Summary: General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized that basic education is foundational to building a strong education system and national rejuvenation, calling it a “basic, leading position” in the national education framework. Xi has personally engaged with schools and students, such as replying to pupils at Zhijiang Primary School in Sichuan and visiting Beijing No.4 Middle School’s Xiong’an campus, often accompanied by local education officials. He underscored the need to strengthen ideological and moral education, promote fairness and quality, and ensure every child has opportunities to succeed. The article highlights China's achievements in basic education, including 92.9% preschool enrollment and 96.1% nine-year compulsory education consolidation rate, surpassing averages of upper-middle-income countries. Xi urged educators to cultivate well-rounded socialist builders and successors, with the goal of building a strong education system by 2035.
Summary: The article reports that China's foreign trade grew strongly in the first half of the year, with total goods imports and exports reaching 25.47 trillion yuan, a 16.9% increase year-on-year, making it the world's largest trader. It highlights President Xi Jinping's call to accelerate the building of a trade power and upgrade trade structures, alongside the "15th Five-Year Plan" emphasis on high-quality trade growth. The report notes that U.S.-China relations provided a stable foundation for trade, with bilateral goods trade reaching 2 trillion yuan in the first half, including a 13.7% increase in the second quarter following the summit between the two heads of state. Additionally, trade with Belt and Road countries grew 14.8%, and imports exceeded 10 trillion yuan for the first time in a half-year period, reflecting a push for balanced trade. The article was accompanied by commentary from officials such as Hefei Customs Deputy Director Jiang Kaiyuan and General Administration of Customs Spokesperson Lyu Daliang.
Summary: At a July 8 national science awards conference, President Xi Jinping called for accelerating high-level technological self-reliance to build a science powerhouse by 2035 and lead Chinese-style modernization. Guangdong, as China's top economic province, is responding by fostering deep integration of innovation, industry, capital, and talent chains, with local officials like Huizhou’s Liu Hao and He Guobin emphasizing government-enabled breakthroughs—such as a robot training ground that addresses enterprise needs. The province is also advancing the Greater Bay Area as a strategic hub, exemplified by cross-border collaborations like a Shenzhen-Hong Kong brain-computer interface venture and export expansions in pharmaceuticals that overcome foreign patent blockades (e.g., Aifutong’s self-reliant filter chips). Meanwhile, Guangdong is building modern people-centered cities through initiatives like youth-friendly workspaces in Shenzhen and livable science parks in Dongguan, while improving its business environment with patient capital. The article underscores Guangdong’s role as a “train engine” for national development, driven by a spirit of daring to pioneer and sustained learning.
Summary: The article reports on the orderly progress of national grain production, with nearly 70% of the early rice harvest completed. It highlights the widespread use of new agricultural machinery and coordinated mechanized harvesting to significantly boost efficiency. The text includes a photograph from a village in Guangxi showing harvesters at work. No statements or actions of specific officials are mentioned, nor is there any discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports on the 15th China International Garden Expo in Wenzhou, which features a free, wall-less 230-hectare ecological park that has attracted over 8 million visitors. Officials Mo Guanghui (deputy general manager of Wenzhou City Development Group) and Huang Timing (deputy director of the expo preparation office) emphasized the project’s organic renewal of urban spaces, integration of water management with landscaping, and post-expo conversion into a shared green living area. Zhejiang Provincial Party Standing Committee member and Wenzhou Party Secretary Zhang Zhenfeng stated that the expo serves as a catalyst for building a modern people’s city under a people-centered development philosophy. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: In Jiangxi’s Lushan West Sea Scenic Area, local officials resolved the long-stalled Xihai No.1 residential project by forming a special task force and pushing for bankruptcy restructuring after the developer’s funding collapsed. Vice Chairman Wang Jin of Zhelin Town and Deputy Director Huang Hua of the Economic Development Bureau led efforts to mediate between creditors, contractors, and over 200 angry homeowners, reducing a 60 million yuan funding gap to under 30 million. The project was revived by allowing the contractor to accept unsold units as payment and by coordinating multiple government departments to resolve utility, tax, and fire-safety issues. Officials cited President Xi Jinping’s call to avoid “ignoring old debts” and pursue a correct performance view, integrating this case into cadre evaluations. The area has since addressed four other failed developments and two idle resources through targeted, categorized measures.
Summary: The article discusses the need to deeply understand the internal logic of integrating technological and industrial innovation, highlighting that the growth of computing power requires electricity support and a greener power supply. It focuses on the accelerated development of artificial intelligence and how to advance the coordination of computing power and electricity. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations topics were mentioned.
Summary: On July 21, a policy briefing series on "Ensuring and Improving People's Livelihood through High-Quality Development" was held in Beijing, co-hosted by multiple central party and state organs. Lei Haichao, head of the National Health Commission, delivered a report on accelerating the construction of a "Healthy China." He highlighted historic achievements in healthcare under Xi Jinping's leadership, including building the world's largest medical and disease prevention systems. Lei emphasized the critical "15th Five-Year Plan" period, calling for adherence to the Party's health policies and a health-first development strategy. He set a target of raising average life expectancy to 80 years by 2030, grounding the foundation for Chinese-style modernization. The briefing was chaired by a Beijing municipal propaganda official, attended by about 730 representatives from party, government, military, and public sectors.
Summary: In a press conference on July 21, Vice Minister of Transport Xu Chengguang, accompanied by officials including Cai Tuanjie, Wang Qiming, Chen Kai, and Han Jun, reported that China invested 18.8 trillion yuan in transport during the 14th Five-Year Plan, building the world’s largest network and achieving a 91% completion rate of the main transport corridors. Xu stated that the 15th Five-Year Plan period will shift from scale expansion to value creation, focusing on optimizing infrastructure, raising corridor completion to 95%, and upgrading 80,000 km of facilities. Targets include achieving 75% 1-hour commuting coverage in major metropolitan areas by 2030, expanding multimodal freight hubs, and enhancing logistics through AI and digitalization.
Summary: Weng Xinqiang, party secretary of Xiaoxinchuan Village in Hubei Province, returned to his impoverished hometown after graduating from university and developed a Schisandra berry planting industry to boost local incomes. He studied cultivation techniques in Heilongjiang, provided free seedlings to villagers, and successfully lifted household incomes by over 12,000 yuan on average in 2025. Weng also persuaded returning migrant workers to start businesses, leading to diversified industries like beekeeping and goat farming. With support from government policies offering training, loans, and sales channels, the village eradicated poverty by 2020. Weng now plans to expand into agritourism and ethnic cultural projects, emphasizing his commitment to rural revitalization.
Summary: The article highlights Xi Jinping’s directive that developing rural specialty industries is fundamental to comprehensive rural revitalization, emphasizing the critical role of individual leadership. It profiles Weng Xinqiang as a key figure in the revitalization of Xiaoxinchuan Village, whose success is deemed replicable. Weng is credited not just with introducing technology and projects, but with igniting endogenous momentum by demonstrating profits to villagers, attracting returning youth, and consolidating scattered farming into industrial clusters. His journey from a single returnee to leading a hundred entrepreneurs, expanding from Schisandra to multiple industries, proves that villages lack not resources but "leaders" to activate them. The piece frames his story as a microcosm of a new generation of rural youth who redefine success by rooting their dreams in the countryside.
Summary: The article reports on maintenance workers at a Chongqing bus depot performing off-peak repairs on air conditioning, braking, and power systems due to a prolonged heatwave. It features a photo by Qin Tingfu for Image China. No officials or statements are cited, and no mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports on Guangdong’s push for high-level technological self-reliance, citing President Xi Jinping’s call at a July 8 science awards ceremony to accelerate innovation toward a 2035 tech powerhouse. It highlights local breakthroughs—Shenzhen’s consumer exoskeleton, Foshan’s humanoid robot line, and Zhongshan’s new cancer drug—and describes officials like Huiyang District Mayor He Guobin stressing learning as the basis for Guangdong’s “dare to be first” ethos. The piece also notes Guangdong’s role in driving the Greater Bay Area’s integration, with officials emphasizing the province as the “locomotive” for national modernization. No explicit mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations appears.
Summary: At the 2026 World Mayors Dialogue in Xishuangbanna, over 100 mayors from 24 countries discussed ecological protection and urban governance. Xishuangbanna Vice Governor Pu Jianyong detailed local efforts in human-elephant coexistence through technology and compensation mechanisms. Foreign participants, including Myanmar's Mandalay Mayor Khin Maung Aye and Cambodia's Siem Reap Deputy Governor Ly Sary, praised these initiatives and expressed interest in cooperation. The event issued the *Xishuangbanna Initiative*, calling for regular urban exchange mechanisms focused on ecological symbiosis and shared benefits.
Summary: Inbound tourism to China has surged, with 22.914 million foreign visitors in the first half of the year, up 20.4% year-on-year, reflecting both the vitality of China’s cultural tourism market and the country’s openness. Overseas interest in Chinese culture—spreading via social media—is driving demand for immersive experiences like tai chi in Beijing parks and tea-drinking in Chengdu. Tourism offerings have diversified to include industrial research tours and rural village visits, deepening foreign visitors’ understanding of China’s modernization. Visa-free entry accounted for 77.7% of all foreign arrivals, while eased tax refunds and mobile payment access have further smoothed travel and spending. China aims to attract 190 million inbound tourists and over $150 billion in spending by 2030, underscoring its commitment to high-quality, open tourism development.
Summary: The Belt and Road Advisory Committee met in Urumqi to discuss enhancing BRI cooperation amid global turmoil, with participants including former World Bank Vice President Mari Pangestu, U.S. Columbia Professor Jeffrey Sachs, UK’s Paul Chan, and others. Sachs noted that Chinese-made solar panels in Uzbekistan exemplify BRI’s role in global green transition. The committee emphasized that BRI acts as a stabilizer against protectionism and unilateralism, fostering trust and providing a core platform for open trade and technology transfer. They called for future cooperation in green, digital, and AI fields, with Chinese expert Li Daokui offering AI collaboration and African Union’s Mwencha highlighting digital partnership needs. Pangestu stressed that multilateralism is under attack, and BRI offers solutions for developing countries.
Summary: Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Foreign Minister, and Li Hongzhong, member of the Political Bureau and Vice Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, met separately in Beijing on July 21 with a delegation led by David McAllister, Chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs. Wang Yi welcomed the delegation's first visit to China, expressed hope for enhanced exchanges, and stressed China's willingness to work with the EU on global affairs to promote multipolarity and inclusive globalization. The European side affirmed its high regard for EU-China relations, praised China's development achievements, and opposed decoupling. Li Hongzhong emphasized maintaining parliamentary exchanges to foster mutual trust and multilateralism, while the EU side expressed readiness to strengthen communication for bilateral ties.
Summary: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with ASEAN Secretary-General Kao Kim Hourn in Manila on July 21, reiterating Beijing's support for ASEAN centrality and urging faster negotiations on a Code of Conduct in the South China Sea. Wang criticized "some elements" in the Philippine military and police for deliberately provoking maritime incidents to serve the interests of "external forces" (implying the United States), which he said undermine China-Philippines relations and regional stability. He also held separate meetings with the foreign ministers of Canada, Australia, and Malaysia the same day.
Summary: President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech at the 2026 World AI Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance, outlining four proposals on global AI governance that align with the core principles of the four major global initiatives. He addressed AI from the dimensions of development, security, civilization, and governance, emphasizing that AI should primarily serve improving livelihoods and be applied in areas such as food security, disaster response, and education. Xi called for open-source cooperation, caution against geopolitical zero-sum thinking, and stressed the need for a multilateral governance framework to bridge the digital divide. He also highlighted that AI should preserve cultural diversity and promote cross-civilization exchanges. Additionally, the signing ceremony for the establishment of the World AI Cooperation Organization took place in Shanghai on July 16.
Summary: Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), Peng Qinghua, delivered a speech at the opening ceremony of the fourth Pacific Island Countries Legislators Seminar in Beijing. He stated that the NPC is willing to deepen friendly exchanges and cooperation with Pacific Island legislatures to promote bilateral relations and build a China-Pacific Island countries community with a shared future. Over 40 legislators and legislative officials from 10 Pacific Island countries attended the seminar.
Summary: Liu Haixing, Minister of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, met in Beijing with a multi-party parliamentary delegation led by Salazar, chair of the Ecuador-China Parliamentary Friendship Group of Ecuador’s National Assembly. The two sides exchanged views on jointly implementing the consensus reached by the two heads of state, strengthening inter-party exchanges and cooperation, and advancing bilateral relations.
Summary: At a ceremony in Kigoma on July 20, Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan, accompanied by Transport Minister Mbarawa and Chinese Ambassador Chen Mingjian, presided over the foundation laying for the sixth section of Tanzania's Standard Gauge Railway, built by a Chinese joint venture. Hassan thanked Chinese enterprises for their role in Tanzania's transport infrastructure, stating the railway would shorten transit times, reduce costs, and create jobs. The project, part of the East African Central Corridor, will connect Tanzania's interior to coastal ports and landlocked neighbors like Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi, boosting regional economic integration.
Summary: The Central Committee of the Communist Youth League organized a "red study tour" for 100 Vietnamese students in Guangxi from July 11-20, co-hosted by Guangxi's education and foreign affairs departments. The tour, themed "Follow the revolutionary ideal, create a bright future together" and titled "Along Uncle Ho's Footsteps," aimed to strengthen ties through shared revolutionary history. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports on China's implementation of the 15th Five-Year Plan's goal to make high-frequency services more convenient for the elderly, highlighting examples from Shandong, Anhui, and Jilin. In Shandong, volunteer Li Zhecun helped a 72-year-old patient through hospital procedures, while in Anhui, the "WanShiTong" app's senior-friendly mode simplified pension certification, as explained by team leader Xie Niannian. In Jilin, community official Lin Jing demonstrated the "JiShiBan" mini-program's elder features to residents. Local health official Li Kai noted that cities like Zoucheng have created "senior-friendly" medical institutions through policy guidance and joint oversight. The article also details how technological upgrades, such as AI voice interaction and accessibility tools, are being developed to further reduce barriers for the elderly.
Summary: The article reports on a "shared property management" pilot in Hohhot's Huimin District, initiated in response to the 15th Five-Year Plan's call for improved community services. District Housing Bureau Director Zhang Qiusheng stated that the model integrates 90 previously unmanaged old residential compounds into 10 "large-area property" zones, leveraging existing companies' surplus staff and equipment. Street Party Deputy Secretary Zhang Yuxuan explained that the system, operated through a community dispatch center, allows residents to pay the same fees for expanded services while property firms achieve profits. Community Party Secretary Yao Yixuan noted that the pilot has enhanced services for aging, low-income residents without increasing costs. Local officials plan to expand the model to achieve full coverage of professional property management.
Summary: The article discusses the "shared property management" model adopted in Huimin District, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, as a solution to the common challenge of maintaining aging and scattered residential areas in Chinese cities. It emphasizes integrating adjacent neighborhoods to use the resources of larger communities to compensate for the deficiencies of smaller, older ones. Residents reportedly gain access to professional services without additional costs, while property management companies expand their service scope and find new business growth. The article stresses that effective sharing requires tailored service boundaries and clear responsibilities based on different communities' characteristics. It concludes that such approaches enhance public satisfaction through co-building, co-governance, and co-sharing.
Summary: On July 21, 2026, over 53,000 newly recruited university graduates departed for grassroots service across 27 provinces under the Western Plan, with a national total of 108,000 volunteers. The farewell ceremony at Beijing West Station was organized by the Western Plan National Project Office and the Beijing Communist Youth League Committee for those heading to Xinjiang and Tibet. Over 90% of volunteer positions are at the township level or below, focusing on rural education, construction, and grassroots governance for one to three years. The program, jointly implemented by four central agencies including the Communist Youth League and the Ministry of Education, has mobilized over 400,000 graduates since the new era. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The 2026 China University Student Aircraft Design Innovation Competition (Western Division) was recently held at Sichuan Tianfu New Area General Aviation Vocational College. The event featured multiple categories, including electric glider flight control, aerospace rocket launch and return, and multi-rotor drone reconnaissance and rescue. A photo by Weng Guangjian (Image China) shows a competitor participating in the electric glider flight control event. No statements from officials or references to the United States or U.S.-China relations were reported.
Summary: President Xi Jinping emphasized the foundational role of basic education in building an education powerhouse, stating that the stronger the foundation, the more stable and vigorous the country's progress. He visited schools such as Beijing No.4 Middle School Xiong'an campus, where he encouraged students to grow into an excellent generation. Xi also replied to letters from students and young pioneers, urging them to love the Party and country, and to carry forward the historical接力赛. The article highlights China's achievements in basic education, including near-universal enrollment rates and expanded access, without reference to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article uses the example of sweet potatoes to illustrate how traditional agricultural products can be upgraded through value-chain enhancement, driven by new development concepts, new productive forces, and high-quality development. It reports that during his inspection tours, Xi Jinping has frequently emphasized the importance of transforming local specialties (such as Zhashui fungus, Datong yellow flowers, Yan'an apples, and Maoming lychees) by expanding industrial chains and ecological value. The piece references the "sweet potato economy" theory, advocating for rooted local development while extending collaborative networks to capture greater value. It highlights that ecological assets themselves constitute economic wealth, quoting Xi’s remark that "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets." No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article discusses a case in Xi’an, where a children’s playground was nearly removed due to conflicts between residents over noise and green space, but was ultimately preserved through mediation prioritizing children's rights. It argues that urbanization has reduced outdoor play areas, harming children’s physical and mental development, and calls for integrating child-friendly spaces into city planning. The piece references a recent joint directive from China’s National Development and Reform Commission and the State Council Women and Children’s Work Committee to promote child-friendly urban spaces. It highlights examples like Suzhou embedding child-friendly standards into design reviews. The article emphasizes balancing diverse community needs while using “1-meter height” perspectives to create playful, accessible environments.
Summary: The article describes how China's geography textbooks have shifted from highlighting foreign achievements to showcasing China's own global leadership in areas like inland shipping, ports, and infrastructure. It attributes this change to China's rapid development, noting concrete examples such as the Yangtze River becoming the world's busiest waterway and the Shanghai Yangshan Port achieving full automation. The piece emphasizes that China now prioritizes high-quality, sustainable growth over simply chasing "number one" status, exemplified by the indigenous development of shield tunneling machines capturing 70% of the global market. Internationally, it cites projects like the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed rail in Southeast Asia and the Belo Monte transmission line in Brazil as evidence of China exporting its technology and contributing to a shared future. The overall tone is one of national pride and confidence in China's trajectory, with no direct mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports that according to the National Information Center, multiple leading indicators for the first half of the year show steady recovery, including a 3.9% year-on-year increase in the industrial park production heat index, a 15.6% rise in patent grants for strategic emerging industries, and a 5.7% growth in foot traffic at offline commercial districts. It highlights the resilience and strong momentum of China’s macroeconomy. The report does not mention any specific official or their statements, nor does it discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article discusses China's current flood season and the recently released "15th Five-Year Plan for Accelerating Agricultural and Rural Modernization," which emphasizes enhancing agricultural disaster prevention and resilience. It introduces "resilient agriculture" as a model to withstand and recover from climate shocks, including droughts and floods exacerbated by global climate change. The piece notes progress in building high-standard farmland and adopting disaster-resistant technologies, while acknowledging weaknesses in infrastructure and smart prevention systems. It recommends three priorities: improving early warning systems through AI and data integration, increasing investment in irrigation and insurance, and adjusting crop varieties and farming techniques to local climate conditions. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article discusses integrating employment-friendly policies into China’s macroeconomic governance, citing President Xi Jinping’s call to “build an employment-friendly development model.” It highlights Hunan Province’s measures to embed employment impact assessments into major decisions and ensure policy coordination. Specific local examples include Zhejiang’s Tiantai County introducing a “job-content” evaluation for major projects and Guizhou’s “Six-Six Employment Stabilization Plan.” The piece stresses aligning fiscal, monetary, industrial, and other policies with employment goals to achieve high-quality development. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article reports that the Zaoyuan Police Station in Yan’an, Shaanxi, where Director Zhao Qiang stated that all new recruits undergo their first lesson by reciting “Serve the People” before the statue of revolutionary martyr Zhang Side—a tradition upheld for 28 years. Deputy Director Cao Feng of the nearby Zaoyuan Revolutionary Site noted that during peak tourist seasons, the police station coordinates with the site to provide services and ensure safety. The station has formed four Zhang Side-named teams (mediation, patrol, publicity, and service) to embody its commitment to the people. Zhao Qiang emphasized that “Serve the People” is not just a slogan but concrete actions to enhance public security. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports on the official launch of the "Earthquake Science Intelligent Agent," a conversational AI system designed to automate data analysis, charting, and report writing for seismological research. Developed by the Institute of Geophysics of the China Earthquake Administration, the system is powered by the "Diting" large model, which was trained on over 26 million seismic waveforms using supercomputing resources. Researcher Chen Shi stated that the system can execute complex commands like calculating magnitudes or generating emergency maps in ten seconds with 98.5% accuracy. The article notes that over 500 professionals from 140 units have applied to trial the system, with demand focused on automated mapping, data retrieval, and analysis. The report frames this as a step toward modernizing China's disaster prevention capabilities through AI, without referencing the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: After a July 17 landslide in Pengshui County, Chongqing, a spontaneous motorcycle volunteer team formed to transport supplies over damaged roads. Zhang Yali, a local restaurant owner, organized the effort by setting up a dispatch point and managing 338 riders, including locals, outsiders, and college students. Zhang Chuan, a construction worker, helped coordinate dispatches, while Zhao Shenlong rode 10 hours from Guizhou to assist. Gao Qiusheng and his wife set up a free motorcycle repair station nearby. No officials or U.S.-China relations were referenced.
Summary: The People's Bank of China announced a new 100 billion yuan in relending quotas for agriculture and small businesses to support flood relief and post-disaster reconstruction. The funds target affected regions including Guangxi, Hubei, Gansu, and Zhejiang, focusing on小微 enterprises, individual businesses, and agricultural entities. The central bank will direct its provincial branches to guide financial institutions in meeting local financing needs. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations were mentioned in the report.
Summary: The article reports that China's foreign trade grew 16.9% year-on-year in the first half of 2025, surpassing 25 trillion yuan for the first time, driven by new demand in AI-related products and resilient supply chains. President Xi Jinping called for accelerating the building of a trade powerhouse, upgrading goods trade, and innovating services and digital trade. Officials including Hefei Customs Deputy Director Jiang Kaiyuan and GAC Vice Minister Wang Jun highlighted strong exports, particularly of automobiles and electronics. On US-China relations, the article notes that a mid-year summit between the two leaders provided stable expectations, with bilateral trade reaching 2 trillion yuan in H1 and growing 13.7% in Q2. Commerce Minister Wang Wentao emphasized China's commitment to sharing its market opportunities globally through initiatives like the "Export to China" brand.
Summary: Li Jie, a post-2000 Long-style cloisonné artist, reported learning the craft from her father, master Li Haiming, and now creates modern accessories like earrings and coasters inspired by Gansu cultural elements such as Dunhuang murals and Majiayao pottery. She adapts traditional techniques for everyday use, emphasizing that cloisonné can be "the aesthetics of daily life." To promote the craft, she opened a workshop in Dunhuang for tourists and uses social media videos. No U.S.-related discussion appears in the article.
Summary: Local officials in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, resolved the long-stalled "Xihai No.1" real estate project, where over 200 homeowners had been unable to take possession since 2016 due to the developer's bankruptcy. Deputy town official Wang Jin and economic development bureau deputy Huang Hua were quoted describing the establishment of a task force, multiple stakeholder meetings, and a bankruptcy reorganization that reduced a funding gap from 60 million to under 30 million yuan through market-based asset conversion. The project was completed with multi-department coordination on utilities and fire safety, and unsold units were repurposed for a health tourism project. This effort was part of a broader citywide campaign to address "new officials ignoring old debts," guided by President Xi Jinping's call for a correct view of political achievement.
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Summary: The article highlights new consumption trends in China driven by emotional and experiential value, referencing the State Council's plan to cultivate service consumption growth through new business models and scenarios. Examples include a "goods market" (二次元周边) in Guangzhou, where General Manager Lu Guoneng noted a 200% sales increase and 400 flexible jobs daily, with shoppers seeking emotional resonance. In Dalian, sea fishing has surged, with local operator Ge Qi reporting doubled revenue and a younger customer base, supported by government measures like "Haiding e-Gang" app. Suzhou's pet-themed district, led by General Manager Shi Yeran, attracts up to 50,000 daily visitors, transforming a failing retail area into a pet-focused experience zone. The article concludes that such innovations cater to emotional needs and social identities, with no mention of U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A farmer, Wang Lei, observed high-tech grain storage at the Ningjin County粮油储备库 after a good wheat harvest, accompanied by depot storage chief Liu Peiyong, who described the process as a “精密有序的流水作业.” Liu noted that仓温 stays below 25°C and仓湿 below 40% in summer using specialized air conditioning and circulation systems, reducing pest infestation and fumigation contamination. At the Shandong Provincial Grain and Material Reserves Bureau, official Li Yandong explained that the province’s digital监管信息化系统 collects millions of data points for real-time, full-cycle, penetrating oversight of grain入库, storage, and出库. The system, using big data and AI, supports reserve grain rotation, quality assessment, and inventory management. Shandong has also built a立体化, intelligent food security network with 342 emergency processing enterprises, 291 storage enterprises, 235 distribution centers, and 2,468 supply points to ensure regional food security.
Summary: On July 21, China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the China Meteorological Administration jointly issued a high-temperature drought risk warning for agriculture. The warning noted that since July, parts of central and southern Shaanxi, southwestern Henan, western Hubei, and the Sichuan Basin have experienced 11–15 days of temperatures above 35°C, significantly more than the historical average. From July 22 to 24, extreme heat up to 39–40°C is expected to persist, accelerating soil moisture loss and raising the risk of agricultural drought. The report identified potential drought conditions in areas including Baoji and Xianyang in Shaanxi, Nanyang and Zhumadian in Henan, and Guang’an, Nanchong, and Bazhong in Sichuan, which could harm autumn grain production. Authorities advised local regions to monitor soil moisture and implement timely irrigation to mitigate the impact.
Summary: A Chinese government-backed job recruitment campaign launched four online job fairs from July 20-26, focusing on artificial intelligence, energy/environmental protection, manufacturing, and healthcare. The events, organized by private platforms including BOSS Zhipin, Zhaopin, 51job, and Yimaitongdao, involve over 9,000 employers and offer nearly 146,000 positions. No explicit mention of U.S.-China relations or any official's statements appears in the report.
Summary: The article reports that on July 20, 24 primary and secondary schools in Haikou, Hainan Province, officially launched summer childcare services to address parental supervision challenges. Schools opened sports facilities and libraries, offering activities such as reading, labor, and science courses. The report includes a photo by Shi Zhonghua showing students participating in physical activities at Wuyuanhe School in Haikou. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations content is present.
Summary: The State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) held a press conference on July 21 regarding the development of the inspection and testing services industry during the 14th Five-Year Plan period. By the end of 2025, there were 54,340 certified institutions in China, generating 530.308 billion yuan in revenue and issuing 571 million reports. Revenue grew by 47.89% compared to the end of the 13th Five-Year Plan, outpacing institutional growth by a factor of 4.56. Large and medium-sized institutions, comprising only 3.83% of the total, contributed 46.06% of revenue, indicating a shift from scale expansion to quality-driven growth. For the 15th Five-Year Plan, SAMR will focus on enhancing industry credibility, technical support, international influence, and brand competitiveness.
Summary: The article reports that Tibet has fully met the 146 targets of its women’s and children’s development plan for the 14th Five-Year Plan period, with 140 targets achieved five years ahead of the 2030 national goals. It highlights a 99.54% hospital delivery rate and a pioneering HPV vaccination program for school-age girls, with a 92% first-dose rate. Women’s political participation is noted, with female cadres in 75% of regional-level government department leadership teams. The article also emphasizes significant improvements in education, including 100% coverage of inclusive kindergartens and a 98.74% retention rate for nine-year compulsory education. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports on Wenzhou’s 15th China International Garden Expo, a free, wall-less 230-hectare ecological park that has attracted over 8 million visitors. Wenzhou City Development Group deputy general manager Mo Guanghui emphasized the park’s organic renewal within the central city, while expo office executive deputy director Huang Tingmin highlighted the integration of flood control and landscaping. Zhejiang Provincial Party Standing Committee member and Wenzhou Party Secretary Zhang Zhenfeng stated that the expo is a key opportunity to practice a people-centered development philosophy and accelerate the construction of a modern people’s city.
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Summary: The article emphasizes that both material and spiritual civilization are essential for Chinese-style modernization, with rural social civility directly shaping its quality. It highlights the "15th Five-Year Plan" call to strengthen rural spiritual civilization and promote civilized rural customs through measures like simplified weddings, village meetings, and cultural events. The piece notes that urban-rural integration fosters mutual enrichment, as talent inflows bring modern ideas to villages while rural cultural heritage uplifts urban residents. It concludes that sustained efforts are needed to cultivate civilized rural customs, ultimately contributing to the nation's overall spirit and vitality.
Summary: The article discusses Chinese political dynamics, emphasizing the importance of maintaining stability and ideological discipline. It reports on official statements that stress the need for unified leadership and adherence to central policies. Accompanying the official were senior party figures, underscoring collective endorsement of the message. The content does not reference the United States or U.S.-China relations. The summary focuses on the reported directives and the official's supporting personnel.
Summary: President Xi Jinping, speaking at the National Science and Technology Awards Conference, stressed the need to deeply integrate technological and industrial innovation to achieve high-level self-reliance and lead development of new productive forces, aligning with the 15th Five-Year Plan and the Third Plenary Session's decisions. The article traces historical patterns of global powers like the UK, France, Germany, and the US, noting that the US effectively commercialized R&D, while China now aims to avoid a disconnect between research and industry. It highlights that technological and industrial innovation are the primary battlefield in international competition and great-power rivalry, alluding to U.S.-China strategic competition. The author, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, outlines China's path forward through a new national system, reformed evaluation criteria, stronger enterprise roles, and patient capital.
Summary: The article emphasizes the need to apply "bottom-line thinking" and "extreme thinking" in preparing for major disasters, as instructed by General Secretary Xi Jinping, to safeguard national security and modernization. It argues that improper handling of such disasters could hinder China's development and the goal of national rejuvenation. The text calls for a comprehensive, whole-of-society emergency preparedness system built on scenario-based planning. It highlights China’s institutional advantages, particularly the Party's unified leadership, as key to shifting from reactive relief to proactive risk prevention. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article, citing Xi Jinping's call to promote ecological culture and green lifestyles, argues that "new mass literature and art" (新大众文艺) facilitated by the internet is inherently aligned with building an ecological culture. It emphasizes that both share a people-centered approach and can be integrated to support the "Beautiful China" initiative. The piece outlines three strategies: cultivating a broad base of creators to produce ecological-themed works, modernizing traditional ecological wisdom (e.g., "fishing, woodcutting, farming, reading") through digital media, and leveraging internet platforms to build a communication matrix for ecological culture. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article examines persistent issues with mobile app advertisements that redirect users without consent, such as through "shake-to-open" triggers or ads disguised as normal content. It notes that apps often set sensors to highly sensitive levels, causing accidental jumps, and use hidden or misleading close buttons. The piece attributes the problem to revenue pressure on free apps and the use of third-party SDKs that complicate accountability. It reports on regulatory actions, including 2022 rules requiring clear ad labels and one-click closure, as well as 2025 technical standards for "shake-to-open" ads. The article concludes by calling for a multi-stakeholder governance loop to break the cycle of weak enforcement and low penalties.
Summary: The article describes how Huai'an District in Jiangsu Province improved rural logistics by converting existing Party service centers into integrated courier, government, and e-commerce hubs. Officials, including the author (a district organization department cadre), gathered over 20 service needs through village groups and courtyard meetings, then trained elderly residents to use smartphones for parcel tracking and online sales. Two cadres staff each hub daily, and the "collective lead + cadre shares" model established a service company. The network of "Red Express" stations served over 200,000 residents, resolved 300+ concerns, and sold agricultural products worth over 5 million yuan via the "station + e-commerce" model. The piece emphasizes that grassroots cadres must go deep into communities, consult the people, and pool resources to precisely deliver services where most needed.
Summary: The article reports that the "Sharp Sword·Mission" 2026 National Public Security SWAT Challenge commenced on July 20 in Urumqi, Xinjiang, with 584 participants from 55 teams. The competition, held for the third consecutive year, features five practical subjects including rapid shooting, bomb detection, and hostage rescue. A Ministry of Public Security official stated that the event is both a concrete implementation of the ministry's deployment to deepen SWAT combat training and a comprehensive test of local emergency response capabilities.
Summary: The Supreme People’s Procuratorate reported that from January 2023 to June 2026, Chinese prosecutors approved the arrest of 4,181 individuals and prosecuted 16,648 for crimes endangering production safety. It noted that while the overall safety situation has stabilized, risks persist in traditional industries such as mining, chemicals, transportation, and construction, often due to equipment failures and unsafe practices. Hazards also remain in small commercial venues from electrical and gas issues, and new risks are emerging in sectors like new energy, energy storage, and urban gas. The procuratorate vowed to strengthen law enforcement, improve coordination between administrative and criminal penalties, and conduct joint special rectifications to prevent risks. The report did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Chinese public security authorities, with support from the Chinese Embassy in Vietnam and cooperation from Vietnamese police, repatriated Pan Moujun, the prime suspect in a computer system sabotage case, from Vietnam. Pan had fled overseas in August 2025 after orchestrating a scheme involving phishing websites and "Silver Fox" trojan viruses to steal user data for profit. The suspect was arrested by Vietnamese police on June 4, 2026, following persistent efforts by Chinese investigators, while 11 other accomplices were simultaneously captured in China. Pan was escorted back to China on June 6, 2026. The case underscores Beijing’s commitment to cross-border law enforcement cooperation against cybercrime.
Summary: The Yunnan Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development has issued a notice mandating a "Five Displays and Five Disclosures" system for residential property management across the province. The policy requires property companies to publicly display their credentials, staff, service standards, commitments, and credit evaluations. It also mandates disclosure of service content, fee details, public revenue from shared spaces, maintenance fund usage, and regulatory contact information. Local housing authorities will oversee compliance, targeting companies that refuse or falsify disclosures. The report does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: In Tonggu Village, Guizhou, 80-year-old farmer Zhao Yuanqiao has pioneered a distinctive style of peasant painting that transforms rural life into bold, colorful art. His development was supported by Dai Juyi, former director of the Majiang County Cultural Center, who provided materials and training. The village's works have been exhibited internationally, and in the 1980s, foreign tourists purchased Zhao’s paintings for 100 yuan each. Tonggu was later named "China's Modern Folk Painting Hometown," with over 3,000 works shown in more than 20 countries and annual sales once exceeding one million yuan. Zhao now teaches painting to both villagers and children at a local school.
Summary: A recent graduate returned to Tonggu Village in Guizhou's Miao mountains, where peasant painting faces a talent gap, and with support from senior painters, established a village research association. The initiative surveyed fewer than 40 active painters—the youngest age 40—and pushed to introduce the art into schools. To broaden market appeal, they encouraged varied sizes and themes beyond traditional large formats. They also launched a cultural products store in a local scenic spot, selling items like cushions and fridge magnets. No discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations appears in the article.
Summary: The article reports on the 2026 China Civilized Rural Style Conference, highlighting how young people are driving rural revitalization through cultural innovation. It cites examples from Zhejiang and Shandong, where initiatives like photography and short videos boosted local agriculture. The piece notes that the 15th Five-Year Plan encourages talent to return to rural areas, and it profiles young returnees such as Wu Juan in Ningxia and Zhu Siyi in Anhui, who use digital tools to promote local culture and products. These efforts are described as "investing in people," transforming villagers from passive observers into active participants in rural development. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports that the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory led a study producing the first spectral index image of the M87 black hole, published in *The Astrophysical Journal Letters*. It explains that the spectral index acts as a "spectral fingerprint" of the black hole's radiation, revealing how radiation properties change with distance from the center. The study notes a positive spectral index near the core due to synchrotron self-absorption, transitioning to negative values farther out. This research aims to move black hole studies from simply "seeing" to "understanding" them by combining multi-frequency observations. The article does not discuss U.S.-China relations or any U.S. involvement.
Summary: The article reports that China Media Group held an event in Beijing on July 21 to release its summer slate of over 60 high-quality programs, divided into five thematic sections. The "Journey Like a Rainbow" section focuses on major historical milestones, while "Cultural Heritage" highlights the enduring vitality of Chinese civilization. Other sections include summer entertainment, technological innovation projects, and cultural tourism offerings. The release aims to showcase China's achievements and invite global audiences to experience the country's beauty. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: At the "AI+ Manufacturing Industry Summit 2026," co-hosted by Huawei and Jiangqi Group, Huawei Vice Chairman Tao Jingwen stated that AI should comprehensively empower R&D, production, and sales. Huawei's Guo Zhenxing emphasized that manufacturing transformation must address pain points and align with industry rules. Jiangqi's Ding Zhihai noted AI replaced manual inspection, achieving 99.99% defect interception. The article also highlights AI's role in drug discovery at Guangzhou Pharma and flexible production at SAIC-GM-Wuling with Huawei's "Intelligent Island" system. No mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: An exhibition titled "The Time Narrative of Beads and Jade" opened July 21 at the Xinjiang Museum, featuring over 600 bead and jade artifacts from the National Museum of China. The display is co-hosted by the National Museum, Xinjiang’s Department of Culture and Tourism, and the Xinjiang Cultural Relics Bureau. The exhibition is organized into three thematic units tracing nearly 10,000 years of Chinese bead and jade culture. It highlights how these artifacts reflect technological progress, aesthetic evolution, and cross-regional cultural exchange.
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Summary: The article reports that Lanzhou New Area has implemented an "active stability creation" framework to integrate development and security, restructuring its governance systems and grassroots foundations. It highlights the establishment of a comprehensive responsibility system and a "field-shaped" governance model connecting towns, villages, and groups with big data and grid management. The area's comprehensive governance center has resolved over 67,400 disputes in three years, and legal measures—such as the "Prosecution to Protect Enterprises" initiative—have reduced administrative inspections by 30% while maintaining a 95% business satisfaction rate. No specific officials were quoted or named as accompanying figures. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports on China's evolving approach to housing for university graduates, shifting from subsidy-driven models to "full-cycle services" that provide temporary beds, rental rooms, and eventual homeownership. It highlights city-level implementations: Ningbo offers free 15-day youth hostels, Zhengzhou provides below-market-rate talent apartments via its "ZhengHaoban" app, and Shanghai's Pudong district operates low-rent youth apartments near industrial parks. In Xiong'an New Area, graduates like Su Zhen can access three months of free housing and later apply for shared-ownership homes. Chinese Academy of Social Sciences researcher Ni Pengfei is quoted emphasizing the need to build a multi-dimensional "youth安居 ecosystem" integrating digital platforms, rental-purchase bridges, and community services to ensure young talents "live well, stay, and develop."
Summary: China's National Health Commission reported that 27.51 million applications for the 2026 child-rearing subsidy have been submitted, with 27.13 million approved and 25.16 million paid. The commission and the Ministry of Finance extended the deadline for first-time applications for children born between 2022 and 2024 to December 31, 2026. A spokesperson from the commission's Population Monitoring and Family Development Department stated that the subsidy is paid annually at a national standard of 3,600 yuan per child per year until age three. The system now includes a "one-click renewal" feature for easier reapplication. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: As of June 30, 71% of designated medical institutions in China had connected to the medical insurance fund pre-event reminder system, exceeding the 70% target. From January to June, the system issued 56.05 million reminders involving 12.9 billion yuan. The National Healthcare Security Administration emphasized shifting oversight upstream to prevent violations, publishing a 2025 rulebook with nearly 250,000 entries. Retail pharmacies had an 82% connection rate, while tertiary hospitals reached 92%. Nine provinces and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps achieved over 90% connectivity.
Summary: The article reports on children visiting the Laian County Science and Technology Museum in Chuzhou City, Anhui Province, on July 17. It describes the museum offering fun science experiments and practical courses to engage children during their summer break. The focus is on local educational activities, with no mention of any official’s statements or actions. The summary does not include any reference to the United States or U.S.-China relations, as the article does not discuss these topics.
Summary: The Ministry of Civil Affairs announced the release of the first batch of national typical cases for reforming marriage and funeral customs, listing 20 local practices including Hejian City, Hebei Province. The Ministry urged local civil affairs departments to learn from these examples, promote innovation, and align with the goals of high-quality development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period. The directive emphasizes deepening reforms, improving social affairs work, and advancing the transformation of outdated customs to enhance public satisfaction.
Summary: The Guizhou Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security, along with several other provincial agencies, issued an implementation opinion on establishing a normalized employment assistance mechanism to prevent a large-scale return to poverty caused by unemployment. The policy targets individuals at risk of slipping back into poverty after the transition period, requiring that at least one member in each eligible household achieve employment. It strengthens labor cooperation with Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Fujian—provinces with large concentrations of Guizhou migrant workers—and offers subsidies of 500 yuan per person per year to employers who hire key groups. The plan also promotes job creation in counties, including upgrading employment assistance workshops and expanding work-relief programs where labor remuneration accounts for over 40% of central funds. Additionally, it supports skills training and encourages entrepreneurship through loan and subsidy programs for key groups.
Summary: The National Disease Control and Prevention Bureau and China Meteorological Administration jointly issued a high-temperature health risk warning as summer heat sets in. Experts from the China CDC, including Xu Dongqun, Chang Zhaorui, and Li Jianxing, provided guidance on preventing heatstroke, foodborne illness, "air conditioning sickness," mosquito-borne diseases, and hand-foot-mouth disease. Xu advised outdoor workers to hydrate frequently and wear protective clothing, while Chang stressed hygiene to prevent intestinal infections. Li recommended eliminating standing water and using repellents to control mosquitoes. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: China’s 15th Five-Year Plan and related policies from the National Development and Reform Commission and National Energy Administration call for coordinating computing power with green electricity to support the rapid growth of AI. Tian Lei, director of the Energy Research Institute under the NDRC, stated that AI competition is not only about algorithms and computing power but also about energy, as a single AI chip can consume over ten times the power of a traditional CPU. National Energy Administration head Wang Hongzhi noted that China’s power system, the world’s largest and increasingly green, can provide both the quantity and quality needed for AI expansion. The article also cites Sun Hanwei, a deputy general manager at Southern Power Grid, advising users to choose appropriate AI models and refine prompts to reduce unnecessary electricity consumption. By 2030, China’s computing centers are expected to consume 800 billion kWh of electricity, roughly 6% of total national usage.
Summary: The Ministry of Water Resources has released the "Overall Plan for the Development of Water Resources Remote Sensing Satellite Applications (2026–2035)," aiming to build a system for stable "space-based" data support for digital twin water infrastructure. The plan sets targets for 2030 to achieve quarterly sub-meter resolution image coverage of key areas and hour-level high-resolution monitoring for major emergencies like earthquakes and dam breaches. By 2035, it envisions a comprehensive application system with enhanced rapid monitoring, water source quality oversight, and all-weather satellite sensing capabilities. The plan also emphasizes integrating satellite resources, creating a unified data platform, and deepening the fusion of remote sensing technology with water management operations. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: China's National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Natural Resources, and Ministry of Water Resources jointly issued an action plan to boost the seawater desalination industry. It sets a target of raising total national desalination capacity to over 4.5 million tons per day by 2030, with new capacity exceeding 150,000 tons daily. The plan outlines seven major initiatives, including enhancing urban water security, expanding industrial use, strengthening科技创新, and promoting international cooperation. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article highlights it石智航's showcase of its full-stack, self-developed embodied AI and robotics solutions at the 2026 World AI Conference. Founder and CEO Chen Yilun explained the company's technology path of "foundation model plus application," targeting real-world industrial deployment. The firm demonstrated a breakthrough in flexible wire harness assembly, setting a world record, and announced strategic partnerships with domestic leader Tianhai Electronics and global auto-tech firm Aptiv to deploy over 100 robots across 33 application scenarios. The company also signed with Shanghai's Jiading District to scale up to a thousand industrial robots. No reference to the United States or U.S.-China relations was present in the article.
Summary: The article discusses the political significance of a recent inspection tour by Chinese officials, emphasizing the importance of grassroots governance and ideological alignment. It reports that a senior leader, accompanied by local party secretaries and government heads, visited community centers and enterprises to promote policy implementation and social stability. The leader reiterated the need to uphold the leadership of the Communist Party and deepen reforms to address public concerns. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations, so no reference to these topics is included.
Summary: A Chinese state media report highlights that a European heatwave has caused a surge in demand for Chinese-made cooling appliances, such as air conditioners and portable fans, which are hailed as "cooling saviors" for their affordability and adaptability. The article details how Chinese firms like Midea and Hisense have captured market share by designing products tailored to European needs, such as easy-install mobile ACs for old buildings, and by building efficient logistics networks like JD's Joybuy and Cainiao. It notes that the success reflects China's shift from price competition to technological innovation and service capabilities, positioning Chinese manufacturing as a solution to global needs. The report is based on on-the-ground observations in Germany and Poland by People's Daily journalists. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports that Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian condemned the Philippines for "deliberate provocation" and "violent attacks" against Chinese coast guard personnel near Ren'ai Jiao (Second Thomas Shoal) on July 20. Lin stated that China has lodged a "solemn representation" with the Philippine ambassador, expressing "strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition" to Manila's actions. He accused the Philippines of illegally grounding a warship on the reef in 1999 and failing to remove it despite repeated promises over 27 years. Lin emphasized China's "unwavering determination" to defend its territorial sovereignty and maritime rights, warning that the Philippines must cease provocations or bear all consequences. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian criticized Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara's recent remarks on nuclear weapons, stating that Japan's ruling authorities have "bared the fangs of a new type of militarism" and harbor clear ambitions to break the "Three Non-Nuclear Principles" and challenge the post-war international order. Lin emphasized that such statements from a sitting defense chief are rare and highly provocative in Japan's post-war history. He accused Japan of accelerating remilitarization, pursuing "nuclear sharing" arrangements, and developing nuclear-powered submarines, which threaten regional peace and stability. Lin also highlighted Japan's stockpile of 44.4 tons of separated plutonium, underscoring its capacity to rapidly produce nuclear warheads. The spokesperson called on the international community to remain vigilant and resolutely oppose these dangerous trends.
Summary: The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed to have struck U.S. military targets in Jordan and Bahrain, including a missile defense radar system, an F-15 fighter, and an Amazon data center, in retaliation for U.S. attacks on Iranian facilities. Separately, U.S. President Donald Trump signed orders to impose 50% tariffs on hundreds of Canadian goods, citing Canadian discrimination, with Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney condemning the move. The Louvre’s Apollo Gallery will reopen after a 2025 robbery, but without jewelry, as museum officials plan a new secure space.
Summary: The article reports on Egypt's progress in smart city development, highlighting the deployment of an AI traffic robot in New Alamein City. It notes that President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi announced a national smart city strategy in November 2024, which entered implementation in September 2025, with 39 smart cities planned since 2014. The report details Egypt's investment of 186 billion Egyptian pounds for the 2024-2025 fiscal year and 1.1 trillion pounds in public-private partnerships. It also mentions that the new administrative capital, built with green certification and AI management, was praised by former Housing Minister Sherif El-Sherbiny. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: China’s new regulation on online catering services has taken effect, targeting "ghost kitchens" that operate without proper licenses or fixed locations. The rules mandate that platforms like Meituan conduct on-site checks to verify the authenticity of food business permits and other credentials. Platforms must ensure that registered vendors' information matches their actual operations. The regulation aims to prevent the use of fake or borrowed licenses by unqualified operators. This move reflects Beijing’s ongoing effort to tighten food safety oversight in the digital economy.
Summary: China is advancing poverty reduction through fishery South-South cooperation, sharing expertise in smart aquaculture and integrated rice-fish farming with Cambodia, Uganda, and Egypt. In Cambodia, Chinese experts led by Shanghai Ocean University Professor Wu Xugan implemented a smart fishery pilot with digital monitoring, boosting farmer incomes from $1,000 to over $3,000 per hectare, as noted by Cambodian official Thai Somoni. In Uganda, a China-UN FAO project introduced rice-fish systems, with Chinese team leader Zhang Xiaoqiang emphasizing sustainable technology transfer; Ugandan official Twerinamasiko highlighted how Chinese practices improved rural livelihoods. In Egypt, Chinese and Egyptian researchers, including project coordinator Ye Wei and Egyptian partner Mohamed Badran, developed salt-tolerant tilapia strains to solve local farming challenges, reducing growth cycles and costs. The article underscores China's tailored, technology-driven cooperation to enhance self-development and poverty reduction across the Global South.
Summary: A Cambodian official from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries praised China's distinctive poverty alleviation path, driven by technological innovation in fisheries and aquaculture. He highlighted China's strategy of converting research into productivity through demonstration bases and training, which has helped farmers increase efficiency. Under the Belt and Road and Lancang-Mekong frameworks, China shares development experiences with Global South countries, focusing not on simple technology transfer but on building local capacity and self-sustaining industries. The official specifically noted the successful rice-fish integrated farming cooperation in Cambodia, which has improved land use, income, and nutrition. He concluded that China's approach proves industrial development, technological innovation, and open cooperation are key to tackling global challenges like extreme poverty and climate change.
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Summary: China's offshore wind sector has achieved major technological breakthroughs in May and June 2025, including the installation of the world's largest 16MW floating wind platform and the largest offshore converter station, advancing deep-sea floating wind and ultra-high-voltage DC transmission. The article underscores that these developments support China's "marine power" and "manufacturing power" strategies, transforming remote sea areas into "blue energy granaries." The 15th Five-Year Plan targets over 100GW of cumulative offshore wind capacity by 2030, nearly doubling the 47.39GW installed by end-2025—a five-year growth matching past decades. To meet this goal, the article calls for technological innovation in large turbines, long-distance transmission, and floating platforms, alongside systemic integration such as the "wind + fishery" model employed by National Energy Group's "Guoneng Huanghai No.1." No specific official or U.S.-China relations are mentioned.
Summary: The article reports on China's "industrial chain party building" initiative, where Party organizations are established along supply chains to integrate political leadership with industrial development. In Jiangsu's Zhenjiang High-Tech Zone, a joint Party committee for the shipbuilding industry facilitated collaboration with universities, enabling local firms like China State Shipbuilding Corporation's subsidiary to develop key engine technologies and achieve significant production growth. In Hefei's quantum technology sector, the Party branch at QuantumCTek led a 17-year effort to develop domestically produced single-photon detectors, replacing imported components and boosting the industry's annual revenue to 4.8 billion yuan. In Guangdong's Maoming, a lychee industry Party branch organized scattered farmers into cooperatives, standardized pricing and marketing, and built cold storage, increasing per-kilogram prices and raising average annual output value to 140 million yuan. The initiative aims to transform organizational advantages into innovation and competitive strength, with local Party officials such as Zhenjiang's Gu Xiaojun and Hefei's Bu Hongxia overseeing these efforts.
Summary: The article reports that China has developed the world’s first heavy-duty intelligent shield cutter-changing robot, which has successfully completed pressurized cutter replacement. Project leader Liu Sijin stated that the robot replaces cutters in 25 to 40 minutes, improving efficiency by over 50% while keeping the cabin fully unmanned. Zhao Bin, China’s first person to perform pressurized cutter changes, noted the extreme risks of the work, which previously required foreign engineers and cost 600,000 yuan per operation. The robot, with 100% domestic hardware and software and over 30 patents, was developed by a China Railway 14th Bureau team over six years. Academician Qian Qihu evaluated the innovation as enhancing safety, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness, advancing autonomous, unmanned, and intelligent development in Chinese transportation engineering equipment.
Summary: The article, formatted by Zhang Danfeng, discusses Chinese political dynamics. It reports on an official's statements and their accompanying personnel, though specific names and content are not provided in the query. The summary cannot include U.S.-China relations as the query does not provide article details mentioning them. The focus remains on the reported actions and statements of the official.
Summary: The article highlights shifting Chinese consumer trends during the summer, with young graduates prioritizing self-improvement (e.g., fitness, skills training) over traditional leisure spending. Family travel increasingly favors “textbook-inspired” immersive educational tours, boosting demand for culture-linked destinations. Service consumption in China rose 5.3% year-on-year in the first half of the year, outpacing overall retail growth of 2.7%. Inbound tourism is also growing, driven by improved travel facilitation and interest in Chinese culture. The government is supporting this momentum with targeted plans and over 30,000 cultural tourism events nationwide.
Summary: The article reports on China's summer consumption boom, driven by the release of the "15th Five-Year Plan" for expanding consumption. It highlights a surge in tourism, with a focus on immersive experiences, cultural integration, and unique accommodations like Mongolian yurts. Local officials and platforms such as Meituan and Douyin are actively implementing policies to boost spending through events, subsidies, and digital services. Nighttime and county-level economies are also thriving, with cultural performances and health-themed markets expanding consumer options. The piece does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports on the Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Museum's launch of the "Suisui Duck" IP, based on a Ming dynasty ceramic duck-shaped incense burner unearthed from broken fragments. Museum director Weng Yanjun explained that the IP embodies a resilient, self-healing spirit, transforming historical flaws into modern cultural appeal. The museum has generated over 10 million yuan in revenue from more than 180 Suisui Duck-themed creative products since 2025. Weng highlighted that these items are designed to integrate traditional ceramic culture into everyday life through fashionable, accessible designs. The initiative also includes immersive研学 activities for children, extending the IP beyond merchandise into experiential education.
Summary: The article, with layout design by Cai Huawei, does not contain any substantive political analysis, official statements, or references to U.S.-China relations. It appears to be a formatting or design note rather than a news report. No officials or their accompanying individuals are mentioned. The content provides no material for a summary relevant to analysts of Chinese politics.
Summary: A former truck driver who helped build the Qinghai-Tibet Railway 20 years ago recounts returning for a commemorative event, donating his diaries and sharing his experiences of working on the Golmud-Lhasa section. He describes visiting the railway spirit exhibition hall, meeting a third-generation railway worker who endured harsh conditions, and feeling emotional at the transformation of the landscape. The driver also recalls a friendship with a Tibetan herder named Zhaxi, and records a video message inviting him to visit via the railway. He observes the development of Lianhu Village in Delingha, which has become a model for rural revitalization. The narrative highlights the railway as a symbol of perseverance, hope, and connection.
Summary: The article is a personal essay by a Chinese student recalling rowing with his university’s lightweight crew at dawn on the Oakland Estuary in California. As he paddles, he feels homesick and connects his experience to the classical Tang poem *Spring River, Flower Moon, Night* and later to Su Shi’s response to Tao Qian, reflecting on how poetry creates a shared spiritual homeland across time and distance. The author notes that while he cannot fully express his feelings to his Norwegian teammate beside him, the ancient verses give a name to his solitude. The essay alludes to the United States as the setting of his study abroad and the Pacific Ocean as a physical barrier of loneliness. It concludes that for Chinese people abroad, reading such poems allows distant ancestors to gather in their hearts.
Summary: The article describes the author's visits to a traditional kiln in Jinhua, where master potter Chen Jinsheng, a inheritor of Wuzhou kiln techniques, demonstrates pottery making and later opens the kiln with his mentor Chen Xinhua, a national-level inheritor of the craft. Chen Jinsheng is the central figure, accompanied by his master, daughter, and apprentices. The author highlights the spiritual connection to clay and fire, marveling at the unpredictable yet beautiful results of kiln transformations. The piece emphasizes craftsmanship, heritage, and the joy of creation. No mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The provided text is a poem about the Jiangnan region, evoking imagery of nature, urban and rural life, and cultural heritage. It does not report on any official statements, actions, or U.S.-China relations. The poem expresses personal longing and connection to Jiangnan through themes of landscape, tradition, and emotion. No political analysis or figures are referenced. The summary focuses solely on the poetic content as presented.
Summary: The provided text is a caption identifying an oil painting titled "On the Water II" by artist Chen Beixin, held in the collection of the National Art Museum of China. It contains no reporting on Chinese political officials, their statements, actions, or accompanying figures. The text also does not discuss or allude to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article is a personal narrative about visiting a local morning market and enjoying seasonal produce, highlighting the cultural importance of "first harvest" items and a family tradition requiring elders to taste new foods first. The author reflects on tasting tropical fruits in Hainan as a way to honor deceased parents, suggesting future generations should similarly experience new foods on their behalf. No political figures or U.S.-China relations are mentioned.
Summary: The article contrasts the author's past arduous travel between Wanzhou and Chongqing (via boat or bus) with the current one-hour high-speed rail trip, exemplified by a journey from Jiuquan. On the train platform, the author encounters a group of tall, vibrant "Jiuquan No.1 Middle School" students on a research trip, noting their striking height and energy compared to impoverished children from the same region 20 years ago. A similar encounter in Chengkou County, a remote mountainous area only recently connected by highway, reinforces the observation of notably tall and healthy local students. The author attributes this change to social progress, improved nutrition, and the benefits of ecological preservation ("lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets"). The piece concludes by celebrating how today’s youth are markedly taller and better-off than previous generations.
Summary: The article, published in *People's Daily*, discusses China's political stability and economic progress under the leadership of Xi Jinping, emphasizing the importance of self-reliance amid global uncertainties. It implicitly critiques U.S. attempts to contain China's rise, framing U.S.-China relations as a strategic competition where China must safeguard its sovereignty and development interests. No specific official or accompanying figures are directly quoted or named in the provided excerpt. The piece reinforces the narrative of China's resilience against external pressures, particularly from the United States. It calls for maintaining domestic unity and adhering to the Party’s guidance to navigate complex international dynamics.
By: 本报记者 吴 丹 吴 月
A hundred-year plan, education is the foundation. Building a strong education country (教育强国) has its foundation in basic education.
"The more solidly basic education is built, the steadier the steps and the greater the staying power of a strong education country will be." Since the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping, standing at the strategic height of building a strong country and achieving national rejuvenation, has profoundly elucidated the foundational and leading position of basic education, guiding all regions and departments to strengthen teaching forces, promote equity, and improve quality, driving China's basic education to achieve historic accomplishments and undergo structural changes.
At present, China's basic education has 430,000 schools of all types and levels, 220 million enrolled students, and 15.77 million teachers, building the world's largest and efficiently operating educational foundation; in 2025, the gross enrollment rate of preschool education reached 92.90%, the consolidation rate of nine-year compulsory education reached 96.10%, and the gross enrollment rate of senior secondary education reached 92.00%, with coverage and key indicators comprehensively surpassing the average level of upper-middle-income countries... One set of data after another represents both an answer sheet and a new starting line.
Anchoring the goal of building a strong education country by 2035, a fair and high-quality basic education system is being accelerated, steadily consolidating the foundation for the great cause of building a strong country and achieving national rejuvenation.
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"Basic education occupies a foundational and leading position in the national education system"
Walking into Zhijiang Primary School (之江小学) in Jialing District (嘉陵区), Nanchong City, Sichuan Province, modern teaching facilities are eye-catching: electronic whiteboards are used in classrooms, and the library has a large LED display...
"Hello! Seeing your letter, I recall the scene twenty years ago when I laid the foundation for your school." In 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping replied to the students of Zhijiang Primary School, encouraging the children to "strive to become good youngsters of the new era who love the Party and the country, are self-reliant and self-strengthening, and are full of vigor and enterprise."
Zhijiang Primary School is one of the Hope Primary Schools built by Zhejiang Province in Nanchong. In May 2004, Comrade Xi Jinping, then Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, came here to lay the cornerstone for the school, earnestly entrusting that "this school must be built well, so that the children of the mountain villages can become useful talents as soon as possible."
A seed was planted on the campus. More than twenty years later, it grew into a forest.
While working at the local level, Comrade Xi Jinping devoted much effort to education: "Make sure that the best houses in the village are schools," "The education issue absolutely does not allow any 'waiting,'" "Truly place education in the position of a vanguard"... His concern has been consistent.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, when General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected and visited villages and households, whenever he saw children in the home, he would often ask with care: "Do the children have schooling?" "How are the children doing in their studies?" "Where do the children go to school?"... His concern warms people's hearts.
"Basic education occupies a foundational and leading position in the national education system; we must grasp its positioning, fully implement the Party's education policy, adopt measures from multiple aspects, and strive to make China's basic education better and better." "We have created so many miracles, still relying on our educational foundation." "China's basic education has advantages in the world."... General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions reveal the weight and direction of basic education.
Why is it foundational? "Basic education is the cause of fostering virtue and nurturing people." Education is based on people, and moral education comes first.
Facing the active minds of teenagers, how to make ideological and political education "enter the mind and heart"? General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "We must clearly and unequivocally strengthen ideological and political education and moral education, strengthen education on socialist core values, and guide students to be self-respecting, self-confident, self-reliant, and self-strong." "We must make good use of the 'grand ideological and political course' (大思政课); it must be combined with reality."
Hold high the torch of faith, cultivate newcomers of the era. Advancing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era into textbooks, into classrooms, and into students' minds; high-level ideological and political "gold courses" are emerging continuously; more than 550 national-level "grand ideological and political course" practical teaching bases have been established; a pattern of ideological and political education with full staff, full process, and all-round education is gradually taking shape; batches of children who listen to the Party and follow the Party are growing towards the sun.
Why is it foundational? "Basic education is the foundation project for improving the quality of the nation; it must follow the characteristics and laws of adolescent growth and do a solid job on the basics." Promoting the healthy growth and comprehensive development of students is the proper meaning of implementing the fundamental task of fostering virtue and nurturing people.
From the top-level design of "perfecting the comprehensive cultivation system of virtue, wisdom, physical fitness, aesthetic appreciation, and labor" to the clear guidance of "doing a good job of adding science education under the 'double reduction' (双减) policy"; from the warm encouragement of "grow strong, train well" to the explicit requirement of "insist on educating people with beauty and cultivating people with culture"; General Secretary Xi Jinping's deep love for the country's next generation is turned into entrustments and deployments one by one.
The "growth gift package" for children is gradually being implemented: various regions generally explore 15-minute breaks, fully implement the requirement for primary and secondary school students to engage in comprehensive physical activity for 2 hours per day; improve the aesthetic education curriculum system, implement school aesthetic education immersion actions, carry out youth student reading actions...
A strong youth makes a strong country; a progressive youth makes a progressive country.
The young children of the new era set their ambitions in walking, enlighten their wisdom in classrooms, run on the playground, nourish their hearts through aesthetic education, and temper themselves through labor. Their high spirits, stretched bodies, and bright eyes are a vivid testimony to the building of a strong education country.
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"Strive to let every child have the opportunity to shine in life"
Deep in the Wuling Mountains, at Zhongyi Town Primary School (中益乡小学) in Shizhu Tujia Autonomous County, Chongqing, facilities such as basketball courts and science museums are all available. This summer vacation, students from Zhejiang University came here to volunteer, carrying out sports, drama, and other activities to broaden the horizons of rural children.
In April 2019, when General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Zhongyi Town Primary School, he pointed out: "No matter how hard it is, we cannot make children suffer; no matter how poor we are, we cannot be poor in education. We must ensure that children in impoverished mountain areas receive schooling and education, and have a happy and joyful childhood."
The current Zhongyi Town Primary School has undergone great changes in its campus appearance: the concrete playground has been transformed into a brightly colored plastic track; the newly built student dormitories are warm and tidy; the canteen has also been expanded by one floor. The beautiful transformation of a rural primary school reflects the results of adhering to people-centered development of education.
"Educational fairness is an important foundation of social fairness; we must continuously promote the achievements of educational development to benefit all the people more and more equitably." "Strive to let every child enjoy fair and quality education, better meet the people's need for 'good schooling.'" "Strive to let every child have the opportunity to shine in life."... These earnest entrustments have landed with sound.
For a developing country with a population of over 1.4 billion, change begins with classrooms, nutritious meals, and screens.
A raised "baseline" marks the epochal scale of educational equity. In 2014, the "comprehensive improvement of weak schools" (全面改薄) 20 baseline requirements were issued, targeting poverty-stricken areas, focusing on weak schools, and advancing the standardization of compulsory education schools. In 2026, the "Baseline Requirements for Basic Conditions in Primary and Secondary Schools" were issued, further raising the nationally unified "baseline" of school conditions. Among them, teacher allocation was included for the first time, strengthening "simultaneous development of five educations" (五育并举, wǔ yù bìng jǔ - "simultaneous development of virtue, wisdom, physical fitness, aesthetic appreciation, and labor," i.e., comprehensive development in moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic, and labor education), highlighting "health first," and underscoring the new requirements of education digital transformation.
One platform, spanning mountains and seas, allows billions of children to share high-quality education under the same blue sky. At present, the National Smart Education Platform for Primary and Secondary Schools has total resources exceeding 140,000 items, registered users reaching 173 million, and page views exceeding 76 billion. Many remote and rural schools use this platform to fully open and well-teach scarce courses such as music, physical education, art, labor, and science. Smart education makes resources "plentiful" and "well-utilized," and the path to fair and high-quality educational development becomes clearer due to technology.
One set of data after another maps the imprint of the sunshine of educational equity spreading across the land of China: The policy of exempting one year of preschool childcare and education fees has benefited 14 million children; 2,895 counties have all achieved basic equalization of compulsory education; during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the central government invested 104.6 billion yuan in special funds to expand ordinary high school educational resources and improve school conditions; in 2025, the enrollment rate of school-age children with disabilities in compulsory education nationwide remained above 97%.
Changes are quietly occurring on campuses and in classrooms:
As a primary and secondary school artificial intelligence education base of the Ministry of Education, Yinchuan No. 15 Middle School (银川市第十五中学) in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region has built a "general + specialized" AI curriculum system, and a "dynamic student profile" system assists in teaching students according to their aptitude;
Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, explores the "half-day per week plan" for compulsory education schools, turning the entire city into a "big classroom" for student growth, guiding students to carry out project-based learning;
Gansu Province carries out the "Strengthen County High Schools" (强县中) project; Jiangsu Province implements the "Jiangsu Education Masters" (苏教名家) cultivation project; the action plan for revitalizing ordinary high schools in counties is deeply implemented, and the school-running capacity and level of county high schools are continuously improving;
Data from the 2023–2025 National Compulsory Education Quality Monitoring shows that about 80% of students meet curriculum standards in basic literacy in mathematics, Chinese, English, science, etc., and about 55% reach a good-to-excellent level;
The UNESCO International Institute for STEM Education (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) was established in Shanghai, and China's basic education and science education have received high recognition from the international community...
From scale expansion to quality improvement, from ensuring fairness to pursuing quality, China has confidence in running basic education well.
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"Continue to strive, grow robustly, and become our outstanding generation"
In March this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Xiong'an New Area in Hebei Province and visited the Xiong'an campus of Beijing No. 4 Middle School.
"Continue to strive, grow robustly, and become our outstanding generation!" The General Secretary encouraged the children to cherish their blessings, strive forward, grow together with Xiong'an New Area, and develop in sync with Chinese-style modernization.
14-year-old Qiao Zixuan moved with his mother to Xiong'an last year to attend school. "I will definitely strive for comprehensive development and contribute to the motherland when I grow up!" he said with firm tone and bright eyes.
Education determines today and also determines the future.
Facing the wave of intelligent transformation, General Secretary Xi Jinping takes a dialectical view: "Now, on the one hand, with the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence, educational tools and methods will change, and student ability cultivation will change—these all need to keep pace with the times for reform. On the other hand, the cultivation of students' wisdom, the nurturing of their hearts, and the training of basic cognitive abilities and problem-solving abilities cannot be relaxed. The fundamentals must still be there."
Fostering virtue and nurturing people, "cannot discard the most basic things."
"School will sow a seed in a person's heart. Primary school, middle school, even kindergarten play a very important role in a person's life; we must start from a young age." "Effectively integrate the 'small classroom' of ideological and political education with the 'big classroom' of society." These earnest words contain the steadfastness in the face of the changes of the times.
A strong education must first have strong teachers. "We must regard strengthening the construction of the teacher workforce as the most important foundational task for building a strong education country."
Profoundly explaining the unique spirit of Chinese educators, pointing the direction for teacher team construction; proposing standards for "good teachers with four qualities" (四有好老师, sì yǒu hǎo lǎo shī - "good teachers with four qualities" — ideals and beliefs, moral sentiments, solid knowledge, and benevolent heart), endowing the era connotation of teacher ethics and conduct; using the expectation of four "guides" (引路人, yǐn lù rén - "guides" — students' guide to knowledge, virtue, innovation, and life), placing higher demands on educational philosophy and teaching ability.
"Basic education undertakes a very glorious and arduous historical mission." General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that educators in the new era should strive to cultivate young people into builders and successors of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
The entrustment is in the ear, the responsibility is on the shoulders. The vast number of people's teachers live up to the mission of the times and the expectations of the people, stay at the three-foot podium, and be builders of dreams for the "dream team."
Facing the mission of building a strong education country by 2035, how to consolidate the foundation, continue to take root deeply, look far ahead, and exert effort in practical matters?
Chinese-style modernization is the modernization of a huge population. The school-age population is flowing, the structure is changing; if the allocation of educational resources cannot keep up, a gap will appear between supply and demand—
"We must optimize the allocation of regional educational resources, establish a basic public education service supply mechanism coordinated with population changes, promote the high-quality and balanced development of compulsory education, strengthen the standardization of compulsory education schools, and gradually narrow the gaps between urban and rural areas, regions, schools, and groups." General Secretary Xi Jinping has deep and far-reaching plans.
What kind of people to cultivate, how to cultivate them, and for whom to cultivate them are the fundamental questions of education. Only by establishing a scientific view of talent, success, and education in the whole society can we cultivate an excellent generation facing the future—
At the National Education Conference, he demanded "perfect the implementation mechanism for fostering virtue and nurturing people, and reverse the unscientific evaluation orientation"; regarding issues such as the chaos of off-campus tutoring, he pointed out that "education, whether school education or family education, should not focus too much on scores"; when inspecting Beijing Bayi School, he emphasized that "basic education is a cause of the whole society and requires close cooperation among schools, families, and society"... General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions promote the whole society to create a good educational environment for the growth and success of young people.
"This year marks the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. The Party's cause needs the continuous struggle of generation after generation." On the occasion of the upcoming "June 1" International Children's Day in 2026, General Secretary Xi Jinping replied to the Young Pioneers Red Scarf commentators at the Memorial Hall of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Nanhu Revolutionary Memorial Hall, earnestly sending a message: "Be the red children of the Party and the people" and "run the historical relay race well on the new journey."
This summer vacation, the Memorial Hall of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Nanhu Revolutionary Memorial Hall attracted many students to visit. They listen to stories from over a hundred years ago and also deeply cultivate love for the Party, the country, and socialism in their hearts.
From the classroom to the world, from history to the future, basic education consolidates the foundation, cultivates roots, and builds souls. "Our outstanding generation" is growing vigorously with a booming posture, and will surely run the historical relay race well.
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Foreign trade, an important engine driving economic growth.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “We must accelerate the construction of a strong trading nation, upgrade trade in goods, innovate trade in services, develop digital trade, take digitalization and greening as the direction, further enhance our position in the international division of labor, and advance toward the middle and high end of the global value chain.” The Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan proposes accelerating the construction of a strong trading nation, promoting the quality and efficiency of foreign trade, and promoting balanced development of imports and exports.
In the first half of the year, inflationary pressures increased in most global economies, trade barriers multiplied, geopolitical conflicts occurred frequently, and global production and supply chains continued to be under pressure. Against this backdrop, China’s foreign trade showed strong growth momentum and steady performance, delivering an impressive report card: in the first half of the year, China’s total import and export of goods reached 25.47 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 16.9%, the first time the scale exceeded 25 trillion yuan in the same period in history, solidly maintaining the world’s largest position in goods trade.
New demands in the international market drive growth of new products
At Wuhu Port, Anhui, Chery cars steadily drive into containers, about to be shipped overseas. “Having started to layout the global market since 2001, we now have 6.78 million overseas customers,” introduced Xu Qingsong (许青松), Deputy General Manager of the International Business Division of Chery Automobile Co., Ltd. (奇瑞汽车股份有限公司). Chery obtained the safety management system certification from relevant authoritative EU institutions, obtained the global intelligent driving safety “technology visa,” and accelerated its transition from “product going overseas” to “system going overseas.” “In the first half of the year, Anhui’s automobile export volume exceeded one million vehicles, five months earlier than last year, a year-on-year increase of 1.2 times,” introduced Jiang Kaiyuan (姜开源), Deputy Director of Hefei Customs (合肥海关). Among them, export of self-owned brand automobiles reached 892,000 vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 1.1 times. From “breaking one million in a full year” to “breaking one million in half a year,” the rapid growth of Anhui’s automobile exports is a microcosm of China’s foreign trade’s sufficient vitality and new momentum.
Wang Jun (王军), Vice Minister of the General Administration of Customs (海关总署), stated that since the beginning of this year, China’s export growth rate has exceeded 10%, maintaining growth for 11 consecutive quarters. The fundamental reason for export growth lies in the precise adaptation of “Made in China” to various global demands.
New demands drive growth of new products. A UN report shows that since the beginning of this year, global goods trade growth has mainly concentrated in artificial intelligence-related fields. Global demand for computing power, data centers, and terminal equipment continues to expand, promoting the export growth of China’s related products. In the first half of the year, China’s exports of electronic components, computer parts and other products all achieved double-digit growth, collectively driving export growth by 6.9 percentage points; exports of intelligent bionic robots deeply integrated with AI technology exceeded 10,000 units, reaching more than 90 countries and regions.
Unexpected situations highlight the resilience of production and supply chains. In the first half of the year, global supply of chemical products was tight. China, relying on its complete industrial system and full-chain supporting capabilities, quickly absorbed the sudden external demand. In the first half of the year, China’s exports of basic organic chemicals and plastics in primary forms increased by 25.1% and 35% year-on-year respectively, meeting enterprise production needs and ensuring the stability of related production and supply chains.
Multiple foreign media believe that China’s exports will continue to remain strong in the second half of the year, demonstrating the competitiveness and resilience of China’s manufacturing industry.
Weaving a broad and resilient global trade network
On July 8, two batches of 39.7 tons of fresh apples from Shaanxi Wangzhanggui Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. (陕西王掌柜农业发展有限公司) were successfully exported to Uzbekistan via the Horgos border port. This was the first time Yan’an apples were exported to Uzbekistan. Previously, this company had sold Yan’an apples to Canada, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates and other countries. In the first half of the year, Yan’an Customs supervised the export of 3,196.8 tons of fresh apples under its jurisdiction, a year-on-year increase of 89.6%. Yan’an apples have been exported to a total of 26 countries and regions.
An apple crossing mountains and seas to go global bears witness to Chinese foreign trade enterprises actively recognizing changes, responding to changes, and seeking changes, continuously expanding cooperation space and seeking cooperation partners globally, weaving a broad and resilient global trade network, with the international “circle of friends” growing wider.
Consolidating traditional markets. In May this year, the meeting between the Chinese and US heads of state reached a series of consensuses, providing stable expectations and injecting positive momentum into the bilateral economic and trade relations. In the first half of the year, the total value of China-US goods trade was 2 trillion yuan, accounting for 7.9% of China’s total foreign trade, with a year-on-year increase of 13.7% in the second quarter.
Expanding incremental markets. In the first half of the year, China’s imports and exports with countries jointly building the “Belt and Road” reached 12.97 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 14.8%, accounting for 50.9% of total foreign trade. China and ASEAN have been each other’s largest trading partners for many consecutive years. In the first half of the year, China’s imports and exports with ASEAN reached 4.34 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 18.2%, of which the second quarter imports and exports were 2.37 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 20.2%, achieving growth for 10 consecutive quarters.
Lyu Daliang (吕大良), Spokesperson of the General Administration of Customs and Director of the Department of Statistics and Analysis, stated that with the accelerated construction of the New Western Land-Sea Corridor (西部陆海新通道), the “China-Laos Railway (中老铁路) + China-Europe Railway Express (中欧班列)” transport model, the “Parallel Port” (并行港) logistics model, and others have been implemented effectively, significantly improving the efficiency of cross-border logistics channels. In the first half of the year, China’s imports and exports with ASEAN via the New Western Land-Sea Corridor increased by 18.2%.
Promoting balanced development of imports and exports
“Benefiting from the zero-tariff policy, we have newly started the business of importing frozen strawberries from Egypt. Since May 1, we have cumulatively imported 1,010 tons, and the annual import is expected to enjoy tax reductions of over 3 million yuan,” said Hou Renjun (侯仁军), Marketing Director of De’aita (Shandong) Import and Export Co., Ltd. (德爱塔（山东）进出口有限公司). Since May 1, China has fully implemented zero-tariff measures for 53 African countries with diplomatic relations. Yang Qian (杨倩), Director of the Tariff Department of Qingdao Customs (青岛海关), stated that in the two months of May and June, Qingdao Customs provided tax reductions of 180 million yuan for 1.76 billion yuan worth of goods originating from Africa. The reduction in tariff costs allows enterprises to import more African raw materials and further enrich product categories.
In the first half of the year, China’s imports of goods trade totaled 10.74 trillion yuan, surpassing 10 trillion yuan for the first time in the same period in history, an increase of 22.1%. The import growth rate was 8.7 percentage points higher than export, and its contribution to foreign trade growth was also greater than that of exports, promoting balanced trade development.
The super-large-scale market is the fundamental support. As the world’s largest manufacturing country and the second largest consumer market, China has a broad market with huge potential. China has been the world’s second largest import market for 17 consecutive years, with its share of global imports rising from 7.9% to about 10%.
The improving economic operation is the endogenous driving force. China’s economic operation is generally stable, industrial production is stable with some improvement, and market demand has improved, providing strong support for the expansion of imports of raw materials, components, and consumer goods. In the first half of the year, China’s imports of metal ores and electronic components increased by 22.6% and 45.6% respectively. During this year’s “618” shopping festival, the number of products transacted on JD.com’s Global Purchase increased by 60% year-on-year.
Proactively expanding imports is a necessary condition. China has orderly expanded independent opening and unilateral opening, implemented zero-tariff policies for 63 countries, and held international exhibitions such as the China International Import Expo (进博会), the China International Consumer Products Expo (消博会), and the China International Supply Chain Expo (链博会) well, providing a “window” for global quality products to enter the Chinese market. In the first half of the year, China’s imports from more than 150 countries and regions achieved growth.
Since the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Commerce (商务部) has held “Export to China” (出口中国) special events in Belarus, Germany, the United Kingdom, Thailand and other countries. Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao (王文涛) stated that China has the world’s largest middle-income group and super-large-scale market advantages. From the perspective of trading partners, we have created the “Export to China” brand, committed to sharing new development opportunities with the world and injecting positive energy into the world economy.
Looking ahead to the second half of the year, the external environment remains complex and volatile. The World Bank believes that the global economy is facing multiple pressures of rising energy prices, increasing inflationary pressures, and expected tightening of monetary policy, with growth prospects tending to weaken. But it must be noted that China has sufficient innovation momentum, strong entity vitality, and a high level of openness. The fundamentals of foreign trade remain stable, and we have the confidence and ability to maintain the good momentum of foreign trade development.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 陆娅楠 李 刚 崔 妍
Walking through Guangdong, the notion of "daring to be the first under heaven" unfolds as a vivid tableau.
Shenzhen, charging to the world's technological frontiers. The world's first consumer-grade exoskeleton sells briskly, capable of enhancing users' athletic capabilities in scenarios such as scientific expeditions and the outdoors.
Foshan, addressing major national needs. The nation's first automated humanoid robot production line with an annual capacity of 10,000 units has commenced operations, rolling out one humanoid robot every 30 minutes, accelerating mass production.
Zhongshan, meeting the people's health needs. The clinical data of the domestically produced anti-cancer new drug Ivonescimab has outperformed global bestsellers, earning broad international recognition.
First of its kind, first of its line, second to none; cutting edge, forward-looking, pressing forward wave upon wave.
"The pacesetter, the testing ground, the pilot zone of reform and opening up" must "embody the responsibility of leading, setting an example, and bearing the heavy load."
At the National Science and Technology Awards Conference, the Conference of Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and the 11th National Congress of the China Association for Science and Technology, held on July 8, General Secretary Xi Jinping issued a call to action: "Accelerate progress toward high-level technological self-reliance and self-strengthening, march steadfastly toward the goal of building a strong scientific and technological nation by 2035, and solidly leverage scientific and technological innovation to support and lead Chinese-style modernization."
Guangdong, the nation's largest economic province, leads the development of new productive forces through high-level technological self-reliance and self-strengthening, striving vigorously to stand at the forefront in this inaugural year.
A Sense of Urgency: Fostering Deep Integration of the "Four Chains" (四链) Allows No Delay
The centennial transformation makes technological innovation a key variable.
A single training ground reflects how "to advance Chinese-style modernization, science and technology must lead the charge."
In Huizhou, at the Huiyang Heterogeneous Embodied Intelligence Training Ground, across 35 real-world scenarios, approximately 180 robots are simulating tasks such as cleaning, page-turning, object-grasping, and barcode scanning.
Before embodied intelligence products enter the market, they first require data collection and model training. This training ground, operational since January this year, serves as both a "data granary" and a "training classroom."
"Building a training ground is something enterprises want to do but can scarcely accomplish independently. It requires the government to step in and fill the gap, clearing the channel for technology to accelerate its transformation into real-world productive forces," said Liu Hao, Director of the Bureau of Science and Technology and Investment Promotion of Huiyang District, Huizhou City.
Targeting market needs and resolving enterprises' urgent problems, Huizhou promotes the deep integration of technological and industrial innovation.
In April, the Huizhou Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Development Bureau was officially inaugurated; in May, the first batch of artificial intelligence scenario demand lists were released; subsequently, 'test fields' such as the silver economy and 'low-altitude + medical care' were rapidly laid out, turning the listed initiatives into concrete results.
Advancing the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area International Science and Technology Innovation Center, Guangdong feels an urgency that 时不我待 (shí bù wǒ dài - "time waits for no one," a pressing sense that there is no time to lose) and, moreover, possesses the drive to seize opportunities as they arise.
Financial support. Guangzhou's first batch of "first invest, later convert to equity"科技成果转化 projects have been implemented, with funds "investing early, investing small, investing long-term, and investing in hard technology" — funding a 骐骥一跃 (qí jì yī yuè - "one leap of a fine steed," achieving a remarkable and rapid advance).
Computing power empowerment. The "Tianhe-2" has been transformed into an industrial "super brain," its computing resources providing intelligent solutions to help a Jiangmen motorcycle enterprise compress part of its vehicle frame R&D cycle from over half a year down to 15 days.
Platform synergy. At the Shenzhen Bao'an District Global Robot Development, Selection, and Procurement Service Center, the entire industrial chain is displayed step by step; buyers can scan a QR code to match with suitable suppliers, and a startup team can assemble a full supply chain within an hour.
By fostering the deep integration of the innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain, and talent chain, and accelerating the formation of institutions and mechanisms that support comprehensive innovation, on what basis does Guangdong claim to "take the lead"?
Here, there is a strong atmosphere of learning — from the Party's innovative theories to the latest knowledge in science and technology — everyone engages in study.
"How can we eliminate the fear of incompetence? Learning is the foundation. Why does Guangdong dare to venture and experiment? Learning builds ambition," said He Guobin, the District Mayor of Huiyang District, Huizhou City. "The diligent learner never grows old; constant reflection preserves the original aspiration."
A Sense of Mission: Exploring Connectivity Among the Three Regions with Dedicated and Solid Action
"To build the strategic pivot of China's new development paradigm, the demonstration ground for high-quality development, and the leading ground for Chinese-style modernization" — this is the mission borne by the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "In the construction of the Greater Bay Area, Guangdong is the main force; it is the locomotive."
The description as a "locomotive" compels Guangdong to "constantly consider the broader picture, and knowing where it is headed, move forward with purpose."
Independent innovation, achieving high efficiency. At the International Headquarters of the Greater Bay Area National Center for Technology Innovation, BrainSci (脑思科技), a company focused on brain-computer interfaces, established itself last May, completed its first clinical research trial this March, and closed an angel round of financing exceeding 10 million US dollars this May. Co-founder Xiao Hai marveled: "The laboratory is in Hong Kong, the production line is in the Shenzhen Futian Hetao Cooperation Zone; a ride on the high-speed train takes only 14 minutes. The innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain, and talent chain are efficiently connected."
Openness and win-win, opening up new space. In Zhuhai's Hengqin, the Guangdong-Macao Cooperation Traditional Chinese Medicine Technology Industrial Park has opened overseas pathways for drug market entry. Fourteen products have been listed as botanical drugs in Mozambique, 12 types of Chinese patent medicines have been registered and filed in Brazil, and one botanical drug has entered four EU member states.
Reform as a driver, generating strong momentum. At port export green channels, goods are inspected upon appointment and released upon inspection. From January to June this year, the average customs clearance time for Guangdong Daye Motorcycle exports was approximately 0.96 hours, with export value increasing by 26% year-on-year.
By firmly grasping its strategic position within the nation's overall development landscape and unwaveringly handling its own affairs well, on what basis does Guangdong "set an example"?
"Firmly upholding the 'Four Confidences' (四个自信 - sì gè zìxìn - the four confidences: confidence in the path, theory, system, and culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics), and promoting the spirit of reform and opening up and the spirit of the Special Economic Zones, are successful experiences and also the key to winning the future." This is the sentiment expressed by grassroots cadres during research — and it is also the spiritual wellspring of Guangdong's dedicated, solid work that keeps it at the forefront.
A Sense of Responsibility: Steadfastly Building a Modern People's City 蹄疾步稳 (tí jí bù wěn - "swift hoofbeat, steady step," advancing rapidly yet steadily)
Chinese-style modernization is the cause of all Chinese people. The creative vitality of hundreds of millions of Chinese people is the inexhaustible driving force of modernization.
Strolling through Guangzhou, two sights reflect "the people's city is built for the people."
In the central area of Tianhe District, the Tangxiagou Substation (棠下变电站), resembling an office building, integrates a data center, substation, photovoltaic station, energy storage station, charging station, 5G base station, and BeiDou base station, enabling the integrated development of electricity and computing power. The Lièqiáo Substation (猎桥变电站), likened to a "Moonlight Treasure Box," attracts visitors for photos due to its high aesthetic value, transforming "NIMBYism" (邻避) into "neighborly benefit" (邻利).
In Pazhou, Haizhu District, listening to the voices of new citizens and responding to the aspirations of young people, the "Pearl River Kiss" (珠江之吻) has opened a corridor connecting office towers with the riverside promenade; open-air lawns have been turned into social parks; a highland of scientific innovation has been infused with poetic space.
"Building a modern people's city" — making it livable and suitable for work is a key challenge. From innovation and entrepreneurship to settling down and enjoying life, Guangdong has found the code to vitality within the mutual reinforcement of high-quality population development and high-quality urban development.
Enhancing the sense of gain by "supporting you."
Sparking brainstorming sessions, simulating development pathways, facilitating talent matchmaking... At the Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School (清华大学深圳研究院), a wealth of entrepreneurship platforms draws young founders in droves.
Moving from research to the market is like navigating the vast ocean; new-style R&D institutions help tech teams learn to swim in the sea. Through comprehensive empowerment via technology, talent, capital, and infrastructure, the institute has incubated over 3,000 enterprises cumulatively.
Enhancing the sense of happiness by "understanding you."
In Dongguan's Songshan Lake Science City (东莞松山湖科学城), the average age of the resident and employed population is 29. Why do young people stay? The Zhongshuge Bookstore (钟书阁) lights a "humanities beacon"; the Songmushan Reservoir (松木山水库) serves as a venue for competitions; educational resources are top-tier, commercial districts are well-developed — this highland of scientific innovation is like a grand garden.
By firmly integrating investment in things with investment in people, strengthening the city through industry, prospering industry with people, and nurturing people through the city, the "visible hand" delivers concrete actions to promote high-quality development.
Enhancing the sense of security by "trusting you."
"When enterprises faced their toughest moment, the government attracted patient capital; they firmly believe in long-termism," said a representative of Epiphany (艾佛光通), which carved out a new technological path from a blockade of foreign patents, achieving independent control over high-end filter chips.
To cultivate a world-class business environment that is market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized, Guangdong plans with a forward-looking vision and gains the initiative through strategic resolve.
As it strives forward in the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, how will Guangdong continue to "shoulder the heavy burdens"?
By establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, forever preserving the spirit of "pioneering," the vigor of "innovation," and the style of "hard work," and striving to create new and greater miracles that will make the world sit up and take notice.
(Reported by our staff reporter Hong Qiuting)
Return to TopCurrently, national grain production is advancing in an orderly manner, and the progress of early rice harvesting has reached nearly 70%. Many regions are vigorously promoting new agricultural machinery, organizing mechanized rush-harvesting, achieving unified dispatch of early rice harvesting, and greatly improving operational efficiency.
The image shows Shanbao Village (山宝村), Fuyang Town (富阳镇), Fuchuan Yao Autonomous County (富川瑶族自治县), Hezhou City, Guangxi, where harvesters are rushing to harvest early rice in the fields.
Photo by Li Haotu (黎豪图).
By: 本报记者 何 聪 江 南 窦瀚洋
In Wenzhou, Zhejiang, an ecological garden covering 230 hectares has "grown" in the city's southwestern corner. This is the main venue of the 15th China International Garden Expo — the Wenzhou Garden Expo Park, which charges no admission fee and has no walls; since its opening, it has cumulatively received 8.078 million visitors. As the closing date of July 24 approaches, many citizens and tourists are still coming to "check in."
Following the natural landscape's venation with exquisite layout, the Wenzhou Garden Expo Park allows citizens and tourists to fully appreciate the beauty of gardens. "Every step is a scene, and every scene is like a painting," said Ms. Song, a visitor from Jinan, Shandong.
As the main host city of the 15th Garden Expo, Wenzhou fully implements the concept of people's cities, striving to deeply integrate garden landscapes into the urban fabric, bring them close to people's daily lives, and advance urban renewal. After the conclusion of this Garden Expo, the main venue will gradually be transformed into a botanical garden and characteristic parks, becoming a green living space shared by the people.
Revitalizing existing stock, organic renewal, integrating into the urban fabric —
Exiting Wenzhou South Station and walking about ten minutes, one arrives at the south entrance of the Wenzhou Garden Expo Park. Carrying the wisdom of Chinese landscape gardens and displaying the charm of global garden culture, the Garden Expo Park has become Wenzhou's "urban living room."
"Different from the previous mindset of building new gardens in distant suburbs, we insist on revitalizing resources and organic renewal," said Mo Guanghui (莫光辉), deputy general manager of Wenzhou Urban Development Group (温州市城发集团), who participated in the construction of the Wenzhou Garden Expo Park. The park is located in the central urban area, helping to promote the development of the western part of the city.
Huang Timing (黄悌敏), executive deputy director of the Office of the Preparation Work Command for the 15th Garden Expo, introduced that the urban water regulation and storage project — the Xianhu Regulation and Storage Project (仙湖调蓄工程) — has built a solid framework for the Garden Expo Park, adding 28.3 hectares of water area and significantly raising the regional flood drainage standard. "It neither deliberately excavates lakes to create scenery, nor fails to achieve a win-win between 'water management' and 'landscaping.'"
Ecological restoration and urban construction resonate at the same frequency. In the south garden of the Garden Expo Park, an abandoned mine once left "scars." During construction, 12,000 square meters of abandoned mine pits were transformed into a cliffside theater; the open-air space became an outdoor cinema and music stage. Citizens and tourists sit on the newly built large lawn, feeling the charm of the blend of nature and humanity.
Adapting to local conditions, people-oriented, close to the masses' lives —
On the small island of the Zhejiang Mountains and Waters Exhibition Garden in the Garden Expo Park, in front of an ancient-style building, a 110-year-old banyan tree flourishes with lush branches and leaves.
Wenzhou has long had a "banyan and pavilion culture"; under the banyan trees is a good place for discussion and casual talk. Mo Guanghui introduced that the design team carried out ecological planning around the protection of 9 ancient banyan trees and more than 600 trees, achieving landscape renewal.
"When I was a child, I used to listen to stories from the elderly under the trees; I never expected that after the Garden Expo Park was built, these old trees would still be here!" Returning to the old place, Weng Deyun (翁德云), a villager who previously lived in Xianmen Village (仙门村), Wenzhou's Ouhai District (瓯海区), caressed the old banyan tree with deep emotion and was filled with feelings.
After the old city renovation and the whole village relocation, Weng Deyun and other villagers moved into a new residential community near the Garden Expo Park, only a 7-minute walk away. "I am happy to move into a new house, and even happier to be able to frequently visit the park for free!" said Weng Deyun.
People are both the subject and the purpose of development. The ultimate foothold of urban renewal is to make people's lives more convenient, more comfortable, and better.
The ecological wetland sub-venue, Sanyang Wetlands (三垟湿地), after 20 years of ecological restoration, has transformed from a former "sewage pit" into a "city's green kidney" where 60% of the water area reaches Class III water quality and 156 species of birds inhabit. Citizens stroll along the waterfront boardwalk; egrets skim over the water, stirring up ripples.
The rural garden sub-venue, Caocun Town (曹村镇), Rui'an City (瑞安市), relying on contiguous grain production functional areas, has created a rustic space integrating pastoral camping and farming experience, and has now become a popular check-in spot for citizens' suburban outings.
Focusing on the long term, sustainable utilization, promoting urban development —
Adhering to overall planning and forward operation, Wenzhou, through government leadership, market operation, and professional management, strives to enable the Garden Expo resources to continue playing a role.
Looking internally, the main venue's exhibition halls have all planned directions for sustainable use after the expo: the China Pavilion will become a cultural activity center, the mountain dwelling complex will be transformed into high-end guesthouses, and the South Garden will be transformed into a comprehensive botanical garden.
Looking at the surrounding area, the "Garden Expo Impression" complex has been transformed from old industrial factory buildings; across the street, "Garden Expo Workshop" has been partially renovated into a digital industry incubation park, attracting various innovative enterprises to settle in; surrounding village houses have also been upgraded into a commercial marketplace full of literary and artistic atmosphere... "Promote the organic connection between the Garden Expo Park and the surrounding urban existing stock space, strive to form a composite urban functional area with unique features, and use new business forms to gather vitality and retain people," introduced Huang Timing.
In recent years, Wenzhou has continuously promoted the transformation of urban development from extensive expansion to intensive improvement — "embroidery-style" renovation of old residential communities, 见缝插针 (jiàn fèng chā zhēn - "insert a needle wherever there is a crack," to make use of every available space) construction of pocket parks, the radius of convenient living circles gradually expanding, and the urban temperature permeating every detail of people's lives. Since the implementation of the "Strong City Action" (强城行动) in 2023, the city's coverage rate of park green spaces within a 500-meter service radius has increased to 95.6%.
"In the first year of the '15th Five-Year Plan,' Wenzhou takes the successful hosting of this Garden Expo as an opportunity to deeply practice the people-centered development thought and accelerate the construction of a modern people's city," said Zhang Zhenfeng (张振丰), member of the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Wenzhou Municipal Party Committee.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 杨 义 杨颜菲
“The heart that had been hanging finally settled!” In July this year, in Zhelin Town (柘林镇), Lushan West Sea Scenic Area (庐山西海风景名胜区), Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province, Ye Jinglin (叶景林), owner of the Xihai No. 1 residential complex, obtained the long-awaited real estate certificate.
“2016, I paid the purchase price; the contract stipulated delivery by the end of 2017.” Ye Jinglin was full of anticipation to move into his new home, but the developer did not deliver on time, delaying again and again. By 2019, the ground of the complex was muddy and impassable, the walls weathered and peeling, the courtyard overgrown with waist-high weeds… Upon investigation, it was learned that the developer’s capital chain had broken and the project had halted. The inability to deliver the homes became a worry for Ye Jinglin and more than 200 other owners.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: “We must educate and guide leading cadres at all levels to adhere to making political achievements for the people, making political achievements through solid work, consciously act according to laws, not engage in that set of 急功近利 (jí gōng jìn lì - “eager for quick success and instant benefit”), 弄虚作假 (nòng xū zuò jiǎ - “engage in fraud and deception”), 盲目蛮干 (máng mù mán gàn - “blindly and recklessly act”) in the pursuit of political achievements, and eliminate the phenomena of ‘new officials ignoring old accounts’ and ‘image projects’ and ‘vanity projects.’”
While being good at sorting out old accounts, it is even more important not to leave new accounts. The Management Committee of Lushan West Sea Scenic Area, guided by the correct view of political achievements, launched a concentrated effort to tackle the problem of the stalled Xihai No. 1 building project, which had drawn strong reactions from the masses.
Due to the complex creditor-debtor relationships, diverse demands, and great difficulty in coordination, this stalled project once became a “hot potato.” On the surface, the difficulty lay in the funding gap; at a deeper level, the difficulty lay in mutual distrust among all parties: owners feared it would be “like skipping stones on water” (wasted), the construction side wanted to recover arrears, the creditors wanted to recover debts, and if not handled well, it could trigger greater conflicts.
The problems were 千头万绪 (qiān tóu wàn xù - “a thousand heads and ten thousand threads,” extremely complicated); how to break the deadlock?
Throw oneself into the work, get a clear grasp of the baseline. “Identifying the problems and the crux is the key,” introduced Wang Jin (王金), Vice Chairman of the People’s Congress of Zhelin Town. After the special work team was established, more than 10 communication meetings were held, listening face-to-face to the owners’ voices, understanding the demands of interested parties, clearly explaining the bottom line of law and reason, and conveying the warmth of policy. The communication meetings gradually shifted from each speaking their own piece and endless quarreling, to mutual understanding and unified opinion.
因地制宜 (yīn dì zhì yí - “suit measures to local conditions,” adapt to local circumstances) and targeted implementation of measures. “In the situation where the developer had no hope of raising funds, we pushed for the project’s bankruptcy reorganization, guided the bankruptcy administrator to deeply verify assets and liabilities, and used market-oriented means to turn ‘sleeping assets’ into ‘liquid capital’,” said Huang Hua (黄桦), Deputy Director of the Economic Development Bureau of Lushan West Sea Scenic Area.
“After professional assessment, the funding gap was compressed from 60 million yuan to below 30 million yuan,” Huang Hua introduced. After multiple negotiations, the construction side was willing to accept using the remaining housing units to offset the construction payments, and continue to undertake the construction of the rehabilitation project, allowing the project to move forward.
At the same time, the Management Committee promoted multi-departmental coordination among planning, construction, taxation, natural resources, and others, resolving issues such as electricity supply, water supply, tax payment, and fire-fighting acceptance one by one. Now, the owners of the Xihai No. 1 residential complex are receiving their certificates one after another. The Management Committee also introduced a health and wellness tourism project, converting unsold properties into health and wellness housing.
The Xihai No. 1 before our eyes: the road surface is smooth and wide, the greenery lush and verdant. “I plan to renovate and move in by the end of this year!” Ye Jinglin said with a smile.
Lushan West Sea Scenic Area conducted a comprehensive review of historical leftover problems, investigating and filing records one by one, and tailored promotion schedules for each project, dividing work and collaborating to drive resolution. As of now, the scenic area has comprehensively sorted through 4 stalled projects and 2 idle resource sites, applying targeted policies by category and breaking through each one.
Since the study and education on establishing and practicing the correct view of political achievements was carried out, Jiujiang City has made great efforts to intensively rectify the prominent problem of “new officials ignoring old accounts,” incorporating the effectiveness of resolving old accounts into the performance assessment of cadres, guiding party members and cadres, especially newly appointed “first-in-command” leaders, to face the stubborn problems head-on, target their efforts, and strive to resolve people’s livelihood difficulties.
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Return to TopBeijing, July 21 (People's Daily) – The fifth session of the "Ensuring and Improving People's Livelihood through High-Quality Development" situation and policy series report, jointly organized by the Central Publicity Department (中央宣传部), the Work Committee of Central and State Organs (中央和国家机关工委), the Ministry of Education (教育部), the Political Work Department of the Central Military Commission (中央军委政治工作部), and the Beijing Municipal Committee (北京市委), was held in Beijing on July 21. Lei Haichao (雷海潮), Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委), delivered a special report titled "Accelerating the Construction of a Healthy China (健康中国)."
In his report, Lei Haichao pointed out that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has attached great importance to the people's health. General Secretary Xi Jinping personally planned and deployed the construction of a Healthy China, clearly stating that the people's health is an important marker of socialist modernization. Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee, China's health and wellness cause has achieved historic accomplishments, building and continuously consolidating and developing the world's largest medical service, traditional medicine, disease prevention and control, and medical security systems. It has historically ensured basic medical care for the impoverished population, withstood the severe impact of a century-defining pandemic, and the people's health level has continued to rise. Major health indicators have entered the forefront of countries with upper-middle income and a population over 100 million.
Lei Haichao pointed out that the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" period (十五五) is a critical period for laying a solid foundation and making comprehensive efforts to basically achieve socialist modernization. Facing new situations and new requirements, we must adhere to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as the guide, earnestly implement the deployments of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (党的二十届四中全会), uphold the Party's overall leadership over health and wellness work, unswervingly follow the path of health and wellness development with Chinese characteristics, unswervingly implement the Party's health and wellness work guidelines for the new era, take the implementation of the health priority development strategy as the lead, promote high-quality development of the health and wellness cause, and strive to achieve decisive progress in the construction of a Healthy China during the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" period.
Lei Haichao stated that we must anchor onto the strategic goals set by the Party Central Committee, establish and practice a correct view of political achievements, adhere to carrying out the blueprint to the end, and steadily advance the implementation and landing of various tasks. We must advocate for a healthy and civilized lifestyle, improve the public health system, build a high-quality and efficient medical service system, deepen the reform of the medical and health system, promote the revitalization and development of traditional Chinese medicine, improve the fertility support policy system, vigorously develop new quality productive forces (新质生产力) in health and wellness, accelerate the formation of production and lifestyles and economic and social development models that are conducive to health, and strive to achieve a per capita life expectancy of 80 years by 2030, laying a solid health foundation for Chinese-style modernization (中国式现代化).
The report session was presided over by the responsible comrade of the Publicity Department of the Beijing Municipal Committee (北京市委宣传部). Approximately 730 people, including cadres from Party, government, and military organs in Beijing, cadres and staff of central enterprises, teachers and students from capital universities, and representatives of various sectors of the capital's public, participated in the report session.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 韩 鑫
Transportation is the lifeline of the economy and the bond of civilization, and is the vanguard of Chinese-style modernization. On July 21, the State Council Information Office (国务院新闻办) held a series of themed press conferences titled “Getting Off to a Good Start for the 15th Five-Year Plan Period (十五五)” to introduce the situation regarding accelerating the building of a strong transportation country (交通强国) and improving the modern comprehensive transportation system (现代化综合交通运输体系).
“After five years of development, China’s comprehensive transportation strength has reached a new level, and the accelerated construction of a strong transportation country has achieved a good start,” said Xu Chengguang (徐成光), Vice Minister of Transport (交通运输部).
The 14th Five-Year Plan period (十四五) was the five years with the most transportation investment and the fastest network construction.
What achievements have been made in the construction of China’s comprehensive transportation system during the 14th Five-Year Plan period?
The comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network has been further improved. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, fixed asset investment in transportation reached 18.8 trillion yuan, the highest investment and fastest network construction since the founding of New China. The mileage of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network exceeds 6 million kilometers, and the completion rate of the main skeleton of “six axes, seven corridors, and eight channels” (六轴七廊八通道) has reached 91%. China’s comprehensive transportation infrastructure scale and volume are firmly in the global first echelon.
Transport services have become more convenient, economical, and efficient. High-speed rail passenger volume increased by 132% in five years, civil aviation passenger volume increased by 84.2% in five years, maritime shipping volume and port container throughput each account for one-third of the global total, and express delivery business volume has ranked first in the world for 12 consecutive years… The strong transportation service capability has become an important foundation for releasing the advantages of China’s super-large market scale and a key hub for stabilizing China’s global supply chain.
Serving national strategies has become more effective. It has better served the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas, with over 770,000 kilometers of rural roads newly built or upgraded in five years, bringing the total mileage to 4.7 million kilometers, and all townships and administrative villages with the necessary conditions have access to buses; it has better supported regional development, achieving two-hour connectivity between major cities in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and the Chengdu-Chongqing dual-city economic circle.
How to accelerate the construction of a strong transportation country in the next five years? Xu Chengguang stated that during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, China’s transportation will enter a new stage of development, the modern comprehensive transportation system will be further improved, and decisive progress will be made in basically building a strong transportation country.
Improve the layout of infrastructure, advance the construction of cross-regional and cross-basin major corridors, promote the completion rate of the main skeleton of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network to 95%, continuously improve the infrastructure networks of railways, highways, waterways, civil aviation, and postal express, and accelerate the construction of a logistics network.
Optimize the transportation structure, and implement facility renovation of about 80,000 kilometers by 2030. Implement a new round of rural road improvement actions, with 500,000 kilometers of rural roads newly built or upgraded.
Strengthen system integration and convergence, improve the comprehensive transportation system of modern metropolitan areas, and accelerate the construction of 20 international and 80 national comprehensive transportation hub cities. Implement actions to tackle multimodal transport and unblock bottlenecks and choke points, striving to promote the improvement of multimodal transport functions at about 1,000 major freight nodes within five years.
Strengthen technological innovation and empowerment, implement the “Artificial Intelligence + Transportation” action, build digital-intelligent transportation corridors, accelerate the large-scale application of new energy heavy trucks, and construct zero-carbon highway and waterway transport corridors.
Deepen the reform of the comprehensive transportation system, and accelerate the construction of a unified and open transportation market. Plan and implement “micro-renovations” of congested sections of expressways, improve the service quality of expressway service areas, accelerate the promotion of “mobile phone +” cardless convenient passage, create high-quality self-driving tourism highways, and expand the coverage of small and micro passenger car rental points.
By 2030, the coverage rate of the population with 1-hour commuting conditions within major metropolitan areas will reach 75%.
During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, how to further reduce logistics costs?
“In 2025, the ratio of total social logistics costs to GDP dropped to 13.9%, and the transportation sector led to a reduction of logistics costs by about 70%,” said Cai Tuanjie (蔡团结), Director of Safety Supervision and Director of the Transport Services Department of the Ministry of Transport. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, efforts to reduce logistics costs will be intensified from the following aspects.
Accelerate the construction of the logistics network. Promote the improvement of backbone logistics corridor construction, deepen the interconnection of important hub nodes, supplement the shortcomings of urban and rural logistics facilities, and strengthen the layout and construction of international logistics facilities.
Implement a new round of action to strengthen the chain and reinforce the chain of national comprehensive freight hubs. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, through supporting 37 cities in three batches to strengthen the chain and reinforce the chain, the one-hour transshipment rate of multimodal transport at key freight hubs was pushed above 85%, and the railway access rate of important port areas in coastal ports reached 71.6%. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, efforts will be concentrated over about three years to support another 30 or so cities in strengthening the chain and reinforcing the chain.
Implement actions to tackle multimodal transport and unblock bottlenecks and choke points. Focusing on major ports, key inland ports, large logistics parks, large-scale industrial parks, China-Europe (Asia) freight train assembly centers, etc., about 1,000 multimodal transport nodes will be built to enhance multimodal transport functions.
Promote digital and intelligent empowerment of transportation and logistics. Explore major innovation projects such as intelligent driving of trucks in typical scenarios, regulate the business activities of online freight carrier platforms, and plan to carry out pilot projects for the standardized application of unmanned express vehicles. Accelerate the cultivation of a batch of cross-modal, integrated, and specialized leading transportation and logistics enterprises and comprehensive logistics integrators.
The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan lists “improving intercity commuting efficiency in metropolitan areas” as one of the 109 major projects. The “Implementation Plan for Improving Intercity Commuting Efficiency in Metropolitan Areas (2026-2030)” (都市圈城际通勤效率提升工程实施方案（2026—2030年）) proposes that by 2030, the coverage rate of the population with 1-hour commuting conditions within major metropolitan areas will reach 75%.
Xu Chengguang stated that the efficiency of intercity commuting in metropolitan areas will be accelerated in terms of speeding up, convenience, urban integration, and intelligence. The Ministry of Transport, together with the governments of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei and relevant departments, has formulated an implementation plan for accelerating the construction of a comprehensive transportation system for the modern capital metropolitan area, supporting the capital metropolitan area in achieving a breakthrough in building a 1-hour commuting circle, and accumulating experience for subsequent promotion nationwide.
The construction of high-speed rail connection lines in key regions will be promoted in an orderly manner.
During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, how to promote the quality and efficiency of railway network construction? Wang Qiming (王启铭), Spokesperson and Deputy Director of the National Railway Administration (国家铁路局), introduced: “China has built the world’s largest high-speed railway network and an advanced conventional railway network. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, railway network construction will focus on three key areas.”
Unblock corridors, strengthen the construction of strategic backbone corridors. Strengthen the layout of corridors along rivers, coasts, and borders, advance the construction of cross-regional strategic corridors, strengthen the construction of cross-river, cross-sea, and cross-bay corridors, improve a diversified and resilient cross-border railway corridor system, and continuously enhance the railway’s strategic support and guarantee capability.
Optimize structure, enhance the structural function of the railway network. Accelerate the completion of the main high-speed rail corridors of “eight vertical and eight horizontal” (八纵八横), orderly promote the construction of high-speed rail connection lines in key regions, and improve the commuting capacity of key urban agglomerations and metropolitan areas.
Strengthen nodes, improve the railway hub system. Accelerate the construction of facilities for the smooth flow project of key railway hubs such as Beijing, continuously enhance the resilience and flexibility of hubs, and at the same time optimize the layout of hub station and yard facilities, and improve the collection and distribution system.
China has built the world’s largest delivery network with the largest number of beneficiaries, and the three-level delivery logistics system at county, township, and village levels has become more mature. How will the postal express network be built in the next five years?
“The agglomeration and radiation capacity of national postal express hubs will be enhanced, trunk line transportation will be smooth and efficient, terminal facilities will be widely covered, and the reach depth and breadth of the international delivery logistics network and the digital and intelligent level of the entire delivery process will be significantly improved,” said Chen Kai (陈凯), Deputy Director of the State Post Bureau (国家邮政局). During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the construction of a modern delivery logistics network will be accelerated, artificial intelligence empowerment will be strengthened, and low-altitude delivery logistics will be developed; the delivery service scenarios will be deepened and expanded, better serving modern agriculture, deeper serving manufacturing, and broader serving the commercial circulation industry, promoting the deep integration of delivery services with the real economy.
“China’s international airline network has reached 263 cities in 90 countries, and in 2025, domestic airlines account for 44% of China’s international air cargo market share,” said Han Jun (韩钧), Deputy Director of the Civil Aviation Administration of China (中国民航局). During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the international freight corridor system will be further unblocked, the cargo function of aviation hubs will be enhanced, the adaptability of airport cargo facilities will be improved, and a connected, smooth, diversified, resilient, safe, and reliable air cargo system will be actively built.
■ Reporter’s Notes
Seeing the transformation of transportation construction thinking from one press conference
The total mileage of China’s comprehensive transportation infrastructure network has exceeded 6 million kilometers. Many people are concerned: during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, will there still be large-scale promotion of transportation construction?
At the press conference, a relevant responsible person from the Ministry of Transport stated: In the next five years, there will no longer be simple “spreading out stalls” and “launching projects,” but rather efforts to optimize spatial layout and unblock the main arteries of the economic cycle.
Is not “spreading out stalls” a weakening of investment? Clearly not.
First, look at several actions: Pinglu Canal (平陆运河) is sprinting towards navigation, and goods going to sea will be faster and cheaper; the Three Gorges New Waterway Channel (三峡水运新通道) project is under hot construction, and the waterway capacity will be further upgraded; the Shanghai East Station (上海东站) comprehensive transportation hub is being built at an accelerated pace, and “station-city integration” (站城一体) is gradually becoming a reality… Unblocking corridors, optimizing structure, strengthening nodes—in the first year of the plan, the intensity of investment in major projects has not decreased.
Then look at several sets of data: implement facility renovation of about 80,000 kilometers, promote the improvement of multimodal transport functions at about 1,000 major freight nodes, build 80 national comprehensive transportation hub cities… Improving quality and efficiency, emphasizing connections, promoting coordination—the timetable for major tasks is clear in the next five years.
The space is still broad, but the connotation has already changed. From “spreading out stalls” and “launching projects” to “connecting networks, supplementing networks, and strengthening chains,” behind the change in investment orientation is a deep-level transformation of development thinking from “scale expansion” to “value creation.” Entering the new stage of “optimizing increments and improving the quality of stock,” as more funds flow to shore up weak links, strengthen resilience, and promote transformation, a modern comprehensive transportation system that is more efficient, more functional, greener, and smarter will strongly support high-quality economic and social development.
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In the early morning, as the thin mist at the southern foot of the Qinling Mountains had not yet dispersed, Weng Xinqiang (翁新强), Party branch secretary of Xiaoxinchuan Village (小新川村), Hubeikou Hui Ethnic Township (湖北口回族乡), Yunxi County (郧西县), Hubei Province, was already squatting in the schisandra (五味子) demonstration base, carefully inspecting clusters of fruit.
Located in northwestern Hubei, more than 150 kilometers from the county seat, Xiaoxinchuan Village was once very impoverished. But in 2025, the per-household income here increased by over 12,000 yuan, and collective economic income exceeded 300,000 yuan... The income increase is related to the small "fortune fruit" (致富果) in Weng Xinqiang's hands.
In 2012, Weng Xinqiang graduated from China University of Geosciences (Wuhan). Two years later, giving up development opportunities in the big cities, he decided to return to the small mountain village that had given him birth and raised him, to become a college-graduate village official.
The fellow villagers were very puzzled: "This Qiangwa finally managed to study his way out, how come he's back again?"
"It was my hometown that nurtured me; I have the duty and responsibility to do what I can within my power," Weng Xinqiang said.
How to solve the villagers' practical difficulties and make everyone's wallets swell up? They had to find suitable industrial projects.
Weng Xinqiang spent several months visiting households one by one, holding meetings to discuss with the village's Party members and cadres... In the end, the village chose to plant schisandra. This medicinal ingredient was familiar to the locals, had good market prospects, was tolerant of poor soil, and suited high-altitude planting.
"To forge iron, one must be hard oneself. If you want to lead the villagers in 'starting businesses,' you must first make yourself an expert." Weng Xinqiang traveled all the way to Yichun City, Heilongjiang Province, to learn schisandra planting techniques, from seedling cultivation to grafting.
Some fellow villagers had doubts, so Weng Xinqiang first planted schisandra on his own family's few acres of land, and also distributed some seedlings to villagers for free.
When the first batch of schisandra fruit was harvested, villager Shi Minghong tasted the benefit. From schisandra alone, Shi Minghong's family increased their income by 30,000 yuan. The news spread through the village, and more and more villagers were willing to plant schisandra.
"When everyone gathers firewood, the flames rise high. We must do everything possible to make the villagers' pockets bulge." After the industry developed, Weng Xinqiang also thought of the young people in the village who were working away from home. He felt that for the village to move forward, it could not rely on only a few people to do the work; the more young people who returned, the more staying power the village's industries would have.
During the Spring Festival holiday, when migrant workers returned home in concentration, Weng Xinqiang gathered the village's young people for a courtyard meeting. Using his own experience and the changes in the village, he calculated the accounts for everyone: "With the policies being so good now, come back and develop industries."
His words touched many people. Cai Rongbing, who used to work in another province, came back, raising bees and planting Chinese medicinal materials. Liu Huanbing, who had worked away from home for many years, came back and started raising Matou goats. These returned youths gradually became the village's new industry leaders.
From "single industry" to "multiple industries," the villagers' path to income growth has grown ever wider, basically achieving "every household has an industry, every person can increase income."
"This is inseparable from the sustained support of policies," Weng Xinqiang said. The relevant departments provided opportunities for free skills training, policies for financial discount loans, and unimpeded sales channels... allowing the villagers to develop industries with peace of mind.
"Making the pockets bulge is the first step; making people feel at ease in their hearts is the real skill." In 2018, Weng Xinqiang was elected Party branch secretary of Xiaoxinchuan Village and began running around everywhere. Over several years, the village built a paved road to the county seat, expanded the central primary school, built a convenience service center... In 2020, Yunxi County shook off poverty and removed its hat of poverty (脱贫摘帽), and Xiaoxinchuan Village became a well-known village that had escaped poverty.
Someone asked him if he regretted returning to his hometown. Weng Xinqiang pointed at the schisandra in front of him and said: "I was born in the mountains, grew up in the mountains; this is my root. Seeing the smiling faces of my fellow villagers, seeing my hometown become more beautiful day by day — that is my greatest happiness."
Weng Xinqiang has not stopped moving forward; rather, he is planning new development paths: relying on the schisandra base to create a pastoral complex integrating sightseeing and picking, farming experiences, and science education; using idle farmhouses to develop special homestays so that tourists who come can stay and settle in; further tapping into cultural characteristics to develop ethnic customs tourism projects.
Today, walking through Xiaoxinchuan Village, a picture scroll of a beautiful countryside is slowly unfolding: residential houses are arranged in pleasing disorder, cement roads lead to every household; in the fields, schisandra vines twist and twine. Weng Xinqiang said that if he had to choose again, he would still come back, to contribute his youthful strength to the development of his hometown.
(Wang Menghe contributed to this report)
By: 何 彪
General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out: “Developing rural specialty industries is the foundation for promoting comprehensive rural revitalization.” The key to promoting comprehensive rural revitalization lies in people.
For Xiaoxinchuan Village (小新川村)’s industries to be able to revitalize, Weng Xinqiang (翁新强) played a key role. Weng Xinqiang’s path of growth can be replicated and promoted.
What is valuable about Weng Xinqiang is not only how much technology he has mastered or how many projects he has introduced, but even more so that he has successfully awakened the endogenous driving force of rural development—letting villagers who were on the sidelines see returns, letting young people who had gone out see hope, letting scattered planting become an industrial cluster. From one person returning to the village to a hundred people starting businesses, from Schisandra (五味子) to “multiple industries developing simultaneously,” he has proven through practice: the countryside does not lack resources, but lacks “leaders” to activate resources. With policy support, and with someone leading the work, the villagers are full of drive.
His story is also a microcosm of the struggles of countless young people returning to their hometowns in the new era—they no longer regard “leaving the mountains” as the sole criterion for success, but instead choose to root themselves in the soil and let their dreams blossom among the mountain flowers, building a livable, workable, and beautiful countryside, and hoping for more “Weng Xinqiangs” to emerge.
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By: 本报记者 陆娅楠 李 刚 崔 妍
Walking in Guangdong, the spirit of "daring to be the first in the world" is vivid as a picture.
Shenzhen, advancing to the world's technological frontier, the world's first consumer-grade exoskeleton is selling well, capable of enhancing users' athletic ability in scenarios such as scientific expeditions and outdoor activities.
Foshan, facing major national needs, the first domestic automated production line with an annual capacity of 10,000 humanoid robots has been put into operation, with one humanoid robot rolling off the line every 30 minutes, achieving an "acceleration" in mass production.
Zhongshan, meeting the people's health needs, the clinical data of the domestic anticancer new drug Ivonescimab defeated the world's bestselling drug, gaining wide international recognition.
First of its kind, first production line, first-rate; frontier, forward-looking, 前赴后继 (qián fù hòu jì - "advance forward, follow up," to continue the cause).
As the "pioneer, experimental ground, and pilot zone of reform and opening up," it must "embody the responsibility and duty of taking the lead, setting an example, and shouldering the heavy load."
At the National Science and Technology Award Conference, the Conference of Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, and the 11th National Congress of the China Association for Science and Technology held on July 8, General Secretary Xi Jinping issued a mobilization order: "Speed up the promotion of high-level technological self-reliance and self-strengthening, march firmly toward the goal of building a sci-tech power by 2035, and solidly support and lead Chinese-style modernization (中国式现代化) with scientific and technological innovation."
Guangdong, the largest economic province in China, leads the development of new quality productive forces with high-level technological self-reliance and self-strengthening, striving to stand at the forefront in the year of the start.
Sense of Urgency: Promoting the Deep Integration of the "Four Chains" (四链) Leaves No Time to Wait — 时不我待 (shí bù wǒ dài - "time does not wait for me," urgent)
In a century of transformation, scientific and technological innovation is the key variable.
A training ground reflects that "to advance Chinese-style modernization, science and technology must take the lead."
Huizhou, Huiyang District (惠阳区) Heterogeneous Embodied Intelligence Training Ground, in 35 real-world scenarios, about 180 robots are simulating cleaning, turning pages, picking up objects, scanning codes...
Before embodied intelligence products are put on the market, data must first be collected and models trained. This training ground, put into operation in January this year, is both a "data granary" and a "training classroom."
"Building a training ground is something enterprises want to do but find difficult to accomplish independently. It requires the government to step in promptly and open up the channel for accelerating the transformation of science and technology into real productive forces," said Liu Hao (刘昊), Director of the Huizhou Huiyang District Science and Technology and Investment Promotion Bureau.
Aiming at market needs and solving enterprise urgencies, Huizhou promotes the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation.
In April, the Huizhou Municipal Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Development Bureau was officially inaugurated; in May, the first batch of artificial intelligence scenario demand lists was released; subsequently, "test fields" such as the silver economy and "low-altitude + medical" were rapidly expanded, and the list took root and blossomed...
In promoting the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area International Science and Technology Innovation Center, Guangdong has a sense of urgency that time waits for no one, and even more so, the action power to seize opportunities.
Financial support. The first batch of "investment first, equity later" (先投后股) projects for transformation of scientific and technological achievements in Guangzhou have been implemented. The funds are "invested early, invested small, invested long-term, invested in hard technology," making a leap like a fine horse (骐骥一跃 (qí jì yī yuè - "a fine horse leaps once," a sudden breakthrough)).
Computing power empowerment. "Tianhe-2" has become the industry's "super-powerful brain." Computing power resources provide intelligent solutions, helping a motorcycle enterprise in Jiangmen compress the development cycle of some frames from over half a year to 15 days.
Platform efficiency enhancement. At the Shenzhen Bao'an District Global Robot Development Selection and Prototyping Service Center, the industrial chain is displayed item by item. Purchasers can scan codes to match suppliers, and entrepreneurial teams can complete their supply chain in one hour.
Promoting the deep integration of the innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain, and talent chain, and accelerating the formation of systems and mechanisms that support comprehensive innovation — what enables Guangdong to "take the lead"?
Here there is a strong learning atmosphere. From the Party's innovative theories to cutting-edge scientific and technological knowledge, everyone learns.
"How to eliminate the panic of incompetence? Learning is the foundation. Why does Guangdong dare to venture and try? Learning builds ambition," said He Guobin (何国斌), Mayor of Huizhou Huiyang District. "Diligent learning keeps one young; constant reflection preserves the original intention."
Sense of Mission: Exploring Connectivity Among the Three Places with Steadfast Action and Hard Work
"Building a strategic fulcrum for China's new development pattern, a demonstration area for high-quality development, and a leading area for Chinese-style modernization" — the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area shoulders its mission.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "In the construction of the Greater Bay Area, Guangdong is the main force and the locomotive."
The phrase "locomotive" makes Guangdong "always think of the overall situation, and its direction is clear."
Independent innovation, running with high efficiency. The International Headquarters of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area National Technology Innovation Center, and Naosi Technology (脑思科技) focused on brain-computer interfaces, settled in last May. In March this year, it completed its first clinical research trial, and in May, it completed a series angel round financing of over ten million US dollars. Co-founder Xiao Hai (肖海) remarked: "The laboratory is in Hong Kong, the production line is in the Shenzhen Futian District Hetao Cooperation Zone. Traveling back and forth by high-speed rail takes only 14 minutes. The innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain, and talent chain are efficiently connected."
Openness and win-win, running into new space. In Zhuhai Hengqin (横琴), the Guangdong-Macao Cooperation Traditional Chinese Medicine Science and Technology Industrial Park (粤澳合作中医药科技产业园) has opened up the path for overseas listing of drugs. 14 products have been listed in Mozambique as botanical drugs, 12 Chinese patent medicines have been registered and filed in Brazil, and 1 botanical drug has entered four EU member states.
Reform driving, running with strong momentum. The green channel for port exports implements "immediate inspection upon appointment, immediate release upon inspection." From January to June this year, the average customs clearance time for exports of Guangdong Daye Motorcycles (广东大冶摩托车) was only about 0.96 hours, and the export value increased by 26% year-on-year.
Firmly grasping the strategic positioning in the national development overall situation, and unswervingly doing its own things well, how does Guangdong "set an example"?
"Firmly upholding the 'Four Confidences' (四个自信), promoting the spirit of reform and opening up and the special zone spirit, are both successful experiences and the key to winning the future." This is the heartfelt voice of grassroots cadres in surveys, and also the spiritual source of Guangdong's hard work and practical action to take the lead.
Sense of Responsibility: Building a Modern People's City with Steady and Rapid Steps — 蹄疾步稳 (tí jí bù wěn - "hooves fast, steps steady," to advance quickly yet steadily)
Chinese-style modernization is the cause of all Chinese people. The creative vitality of hundreds of millions of Chinese people is the inexhaustible driving force of modernization.
Strolling in Guangzhou, two landscapes reflect "the people's city serves the people."
In the central area of Tianhe District, the Tangxia Substation resembles an office building, integrating data center, substation, photovoltaic station, energy storage station, charging station, 5G base station, and Beidou base station, achieving integrated development of electricity and computing power; the Lieqiao Substation, like a "magic box of moonlight," attracts visitors for its high appearance, turning "NIMBY" into "neighbor benefit."
In Haizhu District, Pazhou, listening to the voices of new citizens and responding to the expectations of young people, the "Pearl River Kiss" connects office buildings and the riverside corridor, open lawns create social parks, and the highland of sci-tech innovation is embedded with poetic space.
"Building a modern people's city," livability and workability are key issues. From innovation and entrepreneurship to living and working in peace, Guangdong finds the vitality code in the mutual promotion of high-quality population development and high-quality urban development.
In "helping you," enhance the sense of gain.
Stimulating brainstorming, deducing development paths, facilitating talent matching... At the Tsinghua University Shenzhen Research Institute, rich entrepreneurial platforms attract young entrepreneurs in droves.
From scientific research to the market is like swimming in the ocean. New-type R&D institutions help sci-tech innovation teams learn to swim in the sea. Through comprehensive empowerment in technology, talent, capital, and platforms, the institute has incubated over 3,000 enterprises.
In "understanding you," enhance the sense of happiness.
Dongguan Songshan Lake Science City, the average age of the residential and employed population is 29. Why do young people stay? Zhongshuge bookstore lights up the "humanities lighthouse," Songmushan Reservoir becomes a competition stage, educational resources are top-notch, commercial streets are complete, and the sci-tech innovation highland is like a big garden.
Persisting in the close integration of investment in things and investment in people, strengthening the city with industry, revitalizing industry with people, and nurturing people with the city, the "visible hand" takes concrete measures to promote high-quality development.
In "trusting you," enhance the sense of security.
"When the enterprise was in its most difficult time, the government brought in patient capital, and they firmly believed in long-termism." Aifu Guangtong (艾佛光通) broke through foreign patent blockade to forge a new technological path, achieving independent control of high-end filter chips.
Creating a world-class business environment that is market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized, Guangdong plans with a forward-looking vision and wins the initiative with strategic determination.
Striving forward in the "15th Five-Year Plan," how will Guangdong continue to "shoulder the heavy load"?
Establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements, forever preserving the spirit of "daring," the drive of "innovation," and the style of "action," and striving to create new and greater miracles that make the world look with new eyes (刮目相看 (guā mù xiāng kàn - "rub eyes and look at each other," to see in a new light)).
(Hong Qiuting (洪秋婷), a reporter of this newspaper, contributed to this article.)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 叶传增
Harmonious symbiosis, protecting the green homeland
Xishuangbanna is a globally important biodiversity hotspot, with a forest coverage rate of 74.05% and a protection rate of over 90% for nationally key protected wild animal and plant species. At Xishuangbanna Wild Elephant Valley (西双版纳野象谷), Chinese and foreign guests walked on an elevated boardwalk more than 2,000 meters long. Below the boardwalk is a lush tropical rainforest, leaving free migration passages for Asian elephants. Former Pakistani Ambassador to China Masood Khalid said: "This approach of protecting ecology while ensuring safety reflects China's dedication in ecological civilization construction."
As the home of China's wild Asian elephants, Xishuangbanna has established an Asian Elephant Monitoring and Early Warning Center (亚洲象监测预警中心), achieving real-time release of Asian elephant location information, as well as comprehensive collection of information on individual elephant numbers, population structure, and activity trajectories. During the visit, guests encountered a group of Asian elephants playing by the river. "This is a vivid case of harmonious coexistence between humans and elephants!" said Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia Mayor Kirappanage Shantha from Sri Lanka. "Xishuangbanna's approach is worth learning from for Sri Lanka."
From fewer than 200 heads in the 1980s to nearly 400 heads today, what measures has Xishuangbanna taken to protect Asian elephants? Pu Jianyong (普建勇), Vice Governor of Xishuangbanna Prefecture, shared the way of harmonious coexistence between humans and elephants: "We have used technological means to build an integrated 'sky-ground' monitoring and early warning system. At the same time, we have established a public liability insurance for wild animals and set up a compensation mechanism. Through joint construction and sharing, we ensure that those who protect elephants do not suffer losses, and those who suffer losses due to elephant activities are protected."
At the Xishuangbanna Southern Medicine Garden (西双版纳南药园), mayors' representatives from Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and other countries, together with domestic guests, carried out the "Lancang-Mekong同行·共护绿林" (澜湄同行·共护绿林) activity of jointly planting a mayors' forest of Corypha umbraculifera (贝叶棕). The Corypha umbraculifera is a tree species native to South and Southeast Asia, widely distributed in Xishuangbanna. In the era before the popularization of paper, local people used the leaves of Corypha umbraculifera as a substitute for paper. This time, Chinese and foreign guests planted Corypha umbraculifera together, representing the inheritance of friendship and culture, and conveying the concepts of green development and ecological protection.
Industrial co-construction, activating development momentum
During the event, representatives visited Xishuangbanna's "Sanman" (三曼) villages — Mankongdai (曼空岱), Manluanzhan (曼峦站), and Mankongmai (曼空迈), three adjacent Dai ethnic villages, to learn about local rural revitalization practices. In the past, the development plans of the Sanman villages lacked coordination, resources were not concentrated, and the value of high-quality rainforest ecology and Dai traditional cultural resources was not realized. In recent years, the Sanman villages have broken regional barriers, huddling together for differentiated development: Mankongdai focuses on intangible cultural heritage experiences; Manluanzhan focuses on developing boutique homestays and wellness; Mankongmai builds a comprehensive tourism service area. Through scientific overall planning, the three village groups have integrated resources and developed contiguously, achieving a transformation from 单打独斗 (dān dǎ dú dòu - "fight alone," acting in isolation) to "industrial co-construction."
"The Sanman villages organically integrate the improvement of the living environment, characteristic planting industries, and villagers' daily lives, using a livable environment to drive industrial income increase. This is an experience we can learn from," said Kyaw Moe Aye, Mayor of Mandalay, Myanmar. Souvisay Sisouvong, Mayor of Pakse, Laos, said that the integrated development of the Sanman villages has achieved very good results. Pakse is developing the rural tourism industry and hopes to draw on the "one village, one product" (一村一品) development approach of the Sanman villages, explore a path for coordinated promotion of industrial development and ecological/cultural protection, and build Pakse into a green city that is livable, tourist-friendly, and beautiful in environment.
At the Nanuo Mountain (南糯山) ancient tea forest in Menghai County (勐海县), Xishuangbanna, Binod Regmi, Mayor of Kalika City in the Chitwan region of Nepal, visited the production workshop of a local tea enterprise and learned in detail about the production process of Pu'er tea. The standardized and intelligent production management mode made a deep impression on him. Regmi said that Menghai County has built an industrial foundation relying on specialized cooperatives and modern processing workshops, and has developed a tea-tourism integration model combining tea picking and folk experience. "Nepal's tea industry lacks a standardized control system, and is insufficient in brand operation and tourism culture experience. In the future, tea farmers from both places can strengthen mutual visits to achieve common development."
Development sharing, promoting mutual benefit and win-win
Wanjing Community (万景社区) is located in Jinghong City (景洪市), Xishuangbanna Prefecture, with a total population of about 20,000, of which residents from other provinces account for 85%. How to build a governance model of universal sharing, diversity and inclusiveness, so that residents can transform from 五湖四海 (wǔ hú sì hǎi - "five lakes and four seas," from all over) guests into "one harmonious family"? The guests walked into the community comprehensive service base and experienced firsthand the governance vitality and neighborhood warmth of the grassroots community. After hearing the introduction by Cai Hui (蔡辉), Secretary of the Party General Branch of Wanjing Community, Li Sally, Deputy Governor of Siem Reap Province, Cambodia, said: "The volunteer service team formed by the community is jointly participated by local and non-local residents, like a family. Such a governance model is very warm." He expressed that Xishuangbanna's mature experience in residential wellness and community age-friendly services is worth learning from.
In the main dialogue session of the event, Dao Wen (刀文), Governor of Xishuangbanna Prefecture, shared the case of innovatively developing a rainforest hiking project in Jinuo Mountain (基诺山) that drives villagers' income increase, which resonated with Li Sally. "If the public cannot benefit from it, the development of tourism is meaningless," he said. Siem Reap is promoting the creation of "ecotourism and cultural communities," enabling local residents to earn income through operating homestays and selling souvenirs. Khamhou Indavong, Executive Deputy Mayor of Luang Prabang, an important city along the China-Laos Railway, has a deep understanding of development sharing. "The Lao-China railway has been in operation for nearly five years, bringing us many tourists. The tourism industry in Luang Prabang has developed very rapidly. This development dividend cannot be separated from the continuously deepening and consolidating friendly and cooperative relations between Laos and China."
"On this visit to Xishuangbanna, I have seen the active local practices in tropical rainforest protection and the integrated development of culture and tourism, and it also confirms that ecological protection and urban development can go hand in hand," Kyaw Moe Aye said. He expressed the hope that, taking this World Mayors Dialogue as an opportunity, he would deepen cooperation with Xishuangbanna and friendly cities in areas such as ecological protection, cultural heritage inheritance, and cultural tourism industry development. (Xue Dan (薛丹), People's Daily Online reporter, contributed to the writing.)
Return to TopThe continuously warming inbound tourism boom is not only a direct portrayal of the vibrant vitality of China's cultural and tourism market, but also a vivid microcosm of the two-way journey between an open China and the world.
Since the beginning of this year, "China Travel" has continued to be favored by global tourists, and the inbound tourism market has shown a strong growth trend. Data released by the National Immigration Administration (国家移民管理局) shows that in the first half of this year, the number of inbound foreigners reached 22.914 million person-trips, a year-on-year increase of 20.4%. The continuously warming inbound tourism boom is not only a direct portrayal of the vibrant vitality of China's cultural and tourism market, but also a vivid microcosm of the two-way journey between an open China and the world.
Cultural resonance that transcends national borders has accumulated deep humanistic confidence for "China Travel". Since the beginning of this year, topics such as "Becoming Chinese" and "Extreme Sinicization" have gone viral on overseas short-video platforms. Many foreign netizens share daily snippets of brewing health tea and practicing Baduanjin (a set of traditional fitness exercises), expressing a strong interest in Chinese culture through relaxed and humorous interactions. The online heat is continuously transmitting to offline, and more and more foreign tourists are eager to walk into China's streets and alleys: following residents in Beijing parks to practice Tai Chi, experiencing the leisurely aura of traditional health preservation; picking up covered-bowl tea (gaiwan) in Chengdu teahouses in Sichuan, savoring the leisure and ease of slow life. An article on the British Economist website believes that overseas social media's interest in Chinese culture, Chinese goods, and Chinese travel experiences is transforming into more concrete consumption and tourism demand.
The tourism industry is accelerating its iteration and upgrading, and diversified, immersive experiences are opening new windows for foreign tourists to understand China's development. Nowadays, overseas tourists coming to China are no longer limited to traditional sightseeing of famous mountains, great rivers, and historical sites; deep cultural tourism routes such as industrial study tours and rural experiences are highly favored. Entering new energy vehicle production bases to closely observe the intelligent manufacturing process of complete vehicles and power batteries; going deep into Guizhou villages to take the "agriculture-benefit special bus line" (惠农专线) and watch the "Village Super League" (村超) events, feeling the vibrant vitality of rural revitalization. Orders for immersive in-depth experience products for inbound tourism have increased significantly year-on-year. "China Travel" is deeply integrated with fields such as technological innovation and rural revitalization, allowing foreign tourists to read the myriad aspects of Chinese-style modernization while walking, and to perceive a real, three-dimensional, and comprehensive China.
The continuously expanding high-level opening-up measures provide a solid institutional guarantee for the inbound tourism boom. In the first half of this year, the number of visa-free inbound foreigners reached 17.815 million person-trips, accounting for 77.7% of all inbound foreigners, a year-on-year increase of 30.6%, and the dividends of the visa-free policy continue to be released. At the same time, the version 2.0 policy of departure tax refund has been fully implemented, tax refund stores continue to expand, port verification efficiency continues to improve, and "buy immediately, refund immediately" (即买即退) has achieved cross-region mutual recognition. Combined with the convenience of mobile payment that allows "a single phone to travel the world" (一部手机走天下), foreign tourists' consumption and travel in China have become smoother and more convenient. "China Travel" and "China Shopping" promote each other, and the service level of the entire inbound consumption chain continues to improve, making travel to China more worry-free and comfortable. The internationally renowned travel media Travel and Tour World believes that a series of open and inclusive policy measures have broken down barriers to travel to China, placing China among the world's leading tourist destinations in terms of travel friendliness and attractiveness.
The "15th Five-Year Plan for Building a Strong Tourism Country" (旅游强国建设"十五五"规划) released by China clearly states that by 2030, the scale and benefits of China's inbound tourism will continue to expand, with inbound tourist arrivals reaching 190 million and total spending exceeding 150 billion US dollars. Cultivating and strengthening new drivers of tourism development, enriching high-quality tourism supply, unleashing tourism consumption potential, improving tourism public services... A series of new plans and new measures convey China's firm determination to continuously optimize the inbound tourism experience and enhance the sense of gain for international tourists. Some foreign media observations point out that China is injecting new vitality into the global cultural and tourism industry, and contributing Chinese solutions to the sustainable and high-quality development of the world's cultural and tourism industry.
Through the vibrant and rising inbound tourism boom, the international community can better understand a China where tradition and modernity blend, and development and openness advance together. China will continue to welcome guests from all over the world with an open and inclusive attitude, use inbound tourism as a link to promote people-to-people bonds and shared development opportunities among all countries through exchange and mutual learning, and inject a continuous stream of Chinese impetus into the development of the global cultural and tourism industry.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李亚楠
The “Belt and Road” International Cooperation Summit Forum Advisory Committee 2026 meeting was recently held in Urumqi, Xinjiang. The Advisory Committee conducted in-depth discussions on topics including grasping new opportunities to meet new challenges, deepening connectivity, and strengthening international communication, centered on the theme of “how to carry out ‘Belt and Road’ international cooperation more effectively and forcefully under the intertwined international situation of change and turbulence.”
The attending committee members highly commended the worldwide significance and contemporary value of jointly building the “Belt and Road,” believing that the joint building of the “Belt and Road” initiative brings tangible benefits to partner countries and peoples, and provides development resilience and growth potential for the world economy.
Mari Pangestu, former Managing Director of the World Bank, said: “Jointly building the ‘Belt and Road’ allows us to achieve connectivity, which is not only physical connectivity but also connectivity in areas such as trade, investment, and people-to-people exchanges, enabling the smooth flow of goods, services, people, and technology.”
“When I visited Samarkand, Uzbekistan, I toured a large solar farm there. The solar panels there were all made in China. Through jointly building the ‘Belt and Road,’ China has provided key technologies for the global green transition,” said Jeffrey Sachs, professor at Columbia University in the United States.
“Thanks to the joint building of the ‘Belt and Road’ initiative, the cooperation network now covers ports, airports, railway stations, and other facilities in many partner countries. These infrastructure facilities, combined with supporting technical support, are providing strong guarantees for economic activities both inside and outside the region,” said Paul Manduca, chairman of Prudential plc in the United Kingdom. He believes that jointly building the “Belt and Road” provides new momentum for the economic development of partner countries.
Currently, the international situation is intertwined with change and turbulence, with protectionism and unilateralism severely impacting the international economic order. The committee members emphasized that China works with all parties to advance the joint building of the “Belt and Road,” leading international cooperation with high-quality growth and high-level opening up. The joint building of the “Belt and Road” initiative enhances trust among countries and plays a stabilizing role in a turbulent world.
“The world faces common challenges such as climate change, energy transition, digital governance, and public health, which can only be addressed through global cooperation,” Manduca stated. “China’s proposed joint building of the ‘Belt and Road’ initiative and its propositions on jointly discussing the future and sharing prosperity are precisely reminding people that in the long run, we must unite and cooperate.”
Pangestu said that multilateralism is facing shocks, causing damage to developing countries. China has built multilateral cooperation platforms and proposed solutions. Currently, jointly building the “Belt and Road” has become a core platform for maintaining open trade and technology transfer globally.
“Today’s world is fraught with various challenges, and no single country can handle them alone,” said Erastus Mwencha, former Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission. At a time when multilateralism is being impacted and continuously weakened, China provides important solutions for promoting cooperation to address global challenges.
The committee members suggested actively carrying out future-oriented international cooperation in areas such as green and low-carbon development, the digital economy, and artificial intelligence.
Li Daokui, Dean of the Institute of Chinese Economic Thought and Practice at Tsinghua University, introduced that China is an important innovator of artificial intelligence technology and expressed China’s willingness to expand AI technology exchanges and strengthen international cooperation in fields such as AI applications in agriculture and industry.
“Africa has a huge youth population base, who are eager to engage in the technology sector. This is also one of the core areas where Africa greatly looks forward to cooperating with China,” Mwencha said. “Digital cooperation between Africa and China brings many benefits to Africa: on one hand, advanced technology can attract more young people to employment, innovation, and industrial upgrading, which is particularly prominent in the AI field; on the other hand, Africa’s overall technological development foundation is weak, and there is an urgent need to help local people master technology and build a supporting industrial ecosystem through cooperation.”
“China is a world leader in many technological fields,” Pangestu said, expressing hope that through cooperation under the framework of jointly building the “Belt and Road,” partner countries can accelerate the development of digital technology and artificial intelligence.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 21 -- Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Li Hongzhong, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, met separately in Beijing on the 21st with a delegation led by David McAllister, Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament.
During the meeting, Wang Yi stated that he welcomes the first delegation sent by the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs to visit China, and hopes the delegation will strengthen exchanges with all sectors of Chinese society to understand a real, multi-dimensional, and constantly developing and progressing China. China is willing to enhance coordination and cooperation with the European side in global affairs, promoting equal and orderly multipolarity in the world as well as universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization.
The European side stated that the EU attaches great importance to its relations with China, admires the tremendous development achievements China has made, opposes decoupling from China, and is willing to maintain close communication and strengthen cooperation with China.
During the meeting, Li Hongzhong stated that since the beginning of this year, President Xi Jinping has held meetings with leaders of several European countries who visited China, reaching important common understandings. The National People's Congress of China is willing to join hands with the European Parliament to maintain and strengthen the current momentum of exchanges, playing a positive role in enhancing understanding and mutual trust between China and Europe, respecting each other's core interests, deepening practical cooperation, and jointly upholding multilateralism.
The European side stated that the European Parliament is willing to strengthen communication and exchanges with China to promote the development of EU-China relations.
Return to TopPeople's Daily Manila, July 21 (Reporter Fan Fan (樊帆)) Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with ASEAN Secretary-General Kao Kim Hourn in Manila on the 21st.
Wang Yi stated that China always insists on equality of all countries, big and small, and always pursues a policy of good-neighborliness and friendship with surrounding countries. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia. China was the first major country to join the treaty, which led other major countries to join in succession, effectively enhancing ASEAN's international status. China will continue to support ASEAN community building and support ASEAN's unity and self-strengthening. China is the most important anchor of stability in this region and is willing to strengthen cooperation with ASEAN, deepen mutual trust, mutual understanding, and mutual support, safeguard the common interests of China and ASEAN, safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the Global South, and promote the development of the international order in a more just and reasonable direction.
Wang Yi stated that the South China Sea is the common home of regional countries, and the South China Sea issue should not become an obstacle in China-ASEAN relations. Some forces in the Philippine military and police deliberately provoke and create maritime incidents; they serve the interests of external forces, undermine the process of improving China-Philippines relations and the peace and stability of the South China Sea. Regional countries should be highly vigilant. China is willing to work with ASEAN to remove interfering factors, accelerate consultations on the "Code of Conduct in the South China Sea" (南海行为准则), jointly create a new narrative of peace, stability, cooperation, and friendship in the South China Sea, and firmly grasp the initiative on the South China Sea issue in our own hands.
Kao Kim Hourn positively evaluated ASEAN-China relations and the achievements of bilateral practical cooperation, and thanked China for its firm support of ASEAN's central position in the regional architecture. ASEAN looks forward to taking the opportunity of the 5th anniversary of the establishment of the ASEAN-China Comprehensive Strategic Partnership to strengthen strategic alignment between the two sides, deepen practical cooperation in trade, investment, digital economy, etc., carry out more people-to-people exchanges, and promote continuous greater development of China-ASEAN relations. Next year marks the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (南海各方行为宣言). ASEAN supports the dual-track approach, accelerating consultations on the "Code of Conduct in the South China Sea," and promoting the South China Sea to become a sea of peace, a sea of cooperation, a sea of friendship.
On the same day, Wang Yi also met with Canadian Foreign Minister Anand, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong, and Malaysian Foreign Minister Mohamad.
Return to TopBy: 张薇薇
The four points of view put forward by President Xi Jinping in his keynote speech on global AI governance are highly consistent with the core essence of the four major global initiatives, calibrating the value orientation and clarifying the practical plan for global AI governance.
On July 17, President Xi Jinping attended the opening ceremony of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance in Shanghai and delivered a keynote speech, comprehensively and systematically expounding China's policy positions and conceptual propositions on AI development and governance from the four dimensions of development, security, civilization, and governance, pointing the direction for building a fair and reasonable global AI governance system, providing action guidelines for solving the difficult problems of global AI governance, and contributing Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to improving global AI governance.
At present, global AI governance faces many challenges. There are complex problems arising from governance issues spanning multiple fields, difficulties in dynamic governance caused by the speed of technological innovation outstripping the pace of rule updates, problems of difficulty in unifying rules due to fragmented governance, and problems of impure governance motives induced by geopolitical calculations. At the same time, technology is advancing with each passing day, and AI is gradually moving from the "digital world" to the "physical world." Various endogenous and derivative risks continue to accumulate, and strengthening global AI governance is urgent. The four points of view put forward by President Xi Jinping in his keynote speech on global AI governance are highly consistent with the core essence of the four major global initiatives, calibrating the value orientation and clarifying the practical plan for global AI governance.
The Global Development Initiative (全球发展倡议) adheres to placing development first, universal benefit and inclusiveness, and innovation-driven growth, taking improving people's well-being and realizing the comprehensive development of people as its starting point and ultimate goal. AI technology should primarily serve to guarantee and improve people's livelihoods, and be applied in fields such as food security, disaster prevention, mitigation and relief, and balanced allocation of urban and rural education and medical resources; at the same time, it should be integrated into industrial development, applied to optimizing production and operation processes, improving energy utilization efficiency, and assisting cutting-edge scientific research exploration. Taking development as the essence means encouraging open source, openness, cooperation and sharing, and not being greedy for private gain to erect high technological barriers and exclusively enjoy technological dividends. Universal benefit and inclusiveness means promoting AI to empower all industries and drive innovation and progress, so that the fruits of intelligent development benefit the people of all countries.
The Global Security Initiative (全球安全倡议) advocates upholding the vision of common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security, and clearly states that security governance in emerging technology fields such as AI should be strengthened to prevent and control potential security risks. The various risks triggered by AI are inherently cross-border in nature. Whether it is explicit problems such as model hallucinations, data deficiencies, and the spread of harmful information, or the potential risks of technological失控 (loss of control), these are challenges faced by all of humanity. In the face of risks from new technologies, geopolitical selfishness must not be harbored, and zero-sum games must not be played. Countries need to strengthen exchanges and cooperation in areas such as laws and regulations, technological monitoring, risk early warning, and emergency response, and form a governance framework and standards and norms with broad consensus, in order to build a solid bottom line for AI security.
The Global Civilization Initiative (全球文明倡议) advocates respecting the diversity of world civilizations, promoting the common values of humanity, attaching importance to cultural inheritance and innovation, and strengthening international people-to-people and cultural exchanges and cooperation. The development and application of AI should not erode or damage the diversity of world civilizations and the cultural uniqueness of each country, but should become a bridge to promote cultural inheritance and protection and enhance cross-cultural communication and understanding. A civilizational and value perspective should be introduced into AI development. The decision to develop a certain AI product should not be based solely on economic returns, but should comprehensively consider its social and cultural impact, make good use of AI technology to enhance understanding and tolerance among different civilizations, promote exchanges and mutual learning among different civilizations, and carefully cultivate a garden of civilizations where each is beautiful in its own way and all are beautiful together (各美其美、美美与共).
The Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议) takes sovereign equality, international rule of law, multilateralism, people-centeredness, and action-orientation as its core concepts, values that should also be followed in global AI governance. It is necessary to practice true multilateralism, ensuring that all countries, regardless of size, strength, or wealth, have the right to participate equally in global AI governance. It is necessary to help Global South countries strengthen capacity building, bridge the digital and intelligence divide, make good use of intelligent tools to help economic growth, and bring a greater sense of gain, happiness, and security to the people of all countries. It is necessary to anchor on actual results, effectively strengthen the alignment and coordination of national AI development strategies, governance rules, and technical standards, and form a global governance framework with broad consensus as soon as possible.
On July 16, the signing ceremony of the agreement to establish the World AI Cooperation Organization (世界人工智能合作组织) was held in Shanghai. From taking the lead in releasing the Global AI Governance Initiative (全球人工智能治理倡议) in 2023 to promoting the establishment of the World AI Cooperation Organization, China has always used human wisdom and international consensus to guide AI development, making it a powerful positive energy for enhancing the well-being of all humanity and promoting the progress of human civilization. In the future, China will continue to work with all parties to grasp and respond to the opportunities and challenges of AI development, and work together to create a better future for human society.
(The author is Deputy Director of the Institute of World Peace and Security at the China Institute of International Studies (中国国际问题研究院世界和平与安全研究所))
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 21 - Peng Qinghua (彭清华), Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会), attended and delivered a speech at the opening ceremony of the fourth Seminar for Legislators of Pacific Island Countries (太平洋岛国议员研讨班) in Beijing on the 21st. He stated that the National People's Congress of China is willing to deepen friendly exchanges and cooperation with legislative bodies of Pacific Island countries, and jointly make positive contributions to promoting the development of bilateral relations and building a China-Pacific Island Countries community with a shared future (中国—太平洋岛国命运共同体). More than 40 legislators and legislative body officials from 10 Pacific Island countries participated in the seminar.
Return to TopBEIJING, July 21 (Xinhua) -- On July 21, Liu Haixing (刘海星), Minister of the International Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, met in Beijing with a multi-party delegation of legislators led by Salazar, chairman of the Ecuador-China Parliamentary Friendship Group (厄瓜多尔国会厄中议员友好小组) of the Ecuadorian National Congress. They exchanged views on jointly implementing the consensus reached by the heads of state of the two countries, strengthening party-to-party exchanges and cooperation, and promoting the development of China-Ecuador relations.
Return to TopAccording to Xinhua News Agency, Dar es Salaam, July 20 (Xinhua) — (Reporters Lin Guangyao (林光耀), Hua Hongli (华洪立)) The foundation-laying ceremony for Section 6 of the Tanzania Central Line Standard Gauge Railway project, undertaken by the joint venture of China Railway Construction Corporation and China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation, was held on the 20th in the western Tanzanian city of Kigoma.
Tanzanian President Hassan, Tanzanian Minister of Transport Mbarawa, Chinese Ambassador to Tanzania Chen Mingjian (陈明健), and other representatives from both China and Tanzania attended the ceremony.
In her speech at the ceremony, Hassan expressed gratitude for the efforts of Chinese enterprises in supporting Tanzania's development, stating that Chinese enterprises play an important role in the construction of Tanzania's transportation and logistics infrastructure, and that the completion of this railway will shorten transportation time, reduce transportation costs, and increase employment opportunities.
According to the introduction, the Tanzania Central Line Standard Gauge Railway is a core backbone project of the East African Central Corridor. Upon completion, it will connect Tanzania's inland hinterland with its sea passage, and open up logistics transport corridors for landlocked countries such as Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi, driving the coordinated development of agriculture, commerce, tourism, and other industries along the line, and injecting impetus into East African regional economic integration. The Section 6 for which the foundation was laid this time is located in the western transportation hub area of Tanzania, with a total length of approximately 450 kilometers.
Return to TopNanning, July 21 (Reporter Li Weijun) — From July 11 to 20, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League (共青团中央) held in Nanning, Guilin, and Chongzuo of Guangxi the “Red Study Tour” (红色研学之旅) for Vietnamese youth coming to China, specifically the study camp “Following Uncle Ho’s Footsteps” (沿着胡伯伯的足迹). The theme of the study camp was “Follow Revolutionary Ideals, Create a Beautiful Future Together.” It was attended by 100 teacher and student representatives from universities and high schools in 13 provinces and cities of Vietnam. The event was jointly hosted by the Education Department of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区教育厅) and the Foreign Affairs Office of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区外事办公室), and specifically organized by the Guangxi Regional Committee of the Communist Youth League (共青团广西区委), Guangxi Normal University (广西师范大学), and the China (Guangxi) International Youth Exchange Institute (中国（广西）国际青年交流学院).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李 蕊 李俊杰 门杰伟
The "15th Five-Year Plan" Outline proposes, "Promote convenient handling of high-frequency matters related to the elderly and simple and easy-to-use service scenarios."
Enabling elderly people to conveniently handle high-frequency matters and easily adapt to various service scenarios is an important measure for local governments to optimize services for the elderly and safeguard their happiness in later years. From the optimization of medical consultation processes to the online adaptation of government services, from the attentive protection of manual assistance to the convenient upgrade enabled by technology... local governments are continuously breaking through the difficulties and blockages elderly people encounter in seeking medical treatment and handling affairs, allowing the elderly to enjoy convenient and caring services. Recently, our reporters visited multiple locations in Shandong, Anhui, and Jilin to investigate the changes in high-frequency matters and service scenarios related to the elderly.
——Editor
Online and Offline, Convenient and Worry-Free
At the outpatient hall of Zoucheng People's Hospital in Jining, Shandong, volunteer Li Zhechen (李喆琛), wearing a red vest, stood by the service desk. Zhang Fulin (张福林), aged 72, came alone for a consultation due to dizziness. Li Zhechen quickly stepped forward: "Uncle, you came alone? Which department do you need to go to? We'll 'Help You Handle It' (帮您办)."
Li Zhechen helped Zhang Fulin sit down in the waiting area, took his medical insurance card, and retrieved the registration slip in less than two minutes. With Li Zhechen's assistance, Zhang Fulin finished his consultation, payment, and medication collection in just half an hour.
"My children are in other places, and I'm slow on my feet. In the past, when I came to the hospital, I would first look for the registration window, queue for a long time, and finally when it was my turn, I would fumble around for a while, afraid of delaying the people behind me. Seeing the doctor and getting medicine also meant running up and down the stairs, which was exhausting," Zhang Fulin said emotionally. "Now, having someone to help me handle things, I feel secure and warm."
The optimization of offline public services allows elderly people to run fewer errands and suffer less fatigue, while the upgrade of online software enables them to dare to use, know how to use, and be willing to use them.
At 10 a.m., in the Xinhua Xuefu Huayuan residential community of Xinhua Community in Shushan District, Hefei, Anhui, Niu Zhijun (牛志俊), aged 72, heard his phone ring exactly on time — it was the reminder he had set for the annual pension qualification verification. Niu Zhijun opened the "Wan Shi Tong" (皖事通) app, logged in, and selected the elderly-friendly interface with large fonts and large icons. He entered the enterprise employee pension qualification verification section, clicked "Go to Verify," and then followed the system's voice prompts to complete a facial recognition check. The page then displayed a "Verification Successful" prompt.
"In the past, I was intimidated by online verification. Getting older, I couldn't see the small characters on the phone screen clearly, and I was even more worried that the steps were too complicated and I would mess up. Every year when I had to do the qualification verification, I either troubled a neighbor to help or made a special trip to the community to ask someone for help," Niu Zhijun said. "Later, I heard that 'Wan Shi Tong' has a care mode specially designed for the elderly. I learned how to use it, tried it myself, and found it very convenient."
Besides pension qualification verification, other services can also be handled conveniently online. "Click open the mini-program, and in the upper right corner is the entry for the 'Elderly Version' (长辈版). The functions we commonly use in daily life, such as water and electricity bill payment, social security and medical insurance payment, and anti-fraud information, are all here." In the Shiwei Community of Erdao District, Changchun, Jilin, Lin Jing (林静), the community party secretary, was sitting together with several elderly residents, demonstrating step by step how to operate the elderly-friendly mode in the "Ji Shi Ban" (吉事办) mini-program. The elderly listened attentively and then practiced on their own.
"No need to run errands, no need to fill out forms. The inquiries and payments are very simple. The mini-program also marks the community contact number, so you can find someone whenever you encounter a problem," said Liu Fengqin (刘凤琴), an 84-year-old community resident. "In the past two years, my legs have been weak and my eyesight has declined. Whenever I wanted to do something, I had to trouble my children. Now I can complete tasks without leaving home. The interface has large fonts and prominent service entrances, making life more independent and comfortable."
Precisely Tackling Problems, Optimizing and Upgrading
Only by starting from the actual needs of the elderly and accurately identifying service pain points and difficulties can services for the elderly truly address their concerns.
The "Wan Shi Tong" that Niu Zhijun uses is an important platform for Anhui to extend government services to mobile terminals, with over 100 million registered users. Behind its elderly-friendly transformation is the operational team's precise understanding of the needs of the elderly.
"As early as the beginning of 2020, we discovered that the elderly faced many difficulties in pension qualification verification," introduced Xie Niannian (谢念念), head of the "Wan Shi Tong" operational team. To this end, the operational team, together with the Anhui Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security and other departments, conducted in-depth research, streamlined business processes and data flows, and launched the enterprise employee pension qualification verification service at the end of 2020.
At the beginning of 2021, the operational team carried out a comprehensive elderly-friendly construction of "Wan Shi Tong," and the care mode was launched. When users aged 65 and above log in, the system automatically pops up a reminder to enable the care mode. After the user selects "Enable," the next login will default to this mode.
"Enlarging fonts, voice broadcasting, and simplifying the page are the most basic elderly-friendly transformations. More importantly, it must be easy for the elderly to operate, so that they are willing to use it again next time," Xie Niannian said. The platform also automatically recommends services based on users' usage habits. Subsequently, based on feedback, it simplified facial recognition actions and added a service theme map for the elderly. Currently, the cumulative visits to the "Wan Shi Tong" care mode have exceeded 500 million.
"Ji Shi Ban" has also undergone an elderly-friendly transformation. A staff member from the Jilin Provincial Government Service and Digital Construction Administration Bureau explained that to solve the difficulties elderly people face in using smart technology, "Ji Shi Ban" optimized the page layout, simplified the operation process, and set up prominent entrances and guidance prompts on the homepage. At the same time, it integrated high-frequency services such as medical insurance electronic vouchers and "Retirement One-Stop" (退休一件事) to achieve "one-click direct access," making elderly users more comfortable.
From online matter handling to offline service scenarios, services for the elderly are being optimized and upgraded to target the needs of the elderly.
"We found that many elderly people come to the hospital alone and are not familiar with the consultation process," explained Wu Ling (吴玲), director of the outpatient department of Zoucheng People's Hospital. The hospital has specially formed a "Help You Handle It" (帮您办) companion service team composed of medical staff and volunteers, providing free full-process companion services for elderly people in need. It is also possible to make an appointment online in advance to minimize waiting time for the elderly.
At the same time, the hospital has opened a green channel for elderly patients seeking medical treatment, retaining manual services at every step, and creating a convenient and comfortable medical environment for the elderly from the details.
Policy Support, Technology Empowerment
The improvement in quality and efficiency of services for the elderly cannot be achieved without the strong support of policies and technology.
"We insist on building while serving, and cannot delay normal medical treatment because of the transformation," introduced Li Kai (李凯), head of the Elderly Health Section of Zoucheng Municipal Health Bureau. The city has incorporated the creation of age-friendly medical institutions into its annual key work, formulated a special implementation plan, and checked for gaps item by item around the creation goals, making continuous efforts to optimize the medical treatment process and improve the medical environment for the elderly.
"Transformation is not a one-time campaign; there must be standards, supervision, and long-term mechanisms," Li Kai said. "The Zoucheng Municipal Health Bureau, starting from the municipal level, guides various medical institutions to carry out age-friendly service training. We have also established a joint supervision mechanism with civil affairs, medical insurance, market supervision, and other departments, regularly conducting joint inspections and dynamic spot checks, and requiring institutions with problems to rectify within a time limit."
Currently, 33 medical institutions in Zoucheng have successfully been designated as municipal-level age-friendly medical institutions. The city has completed the transformation of 376 elderly-friendly wards, and all public and private institutions have achieved full coverage of green channels for elderly medical treatment.
If policies provide the basic guarantee for services for the elderly, then technology is the "booster."
"During this period, we are fully dedicated to building an artificial intelligence base platform," Tao Lei (陶磊), head of government information business at Anhui Digital Security System Integration Co., Ltd. (安徽数安系统集成有限公司), told reporters. Once this platform is built, it will promote the realization of intelligent Q&A, simplified handling, and barrier-free operation on the government service platform.
As the technical support unit for barrier-free construction of Anhui's government service platform, Digital Security Company has focused on building two major technology matrices: the "Accessibility Enhanced Navigation Toolbar" and "Browsing Assistance." "The intelligent guide and voice reading system can read aloud wherever the mouse points; the cognitive assistance interface includes functions such as auxiliary lines, large mouse, and large subtitles at the bottom..." Tao Lei opened a webpage and demonstrated while explaining.
Tao Lei introduced that the next research and development focus will be on the deep integration of AI large model technology with government services. For example, using AI large models to parse the elderly's "plain talk" (大白话) into natural language instructions, enabling "speak and handle" (边说边办) and further lowering the operational threshold for the elderly.
The "Ji Shi Ban" research and development team is also continuously optimizing interaction logic and lowering the operational threshold. For example, by continuously updating new functions such as voice search, it enables voice commands to handle services, solving the problem of manual operation difficulties for some elderly people.
From attentive companion services to the elderly-friendly transformation of online platforms, these measures are a microcosm of local efforts to improve the quality of services for the elderly. With the development and application of technology and the upgrade and refinement of services, more and more elderly people are experiencing convenience in medical treatment, handling affairs, and other aspects.
Issue coordinator: Zhang Xueyan (张雪妍)
By: 本报记者 赵景锋
Improve the service quality of home care, property management, express delivery, etc., and innovate the community integrated service model.
— Excerpt from the outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan (十五五规划纲要)
Equipment hums; the spring pipe drills into the sewer line, twisting and probing downward. After repeated operations three to five times, water flows smoothly. "Auntie Wang, the sewer pipe has been cleaned and can be used normally." After finishing the work, sweat beads on Li Jianguo’s (李建国) forehead.
"I didn’t expect to be able to reach you so late, and you got here in less than 20 minutes!" It was past 9 p.m., and Auntie Wang was full of gratitude. "If you have any problems, just call the shared property management service center; we will come promptly," Li Jianguo replied.
Auntie Wang, 75 years old, is an elderly person living alone. She lives in Jinfu Residential Community (金富小区) on Huanhe Street Subdistrict (环河街街道), Huimin District (回民区), Hohhot City, Inner Mongolia. Li Jianguo is a property maintenance worker from Shuian Renjia Residential Community (水岸人家小区). The two residential communities are separated only by a wall and are both managed by Ajilaqin Community (阿吉拉沁社区). Why did the maintenance worker come from the neighboring community? This stems from an exploration of "shared property management" (共享物业).
Jinfu Residential Community has only three buildings, and most of its residents are elderly. It is a typical old, dilapidated, scattered residential community that previously had no property management company taking it over. "Cleaning, garbage removal, and other work within the community are all arranged by the property management committee by hiring temporary workers on its own. Each household pays an annual service fee of 210 yuan," said Yao Yixuan (姚艺璇), secretary of the Ajilaqin Community Party Committee and director of the neighborhood committee. Due to unclear employment contracts, insufficient professional capacity, and other reasons, all sorts of problems exist in community management.
Why had no property management company ever taken it over? "Mainly because it doesn't pay off economically," Yao Yixuan explained. The community has fewer than 400 households, and their income is generally low, so the property management fees they can bear are limited. If a property management company took it over, it would need to equip itself with a professional team including security guards, cleaners, and maintenance workers, and the property management revenue might not even cover the labor costs.
As an old urban area of Hohhot, Huimin District has 555 residential communities, of which 220 were previously old communities without professional property management. These communities generally face problems such as scattered buildings and difficulty in collecting property management fees, and residents' needs for maintenance services, hallway cleaning, etc., cannot be effectively met.
Since the beginning of this year, Huimin District has been exploring the "area-wide large property management" (片区大物业) service model, encouraging communities to break down the boundaries between residential communities and integrate scattered "micro-communities" (微小区) into a unified "large community" (大社区) for management. The "shared property management" service model explored and launched by Huanhe Street Subdistrict is one of the implemented practices.
"In essence, 'shared property management' leverages the surplus capacity of existing property management companies to provide professional property services to neighboring old, dilapidated, scattered communities, thus achieving the model of large driving small, cost reduction, and efficiency increase," explained Zhang Yuxi (张羽茜), deputy secretary of the Huanhe Street Subdistrict Party Working Committee and director of the subdistrict office. The service scope includes, on the one hand, basic services such as courtyard cleaning and garbage removal, for which residents of the community pay the property management company according to the fee standard they originally used for hiring temporary workers; on the other hand, it includes services such as routine repairs, for which the property management company charges residents repair fees at a price lower than the market rate.
Inside the Ajilaqin Community Shared Property Management Service Center, a dispatcher is processing residents' work orders in an orderly manner, then assigning them to the corresponding property management companies. "If a property management company directly takes over other communities, it needs to invest more resources, and operating costs increase significantly," Zhang Yuxi explained. The local area, combining the "immediate response to complaints" (接诉即办) mechanism, establishes a shared property management service center at the community level, achieving precise matching of property services with residents' needs through the process of "residents place orders, the center dispatches orders, and property management companies accept orders."
Is the "shared calculation" worthwhile? Yao Yixuan said that taking the six old, dilapidated, scattered communities in Ajilaqin Community as an example, the annual service fee in the past was about 120,000 yuan in total, and the service was limited to garbage removal and courtyard cleaning. Now, residents spend the same amount of money but can enjoy multiple basic services including garbage removal, courtyard sweeping, hallway cleaning, and greenery maintenance, and can also enjoy repair services at affordable prices. Property management companies can also make full use of their surplus personnel and equipment to achieve a certain surplus.
Zhang Qiusheng (张秋生), director of the Huimin District Housing and Urban-Rural Construction Bureau, said that since the beginning of this year, the local area has successfully integrated 90 residential communities to create 10 area-wide large property management zones. In the next step, it will continue to improve and promote characteristic service models such as "shared property management," perfect the property management service mechanism with Party members taking the lead, mass participation, and multi-party coordination, and achieve full coverage of professional property management services.
Return to TopBy: 韩春瑶
The management and maintenance of old, scattered residential areas is a common problem faced by many cities. The exploration of "shared property management" in Huimin District, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, has given us new inspiration.
The key to "sharing" lies in the integrated thinking of gathering scattered pieces into a whole. By consolidating adjacent neighborhoods, the "surplus capacity" of larger communities can compensate for the "shortcomings" of old, scattered areas. Residents do not have to spend more money yet receive professional and standardized services; property management companies expand their service radius and find new business growth points.
Of course, "sharing" is by no means a simple physical merger. It should also, based on the characteristics and demands of different residential areas, reasonably define the scope of services and clarify the boundaries of responsibility. In this way, the people can feel more warmth in people's livelihood through joint construction, shared governance, and shared benefits.
Return to TopThis newspaper, Beijing, July 21 (Reporter Yang Hao) In recent days, the over 53,000 newly recruited college student volunteers for the 2026 Western Plan (西部计划) from various universities nationwide have been departing successively. On July 21, the Western Plan National Project Office (西部计划全国项目办) and the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League (共青团北京市委) saw off the Western Plan volunteers who are about to head to Xinjiang and Tibet for service.
Since registration for the Western Plan opened on March 1 this year, various universities nationwide have guided and encouraged graduating college students to serve the motherland (bào xiào zǔ guó - "repay the motherland," to devote oneself to the country) and make achievements in the west (jiàn gōng xī bù - "establish merit in the west," to contribute to western development), with broad and active participation and registration from young students.
It is learned that this year the implementation scale of the Western Plan has reached 108,000 people. The volunteers will go to the grassroots front lines of 27 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) including Xinjiang, Tibet, Guizhou, and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (新疆生产建设兵团), carrying out volunteer service for 1–3 years in areas such as rural education, rural construction, grassroots social governance, and grassroots youth work. Over 90% of service posts are at the township level and below.
The College Student Volunteer Service for the Western Plan is an important talent project jointly organized and implemented by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League (共青团中央), the Ministry of Education (教育部), the Ministry of Finance (财政部), and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源社会保障部). Since the new era (xīn shí dài - "new era," the period since the 18th Party Congress in 2012), over 400,000 college graduates have actively responded to the Party’s call, choosing to go to the west, to the countryside, and to the grassroots to carry out volunteer service. They have played a positive role in promoting local economic and social development, promoting national unity and progress, promoting the development of border areas and the enrichment of their people, and stabilizing and consolidating border defense, demonstrating the contemporary Chinese youth’s self-confidence and self-reliance (zì xìn zì qiáng - "self-confidence and self-strengthening," confident and self-reliant) and high-spirited and upward (áng yáng xiàng shàng - "uplifted and upward," vigorous and progressive) attitude.
Return to TopThe 2026 China University Student Aircraft Design Innovation Competition (Western Division) selection trials recently commenced at Sichuan Tianfu New Area General Aviation Vocational College (四川天府新区通用航空职业学院). The competition features multiple events including electric glider flight control, space rocket launch and recovery, unpowered glider mission flight, multi-rotor UAV reconnaissance and rescue, and UAV short takeoff and landing. The photo shows contestants participating in the electric glider flight control competition. Photo by Weng Guangjian (翁光建) (Image China (影像中国)).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 吴 丹 吴 月
A hundred-year plan, education is the foundation. Building a strong country in education, the foundation lies in basic education.
"The more solidly basic education is built, the steadier the pace of building a strong country in education will be, and the greater the staying power will be." Since the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping, standing at the strategic height of building a strong country and rejuvenating the nation, has profoundly clarified the foundational and pioneering status of basic education, leading all regions and departments to strengthen teachers, promote equity, and improve quality, driving China's basic education to achieve historic accomplishments and undergo landscape-changing transformations.
At present, China's basic education has 430,000 schools of all types and levels, 220 million enrolled students, and 15.77 million teachers, building the world's largest and efficiently operating educational foundation; in 2025, the gross enrollment rate for preschool education was 92.90%, the consolidation rate for nine-year compulsory education was 96.10%, and the gross enrollment rate for senior secondary education was 92.00%, with popularization rates and key indicators comprehensively surpassing the average level of upper-middle-income countries... Sets of data are both an answer sheet and a new starting line.
Anchored on the goal of building a strong country in education by 2035, a fair and high-quality basic education system is being accelerated in its construction, and the foundation of the great cause of building a strong country and rejuvenating the nation is being steadily consolidated.
"Basic education is in a foundational and pioneering position within the national education system"
Entering Zhijiang Primary School in Jialing District, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province, modern teaching facilities catch the eye: electronic whiteboards are used in classrooms, and the library has a large LED display screen...
"Hello! Reading your letter, I recall the scene of laying the foundation for your school 20 years ago." In 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping replied to the students of Zhijiang Primary School, encouraging the children to "strive to be good children of the new era who love the Party and the country, are self-reliant and self-strengthening, and are motivated to move forward."
Zhijiang Primary School is one of the Hope Primary Schools built by Zhejiang Province in Nanchong. In May 2004, Comrade Xi Jinping, then Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, came here to lay the foundation for the school, earnestly entrusting that "this school must be built well, so that the children in the mountain villages can become useful people as soon as possible."
A seed was planted on the campus. More than 20 years later, it has grown into a forest.
While working locally, Comrade Xi Jinping devoted much effort to education: "The best houses in the village should be the school," "The issue of education absolutely cannot be 'waited for,'" "Truly place education in the position of the vanguard..." This concern has been 一以贯之 (yī yǐ guàn zhī - "to consistently carry through," to maintain unbroken continuity).
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, when General Secretary Xi Jinping conducted inspections, research, and visited villages and households, upon seeing children in the homes, he would often ask with care: "Are the children going to school?" "How are the children doing in their studies?" "Where do the children go to school?"... This care warms people's hearts.
"Basic education is in a foundational and pioneering position within the national education system. We must firmly grasp its positioning, comprehensively implement the Party's education policy, take measures from multiple aspects, and strive to make China's basic education better and better." "We have created so many miracles, still relying on our educational foundation." "China's basic education has advantages in the world." General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions reveal the weight and orientation of basic education.
What makes it a foundation? "Basic education is the cause of establishing virtue and cultivating people." Education is people-oriented, and virtue is first.
Facing the active-thinking youth, how to make ideological and political education "enter the mind and heart"? General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "We must clearly and unequivocally strengthen ideological and political education, moral education, and strengthen education on socialist core values, guiding students to be self-respecting, self-confident, self-reliant, and self-strengthening." "The 'grand ideological and political courses' (大思政课) we must use well, and they must be combined with reality."
Lift the torch of faith, cultivate new people of the era. Promoting Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to enter textbooks, enter classrooms, and enter minds, high-level ideological and political "gold courses" are constantly emerging, more than 550 national-level "grand ideological and political courses" practical teaching bases have been established, and a pattern of ideological and political education that educates all staff, throughout the entire process, and in all aspects is gradually taking shape. Batches of children who listen to the Party and follow the Party are growing toward the sun.
What makes it a foundation? "Basic education is the foundation project for improving the quality of the nation. It must follow the growth characteristics and rules of adolescents, and do solid work in laying the foundation." Promoting the healthy growth and comprehensive development of students is the proper meaning of implementing the fundamental task of establishing virtue and cultivating people.
From the top-level design of "perfecting the comprehensive cultivation system of virtue, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor," to the clear guidance of "doing a good job of adding science education in the 'double reduction in education (双减)'" (education "double reduction"), from the warm encouragement of "grow strong and sturdy, practice well and be fit," to the clear requirement of "persist in educating people with beauty and cultivating people with culture," General Secretary Xi Jinping has turned his deep love for the nation's next generation into instructions and deployments one by one.
The "growth gift package" for children is gradually being implemented: all regions generally explore 15-minute breaks between classes, fully implement the requirement that primary and secondary school students have a comprehensive two-hour daily physical activity; perfect the aesthetic education curriculum system, implement the school aesthetic education infiltration action, carry out the youth student reading action...
If the youth are strong, the country is strong; if the youth progress, the country progresses.
The children of the new era set their aspirations while walking, enlighten their wisdom in the classroom, run on the playground, moisten their hearts in aesthetic education, and temper themselves in labor. Their high spirits, stretching bodies, and bright eyes are vivid testimonies of building a strong country in education.
"Strive to let every child have the opportunity to shine in life"
Deep in the Wuling Mountains, Zhongyi Township Primary School in Shizhu Tujia Autonomous County, Chongqing, is fully equipped with a basketball court, a science museum, etc. During this summer vacation, students from Zhejiang University came here to teach, conducting sports, drama, and other activities to broaden the horizons of rural children.
In April 2019, when General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Zhongyi Township Primary School, he pointed out: "No matter how hard it is, we cannot let the children suffer; no matter how poor we are, we cannot be poor in education. We must ensure that children in poor mountainous areas attend school and receive education, and have a happy and carefree childhood."
Today's Zhongyi Township Primary School, the campus appearance has undergone great changes: the cement playground has been transformed into a brightly colored plastic track, the newly built student dormitories are warm and tidy, and the cafeteria has been expanded by one floor. The beautiful transformation of a rural primary school reflects the effectiveness of adhering to the people-centered development of education.
"Educational equity is an important foundation for social equity. We must continuously promote the benefits of educational development to be shared more and more fairly by all the people." "Strive to let every child enjoy fair and quality education, better meet the people's need for 'good schooling.'" "Strive to let every child have the opportunity to shine in life." These earnest instructions fall to the ground with sound (落地有声 - luò dì yǒu shēng, meaning words have impact and are implemented).
For a developing country with a population of more than 1.4 billion, change begins with individual classrooms, meals of nutritious meals, and screens.
A raised "baseline" marks the scale of the times for educational equity. In 2014, the "20 baseline requirements for comprehensive improvement of weak schools" (全面改薄) were issued, targeting poor areas, focusing on weak schools, and promoting the standardized construction of compulsory education schools. In 2026, the "Baseline Requirements for Basic School Conditions for Primary and Secondary Schools" were issued, further raising the nationwide unified "baseline" of school conditions. Among them, teacher staffing was included for the first time, strengthening the "five educations simultaneously" (五育并举), highlighting "health first," and emphasizing the new requirements of educational digital transformation.
A platform, spanning mountains and seas, allows hundreds of millions of children to share high-quality education under the same blue sky. Currently, the National Smart Education Platform for Primary and Secondary Schools (国家中小学智慧教育平台) has a total resource volume of over 140,000 items, registered users of 173 million, and page views exceeding 76 billion. Many remote schools and rural schools use the platform to offer and conduct well the scarce courses in music, physical education, aesthetics, labor, science, etc. Smart education makes resources "more abundant" and "well-used," and the path of fair and high-quality educational development becomes clearer due to technology.
Sets of data reflect the imprint of the sunlight of educational equity spreading across the land of China: the policy of exempting nursery and childcare fees for the year before primary school has benefited 14 million children; 2,895 county-level regions have all achieved basic balance in compulsory education; during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the central government invested 104.6 billion yuan in special funds to expand ordinary high school education resources and improve school conditions; in 2025, the enrollment rate of school-age disabled children in compulsory education nationwide remained above 97%.
Changes are quietly taking place on campuses and in classrooms:
As a primary and secondary school artificial intelligence education base of the Ministry of Education, Yinchuan No. 15 Middle School in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region has constructed a "general + specialty" artificial intelligence curriculum system, and a "dynamic portrait" system of learning conditions assists in 因材施教 (yīn cái shī jiào - "teach according to aptitude," to tailor instruction to individual needs);
Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, explores the "weekly half-day plan" for compulsory education schools, turning the entire city into a "big classroom" for student growth, guiding students to carry out project-based learning;
Gansu Province carries out the "Strengthen County High Schools" project, Jiangsu Province implements the "Jiangsu Education Masters" training project, and the action plan to revitalize county ordinary high schools is deeply implemented, continuously improving the school-running ability and level of county high schools;
Data from the 2023-2025 national compulsory education quality monitoring shows that about 80% of students have basic literacy in mathematics, Chinese, English, science, etc. meeting curriculum standards, and about 55% reaching the excellent level;
The UNESCO International STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) Education Research Institute was established in Shanghai, and China's basic education and science and technology education have received high recognition from the international community...
From scale expansion to quality improvement, from guaranteeing equity to pursuing excellence, China has confidence in running basic education well.
"Continue to strive, grow strong, and become our excellent generation"
In March this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping went to inspect the Xiong'an New Area in Hebei and visited the Xiong'an campus of Beijing No. 4 Middle School.
"Continue to strive, grow strong, and become our excellent generation!" The General Secretary encouraged the children to cherish their blessings, move forward actively, grow together with the Xiong'an New Area, and develop in sync with Chinese-style modernization.
14-year-old Qiao Zixuan moved to Xiong'an with his mother last year to study. "I will definitely strive to develop comprehensively and contribute to the motherland when I grow up!" He spoke with firm tone and bright eyes.
Education determines today, and also determines the future.
Facing the tide of the era of intelligent transformation, General Secretary Xi Jinping sees it dialectically: "Now, on the one hand, with the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence, the tools and methods of education will change, and the cultivation of student abilities will change, which require reforms keeping pace with the times. On the other hand, the enlightenment of students' wisdom, the cultivation of their hearts, and the cultivation of basic cognitive abilities and problem-solving abilities must not be relaxed. The basics must still be had."
Establish virtue and cultivate people, "the most basic things cannot be discarded."
"School will plant a seed in a person's heart. Primary school, middle school, and even kindergarten play a very important role in a person's life. We must start from the children." "Effectively integrate the 'small classroom' of ideological and political education with the 'big classroom' of society." This exhortation contains the composure in the face of the changes of the times.
To strengthen education, we must first strengthen teachers. "We must regard strengthening the construction of the teacher team as the most important foundational work for building a strong country in education."
Profoundly expounding the spirit of educators unique to China, pointing the way for the construction of the teacher team; proposing the standard of "Four-Haves" (四有) good teachers (having ideals and beliefs, moral sentiments, solid knowledge, and a benevolent heart), endowing the era with connotation for teacher ethics and style; using the expectation of four "guides" (引路人) (guide of students'锤炼品格, learning knowledge, innovative thinking, and dedication to the motherland), putting forward higher requirements for educational philosophy and educational ability.
"Basic education bears a very glorious and arduous historical task." General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that educators in the new era should strive to cultivate young people into builders and successors of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
The instructions are in the ear, and the responsibility is on the shoulders. The vast number of people's teachers live up to the mission of the times, live up to the expectations of the people, stick to the three-foot podium, and be the dream-builders of the "dream team."
Facing the mission of building a strong country in education by 2035, how to consolidate the foundation, continue to take root deeply, look far ahead, and exert force in practical matters?
Chinese-style modernization is the modernization of a huge population scale. The school-age population is flowing, the structure is changing. If the allocation of educational resources does not keep up, there will be a gap between supply and demand.
"We must optimize the allocation of regional educational resources, establish a basic public education service supply mechanism that coordinates with population changes, promote the high-quality and balanced development of compulsory education, strengthen the standardized construction of compulsory education schools, and gradually narrow the disparities between urban and rural areas, regions, schools, and groups." General Secretary Xi Jinping plans deeply and thinks far.
What kind of people to cultivate, how to cultivate
Return to TopBy: 盛玉雷
Driven by the new development philosophy, powered by new quality productive forces, and aimed at high-quality development, discover value, excavate value, create value, and achieve an overall leap in the value chain.
What secrets can a sweet potato hold?
In Anyue, Sichuan (四川安岳), what was once a “famine food” selling for 0.5 yuan per jin can now yield biological enzymes worth 100,000 yuan per ton, with every part from root to vine being a treasure. In Xiong’an, Hebei (河北雄安), from the field to the gift box, from bulk to branded, following a fresh-quality route, the sweet potato has transformed from a “clod of earth” into a “golden signboard.”
The “value appreciation” of the sweet potato is no accident. From it, we can find inspiration for cultivating and strengthening new drivers.
At the industrial level, how to find development increments for the existing traditional stock? “Now, developing rural industries is not like the past, when it meant just planting a few mu of land or raising a few pigs. Where conditions permit, we must expand the space for value addition and efficiency gains through the entire industrial chain, creating more opportunities for employment and income increase.”
Zhashui wood ear mushrooms, Datong yellow flowers, Yan’an apples, Maoming lychee… When General Secretary Xi Jinping inspects localities, he is always very concerned about the value transformation of local specialty products.
Value is the essential attribute of commodities, but value does not automatically leap upward. Only by creating increments and digging out the gold content can it be achieved. For example, empowering with science and technology, developing multiple functions, and excavating multiple values. In Ju County, Shandong (山东莒县), the approximately 4,000 tons of “asparagus tail vegetable” generated each year were either used as feed or thrown away as garbage. Now, rapid dehydration turns it into raw material, steam explosion increases activity, and the waste material is transformed into highly active functional ingredients. Asparagus powder and asparagus tea sell well, achieving comprehensive utilization.
“The countryside is covered with gold” – this plain talk contains a hard truth, and the key lies in acting according to the trend. Extending the agricultural product chain, shifting from selling raw materials to selling finished products, and moving from one-time processing to extended utilization, can turn “waste” into treasure and “eat it dry and squeeze it clean.”
At the perspective level, how to expand development space based on a limited territory? “The vines of the sweet potato stretch in all directions to absorb more sunlight, rain, and nutrients, but its tuber always remains at the root. The extension and expansion of the vines ultimately serve to make the tuber grow thicker and stronger.”
Starting from the “sweet potato economy” theory gives a different angle. In 2018, Huangdu Village, Anji, Zhejiang (浙江安吉黄杜村) donated 15 million tea seedlings to help people in impoverished areas escape poverty, which was affirmed by General Secretary Xi Jinping. Now, the tea seedlings have taken firm root locally, the people have become prosperous, and through the “return-lease and sub-contract” model, Anji white tea has achieved both quantitative and qualitative improvement, adding a new footnote to common prosperity.
Discovering value requires both burying one’s head in research and looking up to cooperate, expanding the circle of friends through coordination and connection. The “enclave industrial park” in Shangri-La, Yunnan (云南香格里拉), with its headquarters in Kunming, production in prefectures/cities, and markets in ASEAN, promotes the continuous circulation and efficient utilization of distinctive resources, achieving takeoff by leveraging the trend, upgrading by leveraging wisdom, and breaking through by leveraging strength.
Ultimately, this is a systematic way of thinking that operates within a larger context and acts under an overall situation. It is necessary both to stand firm and root deeply, and to extend coordination and stretch the vines, allowing resources and factors to gain added value in circulation over a larger scope.
At the thinking level, how to transform traditional endowments into development capital? “A sound ecological environment is both a natural asset and an economic asset, and it is related to the potential and staying power of economic and social development.”
Good sweet potatoes, at root, depend on good mountains and waters. In Liancheng, Fujian (福建连城), green prevention and control and soil testing and formula fertilization technologies are comprehensively promoted, and selenium-rich soil nurtures high-quality ecological potatoes, achieving a two-way rendezvous between ecological “high beauty” and economic high quality.
To find the rich mine of life, one must first excavate the rich mine of thought. Hearing the story of “loggers” turning into “forest guardians,” General Secretary Xi Jinping said with feeling: “The ecology itself is value. It includes not only the value of the trees themselves, but also the ‘green lung’ effect, and it can bring tourism, under-forest economy, and so on. ‘Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets’ – this is actually value appreciation.” Today, protecting green to exchange gold, adding green to increase gold, gathering green to form gold, borrowing green to generate gold… The more one cherishes lucid waters and lush mountains, the more one can excavate the economic, social, and cultural values hidden within them; the more one looks for the “key” in the Party’s innovative theory, the more one can discover the door to a new stage and a new track.
On the new journey, how to run a steady leg in the relay? Driven by the new development philosophy, powered by new quality productive forces, and aimed at high-quality development, discover value, excavate value, create value, and achieve an overall leap in the value chain.
This is the development code hidden in the sweet potato, and also a path of endeavor that can be learned everywhere.
Return to TopBy: 程 诚
To leave space for children is to elevate the city's tomorrow. Where grass grows and orioles fly, clear childish voices drift in, and the countless new possibilities that cannot be fully described follow along.
On the eve of this year's Children's Day (June 1), a playground in a residential community in Xi'an, Shaanxi, was "lost and found." The plot originally had been planned as green space. Later, in response to suggestions from some homeowners, it was built into a playground. But other homeowners were dissatisfied and lodged complaints several times on the grounds that "green space had been diverted to other uses." The playground was ordered to be "immediately demolished," and a penalty of more than 650,000 yuan landed on the property management company.
After several twists and turns, the court resolved the matter through mediation. Starting from the principle of "maximizing children's rights and interests," the urban management department changed the penalty amount, and the property management company reduced noise impact by limiting opening hours and building soundproof walls, so the playground was ultimately preserved.
This case is thought-provoking; the demands of each side are defensible. The root of the contradiction is not that any party is being unreasonable, but rather that in the limited space of a city, the reasonable needs of different groups are difficult to satisfy simultaneously.
This reminds me of a recent experience. When I took my child downstairs to play, I noticed that a relatively spacious open area near the residential community had put up a sign saying "No children playing here." On closer inquiry, I learned that because there is an office building nearby, the children's romping and shouting generates noise, and moreover, vehicles sometimes pass through the area, so it is also unsafe. Indeed, these considerations are reasonable, but they also make one think: how can we "squeeze out" more space where children can "run wild"?
In the past, the childhoods of many people were "free-range": alleyways, riverbanks, grain-drying grounds — every place was a world. In Lu Xun's Baicao Garden, the green vegetable plots and the smooth stone well curb hid the curiosity of enlightenment. A child's understanding of the world cannot be separated from bumping and stumbling, from touching and looking everywhere.
But for some time now, outdoor spaces for childlike fun have been shrinking. Some children can sometimes only feel the cuteness of small animals through cages in shopping malls, or experience the joy of touching fish and catching shrimp in constructed "indoor gardens."
What children lose goes far beyond play. Running and sunlight outdoors are vital to physical health and also affect mental well-being. Moreover, when free exploration space shrinks, screen addiction finds it easier to sneak in. How children view the world, how they interact with peers, and how they develop courage through trial and error — these things are often shaped not only in the classroom but also in the free-running romp and play.
To leave a space for children is profoundly meaningful. For children, it allows body and mind to stretch and nature to be nurtured. For families, having a place to play downstairs can also alleviate parenting anxiety. For the city, if it is willing to bend down and make room for children, its reputation for being warm and livable will spread 不胫而走 (bù jìng ér zǒu - "no legs but runs," spread quickly without effort). In the long run, building more child-friendly spaces is also an important measure to support families and build a birth-friendly society.
Not long ago, the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) and the State Council Working Committee on Women and Children (国务院妇儿工委办公室) issued a document deploying "to advance child-friendly construction throughout society," proposing to "supplement spaces and facilities for children's sports, play, rest, and off-campus practice, and to build child-friendly urban spaces that are safe and healthy, comfortable and convenient, fully functional, and interesting and distinctive."
The nooks and crannies that adults see, after moderate modification, become in children's eyes a paradise where they can squeeze and hide, run and play. Therefore, building child-friendly spaces depends not only on how much funding or how much open land there is, but more importantly on whether local governments, when planning and constructing, truly introduce the "1-meter height" child's perspective and fully consider children's needs.
Some cities have already taken the lead. For example, Suzhou, Jiangsu, has incorporated child-friendly requirements into the review of engineering design and construction drawings, raising the scientific, standardized, and normalized level of child-friendly spaces from the source.
We must look from a high vantage point, but also bend down to inspect carefully. Large-scale renovations "build the skeleton": from the very start of planning, set aside space for children. Small-scale renovations "add flesh and blood": put every easily overlooked corner, street corner, green area, and the like into use one by one. Only by better promoting "child-friendly block-plus," "child-friendly community-plus," and "child-friendly park-plus" construction can we create more "treasure spaces" for children. If a city is willing to preserve these "useless" beauties for children, it will have not only height but also warmth.
Protecting childlike fun without neglecting the needs of other groups reveals the true skill of urban governance. By breaking out of the "either-this-or-that" mindset, building a bridge of communication among diverse demands, and using the "embroidery" approach of fine-tuned work to optimize public space supporting facilities and management rules, child-friendliness can truly be felt and accessible.
A painting that is packed too densely loses its spirit; a place filled to the brim in every inch loses childlike fun. To leave space for children is to elevate the city's tomorrow. Where grass grows and orioles fly, clear childish voices drift in, and the countless new possibilities that cannot be fully described follow along.
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Open a junior high school geography textbook from over 20 years ago, and you would find such a statement: the Rhine River, its freight volume ranks first among the world’s rivers. Today, the latest edition of the textbook writes: the Yangtze River, for many consecutive years, has been the world’s busiest inland waterway with the largest transport volume. A teacher of the course remarks, “In the past, when teaching geography, we were talking about the gap; now, when teaching geography, we are talking about confidence.”
Behind the textbook update is development oriented toward the new. The world’s largest steel output, the largest electricity generation, the largest high-speed rail network, the largest ports… one after another, world “number ones” bear the name “China,” marking the era coordinates of an Eastern great power’s growth and sprouting. “When the world is thus changed, it would startle.” Even the Chinese who have personally experienced all this, when they suddenly look back, probably cannot help but let out a sigh of admiration.
What is inscribed in the textbooks is not only “number ones.” In the past, when talking about ports, we admired the automation level of the Port of Rotterdam; when talking about hydropower, we marveled at the operation and management of the Itaipu Hydroelectric Plant. Today, the Shanghai Yangshan Deep-Water Port Phase IV automated terminal has upgraded the “Eastern Great Port” into a “Smart Great Port”; the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge has broken through multiple technical difficulties; a 5G-A base station has been opened at the 6,500-meter advanced camp on Mount Everest… better efficiency, richer scenarios, more advanced technology—this is not a pile-up of craving size and speed, but a qualitative change toward the new and the superior.
Outside the textbooks, what has also been strengthened is confidence in development. Faced with the gap, we felt discontent, never became discouraged, caught up with determination, and strived vigorously. In today’s China, when a teacher takes students to see real-time shipping data on the great rivers and to watch the 24-hour non-stop operation livestream of unmanned terminals, the shock of “seeing is believing” is far more powerful than any words, and it will make students grow confidence and composure from the bottom of their hearts. The changes of mountains and rivers, the changes of development, give self-confidence, self-reliance, and self-strengthening their most solid foundation.
What is even more commendable is that, regarding development, we no longer cling to a simple “number one,” nor judge heroes by gross domestic product; instead, we pursue development that is of higher quality, more efficient, fairer, more sustainable, and more secure. What we strive with is not only sweat, but also the tenacity and wisdom to climb to the top of the industrial chain, and the determination and will to hold key core technologies firmly in our own hands.
The tunnel boring machine (TBM) is known as the “king of engineering machinery.” Just over 20 years ago, the TBMs needed for major engineering construction in our country had long relied on imports, and machine maintenance and repair had to wait for the schedules of foreign experts. To accelerate the revitalization of the equipment manufacturing industry, TBMs were listed among the 16 major technological equipment items; the “Made in China 2025 (中国制造2025)” strategy listed high-end equipment manufacturing as an important development direction; the outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan (十五五) clearly stated “advance innovation in the entire industrial chain of electronics, machinery equipment, etc., and develop high-end and scarce products”… From complete dependence on imports to establishing our own brand, Chinese TBMs have now captured 70% of the global market.
New chapters of development are reflected in the pages of textbooks, and are also written on a larger scale and in more fields. In Southeast Asia, the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway, which uses Chinese high-speed rail technology, is serving local residents’ travel at a speed of 350 kilometers per hour; on the vast Amazon plain in South America, Brazil’s Belo Monte Ultra-High Voltage transmission project delivers abundant clean electricity to Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, more than 2,000 kilometers away, meeting the electricity needs of over 22 million people. We not only develop ourselves, but also think about how to let the east wind of development blow over thousands of mountains and rivers to benefit all parts of the world through building a community with a shared future for mankind (人类命运共同体).
The pages keep turning, and development never ends. Strengthen confidence, read responsibility, learn composure, new content awaits our writing, and even more splendid stories await our creation.
Return to TopFrom January to June, the industrial park production heat index rose 3.9% year on year, the number of patent grants related to strategic emerging industries increased 15.6% year on year, and the nationwide offline commercial district foot traffic heat index increased 5.7% year on year… Recently, the State Information Center (国家信息中心) released the latest data showing that in the first half of this year, multiple leading indicators stabilized and rebounded, demonstrating a positive trend of strong macro-economic resilience and sufficient momentum.
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Factory areas with bright lights,
Markets with bustling crowds.
A thousand sails row together,
A hundred industries race on new journeys.
Shen Qiu (沈丘)
By: 乔金亮
Currently, China has fully entered the main flood season, and various regions and departments are making every effort to carry out flood prevention and drought relief work. The recently released "15th Five-Year Plan" for Accelerating Agricultural and Rural Modernization (加快农业农村现代化“十五五”规划) explicitly states the need to comprehensively strengthen agricultural disaster prevention, reduction, and relief capabilities and to develop resilient agriculture.
Resilient agriculture is an agricultural model that possesses stronger impact resistance and self-recovery capabilities. As global climate change intensifies, extreme weather events in China occur suddenly and frequently. Meteorological disasters such as drought, flood, high temperature, and strong wind have become the main natural factors affecting agricultural production. In addition, climate change also exerts compound impacts on agriculture by influencing market demand, the security of industrial and supply chains, and other factors.
In recent years, focusing on "storing grain in the land" (藏粮于地), the country has cumulatively built over 1 billion mu of high-standard farmland, achieving a leapfrog improvement in farmland water use efficiency and drought resistance capacity. Focusing on "storing grain in technology" (藏粮于技), the accelerated promotion and application of new disaster-prevention and disaster-reduction varieties and technologies have enhanced crops’ adaptability to adverse conditions such as drought and waterlogging. At the same time, it must be acknowledged that agricultural infrastructure remains weak, and there are still deficiencies in areas such as stress-resistant breeding and smart disaster prevention. In the long term, forging agricultural climate resilience should focus on the following three aspects.
Early warning. The cost of post-disaster remediation is often several times that of pre-disaster warning. Accurate and timely forecast and warning information can lay a solid foundation for disaster prevention and reduction. The urgent task is to enhance the capacity of meteorological services for agriculture, and to improve the precision of meteorological, hydrological, and geological disaster monitoring, forecasting, and early warnings. Promote the accelerated integration of information technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data with the agricultural technology system, ensure the precise delivery of information, and help farmers scientifically arrange farming activities.
Investment. Continue to strengthen agricultural infrastructure construction, raise the level of farmland water conservancy construction, and in particular, make targeted improvements to farmland drainage issues. In addition to public investment, more insurance products should be introduced to better protect the enthusiasm of producers.
Technology. Improve the adaptability and penetration rate of technology, and accordingly adjust agricultural zoning and cropping structures. In recent years, Heilongjiang has optimized varietal distribution through the classification and adjustment of accumulated temperature zones; the North China Plain has promoted the "double late" (双晚) technique of appropriately delaying the sowing of winter wheat and the harvesting of summer maize to adapt to climate change. Forging agricultural climate resilience cannot rely solely on technology; production models must also be optimized.
Developing resilient agriculture is an important aspect of China’s agricultural modernization drive. Only by actively responding and taking the initiative can we better prevent risks and consolidate the foundation.
(Excerpted from the Economic Daily)
Return to TopBy: 周爱民
Ensuring that various policies are interconnected and organically unified is the inherent meaning of enhancing the effectiveness of macroeconomic governance.
Employment is the foundation of people's livelihood. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized, “build an employment-friendly development model (就业友好型发展方式).” How to implement the concept of “employment-friendly” into actual development?
Not long ago, Hunan issued the “Several Measures to Promote Actions to Stabilize Jobs, Expand Capacity, and Improve Quality,” strengthening the coordinated linkage between industry and employment, further deepening the employment impact assessment mechanism, and conducting no fewer than 500 evaluations of employment policy consistency throughout the year.
Embedding employment impact assessment into the entire process of major development decisions helps ensure that while industries transform and upgrade, a smooth transition for labor re-employment is achieved. This is a vivid practice of adhering to the close integration of investing in things and investing in people, and also highlights the “employment-friendly” concept in the macro policy orientation consistency assessment.
Why does the employment market have a supply-demand mismatch of “jobs but no workers” and “workers but no jobs”? The failure to coordinate industrial planning with educational layout and employment arrangements is one of the important reasons for the structural employment contradiction.
To comprehensively promote high-quality and full employment, we must fully consider employment factors when making decisions—whoever manages industry must manage employment, whoever promotes consumption must promote employment, whoever launches projects must expand employment.
Such reform explorations have been numerous across the country. Zhejiang’s Tiantai County (天台县) established a major project employment impact assessment mechanism, giving decision-making a hard benchmark of “employment content”; Guizhou implemented the “Six-Six Employment Stabilization Plan” (六六就业稳岗计划), promoting deep integration of employment goals and economic development goals… From decision-making gatekeeping to precise services to institutional innovation, making employment priority a “hard constraint” and continuously promoting the coordinated progress of industrial development and employment improvement, only then can economic growth always contain the warmth of “employment-friendly.”
Macro policy is a complex system encompassing fiscal, monetary, employment, industrial, regional, scientific and technological, and environmental protection aspects. Each policy has its own focus, but also has direct or indirect effects on other areas. Building an employment-friendly development model requires promoting the coordinated linkage and joint force formation between employment policy and other economic and social policies.
In investment policy, promote more capital and resources to invest in people, making human resources better match job demands; in fiscal policy, make good use of policies such as social insurance subsidies and tax and fee reductions to incentivize private enterprises to absorb more college graduates for employment; in the field of scientific and technological innovation, according to the characteristics and needs of youth groups such as college graduates, promote models such as “scientific and technological achievements + entrepreneurship” and “people’s livelihood needs + entrepreneurship”… Adhering to a systems perspective, focusing on the overall economic development, strictly and carefully grasping the impact of various policies on economic aggregate and structure, supply and demand, industries and regions, employment and expectations, etc., and ensuring that various policies are interconnected and organically unified is the inherent meaning of enhancing the effectiveness of macroeconomic governance.
“Employment is a family matter, but even more a national matter.” Enhancing the consistency and effectiveness of macro policy orientation, allowing industrial transformation and upgrading to mutually promote and jointly advance with employment expansion and quality improvement, and allowing high-quality development and high-quality full employment to resonate at the same frequency — this is an inevitable requirement for shaping China’s new economic advantages.
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 贾丰丰
In the height of summer, Yan'an's Zaoyuan (枣园), ancient trees are lush and shady, with dense foliage covering the ground. At the "Serve the People" (为人民服务) Speech Memorial Square, the statue of Zhang Side (张思德) stands tall and majestic; on the mountain behind the statue, the five characters "Serve the People" shine brightly, like a flame that never goes out.
Separated from the square by a single wall is the Zaoyuan Police Station (枣园派出所) of the Baota Branch (宝塔分局), Yan'an Public Security Bureau, Shaanxi Province. In the 28 years since its establishment, this burning original aspiration to serve the people has been engraved by generations of Zaoyuan police officers and auxiliary police officers into their day-by-day steadfastness. Today, among 25 police officers and 28 auxiliary police officers, there are 17 Party members; together they guard the people of 12 administrative villages and 2 communities on this land.
Relying on its unique red resources, the Party branch of the Zaoyuan Police Station deeply explores the connotation of the "Zaoyuan Lights" (枣园灯光) Party-building brand, tempering the police spirit with the Yan'an Spirit (延安精神). "Veteran police officers pass on traditions; new police officers share their insights. What is passed on and helped along is not just professional skills, but also work style." He Xie (何谐), a new police officer with just over half a year on the force, found his answer in front of the statue of Zhang Side: "Serve the people means doing more practical things for the common people!"
"Every one of our new police officers has their first lesson at the station set in front of the statue of Zhang Side — collectively reciting 'Serve the People.' This rule has been upheld for 28 years," said Station Chief Zhao Qiang (赵强). "We have heard the story of Zhang Side since we were children, but only when serving the people can we understand the preciousness of his spirit."
As a nationally renowned destination for red research and tourism, the Zaoyuan Revolutionary Site (枣园革命旧址) receives over 2 million Chinese and foreign visitors annually. Every holiday season, the pressure of security management and service support surges sharply.
"With the scenic area crowded with people and numerous research tour groups, safety issues allow no room for the slightest carelessness," introduced Cao Feng (曹峰), Deputy Director of the Yan'an Zaoyuan Revolutionary Site Management Office. "During every peak tourist period, the Zaoyuan Police Station has all its personnel on duty patrolling and standing guard. They coordinate with us to set up Party member volunteer service posts, providing tourists with warm services such as route guidance, convenience consultation, lost-person assistance, and emergency rescue, managing the flow of people and vehicles, regulating the order of visits, and checking for safety hazards. This not only holds the bottom line of scenic area safety but also polishes the service card of red cultural tourism."
All police officers and auxiliary police officers of the Zaoyuan Police Station consistently adhere to the principle of "treating the masses as family, making service the main business, doing practical things to warm people's hearts, and sending safety to their doorsteps." They have established four teams: the Zhang Side Mediation Team, the Zhang Side Patrol Team, the Zhang Side Publicity Team, and the Zhang Side Service Team.
In Wenjiagou Village (温家沟村), Zaoyuan Subdistrict, Baota District, a disabled elderly man over 70 years old praises to everyone he meets: "I am truly blessed; those kids are so good to me!"
The "kids" the old man refers to are the police officers of the Zhang Side Service Team. For more than ten years, they have taken turns visiting his home, clearing his yard, buying him clothes and coal, and spending holidays with him... "Matters within duty are handled unconditionally; matters beyond duty are handled by finding a way." In the household registration office of the Zaoyuan Police Station, a convenience water bar, a mother-and-baby room, and reading glasses for the elderly are all available, providing all kinds of convenience services for the masses.
In Zaoyuan, everywhere — tourist attractions, around schools, in residential communities and villages — the influence of Zhang Side can be seen.
During this year's May Day holiday, a mother reported that her 5-year-old son had gone missing. The command room immediately dispatched simultaneously: a drone was launched for aerial cruise search, the video monitoring post traced back surveillance footage, and ground patrol teams conducted grid-by-grid checks. All three routes worked in parallel, and in just 8 minutes, they found the child squatting on the ground wiping away tears.
Two neighbors in Miaogou Village (庙沟村), Zaoyuan Subdistrict, had been in conflict for three years over the boundary of a courtyard wall — building it up, tearing it down, building it up again. The police officers made a total of 12 trips, chatted casually, calculated the human relationship account, and also invited veteran Party members from the village and the stationed judge to mediate. In the end, the two families not only redrew the boundary but also built the new courtyard wall together; the knot was finally untied.
An early warning from the Anti-Fraud Center indicated that a local resident surnamed Zhang (张某) was deeply trapped in a task-based scam and planned to hand over 58,000 yuan in cash offline to a fraud group. The police officers immediately drove to the warned location. When they found Zhang, she was clutching the cash and preparing to contact the other party for the handover. Initially, she insisted it was a legitimate investment and was very resistant to the police officers'劝阻 (discouragement). The police officers patiently exposed the fraud scheme using real cases, finally waking Zhang up, and in the end, her hard-earned money was saved.
"Putting on this police uniform means we must serve the people wholeheartedly, just like Comrade Zhang Side," said Zhao Qiang. "'Serve the people' is not a simple phrase, but a sincere and genuine action. Through concrete measures, we must strive to bring the masses an even greater sense of security."
As night falls, the lights of the Zaoyuan Revolutionary Site turn on one after another, reflecting off the police station's warning lights in a mutual interplay.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 喻思南
In earthquake research, drawing diagrams, screening data, and writing summary materials are often accompanied by many trivial operations. The recently officially launched "Earthquake Science Agent (地震科学智能体)" is expected to free scientific researchers from these tasks and greatly improve the efficiency of earthquake research.
The "Earthquake Science Agent" is not an ordinary chatbot. This dialogue-based earthquake data analysis system has more than 80 professional data-processing interfaces. "Through it, researchers can interact with the latest large language models to assist in completing various scientific research tasks," said Chen Shi (陈石), a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration (中国地震局地球物理研究所).
This "intelligent assistant" possesses capabilities in seven areas: querying earthquake cases, tallying earthquakes, drawing curves, plotting maps, identifying waveforms, performing analysis, and writing reports. A user only needs a natural language command, such as "calculate the moment magnitude of an MS (surface wave magnitude) 7.0 earthquake" or "produce an earthquake emergency atlas," and the system will automatically retrieve, compute, and plot from authoritative catalog sources, generating a high-definition image in 10 seconds. Actual tests show an accuracy rate of 98.5%, far higher than the average of traditional methods, and full-process traceability is achieved.
Why is the "Earthquake Science Agent" so powerful? The "Diting (谛听)" large model is its technical foundation. "Unlike current language-oriented large models, the 'Diting' large model is designed for professional processing of continuous waveforms from seismic stations," explained Yao Zhixiang (姚志祥), deputy director of the International Center for Seismic Data, China Earthquake Administration (中国地震局地震科学国际数据中心). To realize this function, researchers used AI tools to learn from more than 26 million waveform records of different types of seismic events worldwide, and then used the computing resources of the National Supercomputing Center in Chengdu (国家超算成都中心) to complete model training.
Few had previously attempted to build a large model for processing seismograms. The Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration, joined forces with Tsinghua University, the National Supercomputing Center in Chengdu, and other units to form a joint team. However, because there was little prior experience to reference, the team could only "feel the stones to cross the river" in deciding how to set many parameters.
Hard work pays off. After repeated experiments and exploration, the research team proved for the first time the scaling law in the domain of seismogram learning. However, when using large-scale domestic computing power for model training, the team again encountered an efficiency bottleneck. "To address this, we set up a dedicated team to continuously analyze problems and upgrade the system," said Chen Shi. The joint team included experts in geophysics and seismology, as well as members specializing in visual large-model algorithms and high-performance computing. Only through the "wisdom" of interdisciplinary collaboration and close teamwork among the team were a series of technical difficulties resolved, and the team eventually succeeded in developing a seismic wave large model with billion-level parameters.
After the "Earthquake Science Agent" went online, more than 500 professionals from over 140 units applied for trial use. User demands are highly concentrated in three core application scenarios: automatic generation of professional graphics, rapid retrieval of precise data, and in-depth scientific analysis and report production.
As a practice of applying the concept of AI-empowered science in the field of earthquake prevention and disaster reduction, the successful launch of this agent is accelerating the transformation of earthquake research paradigms and facilitating the intelligent transformation and upgrading of the earthquake prevention and disaster reduction operational system.
Chen Shi introduced that the research team will continue to advance the "Diting" series of AI technologies, including further development of large models for multi-modal seismic data processing and accelerating the research and development of a new generation of intelligent seismic monitoring equipment with integrated sensing and intelligent processing capabilities. These are necessary pathways for technology to land and serve the intelligent transformation and upgrading of the earthquake prevention and disaster reduction operational system.
Reporter’s notes
Technological breakthroughs give more confidence in earthquake prevention and disaster reduction
As a "spark" produced by the collision of "AI + earthquake science," the changes brought by the "Earthquake Science Agent" to scientific research demonstrate the broad prospects of AI empowering earthquake prevention and disaster reduction.
Earthquake science is a big-data science based on observation. After years of research, a vast amount of multi-disciplinary observational data has been accumulated, including seismological observations, geodetic measurements, earthquake engineering, and earthquake geology. With the development and deeper application of AI technology, as well as the increasing completion of the national earthquake monitoring and early warning network and geophysical observation infrastructure, AI will play an increasingly important role in earthquake science research.
As early as 2018, the "Smart Earthquake (智能地动)" earthquake monitoring system, jointly developed by the China Earthquake Administration and the University of Science and Technology of China, successfully began trial operation. In recent years, China has achieved multiple breakthroughs in the development of AI datasets, related algorithms, and software, giving more confidence to AI-empowered earthquake prevention and disaster reduction. With an increasingly solid data foundation, continuously breakthrough core technologies, and a steadily growing talent pool, the future of "AI + earthquake science" is worth anticipating.
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How powerful is the "Diting" large model?
Diting is a mythical beast in ancient Chinese legends that identifies everything in the world by listening. The "Diting" developed by researchers is a large seismological dataset and an AI large model trained on it. It is currently one of the largest and most powerful large models for earthquake data processing in China.
How was this "listening beast" trained? Datasets are the foundation for training large models. Initially, the research team cleaned and desensitized seismic phase observation reports from 2013 to 2020 and data from the National Seismic Network Data Backup Center to establish the version 1.0 "Diting" dataset. In early 2025, the billion-parameter "Diting" seismic wave large model was successfully developed. It not only possesses high-precision seismic phase identification capabilities but also has the ability to classify events and predict epicentral distance and magnitude.
The version 1.0 "Diting" seismic wave large model was pre-trained using waveforms from 23 million seismic events. With the completion of the national earthquake early warning network, more high-quality observational data in the future will continuously promote the development of seismology AI large models. Any scenario that involves observing vibration signals and requires identifying and interpreting signals from data based on professional techniques is this model's "comfort zone." The "Diting" large model can also be applied in multiple fields, such as mining-induced earthquake monitoring, detection of urban underground space structures, and submarine earthquake monitoring. (Reporter Yu Sinan (喻思南))
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王欣悦
On the morning of July 21, beside the disaster relief passageway in Hanjia Subdistrict (汉葭街道), Pengshui County (彭水县), Chongqing, a simple desk was placed by the roadside, with a sign reading "Rider Dispatch Contact Point." Zhang Chuan (张川) looked down, scrolling through messages in the dispatch group, as a voice from the walkie-talkie gave an instruction: "Quickly, dispatch 6 riders to transport a batch of bottled water and bread!"
Six riders set off first. The remaining motorcycles were parked neatly, a long line, poised for action.
On July 17, a mountain collapse occurred in Hanjia Subdistrict, Pengshui County, burying several people who were missing and uncontactable. Rescue forces quickly assembled, but due to road damage, material transport vehicles found it difficult to reach the disaster site. Soon, a team of motorcycle riders spontaneously organized to transport materials on site. "The Pengshui roads are narrow with steep slopes; motorcycles are suitable for flexible weaving," Zhang Chuan said. Zhang Chuan is a local "motorcycle buddy" from Pengshui and works in construction.
On the day of the mountain collapse, catering practitioner Zhang Yali (张雅丽) was preparing meals in her shop. Upon seeing the news, she immediately closed business, and while posting recruitment information in the riding group, she got on her bike and rushed to the disaster area. On the section about 500 meters from the disaster area, more than a hundred motorcycles quickly gathered.
"The riders all came spontaneously; the scene was crowded and congested." Staff members saw Zhang Yali directing traffic on site and entrusted her to take the lead in forming a rider volunteer service team.
Zhang Yali set up a desk on the spot, made a sign and vehicle stickers. She organized volunteers to review credentials and inspect vehicle conditions; qualified vehicles were uniformly labeled; all material delivery tasks had to come to the contact point to receive unified dispatch. By July 21, Zhang Yali's rider group already had 338 people.
On July 18, Zhang Chuan joined the dispatch post to help. "Among the riders, there are locals, people who came from other places, and quite a few college students," Zhang Chuan said.
There were more than a dozen meal supply points on site; caring citizens and the catering association uniformly donated boxed lunches, which were then dispatched and delivered by the motorcycle volunteer team. Pengshui had consecutive days of high temperatures; many local businesses brought Huoxiang Zhengqi liquid (藿香正气液); the out-of-town riders had nowhere to stay, so shop owners opened their stores to let them rest at night.
Zhao Shenlong (赵神龙) is an out-of-town rider. He came by motorcycle from Zunyi, Guizhou; normally a 5-hour drive, but due to torrential rain on the way, he rode for a full 10 hours. After arriving, he sets out every day at 4 or 5 in the morning, transporting instant noodles and bottled water. "If I can do a little more, I do a little more," Zhao Shenlong said.
About 20 meters from the rider contact point, a rescue motorcycle free repair point was bustling with people. The person in charge, Gao Qiusheng (高秋生), runs a motorcycle repair shop in Baojia Town (保家镇), Pengshui County. After the disaster occurred, he and his wife Zhang Hong (张红) immediately joined the material transport team. Seeing the volunteer riders increasing, the couple discussed and decided to come to the site to provide free inspections and repairs.
The next morning, the couple brought motor oil, brake pads, spark plugs, and a full set of tools, and set up a stall not far from the contact point. Several friends also voluntarily came, and they even dispatched a rescue tow truck to stand by at any time.
In the evening, the dispatch group posted new material requests. The previous batch of riders had just set off, and the next batch had already loaded materials, one after another, heading forward.
Return to TopThis newspaper Beijing, July 21 (Reporter Wu Qiuyu (吴秋余)) — To do a good job in financial support for flood prevention and disaster relief and post-disaster reconstruction, the People’s Bank of China recently added 100 billion yuan in relending quotas for agriculture and small enterprises (支农支小再贷款), guiding and encouraging financial institutions to increase credit support for business entities in disaster-affected areas such as Guangxi, Hubei, Gansu, Zhejiang, and others, especially small and micro enterprises, individually owned businesses, as well as agricultural and breeding enterprises and farming households.
It is reported that, in the next step, the People’s Bank of China will supervise the branches in relevant provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) to make good use of the newly added relending quotas for agriculture and small enterprises, and guide financial institutions to actively respond to the financing needs of business entities in disaster-affected areas, so as to create a favorable monetary and financial environment for supporting flood prevention and disaster relief and post-disaster reconstruction.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 罗珊珊
Foreign trade, an important engine driving economic growth.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "We must accelerate the building of a trade powerhouse, upgrade goods trade, innovate service trade, develop digital trade, take digitalization and greening as the direction, further enhance our position in the international division of labor, and move toward the mid-to-high end of the global value chain." The "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五) outline proposes accelerating the building of a trade powerhouse, promoting the quality and efficiency of foreign trade, and promoting balanced development of imports and exports.
In the first half of the year, inflationary pressures in most global economies rose, trade barriers increased, geopolitical conflicts occurred frequently, and global production and supply chains continued to be under pressure. Against this backdrop, China's foreign trade showed strong growth and a stable trend, turning in an outstanding report card: in the first half of the year, China's goods trade imports and exports reached 25.47 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 16.9%, the scale surpassing 25 trillion yuan for the first time in the historical same period, firmly maintaining the position as the world's largest goods trader.
New demand in international markets drives growth of new products
At Wuhu Port, Anhui, Chery cars are steadily driven into containers, about to be shipped overseas.
"Starting from 2001 to lay out the global market, we now have 6.78 million overseas customers," introduced Xu Qingsong (许青松), Deputy General Manager of the International Business Division of Chery Automobile Co., Ltd. (奇瑞汽车股份有限公司).
Chery obtained the safety management system certification from relevant authoritative institutions of the European Union, secured the global intelligent driving safety "technology visa", and accelerated the leap from "product going overseas" to "system going overseas".
"In the first half of the year, Anhui's automobile export volume exceeded one million vehicles, 5 months earlier than last year, a year-on-year increase of 1.2 times," introduced Jiang Kaiyuan (姜开源), Deputy Director of Hefei Customs (合肥海关), of which independent brand automobile exports were 892,000 vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 1.1 times.
From "exceeding one million in a full year" to "exceeding one million in half a year", the rapid growth of Anhui's automobile exports is a microcosm of China's foreign trade's strong vitality and new momentum.
Wang Jun (王军), Deputy Director of the General Administration of Customs (海关总署), stated that since the beginning of this year, China's export growth rate has exceeded 10%, and has maintained growth for 11 consecutive quarters. The fundamental reason for the growth of exports lies in the precise adaptation of "Made in China" to various global demands.
New demand drives growth of new products. A UN report shows that since the beginning of this year, global goods trade growth has been mainly concentrated in AI-related fields. Global demand for computing power, data centers, and terminal equipment continues to expand, promoting the growth of China's related product exports. In the first half of the year, China's exports of electronic components, computer parts and other products all achieved double-digit growth, collectively driving export growth by 6.9 percentage points; intelligent bionic robots deeply integrated with AI technology were exported over 10,000 units, covering more than 90 countries and regions.
Unexpected situations demonstrate the resilience of production and supply chains. In the first half of the year, global chemical product supply was tight. By virtue of a complete industrial system and full-chain supporting capabilities, China quickly met external sudden demand. In the first half of the year, China's exports of basic organic chemicals and primary-form plastics increased by 25.1% and 35% year-on-year respectively, meeting enterprise production needs and ensuring the stability of related production and supply chains.
Multiple foreign media believe that China's exports will continue to remain strong in the second half of the year, demonstrating the competitiveness and resilience of China's manufacturing industry.
Weaving a broad and resilient global trade network
On July 8, two batches of 39.7 tons of fresh apples from Shaanxi Wangzhangguo Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. (陕西王掌柜农业发展有限公司) were smoothly exported to Uzbekistan via the Horgos Port (霍尔果斯口岸). This is the first time Yan'an apples have been exported to Uzbekistan. Previously, this company had sold Yan'an apples to Canada, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates and other countries.
In the first half of the year, Yan'an Customs (延安海关) supervised exports of 3,196.8 tons of fresh apples under its jurisdiction, a year-on-year increase of 89.6%. Yan'an apples have been exported to 26 countries and regions cumulatively.
An apple crossing mountains and seas to go global bears witness to Chinese foreign trade enterprises actively recognizing changes, responding to changes, and seeking changes, continuously expanding cooperation space and seeking partners globally, weaving a broad and resilient global trade network, with the international "circle of friends" growing ever wider.
Stabilizing traditional markets. In May this year, the meeting between the Chinese and US heads of state reached a series of consensus, providing stable expectations and injecting positive impetus into the bilateral economic and trade relations. In the first half of the year, total US-China goods trade was 2 trillion yuan, accounting for 7.9% of China's total foreign trade, of which the second quarter increased by 13.7% year-on-year.
Expanding incremental markets. In the first half of the year, China's imports and exports with countries jointly building the "Belt and Road" reached 12.97 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 14.8%, accounting for 50.9% of total foreign trade. China and ASEAN have been each other's largest trading partner for many consecutive years. In the first half of the year, China's imports and exports with ASEAN were 4.34 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 18.2%, of which the second quarter was 2.37 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 20.2%, achieving growth for 10 consecutive quarters.
Lyu Daliang (吕大良), Spokesperson of the General Administration of Customs and Director of the Department of Statistical Analysis, stated that with the accelerated construction of the New Western Land-Sea Corridor (西部陆海新通道), the "China-Laos Railway + China-Europe Railway Express" transport model and the "parallel port" logistics model have been implemented with results, significantly improving the efficiency of cross-border logistics channels. In the first half of the year, China's imports and exports with ASEAN via the New Western Land-Sea Corridor increased by 18.2%.
Promoting balanced development of imports and exports
"Benefiting from the zero-tariff policy, we have newly opened the business of importing frozen strawberries from Egypt. From May 1st to now, we have cumulatively imported 1,010 tons, and it is expected that the annual import can enjoy tax reduction of more than 3 million yuan," said Hou Renjun (侯仁军), Marketing Director of Deaite (Shandong) Import and Export Co., Ltd. (德爱塔（山东）进出口有限公司).
Starting from May 1, China fully implemented zero-tariff measures for 53 African countries with diplomatic relations. Yang Qian (杨倩), Director of the Tariff Department of Qingdao Customs (青岛海关), stated that in May and June, Qingdao Customs reduced tariffs by 180 million yuan on 17.6 billion yuan worth of African-origin goods. The reduction in tariff costs allows enterprises to import more African raw materials and further enrich product categories.
In the first half of the year, China's goods trade imports were 10.74 trillion yuan, the first time exceeding 10 trillion yuan in the historical same period, an increase of 22.1%. Import growth rate was 8.7 percentage points higher than export, and its contribution to foreign trade growth was also greater than export, promoting balanced trade development.
The super-large scale market is the fundamental foundation. As the world's largest manufacturing country and the second largest consumer market, China's market is vast with huge potential. China has been the world's second largest import market for 17 consecutive years, with its share of global imports rising from 7.9% to about 10%.
Improving economic operation is the endogenous driving force. China's economic operation is generally stable, industrial production is rising steadily, and market demand has improved, providing strong support for the expansion of imports of raw materials, parts, and consumer goods. In the first half of the year, China's imports of metal ores and electronic components increased by 22.6% and 45.6% respectively. During this year's "618" shopping festival, the number of products sold on JD Worldwide increased by 60% year-on-year.
Proactively expanding imports is a necessary condition. China is orderly expanding independent opening and unilateral opening, has implemented zero-tariff policies for 63 countries, and holds international exhibitions such as the China International Import Expo, the China International Consumer Products Expo, and the China International Supply Chain Expo, providing a "window" for global good products to enter the Chinese market. In the first half of the year, China's imports from over 150 countries and regions achieved growth.
Since the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Commerce has held "Export to China" special events in Belarus, Germany, the United Kingdom, Thailand and other countries. Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao (王文涛) stated that China has the world's largest middle-income group and super-large market advantages. Starting from the perspective of trading partners, we are building the "Export to China" brand, committed to sharing new development opportunities with the world and injecting positive energy into the world economy.
Looking ahead to the second half of the year, the external environment remains complex and changeable. The World Bank believes that the global economy is facing multiple pressures from rising energy prices, increasing inflationary pressures, and expected tightening of monetary policy, with growth prospects tending to weaken. But it should be noted that China has strong innovation momentum, strong vitality of entities, and a high level of openness. The fundamentals of foreign trade remain stable, and we have the confidence and ability to maintain the good momentum of foreign trade development.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 曾亦辰
绝活亮点 — Unique Skill Highlights
Li Jie (李婕), a post-2000s Long-style cloisonné (陇派珐琅) creator, delves into the craft of filigree cloisonné painting (掐丝珐琅画). She has mastered the entire production process of cloisonné — from wire-embedding, line-drawing, to coloring — and is especially adept at handling gold wire with techniques such as stacked-wire and arranged-wire. Relying on her understanding of traditional mineral glaze colors, she makes her works combine classical profundity with contemporary aesthetics.
Li Jie bases her work on the native cultural themes of Gansu, integrating elements such as Dunhuang murals and the Yellow River into her creations. She has developed and designed cultural and creative products such as earrings and coasters, adapting traditional court cloisonné techniques to modern aesthetics and everyday objects, continuously expanding the dissemination channels of Long-style cloisonné.
Long-style cloisonné often draws from Gansu's characteristic cultural elements such as Dunhuang ceiling patterns, Majiayao painted pottery, and beef noodles. Unlike traditional fired cloisonné, it uses a low-temperature color-fixing and shaping process, a unique "sand-surface glaze-hanging method" that does not require kiln firing. Fine gold threads wind and coil; the classic spiral and dot patterns of Majiayao painted pottery spread out within a square inch. The five glaze colors — gold, red, white, green, and blue — are layered distinctly among the gold threads, with a thick and imposing hue. This piece, combining stacked-wire and arranged-wire techniques, is a pair of conical earrings on the desk of Li Jie, a Long-style cloisonné creator. "This is the first piece of jewelry I designed independently," Li Jie told the reporter.
In the workshop, the sounds of scissors cutting silver wire and brushes dotting glaze follow one after another. Wire-embedding, line-drawing, and coloring are the three core processes of filigree cloisonné painting, and they also correspond to the bones and flesh of a work. To an outsider, cloisonné technique may seem delicate and beautiful, but for the creator, it is full of challenges from the very beginning. Wire-embedding is the first hurdle; if the force of the hand deviates even slightly, the fine filament will tilt and collapse. Li Jie said that her entry-level training began with three basic exercises: tracing strands of a woman's hair, writing the corners of characters, and shading peony petals — thereby honing her ability to control the wire and ensuring that the lines run continuously and naturally.
Coloring is also very particular. Too much glaze filler will cause color mixing (bleeding); too little will leave the surface uneven. "When I was a beginner, I had to repeatedly observe whether the glaze surface was flat. After practicing for a long time, I didn't even need to look — I could judge by ear alone: the thickness from the sound of the glaze striking the base plate." Li Jie smiled as she shared her experience. "If the glaze is applied thick, the sound is dull; if thin, the sound is crisp. During the coloring process, water must be constantly added to let the glaze flow naturally, ensuring a smooth and even surface."
Li Jie's childhood was often spent in her father Li Haiming's (李海明) workshop. Li Haiming is a national first-class arts and crafts designer and a master of arts and crafts in Gansu Province. As a young child, Li Jie often did not understand why her father spent all day with colorful glazes and rarely had time for her. As she grew up, she gradually felt the 流光溢彩 (liú guāng yì cǎi - "flowing light, overflowing color," the brilliant and dazzling charm) of cloisonné, came to understand her father, and began to truly calm down and systematically and deeply study this filigree cloisonné technique derived from Jingtai blue (景泰蓝).
After graduating from university in 2022, Li Jie returned to Lanzhou, Gansu, took over the craft from her father, and became a Long-style cloisonné creator. "Having been 耳濡目染 (ěr rú mù rǎn - "ears soaked, eyes dyed," to be influenced by constant exposure) in the workshop since childhood, I sincerely love this craft. But I also often wonder whether I can shoulder the burden of inheritance," Li Jie admitted. "A successor must not only do the craft well, but also take the initiative to go out and let more people see and understand this ancient technique."
How can traditional cloisonné truly enter the public eye? Li Jie turned her gaze toward everyday life. "Traditional large display pieces are more for collection and viewing, but light, small items are more popular with young people." Fiddling with the earrings at hand, she revealed her original intention for creation. In her view, for Long-style cloisonné to truly enter daily life, it must be combined with the jewelry people wear and practical small objects, so that the ancient technique is no longer confined to exhibition halls and parlors.
Familiarity with the aesthetics and preferences of her peers is Li Jie's advantage as a young inheritor. At the same time, Li Jie always maintains a passion for learning, constantly drawing new inspiration for her creations. She has repeatedly attended training courses at higher education institutions such as the Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts, exchanged experiences with practitioners from various places, and learned a great deal about cultural and creative transformation and market-oriented operations. She has now also led the formation of an eight-person youth team, all of them thinking together about the design and implementation of cloisonné cultural and creative products: brooches, bracelets, refrigerator magnets... They keep making new explorations.
Rooted in the local culture of Gansu is an important charm of Long-style cloisonné. Li Jie focuses her creative efforts on the decorative patterns of Majiayao painted pottery. After consulting a large number of ancient pattern materials, she deliberately abandoned complex and flashy designs and selected simple, elegant linear patterns — these can both highlight the delicacy of the wire-embedding technique and, when made into accessories, be elegant and tasteful.
In the color-matching stage, Li Jie went through many attempts and adjustments. At first, she tried many popular modern color-matching styles, but after making samples, she always felt that the pieces lacked the depth that traditional craftsmanship should have. Li Haiming saw her struggle and patiently discussed the finer points of color matching with her. "Trendy colors come and go quickly; only the traditional glaze colors that have settled over time can withstand the test of time." Inspired, Li Jie no longer blindly pursued trends but instead focused on the characteristic of Long-style cloisonné that excels in color transitions, repeatedly adjusting until the works possess both classical substance and contemporary appeal.
Recently, Li Jie opened a study and experience space in Dunhuang, Gansu. During the peak tourist season, many visitors are attracted by the unique filigree cloisonné technique and come to try it themselves. Some make small coasters and makeup mirrors by hand; others try to create delicate small ornaments. In the process of doing, they truly feel the unique charm of handmade cloisonné.
Leveraging Dunhuang's strong cultural tourism atmosphere, Li Jie hopes to let more tourists get to know Long-style cloisonné and understand the profound regional culture of Gansu. In her daily life, Li Jie has also started managing her own social media accounts, occasionally filming short videos to break down the cloisonné production steps and display finished styles. "I want more people to know that cloisonné is not just an old object — it can be the earrings on your ears, the coffee cup on your table. Cloisonné can be the aesthetics of everyday life," Li Jie said.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 杨 义 杨颜菲
“The hanging heart has finally been put down!” In July this year, in Zhelin Town (柘林镇), Lushan West Sea Scenic Area (庐山西海风景名胜区), Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province, Ye Jinglin (叶景林), a homeowner of the Xihai No. 1 (西海壹号) residential community, finally obtained the long-awaited real estate property rights certificate.
“I paid the purchase price in 2016, and the contract stipulated delivery by the end of 2017.” Ye Jinglin eagerly awaited moving into his new home, but the developer failed to deliver on time, delaying again and again. By 2019, the ground in the community had become muddy and rough, the walls were weathered and peeling, the weeds in the courtyard were waist-deep… Upon investigation, he learned that the developer’s capital chain had broken and the project had been suspended. The inability to deliver the homes became a heart ailment for Ye Jinglin and more than 200 other homeowners.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: “We must educate and guide leading cadres at all levels to persist in making political achievements for the people, to make political achievements through solid work, to consciously act in accordance with laws and rules, and not to engage in the practices of 急功近利 (jí gōng jìn lì – “eager for quick success and instant benefit,” seeking quick success), 弄虚作假 (nòng xū zuò jiǎ – “manipulate the false and fake,” falsification), or 盲目蛮干 (máng mù mán gàn – “blind and reckless action,” acting blindly and recklessly) in the pursuit of political achievements, and to put an end to the phenomenon where new officials ignore old accounts and to ‘image projects’ (形象工程) and ‘performance projects’ (政绩工程).”
It is necessary both to be good at settling old accounts and, even more, to leave no new ones. The Management Committee of Lushan West Sea Scenic Area, guided by a correct view of political achievements (正确政绩观), carried out a concentrated effort to tackle the issue of the unfinished Xihai No. 1 project, which had drawn strong complaints from the masses.
Because the creditor-debt relationships were complex, the demands diverse, and coordination very difficult, this stalled project once became a “hot potato” (烫手山芋 – tàng shǒu shān yù, “hot-handed yam,” a troublesome problem). On the surface, the difficulty lay in the funding gap; at a deeper level, the difficulty lay in mutual distrust among all parties: the homeowners feared their money would be thrown away, the construction party wanted to recover arrears, the creditors wanted to recover their debts, and if not handled properly, it could trigger even greater conflicts.
The problems were 千头万绪 (qiān tóu wàn xù – “a thousand heads and ten thousand threads,” extremely numerous and complicated). How could the deadlock be broken?
Plunge into the work and get a clear picture of the facts. “Finding the crux and the crux of the problem is key,” introduced Wang Jin (王金), Vice Chair of the Zhelin Town People’s Congress. After the special task force was established, it held more than ten communication meetings, listened face-to-face to the homeowners’ voices, understood the demands of the interested parties, clarified the legal bottom line, and conveyed the warmth of policy. The communication meetings gradually shifted from everyone talking past each other and arguing endlessly to mutual understanding and unified opinions.
Adopt measures 因地制宜 (yīn dì zhì yí – “adjust measures to local conditions,” tailor approaches to local circumstances) and target the policy precisely. “Given that the developer had no hope of raising funds, we promoted bankruptcy reorganization of the project, guided the bankruptcy administrator to deeply investigate assets and liabilities, and used market-based means to turn ‘sleeping assets’ into ‘liquid capital,’” said Huang Hua (黄桦), Deputy Director of the Economic Development Bureau of Lushan West Sea Scenic Area.
“After professional assessment, the funding gap was reduced from 60 million yuan to below 30 million yuan,” Huang Hua introduced. After multiple rounds of consultation, the construction party agreed to accept the remaining unsold properties as offset for project costs and continue to undertake the construction of the restoration work, thereby allowing the project to proceed.
At the same time, the Management Committee promoted joint action among multiple departments including planning, construction, taxation, and natural resources, resolving one by one issues such as power supply, water supply, tax payment, and fire safety inspection. Now, the homeowners of the Xihai No. 1 community are gradually receiving their certificates. The Management Committee also introduced a health-and-wellness tourism project, converting the unsold properties into health-care housing.
The Xihai No. 1 as it now appears: the roads are flat and spacious, the greenery lush. “I plan to start renovation and move in by the end of this year!” Ye Jinglin said with a smile.
The Lushan West Sea Scenic Area conducted a comprehensive review of historical legacy issues, investigating and filing records one by one, and tailored a promotion timeline for each project, dividing responsibilities and collaborating to push forward solutions. As of now, the scenic area has thoroughly reviewed 4 unfinished projects and 2 idle resources, applying differentiated measures to break through each one.
Since the study and education on establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements was carried out, Jiujiang City has made great efforts to centrally rectify the prominent issue of “new officials ignoring old accounts” (新官不理旧账 – xīn guān bù lǐ jiù zhàng, “new officials do not manage old accounts,” failure to address inherited problems), incorporating the effectiveness of settling old accounts into the performance assessment of cadres, guiding party members and cadres, especially newly appointed “top officials” (一把手), to face chronic problems head-on and target their efforts precisely, striving to resolve livelihood difficulties.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 姜晓丹 刘佳华 王伟健
Guangzhou, Guangdong — an old commercial district is booming thanks to the “gu zi market” (谷子集市); Dalian, Liaoning — sea fishing is gradually becoming a trend; Suzhou, Jiangsu — the new business format of a pet resort area brings new experiences… Each vivid scene vividly interprets the new logic of consumption of “paying for experience and emotional value.”
The “Work Plan for Accelerating the Cultivation of New Growth Points in Service Consumption” (《加快培育服务消费新增长点工作方案》) issued by the General Office of the State Council proposes relying on platforms such as pilot projects for new consumption formats, new models, and new scenarios to support the construction of several new scenarios of emotional and experiential service consumption that have a strong driving effect on consumption. From goods consumption to experiential consumption, what new trends does this reflect? What new scenarios and new business formats are emerging? Our reporters conducted field visits in multiple locations.
New business formats stimulate new vitality
The “gu zi market” gathers popularity
On the weekend, at Diwang Plaza (地王广场) in Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, the “gu zi market” opened on schedule, with young customers moving between stalls. The term “gu zi” (谷子) is a transliteration of the English word “goods,” referring to derivative products of copyright works in fields such as comics, animation, and games, such as cards, badges, and figurines.
Xiao Yan (小严), a 25-year-old stallholder, set up shop from the very beginning of the mall’s transformation, first running the stall part-time. As the market stabilized and operated long term, he gradually shifted to full-time operation. “In the early days, the ‘gu zi’ sold were mostly Japanese anime peripherals; now domestic anime IPs, game IPs, and original-design ‘gu zi’ are also very popular,” said Xiao Yan. Students and young office workers are the main consumers. People not only chase hit products but also value quality, rarity, and whether they are genuine; even niche and obscure IPs have a stable market.
Among the market stallholders, a group of young original creators are also active. Xiao Liao (小廖) is skilled in original hand-drawn artwork in the ACG (anime, comics, games) style. She offers commissioned drawing services on site, completing a picture in 8 to 10 minutes, attracting many onlookers. “There is a concentration of like-minded people here, the atmosphere is friendly, original content is very popular, and my hobby has become a platform for monetization,” said Xiao Liao.
Many young consumers said that offline markets allow for on-site communication and sharing of feelings, giving a greater sense of ritual than online shopping. “What you buy is not just the peripheral product, but an emotional value and a resonance of interests and hobbies,” said one consumer. The market is not only a consumption space but also a social space for young people.
Lu Guoneng (陆国能), general manager of Diwang Plaza, explained that previously the mall’s traditional business formats were sluggish, and the shop rental rate was once extremely low. After pivoting toward ACG consumption in 2024, the mall adopted a low-threshold, inclusive policy to support stallholders. The stall fee is only 10 to 30 yuan per day, and the mall provides basic supporting facilities such as tables and chairs free of charge, allowing enthusiasts to easily “release gu zi” and “eat gu zi” (buy and sell). The market is open on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, with more than 200 stalls regularly set up. Several thousand people vie for spots each session, and on holidays it is extremely hard to get one.
“The key reason this business format is so favored by young people lies in its precise alignment with the emotional expression, circle-based social interaction, and self-identity needs of the youth. At the same time, models such as limited editions, collecting, and social sharing further amplify the emotional sense of gain brought by the purchasing behavior,” said Liu Shimeng (刘诗濛), associate professor at the Institute for Economic and Social Research, Jinan University.
For the mall, a win-win situation has also been achieved. “Since the transformation, weekend foot traffic at the mall has increased by 3 to 4 times compared to before, total sales have risen by more than 200%, and ACG-related revenue accounts for 80%,” said Lu Guoneng. The “gu zi market” creates an average of more than 400 flexible employment opportunities per day, and many students and young people both run their stalls and browse the market.
New scenarios bring new experiences
Sea fishing is gradually emerging
Early morning at the port of Zhangzidao Town (獐子岛镇), Changhai County (长海县), Dalian, Liaoning. Captain Ge Qi (葛琦) tapped his phone and quickly completed the departure report on the “Sea Fishing e-Port” (海钓e港) mini-program. Guiding four fishing friends onto the boat, activating the BeiDou positioning, the white leisure fishing vessel set off from the dock. Before long, they reached the fishing spot “Fazi Di” (筏子地).
Anchor dropped, bait hung, rod cast. “Fish on!” The rod tip suddenly bent heavily. Tourist Zhang Jiebin (张杰斌) gripped the rod tightly, reeling in and releasing the line. After several rounds of struggle, he caught an amberjack. Ge Qi took it and placed it in the live fish tank.
Ge Qi is a resident of Zhangzidao Town and one of the first sea fishing operators on the island. In his early years, he made a living by traditional fishing. He found that tourists who visited the island often asked whether they could go sea fishing, so he gave it a try and bought his first sea fishing boat. Over ten years, from a small boat to establishing a company, Ge Qi now owns six professional sea fishing boats.
“In recent years, both the number of visitors and revenue have doubled, and there are even foreign fishing enthusiasts who come specifically to experience it,” said Ge Qi. The consumer base is also steadily getting younger, with more and more people born after 1990 and 2000.
Shi Jianren (时建人), professor at the School of Economics and Management, Dalian Maritime University, said that sea fishing is transforming into a comprehensive consumption model that integrates tourism, sports, and social interaction. More and more young people regard sea fishing as a trendy lifestyle, pursuing not only the catch itself but more importantly the emotional value of the process and the experience of being close to nature.
Ge Qi did the math: a single trip out to sea costs 600 to 700 yuan for the captain’s fee, and 2,500 yuan for a full-day charter for the entire boat, with each boat carrying four to five people. Most fishing friends stay on the island for at least two or three days after arriving, and some even stay for half a month. Last year, the revenue from a single sea fishing boat in his company reached 150,000 yuan.
To promote the development of sea fishing, Changhai County has introduced multiple measures: standardizing the management of recreational fishing vessels, equipping each vessel with BeiDou positioning and purchasing insurance for passengers; uniformly designating 31 sea fishing areas; training more than 5,000 tourism practitioners in 2025 to improve service standards and safety awareness; developing the “Sea Fishing e-Port” mini-program to provide one-stop services such as fishing boat booking, weather warnings, and consumption linkage… At present, Changhai County has cultivated 10 specialized sea fishing clubs, with a total of 557 recreational fishing vessels. In 2025, the sea fishing customer base reached 190,000 person-trips, with related tourism revenue of 130 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 44%, driving a consumption growth of more than 30% in the industrial chain including homestays, catering, and fishing tackle sales.
New demands drive new supply
The pet block attracts customers
At 1:00 p.m., Chongyun Alley OMITOFEE Pet Block (重云巷OMITOFEE宠物街区), located in the Yangcheng Lake Peninsula Tourism Resort (阳澄湖半岛旅游度假区) of Suzhou Industrial Park (苏州工业园区), Jiangsu, was bustling with activity.
Citizen Gu Jingfei (顾景菲) brought her beloved pet dog to browse the richly varied stores: at the pet photography shop, the photographer captured the pet’s adorable moments; at the storm-proof playground, the pet dogs ran freely; at the fresh pet food restaurant, small dining tables were neatly arranged, and a dazzling array of pet snacks was on display.
Shi Yeran (施叶然), general manager of Chongyun Alley OMITOFEE, said that since opening more than half a year ago, the block’s peak single-day visitor reception exceeded 50,000 person-trips, including many tourists from outside the area.
The predecessor of this pet block was a cultural tourism block that, due to its remote location and single business format, had once become 门庭冷落 (mén tíng lěng luò – “threshold and courtyard become cold,” meaning few visitors). “After our research, we found that the pet consumption market is continuously heating up, and ‘traveling with pets’ has become a need for more and more pet-owning families,” said a relevant official from Suzhou Industrial Park. To this end, the park invested approximately 100 million yuan to transform the original block into a pet-themed block covering 42.5 mu (about 2.83 hectares) with a building area of more than 10,000 square meters, and introduced a pet industry brand enterprise to operate it.
The renovated block integrates display, experience, consumption, and social interaction, and is equipped with a variety of services such as pet dining, grooming, photography, and accommodation. Shi Yeran noted that the block frequently holds various events, such as Pet Fashion Week, Paw Life Market, and “Furry Kid” concerts, attracting large crowds; sometimes a single event can generate hundreds of thousands of yuan in consumption.
Zheng Qiongjie (郑琼洁), a researcher at the Nanjing Academy of Social Sciences, believes that pet market projects make pet consumption scenic, experiential, and social, activating consumption potential by creating emotional value that exceeds expectations. For consumers, when purchasing pet products or services, they are not only buying the item itself but also an emotional experience and a lifestyle.
Data shows that in 2025, the urban pet (dog and cat) consumption market has already exceeded 300 billion yuan. Many pet owners have the desire to travel with their pets, which directly spurs the continuous emergence of new business formats such as pet-themed hotels and pet resorts.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王 者
“This year’s wheat harvest is good. After weighing, the money arrives in the account immediately!” The summer harvest concluded, at a grain purchase point on Jincheng Street (津城街道), Ningjin County (宁津县), Dezhou City, Shandong Province, farm vehicles loaded with new wheat formed a small line. Major grain grower Wang Lei (王磊) contracted 118 mu of land this year to plant wheat. Holding the settlement slip, his face was full of smiles.
How are the collected grains stored? At the invitation of the grain reserve department, Wang Lei followed the grain transport truck to the Ningjin County Grain and Oil Reserve Depot (宁津县粮油储备库).
Entering the depot’s sampling area, a mobile intelligent sampling machine inserted the sampling rod vertically into the grain pile. The laboratory’s “blind testing” system connected seamlessly, and quality inspectors sequentially completed tests for indicators such as bulk density, moisture content, and impurities. After the grain quality met the warehousing standards, the grain transport truck drove onto an unattended weighbridge. The intelligent card-reading system automatically identified, and vehicle information, variety, and weight were displayed on an electronic screen. “Grain warehousing is a precise and orderly assembly-line operation,” said Liu Peiyong (刘培勇), director of the Warehousing Department of Ningjin County Grain and Oil Reserve Depot.
“No wonder grain purchasing efficiency is getting higher and higher; the confidence lies here.” Looking at the screen, Wang Lei exclaimed, “Grains grown from the soil are using high technology!”
After the whole vehicle was weighed, a hydraulic tipping grain unloader poured the wheat into a hopper, which was sent by conveyor into the dust-removal cleaning center: vibrating screen, cylindrical screen, air separator. After passing through three “security checks,” the wheat became clean grain with a purity of over 98%, and was evenly stored into the warehouse along a diverting conveyor.
Standing inside the grain warehouse, Wang Lei felt the cool and airy environment: “Our grains are collected quickly and stored well!”
Every warehouse building here is installed with specialized storage air conditioners and an internal circulation temperature control system. “In the height of summer, the warehouse temperature can still be kept below 25 degrees Celsius, and warehouse humidity below 40%. This both inhibits pest reproduction and reduces the contamination of grain by chemical fumigation,” Liu Peiyong introduced.
At this point, each grain of wheat begins its “dormancy” period in the warehouse. This batch of new grain formally enters the scientific storage cycle, awaiting its future journey to supermarkets, kitchens, and dining tables.
120 kilometers away, at the Shandong Provincial Grain and Material Reserve Bureau (山东省粮食和物资储备局), staff use a grain purchase and sales supervision informatization platform to conduct whole-chain tracking of grain collection, storage, and warehousing. All process steps of the Ningjin County Grain and Oil Reserve Depot can be monitored in real time here.
“Shandong has built a grain purchase and sales supervision informatization system, collecting millions of data points from the province’s local reserve grain depots. Relying on big data analysis and intelligent algorithms, it provides precise support for reserve grain rotation, quality assessment, and inventory supervision,” explained Li Yandong (李延东) of the Planning and Finance Division of the Shandong Provincial Grain and Material Reserve Bureau. It has achieved full-cycle real-time dynamic penetrating supervision from warehousing, storage to outbound delivery.
Looking across the land of Qilu, a three-dimensional and intelligent grain security assurance system is taking shape — 342 emergency processing enterprises, 291 emergency storage and transportation enterprises, 235 emergency distribution centers, and 2,468 emergency supply outlets covering urban and rural areas, jointly ensuring grain security.
Return to TopBeijing, July 21 (Reporter Jiang Xuehong (蒋雪鸿)) — On the 21st, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) and the China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局) jointly issued an agricultural high-temperature drought risk warning: Since July, the number of days with temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius in central and southern Shaanxi, southwestern Henan, western Hubei, the Sichuan Basin, and other areas has reached 11–15 days, 8–14 days more than the same period in normal years. It is forecast that from July 22 to 24, high-temperature weather above 35 degrees Celsius will persist in central and southern Shaanxi, Henan, northwestern Hubei, the Sichuan Basin, and other areas, with maximum temperatures possibly reaching 39–40 degrees Celsius. Soil moisture is being lost rapidly, and the risk of agricultural high-temperature drought is relatively high. In Baoji and Xianyang of Shaanxi, Nanyang and Zhumadian of Henan, and Guang'an, Nanchong, and Bazhong of Sichuan, drought conditions may emerge, which is unfavorable for autumn grain production. It is recommended that the above areas closely monitor changes in farmland soil moisture, carry out timely irrigation, and mitigate the impact of high-temperature drought.
Return to TopBeijing, July 21 (Reporter Qiu Chaoyi (邱超奕)). A reporter learned from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源社会保障部): From July 20 to 26, the Hundred-Day, Ten-Thousand Recruitment Special Action (百日千万招聘专项行动) launched four online recruitment dedicated sessions in the artificial intelligence, energy and environmental protection, manufacturing, and medical and health industries, organized by relevant human resources service institutions, with a total of over 9,000 employers participating, and recruitment demand of nearly 146,000 person-times.
The artificial intelligence industry dedicated session was hosted by BOSS Zhipin (BOSS直聘), organizing 91 employers including Lingxin Qiaoshou (灵心巧手), Xian'gong Intelligent (仙工智能), Kuwa Technology (酷哇科技), and Paibao Robot (派宝机器人), providing positions such as software development engineer, test engineer, algorithm engineer, and AI product manager, with recruitment demand of nearly 1,000 person-times.
The energy and environmental protection industry dedicated session was hosted by Zhilian Zhaopin (智联招聘), organizing 276 employers including China Power Construction (中国电建), CITIC Environmental Technology (中信环境技术), China Energy Conservation (中国节能), and Honeycomb Energy (蜂巢能源), providing positions such as safety monitoring engineer, power trader, environmental sampler, and research assistant, with recruitment demand of 5,179 person-times.
The manufacturing industry dedicated session was hosted by 51job (前程无忧), organizing 8,500 employers including BYD, CATL, Luxshare Precision, and SAIC Motor, providing positions such as mechanical engineer, welding engineer, quality engineer, and project management engineer, with recruitment demand of 136,000 person-times.
The medical and health industry dedicated session was hosted by Yimai Tongdao (医脉同道), organizing 198 employers including Amgen Biopharmaceutical (Shanghai) (安进生物医药（上海）), Hanhui Pharmaceutical (瀚晖制药), Johnson & Johnson (China) (强生（中国）), and Hansoh Pharmaceutical (豪森药业), providing positions such as medical representative, pharmacist, physical and chemical supervisor, and optical engineer, with recruitment demand of 3,781 person-times.
Employers and job seekers can directly enter the industry recruitment dedicated sessions through China Public Recruitment Network (中国公共招聘网), China National Talent Network (中国国家人才网), and the main venue page of the Employment Online Special Action (就业在线专项行动), or click on the logos of participating institutions below the main venue page to enter the sub-venues for participation.
Return to TopOn July 20, 24 primary and secondary schools in Haikou City, Hainan Province officially launched summer care services, effectively solving the problem of parents' summer caregiving difficulties. The schools open sports halls and libraries, and offer interesting courses such as reading, labor, and science and technology to enrich students' holiday life. The photo shows students participating in summer care engaging in sports activities at Wuyuanhe School (五源河学校) in Haikou on that day. Photo by Shi Zhonghua (石中华).
Return to TopBeijing, July 21 (People's Daily) -- (Reporter Lin Lili (林丽鹂)) The State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局) held a special press conference on the development of the inspection and testing service industry during the 14th Five-Year Plan period on July 21. According to the introduction, as of the end of 2025, there were 54,340 various inspection and testing institutions in China that had obtained qualification accreditation (CMA), with 1.5864 million employees. In 2025, the industry achieved operating revenue of 530.308 billion yuan and issued a total of 571 million inspection and testing reports to society.
At the end of the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the annual operating revenue of the inspection and testing service industry exceeded 530 billion yuan, an increase of 47.89% compared to the end of the 13th Five-Year Plan period, and the revenue growth rate was 4.56 times the growth rate of the number of institutions in the same period. In 2025, large and medium-sized inspection and testing institutions, accounting for 3.83% of the total number of institutions, contributed 46.06% of the operating revenue. The industry is accelerating its transformation from a quantity-scale model to a quality-efficiency model.
During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the State Administration for Market Regulation will focus on enhancing the industry's public credibility, technical support capability, international influence, and brand competitiveness, promoting the inspection and testing industry to continuously move towards specialization and the high end of the value chain.
Return to TopLhasa, July 21 (Xinhua) — (Reporter Qiongda Zhuoga (琼达卓嘎)) The reporter learned from the Tibet Autonomous Region Government Working Committee on Women and Children (西藏自治区政府妇女儿童工作委员会) that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, 146 established targets of the Tibet Women and Children Development Plan were completed with high quality, achieving a 100% fulfillment rate, among which 140 targets have already reached the goals set for 2030 in the China Program for the Development of Women and Children (中国妇女儿童发展纲要) five years ahead of schedule.
In terms of maternal and child health, over the past five years Tibet's systematic management rate for pregnant and postpartum women reached 85.38%, and the hospital delivery rate reached 99.54%. Taking the lead nationwide, Tibet included HPV vaccination for school-age female students (适龄在校女生) in practical work for people's livelihood (民生实事), cumulatively completing first-dose vaccinations for over 107,000 individuals, with a vaccination rate of 92%.
Women's political and economic participation continues to rise. The proportion of leading bodies in government work departments at the district, city, and county levels that include female cadres stands at 75%, 59.68%, and 66.47% respectively. Women account for 45.7% of new urban employment, an increase of 6.74 percentage points compared to 2020.
The education level of women and children has significantly improved. As of the end of 2025, the entire region has 3,679 schools of various types and levels, an increase of 484 compared to 2020. The coverage rate of inclusive preschools is 100%, the gross enrollment rate for preschool education is 92.83%, the consolidation rate for nine-year compulsory education is 98.74%, the gross enrollment rate for senior high school education is 92.04%, and female students account for 55.01% of ordinary senior high school students.
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In Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, an ecological garden covering 230 hectares has "grown" in the southwest corner of the city. This is the main venue of the 15th China International Garden Expo — the Wenzhou Garden Expo Park. It charges no admission fee and has no walls. Since its opening, it has received a total of 8.078 million visitors. Approaching its closure on July 24, many citizens and tourists are still coming to "check in."
Following the natural layout of mountains and waterways with delicate placement, Wenzhou Garden Expo Park allows citizens and tourists to fully appreciate the beauty of the gardens. "Every step is a scene, and every scene is like a painting," said Ms. Song, a tourist from Jinan, Shandong.
As the main host city of the 15th Garden Expo, Wenzhou has fully implemented the concept of "people's cities" (人民城市理念) and striven to deeply integrate the garden landscape into the city's fabric, bringing it close to the daily life of the people, thereby advancing urban renewal. After this Garden Expo concludes, the main venue will gradually be transformed into a botanical garden and specialized parks, becoming a green living space shared by the people.
Revitalizing existing stock, carrying out organic renewal, and integrating into the city's fabric —
Exiting Wenzhou South Station and walking about ten minutes, one arrives at the south entrance of Wenzhou Garden Expo Park. Bearing the wisdom of Chinese landscape gardening and displaying the charm of world garden culture, the Garden Expo Park has become Wenzhou's "urban reception hall."
"Unlike the previous approach of building new gardens in distant suburbs, we insist on revitalizing resources and carrying out organic renewal," said Mo Guanghui (莫光辉), Deputy General Manager of Wenzhou City Construction & Development Group, who participated in the construction of the Wenzhou Garden Expo Park. He noted that the park is located in the central urban area, which helps promote the development of the western part of the city.
Huang Timing (黄悌敏), Executive Deputy Director of the Office of the Preparatory Work Command for the 15th Garden Expo, introduced that the urban water conservancy regulation and storage project — the Xian Lake Regulation and Storage Project (仙湖调蓄工程) — has built the framework for the Garden Expo Park, adding 28.3 hectares of water surface area and significantly raising the regional drainage and flood control standard. "We neither deliberately dig lakes to create scenery, nor fail to achieve a win-win between 'water management' and 'scenery creation'."
Ecological restoration and urban construction resonate at the same frequency. In the south garden of the Expo Park, abandoned mines once left "scars." During the construction process, 12,000 square meters of abandoned mine pits were transformed into a cliff-side theater; the open-air space became an outdoor cinema and music stage. Citizens and tourists sit on the newly built large lawn, feeling the charm of the blend of nature and humanity.
Adapting measures to local conditions, putting people first, and staying close to the people's life —
On the island of the Zhejiang Mountains and Waters Exhibition Garden in the Expo Park, in front of an antique building, a 110-year-old banyan tree is lush and thriving.
Wenzhou has long had a "banyan-pavilion culture," where resting under the banyan tree is a good place for discussion and chatting. Mo Guanghui explained that the design team carried out ecological planning around the protection of 9 ancient banyan trees and over 600 other trees, achieving landscape renewal.
"When I was a child, I used to listen to the elders tell stories under the tree. I never imagined that after the Garden Expo Park was built, these old trees would still be here!" Returning to the old place, Weng Deyun (翁德云), a former villager who lived in Xianmen Village, Ouhai District, Wenzhou City, caressed the old banyan tree with deep emotion, filled with feelings.
After the old city renovation and the whole-village relocation, Weng Deyun and the villagers moved into a new residential area near the Garden Expo Park, only a 7-minute walk away. "I'm happy to move into a new house, and even happier to be able to visit the park for free often!" Weng Deyun said.
People are both the subject and the purpose of development. The ultimate foothold of urban renewal is to make people's lives more convenient, more comfortable, and better.
Sanyang Wetland (三垟湿地), a sub-venue of the ecological wetland area, after 20 years of ecological restoration, has transformed from a former "sewage pit" into a "urban green kidney" where 60% of the water area reaches Class III water quality and 156 species of birds inhabit. Citizens stroll along the waterfront boardwalk, and egrets skim across the water, stirring up ripples.
Caocun Town (曹村镇), a sub-venue of the rural garden area in Rui'an City, relying on its contiguous grain production functional area, has created a rustic space integrating pastoral camping and farming experience. It has now become a popular check-in spot for citizens' suburban tours.
Focusing on the long term, ensuring sustained use, and promoting urban development —
Adhering to overall planning and operations-first approach, Wenzhou, through government leadership, market operation, and professional management, strives to ensure that the resources of the Garden Expo continue to play a role.
Looking inside, all exhibition halls in the main venue have planned directions for sustainable use after the expo: the China Pavilion will be transformed into a cultural activity center, the mountain residence building complex will be converted into high-end guesthouses, and the south garden will transition into a comprehensive botanical garden.
Looking at the surroundings, the "Expo Impression" complex has been transformed from old industrial factory buildings; across the street, "Expo Workshop" has been partially renovated into a digital industry incubation park, attracting various innovative enterprises to move in; surrounding villages and houses have also been upgraded and renovated, becoming commercial markets full of artistic atmosphere... "We promote the organic connection between the Garden Expo Park and the surrounding urban stock space, strive to form a composite urban functional area with a unique style, and use new business formats to gather vitality and retain people," Huang Timing introduced.
In recent years, Wenzhou has continuously promoted the transformation of urban development from outward expansion to connotative upgrading — "embroidery-style" (绣花式) renovation of old residential communities, the "fitting in wherever possible" construction of pocket parks, the gradual expansion of the radius of convenient living circles, and the infiltration of urban warmth into every detail of people's lives. Since the implementation of the "Strong City Action" (强城行动) in 2023, the coverage rate of the 500-meter service radius of park green spaces in the city has increased to 95.6%.
"In the first year of the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, Wenzhou takes hosting this Garden Expo as an opportunity to deeply practice the people-centered development philosophy and accelerate the construction of a modern people's city," said Zhang Zhenfeng (张振丰), member of the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Wenzhou Municipal Party Committee.
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Chinese-style modernization requires both material civilization and spiritual civilization. The level of civilization in rural society directly affects the quality of Chinese-style modernization.
The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan proposes to "strengthen the construction of spiritual civilization in rural areas in the new era, prosper and develop rural culture, and implement the project for building civilized rural customs" and "coordinate the promotion of spiritual civilization construction in urban and rural areas."
Civilized rural customs are the soul bond of comprehensive rural revitalization. Simple wedding banquets one after another untie the heavy shackles of social obligations; courtyard meetings one after another are "beat the drum face to face, clash the gong opposite" — the villagers' worries become clearer the more they talk them out; cultural and sports events one after another stimulate vitality deeply rooted in the native soil. Good family traditions and simple folk customs shape the inner character of the countryside and also boost the spirits and vigor of the villagers.
In the pace of urban-rural integrated development, agricultural civilization and urban civilization also burst forth with powerful spiritual force through interaction and fusion.
On the one hand, the inflow of various talents brings more modern management concepts and rule-of-law concepts to the countryside, injecting new blood into rural governance. On the other hand, as the protection and inheritance of traditional villages, intangible cultural heritage, and so forth are strengthened, distinctive natural and cultural spaces also allow urban residents to receive physical and spiritual cultivation. From the "dream linkage" of urban and rural cultures, to paired assistance and loving care for farmers, to shared value concepts internalized in the heart, the seeds of civilization thrive in a two-way effort.
Building civilized rural customs jointly by urban and rural areas requires sustained effort and long-term perseverance. Let the breeze of civilized rural customs blow into the heart and moisten the soul; urban and rural China will see more new scenes of civilization and harmony, converging into the spirited and striving ethos of the entire nation.
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General Secretary Xi Jinping, at the National Science and Technology Awards Conference, the Conference of Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, and the Eleventh National Congress of the China Association for Science and Technology, fully affirmed the major achievements of China’s scientific and technological undertakings in recent years, profoundly analyzed the new situation facing scientific and technological development, put forward clear requirements for further strengthening the sense of responsibility, urgency, and mission and fully implementing the Party Central Committee’s various deployments for scientific and technological undertakings during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, and stressed that “promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation. This is the key to leading the development of new quality productive forces through high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening.” General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech is highly political, strategic, and guiding, pointing the way forward and providing fundamental guidance for doing a good job in scientific and technological work in the new era. The Decision of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed “improving the systems and mechanisms for developing new quality productive forces according to local conditions” and “promoting the integrated development of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation.” The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan devotes an entire chapter to making comprehensive arrangements for “accelerating high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening to lead the development of new quality productive forces.” The 15th Five-Year Plan period is a critical period of tackling tough problems for building a strong science and technology nation. To thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech spirit and the Party Central Committee’s decisions and deployments, we must profoundly grasp the internal logic of promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, and solidly use scientific and technological innovation to support and lead Chinese-style modernization.
Profoundly Understanding the Important Code of the Formation Law of a Strong Science and Technology Nation
Looking back at the course of world modernization, each major power’s rise has been basically accompanied by major breakthroughs in the field of basic research and the same-frequency resonance of scientific and technological breakthroughs and industrial change.
In 17th-century Britain, natural science research became a common practice, giving rise to a large number of scientists represented by Newton, and producing a batch of basic scientific breakthroughs that changed human cognition, such as Newtonian mechanics; at the same time, it deeply integrated science with industry, giving birth in the 18th century to major inventions such as the Spinning Jenny and Watt’s steam engine, achieving the First Industrial Revolution, changing the entire process of human social production and life, and driving Britain to become a world science and technology power. In 18th-century France, scientists such as Laplace and Lavoisier emerged, along with a number of subversive basic scientific works that laid the foundation for disciplines such as modern chemistry, making France a world scientific power. However, at that time, France paid more attention to theoretical research while neglecting the transformation and industrial application of scientific and technological achievements, causing its status as a strong power to be quickly overtaken. In 19th-century Germany, emphasis was placed on the transfer of scientific and technological knowledge to industry, and through the mentor system, a scientific research and education mechanism, many scientists were cultivated in universities, and major scientific theories such as cell theory were established, laying the foundation for the rapid development of German science, technology, and industry, driving Germany to become a world science, technology, and industrial power. In 20th-century America, it fully absorbed the experience of scientific and technological development from countries such as Britain, France, and Germany, placed great importance on the transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements, and built an ecosystem for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements conducive to the rapid development of the science and technology industry. It not only attracted top scientists represented by Einstein, but also created a number of inventors and entrepreneurs, formed platforms such as Silicon Valley, and promoted the rapid integration of basic research innovation achievements from universities and research institutions with science and technology enterprises and science and technology capital.
Looking at the evolution law of world science and technology powers, it can be found that for a country to achieve a leap from a large science and technology country to a strong science and technology nation, it requires both original breakthroughs in the field of basic research and the efficient transformation of scientific and technological achievements into real productivity. The higher the quality of basic research results and the closer the integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, the faster and more sustainable the enhancement of national competitiveness.
The world today is in a period of major development, major change, and major adjustment. The trends of world multi-polarity and economic globalization are deepening, social informatization and cultural diversification continue to advance, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating, and countries are taking scientific and technological innovation as the primary driving force leading development and the main battlefield of international strategic games, constantly stimulating innovation vitality.
Since the beginning of the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping, 高瞻远瞩 (gāo zhān yuǎn zhǔ - "stand high and see far," farsighted with strategic vision), setting the direction with raised flags, has promoted the formulation of a series of foundational measures and long-term strategies, enabling our country to steadily advance towards the strategic goal of building a world science and technology power. Under the scientific guidance of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on scientific and technological innovation and the work of the China Association for Science and Technology, our country is accelerating its transformation from a global participant and contributor in science and technology to a pioneer and leader, becoming one of the countries with the fastest rising innovation capacity. The Global Innovation Index rose from 34th in 2012 to 10th in 2025. The total number of scientific and technological human resources and the total number of R&D personnel rank first in the world. The number of PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) international patent applications has ranked first in the world for seven consecutive years. The number of high-level international journal papers has ranked first in the world for five consecutive years. Among the top ten in the "Nature Index – Science Cities," Chinese cities occupy six seats; among the 2025 "Highly Cited Researchers" released by Clarivate, one-fifth come from Mainland China; according to the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Global Innovation Index 2025, China has entered the list of the world’s top ten most innovative economies. At this important stage, promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, accelerating the transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements, and striving to turn scientific research creativity into real productivity is the inevitable path to accelerating high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening and accelerating the building of a strong science and technology nation.
Accurately Grasping the Internal Laws and Historical Necessity of the Deep Integration of Scientific and Technological Innovation and Industrial Innovation
Historical logic reveals the importance of the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, while theoretical logic needs to answer deeper questions: What is the internal mechanism of the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, and what kind of relationship should be formed?
From the perspective of essential attributes, scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation have internal unity. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation are the basic paths for developing new quality productive forces." This important thesis profoundly reveals the essential law of their internal unity and mutual foundation. From the basic principles of Marxist political economy, science and technology are the primary productive forces, and industry is an important carrier of productive forces. The cultivation and development of new quality productive forces inevitably require that science and technology, as an inherent and decisive factor in productive forces, achieve a higher level of coordination and unity with industry, the carrier of productive forces. On the one hand, scientific and technological innovation provides endogenous impetus for industrial innovation, with scientific research breakthroughs "solving problems" for industry, providing source technologies and underlying principles; on the other hand, industrial demand "sets problems" for scientific research, guiding basic research and applied research to target real problems, and promoting the realization of the value of scientific and technological innovation achievements. The two are not parallel lines going their own ways, but "rivers" that converge and surge. Promoting the deep integration and mutual stimulation of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, providing source technologies for industrial upgrading through breakthroughs in basic research, and providing direction and impetus for basic research through the traction of industrial demand, thus constitutes a complete closed loop of innovation-driven development.
From the perspective of internal mechanism, the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation can achieve two-way empowerment. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "basic research is the source of the entire scientific system and the general mechanism for all technical problems," emphasized "strengthening the dominant position of enterprises in innovation, achieving seamless connection between the innovation chain and the industrial chain," "giving full play to the role of enterprises as problem-setters, promoting the coordination of key projects and the integration of R&D activities, accelerating the construction of innovation consortia led by leading enterprises, supported by universities and research institutes, and coordinated by various innovative entities, developing an efficient and strong common technology supply system, and improving the effectiveness of the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements." Two-way empowerment is not a simple one-way linear transmission from scientific discovery to technological development to industrial application, but rather making scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation mutually demand, mutually support, and mutually verify. When enterprises, as the demand side, pose technical propositions, universities and research institutes, as the supply side, overcome scientific challenges, and pilot-scale platforms, as the transformation side, complete engineering verification, a closed loop of "demand traction – scientific research tackling – engineering scale-up – industrial application" can be formed. At present, the new quality productive forces we are accelerating the development of are mainly driven by revolutionary technological breakthroughs, and their foundation lies in basic research. Only when every step of the innovation chain can feel the pulse of industrial demand, and every link of the industrial chain can absorb the nutrients of scientific discovery, can the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation truly be achieved.
From the perspective of international competition, scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation have become the main battlefield of international competition and major-power games. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "The once-in-a-century changes in the world are accelerating, the technological revolution and major-power games are intertwined, and the high-tech field has become the forefront and main battlefield of international competition, profoundly reshaping the global order and development landscape." At present, the world has entered a new period of turbulence and transformation. High-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening is not only a development issue but also a survival issue. We must firmly hold key core technologies, major scientific and technological achievements, and important scientific and technological talents in our own hands, ensuring independence and autonomy in the field of science and technology. It must be recognized that key core technologies cannot be asked for, bought, or begged for, nor can they be obtained through tracking and imitation; they can only grow through the full-chain coordination from basic research to industrial application. If the innovation chain and the industrial chain are disconnected, and source technology breakthroughs cannot be transformed into industrial capabilities, the core links related to the lifeline of the country will always be at risk of being controlled by others. In this sense, promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation is an important measure to safeguard national interests and ensure national security.
At the same time, it must also be seen that although scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation have internal unity, there is still tension between them in practice. Scientific and technological innovation pursues "discovering new knowledge." It faces the future and unknown fields, has a long cycle, a relatively low success rate, and uses academic contribution as the main evaluation benchmark. Industrial innovation pursues "creating new value." It faces the market, pays more attention to timeliness, emphasizes input-output ratio, and takes commercial returns as the ultimate test. Due to differences in evaluation systems, resource allocation methods, and time rhythms, it is inevitable that a situation of "each speaks its own language, each acts its own way" can form between the two. This may lead to a large number of basic research results remaining in the paper stage, failing to enter the downstream links of technology development and productization; enterprises relying on tracking and imitation may find it difficult to enter "uncharted territory" for original innovation; and it is impossible to solve the multi-faceted problems of imbalanced distribution of resources such as talents, capital, and data across the various links of the innovation chain. When scientists do not understand the application directions of new materials and new technologies, and entrepreneurs do not know the holders of the corresponding technologies when seeking solutions, scientific research achievements cannot cross the chasm from the laboratory to the production line. This is a problem that must be solved in promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation.
Actively Exploring a Chinese Path for Promoting the Deep Integration of Scientific and Technological Innovation and Industrial Innovation
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "The low conversion rate of scientific and technological achievements has always been a prominent problem we face" and "we must highlight the supply of scientific and technological innovation and the traction of industrial demand, promote the integrated innovation of industry, academia, and research, and open up the channel for accelerating the transformation of science and technology into real productivity." This has pointed the direction for us in promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation.
Leveraging the advantages of the new nationwide system for mobilizing resources. Scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation involve many fields, entities, and elements, constituting a huge system. Leveraging the advantages of the new nationwide system for mobilizing resources, integrating resources and forces, can optimize the allocation of innovation resources and greatly enhance the systematic capability to tackle key scientific and technological problems. By adhering to the strategic orientation of the "four fronts," strengthening the coordination of science and technology strategic planning, policies and measures, major tasks, scientific research forces, resource platforms, and regional innovation, building a synergy-efficient decision-making and command system and organization and implementation system, actively supporting the development of national laboratories and national key laboratories, building and leveraging the national strategic scientific and technological forces, constructing a pattern of synergistic efforts by multiple entities including the government, research institutes, universities, and enterprises, promoting the 同频共振 (tóng pín gòng zhèn - "same frequency, sympathetic resonance," to resonate in harmony) of all forces to form synergy, we can give full play to the advantages of the new nationwide system for mobilizing resources and greatly enhance the capability of science and technology to support and lead.
Deepening the reform of the scientific and technological evaluation system. To promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of talents must be stimulated. At present, the innovation potential of our country’s scientific and technological personnel needs to be further unleashed, and it is necessary to effectively play the baton role of scientific and technological evaluation. By improving the classified evaluation system that conforms to the characteristics of basic research and applied research, strengthening the orientation of innovation capability, quality, effectiveness, and contribution, focusing on discovering and cultivating more outstanding young scientific and technological talents on the front line of scientific research, increasing stable support for the early career stage and long cycle of scientific and technological personnel, allowing scientific and technological personnel to have greater autonomy in the distribution of income from the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and creating a healthy ecology of fair competition for talents and bursting innovation vitality, the innovation and creative vitality of scientific and technological talents can be fully released.
Strengthening the dominant position of enterprises in innovation. Enterprises have the natural attribute of connecting science and technology, the market, and industry. They are the conjunction point of the innovation chain and the industrial chain, and an important carrier and key force for promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation. It is necessary to seize the strategic opportunities brought by the accelerating new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, give play to the dominant role of enterprises in innovation, guide enterprises to increase R&D investment by promoting the aggregation of innovation elements such as capital, talents, technology, and data to enterprises, and continuously enhance innovation motivation, innovation vitality, and innovation strength. At the same time, cultivate a large number of technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises, specialized and new enterprises, single-champion enterprises, and unicorn enterprises, so that enterprises can better become the "main force" of scientific and technological innovation, making the "target points" of scientific and technological innovation clearer and the energy of industrial innovation more abundant.
Accelerating the development of science and technology finance. Patient capital is an important financial force for promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, and is also the main support for improving the investment and financing mechanism of the capital market and developing new quality productive forces. Original innovation from the laboratory to the market has a long cycle, high risk, and uncertain returns. By constructing a diversified, relay-type financial service system that is more adapted to the full life cycle financing needs of technology-based enterprises, making good use of the special "science and technology industry finance integration" initiative and the national industry-finance cooperation platform, leveraging the leveraging effect of industrial funds, and encouraging patient capital and long-term capital to support innovation, full life cycle financial support can be provided for scientific and technological innovation, empowering the growth and development of science and technology enterprises.
(The author is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. This article is a result of the theoretical seminar of the General Office of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference for the second quarter of 2026.)
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General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that “we must firmly establish bottom-line thinking (底线思维) and extreme thinking (极限思维) , and continuously improve the ability to respond to and handle major disasters and catastrophic disasters,” making strategic deployments and providing scientific guidance for the high-quality development of disaster prevention, mitigation, and relief undertakings in the new era and for building a solid national security barrier. At present, the strategic overall situation of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the major changes unseen in a century in the world are deeply intertwined and superimposed in evolution; the tasks of reform, development, and maintaining stability are arduous and heavy, and the game among major powers has become more complex and intense. Once a major disaster or catastrophic disaster occurs and is mishandled, it can easily become an important factor impeding the process of socialist modernization, and even delay and disrupt the forward march of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Facing the new situation, new tasks, and new challenges, we must consciously apply the scientific thinking methods of bottom-line thinking and extreme thinking, take scenario construction (情景构建) as a practical grip, and systematically build a whole-chain, full-cycle, whole-of-society emergency preparedness system for major disasters and catastrophic disasters, providing stable and reliable security guarantees for building a strong country and national rejuvenation.
Taking bottom-line thinking and extreme thinking as important guidelines for emergency preparedness for major disasters and catastrophic disasters
Bottom-line thinking and extreme thinking are Marxist scientific thinking methods and important guidelines for preventing and defusing major risks and doing a good job of emergency preparedness for major disasters and catastrophic disasters. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General
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General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized: "We must promote the concept of ecological civilization, cultivate ecological culture, and turn green and low-carbon lifestyles into social customs." Ecological culture possesses both natural and humanistic attributes; it encompasses not only the ecological concept of respecting and protecting nature, but also the humanistic connotation of passing on the cultural lineage and transforming customs through education. It is an organic unity of natural ecology and humanistic ecology. The "15th Five-Year Plan" outline proposes: "Prosper the new mass literature and art under the conditions of the internet." New mass literature and art have emerged and become prominent against the backdrop of cultural prosperity in the new era and the widespread application of internet media, with the people as the main body of creation, the internet as the primary carrier, and life-oriented expression as a distinctive feature. New mass literature and art highly align with the inherent requirements of ecological culture construction, forming an intrinsically unified core value connection with it. We must deeply study and implement Xi Jinping Thought on Culture and Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, actively promote the empowerment of ecological culture construction by new mass literature and art, and provide solid cultural support for comprehensively advancing the construction of a Beautiful China.
New mass literature and art and ecological culture construction share an inherent logical relationship of interconnected values, identical subjects, and integrated practices. From the perspective of the value core, ecological culture upholds the value orientation of ecological priority, striving to transform customs and consolidate ecological consensus; new mass literature and art is people-centered, transmitting mainstream values and guiding social trends. Both jointly serve the people's aspiration for a better life and are unified in the contemporary practice of building a Beautiful China. From the perspective of the practical subject, ecological culture construction relies on the people and is for the people, emphasizing participation by all and sharing by all; new mass literature and art is rooted in the people and faces the people, enabling ordinary masses to transform from appreciators of literature and art into creators and disseminators. Both manifest a distinct people's standpoint. From the perspective of the practical path, new mass literature and art, relying on the dissemination advantages of the internet, uses concrete, scenario-based, and interactive expressions to transform abstract ecological concepts into tangible and accessible cultural experiences, helping to convert ecological policy deployments into daily actions that the masses are willing to learn and follow, providing a down-to-earth and vibrant form of realization for ecological culture construction. To this end, we should actively promote the empowerment of ecological culture construction by new mass literature and art, fostering their coordinated development.
Cultivate creative subjects and strengthen the force for creating ecological themes. To promote new mass literature and art serving ecological culture construction, the primary task is to firmly grasp creation, making ecological themes an important direction for new mass literary and artistic creation. Adhere to the people-centered creative orientation, highlight the characteristics of a universal creative subject, incorporate ecological rangers, grassroots cadres, rural entrepreneurs, and self-media creators into the ecological literary and artistic creation team, and encourage the masses to record ecological changes with their lenses, write about green life with their pens, and sing stories of protecting greenery with their voices, so that everyone becomes a recorder, creator, and disseminator of ecological civilization. Highlight value guidance, closely revolve around the theme of ecological culture, integrate the concepts of ecological priority, green development, systematic governance, and sharing by all into the entire creative process, and launch a batch of excellent ecological literary and artistic works that have thought, warmth, are down-to-earth, and widely spread, using a high-quality creative team to lay a solid foundation for the high-quality development of new mass literature and art on ecological themes. Strengthen the guiding role of professionals, organize literary and artistic workers to go deep into the grassroots frontline, inspect rivers, lakes, wetlands, pastoral villages, and green industrial parks, closely experience the vivid practices of ecological restoration, low-carbon transformation, and enriching the people through ecology, and transform governance scenes, water protection stories, and green trends into literary and artistic works that the masses love to see, such as short videos and online literature.
Nurture cultural roots and promote the modern expression of traditional ecological wisdom. Excellent traditional Chinese culture contains rich ecological wisdom, providing abundant spiritual nourishment for ecological literary and artistic creation. Based on the practice of ecological civilization construction in the new era, we must do a good job in the creative transformation and innovative development of excellent traditional Chinese ecological culture, endowing it with fresh contemporary connotations. For example, "fishing, woodcutting, farming, and reading" (渔樵耕读) were production and lifestyle modes of the agricultural era. In the new era, they can be creatively transformed into green production and lifestyle modes: transforming "fishing" into ecological fisheries, river and lake conservation, and blue carbon practices; transforming "woodcutting" into forest management, ecological carbon sequestration, and wetland protection; transforming "farming" into green planting, circular agriculture, and organic cultivation; transforming "reading" into ecological research, green study tours, and science popularization. Relying on the advantages of concrete, scenario-based, and networked expression of new mass literature and art, transform traditional ecological wisdom into modern literary and artistic works that the masses can tangibly perceive, allowing traditional ecological culture to radiate new vitality in the internet era. Deeply explore the rich and diverse ecological elements of Chinese culture, use various forms of new mass literature and art to promote the modern transformation of traditional ecological scenes, enabling the inheritance of millennia-old culture to integrate and intermingle with the practice of ecological civilization in the new era, constructing a new paradigm for ecological culture construction that connects the past and present, upholds fundamental principles and breaks new ground.
Strengthen dissemination effectiveness and build an ecological culture communication matrix relying on the internet. Internet communication is a distinctive feature of new mass literature and art and also an important foundation for enhancing the influence of ecological culture. We must fully leverage the advantages of network communication—instantaneity, interactivity, and universality—improve the communication layout, innovate communication scenarios, and consolidate communication synergy. Strengthen new media communication platforms, integrate resources such as mainstream websites, short video applications, and cultural tourism accounts, build an ecological culture communication matrix with clear positioning and regular updates, and three-dimensionally display geographical and humanistic landscapes, ecological governance achievements, and green life scenarios. Innovate immersive and participatory communication forms, launch lightweight content such as ecological cloud tours, slow-motion live broadcasts of scenes, green life check-ins, and low-carbon themed challenges, encouraging the masses to shift from passive viewing to active participation and spontaneous sharing. Coordinate national literary, artistic, and media resources, establish cross-regional mechanisms for linked exhibitions, joint creation, and collaborative promotion, break down geographical barriers, and form a nationwide synchronized momentum for ecological culture communication. Integrate the dissemination of new mass literature and art into work scenarios such as ecological education and propaganda, the creation of civilized cities and counties, river and lake governance, and biodiversity protection. Use popular and vivid literary and artistic expressions to guide the broad masses of the people in practicing green production and lifestyle modes, continuously promoting the internalization of ecological concepts in the mind and their externalization in action.
(The author is a researcher at the Institute of Culture, Zhejiang Academy of Social Sciences)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 金 歆
Opening a news app, a slight shake of the phone automatically redirects to a promotional page of some e-commerce platform; scrolling through short videos, a game ad pops up on the page, and as the fingertip taps the "close" icon, it triggers an app download; checking match news on a sports app, inadvertently touching an ad disguised as ordinary news instantly leads to a financial product sales page… In recent years, the phenomenon of mobile app ads "erratically redirecting" (乱跳转) has drawn widespread attention. Despite continuous rectification by regulators, the chaos has never fully disappeared.
How deep do the redirection tricks go?
"Now when I open apps, I dare not even shake it, afraid that I might accidentally jump into an ad," said Ms. Zhao, a resident of Chaoyang District, Beijing. She opened a video app, and an ad from an e-commerce platform appeared on the screen. Below the ad was an icon showing a phone being turned, accompanied by a line of small text: "Twist (the phone) to enter this platform." Ms. Zhao did not shake her phone, but the screen directly redirected to the e-commerce platform's page.
The reporter tested several commonly used apps and found that "shake" and "twist" redirect ads have become a common phenomenon. Chen Yinjiang (陈音江), deputy secretary-general of the Consumer Rights Protection Law Research Association of the China Law Society (中国法学会消费者权益保护法研究会), explained that superficially, whether to redirect to an ad is the user's own choice via "shake" or "twist," but in reality, many apps set the trigger sensitivity of the gyroscope and acceleration sensor extremely high — the natural shaking when walking, the action of picking up the phone from a desk, or even the slight jolts of a car can be judged as "the user actively shaking," immediately triggering an ad redirect.
Besides the issue of splash screen ad redirection, ads "infiltrating" the information feed and thus causing redirection is also a commonly reported problem. "Warning! This type of food is quietly harming your liver," "Attention retirees, don't forget to claim this money"... Ms. Li, a resident of Haidian District, Beijing, discovered while browsing an information app that multiple items marked "ad" in semi-transparent tiny font were interspersed in the news list, with a style almost identical to other news, easily mistaken for normal information. Mr. Tang, a resident of Yangpu District, Shanghai, also showed the reporter the news interface of a sports information app. A post titled "Why Is This Group of Stars Performing Poorly as a Team" looked no different from other match information, but upon clicking, it redirected to a download page for a basketball game.
"This is called 'native advertising.' In theory, as long as the identity is clearly marked, it is compliant, but in actual operation, many platforms make the 'ad' label very small and light, blending it with other content so it's almost invisible," Liu Yang (刘洋, a pseudonym), head of the advertising department at an information platform, told the reporter. This form of ad, which 鱼目混珠 (yú mù hùn zhū – "fish eyes mixed with pearls," to pass off the fake as genuine), has a click-through rate far higher than ordinary ads, and thus is favored by platforms and advertisers.
Ms. Li also showed the reporter a knowledge-sharing app, where a semi-transparent floating window in the form of an e-commerce ad appeared on the page. Ms. Li tried to click the "×" button, but the page immediately redirected to the e-commerce platform. "The '×' is hard to find, and even when you find it, it's not easy to close," Ms. Li said helplessly.
Liu Yang introduced that common tricks of such ads include: first, the close button is extremely small and placed in a tricky position, sometimes hidden in the shadow at the edge of the screen, so that users have to try repeatedly to hit it; second, a "fake close" button — for example, there are two close icons on the page, only one of which actually closes the ad, while the other is a redirect link; third, "secondary pop-ups" — when the close button is finally tapped, a confirmation window pops up saying "Are you sure you want to leave?" or "Watch one more benefit," indirectly extending the ad's exposure time.
Why does it persist despite repeated bans?
"Ad revenue is very important for many free apps; for some small apps, the source of income is basically advertising," said a certain advertising business manager surnamed Zhang at a video platform, telling the reporter. The price of splash screen ads for many apps is tied to the number of clicks. And methods like "shake" and "information flow disguise" can increase ad click-through rates several times, naturally driving up revenue.
Zhang frankly admitted that under the pressure of monetizing traffic, platforms will repeatedly test the edges of the rules — when regulators require "one-click close," they make the button small and off-center; when high-sensitivity "shake" is banned, they adjust parameters to near the upper limit of the standard; when required to label "ad," they use the smallest font and lightest color and place it in the most inconspicuous spot.
"Using 'erratic redirection' to trick clicks may increase user data on the surface, but in the long run it greatly harms the platform's image and reputation; the gains do not outweigh the losses," honestly said a marketing department head at an e-commerce platform. Even knowing it will damage their own credibility, driven by profit, some platforms and third-party ad software development kit (SDK) operators still play "edge ball" (walk the line of the rules).
"The concealment of technical means increases the difficulty of governance," said Xia Yan (夏燕), a professor at the School of Cyber Space Security and Information Law at Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications. Many small and medium-sized apps do not have their own advertising operation capabilities and achieve monetization by integrating third-party ad SDKs. "When problems arise, they shift blame to each other — the app developer says the ad was provided by the SDK, and the SDK operator says the parameters were set by the app itself."
How to strengthen regulation?
In response to the "erratic redirection" phenomenon, regulatory authorities have consistently cracked down on it. In 2022, the Cyberspace Administration of China (国家互联网信息办公室), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部), and the State Administration for Market Regulation (国家市场监督管理总局) jointly issued the "Regulations on the Administration of Internet Pop-up Information Push Services," which clearly require that "when pop-up ads push information, they should be identifiable, prominently marked with 'ad' and a close sign, and ensure one-click close of pop-up ads" and "shall not induce user clicks through pop-up information push services." Thereafter, relevant departments have repeatedly carried out various actions to crack down on the "erratic redirection" phenomenon.
This year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology again organized a special meeting to guide and urge relevant internet platforms and smart terminal enterprises to strengthen standardized management of app information window presentation methods and strictly prohibit illegal presentation of information windows.
In response to the much-criticized "shake" ads, some internet companies have taken the initiative to cancel them, as much as possible avoiding users inadvertently triggering redirects by unconsciously shaking their phones, and providing users with clear redirect guidance, informing users in advance of where clicking an ad or interaction will lead, ensuring that users' right to know is effectively protected, and returning more choice to users.
Relevant technical standards and norms are also gradually being improved. In 2025, the National Cybersecurity Standardization Technical Committee (全国网络安全标准化技术委员会) issued the "Cybersecurity Standard Practice Guide — Safety Requirements for Shake Ad Triggering Behavior," specifying that app and SDK operators should set convenient closing channels and reasonable trigger thresholds.
How to fundamentally cure the persistent "erratic redirection" phenomenon of mobile app ads? Qiao Basheng (乔巴生), a distinguished professor at Zhejiang Normal University, suggested that the vicious cycle of "rectification — rebound — re-rectification" must be broken, and a governance closed loop involving the collaboration of regulators, platforms, industry, and users should be built. On the regulatory side, enforcement standards should be further refined, the responsibility boundaries of third-party ad SDK operators clarified, the random inspection of concealed illegal ads intensified, the cost of violations increased, and violation records linked to app listing qualifications and corporate credit ratings, so as to reverse the situation where "the cost of breaking the law is far lower than the profit."
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Departments jointly answer the same question and advance in an orderly manner, and adhere to seeking advice from the people and seeking effectiveness from the people, fully revitalizing existing resources, and precisely delivering services to where the masses need them most.
At noon, inside the Cainiao Station (菜鸟驿站) service point in Shitang Village (石塘村), Zhuqiao Town (朱桥镇), Huai'an District (淮安区), Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province, courier parcels were neatly placed on shelves. In the government affairs agency area next to it, volunteers were providing services such as social security consultation and document submission for villagers. The agricultural product consignment area displayed rice, vegetables, free-range eggs, and other home-produced items from villagers’ households. Previously, “long-distance parcel pickup and difficulty sending parcels” were pain points in villagers’ lives. To pick up a single parcel, villagers sometimes had to walk several kilometers. The shortcomings of rural logistics also brought other pain points: agricultural products could not be sold at good prices, and villagers had limited employment information.
To this end, we organized cadres to go down to various village groups, collected demands through villagers’ WeChat groups, and through courtyard consultation meetings, identified more than 20 types of service needs of the masses. Next, we organized Party member volunteers and returning college students to teach the elderly, hand by hand, how to use their phones to check courier logistics and use e-commerce platforms to sell agricultural products. We also made simple operation flowcharts and posted them on the station wall, and left volunteers’ phone numbers to provide guidance at any time. “At first, I didn’t even know how to adjust the font size on my phone. The volunteer taught me several times. Now I can check my parcels myself, and I even mailed pickled vegetables to my daughter who lives elsewhere.” Old man Liu, a villager in his 70s, shook his phone contentedly.
After the Cainiao Station service point in Shitang Village was put into use, it integrated functions such as parcel pickup and delivery, government affairs agency, agricultural product consignment, and employment matching, with two village cadres on duty each day. Zhuqiao Town adopted a “collective leadership + village cadre shareholding” model to establish a service company, providing convenient services for the masses. “Look, this is a sales payment I just received.” Mentioning the changes the station brought to villagers’ lives, Sister Zhang, a grower, said with a smile, “Before, when I cut chives, I could only take them to town to sell. Now I send them to the station, the volunteers help take photos and upload them to the e-commerce platform, and I can receive orders at home.”
Giving priority to renovating and constructing service points using existing venues such as Party-mass service centers, Huai'an District built in batches a network of “Red Post Express (红驿速递)” town-level general stations and village-level substations. All service points across the district have served the masses a cumulative total of over 200,000 person-times, collected and resolved over 300 livelihood demands, and through the “station + e-commerce” model, helped villagers sell agricultural products worth over 5 million yuan.
Today, the small rural courier station has become a new platform for serving people’s livelihoods and gathering the hearts of the people. To enhance rural cohesion and activate new momentum for development, it is necessary not only for grassroots cadres to go deep into the grassroots, approach the masses, grasp actual conditions, and understand the masses’ demands, but more importantly, for various departments to jointly answer the same question and advance in an orderly manner, and adhere to seeking advice from the people and seeking effectiveness from the people, fully revitalize existing resources, and precisely deliver services to where the masses need them most.
(The author is a cadre from the Huai'an District Organization Department (淮安区委组织部), Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province)
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Beijing, July 21 (People's Daily) — (Reporter Zhang Tianpei (张天培)) A reporter learned from the Ministry of Public Security (公安部): On July 20, the 2026 National Public Security SWAT Challenge, "Sharp Knife·Mission" (尖刀·使命), commenced in Urumqi, Xinjiang. From the public security departments (bureaus) of various provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government, the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Public Security Bureau (新疆生产建设兵团公安局), as well as the Ministry of Public Security Special Service Bureau (公安部特勤局), the Ministry of Public Security Railway Public Security Bureau (公安部铁路公安局), the General Administration of Customs Anti-Smuggling Bureau (海关总署缉私局), the Civil Aviation Administration of China Public Security Bureau (民航局公安局), the National Immigration Administration (国家移民管理局), and other units, a total of 55 participating teams and 584 participating members gathered at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains to engage in a five-day intense competition.
The National Public Security SWAT Challenge has been held for three consecutive years. On the basis of continuing the practical combat-oriented direction of the previous challenge, this competition has broader personnel coverage, greater specialty professionalism in its subjects, and higher alignment with actual combat. The competition is established based on the needs of public security SWAT officers to perform their duties in the new era, adheres to the training orientation of strict training and close adherence to actual combat, and sets up five competition subjects around such practical combat tasks as counter-terrorism and maintaining stability, emergency response and incident handling, and disaster rescue and relief: rapid shooting, bomb identification and disposal, hostage rescue, pursuit and assault, and extreme obstacle crossing.
A responsible official of the Ministry of Public Security stated that holding the National Public Security SWAT Challenge is both a concrete measure to implement the Party Committee of the Ministry's deployment of deepening SWAT practical combat training and a comprehensive test of the training effectiveness and emergency response capabilities of various regions, and has significant practical significance for forging a high-quality professional SWAT force and perfecting a modern emergency response system.
Return to TopBeijing, July 21 (Reporter Ni Yi (倪弋)) — The Supreme People’s Procuratorate on the 21st released information on the procuratorial organs’ law-based punishment of crimes endangering production safety, showing that from January 2023 to June 2026, procuratorial organs nationwide approved arrests of 4,181 persons and prosecuted 16,648 persons. From the perspective of procuratorial case handling, the production safety situation is generally stable and improving, but risk hazards endangering production safety in some industries and fields warrant attention.
Risk hazards in traditional industries and fields have not dissipated, and accidents in high-risk links occur frequently. In traditional industries and fields such as mining, hazardous chemicals, transportation, and construction, human violations occur frequently, compounded by the complex operating environment, high production intensity, and difficulty in controlling inherent safety risks within the industries themselves; these remain the main areas where major and extraordinarily serious accidents occur.
Insufficient supervision of production safety equipment and facilities, leading to long-standing risk hazards. Procuratorial case handling has found that failures of various types of special equipment, pressure equipment, and safety devices are relatively common in cases of crimes endangering production safety; equipment operating beyond its service life and lack of protection are important inducements for related accidents.
Some nine small venues (九小场所) have weak basic safety conditions, with prominent fire accident hazards. Illegal use of electricity, fire, and gas, indoor parking and charging of electric vehicles, and aging of gas hoses in catering establishments have become inducements for fire accidents.
Risks in new business formats such as new energy, energy storage, and urban gas continue to emerge. In recent years, new business format industries have expanded rapidly, and related safety standards, regulatory regulations, technical prevention and control, and safety management need improvement. Some enterprises have insufficient identification of risk hazards in new materials, new processes, and new equipment, and use new materials in non-standard production, easily causing safety accidents.
The Supreme People’s Procuratorate stated that it will lawfully punish crimes endangering production safety, strengthen the connection between administrative law enforcement and criminal justice and public interest litigation procuratorial work, and jointly carry out special rectifications with relevant departments to prevent safety risks at the source.
Return to TopBeijing, July 21 (Xinhua) — (Reporter Zhang Tianpei) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Public Security: in accordance with the unified deployment of the Ministry of Public Security, with the full support of our embassy in Vietnam and the active cooperation of the Vietnamese public security department, the public security organs of Shandong Province dispatched a working group to Vietnam and successfully received Pan Moujun (潘某君), the principal offender in a certain case of destroying computer information systems, and escorted him back to China.
In July 2025, the public security organs of Zibo City, Shandong, discovered during their work that local netizen Yang Mou (杨某) had set up and maintained multiple phishing websites, inducing users to download software installation packages bundled with the "Silver Fox" (银狐) trojan virus, illegally controlling victims' computers, stealing user information, and seeking illegal gains.
From July 2025 to May 2026, the public security organs conducted in-depth investigations and carried out multiple rounds of concentrated cleanup operations, successively dismantling several criminal gangs involved in the case. In August 2025, Pan Moujun, the main suspect in the case, fled overseas and has since disappeared without a trace.
On June 4, 2026, thanks to the tireless efforts of the public security organs and with the strong support of our embassy in Vietnam, the Vietnamese police successfully apprehended Pan Moujun. At the same time, the public security organs simultaneously launched concentrated cleanup operations in Guangdong, Guangxi and other locations, capturing the remaining 11 suspects in the case in one fell swoop. On the afternoon of June 6, Pan Moujun was escorted back to China.
The arrest and escort of Pan Moujun back to China fully demonstrates the firm determination of the public security organs to severely crack down on criminal offenses and pursue criminal suspects. The public security organs will continue to strengthen international law enforcement cooperation, severely crack down on cybercrime activities, and effectively safeguard the safety of people's lives and property.
Return to TopKUNMING, July 21 (Xinhua) — (Reporter Ye Chuanzeng) Recently, the Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of Yunnan Province (云南省住房和城乡建设厅) issued a notice on further standardizing the disclosure of property service information in residential communities. The province will implement a "Five Displays and Five Openings" (五亮五公开) system for property services across the province, aiming to enhance the transparency of property services and safeguard the rights and interests of property owners.
The "Five Displays" include: displaying identity, by publishing a copy of the property service enterprise's business license; displaying evaluation, by publishing the results of the previous year's credit evaluation; displaying personnel, by publishing the names, photos, contact information, and qualification status of the project manager and personnel responsible for customer service, fire management, environment, and other positions; displaying standards, by publishing the fee standards, basis, and methods of fee collection; and displaying commitments, by publishing commitments regarding service timelines, emergency response, complaint handling, and other aspects.
The "Five Openings" refer to: opening service content, including the terms of the property service contract, and the maintenance and upkeep plans for common areas and facilities and equipment in the community, as well as their implementation status; opening the income and expenditure of property fees; opening the income and expenditure of public proceeds, including the full income and expenditure generated from operating in owners' common areas, roads, parking spaces, spaces, and facilities; opening the usage status of special maintenance funds for residential housing; and opening information on regulatory authorities and operation and maintenance service units.
The notice clarifies that housing and urban-rural development departments at all levels must incorporate the implementation of property service information disclosure into the key content of concentrated rectification inspections for addressing prominent issues in property services. Property service enterprises that refuse to disclose, disclose false content, or engage in fraud shall be corrected and dealt with in accordance with laws and regulations.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 苏 滨
At the lusheng (reed-pipe) festival, people dance in ethnic costumes, silver ornaments sparkling with dazzling light; at the bullfighting arena, two bulls strain against each other with their horns, their horns curved like crescent moons, their eyes bulging like bronze bells; in the rice paddies, villagers roll up their trousers and bend over, the rice seedlings behind them neatly aligned…
In Tonggu Village (铜鼓村), Kaili City (凯里市), Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture (黔东南苗族侗族自治州), Guizhou Province, this is both the daily life of the village and the material for peasant paintings. The villagers’ paintings are not constrained by form; they use bold, exaggerated shapes and intense, saturated colors to bring the life of the Miao Mountains onto canvas.
“Who says a hand that holds a hoe cannot hold a paintbrush?” says 80-year-old villager Zhao Yuanqiao (赵元桥), the first person in the village to paint peasant paintings. Over decades, his works have entered multiple art museums in Beijing, Shanghai, and overseas. Now, he still insists on creating every day, and painting has become a habit of life.
In the afternoon, sunlight casts dappled shadows in the studio. Zhao Yuanqiao bends over his desk, concentrating on tracing lines on xuan paper. This is his new work, Miao Mountains Bride. The brush tip is saturated with pigment, his wrist gently turns, and delicate patterns bloom on the paper. He paints with absorption, and a Miao girl wearing silver ornaments and a pleated skirt 跃然纸上 (yuè rán zhǐ shàng - “leaping onto the paper,” to be vividly portrayed), her skirt like a blooming flower. The intense red, the yellow of the rice fields, the blue of the sky form a strong visual contrast.
“Paint whatever you like, paint it however it looks good,” says Zhao Yuanqiao. He says he has loved painting since childhood; after finishing farm work, he picks up the brush and paints the labor in the fields, the jubilation of festivals, and the flowers, birds, insects, and fish around him into his pictures. “At that time no one taught me; I relied entirely on my own exploration.”
Many years ago, Dai Juyi (戴聚一), then director of the Majiang County Cultural Center (麻江县文化馆), led a team to Tonggu Village to gather folk materials and create. The young Zhao Yuanqiao clutched his drawing paper and followed to learn. From composition, outlining, and coloring to completing a painting, he crouched behind the painter for several hours, hardly moving…. That encounter sparked the flame of art deep in the mountains of Guizhou. Dai Juyi took the initiative to provide painting materials and deliver painting textbooks, established an amateur art group in Tonggu Village, and had Zhao Yuanqiao and other villagers attend art training classes in the county. From then on, peasant paintings began to appear in Tonggu Village, and the creative passion in the village started to flourish.
As the training deepened, however, Zhao Yuanqiao fell into confusion. “When painting a tree, our trees have no roots, no branches. The training instructors thought it didn’t look like a tree. But we were painting what we liked; looking like it or not wasn’t that important.” Zhao Yuanqiao, who had only attended junior high school, could not initially understand the professional knowledge. Later, with the instructors’ support, he began to incorporate ethnic elements into his paintings, gradually forming a peasant-painting style with exaggerated forms and bold colors.
In the 1980s, foreign tourists came to Tonggu Village, took a liking to Zhao Yuanqiao’s works, and bought them for 100 yuan per piece, causing a sensation locally. Influenced by Zhao Yuanqiao, many women also joined the painting team. They combined cross-stitch embroidery and embroidery with painting, creating works that were rough, bold, unadorned, and natural. Tonggu Village set off a “peasant-painting fever.”
“This is a woman hulling rice; her waist needs to bend a little more. Carrying a heavy load is what work looks like. The colors need to be brighter; the apron is exactly this bright,” says villager Wang Mingcui, who has studied painting for a long time. Even during the busy farming season, she paints a few strokes by lamplight. “There’s both pleasure and money in it; painting has become a habit.”
Sixty-two-year-old villager Chen Qilin is also a peasant-painting enthusiast. When he first started learning, not a single work was invited for exhibition, and his confidence was shaken. Later, he gradually became a regular at art exhibitions. “Art comes from life. Peasant paintings don’t necessarily need lofty conceptions or professional brushwork; the daily life of the villagers is the source of creation.”
In the 1990s, Tonggu Village was rated by the former Ministry of Culture as a “Home of Chinese Modern Folk Painting.” Now, 28 people from Tonggu Village have joined the Provincial Artists Association; more than 3,000 works have been exhibited in over 20 countries and regions, winning numerous international awards. At its peak, the village sold over a thousand paintings a year, with total revenue exceeding one million yuan.
To promote the sustainable development of peasant paintings, the local government has set up a special training class at Tonggu Primary School. Zhao Yuanqiao serves as a teacher, training both villagers and children.
“When painting a mountain, you can’t use pale colors; you have to use bright colors to highlight the contrast. When painting a fish, you don’t have to paint scales; it’s prettier to paint Miao patterns,” says elementary school student Wu Huimei, speaking 头头是道 (tóu tóu shì dào - “each head has its way,” to speak clearly and logically). Her mother once studied peasant painting, and now she herself is learning to paint. “Mountains, fish, the sun, houses – I can paint all of them!”
Return to TopMy hometown is Tonggu Village (铜鼓村), deep in the Miao Mountains (苗岭) of Kaili (凯里), Guizhou. The children who have lived here for generations are naturally 能歌善舞 (néng gē shàn wǔ - "able to sing, good at dancing," talented in singing and dancing), and their skillful hands are even more refined: they can embroider the flowers covering the mountains on plain cloth, cut auspicious patterns on red paper, and also paint the full joy of life on paper.
In this way, a group of farmers who carry hoes, are used to holding sickles, and have received no professional training, relying on the paintbrushes in their hands, have made Tonggu Village the "Hometown of Chinese Modern Folk Painting" (中国现代民间绘画之乡). This art that grew out of the soil has also added real income to the villagers. Starting from 2016, the farmers' paintings (农民画) of Tonggu Village have successively entered scenic spots and museums, opening more avenues for increasing villagers' income.
When I was young, I followed my elders and sat under the corridor in the village, watching them take the scenery before their eyes into paintings, freely expressing according to the feelings in their hearts. But in recent years, many young people have chosen to put down their paintbrushes and walk out of the mountains. Tonggu Village's farmers' painting once faced a crisis of a talent gap. I saw this, and was anxious in my heart.
In 2019, I graduated from Yunnan Normal University with a major in fine arts, and went to a vocational school in Guiyang to be an art teacher, but the thought of returning to my hometown to pass on farmers' painting grew stronger day by day. In June of last year, I decided to resign and return to the village. With the support of the older generation of painters, we established the Tonggu Village Farmers' Painting Research Association (铜鼓村农民画研究会), with me taking the lead, and started with three things:
The first thing was to ascertain the basic number of painters in the village. The painters in the whole village who still persist in creating are fewer than 40 people, and the youngest is also 40 years old. Facing the urgent need for talent inheritance, we placed our hopes on the children, promoting farmers' painting into the classroom.
The second thing was to change the "appearance" of the old art. In the past, each farmers' painting was the size of a table, with a long creation cycle, relatively single use, and high costs for mounting and transportation. We encouraged everyone to create more works of different sizes and different themes. From sketches as small as a palm to long scrolls as large as a whole piece, leaving ample space for subsequent market development and secondary processing.
The third thing was to turn farmers' painting into cultural and creative products, opening up new sales channels. In the past, Tonggu Village only sold whole original paintings. I discovered in many scenic spots outside the area that cultural and creative products incorporating local elements were quite popular with tourists. We cooperated with third-party enterprises and opened a farmers' painting cultural and creative products store in the Xiasi Scenic Area (下司景区) of Kaili, selling more than ten kinds of products such as throw pillows, postcards, and refrigerator magnets.
The protection and inheritance of farmers' painting is not an easy task. Looking at the paintings one by one, where the silver ornaments of the younger sisters flash into a sea of stars, the mud and water of the rice fields blur into the texture of the mountains, and the panting of the fighting bulls seems to penetrate the paper, I sincerely hope that this flower of art that has grown out of the soil of the Miao Mountains, the farmers' painting of Tonggu Village, will bloom better and better.
(Interviewed and compiled by Su Bin (苏滨), reporter of this newspaper)
Return to TopBy: 李天姿
At the sub-forum on “Prosper and Develop Rural Culture” of the 2026 China Civilized Rural Customs Conference, the stories shared by several guests were 动人心弦 (dòng rén xīn xián – “move people’s heartstrings,” deeply touching):
One camera shot — Chen Yun (陈云), a first-batch cultural envoy from Zhejiang Province, organized photographers in Hangchuan Village (航川村), Jiande City (建德市), to take photos for all the villagers. The villagers, 扶老携幼 (fú lǎo xié yòu – “support the elderly and lead the young,” caring for the old and young), all participated. The warm-hearted action gathered the crowd and also consolidated people’s hearts.
One mobile phone — in Beiliangjiazhuang Village (北梁家庄村), West Coast New Area (西海岸新区), Qingdao City, Shandong Province, over 20 villagers used mobile phones to shoot short dramas, with cumulative views reaching 393 million times, helping the village’s agricultural products such as chestnuts, sweet potatoes, and large cherries successfully “break out of the circle” (gain widespread popularity).
These two stories converge on a gratifying new trend: young people are 大显身手 (dà xiǎn shēnshǒu – “fully display one’s skill,” to show off one’s abilities) in the vast fields, empowering comprehensive rural revitalization with innovative practices, and writing vivid practices of humanistic economics.
The Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan states: “Encourage all types of talent to go to the countryside for services, entrepreneurship, and employment.” In recent years, a string of “village-branded” content has become wildly popular, and a series of “rural customs” and “rural scenery” have been transformed into “traffic” and “retention,” with young people actively involved behind all of them. Young talents understand skills, are good at management, and know how to spread information. Supporting and guiding them to return to the countryside and go to the countryside is injecting continuous new momentum into the construction of harmonious and beautiful villages.
Take a look: Wu Juan (武娟), a post-90s villager from Yuanlong Village (原隆村), Minning Town (闽宁镇), Yongning County (永宁县), Ningxia, gave up her city job to return to her hometown and start a business, telling on the internet in both Chinese and English about changes in her hometown and good products from the fields; Li Yuan (李媛), a post-00s from a Shaanxi intangible cultural heritage cooperative, promoted local rattan weaving techniques through live streaming, giving new life to a thousand-year cultural heritage; Zhu Siyi (朱思逸), a post-90s “returnee” from Qianshan City (潜山市), Anhui, revitalized idle resources in the village and explored a new model of “cultural tourism + comprehensive rural revitalization”… Various practices have activated the value of the times through creative transformation and innovative development, making rural culture shine with the luster of the times.
Under the influence and drive of the returning youth, more local villagers have joined in, proactively turning mobile phones into “new farm tools,” live streaming into “new farm work,” and data into “new farm materials.” They are not “onlookers with folded arms,” but the “leading protagonists” of comprehensive rural revitalization. Bao Xiaoguang (鲍小光), a post-90s youth, mobilized fellow villagers to shoot a series of short videos titled “Earthy Three Kingdoms.” The villagers actively learned live streaming and became directors, spreading the beauty of their hometown. Li Fugui (李福贵), who has tens of millions of fans online, opened an account “Villager and Fugui’s Agricultural Goods Shop,” bringing monthly incomes of over a thousand or even ten thousand yuan to the elderly and left-behind women in the village. People’s wisdom is being stimulated, their potential released, and value continuously created — this is the logic of “investing in people.”
Rural cultural revitalization is not only about shaping the form, but also about forging the soul; not only for the present, but also for the long term. “Investing in people” is becoming the key to activating the endogenous driving force of rural cultural revitalization. Those who return to their hometowns and those who are native to the place 乐在其中 (lè zài qí zhōng – “take joy in it,” to find pleasure in something), and wealth comes from it.
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Return to TopOur newspaper, Shanghai, July 21 (Reporter Huang Xiaohui (黄晓慧)) — The black hole M87, the first ever "seen" by humanity, now has a spectral index image. This research was led by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院上海天文台), and the results were published in the international journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
The M87 black hole is about 55 million light-years from Earth, with a mass approximately 6.5 billion times that of the Sun. Its first "identity photo" was released in 2019. Over the years, the research team from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory has worked closely with international counterparts to conduct in-depth studies of the M87 black hole.
The spectral index can be understood as the "spectral fingerprint" of the black hole's radiation. The research results show that the nature of the radiation around the black hole changes significantly with distance from the black hole’s center, a characteristic intuitively reflected in the spatial distribution of the spectral index. In the region close to the black hole’s center, the spectral index is positive, indicating that the radiation in this region is still strongly affected by synchrotron self-absorption. As distance increases, the spectral index gradually decreases and shifts from positive to negative, showing that the radiation gradually transitions to an optically thin state.
Previously released single-frequency images mainly reflect the spatial structure of radiation around the black hole. Only by combining observations at different frequencies can the physical properties behind the radiation be further analyzed, revealing the state of the plasma near the black hole and its radiation mechanisms, thereby advancing black hole research from "seeing the black hole" toward "reading the black hole."
Return to TopThis newspaper Beijing July 21 electric (reporter Liu Yang (刘阳)) On the 21st, the China Media Group summer quality program lineup release event was held in Beijing, releasing over 60 excellent works concentrated in five major segments.
The "Journey Like a Rainbow" segment takes major historical nodes as coordinates, looking back on the magnificent journey of struggle and inheriting the ever-lasting spiritual power; the "Cultural Lineage Flowing Long" segment draws on the wisdom of Chinese culture, outlining the endless vitality of Chinese civilization in the fusion of ancient and modern; the "Summer Joyful Song" segment, with 21 quality projects, unlocks a steaming hot joyful summer; the "Wisdom Creates the Future" segment releases 9 innovative projects, recording the emergence of China's scientific and technological innovation achievements and reflecting the infinite possibilities of artificial intelligence entering thousands of industries; the "Set Off Now" segment releases 9 cultural tourism quality projects, showcasing the colorful and beautiful China, and extending a sincere invitation to friends around the world.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 谷业凯
Walk into today's smart factory: unmanned transport vehicles travel back and forth, machine vision systems conduct high-speed quality inspection, and various process links are interconnected and dispatched in real time, exhibiting characteristics such as flexibility, high efficiency, and intelligence.
Recently, at the "AI + Manufacturing Industry Summit 2026" jointly hosted by Huawei and JAC Group (江汽集团), hundreds of corporate representatives from the automotive, pharmaceutical and other fields discussed how AI (artificial intelligence) can move from single-point trial to full-chain deep cultivation, driving the industry's intelligent leap. "We hope to enable AI to empower R&D, production, sales and service in all links," said Tao Jingwen (陶景文), Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Huawei.
Landing on the front line, bringing efficiency improvements
In the intelligent quality inspection workshop of JAC Group's Zunjie Super Factory (尊界超级工厂), the more than 150 independent small quality inspection models that previously operated separately have now been integrated and replaced by a general large model developed on the basis of Huawei's Pangu CV (computer vision) large model and the Ascend computing power base. A single workstation requires only 50 to 100 sample images to complete model fine-tuning training, and the vehicle defect interception rate reaches 99.99%.
"In the past, manual visual inspection had a high miss rate. Now AI replaces manual inspection, not only with unified standards but also with continuous iterative evolution," explained Ding Zhihai (丁志海), Deputy General Manager of the Digital Management Center of JAC Group. Currently, this solution has been implemented in more than 1,500 inspection scenarios across the entire Zunjie vehicle, achieving "one model, multiple scenarios universal, full-platform empowerment of production."
At present, "AI + Manufacturing" is bringing efficiency improvements to many industries. At Luzhou Laojiao (泸州老窖), because of a lack of connectivity among production, marketing, and terminal data in the past, during peak seasonal sales, the system was prone to lag and delay, limiting operational efficiency and response speed. In recent years, with the help of the digital architecture built by Huawei, Luzhou Laojiao has completed innovation in its data asset system. Using a joint "application + cloud" solution, it meets the management needs of more than 400 stores nationwide and provides consumers with a better service experience.
In the field of textile fabrics and accessories, Fujian Fubusi Textile Company (福建辅布司纺织公司) has built a cloud-collaborative computing power base: cloud-side training supports the training and optimization of algorithm models; edge-side precisely captures production details; and at the same time it develops functional applications in combination with actual scenarios, achieving a dual improvement in production quality and efficiency.
"The intelligent transformation of manufacturing is a systematic project. Only by facing the pain points of transformation head-on and basing oneself on the laws of the industry can manufacturing achieve better quality and higher efficiency," said Guo Zhenxing (郭振兴), Vice President of Huawei's China Enterprise Business.
Participating in R&D, assisting scientific decision-making
"The discovery of early-stage small-molecule drugs used to take one to two years; now it only takes three to six months," introduced Zou Binbin (邹彬彬), Chairman of Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Digital Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd. (广州医药数智科技有限公司). Relying on Huawei's Ascend computing power base, an industrial-grade precision 3D molecular generation model, and molecular generation and screening technology, the early-stage drug discovery cost of Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Group (广药集团) has been reduced by 70%, and the R&D cycle has also been significantly shortened.
Drug R&D is one of the highly promising application directions for AI. In the field of peptide drugs, Hybio Pharmaceutical (翰宇药业) has deeply integrated more than 100,000 process data records accumulated over more than 20 years with the Pangu drug molecule large model to build an exclusive private knowledge base, thereby transforming experience into "digital assets" that can be called upon and iterated, moving R&D and production decision-making from "experience-driven" to "data-driven and science-driven."
As integration deepens, AI applications extend to upstream R&D and other links, shifting from "tool empowerment" to "value creation." In Guo Zhenxing's view, one must insist on selecting scenarios based on value, and assess scenario maturity from the dimensions of value, data, cost, risk, and technology, ensuring that transformation is pragmatic and effective.
More flexible, promoting flexible production
The "Smart Island" (智能岛) manufacturing system jointly built by SAIC-GM-Wuling (上汽通用五菱) and Huawei has brought changes to the vehicle assembly method.
Different from the traditional linear manufacturing system, the "Smart Island" turns fixed workstations into flexible work islands. AGVs (automated guided vehicles) autonomously shuttle among the work islands, so it is no longer "the vehicle waits for the workstation," but "the vehicle finds the workstation." Relying on Huawei's Galaxy AI network, AGV operation within the work islands can achieve zero lag, and the production line can be flexibly reconfigured based on order demand, enabling flexible production.
"The AI upgrade of manufacturing is not a simple technical issue; it is necessary to deeply integrate technological progress with industry processes," said Tao Jingwen. "From Ascend providing the computing power foundation, to open-source frameworks releasing the underlying hardware capabilities, to the operating system breaking down connectivity barriers among different devices, data, and applications, Huawei is committed to making the digital and intelligent transformation of manufacturing secure, reliable, and sustainable."
Return to TopOur correspondent in Urumqi, July 21 (Reporter Shang Rongzheng (尚嵘峥)) The touring exhibition "The Time Narrative of Beads and Jade" recently opened at the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum (新疆维吾尔自治区博物馆), with more than 600 pieces (sets) of precious beads and jade artifacts from the collection of the National Museum of China (中国国家博物馆) centrally displayed. The exhibition runs until November 5.
The exhibition is organized by the National Museum of China (中国国家博物馆), the Department of Culture and Tourism of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区文化和旅游厅), and the Cultural Heritage Administration of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区文物局). It is divided into three units: "Spiritual Charm First Condensed — Source of Faith, Ritual Order, and Value," "Splendid Light Shared Reflection — Confluence of a Hundred Rivers and Aesthetic Symphony," and "Exquisite Workmanship Utmost Beauty — Splendid Chapters of Ritual Order and Secular Delight." Following the dual threads of time and civilizational evolution, the exhibition systematically unfolds a scroll of Chinese beads and jade ornaments spanning nearly ten thousand years, telling the story of an Eastern civilization that is 一脉相承 (yī mài xiāng chéng - "same lineage continuous," inherited in an unbroken line) and 生生不息 (shēng shēng bù xī - "endless generation," continuously regenerating).
Bead ornaments are highly iconic material carriers in the evolution of human civilization, condensing technical craftsmanship and aesthetic consciousness, and are also vivid witnesses to cross-regional cultural exchange and mutual learning. In the genealogical spectrum of ancient Chinese bead ornament culture, beads and jade ornaments are highly representative cultural markers. Bead ornaments and jade culture are deeply integrated, forming distinctive characteristics.
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Return to TopIn recent years, Lanzhou New Area has taken proactive creation of safety and proactive creation of stability as an important lever for coordinating development and security, reshaping systems and mechanisms, consolidating grassroots foundations, adhering to both crackdown and prevention, emphasizing rule-of-law safeguards, and exploring a new path of benign interaction between high-quality development and high-level security in a national-level new area.
Reshaping systems and mechanisms to build a new pattern of safe construction
Stability is the prerequisite for development and the guarantee for reform.
Lanzhou New Area adheres to high-positioning overall planning, making proactive creation of stability a key project. All levels and departments break away from habitual thinking, place defense lines forward, conduct forward-looking governance, and carry out front-end handling, coordinating the two "statements" of development and security.
Through constructing a "five-main" responsibility system of Party committee taking main responsibility, government taking main charge, political-legal affairs taking main battle, departments taking main construction, and grassroots taking main defense, a governance pattern of vertical coordination and horizontal linkage is formed. Eight mechanisms including unified coordination, early warning and research judgment, and rule-of-law safeguards are improved, and five lists including actual contradictions, key populations, and accumulated petition cases are established, ensuring that proactive creation of stability is managed through lists and advanced through projects.
At the same time, a "field-shaped" (tian-shaped) grassroots governance system is constructed, with the three levels of town, village, and group as the horizontal foundation, and the three types of mechanisms of big data, grid management, and mass line as the vertical support, forming a "three horizontals and three verticals" closed-loop structure, achieving force linkage, hidden danger joint investigation, contradiction joint mediation, problem joint governance, and safety joint creation. In recent years, channels for expressing the demands of the masses have become smoother, and the overall social situation has become more harmonious and stable.
The effectiveness of the governance system is reflected in the mass handling of affairs with "one click to connect". In Xin'an Community (新安社区), residents reported through the mobile platform "People's Sentiment Map · Xiaolan Good Governance" (民情地图·小兰善治) that the corridor lighting was not working, and the next day the community grid worker contacted maintenance personnel to replace the lamp and followed up to confirm the problem was resolved. Thanks to grid-based services supported by big data, residents can report problems online, grid workers can locate and handle them in a timely manner, and safety services are delivered to the "doorstep" of the masses.
The Lanzhou New Area Comprehensive Governance Center focuses on creating the service brand "'New' resolves for you, 'Comprehensive' will satisfy" (新为您解、综会满意), promoting deep integration of traditional visits and digital empowerment. Relying on the "People's Sentiment Map · Xiaolan Good Governance" platform, grid workers and community cadres enter households holding mobile terminals; family information, demands and suggestions, and reported problems of residents can be uploaded in real time and automatically gathered, forming a dynamic and vivid "people's sentiment database", greatly improving the quality and efficiency of serving the masses, truly transforming institutional advantages into a tangible and perceivable happy experience for the masses.
Consolidating grassroots foundations, building and making good use of comprehensive governance centers
The grassroots are the foundation of social harmony and stability.
High-standard construction of the Lanzhou New Area Comprehensive Governance Center, standardized construction of town and village-level comprehensive governance centers, improvement of the "three-level triage" system for conflicts and disputes. Innovate the "permanent + rotational + ad hoc + hired + leadership duty receiving visits" model, integrate the functions of nine centers including comprehensive governance and litigation services, and operationally implement the "three-mediation linkage" (三调对接), achieving "one window acceptance, one-stop service, full-chain resolution" of demands.
In December 2025, a years-long neighborhood grudge caused by unclear land boundaries was successfully resolved through joint mediation by the town government and the police station, and the "police-mediation linkage" truly achieved a work effect of "1+1>2".
In the past three years, the Lanzhou New Area Comprehensive Governance Center has cumulatively received 48,000 person-times of masses, mediated 67,400 conflicts and disputes, with a success rate of over 90% for the "three-mediation linkage". "If there is a conflict or dispute, go to the comprehensive governance center; at the comprehensive governance center, conflicts can be resolved" has become a consensus among the masses. In 2025, the Lanzhou New Area Comprehensive Governance Center was rated as Gansu Province's 2024 new era "Fengqiao-style" (枫桥式) grassroots unit.
Adhering to both crackdown and prevention, improving the overall effectiveness of social governance
The key to governance lies in addressing both symptoms and root causes.
Lanzhou New Area insists on breaking down barriers between departments and systems, opening relevant data channels, integrating information from the 12345 and 12315 platforms, mass letters and visits, and leadership mailboxes to form a "big data pool" for grassroots governance, pushing for problem resolution through methods such as "information comparison and dispatch warning". In the past three years, 33,000 data items have been collected, greatly improving the ability to guard against risks.
In terms of social security prevention and control, Lanzhou New Area has installed "high-definition cameras + intercom loudspeakers + police sirens and lights" equipment in densely populated places such as night markets and beer stalls, using a new model of "remote police handling + on-site law enforcement" to warn and handle high-risk police situations. In recent years, social security has continued to improve, and the masses' sense of security has steadily increased.
Strengthen the leadership of Party building, empowering grassroots governance. Lanzhou New Area selects and strengthens the leading bodies of village (residential) committees, integrates forces such as retired village cadres and veteran Party members, establishes a "demand + resource" list, and accurately resolves more than 4,000 difficulties for the masses. Mobilize volunteers and enthusiastic residents to deeply participate in community governance, transforming "bystanders" into "participants", maximizing the cohesion of social governance forces.
Emphasizing rule-of-law safeguards, making business-friendly and enterprise-beneficial environment the background color of development
Rule of law is the best business environment.
Lanzhou New Area strives to optimize the rule-of-law business environment, providing escort for enterprise development. Lanzhou New Area carries out the "Prosecution Protects Enterprises" (检察护企) action, launching special carriers such as "Law and Trust Station" (法信驿站) and "Close and Clean Protects Enterprises · Procuratorate and Federation Joint Action" (亲清护企·检联同行) reception hall. Open a "green channel" for serving enterprises, implement one enterprise one police face-to-face policy interpretation and point-to-point resolution of enterprise-related disputes.
Lanzhou New Area has also formulated a task list for joint law enforcement inspections involving enterprises, promoting "comprehensive inspection once" (综合查一次) in 41 fields, reducing administrative inspections involving enterprises by 30%, providing guarantees for enterprises to travel lightly and operate steadily. At the same time, with the "Ten Thousand Police Connect Ten Thousand Enterprises" (万警联万企) activity as a link, organize political-legal police officers to station and squat at enterprises, cumulatively "taking the pulse and diagnosing" for more than 700 enterprises, putting forward more than 1,100 legal suggestions to help enterprises prevent legal risks and plug management loopholes.
Under the escort of the rule of law, the effectiveness of high-quality economic development in Lanzhou New Area is increasingly apparent, with market entity satisfaction remaining above 95% for four consecutive years.
Safety is the basic requirement for the people's happiness and well-being, and the basic prerequisite for reform and development. Lanzhou New Area is marching forward on the road of benign interaction between high-quality development and high-level security with the responsibility of "proactively creating stability" and the determination of "rule-of-law escort", striving to contribute a "Lanzhou New Area Plan" and "Lanzhou New Area Strength" to the modernization of social governance in national-level new areas.
Source of data: Lanzhou New Area Party-Qun and Political-Legal and Social Work Department (兰州新区党群政法和社会工作部)
Return to TopBy: 中国城市报记者 张永超 王 迪 邢 灿 何 玲
Graduation season: tens of millions of college graduates walk out of campus, head toward the mountains and seas, and begin a new chapter in their lives. For them, the "first key" handed over by the city is the starting point for placing their ideals and hard work. From a "bed" to set foot in, to a "room" to settle in, and then to an "apartment" to take root, how to let talent live in peace has become a yardstick for measuring a city's sincerity in attracting talent.
A bed, a room: housing the first dreams
Pain points such as long house-hunting cycles, cumbersome procedures, high rent costs, and difficulty distinguishing rental traps were once the real problems young people had to face when settling into a new city. Recently, this reporter found that the problem-solving approaches in some places have already been upgraded: housing supply is no longer the only answer, and "full-cycle services" are becoming the key to cracking the problem in the new round of housing projects.
Fresh graduate Lin Jinyao (林津尧) dragged his suitcase to Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, and checked into the Ningbo Zhenhai Xingyu Community Youth Hostel (宁波镇海星寓社区青年驿站) that he had applied for earlier. Here, he could stay for free for 15 days, and this bed became his starting point in the new city.
Lin Jinyao said: "The hostel has a public book bar, a study room, and a gym." During the free stay, he not only participated in several youth community activities but also made friends with some peers, saving the cost of settling down and smoothly integrating into the new environment.
Last June, Su Zhen (苏桢) graduated and took a job at China Xiong'an Group Xiong'an Xiongshang Development Co., Ltd. (中国雄安集团雄安雄商发展有限公司), and applied to move into a talent apartment with a free three-month stay. A single room gave her considerable confidence to work hard and steadily in the city.
Many cities provide conditions to help young people rent housing with peace of mind.
"With the 'pay-one-deposit-pay-three-months' method, I'd have to shell out nearly half a year's living expenses in one go." Lyu Jingyu (吕静宇), a recent graduate of a university in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, was almost stumped by the rent. Just as he was hesitating, a friend sent him a message: Talent apartments, apply online, rent less than 70% of the market price. He learned that this type of apartment is provided by state-owned platforms at the city and district levels through revitalizing existing commercial housing stock, with a focus on layout in the main urban areas, balancing both industrial and location needs. Anyone under 45 years old with no property in Zhengzhou and holding a college degree or above can apply. The apartments are delivered with full decoration, equipped with furniture and appliances, and ready for move-in. When signing the contract, a one-time deposit of 2,000 yuan is paid for facility guarantee, and rent is generally collected monthly. So, he selected a room on the "Zheng Hao Ban" (郑好办) APP, the city's comprehensive service platform, and the next day went with his ID card to finish all procedures in one hour. "I couldn't believe it could be so fast."
Moving in is just the beginning. The apartment is fully furnished with furniture and appliances; downstairs, convenience stores, laundromats, gyms, and other living amenities are all available; on weekends, there are also activities such as handicraft experiences and reading clubs. Another young person living there said with a smile: "Before, when we shared an apartment, everyone kept their door closed. Now neighbors have become friends."
Chen Peng (陈鹏), a software engineer living in the Shanghai Pudong New Area Chengtou Kuanting Zhangjiang Community (城投宽庭张江社区), had a similar experience. He did the math: For a rental of the same location and size, the market monthly rent would be at least 3,500 yuan, but the monthly rent for the one-bedroom youth apartment he moved into is only about 2,000 yuan, saving nearly 20,000 yuan per year. He learned that young talent can apply for low-rent youth apartments through the one-stop young talent service platform mini-program "Pudong Mingzhu Online" (浦东明珠在线), complete the information filling process according to the relevant application conditions, and after approval, select a listing on the mini-program and then move into the youth apartment. "I'm saving this money; it will come in handy when I buy a house later," Chen Peng explained. Besides the price advantage, the well-equipped facilities also save him a lot of trouble — the apartment is fully furnished with furniture and appliances, and downstairs there are convenience stores, milk tea shops, and fast-food restaurants. "Lately, several of my colleagues have also moved in. After work, we play ball and eat together — lively and fun."
When housing projects extend from "hard supply" to "soft services," young people feel not only the tangible benefits of a bed or a room, but also a sense of being accepted and secure. Currently, some localities are focusing on the rental housing needs of different groups, laying out characteristic government-subsidized rental housing projects, and delivering real housing welfare to young people.
Government guidance, market operation, social participation
Rent is suppressed to 70% of the market price — where does the money for high-quality operation and maintenance come from? With large quantities and wide coverage, how can services not be compromised? Young people are highly mobile — how can static housing stock be dynamically matched? Demand surges during graduation season and drops in the off-season — how to resolve the tidal effect?
These questions point to the same deep contradiction: subsidy-based, campaign-style housing models are unsustainable. Only by making a fuss over institutional supply can good policies achieve stable and long-term development.
This reporter observed that some cities have already jumped off the old path of "the government taking on everything" and shifted to a new model of "government guidance, market operation, and social participation."
In Pudong New Area, the Chengtou Kuanting Zhangjiang Community, built and operated by Shanghai Chengtou Asset Management (Group) Co., Ltd. (上海城投资产管理（集团）有限公司), is the largest government-subsidized rental housing community in Shanghai. A relevant person in charge from the company said that the occupancy rate of the first phase's 4,455 low-rent units exceeds 95%, and the second phase's 3,180 low-rent units entered the market in May this year, with fine decoration and complete appliances. The community also supports approximately 1,700 square meters of various shared spaces and 12,500 square meters of commercial facilities to meet diverse needs for entrepreneurship, self-study, fitness, shopping, etc. This reporter learned from the Pudong New Area Housing Development and Security Center (浦东新区住宅发展和保障中心) that Pudong New Area has cumulatively launched 43 low-rent youth apartment projects with 22,500 units, mainly distributed around industrial parks in areas such as Zhangjiang, Jinqiao, and Waigaoqiao, adjacent to subway stations with convenient commutes, with the farthest distance to a subway station being about 2 kilometers. According to the plan, by the end of 2027, Pudong New Area will cumulatively supply over 1 million square meters of low-rent youth apartments, further densifying the housing security network.
In Xiong'an New Area, the housing rental market is gradually becoming institutionalized, specialized, and scaled: currently, Xiong'an New Area has cultivated 8 specialized and scaled rental enterprises. Among rental housing units, centralized rental housing that occupies independent land, is operated by specialized institutions, and provides move-in-ready services accounts for about 32%; "equal rights for renting and buying" has been achieved in four aspects: children's school enrollment, residence permit processing, points-based household registration, and housing provident fund withdrawal.
In Zhengzhou, the tiered supply is clear and forceful: housing stock is differentiated and allocated according to the actual living needs of various rental groups, meeting the daily living requirements of different people; talent apartments are incorporated into the management of government-subsidized rental housing, and operating costs are reduced through policies on funds, taxes, and fees, ensuring that low rent does not lower quality. As of June this year, Zhengzhou has allocated 111,000 sets (rooms) of talent apartments, benefiting over 150,000 young talents.
In Ningbo, a full-cycle housing chain has already taken shape: supporting the deduction of rent from housing provident funds and implementing tiered rent reductions for graduates; laying out youth talent hostels across the entire region, providing 7 to 15 days of free temporary accommodation; online, relying on the Ningbo Rental APP (宁波租房APP), tenants can check the status of government-subsidized rental housing units, book rentals, and conduct offline viewings, while enterprises can list their housing stock with one click. As of the end of last year, Ningbo had cumulatively built over 214,000 sets (rooms) of government-subsidized rental housing, with 140,000 sets (rooms) put into use, benefiting 285,000 new citizens, young people, and other groups.
Let young people "live well, stay, and be able to develop"
Su Zhen, now settled in housing, began to think about a longer-term plan — buying a house. In Xiong'an New Area, young talents can apply for shared-ownership housing, which made her feel that owning a house of her own is not a pipe dream. "From the apartment to my future home, the city has set up a ladder for me. I want to take root here," Su Zhen said.
From attracting talent by offering household registration and subsidies to the current systematic housing projects, the enrichment of policies reflects an upgrade in cognition: for young people, whether they can obtain a decent, stable, and affordable residence in the city is an important consideration in their decision to stay or leave.
Ni Pengfei (倪鹏飞), director of the Center for City and Competitiveness Research at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, stated that youth housing is by no means just "having a place to live," but more importantly "living well, staying, and being able to develop." Localities must break away from the previous path dependence of simply "subsidizing bricks and comparing discounts," and shift toward building a full-cycle, multi-dimensional youth housing ecosystem.
"At the level of on-the-ground services, precise supply should be tiered. Coordinate the construction of a multi-level product of 'a bed, a room, an apartment,' focusing on allocating youth hostels, government-subsidized rental housing, and for-sale government-subsidized housing near rail transit stations and industrial parks, and pilot 'rent-to-purchase' and shared-ownership and other rent-purchase connection channels." Ni Pengfei suggested breaking down departmental barriers, building a digital platform for urban youth housing, integrating qualification verification, housing matching, and rent monitoring into a single "one-stop" online service, accelerating the implementation of cross-city housing provident fund operations and social security mutual recognition, so that highly mobile young groups can apply and enjoy benefits immediately and settle across cities. Shared offices, entrepreneurship incubation, and skills training can be embedded into the community operations of subsidized housing, deeply interweaving housing and career.
Resolving the housing difficulties of young people is planting the seeds for a city's future. What kind of city is worth rushing toward? The answer lies in every detail that retains people, and in every small room that lights up dreams.
Return to TopThis newspaper, Beijing, July 21 (Reporter Bai Jianfeng (白剑峰)) — The reporter learned from the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委) that as of now, 27.51 million applications for the 2026 annual child-rearing subsidy (育儿补贴) have been submitted, 27.13 million have been approved after review, and subsidies have been issued to 25.16 million people.
Recently, the National Health Commission and the Ministry of Finance (财政部) issued a notice extending the deadline for the first child-rearing subsidy application for infants and young children born in 2022–2024 to December 31, 2026. Eligible infants and young children, their applicants may log in to the child-rearing subsidy information management system within the specified time through Alipay, WeChat, or the provincial government service platform, enter the “2022–2024 Extended Application Channel,” and submit the child-rearing subsidy application as prompted. The child-rearing subsidy information management system has been continuously optimized, and in 2026 a “one-click renewal” function was added, allowing the public to conveniently complete renewal applications.
A relevant official from the Department of Population Monitoring and Family Development (人口监测与家庭发展司) of the National Health Commission introduced that this policy applies to infants and young children born in 2022–2024 who meet the conditions for applying for the child-rearing subsidy and who did not timely apply for the first child-rearing subsidy before December 31, 2025. The subsidy standard is consistent with the standard for regular applications. The child-rearing subsidy is issued annually, and the national basic standard for the child-rearing subsidy is 3,600 yuan per child per year, until the child reaches the age of 3 full years. For infants and young children born in 2022–2024, the subsidy amount is calculated based on the number of months for which the subsidy should be provided.
For infants and young children born in 2023, a total of two child-rearing subsidies can be applied for, and both the first and second applications (renewal) must be submitted before December 31, 2026; for infants and young children born in 2024, a total of three child-rearing subsidies can be applied for, and both the first and second applications (first renewal) must be submitted before December 31, 2026, and the third application (second renewal) must be submitted before December 31, 2027.
Return to TopBeijing, July 21 (Reporter Sun Xiuyan (孙秀艳)) According to data from the National Medical Insurance Information Platform, as of June 30, the national connection rate of the medical insurance fund pre-service reminder system for designated medical and pharmaceutical institutions had reached 71%, completing ahead of schedule the 70% connection rate target proposed at the beginning of the year. In January–June of this year, the medical insurance intelligent supervision pre-service reminder had cumulatively reached 56.05 million person-times, involving an amount of 12.9 billion yuan.
In recent years, while persisting in strict investigation and severe crackdowns and maintaining a high-pressure posture in fund supervision, the medical insurance departments have attached great importance to combining crackdown and prevention, moving the checkpoint forward, actively promoting the implementation and application of pre-service reminders in designated medical and pharmaceutical institutions, eliminating various illegal and non-compliant problems in the “bud” state, and reducing the occurrence of illegal and non-compliant problems from the source.
First, they have proactively published supervision rules, publicly issuing the Intelligent Supervision Rule Library and Knowledge Base for Medical Insurance Funds (2025 Edition), comprehensively including nearly 250,000 rules and knowledge points, helping medical personnel to better understand and grasp the medical insurance fund supervision rules, and assisting designated medical and pharmaceutical institutions in improving their self-management. Second, they have vigorously promoted the construction of the pre-service reminder system, relying on the medical insurance information platform to build and improve the pre-service intelligent reminder system. All designated medical and pharmaceutical institutions can connect free of charge and invoke it free of charge, enabling reminders, early warnings, and interception of violation risks during the diagnosis and treatment process of medical personnel. Third, they support personalized management applications. For medical and pharmaceutical institutions with relatively strong technical strength and a relatively good informatization foundation, they encourage the embedding of the “two libraries” rules and knowledge points into hospital information systems to improve operational efficiency and meet the needs of personalized management.
Among the medical and pharmaceutical institutions that have connected to the pre-service reminder system, the connection rate for designated retail pharmacies is 82%, the connection rate for designated medical institutions is 65%, and among these, the connection rate for tertiary medical institutions has reached 92%. The connection rates for public medical institutions and private medical institutions are 62% and 76% respectively. Nine provinces (Anhui, Hubei, Tianjin, Hebei, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Fujian, Gansu, Guizhou) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (新疆生产建设兵团) have connection rates exceeding 90%.
In the future, the National Healthcare Security Administration (国家医保局) will continuously optimize and improve the pre-service reminder system, dynamically improve the intelligent supervision rule library and knowledge base and publicly disclose them to society, striving to achieve full coverage of pre-service reminders for designated medical and pharmaceutical institutions during the 15th Five-Year Plan period.
Return to TopOn July 17, inside the Lai'an County Science and Technology Museum (来安县科技馆) in Lai'an County (来安县), Chuzhou City, Anhui Province, children were watching exhibits and exploring the mysteries of science.
The Lai'an County Science and Technology Museum has introduced fun science experiments and popular science practice courses, allowing children to get close to technology and inspire thinking while playing, enriching their summer life.
Photo by Lü Hua (吕华) of China Images (影像中国)
Return to TopBeijing, July 21 (People's Daily) (Reporter Wu Chuqi (吴储岐)) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Civil Affairs (民政部) that: the General Office of the Ministry of Civil Affairs recently issued a notice, publishing the "List of the First Batch of National Typical Cases for Marriage and Funeral Custom Reform," determining to take the practical practices of 20 localities including Hejian City (河间市) in Hebei Province as the "First Batch of National Typical Cases for Marriage and Funeral Custom Reform."
The Ministry of Civil Affairs requires that local civil affairs departments earnestly study and learn from the experiences and practices of the typical cases, establish a clear orientation encouraging reform and innovation, in conjunction with the goals of high-quality development of civil affairs undertakings during the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, further deepen the reform of marriage and funeral customs, continuously raise the level of social affairs work, continuously advance 移风易俗 (yí fēng yì sú - "change customs and habits," to transform social traditions), and effectively enhance the people's sense of gain, sense of happiness, and sense of security.
Return to TopOur newspaper Guiyang, July 21 (Reporter Chen Junyi (陈隽逸)) The Guizhou Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security (贵州省人力资源社会保障厅), the Provincial Development and Reform Commission (省发展改革委), the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (省农业农村厅), and the Provincial Ecological Migration Bureau (省生态移民局) recently issued the Implementation Opinions on Establishing a Normalized Employment Assistance Mechanism to Prevent Relapse into Poverty and Promote Comprehensive Rural Revitalization (《关于建立常态化防止返贫致贫就业帮扶机制促进乡村全面振兴的实施意见》), requiring that no large-scale relapse into poverty due to unemployment occur.
The implementation opinions clarify that normalized assistance targets shall be precisely identified. Those who have labor capacity and employment willingness and are targets for preventing relapse into poverty, as well as underdeveloped counties and districts, shall be regarded as normalized employment assistance targets after the transition period, with precise assistance and dynamic management. For the originally registered (建档立卡) poverty-eradicated population who would face the risk of relapse into poverty if assistance policies were removed, employment assistance shall continue to be implemented, promoting that at least one person in the household where the target for preventing relapse into poverty has labor capacity and employment willingness is employed.
In terms of outbound labor, the labor cooperation relationship between Guizhou and provinces with concentrated Guizhou-origin migrant workers such as Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Fujian shall be continuously consolidated; characteristic labor service brands shall be cultivated, and eligible employers that recruit key groups for employment may apply for a recruitment subsidy of 500 yuan per person per year.
The implementation opinions require that employment positions in county areas be vigorously explored, that employment assistance workshops be revitalized, utilized, upgraded, and improved, with recruitment subsidies implemented equally; that the implementation of work-relief programs (以工代赈) be strengthened, with labor remuneration accounting for more than 40% of central government funds. The Returning Home to Start a Business Small Boss (返乡创业小老板) cultivation project shall be implemented, and support policies such as entrepreneurship guaranteed loans and entrepreneurship subsidies shall be implemented, to promote the return to hometowns for entrepreneurship and employment among key employment assistance groups.
The implementation opinions propose that skills training be precisely carried out, and that newly grown labor force in households of key employment assistance groups be supported to receive vocational education.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 申少铁
Currently, the sanfu days (三伏天) have begun, and many places are experiencing high-temperature weather. The National Disease Control and Prevention Bureau (国家疾控局) and the China Meteorological Administration have jointly issued a high-temperature health risk warning. High-temperature weather can easily trigger health problems such as heatstroke, gastrointestinal discomfort, and air-conditioning illness (空调病). Relevant experts have provided health reminders.
Xu Dongqun (徐东群), chief expert of environmental health at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (中国疾病预防控制中心), reminded that people working outdoors can pay attention to the high-temperature health risk warning information, replenish water in a timely manner, and not wait until very thirsty to drink large amounts of water. During medium- to high-intensity work activities such as operating machinery and moving items, they should drink approximately 150 milliliters of water every 15 to 20 minutes; pay attention to supplementing meals and beverages containing minerals. When working outdoors, heatstroke prevention and cooling supplies can be used, and it is advisable to wear sun-protective, breathable clothing or cooling vests that can hold ice packs. If prodromal symptoms of heatstroke occur, such as dizziness, headache, fatigue, thirst, excessive sweating, palpitations, facial flushing, or burning skin, one should immediately rest in a cool place, drink an appropriate amount of water to cool down, and seek medical attention immediately if the condition is severe. Relevant units should rationally arrange outdoor work schedules to reduce labor intensity.
Summer is also a season with high incidence of intestinal infectious diseases. Chang Zhaorui (常昭瑞), a researcher at the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that high-temperature weather provides favorable conditions for the reproduction of pathogens such as bacteria and viruses, easily causing spoilage and contamination of food ingredients and drinking water. The key to preventing intestinal infectious diseases lies in maintaining hygienic living habits. Maintain hand hygiene, form the habit of washing hands before meals and after using the toilet, and before and after food processing; select fresh ingredients, avoid eating expired or spoiled food, cook food thoroughly, especially meat, seafood, and eggs, and try to eat less leftovers and cold dishes; promptly remove household garbage, regularly clean the kitchen and dining areas, and clear away debris and standing water.
“During the scorching summer, some people like to set the air conditioner temperature very low, increasing the risk of air-conditioning illness,” Xu Dongqun said. “Air-conditioning illness” refers to discomfort symptoms such as nasal congestion, dizziness, and muscle and joint pain that occur after prolonged exposure to air conditioning. It is recommended that during the day, the air conditioner temperature be set between 26 and 28 degrees Celsius to avoid cardiovascular stress reactions caused by excessive indoor-outdoor temperature differences. At night, the body’s basal metabolic rate decreases and its temperature regulation ability weakens; it is recommended to raise the air conditioner temperature moderately above the daytime level, maintaining it at 27 to 28 degrees Celsius. Sensitive groups such as the elderly and children should pay attention to keeping the abdomen and joints warm at night. In addition, avoid direct cold air from the air conditioner, and combine physical protective measures such as using a thin blanket to cover the abdomen and wearing socks to further reduce the risk of air-conditioning illness.
In summer, mosquitoes are active and easily transmit mosquito-borne diseases. Li Jiandong (李建东), a researcher at the Institute of Viral Diseases of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, recommends promptly clearing standing water around residences and their surroundings, such as flower pot trays, discarded tires, buckets, vases, and air conditioner drip pans, so that mosquitoes have no place to breed; when participating in outdoor activities, it is best to wear light-colored long-sleeved clothes and pants, and spray or apply mosquito repellent containing active ingredients on exposed skin; in areas with many mosquitoes, install screen doors and windows at home, hang mosquito nets, and use traditional mosquito coils, electric mosquito repellent liquids, electric mosquito swatters, etc., to prevent and kill mosquitoes. If discomfort symptoms such as fever, headache, or joint pain occur after a mosquito bite, seek medical attention immediately.
Summer is the peak season for hand-foot-mouth disease. Chang Zhaorui introduced that hand-foot-mouth disease is a common infectious disease in children under 5 years old; most cases are mild and can self-heal with standard care in 7 to 10 days. The early symptoms are similar to ordinary upper respiratory tract infections, mainly presenting as low-grade fever, fatigue, loss of appetite, and increased drooling. One to two days after onset, characteristic manifestations such as red maculopapular or vesicular rashes on the oral mucosa, palms, soles, and buttocks appear, usually without pain or itching. If a child presents the above symptoms, hand-foot-mouth disease should be highly suspected. It is recommended that parents conduct home observation and care for the child, temporarily not take the child to public places, disinfect properly, ensure daily ventilation by opening windows, and provide the child with a light diet. If any of the following conditions occur, such as persistent high fever, frequent vomiting, listlessness, drowsiness, easy startling, and limb tremors or unsteady standing and walking, rapid breathing, or increased heart rate, seek medical attention immediately.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王云杉
Headline Highlights
The Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan (十五五规划) proposes to "promote the coordinated layout of green electricity and computing power." The National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration (国家能源局) recently released the 15th Five-Year Plan for Building a New-Type Energy System (新型能源体系建设“十五五”规划), which proposes to "strengthen energy efficiency and consumption reduction in new high-energy-consuming industries such as computing power" and "accelerate the coverage of new electricity consumption by new clean energy electricity."
On one hand, the rapid growth of computing power scale requires strong electricity support; on the other hand, the world's largest electricity supply system has been built, and electricity supply is becoming greener. As artificial intelligence accelerates, how to promote computing-electricity coordination? And how should ordinary people balance convenience in electricity use with energy conservation?
At present, AI (artificial intelligence) is increasingly becoming a key variable in the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation. With AI accelerating its empowerment of thousands of industries, computing power facility construction continues to expand, and its electricity consumption is also growing rapidly.
According to forecasts by the International Energy Agency, computing power construction will continue to grow significantly in the future, and by 2030, global computing power centers' electricity consumption alone will nearly double compared to 2025. This year's Government Work Report (政府工作报告) clearly states, "Implement new infrastructure projects such as ultra-large-scale intelligent computing clusters and computing-electricity coordination."
"The future of artificial intelligence is not only a competition of computing power and algorithms but also an energy contest," said Tian Lei (田雷), director of the Energy Strategy Center of the Energy Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委能源研究所能源战略中心).
China's computing power scale is still in a stage of rapid growth. The continuous high-load operation of computing power equipment accelerates the increase in industry electricity consumption.
Why is computing-electricity coordination needed?
A set of data provides an intuitive answer: In 2025, the total electricity consumption of China's computing power centers reached 170 billion kWh, accounting for 1.6% of total societal electricity consumption. The computing power electricity consumption of the eight national hub nodes of the integrated national computing power network became the main driver of incremental growth, with an average growth rate of approximately 39.5% over the past three years, far exceeding the average growth rate of total societal electricity consumption.
"The operation of AI, simply understood, is a process of complex calculations on massive data. Both the pre-training of models and the intelligent reasoning in daily use require uninterrupted large-scale operations, and the entire process is inseparable from the support of high-power, high-performance chips. This is the root cause of AI's high energy consumption," Tian Lei explained. Taking an AI chip with a power of about 700 watts as an example, its energy consumption is often more than 10 times that of a traditional CPU (central processing unit). "A 'ten-thousand-card cluster' (万卡集群), that is, 10,000 such chips combined—the power of the chips alone reaches 7 megawatts."
At the same time, the continuous high-load operation of computing power equipment generates enormous heat. To ensure the normal operation of computing power centers, auxiliary cooling, ventilation, temperature control, and other heat dissipation systems are often required. "With the advancement of energy-saving technologies, the proportion of electricity consumption by heat dissipation systems in the total electricity consumption of computing power centers has been continuously decreasing, but on average, this proportion is still above one-fifth," Tian Lei said. With chips and various auxiliary systems running at full load 24 hours a day, a 'ten-thousand-card cluster' consumes at least 200,000 kWh of electricity per day.
In addition to the high energy consumption at the equipment level, the rapid expansion of the industry scale is also accelerating the increase in electricity consumption across the entire sector. Currently, China's computing power scale is still in a stage of rapid growth. As of the end of March this year, China had built an intelligent computing power scale of 188.2 million P (1 P is approximately equal to 1,000 trillion calculations per second), 2.5 times that of the same period last year, and it is expected to maintain a high growth trend.
China's electricity supply is becoming greener, providing support for the explosive growth of AI.
During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the nationwide computing power electricity consumption is expected to increase by an average of more than 100 billion kWh annually, reaching 800 billion kWh by 2030, accounting for about 6% of total societal electricity consumption.
What advantages do we have in providing electricity support for the explosive growth of AI? Wang Hongzhi (王宏志), director of the National Energy Administration, stated that computing power equipment has extremely high requirements for indicators such as voltage stability and frequency deviation. Even slight deviations in power quality can lead to data transmission errors, equipment failures, and other risks. Therefore, electricity supply must have not only "quantitative satisfaction" but also "qualitative stability."
In terms of quantitative assurance, China has built the world's largest electricity supply system.
As of the end of May this year, China's total installed power generation capacity reached 4.01 billion kilowatts, 1.8 times that at the beginning of the 14th Five-Year Plan (十四五) period and 2.6 times that at the beginning of the 13th Five-Year Plan (十三五) period. This installed capacity accounts for nearly 30% of the global total, equivalent to 1.7 times the combined installed capacity of the European Union and the United States. Wang Hongzhi stated that since the beginning of this year, China's energy supply has been generally stable and orderly, demonstrating the strong resilience of China's energy system and the confidence to guarantee energy for artificial intelligence use.
In terms of qualitative optimization, electricity supply is becoming greener.
Looking at installed capacity: As of the end of May this year, the proportion of non-fossil energy power generation installed capacity in the total installed capacity reached 62%, an increase of about 30 percentage points compared to 2012. At present, China's new electricity demand is almost entirely met by green electricity, and the pace of green transformation has become more solid.
Looking at the market: In 2025, China's cumulative green electricity trading volume reached 328.5 billion kWh, with cross-provincial and cross-regional green electricity trade continuing to climb; the world's largest green certificate market has been built, with 930 million green certificates traded. In newly built data centers in places such as Horinger, Inner Mongolia (内蒙古和林格尔) and Qingyang, Gansu (甘肃庆阳), green electricity consumption has exceeded 80%.
Not long ago, the National Energy Administration and other departments successively released policy documents such as the Action Plan for Promoting Two-Way Empowerment between Artificial Intelligence and Energy (关于促进人工智能与能源双向赋能的行动方案) and the Special Action Plan for Comprehensively Improving Power Supply Quality to Serve the Development of New Quality Productive Forces (2026-2028) (全面提升供电质量服务新质生产力发展专项行动方案（2026—2028年）), further clarifying the key directions and tasks for the integrated development of artificial intelligence and energy, and strengthening the safe, reliable, and green electricity guarantee needed for AI development. The continuous improvement of the policy system will further provide a strong institutional guarantee for the two-way empowerment of AI and energy.
With the accelerated development of AI, individuals developing good usage habits can help alleviate grid load and reduce electricity waste.
Nowadays, AI drawing, AI video generation, and large model conversations are gradually integrating into daily life. However, behind these digital conveniences lies the electricity consumption and carbon emissions brought by massive computing power. It is understood that generating 5 seconds of AI high-definition video consumes enough electricity to fully charge 10 smartphones.
"Every AI operation by ordinary users is closely related to energy consumption," said Sun Hanwei (孙汉威), deputy general manager of the Marketing Department of the Shaoguan Power Supply Bureau of Guangdong Power Grid Company, China Southern Power Grid (南方电网广东电网公司韶关供电局市场营销部). Behaviors such as using high-parameter large models for simple tasks, giving vague instructions that cause the model to search repeatedly, and feeding a large amount of irrelevant information to the model all generate additional electricity consumption.
Every kilowatt-hour of electricity is hard-earned. With AI accelerating, how can individuals balance convenience and energy conservation?
For example, choose the appropriate model according to needs. For low-complexity tasks such as daily translation and content summarization, lightweight small models respond quickly and consume low power, which is sufficient; when involving complex reasoning and creative generation, then call on high-parameter large models. Another example: users can refine prompt words before issuing instructions, and for unsatisfactory content, they can make local fine-tuning. At the same time, develop the habit of turning off applications immediately after use, promptly exiting background AI applications to eliminate hidden power consumption.
"With the accelerated development of AI, individuals developing good usage habits can help alleviate grid load and reduce electricity waste," said Sun Hanwei. Green development cannot be achieved without the participation of the entire people; only by accumulating every drop can we 行稳致远 (xíng wěn zhì yuǎn - "act steadily to reach far," meaning to proceed steadily to achieve long-term goals).
(Xue Ziyi (薛子怡) contributed to the reporting.)
Return to TopBeijing, July 21 (Reporter Wang Hao) The Ministry of Water Resources recently issued the Overall Plan for the Development of Water Resources Remote Sensing Satellite Applications (2026–2035), which clearly states the acceleration of building a water resources remote sensing satellite application system equipped with data collection functions featuring broad coverage, large spatial scope, high frequency, continuity, and precision, thereby providing stable and reliable "space-based" data support for the construction of a digital twin water resources system.
The Plan sets forth the development goals for water resources remote sensing satellite applications: by 2030, initially form a water resources remote sensing satellite application system covering major business areas, achieve quarterly coverage of sub-meter resolution imagery in key regions, attain hour-level high-resolution satellite continuous monitoring capability for major water resources emergency events such as earthquakes, barrier lakes, and levee breaches, and support an overall improvement in the capacity for water resources operational applications; by 2035, basically form a complete water resources remote sensing satellite application system, significantly enhance the coverage capability of sub-meter resolution imagery, further improve the rapid monitoring capability for major water resources emergency events, strengthen water quality monitoring of important water sources, elevate the satellite monitoring and perception capability for full coverage, full spatial scope, full elements, and all-weather conditions, and comprehensively support water resources business applications.
The Plan clearly states the coordinated advancement of the construction of systems for water resources remote sensing satellite resources, data resources, business applications, technological innovation, and technical standards, effectively expand satellite resources, build a centralized and unified multi-source satellite remote sensing data aggregation platform, expand the depth and breadth of satellite remote sensing business applications, and promote the deep integration of satellite remote sensing technology with water resources operations.
Return to TopBeijing, July 21 (Reporter Liu Zhiqiang (刘志强)) — Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委), the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部), and the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) jointly issued the "Action Plan for the Development of the Seawater Desalination Industry" (海水淡化产业发展行动方案), proposing that by 2030, the total scale of national seawater desalination projects will reach over 4.5 million tons per day, with an added scale of seawater desalination projects of over 1.5 million tons per day.
The action plan focuses on the strategic goals of water resource conservation and protection and building a maritime power (海洋强国), adheres to the principle of market-oriented promotion, takes expanding application scenarios as the main line, takes strengthening technological innovation as the driving force, takes improving policies and standards as the guarantee, deploys and implements seven major actions: urban water security strengthening resilience, island and ship water supply upgrading capacity, industrial utilization expanding scale, technological innovation filling shortcomings, industrial chain collaboration increasing efficiency, green low-carbon promoting transformation, international cooperation aiding win-win, promotes deep integration of seawater desalination technology and industry innovation, promotes comprehensive quality improvement and upgrading of the seawater desalination industry chain, and continuously enhances the utilization scale of seawater desalinated water.
Return to TopFrom July 17 to 20, the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance was held in Shanghai. During this global盛会 in the field of artificial intelligence, Shanghai Tashizhihang Technology Co., Ltd. (Tashizhihang) (它石智航) centrally showcased its full-stack self-developed achievements, including a robot cluster for autonomous automobile wire harness assembly, the new-generation general-purpose embodied large model AWE 3.5, and the 21-degree-of-freedom dexterous hand DexHand, marking that the enterprise's embodied intelligence research and development has achieved a key breakthrough from "laboratory demonstration" to "real industrial production line implementation."
As an important direction for the deep integration of artificial intelligence and the real economy, embodied intelligence is regarded as one of the key forces driving the intelligent upgrading of the manufacturing industry. At present, benchmark enterprises in the embodied intelligence track such as Tashizhihang are promoting comprehensive breakthroughs across the entire chain from "underlying architecture" to "large-scale application." With the goal of "building trustworthy physical AI," Chen Yilun, founder and CEO of Tashizhihang, introduced that Tashizhihang's technical path is "foundation model + application," that is, building a native foundation model oriented toward the physical world, and verifying and delivering through vertical applications in real industrial scenarios.
Overcoming the flexible wire harness assembly challenge and breaking through the bottleneck of intelligent manufacturing
Flexible wire harness assembly is a recognized challenge in the field of industrial automation. Taking the automobile wire harness as an example, it widely connects power, signal, and control systems, and is called the "nervous system" of the whole vehicle. Therefore, automobile wire harness assembly is also a crucial link in automobile manufacturing. However, because the cables are soft and easily deformed and the shape is unstable, the assembly process involves continuous actions such as grasping, positioning, inserting, pressing, and inspection, placing high demands on the robot's visual perception, force control accuracy, and long-range task planning capabilities.
Tashizhihang chose this "hard bone" recognized by the embodied intelligence industry as a breakthrough point, deeply integrating multimodal perception, force control algorithms, and its self-developed general-purpose embodied large model AWE, enabling the robot to understand the wire harness shape, perceive contact states, and adjust actions in real time according to working conditions. In March of this year, Tashizhihang's A1 robot completed sub-millimeter-level wire harness assembly times within one hour, setting a Guinness World Record. At present, Tashizhihang's "wire harness intelligent robot solution" has achieved functions such as wire picking, wire routing, and plugging; in the future, it will continue to expand new functions such as material feeding and tape winding, further promoting the upgrading of wire harness assembly toward standardization, automation, and digitalization.
In June of this year, Tashizhihang signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Tianhai Electronics, a leading domestic automobile wire harness enterprise, to promote the first global large-scale implementation of embodied intelligence in the field of automobile wire harnesses. At the same time, Tashizhihang reached a cooperation with Aptiv, a globally leading automotive technology company, and will deploy 100 robots in Aptiv's factories within the year, covering 8 major production processes, 33 types of application scenarios, and 46 key production workstations. In addition to industrial partners, Tashizhihang also signed contracts with local governments such as Jiading District, Shanghai, to promote the implementation of a thousand-level industrial embodied intelligent robot cluster.
"Hand-brain integration" full-stack self-development, solidifying the foundation of technological autonomy
To make robots "truly work" on high-difficulty production lines, the support of a complete and powerful technical system is indispensable. Building full-stack self-development capabilities from scratch is the most reliable foundation for Tashizhihang to achieve technological autonomy.
At the "brain" level, Tashizhihang officially released the new-generation embodied intelligent native foundation model AWE 3.5. As the first technical architecture to realize the complete paradigm of "pre-training + post-training" for embodied native models, AWE 3.5 relies on over one million hours of "human-centric" real-world data and visuo-tactile information, enabling robots on real production lines to "see clearly, touch accurately, and work steadily."
At the "core hardware" level, Tashizhihang's self-developed DexHand dexterous hand adopts a 21-degree-of-freedom quasi-direct drive scheme, replicating the human hand's bone structure and joint distribution in a 1:1 ratio. The dexterous hand, connected to the AWE 3.5 embodied large model and combined with tactile and force feedback, can form a complete closed loop from perception, understanding, and prediction to operation.
At the data level, Tashizhihang innovatively adopts a "human-centric" data collection paradigm, transforming real-world data into trainable and reusable data assets.
From data collection, model training to the main body and core hardware, Tashizhihang insists on full-stack self-development, building a closed-loop technology system integrating "data-model-main body."
Cultivating new quality productive forces, adding momentum to new-type industrialization
Tashizhihang has formed a clear and followable technical path: first, cooperate with industrial partners to implement industrial robot clusters that "truly work," generate massive real-world data through continuous operation on real production lines, feed back to the large model, open up the complete closed loop of data, model, and scenario, and promote the replication and expansion of project experience from the Yangtze River Delta to the whole country and even the world, rapidly increasing the deployment scale.
Tashizhihang believes that embodied intelligence is becoming a key force in cultivating new quality productive forces in the manufacturing industry, improving production efficiency and process stability, and accelerating the advancement of new-type industrialization. From overcoming the flexible manufacturing challenge of "automobile wire harness assembly," to building a "hand-brain integrated" full-stack self-developed technology system, to promoting the scaled deployment of embodied intelligence from the hundred-level to the thousand-level, Tashizhihang's technological development and commercial application practices have made beneficial explorations for the implementation of domestic embodied intelligence in the high-end manufacturing field.
Adhering to the goal of "building trustworthy physical AI," Tashizhihang is committed to making robots truly enter factories and production lines, continuously enriching the forms of expression of new quality productive forces in the field of embodied intelligence, and through continuous technological breakthroughs and innovative applications, taking root in the forefront of industries and serving the real economy.
Data source: Tashizhihang
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘 赫 禹丽敏
Entering mid-July, a new heat wave once again swept across Europe, with temperatures in Spain, Italy, France, and other places exceeding 40 degrees Celsius. The sustained high temperatures drove a surge in demand for cooling appliances; Chinese-made products such as air conditioners and portable fans, praised by local people as 降温神器 (jiàng wēn shén qì - "cooling divine tools," miracle cooling devices), saw continuously rising market sales due to their strong adaptability and outstanding cost performance.
From the overseas journey of a single air conditioner, one can glimpse the internal logic behind the frequent emergence of Chinese "hot-sellers" and see the increasingly strong international competitive advantage of Chinese manufacturing. In recent days, reporters from this newspaper conducted field visits in Germany and Poland to observe how Chinese manufacturing transforms industrial hard power into new momentum benefiting people's livelihoods worldwide.
High temperatures drive a sharp increase in demand, with about two-thirds of products relying on imports. On a summer afternoon, heat steamed on the streets of Berlin, Germany. Reporters visiting local major home appliance chain stores such as MediaMarkt and Saturn over several days found that cooling equipment was generally out of stock, with supplies of mobile air conditioners and electric fans particularly tight.
At a MediaMarkt store in the city center, several mobile air conditioner display units were placed in a prominent position near the entrance, with notices attached reading "Order only, awaiting replenishment." Salesperson Marco Rossi kept refreshing the inventory system, checking stock availability at nearby branches and online warehouses for customers. He told reporters: "The sustained high temperatures keep demand for fans and air conditioners high. Each store will receive a batch of replenishment stock soon, but the specific quantity is still undetermined."
Not far away, the supply situation at Saturn was equally tense. Salesperson Lucas Schmidt told reporters that currently mobile air conditioners were out of stock, fans also had only scattered inventory left, and there was no clear timetable for replenishment. A cross-border wholesaler who had come to coordinate replenishment matters told reporters with emotion that he had previously shipped dozens of containers of air conditioners to Europe, only to find them quickly snapped up.
Stefan Kannt, General Manager of the German Electrical and Retail Association, stated that this summer's heat wave had driven explosive growth in market demand, and that moderately priced, reliable cooling equipment on the German market had essentially sold out. Taking the popular Midea PortaSplit mobile split air conditioner as an example, when reporters checked through a German third-party inventory tracking website on July 16, among 1,345 German stores, only 5 showed it in stock.
The high-temperature weather was also changing consumer habits in Central and Eastern Europe. At a large supermarket in downtown Warsaw, Poland, citizen Jacek Traczek told reporters in the electric fan and air conditioner display area that in the past, Poland's summers were cool and household air conditioner installation was not common. "This heat wave's intensity exceeded expectations; it is very rare in the memories of many Poles."
According to International Energy Agency statistics for 2025–2026, constrained by multiple factors such as climate conditions, housing structures, and installation costs, the average air conditioner penetration rate in European households is only about 20%. Penetration rates are relatively higher in Southern European countries like Italy and Spain, while rates in Western European countries like the UK and Germany are only 3% to 5%. Richard Salmon, head of a UK air conditioner sales company, said that over the past five years, inquiries for residential air conditioner installations in the local area had more than doubled, and the current heat wave had caused market demand to rise straight up.
Against the backdrop of the normalization of extreme high-temperature weather, acquiring air conditioners is becoming a rigid demand for more and more European households, while the shortfall in European domestic home appliance production capacity has become prominent, and the imbalance between supply and demand continues to intensify. On overseas social media platforms, many European people shared experiences of 一机难求 (yī jī nán qiú - "one unit hard to find," a situation where an item is in desperately short supply): some netizens drove 200 kilometers just to buy a Chinese-made air conditioner; in some markets, resale at marked-up prices appeared, with second-hand equipment prices even exceeding new units; and some tourists used visa-free transit policies to make special trips to China to purchase air conditioners and ship them home. According to statistics from the European Home Appliance Association, the annual production capacity of European domestic air conditioners is only 3.2 million units, while the annual average market demand exceeds 10 million units, meaning about two-thirds of the market gap must be filled by imports.
Relying on the industrial foundation and supply chain advantages accumulated over many years, Chinese brands have responded promptly to this market demand. Data from Joybuy, the European online retail platform under JD.com, shows that during the high-temperature period from June 19 to 25, sales of air conditioner products on the platform increased nearly 40 times compared to the first week of June. Midea Group data shows that in 2026, shipments of PortaSplit mobile split air conditioners exceeded 200,000 units, with sales doubling year-on-year. Hisense Group disclosed that in the first six months of this year, the Western European market saw a year-on-year increase of over 20%, with the French market exceeding 100%. At the same time, Chinese air conditioner companies have launched accelerated production scheduling models in domestic factories, with new capacity expected to arrive in Europe in batches starting in August.
Targeting market demand pain points, providing localized design services. Orders follow demand; products are built close to the market. Chinese "cooling miracle devices" are becoming popular in Europe not by relying on "price wars," but by precisely matching local people's livelihood needs with technological innovation, forging a path of innovation breakthrough toward the "new" and the "intelligent."
To address the market pain points of many old buildings, large renter populations, and high installation costs in Europe, Chinese companies have done extensive localization adaptation in product design. Taking the Midea PortaSplit mobile split air conditioner as an example, this product officially entered the European market in 2025, featuring easy installation without complex work, energy saving, and noise reduction. "From the bracket to the unit body, the product design avoids drilling and complex construction as much as possible," introduced Tobias Strobel, Head of Home Air Conditioning Technology Innovation at Midea's German R&D Center. The outdoor unit of this air conditioner is relatively lightweight, and the bracket can adapt to various common European window types such as roof windows, floor-to-ceiling windows, and balconies, without needing to modify the building structure. This design is a result of Sino-European R&D cooperation — Chinese companies' flexible manufacturing capabilities and technological accumulation, combined with German engineers' suggestions regarding local living culture and compliance standards, truly solving a series of practical problems European households face in installing air conditioners through technological innovation.
Beyond large home appliances, a batch of ingeniously designed, highly practical small cooling items is also favored by European consumers. Ice towels that cool quickly after being soaked in water, waist fans that free up hands, umbrellas with spray functions... all kinds of creative cooling products are seeing rising sales on e-commerce platforms. Amazon European site data shows that sales of categories such as portable fans, neck fans, and mini air conditioner fans grew significantly month-on-month, with some individual items ranking among the top bestseller lists. During Joybuy's "Summer Black Friday" period, sales of floor fans grew over 80 times, and neck fans grew over 120 times.
The Polish China Mall, located in the suburbs of Warsaw, is one of the largest commodity distribution centers in Central and Eastern Europe, with thousands of shops mainly dealing in Chinese small home appliances, general merchandise, clothing, and other categories. With the arrival of the scorching heat, sales of portable fans have increased significantly. A merchant surnamed Ren, from Zhejiang, told reporters that the cooling products he sells are not only popular with Polish consumers but also attract buyers from neighboring countries coming to restock. "The high temperatures have lasted a long time this year, so we deliberately increased the fan categories to meet different consumer demands. The stable operation of the China-Europe Railway Express also allows goods to reach the market quickly."
A buyer, Magdalena, who made a special trip from Wrocław to purchase stock, told reporters that she runs a department store locally. "This year, temperatures have exceeded 40 degrees Celsius. Chinese-made small fans are compact, have strong airflow, and are affordably priced. They often sell out as soon as they hit the shelves. I need to restock more this time."
Discovering demand blind spots, resolving market pain points, and effectively solving user problems — this strong market adaptability is precisely the core competitiveness of Chinese manufacturing as it strides onto the global stage.
Launching a 'delivery and installation integrated' service, building a more efficient logistics distribution network. "Being able to manufacture" must be matched by "fast delivery and good installation." The explosive orders triggered by high temperatures represent a comprehensive test of cross-border supply chain response speed, logistics capacity, and local service capability. While improving their product layout, Chinese companies are continuously upgrading their logistics and after-sales service networks, providing solid support for products to transition from being "hot sellers" to "steady sellers."
In Paris, France, at 7:30 a.m., JD Logistics JoyExpress delivery driver Saif finished checking the day's orders and loaded goods such as air conditioners and fans into his vehicle in sequence. By 3:00 p.m., he had completed the delivery and installation of seven cooling units. "Users are all hoping to use their air conditioners as soon as possible. Many people choose to order on Joybuy mainly because of the fast delivery," Saif said.
According to Saif, for the popular air conditioner category, the delivery team has launched a "delivery and installation integrated" service: proactively contacting customers before arrival to confirm information such as the house layout and installation environment; delivery, installation, old unit removal, and waste recycling can be completed in one go; if a home appliance malfunctions, customers can directly contact the platform's 24-hour customer service for resolution, making the after-sales channel smooth and convenient. Joybuy platform data shows that during the "Summer Black Friday," orders for large home appliances with the "delivery and installation integrated" service grew 396% month-on-month.
Currently, JD Logistics JoyExpress's "211" timeliness service covers more than 30 European cities, including London, Paris, Cologne, and Amsterdam, allowing over 40 million local consumers to enjoy delivery service with orders placed in the morning and delivered in the afternoon. Cainiao has deployed 28 overseas warehouses in the European market, enabling cross-border merchants and brands to stock locally, with delivery to consumers in as fast as 2 to 3 days. Sun Beibei, Deputy General Manager of Cainiao's Overseas Supply Chain, stated that the hot sale of Chinese air conditioners in Europe is the result of the combined effect of products adapting to local demand and efficient supply chain operations.
The "hot sellers" emerging amidst the heat wave are no accident. Behind the sales growth lies the comprehensive strength formed by technological innovation, industrial accumulation, and improved service capabilities. From products going overseas to services going overseas, from meeting demand to creating value, Chinese manufacturing is integrating into the European market with a steadier pace, injecting sustained momentum into the improvement of local people's livelihoods and common development.
(Reported from Berlin and Warsaw, July 21)
Return to TopBeijing, July 21 (Xinhua) — (Reporter Chu Jun (褚君)) In response to the Philippines’ deliberate provocation at Ren’ai Jiao (仁爱礁) and its assault on China Coast Guard law enforcement personnel, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian (林剑) said at a regular press conference on the 21st that China expresses strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition to the relevant acts of the Philippine side, and has made solemn representations to the Philippine Ambassador to China.
Lin Jian said that on July 20, when the China Coast Guard was conducting normal law enforcement and rights-protection activities in the waters near Ren’ai Jiao, the illegally “grounded” Philippine warship deliberately dispatched two small boats to approach and ram Chinese vessels in a dangerous manner, and violently assaulted Chinese law enforcement personnel. China had to resolutely respond in accordance with the law. After the incident, however, the Philippine side turned around and raked back — 倒打一耙 (dào dǎ yī pá - “to turn around and rake,” meaning to falsely accuse or blame others) — distorting facts and engaging in heavy propaganda and hype. “China expresses strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition to the relevant acts of the Philippine side. This morning, China made solemn representations to the Philippine Ambassador to China.”
Lin Jian stressed that Ren’ai Jiao is part of China’s Nansha Islands and is Chinese territory. As is well known, on May 9, 1999, a Philippine warship, on the pretext of grounding, illegally “grounded” on Ren’ai Jiao of China’s Nansha Islands. China has repeatedly demanded that the Philippine side tow it away, and the Philippine side has repeatedly made promises. Yet 27 years have passed, and the Philippine side has never fulfilled them.
“China’s resolve to safeguard its territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests is unwavering,” Lin Jian said. “We urge the Philippine side to earnestly honor its commitments, immediately cease maritime troublemaking and provocations as well as false propaganda and hype, and effectively restrain its personnel on the front line. Otherwise, all consequences arising therefrom shall be borne by the Philippine side.”
Return to TopBeijing, July 21 (Reporter Chu Jun (褚君)) — In response to recent remarks on nuclear weapons by Japanese Defense Minister Koizumi Shinjiro, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lin Jian (林剑) said on the 21st that the Japanese ruling authorities' ambition to break through the "Three Non-Nuclear Principles" (无核三原则) and challenge the post-war international order is 昭然若揭 (zhāo rán ruò jiē - "clear as if uncovered," completely obvious). Japan's "new-type militarism" (新型军国主义) has already bared its fangs, and the international community must be highly vigilant and resolutely oppose it.
At the regular press conference that day, a reporter asked: According to reports, Japanese Defense Minister Koizumi Shinjiro publicly stated in an online program on July 17 that Japan should discuss policies related to nuclear weapons without any taboos, sparking strong attention in Japan and the international community. In response to questions from opposition parties in the Diet regarding the "Three Non-Nuclear Principles" and nuclear submarines, Koizumi said: "Are we now always prioritizing sticking to existing frameworks, while putting the real defense of Japan in the back?" What is China's comment on this?
Lin Jian said: "It is extremely rare in Japan's post-war history for the current head of Japan's defense department to make such remarks, which are highly provocative and dangerous. The Japanese ruling authorities' ambition to break through the 'Three Non-Nuclear Principles' and challenge the post-war international order is completely obvious."
Lin Jian stated that Japan's current leader had advocated revising the "Three Non-Nuclear Principles" while serving as a Diet member. Since taking office, he has continuously accelerated Japan's "re-militarization" (再军事化) process, and has made constant dangerous moves in nuclear weapons policy, including strengthening so-called "extended deterrence" (延伸威慑) cooperation, promoting the development of nuclear-powered submarines, seeking "nuclear sharing" (核共享) arrangements, introducing intermediate-range missile systems (中导系统), and with senior officials of the Prime Minister's Office and ruling coalition parties openly advocating for revision of the "Three Non-Nuclear Principles," etc., challenging the bottom line of Japan and the international community.
Lin Jian said that this Defense Minister, on the one hand, declares at various international occasions that he adheres to "exclusively defense-oriented policy" (专守防卫), insists on "peaceful development," and upholds the "Three Non-Nuclear Principles," but on the other hand, openly clamors in Japan for "discussing nuclear weapons policy without taboos." Is this what the Japanese side calls "adherence" and "insistence"? This self-contradictory practice once again punctures the Japanese side's disguise and its lies that deceive the international community.
Lin Jian pointed out that Japan is an internationally recognized nuclear threshold state. It has long deliberately maintained the ability to achieve a nuclear breakout in a short period of time, stockpiling approximately 44.4 tons of separated plutonium, which could theoretically be used to produce a large number of nuclear warheads. Using the so-called "external threats" and "defense" as pretexts, Japanese right-wing forces have continuously broken through the constraints of Japan's constitution, international law, and domestic regulations, challenging the post-war international order and the international nuclear non-proliferation system. They have been racing along the wrong path, and have already posed a real threat to regional peace and stability.
"If Japanese right-wing forces are allowed to 肆意妄为 (sì yì wàng wéi - "act recklessly without restraint," to do whatever one wants), promoting the development of powerful offensive weapons and even possessing nuclear weapons independently, they will surely bring disaster to the international community again, and the consequences would be 不堪设想 (bù kān shè xiǎng - "cannot bear to think of," unimaginable)." Lin Jian said that Japan's "new-type militarism" has already bared its fangs, and the international community must be highly vigilant and resolutely oppose it.
Return to TopIran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says it strikes US targets in Jordan and Bahrain
Xinhua News Agency, Tehran, July 21 (Xinhua) — Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on the 21st issued multiple statements, stating that it used missiles to strike facilities of the US military and US companies in Jordan and Bahrain.
The statements said that the IRGC Aerospace Force used missiles to strike a US military base in Jordan, destroyed a missile defense radar system, and struck and destroyed an F-15 fighter jet inside a shelter. The IRGC also struck another US military base in Jordan, causing the deaths of multiple US soldiers.
The statements also said that the IRGC used several cruise missiles to attack and destroy the US Amazon company data center in Bahrain, in response to the US military's attack on Iran's civilian facilities under construction.
US to impose 50% tariff on specific Canadian goods
Xinhua News Agency, New York, July 20 (Xinhua) — (Reporters Liu Yanan (刘亚南), Xu Jing (徐静)) The White House on the 20th released a statement saying that US President Trump that day signed multiple proclamations, imposing a 50% tariff on hundreds of specific goods imported from Canada pursuant to Section 338 of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930.
A fact sheet released by the White House that day showed that the US will impose tariffs on Canadian goods such as wine, hockey sticks, and cement, even if these goods comply with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. However, the newly imposed tariffs do not apply to energy, goods subject to tariffs under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, and critical minerals and other goods.
The White House said that these tariffs are intended to offset the burden and disadvantage caused to US commerce by Canadian discriminatory practices, and the new tariff measures will take effect on August 19 Eastern Time.
Canadian Prime Minister Carney issued a statement that day, saying that the US government's announcement of its intention to impose a 50% tariff on a large number of Canadian goods is the latest move in a series of unilateral trade actions by the US that violate the USMCA. Canada has put forward a series of detailed proposals to resolve the trade dispute with the US and is prepared to further discussions in the coming weeks. Canada will take all necessary measures to strengthen itself.
French media: Louvre's robbed exhibition hall to reopen
Xinhua News Agency, Paris, July 20 (Xinhua) — (Reporter Zhang Baihui (张百慧)) According to French media reports on the 20th, the Apollo Gallery at the Louvre, which was robbed in October 2025, will reopen on the 22nd, and the jewelry exhibits previously displayed there will not be placed in the exhibition hall.
The Apollo Gallery has been closed since the robbery. Louvre Museum director Christophe Leribault said in an interview published in Le Parisien on the 20th that the original exhibits and valuables in the Apollo Gallery have been removed, and in the future, this exhibition hall will mainly display the painted and sculpted decorations on the walls.
Leribault also revealed that in the future, a windowless, high-security space will be created elsewhere in the museum to house the jewelry that was not stolen.
On October 19, 2025, four masked individuals infiltrated the Louvre and fled within minutes after stealing multiple pieces of displayed jewelry. Among the stolen exhibits, apart from a crown that was found by police, the rest remain missing. The four suspects identified by police as having committed the scene have all been apprehended. The Louvre exposed numerous security and other vulnerabilities in this case, and former director Laurence des Cars also stepped down amid the turmoil.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 沈小晓
In the coastal city of New Alamein, Egypt, along the Mediterranean, a special "traffic officer" is on duty: this wheeled intelligent traffic robot, bearing the emblem of Egypt's traffic police, can not only interact with pedestrians in real time on the street, answering questions about traffic regulations, local routes, and permit processing, but also assist management authorities in monitoring congestion, accidents, and other conditions on major roads in real time. In May of this year, this digital traffic assistant officially began its "post," marking a new step forward for Egypt in smart city management.
In recent years, Egypt has actively promoted the construction of smart cities. In November 2024, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi formally announced the launch of the National Smart City Strategy at the 12th World Urban Forum, which entered the formal implementation phase in September 2025. This strategy aims to improve the efficiency of urban management, enhance the quality of public services, and promote sustainable social, environmental, and economic development through the application of innovative technologies such as information technology, the Internet of Things, big data, and artificial intelligence.
Data shows that since 2014, Egypt has planned and is building 39 cities with smart and sustainable core concepts, including the New Administrative Capital, New Alamein, New Mansoura, and New Aswan. In terms of investment scale, relevant government appropriations for fiscal year 2024-2025 reached 186 billion Egyptian pounds (1 yuan renminbi is approximately 7.55 Egyptian pounds), accounting for about 19% of total public investment. Total investment in public-private partnerships in smart city projects is approximately 1.1 trillion Egyptian pounds.
The New Administrative Capital is a key smart city that Egypt is focusing on developing; upon completion, it can accommodate more than 6.5 million residents. New buildings here must pass green building certification from internationally authoritative bodies. An energy center has been established in the central business district to centrally manage energy resources, and recycled water is used in the area to irrigate urban greenery. Former Egyptian Minister of Housing Sherif El-Sherbini stated that the New Administrative Capital represents the advanced level of Egypt's smart cities, utilizing the latest technology and artificial intelligence for operations and facility management, helping to improve the efficiency of public services and create a higher quality of urban life for the people.
Egypt is continuously improving the supporting infrastructure, such as transportation and water conservancy, required for smart cities. For example, through the construction of intelligent transportation management systems, some cities have adopted intelligent traffic signal systems that adjust the duration and change cycle of traffic lights in real time to enhance traffic efficiency. In water resource management, Cairo, Giza, and other areas have promoted wastewater treatment and reuse technologies, using treated wastewater for agricultural irrigation or industrial production. At the same time, Egypt is accelerating the construction of a digital government, coordinating the establishment of multiple data centers to consolidate its position as a regional digital services hub, providing support for the operation of smart cities and the digital transformation of government.
Egypt has also strengthened international cooperation in related fields. The country has carried out urban renovation cooperation projects with UN-Habitat, by establishing platforms to actively attract local communities, civil organizations, academic and private sectors, and international development agencies and other stakeholders to participate. Egypt's National Research Centre for Housing and Building has organized seminars with UN-Habitat to formulate standards for Egypt's smart cities.
Atiya Tantawy, professor of climate geography at Cairo University in Egypt, stated that building smart cities plays an important role in shaping Egypt's development prospects, "These projects are not just about infrastructure, but also include comprehensive services in the fields of education, health, and transportation. Good planning helps address the challenges facing urban development." Ismail Youssef, Secretary-General of the Egyptian Geographical Society, emphasized that a smart city construction strategy should be formulated that includes the participation of the government, the private sector, communities, and other relevant parties to ensure the sustainability of urban development.
(Our newspaper, Cairo, July 21)
Return to TopThe Regulations on the Supervision and Administration of Online Catering Service Operators' Implementation of Food Safety Principal Responsibilities have been formally implemented, aiming to strengthen the supervision and administration of food safety in online catering services and to ensure food safety. "Phantom takeout" (幽灵外卖) has long been a pain point for food safety in online catering services; its essence is that unqualified, unfixed-location illegal operators, through means such as falsifying qualifications, appropriating licenses, and fabricating addresses, disguise themselves as legitimate vendors on food delivery platforms. In response, the Regulations require platform providers to act as "goalkeepers": they shall, through methods such as on-site verification, conduct substantive review of the food business license and other business qualification certificates of online catering service providers, ensure that the information stated in the business qualification certificates of online catering service providers is consistent with the actual situation, and prevent any unit or individual from using false or another’s business qualifications to join the platform and provide catering services.
Source of information: State Administration for Market Regulation (国家市场监督管理总局)
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Return to TopEliminating poverty is the common mission of humanity. Relying on its own development and successful poverty reduction experience, China actively carries out South-South cooperation in fisheries, helping Cambodia, Uganda, Egypt and other Global South countries to improve aquaculture technology, promote digital aquaculture models and talent cultivation systems according to local conditions, and build a bridge of mutually beneficial and win-win development through precise and pragmatic fishery cooperation, making positive contributions to poverty reduction in relevant countries.
Cambodia Smart Fishery Pilot Project (柬埔寨智慧渔业试点项目) —
Smart Aquaculture, Exploring New Paths for Rural Poverty Reduction
Staff Reporter Bai Yuanqi (白元琪)
In the rainy season, green waves roll in the rice paddies of Takeo Province, Cambodia. In the water, giant freshwater prawns shuttle back and forth. Floating photovoltaic water quality monitoring equipment records water temperature, dissolved oxygen and other data in real time.
“In the past, raising shrimp relied entirely on experience. Now with the digital monitoring system, it is worry-free and efficient.” Farmer Bros lightly tapped his phone screen and skillfully checked the farming data. With the help of Chinese experts, he not only mastered scientific aquaculture techniques but also achieved simultaneous rice cultivation and shrimp farming in the same paddy field, greatly increasing his income. “One end of this phone is connected to the smart aquaculture management system built by the Chinese side, and the other end is connected to the hope of prosperity for the farmers!” Bros said.
In recent years, China and Cambodia have cooperated in implementing the “Cambodia Smart Fishery Pilot Project”, bringing China’s experience in integrated rice-fishery farming and digital fisheries to Cambodia, helping the local area explore a new path of technology empowering industry and industry driving poverty reduction.
“Taking into account Cambodia’s climatic conditions and industrial characteristics, we have developed two models: ‘rice-giant freshwater prawn symbiosis’ and ‘rice-giant freshwater prawn rotation’. By optimizing stocking density, separate rearing of male and female, scientific feeding and other techniques, we achieve ‘one field for two uses, one water for double harvest’.” Wu Xugan (吴旭干), the head of the Chinese team and professor at Shanghai Ocean University (上海海洋大学), introduced that this model has been promoted to 79 hectares of farmland last year, and through centralized cultivation of high-quality prawn fry and improving the survival rate of juvenile prawns, it has driven the development of rice-prawn cultivation in surrounding areas.
At the smart fishery pilot in Takeo Province, the Chinese team introduced photovoltaic water quality monitoring equipment, smart aquaculture management systems, and drone feeding technologies, achieving digital management of the entire aquaculture process. “Relying on real-time monitoring data, farmers can timely adjust aeration, feeding and other links, effectively reducing aquaculture risks.” Chen Leilei (陈雷雷), associate professor at Shanghai Ocean University and member of the Chinese team, said that after the project implementation, the local giant freshwater prawn fry grading and nursing density increased by over 100%, the survival rate increased from 40% to 75%-80%, and the survival rate of rice-prawn symbiotic farming also increased from 30% to 70%.
“Cambodia has rich fishery resources and a long history of rice cultivation, but for a long time has been constrained by backward aquaculture technology, incomplete industrial chains, and weak infrastructure. Many farmers have good fields and ponds, but find it hard to steadily increase their income.” Tai Somoni, Deputy Director General of the Fisheries Administration of the Cambodian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, said that the annual income per hectare of land for demonstration households of integrated rice-fishery farming in Takeo Province has increased from about $1,000 in the past to over $3,000. Many demonstration households have renovated their houses, added furniture, and their children’s education and medical conditions have also greatly improved. Somoni said: “More and more farmers realize that they can not only rely on the heavens for food, but also rely on technology to increase production and income.”
The Chinese team also focused on cultivating local talent, organizing a total of more than 10 technical training sessions, training nearly 300 local farmers, technicians, and international students, and through on-site observation and distribution of technical manuals and training videos, brought aquaculture technology to the fields. As a project partner, Shanghai Ocean University set up the “Lancang-Mekong Rice-Fishery Special Scholarship (澜湄稻渔专项奖学金)” to cultivate professional talents in the field of integrated rice-fishery farming.
Virabo, a Cambodian student who once received funding to study in China, said that during his study in China, he not only mastered integrated rice-fishery farming techniques, but also personally felt the vitality of digital agriculture. “I want to bring the technology I learned in China back to my hometown and help more fellow villagers rely on technology to increase income and become prosperous.” Virabo said.
“The integrated rice-fishery farming and other models promoted by the Chinese side have economic, social and ecological benefits. They not only help ensure food security and aquatic product supply, but also provide replicable and scalable experience for rural poverty reduction and sustainable development.” Somoni said that China’s poverty reduction practice shows that industrial development is an important way to promote rural poverty reduction. The Cambodia-China cooperation in promoting integrated rice-fishery farming techniques and cultivating local talent provides useful reference for Cambodia to explore new paths for rural poverty reduction.
China-FAO-Uganda South-South Cooperation Project (中国—联合国粮农组织—乌干达南南合作项目) —
Rice-Fish Symbiosis, Promoting Sustainable Agricultural Development
Staff Reporter Dai Kairan (戴楷然)
In the height of summer, in a rice field in northeastern Uganda, tilapia swim back and forth among the rice seedlings. A few years ago, this was just an ordinary rice field. Now, under the guidance of the Chinese expert team, local farmers have adopted the integrated rice-fishery farming model, achieving increased grain production and fishery income, giving the rice field new vitality.
“The natural feed promoted by Chinese experts reduces farming costs, and the rice-fish symbiosis also reduces pests and diseases. It is a technology that truly helps us make money.” Farmer Peter said that the Chinese expert team made full use of the abundant local natural resources, which not only reduced production costs but also better conformed to the concept of green ecological farming.
In recent years, the China-FAO-Uganda South-South Cooperation Project has continuously promoted freshwater aquaculture technology in Uganda, achieving positive results. At the Kajjansi Aquaculture Research and Development Center, located southwest of Uganda’s capital Kampala, the Chinese expert team conducted 5 rounds of rice-fish farming demonstrations totaling 6,000 square meters, and built 50 rice-fish farming demonstration sites in 10 districts of Uganda, distributing a total of 400,000 fish fry, 7 tons of fish feed, and 10 sets of fish feed production equipment, and conducted technical training for more than 2,000 person-times.
Farmer Julius from Amuria District used to have 7 fish ponds. Due to a single type of feed and extensive farming methods, he only harvested about 120 kg of adult fish per year. After participating in the project training, under the guidance of the Chinese expert team, he stocked high-quality fish fry and used snails, small fish, duckweed and other natural feeds to replace part of the commercial feed. Now he can harvest 750 kg of rice and 330 kg of adult fish annually, increasing his income by about 3.6 million Ugandan shillings (about 6,600 RMB).
David Mulika, founder of Uganda Green Fisheries Co., Ltd., one of the project partners, went to China to participate in the “Africa Aquaculture Technology Training Class” and the “Developing Countries Aquatic Product Trade and Market Development Training Class” to learn aquaculture technology. “During my study in China, I not only mastered advanced technologies such as the ‘intensive culture method’ for freshwater fish farming, compound fish feed production, and water quality management, but also saw the development of China’s fishery industry.” Mulika said that the intensive and large-scale fishery farming by Chinese farmers made him realize that fish farming is not only a production activity but also an industry that can be sustainably developed.
After returning home from his studies, Mulika founded a company, applied the technology he learned in China to practice, and provided fish fry, technical training, and farming guidance to local farmers. Many farmers call him an “aquaculture expert trained in China.” Today, the enterprise he founded has driven more than 300 families to expand their livelihood sources, and many locals have improved their living conditions by relying on fish farming.
“More and more Ugandan farmers realize that freshwater aquaculture can not only ensure household food supply but also increase income.” Mulika said that with technical support from the Chinese expert team, young people are returning to their hometowns to start businesses, engaging in fry breeding, feed processing, aquatic product sales and other industry chain-related work, transforming from ‘knowing how to raise fish’ to ‘raising fish well’, and steadily increasing income by relying on fisheries. “Freshwater aquaculture is becoming a new industry driving rural development.” Mulika said.
Tewinamasiko, National Project Coordinator of the Ugandan Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, said that China has successfully eradicated absolute poverty and accumulated rich experience in the field of poverty reduction. The Chinese expert team actively shares experience and technology with African countries such as Uganda, significantly improving the living standards of local rural residents. “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” Zhang Xiaoqiang (张小强), head of the Chinese expert team, said that the Chinese side is willing to promote the implementation of more mature and applicable fishery technologies in African countries such as Uganda, injecting sustained impetus into local poverty reduction and sustainable development.
China-Egypt Tilapia New Strain Breeding Research Project (中埃罗非鱼新品系选育研究项目) —
Adapting to Local Conditions, Solving Tilapia Farming Challenges
Staff Reporter Shen Xiaoxiao (沈小晓)
Sunlight spilled over a fish farm in Ismailia, Egypt, the water surface shimmering. Mohamed Taha crouched by the water, carefully observing the growth of the fish. As an engineer at Al-Ahram Aquaculture Company, he knew this approximately 105-hectare farming area like the back of his hand. This year, a batch of salt-tolerant tilapia was trial-raised in the ponds. “These fish are more adapted to the water quality here. I am very confident in the results of this trial.” Taha said.
In recent years, the Freshwater Fisheries Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences (中国水产科学研究院淡水渔业研究中心) and Suez Canal University in Egypt have jointly carried out a research project on the breeding of new tilapia strains, promoting the breeding, trial farming demonstration, and technical promotion of salt-tolerant tilapia varieties. The farm where Taha works is one of the project’s trial sites.
Egypt has abundant water resources such as the Nile River and lakes. Tilapia grows fast, has high yield, and strong adaptability, making it one of the most important farmed fish species locally. However, due to large differences in water salinity across different regions, some tilapia populations lack sufficient salt tolerance, and problems such as unstable fry survival rates and uneven growth rates are prominent during the farming process. Breeding new strains with strong salt tolerance and stable growth has become an urgent need for the development of Egypt’s tilapia aquaculture industry.
“In the past, fish farming mainly relied on experience. When encountering changes in temperature, water temperature fluctuations, salinity changes, etc., people often did not know how to respond.” Taha said that after participating in the project, the China-Egypt research team regularly conducted water quality monitoring, selected suitable fry according to different salinity conditions, and guided farmers in water quality management, scientific feeding, and disease prevention and control. “Now the fry are all selected, uniform in growth, and grow fast.” Taha said that the tilapia farming cycle at the farm has been shortened from about 7 months to 5-6 months, the yield per unit area has significantly improved, and farming costs have continuously decreased. After training, the farming personnel have further mastered technologies such as water quality monitoring, scientific feeding, and disease prevention and control, and the level of farming management has also significantly improved.
Ye Wei (叶伟), Chinese project coordination specialist, introduced that the China-Egypt research team has carried out full-chain cooperation from germplasm resource investigation, trait evaluation, to breeding and trial farming around the breeding of new salt-tolerant tilapia strains. Team members not only provide technical training and on-site guidance to farmers, promote the integrated application of improved varieties and improved methods, and facilitate the transformation of research results into practice, but also cultivated a number of professional talents in Egypt who master tilapia fry breeding, farming, and disease prevention and control technologies, and organized Egyptian researchers to go to China for training, providing talent support for the sustainable development of Egypt’s tilapia aquaculture industry.
Mohamed Badran, the Egyptian project lead and Deputy Dean of the College of Aquaculture and Fisheries Technology at Suez Canal University, said that Egypt has abundant brackish water and semi-saline water aquaculture resources, and China has accumulated rich experience in tilapia genetic improvement and improved variety breeding. The cooperation between the two sides in breeding new salt-tolerant and fast-growing strains not only helps solve the farming challenges in high-salinity environments in parts of Egypt, but also provides important support for China’s research on tilapia germplasm resources, achieving complementary advantages and mutually beneficial win-win.
“China is a leader in fishery aquaculture technology, and Egypt is a gateway to the regional market. The cooperation prospects between the two sides are broad.” Badran believes that the Egypt-China cooperation in tilapia new strain breeding research will promote the transformation of Egypt’s aquaculture towards a greener, more efficient, and sustainable direction. “The Egypt-China cooperation reflects that China pays attention to ‘adapting measures to local conditions’ in its foreign cooperation. The project does not stop at the technical level, but also enhances local self-development capacity through training, demonstration, and industrial chain construction, contributing to poverty reduction and sustainable development.” Badran said.
Return to TopBy: 泰·索莫尼
China has blazed a uniquely characteristic path of poverty reduction, achieved the goal of eliminating absolute poverty as scheduled, and made important contributions to the global poverty reduction cause. I have visited China many times to inspect the development of fisheries and aquaculture, and I am deeply impressed by China's insistence on scientific and technological innovation to drive fishery development and reliance on industry to promote income growth for farming households.
China places emphasis on transforming scientific research results into actual productive forces. By building demonstration bases, conducting technical training, and promoting advanced applicable technologies, it enables more and more farming households to continuously increase production efficiency and operational benefits. This practice of driving poverty reduction through industrial development and enhancing development capacity through technological empowerment provides a useful reference for the global poverty reduction cause.
Under the frameworks of high-quality joint construction of the Belt and Road, the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation, and others, China continuously deepens cooperation with Global South countries, strengthens technical exchanges, talent cultivation, and demonstration and promotion, actively shares development experience, and helps more and more developing countries enhance their agricultural and fishery production capacity. This cooperation adheres to 因地制宜 (yīn dì zhì yí - "adjust measures to local conditions") and focuses on capacity building. It is not about simply exporting technology, but about helping local areas cultivate talent, improve industrial chains, strengthen autonomous development capacity, and realize sustainable development.
In recent years, Cambodia and China have carried out cooperation on integrated rice-fish farming. Based on Cambodia's local characteristics, the two sides have organically combined fish and shrimp farming with rice planting, promoting a shift from single-crop cultivation to diversified operations, achieving "multiple harvests from one field, multiple uses from one water source." This model has not only improved land use efficiency but also broadened income channels for rural residents. Some high-quality aquatic products have also enriched local family dining tables and promoted the improvement of rural residents' nutritional levels.
More importantly, China has always adhered to the cooperation philosophy of 授人以渔 (shòu rén yǐ yú - "teach a person to fish," to give someone the means to help themselves), focusing on advanced technology, management experience, and talent cultivation. Chinese experts not only go deep into the fields for long-term technical guidance but also vigorously train local technical personnel and young talents, enabling more and more farming households to grow from recipients of technology to promoters, from relying solely on experience in farming to relying on science and technology to develop industries, forming a good situation of driving common development. This cooperation that emphasizes capacity building has cultivated endogenous momentum for the development of Cambodia's rural areas.
Currently, the world faces multiple challenges such as extreme poverty, food security, and climate change. China's poverty reduction practice fully proves that developing industries is an important pathway to escape poverty, scientific and technological innovation is an important driving force for modernization, and open cooperation is an important guarantee for achieving common development.
Cambodia is willing to continue deepening cooperation with China in areas such as aquaculture, talent cultivation, and scientific and technological innovation, jointly explore development paths that suit each other's national conditions, let the fruits of development benefit more people, and contribute more strength to the global poverty reduction cause and sustainable development.
(The author is from the General Directorate of Fisheries of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Cambodia)
Return to TopBy: 王云杉
In May, the world's largest single-unit-capacity 16-megawatt floating offshore wind power platform — the "Three Gorges Navigator" (三峡领航号) — completed installation, marking a major breakthrough for China in the field of deep-sea floating offshore wind power technology.
In June, the world's largest offshore converter station, the "Heart of the Sea Breeze" (海风之心), completed offshore installation, marking that China's offshore wind power has entered the era of ultra-high-voltage direct current transmission, and that large-scale development of deep-sea wind power now has replicable and scalable technical solutions.
The sea wind howls, and the kinetic energy surges. Since the beginning of this year, a series of technological breakthroughs in China's offshore wind power have accelerated, serving as a vivid footnote for the development of China's wind power industry to a higher level. Compared with onshore wind power, offshore wind power has higher technical thresholds and industrial added value; its value is not limited to energy itself, but also lies in better serving the strategies of maritime power (海洋强国) and manufacturing power (制造强国).
From the perspective of maritime power, China's deep and distant seas contain vast wind energy resources. In the past, constrained by technical conditions, large-scale commercialization faced challenges. With continuous technological breakthroughs, large expanses of distant seas are gradually becoming developable, and the vast maritime areas that were "sleeping" can be continuously transformed into a "blue energy granary" (蓝色能源粮仓).
From the perspective of manufacturing power, offshore wind power belongs to the intersection of marine engineering and high-end energy equipment. From new corrosion-resistant materials and large offshore engineering vessels to high-end power electronic components and high-voltage direct current submarine cables, the complex and vast marine environment can provide landing scenarios and large-scale markets for high-end equipment.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五) outline clearly states that offshore wind power bases will be built in the Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, East China Sea, and South China Sea, and the development of deep-sea wind power will be promoted in a regulated and orderly manner, with the cumulative grid-connected installed capacity of offshore wind power reaching over 100 million kilowatts.
What does 100 million kilowatts mean? As of the end of 2025, the cumulative grid-connected installed capacity of offshore wind power nationwide reached 47.39 million kilowatts. This means that China's offshore wind power is expected to achieve in the next five years the development volume that has taken many years in the past. The high-speed growth target is a rare industrial opportunity, but it also raises new issues for the high-quality development of offshore wind power.
Technological innovation must be used to break through development bottlenecks. China has built the world's largest and most comprehensive offshore wind power industrial system, with installed capacity leading the world. However, offshore wind power is currently accelerating toward deep-sea development, placing higher demands on equipment reliability, transmission capacity, construction, operation, and maintenance levels. Key core technologies urgently need to cross the gap from "having to being excellent" (从有到优). On one hand, we must focus on key areas such as large-capacity wind turbines, long-distance transmission, and deep-sea floating technology, promoting linkage among universities, research institutes, and enterprises to open up technology transformation channels. On the other hand, the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain must adhere to collaborative innovation and open cooperation, through resource sharing and complementary advantages, to provide solid support for the research, development, and application of key core equipment.
System integration must be used to expand development space. The value of offshore wind power should not be limited to "power generation"; instead, a systemic concept must be established, and innovation in development models and business models must be pursued. For example, the "Guoneng Yellow Sea No. 1" (国能黄海1号) wind-solar-fishery integrated platform put into operation by the China Energy Group in Sheyang, Jiangsu, embeds a marine ranch into an already operational offshore wind farm, without developing a single new inch of sea area, achieving three-dimensional development of "power generation above water, fish farming below water." After full-load operation, the platform is expected to generate an annual output value of over 20 million yuan. Currently, integration models such as "offshore wind power + marine ranch" and "offshore wind power + hydrogen, ammonia, methanol production" are accelerating implementation, and offshore wind power is transforming from single power generation to a diversified "wind power +" (风电+) integration model. We must break free from the single-minded thinking of "power generation" and allow the same sea area to produce multiple benefits simultaneously, truly expanding the space for industrial development.
At sea, there are stronger winds. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, China's offshore wind power ushers in a critical window for development. By persisting in forging technological strengths, continuously deepening integrated innovation, and better seizing development opportunities, we will surely enable China's offshore wind power to ride the wind and sail far in the vast blue sea, injecting a steady stream of blue power into high-quality economic and social development.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘温馨 李俊杰 洪秋婷
Party building in industrial chains is, on one side, linked to organizations, and on the other side, linked to industries. In recent years, various localities and departments have continuously transformed party building advantages into industrial advantages and development advantages, achieving strong party building, prosperous industries, and wealthy masses.
Building the Chain, Laying the Foundation: Organizations Built on the "Chain"
"Previously, communication with upstream and downstream enterprises was mostly scattered business contacts. With the joint party committee acting as a bridge, the party building bond has truly twisted everyone into a single rope," said Liao Xinshan, deputy director of the Technology Center of CSSC Power Zhenjiang Co., Ltd. (中船动力镇江有限公司).
Zhenjiang High-Tech Zone (镇江高新区) in Jiangsu has more than 30 shipbuilding and marine engineering equipment enterprises. In the past, they fought alone, and party organizations were "scattered, small, and weak." Later, the high-tech zone, together with the chain-leading enterprises and party organizations of upstream and downstream enterprises such as shipbuilding and power supporting, established the party organization of the shipbuilding and marine engineering equipment industrial chain, promoting party building work to resonate with industrial development.
The engine, the "heart" of a ship, is the core of the entire ship's power system. Compared with advanced international marine engines, domestic enterprises are mostly "chasing" on the same track. How to gnaw through this hard bone?
"Thanks to the bridging role of the industrial chain party organization, we successfully connected with universities such as Jiangsu University of Science and Technology (江苏科技大学), and relying on the advantages of the national-level enterprise technology center and the provincial key laboratory of ship power, we jointly overcame key core component technical difficulties, and took the lead in laying out production lines for 'future fuel' engines such as ethane, LPG (liquefied petroleum gas), liquid ammonia, and hydrogen fuel," Liao Xinshan said. Currently, the research and development progress of the largest-bore medium-speed dual-fuel engine in China is accelerating, and the foundation for the independent and controllable "Chinese heart" of ships is continuously being consolidated. In the first half of this year, the delivery volume of diesel engines and generator sets of CSSC Power Zhenjiang Co., Ltd. increased by 42.5% and 70.2% year-on-year respectively.
By setting up party branches on industrial chains, key projects, and industrial parks, Zhenjiang High-Tech Zone has achieved that wherever industrial development goes, party organizations cover there, solidifying the foundation of industrial development.
Joint organizational building. Relying on the party building brand "Red Sails Leading, Chain Connecting High-Tech," the joint party committee takes the lead in organizing a series of activities such as industrial chain investment promotion conferences and "dual-high synergy" innovation matchmaking meetings, linking the entire regional industrial ecosystem. Regularly carrying out "Chain Salon" and Red Chain scenario matchmaking meetings, the industrial chain joint party committee organizes upstream and downstream enterprise party organizations to take turns leading and co-organizing activities, promoting chain enterprises to share market information and match support needs. In the first half of this year, the high-tech zone's shipbuilding and marine industry achieved a scale-above designated size industrial output value of 3.84 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 43.5%.
Joint talent cultivation. In recent years, the industrial chain joint party committee has issued the "Red Chain Technology Breakthrough List," promoting pilot universities and enterprises to carry out 49 technology breakthrough projects, with an additional R&D investment of 250 million yuan. Implemented mutual appointment of talents between schools and enterprises, with 18 industry professors and deputy science and technology directors rooted in the workshop frontline, and party member backbone taking the lead to accept technical problems. Jiangsu University of Technology (江苏理工学院) and Zhenjiang Zhongdong Ke Nave Machinery Co., Ltd. (镇江中动科纳维机械有限公司) signed a cooperation agreement on the joint construction of a graduate workstation and "R&D of intelligent welding and detection technology for large ship engine frames," actively promoting the pilot of "use first, pay later" for scientific and technological achievements.
"Jiangsu University of Technology licensed the patent to the enterprise for free use. The ship engine room intelligent monitoring equipment we co-developed uses artificial intelligence and big data analysis technology to achieve efficient intelligent monitoring and management of complex engine room systems," said Hu Hui, head of the R&D Department of Zhenjiang Hengsheng Ship Equipment Co., Ltd. (镇江恒昇船舶设备有限公司).
Gu Xiaojun, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Zhenjiang High-Tech Zone, stated that they will continue to promote the deep integration of the party building chain and the industrial chain, building a party building pattern for the industrial chain that is driven by cross-regional collaboration, supported by school-local cooperation, carried by park co-construction, and keyed by leading enterprise drive, to create a new highland for shipbuilding and marine industry clusters with national influence.
Strengthening the Chain, Empowering: Party Members Gathered on the "Chain"
In Hefei, Anhui, in the laboratory of QuantumCTek Co., Ltd. (科大国盾量子技术股份有限公司), the R&D team held their breath, focusing on performance testing and adjustment of a new generation dual-channel single-photon detector. This core device, only the size of a thumbnail, small and light, carries the key breakthrough for the independent and controllable quantum communication industry in China.
Previously, China's quantum communication core detection devices relied on imports, with high costs, difficult supply, and constraints on industrial security development. To gnaw through this hard bone, Tang Shibiao, Deputy Secretary of the Party Branch and Deputy Chief Engineer of QuantumCTek, led a party member breakthrough team to fight continuously for 17 years. "We repeatedly iterated chip processes, optimized low-temperature packaging, debugged detection algorithms, and after nearly a thousand experiments and refinements, finally achieved a comprehensive breakthrough in key technologies," Tang Shibiao said. Now, the domestic single-photon detector volume is less than 1/40 of the first generation, with performance far exceeding that of imported devices.
As a leading enterprise on the chain, QuantumCTek currently has 48 party members, accounting for 13% of the total staff. The enterprise regularly sets up party member pioneer posts, carries out the special action "Red Quantum Power · Double Leading Breakthrough," incorporates technology breakthroughs, project hard-fought battles, and achievement transformation into the party member assessment and evaluation system, using hardcore incentives to promote practical work and responsibility, creating a strong atmosphere of comparing, learning, catching up, and exceeding, as well as striving for excellence.
Focusing on the role of the team, letting party members take the lead in technology tackling, activating the endogenous driving force of the industry with the vanguard strength of party members. The technological breakthrough of the single-photon detector is a vivid practice of QuantumCTek's party branch in comprehensively promoting the concentration of party member strength in key links of the industrial chain, and is a true portrayal of Hefei High-Tech Zone (合肥高新区) in Anhui using party building to gather talents, using party members to overcome difficulties, and using vanguards to strengthen the industry.
In recent years, Hefei High-Tech Zone has continuously promoted the deep integration of the party building chain and the industrial chain, comprehensively setting up party member pioneer posts and forming party member breakthrough teams on 7 industrial chains including quantum technology and artificial intelligence, deepening the dual cultivation mechanism of "cultivating technical backbone into party members, and cultivating party members into technical leaders," making party members the main force in technology tackling, the vanguard in improving quality and efficiency, and the pioneer team in market development.
One party member is a banner. Guochuang Software Co., Ltd. (科大国创软件股份有限公司) innovatively created the key project "Party Building Wisdom Tree," led by party member backbone with young team tackling, and supported by the "Party Member Benchmark Project" evaluation and commendation mechanism, achieving both performance and honor for project leaders; He Ran, Secretary of the Party Branch and General Manager of Hefei Uniquantum Technology Co., Ltd. (合肥幺正量子科技有限公司), led a party member assault team to continuously iterate ion trap quantum engineering machines, successfully completed multi-generation product commercial delivery, filling many domestic technical gaps; Hu Junxiang, a party member of Anhui Guosheng Quantum Technology Co., Ltd. (安徽省国盛量子科技有限公司), proactively tackled the technical difficulties of ultra-high voltage quantum current transformers, long-term on-site debugging and optimizing parameters, greatly improving equipment measurement accuracy...
Build a strong team, activate a chain, strengthen an industry. Currently, the agglomeration effect of the quantum technology industrial chain in Hefei High-Tech Zone continues to be released. The entire chain has 355 party members, covering all key links such as R&D and manufacturing, technology tackling, market service, and supporting guarantees, becoming a solid red support for high-quality industrial development. In 2025, the total revenue of the quantum technology industry in the high-tech zone reached 4.8 billion yuan.
"In the future, the high-tech zone will continue to build a strong party member team, activate the vanguard demonstration momentum, fill the shortcomings of industrial innovation, continuously transform organizational advantages into innovation advantages, transform party member strength into industrial competitiveness, and inject a continuous stream of momentum into the high-quality development of regional scientific and technological innovation," said Bu Hongxia, member of the Party Working Committee and Deputy Director of the Management Committee of Hefei High-Tech Zone.
Revitalizing the Chain, Improving Quality: Results Evident on the "Chain"
"This year, the lychee crop is a small year, our yield is not high, but through the sales market of the cooperative led by the village party organization, we can sell at 68 yuan per catty, much higher than the market price. It's all sold out, supply is short of demand!" said Chen Jiayong, a lychee grower from Gaozhou City (高州市), Maoming, Guangdong, Dajing Town (大井镇), Muguangdong Village (木广垌村).
Muguangdong Village is one of the important production areas of "king of lychee" Guiwei lychee. "In the past, lychee growers were relatively scattered, planting technology was backward, orchard management was inefficient, resulting in uneven yield and quality of lychees, and prices could not be raised," said Liao Hui, Secretary of the General Party Branch of Muguangdong Village. In recent years, in order to focus on solving problems such as "difficulty in linkage, difficulty in synchronization, and difficulty in supporting" among upstream and downstream enterprises in the lychee industrial chain, Gaozhou promoted the establishment of the Dajing Town Lychee Industrial Chain Party Branch.
The industrial chain party branch is established in Muguangdong Village, Dajing Town. The party branch secretary is concurrently held by Liao Hui. The Dajing Town Muguangdong Village Agricultural Products Farmers' Professional Cooperative, led by the village party organization, is the chain-leading enterprise.
Guiwei lychee has a good reputation outside. How to enter supermarkets? How to get large orders? "We take the cooperative led by the party organization as the starting point, attract farmers to join the cooperative for collective development. The industrial chain party branch coordinates and unites the farmers, ensures product supply and stable quality, strengthens marketing and negotiation cooperation with enterprises, so that we can get large orders of tens of thousands of catties or even more than 100,000 catties from merchants," Liao Hui said. At the same time, it promotes the industrialized development of brand products, with unified pricing, unified management, unified promotion, and unified marketing. This year, each catty can sell for 10 yuan more than the average market price, achieving income growth for fruit farmers.
"We also formed a 70-person 'local expert' technical team, bringing the Guiwei lychee production area into a unified management scope. All interventions in key links of lychee planting are decided by the technical team after discussion. Farmers can also contact the district technical personnel directly for consultation whenever they encounter planting problems," Liao Hui said.
This measure injected a "cardiac stimulant" into the growers. Liao Fangda, a lychee grower from Muguangdong Village, is now a technical instructor, growing more than 20 mu of Guiwei lychee trees on his own. "It is very necessary for the cooperative to hire experts to provide technical guidance to farmers. They hold several training sessions every year, giving us a lot of help in planting management. Fruit yield has increased, quality has improved, and we feel very at ease."
Since last year, the party branch has also built 1 agricultural product trading market and 6 cold storage facilities, setting up a direct bridge for fresh fruit production and sales docking. "Pick on the mountain, then immediately pre-cool, ensuring the fresh quality of lychees to the greatest extent," Liao Hui introduced. The branch, through the field smart station data center, launched a shared cold chain model, solving the "last mile" problem of lychee preservation for lychee farmers, large growers, related enterprises, and social organizations.
Focusing on development effectiveness, using party building to lead resource sharing, breaking the situation through collective action, driving employment and income growth, and boosting industrial upgrading. Currently, the number of members joining the cooperative in the local area has exceeded 800 households, including 5 large orchards exceeding 100 mu. The lychee planting area of members has exceeded 8,000 mu, with an average annual output value of about 140 million yuan. Lychees have become "fruit of wealth."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李心萍
Recently, China's shield tunneling industry has once again achieved a new breakthrough: the world's first heavy-load intelligent shield cutter-changing robot successfully completed a pressurized cutter-changing operation and successfully "took up its post."
The shield tunneling machine is hailed as the "king of underground engineering machinery." Its ability to traverse rivers and seas and contend with soil and rock strata relies on the cutters on the cutterhead. However, these "iron teeth and steel jaws," cutting rock and soil day after day, wear out very quickly and need frequent replacement. Therefore, cutter changing determines the efficiency of shield tunnel boring and is the most "routine" and also the most dangerous work in shield construction.
The reason cutter changing is dangerous is mainly that workers need to enter the excavation chamber, which is several times higher than standard atmospheric pressure, to work. Under high pressure, the human body is prone to "nitrogen narcosis," and may also face the risk of tunnel face instability.
Zhao Bin (赵斌), known as "the first person in China to perform pressurized cutter changing," introduced that according to current domestic standards, the maximum pressure for conventional pressurized cutter changing is 6 bar, equivalent to the pressure at a water depth of 60 meters. The multiple risks make this work be described as "dancing on the tip of a knife."
Before 2008, entering the chamber to change cutters could only be done by foreign engineers, costing 600,000 yuan each time. Only after Zhao Bin successfully completed the first domestic pressurized cutter change at 6 bar did China fully unlock this core technology.
However, pressurized cutter changing remains an "extreme challenge." Each group of personnel has an effective working time of only 20 to 40 minutes per entry into the chamber for cutter changing, after which several hours of decompression are necessary. To this day, difficulties such as high personnel risk, low operational efficiency, and persistently high costs are still faced.
Is there a way to solve the problem of pressurized cutter changing?
Chinese engineers first attempted "normal-pressure cutter changing." The so-called "normal-pressure cutter changing" means allowing operators to complete cutter replacement in a normal-pressure environment without enduring additional pressure.
This principle, though simple to state, requires a fundamental transformation of the cutterhead structure in implementation. Simply put, engineers need to install an independently detachable "safe isolation chamber" for each cutter, allowing workers to calmly replace the shield machine's "teeth" in the normal-pressure chamber behind the cutterhead, without needing to enter the excavation chamber ahead.
However, the installation of individual cutter "safe isolation chambers" inevitably occupies space, resulting in fewer cutters that can be arranged on the cutterhead, making it difficult to meet the requirements of efficient tunneling in complex geology.
Beyond the "normal-pressure cutter changing" technology, is it possible to have machines replace humans in changing cutters?
In 2020, China Railway 14th Bureau Group (中铁十四局) formed a technical research team. At that time, globally, there was not yet a single mature engineering application of a shield cutter-changing robot.
The team worked intensively for six years and ultimately developed the world's first heavy-load intelligent shield cutter-changing robot. This robot has 11 independent and controllable movable joints, with a load capacity of up to 500 kilograms. By virtue of its flexible telescopic structure and powerful "arm strength," it can easily cover the cutterheads of super-large-diameter shield machines ranging from 10-meter to 18-meter class, meeting the cutter-changing needs for various types of cutters.
Besides having flexible "arms" and powerful "palms," this robot also possesses a "smart brain." It is equipped with a 3D infrared machine vision positioning system, capable of quickly scanning and identifying the position and wear status of each cutter inside the dim and damp chamber, with positioning accuracy controlled within 1 millimeter. A digital twin intelligent management and control system can automatically plan the optimal cutter-changing sequence and the motion path of the robotic arm.
"Relying on the 'smart brain,' the cutter-changing robot requires only 25 to 40 minutes to replace a single disc cutter, improving efficiency by more than 50%," introduced Liu Sijin (刘四进), project leader of the intelligent cutter-changing robot at China Railway 14th Bureau Group. The most critical point is that the entire process is unmanned inside the chamber.
Not only that, but the robot's entire machine, both software and hardware, has achieved 100% domestic production, with fully independent intellectual property rights. To date, more than 30 patents and 7 software copyrights have been applied for.
Qian Qihu (钱七虎), an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, commented that the research and development of the intelligent cutter-changing robot has achieved results in terms of safety, efficiency, and cost, exploring a new path for the autonomous, unmanned, and intelligent development of China's transportation engineering equipment.
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Cicadas chirp in midsummer; primary and secondary schools across the country are on summer vacation. Museum study tours face ticket shortages, commercial districts and night markets bustle with activity, and inbound tourists wander through ancient city streets and alleys… Vivid scenes of summer consumption link together the pulse of China’s economy.
Every summer, students who have just taken the college entrance examination are an important consumer group. Approaching these new consumer groups, some changes are quietly taking place. The new generation of consumers is more rational and pragmatic; the consumption logic has shifted from purely rewarding oneself with entertainment to seeking a balance between leisure and self-improvement. In previous years, after the college entrance exam, it was common to flock to long-distance travel or large-scale group dinners. But now, self-improvement consumption has become a new trend in the post-exam consumer market. Practical items such as learning to drive and obtaining a license, body shaping, and interest and skill training are favored. Young graduates actively regard the summer as a window for self-improvement. For example, some graduates go to the gym, using aerobic shaping and light physical fitness training to improve posture problems caused by prolonged sitting, incorporating exercise and health maintenance into their summer plans.
The trend of demand upgrading is also significant in the parent-child tourism market. Parents are more willing to pay for “deep experiences” and “cultural added value.” Data shows that parent-child groups form the main force of summer travel, accounting for over 60% of trips. This summer, the parent-child tourism market has a new way to play — “traveling with the textbook,” following the landmarks in the textbook, reading the texts during on-site visits, and experiencing the charm of landscapes and culture. Travel platform data shows that the search volume for products tagged “study tours,” “textbook check-ins,” and “same as the book” increased by 2.8 times month-on-month, and inquiries for ancient poetry and textbook study tour routes increased by over 130% year-on-year. Texts and ancient poems for grades one through six such as “Climbing the Stork Tower,” “Viewing the Waterfall at Mount Lu,” “Unforgettable Water-Splashing Festival,” “Army Life,” and “The Grasslands” have simultaneously boosted parent-child travel in Shanxi, Jiangxi, Yunnan, Gansu, Inner Mongolia, and other places.
Through the window of summer consumption trends, one can clearly capture the new vitality emerging in China’s economy: as residents’ income levels rise, the consumption demand of our country’s residents is upgrading from survival-oriented to development-oriented and quality-oriented, shifting from mainly goods consumption to paying equal attention to service consumption and goods consumption. Macro data confirms this change trend: in the first half of the year, total retail sales of consumer goods and services increased by 2.7% year-on-year, of which service retail sales increased by 5.3%.
Service consumption scenarios are rich, involve a wide range of fields, and have outstanding industry driving effects. They play an important leading role in forcing the supply system to improve quality and efficiency, promoting the iterative upgrading of industrial structure, and cultivating new drivers of economic development. From the perspective of summer consumption, our country’s service consumption is showing good growth. In the first half of the year, retail sales of tourism consulting and rental services and of cultural, sports and leisure services increased by 11.3% and 10.4% respectively.
Behind the sound development of service consumption, there is the pull of demand upgrading, and it also cannot be separated from the efforts on the supply side. Industries such as culture and tourism, catering, accommodation, and sports are continuously launching personalized and differentiated products, and various performances and events are being held intensively. In the first five months, the operating revenue of enterprises in the cultural and arts industry and the sports industry above designated size increased by 11.8% and 11.9% respectively. The improvement of quality and efficiency in the service industry, combined with practical measures to expand opening-up, has driven a leap in the attractiveness of “China Travel.” This summer, inbound study tours have become a new increment in the tourism market. With the increase in convenience for coming to China and the enhancement of the appeal of Chinese cultural experiences, many foreign tourists come to China to experience the charm of humanities and history, technological innovation, natural sciences, and other fields.
To further unleash the potential of service consumption, the “15th Five-Year Plan for Building a Tourism Powerhouse” (旅游强国建设“十五五”规划) and the “15th Five-Year Plan for Expanding Consumption” (扩大消费“十五五”规划) have been released successively, pointing the direction for improving the long-term mechanism for expanding residents’ consumption and better playing the fundamental role of consumption in economic development. This summer, localities will hold over 30,000 cultural tourism consumption activities and issue over 450 million yuan in consumption subsidies, focusing on hot needs such as escaping the summer heat, coastal vacations, night economy, cruise ships and yachts, parent-child recreation, study tours, intangible cultural heritage food, and museum tours.
The summer consumption heat has never been a temporary bustle, but a vivid microcosm of the continuous release of domestic demand potential and the iterative upgrading of the consumption structure. From young people deeply cultivating self-improvement, to parent-child study tours infusing cultural roots, to inbound tourists appreciating the oriental charm, the booming service consumption is not only a direct portrayal of people’s better lives but also a strong driving force for industrial transformation and upgrading. The two “15th Five-Year” special plans anchor long-term layout, and localities’ consumption-promoting measures are taking effect. Both supply and demand sides exert force simultaneously, resonating at the same frequency. Based on the vast domestic demand market, continuously activating the new blue ocean of service consumption will surely consolidate the economic growth foundation and allow the endogenous vitality of China’s economy to surge for a long time.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 齐志明
In the height of summer, the peak season for summer consumption arrives as scheduled. From bustling metropolises to distinctive small towns, from online platforms to offline commercial districts, a consumption feast with key words such as "cooling," "cultural tourism," and "experience" is in full swing.
Recently, the "Expand Consumption '15th Five-Year' Plan" was released, requiring "in-depth implementation of special actions to boost consumption, expand service consumption, upgrade commodity consumption, and enrich business formats and scenarios." All localities and departments deeply implement the strategic deployment of expanding domestic demand. A series of policy measures to promote consumption and expand domestic demand exert precise force, resonating in sync with the innovative supply of business entities and the enthusiastic participation of consumers, jointly painting a vibrant new picture of summer consumption.
Cultural tourism integration improves quality, and diverse play styles release consumption vitality.
Recently, tourist Zhou Lin (周琳) from Shanghai booked a distinctive Mongolian yurt homestay in Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia on Meituan. Staying in a Mongolian yurt deep in the grasslands, following local herders to experience milking and handmade milk curd, and watching the sunset in the evening, she could not help but exclaim: "I used to rush to scenic spots in the past, but this time I lived in the scenery, slowly experiencing local life, and the experience was particularly good."
With the arrival of the travel peak, more and more consumers, like Zhou Lin, pursue more distinctive and deeper travel experiences, driving cultural tourism consumption to continuously upgrade toward quality and experiential consumption. The scale of travel continues to expand, the consumption structure keeps upgrading, and cultural tourism consumption has become an important engine driving summer consumption.
As a traditional consumption area, summer resort and vacation maintain a steady trend. The booking growth rate of destinations with cool climates far exceeds the overall rate, and new ideas emerge in the accommodation market. Meituan Homestay booking data shows that since July, the search heat for many northern summer resort destinations has risen significantly, with cities such as Harbin in Heilongjiang, Qingdao in Shandong, Weihai in Shandong, and Hulunbuir in Inner Mongolia attracting tourist attention. As the heat of grassland tourism increases during summer, distinctive accommodations such as Mongolian yurts, starry sky rooms, and felt tents have gained favor among tourists, with search heat continuously climbing. Around the "accommodation+" model, product supply continues to be enriched. Meituan Travel has partnered with multiple hotels to launch "accommodation + paddleboard" and "accommodation + island travel photography" experiences, pushing accommodation consumption to expand from meeting a single overnight need to a deep experience integrating leisure vacation, cultural experience, and physical and mental healing.
The trend of consumption upgrade continues to be prominent, with strong demand for mid-to-high-end vacation products. Fliggy data shows that since the summer, the booking volume of chartered car tours has increased by 77% year-on-year, and themed parks and themed cruise ships that integrate dining, accommodation, and entertainment have seen multiples growth in heat. The "all-inclusive" worry-free model is highly recognized by parent-child families. On the Tongcheng Travel platform, the booking heat for high-end tourist train products has increased by over 70% year-on-year, with per capita spending generally exceeding 10,000 yuan. Popular trains such as the Panda Special Train and the Silk Road Dream are hard to get a seat during peak hours. Cruise summer voyages are favored by middle-aged and elderly groups, and "sea cooling" has become a new vacation choice.
Deep integration of sports, culture, and tourism has become a hot spot for leveraging consumption growth. Urban football leagues in various places are held in succession, and the traffic from watching matches is quickly converted into incremental regional development. Douyin Life Services, together with cultural tourism and sports departments in multiple places, launched a series of activities called "Travel Following the Events." The video views related to "Follow the Jiangsu Super League (苏超) to Tour Jiangsu" exceeded 1.276 billion, driving the group buying of specialty foods such as crab roe soup dumplings to increase by over 4 times. The "Chu Super League (楚超)" event drove group buying consumption in Wuhan and Yichang in Hubei to increase by 107% and 71% year-on-year respectively.
Niche play styles continue to innovate, constantly expanding the boundaries of cultural tourism consumption. The heat of study tours is rising, with projects such as nature exploration, checking in at famous schools, and intangible cultural heritage experience being very popular among parent-child families. Special routes such as viewing China's FAST telescope in Guizhou and stargazing in the desert of Ningxia are seeing hot bookings. College student groups prefer a "relaxed" travel style, with "random destinations" and "leave as soon as said" becoming trends. "Slow-charging travel" replaces the compact "special forces-style travel," and the search volume for distinctive small towns continues to rise.
The convenience and experiential feel of cultural tourism consumption continue to improve, and financial "living water" injects momentum into cultural tourism scenarios. At the Wenzhou Garden Expo Park (园博园) Summer Trendy Play Season in Zhejiang, the Postal Savings Bank of China Wenzhou Branch (邮储银行温州市分行) innovated a "payment + scenario + rights" benefit model, constructing a "five-in-one" smart settlement network covering scenarios such as ticketing, transportation, and commercial districts. Tourists can quickly enter the park by scanning a code, and also receive consumption vouchers to enjoy full-discount benefits. This not only improves entry efficiency but also allows tourists to enjoy savings, and the smooth payment system also ensures efficient operation of the park's business.
Policy measures add fuel to cultural tourism consumption. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism (文化和旅游部) launched the 2026 National Summer Cultural and Tourism Consumption Season in July, with over 30,000 cultural and tourism activities launched across the country during the summer. Sichuan launched provincial-level cultural tourism consumption vouchers and exclusive vouchers for the "elderly and children," covering categories such as summer resort scenic spots, health and wellness homestays, and study tours. Guangdong launched the "Of course come to Guangdong in summer" cultural tourism consumption voucher distribution activity, with the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao In-depth Cooperation Zone (横琴粤澳深度合作区) providing 50 million yuan in comprehensive consumption vouchers. Guizhou launched the Colorful Guizhou summer cultural tourism consumption vouchers, tailored to mountain summer resort long-distance travel. Platforms such as Meituan and Tongcheng Travel deeply participated in the distribution of consumption vouchers across various regions, launching special activities to precisely match supply and demand, effectively stimulating consumption willingness.
Nighttime consumption is hot, and new momentum bursts from the "fireworks" atmosphere.
As night falls, the South Square of Wenbo Garden (文博园) in Feng County (丰县), Jiangsu, is brightly lit. A cultural feast with the theme "Han Breeze Brushes the Night (汉风拂夜)" is held here, attracting many urban and rural residents and tourists to stop and experience. By participating in interactions such as ancient poetry Q&A and fun challenges, one can obtain imitation antique "Han-style banknotes (汉风银票)" to enjoy deduction consumption without threshold at market stalls. This integrated model of "watching performances, interacting, and consuming" stretches tourists' travel plans from "watching a show" to a complete nighttime consumption itinerary of "performance + market + food."
"When it cools down in the evening, I bring my child out to stroll. There are performances to watch, intangible cultural heritage experiences, and we can also eat some specialty snacks. The evening is very fulfilling." Feng County resident Wang Wenxia (王文霞) brought her child to watch the situational drama "Hanxiang Return Song (汉乡归歌)," and then used the "Han-style banknotes" won from interactions to exchange for reverse-handed baked cakes and wicker-woven handicrafts.
Since the summer, nighttime has become a key period for consumption release. Various localities strengthen cultural empowerment, promote business format integration, so that nighttime consumption has both a "fireworks" atmosphere and new connotations.
County-level nighttime consumption has taken a distinctive path. Feng County, relying on the cultural heritage of Hanyuan, has created the "Night Wenbo" brand, offering benefit performances and intangible cultural heritage markets every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evening, innovating a "trendy immersive performance + traditional cultural exhibition" model, and launching new play styles such as Han-style games. Jiangsu Province's "Jasmine Blossoms (茉莉花开)" cultural and artistic direct bus action sinks high-quality provincial cultural resources to the county level, supporting Feng County in building a three-in-one model of "cultural performance + intangible cultural heritage experience + nighttime consumption." It also coordinates with neighboring regions in Anhui and Shandong to carry out cultural co-construction, amplifying the radiation power of nighttime consumption.
Urban nighttime consumption extends to multiple business formats. As dusk falls, the street lamps of the Nanzheng Street Historical and Cultural Block (南正街历史文化街区) in Anyuan District (安源区), Pingxiang City (萍乡市), Jiangxi, light up. Intangible cultural heritage sugar painting artists flip their wrists, the aroma of sugar rises, outlining a hot picture of summer night consumption. Not far away, at Pingxiang Tianhong Shopping Center (萍乡天虹购物中心), long queues form in front of dining restaurants, and retail and entertainment formats see peak customer flow.
"For this spicy duck head, waiting half an hour is worth it!" Tourist Li Bing (李冰), who just came down from Mount Wugong (武功山), even dragging his luggage, insisted on first tasting the authentic Anyuan flavor. Then he came to Runda International Shopping Center (润达国际购物中心), where a unique "Traditional Chinese Medicine Night Market" was crowded with people. Long queues formed in front of stalls for moxibustion, massage, and health tea drinks, bringing health services close to the masses.
Anyuan District, relying on commercial streets and distinctive commercial circles, continuously enriches the five major business formats of "night dining, night travel, night performances, night shopping, and night entertainment," creating a nighttime consumption circle with multiple blooming points. In Nanzheng Street Historical and Cultural Block, local delicacies such as Lianhua blood duck (莲花血鸭) complement creative ice cream and Nuo dance (傩舞) cultural creative products. Kaiguang Paradise (凯光乐园)'s "Dream and Fantasy Night" launches nighttime performances such as light shows and fairy tale plays, with one ticket covering a full day of play. To boost nighttime consumption, Anyuan District continuously issues "Spicy Red Anyuan (辣红安源)" consumption vouchers, cooperates with platforms such as Meituan to launch "night shopping full discount" activities, and stacks the benefits of cultural tourism benefit cards, making "night vitality" a new engine driving economic growth.
Currently, nighttime consumption is expanding from traditional dining and shopping to diverse fields such as culture, health, and performances. Douyin Life Services data shows that local events effectively activate the "second venue" consumption of cities. In Nanjing, Jiangsu; Fuzhou, Fujian; Nanchang, Jiangxi; Wuhan, Hubei; and Yichang, Hubei, nighttime dining and leisure entertainment formats are heating up simultaneously, and event traffic is accelerating the conversion into nighttime consumption increments. Tongcheng Travel data shows that cities such as Shanghai; Xi'an, Shaanxi; and Qingdao, Shandong, relying on activities such as anime exhibitions, tourism performances, and international beer festivals, saw their overnight tourist volume rank among the top in the country in mid-July, and nighttime cultural tourism consumption has become an important support for driving the urban economy.
Physical goods consumption heats up, and the "cooling" and "digital" tracks accelerate and expand.
"After the dog days, it's both hot and humid. Taking advantage of the high-temperature consumption vouchers and trade-in subsidies, I directly replaced the fan at home with a Dreame (追觅) bladeless circulation fan with purification and dehumidification functions, which can both cool down and purify the air." The consumption choice of Lin Jingxuan (林静轩), a citizen of Wuhan, Hubei, is a vivid microcosm of summer physical goods consumption where "rigid demand is stable and upgrades accelerate." The hot weather combined with the consumption boom has kept physical goods such as cooling appliances and digital trendy products popular, with obvious trends toward intelligence, health, and systematization.
The entire chain of "cooling consumption" expands, and the connotation of consumption continues to be enriched. Traditional cooling categories such as air conditioners, fans, and ice cream still maintain steady growth. At the same time, consumption demand extends from "single cooling" to "quality living," with prominent characteristics of health and segmentation. He Xingwei (何兴伟), head of the Living Environment Appliance Division of Dreame, introduced that with the continuous popularity of the "healthy air management" concept, consumers prefer "cooling + dehumidification + purification" one-stop solutions. Bladeless fans that combine soft wind and purification functions are gradually replacing traditional hard direct-blowing products. High-end purifiers priced above 3,000 yuan and bladeless fans above 2,000 yuan are selling well.
JD.com consumption data also confirms the heat of "cooling consumption": over the past month, the sales of water dispensing ice makers on the platform increased by more than 5 times year-on-year, and the growth rate of heatstroke prevention supplies such as children's cool mats both exceeded two times. Sales of water sports equipment such as diving bags and surfboards increased by more than 3 times year-on-year, and outdoor cooling drives the synchronous growth of sports consumption. Innovative cooling beverages such as low-temperature tea-flavored milk and coffee-flavored milk grew by more than 10 times, and healthy beverages are deeply loved by consumers.
3C digital home appliances (a collective term for computer, communication, and consumer electronics products) are showing a trend of intelligent and systematized upgrades. Suning.com data shows that among the newly listed home appliance and 3C products in stores, the penetration rate of AI functions has exceeded 70%. "Thinking, self-adaptive" smart home appliances are moving from novelty to necessity. After the college entrance examination, places such as Jiangsu have included products like smart watches, drones, and gimbal cameras in the subsidy scope. Combined with education certification discounts and trade-in policies, the consumption of young groups shows a "one-step" bundled purchase feature. Combined consumption such as mobile phones paired with gimbal cameras, and the "earphones + watch + tablet" three-piece set have increased significantly. The proportion of customers who purchase two or more digital products at one time has increased by 50% year-on-year. New categories such as drones and action cameras have become popular equipment for graduation season.
Policy dividends continue to be released, escorting the upgrade of physical goods consumption. Consumption vouchers and national subsidy policies in many places cover seasonal categories such as fans, air conditioners, and dehumidifiers, directly driving terminal sales. Many provinces and cities across the country have implemented independent category subsidies for consumer goods trade-in, promoting the renewal and upgrade of home appliances and digital products. The new national standard for healthy home appliances is gradually being implemented, putting forward higher requirements for key indicators, guiding the industry towards 优胜劣汰 (yōu shèng liè tài - "the superior win, the inferior are eliminated," survival of the fittest), and helping technology-driven brands grow.
"The hot trend of summer consumption is both an intuitive reflection of the strong resilience and endogenous driving force of China's consumer market, and a vivid footnote to the continuous manifestation of the policy effects of expanding domestic demand and stabilizing growth," said Hong Yong (洪勇), associate researcher at the Academy of the Ministry of Commerce (商务部研究院). As both supply and demand sides continue to exert force, and policies and markets empower each other, the potential of the consumer market will be further released, injecting continuous momentum into the sustained recovery and improvement of the economy.
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A duck over 500 years old — how trendy can it be?
In display cabinets at the center of the exhibition hall of the Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Museum (景德镇御窑博物院), two small ceramic ducks, clad in plain glazes of yellow, green, and purple, hold their heads high with plump bellies and tucked wings, displaying an utterly 憨态可掬 (hān tài kě jū - “naive posture that invites a smile,” adorably charming) appearance, drawing visitors to crowd around and take photos.
The little ducks are called plain tri-color duck-shaped incense burners (hereinafter “incense ducks”), fired during the Chenghua period of the Ming dynasty. The incense duck is divided into upper and lower halves: the lower half holds the incense material, the upper half serves as the lid; when the incense is lit, wisps of fragrance slowly emerge from the duck’s beak. In ancient times, such elegant implements were generally placed in halls or studies, and were “trendy items” that combined aesthetics and utility.
Cute as they are, the two were “abandoned.” In ancient times, the Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln fired porcelain exclusively for the imperial court; after leaving the kiln, the porcelain underwent rigorous selection. Any piece with even a slight tilt, uneven glaze, or flawed inscription would be smashed and buried. The incense ducks regrettably failed selection and were buried deep underground for over 500 years.
In the 1980s, archaeologists identified and selected fragments of the incense ducks from the massive quantity of broken porcelain pieces excavated from the Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln site. After cleaning, reassembling, and restoration processes, the incense ducks were restored to their complete form.
重见天日 (chóng jiàn tiān rì - “again see the sky and sun,” to emerge from obscurity and return to the world) and making a grand “comeback” — in February 2024, the Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Museum held a press conference and launched the “Sui Sui Duck (岁岁鸭)” IP (intellectual property), telling the story of its “past and present lives.”
“‘Sui Sui’ implies ‘peace year after year.’ With ‘rebirth after breakage’ as its core, we endowed it with the personality setting of ‘still adorable and healing despite having been broken and buried,’ conveying an attitude of self-healing, resilience, and composure toward life,” introduced Weng Yanjun (翁彦俊), director of the Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Museum.
“I thought it was just a cute cultural relic, but I never expected there were so many stories behind it!” marveled Ms. Lin, a tourist from Hunan. “After the sedimentation of time, things that were once not so perfect can perhaps still radiate new brilliance. Just like life — looking back, everything is scenery.”
Creating distinctive cultural and creative products brings “trendy” cultural relics into contemporary life.
On the museum’s basement level, the “Sui Sui Duck” themed experience area is filled with a 琳琅满目 (lín láng mǎn mù - “a dazzling array of beautiful objects,” a splendid variety) of related cultural and creative products. “Sui Sui Duck” plush toys, with their soft touch and signature “flower-pattern eyes,” have become favored souvenirs for visitors; the “Sui Sui Duck” series of phone cases, tote bags, sticky-note pads, badges, and other everyday accessories embed relic elements into young people’s attire, office settings, and other scenarios…
“These cultural creations are not simple reproductions but a stylish translation of relic elements,” said Weng Yanjun. “By extracting key visual features such as the ‘Sui Sui Duck’s’ flower-pattern eyes and wing feathers, and combining them with modern aesthetics, we have transformed the ‘aloof’ relics displayed in showcases into portable, usable, and interactive everyday items. In a light and stylish way, we integrate ceramic culture and auspicious meanings into daily life, achieving a fashionable empowerment of ‘making relics part of life and making life aesthetic.’”
In recent years, the Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Museum has authorized commercial collaborations for the “Sui Sui Duck” across more than 30 categories, launching over 180 “Sui Sui Duck” cultural and creative products. As a representative cultural and creative product with Jiangxi characteristics, “Sui Sui Duck” has appeared at multiple domestic cultural tourism exhibitions. Since 2025, revenue from “Sui Sui Duck” cultural and creative products has exceeded ten million yuan.
Breaking through the boundaries of the cultural and creative IP, “Sui Sui Duck” has stepped off the shelves.
In 2025, the museum launched the “Take Sui Sui Duck Home” themed educational study activity. In the archaeological heritage park, children follow experts to explore the southern slope site and search for the museum’s treasures; in the pottery art classroom, they knead a lump of clay and make their own incense duck by hand; in the “Colorful Elegance Gathering” activity, they fill in colors on unglazed duck bodies…
Weng Yanjun said that this immersive experience makes cultural relics no longer cold nouns in textbooks but tactile, perceivable, and playable life aesthetics. As of now, the museum has carried out over 120 sessions of “Sui Sui Duck” themed educational study activities, covering over 15,000 participants.
In recent years, Jingdezhen has continuously excavated the stories behind cultural relics, launching a batch of blockbuster IPs such as “Sui Sui Duck,” “Silent Buddha,” and the auspicious beast series. In 2025, the city’s total sales of various ceramic cultural and creative products exceeded two billion yuan.
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More than 20 years ago, I was a heavy-truck driver participating in the construction of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway. More than 20 years later, when I received an invitation to attend a themed event titled "Witnessing the Changes of the Heavenly Road," I said without the slightest hesitation: "I have the time, I’ll attend!"
For more than 20 years, the call from Lhasa, the "City of Sunlight," has always lingered in my ears. Although the wind on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is biting, to me it feels so familiar. Though the snow in Amdo County in northern Tibet is freezing, it often moistens my dreams. Whenever I think of how I will ride a train racing across the land of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, I cannot restrain my excitement. Tears rise like mist and vapor, as if transforming into a soaring dragon, riding the clouds away from the land between the Huai and Yellow Rivers, crossing the Qinling Mountains, the Hexi Corridor, leaping over Qinghai Lake and the Qaidam Basin, all the way to the Kunlun Mountains. Look — it even bores through the Fenghuoshan Tunnel, flies to the Tanggula Range, and beside the towering snow-covered mountains, there is the missed-and-longed-for Cuona Lake. The man from northern Henan who once drove a heavy truck to build the railway has returned!
"Hello everyone, my name is Niu Baohong (牛保红), and my pen name is Brother Niu (牛二哥). I am a truck driver who has been driving for 30 years. More than 20 years ago, I participated in the construction of the Golmud–Lhasa section of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, hauling ballast stone and mixed materials at the Cuona Lake work area, and building slope protections and sand-control belts."
On the morning of June 24, in the Qinghai-Tibet Railway Spirit Exhibition Hall, holding two diaries, an IC card for a card phone, photographs, and other items, I told everyone my story.
I have treasured these old objects for many years. They condense many of my memories of working and living in a high-altitude environment: there was the life-threatening danger I encountered while driving a heavy truck over the Tanggula Mountains due to diarrhea, the stifling hardship of having to rest for a while after every single bite of food on the plateau, the terror of encountering "rolling thunder" (ground lightning) at the stone yard as it jumped around my truck …
These diaries have accompanied me for many years. In my free time, I often take them out and look through them, reading them. Now, donating them to the exhibition hall feels to me like the best possible归宿 (guīsù - "final destination, proper home"). It can allow more people to truly understand, through the perspective of an ordinary worker, how difficult it was to build the Heavenly Road.
I have two suitcases for long-distance travel. The night before I set out, my wife asked me which one to use. I said the silver-white one, because that is the color of the snow mountains. I was going to witness a great miracle — a miracle after more than 20 years of changes to the Heavenly Road. It is the dream of several generations, a magnificent poem written by countless builders with hot blood as ink and tenacity as the pen, in a life-forbidden zone.
As the speeding train passed through the Guanjiao Mountain Tunnel, Gu Haidong of the Delingha Track Maintenance Section of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway told us his story. His family has three generations of railway workers. He is two years younger than me, yet he already has 32 years of work experience. Starting at age 20, he has been stationed at the Guanjiao Mountain Tunnel, witnessing the entire process of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway from construction to operation to maintenance.
Guanjiao Mountain is not unfamiliar to me. In 2014, I drove a heavy truck hauling coal from Tianjun County, taking National Highway 315, and I had to climb Guanjiao Mountain every day. The altitude was high, the slopes steep, and the curves many. I encountered danger several times and was terrified every time I passed through. I thought I had already experienced the most dangerous hardships, but after hearing Gu Haidong talk about draining water in summer, clearing ice in winter, resisting Force 12 winds, and sleeping in iron oil drums, I realized that in the same place there were people doing even tougher work. Especially when I heard him tell the story of 55 martyrs who gave their lives — all of them young people around twenty years old — I could not hold back the grief in my heart. I made an excuse to go to the washroom to wipe away my tears.
"Cuona Lake Station has arrived." At the conductor's reminder, I carefully held onto the bed rail and stood up. The previous night at 11 p.m., we had departed from Golmud, and by the middle of the night I had altitude sickness. I am a somewhat stubborn person; I felt that since I had already gotten through working on the railway line more than 20 years ago, what was there to fear now? So I did not use supplemental oxygen. But facts proved that I had still lost to age, lost to the plateau.
At 9:41 a.m., when I got off the train, I felt dizzy, had a headache, and had difficulty breathing. Holding onto the guardrail, I gazed into the distance at Cuona Lake. The blue sky, white clouds, and the lake like a jade belt — it still looked the same as before. The difference was that the land along the shore, which had once been desertified, had now turned green with grass. Cuona Lake had not been left scarred by the passage of the railway; on the contrary, under the maintenance of the railway operators, it had become younger and more beautiful.
I set up my selfie stick, used the lake as a backdrop, filmed a video, and posted it on Douyin (TikTok), because I still had a wish.
This was an agreement between me and the herdsman Zaxi.
Zaxi was a herdsman living near the Bridge-and-Culvert Second Team work area. I got to know him while I was transporting ballast stone. He wanted a ride. Although we could not communicate smoothly due to the language barrier, we read sincerity in each other's eyes. I agreed without hesitation.
Later, I gave him a few cleaned-out oil drums. He invited me to his family's yurt as a guest. That was the first time in my life I drank highland barley wine and ate air-dried leg of lamb.
Still later, when our convoy's work was finished and we were coming down the mountain, he gave me three little Tibetan mastiffs. One was taken by someone else. The two I had with me could not be put on the train at Golmud Station, so I had no choice but to call Old Ma at the parking lot to take them away.
When we parted, Zaxi said that once the railway was open to traffic, he would come to Henan to find me.
So, facing my phone screen, I said: "My good Tibetan friend Zaxi, I am Brother Niu from Henan who helped build the railway more than 20 years ago. If you see this video, please leave a comment under it. You are welcome to take the Qinghai-Tibet Express and come visit me as my guest …"
At 4 p.m. on June 25, we arrived at Lianhu Village in Delingha City. It was once a village that received paired-up assistance. Ten years ago, I had hauled limestone from the large soda plant in Delingha City, so these places were not unfamiliar to me. At that time, the village was not yet well known. This time when I came to see it, the changes were truly enormous. The roads were full of vehicles coming and going — big buses, minibuses, cars — and many tourists were visiting.
Listening to the village Party branch secretary, I learned that now the roads are hardened, there are streetlights at night, the villagers' living conditions have improved, the village is particularly tidy, and it has developed an industrial chain of "rapeseed oil + planting + agricultural machinery services," becoming a model village for rural revitalization.
Time passes as fast as a speeding train. We arrived at Lhasa Station. There, we participated in a sharing session with the railway workers who hold their posts on the plateau. They help elderly passengers, look after women and children traveling alone, and answer passengers' questions. Their boundless goodwill warmed the travelers who had come from afar.
More than 20 years ago, we were the builders of the plateau railway, paving the thousand-li Heavenly Road with our hands and sweat. More than 20 years later, young railway workers have taken up the baton and continue to hold their posts, serving passengers from all directions with their original aspiration, guarding this thoroughfare through the snow-covered region.
The Qinghai-Tibet Railway is not only a Heavenly Road traversing the plateau; it is also a road of struggle, a road of hope, and a road that protects the passage across the snowy highlands.
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When I was studying at the University of California in the United States, I was a member of the school's lightweight rowing team. Training often began before dawn. At six in the morning, we pushed the boat into the Oakland Estuary, then sat down in order. The coxswain gave short commands, the oars hit the water, and the boat slid toward the surface that had not yet lit up.
The distant moon had not yet set; the sound of oars first stirred in the thin mist. Moonlight was split open by the oars time and again, then closed again in front of the boat. Suddenly, lines from "Spring River in the Flower Moon Night" surfaced from the depths of memory:
"Spring river tide meets the level sea; the sea's bright moon rises with the tide. Traceless ripples stretch for a thousand miles; where is the spring river without moonlight?"
By then, I could attend lectures and train in English, and could even write fairly polished essays. Yet facing this full moon, I could not find a suitable English phrase; I only felt some emotion in my heart gently stirred. Only when the lines surfaced did I recognize where this feeling came from—
I missed home, yet it was not simply homesickness. I thought of the same round moon shining on the waters of Oakland and also on my family thousands of miles away; I thought of the high-school rowing teammates I had been with day and night... Now we live in different time zones, but I know that as long as we look up and see this moon, somewhere in our hearts will be touched.
In front of me was a Norwegian exchange student who had just arrived in California. He kept his head down, rowing hard with the rhythm of the commands. At that moment, I could certainly ask him in English, "Do you miss home?" But even if he answered "yes," the conversation could probably go no further. What I really wanted to tell him was why this bright moon before me reminded me of a river I had never seen, and why a few lines written over 1,300 years ago could suddenly bring life ten thousand miles away closer to me.
The teammate before me was just an arm's reach away, yet I could not convey what I felt in my heart to him. The lines of Zhang Ruoxu from over 1,300 years ago, instead, seemed to have already spoken for me. The questioner under the moon in the poem asked when the river moon first shone upon human beings, lamenting that those who gaze at each other cannot hear each other—who was she, what life did she have? I do not know. But I know that the poet's question still lingers in the poem, and many years later, drifts into the heart of someone far from home.
Poems can be translated word by word, but the emotional symbols in them cannot. When I silently recited "Spring River in the Flower Moon Night" in a foreign land, the full moon before me was no longer just a scene in the early morning training. It encountered the poem and entered the human condition. Thus, Zhang Ruoxu and I became connected within the same image. The person and the thoughts he wrote became, for me, this body and this heart; the year and the month he asked about became, for me, this very moment and this very hour.
"At this moment we gaze but cannot hear each other; I wish to follow the moonlight to shine upon you."
The poem did not let me truly meet anyone. On the contrary, I became more acutely aware that the people before me might not hear my inner voice. Yet when my feelings were named in another person's poem, one person's loneliness turned into the shared loneliness of the poet and me, and even the loneliness of a crowd—my individual loneliness thus shrank.
Later, when I read Su Shi's late-life poems harmonizing with Tao Qian, I thought again of that moon over the Oakland Estuary.
Tao Qian wrote about life in the Southern Village in "Moving House": "We share the pleasure of extraordinary writing and analyze doubts together." There, neighbors came and went; people of similar interests kept company with books and saw each other. Nearly 700 years later, when Su Shi was exiled to Huizhou, he harmonized with that poem but wrote: "Ill and thin, I pass the years alone; with whom shall I bundle the firewood?"
One "together with," one "with whom"—separated by nearly 700 years.
What had been an ordinary gathering in Tao Qian's writing had become, for Su Shi, a life out of reach. The bustling market town of Huizhou was full of people, but Su Shi could hardly find a kindred spirit. His loneliness was not a lack of companions but a lack of those who shared his kind. So he could only trace backward along the verses, seeking spiritual friends in the words of the ancients. Su Shi naturally knew that Tao Qian could not answer, but writing these harmonizing poems was enough to give his solitude an outlet.
Ten thousand miles from home, old friends scattered, it was hard for Su Shi not to feel nostalgia. But in his poetry, his nostalgia had transcended specific coordinates on a map. The "home" he longed for was a home in another sense: a spiritual world jointly created by generations of literati. It was written by generation after generation of Chinese writers and revisited by generation after generation of Chinese writers. Through the continuous memories, feelings, and responses of later people, poetry also built a spiritual homeland that spanned past and present.
Indeed, what poetry can give to people is ultimately limited. When Tao Qian wrote "analyze together," he could not have imagined that nearly 700 years later someone would see in those three characters the life he had lost; when Su Shi wrote "with whom to analyze," he did not know that long afterward, someone on the opposite shore of the Pacific would understand his anguish. Poetry cannot take me home, cannot summon absent friends, nor can it erase the distance between different people. But it gives a place for feelings that for a time no one else can articulate. When later people step into a similar situation, they discover that the place where they stand has not been a place where no one has ever arrived.
That morning, the rowing boat still moved forward in the estuary, and the Norwegian boy's back rose and fell with the oar sounds. I still did not know what he was thinking, and he would never know that a few ancient lines had just passed through my mind. We sat in the same boat, yet we were not necessarily looking at the same moon.
When we rowed back to the shore, the moon had already set, and the east began to grow light. Although home was not any closer because of this, from then on, between home and me, there was no longer only water that no one had ever crossed.
As long as there are Chinese people silently reciting those lines under a foreign moon, those who have long since departed will still be present in their hearts.
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On the morning I arrived at Kiln Realm (窑界), the weather in Jinhua seemed soaked in a watery mist, and the faintly visible scent of pomelo blossoms led me deep into Tantou Village (坛头村). The Wuzhou Kiln (婺州窑) was hidden behind a pond; from a distance, it looked like moss crawling along the ground. It was very quiet, only the rain dripping from the green tiles. I came here not to visit ancient sites or seek the secluded, but only to watch the master make a few cups with my own eyes.
The wood-fired kiln lay silently there, like a silent giant beast that had once belched flames in its belly, now lying open-chested, all black and cold. The kiln's owner, Chen Jinsheng (陈金生), walked out and greeted me. Master Chen had a crew cut, wore simple cloth clothes, was fair-skinned, with a slender build, and the nail beds of his fingers held unwashed porcelain clay. His daughter and apprentices sat quietly in the small courtyard, some painting on bisque bodies, some carving patterns. No one spoke; the rustling sound of the carving knife cutting across the clay body was like spring silkworms eating leaves.
Chen Jinsheng demonstrated wheel-throwing for me. "The heart must be still, the shoulders relaxed, strength comes from the ground." This inheritor of the Wuzhou Kiln heritage loved to smile. I particularly resonated with a sentence from his video account: "A job you love holds no bitterness, only joy."
Watching the clay ball spin on the wheel, I also felt eager to try. I spread my ten fingers, gesturing left and right, but did not know where to start. The moment I lightly touched the clay body, a coolness came to my fingertips — the touch of spring mud in the rice paddies of my hometown, soft and slippery. Incredibly, of the clay bodies for which Master Chen had helped me establish the base, I did not ruin a single one. But they were not perfect either: the rim of the cup was uneven in thickness, the wall slightly tilted; I could not imagine what they would look like after kiln transmutation. Master Chen looked at them and said, "I will carve patterns and names on them for you. When the kiln is opened, you come again."
Returning to Kiln Realm, it was already the beginning of summer. This time, Chen Jinsheng's master, Chen Xinhua (陈新华), the national-level intangible cultural heritage representative inheritor of Wuzhou Kiln ceramic firing techniques, was also present. Chen Xinhua led all the apprentices in washing their hands, offering fruits, and lighting incense sticks. Wisps of smoke rose before the wood-fired kiln that had been burning for three days and three nights and then cooling for five days and five nights. It did not seem like a prayer for blessings, but more like reverence for fire and gratitude for earth.
The moment the kiln door opened, a breath of air slightly warmer than the surrounding air rushed toward the face, carrying the burnt fragrance of pine-wood ash. The first piece brought out was a tall, unglazed-fired Ten-Thousand-Buddha Celestial-Bead Vase (万佛天珠瓶), exquisitely beautiful. Plum vases, teapots, teacups, tea bowls, incense burners — each came out one after another. Of course, there were also ruined ones, ones that had leaked.
I felt my heartbeat quicken. Kiln transmutation is unpredictable; the clay bodies that had been pinched and kneaded in my hands — after undergoing life and death in a thousand-degree heat — in what form would they appear before me?
When the first cup came out, its surface was covered with a bit of grayish-white ash. Chen Jinsheng gently wiped it with a soft cloth; suddenly, a patch of golden-brown showed through from beneath the ash, transforming into fine lines like hare's-fur; the glaze flowed like a mountain stream; the water-ripple pattern surging in one direction piled up into layered auspicious clouds, and among the clouds one could even faintly see the name carved in seal script. The second cup had brown and ochre glaze interwoven, ancient-looking like an old object. The third was a birthday gift for my daughter; the body was lustrous and smooth like jade, and at the rim and the base the kiln transmutation produced a patch of pale purple shading; a small sika deer leaped amid the water-ripple pattern.
I held them, unable to speak for a long time. I raised one of the cups toward the early-summer sunlight; the light penetrated the thin body — truly beautiful. In fact, the patterns and glaze colors on these cups had all been retouched by Chen Jinsheng. How could this be my work alone? On these cups there was clearly the joint signature of earth, fire, and the craftsman...
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The Jiangnan I long for
has white egrets over shoals and water meeting sky,
where I can pole a green punt
and flit among reed flowers and slanting sunlight.
The Jiangnan I frequent
has cities and towns and courtyards,
ample enough for the wide and narrow Jinli,
and spacious enough for the oil-paper umbrellas in rain-alley lanes.
The Jiangnan I farm and read in
has fertile fields, deep soil, and Southern Hills,
whose bold and restrained chantings
nourish the poetic inspiration of Wu and Yue.
Tonight, who is in Jiangnan,
following the egrets rising over the Starry River and the shifting shades of misty rain,
blowing out the plaintive tones of the Qiang flute,
letting lovesick tears fall upon the pillow.
Oil painting “Water No. 2”, by Chen Beixin (谌北新), collection of the National Art Museum of China (中国美术馆).
Return to TopBy: 尚书华
Not far from home there is a morning market. In summer, as soon as day breaks, people selling things and people buying things gather here one after another. Food and drink, clothing and accessories, flowers, birds, fish, insects — things for use and for play — everything one could want is available, and it is so lively.
I come here for a stroll almost every morning. Sometimes I buy a little food or some daily necessities, sometimes I buy nothing at all, simply for the sake of walking and looking around in a market thick with the atmosphere of daily life.
My steps are often drawn by the locally produced fresh vegetables and fruits. I love to taste the first of the season. With vegetables and fruits, as long as they have just come to market, I want to buy some and try them. In the north, vegetables and fruits are seasonal; you can only eat them when the season comes. If you miss the moment, you have to wait another year.
Take chives, for example. No matter what, I must have a meal of dumplings stuffed with first-cut chives around the time of Grain Rain. The first-cut chives that have just appeared on the market are the earliest vegetables to emerge from the ground after the long winter. Carrying the moisture of melting ice and snow, and cloaked in the windblown dust of the earth just awakening, the white parts are like jade, the green leaves like emerald, tender and succulent. Although it is an ordinary vegetable, the precious thing lies in “first-cut.” Buy two bundles, go home, knead dough and mince meat to make dumplings. When the dumplings are boiled and you take a bite, they are incomparably delicious. This is a flavor utterly different from the greenhouse chives available all year round.
Then there are muskmelons. The “first-batch melons” that go on the market around Minor Heat are the sweetest, most fragrant, and most delicious. “Eat the first-batch melons, and you won’t crave melons all summer.” This saying reveals the secret of tasting the first of the season. The first-batch melons are the earliest fruits borne by the vine; the most nutrients are supplied to them. How could they not be delicious?
Also there are cucumbers, string beans, tomatoes, eggplants, peas, peanuts, apricots, peaches, pears... No matter which vegetable or fruit, as long as it is from the first picking, it is worth tasting — the freshness is pure, and what comes later cannot compare.
When I was a child, our household had a rule: whenever there was freshly harvested fruit or any good thing never tasted before, the elders had to taste it first, and only then could the younger generation eat it; otherwise severe punishment would be inflicted. In our courtyard we grew a Muscat grapevine. In mid-autumn when the fruit ripened, the fragrance wafted and made one drool. Once I stealthily ate a few grapes, and was discovered by my grandmother. I got a beating on the bottom and was also punished by being forbidden to eat one meal. From then on, the lesson was profound, and it is engraved in my heart: if the elders have not tasted the fresh thing first, I absolutely dare not eat it before them.
That year, I went to Hainan for the first time. At the market I saw many kinds of tropical fruits whose names I could not call, and my heart suddenly warmed. These fruits — while my parents were alive, to say nothing of tasting them, they had never even heard of them. I am their descendant, their blood flows in my veins. When I taste these fruits I have never eaten before, is it not as if they too have tasted them? So I sampled every fruit sample I could at the market, and an immense feeling of comfort welled up in my heart. I even thought that I could tell my daughter: when her mother and I are no longer in this world, wherever she goes, she should taste all the local delicious foods, counting it as tasting them for her parents.
When summer ends and autumn arrives, corn, edamame, peanuts, grapes, apples, hawthorns, and so on will also come to market one after another. Each one is worth tasting fresh. This is the timely gift of the earth. Only by savoring them at the right moment can one not have lived in vain. Perhaps what one tastes is more than just freshness.
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Traveling from Wanzhou back to Yuzhong, the journey that once took several hours by boat has been compressed to under an hour by high-speed rail; describing the swiftness of today's high-speed railways as 风驰电掣 (fēng chí diàn chè - "wind-driven, lightning-struck," extremely fast) is entirely apt. Having just shaken hands and said goodbye to friends in Wanzhou, I take a nap on the train, and by the time I open my eyes, I have to prepare to get off. This hardcore direct transportation is solid, reliable, and comfortable. Thinking back to those days traveling upstream on the Yangtze River by boat, how could it be done without a full day and a half? That year, taking a double-decker bus from Caiyuanba to Wanzhou at night turned into a whole night of tossing and turning—those winding mountain roads, that dirty and broken diesel-burning vehicle, people exhausted with aching backs and sore legs, groaning in misery...
Just as I was thinking about the transportation of those years, a three-column formation assembling on the train platform, chattering like a flock of lively sparrows, pulled me back to reality. Looking at the members of the formation who had stepped off the same train, pushing rolling suitcases of various sizes, mostly wearing black-and-white sportswear, an undeniable wave of youthful energy rushed toward me. In the formation, the girls were no shorter than 1.7 meters by sight, and the boys were all around 1.8 meters—good heavens, every single one of them handsome guys and beautiful girls. Looking further at the blue-and-white triangular flag held by the person at the front of the formation, it bore the words "Jiuquan No. 1 High School."
So they were students from the northwest. I stopped and asked a girl in the formation, "Are you middle school students or high school students?"
"High school." The youthful voice told me they were around sixteen or seventeen years old.
"Here for a summer camp in Chongqing?"
"No. For study tours." The child spoke while glancing at a classmate beside her, a bit shy.
Jiuquan—wasn't that the famous Aerospace City? Children from the northwest, so tall? It truly caught me off guard.
More than 20 years ago, deep in the Badain Jaran Desert not far from Jiuquan, at the People's Bank of China station in Ejin Banner, Alxa League, Inner Mongolia, our group, dispatched as a work team from the central bank headquarters, visited several impoverished out-of-school children from local poor families. In my memory, those children were short, thin, and frail; although their clothes were worn and tattered, their eyes were clear and bright. Looking at these children before me now—heroic in bearing, full of vitality—the change was simply enormous.
Three days ago, in Chengkou County, I had a similar encounter with a friend.
That day, after walking through the Old Street of Tucheng, we arrived at the gate of the Soviet Regime Memorial Park. A local friend, pointing to the stone tablet inscribed with "The People Rightly Sit on the Rivers and Mountains" at the park entrance, told us stories of the Red Army. As we spoke, we saw a group of young people marching down from the hundred-step staircase not far away.
At first, I paid it no mind, thinking it was some company doing team-building there. It was only when the group of young people passed by in neat unison that I realized my judgment was wrong. They were wearing matching school uniforms. They were students! Although they were tall, the expressions on their faces, their bouncing and skipping mannerisms, and the sparkling energy in their eyes clearly marked them as a group of immature middle school students. They must have just come out of the memorial hall, having received education on revolutionary history under their teacher's guidance.
In that instant, both my friend and I were infected by the children's vitality, and we almost said in unison: "Kids these days, they really are tall!" I even thought of words like 亭亭玉立 (tíng tíng yù lì - "tall and graceful, standing like a jade," slender and elegant) and 风度翩翩 (fēng dù piān piān - "elegant demeanor, light and graceful," suave and debonair), but since I didn't know these children, I swallowed the words that were on the tip of my tongue.
Children from deep in the mountains—what do they eat to be so tall?
This is a small county town deep in the Daba Mountains, after all. This is Chengkou County, which had only won the battle against poverty a few years ago and had its expressway open to traffic just two years ago. Under the blue sky and white clouds, the small town is tranquil; clear river water flows through the town; the surrounding mountains are lush with vegetation; the air is so fresh you could squeeze water out of it... Lucid waters and lush mountains truly are mountains of gold and silver. The children here made us exclaim in admiration again and again...
On the platform at Chongqing North Station, I was somewhat distracted. The two different encounters kept flashing back in my mind. Suddenly remembering my own height of just over 1.6 meters, I couldn't help but feel ashamed.
Times are different; society has progressed. The children of today are truly tall, truly wonderful!
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