board to conduct regular discussions, striving to make the weighty history vivid and the heroic stories lively.
“Each tour has different audiences and diverse questions; only by 持之以恒 (chí zhī yǐ héng - “persevere with constancy,” persistently studying historical materials and accumulating沉淀) can we 从容应对 (cóng róng yìng duì - “calmly respond,” handle all kinds of questions and precisely match the needs of the audience),” said docent Li Silin (李思霖). The sincere and heartfelt presentations, along with meticulous and professional service, won the recognition of visitors. Many audience members left comments saying that the explanations were deeply moving and 催人泪下 (cuī rén lèi xià - “urge people to tears,” extremely touching).
The Party branch of the Siping Campaign Memorial Hall adhered to the principle of promoting training through competition, promoting excellence through training, and promoting strength through evaluation, and regularly organized docents to participate in professional competitions at all levels and red宣讲 performances. At the same time, it built a three-dimensional learning system of “red classroom + on-site study + practical practice” (红色课堂+现场研学+实践践行), and carried out immersive themed Party lessons based on the actual scenes of the Siping Campaign sites. Over the past five years, the branch has organized a total of more than 90 sessions of centralized study, topic research, and professional training.
Red education is not limited to the memorial hall; it also extends to campuses. In March this year, the Party branch of the Siping Campaign Memorial Hall successively visited the Central East Road Primary School in Tiedong District, Siping City (四平市铁东区中央东路小学校) and the Dizhi Street Primary School in Tiexi District (铁西区地直街小学校) to tell heroic deeds and the stories behind revolutionary relics. On stage, the speakers spoke with emotion; off stage, the primary school students listened with moved expressions.
The Party branch of the Siping Campaign Memorial Hall deeply cultivates red education work, regularly carries out the “First Lesson of the Semester” (开学第一课) education, and improves and perfects the two-way education mechanism of “sending lessons into schools and bringing study tours into the memorial hall” (送课进校园、研学进场馆). The memorial hall’s mobile red classroom enters schools, allowing the red seeds to take root in students’ hearts.
To continuously expand the coverage and influence of propaganda and education, the Party branch formed an integrated宣讲 team of “professional explanation + volunteer service” (专业讲解+志愿服务). Since 2020, it has regularly gone deep into schools, military units, enterprises, communities, and townships, extensively carrying out more than 200 red宣讲 activities, covering a total of over 30,000 Party members and cadres, military officers and soldiers, teachers and students, and the masses, allowing red stories to leave the exhibition hall, enter the grassroots, and permeate people’s hearts.
To continuously strengthen the red宣讲 force, the Party branch regularly promotes the construction of a volunteer docent team, cultivating 30 Red Scarf docents (红领巾讲解员) and 60 social volunteer docents in 2025.
Primary school student Han Ningduo’s (韩柠朵) grandfather participated in the Siping Campaign; he self-studied red stories and actively devoted himself to volunteer宣讲. Public official Huang Zishan (黄子珊) goes to volunteer宣讲 every weekend when she returns from Changchun to her hometown Siping. English teacher He Jing (贺晶) started by accompanying her child to participate in宣讲, gradually grew into a mature volunteer docent, and can independently conduct English-language special sessions; her child also broke through himself through repeated practice, and their wonderful宣讲 are widely praised by visitors.
The Party branch also bases itself on the goal of integrated construction of ideological and political education (思政教育一体化建设), focusing on education and training, red study tours, and practical education, actively building an education platform for school-memorial hall co-construction, resource sharing, and complementary advantages. It has successively co-built patriotic education bases (爱国主义教育基地) and ideological and political practice education bases (思政实践教育基地) with Jilin Normal University (吉林师范大学) and more than ten other universities, enterprises, and public institutions.
“These are what I donated!” Inside the exhibition hall, Zhao Zhijun (赵志军) pointed at the relics inside the glass display case and told the reporter. Zhao Zhijun, a veteran over seventy years old, after retirement, was hired as a business consultant for the Siping Campaign Memorial Hall. For more than ten years, he has insisted on volunteer宣讲, long devoted himself to collecting red cultural relics, and has donated multiple revolutionary relics to the memorial hall.
“Revolutionary relics are the carriers and witnesses of red history,” introduced Li Xiufeng (李秀峰), secretary of the Party branch and curator of the Siping Campaign Memorial Hall. The Party branch set up a relic collection team and a historical research team, carried out cross-regional coordinated relic collection work, and simultaneously advanced the rescue excavation of oral histories of veterans who participated in the battles, making every effort to rescue, preserve, and protect precious red historical materials. From 2020 to the present, a total of 588 pieces (sets) of various revolutionary relics and historical collection items have been collected, 10 veterans who participated in the Four Battles of Siping (四战四平) have been visited and interviewed, information on 41 martyrs who died has been supplemented and improved, effectively filling multiple gaps in historical materials, making the dust-covered heroic deeds more complete, detailed, vivid, and tangible.
In recent years, the visitor reception volume of the Siping Campaign Memorial Hall has achieved leapfrog growth, jumping from less than 100,000 person-times in 2020 to 630,000 person-times in 2025, with a cumulative total of over 2 million person-times in the past six years. Li Xiufeng introduced that they will always adhere to promoting the high-quality development of the red position, deeply integrating Party building into all links and the entire chain of explanation services, cultural relic protection, exhibition research, and red education.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 辛 阳 刘佳华
July 19, Shenyang, Liaoning. Beside the landscape flower bed in front of the Party and Mass Service Center of Cuita Community (翠塔社区), Wulihe Street (五里河街道), Shenhe District (沈河区), community Party secretary Zhang Yi (张毅) led community staff and urban management team members to jointly clear silt and renovate the flower bed. “This is the scenery at the residents’ doorstep; it must be repaired well.”
“That day, right by this flower bed, many vehicles stalled…” Zhang Yi recalled. On the morning of July 13, a rainstorm hit Shenyang, and the road section in front of Cuita Community quickly became flooded up to the waist. “We wore red vests and advised detours at the intersection in advance, but some car owners still drove through, and as a result, they stalled and were trapped.”
Community resident Gao Yang (高杨)’s off-road vehicle was the first one trapped. The repair tow truck could not arrive in time due to the rainstorm. “Everyone, please help!” Zhang Yi turned around and shouted. She organized resident volunteers and property security guards to jointly push the vehicle to a parking lot on higher ground.
More vehicles stalled and were trapped, and everyone again jointly pushed the cars. The community had only 15 staff members. Zhang Yi mobilized Party members to report nearby, and public security police, property personnel, and volunteers joined in one after another. “Altogether, we pushed 25 vehicles, with more than 50 people helping,” Zhang Yi said.
Many car owners had matters at home and could not keep waiting for the tow truck. Gao Yang hesitated and said, “Secretary Zhang, can I leave my car keys with you for safekeeping? When the tow truck comes, you can hand them over.” Zhang Yi heard this and also had misgivings in her heart: if she kept the keys, what if the vehicle got scratched or the keys were lost? But then she thought again: she was a Party member, and to solve the difficulties of the masses, she could not be afraid to take responsibility. “Okay!” Zhang Yi said.
Seeing this, other car owners also left their keys one after another. And so, 25 car keys, 25 trusts, were placed in a small square box on the central service counter.
The rainstorm subsided, and Zhang Yi’s phone rang incessantly. “I’m from the tow truck company, entrusted by the car owner, to pick up the car keys here.” “Please wait a moment, I’ll verify with the car owner”… That afternoon, the first tow truck arrived; at noon on the 16th, the last tow truck arrived; Zhang Yi’s own car was the last flooded car in the parking lot to be towed away. A tow truck worker saw that the owners’ car keys were kept by the community and could not help but exclaim, “This community service is so thoughtful!”
All vehicles were towed smoothly, with not a single key lost or mistake. The two-way rush (双向奔赴) of trust and responsibility was hidden in the wind and rain, and also hidden in that box of car keys. “Solving the urgent, difficult, worrisome, and longed-for issues (急难愁盼) of the masses and delivering services to the hearts of the masses — that is the duty of our community Party committee,” Zhang Yi said.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 辛 阳 刘佳华
“Tighten it a bit more!” On the morning of July 19, in Langshi Village (郎士村), Qianjin Township (千金乡), Xinfu District (新抚区), Fushun City, Liaoning Province, an excavator repairing the village road roared loudly. Village Party branch secretary Wu Xianfeng (吴显丰) had trouser legs covered in mud and sweat streaming down his face.
Recently, Fushun City experienced two rounds of heavy rainfall, with short-term rainfall intensity in many places breaking historical extremes. Langshi Village was one of the more severely affected villages.
Not far from the construction site, in a small courtyard that had been submerged by floodwaters, furniture and timber were being dried. Among them, a piece of discarded foam board had accompanied Wu Xianfeng through a thrilling rescue.
That was in the early morning of July 4, when a rainstorm struck and floodwaters surged wildly. The 92-year-old elderly woman living alone, Aunt Jiang (姜大娘), had her courtyard located at the lowest point in the entire village, right next to the river channel. At that moment, a phone call came to Wu Xianfeng, the tone full of anxiety. It turned out that Aunt Jiang’s son had been blocked by floodwaters on his way to pick her up, and the elderly woman was home alone.
“Hurry and go check!” Wu Xianfeng immediately called out to village committee staff member Jin Yanlong (金艳龙) and rushed into the rain curtain, heading toward the courtyard where Aunt Jiang was.
The courtyard was filled with floodwater, with broken branches and wood debris floating. Intermittent cries for help came from inside the house, causing great anxiety.
Without time to think further, Wu Xianfeng plunged into the cold, murky floodwater, pushed aside obstacles, and swam into the house. The water inside the house was above neck level, and all the furniture was floating… The frail Aunt Jiang was soaked through, one side of her face bruised and swollen, both eyes red and swollen, her hands gripping the heating pipe on the ceiling.
“Auntie, don’t be afraid, I’m here!” Wu Xianfeng swam to the elderly woman’s side. He found a piece of foam board, carefully placed it behind the old woman’s back, and himself soaked in the cold water, supporting her. He held her up for over 40 minutes.
Jin Yanlong was outside in the rain seeking help everywhere, but most villagers had already been evacuated in advance, and he could find no helpers anywhere. As time passed, Wu Xianfeng’s physical strength was exhausted, his legs numb, his whole body trembling. “We still need to seek help!” He instructed the elderly woman to hold tightly to the heating pipe, then swam against the current with all his strength toward the “shore.” When he got onto the “shore,” he was nearly exhausted and was pulled up by rescue personnel who had just arrived.
“I’ll go down again! I’m familiar with the situation here.” Taking the lifebuoy, Wu Xianfeng turned back again. In just over ten minutes, the water level rose again. With one hand protecting the elderly woman’s head and the other pushing aside floating objects, he safely escorted her out of the house. With everyone pulling together, Aunt Jiang was finally safely out of danger.
“I am a Party member and village Party branch secretary. When everyone has difficulties, I must charge ahead.” Wu Xianfeng had no time to rest much and threw himself back into work: clearing silt and draining water, rush-repairing roads, dredging ditches… Typhoon and rainstorm warnings came one after another, and he went door to door checking for hazards and organizing the evacuation of the masses. In the two rounds of heavy rainfall, not a single person in the entire village was killed or injured.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 姜 峰 刘新吾
On July 19, west bank of the Wujiang River, Horse Neck Mountain (马颈子山).
A warning sound — "Woo, woo, woo" — interrupted the interview.
Gao Jiansong (高健凇), a cadre from the Chongqing Municipal Planning and Natural Resources Bureau (重庆市规划和自然资源局), hurriedly looked at the ground-based radar and other monitoring equipment, and rapidly transmitted the real-time monitoring data of minute deformation to the on-site rescue command post for the mountain collapse disaster in Pengshui County (彭水县), Chongqing. On the opposite bank of the river, on the rear mountain of the collapse point, staff from the Chongqing No. 107 Geological Team (重庆107地质队) also uploaded data simultaneously, jointly assisting in controlling and assessing the risk of secondary disasters.
"On-site monitoring cannot rely on just one point; we are stationed on both mountain tops, with overlapping coverage." Gao Jiansong's outer clothing was soaked with sweat and clung to his body. Throughout the morning, the west bank mountain top faced the sun directly, and under the tent the summer heat steamed. Having rushed to the scene in a hurry after the disaster occurred, Gao Jiansong had brought only one set of clothes, and every day he kept watch for fifteen or sixteen hours. "At night I wash them, then dry them with a hair dryer."
The Wujiang River flows north, with mountains on both banks. Some people keep watch at "sentry posts," others patrol the mountains all the way.
North of the collapse point, Sleeping Beauty Mountain.
In the afternoon, Xiao Longjiang (肖龙江), head of the comprehensive maintenance station of the Pengshui County Highway Emergency Reserve Center (彭水县公路应急储备中心综合养护站), was bending over with his colleagues to move away trees that had fallen due to rainfall the previous night, clearing the road.
Two national highways and five provincial highways are the lifelines ensuring smooth rescue operations. Two consecutive nights of heavy rainfall had also triggered multiple instances of falling rocks on mountain slopes, clogged side ditches, and fallen roadside trees, so the already narrow mountain roads had to be cleared of obstacles in a timely manner.
"Our team of more than 50 people is divided into five groups, patrolling over 400 kilometers every day, checking for dangers, clearing landslide debris..." Xiao Longjiang gestured with his thick palm, his shoes covered in yellow mud.
"The frontline search and rescue personnel are the assault troops; we just do a good job as the engineering troops paving the road. They go all out in rescue, and we provide good support." Heavy equipment such as large cranes and excavators were successively driven into the rescue site, and Xiao Longjiang and his colleagues kept shuttling among the mountains. "Only when the roads are open can the rescue work proceed smoothly." He wiped off a handful of sweat, got into a yellow engineering vehicle, and drove off toward the other side of the mountain.
At the foot of the mountain, the footsteps of guardianship never ceased. Fighting side by side with the "sentries" and "engineering troops" was also a group of steadfast "logistics personnel."
His neck ring was sunburned red, his face full of stubble. Grid worker (网格员) Xu Linwei (许林伟) had just finished his daytime patrol, from 7:30 in the morning to 7:30 in the evening.
Shatuo Community (沙沱社区), Hanjia Subdistrict (汉葭街道), where the collapse point is located, has 22 grids. Xu Linwei's patrol area is right next to the northern side of the disaster site. Going door to door to check residential courtyards and buildings backing onto the mountain, setting up warning signs, persuading returning residents to take shelter... He raised his hand, and the electronic wristwatch step counter showed: 18,832 steps.
After mixing in a large spoonful of chili sauce and hastily eating a bowl of cold noodles, Xu Linwei returned to his grid. As the sky darkened, the Shatuo Community Party and Mass Service Center (沙沱社区党群服务中心) was still brightly lit. The grassroots "logistics personnel" were making and receiving phone calls one after another, and the hall echoed with the rising and falling sounds of the Chongqing dialect, which sounded full of strength.
By: 本报记者 黄晓慧 吴 勇
At the Emergency Trauma Treatment Center of Tongji Hospital affiliated with Tongji University, there is a specially designated area for trauma emergency treatment — the Trauma Resuscitation Room. During this year's May Day holiday, a construction worker's left thumb was severed by a machine. While the ambulance rushed to the scene, it transmitted the injury information to the Tongji Hospital Emergency Trauma Treatment Center. The Trauma Treatment Center prepared storage boxes and various instruments for the operating room in advance. After the patient arrived at the hospital, preoperative preparations were quickly completed in the Trauma Resuscitation Room, and then the patient was directly sent to the operating room. Debridement, fracture fixation, and vascular anastomosis were completed 一气呵成 (yī qì hē chéng - "accomplish in one breath," to complete something without interruption). The severed finger was replanted within three hours, and the replanted finger regained normal blood circulation.
There was no haste or chaos, only the creaking of stretcher wheels rolling over floor tiles and the beeping of monitors. In a single day, this team can handle dozens of emergency trauma patients, including many critical rescues. "Every extra minute we gain gives the patient one more chance of survival." Wang Tao (王韬), director of the Trauma Treatment Center, has practiced medicine for over 30 years and has rescued a large number of severely traumatized patients. Under his leadership, the average effective treatment time for trauma has been compressed to within 30 minutes, and the success rate for severe trauma rescue has reached 95%.
Innovating the emergency system to maximize treatment efficiency
Wang Tao's career began at Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital, where he grew from an orthopedic doctor to the director of the emergency department. After taking up his post at Tongji Hospital in October 2022, Wang Tao proposed the establishment of an "integrated trauma center" (集成化创伤中心). He not only set up the Trauma Resuscitation Room but also built the Tongji Hospital Emergency Surgery Department. Some peers questioned the necessity of establishing the Trauma Resuscitation Room.
Half a year later, the Trauma Resuscitation Room delivered its results: critically injured patients from hundreds of kilometers away, even from the Zhoushan Islands, were continuously sent in. It completed Tongji Hospital's first replantation surgeries of severed palms, severed feet, and ectopic replantation. The success rate for severe trauma rescue reached 95%.
Why set up a Trauma Resuscitation Room? Wang Tao said that in 2014, a middle-aged man suddenly collapsed while visiting the hospital for treatment, and fortunately was rescued in time. Later, this patient moved his home and the restaurant he ran to near the hospital, simply because being close to the hospital gave him peace of mind.
"How many people happen to fall acutely ill in a hospital and get rescued? And how many people can move their homes near the hospital? This reminds us that we need to shorten the distance between medical treatment and patients." Having worked long on the front line of emergency medicine, Wang Tao discovered that 120 emergency medical services and in-hospital emergency departments belong to different systems. After patients arrive at the hospital, they waste time being transferred between departments, easily missing the "golden hour."
Therefore, he proposed upgrading the "first-diagnosis responsibility system" (首诊负责制) for trauma emergency to a "first-diagnosis treatment system" (首诊治疗制), making the first doctor who receives the patient the primary person responsible for the entire course of treatment. "Only by not delegating to others can we maximize treatment efficiency."
In Wang Tao's team, doctors are not allowed to say "I don't know how." "Doctors know more and have more methods than patients; we cannot lower our standards." He requires every member of the emergency surgery team to master important emergency techniques such as endotracheal intubation and deep vein puncture. He believes that strict daily training is precisely to respond to medical emergencies more calmly.
"Whether doctor or nurse, Director Wang treats everyone equally. As long as you are willing to learn, he will teach you everything he has," said nurse Liu Yina (柳伊娜). With Wang Tao's encouragement, she mastered central venous catheterization, a technique usually within the scope of doctors' capabilities, and published related papers.
Building a full-life-cycle protection chain to make every medical link warmer
"Life has pain; it's good to have you." This is Wang Tao's personal motto regarding emergency trauma medicine.
Many years ago, Wang Tao and a colleague performed a replantation surgery on a patient with a severed palm. The surgery was initially going smoothly; the patient's palm was reattached successfully, and only a second-stage skin graft for the defect area was needed. "At that time, we thought the skin defect was very small. By 'pulling together' the surrounding tissue and 'suturing,' we should not need to take tissue from other parts of the patient for skin grafting." Unexpectedly, because the previously anastomosed blood vessels had changed direction and the local tissue had increased fragility, during the "pull-together suture" process, the newly reattached blood vessels were accidentally broken. Although the entire department's strength was urgently mobilized for multiple rescue attempts, the severed palm ultimately did not survive.
Faced with this outcome, Wang Tao and his colleague were very self-blaming, but the patient instead comforted them, which deeply moved Wang Tao. Wang Tao said, "What moved me was not the 'surgical failure,' but the 'true feelings between doctor and patient.'" Years later, he proposed the concept of "sequential medical treatment" (序贯医疗), which not only coordinates and connects social prevention, pre-hospital emergency care, in-hospital treatment, and post-hospital rehabilitation, but also integrates the holistic view of life-saving with multidisciplinary capabilities. "We must build a full-life-cycle health protection chain, making every medical link warmer," Wang Tao said.
In Wang Tao's department, doctors conduct "humanistic ward rounds" (人文查房) at fixed times each week, listening to patients' stories, alleviating their emotions, and helping them solve life difficulties.
Young doctor Gan Di (甘迪) said, "Under Wang Tao's influence, we place great importance on a holistic view when facing a patient's condition." Once, a patient with trauma from a car accident was examined, confirming that the limbs were normal, and a head CT scan also found no problems. The patient requested medication and then to go home to rest. Gan Di advised the patient to stay in the hospital for observation: "Having suffered a high-energy injury, there is a possibility of delayed intracranial hemorrhage, with serious consequences." That night, the patient experienced delayed intracranial hemorrhage while staying in the hospital. After timely treatment, the patient eventually recovered fully.
Conducting medical science popularization to improve public health literacy
In 2014, Dragon TV filmed the documentary "Emergency Room Stories" (急诊室故事), and Wang Tao participated as one of the main creators. After the documentary became a hit, Wang Tao truly felt the influence of medical documentary communication. He decided to initiate and establish the "Da Yi Xiao Hu" (达医晓护) medical science popularization volunteer team. Under his promotion, "Da Yi Xiao Hu" grew from a team running a public account into a medical think tank gathering nearly a thousand experts from more than 20 provinces, with thousands of original science popularization works and over 1 billion reads across the entire internet.
Wang Tao said that his insights on medical science popularization were mostly inspired by patients. Many years ago, a 16-year-old girl faced amputation due to sudden massive hemorrhage from osteosarcoma. Because of fear, she repeatedly refused surgery until her life was in critical danger. Wang Tao participated in the rescue throughout, and that feeling of powerlessness remains unforgettable to this day. "If she had been exposed to medical knowledge earlier and changed her mindset, her life might have been saved," Wang Tao said. "Conducting medical science popularization and improving public health literacy is a social responsibility that doctors must undertake. We must understand patients, and even more, we must make patients understand us."
Wang Tao believes that science popularization is not casually "telling stories," but a discipline that combines practice and research. Therefore, he has offered courses in "Medical Communication" (医学传播学) at multiple medical schools where he teaches, and compiled the textbook "Medical Communication." The popular science books he edited, such as "Become a Nursing Expert in 80 Days" (80天变身护理达人), have been rated as national excellent popular science works.
While promoting medical science popularization, Wang Tao is also conducting innovative explorations in integrating medicine with ecology and culture. "Medicine should step out of the hospital and participate in a larger life system." In April 2026, the "Medical Carbon Neutrality Action" (医疗碳中和行动), jointly established by the "Da Yi Xiao Hu" medical communication think tank and relevant departments of Darhan Muminggan United Banner (达尔罕茂明安联合旗) in Inner Mongolia, was implemented on the Damao grassland, seeking to explore a new path for medicine to move from single-treatment to the coordinated development of life, society, and nature.
Reporter's Notes
Gathering the warm current of medical humanities
Having practiced for over 30 years and experienced countless urgent, difficult, and dangerous rescues, how does Wang Tao view the doctor-patient relationship? He said: "There are certainly times when I am misunderstood by patients, but I quickly forget the bad things. I only keep in my mind the things that move me — a recovered smiling face, a sincere thank you. When these warm currents accumulate, they become a lifetime of confidence."
It is this confidence that has allowed him to extend the vision of medicine beyond the scalpel. He initiated the "Da Yi Xiao Hu" medical science popularization volunteer team and offered the "Medical Communication" course. In his view, doctors and patients are a community fighting side by side. Doctors must use 仁心仁术 (rén xīn rén shù - "benevolent heart and skilled technique," compassionate and skillful medical practice) to solve health problems and face the challenges of life together with patients.
Wang Tao believes that medical humanities is a coherent force. It is not only the "speed" of treating patients in the emergency room, but also the "warmth" that transcends the hospital walls. He does not want medicine to stop at cure, but rather to turn the trust established in critical moments into an endless warm current that nourishes the hearts of more people.
Return to TopXining, July 19 (Our correspondents Jiang Meng (江萌) and Jin Xin (金歆)) — The 2026 China Environmental Protection Century Tour (中华环保世纪行) publicity campaign, spearheaded by the General Office of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会办公厅), launched on July 19 in Xining, Qinghai Province. The theme of this year’s publicity campaign is “Implement the Ecological Environment Code (生态环境法典) and Strengthen Ecological Protection on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.”
A responsible official from the General Office of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress explained at the launch meeting held that day that this year’s China Environmental Protection Century Tour publicity campaign enters beautiful Qinghai, with the task of studying and implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization (习近平生态文明思想), promoting the publicizing, implementation and enforcement of the Ecological Environment Code, and using good laws and good governance to promote ecological protection and high-quality development on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The campaign must link the publicity of Qinghai’s achievements and experience in advancing ecological protection and high-quality development on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau with the publicity and implementation of Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, and combine it with the publicity of the great achievements made in the Party’s leadership of ecological civilization construction in the new era, so as to promote the whole society to firmly establish the concept that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets (绿水青山就是金山银山 - lǜ shuǐ qīng shān jiù shì jīn shān yín shān, “clear waters and green mountains are gold and silver mountains,” meaning that a good ecological environment is a valuable asset) and jointly advance the construction of a Beautiful China (美丽中国).
Officials responsible from the Qinghai Provincial People’s Congress Standing Committee, the provincial government and relevant departments, as well as deputies to the National People’s Congress working on the front lines of ecological and environmental protection in Qinghai, respectively introduced at the launch meeting, based on their actual work, the situation regarding Qinghai Province’s strengthening of ecological protection on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and other related matters.
It is understood that the China Environmental Protection Century Tour publicity campaign began in 1993 and has been running for more than 30 years. It is an important brand with broad influence and high public attention in the field of China’s ecological and environmental legal publicity. This publicity campaign is jointly participated in by the General Office of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the Legislative Affairs Commission, the Environment and Resources Protection Committee of the National People's Congress, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (生态环境部) and other relevant departments. Major central news media including People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency, and China Media Group, as well as some metropolitan media and local media in Qinghai, will conduct interviews and reports. After the launch meeting, the interview team will proceed to Xining, Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, and Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture for on-site interviews.
Return to TopRecently, in Chengtoushan Town (城头山镇), Li County (澧县), Changde City, Hunan Province, the "Changde City 2026 Grain Production (Early Specialized, Late Superior) Demonstration Area" (常德市2026年粮食生产（早专晚优）展示区) of ten thousand mu of early rice has successively matured, and local authorities organized harvesting machinery to promptly rush the harvest. The picture shows a harvester harvesting early rice. Photo by Bai Yipu (柏依朴) (People's Vision (人民视觉)).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 赵 兵 胡笑源
Comrade Editor:
I am a villager from Zhuming Town, Hezhang County, Bijie City, Guizhou. In 2017, the government planned to invest 86.6 million yuan in our village to build a batch of relocation housing for targeted poverty alleviation. After completion, these houses have remained idle. I reported this to the relevant departments, but the government replied that the housing is public rental housing, and that due to policy adjustments, a funding chain break by the construction party, incomplete supporting facilities, and other reasons, it could not be accepted and delivered in time, thus causing the resources to sit idle. Please pay attention to this matter.
Mr. Liu, netizen of the "Exposure Platform" of People's Daily app
Hezhang County (赫章县) is located in the Wumeng Mountain area of northwestern Guizhou. It was once a deeply impoverished county in Guizhou and a key county for national poverty alleviation and development. The idle housing mentioned in the reader's letter — is it relocation housing for targeted poverty alleviation or public rental housing? Why was it built but left unused? The reporter went to Zhuming Town (朱明镇), Hezhang County, to investigate and interview.
Over a hundred housing units idle for many years, with differing accounts of whether they are targeted poverty alleviation relocation housing or public rental housing
On July 8, following the reader's tip, the reporter arrived at the central area of Zhuming Town, Hezhang County, and saw several six-story buildings in yellow and pink standing along the street. The first and second floors of these buildings are commercial storefronts, and the upper four floors are residential. Compared with the self-built houses of surrounding villagers, these buildings are neat and uniform, very conspicuous.
Entering the residential area, the reporter saw that the three buildings are labeled Building 1, Building 2, and Building 6. Hardened roads have been laid between the buildings. Solar street lamps stand on both sides of the roads, brick and stone have been laid on the footpaths, and fire hydrants are installed at intervals.
However, in such a initially formed modern residential area, most of the housing units are idle: the ground-floor shops have had their rolling doors installed, but most are locked, with some doors bearing rental notices. The few shops that have hung up signs are not open for business. The iron doors of several units leading to the upstairs residences are locked. Looking through the railings, one can see that electricity meters and water meters have been installed in the hallways, and ceramic tiles have been laid.
The reporter entered two unlocked units of Building 1 and found that a few households seemed to be living there — some doors had Spring Festival couplets posted, and some had sundries placed at the entrance. On the hallway entrances and some residents' doors were posted "clear sheets" (明白纸) on the application policies for the prevention of return-to-poverty monitoring targets issued by the former Rural Vitalization Office (原乡村振兴办公室) of Hezhang County, Hezhang County paired-assistance connection cards, and Hezhang County, Guizhou Province "clear cards" for households prone to falling into or back into poverty. The reporter knocked on each door, but no one answered.
"These three buildings were built in 2015. Some say they are relocation housing for targeted poverty alleviation, others say they are public rental housing. But over the years, apart from a few villager households whose homes were damaged by geological disasters and who were temporarily resettled here, neither poor households nor ordinary people eligible to apply for public rental housing have moved in. Over a hundred units have been sitting empty," said villager Mr. Liu.
Based on the information provided by the reader, the reporter searched the Hezhang County People's Government website and found a schedule for the progress of the former Zhuming Township small-town construction projects, dated October 2017. It showed that the former Zhuming Township urban public rental housing construction project started in 2015, with plans to build 8 buildings, and at the time of the statistics, the foundation work on 2 buildings had been completed.
In addition, a search online revealed that in 2017, the former Zhuming Township People's Government issued a bidding announcement for a targeted poverty alleviation relocation project. The total investment was 86.6035 million yuan, the total floor area of resettlement housing was 30,220 square meters, and it was planned to resettle 299 registered poor households (1,462 people). The project construction site was in Zhuming Town.
Mr. Liu believes that Zhuming Town has only ever built one concentrated government-subsidized housing project, and that the targeted poverty alleviation relocation housing tendered in 2017 is the same batch of houses that began construction in 2015.
In response, Mr. Liu once left a message on the People's Daily "Leadership Message Board" inquiring. At that time, the Bijie City Party Committee Office replied that the project in question was actually public rental housing, and that due to policy adjustments, a funding chain break by the construction party, incomplete supporting facilities, and other reasons, it could not be accepted and delivered in time, leading to idleness.
In the residential area, the reporter randomly interviewed several villagers and received inconsistent answers, but everyone agreed that these houses had become a matter of "buck-passing" (扯皮).
"These are targeted poverty alleviation relocation houses, but the township sold the houses to an individual. That person was caught and sent to prison, so the houses couldn't be distributed to us," said an elderly villager.
"These are government-invested public rental houses, but the government had no money, so the developer stopped building, and the houses were never accepted," said a merchant renting a ground-floor shop.
"These are government-built turnover houses, not for rent. Wherever there is a disaster, people from that place temporarily move in. When no one is living there, the doors are locked," said a passing villager.
"To rent a shop, find an individual; to rent the upstairs residences, find the government," said a chess-and-card room owner. After a brief phone inquiry, she told the reporter, "The upstairs residences can't be rented."
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Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau only manages construction, not occupancy; believes "no one is willing to live there" due to small size and poor supporting facilities
On July 9, the reporter came to the Hezhang County Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau (赫章县住房和城乡建设局) and interviewed relevant staff.
Are these three buildings targeted poverty alleviation relocation housing or public rental housing? "At the start of the project, it was indeed planned as resettlement housing," said Xie Yizhong (谢义忠), deputy director of the Hezhang County Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau.
According to the introduction, in 2015, the former Hezhang County Housing Authority, the former Zhuming Township Government, and the developer Guizhou Hantang Junru Investment Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Hantang Junru Company") (贵州汉唐俊儒投资有限公司) signed an agreement, planning to invest in building 500 resettlement housing units using a model of enterprise construction and government repurchase. The project began construction in March of that year.
"But in February 2017, when the project was half-built, the province adjusted the resettlement plan, requiring that poverty alleviation relocation households be concentrated and resettled in the county seat," said a staff member of the former Hezhang County Ecological Migration Bureau (原生态移民局).
What about that 2017 targeted poverty alleviation relocation bidding project that planned to invest over 86.6 million yuan? The staff member said that this project had nothing to do with the three buildings. He believed that because the province adjusted the policy, this poverty alleviation relocation project was not approved and thus never entered the implementation stage.
"The former Housing Authority then adjusted the agreement with Hantang Junru Company, changing from the original repurchase of 500 units as resettlement housing to a repurchase of 208 units as public rental housing," Xie Yizhong told the reporter. Because public rental housing has strict restrictions on floor area and eligibility conditions for occupants, the 208 units built are all one-bedroom, one-living-room apartments, each with an area of only 35 square meters. Only township teachers, doctors, and public officials who have passed the application and approval process can rent them; if there is any surplus, they can be rented to the general public.
In October 2018, Hantang Junru Company completed construction of three buildings totaling 208 public rental housing units — the same three six-story buildings the reporter saw in Zhuming Town. Among them, the ground-floor shops are owned by the developer, and the upper four floors are public rental housing.
As the reporter saw, the main construction of the three buildings was completed, water and electricity were connected, and the community's supporting facilities were basically complete. So why did the functional departments reply that "the houses have not completed acceptance inspection"?
Xie Yizhong explained that the houses had indeed reached the conditions for occupancy, but because there was a land dispute between Hantang Junru Company and the township, the enterprise had been unable to obtain the land use certificate, so the final acceptance inspection had not been completed.
"Therefore, the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau only paid 4 million yuan from the central government's special public rental housing fund as the purchase price, and there is still over 1.1 million yuan in outstanding payments that have not been settled," Xie Yizhong said.
As for the reader's report that the houses were idle for years after completion, the housing department acknowledged that the situation was true. However, in Xie Yizhong's view, once the houses were built, the housing department's primary work was complete. Who specifically rents them and how they are managed should be the responsibility of the township. Moreover, the failure to complete the acceptance inspection was only one of several reasons for the public rental housing's idleness.
Xie Yizhong believes that the actual demand for public rental housing among Zhuming Town's cadres and masses is now much less than what was surveyed in 2015. "In the past, public rental housing indeed solved many people's housing problems. But as the living standards of the common people have improved, no one is willing to live in such small 35-square-meter, one-bedroom, one-living-room apartments. The area is very 'unappealing' (鸡肋 - 'chicken ribs,' something of little value)."
He believes that the incomplete supporting infrastructure around the public rental housing is also an important reason why people are unwilling to live there. "Small-town construction was originally supposed to have the developer build the infrastructure in conjunction with the township's plan, but the developer's funding chain broke. Now the roads there haven't even been paved with asphalt. No one is willing to live there," Xie Yizhong said.
Although the Hezhang County housing department believes that the main responsibility for the idle public rental housing does not lie with itself, it has still made some efforts to revitalize this public rental housing. The staff showed the reporter three documents: the "Notice on Further Doing a Good Job of Revitalizing Public Rental Housing" jointly issued by six departments including the Guizhou Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development in 2022, the "Work Plan for Revitalizing and Disposing of Hezhang County Public Rental Housing" issued by the Hezhang County People's Government Office in 2023, and the provincial approval of Bijie City's plan for revitalizing and disposing of public rental housing in 2024.
Based on these three documents, Xie Yizhong stated that the Hezhang County Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau had strictly followed the province's requirements for revitalizing public rental housing and issued a specific revitalization plan. The province and city had finally approved the plan after on-site research and expert discussion.
The Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau has taken over but not revitalized; township government staff believe "many people are willing to live there"
How was the revitalization plan designed? An "Agreement" shown to the reporter by staff of the Hezhang County Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau stated that in June 2024, the bureau transferred this project, together with idle public rental housing in three other townships totaling 700 units, to the Hezhang County Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau (赫章县农业农村局).
"That is to say, this batch of houses is no longer public rental housing managed by the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, but rather a government asset managed by the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau," Xie Yizhong said. This was also to better raise funds for house repairs. "After the transfer, anyone can rent these houses. The township can negotiate the rent with tenants according to market prices." As for how exactly to revitalize them and how the revitalization is progressing, it is the responsibility of the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau and the township.
According to the agreement, this batch of public rental housing had been transferred for two years. Why is it still idle? Li Jie (李杰), deputy director of the Hezhang County Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau, told the reporter that the county Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau had originally discussed the transfer plan with the former Hezhang County Ecological Migration Bureau. Later, due to institutional reform, the Hezhang County Ecological Migration Bureau was merged into the Hezhang County Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau, and the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau took over the revitalization work. He admitted that after taking over, "we indeed have not yet seriously communicated with the township about this issue."
Li Jie believes that the idle public rental housing in the other three townships that were transferred at the same time as Zhuming Town has basically been revitalized. The reason for the low occupancy rate in Zhuming Town's housing is mainly because there is an unresolved debt dispute between the developer and Zhuming Town. Moreover, he agreed with the housing department's assessment of the market prospects for this batch of houses: "The small-town development was not done well, the supporting facilities are incomplete, and the houses are small. Most people are not willing to come and live there."
"We have also thought about helping Zhuming Town improve the infrastructure, but the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau's funds can only be invested at the village level, not used for small-town development. The township leaders proposed whether we could apply for funds by building a walnut trading market nearby. In the end, we did not agree," Li Jie said helplessly. He said the next step was still to clarify the revitalization plan with Zhuming Town.
What is Zhuming Town's view on this? On the afternoon of July 9, the reporter met with staff of the Zhuming Town Government.
"The houses were built by Hantang Junru Company for the county Housing Authority project. After completion, they need to be accepted jointly by the company, the township, and the Housing Authority before they can be handed over to the township. The houses have not yet been accepted, and the township has never obtained the right to use this batch of houses. How could we dare to rent them out?" The Zhuming Town government staff felt somewhat "wronged."
Is there a dispute between Zhuming Town and the developer? The staff member said that Zhuming Town has no land or debt dispute with the developer.
The staff member told the reporter that the land parcel for the public rental housing was originally township collective land. After being converted to construction land, Hantang Junru Company needed to pay 4.8 million yuan in land transfer fees to the County Natural Resources Bureau. This money was transferred directly into the county treasury. However, Hantang Junru Company only paid 1 million yuan in land transfer fees, so the land use certificate was not obtained.
Why did the developer not pay the land transfer fees in full? The reporter contacted Mr. Min (闵先生), former manager of Hantang Junru Company. "The 4.8 million yuan in land transfer fees was calculated based on building 8 public rental housing buildings. Now only 3 buildings have been built, and the other 5 will no longer be built. So the transfer fee should be calculated based on the actual situation," Mr. Min said. "The original company's boss also went to the relevant departments, but there has been no progress so far."
The township government staff member also believed that in the small-town construction, the greening and street lamps around the public rental housing had all been completed, and there was no situation of incomplete infrastructure. These should have been included in the contract for supporting facilities construction of the public rental housing signed between the developer and the county Housing Authority. "For example, the road surface: the contract originally specified asphalt roads. Now the basic hardening has been completed, and a water-stabilized layer has been laid," he said.
Is the public rental housing idle because each unit is too small and no one wants to live there? In response, the staff member's answer surprised the reporter quite a bit. "This batch of public rental housing is nominally 208 units, but in reality it is 104 units. Because during construction, two units were combined into one, making each unit 70 square meters, with two bedrooms, one living room, and separate kitchen and bathroom." Mr. Min confirmed this statement.
The township government staff member also said that this batch of public rental housing enjoys a superior geographical location, only about 500 meters from the township government and the nearest primary school. If these residences could be fully rented out now, they would be sufficient to meet the housing needs of many families.
When the reporter asked how Zhuming Town would revitalize this batch of houses that had been taken over by the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau, the staff member said he had no idea that the houses had already been transferred. But he firmly stated that if the procedures could be completed and the houses could be rented out to the market, "many people would be willing to come and live here."
"In the past, quite a few people in the town were inquiring about whether these houses could be rented. The township's cadres and masses still have housing needs," the staff member said. "It's really a pity that such good houses have been sitting idle for so many years."
What will become of this batch of public rental housing? This newspaper will continue to follow up.
Return to TopRecently, this author visited several villages in Yongshou County (永寿县), Shaanxi, for research and observed that the locality is implementing a rural living environment improvement initiative. After the improvements, village roads were paved with concrete and the surroundings became tidy, yet many residents also expressed the view that during the formulation and implementation of the improvement plans, the opinions of the masses were not fully solicited, and excessive amounts of the original greenery were removed, which harmed the small-scale rural ecosystem.
For instance, in some villages of Mafang Town (马坊镇) and Ganjing Town (甘井镇), walnut trees, cherry trees, and magnolia trees that had been planted for decades were cut down along both sides of the streets and in front of villagers' homes. These had once been shaded green spaces where villagers rested and chatted; some of these trees had even witnessed the growth of several generations. Now replaced by cement pavement, the villagers have lost places to cool off in summer. Some villagers who had returned from elsewhere also lamented that "the trees we grew up with are gone," and "the hometown has become neither city nor village — you can no longer see the nostalgia and memories."
Rural living environment improvement should be people-centered, respecting the characteristics and realities of the countryside, rather than blindly imitating cities by laying cement plazas and cement roads everywhere. It is suggested that relevant departments heed the voices of the masses, calibrate the direction of the next phase of improvement work, and carry out construction scientifically and rationally, so that rural living environment improvement 得民心 (dé mínxīn - "wins people's hearts"), 惠民生 (huì mínshēng - "benefits people's livelihoods"), and 美乡村 (měi xiāngcūn - "beautifies the countryside").
Xi'an, Shaanxi Chang Xiao (长啸)
Return to TopRecently, in a certain place, an enterprise had more than 60 eligible employees voluntarily donate blood without compensation, but the unit was far from the local central blood station, and the employees could not leave their work posts for long periods, so they made a phone appointment to have the county blood station send a mobile blood collection vehicle to the enterprise, facilitating collective blood donation by the employees.
In fact, there are many units that hope to make appointments for on-site blood collection, especially Party and government organs and large enterprises. Employees have the willingness to donate blood without compensation, but they are busy with daily work, it is inconvenient to go out collectively, and some units lack transportation. If the blood center can open an appointment phone line, and through appointments have mobile blood collection vehicles provide on-site service, it can both facilitate employees in fulfilling their wish to donate blood and improve blood collection efficiency.
It is suggested that blood centers in various places learn from this practice, widely publicize appointment contact numbers to the public, arrange dedicated personnel to be responsible for coordination, and form specialized on-site blood collection work teams. In this way, more people can participate in blood donation without affecting their work, thereby increasing the blood reserves of the blood centers.
Nantong, Jiangsu, Yang Hanxiang (杨汉祥)
Return to TopSince the start of summer, electric bicycles with added rain shelters can occasionally be seen on the roads. This modification appears to provide shade and rain protection, but in fact poses many safety hazards.
Adding a rain shelter significantly alters the original structure of the electric bicycle, leading to safety hazards: first, it increases the vehicle's wind resistance, affecting handling performance; second, when turning, in windy conditions, or on slippery roads, the vehicle's stability is greatly reduced, making it prone to tipping over; third, it blocks the rider's line of sight, increasing the risk of traffic accidents.
Article 18 of the Road Traffic Safety Law of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国道路交通安全法) stipulates that the external dimensions, mass, brakes, bell, and nighttime reflective devices of non-motor vehicles shall comply with the safety technical standards for non-motor vehicles. Arbitrarily adding a rain shelter to an electric bicycle may violate relevant laws and regulations.
Relevant departments should increase law enforcement efforts and rectify illegal modification behaviors in accordance with the law. The vast number of electric bicycle riders should enhance their safety awareness and must not neglect safety risks for the sake of temporary comfort.
Luohe, Henan (河南漯河市) Wang Xiugen (王秀根)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 姜 峰
On March 24, this newspaper’s “Readers’ Letters” section published “‘Billion-Yuan Village’ Behind the Drinking Water Difficulty” (《“亿元村”饮水难的背后》), which reported on problems in Daba Village (大坝村), Yongle Town (永乐镇), Fengjie County (奉节县), Chongqing, including some water supply facilities being idle and damaged, villagers having difficulty accessing drinking water, and water source pollution. On the afternoon of July 9, the reporter went to Daba Village for an on-site follow-up, conducting household inspections to verify item by item the rectification status of problem points, the water supply operation model, and the actual situation of the masses’ water use.
Driving from Fengjie County town, crossing the bridge to Yongle Town on the opposite bank of the Yangtze River, then winding up the village roads and mountain paths, the reporter arrived at the Wujiabao (吴家包) area located on the back mountain of Daba Village. The Tian’echi (天鹅池) Drinking Water Project and the irrigation project that supply water to this area had previously had problems such as being built but not used, and damaged pipelines.
The reporter randomly entered the home of villager Wu Maodong (吴茂东), who was 72 years old and washing dishes in the kitchen. Hearing the reporter explain the purpose of the visit, he said, “one cubic meter for two yuan,” while turning on the tap; it was seen that the water flow was sufficient and the water was clear. Wu Maodong and his wife were at home; their children and grandchildren usually live in the city. “They just came back for the Dragon Boat Festival, and all eight of us were able to take a bath.” Along the mountain path, the reporter also randomly visited the homes of villagers Wu Ruicheng (吴瑞成) and Wu Ruiyin (吴瑞银), and learned that after the problems were exposed, their water supply had been stable.
At the highest point of Wujiabao, the reporter came to the management room, reservoir, and Shanpingtang (山坪塘) Irrigation Project of the Tian’echi Drinking Water Project. The notice board outside the management room showed that the water supply scope of Tian’echi involved Group 2 of Daba Village, 142 households and 522 people, with a volume of 800 cubic meters. Opening the management room, two filtration devices and one chlorine dioxide disinfector had been put into use. Walking up to the sealed concrete reservoir and looking down through the gap of the inspection hatch, the water level was relatively high.
“The Tian’echi Drinking Water Project has secured its water diversion source, completed the signing of agreements for the Wujiabao and Fengjiacao (冯家槽) water supply areas, and through a mass courtyard meeting settled the management and protection system and fee standards,” introduced Xing Ping (邢平), Secretary of the Yongle Town Party Committee. “The dam body of the 1.82 million cubic meter Xiniuchong Reservoir (西牛冲水库), which serves as the main stream water source, has been completed. It is expected to begin storing water this autumn, thoroughly resolving the water source shortage for Tian’echi and its surrounding areas. The damaged pipelines of the related irrigation project were also repaired on March 31.”
Regarding the water source pollution problem, the reporter traced to the Liao Mei Zi (廖妹子) Pig Farm in Fengjie County, located upstream of the Longwangtang (龙王塘) ditch in Daba Village. “There are more than 200 head of pigs in stock, and now all the manure and waste are returned to the fields for use,” said the operator Weng Maobai (翁茂柏), pointing to the transformed manure treatment facility beside him.
Xing Ping introduced: “Law enforcement inspections were carried out on the Liao Mei Zi Pig Farm and surrounding livestock farmers. Cases were filed and closed by the county Ecological Environment Bureau (县生态环境局) and the town government. Five livestock farmers were supervised to complete the repair of damaged pipeline networks and standardize the implementation of rainwater and sewage separation measures, achieving the resource utilization of manure and waste for land application.”
Going down the mountain path, the reporter then came to the lower-altitude Longdongwan (龙洞湾) water supply area. Previously, this was an open-air pit drawing from mountain spring water, once covered with duckweed and with turbid water. Passing through a patch of woods and reaching the former pit, before it was now a sealed reservoir, with a water supply scope involving 64 households and 276 people. After the problems were exposed, local authorities carried out engineering upgrades, completing desilting inside the pool, repair of the enclosing wall, sealing with a cover, and renovation of the main drinking water pipeline network and household pipes. Entering the home of nearby villager Xiong Jichun (熊吉春), he said, “In April, we had a meeting, signed a water use agreement, chose two villagers as water managers, water quality is maintained by everyone, and how to manage and how to use were all made clear.” Xiong Jichun introduced.
Further down from Longdongwan, we came to the home of Deng Shunan (邓术楠), a villager in Group 3 adjacent to the Yangtze River. She was preparing dinner; the rushing water from the kitchen tap was no longer drawn from the Yangtze River. The local authorities solicited opinions from 9 households and formulated a centralized water supply plan, coordinated the connection to the Fangjiabao (方家包) centralized water supply tank, installed the main pipeline, household branch pipes, water meters, and faucets, and signed water use agreements with the 9 households. Simultaneously, water quality sampling and testing were carried out, and the water quality met standards, achieving water supply to households.
Xing Ping introduced that the local authorities, 举一反三 (jǔ yī fǎn sān - “raise one and infer three,” to learn from one instance and generalize), coordinated the advancement of Daba Village’s water supply work, constructing 4 new ponds, renovating 2 ponds, installing 3 sets of intelligent sensing equipment, installing 20,690 meters of various pipelines and 270 water meters, and expanding the coverage of centralized water supply. At the same time, a long-term management and protection mechanism was established, building a management and protection structure mainly composed of village cadres, grid workers, and supervisors, and organizing mass consultations to determine water prices and sign water management and protection agreements.
At the same time, Fengjie County incorporated the rural drinking water safety consolidation and enhancement work into the county’s special action, conducting a sieve-style investigation of problems, with county-level departments forming inspection teams and unannounced inspection teams to verify item by item. It issued the “Notice on Further Improving the Closed-Loop Handling of the Masses’ Drinking Water Safety Appeals” (《进一步做好群众饮水安全诉求闭环处置工作的通知》), and the County Party Committee Office Supervision Office (县委办督查室) supervises the handling of incidents that the masses are dissatisfied with.
“Currently, 369 village communities have completed the compilation of the ‘Integrated Water Supply and Irrigation Register’ (饮水灌溉‘一本通’),” said Tang Chengwei (唐承伟), Director of the Fengjie County Water Resources Bureau (奉节县水利局). The local authorities are advancing the construction of a unified management system of “1 county-level unified management enterprise + 31 towns and streets + 369 village-level management and protection associations,” to raise the county-level unified management rate for rural water supply. Recently, they organized three on-site promotion meetings for county-level unified management areas and a special training on county-wide water management capacity. In addition, 234 samples were sent for testing from various towns and streets, and the county Water Quality Monitoring Center (县水质监测中心) conducted spot checks on 217 samples, with a water quality testing pass rate of 89.5%. Rectification ledgers were established for unqualified water samples, with item-by-item supervision of rectification to achieve closed-loop management and control of risk hazards.
Return to TopThe People’s Daily Reader Letters section and the People’s Network Leadership Message Board have jointly launched a collection of the masses’ urgent, difficult, and troubling problems. Readers are welcome to provide clues and suggestions on production safety risks and hazards.
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Return to TopBy: 张一夫
Currently, it is at a critical period for flood prevention. On July 15, General Secretary Xi Jinping, during his inspection in Shanghai, emphasized that all regions and relevant parties must firmly establish bottom-line thinking and extreme-limit thinking, closely monitor the rain, flood, and typhoon situations, conduct thorough and meticulous risk hazard investigations, and solidly carry out work such as flood prevention and resistance, emergency rescue and disaster relief, and effectively safeguard the safety of people's lives and property.
In recent days, all regions and departments have made every effort to carry out flood prevention, typhoon defense, and post-disaster emergency recovery work, minimizing disaster losses to the greatest extent, and resolutely safeguarding the safety of people's lives and property as well as overall social stability.
The vast number of Party members and cadres act upon orders. In Chongqing, rescue forces from all sides traveled day and night and coordinated operations; in Guangxi, Party members and cadres stood guard day and night and charged forward, fully carrying out rescue and relief efforts; in Liaoning, Party members and cadres went from village to village and household to household, checking person by person, and safely evacuated the masses; in Hubei, Party organizations at all levels continuously advanced post-disaster reconstruction work, making every effort to help the masses restore production and living order...
One Party branch is a fortress, one Party member is a banner. The vast number of Party members and cadres lead the masses to work together with one heart and one mind, building a solid line of defense of 众志成城 (zhòng zhì chéng chéng - "united will forms a fortress," meaning unity is strength), and they will surely win this tough battle of flood prevention and disaster relief.
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Return to TopBy: 都 阳
Talent is the primary resource. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “Deeply implement a series of major strategies such as the strategy of revitalizing the country through science and education (科教兴国战略), the strategy of strengthening the country through talent (人才强国战略), and the rural revitalization strategy (乡村振兴战略), so as to provide solid strategic support for Chinese-style modernization (中国式现代化).” To achieve the goals of Chinese-style modernization, it is necessary to better leverage the initiative, proactivity, and creativity of talent in economic and social development. At present, China’s advantage in abundant human resources is accelerating its transformation into a talent advantage, becoming a favorable factor for promoting high-quality economic and social development during the 15th Five-Year Plan (十五五) period and beyond. It is essential to accurately grasp the characteristics of the talent advantage in the new era, accelerate the building of a talent-strong country, and better transform the talent advantage into an advantage for high-quality development.
China’s human resource advantage is accelerating its transformation into a talent advantage
At different stages of economic development, human resources take different forms, and the ways of driving development also differ. Viewed from the concrete practical course of our country, China already possesses a talent contingent that is large in scale, excellent in quality, continuously optimized in structure, and increasingly prominent in role. The talent advantage is continuously and rapidly taking shape and is constantly manifesting itself in development.
The transformation of a population advantage into a talent advantage is an inevitable result of economic development. China’s economic take-off stage coincided with a period of abundant demographic dividend. Through vigorously developing basic education, a large number of highly qualified industrial workers were cultivated, laying a solid human resource foundation for the development of labor-intensive industries, and this was successfully converted into tangible economic growth, creating a miracle of long-term rapid economic growth. With the accelerated advancement of China’s demographic transition, the population conditions for economic and social development have also undergone important changes. Data from the National Bureau of Statistics shows that China’s total dependency ratio rose from a low of 34.2% in 2010 to 45.8% in 2024, while the total working-age population aged 16–59 began to decline from 2012, reaching 851 million in 2025. In terms of absolute scale, China remains a large human resource country, but due to the enormous size of China’s economic aggregate, the relative scarcity of labor as a factor of production is becoming increasingly evident. This shift occurring in the labor market is an inevitable result of economic development and also the goal of development, objectively accelerating the transformation of the population advantage into a talent advantage.
Talent resources have become an important support for Chinese-style modernization. As economic development enters a higher stage, relying on talent to drive high-quality development is an inevitable law of economic development, and the formation of talent resources is based on long-term unremitting efforts. As early as the 1990s, China proposed and implemented the strategy of revitalizing the country through science and education. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has profoundly answered the major theoretical and practical questions of why to build a talent-strong country, what a talent-strong country is, and how to build a talent-strong country, and has put forward a series of new ideas, new viewpoints, and new conclusions. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed: “Seize the historic opportunity of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, and coordinate the construction of an education-strong country, a science and technology-strong country, and a talent-strong country.” The thinking on the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent has become clearer, and the measures more solid. Through continuously increasing investment and promoting leapfrog development of higher education, China has built the world’s largest higher education system, and the overall level of higher education has significantly improved. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, China’s gross enrollment ratio for higher education exceeded 60%, entering the universally recognized stage of popularization, laying a solid foundation for broad talent cultivation. By the end of 2025, the average years of education of the working-age population reached 11.3 years, and the average years of education of the new labor force reached 14.3 years. Major indicators reflecting the level of talent resources, such as the total amount of talent resources, the number of professional and technical personnel, and the full-time equivalent of various R&D personnel, all rank among the top in the world.
The structure of China’s talent resources is continuously optimizing. The accelerated transformation of China’s population advantage into a talent advantage is reflected not only in the obvious advantage in the total amount of talent resources but also in the continuous optimization of the structure of talent resources. First, the cohort structure advantage of human capital is more pronounced. China’s large-scale talent cultivation is basically synchronized with the process of reform and opening up. A series of major strategic deployments proposed since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China have promoted new major progress in talent work. From the perspective of age structure, China’s talent resources are younger than those of many developed countries, can play a role over a longer time cycle, and are also conducive to China’s response to the challenges posed by population aging. Second, China’s talent resource structure is reasonable and highly competitive. According to internationally comparable standards, university graduates cultivated in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) account for 40% of all graduates, higher than developed countries such as the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, as well as emerging economies such as India, Brazil, and South Africa, giving China a clear talent structure advantage among the world’s major economies. Third, the matching of China’s talent resources with the industrial structure is generally reasonable, supporting the layout and development of high-end manufacturing, modern services, emerging industries, and future industries, and is a favorable condition for China’s high-quality economic development.
Talent resources effectively promote the formation of new quality productive forces (新质生产力) and drive high-quality development. At present, the synergistic effect of China’s talent advantage and high-quality development has initially emerged. Industries such as high-end equipment, industrial robots, electric vehicles, green energy, and biomedicine have become increasingly important new engines driving China’s economic growth. For example, in the first half of 2026, the added value of the equipment manufacturing industry increased by 9.3% year-on-year, and the added value of the high-tech manufacturing industry increased by 13.3%, which were 3.9 and 7.9 percentage points faster respectively than the added value of all industries above designated size; exports of new energy vehicles reached 2.355 million units, a year-on-year increase of 1.2 times. These industries are all talent-intensive industries. Their rapid growth not only demonstrates the achievements of China’s high-quality economic development and global competitiveness but also fully reflects that the talent advantage is playing an important role in cutting-edge innovation industries. Practice has proven that the transformation of China’s talent resource advantage into an advantage for high-quality economic development is continuously accelerating in speed and increasing in effectiveness, and will certainly more forcefully promote the process of Chinese-style modernization.
Advancing Chinese-style modernization requires fully utilizing the talent advantage
In September 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered an important speech at the Central Conference on Talent Work (中央人才工作会议), emphasizing: “Talent resources are an important strength and a significant advantage for our country in the fierce international competition.” This important论断 highlights the crucial role of talent in promoting high-quality development. Chinese-style modernization is the modernization of a huge population, which is reflected both in the tremendous improvement of people’s well-being as over 1.4 billion people enter modernization as a whole, and in the fact that the mighty force driving the modernization process comes from abundant human resources. Better leveraging the effectiveness of the talent advantage is conducive to further improving the quality of China’s human resources and providing more solid support for achieving the goals of Chinese-style modernization.
Promoting high-quality development with talent is a requirement for implementing the new development philosophy. As China’s economy shifts from a stage of high-speed growth to a stage of high-quality development, the driving force for economic growth also needs to shift from mainly relying on the accumulation of production factors to improving economic efficiency, highlighting the role of total factor productivity growth in economic growth. From the sources of total factor productivity, optimizing the allocation of production factors can indeed improve total factor productivity, but this method can only play a role for a certain period; a substantial increase in total factor productivity mainly depends on scientific and technological innovation. And the most important foundation for promoting scientific and technological innovation is talent. Therefore, the strategy of统筹 education, science and technology, and talent integrated development not only clarifies the path of talent supply but also fully reflects the inevitable requirement of transforming the mode of economic growth in the new development stage.
Abundant talent resources will play a more prominent role in the new era and new journey. Talent growth has similar characteristics to the formation of physical capital; both rely on long-term investment and accumulation, but talent also has its own characteristics in terms of how it functions. Viewed from the regular characteristics of how talent plays its role, the transformation of the talent advantage into a high-quality development advantage is essentially the process in which knowledge and creative thinking play a more prominent role in economic activities, promoting the growth of productivity through the positive externalities of knowledge. The more abundant and concentrated talent resources are, the more conducive they are to the generation and diffusion of new knowledge. This is the essential difference between the role of talent resources and physical capital in economic growth: physical capital is constrained by the law of diminishing returns, while talent resources have the potential for increasing returns to scale. Accurately grasping this law can accelerate the release of the talent dividend, enabling it to exert its advantage in the process of Chinese-style modernization.
The talent advantage is the guarantee for China to gain an advantage in the competition of the new round of technological revolution. From the relationship between global economic development and technological progress in recent decades, skill-biased technological change has dominated, meaning that technological progress is based on the intensive use of talent and leads the supply of talent, thereby forming a virtuous cycle. The new round of technological revolution led by artificial intelligence is 方兴未艾 (fāng xīng wèi ài - “just rising and not yet ended,” burgeoning), and industrial transformation is developing rapidly, fully reflecting the close connection between the talent advantage and the competitive advantage under the new circumstances. At present, China’s innovation capacity is continuously strengthening, precisely benefiting from the accelerated release of the talent dividend. The Global Innovation Index released by the World Intellectual Property Organization shows that China’s ranking rapidly rose from 34th in 2012 to 10th in 2025, entering the world’s top ten for the first time and maintaining a leading position among global middle-income economies.
Key points for transforming the talent advantage into a high-quality development advantage
To continuously strengthen the talent advantage, release the talent dividend, and better transform the talent advantage into a high-quality development advantage, it is necessary to anchor the goal of building a talent-strong country, give fuller play to the important role of talent resources, continuously increase investment, deepen reforms, and form a sustainable talent cultivation mechanism.
Effectively transform the mode of economic development so that talent resources have a place to use their skills on the main battlefield of economic construction. Fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development philosophy, continuously transform the mode of economic development, rely more on new quality productive forces and innovation to drive economic growth, promote closer connections between talent resources and other production factors, and make the growth of total factor productivity play a more important role in long-term economic growth. Implement the deployment requirements of the 15th Five-Year Plan outline regarding “building a modern industrial system,” take building a modern industrial system as an important lever to accelerate the release of the talent dividend and promote high-quality development, increase talent investment in optimizing and upgrading traditional industries, cultivating and expanding emerging industries and future industries, and promoting the development of modern service industries, and better reap the development fruits brought by the talent advantage.
Uphold Chinese characteristics, give full play to comparative advantages, and release the talent dividend. The formation of China’s talent resource advantage not only possesses the general characteristics of the formation of talent resource advantages in countries around the world but also has distinct Chinese characteristics. The leapfrog development of the higher education system is a characteristic advantage of our country. It is necessary to fully consider the talent supply pattern under the influence of this factor, formulate reasonable industrial policies accordingly, maximize the use of existing talent resource advantages, and cultivate more and higher-quality talent resources guided by industry. The higher education level of young workers is also a characteristic advantage of our country. To make good use of this advantage, it is necessary to fully respect the decisive role of the market mechanism in the allocation of talent resources, effectively resolve structural employment contradictions, and on the basis of making good use of the labor market, fully cultivate and develop highly specialized segmented talent markets, transforming China’s decades of massive investment in human capital into important resources for Chinese-style modernization.
Coordinate talent cultivation and utilization, and continuously ensure high-quality development with the talent advantage. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “Competition in comprehensive national strength is, 归根到底 (guī gēn dào dǐ - “to get to the bottom of things,” ultimately), competition for talent. Whichever country has an advantage in talent will ultimately have an advantage in strength.” Cultivating talent is a major plan for the long-term development of the country and the nation. The higher the level of economic development, the higher the requirements for talent, and the higher the requirements for the cultivation and utilization of talent. It is necessary to more closely combine “investment in things” with “investment in people,” improve the whole-chain cultivation system for outstanding talent, enhance talent’s innovation ability and ability to solve complex problems in the process of economic development, and form a virtuous cycle of mutual promotion between human capital accumulation and economic development. Straighten out the systems and mechanisms for talent utilization, cultivate and make good use of young talent in all aspects, and create more scenarios for the release of the talent dividend.
(The author is a researcher at the Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想研究中心), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.)
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At the conference celebrating the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “On the new journey, the entire Party must maintain the determination to keep the path unchanged and the aspiration unchanged.” This “determination,” when embodied in concrete work, can be called “perseverance.” The three generations of forest farm builders in Saihanba (塞罕坝) in Hebei continued afforestation, creating a million mu of forest sea on desertified sandy land; Party members and cadres in Youyu (右玉) in Shanxi used strong historical patience to plant trees and control sand, turning desert into oasis; several generations in Xihaigu (西海固) in Ningxia successively diverted water, relocated, cultivated industries, and after decades of hard work, bid farewell to millennia of poverty… Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, there are many such stories of 持之以恒 (chí zhī yǐ héng - “persist with constancy,” to persevere steadfastly) and 久久为功 (jiǔ jiǔ wéi gōng - “sustained effort yields achievement,” long-term persistent effort). This profoundly enlightens us: to establish and practice a correct view of political performance, we must 锲而不舍 (qiè ér bù shě - “carve without stopping,” to persevere unremittingly) and continuously exert effort, only then can we accomplish achievements that do not fail the era, do not fail history, and do not fail the people.
政贵有恒 (zhèng guì yǒu héng - “governance values constancy,” stability and continuity in governance). General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: “We must keep in mind one truth: governance values constancy. When holding office in a locality and governing for a period, one must certainly boldly carry out work and forge ahead with determination, but at the same time maintain the stability and continuity of work.” “Perseverance” manifests as long-term determination, tenacious resilience, and bearing the overall situation in mind. This requires Party members and cadres to be adept at coordinating the overall situation in decision-making, to look far ahead in planning, to practice the basic skill of the word “perseverance,” and to carry out a single blueprint to the end.
To practice the skill of “perseverance,” one must cultivate tenacity. Undertaking work and starting enterprises is never a momentary charge or a burst of enthusiasm; only by persevering with constancy in upholding the original aspiration and indomitably shouldering heavy responsibilities can one gnaw through hard bones and accomplish solid things. Developing industries requires building on local advantages and steadily nurturing them; benefiting the people requires grasping the masses’ needs and gradually addressing them; improving the ecology requires grasping key links and advancing in close succession. No task can be accomplished easily or overnight; only through 日积月累 (rì jī yuè lěi - “daily accumulation, monthly accumulation,” gradual accumulation over time) can we accumulate small victories into major victories, while 浅尝辄止 (qiǎn cháng zhé zhǐ - “taste a little and then stop,” to dabble without commitment) will only lead to nothing accomplished. No matter how splendid a blueprint is, turning it into reality requires persistence and sedimentation, 水滴石穿 (shuǐ dī shí chuān - “water drips through stone,” persistent effort yields results). When encountering setbacks, do not shrink back or evade, but 重整旗鼓 (chóng zhěng qí gǔ - “reorganize banners and drums,” to rally after a setback), grit your teeth and break through; when facing complex contradictions, do not avoid or dodge, but 抽丝剥茧 (chōu sī bō jiǎn - “unravel silk from cocoons,” to analyze step by step), seek good prescriptions, and with the persistence of “biting firmly on the green mountain and not letting go,” fix your eyes on the goal and advance step by step, tread solidly and go steadily far.
To practice the skill of “perseverance,” one must not “flip the pancake” (fān shāo bǐng - to change policies frequently and abruptly). For a policy to take effect upon landing, it cannot do without 一以贯之 (yī yǐ guàn zhī - “consistently carry through,” to be consistent throughout) implementation, and it cannot be frequently adjusted. When doing work, one must first solidly complete design and planning. Through investigation and research, 集思广益 (jí sī guǎng yì - “pool wisdom and broaden benefits,” to gather collective wisdom) to ensure decisions are scientific, feasible, and practical, and 行之有效 (xíng zhī yǒu xiào - “effective in practice,” to be effective) and long-lasting. It is necessary to maintain the stability and continuity of policies, and not casually change tracks or repaint walls. If one acts on impulse without long-term planning and forward-thinking, 朝令夕改 (zhāo lìng xī gǎi - “issue orders in the morning and change them in the evening,” to be inconsistent), or if a new official makes three fires and ignores previous accounts, having one idea today and a new regulation tomorrow, then nothing will be accomplished, and ultimately it will damage the people’s trust and miss development opportunities. From layout and advancement to reaping results, time sedimentation is often needed. Party members and cadres must show a stubbornness, respect development laws, and steadily advance policy measures that have been tested by practice, conform to reality, and benefit people’s livelihoods, building floors layer by layer on a well-laid foundation.
To practice the skill of “perseverance,” one must calculate long-term accounts. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “When handling affairs, we must grasp a principle: we must calculate big accounts, calculate long-term accounts, calculate overall accounts, and calculate comprehensive accounts.” Development is not only the effect of a particular time and place, but also the benefit of the overall situation and the long term. The starting point for Party members and cadres when thinking about problems and making decisions must not be their own temporary fame or a single achievement. As long as something conforms to reality and matches the people’s aspirations, it must be carried on one after another. To establish and practice a correct view of political performance, it is necessary to overcome the mentality of 急功近利 (jí gōng jìn lì - “eager for quick success and instant benefit,” to be overly impatient for results) and avoid the practice of 饮鸩止渴 (yǐn zhèn zhǐ kě - “drink poison to quench thirst,” to seek short-term relief at great long-term cost), and not pursue superficial political achievements or image projects. Do not change the persistent heart, do not shift the long-term aspiration. For things that are effective in the present and sustainable in the long term, dare to do them; for things that are not effective in the short term yet lay a foundation for the long term, also strive to do them. Only by calculating big accounts, long-term accounts, overall accounts, and comprehensive accounts, maintaining strategic determination (战略定力), 真抓实干 (zhēn zhuā shí gàn - “truly grasp and solidly do,” to work earnestly and practically), 稳中求进 (wěn zhōng qiú jìn - “seek progress while maintaining stability”), 先立后破 (xiān lì hòu pò - “first establish then break,” to set up new before discarding old), and moving forward step by step, can we continuously achieve success in our cause.
Currently, China is in a critical period of laying a solid foundation and making comprehensive efforts to basically achieve socialist modernization, and it needs to deal with a more complex environment and resolve more deep-seated contradictions. The more complex the situation, the more arduous the task, the more it is necessary for the vast number of Party members and cadres to establish and practice a correct view of political performance, practice the skill of “perseverance,” and implement and promote development with the determination that governance values constancy and sustained effort yields achievement, writing an answer sheet worthy of the times and worthy of the people with persistent struggle.
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Employment is the most fundamental aspect of people's livelihoods. General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out: "Promoting high-quality full employment is the new positioning and new mission of employment work on the new journey of the new era" and "more consciously take high-quality full employment as the priority target of economic and social development." At present, disruptive technologies represented by artificial intelligence are profoundly reshaping the form of economy and society, and exerting a far-reaching impact on employment. The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan has made important arrangements for comprehensively implementing the "AI+" action (人工智能+行动), proposing to "strengthen the employment creation effect of artificial intelligence," providing a fundamental guideline for us to firmly seize the opportunities brought by the development of artificial intelligence technology, address the risks and challenges it poses, and do a good job in employment work over the next five years. To implement the decisions and deployments of the 15th Five-Year Plan outline, we must dialectically view the opportunities and challenges that AI development brings to employment, promote high-quality full employment in the process of continuously fostering the healthy and orderly development of AI, and further consolidate the foundation of people's livelihoods for Chinese-style modernization.
Looking back at history, every major technological revolution has had a profound impact on the employment structure. Currently, the accelerated iteration of AI technology is gradually revealing its impact on employment. From a theoretical perspective, this impact is dual. On the positive dimension, its beneficial effects on employment are mainly reflected in the following aspects.
From the perspective of job structure, the development and application of AI technology, by empowering all industries and sectors, on the one hand promotes the intelligent transformation of production methods, which can liberate a large number of workers from low-value-added repetitive labor and enable them to engage in more creative work; on the other hand, it directly gives rise to new occupations such as AI trainers and digital twin application technicians. This is conducive not only to broadening workers' career development channels and optimizing the allocation of human capital, but also to stabilizing and expanding the number of high-quality employment positions in the process of promoting industrial transformation and upgrading, thereby continuously optimizing the employment structure. From the perspective of skills matching, the skill level of workers is the core of achieving supply-demand matching in the labor market. The development of AI technology can push employment services from a crude information release akin to "flood irrigation" (大水漫灌 - dà shuǐ màn guàn, "flood irrigation," indiscriminate and broad-based approach) toward a personalized supply-demand matching akin to "targeted drip irrigation" (精准滴灌 - jīng zhǔn dī guàn, "precise drip irrigation," targeted and precise approach), effectively improving the fit between workers' skill supply and job skill requirements, and helping more workers realize their full potential and make the best use of their talents. For example, government public employment services can use AI technology to integrate and analyze industry dynamics, recruitment information, and job skill requirements, constructing a dynamic "industry–position–skill" map to provide forward-looking and precise guidance for vocational education and skills training. From the perspective of the labor process, AI technology can effectively improve working conditions and the worker experience. For instance, in the manufacturing sector, the application of intelligent robots frees workers from high-risk, high-intensity production processes, better safeguarding their occupational health; in the platform economy, intelligent dispatch systems optimize the delivery routes of goods, reducing the ineffective labor of new forms of employment workers such as food delivery riders. Adhering to equal emphasis on development and regulation, and guiding algorithms toward "goodness" (向善), can extend workers' career life cycles, enhance the sustainability of workers' careers, and realize the positive empowerment of AI technology for improving employment quality.
While AI technology brings positive effects to employment, it also poses certain challenges to employment work. For example, the application of AI technology may replace some low-level, repetitive jobs, and may also lead to lower worker compensation and higher mobility, making it difficult to accumulate effective human capital. Another example is that the uneven development and application of AI technology across different regions and different employment groups may amplify the imbalance in employment quality between regions and groups, putting pressure on key employment groups such as middle-aged and elderly workers and those with low educational attainment; and so on. Faced with the profound changes AI brings to the employment field, effective measures must be taken to ensure that the fruits of AI technology development benefit all people more and more fairly.
Specifically, efforts can be made in the following areas. First, integrate the employment priority strategy into the top-level design of the "AI+" action, strengthen the employment risk assessment of AI applications, guide innovation resources toward directions with greater potential for job creation, and reduce the impact on employment. Second, build an education system that serves lifelong learning for all people, vigorously support the development of AI skills training, enhance workers' digital literacy and skills, and stimulate the vitality of AI innovation, entrepreneurship, and re-employment. Third, strengthen the protection of labor rights and interests for new employment groups, clarify the primary employment responsibility of platform enterprises, promote the establishment of transparent, explainable, and appealable algorithm review and supervision mechanisms, set bottom lines for algorithms in areas such as order dispatch, pricing, and performance assessment, safeguard workers' basic rights and interests, and make algorithms truly become auxiliary tools for improving work efficiency, optimizing work experience, and raising wages and benefits.
(The author is a specially appointed researcher of the Beijing Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.)
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General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: “We must adopt precise communication methods that are tailored to different regions, different countries, and different groups of audiences, promote the global, regional, and segmented expression of China’s stories and China’s voice, and enhance the affinity and effectiveness of international communication.” Against the backdrop of the accelerating global digital transformation, young people represented by Generation Z constitute a large demographic, have a high degree of integration into social media, and simultaneously possess a strong need for cross-cultural communication, exerting an increasingly notable influence on the landscape of international communication. Better advancing the segmented expression of China’s stories and China’s voice, achieving precise communication targeting the youth group, and enhancing the influence of international communication is not only relevant to shaping China’s international image but also clearly beneficial to promoting exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations.
Proactively construct a discourse system that aligns with the subjective consciousness of youth. Accompanying the rapid development of the internet, the ways contemporary youth acquire information and communicate exhibit distinct characteristics of decentralization, fragmentation, and strong interactivity. One-way灌输 (transmission) methods cannot effectively reach the youth group and may even easily trigger alienation and rejection. For this reason, it is necessary to construct a discourse system that can better integrate into the daily lives of youth and evoke emotional resonance, systematically advancing the organic combination of “self-shaping” and “other-shaping.” At the “self-shaping” level, we should proactively set agendas, closely linking grand narratives such as the community with a shared future for mankind with the daily lives and cultural experiences of the youth group, and around global issues of concern to youth such as technology for good and ecological protection, tell China’s stories in language that young people are willing to listen to and can understand. At the “other-shaping” level, we should establish regular mechanisms for collecting works and creating incentives targeting overseas creators and international students in China, encouraging first-person perspectives to record authentic, multi-dimensional, and comprehensive experiences of China. At the same time, relying on overseas institutions and cultural exchange platforms, we should precisely grasp the differentiated needs of youth groups in different countries and regions, and provide targeted support for creation. Furthermore, efforts should be made to drive the creative integration of mainstream narratives with youth cultural trends, and on the premise of fully respecting the subjective consciousness of youth, construct a discourse system that not only manifests Chinese values but also meets the needs of youth, shortening the psychological distance in cross-cultural communication.
Adapt to the trends of media development and innovate narrative expression carriers. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: “We must grasp the trends of mobility, socialization, and visualization in the field of international communication, work hard on constructing a discourse system for external communication, work hard on being willing to be accepted and easy to understand, so that more foreign audiences can hear, be willing to listen to, and clearly understand, continuously improving the effectiveness of external communication.” Currently, short-video and live-streaming platforms have become important arenas for youth groups to acquire information and engage in social interaction. Their characteristics of mobile-first, strong social stickiness, and visual dominance provide highly influential carriers for cross-cultural communication. To drive innovation in communication carriers, we must deeply grasp the development trends of mobility, socialization, and visualization. In terms of mobility, efforts should focus on creating vertical-screen content and lightweight interactive products, etc., to better integrate China’s stories into the daily information flow of the youth group. In terms of socialization, transform the communication process into a two-way dialogue, and through mechanisms such as comment-section topic operations, live-stream co-hosting dialogues, and crowd-sourced creation campaigns, enhance the sense of participation and belonging among youth. In terms of visualization, make full use of vivid forms such as micro-documentaries, VR (virtual reality) immersive experiences, and dynamic data visualizations to effectively improve the suitability of cross-cultural communication, reaching people’s hearts with emotionally compelling visual expression. At the same time, great importance should also be attached to the leverage effect of digital cultural phenomena such as emoji stickers and internet catchphrases in social communication, continuously studying global youth cultural dynamics and the new communication ecology, and achieving cultural infiltration through expression methods that youth find pleasing and engaging. Furthermore, we should accelerate the construction of a support system for intelligent communication technology, leveraging user profiles and intelligent recommendation technologies to achieve precise communication, and enhance effective coverage and deep influence on the youth group.
Stimulate the vitality of multi-party co-creation and build a three-dimensional communication matrix. Driving the youth group to transform from “people who listen to stories” to “people who tell stories” is a long-term, foundational task of segmented communication. To stimulate the vitality of multi-party co-creation, we should systematically summarize the operational patterns of mature projects, refine and form replicable and scalable experiences and models, encourage more universities and social forces to participate, and construct normalized, scaled mechanisms for youth cross-cultural co-creation. Accelerate the construction of multi-language digital co-creation platforms targeting global youth, systematically integrating functions such as work submissions, collaborative filming, online screenings, and cross-cultural courses, lowering the threshold for transnational cooperation and expanding the radius of co-creation. In the dimension of talent cultivation, jointly open international communication and cross-cultural practice courses with universities, create healthy interactive communication spaces, and cultivate a group of young communication talents with global vision and digital literacy. Explore the establishment of a special youth fund for international communication, use project-based methods to encourage multiple entities to initiate transnational cooperation, and create branded youth exchange programs. At the same time, improve the effect evaluation system, establish multi-dimensional evaluation indicators, and dynamically grasp the cognitive changes and emotional trends of youth groups. Promote the formation of overall synergy among media, think tanks, universities, enterprises, and social organizations, constructing a full-chain support system covering content creativity, channel distribution, effect evaluation, and talent supply, continuously enhancing the influence of international communication targeting the youth group through three-dimensional coordination.
(By the author’s unit: School of Communication, East China Normal University)
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The 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference was held in Shanghai from July 17 to 20. In addition to discussions and exhibitions in areas such as cutting-edge technology, industrial empowerment, and intelligent governance, the transformation of education in the AI (artificial intelligence) era and the deep integration of AI and education also became important topics. This year's conference featured multiple education-themed forums, where numerous university presidents, academicians and experts, frontline teachers, and developers of 'AI + education' products from home and abroad engaged in in-depth sharing and exchange on these forum platforms.
In April this year, the Ministry of Education and four other departments jointly issued the "Artificial Intelligence + Education" Action Plan (《“人工智能+教育”行动计划》); in May, at the World Digital Education Conference, the "Artificial Intelligence Education Ethics: Reference Framework (《人工智能教育伦理：参考框架》) was released; in July, at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, 'AI + education' became a hot topic. China, which is firmly grasping the integration of education, science and technology, and talent, is striving to break down traditional disciplinary barriers and entrenched thinking in talent cultivation, rapidly implementing innovative measures to better address this major AI test in the context of talent cultivation.
— Editor
Guests:
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, President of Tsinghua University Li Luming (李路明)
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, President of Shanghai Jiao Tong University Ding Kuiling (丁奎岭)
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, President of East China Normal University Ma Yugang (马余刚)
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence at Tsinghua University, Turing Award winner Yao Qizhi
Director of the Education Bureau of Xuhui District (徐汇区), Shanghai Zhou Gang (周刚)
Technology and Information Course Teacher at the Second High School Affiliated to East China Normal University (华东师范大学附属第二中学) Yu Xiaojin (俞晓瑾)
Head of Technology and Innovation Subject at Shanghai Y.K. Pao School (上海包玉刚实验学校) Xue Hongyi (薛弘毅)
Low 'head-raising rate' in classrooms, students asking AI first when doing homework — the educational transformation brought by AI is not a multiple-choice question, but a mandatory question.
Li Luming: In the AI era, higher education faces enormous challenges. When knowledge is 唾手可得 (tuò shǒu kě dé - "to spit on one's hands and get it," easily obtainable), where does the irreplaceability of universities lie? When students have an almost omnipotent 'teacher,' how should university faculty cultivate students? How is the mission of the university to be realized, and how is the value of the university to be manifested? How to cultivate talent capable of adapting to the AI era? These are questions that every university administrator, faculty member, and student must face today.
Ding Kuiling: In recent years, we have often seen the phenomenon of low 'head-raising rate' among students in classrooms, which poses a huge challenge to education. AI provides students with more convenient learning pathways; students no longer have to rely solely on classrooms to acquire knowledge, and the 'cramming' teaching method is no longer applicable. Should students memorize data and facts during the learning process, or understand principles? We are striving to explore future teaching models. For example, could teachers use only part of the class time to explain concepts, and leave more time for interaction between teacher and student, among students, and between humans and machines? This might become a future classroom teaching method.
Yao Qizhi: Whether students on campus, frontline teachers, or university administrators, we must all recognize a reality: within the next three to five years, the research forms and standards of highly original disciplines such as mathematics and physics will be completely different from the present. Entirely new challenges are already before us. If we stubbornly adhere to traditional education and research models, we will inevitably find it difficult to maintain our own advantages. In this era of transformation, there are no winners who 故步自封 (gù bù zì fēng - "to stand still and confine oneself," to be complacent and conservative) — this point is worth everyone's vigilance.
What kind of people does the AI era need to cultivate? Should education transform from 'teaching knowledge' to 'solving problems'?
Ding Kuiling: Some research suggests that in the AI era, students still need to focus on cultivating their abilities in areas such as language, social interaction, problem-solving, critical thinking, memory, perception, practical operation, and human-machine collaboration. This requires a comprehensive overhaul of the school curriculum system and talent cultivation plans, among which traditional disciplines must undergo intelligent transformation, especially by breaking inherent teaching thinking and promoting greater integrated development space for traditional disciplines through 'cross-disciplinary' approaches.
Xue Hongyi: In traditional schools, the smartest students are often considered the strongest. But when AI can already outperform humans on many tasks, the more important question becomes: who is trustworthy and able to take responsibility? This is where AI cannot replace us. AI has no 切肤之痛 (qiè fū zhī tòng - "pain that cuts to the skin," deep personal pain); it can never take responsibility like humans do. So in school, we invest a lot of time and effort in character education, service learning, and carrying out innovative projects that can truly help real users. We hope to cultivate students who can be trusted and take on increasing responsibilities.
Zhou Gang: There are two emerging new talent paradigms that can help us understand how schools must transform. The first paradigm is called OPC (一人公司), meaning an individual uses AI tools to independently complete the entire chain of tasks from market insight, product design, technology development, to operations and delivery, forming an independent business closed loop that is self-responsible for profits and losses. The second paradigm is called FDE (前沿部署工程师), which involves 'translating' needs, 'reconciling' solutions, and 'verifying' value at the intersection of technology and business. What do these two types of talent need? Not the ability to memorize standard answers, but the ability to define subjectivity, the ability to embed in scenarios, the ability to integrate across disciplines, and the ability to iterate in an engineering manner. These abilities are precisely what our existing education system lacks most, and what AI is least able to directly impart. In the era of artificial intelligence, the core competitiveness of young people is shifting from 'speed of mastering knowledge' to 'depth of defining problems,' and from 'accuracy of memorizing answers' to 'originality of raising questions.'
Reshaping the classroom and the role of teachers — a new paradigm of 'human-machine co-education' is emerging.
Li Luming: In December 2025, 17 universities and 8 leading technology enterprises and research institutions jointly initiated the establishment of the Artificial Intelligence Open Alliance (人工智能开放联盟), hoping to jointly address challenges through alliance sharing and co-construction, and to deliver the answer sheet of Chinese universities in this era. Tsinghua University's XuetangX (学堂在线) platform has 167 million learners, bringing together 12,000 MOOC courses from around the world. On this basis, Tsinghua and universities across the country have jointly built 78,000 AI-empowered teaching courses, and also created 149 subject knowledge engines.
Yao Qizhi: The saying 名师出高徒 (míng shī chū gāo tú - "a famous teacher produces a brilliant student," a great teacher cultivates outstanding disciples) has been passed down for a long time. Today, amidst the wave of transformation, this point has become particularly critical — only excellent teachers can actively adapt to the times, optimize educational methods, and set an example for students. In addition, human-machine collaborative cooperation has become a new normal in scientific research and will also completely revolutionize teaching models. Artificial intelligence can empower the teaching and research of existing disciplines. Future curriculum systems and academic evaluation standards need to be carefully redesigned. Universities should provide cutting-edge and complete tools, research platforms, and supporting resources, embed the concept of artificial intelligence safety in teaching and research, and regulate related ethical behaviors.
Ma Yugang: Every student carries an AI 'teaching assistant' with them, and the breadth of knowledge possessed by AI even exceeds that of the teaching teacher. For normal universities, the value of the teacher's existence needs to be reconsidered. Traditional teachers have dual identities as jingshi (经师 - teacher of classics, i.e., subject knowledge teacher) and renshi (人师 - teacher of humanity, i.e., character educator). Jingshi is responsible for imparting professional theoretical knowledge, while renshi undertakes the duty of enlightening students' lives and shaping character. In the future, humans and machines will coexist and grow together, and machines will also take on the role of auxiliary teaching. Teachers must also teach students 'human-machine collaboration.' A good teacher must possess the triple identity of jingshi, renshi, and jishi (机师 - machine teacher) to become a 'great master' more suited to the characteristics of the artificial intelligence era.
Yu Xiaojin: Currently, AI empowerment in primary and secondary schools is more reflected in aspects such as teacher lesson preparation and exam analysis. Due to constraints such as hardware and teacher competency, the use of AI in classrooms is still limited. However, introducing AI into the classroom and forming a new 'teacher-student-machine' classroom model has become 大势所趋 (dà shì suǒ qū - "the general trend," an inevitable trend).
Xue Hongyi: Human teachers are not only transmitters of knowledge and skills; they should also provide emotional support, offer aesthetic guidance, and help students establish connections with the real world. In addition, future teachers must maintain a growth mindset, continuously improve their personal character, use their own personality charm to inspire students, and become role models for students. This is where AI can never replace humans, and it is also the most fundamental value of teachers.
Zhou Gang: In Shanghai's Xuhui District, we are doing three things to try to reconstruct the 'mode of production' of education: First, make schools become 'interfaces to the real world'; second, make teachers become 'demonstrators of human-machine collaboration,' releasing vertical education large models and developing subject-specific intelligent agents, but making it clear that AI can only serve as a 'thinking scaffold' and not a 'substitute tool'; third, make the curriculum become a 'full-cycle rehearsal.' OPC is not born with the ability to operate independently, and FDE is not born with the ability to solve problems on the spot — their engineering thinking must undergo a complete tempering 'from idea to patent' during the basic education stage.
Adhering to human-centered values, not being alienated by tools.
Yu Xiaojin: 'Using AI to copy homework' is currently widespread, regardless of whether it is in cities or remote areas. In the information age, the 'intelligence divide' may be caused by a combination of vision, thinking, and ability. The development of 'artificial intelligence + education' is still in its infancy, and the boundaries of behaviors such as privacy, ethics, and data collection are relatively blurred, requiring some guiding policy documents to regulate.
Zhou Gang: Humans must use tools efficiently, but also be careful not to be alienated by tools. In Xuhui District's AI courses, we have specifically set up an ethics module, because the more powerful the technology, the more the compass of humanity must not be lost. We need to remind young friends and educators: let AI be your lever, not your crutch; use it to pry open a larger world, not to support your own standing. Young people should maintain a 'hunger for questioning,' guard a 'clumsiness in hands-on work,' and cultivate a 'sense of anchoring in values.'
Ding Kuiling: It must always be emphasized that teachers and students should become the owners of knowledge and technological sovereignty. No matter how technology evolves, do not give up the unique thinking and creativity of humans. When AI and HI (human intelligence) work together, you will become a wiser and stronger version of yourself.
Ma Yugang: AI treats everyone equally. Young students should be good at being a 'boat,' not a 'shore.' No matter how high the water level of technology rises, a boat can float on the surface, but the shore will be submerged. I hope everyone can both ride the waves of the AI era and become guardians of human values, balancing both, and grow into people more useful to society.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘军国
“Students, when you read the line ‘The emerald jade adorns the tree’s height,’ what image comes to your mind?”
On a second-grade Chinese language classroom at the Hangzhou Qianjiang Foreign Language Experimental School (杭州市钱江外国语实验学校), teacher Zhu Xiaolu (朱晓露) posed the question. The children took up their responders, pressed the button, and recorded their answers. This responder comes from the “SXH” voice-interactive teaching system (思享慧语音互动教学系统), which can convert each child’s spoken answer into text, automatically sort and categorize it by dimensions such as scenery, action, and feeling, and display it in real time on the large classroom screen.
“In the past we relied on raising hands, and only a few children could speak; now, everyone’s ideas can be seen,” Zhu Xiaolu explained. The whole class can answer simultaneously using responders, and the system records each child’s thinking in full, allowing the teacher to quickly grasp the overall learning situation.
In 2025, the Hangzhou Municipal Education Bureau released the Hangzhou Municipal Primary and Secondary School Artificial Intelligence Education Local Curriculum Outline (Trial) (杭州市中小学人工智能教育地方课程纲要（试行）), promoting the integration of AI education into the daily teaching of foundational subjects as well as its full implementation through general knowledge courses, school-based projects, after-school services, and other forms.
Digital-intelligent technology not only lights up the classroom but also serves after-school learning.
“Xiaojunshi (小军师), please correct this English essay for me.” On the weekend, Shao Pu (邵璞), a second-year high school student at Hangzhou Xuejun Middle School (杭州学军中学), sent his essay to the school-based educational intelligent agent “Xuejun Xiaojunshi” (学军小军师). A few seconds later, he received error-correction and optimization suggestions. This intelligent agent, built on the high-quality teaching resources of Xuejun Middle School, can precisely match the needs of different learning stages based on learning-data profiles, helping teachers improve correction efficiency while also providing students with extracurricular self-study guidance.
In addition to the customized intelligent partners of each individual school, the Hangzhou Municipal Education Bureau has also built an inclusive platform for the city’s primary and secondary school students called “Science Leads Hangzhou” (科学领杭). On the platform, the intelligent learning companion “Xiaowantong” (小玩童) uses fun Q&A to spark learning interest, while the intelligent tutor “Laowantong” (老顽童) focuses on project-based learning guidance. Since this platform began operation in March 2025, students have posed over 420,000 questions and completed more than 300 project-based practical tasks with assistance from “Laowantong.”
Furthermore, the Hangzhou Municipal Education Bureau encourages primary and secondary schools to collaborate with local specialized enterprises in fields such as big data and embodied AI, leveraging the advantages of local research platforms and industrial resources so that students can feel the vitality of urban innovation in real-world settings.
Science-and-technology scenarios become an extension of the classroom. During the holidays, students from Hangzhou Higher Education Park Elementary School (杭州市高教园小学) went into the Geely automobile manufacturing base for field study, experiencing the charm of intelligent manufacturing up close. “We turn the front line of intelligent manufacturing into a second classroom, enabling education and urban innovation to grow at the same frequency (tóng pín shēng zhǎng - “same frequency growth,” to develop in sync and harmony),” said Chen Lingjie (陈玲婕), principal of Hangzhou Higher Education Park Elementary School.
Beyond serving learning, digital-intelligent technology also safeguards students’ physical and mental health.
At Chongwen Century City Experimental School in Xiaoshan District (萧山区崇文世纪城实验学校), morning runs are held every day. The school has introduced the “Sunshine Run” (阳光跑) system, which collects each student’s exercise duration and running distance in real time and displays them simultaneously on a smart Sunshine Run screen. At the scientific exercise guidance station, the system not only collects data such as heart rate and movement posture but can also provide exercise guidance including posture-deviation and adjustment suggestions, making students’ workouts more scientific and efficient.
At the campus health management center of Hangzhou Chunhui Elementary School (杭州市春晖小学), the Mind-Heart Wisdom Nurturing Center (心灵智慧滋养馆) uses AI devices to capture emotional data, better listening to students’ inner voices. The school also coordinates with health departments to enter student health data into a digital platform, which automatically generates personalized health reports. Once anomalies appear, the system promptly alerts the school and parents and offers scientific recommendations.
As of now, Hangzhou has achieved full coverage of AI general knowledge courses across primary and secondary schools, with smart campus coverage reaching 100 percent. A total of 439 smart education demonstration schools and 54 digital education innovation schools have been established, building a comprehensive digital-intelligent growth guardianship system across the entire area. “Hangzhou will continue to deepen the integration of digital technology, artificial intelligence, and education, forging a new landscape for smart education in primary and secondary schools,” said the Hangzhou Municipal Education Bureau.
Return to TopOur newspaper Hong Kong, July 19 (correspondent Feng Xuezhi (冯学知)) — The first World Chinese Literature Conference and World Chinese Literature Award held a press conference in Hong Kong on the 17th, announcing the award selection mechanism, participation arrangements, and detailed rules for soliciting works. The event is jointly hosted by the World Chinese Literature Foundation (世界华语文学基金会) and the China Literature Foundation (中华文学基金会), with funding provided by the Cultural and Creative Industries Development Office (文创产业发展处) of the Hong Kong SAR Government.
The organizers stated that the event aims to leverage Hong Kong's geographical advantage in connecting Chinese-language writers worldwide and to uphold Hong Kong's profound literary heritage.
The first World Chinese Literature Conference is scheduled to be held on February 28, 2027, at which time it will bring together global experts and scholars of Chinese-language literature for exchange and discussion, and will present the inaugural World Chinese Literature Award. The award categories include five groups: full-length novel, novella, short story, poetry, and prose. In addition, two to three Outstanding Contribution Awards will be given to recognize individuals who have long been dedicated to the creation, research, translation, or promotion of Chinese-language literature and who have made outstanding contributions to the global development of Chinese-language literature.
Return to TopBeijing, July 19 (Reporter Dong Yingxue (董映雪)) — On the 18th, the Calligraphy and Painting Channel 20th Anniversary Symphony Concert and Special Invitational Exhibition of Works by Famous Calligraphers and Painters, co-hosted by the Central Digital Television Calligraphy and Painting Channel (中央数字电视书画频道) and the China Art Archives Society (中国艺术档案学会), was held at the Beijing National Convention Center. The event, themed "Art for the People," systematically reviewed the rich achievements of the channel since its launch 20 years ago.
The concert integrated the aesthetics of calligraphy and painting with stage art, showcasing the channel's persistence and deep cultivation in areas such as cultural lineage inheritance, culture benefiting the people, and civilizational exchange.
The symphonies Ideals and Beliefs and My Motherland demonstrated the sentiments of literary and artistic workers for the country and the people; the poem recitation Brush and Ink Forge Epic, Art for the People affectionately looked back on the channel's journey of development. On site, calligraphers and painters who had participated in the channel's teaching program recordings and the "Calligraphy and Painting Entering Ten Thousand Homes Benefiting the People" (书画进万家惠民活动) activity were also invited to share moving stories.
The Special Invitational Exhibition of Works by Famous Calligraphers and Painters was held concurrently. The exhibition gathered fine works by calligraphers and painters of three generations — old, middle-aged, and young — showcasing the vigorous atmosphere of contemporary calligraphy and painting development.
Since its launch in 2006, the channel has produced and broadcast over 50,000 hours of programming, including 413 sets of courses taught by more than 300 calligraphers and painters; it has established a news and teaching image library of nearly 20,000 hours; the "Calligraphy and Painting Entering Ten Thousand Homes Benefiting the People" activity has covered more than 20 provinces and cities; and the channel has carried out exchange activities in more than 20 countries and regions.
Return to TopUrumqi, July 19 (by reporter Li Ya'nan) — From July 18 to 19, the original ballet Searching for Muqam by the Shanghai Ballet was performed at the Urumqi Grand Theater in Xinjiang. Based on an original story drawn from local Xinjiang sources, the Shanghai Ballet used the international language of ballet to interpret it, realizing a transformation from delivering classics to co-creation and co-existence. “Over three years we went to Xinjiang six times to collect folk materials; using ballet as a medium, we strove to make the Xinjiang Uyghur Muqam art, this cultural treasure, intersect and fuse with ballet art,” said Ji Pingping, director of the Shanghai Ballet.
Return to TopOur newspaper, Xilin Gol (锡林郭勒), July 19 (reporters Feng Chunmei (冯春梅), Wu Yong (吴勇)). On the 18th, the 36th Tourism Nadam (旅游那达慕) of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region opened in Xilinhot City (锡林浩特市), Xilin Gol League (锡林郭勒盟).
In addition to traditional competitive events of the "three skills of a man (男儿三艺)" such as horse racing, archery, and Bökh (搏克), the event also added more than 20 experiential activities including intangible cultural heritage (非遗) workshops and costume change travel photography, attracting over 100,000 participants on the very day. From now until the end of August, music, motorcycle, and food Nadam events, as well as the entire region's intangible cultural heritage shopping month, will be held successively. Traditional festivals are gradually becoming a long-term engine for promoting ethnic integration, increasing the income of herders and farmers, and advancing the integration of culture and tourism.
Return to TopOur newspaper, Changsha, July 19 (Reporter Yang Xun (杨迅)). On the evening of the 18th, the "Silk Road·Dunhuang" themed concert was performed at the Hunan Provincial Museum (湖南省博物馆). As the first performance of the Hunan Provincial Museum's "Museum under the Stars" nighttime cultural activity brand series "Huxiang Moon·Garden Night," the concert used classic works on the Silk Road theme to link with the museum's ongoing exhibition "Dunhuang — Great Cultural Treasure," allowing audiences to partake in a cultural feast of the desert through strings and songs.
The melodies of the musical pieces echoed the Dunhuang relics on display. The opening piece, ethnic chamber music "Dunhuang," interwove the ethereal sounds of erhu, pipa, guzheng, and bamboo flute. The zhongruan solo "Silk Road Camel Bells," drawing on Xinjiang folk songs, simulated the sound of camel bells, echoing the unearthed Tang-dynasty molded brick of a Hu person leading a camel. The pipa piece "Loulan Girl" depicted the mysterious ancient city with Western Regions melodies, corresponding to the grand scene in the Dunhuang mural "Dance and Music." The finale, "Great Harmony of the Silk Road," retraced Zhang Qian's journey to the Western Regions with a grand orchestration.
The "Museum under the Stars" is a key nighttime cultural activity brand developed by the Hunan Provincial Museum. From July 1 to August 31, the Hunan Provincial Museum extends its daily opening hours to 20:30, providing new options for citizens' nighttime cultural consumption.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 江 南 窦瀚洋
Precise deployment, selecting professional cadres to undergo training in the main fronts of reform and development and the forefront of serving the masses; follow-up cultivation, judging heroes by concrete work, concrete achievements, and concrete results, building a virtuous cycle of cadre growth and utilization…
In recent years, Zhejiang has continuously improved its cadre selection and utilization mechanism, placing suitable people in key positions, allowing cadres to temper their true skills at the grassroots frontline, and promoting a group of responsible and proactive professional cadres to take the lead on the economic development frontline.
Dynamically identify and precisely transfer cadres with strong capabilities who can quickly open up a situation to key positions.
Not long ago, a provincial-level foreign trade enterprise assistance service team came to Ningbo to understand the current development status and potential problems in areas such as local capacity transfer, entrepot trade, and overseas intellectual property protection. As a member of the service team, Jiang Guozheng (蒋国政), Deputy Director of the Economic Development Division of the Zhejiang Provincial Market Supervision Administration (浙江省市场监管局), and his colleagues entered factories, workshops, and warehouses. “Only by going to the frontline can we see the most real situation of foreign trade enterprises,” he exclaimed.
At the beginning of last year, Zhejiang Province selected professional cadres to the economic development frontline, allowing a group of outstanding professional cadres familiar with macro policies and foreign trade practices to participate in the service team to help with foreign economic and trade development work. Following the deployment principle of “selecting people based on the task, matching people and posts,” making cadre capabilities and positions align, Zhejiang selected cadres who understand the economy and are good at acting to the forefront of economic work. The deployment of cadres looks not only at their resumes but also at whether their professional qualities and accumulation can precisely meet development needs.
Such an arrangement is to precisely deploy cadres with comprehensive adaptability to key points of development, that is, according to the specific needs of the development stage, dynamically identify and transfer those cadres who have corresponding capabilities and can quickly open up a situation, and place them in frontline positions to tackle tough problems.
“Rising transportation logistics and raw material costs, exchange rate fluctuations, overseas intellectual property protection…” Jiang Guozheng and his colleagues analyzed the common problems reported by enterprises one by one, and with the actual difficulties and demands collected from the frontline, they quickly took action, participating in the research and formulation of systematic response measures at the provincial level; combined with what they saw in the research, they focused on studying how to deal with practical problems and obstacles such as overseas intellectual property protection and the connection between international and domestic certification systems.
From paper provisions to rapid implementation, Jiang Guozheng, based on the functions of the market supervision department, took the initiative and actively participated in formulating 20 measures to further support the high-quality development of foreign trade and economy, doing a good job in policy iteration and optimization. Since the beginning of this year, 102 new “Made in Zhejiang (浙江制造)” certification enterprises, 116 certification certificates, and 10 international cooperation certificates have been added, and more than 330 pieces of information such as overseas intellectual property protection layout guidelines have been released, promoting “Zhejiang enterprises” and “Zhejiang goods” to go overseas.
Through grassroots tempering to force capacity expansion, promoting two-way empowerment of cadre growth and local development.
At the beginning of 2024, Ma Yong (马勇), who was serving as the head of a subsidiary company of the Zhejiang Tsinghua Yangtze River Delta Research Institute (浙江清华长三角研究院), was selected to serve as a member of the Party Working Committee and Deputy Director of the Management Committee of the Lishui Economic and Technological Development Zone (丽水经济技术开发区). Ma Yong had both worked in environmental protection at the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment (浙江省生态环境厅) and had practical experience in the science, technology, and economic fields at the research institute. The Lishui Economic and Technological Development Zone was in a period of traditional industry transformation and urgently needed cadres who could solve practical problems.
Ma Yong recalled that his first important task after taking office was to promote the environmental protection upgrade of the local traditional pillar industries. Relying on the experience accumulated in the ecological and environmental protection line, Ma Yong keenly noticed during his research in the park that the local environment was humid, and the development zone was surrounded by mountains. The “bowl-shaped” basin terrain, under specific climatic conditions, was like having a natural “lid” that was not conducive to air circulation and diffusion. Conventional environmental protection measures had little effect. Ma Yong remembered his experience in scientific research institutions and boldly proposed an idea: using computer-aided engineering to build a digital twin model for this area, inputting data such as terrain, meteorology, and production materials, and letting the computer simulate the invisible trajectory of gas migration with the wind, so as to achieve scientific traceability and effectively prevent pollution.
“Can this virtual model work?” At first, there were constant doubts. With the calculation results of the high-precision simulation model, the data-supported “traceability map” and “risk prediction map” provided a solution for this environmental protection tough battle. Ma Yong said with deep feeling: “From the provincial department to the research institute to the development zone, every job change forced me to jump out of my original thinking framework.” Job changes bring cadres not only an increase in resumes but also a kind of “two-way reshaping” — on the one hand, their own accumulation is tested and transformed in grassroots practice; on the other hand, through grassroots work, they continuously force themselves to expand their capacity boundaries and learn to solve various complex problems.
Zhejiang uses professional cadres on the development frontline, systematically selecting cadres and talents from provincial organs, higher education institutions, and scientific research institutes to serve in local areas, especially in mountainous and island counties, allowing cadres to undergo training in the main fronts of reform and development and the forefront of serving the masses. This is not only an important way to improve cadres’ ability to solve complex practical problems but also a two-way empowerment of cadre growth and local development.
量体裁衣 (liàng tǐ cái yī - “measure the body to cut the clothes,” to act according to actual circumstances) — cultivating cadres, promoting responsible and proactive professional cadres to take the lead on the frontline.
In March last year, the Organization Department of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee (浙江省委组织部) selected a group of professional cadres from provincial departments to take temporary posts in counties (cities, districts). Chen Jun (陈峻), who was selected from the Provincial Data Bureau (省数据局) to take a temporary post in Tongxiang City (桐乡市), was one of them. In his view, the trust of the organization is the driving force, but if there is no follow-up cultivation, and no local cadres teaching methods and passing on experience hand in hand, it is difficult to achieve results.
Selection is the starting point, cultivation is the key. Over the past year or more, thanks to the help and guidance of the local area and units, Chen Jun and this group of cadres quickly adapted and integrated. The organization department also regularly understood their performance, examining how their actual achievements were, how the unit evaluated them, and how the local reputation was, so as to tailor the clothes to the body in formulating follow-up cultivation models for selecting cadres.
Moreover, cultivating cadres also requires proceeding step by step. At the beginning of last year, Hong Wanling (洪万领), who had been working hard at the township frontline for more than seven years, was transferred to serve in the Industrial Development Division of the Zhejiang Provincial Development and Reform Commission (浙江省发展改革委). A relevant person in charge of the Provincial Development and Reform Commission introduced that after Hong Wanling arrived at his new post, considering that although he had an engineering background, he was not familiar enough with government work, they let him start by learning to draft monthly analysis materials on the industrial economic situation, then gradually participate in formulating industrial action plans, and then take charge of work related to the construction of a modern industrial system, until later participating in the province’s central work of “narrowing the gap and common prosperity” (缩差共富).
Since September 2025, Zhejiang has launched a work exchange meeting for division chiefs of provincial units, providing a competition arena for professional cadres in provincial departments, allowing everyone to inspire each other and learn from each other, forming a closed loop of “practice — refinement — transmission,” turning the true skills tempered on the frontline into hard power to promote overall work.
Through measures such as precise deployment, follow-up cultivation, and “horse racing competition” (赛马比拼), Zhejiang has clarified the employment orientation of “those who have achievements have positions, those who are excellent are prioritized, and those who endure hardship are favored.” A relevant person in charge of the Organization Department of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee introduced that they will persist in evaluating cadres by looking at actual achievements, potential achievements, and responsibility; in using cadres, break “hidden rules,” break “invisible steps,” and break seniority-based promotion; in inspecting cadres, go to the grassroots, go to the frontline, go to the scene; judge heroes by concrete work, concrete achievements, and concrete results; and promote responsible and proactive professional cadres to take the lead on the economic development frontline.
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Grid workers (网格员) are the terminal nerve endings of grassroots governance. When a disaster occurs, it is they who turn the concept of people first (人民至上) into concrete actions.
Everyone was running away from the mountain, but the grid workers rushed against the flow into it — before a mountain collapse occurred in Pengshui County (彭水县), Chongqing, four grid workers including Peng Di (彭迪) were inspecting the danger and confirmed that gravel was continuously falling from the cliff and unusual sounds of rock strata shifting were heard. They reported it immediately and organized the evacuation of the masses. They entered residential buildings, knocking on doors door by door to notify. Peng Di was struck by falling rocks from the mountain, lost consciousness, and was rescued and sent to the hospital. “There are still masses who have not been evacuated; we cannot leave,” Peng Di recalled his thoughts at the time while lying in the hospital bed.
“You go first, I’ll cover the rear” — in war films, this line is often spoken by lone heroes. They sacrifice themselves to preserve the main force, to preserve effective strength for the organizational objective, pushing the film to its climax and also making the audience tense, anxious, and moved to tears. Amid the dense falling rocks of Pengshui, the grid workers were busy transferring the masses, having no time to utter such heroic words, but directly used their actions to give us a tangible shock. At the critical moment, their going against the flow upheld the hope of life, interpreting sincerity and responsibility.
Give a thumbs-up to the grid workers!
The actions at the critical moment are an embodiment of professional spirit. After confirming the danger, they immediately reported to the subdistrict and community, and simultaneously issued evacuation warnings in resident groups and village loudspeaker broadcasts, knocked on doors door by door to organize the masses to evacuate. This decisiveness came from the accumulation of years of grassroots work. Being familiar with the environment, familiar with the procedures, familiar with the community — only then can one make decisive decisions at the 千钧一发 (qiān jūn yī fà – “a thousand jun hanging from a single hair,” a critical moment) moment and strive for more hope of life for the residents.
The choice at the critical moment is even more a vivid footnote to the concept of people first. “Better to have prepared ten times and found nothing than to have a single lapse; better to hear complaints beforehand than to hear cries 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 (《习近平关于基层工作方法的重要论述学习读本》) records the “four Nings (四个宁可)” proposed by Comrade Xi Jinping, then Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, more than 20 years ago in the face of frequent typhoon and flood disasters. The key is to put the safety of the masses first. Grid workers are the terminal nerve endings of grassroots governance. When a disaster occurs, it is they who turn the concept of people first into concrete actions. People first is embodied in every door that is knocked on, embodied in the shouts of evacuation notices.
Beyond being moved, we salute those who go against the flow, and we also understand grassroots workers better. After understanding, we must also provide tangible support. When they knock on doors again and issue warnings again, don’t find it troublesome, and don’t hesitate. Actively cooperating with the warnings and responding to evacuation is support for their work, and even more so, protection for yourself and your family.
Return to TopOur newspaper Beijing, July 19 (Reporter Zhang Tianpei (张天培)) — The reporter learned from the Ministry of Public Security (公安部): Recently, the Ministry of Public Security and the National Cultural Heritage Administration (国家文物局) held a meeting in Beijing, deploying relevant local public security organs and cultural heritage departments to deeply advance the special operation "Cloud Owl" (云鸮) to combat and prevent cultural relic crimes.
The meeting demanded that cultural heritage departments at all levels must always place cultural relic safety in the foremost position, work together with public security organs to severely crack down on cultural relic crimes, comprehensively strengthen security and protection work, and build a solid line of defense for cultural relic safety. They must sort through clues of cultural relic theft and loss cases over the years, fully cooperate with public security organs in case investigation and handling, and ascertain the whereabouts of cultural relics; leverage the role of the "12359" cultural relic violation reporting hotline and the China Stolen (Lost) Cultural Relic Information Release Platform, and promptly verify clues of cultural relic crimes. They must strengthen linkage and coordination, optimize the collaborative mechanism for the appraisal and identification of cultural relics involved in cases, and promote improvement of the mode where cultural relic experts accompany police operations; proactively connect with the People's Courts (人民法院) and the People's Procuratorates (人民检察院), and strengthen two-way connection between administrative law enforcement and criminal justice. They must build a solid security foundation, adhere to overall prevention and control, implement direct responsibility for cultural relic safety, strengthen the construction of cultural relic safety protection projects, and enhance safety management and emergency response capabilities.
The meeting demanded that public security organs at all levels must persist in taking investigation as the opener and using investigation to promote prevention, specifically focus on cracking down on crimes such as illegal excavation and theft of national and provincial-level protected cultural heritage sites, theft of state-owned museum collections, and other crimes; concentrate on cracking down on crimes such as digging underground cultural relics under the pretext of "treasure hunting," illegally trafficking cultural relics through online platforms, reselling cultural relics under the cover of lawful channels such as auctions, smuggling cultural relics, and intentionally damaging cultural relics during construction and engineering processes.
Since the launch of the "Cloud Owl" special operation on May 15, public security organs and cultural heritage departments have together filed and investigated over 170 cases of various cultural relic crimes including illegal excavation, theft, reselling, smuggling, and damage, captured over 390 suspects, and recovered over 2,700 items of cultural relics involved in the cases, including over 230 valuable cultural relics.
Return to TopMany villages in Luhuo County (炉霍县), Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, are located in high-altitude pastoral areas, where the basic conditions for developing agricultural industry are weak. When providing paired assistance to Luhuo County, Jinjiang District (锦江区) of Chengdu, Sichuan Province, explored the industrial model of "land concentration, each village's enclave, leading enterprise operation, shareholding dividends," and built a plateau modern agricultural enclave industrial park in the Xianshui River (鲜水河) valley of Xialatuo Town (虾拉沱镇), Luhuo County, concentrating funds and unified management, and constructed over 400 modern vegetable greenhouses within the park. The strawberries, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, and other fruits and vegetables grown in this industrial park are widely sold domestically and internationally, allowing Luhuo County to board the "express train" of modern agriculture. The picture shows staff of the industrial park picking strawberries in the greenhouse. Photo by Li Xiangyu (李向雨) (Image China (影像中国)).
Return to TopBeijing, July 19 (Reporter Lin Lili (林丽鹂)) — The State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局) recently issued a notice concerning matters related to the quality and safety of "pin dou (拼豆)" products. The notice states:
For "pin dou" products intended for use by children under 14 that fall within the scope of the Compulsory Product Certification Implementation Rules for Toys (Trial) (强制性产品认证实施规则 玩具（试行）) (CNCA—C22—02：2026), they shall pass the compulsory product certification for toys (CCC certification); they shall not, by means such as "tie-in sales" or "gifts," illegally bundle household appliances with toy products at the time of factory shipment; the products shall indicate in a prominent position the applicable age, safety warnings, and other precautions, clearly state purchasing precautions for parents, remind parents to fulfill their responsibilities for child supervision, choose appropriate toys according to the applicable age, and strictly prohibit vague labeling or false labeling.
For "pin dou" products intended for use by children under 14 but not within the scope of CCC certification, their "pin dou" components and accessories such as base plates, tweezers, and the accompanying heating components shall comply with the requirements of mandatory national standards such as the Toy Safety series (玩具安全系列) and Safety of Electric Toys (电玩具的安全), and the voltage of the heating components shall not exceed 24V.
For "pin dou" products intended for use by persons over 14 years old, operators shall not use images or videos of young children operating the product in marketing to mislead, and shall not claim or imply that the product can be used by children.
Producers of "pin dou" products shall organize production strictly in accordance with relevant laws and regulations and strengthen quality control. Sellers shall strictly implement the primary responsibility for product quality and safety and fulfill the obligation of inspecting incoming goods. E-commerce platforms shall strengthen verification and inspection of "pin dou" products sold on their platforms, immediately take necessary disposal measures for any non-compliant products discovered, and report to the market regulation department in accordance with the law.
Market regulation departments at all levels will strictly investigate and punish operators who violate the requirements of this notice, and promptly expose typical cases. Industry associations related to children's products and toys shall guide and direct operators of "pin dou" products to implement the primary responsibility for quality and safety and strengthen industry self-discipline.
Return to TopThe three rivers roll on, nurturing the spiritual beauty of the northern frontier; the apricot altar blazes bright, cultivating the pillars of the era. Inheriting the Yan’an torch, it was born from the liberation of the Northeast; continuing the Beidahuang cultural lineage, it acts for the revitalization of the northern frontier; devoting itself to fostering virtue and nurturing talent, it thrives for the building of a strong country. On July 20, 2027, Jiamusi University (佳木斯大学) will joyfully welcome its 80th anniversary. We hereby extend our highest respect and heartfelt gratitude to friends from all walks of life, distinguished community figures, and alumni who have cared for and supported the university’s construction and development.
栉风沐雨 (zhì fēng mù yǔ - “combed by wind, bathed by rain,” to endure hardships and toil), the torch has been passed down. In 1947, the university’s predecessor, the Hejiang Military Region Health School (合江军区卫生学校), was founded amid the flames of the War of Liberation, blazing a trail of pioneering higher education in the northern frontier. After several changes, in 1958, Jiamusi Medical College (佳木斯医学院) and Jiamusi Institute of Technology (佳木斯工学院) were successively established; Jiamusi Teachers College (佳木斯师范专科学校) was formally named in 1978; and Jiamusi University (municipal) was founded in 1985. In 1995, the four schools merged into one, combining strengths; in 1996, the officially inaugurated Jiamusi University seized the momentum and renewed its development. After 2000, Jiamusi City Grain Workers Secondary Specialized School (佳木斯市粮食职工中等专业学校), Fujin Normal School (富锦师范学校), and Heilongjiang Provincial Polytechnic School (黑龙江省理工学校) were successively incorporated. In 2025, the Fuyuan Campus (抚远校区) of Jiamusi University was formally established, with the university’s scale continuously expanding and its connotation steadily improving. In the 波澜壮阔 (bō lán zhuàng kuò - “waves surging, vast and mighty,” magnificent and sweeping) 80-year history of running the university, it has always breathed the same breath as the motherland and shared the same fate as the nation, taking root at the border, silently cultivating, bravely shouldering its mission, striving to be the first, and accumulating steps to finally reach a thousand li.
Taking root in the northern frontier, revitalizing the university to serve the country. The university stands on the fertile soil of the Three Rivers, deeply cultivates the land of Heilongjiang, upholds the school motto of “Cultivate virtue, sharpen learning, advocate practice” (明德砺学，崇尚实践), adheres to the school-running philosophy of “people-oriented, serving the locality,” forges the spiritual core of “hard work and entrepreneurship, seeking truth and pragmatism, pioneering and innovating, striving and achieving,” and refines the “Three Roots” education concept (三根育人理念) of “taking root at the border, strengthening roots in fertile soil, and consolidating roots through practice.” The university’s disciplines and specialties cover 11 major categories, with a complete degree-granting system. It has 2 postdoctoral research stations, 3 postdoctoral workstations, and 1 postdoctoral innovation practice base. The clinical medicine discipline has entered the top 1% of ESI global rankings. It has established 17 “Eastern Pole” (东极) academic teams, 1 provincial-level “Head Goose” (头雁) team and 1 “Spring Goose” (春雁) team, 2 provincial-level “Double First-Class” characteristic disciplines and support platforms, 5 national first-class undergraduate program construction sites, 11 national first-class undergraduate courses, 1 national university science park, and 7 provincial key laboratories. It has cultivated over 600,000 talents of various types, providing strong scientific, technological, and talent support for promoting the comprehensive revitalization and all-round revitalization of Heilongjiang, safeguarding people’s health, empowering equipment manufacturing, and serving the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas.
自强不息 (zì qiáng bù xī - “self-strengthening without cease,” unremitting self-improvement), setting out on a new journey. Eight decades of elegance pass down the torch; chasing dreams in the northern frontier writes a new chapter. Standing at a new starting point, the university will fully implement the Party’s education policy, carry out the fundamental task of fostering virtue and nurturing talent, take promoting the university’s high-quality development as the theme, take deepening comprehensive reform as the fundamental driving force, take serving the national strategy and the comprehensive revitalization and all-round revitalization of Heilongjiang as its mission, anchor the goals of “Six Longjiang” (六个龙江) and “Eight Revitalizations” (八个振兴), implement the construction strategy of “Seven Jiamusi University” (七个佳大), coordinate the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent, and strive to enhance core competitiveness, social contribution, and international influence. Strive to build, by 2030, a high-level local comprehensive university with distinctive features, outstanding advantages, and significant domestic influence.
The Three Rivers invite, all seas come together. The surging Songhua River moistens the peaches and plums; the towering northern frontier forges glorious chapters. The 80th anniversary celebration is an important milestone for the university to 承前启后 (chéng qián qǐ hòu - “inherit the past and usher in the future”) and 继往开来 (jì wǎng kāi lái - “carry forward the past and open up the future”), and it is even more a new starting point for development to gather strength and jointly open a new chapter. During the anniversary, the university will take “Eighty years of glory pass down the torch, three roots consolidate the foundation and set sail again” (八秩荣光薪火传，三根固本再扬帆) as the theme, summarize school-running experience, showcase school-running achievements, and gather development consensus. We sincerely invite friends from all over the world, distinguished community figures, and alumni to join the grand celebration, freely exchange feelings, share the glory, and jointly compose a new chapter of high-quality development for Jiamusi University.
Hereby announced, respectfully requesting widespread knowledge.
Jiamusi University
July 20, 2026
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High bride prices, extravagant weddings and funerals... these remain the "unspoken pain" of many rural people today. Clearly they do not want to engage in comparison, yet they fear losing face; clearly they are overwhelmed, yet they are caught in a dilemma. To eradicate outdated customs and practices and advance the construction of civilized villages, we must directly confront this "inertia problem" of 移风易俗 (yí fēng yì sú - "shift customs, change habits," to transform social traditions and customs).
Transforming customs and habits requires both breaking and establishing at the institutional level. Various localities have explored many good methods through practice: revising village rules and civil agreements, letting the Red and White Council (红白理事会) "manage" new standards; holding collective weddings that are both simple and lively; setting up positive role models so that more people are positively influenced by those around them. Today, more and more families with "zero bride price" or "low bride price" have shed their economic burdens, won the respect of their neighbors, and gained a solid sense of happiness.
Transforming customs and habits also requires the conscious participation of the masses at the practical level. Rules hammered out "face to face and gong to drum" in courtyard meetings are more warmly human when implemented; the actions of Party members and cadres who take the lead in simplifying matters have greater demonstrative force when promoted; the tangible rewards exchanged for civilization points generate more lasting enthusiasm for participation when sustained. Rules that the masses themselves have nodded in approval of are more likely to turn from "words on the wall" into "a measure in the heart."
Changes in customs cannot be achieved in a single day; the flourishing of rural customs requires 久久为功 (jiǔ jiǔ wéi gōng - "persist for a long time to achieve success," sustained and unremitting effort). Advancing the construction of civilized villages requires keeping pace with the times and maintaining constant effort without slackening. Only by persistently deepening the transformation of customs and habits can we let the new wind of civilization soak the vast fields and nourish the myriad households of the countryside.
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Meihekou City (梅河口市), Jilin Province—a small city in Northeast China that is not a major pine nut production area—has forged a pine nut industry structure of “buying globally, selling globally.” Approximately 70% of the world’s pine nuts are processed and circulate here, blazing a path of distinctive industry development. Recently, reporters entered Meihekou City to explore how the locality developed the pine nut industry “from nothing to something.”
——Editor’s note——
Daring to break through and daring to try, discovering industrial opportunities
“Once night falls, the sound of hammering pine nuts rings out from every household”
“Friends and fans, come buy pine nuts! The quality of our pine nuts is guaranteed…” In a farmyard in Heishantou Town (黑山头镇), Meihekou, Jilin, Li Yue (李悦), a new-generation farmer who has returned to his hometown, faces the camera and speaks at a brisk pace. Behind him, gift boxes of pine nuts are neatly stacked, and the live-streaming room keeps refreshing with order prompts.
After one live-streaming session ended, Gao Guangwei (高光伟), honorary president of the Meihekou City Pine Nut (Nut and Dried Fruit) Association (梅河口市松子（坚果果干）协会), walked quickly into the yard and said to Li Yue: “The standardized factory buildings in the industrial park are almost finished—you can ‘move in with just a bag.’” “That’s great. Live-streaming, processing, and warehousing will all be connected, and we can expand our development space even further,” Li Yue said happily.
“From hand-hammered kernels to e-commerce live-streaming, the entrepreneurs of the Meihekou pine nut industry have continued the relay, turning small pine nuts into a big industry.” Gao Guangwei pointed at the old wooden kernel-hammering tool in the corner of the yard and narrated the development history of the local pine nut industry—
Meihekou is located at the western foothills of the Changbai Mountains. It was a traditional railway hub and commercial center in Northeast China. In the 1970s and 1980s, merchants successively came to Meihekou to purchase various local specialties, and locals also discovered the booming pine nut market. Relying on a spirit of daring to break through and daring to try, the first generation of entrepreneurs carried backpacks deep into the mountains to collect pine nuts, used small iron hammers to crack the shells by hand, and pried out big business opportunities from small pine nuts. “At that time, once night fell, the sound of hammering pine nuts rang out from every household,” Gao Guangwei recalled.
Starting from small family workshops, the pine nut industry took root in Meihekou. “I grew up in a pile of pine nut shells; my grandparents and parents all made a living from pine nuts,” Li Yue said. When he was young, he left his hometown to work as a migrant laborer—selling clothes, running sales—but he could never let go of the fragrance of his hometown’s pine nuts.
“I’m dark-skinned, ordinary-looking—how could I be a streamer selling goods?” When he first returned to his hometown to start a business, Li Yue faced no shortage of doubts. But he refused to accept defeat, insisted on doing outdoor live-streaming, and stayed up late night after night to polish his product selection standards and optimize his live-streaming language. The senior association members and relevant staff of local pine nut enterprises also taught him how to distinguish pine nut quality and connect with stable sources of goods.
With combined efforts from multiple sides, development entered the fast track. Li Yue became a top streamer in the nut category on short-video platforms, with average monthly sales exceeding 15 million yuan during peak season, driving the employment of dozens of surrounding villagers.
From scattered purchasing to family workshops, from manual processing to live-streaming e-commerce, small pine nuts have grown into one of the pillar industries of Meihekou’s county-level economy.
Policy support, making fine and deep processing better
“The fully automated production line can process nearly 300 jin of pine nuts in one hour”
In the modern processing workshop of Jilin Hongyue Food Co., Ltd. (吉林弘越食品有限公司), the roar of machinery is heard. Intelligent sorting machines precisely remove empty shells and bad kernels. Fully automatic shell-cracking machines, drying lines, and packaging lines operate efficiently. From raw pinecone material to finished white kernels, the entire process of a pine nut achieves automation.
“In the early years, everything relied on manual shell-cracking and sorting—a single worker could process at most 5 jin of pine nuts per hour. Now, the fully automated production line can handle nearly 300 jin per hour,” introduced Hong Tao (洪涛), the person in charge of the company. “Efficiency has greatly improved, quality is more stable, and waste is nearly zero.”
In 2017, Hong Tao founded the company, promoting the transformation of the pine nut industry from primary processing to deep processing. The enterprise has already achieved a global layout—raw materials come from overseas production areas such as Russia and Mongolia, and products are sold to more than 40 countries and regions including Europe, America, and the Middle East, with an annual output value of 160 million yuan.
“The rapid growth of the enterprise cannot be separated from policy escort,” Hong Tao explained. From factory construction to equipment upgrading, local authorities provide comprehensive services such as handling procedures on behalf of the enterprise, allowing the company to travel light; facing funding difficulties, financial institutions tailor-made a “Pine Nut Loan.”
To address the pain points of “difficult and expensive financing” for pine nut enterprises, Meihekou coordinated with multiple banks to launch “Pine Nut Loans,” and introduced innovative services such as warehouse receipt pledges and supply chain finance. In 2025, the locality provided nearly 1.5 billion yuan in financial support for the industry, effectively alleviating the funding pressure on small and micro enterprises.
“Government support has strength, and enterprises have confidence in development,” Hong Tao said. The enterprise is cooperating with university research institutes to develop deep-processed products with high technological content and high added value, digging more added value out of small pine nuts.
Data show that Meihekou has more than 300 pine nut processing enterprises, including 13 above-scale enterprises, covering the entire industrial chain of raw material procurement, fine and deep processing, brand marketing, and international trade. In 2025, the city’s pine nut industry output value reached 6.2 billion yuan, with import and export volume of 1.03 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 15.8%. “We adhere to serving enterprises with an active, precise, and effective attitude, enhancing the cluster effect of the pine nut industry,” said Liu Tieduo (刘铁铎), Mayor of Meihekou City.
Extending the chain, building a healthy ecosystem
“Enterprises can handle customs clearance, warehousing, and financing right at their doorstep”
Next to Jilin Minsheng Warehousing Supervision Co., Ltd. (吉林省民生仓储监管有限公司), bonded warehouses for public use and export supervision warehouses have been completed, and the entry of customs is progressing steadily. The company’s person in charge, Li Ming (李明), is busy liaising with merchants from Zhejiang to discuss cooperation, planning to build a national public service platform for the pine nut industry.
“In the past, my father’s generation used small scales to collect pine nuts bag by bag; today, we are connecting with overseas sources and gathering pine nuts from all over the world to Meihekou,” Li Ming explained. He once invested over 300 million yuan to build a warehousing platform, but it stagnated due to a shortage of funds.
With the government acting as a bridge, Zhejiang merchants injected 1 billion yuan of capital, and the platform was revitalized. “With customs stationed here, enterprises can handle customs clearance, warehousing, and financing right at their doorstep. We are confident about building a hub platform for the national pine nut industry,” Li Ming said.
Based on its distribution advantages, Meihekou is promoting the full-chain upgrading of the pine nut industry, extending upstream and downstream, moving toward higher added value, and building a more resilient industrial ecology.
— Expanding sources upstream to break raw material dependence: Local enterprises independently develop shell-cracking, sorting, and peeling equipment, holding multiple independent patents; they vigorously promote dwarf Chinese pine planting, cultivating 225,000 mu of Chinese pine forest, of which 35,000 mu have entered the cone-bearing period.
— Adding value downstream to enhance industrial benefits: Cooperating with university research institutes such as Jilin Agricultural University, they build science and technology innovation platforms, develop deep-processed products such as pine nut oil and pine kernel milk, and push pine nuts from food into fields such as biomedicine and medical aesthetics.
— Strengthening the brand, transitioning to quality competition: In September 2025, the locality successfully hosted the International Pine Nut Conference, attracting more than 100 enterprises to participate. The regional public brand “Meihe Pine Nut” is constantly being polished, and enterprises are transitioning from price competition to quality competition.
“A single pine nut bears witness to the entrepreneurial spirit of Meihekou—what seems 莫名其妙 (mò míng qí miào - “unable to understand the mystery,” baffling), what is 无中生有 (wú zhōng shēng yǒu - “create something from nothing,” to fabricate), what is 点石成金 (diǎn shí chéng jīn - “touch stone and turn it to gold,” to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary).” Zhu Huan (朱欢), Party Secretary of Meihekou City, stated that the locality will introduce a series of policies in scientific research, finance, taxation, land, insurance, and talent to inject more vitality into the high-quality development of the industry.
From a workshop that hammered pine nuts by hand to an industry connecting the world, Meihekou uses the story of one pine nut to prove: as long as one dares to break through and dare to try, works hard and innovates, and adapts measures to local conditions, it is possible to create the extraordinary on ordinary land and promote high-quality economic development.
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How can a small pine nut leverage an industry with an output value of over 6 billion yuan? Meihekou (梅河口)’s answer is: from taking root, growing, to forming a forest, every step is taken steadily.
Taking root relies on hard work with head down. From small workshops to live-streaming sales, from manually cracking seeds to “buying globally, selling globally,” practitioners in the pine nut industry have identified the direction, continuously deepened their efforts, and turned the small pine nut into a big success.
Growing cannot be separated from policy support. When enterprises lacked funds, the local government jointly with banks launched the “pine nut loan (松子贷)”; when there were difficulties in setting up factories, the government helped with procedures, allowing enterprises to travel light. Timely policy drip irrigation helps the seedlings of the industry thrive.
Forming a forest, the key lies in chain extension. With a foundation, the pine nut industry continues to exert effort at both ends of the industrial chain: upstream, promoting the planting of dwarf Korean pine; downstream, doing a good job of deep-processed products, digging out added value. Extending the chain can nurture a better industrial ecosystem.
Whether an industry develops well or not does not entirely depend on how many resources one has in hand; the key lies in whether one dares to venture and try, works hard and innovates, and adapts measures to local conditions. We look forward to more places finding their “own pine nut” and creating more stories of 无中生有 (wú zhōng shēng yǒu - “create something from nothing,” to make something out of nothing).
Return to TopNot long ago, a research team led by Zhu Di (朱荻), an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, signed an agreement with Huishan District (惠山区), Wuxi, Jiangsu, and Huishan High-tech Zone (惠山高新区) to jointly build a Special Energy Field Intelligent Manufacturing Research Institute. This is another academician project added locally this year.
Without large institutes or academies, and lacking the massive scale and platform aura of first-tier cities, Huishan District has nevertheless been favored in recent years: 59 Chinese and foreign academicians and their teams have settled here, over 60 academician projects have taken root and grown here, incubating and cultivating more than a hundred science and innovation enterprises. Behind this is the result of solidly advancing mechanism innovation and precise services.
Li Hejun (李贺军), an academician from Northwestern Polytechnical University, has researched carbon-based composite material technology for more than 30 years. Over the years, although Li Hejun's team broke the foreign technological monopoly, they were limited by the hardware conditions of the university and could not achieve industrialization of their achievements. "We traveled to many places and finally chose Huishan High-tech Zone." In August 2022, the scientific research achievement transformation project of Li Hejun's team — Wuxi Bozhi Composite Materials Co., Ltd. (无锡博智复合材料有限公司) — was officially established.
"Carbon-based composite materials are widely used in the aerospace field, and aerospace is precisely the industry that Huishan District has focused on deploying," said Zhou Lei (周磊), deputy general manager of Bozhi Composite Materials. The local complete high-end manufacturing industry chain is highly aligned with the industrialization direction of the team's scientific research achievements, and can provide full industry chain support. "Changzhou and Wuxi have dense processing resources, and major customers are close at hand." The company achieved production only one year after settling, and this year its output value is expected to exceed 100 million yuan.
Wang Lijun (王立军), an academician from the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, also turned his attention to Huishan District. In March 2025, the Jiangsu Changguang Shikong High-Performance Optical Chip Project (江苏长光时空高性能光芯片项目) with a total investment of 200 million yuan was officially put into production. "Both ends of the industry chain are in the Yangtze River Delta. After the enterprise started production, it quickly became an above-designated-size enterprise, attracting many local enterprise customers," introduced Zhang Xing (张星), general manager of Jiangsu Changguang Shikong Optoelectronic Technology Co., Ltd. (江苏长光时空光电技术有限公司). The company is mainly engaged in the research, production, and application development of high-performance optical chips and high-performance optoelectronic devices.
In recent years, Huishan District has gradually explored the "one town, one institute, one industry" (一镇一院一产业) model, based on town-level characteristics, continuously deepening the science and innovation layout, using industrial scenarios to receive technology, and using a complete industry chain to reduce transformation costs.
Once the academician teams come, how can they be retained? The local area broke away from conventional thinking, using mechanism innovation to solve the pain points of scientific research achievement transformation, and using a fault-tolerance mechanism to eliminate the worries of scientific researchers, allowing academician teams to dare to venture, dare to try, and dare to invest. Last year, Huishan District took the lead in Wuxi City in implementing the "combination of grants and investments" (拨投结合) model, jointly building a "virtual fund pool" with provincial and municipal industrial research institutes in a 1:1:1 ratio, planning to invest a total of 450 million yuan over three years to empower science and innovation projects, giving scientific research teams the confidence to go all out.
In terms of supporting services, Huishan District's "special team service" (专班服务) is responsible for full-process bottom-line support. Changguang Shikong's production line had extremely high requirements for fire protection levels; Huishan High-tech Zone proactively coordinated upgrades and renovations, greatly shortening the construction period. When Bozhi Composite Materials settled, "the government vacated 2,500 square meters of office space in the park management committee and hurriedly renovated it, meeting the enterprise's office needs in just three months," said Zhou Lei. The local area also innovatively established a "replace evaluation with competition" (以赛代评) mechanism, breaking the barriers of "only papers, only academic degrees," so that practical academician projects are not stuck by traditional reviews. Results from competitions such as the "Taihu Cup" (太湖杯) International Elite Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition can be directly used as the basis for talent recognition, and policies such as "Huicai Wuyou" (惠才无忧) were also introduced simultaneously.
Addressing the pain point of scientific researchers "valuing R&D, neglecting production," Huishan District built an industry-research docking platform, guiding academician teams to establish customer thinking and fill operational shortcomings. The local area regularly organizes industry chain exchange activities, promoting pairing between academician teams and local mature enterprises to learn management and market development experience. The person in charge of Changguang Shikong, during exchanges, drew on the local enterprise concept of "hematopoiesis priority" (造血优先), using revenue to feed back into R&D, quickly achieving profitability.
The data on transformation effectiveness also confirms the practical results of "results back to production line" (成果回产线). Huishan District's new-type R&D institutions have undertaken 197 projects at or above the municipal level, hold over a thousand patents, and have spawned and incubated 116 technology-based enterprises, with a total output value exceeding 2 billion yuan. The Wuxi Research Institute of Huazhong University of Science and Technology has incubated 8 high-tech enterprises, with an overall valuation exceeding 3 billion yuan. In 2025, the Wuxi (Huishan) Quantum Measurement Industrial Park achieved an output value of 639 million yuan, of which quantum technology-related industries reached 370 million yuan.
(Reported by Wang Chun (王纯) of People's Daily Online)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张腾扬
During the 2026 FIFA World Cup in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, a cultural creative (文创) ice cream with a three-dimensional football element is riding the wave of the tournament and gaining popularity among consumers in American supermarkets. This ice cream comes from a young enterprise established less than three years ago in Gaobeidian City (高碑店市), Baoding, Hebei — Xile Bingxue (Hebei) Food Co., Ltd. (喜乐冰雪（河北）食品有限公司).
"More than 30,000 sticks, with a total value of over 400,000 yuan — this is our first batch of football-themed ice cream exported to the United States," said Li Jiangbo (李江波), deputy general manager of the company, his tone tinged with excitement. At the same time, Xile Bingxue also had 7.6 tons of "Mengke Slush" (萌可雪泥) ice cream smoothly clear customs and enter the South Korean market.
Entering the Xile Bingxue production workshop, the various processes — forming, demolding, quality inspection — proceed 有条不紊 (yǒu tiáo bù wěn - "orderly and unhurried," methodical). Inside the flash-freezing tunnel at minus 40 degrees Celsius, each ice cream stick is shaped and solidified, set into finished products. "The client provides the design elements; we bring the creative concept to life, striving to achieve a triple upgrade in appearance, taste, and creativity," Li Jiangbo explained.
In the scorching summer heat, one innovative cold drink product after another is launched on the market, not only bringing coolness and sweetness but also carrying the innovative expression of culture. In Hebei, cultural creative cold drink products are blossoming in multiple locations.
In Gu'an County (固安县), Langfang, Dongbao Food Production Co., Ltd. (东宝食品生产有限公司) has been deeply cultivating the cultural creative ice cream bar track. From the Yellow Crane Tower to the Terracotta Warriors, from the Bronze Ox-shaped Zun to the Bronze Galloping Horse, its products have entered more than 300 museums and scenic spots. The enterprise proportionally miniaturizes and presents in three dimensions each location's signature treasure and iconic building. Currently, the workshop's daily production capacity exceeds 10,000 sticks, and since April, order volumes have steadily and continuously grown.
Orders are also flying in from overseas. Some overseas clients wanted to order fruit-shaped ice creams — banana, apple, dragon fruit — from Xile Bingxue. The enterprise wanted to take the orders but dared not act rashly. "We are almost completely in the dark about the regulations and standards of the international market," Li Jiangbo admitted frankly. From additive standards to nutrition labels, from cold chain control to food safety traceability, every step is full of unknowns.
At the critical moment, the local Customs quickly responded, tailoring a "one enterprise, one policy" (一企一策) regulatory service plan for the enterprise: systematically sorting out the latest regulations on frozen beverages in the export destination country, comparing additive and labeling standards one by one; guiding the enterprise to improve its Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) system, covering the entire chain from raw material acceptance to cold chain transportation; conducting hands-on training on microbiological testing for laboratory personnel, tackling each risk indicator one by one.
"Exporting frozen beverages fears temperature fluctuations the most; customs clearance timeliness is the lifeline," said Dong Shiwei (董世炜), deputy customs director of Baoding Customs. To help the enterprise seize the golden window period of the World Cup, Customs opened convenient channels such as "appointment inspection" and "immediate inspection upon declaration," and activated a "7×24-hour" emergency response to ensure goods are certified in a timely manner and cleared with 分秒必争 (fēn miǎo bì zhēng - "seize every minute and second," racing against time).
"Cultural creative + food + foreign trade" — one cultural creative cold drink product after another moves from domestic shelves to a broader market.
Return to TopOn the evening of July 18, along the Baisha River at Liuting Street, Chengyang District, Qingdao City, Shandong Province, local residents and tourists were shopping and relaxing. The area hosted the Qingdao 2026 Intangible Cultural Heritage Carnival and the Chengyang Liuting Hu Yiyang (胡峄阳) Cultural Fair, where the event site was full of exciting activities, attracting a large number of residents and tourists. Photo by Zhang Ying (Image China).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王明峰
Micrometer-level precision equipment operates at high speed, drilling, coating, and fine processing completed in 一气呵成 (yī qì hē chéng - "completed in one breath," to accomplish something in one go); technicians stare at screens, calibrating parameters in real time, sculpting high-end electronic components... Entering the production workshop of Triassic (Sichuan) Technology Co., Ltd. (三叠纪（四川）科技有限公司) in the Chongzhou Consumer Electronics Industrial Park (崇州消费电子产业园) of Chengdu, the vitality of intelligent manufacturing greets you.
"These seemingly inconspicuous glass substrates are precisely the key to 'stacking' high-performance chips," explained Xue Sen (薛森), the R&D director. The company has achieved the ability to drill micropores thinner than a human hair in glass, allowing chips to be stacked vertically, and providing packaging substrates for computing centers and the new display industry.
The technological breakthrough in a piece of glass is a vivid microcosm of how Chengdu in Sichuan Province implements the development of strengthening counties and activating districts (强县活区), steadily promoting the enhancement of industrial capabilities. How does Chengdu coordinate and revitalize the resource endowments of the entire city, enabling districts (cities, counties) to leverage their respective strengths and become stronger, and achieving shared prosperity and vitality across the whole region?
Guided by the development of strengthening counties and activating districts, Chengdu continuously optimizes the spatial layout and industrial layout of the city proper, accelerating the formation of a situation where "new urban areas lead strongly, central urban areas provide strong support, and county cities and new areas achieve strong breakthroughs," promoting a steady leap in the city's comprehensive strength and regional core competitiveness.
Industry is the pillar of high-quality development. Chengdu closely follows characteristic and advantageous industrial clusters such as electronic information and equipment manufacturing, strategic emerging industrial clusters, and future industry fields such as humanoid robots, collaboratively advancing the building of industrial ecosystems and strengthening of chains, achieving industrial capability enhancement through specialized, professional, and coordinated development, and continuously consolidating the foundation of urban development.
At the same time, Chengdu persists in regional linkage and differentiated coordinated development. Through precise positioning of domains, optimizing functional division of labor, and strengthening complementary advantages, it accelerates the formation of a situation where all districts (cities, counties) have their own characteristics, each displays its strengths, vitality bursts forth, and they compete to develop.
Jinjiang District (锦江区), based on its resource endowments and industrial foundation, focuses precisely on frontier fields such as brain-computer interfaces, quantum technology, embodied intelligence, the low-altitude economy, and intelligent connected vehicles, building a distinctive industrial system; the Xindu Aviation Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial Park (新都航空智造产业园), with AVIC Chengdu Aircraft Industry (Group) Co., Ltd. (中航工业成飞) and AECC Chengdu Engine Co., Ltd. (中国航发成发) as chain leaders, has gathered 85 key enterprises, forming a full-chain layout of "large aviation components + aviation engines + large civil aircraft + drones," with the industrial scale exceeding 12.5 billion yuan in 2025...
Industrial parks are the carriers of industrial development. "Chengdu has deeply implemented the action of 'optimizing quality and upgrading, establishing parks with distinctive features; empowering and increasing efficiency, filling parks with enterprises,' integrating to form 50 characteristic industrial parks. In 2025, these characteristic industrial parks will gather 58% of the city's industrial enterprises above designated size, and their role in supporting industry becomes increasingly prominent," said Zhao Chungang (赵春淦), Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Chengdu Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology. He stated that the next step will be to improve the mechanism of discovering, cultivating, and promoting simultaneously, highlighting 'one park, one main industry; one park, one characteristic,' draw characteristic park roadmaps by industry, and create more than 30 benchmark parks that are well-known and established.
Take the Tianfu Changdao Digital Cultural Creativity Park (成都高新区天府长岛数字文创园) in Chengdu High-tech Zone as an example. It has gathered over 70 digital cultural creativity enterprises, forming a close collaborative network, connecting the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain with 'the distance of a cup of coffee,' becoming an important domestic source of digital cultural creativity achievements and an industrial agglomeration area.
"In the future, the park will further leverage its advantages in industrial platforms, policy support, cultural scenes, and other aspects to promote the high-quality development of the digital cultural creativity industry," said Zhu Yunkai (朱云凯), head of the Tianfu Changdao Digital Cultural Creativity Park.
Strengthening industry cannot be separated from a good business environment. Since 2024, Chengdu has continuously carried out the work of 'visiting thousands of enterprises, solving difficulties, optimizing the environment, and promoting development,' offline establishing a private economy (modern industry) development promotion center, online building a city-district two-level 'government-enterprise WeChat group,' covering over 7,500 key enterprises, continuously polishing the business environment brand of 'responding when needed, not disturbing when not needed.'
With the continuous optimization of systems and mechanisms, the deepening of regional coordination, and the continuous accumulation of industrial momentum, Chengdu's new drivers of high-quality development will emerge in a broader space for urban development.
Return to TopEvery run on the green field stirs the heart; every cheer in front of the screen crosses mountains and seas. A football feast not only witnesses the reshaping of the world football landscape, but also becomes a vivid footnote for Chinese manufacturing stepping onto the world stage.
— Editor
The US-Canada-Mexico World Cup has concluded. In this globally watched football feast, Chinese enterprises participated deeply. From on-site broadcast screens and event smart systems to the 琳琅满目 (lín láng mǎn mù - "a dazzling array of beautiful things," a wide variety of attractive items) peripheral goods in fans' hands, people often see the presence of Chinese manufacturing and Chinese brands.
Realizing the transformation from brand appearance to value co-creation.
At BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, Canada, a huge central LED funnel screen is 引人注目 (yǐn rén zhù mù - "attract people's attention," eye-catching). This is a display device delivered by Shenzhen Absen Optoelectronics Co., Ltd. (深圳艾比森光电股份有限公司). In the World Cup matches hosted at BC Place Stadium, it freezes wonderful moments for the audience.
On the green field, players compete fiercely. What many people do not know is that multiple pieces of turf on the World Cup field come from Huai'an, Jiangsu (江苏淮安).
“Weaving each blade of grass fiber onto the base fabric, different formulas determine product performance,” a relevant person in charge of Gongchuang Turf (共创草坪) introduced. Gongchuang Turf is one of FIFA's Global Preferred Suppliers. For over 20 years, the enterprise has continuously increased R&D investment, carried out technical breakthroughs around grass fiber raw materials, fiber formulas, and production processes, and has accumulated over 80 authorized patents, with products exported to more than 140 countries and regions.
From a screen to a piece of turf, more and more Chinese enterprises rely on independent innovation to participate in global competition, forming unique advantages in segmented fields.
Hisense, after 2018 and 2022, became a global official sponsor of the World Cup for the third time, and became the official partner for World Cup VAR (Video Assistant Referee) display technology. Off the field, Hisense's self-developed RGB three-dimensional color control LCD display technology TVs, as dedicated equipment for the international broadcast center, present match details to global audiences.
Football AI Pro, jointly launched by Lenovo Group and FIFA, provides more precise tactical analysis for participating teams. According to reports, the system integrates over 2,000 data indicators and millions of data points, and can work through multiple AI agents collaboratively to provide tactical insights to coaches within seconds. In addition, Lenovo also provided infrastructure support such as AI technology and edge computing equipment for this World Cup. As a global official sponsor, Mengniu has appeared in three consecutive World Cups.
From visual presentation, match officiating to logistical support and digital operations, Chinese manufacturing empowers the event with technology and serves the world with quality, realizing the transformation from brand appearance to value co-creation. Industry analysts point out that Chinese enterprises, leveraging top-tier events, are steadily completing the transformation from product going global to brand going global, from low-end OEM to high-end original creation.
“Sports events are a universal language that transcends cultural differences, and have unique advantages in helping enterprises enhance brand awareness and brand image,” said Wang Yuxiong (王裕雄), director and professor of the Sports Economics Research Center at Central University of Finance and Economics (中央财经大学). “Chinese enterprises sponsoring world top events including the World Cup is a notable feature of China moving towards a brand power.”
Demonstrating the strong advantages of the entire industrial chain of Chinese manufacturing.
Over the past period, Jordanian purchaser Sabri has come to Yiwu, Zhejiang (浙江义乌) multiple times to bulk purchase national flags, team scarves, mascot figurines, etc. from various countries. In his view, Yiwu goods have rich categories and novel styles, always accurately matching overseas market demand.
As early as 2025, Yiwu, known as the 'world's supermarket,' had already entered 'World Cup time.' According to estimates, Yiwu holds about 70% of the global market share for World Cup peripheral goods, from flags and jerseys printed with team emblems to custom-made cheering horns and plush toys for the World Cup; Yiwu goods frequently break out of their circle.
In a shop in Yiwu International Trade City, a small sheep ornament wearing a blue-and-white Argentina national team jersey, 萌态可掬 (méng tài kě jū - "adorable and endearing," cute and lovable), has become a recent sales hit. Luo Tianle (骆添乐), the Yiwu head of Beijing Juxing Power Cultural Media Co., Ltd. (北京聚星动力文化传媒有限公司), introduced that being able to make such a hit product is inseparable from the support of genuine IP. The company has obtained official authorization from multiple national teams including Argentina, Portugal, and Spain, and develops and operates various sports IP peripheral goods, which are very popular among fans.
“Since last July, orders have increased by more than 20% compared to the non-match period, and this summer has become 热火朝天 (rè huǒ cháo tiān - "blazing fire reaching the sky," bustling with activity) because of the World Cup,” said Chen Shaomei (陈绍美), founder of Yiwu Shiminsha Sports Goods Co., Ltd. (义乌市民飒体育用品有限公司). Having experienced five World Cups, the company is very familiar with the rhythm of stocking and signing orders, and its own factory sells 5,000 footballs to the world every day.
Yiwu goods inside and outside the stadium enrich the 'bustling atmosphere' of the World Cup, and behind it is the strong advantage of the entire industrial chain of Chinese manufacturing. A relevant person in charge of the Yiwu Sports and Fitness Goods Industry Association (义乌市体育健身用品行业协会) introduced that, limited by the schedule, World Cup orders 'come urgently and go quickly,' and Yiwu's ability to launch hit products during a short window period is inseparable from the flexible support of Chinese manufacturing.
Winning recognition with product quality, technical strength, and service capability.
As fans from all over the world come and go, many have personally experienced the comfort and convenience of Chinese new energy vehicles. Yutong Bus (宇通客车) provided multiple pure electric buses to the host countries of this World Cup for event public transportation services. With advantages such as energy saving, environmental protection, and high cost performance, Chinese new energy vehicles have become popular in the Latin American market in recent years.
115 new light rail trains developed and manufactured by CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive Co., Ltd. (中车株洲电力机车有限公司) have been put into operation in three cities in Mexico: Mexico City, Monterrey, and Guadalajara. The team carried out differentiated designs according to the operational needs of different city lines. For example, targeting the characteristics of Mexico City's high altitude and high humidity during the rainy season, the trains are equipped with regenerative braking, low-noise ventilation systems, and enhanced barrier-free facilities. To cope with the passenger flow challenges during the event, the CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive team sent additional senior engineers to Mexico for duty, set up a 24-hour emergency and technical support team, and ensured high-intensity, high-density operation of the trains.
“Brand building is a long-term project. For Chinese enterprises to take the road of going global well, they need continuous product innovation, channel construction, localized operations, and after-sales service systems as support,” Wang Yuxiong said. What truly determines whether consumers buy and whether brand loyalty can be formed is still product quality, technical strength, and service capability.
Chinese intangible cultural heritage has also become a bright landscape on the World Cup field. The Yi embroidery (彝绣) from Chuxiong, Yunnan (云南楚雄) was successfully selected for the officially licensed series of products for the 2026 US-Canada-Mexico World Cup by virtue of its unique artistic value and profound cultural accumulation. Customized baseball caps, themed Yi embroidery jerseys, artistic silk scarves, and other World Cup characteristic peripherals are loved by fans. “Yi embroidery is a ‘living fossil on the fingertips’ that engraves Yi (彝族) history and carries the ethnic cultural lineage. This cross-border cooperation with the World Cup will promote intangible cultural heritage towards branding, internationalization, and marketization,” said Ding Lanying (丁兰英), a provincial-level representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage representative project Yi ethnic costume.
“With the rapid development of China's economy and the acceleration of globalization, the internationalization demand of Chinese brands is becoming more and more vigorous, and the World Cup just provides such an amplifier,” said Bi Xuemei (毕雪梅), professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Beijing Sport University (北京体育大学). What Chinese brands have shown in this World Cup is not only technological breakthroughs, but also the complete capability from R&D, production to global service system.
(Compiled by reporters from this newspaper Ji Fang (季芳), Chen Chenxi (陈晨曦), Qi Zhiming (齐志明), Dou Hanyang (窦翰洋), Bai Guangdi (白光迪), Li Maoying (李茂颖), Yang Xun (杨迅), and reporters from China Economic Weekly (中国经济周刊) Zhang Yan (张燕), Cui Xiaomeng (崔晓萌))
Return to TopBeijing, July 19 (Reporter Sun Longfei) — On the 19th, the doubles matches of the 2026 National Table Tennis Championships, which lasted seven days, concluded in Changsha, Hunan. Lin Shidong/Kuai Man won the mixed doubles championship, Ma Long/Xu Xin took the men's doubles gold medal, and Qin Yuxuan/Kuai Man received the women's doubles championship.
On that day, the mixed doubles final was held first. The Liaoning team pair Yuan Licen/Wang Yidi, who had eliminated the world champion combination Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha in the semifinals, were in hot form, leading 2-1 in the first three games. Lin Shidong/Kuai Man fought back from behind and ultimately defeated their opponents 3-2, winning the National Championships mixed doubles title for the second time after 2023. They will participate together with the Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha pair in the Asian Games to be held later this year.
The men's doubles final was contested between Ma Long/Xu Xin and Huang Youzheng/Xiang Peng. Although they had not taken to the court for a long time before this competition, Ma Long/Xu Xin's tacit understanding remained strong, and they performed at a high level throughout. They defeated their opponents in straight games in the final, winning the National Championships men's doubles title together for the third time after 2015 and 2020.
In the women's doubles final, top seeds Qin Yuxuan/Kuai Man gave their opponents few opportunities, ultimately defeating Wang Xiaonan/Li Yihui 3-0. Thus, Kuai Man won two gold medals in the mixed doubles and women's doubles at this event.
Return to TopTianshui, Gansu, July 19 (This newspaper) -- (Reporter Song Chaojun (宋朝军)) On the 19th, the 11th Ethnic Minority Traditional Sports Games of Gansu Province opened in Tianshui City, with a total of 19 delegations participating. The main venue competitions will be held in Tianshui from July 19 to 24; from July 4 to 6, the ethnic equestrian event had already been held at the sub-venue in Sunan Yugur Autonomous County (肃南裕固族自治县), Zhangye City.
The Gansu Province Ethnic Minority Traditional Sports Games are held once every four years. This edition of the Games has a total of 14 competition events, including pearl ball, cuju ball, crossbow shooting, top spinning, pressing, stilt racing, board shoe racing, ethnic martial arts, ethnic-style wrestling, ethnic aerobics, flower cannon, wooden ball, shuttlecock ball, and ethnic equestrian, as well as 3 categories of performance events: competitive, skill, and comprehensive. Among them, four competition events — ethnic equestrian, flower cannon, wooden ball, and shuttlecock ball — are new events added for this edition.
Return to TopOur newspaper, Hangzhou, July 19 (Reporter Liu Junguo (刘军国)) — On the 19th, the 2026 Qiantang River Crossing Event (2026年横渡钱塘江活动) was held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. 3,475 swimming enthusiasts crossed the river, covering a total distance of approximately 1.2 to 1.3 kilometers. The event was divided into three major groups: the Pioneer Group, the Invited Swimming Team, and the Public Crossing Group. The Public Crossing Group also had a dedicated family quota. In the Pioneer Group, Wang Zihao was the first to reach the north bank, with a time of 23 minutes and 31 seconds; Xu Wenqian was the first female swimmer to reach the finish, with a time of 24 minutes and 40 seconds. The Invited Swimming Team and the Public Crossing Group aimed to complete the crossing, with no timing or ranking.
This event was guided by the China Swimming Association, hosted by the Hangzhou Municipal Sports Bureau and the Zhejiang Provincial Social Sports Guidance Center, and organized by the Hangzhou Municipal Sports Federation. The event relied on the coordination of aerial drones, river rescue boats, water rescue teams, and shore-based medical stations, constructing a three-dimensional safety protection network covering the air, the river surface, and the shoreline.
Return to TopWalking into the "'Sheng' Qing Man Sangyu" (圣情满桑榆) civilization practice small courtyard (文明实践小院) of Houche Group (后车组), Dasheng Village (大圣村), Mudian Town (穆店镇), Xuyi County (盱眙县), Jiangsu Province, the courtyard resounds with loud singing, and the elderly gather together to enjoy a literary and artistic performance. With white walls and black tiles, and dappled tree shadows, what was once an idle courtyard has become a "happiness station" at the villagers' doorstep.
In recent years, Xuyi County has focused on the "last kilometer" challenge of new era civilization practice (新时代文明实践), revitalizing idle rural school buildings, old residential houses, and other existing resources, tailoring to local conditions to create a batch of "small but beautiful, close but warm, and gathering people" civilization practice small courtyards, integrating and sinking down functions such as theoretical propaganda, cultural services, science popularization, health and medical care, and convenience services, forging a distinctive new path for civilization practice.
Courtyards built at the doorstep — serve the masses at close range. Civilization practice cannot stop at having positions; it must also achieve true usefulness. The Xuyi County New Era Civilization Practice Center (盱眙县新时代文明实践中心), relying on village-level party-mass service centers or idle residential houses for renovation and upgrading, builds its positions in the central areas where villagers live in concentration, allowing the masses to arrive with just a step, making it convenient to participate nearby. Every Wednesday is designated as "Convenience Service Day"; villagers walk just a few steps to the courtyard, convenient for listening to opera and handling affairs. The positions are built — how are the results? The masses have the final say. Xuyi County has established a closed-loop mechanism of "the masses order, the center dispatches, volunteers accept orders, the masses evaluate," collecting demands through channels such as the small courtyard suggestion box and door-to-door visits, and matching volunteer service resources in a targeted manner. In addition to uniformly setting up basic functional areas such as theoretical propaganda, cultural activities, convenience services, and conflict mediation, each small courtyard also creates distinctive spaces tailored to village conditions and public opinion — an "intangible cultural heritage workshop (非遗工坊)" to transmit Huaihai opera, a "field classroom (田间课堂)" to teach rice-shrimp co-cropping techniques, a "discussion corner (议事角)" to resolve neighborhood disputes... Since the beginning of this year, each civilization practice small courtyard in the county has resolved over 400 demands from the masses and served more than 20,000 person-times, truly sending services to the hearts of the masses.
Convenience resources sink down — precise measures to solve people's worries. At the "Tongxin 'Zhou'" (同心‘洲’) civilization practice small courtyard in Dazhou Village (大洲村), Huaihe Town (淮河镇), the "Medical Insurance Policy into Ten Thousand Homes" propaganda activity clearly and thoroughly explained the medical insurance reimbursement process that the masses care about. Such professional services at the doorstep are common in Xuyi County. Xuyi County promotes the sinking of resources from county-level departments, establishing a mechanism of "departments link to small courtyards, cadres stationed in small courtyards," organizing more than 20 departments such as medical insurance, culture and tourism, health, science and technology association, and judicial affairs to connect with the needs of small courtyards, regularly carrying out sinking services such as policy propaganda, technical guidance, legal services, and health free clinics. Xuyi County releases a "Civilization Practice Service List" every month, covering 8 major categories and over 40 items, which each small courtyard "claims" according to need, achieving a virtuous interaction of "small courtyard whistles, departments report for duty." Since the beginning of this year, Xuyi County departments have cumulatively carried out over 180 service activities that have sunk down, benefiting more than 20,000 person-times. From medical insurance policy interpretation to agricultural technical guidance, from legal consultation services to health free clinic screenings, one after another high-quality public services sink down to the rural frontline, both solving the masses' urgent, difficult, worrisome, and anticipated problems (急难愁盼) and bringing closer the relationship between cadres and the masses, making the small courtyards a "service hall" and "warm harbor" at the masses' doorstep.
Build together, share together — gather vitality; new civilized customs moisten people's hearts. At the Nipei Old Street (泥沛老街) civilization practice small courtyard in Huanghuatang Town (黄花塘镇), applause and singing interweave. The "Sunshine Art Troupe (阳光艺术团)" spontaneously formed by villagers is rehearsing a newly compiled three-and-a-half-line chant (三句半) entitled 移风易俗 (yí fēng yì sú - "change customs and transform traditions") New Trends (移风易俗新风尚). The head of this art troupe is a retired teacher, a permanent volunteer of the small courtyard, and the members of the art troupe are all villagers from this village. They give lectures and performances in the small courtyard, spreading civilized concepts with local dialects, which not only provides self-entertainment but also drives the village customs and folkways upward and toward goodness. Now, "simple and new handling" has become a common practice — 蔚然成风 (wèi rán chéng fēng - "flourish and become the custom," to become prevalent). The masses stand on the center of the stage, and the small courtyards gain lasting vitality. Xuyi County focuses on cultivating local volunteer forces, digging and cultivating key forces such as "folk orators (百姓名嘴)" and "cultural talents (文化能人)" in each small courtyard, forming more than 230 local volunteer service teams for policy propaganda, culture and arts, agricultural technical guidance, and neighborhood mutual assistance, with over 18,000 volunteers; extensively carrying out themed propaganda activities such as "good family traditions (好家风)" and "good people around us (身边好人)", using role models around them to lead civilized trends. The masses are both beneficiaries of services and providers of services — some volunteer to teach paper-cutting skills, some organize neighborhood assistance actions, and civilization practice has transformed from "want me to participate" to "I want to participate". Actively participating in volunteer services and consciously practicing new civilized customs have become a bright landscape in rural Xuyi.
A small courtyard of one square foot holds the smoke and fire of the human world; a corner position hides vast heavens and earth. From "beauty in one place" to "beauty everywhere," from "beauty for a moment" to "beauty for a long time," the civilization practice small courtyards spread throughout Xuyi's urban and rural areas are, through 润物无声 (rùn wù wú shēng - "moisten things silently, without sound") methods, sowing the seeds of civilization into the hearts of the masses, allowing the flowers of new era civilization to bloom brilliantly on the banks of the Huai River.
Data source: Xuyi County New Era Civilization Practice Center.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 朱玥颖 刘文璋
Recently, right-wing Japanese politicians have openly denied the legal status of the Ainu as indigenous people, a discriminatory exhibition distorting Ainu history has appeared in Sapporo, Hokkaido, and the process of returning Ainu ancestral remains has been slow... In Japanese society, the discrimination and infringement suffered by the Ainu have never been effectively resolved, and this minority ethnic group faces many challenges in its survival and development.
The Ainu are the indigenous people of the northern Japanese archipelago, mainly concentrated in the Hokkaido region. Since the mid-19th century, when the Meiji government renamed the land where the Ainu had lived for generations as Ezochi (虾夷地) to Hokkaido and incorporated it into Japan's administrative jurisdiction, this ethnic group has experienced systematic land deprivation, cultural assimilation, and rights oppression. It was not until 2008 that the Japanese Diet formally recognized their indigenous status. The Ainu Policy Promotion Act (阿伊努施策推進法) enacted in 2019 introduced cultural support measures but avoided core demands such as land rights and self-determination, and was criticized by the Ainu people as "superficial appeasement, substantive perfunctory."
Discriminatory words and deeds 屡禁不止 (lǚ jìn bù zhǐ - "repeatedly banned but not stopped," persistent despite bans).
Social prejudice 积重难返 (jī zhòng nán fǎn - "accumulated weight hard to reverse," deep-rooted and hard to change).
Not long ago, Japanese right-wing writer and representative of the Conservative Party, Hyakuta Naoki (百田尚树), made inappropriate remarks at a press conference, claiming that the Japanese government's policy of recognizing the Ainu as indigenous people was a "major mistake." Hyakuta Naoki has a history of denying invasion history, discriminating against women and minority groups, and has repeatedly publicly denied historical facts such as the Nanjing Massacre and the forced conscription of "comfort women." Hyakuta Naoki's remarks were met with firm opposition and strong criticism from groups such as the Anthropological Society of Japan (日本人類学会) and the Hokkaido Ainu Association (北海道阿伊努协会).
The Anthropological Society of Japan issued a statement saying that such hate speech would once again threaten the normal lives of the Ainu, completely negate the concept of ethnic coexistence, and violate the spirit of diversity and tolerance that Japan advocates. Representatives of Ainu groups stated that Hyakuta Naoki, as a public figure, his remarks would exacerbate social discrimination against the Ainu, harm ethnic sentiments, and he should publicly apologize and retract his erroneous remarks. However, the Japanese government adopted an evasive attitude toward Hyakuta Naoki's erroneous remarks and declined to comment.
Similar remarks by Japanese right-wing politicians are not isolated cases. Earlier this year, Ishida Takahito (石田嵩人), supported by the far-right political party Sanseitō (参政党), was elected governor of Fukui Prefecture. During his campaign, he released a video claiming that "Japan is a single-ethnic nation." After this remark sparked controversy and criticism, Ishida Takahito had to retract the relevant statement. In January 2020, then Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Asō Tarō (麻生太郎) stated, "In the two-thousand-year history, the only country that has maintained one language, one ethnicity, and one dynasty is here." As soon as the remark was made, it also triggered strong protests from Ainu groups.
Cultural discrimination also persists. In Japanese, "Ainu" sounds similar to "a" (ah) and "inu" (dog). This linguistic coincidence has been exploited by some to create discrimination. In March 2021, during a TV program on a Japanese television station introducing a documentary about the Ainu, a guest used the pronunciation to discriminate against the Ainu. This incident sparked strong protests from the Ainu community, and the program team was later forced to apologize.
The continuous discriminatory words and deeds reveal the 根深蒂固 (gēn shēn dì gù - "deep roots and firm foundation," deep-rooted) prejudice in Japanese society against indigenous groups such as the Ainu. A survey by the Cabinet Secretariat of Japan (内閣官房) showed that 72.1% of Ainu respondents had experienced discrimination in employment, campus life, and daily interactions. Another related survey in 2024 also showed that nearly 30% of Ainu had personally experienced discrimination, and over 40% of respondents in Hokkaido acknowledged that society has inherent prejudice against the Ainu.
The history of suffering is distorted.
Cultural heritage is dealt a blow.
After the Hokkaido region where the Ainu lived was incorporated into Japan's administrative jurisdiction, the Japanese government enacted the Hokkaido Former Natives Protection Act (北海道旧土人保護法) in 1899. This law nominally "protected" the Ainu, but in reality deprived them of land ownership, restricted their traditional customs, and prohibited them from using their own language. It was a core tool for the Japanese government's long-term assimilation policy and colonial oppression of the Ainu.
Recently, an exhibition on the Ainu ethnic theme held in Sapporo, Hokkaido, openly featured a questioning statement: "Are the Ainu indigenous people?" and described the Hokkaido Former Natives Protection Act as "a law that shows 关怀备至 (guān huái bèi zhì - "show every care and concern," meticulous care) for the Ainu," completely reversing the historical fact that the law violated Ainu rights, further stinging the nerves of the Ainu and triggering widespread protests.
Multiple Ainu groups submitted over 16,000 signatures to the Sapporo city government, stating that being treated in such a manner as indigenous people is "heartbreaking," and calling for "never forgiving hatred against the Ainu." Ainu groups also requested that Sapporo not approve or suspend the exhibition. Sapporo Mayor Akimoto Katsuhiro (秋元克广), on the one hand, acknowledged that the exhibition content "differs from the city government's understanding," but on the other hand, refused to stop the exhibition on the grounds of "freedom of speech."
Such problems are not new. Previously, an Ainu-themed exhibition in the underground pedestrian space near Sapporo Station also featured similar content distorting history. The emergence of such exhibitions exposes the tendency of some forces in Japan to continue the erroneous narrative of "former natives" and glorify colonial history.
Recently, the Anthropological Society of Japan, the Japanese Archaeological Association (日本考古学協会), and the Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology (日本文化人類学会) issued a joint statement by their presidents, stating that in the process of Japan's construction of a modern state, the Ainu were ruled, and their independent cultural heritage was severely damaged. "Hate speech once again threatens the lives of the Ainu and denies the concept of coexistence." Analysis suggests that the plight of Ainu rights stems from the Japanese government's long-term avoidance of colonial history and disregard for indigenous rights.
Ancestral remains have been dust-sealed for many years.
The return process is 举步维艰 (jǔ bù wéi jiān - "each step is difficult," struggling to move forward).
On May 8 this year, an Ainu group from Shin-Hidaka Town (新日高町), Hokkaido, filed a lawsuit with the Sapporo District Court, demanding that the Japanese government return more than 200 ancestral remains stored in a state-established Ainu memorial facility. The historical issue of Ainu ancestral remains is another example of the ineffective protection of Ainu rights.
Since the Meiji period in Japan, some anthropology researchers, under the guise of "academic research," have extensively looted Ainu burial sites, using the remains for skull measurements, racial comparisons, and other studies. Some remains were even mixed with animal bones, seriously violating the Ainu tradition of burying ancestors within the tribe and hurting the feelings of the Ainu community.
According to statistics from Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (文部科学省), over 1,700 Ainu remains are still preserved in universities and museums across Japan, with prestigious institutions such as the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University holding Ainu remains. Although the Japanese government issued a policy as early as 2018 requiring universities and museums to return Ainu remains or properly store them centrally, implementation is worrying. A recent survey by Kyodo News (共同通信社) shows that since 2018, out of approximately 1,500 Ainu remains collected by 10 universities nationwide, only 83 have been returned to Ainu groups, accounting for just 5%.
Ainu remains have also been lost overseas. On May 5 this year, the Natural History Museum in London, UK, held a ceremony to transfer seven Ainu remains in its custody to the Hokkaido Ainu Association. The earliest of these remains were collected about 160 years ago, making this the fourth overseas return case after Germany, Australia, and Scotland, UK. However, compared with the remains lost overseas and sealed domestically, the number of internationally returned remains is utterly inadequate — 杯水车薪 (bēi shuǐ chē xīn - "a cup of water for a cartload of firewood," a drop in the bucket).
The Anthropological Society of Japan publicly apologized in December 2025, acknowledging that Japanese anthropological research since the Meiji period has long harmed the Ainu. However, the organization did not provide a specific timetable for the return of remains or an accountability mechanism, and a large number of remains are still sealed as "academic resources."
Currently, although the Japanese government has ratified multiple international human rights conventions and pledged to eliminate racial discrimination, its "recognition" and "support" for the Ainu have always remained superficial, without touching on a fundamental reflection on colonial history, nor truly treating the Ainu as an equal ethnic group. The implementation of relevant rights protection policies is weak, and the Ainu's path to defending their rights remains long. How to face history squarely, eliminate structural discrimination and prejudice, and truly achieve harmonious coexistence among different ethnic groups remains an important issue that Japanese society urgently needs to address.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 杨 一
The Bank of Thailand recently raised its 2026 economic growth forecast to 2.3%. Thailand's economy grew by 2.8% year-on-year in the first quarter, primarily driven by exports, consumption, and domestic investment. Thai media analysis indicates that Thailand's economic growth momentum is expected to be stronger than previously forecast, mainly thanks to robust export growth and the implementation of economic stimulus measures.
Data released by the Trade Policy and Strategy Office of Thailand's Ministry of Commerce show that in the first five months of this year, Thailand's merchandise export value reached USD 162.09 billion, a year-on-year increase of 17%. Among these, electronic products, computers, and components showed prominent growth, while exports of automobiles, food, and other categories performed strongly, becoming important drivers supporting economic growth. The Thai National Shippers' Council predicts that Thailand's exports are expected to grow by 8% to 10% this year. The Council's chairman, Thanakorn, stated that stable demand from major trading partners will provide strong support for export growth in the second half of the year.
The tourism industry remains an important pillar of Thailand's economy. As of July 4, Thailand has received a cumulative total of over 16.21 million international tourists this year, generating tourism revenue of approximately THB 782.6 billion (CNY 1 is equivalent to approximately THB 5). Affected by factors such as the international economic environment, the number of inbound tourists has declined slightly year-on-year, but tourism consumption has shown relatively strong resilience, driving steady growth in related industries such as hotels, catering, retail, and transportation, providing solid support for expanding employment and stimulating domestic demand.
Since the beginning of this year, the Thai government has introduced a series of measures to stimulate the economy and boost consumption, achieving certain results. In May, the Thai Cabinet formally approved a new round of the "Thai People Help Thai People" consumption stimulus plan with a budget of approximately THB 175 billion, aimed at reducing residents' cost of living, revitalizing the grassroots economy, and supporting small and medium-sized merchants. The plan adopts a "60:40" co-payment model, with the government bearing 60% of consumption amounts and individuals bearing 40%, each person eligible for subsidies of up to THB 1,000 per month, with the implementation period lasting until September 30 of this year. Data released by Thailand's Ministry of Finance show that a total of 26.0406 million people met the eligibility criteria and completed registration, accounting for approximately 87% of the government's set target of 30 million people; additionally, 1.0469 million merchants registered to participate. In July, the Thailand Board of Investment approved a package of new investment projects totaling approximately THB 65 billion, covering multiple fields such as food processing, aviation, and advanced manufacturing. Thailand's Ministry of Finance has proposed raising the national investment ratio as a share of GDP from the current 22%—23% to 30%, hoping to form new drivers of economic growth by expanding public investment and attracting private capital and foreign direct investment.
Thailand has made the "Eastern Economic Corridor" a core platform for promoting economic transformation and attracting foreign investment. Located in the three eastern provinces of Chonburi, Rayong, and Chachoengsao, the "Eastern Economic Corridor" is a national-level economic development strategic zone for the country to promote industrial upgrading, attract foreign investment, and build a regional high-end manufacturing center. Eligible enterprises can obtain income tax reductions, customs duty preferences on imported equipment, land use facilitation, and other benefits. Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul recently stated that the infrastructure of the "Eastern Economic Corridor" is basically complete, and the current focus of work has shifted from "construction" to "investment attraction." The government will proactively conduct international promotions to attract more multinational enterprises to invest in Thailand. The "Eastern Economic Corridor" Office has proposed achieving the objectives of the "Eastern Economic Corridor Comprehensive Development Plan (2023—2027)" by 2027, including attracting actual investment of THB 500 billion, achieving an average annual regional GDP growth of approximately 6.3%, and building advanced manufacturing, modern services, and innovative industry clusters with international competitiveness.
Some experts believe that the Thai government is striving to raise Thailand's comprehensive competitiveness ranking to the world's top 20 by 2030. In the future, Thailand will increase efforts to attract investment in the fields of artificial intelligence and digital technology, accelerate the development of industries such as tourism, healthcare, food security, processed agriculture, and the creative economy, enhance the competitiveness of the labor market, and strive to bridge the digital divide.
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By: 莽九晨
Walking along Seoul’s Myeongdong commercial street in South Korea, young people holding Chinese-style tea drinks and wearing Chinese smartwatches can be seen everywhere. Recently, a Chinese trend called “C Style” is rapidly entering the daily lives of South Korea’s MZ generation (the Millennial and Generation Z cohort born between 1981 and 2010). This group is the main force behind trend consumption in South Korea, placing greater emphasis on consumption experience and product performance. Their choices both reflect new changes in the South Korean consumer market and demonstrate the quiet evolution of young South Koreans’ perception of Chinese brands.
High cost-performance ratio is the door opener for Chinese brands to enter the South Korean market. In the past, South Korean consumers’ impression of “Made in China” mostly stopped at “low price”; today, “high quality and good price” has become a common consensus. As manufacturing processes and quality control levels continue to improve, Chinese products keep advancing in function, design, and service, while their prices remain more competitive than similar local or international brands. According to a comparative calculation by a South Korean consumer agency, for products of the same specifications such as household dehumidifiers, projectors, and keyboard-mouse sets, the total cost of switching to local brands is about 2.5 times that of Chinese brands. For the MZ generation, which values practical experience, cost-performance ratio is an important consideration in consumption decisions.
Hardcore technological strength is the core support for Chinese brands to build a reputation. From cutting-edge fields such as artificial intelligence and drones to everyday tracks like new energy vehicles and smart homes, Chinese brands have gradually established a market image of high technology and high quality through product strength. According to data from market research firm Euromonitor International for the first quarter of this year, Roborock holds over 50% of the market share for robot vacuum cleaners in South Korea, firmly ranking first in the industry; BYD’s new energy vehicles, having entered South Korea for less than a year, have cumulative sales exceeding 10,000 units, setting a new growth record for foreign-brand cars in South Korea. Brands such as Huawei, Xiaomi, and DJI have also gained a large number of young users thanks to stable performance and high-quality experience. The Chosun Ilbo analyzed that as Chinese brands continue to advance in technology, design, after-sales service, and operations, the South Korean market’s perception of Chinese electronics and home appliances has undergone a clear shift.
Empathy and resonance at the cultural level have extended “C Style” from a consumption trend into a cultural phenomenon. South Korean media analysis suggests that the younger generation has diverse channels for obtaining information. In the social context of young South Koreans, Chinese-style goodies that combine creative design with Eastern aesthetics are labeled “Chinese-style sensibility,” driving related products and lifestyles to quickly break out of their original circles. According to publicly available corporate operational data, in 2025, Pop Mart and Haidilao both achieved sales exceeding 100 billion South Korean won (approximately 456 million RMB) in South Korea, while Chinese-style dining brands specializing in malatang and xiaolongbao have generally achieved double-digit revenue growth. Flavors on the tongue, aesthetics in daily life — Chinese cultural elements are being accepted and loved by local young people in ways close to everyday life.
The prevalence of “C Style” is the result of long-term deep cultivation of quality, technology, and branding by Chinese manufacturing. As Chinese brands continue to refine their products and deepen overseas operations, more high-quality Chinese brands will in the future achieve the leap from “becoming popular” to “lasting popularity,” building more vibrant bridges for economic, trade, and cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries.
Return to TopBy: 刘 刚 韩佳序
Influenced by persistent high temperatures, drought, and strong winds, wildfire risks continue in many European countries. The long fire lines, shifting wind directions, and complex terrain increase the difficulty of firefighting, directly affecting local residents' daily lives and safety. Meteorological authorities stated that because temperatures are far above the seasonal average, wildfires in several countries are spreading in an "explosive" manner.
A severe fire broke out on July 12 in the Fontainebleau forest on the outskirts of Paris, France, and the burned area has now exceeded 2,000 hectares. According to French media reports, this is the most severe fire the Fontainebleau forest has suffered since 1921. The fire department has dispatched nearly 1,000 firefighters and two aircraft to fight the fire, and about 1,000 residents have been evacuated. Although meteorological authorities predict that the high temperatures will ease, firefighting forces remain on alert, making every effort to prevent the wildfire from spreading to surrounding areas.
Recently, wildfires have broken out successively in many parts of Spain. A fire in Los Gallardos, Almería province in the south spread to neighboring municipalities, with a burned area of about 7,000 hectares. The local government activated the wildfire emergency plan and urgently evacuated nearby residents. The Almería provincial government reported that this fire has caused 13 deaths. In the municipality of Ores, Zaragoza province, Aragon autonomous community in the north, a wildfire continues to spread, with a burned area exceeding 4,500 hectares. A wildfire also broke out in the municipality of Lozoyuela, Madrid autonomous community, and the local authorities immediately activated a Level 2 emergency response.
The Piedmont region in northern Italy issued a statement saying that in the provinces of Turin, Vercelli, and Novara, 800 to 900 hectares of forest have burned, and about 700,000 trees have been destroyed. Recovery of herbaceous plants and shrubs in the damaged areas is expected to take 2–5 years, and restoration of the forest ecosystem may take 50 to 70 years. In addition to Piedmont, wildfires have also appeared successively in Palermo province, Sicily; Oristano province, Sardinia; and Friuli-Venezia Giulia. Relevant Italian authorities have deployed aircraft and ground rescue forces to carry out firefighting.
Other countries have also experienced wildfires of varying severity. A wildfire in Vouzela, Portugal spread to three nearby towns, with a burned area of 11,000 hectares. Nine people were injured by the fire, two of them seriously. The country has mobilized over 1,200 firefighters, more than 400 fire trucks, and 6 aircraft to fight the fire. In Greece, a wildfire that broke out in the country's second-largest city, Thessaloniki, has spread to nearby residential areas, and multiple buildings have caught fire. Local authorities have deployed 160 firefighters and multiple aircraft to fight the fire. A wildfire also broke out in Mandra-Idyllia, west of Athens; because this area is close to an industrial zone, the fire may release toxic smoke, posing a risk to local residents' health. In southern Croatia, fires have been successively detected in many locations along the Adriatic coast. The most severe is on Korčula Island, where flames and thick smoke fill the sky in some areas, and large swaths of vegetation have burned. The UK national fire service stated that wildfires have occurred in many parts of the country, and 19 fires are still ongoing; dry weather has increased the risk of losing control of the fires.
European meteorological authorities pointed out that persistent drought, high temperatures, and soil moisture deficit are the main reasons for the frequent wildfires in many European countries during this round. The latest report from the EU climate monitoring agency, the Copernicus Climate Change Service, shows that just weeks after the strong heatwave in May in Europe, a large-scale heatwave arrived in late June, and another round of heatwave struck in early July. The international scientific research institution World Weather Attribution concluded that this is the most widespread and severe heatwave Europe has ever experienced.
The British Financial Times published an article stating that extreme heat and wildfires are increasingly becoming common challenges for Europe, and Europe should further strengthen cross-border coordination and regional cooperation to improve overall climate adaptation capabilities. The European Commission stated that climate change is causing longer wildfire seasons and more frequent fires, making it difficult for individual countries alone to cope with cross-regional disasters. It is necessary to enhance Europe's overall resilience to wildfires through joint prevention, rapid response, and resource sharing. To this end, the EU has activated its Civil Protection Mechanism to coordinate rescue forces of member states, mobilize strategic reserve firefighting resources, and provide support such as firefighting aircraft, firefighters, and vehicles to affected countries. In responding to this round of wildfires, after Portugal and France activated the mechanism, firefighting forces from Spain, Italy, Sweden, and Cyprus quickly came to their aid. This year, the EU has also pre-deployed 777 firefighters, 22 firefighting aircraft, and 5 helicopters in high-risk areas such as France, Spain, Portugal, Greece, and Italy, to enhance the region's coordinated response to wildfires.
Return to TopIran Condemns US "Terrorist Attack" on Nuclear Plant Under Construction
Xinhua, Tehran, July 19 – Iran's Atomic Energy Organization issued a statement on the 19th, condemning the United States' "terrorist attack" that day on the construction site of a nuclear plant under construction in Dalkh (达尔霍温), southwestern Iran.
The statement said that at approximately 3:39 a.m. local time on the 19th, the United States fired several shells at the construction site of a nuclear plant under construction in Dalkh. The United States' "aggression" is "barbaric and in violation of international law."
US Military Says Two US Soldiers Killed in Jordan by Iranian Attack
Xinhua, Washington, July 18 (Reporter Huang Qiang) – The US Central Command confirmed in a social media post on the 18th that two US soldiers were killed in a ballistic missile and drone attack by Iran inside Jordan on the 17th.
The statement said that one additional US soldier is missing in the attack, and four other US soldiers were taken to a Jordanian hospital for treatment and have now been discharged. Other personnel with minor injuries have returned to duty.
This is the first time the US side has disclosed US military casualties since the recent continuous exchanges of fire between the US and Iran.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister: Cooperation Between Japan and Ukraine in the Drone Sector Is a Hostile Act
Xinhua, Vladivostok, July 19 (Reporter Sun Ping) – Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Rudenko said on the 18th that the Russian side regards cooperation between Japan and Ukraine in the drone sector as an openly hostile act.
In an interview with Russian media, Rudenko said that Russia is closely monitoring the cooperation between Japanese drone manufacturers and Ukrainian drone developers. Ukrainian drones are "killing Russian civilians," while the Japanese side is providing assistance for this. Rudenko said that weapons that pose a threat to Russia, as well as the facilities producing these weapons within Ukraine, are all targets of the Russian military. Japan is "pushing Russian-Japanese relations further into the abyss."
Canadian Prime Minister: "All-Hands-on-Deck" Response to Severe Wildfire Situation
According to Xinhua, Ottawa, July 18 (Reporter Lin Wei) – Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on the social media platform X on the evening of the 18th that, under the influence of extreme heat and record-breaking drought conditions, Canada is facing one of the most severe wildfire seasons in history, and the government is adopting an "all-hands-on-deck" approach to respond to the disaster.
Carney said that the fires in northwestern Ontario are particularly severe, and more than ten communities have been forced to evacuate. Currently, more than 5,300 firefighting personnel have been deployed nationwide, and nearly 300 aircraft of various types have been deployed to the firefighting front line, including firefighting aircraft, helicopters, and evacuation-dedicated aircraft. Canada is using technological means such as drones and thermal imaging to support real-time fire monitoring and firefighting operations.
Return to TopThe PetroChina Dushanzi Petrochemical Company (中国石油独山子石化公司) Tarim 1.2 million tons/year Phase II Ethylene and Supporting Green Low-Carbon Demonstration Project was officially put into operation on July 16. The project is located in the Petrochemical and Petrochemical Industrial Park of Korla Shangku High-tech Industrial Development Zone (库尔勒上库高新技术产业开发区), Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture (巴音郭楞蒙古自治州), Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, covering an area of 309.599 hectares. It is China's first full-chain green low-carbon ethylene project. The project is engraved with the imprint of "Created in China," carries the vision of "world-class," and has a profound impact on promoting the green development of China's energy and chemical industries.
Green and Low-carbon Green Source Green electricity direct connection: Build a "photovoltaic + chemical" green circular ecology, with photovoltaic green electricity dedicated lines from the Gobi desert directly supplying the ethylene plant. It is expected to replace coal-fired power generation with 1 billion kWh of green electricity each year, reducing over 800,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions. Green Network Near-zero carbon dioxide emissions: Adopt ultra-low concentration carbon dioxide integrated machine capture technology to achieve capture and recycling of all carbon dioxide that can be captured from the ethylene cracking furnace flue gas. Green Heart Electric drive three machines: Optimize the energy conversion of the ethylene three machines (crack gas compressor, ethylene refrigeration compressor, propylene refrigeration compressor), replacing the steam "heart" with an electric "heart." Restructure the underlying logic of power supply, reduce energy consumption for steam production, and significantly lower carbon emissions. Green Chain Gather hydrogen, capture carbon to make fertilizer: Innovatively build a green industrial chain: green electricity drives carbon reduction at the source, waste carbon turns into treasure as raw material, waste hydrogen is purified into "blue hydrogen," hydrogen and nitrogen combine into "blue ammonia," and then through ammonia-carbon processing it becomes green fertilizer. Green Code Full carbon footprint traceability: Achieve traceability of carbon footprint throughout the entire product process, empower with green, explore new opportunities in carbon.
Independent Technology Build the world's second set and China's first set of ethylene three-machine electric drive unit using independent technology; the large extrusion granulation unit achieves a "zero breakthrough" in localization. High technology self-reliance rate Among the 11 main production units, 10 use domestic independent technology, 9 use PetroChina independent technology, and 5 technologies are applied for industrial scale-up for the first time. High equipment localization rate The overall localization rate of the project is 99%, with the ethylene unit basically achieving localization, and the cracking gasoline hydrogenation, cis-1,4-polybutadiene rubber and other units and sections achieving a 100% localization rate. High electrification rate Adopt a series of industry innovative technologies such as green electricity direct connection and full electric drive for the ethylene three machines; the plant's overall electrification rate (a core indicator for measuring energy transition, industrial low-carbon level, and degree of modernization) is nearly double that of traditional ethylene plants.
Data source: PetroChina Dushanzi Petrochemical Company (中国石油独山子石化公司)
Return to TopData recently released by the National Bureau of Statistics show that, calculated at constant prices, China's gross domestic product in the first half of the year grew by 4.7% year-on-year, and the national economy operated within a reasonable range. Facing a complex and severe international environment, China's economy has demonstrated strong resilience and vitality. Focusing on the era's theme of high-quality development, China is accelerating the conversion of old and new growth drivers, upgrading and improving quality in traditional industries, vigorously developing emerging industries, and steadfastly expanding high-standard opening up, injecting more certainty into the world economy. This edition invites four domestic and international economic experts to interpret the overarching trend of China's high-quality development moving toward the new and the excellent.
Ding Chun (丁纯) (Professor, Institute of World Economy, School of Economics, Fudan University)
Xia Huasheng (夏华声) (Economist, Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil)
Gu Qingyang (顾清扬) (Associate Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore)
Lyle White (莱尔·怀特) (Professor, Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa)
Demonstrating resilience, laying the foundation for a good start to the 15th Five-Year Plan (十五五)
Ding Chun: Amid the complex international environment of intensified geopolitical conflicts, weakening growth momentum in major economies, and rising protectionism and unilateralism, China's economy operated within a reasonable range, laying a solid foundation for a good start to the 15th Five-Year Plan and also providing a rare and valuable stable expectation for the highly uncertain world economy.
In the first half of the year, China's main economic indicators such as gross domestic product, value added of industrial enterprises above designated size, and total import and export of goods maintained stable growth, showing strong resilience. The economic structure continued to be optimized and upgraded, consumption structure transformed, investment structure optimized, traditional industries continuously consolidated the basic foundation of the real economy, and industries such as new energy vehicles, electronic communications, and high-tech manufacturing accelerated growth, with the conversion of old and new growth drivers speeding up. Overall, in the first half of the year, China's economy exhibited distinct characteristics of stable aggregate, optimized structure, and new growth drivers.
The sustained demonstration of China's economic resilience is attributed to the combination of an effective market and a well-functioning government. The super-large market, complete industrial system, high-standard opening up, and proactive and effective macroeconomic policies form mutually supporting development advantages. Macroeconomic policies continue to exert force, stabilizing market expectations, effectively expanding domestic demand, and ensuring the security of industrial and supply chains. The super-large market effectively hedges against external demand fluctuations, the complete industrial system ensures stable supply, the diversified international market layout enhances foreign trade's ability to resist risks, and high-standard opening up continuously expands space for international cooperation, all of which jointly build a solid foundation for China's economy to cope with external shocks.
Xia Huasheng: The driving force of China's economic development is increasingly coming from structural advantages and endogenous momentum. Manufacturing maintains relatively fast growth, foreign trade shows strong resilience driven by high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, employment is generally stable, prices rise moderately, and new quality productive forces (新质生产力) are being accelerated in cultivation and expansion — all fully reflecting the development advantages accumulated by China's economy over the long term and its strong ability to resist risks.
China is paying more attention to enhancing the endogenous momentum of economic development, promoting the digital and green transformation of industries, and continuously expanding high-standard opening up. These conditions work in synergy, which is conducive to improving total factor productivity, enhancing the ability to withstand risks, further stabilizing market expectations, creating a more stable, transparent, and predictable development environment for enterprises and investors, and providing strong guarantees for long-term sustainable economic growth.
Gu Qingyang: Against the backdrop of complex changes in the global economy and geopolitical situation, China's overall economic operation is stable, moving toward the new and the excellent, which is impressive. In recent years, China has continuously consolidated the foundation of high-quality development by building new infrastructure, implementing major engineering projects, and strengthening scientific research breakthroughs. At the same time, policy resources are increasingly directed toward technological innovation, green transformation, and improvement of people's livelihoods, indicating that China is paying more attention to coordinating the relationship between short-term stable growth and long-term transformation.
Lyle White: In the first half of this year, China's economic data is noteworthy, and innovation has become a keyword for understanding the Chinese economy. We see that more and more internationally competitive enterprises and industrial clusters are growing. Taking the artificial intelligence industry as an example, China's average daily token calls have reached the scale of hundreds of trillions. New quality productive forces (新质生产力) have not only improved production efficiency in all links but also promoted the accelerated digital transformation of manufacturing, services, and even the entire industrial system, reflecting new changes in the growth momentum of China's economy.
The stable performance of China's economy benefits largely from proactive and effective macroeconomic policies. The Chinese government implements targeted industrial policies, promotes integration of trade and investment, and stimulates consumption through a variety of policies such as trade-in programs. These measures have effectively stabilized market expectations, enhanced enterprise confidence, won time for industrial adjustment, and allowed the fruits of policies to benefit people's livelihoods.
Full of vitality, old and new growth drivers work in synergy to shape development advantages
Gu Qingyang: The synergy of old and new growth drivers is one of the most prominent characteristics of China's current economy. On one hand, the complete industrial system continues to play the role of a "stabilizer," with traditional industries accelerating transformation and upgrading, continuously consolidating the foundation of the real economy, and also contributing to the stable operation of global industrial and supply chains. On the other hand, new growth drivers represented by new quality productive forces (新质生产力) are growing rapidly, with high-tech manufacturing, the digital economy, and new energy industries becoming new growth engines. Innovation resources continue to concentrate on technology, high-end manufacturing, and green industries, injecting stronger momentum into economic growth.
Driven by the development of artificial intelligence, the computing power economy, and green low-carbon transformation, the industrial supply system is continuously optimized, and the supply capacity of high-end manufacturing and high value-added products is steadily improving. The demand side is relatively stable, with consumption upgrading, application of new technologies, and the transmission of innovation achievements to traditional industries and people's livelihood fields still ongoing. This difference in the pace of supply and demand and the speed of industrial development is a relatively common phenomenon in the process of economic structural optimization and upgrading. As technological innovation continues to empower traditional industries, and the skill training and social security systems are continuously improved, the fruits of high-quality development will increasingly benefit business entities and the people.
Xia Huasheng: China's traditional industries are an important support for economic resilience and the stability of global industrial and supply chains. The competitive advantage of "Made in China" is reflected not only in scale but also in the complete industrial supporting system, sustained technical upgrading capability, and efficient manufacturing efficiency. Relying on a comprehensive industrial system with complete categories, China has maintained stable growth in foreign trade and effectively buffered the impact of rising global costs and supply chain fluctuations, thereby alleviating international inflationary pressures. This is beneficial for both developed economies and emerging economies, and further enhances market confidence in global production networks.
The rapid development of artificial intelligence, new energy, advanced manufacturing, and the digital economy, with new quality productive forces (新质生产力) becoming an important driving force for China's high-quality economic development. The development of these emerging fields promotes the upgrading of the industrial system, helps improve production efficiency, and enhances the ability for independent control of technology. At the same time, the innovative development of the RMB-denominated debt financing instrument market has further promoted the opening up of China's financial sector, providing more channels for overseas capital. Brazil plans to issue the first RMB-denominated bond, the panda bond, in China, which reflects international market recognition of the level of opening up of China's financial market and the attractiveness of RMB assets.
Lyle White: In the current Chinese economy, the three major fields of new energy vehicles, green energy, and artificial intelligence continue to attract attention. New energy vehicles have not only reshaped the competitive landscape of the global automotive industry but also driven the upgrading of the entire chain from R&D to manufacturing. In the field of green energy, China has become an important promoter of global energy transition, with significant advantages in equipment manufacturing and the development and utilization of renewable energy. The development of artificial intelligence continues to empower industrial transformation and upgrading. The coordinated development of these fields reflects a profound change in the logic of China's economic development. China continues to maintain the advantage of a complete industrial system, and more and more competitive enterprises and industrial clusters are becoming innovation subjects, promoting economic development to create higher added value. This means that China is forming a more mature and internationally competitive development model, laying the foundation for future high-quality development.
Ding Chun: Traditional industries are the basic foundation of China's real economy and also an important basis for cultivating new quality productive forces (新质生产力). Although industries such as steel, non-ferrous metals, petrochemicals and chemicals, and equipment manufacturing face pressure from demand structure adjustment, they still play an irreplaceable role in ensuring supply, stabilizing employment, supporting investment and exports. More importantly, traditional industries are also the base for the development of strategic emerging industries such as new energy vehicles, photovoltaics, energy storage, and high-end equipment. As digitalization, intelligence, and green transformation continue to advance, traditional industries are continuously improving development quality and efficiency, and accelerating integration into the modern industrial system.
New quality productive forces (新质生产力) are becoming an important increment in China's economic growth. High-tech manufacturing, new energy vehicles, industrial robots, the digital economy, and artificial intelligence maintain relatively rapid development. Their significance lies not only in giving birth to new industries and new business forms but also in promoting the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries through technological innovation, improving total factor productivity, and accelerating the transformation of the economic growth model. Traditional industries continue to consolidate the foundation, and emerging industries accelerate growth, enabling China's economy to maintain resilience and vitality.
Open and win-win, continue to be an important engine for world economic growth
Xia Huasheng: China continues to advance institutional opening up, providing stronger predictability for international trade, investment, and financial cooperation. Relying on a solid high-end manufacturing base, coupled with reform measures such as relaxing market access and optimizing the regulatory system, China has created development opportunities for global enterprises and also enhanced the resilience of global industrial and supply chains. For emerging economies, the new development of China's economy provides broad opportunities for deepening industrial cooperation, expanding investment space, and achieving sustainable growth. The implementation of the outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan (十五五) will further lead China toward innovation-driven high-quality development. China has the conditions to continue being a ballast stone for global economic stability and continue to inject momentum into international economic development and cooperation.
Lyle White: African countries are highly focused on China's economic dynamics. China has maintained the position of Africa's largest trading partner for 17 consecutive years. The rapid development of bilateral economic and trade cooperation stems from the high complementarity of economic structures. In particular, in May this year, China fully implemented zero-tariff measures for 53 African countries with diplomatic relations, not only allowing African specialty products to enter the Chinese market more conveniently, consolidating traditional trade advantages, but also helping to upgrade and improve the quality of Africa-China cooperation. The significance of the zero-tariff measures goes far beyond the increase in trade volume; the core value lies in helping Africa cultivate the competitiveness of local industries and enhancing the level and depth of Africa's participation in global value chains.
China's economy maintains stable growth and continuously expands high-standard opening up, providing a broader market, richer investment opportunities, and more space for technological cooperation for Global South countries, including African countries. Technology transfer and industrial capacity building are becoming new growth points for Africa-China cooperation. We look forward to learning from China's experience and technology to improve manufacturing and innovation levels and achieve sustainable development.
Gu Qingyang: From the perspective of the Asia-Pacific region, the stable development of China's economy is of outstanding significance. In recent years, cooperation in Asian regional industrial and supply chains has deepened. ASEAN and China are each other's important trading partners, and cooperation fields are continuously expanding to higher and broader areas such as industrial coordination, digital economy, and green development. China's economy maintaining stable growth not only enhances regional market confidence but also further promotes trade, logistics, investment, and industrial cooperation, injecting momentum into the sustained development of the regional economy.
During the 15th Five-Year Plan (十五五) period, as old and new growth drivers are successively converted, the potential of domestic demand is continuously released, and high-standard opening up is steadily advanced, China's economy is expected to achieve more balanced and sustainable development. For Singapore and other Asia-Pacific countries, a China with continuously improving innovation capability, constantly optimizing industrial structure, and steadily increasing market openness will bring more opportunities.
Ding Chun: China's economy has a solid foundation for long-term stable development. Although challenges such as external demand fluctuations, geopolitical risks, and intensified technological competition still exist, the super-large market, complete industrial system, continuously enhanced technological innovation capability, high-standard opening up, and ample macro-policy space will continue to consolidate favorable conditions for economic growth and structural upgrading.
During the 15th Five-Year Plan (十五五) period, high-quality development is the main line of China's economic development. China will pay more attention to development quality, efficiency, and sustainability, and accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system. The transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, the coordinated development of the digital economy and green economy, the continuous release of domestic demand potential, and high-standard opening up will jointly enhance the endogenous momentum of economic development. As high-quality development continues to achieve new results, China will continue to be an important engine for world economic growth while steadily advancing Chinese modernization, and make greater contributions to maintaining the stability of global industrial and supply chains and promoting sustainable development of the world economy.
(This newspaper reporters Qu Pei (屈佩), Shi Yuanhao (时元皓), Zhang Jinruo (张矜若), Dai Kairan (戴楷然) interviewed and compiled, with contributions from Zhang Chi (张弛))
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Recently, the People's Bank of China, the National Financial Regulatory Administration (金融监管总局), and the All-China Women's Federation (全国妇联) jointly issued a special document to increase financial support for women's employment and entrepreneurship. From lowering or eliminating counter-guarantee thresholds to improving the full-cycle guarantee system; from perfecting supporting measures for vocational skills upgrading to preventing gender algorithm bias in risk control models, the document directly addresses the pain points and difficulties of women's employment and entrepreneurship, possessing both institutional innovation value and practical relevance, providing clear thinking and practical samples for the fiscal, tax, and financial fields to anchor the employment-first orientation.
Employment is the greatest livelihood. Currently, the economic recovery trend continues to consolidate, but the internal and external environment is complex and changeable, structural employment contradictions remain prominent, and stabilizing employment is always the top priority of macro-control. The Central Economic Work Conference (中央经济工作会议) clearly stated that we must adhere to the employment-first strategy, strengthen the employment-first orientation in high-quality development, and enhance the employment-driving force of economic growth. This year's Government Work Report (政府工作报告) refined and implemented relevant deployments, promoted the improvement of the employment impact assessment mechanism, and ran employment considerations through the entire chain of various measures such as consumption stimulus, government investment, and special bond issuance, continuously promoting the effective improvement of employment quality and the reasonable growth of employment quantity.
How can fiscal, tax, and financial policies precisely target employment stabilization and continuously amplify implementation effectiveness?
It is necessary to balance the relationship between 授人以鱼 (shòu rén yǐ yú - "give a person a fish," provide temporary relief) and 授人以渔 (shòu rén yǐ yú - "teach a person to fish," impart skills for self-sufficiency), taking into account both alleviating difficulties and improving quality and empowering capabilities——
Fiscal, tax, and financial tools must both hold the bottom line of people's livelihood and alleviate short-term employment pressure, and also focus on long-term development and forge the core competitiveness of workers. For key employment groups such as zero-employment households, women, college graduates, and people lifted out of poverty, continue to make good use of tools such as stable job return subsidies, entrepreneurship subsidies, tax and fee reductions, and low-interest guaranteed loans to resolve phased unemployment risks. However, relief measures can only solve temporary difficulties; industrial iteration and the transformation of old and new growth drivers continue to reshape the employment market, and skill shortcomings have become the main constraint on achieving high-quality full employment. After an electronics manufacturing enterprise in Yongzhou, Hunan deployed a new 5G production line, the skills of its original frontline employees could hardly match the new production process, and the risk of personnel turnover became prominent; relying on 118,300 yuan in stable job funds returned at a 90% ratio, the enterprise systematically carried out practical training under the new apprenticeship system, and more than 30 workers completed skill upgrades and smoothly transferred to the new production line. This fully demonstrates that short-term relief to stabilize jobs and skill training to achieve transformation are both indispensable. All localities need to continuously increase fiscal investment in vocational skills training, help workers adapt to industrial upgrades, connect with emerging tracks, and achieve a leap from "stabilizing employment" to "high-quality employment."
It is necessary to coordinate the relationship between "intelligent manufacturing renewal" and "stabilizing jobs and expanding capacity," taking into account both industrial upgrading and employment absorption——
Cultivating new quality productive forces (新质生产力), transforming traditional industries, and promoting large-scale equipment renewal are key paths for the real economy to improve quality and efficiency and achieve high-quality development. In practice, after many enterprises complete intelligent transformation and equipment upgrades relying on fiscal awards and subsidies, technical transformation interest discounts, and tax incentives, their production capacity and benefits steadily improve, but due to intelligent substitution, their capacity to absorb labor has noticeably declined. The foothold of innovation-driven development is to ensure people's livelihood, not simply to pursue production capacity and profit growth. In this regard, fiscal, tax, and financial policies need to optimize support orientation and calibrate evaluation criteria, no longer using only industrial track, production capacity scale, output value, and taxes as the criteria for support evaluation, but incorporating enterprise job stabilization scale, new job creation, and labor absorption capacity into the core assessment system. At the same time, before the initiation of major infrastructure, urban renewal, and industrial investment projects, employment impact assessment must be strictly implemented, projects with strong employment-driving effects and broad industrial chain absorption space should be prioritized, and the policy tool of work-relief programs (以工代赈) should be well utilized to find the optimal balance between economic quality improvement and job expansion.
It is necessary to grasp the relationship between the "main force" and the "new force" of employment, taking into account both stabilizing the existing stock and cultivating increments——
The large number and wide coverage of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises and individual businesses are the main force absorbing employment and carrying flexible employment. Fiscal, tax, and financial policies must continuously reduce burdens, alleviate difficulties, and precisely empower, relying on normalized tax and fee reductions, low-interest credit, risk compensation and other mechanisms to stabilize business entities, hold onto existing jobs, and build a solid employment buffer line. Stabilizing the existing stock must also expand increments; fiscal and financial resources should be guided to tilt toward entrepreneurship incubation platforms, emerging industries, and modern service industries. Relying on entrepreneurship guaranteed loans and supply chain finance to empower mass entrepreneurship, using entrepreneurship to drive employment, and using new business forms to generate new jobs. At the same time, improve the flexible employment security system, perfect the unemployment risk sharing mechanism, support various new forms of employment, continuously strengthen the new force in the employment field, and form a virtuous cycle of stable stock, expanding increments, and rising quality.
Building an employment-friendly development model requires fiscal, tax, and financial policies to promote two-way empowerment and coordinated progress between "investing in things" and "investing in people." In the future, it is necessary to continuously strengthen the rigidity of the employment-first policy, make employment assessment a prerequisite for new fiscal, tax, and financial measures, promote deep coordination among fiscal, monetary, industrial, and consumption policies, continuously optimize policy tools, precisely allocate various resources, and consolidate the employment foundation through multi-party linkage, injecting lasting and warm momentum for people's livelihood into the sustained recovery and improvement of the economy.
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July, along the Dulong River, clumps of tsaoko cling tightly to the fertile soil, growing like warm red agates. Wang Shirong (王世荣), a planter in Bapo Village (巴坡村), Dulongjiang Township (独龙江乡), Gongshan Dulong and Nu Autonomous County (贡山独龙族怒族自治县), Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, crouches under the forest to inspect the fruit-setting, feeling thoroughly reassured: “Thanks to the Agricultural Credit Cooperative’s ‘Tsaoko Loan’ (草果贷) as a safety net, I have expanded planting again this year.” An industrial loan, a mobile “backpack bank” (背包银行), is a vivid microcosm of Yunnan’s inclusive finance deeply cultivating the borderlands.
High mountains and deep valleys, villages scattered, Yunnan with its “nine parts mountains, half part flatland” is extremely prone to having financial coverage blind spots. How to avoid the situation where the more short of money people are, the more unable they are to get loans? Yunnan financial practitioners shouldered canvas bags, walked deep into the mountains, bringing the living water of credit to the masses.
Where to lend? Focus on distinctive advantageous industries.
Lush tsaoko is now recognized by the Dulong River masses as a “green asset,” but in earlier years it left Wang Shirong 一筹莫展 (yī chóu mò zhǎn - “one plan cannot be displayed,” at a loss). “Developing an industry requires scaling, and scaling requires sufficient funds.” As one of the first households in the village to develop tsaoko planting, Wang Shirong planned to expand the demonstration base and drive the whole village’s scaled planting, but the government-allocated seedlings were limited, and the funding gap for self-purchasing could not be filled for a long time. Deep-mountain households lack collateral such as factory buildings and real estate—difficulty in obtaining loans became a “tiger blocking the road” on the path to expanding planting.
The masses’ urgent difficulties and heartfelt aspirations are the targeting of services. The “Backpack Bank” Party member service team of the Yunnan Rural Credit Cooperative (云南省农村信用社) Nujiang Rural Commercial Bank Co., Ltd. Gongshan Dulongjiang Sub-branch (怒江农村商业银行股份有限公司贡山独龙江支行) carried business materials and mobile terminals and visited three times, quickly completing verification, approval, and disbursement. The loan was like timely rain, supporting Wang Shirong to rapidly expand his planting scale. Now the entire Bapo village’s tsaoko planting area has broken through 20,000 mu, and small tsaoko has become the “golden fruit” along the Dulong River.
Since establishing its outlet in 2010, the Gongshan Dulongjiang Sub-branch employees have been rooted in the canyon villages year-round, going from village to household, cumulatively issuing 1,138 loans, disbursing 81.9779 million yuan, with the targeted key industry being tsaoko; the entire branch’s total credit authorization is 127.0868 million yuan, of which the exclusive “Dulong River Common Prosperity Loan” (独龙江共富贷) disbursed 25.523 million yuan. Continuous precision drip irrigation has promoted industries such as Dulong River tsaoko and Dulong cattle to shift from policy “blood transfusion” to endogenous “hematopoiesis.”
Not only Dulongjiang, but also the nut industry in Changning County (昌宁县), Baoshan City, has a clear pain point of funding mismatch: planters urgently need short-term revolving funds during the purchase season, while processing enterprises need long-term credit to guarantee storage. The Yunnan Branch of Postal Savings Bank innovatively launched a product matrix of “Express Loan (极速贷) + Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Loan (农牧贷) + Small and Micro Easy Loan (小微易贷).” The pure-credit Express Loan achieves online instant approval, the Small and Micro Easy Loan adapts to enterprises’ long-cycle operations, and the Baoshan Branch of Postal Savings Bank cumulatively disbursed 150 million yuan across the full chain, unblocking industrial funding bottlenecks for comprehensive rural revitalization (乡村全面振兴).
Following Yunnan’s “1+10+3” (1+10+3) plateau specialty agriculture layout, “Coffee Loan” (咖啡贷) in Pu’er and “Grape Loan” (葡萄贷) in Mile have been successively launched. County-level finance adapts to local conditions (因地制宜 (yīn dì zhì yí - “according to the land, set suitable measures,” to adapt measures to local conditions)) and provides precise drip irrigation. Fruits and vegetables in the mountains, under-forest crops, relying on financial support, have become levers for prosperity. As of the end of May 2026, the outstanding balance of agricultural-related loans in Yunnan Province was 1.44 trillion yuan, an increase of 8.17% year-on-year. The living water of finance continuously activates the momentum of comprehensive rural revitalization.
How to enhance credit? Innovate a diversified credit system.
In earlier years, the masses in remote areas were doubly restricted in developing industries: no effective collateral, lack of credit records—financing difficulties long constrained income growth.
The steady development of the Dulong River industry owes much to the rural credit system rooted in the villages—its 功不可没 (gōng bù kě mò - “merits cannot be erased,” contributions cannot be overlooked). To break the deadlock, the Yunnan Rural Credit Cooperative launched a special action in Dulongjiang in 2019: “Whole-Township File Establishment, Whole Dulong Ethnic Group Credit Authorization” (整乡建档、独龙族整族授信). 18 employees signed a military pledge, and in 39 days walked across the entire township’s households, door-to-door investigating family, industry, and income-expenditure situations.
After full-coverage visits, the whole township evaluated 6 credit villages and 386 credit households, with overall credit authorization of 60 million yuan, building Nujiang Prefecture’s first “credit township.” The Dulong ethnic group became the first “directly-entering-socialism ethnic group” (直过民族) in the country to achieve whole-ethnic-group credit authorization. Households can rely on credit to “get one-time credit authorization, draw as needed,” without needing collateral or guarantees—a piece of credit assessment became a “pass” for the masses to get rich.
Across the vast Yunnan land, financial institutions are continuously amplifying this “credit dividend.” In Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, this trust has transformed into an uplift for the “half the sky.” The Dehong Prefecture Branch of the People’s Bank of China (中国人民银行德宏州分行) promoted the “whole-village credit authorization” (整村授信) model, providing one-on-one advisory services for rural women. Zhang Xiaojuan (张晓娟), a villager of Xinmin Village (新民村), Mengmao Subdistrict (勐卯街道), Ruili City, operates a pig farm. Financial institutions took the initiative to visit, establish files, and grant credit, providing continuous credit support over the years, raising the loan limit to 500,000 yuan, enabling her to develop from a scale of dozens of pigs to over 200 now.
Addressing the problem of lack of collateral and financing difficulties for characteristic planting entities, and focusing on the county-level characteristic industry layout, the Honghe Branch of Agricultural Bank of China (农业银行红河分行) innovatively launched a pure-credit product “Blueberry Loan” (蓝莓贷) in 2024, suited to the full industry chain of blueberry seedlings, planting, cold chain processing. This product’s deployment exceeded 100 million yuan in the short term, and in the past three years it has cumulatively lent 700 million yuan to the blueberry industry, with a current loan balance of 190 million yuan, of which pure-credit loans exceed 80 million yuan.
From manual door-to-door file establishment to digital platform empowerment, Yunnan’s credit system construction is continuously sinking downward. As of the end of December 2025, the province has evaluated 7.8423 million credit households, 8,507 credit villages, and 946 credit townships, with the credit loan balance of filed households reaching 291.283 billion yuan. Yunnan is using credit system construction to lay a solid foundation for inclusive finance, making credit a “hard currency” for the borderland masses.
How to serve? Do more financial services delivered to the doorstep.
In Dulongjiang Township, the form of financial services has been constantly changing. At the end of the last century, bank employees carried abacuses, account books, and dry provisions as they traveled across mountains—that was the first generation of “backpack banks.” Today, the backpacks are loaded with smart terminals and portable printers, and at the “Financial Night School” (金融夜校) by the fire pit, many villagers have learned to transfer money via mobile phone. And on days when torrential rain destroyed river embankments, bank employees set up “tent banks” (帐篷银行) at temporary resettlement sites, which solved the pressing needs of disaster-stricken households—a 燃眉之急 (rán méi zhī jí - “urgency of eyebrows on fire,” pressing need).
Mountain-area masses not only lack funds, but even more lack financial knowledge and operational ability. Yunnan’s financial industry insists on proactively going downward, delivering services to the door, going deep into border villages to explain policies, popularize anti-fraud knowledge, and fill the service shortcomings along the border.
In Binchuan County (宾川县), Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, this proactive door-delivery service has turned into the liveliest “financial window” at the village entrance. Fudian Bank (富滇银行) set up an inclusive finance service station (普惠金融服务站) inside an agricultural materials store: villagers buy agricultural supplies during the day, and in the evening they can handle business and learn finance here. Customer managers carry mobile terminals to visit households to establish files and grant credit, teaching villagers hand-in-hand how to use mobile banking, so that the people truly “can use and dare to use” financial services. In Dukezong Ancient Town (独克宗古城), Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (迪庆藏族自治州), Zhou Ting (周婷), an entrepreneur from Hunan, was worrying about funds to expand her inn. The customer manager Chuipi (吹批) of the Diqing Branch of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China proactively visited and within two days issued a 2 million yuan “Yunnan Travel Homestay Loan” (云旅民宿贷), helping her ride the tourism boom of the Lijiang-Shangri-La Railway (丽香铁路).
Yunnan has built a three-dimensional service network of “fixed outlets + self-service machines + inclusive service stations + mobile payment.” As of the end of 2025, 10,434 agriculture-benefiting payment service points (惠农支付服务点) have been established, and the loan balance of 374 border happy villages (边境幸福村) is 26.442 billion yuan. A benefiting-people financial network covering deep mountains, borders, and villages is being woven denser and denser.
Worn rubber shoes, canvas bags loaded with business materials and terminals are continuously helping the living water of finance to nourish the Yunnan land. Li Tao (李滔), President of the Yunnan Branch of the People’s Bank of China, stated that Yunnan will continue to build a multi-level, wide-coverage, sustainable inclusive financial system, optimize and strengthen county-level financial services, guide financial institutions to adhere to affordable costs and commercial sustainability, enrich credit supply, lower the service focus, and precisely empower key areas such as private small and micro enterprises, comprehensive rural revitalization, and livelihood security.
Reporter’s Notes
Proactive Action to Let Finance Better Meet the Needs of Development
From “waiting for customers to come to the door” to “proactively inquiring about needs,” Yunnan’s financial industry, through proactive action, has let finance better meet the needs of development.
Finance is the bloodline of the national economy. Letting finance better meet the needs of development is not only the inherent meaning of financial services, but also a practical requirement for promoting high-quality economic and social development. When the living water of finance precisely drips and irrigates the fields and farmlands, the momentum of comprehensive rural revitalization can be even stronger.
Inclusive finance is not blind lending. We must adhere to adapting to local conditions and precise drip irrigation, encourage directing limited credit funds to the front line of key industries for comprehensive rural revitalization. The development of leading industries in the vast majority of Yunnan’s counties and cities—such as Nujiang tsaoko, Menglian avocado (孟连牛油果), Changning nuts—all rely on financial support.
For a long time, one important reason for the difficulty of financing for groups such as farmers in remote mountainous areas is information asymmetry—banks do not know who is short of money and dare not lend, and those who lack money do not know whom to approach or how to borrow. Now, more and more financial institutions like Yunnan Rural Credit Cooperative are stepping out of their counters and going into the fields and farmlands to bridge this credit gap. In this process, the proactive action of grassroots financial institutions is especially important.
Proactive action is not only an attitude, but also an ability. Digital technology is breaking the traditional dependence of credit on collateral. Technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence turn “credit” into an assessable asset. New methods such as live livestock and poultry mortgage (畜禽活体抵押) are continuously expanding, allowing more farmers, cooperatives, and other entities without real estate or equipment to also obtain loan support.
Behind each and every credit village are active “backpack banks.” From “waiting for customers to come” to “going out,” from “looking at collateral” to “looking at credit,” from “fighting alone” to “policy coordination,” inclusive finance is continuously broadening the accessibility of credit resources, allowing farmers in remote mountainous areas to also use financial tools, enhancing the diversity, inclusiveness, and accessibility of financial services, and helping comprehensive rural revitalization in a wider range of regions.
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The economic ethics of enriching the people, nurturing life, and balancing righteousness and profit is one of the important elements of fine traditional Chinese culture. The concepts of "righteousness" and "profit" existed early in the consciousness of the Chinese nation, and gradually revealed normative connotations for judging various issues and behaviors through the evolution of their meanings. As social and economic reforms during the Spring and Autumn period continuously impacted the ritual and music order, private ownership accelerated the differentiation between individual "private profit" and collective "public profit," and the "debate on righteousness and profit" (义利之辨) emerged as a fundamental issue running through the development of economic ethics. Although Confucianism, Mohism, Legalism, and others had multiple interpretations of the connotations of "righteousness" and "profit," overall they all required that the emerging private economy be subordinate to the political and ethical order, and accept the constraints of state power and moral norms.
From the Qin and Han dynasties onward, the traditional economy was gradually shaped into a tribute system (贡赋体制) that embedded the payment and transport of fiscal levies with the exchange and trade of goods. According to the Confucian conception of an ideal order, "profit," which includes material wealth and the people's livelihoods, was required to follow "righteousness," which concerns moral norms and political order. With the rapid development of folk markets in the Tang and Song dynasties, the distribution pattern of social and economic interests underwent changes. Under the constraints of low traditional productivity levels and a lack of conditions for social reproduction, there was a persistent tension between "storing wealth among the people" (藏富于民) and "storing wealth in the state" (藏富于国). During the Ming and Qing dynasties, scholar-officials with anti-traditional tendencies, on the topic of whether the state's "financial management" (理财) competed with the people for profit, began to reflect on the subjects of "righteousness" and "profit" from an institutional level, discussing whether the state's "financial management" was equivalent to society's "public profit," and also placed greater emphasis on "using righteousness to govern profit" (以义主利) and "using profit to assist righteousness" (以利佐义).
Since modern times, "economy" has gradually been regarded as a specialized field of the state system and social system. People of the time began to realize the differences in underlying logic between the traditional economy and the modern market, and attempted to transform the traditional "view of righteousness and profit" (义利观) using Western principles of rational egoism and utilitarianism. In particular, the popularity of the materialist conception of history greatly changed the Chinese people's understanding of the principles of social organization, reversing the relative status of "profit," representing material wealth, and "righteousness," representing moral norms, in the operation of society. Thus, the "profit" of economic development became embedded in the values of modern society, no longer needing to seek its source of legitimacy from "righteousness." However, modern China, deeply mired in internal and external troubles, also realized the drawbacks of the capitalist free market, and turned to rethinking the value of "righteousness." This caused "profit," after the traditional "debate on righteousness and profit" was thoroughly deconstructed, not to distance itself from "righteousness," but to attempt to integrate fair distribution into the process of economic modernization.
Modern China only truly possessed the conditions to achieve economic modernization after the victory of the New Democratic Revolution. The transition of the "view of righteousness and profit" from tradition to modernity was not simply a shift from 重义轻利 (zhòng yì qīng lì - "value righteousness, belittle profit," to prioritize moral principles over material gain) to 重利轻义 (zhòng lì qīng yì - "value profit, belittle righteousness," to prioritize material gain over moral principles), but rather, driven by the two wheels of material civilization and spiritual civilization, it turned to a new view of righteousness and profit that "balances righteousness and profit" (义利兼顾) and "gives equal weight to righteousness and profit" (义利并重), dedicated to pursuing the dialectical unity of instrumental rationality and value rationality. This is mainly manifested in the following aspects: First, in terms of value ethics, the "debate on righteousness and profit" provides an important ethical foundation for the socialist market economy. In the process of building a high-level socialist market economy, it is necessary to "obtain profit through righteousness, and not be 唯利是图 (wéi lì shì tú - 'only profit is sought,' to be bent solely on profit)." This is in fact a creative transformation of the traditional view of righteousness and profit, emphasizing that business entities must adhere to moral bottom lines and social responsibilities, and maintain market order. Second, in economic operation, the idea of "unity of righteousness and profit" (义利合) also enlightens us that we should give full play to the decisive role of the market in resource allocation, while also needing to better play the role of the government, prevent polarization between rich and poor, and embody fairness and justice. Third, in terms of development model, a correct "view of righteousness and profit" helps to shape a development model with Chinese characteristics. Historical experience shows that overemphasizing "profit" easily leads to market failure and social crisis, while overemphasizing "righteousness" will affect individual initiative and suppress economic vitality. Therefore, on the new journey of Chinese-style modernization, it is necessary to "balance righteousness and profit," achieving high-quality economic development while also focusing on improving people's livelihoods and taking care of the overall interests of society. This is not only reflected in the goal of achieving common prosperity in national governance, but also requires adhering to the concept of mutual benefit and win-win in international exchanges.
In summary, the important value and enlightening significance of the "debate on righteousness and profit" in contemporary times does not lie in simply applying the orientation of "valuing righteousness and belittling profit," but in constructing an economic ethics that balances the individual and the whole, efficiency and fairness, through its creative transformation, providing ethical norms, institutional balance, and development orientation for the development of the socialist market economy, and truly realizing the organic unity of economic development and social value.
(The author is a researcher at the Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想研究中心). This article was compiled from interviews by Ge Mengchao (葛孟超), a reporter of this newspaper, and Zhou Bin (周斌), a reporter of National Humanities History (《国家人文历史》).)
By: 武 贺
Ocean energy is an important component of building an offshore multi-energy complementary energy system, an important energy guarantee for supporting deep-sea development, and an important starting point for cultivating emerging marine industries.
Currently, the global energy transition is accelerating, and ocean energy is at a critical stage moving from technological exploration to large-scale application. Accurately grasping the development situation and realistic foundation is of great significance for the development of ocean energy in China.
From an international perspective, ocean energy development has entered a new stage of competitive deployment. In recent years, many countries have incorporated ocean energy into their national energy strategy priorities, and through support methods such as contracts for difference, electricity price subsidies, and demonstration projects, they have continuously improved the policy system. The International Energy Agency predicts that by 2050, global installed ocean energy capacity will reach 300,000 megawatts, and the industrial scale and emission reduction effects will significantly increase. At the technical level, tidal current energy and wave energy power generation devices are accelerating iteration towards high power, modularization, and intelligence; equipment reliability and adaptability to the marine environment continue to strengthen; some technologies already have preliminary conditions for commercialization. At the same time, countries have effectively lowered the threshold for engineering through standardized testing and verification, data sharing, and risk-sharing mechanisms, promoting the acceleration of industrial maturity.
From a domestic perspective, the development of ocean energy in China shows a trend of consolidating the foundation and accelerating leapfrogging. China's coastal tidal current energy, wave energy and other resources are widely distributed, with relatively large development potential. After years of technological accumulation, China has mastered key core technologies in fields such as tidal current energy and wave energy; megawatt-level power generation devices have achieved stable grid-connected operation; equipment reliability and energy conversion efficiency have generally reached the international advanced level; industrial development is transforming from "single-point breakthroughs" to "systematic advancement". In recent years, focusing on fields such as island energy supply, deep-sea aquaculture, and offshore wind power, domestic related industries have gradually formed a development pattern of scenario-driven technology and technology adapting to scenarios. At the same time, relevant national departments jointly issued the Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Large-Scale Utilization of Ocean Energy (关于推动海洋能规模化利用的指导意见), making systematic deployments in areas such as sea-use space, pilot demonstrations, and technological innovation. Construction of infrastructure such as comprehensive marine test sites is accelerating; public service capabilities continue to improve in links such as marine equipment sea trial verification, environmental adaptability assessment, and grid-connected adaptation debugging.
At the same time, it must be noted that the large-scale development of ocean energy in China still faces multiple constraints. First, economic constraints are relatively prominent. Currently, the overall electricity generation cost of ocean energy is still higher than that of mature renewable energy generation models such as wind power and photovoltaics; scale effects have not yet been formed; the electricity pricing mechanism and revenue expectations are not sufficiently stable. Second, engineering reliability still needs to be strengthened; the complex and variable marine environment imposes higher requirements on equipment structural strength, material durability, and operation and maintenance capabilities; there are still deficiencies in adaptability to extreme operating conditions and long-term stable operation. Third, the standard and service system is still not perfect; the industry standard system needs to be improved; there is still a gap in public testing and evaluation capabilities. Overall, although China's ocean energy has a good development foundation, it is still at a critical stage of transitioning from demonstration to large-scale development.
Ocean energy is an important component of building an offshore multi-energy complementary energy system, an important energy guarantee for supporting deep-sea development, and an important starting point for cultivating emerging marine industries. To promote the development of ocean energy, the key is to cross the threshold of scale application as soon as possible. In terms of consolidating the resource foundation, it is necessary to strengthen systematic survey and assessment and overall planning; in terms of technological breakthroughs, it is necessary to focus on key technologies and equipment reliability to improve the engineering level; in terms of scenario application, it is necessary to rely on typical scenarios to advance demonstration applications, driving down costs and maturing models; in terms of policy guarantees, it is necessary to improve the policy environment and market mechanisms, strengthen development expectations, and gather multi-party synergy.
Looking to the future, it is necessary to accelerate the promotion of ocean energy from "feasible" to "usable", from "demonstration" to "scale", to achieve a large-scale breakthrough first in the new round of ocean energy competition, and to gain the initiative in the future energy landscape.
(The author is a researcher at the National Ocean Technology Center (国家海洋技术中心), Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部); this article was compiled from an interview by Liu Shiyao (刘诗瑶), a reporter of this newspaper.)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 贾丰丰
In early spring 2026, the Chang'an Campus (长安校区) of Xidian University (西安电子科技大学).
A 75-meter-high giant steel support tower stood on the experimental field, with the transmitting antenna at its top pointing toward a receiving end a hundred meters away. Below the tower, researchers, wrapped in cotton jackets, stared intently at the data on the screen. "It's on! It's on! It's charging!" Li Xun (李勋), a professor at the School of Mechano-Electronic Engineering of Xidian University, shouted loudly as he saw the gradually brightening LED (light-emitting diode) light on a drone in the air. Teachers and students gathered around the equipment held their breath and watched; the faint light spot gradually became bright and stable.
The technical problem that the team had been tackling for years had finally achieved a key breakthrough — they had overcome the technology for long-distance, high-power, high-efficiency one-to-many moving-target microwave wireless power transmission, realized a single transmitting system supplying power to multiple moving targets, and solved the problem of precise control for multi-target power supply. In the future, it is expected to simultaneously power multiple space vehicles or ground mobile devices. With this, China has taken a key step in the construction of space solar power stations.
The Dream of Chasing the Sun
From Construction to Ground Validation
The conception of building a space solar power station can be traced back to 1968. At that time, some scientists proposed deploying ultra-large-scale solar power generation devices in Earth orbit, unaffected by day and night or weather, to continuously collect solar energy and then transmit it wirelessly to the ground via microwaves or lasers. The entire process undergoes the conversion of "solar energy — electric energy — microwave — electric energy." Once realized, humanity would obtain inexhaustible, zero-carbon-emission clean energy.
However, this concept of a "space charging station" was trapped by technology for half a century. It was not until recent years, with breakthroughs in key technologies such as efficient energy conversion in space, wireless energy transmission, and ultra-large-scale structure construction, that it gradually moved toward reality.
In 2006, China began related research. In 2014, the team led by Academician Duan Baoyan (段宝岩) of Xidian University proposed the "OMEGA" space solar power station scheme with independent intellectual property rights, which, differing from designs in the United States and Japan, has advantages in structure and efficiency.
On December 23, 2018, the "Chasing the Sun Project — Space Solar Power Station Ground Validation System" was launched at Xidian University — "Chasing the Sun" is taken from 夸父逐日 (kuā fù zhú rì - "Kuafu chased the sun," a myth symbolizing relentless pursuit of a goal), implying chasing the sun and capturing energy.
After four years of arduous research, in 2022, the team built the world's first full-chain, full-system OMEGA-SSPS (OMEGA Space Solar Power Station) ground validation system. By "full chain" is meant that the entire process, from sunlight collection, photoelectric conversion, microwave transmission, space transmission to reception, rectification, and output, was fully connected. "At that time, the main indicators were: transmitting and receiving antennas 55 meters apart, transmission power 2081 watts, beam collection efficiency 87.3%, and DC-DC transmission efficiency 15.05%," said Duan Xuechao (段学超), Deputy Dean of the School of Mechano-Electronic Engineering of Xidian University. These data reached the international leading level at the time.
But this was only the starting point. Fixed-point power transmission is like pulling an "invisible wire" at a fixed location; if the target moves, it will miss the target and lose power. Real spacecraft, drones, and ground mobile devices are in constant motion. Going from "static" to "dynamic" became the next hurdle the team had to cross.
The Leap of Chasing the Sun
From Fixed Point to Moving Targets
Temporary success did not make the team stop. "We knew that for real engineering application, we must solve the problem of 'moving'," Li Xun said.
At the end of May 2026, good news came from the "Chasing the Sun Project" research team: after another round of four years of hard work, the team produced "Chasing the Sun Project 2.0" — the world's first one-to-many moving-target OMEGA-SSPS microwave wireless power transmission ground validation system.
"One-to-many" means that the same transmitting system, through precise control of the beam direction, supplies power accurately to multiple high-speed moving targets almost simultaneously. This is like using a single beam of light in the dark to quickly switch and hit multiple moving bull's-eyes; the difficulty is imaginable.
There are three key difficulties. The first is high-precision measurement and control. The transmitting antenna needs to obtain the position, distance, and attitude of each receiving target in real time. The team developed a closed-loop control system based on reverse beam guidance — the receiving end sends a guidance signal, and the transmitting end captures and calculates it in time to achieve precise beam pointing. "In layman's terms, it's a 'two-way journey'; the system tracks and corrects as it goes, so that the energy is 'delivered' to the target without deviation," Li Xun said.
The second is the miniaturization, lightweighting, and integration of the transmitting and receiving antennas. Ground validation can build a 75-meter-high tower, but equipment that goes into space must be light and small. Through integrated design, the team compressed multiple functional modules into a smaller space, significantly reducing weight.
The third is efficiency improvement. The DC-DC transmission efficiency went from 15% to 20%; each percentage point increase represents an all-round breakthrough in materials, devices, and algorithms. The team upgraded new types of devices such as gallium nitride diodes to improve the system's ability to withstand high-power fluctuations.
In the early stages of the research, losing the target and the beam missing the mark were commonplace. "Communication delays caused data to lag; the receiving antenna was clearly at this point, but the beam hit that point," Duan Xuechao recalled. By carrying out an electromechanical coupling design for the mechanical adjustment device of the transmitting antenna, the team improved its control bandwidth at the source, and also had to verify, through repeated experiments, the control effect of precise pointing based on the flexible-cable-driven aerial structure. During the critical phase of the project, teachers and students often worked from afternoon until one or two in the morning, organizing data before resting.
It was these "makeshift methods" coupled with "hard skills" that allowed the team to gnaw away at the "hard bones" of the technology bit by bit. On the test field in the height of summer, data came in: at a distance of about 100 meters, the DC-DC transmission efficiency reached 20.8%, and the beam collection efficiency was 88%. The drone experiment was simultaneously successful — at a speed of 30 km/h and a distance of 30 meters, it stably received 143 watts of power. This means a small drone can continuously receive "remote charging" while flying, no longer needing to worry about endurance.
The expert group evaluated: "'Chasing the Sun Project 2.0' has achieved a key leap from static principle verification to dynamic multi-target engineering application, and the overall level has reached the international leading level."
Looking globally, the United States, Japan, and South Korea are all advancing space solar power station plans, but as of now, China is the only country that has run through the entire chain and realized one-to-many moving-target power transmission.
The Distance of Chasing the Sun
From the Ground to the Vast Universe of Space
Success in ground validation is only the first step of the journey. According to the national roadmap of "two major steps, three minor steps" (两大步三小步): by 2030, build a megawatt-class in-orbit experimental power station; by 2050, build a gigawatt-class space solar power station.
"Suppose space solar power stations are deployed every 0.1 degrees (a spacing of about 73 kilometers) in geostationary orbit; the entire orbit could accommodate about 3,600 power stations. Calculating with each space solar power station having a generation capacity of 1 gigawatt, if the orbit-to-ground transmission efficiency reaches 30%, it could provide about 10,000 terawatt-hours (1 terawatt-hour equals 1 billion kilowatt-hours) of electricity to the ground each year, which could meet about one-third of the current global electricity demand, and could also be used for ground-based seawater desalination and hydrogen production, among other things. Besides providing basic-load power supply to the ground, space solar power stations also have multiple application prospects on the ground and in space," Duan Baoyan said.
For example, space solar power stations can provide a "space charging station" for spacecraft. Many small and medium-sized satellites rely on their own solar panels for power; once they fly into the Earth's shadow zone, they "lose power." A space solar power station can replenish energy for them at any time, allowing ordinary users to enjoy more stable mobile phone signals and positioning services.
Space solar power stations can also provide emergency power supply to ground mobile targets and disaster areas. In remote mountainous areas or disaster sites, simply by having a receiving device, one can obtain electricity "falling from the sky."
"Through power relay satellites, the construction of space solar power stations can also achieve transcontinental, ultra-long-distance power transmission. Future lunar bases and Mars exploration can rely on power stations in lunar or Martian orbit for power supply, solving problems such as the 14-day-long lunar night," added Fan Guanheng (樊冠恒), a professor at the School of Mechano-Electronic Engineering of Xidian University. "The construction of space solar power stations is also conducive to typhoon mitigation and asteroid defense. Theoretical simulations show that injecting 0.5 to 10 gigawatts of microwave energy into a specific area of a typhoon can disrupt its structure and weaken its intensity. For asteroids threatening Earth, space solar power stations can power high-power electric thrusters to change their orbits. Furthermore, space solar power stations can be used for cutting-edge fields such as orbital debris removal, in-orbit propellant refueling, and asteroid resource mining."
Duan Baoyan had a vivid metaphor: "A space solar power station is essentially a 'microwave charging station' deployed in a predetermined orbit in space." This is not only an energy revolution but also a leap for human civilization from "reliance on fossil fuels" to the "space energy era."
It is the height of summer again. Beneath the 75-meter-high tower, the research team conducts experiments every day, sweat soaking their clothes, and the LED lights turn on again and again on the drone… "Only by pushing the spirit of striving for excellence in scientific research to the extreme can we achieve breakthroughs in indicators." These words from Duan Baoyan are a true portrayal of the team's 12 years of hard work. From proposing the plan in 2014, to the project launch in 2018, to the completion of "Chasing the Sun Project 1.0" in 2022, and then to the leap of "Chasing the Sun Project 2.0" in 2026 — the people chasing the light are running with all their might, and every step counts.
Return to TopBy: 周 磊
Hot-rolled strip, as an industrial raw material, is widely used in fields such as construction, automobiles, home appliances, and machinery manufacturing. To facilitate product quality control and traceability, each finished hot-rolled steel coil must have a product label affixed. By scanning the label’s QR code, one can query information such as strip dimensions and specifications, steel grade composition and designation, and production quality curves.
Labeling sounds simple, but in a steel plant, affixing a label to a coil that has just come off the production line at a temperature as high as 350 to 750 degrees Celsius is a real challenge. Because manual intervention is not possible to physically cool the steel coil, in the past, workers had to wait for these “big iron discs” to sit in the warehouse for at least three days until they were completely cooled to room temperature, then manually stick a self-adhesive label onto them. The production line turns out tens of thousands of tons of steel coils every day. If all coils had to go through a three-day “cooling wait,” the inventory costs would be prohibitive.
Could we use fully automatic equipment to label the hot steel coils? We bought an industrial robot arm, fitted it with a camera, and hoped it could precisely affix the label. But when the robot arm approached that “big iron disc,” problems arose. Hot air distorts light—just like when you look at an asphalt road in the distance on a summer day, you always feel a wavering light wave. The heat waves from steel coils at 350 to 750 degrees Celsius made the images captured by the camera distorted and blurry, and the robot arm had great difficulty locating the target accurately.
We tried many approaches. We added forced air cooling and water cooling to the camera, wrapped insulation material around the robot arm… None of them worked well. Either the camera was “dazed” by the heat, or the joints of the robot arm itself wore out due to the high temperature.
One day, as I stared at the “drifting” simulation on the computer screen, a thought suddenly struck me: Why must we “directly confront” the heat waves? Why not “go along with” them instead, and build a “thermal correction model” for the robot arm?
Specifically, we no longer tried to make the robot arm “see” a steel coil. Instead, we first conducted repeated experiments to record the patterns of visual error caused by heat waves under different temperatures and distances. This was like feeding the robot arm a “collection of wrong answers.”
That way, when the robot arm approaches a steel coil, it automatically “calculates” a corrected image in its “mind” based on the real-time measured temperature. The camera tells it, “The coil is at point A,” but the system, using the temperature model, precisely tells it, “No, its actual position is point B!”
We spent eight months doing experiments over and over again beside the scorching production line, adjusting the algorithm time after time. From tens of thousands of test data points, we distilled a reliable temperature compensation algorithm.
In early 2025, a fully automatic high-temperature steel coil inner-ring labeling system with completely independent intellectual property rights was put into normal operation at Liuzhou Steel (柳钢), achieving a one-time labeling success rate of over 98%. At present, this system has completely replaced manual labeling operations. Now, as soon as a steel coil comes out of the rolling mill, our robot arm “labeling hand” can affix the product label firmly and steadily, improving efficiency several times over and creating annual economic benefits exceeding one million yuan. Currently, my team and I are focusing on new topics in “artificial intelligence + steel.” I believe that as long as you are willing to use your brain, “golden ideas” are hidden everywhere, waiting for us to discover.
(The author is an electrical skills expert at Guangxi Liuzhou Steel Group Co., Ltd. (广西柳州钢铁集团有限公司), compiled by our reporter Zhu Jiaqi (祝佳祺).)
Return to TopBy: 宁 雨
In a museum converted from a residential house in Hongtuling Village (红土岭村), Jingxing County (井陉县), Hebei Province, I had the good fortune to read two letters between General Chen Geng (陈赓) and his wife Fu Ya (傅涯), and was deeply moved by the sincere, steadfast yet warm and romantic sentiments of this revolutionary couple.
“Dear Geng: In 1949, beautiful spring, you victoriously and joyfully advance toward the south of the Yangtze. The person north of the River is blessing your health! In the progress, there is rich life, complex struggle, outstanding achievements… leaving clear records. Geng, even if we are separated for one year, two years, that is the true meaning of life! Kiss you!!!” This was a “battlefield love letter” written by Fu Ya on March 5, on the eve of our army’s Yangtze River Crossing Campaign in 1949. However, it was not mailed but written in a new diary prepared for Chen Geng.
Chen Geng always regretted that he had “no diary for the Long March.” On August 7, 1937, he demanded of himself “resolutely write the diary continuously every day.” In 1943, Chen Geng and Fu Ya married. After marriage, Chen Geng asked Fu Ya to read the diaries he had kept over several years, unreservedly giving his heart to his wife, including his undying memory of his former wife, martyr Wang Genying (王根英). From then on, Chen Geng wrote diaries, Fu Ya read them and was responsible for preparing the notebooks, overcoming hardships to preserve the diaries — this became their lifelong agreement. Besides diaries, there were also letters; whenever husband and wife worked in different places, there were always flying swans (letters).
In February 1949, Chen Geng served as Commander and Political Commissar of the Fourth Army Group of the Second Field Army. According to upper-level instructions, he departed from Luohe (漯河), Henan on March 11, leading his troops to advance. For her husband about to go on campaign, Fu Ya had many things to urge, but what fell from her pen was only blessings and longing for victory. The rest was simplified into the meaningful ellipsis in the letter. As a Communist Party member and revolutionary cadre, Fu Ya’s heart was bright. After the victory of the three major campaigns, only by fighting resolutely could we consolidate the fruits of victory, win true peace, and win the peaceful and prosperous era the people yearned for — “that is the true meaning of life.”
At the beginning of this diary, Chen Geng wrote: “Crossing the Yangtze operation, completing the historic task. For this grand feat, there must be no lack of record, determined to write it down. Special note. On the eve of action, March 10, at the Gospel Hall Building in Luohe.” A few short sentences, 铿锵有力 (kēng qiāng yǒu lì - “resounding and forceful,” powerful and impactful), are the will and determination of steel, and also a deep response to Fu Ya’s “battlefield love letter.”
Senior General Chen Geng was a high-ranking general of our Party and our army, active on the North China battlefield during the Anti-Japanese War. His stories of 大智大勇 (dà zhì dà yǒng - “great wisdom and great courage,” extraordinarily wise and brave), repeatedly vanquishing strong enemies, are still 口口相传 (kǒu kǒu xiāng chuán - “passed from mouth to mouth,” widely circulated by word of mouth) in the old revolutionary base areas such as Jingxing, Shexian (涉县), Wuxiang (武乡), Qinyuan (沁源), etc. In people’s hearts, he is a man of 铁骨铮铮 (tiě gǔ zhēng zhēng - “iron bones clanking,” describing a person of unyielding integrity), a being like the “God of War.” Little known is that over decades of struggle, he incurred countless injuries and illnesses: in 1927 wounded in the left leg during the Huichang (会昌) battle; in 1932 wounded in the right leg in combat; arrested and imprisoned in 1933, subjected to severe torture; during the Anti-Japanese War, marching and fighting day and night, fell ill from overwork; in the 1950s, Chen Geng, over half a century old, suffered long-term overwork, old ailments not cured, new ones added. But no matter how much physical pain, Chen Geng always performed his duties with high spirits, wherever the Party pointed, he created all conditions to fight there. His strength and fortitude were supported entirely by his unchanging original aspiration and steel will.
Hongtuling Natural Village (红土岭自然村), Nanzhangjing Village (南张井村), Jingxing County, is not far from Changshengkou Village (长生口村). Local comrades in Jingxing introduced that during the Anti-Japanese War, Chen Geng led the 386th Brigade to operate in this area, winning two battles at Changshengkou. To remember history and honor the ancestors, Hongtuling converted an old residence into a “General’s Courtyard” and arranged an exhibition themed on “Chen Geng’s Diaries.”
In the “General’s Courtyard,” I read another family letter, written by Chen Geng to Fu Ya on March 8, 1957. At that time, Chen Geng was inspecting work in Nanjing and took time to visit Yuhuatai (雨花台) to pay respects to martyrs. In the letter, Chen Geng poured out his feelings after this visit: “In many displayed photos, I found many of my old comrades-in-arms and fellow sufferers, and for a moment I 情不自禁 (qíng bù zì jīn - “cannot help oneself,” unable to control one’s feelings), 潸然泪下 (shān rán lèi xià - “tears streaming down,” weep silently). So I thought that I am still alive, compared to them (the martyrs) I have gotten a great bargain. If I am not yet roused, if I now have some sense of fatigue, then I would be too unworthy of them.” In this plain, honest, true text, I read an old revolutionary’s deep affection for his fallen comrades, and his strict self-examination and demands on himself. There are no high-sounding words, yet every word pierces the heart, every sentence is a questioning of the soul. An image of Chen Geng, open and aboveboard, striving unceasingly, is as if before one’s eyes.
After talking about the Yuhuatai visit, he then wrote: “These days I always think of you and the children; Yazi’s (涯子) lively innocence constantly lingers around my soul, sometimes I even want to return early, but I cannot do that. I hope to receive news of your situation. When I get to Shanghai, I must make a phone call no matter what.” This passage, 洗尽铅华 (xǐ jìn qiān huá - “washed away all adornment,” stripped of embellishment, plain and natural), is simply a love-struck man babbling to his long-separated wife. Longing, concern, the 归心似箭 (guī xīn sì jiàn - “heart like an arrow,” eager to return) tender feelings, expressed in the most homely language, yet with 感人肺腑 (gǎn rén fèi fǔ - “moved deep into one’s heart,” deeply touching) power. A man of invincible bravery, great wisdom and great courage, yet harboring endless warmth and softness inside.
Iron bones and tender feelings, perfectly harmoniously united in the older generation of revolutionaries whom we admire. This letter of Chen Geng seems to tell us that a true Communist Party member must also be a person with high unity of inside and outside, a person with flesh and blood, with feeling and righteousness; a person with a highly conscious sense of boundary between the great sentiment of bearing the family and nation and the small sentiment for wife and children.
“Sometimes I even want to return early, but I cannot do that.” This is a revolutionary’s true intention, and a principle consistently practiced. His life belonged first to the Party’s cause, and only then to love and family. Whether in the war years or peacetime, 聚少离多 (jù shǎo lí duō - “gather little, part much,” often separated more than together), each contributing to the Party in their own posts, relying on a single family letter to care for each other, encourage each other, and express their feelings to each other — this was the true portrayal of Chen Geng and Fu Ya’s eighteen years as a married couple.
Back then, when Chen Geng led his troops to the Taihang Mountains, fighting battles at Changshengkou and Qigeng (七亘), he was in a hurry. At that time, Hongtuling did not know the other side of Senior General Chen Geng’s inner world, the soft and infatuated side. But today, the old base area people have set up a memorial hall to remember the momentous years of war and gunpowder, and also to remember the ancestors’ 至情至性 (zhì qíng zhì xìng - “utmost feeling, utmost nature,” sincere and natural emotions) and 铁骨柔情 (tiě gǔ róu qíng - “iron bones, tender feelings,” strength and tenderness combined).
Return to TopBy: 李伟峰
Not long ago, while chatting with a young township-level cadre, he said with slight shyness: “Some people say I have a scholarly air about me; I actually think that is a compliment.” I was taken aback for a moment, then smiled. Somehow, “scholarly air” had become a rarity. On closer reflection, these words indeed carry deep meaning.
For a long time, “scholarly air” has often been understood as pedantic, rigid, and divorced from reality. Carried along by this view, some people gradually distance themselves from books, devoting all their energy to cultivating social savvy, even replacing hard study at the desk with drinking and socializing at the banquet table, losing their zeal for knowledge amid comings and goings. Think about it: if a colleague declines dinner invitations a few times, he may be called “unsociable”; if he insists on principles and handles affairs impartially, he appears “inflexible.” Over time, some people gradually shed their edge and drift away from the word “serious.” In fact, what the world has always detested is never a positive scholarly air, but the pedantic habits of being 故步自封 (gù bù zì fēng - “block one’s own steps and seal oneself off,” complacent and conservative), aloof and arrogant, and divorced from practice. Comrade Mao Zedong once wrote with boldness: “书生意气，挥斥方遒” (shū shēng yì qì, huī chì fāng qiú - “scholarly spirit, wielding and pointing with vigor”) — that was precisely the uplifting posture of youth taking the world as their own responsibility.
When one has poetry and books in the belly, one’s aura naturally becomes splendid. In the Eastern Han dynasty, Liu Chong (刘宠) devoted himself to scholarship and served as an honest official. When leaving his post as Prefect of Kuaiji (会稽), he declined the generous gifts from the people, accepting only one coin to acknowledge their goodwill. The fine story of the “One-coin Prefect” has been passed down through the ages. This noble character nurtured by poetry and books — is it not precisely the posture that officials should have? Over the course of a century of struggle, the strength of knowledge and faith is even more evident in the backbone of Chinese Communists. Chen Wangdao (陈望道), while translating the Communist Manifesto, dipped his ink into his mouth and ate zongzi without noticing the bitterness; the fragrance of ink concealed the sincerity of seeking knowledge and truth — this is precisely the scholarly state that is scarce today. Xiao Hua (萧华), despite being busy with military affairs, never stopped writing, producing the majestic Long March Suite with his brush, recording the arduous years with ink and paper; within the literary air there is ambition and responsibility. The true “scholarly air” is the integrity accumulated through learning, the purity cultivated by poetry and books. For Party members and cadres, it is also an indispensable foundation for establishing oneself and accomplishing things. This pure “scholarly air” is indeed lacking in some cadres. If one is praised for having such a quality, it is undoubtedly an affirmation.
Nowadays, with the rapid development of society, restlessness and clamor are inevitable. Upholding a “scholarly spirit” inevitably means facing worldly noise head-on. Yet, fortunately, there are always people who choose to persevere, proving through action that social responsibility and professional exploration have never been abandoned. I once came into contact with another young township-level cadre. On his desk were always policy readers and agricultural technical manuals. During the day he went from village to village and household to household asking about the people’s needs; at night he studied by lamplight. In a little over a year, he filled three thick notebooks. The villagers all said, “This cadre is different.” Relying on his accumulated knowledge, he came up with many practical measures in grassroots Party building and industrial development. Facts prove that putting what one has learned from books into practice is the best destination for a “scholar.”
Cultivating a positive “scholarly air” values 知行合一 (zhī xíng hé yī - “knowledge and action are united,” unity of knowing and doing). One must both preserve the zeal for reading and seeking knowledge, cultivate noble sentiments, and stay away from worldliness and restlessness; and also jump out of the shackles of books, discard 眼高手低 (yǎn gāo shǒu dī - “eyes high, hands low,” having high standards but low ability), and take root in the fertile soil of the grassroots. The working methods found in books can only be tested for truth or falsehood in the fields; the books one has read and the theories one has mastered ultimately need to take root and bear fruit in solving one concrete matter after another. In the final analysis, tempering true ability in getting close to the masses and handling affairs for the people is the real purpose of reading.
The fragrance of books moistens the heart; 笃行致远 (dǔ xíng zhì yuǎn - “steadfast action reaches far,” sincere practice leads to distant goals). On the road of struggle, one may often pick up a book, calm the mind for self-reflection, and from it forge the soft armor that resists restlessness and the hard backbone that establishes one’s standing as a person.
Return to TopBy: 李文丽
As a child, I loved to sing best, thinking that when I grew up I could become a singer. Later I also came to like reading, imagining myself as the chivalrous heroine in Jin Yong’s novels, the female lead in Qiong Yao’s stories. Not until I became a housewife did I see clearly the path I had to take, realizing that my life would be just like my grandmother’s, my mother’s, my aunts’ — circling around the stove, children, fields, and housework, never seeing an end.
The crops in the fields were harvested season after season, and the children were growing up slowly. However, things that were 猝不及防 (cù bù jí fáng - “too sudden to guard against,” happening unexpectedly) occurred one after another at home. First, my father suddenly passed away; before I could recover from the grief, my husband had a car accident and broke his leg; in less than a month, my young eldest sister died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage, and my mother fell ill. A series of changes struck me blow by blow until I had no strength even to speak. In those years, my mood was low, my heart full of sadness and despair. During that time I went intermittently to Lanzhou, Yinchuan and other places to work, coming and going in haste, feeling like a 孤魂野鬼 (gū hún yě guǐ - “solitary soul, wild ghost,” a lonely wandering spirit).
Until 2017, I happened to see on my phone an article titled “I Am Fan Yusu (范雨素)”. The line “My life is a book 不忍卒读 (bù rěn zú dú - “cannot bear to finish reading,” too painful to read), fate has bound it extremely clumsily” and her identity as a rural-born childcare worker struck me like a heavy club. For the first time I conceived the idea of going to Beijing.
With a nervous heart, I arrived in Beijing, which I had only ever seen on TV. Entering an unfamiliar environment, all sorts of problems made me 手忙脚乱 (shǒu máng jiǎo luàn - “hands busy, feet flustered,” in a flurry), like falling into a mud pit — no matter how desperately I floundered, I only sank deeper. Fortunately, I later met very good employers, who were tolerant, understanding, and trusting, and gave me one day off every week. It was this one day off that allowed me to join the Pi Village New Workers’ Literature Group (皮村新工人文学小组) and learn to write together with Fan Yusu and the others. At that time I didn’t understand what “creation” meant, nor had I thought of becoming famous; I just wanted to follow everyone and learn, to write down my own story as a keepsake. I never expected that this time, the teachers and classmates not only pulled me out of the mud pit, but actually changed my life.
In the literature group, every Saturday evening from 7 to 9, volunteer teachers would come to read famous works with us, recite poems, and talk about writing. On ordinary days, after finishing the day’s work at the employer’s home and after the child had gone to sleep, I would, like a primary school student, calmly do my “homework”. During this learning process, my thoughts and cognition also changed. Previously, the emotions of agonizing over trivial matters and internal friction grew increasingly faint. The personality of keeping things bottled up, 胡思乱想 (hú sī luàn xiǎng - “reckless thoughts, wild fancies,” indulging in wild speculations) and not daring to communicate with others, also slowly changed.
I remember one employer had very high demands; the several family members each required different flavored dishes, and clothes all had to be hand-washed. Every day I always had endless work. One evening, after washing the clothes of the whole family, cleaning up, going downstairs to throw out the trash, returning upstairs and lying on the bed, I felt exhausted all over, with sore waist and legs. In a small, cramped room without windows, my mood was low, but suddenly a 灵光一闪 (líng guāng yī shǎn - “a flash of inspiration”) struck my mind, and I wrote a poem on my phone: “Night is truly wonderful, the whole world belongs to me. No need to cook, no need to wash clothes, I can dance on clouds, sing on branches, swim with the fish…” This poem was published online, and many people said it was good.
And so, I wrote down the joy of taking care of children, the teachers I met, the feelings the domestic worker sisters gave me — all that I saw and thought. They later became the most truthful and touching content in my non-fiction book I Do Housekeeping in Beijing (《我在北京做家政》). In our literature group’s collectively created work collection The Stars of Laborers (《劳动者的星辰》) and poetry anthology Breathe Deeply the Spring (《大口呼吸春天》), there are also my writings and drawings, and my works have been published in many well-known magazines. A rural woman like me, who only knows how to wash clothes, cook, and take care of the elderly and children, whose hands have touched hoes, rags, and brooms for most of her life, was fortunate enough to enter the Readers Publishing House (读者出版社) and the People’s Literature (《人民文学》) magazine office that I had yearned for since childhood, to participate in events held by the China Writers Association (中国作协), and to meet many writer-teachers I admire.
All of this is because of literature. It made a rural woman who thought she would repeat the trajectory of her ancestors turn onto a path she had never imagined. It made a timid, self-abased rural woman who had become a grandmother go to farther places time and again, and see a broader world. Literature did not make me rich, but it made my heart abundant, made me love life more, gave me the courage to face all kinds of unknown difficulties, made me re-examine and reflect on my present self, made me no longer just “so-and-so’s daughter,” “so-and-so’s wife,” “so-and-so’s mother” in others’ mouths, but have my own name and dignity.
Now, in my hometown village there are also libraries and reading rooms; everyone can read, and ordinary people can also pick up pens and write their own stories. I hope that my personal experience will let sisters of my age, who are suffocated by life, know that life is not unchangeable; reading and learning can truly change one’s mood and cognition, allowing one to live more and more relaxed and beautiful. The road of life is never 一帆风顺 (yī fān fēng shùn - “a smooth sail,” plain sailing), but I believe that a person must have a stabilizing stone in the heart. For me, this stone is reading and writing. It cannot eliminate all suffering, but it can turn suffering into light, falling on paper, and also warming the heart.
This is probably the best gift literature has given me, an ordinary person.
Return to TopChinese painting White Lotus and Mandarin Ducks (白荷鸳鸯), by Ren Bonian, held in the collection of the National Art Museum of China.
Return to TopBy: 何 为
When fireflies appear, the land of Shu has already entered the most bountiful season of the year.
Daylight recedes, the mountains settle into stillness. The streams continue to flow, the bamboo groves continue to grow, and the rice seedlings in the fields joint one inch at a time.
Many living things stir in the night, and fireflies are merely the most easily seen among them.
Their lives are extremely brief. From larva to adult requires a long wait; from glowing to vanishing, there are often only a dozen nights.
Zhongyan Temple, Tiantai Mountain, Anlong Village, Tianjing Gully — over many years I have walked along these places, and also along the light the fireflies leave behind.
Later I gradually discovered that what they illuminate is not only the night.
Outside Zhongyan Temple, the river winds around the mountain.
Stone steps moistened by rain over many years, with thick moss growing in the crevices. After dusk falls, the sounds in the valley gradually thin out, leaving only the stream flowing among the rocks.
Fireflies first appear at the water’s edge. One spark rises from the grass and alights on a banana leaf. Another spark flies along the stream and soon vanishes into the shadow of bamboo. Then more and more points of light emerge from the darkness.
The temple bell rings. After the bell stops, the valley returns to silence.
Zhongyan Temple has existed for many years. Su Shi came, Lu You came, countless pilgrims came. Some stayed here for days, others merely passed through.
In the night, the fireflies still appear along the stream. The stone steps are still there. The ancient trees are still there. The river is still there. The old trees beside the pool still keep to the seasons, flowers blooming and falling.
After people leave, the mountains and rivers continue to save time. The fireflies have never seen those ancients, yet they live among the landscapes those ancients once saw.
After entering the depths of Tiantai Mountain, the streams become dense.
Fir forests cover the slopes, and the ground is layered with thick humus, with moss spreading along the tree roots. Water flows through the rocks, never ceasing through the year.
Here an environment suitable for fireflies to grow is preserved.
Larvae live in the moist soil layer, spending long periods in darkness. After emergence, the life capable of emitting light is very brief.
Night falls. The first batch of fireflies rises from beneath the forest. Then the second batch, the third batch. The distant slope gradually lights up. The stream flows on the ground, and fireflies flow in the air.
A forest ranger patrols the mountain all year round. He says fireflies like clean water and intact forests. If a stream becomes polluted, they will diminish; if vegetation is destroyed, they will also diminish.
Many ecological changes people may not detect immediately. Fireflies do. They make no sound and express no opinion — they merely appear, or disappear.
Mountain rain often arrives at night. When raindrops fall, fireflies press close to grass blades and tree trunks. After the rain stops, they fly out again.
The mountain restores its original order. The stream continues to flow, the fireflies continue to glow. New larvae are already hidden beneath the soil.
The nights in Anlong Village are close to the land.
Rice paddies spread out along the ditches and canals. The water surface reflects the moonlight, and the wild grass on the field ridges gives off a damp aroma.
Yellow-edged fireflies fly close to the rice stalks. They fly very low. Sometimes they land on grass blades, sometimes they pause beside a ditch.
The elderly in the village still keep many traditional farming habits. Patches of grass are preserved at the edges of fields, wetlands are retained in the ditches, and some corners are not hastily cleared. These places leave room for fireflies to survive.
After night falls, frog calls rise from deep in the fields. Some people put away their farm tools, some sit in the courtyard enjoying the cool, some bend down to inspect the seedlings. Fireflies fly around them, a faint light falls on the rice leaves and slowly moves away.
A paper-cut artisan in the village likes to cut fireflies. Red paper is spread, scissors move. One by one, tiny fireflies gradually appear. Window flowers are pasted onto wooden window frames, lamplight falls through the paper.
Nature enters life, and life also preserves nature. Here, time continues in another way. Spring planting, summer growth, autumn harvest, winter storage — one year passes, and then another year.
The nights in Tianjing Gully are the quietest. Silent rocks are distributed along the ravine, the textures on the rock faces clearly visible. A stream flows at the bottom of the valley, the sound of water never stopping through the night.
These rocks were formed in a remote age. At that time there were no villages, no temples, no stories about fireflies.
Later, trees grew up, and the river formed its own course. Animals and plants appeared one after another.
Still later, people came here.
After night falls, a few fireflies alight beside the rocks. A faint light illuminates a small patch of rock face, then soon moves elsewhere.
The rocks have existed for millions of years; the fireflies’ radiance lasts only a few weeks. They meet in the same night. The valley remains silent, the stream continues to flow, the wind passes through the rock crevices.
A few fireflies stop on the rocks, then fly again into the depths of darkness.
As the night is about to end, the last firefly sinks into the grass and trees.
The mountains remain silent. The stream still flows forward. The bell in the ancient temple will ring again, the rice seedlings in the fields will grow again, and new fireflies will emerge from the rotting leaves and damp soil in the coming year.
The sky gradually turns white. The light in the valley fades away bit by bit.
On next year’s summer nights, they will appear again.
Return to TopBy: 温 馨
One side pointed, as if inquiring
One side flat, as if answering
A lump of iron held in the hand
Always bearing a bit of fate’s weight
After welding the first layer
The weld bead lies trapped in its own shadow
The way I raise the chipping hammer
Overlaps not a little with my mother picking sand grains from cotton batting—
The moment the sharp edge probes into the crevice
Hearing the faint crackle of slag breaking loose
Like some knot, finally willing to undo itself
Shovel out the black flakes
The bright surface rises
As if, after spreading out the days
You then carefully mend them
One layer welded, one layer of slag knocked off
In the V-groove
Every weld bead learns honesty
Wholeness has always begun from accepting imperfection
After welding the last pass, I pick up the chipping hammer again
This time the hammer, pointed end up
Flat side against the ground
Like a silent thinker
Tapping the distance between heaven and earth
Into something sound
By: 徐荣木
As the blue-green tide recedes, a wide expanse of tidal flat is exposed, carrying wafts of a salty, fishy scent. A man gathering seafood from the sea, his trousers rolled high and holding a wooden shovel, trudges across the tidal flat in search of "treasure." Suddenly spotting a burrow, he bends down, first thrusts his foot into the edge of the hole to cut off its escape route, then swings his shovel to dig at the mud. The hole grows deeper and deeper. He seems to have the drive of one who will not stop until his goal is reached. Abruptly, a creature crawls out of the hole, and he grabs it and tosses it into his bamboo basket.
This summer scene left an indelible impression on me. I know that the captured creature is called Wangchao (望潮), a type of octopus related to the common octopus. After the tide recedes, it hides in a mud burrow it has dug itself, and it can sense the rising tide in advance, poking its head out and leaning against the burrow to look around.
I have lived by the sea since childhood and enjoy visiting the seafood market. There, fish and shrimp often play the leading role, while Wangchao is a niche item. But because of its unique flavor, it firmly captivates the taste buds of some seaside people. Good wine needs no bush. One day, it encountered the filming crew of A Bite of China, stepped onto the center stage and played the lead role for a time, and since then its reputation has soared, drawing diners to compete for a taste.
Not long ago, a group of guests from other regions came to visit, and I treated them to dinner at a seaside night stall. As soon as the guests saw Wangchao, their surprised gazes were instantly drawn to it. Seeing their keen interest, I ordered a plate.
The cooking of Wangchao is quite particular. After selecting a dozen or so Wangchao, the stall owner took out a wooden basin and began to slap the Wangchao against the basin with a "slap, slap" sound. Everyone was puzzled. The stall owner chuckled: "These little fellows look soft, but their skin is actually very tough. Slapping them a few times makes the flesh crisp." After this processing, the Wangchao's sweetness and crispness were firmly locked in.
The stall owner washed the slapped Wangchao with water. When the oil in the pot was hot, he crushed some garlic cloves, fried them over low heat until fragrant, put in the whole Wangchao, added sauce to remove the fishy smell, and stir-fried quickly over high heat, causing its tentacles to slowly curl up, its entire body coated in sauce, glossy and turning red. As soon as the heat was right, he immediately removed it from the pot and placed it on a white porcelain plate. The rich fragrance carried a hint of sweetness, and the color was enticing; one look was enough to whet the appetite. Picking one up with chopsticks and putting it into the mouth, a gentle tap of the teeth produced a light crunch. It was springy, tender, and chewy, and the rich roe instantly burst on the tongue, leaving a lingering fragrance in the mouth for a long time. One guest sighed leisurely: "So fresh it makes you lose your bearings." With a small drink, all fatigue seemed to vanish like smoke.
In fact, the old-timers of Zhoushan do not slap the Wangchao when cooking it; what they want is precisely that elastic, chewy texture. During the chewing process, the fresh juice flows out in a gush, and the more you chew, the more flavorful it becomes. Nowadays, with the accelerated pace of life, the local trend is to blanch Wangchao, emphasizing simplicity and speed. First, sprinkle a small spoonful of salt on the Wangchao, knead for half a minute to remove the slime, then wash with water. Add some water, scallions, and ginger to the pot. After the water boils, put in the Wangchao and cook until the eight tentacles curl up and the belly looks like shelled pigeon eggs. Remove and plate; the roe is rich and yellow, the fresh aroma pungent. Dip in a little soy sauce and vinegar; one bite yields a soft, sticky gelatinous texture, the most original flavor, truly a "signature dish" of seaside households.
Half of the deliciousness of Wangchao comes from nature's gift, and the other half from the cooking wisdom of seaside households. As times change, the ways of eating also change, but what remains unchanged is the pursuit of the ultimate fresh, original taste. A plate of Wangchao, a cup of old wine, and the gentle sound of the tide lapping the shore—that is the warm and comfortable good time of a seaside household.
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