Summary: President Xi Jinping, in a speech marking the 105th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, emphasized that the Party's success hinges on its commitment to Marxist truth, theoretical innovation, and ideological construction. He highlighted the "two combinations" – integrating Marxism with China's specific conditions and its traditional culture – as essential for advancing the Party's cause. The article underscores Xi's call for continuous learning and firming up ideals and beliefs, citing his leadership in nine intra-Party education campaigns. It notes that China's stable development, guided by Xi's thought, has prompted U.S. political scientist Francis Fukuyama to revise his "end of history" thesis, acknowledging the plurality of modernization paths.
Summary: President Xi Jinping emphasized that the realization of national rejuvenation requires the joint efforts of all Chinese people at home and abroad, highlighting the importance of uniting overseas Chinese. During a 2020 visit to the Qiaopi Museum in Shantou, accompanied by then-director Lin Qingxi, Xi stressed protecting "qiaopi" artifacts as symbols of overseas Chinese patriotism and trustworthiness, urging education on historical struggles. The article outlines institutional reforms, such as merging the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office into the United Front Work Department, and policies to leverage overseas Chinese talent and investment for national development. It also details efforts to protect overseas Chinese rights, including legislation and digital services, as part of the broader strategy to consolidate support for the Chinese Dream. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: In a November 2024 inspection of Hubei, President Xi Jinping urged the province to strive for high-quality development in the Yangtze River Economic Belt and accelerate its role as a key strategic pivot for central China. Following Xi’s directives, Hubei has focused on improving cadre quality, including launching initiatives like the "Optics Valley" brain-computer interface innovation center in Wuhan. The province is fostering innovation-driven growth, as seen in the rapid development of a humanoid robot by a Wuhan-based firm supported by a local innovation center. Additionally, Hubei is encouraging risk-taking among officials through mechanisms like the proactive risk reporting system, which helped expedite a major battery factory project in Yichang. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: During a 2016 inspection of Tangshan, President Xi Jinping called on officials and citizens to uphold the earthquake-resilience spirit and pursue the "three efforts to build" goals amid the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei integration strategy. The article chronicles Tangshan's post-quake reconstruction and subsequent green transformation, including the relocation of 11 major steel enterprises from the urban core, which reduced emissions and allowed the city to exit the national list of the ten worst air-quality cities. By 2024, Tangshan became Hebei's first trillion-yuan GDP city, with 2025 growth at 6.2%, driven by steel, robotics, and new-energy industries. The report highlights the city's shift from heavy pollution to a circular economy, exemplified by the Tangshan Port's automated container terminal and the transformation of industrial wasteland into public parks.
Summary: The article highlights China’s AI achievements as a key symbol of Chinese-style modernization, citing President Xi Jinping’s statements at the 2026 World AI Conference on embracing AI development and advocating for a fair global governance system. It details China’s strategic planning under Xi’s guidance, resulting in a core AI industry exceeding one trillion yuan and over 6200 AI enterprises. The piece emphasizes AI’s integration into various sectors—from agriculture to manufacturing—and its role in improving daily life, while noting China’s commitment to open-source initiatives and international cooperation, including the launch of the World AI Cooperation Organization. No references to the United States or U.S.-China relations appear in the text.
Summary: The article presents expert commentary on the first volume of *Xi Jinping's Selected Works on the Economy*, focusing on the need to enhance the balance and adaptability of supply and demand to drive high-quality development. It does not report on a specific official's statements or actions, nor does it discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports on the transformation of Shanghai's historic No.1 Department Store, which introduced small theaters to attract younger customers. Zhao Weigang, Vice General Manager of Shanghai Bailian Group and former General Manager of the store, explained that the shift was driven by the need to counter e-commerce competition and changing consumer habits. The addition of 21 small theaters featuring immersive performances has increased the share of young customers to 35%, lifted retail sales by 10%, and boosted profits by double digits. The store also expanded services for the elderly, creating a "Silver Economy" space. A Shanghai municipal official noted that the performing arts industry significantly drives the local economy, with service consumption surging in the first half of the year.
Summary: The article highlights that service consumption is becoming a key driver of China's economic growth, as consumers shift from goods to a balanced mix of goods and services. It notes the emergence of new consumption scenarios and formats, such as immersive cultural experiences, with上半年 retail sales for tourism, sports, and entertainment services achieving double-digit growth. The piece cites the example of Shanghai's No. 1 Department Store, where high-quality service consumption has revitalized commercial spaces. However, it also identifies challenges like industry homogeneity and a lack of distinctive cultural branding, calling for more open and systematic approaches to foster high-quality service consumption. The author is a deputy director at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences’ Institute of Literature.
Summary: Huang Runqiu, Minister of Ecology and Environment, delivered a report at a joint forum, outlining China's major achievements in ecological civilization, including record-low PM2.5 levels and expanded forest coverage. He highlighted three key transitions: from targeted to systematic environmental governance, from reactive to proactive green policies, and from a participant to a leader in global environmental governance. Huang acknowledged ongoing challenges such as structural pollution pressures and weak grassroots enforcement, but emphasized that opportunities outweigh risks due to deep-rooted Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization. He outlined priorities for the "15th Five-Year Plan," including pollution control, building a new energy system, achieving carbon peak, and fostering green lifestyles. No U.S. or bilateral relations were mentioned in the report.
Summary: Workers in Qingxi Town, Qianwei County, Sichuan, are blending jasmine flowers with green tea as the area enters the peak harvest season for jasmine and the tail end of gardenia picking. Local flower and tea processing plants are operating at full capacity. The county’s jasmine, gardenia, and tea industry cluster is projected to exceed 20 billion yuan in comprehensive output value by 2025.
Summary: China's central bank reported stable financial market operations in the first half of the year, with panda bond issuance reaching 1600.3 billion yuan and 21 new foreign institutions entering the interbank bond market. Panda bonds, which are renminbi-denominated debt instruments issued by foreign entities in China, support financial openness and renminbi internationalization. The data also showed a year-on-year decline in net government bond financing but an increase in corporate bond financing. As of June, total bond market custody stood at 205.0 trillion yuan. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Baozuo tunnel, the longest on the Sichuan section of the Xining-Chengdu railway, has been fully excavated. The railway is part of China's "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed rail network, linking Lanzhou and Xining to Guangzhou. The 11,795-meter tunnel, located at an average altitude of 3,500 meters on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, traverses fractured rock and incorporates environmental protections including topsoil preservation, wastewater recycling, and wildlife corridors. To date, 11 of the 14 tunnels on the Sichuan section are complete, with overall construction progress exceeding 55%. No U.S. officials or U.S.-China relations were mentioned in the report.
Summary: The article reports on the China-Zimbabwe Traditional Medicine Center in Harare, the largest of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa, which has provided over 25,000 consultations since 2020. Center director Xiao Zhiqiang stated that the facility integrates TCM with local traditional medicine and has established a training system with Zimbabwe's Ministry of Health. The center has also sent practitioners to China for short-term study under the Belt and Road initiative. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Slovak President Pellegrini will make his first state visit to China from July 27-29 at Xi Jinping’s invitation. Xi will hold talks with Pellegrini to map out the future of bilateral relations, which were elevated to a strategic partnership in 2024. The article highlights Slovakia’s support for the One China policy and opposition to any interference in China’s internal affairs, including over Taiwan. It also notes growing economic ties, with China as Slovakia’s largest EU trading partner, and expanding cooperation in new energy, digital economy, and AI. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Slovak President Peter Pellegrini will pay a state visit to China from July 27 to 29 at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping. Pellegrini, born in 1975, holds a master's degree in economics and was elected president in April 2024. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: At a symposium hosted by Chinese Ambassador Guo Haiyan in Nairobi, African Union former deputy chairperson Mwencha and Kenyan party officials praised the Chinese Communist Party’s 105-year history and its leadership in poverty alleviation and modernization. Kenyan Orange Democratic Movement executive director Ongwen and United Democratic Alliance national chairman Mbari cited China’s developmental achievements as a model for Kenya, with Mbari noting his party is building a leadership training center inspired by CPC governance practices. Kenyan scholar Adhill emphasized that a disciplined, people-centered party can drive transformative development, urging Africa to learn from China’s experience. United Democratic Movement secretary-general Bongarey called for strengthened ties with the CPC to improve Kenya’s institutional capacity and governance. The article did not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: China provided emergency humanitarian aid to Venezuela after a devastating earthquake, including generators, tents, and satellite imaging support. Chinese enterprises in Venezuela donated hundreds of tons of supplies and dispatched heavy machinery for rescue and debris clearance. Local overseas Chinese, organized by the Venezuelan Chinese Federation, donated over 2,400 tons of relief materials and collaborated with Chinese volunteers to set up medical stations. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Hill stated that China's assistance, maintained through close communication, demonstrated the enduring friendship between the two countries. The article did not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Chinese Ambassador to Barbados Zheng Bingkai co-hosted an image promotion event in Bridgetown on July 24, themed "A Friend in Need, a Partner for Progress," alongside the People's Daily Latin America center. In his speech, Zheng emphasized that media cooperation strengthens China-Barbados friendship and highlighted practical projects in agriculture, infrastructure, and healthcare as tangible expressions of bilateral ties. Local media and friendship group representatives attended the event.
Summary: On July 25, a forum and photo exhibition titled "Commemorate Elly's Spirit, Promote New Zealand-China Friendship" opened in Auckland, co-hosted by Chinese diplomatic missions and the New Zealand China Friendship Society, with Louis Alley’s relatives and friendly figures from both countries in attendance. Chinese Ambassador to New Zealand Wang Xiaolong stated that a series of memorial events will be launched next year to mark the centenary of Alley’s arrival in China. Former New Zealand Speaker of the House David Carter emphasized deepening bilateral ties and expressed that Alley would be pleased to see China today. Actor Jin Dong, head of the China Coal Mine Art Troupe, noted his involvement in a historical TV series featuring Alley’s legacy to sustain friendship through culture. New Zealand Chinese Club chair Yang Jian highlighted the enduring relevance of Alley’s internationalist spirit amid current uncertainties and geopolitical tensions.
Summary: The article reports on the China-Portuguese Speaking Countries Business Cooperation Forum held on July 24 in Maputo, Mozambique. Over 350 political and business representatives from Mainland China, Macau, Mozambique, and other Portuguese-speaking nations attended to enhance bilateral trade and investment. The event was co-organized by the Mozambique Investment and Export Promotion Agency, the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, and the Macau Investment Promotion Bureau. No mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations appears in the report.
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Summary: The 34th National Book Expo opened in Hangzhou on July 24, featuring over 1,000 exhibitors and nearly one million titles. Chinese Academy of Sciences academician and Westlake University President Shi Yigong shared his reading insights with attendees. The expo highlighted technological integration, including a digital-intelligence hall and AI-themed discussions, alongside traditional cultural exhibitions. A Zhejiang Provincial Publicity Department official remarked that the region's cultural heritage has made reading a fundamental part of its identity. The event also distributed millions in book vouchers and launched “city书香 maps” to promote reading across multiple cities.
Summary: Xi Jinping stressed the people-centered development philosophy, which embodies the Party's ideals and purpose. The article contrasts two cities: Hongsibu, a relocation settlement built on barren land representing the principle of "leaving no one behind," and Xiong'an New Area, a "future city" designed for high-quality living. It notes that Hongsibu's success in ecological migration is considered a miracle, while Xiong'an is seen as a potential global model for urban development. The piece cites Xi's assertion that the people are history's creators, recalling Mao's philosophy that "the people are decisive." No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A flash flood triggered by short-term heavy rainfall in Weiyuan County, Dingxi City, Gansu Province on July 26 trapped camping tourists. Local emergency, fire, health, and文旅 departments, along with救援 forces from Huichuan Town, conducted rescue operations. As of 21:15, 10 people were confirmed dead, 230 were evacuated, and 23 were injured. The National Flood Control Headquarters and the Ministry of Emergency Management dispatched a working group and initiated a Level IV flood emergency response for Gansu, with 305 fire and rescue personnel deployed.
Summary: On the 105th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping emphasized that the Party's strength lies in its unwavering pursuit of truth, theoretical innovation, and ideological unity, underscoring the need for continuous learning and firm理想信念. The article highlights Xi's call to deepen the integration of Marxism with China's realities and traditional culture, and to advance the Party's self-governance. It notes that China's stable development has led U.S. political scholar Francis Fukuyama to revise his "end of history" thesis, acknowledging the diversity of modernization paths. Xi was reported as the central figure, with no specific accompanying officials mentioned.
Summary: The article features three grassroots perspectives on implementing Xi Jinping's call to serve the people through the mass line. The first piece urges officials to proactively identify problems, such as poor street lighting, through attentive fieldwork rather than reactive work. The second criticizes officials who use "no precedent" as an excuse, advocating for innovation in solving new challenges without established templates. The third piece advises turning "unsolvable" issues into "optimal solutions" by listening to public suggestions, citing a case where smart charging piles replaced dangerous cables. Collectively, the pieces stress that listening to the people is key to effective governance.
Summary: The article reports that China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology held a meeting with key auto manufacturers to regulate industry competition, while the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers released cost calculation rules to curb irrational low-price competition. It argues that automakers must shift from price wars to value-driven competition based on quality, core technology innovation, and supply chain autonomy. The piece emphasizes that differentiation, technological leadership (e.g., AI, fast-charging), and global expansion are crucial for breaking free from homogeneous competition. It notes that China exported 5.096 million vehicles in the first half of the year, up 65.3%, citing vertical supply chain integration and smart driving advantages as key drivers. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations are discussed.
Summary: A Chinese state media commentary highlights the rising popularity of "slow-charging travel" (慢充旅行) this summer, where tourists seek relaxation and deep immersion in less crowded destinations. The article contrasts this trend with high-intensity "special forces-style tourism," arguing both approaches reflect evolving consumer demands. It emphasizes that improved cultural and tourism infrastructure—such as high-speed rail and modern facilities—enables travelers to choose either speed or leisure. The piece frames travel as an industry for happiness, urging the sector to expand quality offerings to meet diverse preferences. While not discussing U.S. relations, the analysis signals ongoing official attention to domestic consumption-driven economic vitality.
Summary: China remains the world's largest exporter of sports goods, accounting for over 40% of global exports. In the first half of this year, exports of sports goods and equipment reached 675.3 billion yuan, including 47.7 billion yuan in water sports equipment and 30.8 billion yuan in balls. The article highlights the scale and variety of these exports, from official competition gear to mass fitness equipment. No specific officials or U.S.-China relations are mentioned.
Summary: The article recounts two cases where Chinese grassroots officials initially pursued well-intentioned projects but changed course after listening to local residents. In Benxi, Liaoning, community leaders abandoned a plan to install streetlights near a window after residents complained about light pollution, instead redirecting light from a nearby square. In Zhejiang, a village official dropped a plan for greenhouse vegetables on fallow land after a former party secretary and an expert advised against it, and successfully planted miscellaneous grains instead. The author argues that "good intentions" must be paired with rigorous methods and genuine listening to avoid formalism and bureaucracy. The piece highlights that pausing to recalibrate—not as retreat but as alignment with public needs—is key to effective grassroots governance.
Summary: The article, written by a staff member of the Sichuan Provincial Audit Office, likens auditing to a medical checkup that both treats existing problems and prevents future ones. The author reflects on Xi Jinping’s encouragement to “study like a bow, talent like an arrow,” emphasizing continuous learning in auditing public funds and assets. The author describes transitioning from grassroots audits to economic responsibility audits of local officials, using examples of uncovering policy deviations and misused funds. The piece stresses the need for rigorous but fair audits that separate errors from intentional wrongdoing, citing Xi’s call to become experts in one’s field. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: Party branch secretary Peng Zhanyang, who returned from a corporate executive role to lead Shenshan Village, emphasized that building a strong party branch is more important than direct aid. He was accompanied by National People's Congress delegate Zuo Xiangyun, who led local bamboo product innovation and employment. The article details how the village's party branch organized land transfers, coordinated with a tourism company, and introduced “1 branch + 1 company + 1 association + N households” model to develop industries such as peaches, tea, and homestays. These efforts lifted collective income to over one million yuan and per capita disposable income to 36,000 yuan by 2025. The United States was not discussed.
Summary: On July 26, leading officials from the Central Organization Department and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security accompanied the 12th batch of central-unit aid-Xinjiang cadres to Urumqi. This batch consists of over 800 cadres from more than 130 central units, who will serve three-year assignments. Since 1997, over 30,000 cadres have been deployed to Xinjiang under central directives. The article highlights their role in implementing the Party's Xinjiang strategy, focusing on ethnic unity and long-term stability. It does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article discusses Chinese President Xi Jinping’s emphasis on uniting overseas Chinese for national rejuvenation, highlighting his 2020 visit to a Qiaopi (overseas Chinese remittance) museum in Shantou accompanied by curator Lin Qingxi. It outlines top-level reforms to consolidate overseas Chinese affairs under the United Front Work Department, and efforts to maintain ties through cultural and kinship bonds. The piece also notes legislative steps, such as Fujian’s protection of overseas Chinese heritage, and policy measures to facilitate services for overseas Chinese. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Typhoon Hongxia weakened to a tropical storm over Guangdong, moving northward into Hunan and Hubei. The government issued multiple weather warnings and activated emergency responses, with the National Disaster Prevention and Relief Committee dispatching a working group and allocating 25,000 relief items to Guangdong, Jiangxi, and Hunan. The National Development and Reform Commission allocated 1 billion yuan for post-disaster recovery in Guangdong. Guangdong transferred over 800,000 residents and downgraded its emergency response, while Hunan activated emergency responses in ten cities.
Summary: Workers at a silk enterprise in Mengshan County, Wuzhou, Guangxi, were pictured drying xiangyunsha (a traditional silk fabric) under sunny weather on July 25. The photo was taken by Wu Guangsheng.
Summary: Kaisar Turson, a border guard at the Pochengzi checkpoint in Xinjiang, leads daily patrols along the Tianshan border, emphasizing meticulous inspection of fences to prevent security risks. He and his wife, Xiazadam Mytniyaz, who also serves as a border guard, have lived at a remote outpost for years, forming a mounted patrol team that flies the party flag. As a deputy to the Xinjiang People's Congress, Turson organizes a "horseback propaganda team" to explain party policies, including grassland subsidies, to local herders in their native Kyrgyz dialect. He has filed over three notebooks of constituent concerns, leading to tangible outcomes such as tourism routes, medical services, and irrigation repairs. Turson vows to remain a "guardian of the homeland, policy propagandist, and people's confidant," with his example inspiring 36 other border guards to apply for party membership.
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Summary: A new Chinese regulation, the "Interim Provisions on Basic Rights Protection for Over-Age Workers," took effect July 1, 2026, aiming to address long-standing legal gaps leaving workers past retirement age—such as security guards, cleaners, and technical experts—vulnerable to wage theft, unpaid overtime, and difficulty obtaining工伤 (work-related injury) compensation. Previously, courts often deemed these workers in a "labor service relationship" rather than an employment relationship, denying them basic labor protections. The regulation shifts to a "labor provides protection" principle, requiring written agreements, workplace injury insurance, and access to labor dispute arbitration. However, experts quoted—including Wang Tianyu, Sigin, and Ye Jingyi—note significant gaps, including exclusions for gig and flexible workers, lack of retroactive applicability for disputes before July 1, and insufficient enforcement mechanisms. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Villagers from Yangmei Village, Yudu County, Jiangxi, have petitioned via a government online platform about a culvert built in 2004 for a railway that restricts access to their group. The narrow, low-lying culvert lacks drainage, causing frequent flooding, accidents, and preventing fire trucks from passing. Despite repeated complaints over many years to relevant government departments, their requests to widen or replace the culvert or add drainage have not been resolved.
Summary: The People's Daily published a reader's letter on July 6 complaining that bus stops in Donghai County were placed in green belts, causing inconvenience. In response, the Donghai County Transportation Bureau conducted an on-site investigation and worked with the housing and construction department to develop a rectification plan. The temporary bus stop shelters at the locations mentioned in the complaint have now been installed. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Henan watermelon farmers, facing a sales slump, sought help from local media through a public assistance channel. Village officials responded not by verifying the situation or expanding sales channels, but by demanding the farmers withdraw the plea, labeling it negative public opinion. The article criticizes this behavior as contrary to the duty of serving the people.
Summary: The article reports on deceptive marketing tactics in jade and jadeite custom orders on Chinese short-video platforms, where scripted haggling and fake "bargain" scenarios lure consumers. People’s University law professor Huang Yinxu stated that such practices may constitute false advertising and consumer fraud, and that custom goods do not exempt sellers from refund obligations. The article notes new regulations under the Live-streaming E-commerce Supervision and Management Measures, effective February, which explicitly prohibit such misleading practices and require platforms to retain transaction data for at least three years.
Summary: The People's Daily "Readers' Mail" section and the People's Daily Online "Leadership Message Board" have jointly launched a campaign soliciting public reports on "illegal social organizations charging fees unlawfully." Readers are encouraged to provide tips and suggestions regarding this issue. Submissions can be sent via email (rmrbdzlx@126.com) or through the People's Daily client's "Exposure Platform" and the People's Online "Leadership Message Board" mobile interface.
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Summary: The article reports on Jingdezhen's "Handmade Porcelain Industry Heritage" being inscribed on the World Heritage List, filling a "porcelain" gap. It highlights President Xi Jinping's October 2023 inspection of Jingdezhen, where he praised ceramics as "Chinese treasures" and "important business cards of Chinese civilization," urging the inheritance and innovation of traditional culture. Under Xi Jinping Thought on Culture, Jingdezhen is undergoing a modern "kiln transformation," blending cultural heritage with economic development, innovation, and global outreach. The piece details how porcelain craftsmanship, digitalization, and creative industries are driving the city's revival, attracting tens of thousands of "Jingpiao" (including foreign "yang Jingpiao"). It emphasizes the city's role in spreading Chinese culture internationally, with partnerships across 72 countries and 180 cities.
Summary: The article discusses the "Jingdezhen Handmade Porcelain Heritage," a composite World Heritage site spanning the 10th to 19th centuries, which integrated raw material sources, production centers, and transport networks. It highlights how the heritage reflects the fusion of northern and southern Chinese ceramic techniques and the evolution of porcelain-making through different dynasties. The text notes that digital technology now aids public understanding of this heritage, while the contemporary Jingdezhen porcelain industry thrives with both traditional artisans and young, international ceramic artists.
Summary: On July 25, a seminar on AI literacy was held in Chengdu as part of the 2026 APEC Digital Week, hosted by China’s Cyberspace Administration. A responsible official from the administration stated that China prioritizes enhancing public AI literacy, citing policy documents and a global cooperation initiative, and expressed willingness to share best practices with APEC member economies. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations. The event drew over 200 representatives from APEC economies and observers. No specific accompanying officials were named.
Summary: The 13th edition of the *Xinhua Dictionary* was celebrated at a symposium in Beijing, hosted by China Publishing Group and co-organized by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences' Institute of Linguistics, The Commercial Press, and the Chinese Lexicographical Society. Participants, including experts from linguistics, publishing, and education, discussed the dictionary's revision principles, its role in promoting standard Chinese, and its significance for cultural heritage and national soft power. The dictionary, first published in 1953, has sold over 700 million copies globally. The new edition was revised to meet contemporary economic, social, and cultural demands, adhering to principles of stability, standardization, and scientific rigor.
Summary: The article reports on the launch of China's national-level applied pilot base for embodied intelligence in Hangzhou, which provides a public service platform for robot training and scenario validation. The base aims to address common industry challenges of high data collection costs and difficult real-world deployment, as explained by Vice General Manager Li Xingteng. It offers open data, low-cost robot leasing, and customized solutions for sectors like logistics and healthcare, fostering a "co-growth" ecosystem. The base has attracted nearly 30 companies and plans to expand into manufacturing, engineering, agriculture, and other fields. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article discusses Xi Jinping's economic thought on enhancing the "compatibility and balance" between supply and demand, as outlined in the *Selected Works of Xi Jinping on the Economy*. It emphasizes that supply and demand must be managed together, rejecting one-sided approaches, and frames this as a theoretical advancement over both Marxist political economy and Western economics. The analysis highlights the need to coordinate expanded domestic demand with supply-side structural reform to achieve a higher-level dynamic equilibrium, particularly for the upcoming "15th Five-Year Plan." The piece is authored by a vice president of the Central University of Finance and Economics and does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: President Xi Jinping emphasized that "people's livelihood is the priority" in Chinese-style modernization, with the goal of fulfilling the people's aspirations for a better life. The article argues for constructing an autonomous knowledge system for Chinese social law, guided by Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, to address challenges in employment, social security, and protection of vulnerable groups. It stresses that this system must be rooted in China's realities and distinguish itself from Western social law theories by centering on the people and their rights to survival and development. The piece also calls for theoretical innovation and empirical research on emerging issues such as platform economy labor relations and digital-age social protections. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article emphasizes Xi Jinping's call for systematic protection of intangible cultural heritage and the 15th Five-Year Plan's goal to enhance preservation through technology. It highlights progress in digitization and immersive experiences but notes persistent challenges like skill loss and insufficient tech integration. The author advocates for a multi-dimensional digital strategy—including 3D scanning, AI, and VR—to build a sustainable protection ecosystem. Addressing issues such as fragmented resources and homogenization, the piece urges stronger institutional support, cross-sector collaboration, and international outreach to boost cultural confidence and China's global influence. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Chinese police have intensified crackdowns on flood-related online rumors during the current flood season, targeting individuals who fabricate disasters, exaggerate damage, or repurpose old footage to boost online traffic. The Ministry of Public Security's Cybersecurity Bureau published two batches of typical cases, including a man in Taizhou who reused last year's video to fake a typhoon scene and a man in Taicang who falsely claimed delivery workers had died in the storm. Police have imposed criminal detention, administrative penalties, and account bans on offenders, while coordinating with platforms to remove misinformation. Officials emphasized that such rumors cause public panic, waste disaster relief resources, and disrupt social order. The police urged netizens to verify information through official channels and report suspicious content.
Summary: The Cyberspace Administration of China and the Ministry of Emergency Management jointly issued a notice to combat illegal and harmful information during the flood season, targeting five categories of violations. These include manipulated or mislabeled disaster footage, repackaged historical events as current news, fabricated data on casualties and damages, false alerts about dam failures or chemical leaks, and AI-generated content used for fraud. The notice aims to prevent such content from misleading the public and disrupting rescue efforts. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate jointly issued a decision revising the judicial interpretation on insider trading and leaking inside information, effective July 27, 2026. The revision aims to address new developments in such crimes and align with recent amendments to securities and futures laws. It clarifies stricter legal responsibilities for key parties like controlling shareholders, defining the initial timing of insider information generation. It also refines defenses against insider trading by requiring genuine acquisition purposes, lawful pre-arranged transactions, and public disclosure. The two bodies stated they will enforce the revision strictly to better protect capital market order and investor rights.
Summary: The article reports that Hainan Province has formally issued a "Guidelines on Conduct in Government-Business Interaction," outlining both positive and negative lists to clarify boundaries in official-business relations. The positive list includes ten items, such as implementing pro-business policies, improving services, and promoting foreign-related development. The negative list for officials specifies six prohibitions, including abuse of power, breach of contract, and interference in business operations. Business entities are also prohibited from bribery, improper gifts, and other corrupt practices. The guidelines aim to foster a market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized business environment.
Summary: During a November 2024 visit to Hubei, President Xi Jinping urged the province to strive for high-quality development in the Yangtze River Economic Belt and accelerate its role as a key strategic pivot for central China. In response, Hubei has implemented a “cadre quality improvement year” to boost political and professional skills, exemplified by the new Optical Valley International Brain-Computer Interface Innovation Center in Wuhan, which has attracted over 130 institutions. The province is fostering innovation through specialized teams, such as the “AI+ Office” in the East Lake High-tech Zone, and supporting bold decision-making via risk pre-reporting mechanisms. For instance, Yichang’s lithium battery base was completed in six months thanks to this system. Hubei’s high-tech manufacturing output surged 36.8% year-on-year in the first half of 2025, contributing 78.2% to industrial growth.
Summary: The article reports on a summer recruitment night market held on July 25, 2026, in the Mengjin District of Luoyang, Henan Province, where job seekers reviewed openings. Luoyang is organizing a series of such events, capitalizing on the high foot traffic and consumer activity of summer night markets to facilitate job matching and stabilize employment. No officials or U.S.-related content are mentioned.
Summary: A Chinese court in Changyang, Hubei, ruled that a homeowners' committee was partially liable after a falling water bottle damaged a resident's chili plants, as the specific perpetrator could not be identified due to a surveillance blind spot. Judge Wan Shurong, deputy head of the court's comprehensive division, stated that throwing objects from a height is illegal even if no actual harm occurs, citing the new Public Security Administration Punishments Law effective January 1, 2025. The law imposes detention or fines for such acts, and serious cases may lead to criminal liability. Wan urged residents to secure windows, balconies, and other potential falling hazards. No mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations was made in the article.
Summary: The article reports on the Guquan Converter Station in Anhui, the world’s highest-voltage UHV DC transmission project, which supplies about 200 million kWh daily to the Yangtze River Delta, meeting one-third of Shanghai’s average daily demand. The station is operated by a young team, with its 36-member party branch (average age 33) serving as the backbone. Party branch secretary Zhang Honghu stated, “Retreat is not an option; we must shoulder responsibility,” and described implementing a “party member responsibility zone plus equipment ownership system” to assign each device to a specific person. The team has compressed annual maintenance from 13 to 7 days, and through domestic R&D of control and protection systems, achieved a transition from import dependence to independent control. Youth party member Zhu Haoyan summarized their mission: ensuring every kilowatt-hour safely crosses the mountains to light up distant homes.
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Summary: On July 25, China’s State Administration for Market Regulation fined Ctrip 5.179 billion yuan for abusing its market dominance in online hotel booking, including confiscation of illegal gains and order reserve refunds. The case is the first antitrust ruling in China’s online travel sector, targeting a new type of monopoly that leveraged algorithms and technical tools to enforce exclusive deals and price manipulation. Regulators assembled a task force from local market bureaus, conducted multi-province investigations, and analyzed massive datasets to uncover Ctrip’s conduct. Experts cited, including Ning Lizhi and Shi Jianzhong, highlighted that the penalty—the highest proportion in platform economy cases—aims to restore fair competition rather than merely punish. Ctrip stated it will reform its operations, while analysts noted the case provides a "Chinese solution" for global platform antitrust enforcement.
Summary: Beijing will deploy 72 robots across 14 municipal parks by the end of July, marking a shift toward smart management in public spaces. The robots, tested since 2024 in Yuyuantan Park, handle cleaning, patrol, water maintenance, and ecological monitoring using AI and big data. Zhou Ziniu, deputy director of the Beijing Park Management Center’s technology department, stated that the center will integrate operational data for real-time monitoring and analysis to support further robotic applications. The initiative aims to reduce labor intensity and enhance park management efficiency. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports that Shandong Province is prioritizing the home services industry as a key component of livelihood, employment, and consumption strategies. It has introduced a series of policies to address sector challenges and promote standardization, professionalization, and industrialization. The province has cultivated local home service brands and built a comprehensive network covering urban and rural areas, expanding offerings in elderly care, maternal care, and home organization. The photo depicts a trainer instructing monthly nurses (yuesao) in Tengzhou. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: In 2016, Xi Jinping visited Tangshan, urging the city to carry forward the earthquake spirit and seize opportunities from Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development to achieve the "three efforts to build" goals. The article recounts Tangshan's post-1976 earthquake recovery and its contemporary green transformation, including the relocation of steel plants and environmental upgrades. By 2024, Tangshan’s GDP surpassed 1 trillion yuan, becoming the first city in Hebei to do so, with 2025 growth at 6.2%. The city’s air quality has improved dramatically, with good-air days rising from 109 in 2013 to 289 in 2025. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: China's mangrove area has reached 31,700 hectares, a 44% increase since the early 2000s, according to the National Forestry and Grassland Administration. On July 26, the International Mangrove Center held its first council meeting and inauguration in Shenzhen, formally entering operational phase as the first intergovernmental organization dedicated to mangrove conservation. Chinese officials stated that the government will deepen cooperation and data sharing with member states to enhance global mangrove protection and combat climate change. Over 90% of China’s mangroves are now included in ecological protection redlines, and the country has completed new mangrove planting of about 11,600 hectares under a 2020–2025 action plan. Representatives from signatory countries praised the Center as a key platform for technical exchange and sustainable management of mangroves.
Summary: The article describes the protection of the Futian Mangrove Nature Reserve in Shenzhen, a unique urban reserve bordering Hong Kong’s Mai Po wetlands. Forest ranger Song Changhua, who has worked there for over 20 years, noted that the reserve’s survival was secured by rerouting the city’s coastal highway in 1994. He reported that invasive mangrove species are aggressively cleared using slideboards, and that monitoring has upgraded to include AI-based bird recognition and smart water gates. In 2023, Shenzhen and Hong Kong signed a cooperation agreement to manage the area as "sister reserves," conducting joint surveys and building an ecological monitoring network across Shenzhen Bay. The reserve also operates under a tripartite model involving government oversight, NGO management, and public participation, with funding from corporate donations and public platforms.
Summary: A research team in Hainan, led by senior experimentalist Yang Yong from Hainan Normal University, is working to save the endangered red mangrove species *Bruguiera* (红榄李), which numbered only 14 wild individuals in 2016. By collecting seeds and improving artificial breeding techniques, the team raised germination rates from 0.3% to 17%, with selected seeds reaching 50%. From nine ancient trees in the Tielugang reserve, they have cultivated over 30,000 seedlings and planted more than 3,000 in suitable coastal areas, with retired worker Wang Shijun contributing to parallel efforts in Haikou. The article also details broader mangrove restoration in Hainan, including the use of oyster shells for wave reduction and the integration of native and exotic species to enhance habitat diversity. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Zhao Wei, director of the National Meteorological Center's typhoon and marine weather forecasting center, explained that sudden changes in typhoon paths and speeds are difficult to predict due to factors like the subtropical high and monsoons. He noted that AI models, such as the "Fengqing" model, have improved forecast accuracy and extended lead times. Zhang Xidi, deputy director of the weather forecast office, highlighted challenges in predicting typhoon-related precipitation, citing cases of long-distance moisture transport and slow-moving storms. The article discusses technical advances in typhoon forecasting but contains no reference to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: On July 26, the Ministry of Water Resources and the China Meteorological Administration jointly issued a red alert for mountain torrent disasters in parts of Jiangxi and Guangdong. Yao Wenguang, director of the ministry’s Flood and Drought Disaster Prevention Department, identified key risk areas, nighttime hours, and vulnerable groups—including migrant workers and elderly rural residents—as critical for prevention. Senior engineer Tu Yong of the ministry’s Disaster Reduction Center explained the four-tier warning system (blue to red) and urged immediate evacuation upon receiving the highest alerts. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The 25th Tour of Qinghai International Road Cycling Race concluded, with team manager Zhang Xiaolong of Qinghai Tianyude expressing joy at securing the Asian Best Team award and the blue jersey for the best Asian rider. Zhang highlighted the team's long-term local training and data-driven strategy as key to overcoming challenges on the high-altitude course. The race featured intense competition, including breakaways, climbs at over 3,000 meters, and tactical sprints, with riders demonstrating both rivalry and camaraderie. Local rider Yang Zhibin, despite illness forcing his withdrawal, noted the significance of competing at such a level. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article explains the significance of the four colored jerseys in the Tour of Qinghai Lake (环青赛): yellow for overall best time, green for sprint points, polka dot for mountain points, and blue for the top Asian rider. After each of the eight stages, organizers recalculate standings and reassign jerseys. If a rider qualifies for multiple jerseys, they wear the higher-priority one (yellow > green > polka dot > blue), with the next jersey passed to the runner-up. In stage five, rider Caicedo Cepeda earned both yellow and green jerseys but wore yellow in subsequent stages and defended it to the end. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations are mentioned in the article.
Summary: The article cites President Xi Jinping’s directive to prioritize health in education and fully implement physical education, emphasizing that sports should help students enjoy exercise, build physique, and develop character. It promotes orienteering as a multidimensional activity combining fitness, mental training, and moral education, addressing youth health issues like obesity and myopia. Orienteering teaches practical survival skills such as map reading and navigation, fostering independent decision-making and resilience. The sport, rooted in military training, also serves as a platform for national defense education, instilling patriotism and a sense of crisis awareness. The author advocates integrating orienteering into school curricula and extracurricular activities to advance holistic youth development and support the goals of a healthy China and strong education system.
Summary: The article reports that the 2026 World Youth Climbing Championship concluded in Arco, Italy, after eight days. China's team achieved strong results, winning three gold, one silver, and three bronze medals. Over 750 athletes from 69 countries competed in U17 and U19 divisions across speed, difficulty, and bouldering events. Specific medalists include Zhou Mingyi (first gold in U17 men's speed), Shi Yanze and Huang Xinyi (gold in U19 speed), and Tan Youtian (silver in U17 bouldering). No Chinese officials or U.S.-related content is mentioned.
Summary: Chinese athlete Li Liangpeng won the gold medal in the 60-meter speed event at the 2026 World Highline Championship in Lax, Switzerland, with a time of 23.05 seconds. His victory made him the first Chinese competitor to claim a world title in this event and also set a new world record. The competition attracted 40 athletes from 14 countries and regions. No Chinese officials were reported as accompanying him, and the article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports on the fourth Guizhou "Village Super League" (cun chao) finals held on July 25 in Rongjiang County, where Chejiang Yicun defeated Pingyong 1-0 to claim the championship. The event blended football with folk culture and mass performances, attracting a large audience both on-site and online. Over seven months, 137 amateur teams played 528 matches. From January to June, Rongjiang County saw 5.0667 million tourist visits, a 7.20% year-on-year increase, with total tourism expenditure rising 2.10% to 5.255 billion yuan. No officials were cited, and the article makes no reference to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Chongqing Chemical Vocational College has implemented a reform separating teaching from examination, aligning with China's broader education evaluation reform. The college established a system with phased expansion, categorized exam types, and a closed-loop management process including question banks, secure exams, and double-blind grading. Reported outcomes include a classroom attendance rate of 95.5%, a drop in exam violations from 2.5% to 1.8%, and a 5.5% year-on-year increase in student competition awards. The reform aims to improve academic integrity and teaching quality, serving as a replicable model for other vocational schools. No mention was made of any specific official accompanying the report or of U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: On July 24, Prime Minister Takaichi’s government formally decided to establish a National Intelligence Bureau and plans to hold its first National Intelligence Meeting on July 31, with the prime minister chairing and joined by the Chief Cabinet Secretary, Foreign Minister, and Defense Minister. Critics argue this restructures Japan’s postwar intelligence system into a prewar-style apparatus for military expansion, reminiscent of the wartime “Tokko” secret police. The initiative has sparked domestic protests and widespread concern over surveillance, civil liberties, and the absence of independent oversight. The article warns that these moves, combined with other military buildup measures, pose serious risks to stability in the Asia-Pacific and beyond.
Summary: Two Chinese animated films, *Langlang Mountain Little Monster* and *Xiao Na*, were selected for the main competition at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, highlighting the growing international visibility of Chinese animation. The films resonated with audiences through universal human themes, such as the ordinary struggles of "small people" and familial love, transcending language barriers. The article notes that the Chinese animation industry, exemplified by the Shanghai Animation Film Studio and recent hits like the *Nezha* series, has achieved world-class production standards. It also reports that French streaming platform ADN has partnered with Bilibili to release two Chinese animations monthly, with ADN's content development head praising China's sustained high-quality output. The piece concludes that Chinese animation is effectively telling Chinese stories on the global stage, driven by cultural confidence and a commitment to craftsmanship.
Summary: The New York Times reported that President Trump delayed expanding military strikes on Iran due to concerns over war escalation and depleted Patriot missile stocks, as discussed in a meeting with senior advisers and government officials. Separately, multiple U.S. companies have filed lawsuits challenging the new Section 301 tariffs on 60 countries, arguing the measure exceeds legal authority. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ebola cases have surpassed 3,000, with Prime Minister Tuluka noting that logistical challenges, not funding, remain the core difficulty.
Summary: Infineon opened a new €5 billion smart power semiconductor factory in Dresden, Germany's "Silicon Saxony" hub, built in three years and producing chips for AI data centers, renewables, and autonomous vehicles. CEO Jochen Hanebeck stated the plant provides urgently needed capacity for key technologies, while Saxony's premier Michael Kretschmer said it strengthens Europe's microelectronics ecosystem. German Chancellor Merz emphasized microelectronics as crucial for prosperity, freedom, and security. The region currently produces one in three European chips, and global semiconductor sales are forecast to exceed $1 trillion by 2030. EU and German policies, including the European Chips Act, aim to raise Europe's global chip production share to 20% by 2030.
Summary: Uganda's coffee exports reached 8.6 million bags from June 2025 to May 2026, a 16% year-on-year increase, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries. The Ugandan government is promoting cooperative models to expand international markets. It is also developing coffee plantations as immersive tourist destinations where visitors can participate in harvesting, processing, roasting, and cupping.
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Summary: Shanghai Chuangzhi Academy, an AI talent institute established in 2024 with support from top universities and enterprises, held its first graduation ceremony. Party Secretary and Executive Vice President Ding Xiaodong stated the academy employs a non-traditional, student-specific approach to nurture top AI talent, eschewing rigid exams and paper-based evaluations. Vice President Qiao Yu noted the academy’s “impact index” assessment system values downloads, model usage, and industrial influence over publications. The academy has attracted over 80 full-time mentors (average age 36) and 800 doctoral students across 45 majors, fostering 27 spin-off startups. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article highlights a shift in Chinese education, where students increasingly replace traditional theses with practical achievements and internships to gain degrees and experience. Examples include Nanjing University doctoral student Wang Haoran’s project deployed in the South-to-North Water Diversion project and Lanzhou University students’ boron neutron capture therapy device. It warns against superficial internships that serve only to pad resumes, advocating instead for genuine hands-on problem-solving. The piece calls on universities, employers, and government to support meaningful practical training. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A vocational education teacher at Shenzhen Polytechnic University, with 20 years of frontline experience, described how he challenges stereotypes by leading students through hands-on training and skill competitions. He emphasized that teachers must set an example through technical mastery, having himself won the "National Technical Expert" award to inspire students. He reported leading a team on an automation inspection project for an aviation manufacturing company, integrating students into every phase to cultivate both skills and a sense of industrial mission. His students have earned over a dozen national-level skill awards, demonstrating resilience and a practical embodiment of craftsmanship. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Central Minzu University has been strengthening education on fostering a sense of community for the Chinese nation by building a cross-school-level system, as officials like Wu Benjian (director of development planning) and Kong Xinfeng (party secretary of the Marxism college) explained. The university established a teaching alliance with over 30 schools and uses joint research to tailor curriculum for different grades, from primary to university. It also launched a "walking political course" utilizing cultural heritage sites like the Palace Museum to deepen students’ understanding of China’s multi-ethnic unity. Graduate student Yan Kehui reported creating cultural products and sharing insights with younger students. Vice President Wang Xiongjun stated the goal is to create a "walled-free" ideological classroom that plants the seeds of national identity in young minds.
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Summary: President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech at the 2026 World AI Conference in Shanghai, proposing four points on global AI governance and outlining China's policy stance. The article features four experts—including academics and officials from the World Academy of Sciences, the International Telecommunication Union, and the New Development Bank—discussing the construction of a fair global AI governance system. They highlight China's leadership in AI innovation, its "AI+" initiative, and efforts to assist Global South countries through capacity building and open cooperation. Xi announced plans to provide 5,000 AI training slots for developing countries, establish international AI application cooperation centers, and launch the World AI Cooperation Organization. The discussion stresses that China aims to ensure AI serves all humanity and avoids creating new technological barriers, without direct reference to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: At the 2026 World AI Conference in Shanghai, President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech, underscoring China's commitment to global AI governance and a fair international framework. The article highlights three key governance deficits—security risks, fragmented rules, and a widening North-South AI capability gap—and outlines China's proposed "AI Global Governance Action Plan" as a solution. It emphasizes China's push for development-oriented, sovereign-respecting, and safe AI governance, alongside practical cooperation with Global South nations like Brazil and Russia. The establishment of the World AI Cooperation Organization in Shanghai is presented as a new multilateral platform to ensure developing countries' participation and benefits. The piece calls for collaborative, open international partnerships to transform AI into a global public good.
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Summary: The article reports that China's central bank has used structural monetary policy tools, including a relending program for technological innovation and transformation, to address financing difficulties for tech enterprises. As of April, banks had issued 1.5 trillion yuan in such loans, with 21,000 small and medium-sized tech firms receiving their first-ever loans. The central bank increased the relending quota by 400 billion yuan in January and lowered interest rates to encourage lending. Banks like China Construction Bank, China Merchants Bank, and Industrial Bank have developed specialized products and services to implement the policy. The article highlights this "precise targeted" approach as key to supporting China's innovation-driven development.
Summary: The article reports that Dalang Town in Dongguan, China, known as the “World Capital of Knitwear,” produces about 900 million sweaters annually and is transforming its industry through AI-driven design, smart manufacturing, and market procurement trade policies. Business owner Zhang Jiankai noted that exports reach over 160 countries, including Australia, while chairman Liu Dianyu mentioned US clients ordering high-end knitwear, with designs focused on fashion rather than warmth. Local officials, including deputy mayor Ye Jianfen and customs deputy chief Liu Rui, highlighted policy support such as simplified export procedures and VAT exemptions that enable small firms to sell globally, with the market procurement pilot covering 225 countries and regions.
Summary: President Xi Jinping emphasized that efficient ocean development is essential for Chinese-style modernization and high-quality marine economy growth. The article discusses China's "blue seed industry" (marine aquaculture breeding) as a strategic priority to overcome reliance on foreign seed sources and build self-sufficient supply chains. It highlights efforts to strengthen germplasm protection, breeding innovation, and industrial integration, supporting food security under the "big food" concept. The piece notes that advances in seed technology are driving transformation from resource-dependent to innovation-driven marine fisheries. Future plans, aligned with the 15th Five-Year Plan, aim to further embed the blue seed industry into national food security and maritime power strategies.
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Summary: At the National Science and Technology Awards Conference, Xi Jinping stated that the low rate of scientific and technological achievement transformation remains a prominent problem. He emphasized that innovation must move from labs to industries to form new productive forces. The article notes that China's university patent industrialization rate was only 10.1% by end of 2025, highlighting persistent gaps. Solutions include strengthening technology transfer systems, establishing concept validation and pilot platforms, and expanding application scenarios in AI, autonomous driving, and low-altitude economy. It also calls for improved intellectual property protections, reform of achievement conversion rights, and increased "patient capital" to support the full innovation chain.
Summary: The article reports the launch of China's first fully domestically produced 100,000-card AI supercomputing cluster, the Shuguang 8000, which has been connected to the National Supercomputing Internet. Li Bin, Senior Vice President of Sugon, stated that the system integrates high-precision scientific computing and low-precision intelligent computing. Cao Zhennan, deputy director of the National High-Performance Computer Engineering Research Center, emphasized the need to both "climb peaks" with top-tier machines and "build plateaus" through networked infrastructure. The cluster has already been applied to weather forecasting, materials design, energy exploration, and large model training. The launch marks a milestone in China's self-reliance in critical computing infrastructure.
Summary: China has achieved a breakthrough in stable isotope enrichment by successfully mass-producing silicon-28 with an abundance exceeding 99.99%, reaching international advanced levels. This material is critical for silicon-based quantum chips and advanced semiconductors, as it eliminates magnetic noise from silicon-29 that disrupts quantum states. The research was conducted by the Institute of Physical and Chemical Engineering of the China National Nuclear Corporation, with the team overcoming challenges in specialized equipment and system control. The article does not reference the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: At a September 2020 national commendation ceremony, President Xi Jinping personally awarded Zhang Boli the “People’s Hero” medal for his leadership in fighting COVID-19. Zhang, a prominent traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) expert, recounted how he convinced authorities to let TCM take a lead role in Wuhan, establishing the Jiangxia temporary hospital which treated 564 patients with zero deaths or severe cases. He emphasized that “when the nation is in peril, a doctor is a soldier,” and noted that TCM’s success in reducing transmission rates became a globally recognized standard. Zhang also highlighted his decades-long advocacy for TCM legislation, including his role in drafting the 2017 TCM Law. In his closing remarks, Zhang stated that a doctor’s true legacy lies not in titles but in serving patients and meeting national needs.
Summary: The article describes "tidal trees"—natural tidal channels on the Tiaozini Wetland in Jiangsu that resemble tree roots—which remained hidden for centuries until drone photography revealed their full scope. It highlights how this ecosystem, a critical stopover for migratory birds along the Pacific flyway, was first physically accessed after a 2013 reclamation project and gained global attention following a 2019 UNESCO World Heritage designation for migratory bird habitats. The author reflects on how different perspectives—ground-level immersion versus aerial views—shape understanding, but notes that drone flights have since been banned to protect endangered wading birds like spoon-billed sandpipers. The piece underscores that true appreciation of such natural wonders requires both technological discovery and restraint to avoid harming the environment. No mention is made of U.S.-China relations or official statements.
Summary: The article describes Yanjin huoshao (baked flatbread) as a local specialty of Yanjin County in Henan, noting its evolution from “Niutun huoshao” and its distinctive ingredients, including strong-gluten wheat and generous fillings. It details the meticulous preparation process, from water temperature variations to the method of kneading and baking. Writer Liu Zhenyun, a Yanjin native, praised the bread’s quality and the integrity of its makers. The piece emphasizes that local vendors compete on taste and service, earning Yanjin huoshao a widespread reputation across central China. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article is a poem titled "Small Pond," depicting a pond that absorbs natural elements like light, clouds, and debris during the day, and at night darkens to reflect only the moon. It draws an analogy to a person entering old age, living simply yet retaining warmth and devotion. The text contains no references to political figures, the United States, or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article describes the Chinese painting "Prairie Young Rider" by artist Feng Yuan, which is housed in the National Art Museum of China. No statements or actions by officials are reported, and there is no discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article is a personal narrative about an elderly mother who, despite her age and health problems, tends a small vegetable garden with dedication. She grows a variety of vegetables, exchanges produce with neighbors, and resists her child’s suggestion to stop gardening. The author reflects on the effort and meaning behind her work, eventually joining her in the garden. The story focuses on family bonds and rural life, with no mention of officials or U.S.-China relations.
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By: 本报记者 胡泽曦 邝西曦 陈世涵
To handle China's affairs well, the key lies in the Party.
"Full and rigorous Party governance is always on the way." On the new journey, it is necessary to fully implement Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building (习近平党建思想), carry out the general requirements for Party building in the new era, and deeply advance the great new project of Party building in the new era.
Looking back, the Chinese Communist Party's unremitting struggle over 105 years "has demonstrated the powerful vitality of Marxism."
"Today, the vigorous vitality and robust dynamism of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics have fully tested the scientific and truthful nature of Marxism, fully displayed the people-oriented and practical nature of Marxism, and fully manifested the openness and contemporaneity of Marxism." General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out at the meeting celebrating the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.
Looking across the history of human politics, few political parties are like the Chinese Communist Party, engraving the pursuit of truth into their genes and integrating it into their blood.
Contemplation: continuously advancing from victory to victory — why can the Chinese Communist Party do it?
"Unswervingly pursuing truth, always keeping the forward direction on course" is one of the key codes. Experiencing hardships and difficulties yet continuously growing and strengthening, "a very important reason is that our Party has always attached importance to building the Party through ideology and strengthening the Party through theory."
Since the new era, with a view to continuously enhancing the Party's political leadership, ideological guidance, mass organizing capacity, and social appeal, General Secretary Xi Jinping has personally planned, personally deployed, and personally propelled the strengthening of the Party's ideological construction, ensuring that the Party always remains a strong leading core in the historical process of upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era.
Thought is the banner, is the direction. Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building puts forward "persisting in using the Party's innovative theory to consolidate souls and cast the spirit" and "persisting in tempering strong Party spirit." "From the ideological level, to 正本清源 (zhèng běn qīng yuán - "rectify the root and clear the source," to fundamentally rectify and purify) and 固本培元 (gù běn péi yuán - "consolidate the root and cultivate the vital energy," to strengthen the foundation and nurture the essence), to build the foundation of faith, to supplement the calcium of spirit, and to steady the rudder of thought."
(1) The Power of Truth
"To keep the Party and the people's cause from stagnating, first of all theory must not stagnate."
"Unswervingly pursuing truth, always keeping the forward direction on course" is the first of the six excellent qualities of the Chinese Communist Party.
Over a hundred years of long journey, why has it been able to always keep the forward direction on course?
"Our Party takes Marxism as a powerful ideological weapon to transform the subjective world and the objective world, persists in emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts, advancing with the times, and being pragmatic and realistic, focuses on revealing and applying truth in the movement of social contradictions, is adept at testing and developing truth in practice, and constantly guides new practice with new theory," General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized at the meeting celebrating the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.
In 2004, Comrade Xi Jinping, then Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, wrote in a short essay titled "The Gains in Ideological Understanding Have More Far-Reaching Significance": "Sharpening the axe does not delay the cutting of firewood; thought is the precursor of action. The gains in ideological understanding have more far-reaching significance than our gains in development."
Thinking and acting, planning and doing — this dialectical reflection is the governing experience precipitated from hands-on practice, and it even more displays the theoretical self-consciousness of Chinese Communists.
A great era gives birth to scientific thought; scientific thought guides innovative practice.
Since the new era, the horizon of theoretical reflection has become even broader. How can the world's largest ruling party forever maintain its advanced nature and purity, how can it steer a large country of over 1.4 billion people, continuously advancing Chinese-style modernization as "a pioneering undertaking with no precedent"? The 19th National Congress of the Party established Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as the guiding ideology that the Party must uphold for a long time.
— "One asks why the channel water is so clear? Because there is a living source from which it flows." Treat science with a scientific attitude, pursue truth with the spirit of truth, and constantly endow Marxism with new contemporary connotations.
Summarizing insights into laws, profoundly revealing that "to keep the Party and the people's cause from stagnating, first of all theory must not stagnate"; adhering to problem orientation, clearly pointing out that "the process of theoretical innovation is the process of discovering problems, screening problems, studying problems, and solving problems"; planning long-term development, explicitly requiring "to constantly expand the breadth and depth of understanding, dare to say new things that predecessors have not said, dare to do things that predecessors have not done"…
Pursue truth, reveal truth, and faithfully practice truth. Unify upholding Marxism and developing Marxism, persist in using the "arrow" of Marxism to shoot at the "target" of contemporary China, let the truth of Marxism radiate even more brilliant splendor, providing scientific guidance for the steady and far-reaching progress of various undertakings.
— "When the source is dredged, the stream flows long; when the roots are deep, the leaves are lush." Only by advancing the "localization of truth" can the tree of theory remain evergreen.
In June 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping visited the China National Archives of Publications and Culture and the Chinese Academy of History. Oracle bones, bamboo slips, ancient books and documents, carved rubbings… The General Secretary's gaze penetrated history, pondering the profound proposition of guarding the "soul vein" and the "root vein."
At the subsequent Symposium on Cultural Heritage and Development, a major thesis, like the 黄钟大吕 (huáng zhōng dà lǚ - "yellow bell and great pitchpipe," words of great weight and significance) and like the stirring spring thunder, was proclaimed: "On the basis of more than 5,000 years of profound Chinese civilization to open up and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics, combining the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific realities and with the best of traditional Chinese culture is the only way."
"The second combination," another ideological liberation, opens up vast space for innovation. Adhering to the "two combinations," Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is constantly enriched and developed, endowing Marxism with distinct practical, national, and contemporary characteristics, and continuously opening up new frontiers of adapting Marxism to the Chinese context.
Deeply studying and carefully comprehending Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building, the ideological radiance of the "two combinations" shines brilliantly. The people-oriented thought that "the people are the foundation of the state and governance lies in nourishing the people," the employment standard of 任人唯贤 (rèn rén wéi xián - "appointing people on their merit," selecting only the virtuous) and 选贤与能 (xuǎn xián yǔ néng - "select the worthy and elevate the capable," choosing the able and virtuous), the self-cultivation principle of 自强不息 (zì qiáng bù xī - "self-reliance and unceasing effort," continuous self-improvement) and 厚德载物 (hòu dé zài wù - "great virtue carries all things," being generous and tolerant of others)… governance wisdom, governing ethics, and principles of self-establishment passed down through generations are creatively transformed and innovatively developed into concepts, systems, and practices for full and rigorous Party governance in the new era.
— "The essence of learning indeed lies in practice." All epoch-making theories are products that meet the needs of the era.
Both deploying the task of "crossing the river" and guiding the solution of the "bridge or boat" problem, Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era "adheres to problem orientation, adheres to centering on what we are doing," guiding contemporary China to achieve the first centenary goal and launch the new journey toward the second centenary goal, with the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation showing an irresistible bright prospect.
Currently, the world has entered a new period of turbulence and transformation, and a stably developing China is widely regarded by the international community as an "oasis of opportunity" and a "predictable partner." Where does this certainty come from? Tracing back to the source, it lies in the guidance of scientific theory.
From the new development concept to the theory of new quality productive forces, to important expositions on improving the new system of mobilizing resources nationwide and building a new development pattern, a series of major theoretical innovations have led China's development to achieve quality changes, efficiency changes, and driving force changes, so that the "China" giant ship fears no wind and rain and breaks waves on its way.
China's story is also the world's story. The Chinese Communist Party's continuous promotion of theoretical innovation has not only historically changed China but also provides important inspiration for all countries to respond to the topics of the times.
Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building guides full and rigorous Party governance to achieve historic and pioneering accomplishments, providing experience for political parties in various countries to strengthen their own construction; the anti-poverty theory with Chinese characteristics continuously improves, writing a miracle in the history of human poverty reduction, bringing light of hope for developing countries to escape poverty; the concept that "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" breaks the binary opposition thinking of "growth or environment" and rewrites the process of human modernization…
Witnessing contemporary China maintaining stable development under the guidance of Chinese-style modernization theory, American political scientist Fukuyama took the initiative to revise his so-called "End of History" thesis. From once firmly believing that "history ends in one way" to now acknowledging the multiplicity of modernization paths, more and more international attention "looks eastward" from the dimension of ideas, seeing a new form of human civilization full of vitality and new possibilities for the development of world history.
Looking ahead, the great path is boundless. "Comprehensively advancing Chinese-style modernization opens vast space for the development of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics and also provides fertile soil for the Party's theoretical innovation in the new era and new journey."
Adhering to scientific methods such as the "two combinations" and the "six musts" (六个必须坚持), Chinese Communists striding forward on the new journey will certainly deepen theoretical innovation on the basis of practice, continuously open up new frontiers of adapting Marxism to the Chinese context, and make new contributions to the progress of human civilization.
(2) The Power of Learning
"Scientific theory is our 'golden key' to promote work and solve problems; the more we study it, the more confident we feel, the more we study it, the more powerful we feel."
The Party's innovative theory comes from practice, and ultimately must return to practice. Strengthen theoretical armament, transforming scientific theory into a powerful force to transform the subjective and objective worlds.
Metaphorically called a "required course," regarded as a "basic skill," General Secretary Xi Jinping attaches great importance to arming the entire Party with the Party's innovative theory, emphasizing that this is "the fundamental task of the Party's ideological construction." The report of the 20th National Congress of the Party made arrangements for unswervingly using Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to consolidate souls and cast the spirit, and clearly proposed "building a Marxist learning party."
How to understand this extraordinary importance?
"Our Party is the largest political party in the world. Being big requires having the bearing of a big party, yet being big also comes with difficulties." The scale of the organization, the weight of its mission, and the magnitude of challenges it faces are rare in the world. How to unify thought, unify will, and unify action? The key one is to consolidate souls and cast the spirit with the Party's innovative theory.
Only when theory is strong can direction be clear, hearts be united, and confidence be sufficient. Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, with a view to forging the Party into "a piece of hard steel that is invincible and unbeatable in attack," General Secretary Xi Jinping has always placed strengthening theoretical armament in a prominent position in managing and governing the Party—
With the responsibility of leading by example, he personally leads study sessions and personally goes to Party schools to teach; collective study by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee has become a microcosm of building a "learning party"; with the improvement of institutional design, he demands "improving the education system of consolidating foundations and nurturing souls," taking it as an important part of improving the system for full and rigorous Party governance; with the persistence of sustained efforts, he researches and deploys nine intra-Party centralized education campaigns, promoting ideological unity, political cohesion, and coordinated action across the Party…
The Party's mass line education and practice campaign, the "Three Stricts and Three Honests" (三严三实) special education, the "Two Studies, One Action" (两学一做) learning and education, the "Never forget the original intention, remember the mission" (不忘初心、牢记使命) education, Party history learning and education (党史学习教育), the study and implementation of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era thematic education, Party discipline learning and education (党纪学习教育), the in-depth study and implementation of the spirit of the Central Committee's Eight-Point Regulation learning and education (深入贯彻中央八项规定精神学习教育), and the learning and education on establishing and practicing a correct view on political achievements (树立和践行正确政绩观学习教育) — both persistent and concentrated efforts have been made to educate and guide Party members and cadres to understand the laws, clarify directions, learn methods, and increase wisdom through persisting in studying the Party's innovative theory.
Learn to believe, learn to think, learn to act. "Scientific theory is our 'golden key' to promote work and solve problems; the more we study it, the more confident we feel, the more we study it, the more powerful we feel."
This "confidence" and "power" are displayed in the magnificent practice of governing the country—
Adhering to the guidance of the concept that "the people build the city for the people, the city serves the people," gradually emerging from the former predicament of the spread of "urban diseases" and the sameness of a thousand cities, a new path of connotative urban development is becoming broader and more steadfast;
Adhering to the guidance of Xi Jinping Cultural Thought, promoting the creative transformation and innovative development of fine traditional Chinese culture, the people's cultural confidence has significantly increased, their mental state is more inspired and vigorous, contemporary Chinese youth look at the world on an equal footing with openness and inclusiveness, displaying the bearing of a great power;
Holding high the banner of building a community with a shared future for mankind, the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" has become a bright road for all parties to develop together, the four major global initiatives have gathered consensus and strength to meet the challenges of the times, the old logic of a strong country must seek hegemony is broken, and new stories of peaceful development and harmonious coexistence are continuously written;
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Persisting in using the Party's innovative theory to consolidate souls and cast the spirit, continuously realizing the transformation from theoretical armament to theoretical weapon, has enhanced the Party's creativity, cohesion, and combat effectiveness, enabling the Party to always be the strong leading core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and under the mutual agitation of the two overall situations, to lead the great cause of national rejuvenation forward continuously.
"Our Party relied on learning to create history, and even more, it must rely on learning to move toward the future."
At the starting point of the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" period, General Secretary Xi Jinping made new deployments for "further strengthening learning": "The foremost is to delve into the Party's innovative theory, thoroughly understand the Party Central Committee's major policies and decisions, and improve political capability and strategic thinking capability."
This deployment conveys a distinct problem orientation. On the one hand, "in terms of genuine study, genuine belief, genuine use, and thorough understanding and practical application, there are still some problems that require attention." On the other hand, the Party's innovative theory is continuously developing, especially the theory of Chinese-style modernization which further enriches Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. "Every time the Party's theory innovates a step forward, theoretical armament must keep up a step."
This deployment is also the key to grasping historical initiative. The "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" period is a critical period for laying a solid foundation and fully advancing toward basically realizing socialist modernization. Externally, strategic opportunities and risk challenges coexist, with increasing uncertain and unpredictable factors; internally, the "four major tests" (四大考验) and "four dangers" (四种危险) facing the Party are long-term, complex, and severe.
"To forge an 'indestructible body,' we must arm our minds with scientific theory and constantly cultivate our spiritual home." Only by persisting in arming the whole Party with the latest achievements in adapting Marxism to the Chinese context, guiding practice, and promoting work, can we surmount obstacles and overcome difficulties on the road ahead, unite and lead the people to continuously advance the grand cause of Chinese-style modernization.
(3) The Power of Belief
"To build a strong Marxist ruling party, we must start from ideals and convictions."
On the eve of this year's July 1st, a letter arrived at General Secretary Xi Jinping's desk, written by Zhang Liansheng, a centenarian veteran Party member of the "Fourth Brigade." The words in the letter burned with heat, expressing a firm belief — forever follow the Party.
Though radio waves are faint, they can travel a thousand li; though faith is formless, it can be kept for a lifetime.
Ideals and convictions are linked to the "master switch" of worldview, outlook on life, and values. General Secretary Xi Jinping once quoted two ancient sayings to explain their extreme importance: "First establish the great essentials, then the minor ones cannot seize them" and "All things that obtain their root will live; all affairs that obtain the Way will succeed."
In January 1974, after submitting ten Party membership applications, young Xi Jinping joined the Chinese Communist Party in Liangjiahe Village on the Loess Plateau. "The first identity is that of a Communist Party member; the first duty is to work for the Party." This is a promise to be fulfilled with a lifetime.
On October 31, 2017, one week after the successful conclusion of the 19th National Congress of the Party, General Secretary Xi Jinping led the members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee to visit the site of the First National Congress of the CPC, raised his right fist before the Party flag, and solemnly swore the oath. He said that the number of words in the Party membership oath is not many, and it is not difficult to remember, but the difficulty lies in lifelong adherence.
"Ideals and convictions are the foundation of a Communist's existence, the political soul of a Communist."
On July 1, 2026, in the Great Hall of the People under the gaze of all, General Secretary Xi Jinping presented the "July 1 Medal" to the recipients, conferring upon them the highest honor within the Party.
The medal is silent, but the original aspiration is evident. From "people's mediator" Ma Shanxiang, to hero veteran Wang Yuchang who hid his merit and fame, to mechanical engineering expert Zhong Jue who has been fighting on the front line of scientific research for decades… They turned ideals and convictions into day-to-day perseverance, imprinting the Party membership oath on every step of their progress.
A Marxist party is not a party formed by interests, but a party organized by common ideals and convictions. "To build a strong Marxist ruling party, we must start from ideals and convictions."
The world, the country, and the Party's conditions are undergoing profound and complex changes. How to lead the whole Party to strengthen ideals and convictions and stand tall with the spiritual backbone of Communists?
Draw nourishment from glorious Party history—
From the local to the central level, one mission and sentiment have never changed. In Zhejiang, summarizing and refining the "Red Boat Spirit" (红船精神), continuing the original aspiration of the large party, erecting a spiritual monument; in Shanghai, emphasizing that "the Chinese Communist Party was born in Shanghai, and this is Shanghai's pride," guarding the red gene and declaring the commitment to mission. At the mobilization meeting for Party history learning and education in February 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the spiritual lineage of Chinese Communists "provides rich nourishment for our Party's establishment, rejuvenation, and strengthening."
Since the new era, the red footprints of local inspections have linked up the spiritual panorama of Chinese Communists: the Octagonal Tower of Jinggangshan, the Memorial Monument for the Departure of the Central Red Army's Long March by the Yudu River, the cave dwellings of Yan'an, the small courtyard of Xibaipo…
"Glorious traditions cannot be lost; if lost, the soul is lost. The red gene cannot be altered; if altered, the nature is altered."
Recently, British Ambassador to China Peter Wilson visited Yan'an and went to Liangjiahe. He stood in contemplation in front of the stone inscription "Seeking Truth from Facts," visited the historical site of the "cave dialogue" (窑洞对), and held discussions at the China Executive Leadership Academy Yan'an… He frankly said: "Here I have seen China's past, present, and future."
The torch is not extinguished; the spirit is eternal. On the new journey, "bear in mind the nature, purpose, and struggle goals of the Marxist party, and vigorously carry forward the great founding spirit of the Party."
Use the power of truth to inspire—
Firm ideals and convictions come from firm ideological theory.
For some time now, the Middle East is unsettled, the world is hard to pacify, and the energy crisis has spread globally, but China "stands as unshakable as a mountain in wind and rain." Where does the confidence come from? It relies on the strategic clarity that "the energy rice bowl must be held in our own hands," on the forward planning to accelerate the construction of a clean, low-carbon, safe, and efficient new energy system…
The Party's innovative theory is the "nutrition" to transform the subjective world and the "key" to transform the objective world. Through visible and tangible development results, Party members and cadres deeply appreciate the truth strength and practical power of scientific theory, and their political identification with the Party's values and forward direction becomes more steadfast.
Temper in the practice of undertaking and starting businesses—
Forming firm ideals and convictions is neither achieved overnight nor accomplished once and for all; it must be constantly honed and tested in the struggle and practice. General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly pointed out: "Ideals and convictions are not to be spoken or sung, let alone used to decorate the facade; only when they are manifested in action can they be persuasive."
Looking back at the march of the new era, on the battlefield of poverty alleviation, more than three million stationed cadres have taken root at the front line, practicing the promise that "in building a moderately prosperous society, no one should be left behind"; when the century's epidemic struck, Party members and cadres marched in reverse, building an impregnable fortress to protect the people's lives and health… In the face of urgent, difficult, dangerous, and heavy tasks, they dare to struggle and are good at struggling; on the front line of reform, development, and stability, they bravely shoulder heavy burdens and charge ahead. The vast number of Party members and cadres practice the original mission with action, making their ideals and convictions firmer, their Party spirit stronger, and their spirit more inspired.
The learning and education on establishing and practicing a correct view on political achievements is an important task in this year's Party building. "Stand for the public good and serve the Party, bring benefit to the people, make scientific decisions, and work hard." The process of implementing the sixteen-character general requirement is also a process of forging firm ideals and convictions. General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly clarified: "The decisive factor in establishing and practicing a correct view on political achievements is Party spirit."
"Each generation has its own Long March; each generation has its own responsibility. Building a great modern socialist country and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is a relay race."
Facing the future, a remark clarifies where historical initiative comes from: "I have repeatedly emphasized the need to carry forward the spirit of carrying the revolution through to the end, to promote the revolutionary spirit of the older generation of revolutionaries of 'pursuing the routed foe with the leftover courage, not seeking the name of the overlord,' and to promote the struggle spirit of Communists of 'daring to sacrifice, daring to change the skies and earth for a new sun.' This I have deep considerations for."
Facing the various foreseeable and unforeseeable storms and waves ahead, to be able to withstand pressure, steady one's mind, and open up the situation, it is necessary to illuminate the path forward with the light of thought, to gather the momentum of the march with the power of spirit, and to bravely compete in the rapids and sail far in the "Three Gorges of History."
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Red Army's Long March. Back then, the Red Army fought bloody battles along the Xiang River, crossed the Chishui River four times, climbed snow-capped mountains and crossed grasslands. Under extremely difficult circumstances, they still innovated their ways of learning, strengthened theoretical armament, and forged a "steel-like contingent" that went down in history, creating a great miracle in human history.
The new journey is a new Long March. "We must work in unison to walk the new Long March well."
"Time waits for no one! History waits for no one! Party members across the Party must never forget the original intention and remember the mission, must remain modest, prudent, and hardworking, must dare to struggle and be good at struggling, closely rely on and unite with the people of all ethnic groups across the country to forge ahead on the new journey and make new contributions in the new era, and strive to create new historical glories!" General Secretary Xi Jinping's great call inspires and encourages the entire Party, the entire military, and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to strengthen confidence and continue the struggle, continuously creating new achievements worthy of the times and the people.
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General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized: "To realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation requires the joint efforts of all Chinese sons and daughters at home and abroad. Closely uniting the vast number of overseas Chinese and returned overseas Chinese and their relatives, and bringing their active role into play in the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, is an important task of the Party and the state."
Overseas Chinese affairs work is a long-term and strategic task of the Party and the state, always closely related to the overall situation of national development and closely connected to economic and social development. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has coordinated both domestic and international situations, made new deployments and put forward new requirements for doing a good job in overseas Chinese affairs work, gathering the hearts and strength of overseas Chinese to jointly realize the Chinese Dream, opened up a new situation in overseas Chinese affairs work, and effectively promoted the great unity of all Chinese sons and daughters at home and abroad.
Widely unite gather the hearts of overseas Chinese
This summer, the film A Love Letter to Grandma (给阿嬷的情书) was a hit, and the short but heartfelt and deeply touching "qiaopi" (侨批 - overseas Chinese remittance letters) once again became a hot topic of street talk.
"Pi" (批 - a letter), a few silver coins, crossing mountains and seas, linking family and country. The "qiaopi" in the film reminds people of a scene from more than five years ago at the Shantou Qiaopi Cultural Relics Museum (汕头侨批文物馆).
In October 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping, who was on an inspection tour in Guangdong, came to the Qiaopi Cultural Relics Museum, which has the characteristics of the Chaoshan overseas Chinese hometown. The then director, Lin Qingxi (林庆熙), explained in detail to General Secretary Xi Jinping the specific process of writing, sending, delivering, and replying to qiaopi, as well as the touching stories behind each piece of qiaopi.
"'Qiaopi' records the difficult entrepreneurial history and deep family-country sentiment of the older generation of overseas Chinese, and is also an important manifestation of the Chinese nation's emphasis on credibility and keeping promises," said General Secretary Xi Jinping, deeply moved. He stressed the need to protect these qiaopi cultural relics, strengthen research, and educate and guide people not to forget the humiliating history modern China has endured and the difficult entrepreneurial history of the older generation of overseas Chinese.
"An important characteristic of overseas Chinese is their love for their country and hometown," "Widely unite and connect with overseas Chinese, guide them to convey China's voice well," "Rely on ties such as clan kinship and ancestral homeland culture to widely gather the hearts of overseas Chinese"... Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping's deep concern for the vast number of overseas Chinese time and again, and his earnest entrustments for overseas Chinese affairs work, have crossed thousands of mountains and rivers, gathering the powerful force of all Chinese sons and daughters at home and abroad to jointly realize the Chinese Dream.
Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, overseas Chinese affairs work has strengthened top-level design and overall planning, and the reform of systems and mechanisms has progressed smoothly.
The Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council was fully merged into the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee (中央统战部); local overseas Chinese affairs offices at all levels, following the model of central institutional reform, coordinate overseas Chinese affairs work... Through the systematic restructuring of institutional reform, the Party's leadership over overseas Chinese affairs work has been further strengthened, the pattern of "grand overseas Chinese affairs work" has been established, and the integrity and systematization of overseas Chinese affairs work have been continuously improved.
Holding events such as the "World Overseas Chinese Community Friendship Conference" (世界华侨华人社团联谊大会), carrying out the "Chinese Roots Journey" (中国寻根之旅) summer/winter camps, establishing the "Maritime Silk Road Overseas Chinese Museum Alliance" (海上丝绸之路华侨华人博物馆联盟)... Various regions and departments leverage geographical and kinship advantages, rely on cultural ties, deepen extensive friendship with overseas Chinese, and overseas friendly forces continue to grow and develop.
"Grandfather longed for the country's prosperity throughout his life. If he could see this flourishing age now, he would surely be moved to tears." On September 3, 2025, invited to attend the commemorative event for the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, Chen Liren (陈立人), grandson of patriotic overseas Chinese leader Chen Jiageng, watched the ceremony from the Tiananmen Rostrum. Seeing the phalanxes of mighty troops and the rolling torrent of iron, his thoughts were stirred.
"The roots of overseas Chinese are in China," Chen Liren said emotionally. The fate of overseas Chinese has always been closely linked to their ancestral (motherland) country, and the strength of the ancestral (motherland) country fills overseas Chinese with pride.
Chinese people, Chinese culture, Chinese spirit, Chinese heart.
Though mountains and seas are distant, roots and veins are connected. From the hometowns in Fujian and Guangdong, where the tide never ceases, to the foreign lands thousands of miles away, in the new era, all Chinese sons and daughters at home and abroad are heart to hand, united in resonance, gathering a common voice —
"The united Chinese nation is the common root of all Chinese sons and daughters at home and abroad; the profound and extensive Chinese culture is the common soul of all Chinese sons and daughters at home and abroad; realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the common dream of all Chinese sons and daughters at home and abroad."
Using overseas Chinese as a bridge leveraging the strength of overseas Chinese
Boao, Hainan. The coconut breeze is gentle, the sound of the waves is rhythmic.
On March 25, the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2026 · Roundtable of Chinese Business Leaders and Chinese Thinkers was held as scheduled. "I have never missed the annual roundtable," said Zhang Yin (张茵), Honorary President of the China Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs Association (中国侨商联合会). "We learn from and exchange with each other, sharing the dividends brought by China's policies."
Chinese-style modernization, the Belt and Road Initiative, digital-intelligence enabling industrial upgrading... The guests exchanged ideas on the same stage, the atmosphere was warm. This vivid scene is a microcosm of how China leverages the wisdom and capital of overseas Chinese to serve national economic and social development.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Our reform, opening up, and development and construction undertakings are inseparable from the large number of overseas Chinese who are deeply concerned about their hometowns and their motherland."
Using overseas Chinese as a bridge, leveraging the strength of overseas Chinese. In the new era, various regions and departments closely combine promoting the development of overseas Chinese undertakings with serving national major strategies, making great efforts to increase the introduction of overseas Chinese wisdom and capital.
Promoting the implementation of various facilitation measures for serving overseas talents, creating a good development environment for their work and life in China; promulgating the Foreign Investment Law and its implementing regulations, repeatedly revising the negative list for foreign investment access, significantly relaxing restrictions on foreign investment access; holding the World Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs Conference (世界华侨华人工商大会), the China Overseas Chinese Investment Conference (中国侨商投资大会), supporting the holding of the World Chinese Entrepreneurs Conference (世界华商大会) at home and abroad, encouraging overseas Chinese entrepreneurs to play a role in China's high-quality economic development... These measures have enabled the advantages of overseas Chinese wisdom and capital to be brought into play, effectively serving national economic and social development.
In Minning Town (闽宁镇), at the eastern foothills of the Helan Mountains in Ningxia, overseas Chinese and enterprises from Fujian, harboring the original aspiration of loving their country and hometown and revitalizing the nation through industry, crossed mountains and seas, took root beyond the Great Wall, and helped transform the former Gobi wasteland into tens of thousands of acres of vineyards. Overseas Chinese wisdom and capital have been deeply integrated into the entire process of the Fujian-Ningxia cooperation, allowing the fruits of this cooperation to go beyond Northwest China and reach the world.
In the Guangdong Shantou Overseas Chinese Economic and Cultural Cooperation Experimental Zone (广东汕头华侨经济文化合作试验区), the local area has built bridges to introduce overseas Chinese wisdom and capital. The construction of the cross-border digital economy industrial park is in full swing. Strings of code build a bridge connecting the world in the digital age. Shantou, leveraging the "digital express," achieves a higher level of opening up.
Joining the Belt and Road construction, building solid bridges for people-to-people connectivity; anchoring on high-level technological self-reliance and self-strengthening, striving for innovation and tackling key problems; leveraging advantages in connecting China and abroad, telling China's story well and spreading Chinese culture; participating in non-governmental exchanges and interactions, promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind... The solid footprints of the vast number of overseas Chinese are left in many fields of China's economic and social development and international exchanges.
This year marks the beginning of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, and the vast number of overseas Chinese welcome new opportunities of the times. The grand blueprint outlined by the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline is transforming into a broad stage for the vast number of overseas Chinese entrepreneurs and enterprises to realize their ambitions.
Stepping onto the "15th Five-Year Plan," the vast number of overseas Chinese are taking action, seizing historic opportunities, leveraging their advantages in capital, technology, and networks, becoming an important link in facilitating the smooth flow of domestic and international dual circulation in a two-way pursuit, sharing development opportunities and creating a better life together with people of all countries.
Benefiting and assisting overseas Chinese protecting the rights and interests of overseas Chinese
"Our powerful motherland is our strong backing!" "Thank the country! Seeing our warships, I feel the strength of the motherland, I am very proud."
On the morning of April 27, 2023, local time, two silver-gray warships slowly entered the port of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The five-star red flag fluttered in the wind at the mast. On the dock, the welcoming crowd unfurled a huge five-star red flag and spread a red banner reading "Welcome compatriots from the motherland back to the warm harbor." Chinese Navy warships carrying 678 evacuees from Sudan crossed the Red Sea and arrived in Saudi Arabia.
This was an unforgettable evacuation operation. Simple and sincere words expressed people's excited feelings.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out, "We must strengthen ties with overseas Chinese, returned overseas Chinese and their relatives, and protect their legitimate rights and interests."
Keeping in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's important entrustment to "be the caring person for overseas Chinese and returned overseas Chinese and their relatives, and become a doer in overseas Chinese affairs work," overseas Chinese affairs workers at all levels in the new era continue to deepen service measures for overseas Chinese, continuously enhancing their tangible sense of gain, happiness, and security.
— Further perfecting laws, regulations, and policies related to overseas Chinese. Promoting the inclusion of the Law on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Overseas Chinese in the legislative plan of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress; guiding local authorities to research and promulgate regulations on the protection of historical and cultural relics of overseas Chinese; formulating guiding opinions on the construction of a public service system for overseas Chinese domestically; formulating and issuing documents to legally protect the right to education of children of overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese students.
— Continuously improving policies and measures to benefit overseas Chinese. Establishing service platforms for overseas Chinese such as "Overseas Chinese Homes" (侨之家), "Overseas Chinese Family Homes" (侨胞之家), and "New Overseas Chinese Service Stations" (新侨驿站), to open up the "last kilometer" of service; vigorously promoting "Internet + services for overseas Chinese," letting data run more errands and overseas Chinese run fewer errands; building an identity authentication platform for entry-exit documents; implementing facilitation policies for foreign nationals of Chinese origin applying for multiple-entry visas, long-term residence, and permanent residence.
An old overseas Chinese house carries the homesickness spanning generations; a thin qiaopi letter entrusts the longing crossing mountains and seas. On July 1 this year, the "Regulations of Fujian Province on the Protection of Historical and Cultural Relics of Overseas Chinese" (福建省华侨历史文化遗存保护条例) officially came into effect. The protection of Fujian's historical and cultural relics of overseas Chinese has entered a new stage of having laws to rely on and systematic promotion, allowing wandering sons abroad, no matter where they are, to follow the traces of their hometown and feel the warmth of home.
For many overseas Chinese, returning to China to handle affairs is a troublesome matter. To facilitate overseas Chinese, Qingtian, Zhejiang, has built a "cross-border platform" for overseas Chinese to handle affairs, using the Qingtian Public Security WeChat public account to open the "Global Handling" function, realizing "cross-border handling" and "remote handling" for 45 items in three categories: household registration, exit-entry, and vehicle management, such as reissuing household registers, splitting households at the same address, and extending driving licenses.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" outline proposes: "Comprehensively implement the Party's policy on overseas Chinese, better gather the hearts and strength of overseas Chinese, and give play to the role of ties such as clan kinship and ancestral homeland culture."
Thousands of mountains and rivers cannot separate the shared aspiration. Standing at a new historical starting point, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, and under the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, overseas Chinese affairs work in the new era will continue to uphold fundamental principles and break new ground, advance unceasingly, gather the hearts and strength of overseas Chinese, and make new contributions and write new chapters for comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization.
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In laying out new tracks for future industries, the Wuhan East Lake High-tech Zone in Hubei (the "Optics Valley of China") has made another move: not long ago, the Optics Valley International Brain-Computer Interface Innovation Center was completed and put into operation, providing enterprises with full-chain services from clinical needs and concept verification to product registration and clinical application. As of now, the center has attracted over 130 institutions to participate. Surrounding the brain-computer interface industry, the Optics Valley has now built a full-chain support system covering ecology, capital, and platforms, gathering a group of related enterprises such as Zhonghua Brain-Computer (衷华脑机), Yiruide (依瑞德), and Gelinteke (格林泰克).
In November 2024, during his inspection of Hubei, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Muster your strength, be energetic and enterprising, 久久为功 (jiǔ jiǔ wéi gōng - "persist long to achieve," to keep at it persistently over time) and 善作善成 (shàn zuò shàn chéng - "good at doing, good at completing," to do well and see things through), strive to be in the forefront in the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and accelerate the building of an important strategic pivot for the rise of the central region."
Thoroughly implementing the important directives of General Secretary Xi Jinping, Hubei has continuously carried out the "Cadre Quality Improvement Year," enhancing cadres' political qualities and their abilities to promote high-quality development, among others, and steadily driving the pivot construction to achieve new breakthroughs.
Striving to be in the forefront inspires responsibility —
"After the China (Ezhou) Cross-border E-commerce Comprehensive Pilot Zone was approved for establishment in April last year, we converted idle factory buildings into a cross-border e-commerce base, and so far it has attracted 751 enterprises to register and 95 enterprises to move in," said Chen Si (陈思), a young cadre from the coordination service special class of the Ezhou Airport Economy Zone Cross-border E-commerce Industrial Park.
Relying on Huahu International Airport (花湖国际机场), Asia's largest professional cargo airport, Ezhou is promoting the construction of a world-class air cargo hub. Focusing on areas such as air logistics and cross-border e-commerce, Ezhou guides cadres to break through problems through learning and to answer questions through practical work. "The atmosphere of striving to be in the forefront is stronger," Chen Si said.
Reform and innovation dare to take responsibility —
A humanoid robot jointly designed and developed by the team of Academician Chen Xuedong (陈学东) from Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Wuhan Gelanruo Intelligent Robot Co., Ltd. (武汉格蓝若智能机器人有限公司) was still a bit unstable when walking last year, but has now completed testing and verification at a substation.
Why has the "Made in Hubei" robot been able to "evolve" so quickly? "The 23 high-fidelity scenarios and data collection services provided by the Hubei Humanoid Robot Innovation Center have played an important supporting role," said Guo Jishun (郭继舜), general manager of Wuhan Gelanruo Intelligent Robot Co., Ltd.
In April last year, the Wuhan East Lake High-tech Zone invited academicians, experts, and entrepreneurs in the artificial intelligence field to serve as "chief examiners," selecting a group of professional cadres to enter the newly established "AI + Office," promoting the completion of the Hubei Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, the AI professional incubator "Modal Space," and more.
Hubei guides cadres to be adept at using reform methods and innovative measures to take on heavy burdens and difficulties, improving development quality and efficiency. In the first half of this year, Hubei Province's gross domestic product grew by 5.0% year-on-year, and the added value of high-tech manufacturing grew by 36.8% year-on-year, contributing 78.2% to the growth of industrial enterprises above designated size.
Support and encouragement protect responsibility —
The first-phase project of the Envision Power Yichang Smart Lithium Battery Production Base, with a planned annual capacity of 40 gigawatt-hours, took only six months from signing to the topping-out of the main structure. This was inseparable from the assistance of the prospective decision risk pre-reporting mechanism.
"Would bidding with the engineering general contract downward rate quotation model to improve construction efficiency be a violation? Would using post-qualification for qualification review leave hidden risks?" Facing the project party's request to accelerate, cadres in the project service special class were uncertain, so they invited Zhang Xu (张煦), a disciplinary inspection and supervision cadre from the Yichang High-tech Zone (宜昌高新区), and others to the project construction site.
"The prospective decision risk pre-reporting mechanism can be applied to the project," Zhang Xu said. According to this innovative mechanism, relevant units or individuals can pre-report matters that, due to unclear policies or other reasons during the process of undertaking work, may carry risks of being held accountable or punished; the pre-reporting situation can serve as an important basis for fault tolerance. Zhang Xu and colleagues accelerated the sorting and reporting of all risk points in the project, installing an "accelerator" for project construction.
From exploring and promoting the pilot risk filing mechanism for taking responsibility and acting first, to establishing lists of matters for exemption or reduction of liability in key areas such as finance, technological innovation, and state-owned enterprise reform, Hubei has improved incentive and protection mechanisms for cadres to take responsibility and act, encouraging cadres to let go of their hands and boldly undertake tasks.
Keeping in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's earnest entrustment, Hubei insists on making the improvement of cadre quality a pioneering and foundational task for pivot construction, and strives to forge a high-quality cadre contingent that is politically robust, professionally robust, and work-style robust.
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Inside the Tangshan Earthquake Memorial Hall, the 16 large characters 公而忘私 (gōng ér wàng sī - "public-minded and selfless," being selfless and putting public interest first), 患难与共 (huàn nàn yǔ gòng - "share difficulties together," standing together in times of trouble), 百折不挠 (bǎi zhé bù náo - "undeterred by a hundred setbacks," never giving up despite repeated defeats), and 勇往直前 (yǒng wǎng zhí qián - "bravely march forward," forging ahead courageously) shine brightly, engraving the spiritual strength of the 1976 earthquake relief efforts and witnessing the city's rebirth after the disaster.
A thousand meters away, on Phoenix Mountain, the vegetation is lush. Climbing to the top and looking into the distance, high-rises stand in clusters, greenery stretches far, rivers and lakes are clear, and the cityscape blends with the scenery.
Over the past 50 years, Tangshan, Hebei Province, this Phoenix City, has undergone two baptisms of fire and nirvana.
The first time, standing up from the ruins — within ten years after the earthquake, Tangshan rebuilt its homeland amid rubble; the second time, breaking through through transformation and development — since the new era, Tangshan has redefined the growth mode of this century-old industrial city with green.
In July 2016, when General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Tangshan, he emphasized that he hoped the broad cadres and masses of Tangshan would continue to carry forward the earthquake-resistance spirit, seize the favorable opportunity of the state's promotion of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development, and, in accordance with the "three efforts to build" (三个努力建成) goal, make persistent and unremitting efforts, comprehensively do a good job in all work of reform, development, and stability, strive to take the lead in transforming the development mode, adjusting the economic structure, and advancing supply-side structural reform, so as to make this heroic city achieve new glory.
Keeping in mind the instructions, forging ahead with determination. In 2024, Tangshan's gross regional product historically broke through the trillion-yuan mark, becoming the first city in Hebei with a gross regional product exceeding one trillion yuan; in 2025, Tangshan's economic growth rate reached 6.2%. In the first half of this year, the city's gross regional product grew by 5.0% year-on-year.
From post-disaster rebirth and accumulated revitalization to industrial transformation and kinetic energy conversion. At the foot of the Yanshan Mountains, on the shore of the Bohai Sea, Tangshan is lush with green and full of vitality.
Toward Green: Reconstructing the Green Industrial Foundation
Tangshan, the cradle of modern Chinese industry, has given birth to many "firsts": the first mechanized coal mining shaft, the first barrel of machine-made cement, the first piece of sanitary ceramics...
Ten days after the earthquake, the first truckload of "earthquake-resistance coal" was produced; fourteen days after the earthquake, the power plant was connected to the grid and generated electricity; twenty-eight days after the earthquake, the first furnace of "aspirational steel" was smelted... Industry recovered rapidly after the earthquake, and by 2012, Tangshan's gross regional product reached 586.163 billion yuan, with a growth rate of 10.4%.
However, behind the data, problems cannot be ignored: a single industrial structure, overcapacity in steel, resource carrying capacity hitting its ceiling, and extensive growth becoming unsustainable. According to the 2013 national key city air quality status released by the national environmental protection department, Tangshan was among the top ten cities with relatively poor air quality, and it saw no improvement in the following years.
"Ecological and environmental problems are, in the final analysis, problems of development mode and lifestyle." Zhou Haisong (周海松), deputy director of the Tangshan Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment (唐山市生态环境局), recalled that at that time, air pollution control forced green transformation, becoming a topic of the times that Tangshan had to answer well.
This was a profound change in development philosophy.
"The green transformation in the new era is a hurdle no less difficult than post-disaster reconstruction," Zhou Haisong frankly admitted.
壮士断腕 (zhuàng shì duàn wàn - "a warrior cutting off his wrist," making a painful but resolute decision), Tangshan gritted its teeth and, with the courage of 破釜沉舟 (pò fǔ chén zhōu - "smashing the pots and sinking the boats," burning one's bridges and committing to victory), "took the knife" to extensive development.
Overall production capacity was first reduced. Starting in 2013, Tangshan vigorously eliminated backward and excess capacity, and by 2020, it had cumulatively reduced and withdrawn over 60 million tons of steelmaking capacity.
The main urban area and its suburbs also had to "slim down." One of the major difficulties was: where would the 11 key steel enterprises concentrated there go?
What to do? Taking stock of its assets, Tangshan is adjacent to Bohai Bay, with abundant coastal resources, so it could lay out the steel industry; looking at experience, in 2008, Shougang moved from Beijing to Caofeidian, creating a new paradigm of "port in front, factory behind" (前港后厂) green production and port-side transformation, setting a practical example.
Investigation after investigation, forum after forum... At the end of 2017, based on long-term development, Tangshan City anchored the direction of port-industry linkage, inland slimming, and coastal quality improvement, and made up its mind to promote the relocation of the 11 key steel enterprises from the main urban area and suburbs.
The relocation involved a funding gap of over ten billion yuan and the redistribution and placement of tens of thousands of workers, the difficulty of which is imaginable. But the cadres and masses of Tangshan, the harder it became, the more they pressed forward—
The Tangshan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government (唐山市市委和市政府) drove the effort. In addition to coordinating fiscal subsidies and bank special financing, many Tangshan enterprises contributed to build a "mutual aid fund pool" (互助资金池), providing interest-free loans to relocating steel enterprises to jointly solve the funding problem. A person in charge of a steel enterprise that had received an interest-free loan from the "mutual aid fund pool" said with emotion: "Tangshan people share difficulties together; at critical moments, everyone jointly supports us steel enterprises."
The spirit of setting aside one's own family for the larger community and being selfless, which people had during the great earthquake, continued and was passed down: for the overall situation of the city's development, tens of thousands of steel workers overcame inconveniences such as commuting, left the old plant areas, built new plant areas, and shouldered the heavy responsibility of transformation. Some veteran workers said: "We did not shrink back during post-earthquake reconstruction, and we must not fall behind in transformation and development."
Every pass is difficult to pass, but every pass is passed. At the end of 2022, the last steel enterprise to relocate from the urban area, Guotang Iron and Steel (国堂钢铁), was completed and put into operation in Laoting County (乐亭县). After years of tackling hard problems, all steel enterprises in Tangshan's urban area have moved out, vacating over 20,000 mu of land. Traditional industries such as coking have also been orderly relocated to the coast.
The road of transformation is open, Tangshan's breathing has become "smooth and easy"!
Starting in 2022, Tangshan exited the "bottom ten" of the annual air quality ranking among 168 key cities nationwide. The number of days with good air quality in the city increased from 109 days in 2013 to 289 days in 2025.
Toward New: Opening Up Space for Green Transformation
Relocation makes room, and changes concepts.
Greenery has been "planted" into the new plant areas.
The new area of Tangsteel (唐钢) is only 1.4 kilometers from Pier 4 of the Jingtang Port area (京唐港区) of Tangshan Port. Fully enclosed belt corridors are used for transportation; iron ore is unloaded from the ship directly onto the belt and into the plant, not touching the ground and no dust. The new plant area has invested nearly 10 billion yuan in environmental protection, applied over 130 world-class emission reduction technologies, and achieved ultra-low emissions in the entire process.
Hebei Tianzhu Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd. (河北天柱钢铁集团有限公司) moved to Laoting County, and the new plant area was built on saline-alkali land. Just for planting trees, they replaced the soil three times and made an anti-seepage layer, investing over 300 million yuan in total. The company was rated as a national-level green factory for 2025.
The green concept took root, relying on ideological consciousness and also on institutional efforts.
Starting in 2022, Tangshan promoted the creation of A-level environmental performance in key industries such as steel: the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government jointly issued an implementation plan, established a municipal-level special work team, formulated a "timeline, roadmap, and construction blueprint," and urged enterprises to implement environmental protection responsibilities.
Tangshan's self-determined environmental protection standards are higher than the national standards—some call it the "Tang standard" (唐标). At present, Tangshan is again "self-imposing pressure," extending the creation of A-level environmental performance from key industries such as steel and coking to other industries. Currently, the city has 115 enterprises with A-level environmental performance.
Products are also moving toward new and superior. Tangsteel's 750 megapascal grade hot-rolled steel for transmission shafts exceeds the highest strength level of the national industry standard; Shougang Zhixin's (首钢智新) mass-produced 0.1 millimeter electrical steel has a thickness only a fraction of a sheet of paper... "Tangshan steel" has moved from "comparing capacity and competing in scale" to "comparing materials and competing in value."
Relying on the heavy foundation of a century of industry, Tangshan extended down the steel industry chain—from "steelmaking" to "steel using," from raw materials to components and complete machine manufacturing.
The robot industry grew out—
"Tangshan has many coal mines, steel plants, and chemical plants. Many production scenarios are unfriendly to humans, but they are battlefields for robots." Lu Zhihong (卢志红), a technical backbone of CITIC Heavy Industry Kaicheng Intelligent (中信重工开诚智能), whose father worked at the Kailuan Coal Mine (开滦煤矿) all his life. Underground gas was a sword hanging over their heads; his father often mentioned at home which tunnel had detected anomalies. Those heart-pounding stories were branded into Lu Zhihong's heart from childhood, and now they have transformed into his research direction—mining safety monitoring and fire-fighting robots.
Currently, Tangshan's special robot and welding robot industry scales rank among the top in the country... As of the end of 2025, Tangshan had 286 robot enterprises, with revenue of 13.71 billion yuan, accounting for over 60% of Hebei Province's robot industry revenue.
The new energy industry ran out—
As a heavy industrial city, Tangshan has a heavy truck inventory of as many as 180,000 vehicles, with huge potential for green transformation.
In 2016, domestic lithium battery enterprise Gotion High-tech (国轩高科) seized the opportunity of Tangshan's transformation and development to lay out a presence; most components had to be shipped in from other provinces. Tangshan's Lubei District (路北区) established a service special team to station and handle approvals on behalf of the enterprise. Construction began in November of that year, and formal production started a year later. "This was the fastest production line construction speed in Gotion's history," said Ge Daobin (葛道斌), head of Tangshan Gotion Battery Co., Ltd. (唐山国轩电池有限公司). With a tenacious spirit, Tangshan people built a supporting system from scratch, and the Gotion battery project expanded from Phase I to Phase VI. The batteries of the 1,200 new energy buses running on Tangshan's streets are mostly produced by Gotion High-tech.
In 2025, the four key industries of steel, equipment manufacturing, green chemical industry, and green building materials contributed 78% to Tangshan's industrial growth; the added value of electronic information, new energy and other industries all achieved double-digit growth.
Toward Excellence: Creating New Green Growth Poles
At Pier 25 of the Jingtang Port area of Tangshan Port, a container ship is steadily berthed, and crossing-type dual-trolley quay cranes stand on the shore. On the yard, several driverless intelligent flatbed transport vehicles shuttle in an orderly manner.
This is the first fully automated container terminal in Hebei Province. "Relying on a domestically produced container terminal operating system, BeiDou and 5G positioning, we achieve remote centralized control and 24-hour uninterrupted operation," said Yang Xuejun (杨学军), chairman of Tangshan Port Industrial Group (唐山港口实业集团).
In the early 1990s, the Jingtang Port area opened for navigation for the first time; in 2003, the Caofeidian Port area (曹妃甸港区) began construction... After decades of development, Tangshan Port, composed of the Jingtang Port area, Caofeidian Port area, and Fengnan Port area (丰南港区), reaches 262 ports in nearly 80 countries and regions, has built 62 inland ports, radiating to North China and connecting to Eurasia. In 2025, Tangshan Port's cargo throughput reached 884 million tons; the number of green ports reached 9, ranking first in Hebei Province.
Extending seaward, connecting landward. New green growth poles have grown out of the big port.
At the Dajin Heavy Industry (大金重工) Caofeidian deep-sea offshore engineering super base, offshore wind power monopiles with a diameter of over 10 meters and a length of nearly 100 meters are stunning. "We adopt advanced processes and methods such as fully automatic intelligent welding, achieving significant energy-saving and carbon-reduction effects," said Yu Xiaoqing (余晓清), deputy general manager of the base. The base achieves seamless connection across the entire chain of equipment production, anti-corrosion coating, and finished product loading, providing solid production capacity support for one-stop overseas delivery of offshore wind power equipment.
At the Tangshan Shengang seawater desalination project site, the warm waste seawater from Datang Power Plant (大唐电厂) is sent directly to the workshop through blue pipes, treated by reverse osmosis membranes and other processes to produce fresh water for use by surrounding enterprises, and the concentrated brine is then sent to Tangshan Lancang Ocean Technology Co., Ltd. (唐山蓝仓海洋科技有限公司) to extract bromine. "Using warm waste seawater solves the winter production difficulties of seawater desalination and bromine extraction, achieving stable year-round operation, and increasing water resource utilization from the conventional 75% to 97%," introduced Ren Zhirui (任志锐), chairman of Tangshan Chengfa Construction Group Co., Ltd. (唐山城发建设集团有限公司). In the first four months of this year, over 500 tons of bromine have been extracted, and next steps include extracting magnesium and potassium to further extend the circular chain.
In 2025, the Tangshan coastal economic belt achieved a gross product of 396.04 billion yuan, an increase of 7.1% over the previous year, accounting for 37.9% of the city's total.
New growth poles are not only on the coast.
In Lunan District (路南区) of Tangshan, the century-old Kailuan Coal Mine left a large area of subsidence depression. This "South Big Pit" (南大坑), once disliked by Tangshan people, underwent over 20 years of management—blocking sewage outlets, graded sedimentation, planting vegetation for water purification, ecological closure and soil covering of the mountain... Now the South Lake Urban Central Ecological Park has been built, hosting multiple functions such as exhibitions, cultural tourism, and sports. In 2016, the Tangshan World Horticultural Expo was held here. "I used to cover my nose and walk around it, but now I come for a stroll every day. The change is huge," said Zhao Xiang (赵祥), an 80-year-old Tangshan citizen.
The "Coal River" (煤河) in Fengnan District (丰南区) of Tangshan is no more than 10 meters wide. In 1881, it was built for the Kailuan Coal Mine to transport coal, going south directly to Lutai in Tianjin, later declining due to the rise of railways. Now, it has become a trendy tourist attraction—Hetou Old Street (河头老街), which received over 8 million tourists last year. Every evening, along the river amidst opera stages, tea houses, and intangible cultural heritage workshops, stories of King Tang's eastern expedition and the opening of Tangshan as a port are performed in turn.
From "urban scar" to "urban reception hall," from "Longxu Ditch" (龙须沟) to "trendy check-in spot," from the extensive model relying on resources and human effort to high-quality development that emphasizes innovation and seeks green... This heroic city has changed in development mode and industrial structure, but what remains unchanged is its responsibility to closely follow the national strategy and bravely undertake the mission of the times.
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"'Chinese Intelligent Manufacturing' has become another shining business card of Chinese-style modernization."
As a responsible major country, China has always been committed to being a provider of international public goods in the field of artificial intelligence, continuously contributing Chinese proposals.
At the recently successfully held 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-level Meeting on Global AI Governance, President Xi Jinping declared China's concept and achievements in actively embracing the development of artificial intelligence, and clarified its position and propositions on jointly building a fair and reasonable global AI governance system.
Large models, intelligent agents, and the like are accelerating iteration; quadruped robots account for nearly 70% of global sales volume; humanoid robot finished products have reached more than 400 models, exceeding half of the global total... Today's China, the comprehensive strength of artificial intelligence is undergoing a holistic and systematic leap.
Through this shining business card of "Chinese Intelligent Manufacturing," we can deeply understand why Chinese-style modernization works.
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The shining business card shines in the momentum of the booming intelligent economy. We adhere to the combination of strategic planning and goal guidance, and the core industry scale has exceeded one trillion yuan.
"Accurately grasp the inevitable trends of the development of things, keenly perceive the opportunities and challenges that may appear on the road ahead, and foresee the future and lead the future with science-based strategy."
Since the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping has always thought about and planned the development of artificial intelligence from a strategic height.
As early as 2014, he pointed out that "some artificial intelligence robots already possess a considerable degree of autonomous thinking and learning capabilities," emphasizing that "we must raise the level of our country's robot industry."
Looking at this year since its beginning —
In January, at the "first lesson of the year," he pointed out that artificial intelligence "is another epoch-making major technological change after the steam engine, electricity, and the Internet";
In February, he went to the Beijing National Information Technology Innovation Park to inspect the display of scientific and technological innovation achievements such as artificial intelligence and robots, emphasizing the need to "accelerate solving prominent shortcomings";
In April, at a symposium on strengthening basic research, he made arrangements to enhance China's original innovation capability;
In July, at the "three science and technology conferences," he deeply analyzed the development trend and significant characteristics of artificial intelligence, requiring that in frontier fields such as artificial intelligence, efforts be focused on "coordinated advancement of original innovation and key core technology breakthroughs."
Firmly grasp the foresight, overall nature, and stability of the strategy.
From the "13th Five-Year Plan" to the "15th Five-Year Plan," from prioritizing breakthroughs in artificial intelligence technologies in emerging fields to listing artificial intelligence as the first among the eight major frontier areas for key technology research...
The number of patents accounts for 60% globally; key core technologies are no longer "lacking chips and lacking souls" (缺芯少魂 - quē xīn shǎo hún, "lack chips and lack soul," referring to a lack of core components and core technologies); the number of artificial intelligence enterprises exceeds 6,200; domestic open-source large models lead the global open-source ecosystem...
"Good planning must also be promoted for implementation. Good planning and execution — these two must be combined." This is a profound inspiration for high-quality development.
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The shining business card shines in the new forms of intelligent economy. We adhere to the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, cultivating a healthy ecosystem where various entities coexist and prosper.
"Fully leverage the advantages of the new nationwide system for mobilizing resources, adhere to self-reliance, and highlight the application orientation."
"Adhere to the combination of an effective market and a competent government, strengthen artificial intelligence technological innovation, and actively advance the 'AI+' action."
Be unwavering in strategy, more conscious in action.
Artificial intelligence accelerates the empowerment of thousands of industries, providing new momentum for high-quality development.
"Our country has abundant data resources, a complete industrial system, broad application scenarios, and enormous market space."
From "relying on the heavens for food" to "digital and intelligent farming," the agricultural large model Tiangong Kaiwu (天工开悟) provides farmers with full-process intelligent guidance from seed selection, fertilization to harvesting;
From the "AI brain" real-time monitoring and regulating parameters such as temperature and speed, to the "AI quality inspector" accurately identifying and locking defects at the 0.1 millimeter level, intelligent manufacturing greatly improves production efficiency;
Comprehensively implement the "AI+" action, coordinately advancing the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, the cultivation and growth of emerging industries, and the forward-looking layout of future industries... Empowering high-quality development is precisely the "application logic" of China's artificial intelligence development.
Some international observers believe that "although game-changing innovations often attract the most attention, what ultimately determines who becomes the leader is the ecosystem."
"Implement historical perspectives and strategic thinking into concrete actions" — only then can one seize the first opportunity and gain an advantage.
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The shining business card shines in the use of AI for good and for the benefit of the people. We adhere to the close integration of high-quality development and high-quality life. Various intelligent terminals have entered thousands of households, effectively benefiting people's livelihoods.
"Seize strategic initiative by adapting to local conditions, acting according to the situation, and following the trend."
"The faster artificial intelligence technology advances by leaps and bounds, the more correctly the direction of upward goodness and benefiting humanity must be anchored."
How to "intelligently transform" a person?
Open your phone — large model applications such as DeepSeek (深度求索) and Doubao (豆包) help sort through vast amounts of information, with images, videos, and text generated with one click;
In office and study — super agents transform into "capable and reliable intelligent office assistants," achieving a key leap from "giving me answers" to "delivering results";
Driving and traveling — intelligent connected vehicles make autonomous decisions and navigate automatically, greatly improving safety and comfort...
From smart medical surgical robots being "on duty" in hospitals, to AI mobile phones and computers, intelligent robots, intelligent glasses, intelligent toys and other products becoming new consumption hotspots... Artificial intelligence is profoundly changing people's production and lifestyles, interpreting the value pursuit of "people-centered."
The issuance of the Ethical Norms for the New Generation of Artificial Intelligence and the AI Security Governance Framework, the revision of the Cybersecurity Law, and the strengthening of risk monitoring, assessment, and compliance supervision... Adhering to equal emphasis on development and security, "letting this AI thoroughbred run both fast and steadily."
Anchoring the people's aspiration for a better life, "embodying the characteristics of the times, grasping the laws of development, and being rich in creativity," Chinese-style modernization "works and runs smoothly."
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The shining business card shines in the relentless pursuit of openness and open-source. We adhere to the guidance of human wisdom and international consensus, striving to make artificial intelligence an international public good that benefits all of humanity.
Keep in mind the two overall situations — "This is the basic starting point for our planning work."
"Extensively carry out international cooperation on artificial intelligence, help Global South countries strengthen their technological capacity building, and make Chinese contributions to bridging the global AI divide."
Propose the Global AI Governance Initiative, promote the UN General Assembly to adopt a resolution on international cooperation in AI capacity building by consensus, release the AI Capacity Building普惠 (Inclusive) Plan and the 'AI+' International Cooperation Initiative...
One Chinese proposal after another leads and promotes global AI development and governance.
In July this year, the World AI Cooperation Organization initiated by China was formally established, becoming an important milestone in the history of AI development.
The cumulative downloads of China's open-source AI large models have exceeded 10 billion times, greatly lowering the threshold for global applications.
Some foreign dignitaries believe that China plays a leading role in AI open-source innovation, open platform construction, and international scientific and technological cooperation, creating entirely new development opportunities for countries around the world.
"China is willing to work with all parties to grasp and address the opportunities and challenges of AI development with a more open attitude, more pragmatic actions, and a longer-term perspective."
"Chinese Intelligent Manufacturing" vividly demonstrates that Chinese-style modernization does not pursue self-perfection in isolation; "it not only benefits the Chinese people but also promotes the modernization of countries around the world."
Follow the great path, and you will reach ten thousand miles.
Guided by theoretical innovation leading practical innovation and seizing strategic initiative, we will surely turn this "key variable" of artificial intelligence into a "strong increment" empowering high-quality development, working together to create a better future for all.
Theory · Study: Expert Discussion on Volume 1 of "Xi Jinping Selected Works on Economy"
Promoting High-Quality Development in Enhancing the Adaptability and Balance of Supply and Demand
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By: 本报记者 曹玲娟
In the first half of the year, retail sales of cultural, sports and leisure services increased by 10.4% year-on-year.
As dusk falls, Shanghai No. 1 Department Store becomes lively once again. "Today's cast is exactly what I wanted to see." "The main thing about this play is that the script is good." ... Audience members gather together, waiting for the performance to begin.
Unlike conventional retail and catering formats, the 7th floor of Building C at Shanghai No. 1 Department Store is a dedicated floor for small theaters. Because business is so good, even the office areas upstairs have been cleared out. In these small theaters, plays, musicals, and other performances are staged.
How did a small theater end up in an old department store?
"A department store needs foot traffic just as a plant needs water." Zhao Weigang (赵维刚), Vice General Manager of Shanghai Bailian Group Co., Ltd. and then General Manager of the Shanghai No. 1 Department Store Commercial Center, spoke about the original intention of introducing small theaters: "As the first state-owned department store established after the founding of New China, facing the impact of e-commerce and changes in consumer behavior, Shanghai No. 1 Department Store also had to change its traditional department store format to attract younger customers."
Shanghai No. 1 Department Store had previously attempted to renovate into an urban complex to reverse its declining performance. "At the time, we were still thinking too simply. Commercial development changes day by day. Although renovation and remodeling could bring some highlights, they could not reverse the overall downward trend," Zhao Weigang frankly admitted. The department store was constantly searching for a more attractive and stable format, and the cultural, sports and leisure service format, represented by small theaters, became the breakthrough direction.
In 2019, Shanghai issued operational standards for new performance spaces, clarifying that commercial complexes, office buildings, industrial parks, and tourist attractions could become new types of performance venues. The Asia Building office tower, not far from Shanghai No. 1 Department Store, was the first to introduce immersive small theaters — unlike traditional theaters, small theaters typically accommodate only about a hundred people per performance, with actors and audience closer together and more interaction, attracting a large number of young theater fans.
Shanghai No. 1 Department Store invited the small theater brand "Star Space" (星空间) to move in, creating an immersive collective performance space within the department store. The team had also been concerned: could the theater bring in foot traffic? And what would be the conversion rate of that foot traffic for the department store? "After actually doing it, we were pleasantly surprised. Every night there are many young theater fans, and the department store instantly becomes lively," Zhao Weigang said with a smile.
Ruan Hao (阮豪), operator of "Star Space," admitted that similar to running a store, for a small theater, costs are incurred even when there are no performances, and the operational pressure is considerable. Shanghai No. 1 Department Store's 21 medium and small theaters have an average of six plays running simultaneously every day. While retaining one-third of consistently popular shows, they maintain a certain rate of proactive replacement, continuously improving the quality of the repertoire. Today, this has become one of the art theater formats with the largest number of shows and the largest area in a commercial complex in China.
The popularity of the small theaters gave the old department store an opportunity for renewal, and it successively introduced service formats. The brands入驻 the department store were updated; Building C became a trendy fashion space gathering small theaters, the "two-dimensional" (二次元) subculture and other elements, with autograph sessions and flash mob activities attracting young customers. The public space downstairs became a gathering place for various formats such as sports events, art exhibitions, and specialty markets. The closing time for some floors was postponed to 11 p.m. or even 2 a.m., so that after the shows ended, audiences would pour into restaurants and small bars. A "viewing drama + dining + socializing" model took shape, and the turnover of nearby restaurants increased by more than 20%.
Zhao Weigang introduced that four years ago, the main consumer group of Shanghai No. 1 Department Store was aged 35 to 55. Today, the proportion of young customers has increased to 35%, retail performance has grown by 10%, and profits have achieved double-digit growth.
"The key to service consumption is 'happiness' — providing emotional value. All our expansion of formats and the integration of culture, commerce, tourism, sports, and exhibitions revolve around this," Zhao Weigang said. Shanghai No. 1 Department Store is also expanding its service target from young people to the elderly, creating a new space for the silver economy — Bailian Fanhua Li (百联繁花里), providing a one-stop life experience venue for the silver-haired population.
At 10 p.m., the night is already deep, but Shanghai No. 1 Department Store is still bustling with voices. Audience members who have just finished watching a play surge from the department store onto the pedestrian street, accompanied by heated discussions about the plot. Some head to the brightly lit restaurants nearby, while others rush to line up to buy signed peripheral merchandise.
"Because of a play, one falls in love with a city. This has become a notable characteristic of the cultural life consumption of citizens and tourists, especially young people," a responsible person from the relevant Shanghai municipal department introduced. The driving effect of the performing arts industry on the urban economy can roughly reach 1:7. In the first half of this year, Shanghai's service consumption experienced explosive growth; the deep integration of culture, commerce, tourism, sports, and exhibitions became a new highlight. Total cultural tourism consumption reached 543.326 billion yuan, with museums and art galleries holding over 1,000 exhibitions and attracting more than 18 million visitors. In the first five months, Shanghai hosted over 25,000 commercial performances, with box office revenue reaching 2.033 billion yuan. By linking performance tickets and event stubs with promotional activities of commercial district merchants, the pull effect of cultural tourism on dining, accommodation, and retail was further strengthened.
Coordinator for this issue: Guo Xueyan (郭雪岩).
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Currently, service consumption is becoming an important driver for expanding consumption, as household consumption shifts from being predominantly goods-based to placing equal emphasis on both goods and services. New consumption scenarios, new business formats, and new models are constantly emerging. Various localities are continuously enriching integrated formats such as culture, tourism, sports, and commerce, promoting the dense rollout of performances, events, and the like, thereby effectively stimulating market vitality. In the first half of this year, retail sales in the tourism consulting and rental services category, as well as the cultural, sports, and leisure services category, both achieved double-digit growth; the sales revenue growth rates for immersive experience-type categories such as theatrical performances and museums reached 28.3% and 24.6%, respectively.
Driven by the construction of new types of performance spaces, cultural service formats such as musicals, stage plays, stand-up comedy, and art exhibitions have entered urban shopping malls in large numbers. This is a beneficial attempt at the transformation of traditional commerce. As can be seen from the practice of Shanghai No.1 Department Store, high-quality service consumption not only draws crowds to the mall but also enriches the consumption formats and cultural connotations.
When introducing and developing service consumption formats, we will discover some common difficulties, such as homogenization of formats, lack of clear positioning, and difficulty forming cultural symbols with traffic. To promote the high-quality development of service consumption, it is necessary to adopt a more open and broad vision and a systematic development logic, organically integrate various service and goods consumption formats, cultivate high-quality cultural life consumption scenarios, and continuously meet the people's new expectations for a better life.
(The author is the Deputy Director and Researcher of the Institute of Literature at Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (上海社会科学院文学研究所); reported by our staff reporter Cao Lingjuan (曹玲娟).)
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Editor's Note: Recently, the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Work Committee of the Central and State Organs, the Ministry of Education, the Political Work Department of the Central Military Commission, and the Beijing Municipal Committee of the CPC jointly held a series of situation and policy report meetings on "Guaranteeing and Improving People's Livelihood in High-Quality Development." On July 16, Huang Runqiu, Minister of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (生态环境部), delivered a special report titled "Synergistically Promoting High-Quality Development and High-Level Protection: Accelerating the Construction of a Beautiful China Where Humanity and Nature Coexist in Harmony." This is now published in summary form in a Q&A format.
New Era Ecological Civilization Construction Has Achieved World-Renowned Great Achievements
Reporter: The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee systematically summarized the major achievements made in China's development during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, which includes that "the pace of green and low-carbon transformation has accelerated, and the quality of the ecological environment has continuously improved," becoming an important component of the great achievements of ecological civilization construction in the new era. Can you introduce the main aspects of these great achievements?
Huang Runqiu: Since the 18th CPC National Congress, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has treated ecological civilization construction as a fundamental undertaking related to the sustainable development of the Chinese nation. It has promoted a series of pioneering works, with a determination, intensity, and effectiveness that are unprecedented. Ecological civilization construction has undergone historic, turning-point, and holistic changes from theory to practice, and the construction of a Beautiful China has taken major steps.
First, a major transformation has been achieved from key rectification to systematic governance. The CPC Central Committee started with solving prominent ecological and environmental problems, concentrating strength to fight the battles to protect blue skies, clear waters, and clean soil, effectively curbing the trend of ecological and environmental deterioration, and ensuring the continuous improvement of ecological and environmental quality. In 2025, the national concentration of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) fell to 28.0 micrograms per cubic meter, the proportion of days with good or excellent air quality reached 89.3%, and the proportion of days with heavy pollution continued to decline; all three indicators reached their best levels since monitoring began. The proportion of surface water sections with Grade I–III water quality nationwide reached 91.4%; the water quality of the main stream of the Yangtze River remained stable at Grade II for six consecutive years, and the main stream of the Yellow River remained stable at Grade II for four consecutive years; the proportion of good or excellent water quality in coastal waters reached 84.9%. The safe use of polluted farmland and key construction land has been effectively guaranteed, and the rural domestic sewage treatment rate reached 55%. High-standard construction of "Waste-Free Cities" has been promoted, and the entry of "foreign garbage" has been comprehensively prohibited. Ecological protection red lines have been demarcated and strictly observed, with the area of terrestrial ecological protection red lines accounting for more than 30%; the national forest coverage rate exceeds 25%; and China has taken the lead in the world in achieving a "dual reduction" in the area of desertified land and sandy land.
Second, a major transformation has been achieved from passive response to proactive action. By adhering to changing concepts, solidifying responsibilities, and strengthening accountability, we have effectively curbed behaviors that exchange environmental sacrifice for temporary economic growth. Ecological civilization has been incorporated into the Party Constitution and the Constitution, ecological and environmental codes have been promulgated, the "Provisions on the Responsibility System for Ecological and Environmental Protection of Local Party and Government Leading Cadres (Trial)" have been printed and implemented, and dozens of reform measures involving ecological civilization have been introduced. The CPC Central Committee and the State Council printed the "Regulations on Ecological and Environmental Protection Inspection," conducting central ecological and environmental protection inspections with 较真碰硬 (jiào zhēn pèng yìng - "taking things seriously and meeting them head-on," being tough and uncompromising) rigor. Various regions and departments have actively promoted green and low-carbon development, vigorously promoting the green and low-carbon transformation of industrial structures, energy structures, and transportation structures. A cumulative total of 1.17 billion kilowatts of coal-fired power units and 1 billion tons of crude steel capacity have completed ultra-low emission transformations, building the world's largest clean power supply system and clean steel production system. We have constructed the world's largest and fastest-growing renewable energy system, where nearly 4 out of every 10 kilowatt-hours of electricity used by society is green electricity. Nearly 60 million high-emission old vehicles have been cumulatively phased out. In 2025, the production and sales volumes of new energy vehicles nationwide both reached 16.5 million units, and the annual sales volume of new energy heavy-duty trucks exceeded 190,000 units, both ranking first in the world.
Third, a major transformation has been achieved from being a participant in global environmental governance to being a leader. We have closely followed the times and kept a global vision, undertaking the responsibilities of a major power and demonstrating the commitment of a major power, becoming a firm actor and important contributor to global green development. General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative, promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind and injecting strong momentum into solving global environmental problems. We have actively led and promoted the process of global climate governance, promoted the conclusion, signing, entry into force, and implementation of the Paris Agreement, made solemn commitments to carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, and announced a new round of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) to 2035 to the outside world. We have built and stabilized the operation of the world's largest carbon emission trading market and launched the national greenhouse gas voluntary emission reduction trading market. As the host country, we successfully hosted the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP15), promoted the conclusion of the milestone "Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework," and launched the Kunming Biodiversity Fund, effectively boosting global confidence in biodiversity protection. We have actively promoted the construction of a green "Belt and Road" and continuously carried out South-South cooperation on应对 climate change.
Fourth, a major transformation has been achieved from practical exploration to scientific and theoretical guidance. Since the 18th CPC National Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping, standing at the height of the sustainable development of the Chinese nation, has vigorously promoted innovation in ecological civilization theory, practice, and institutions, proposing a series of new concepts, new ideas, and new strategies, and forming Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization. This has elevated our Party's understanding of the laws of ecological civilization construction to a new height, providing fundamental guidance for ecological civilization construction in the new era. Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization is systematic and complete, logically rigorous, rich in connotation, and profound. It systematically explains the relationships between humanity and nature, protection and development, environment and people's livelihood, and domestic and international aspects. Regarding its main aspects, it is centrally embodied in the "Ten Persistences": persisting in the Party's overall leadership of ecological civilization construction; persisting that ecological prosperity leads to civilizational prosperity; persisting in the harmonious coexistence of humanity and nature; persisting that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets; persisting that a good ecological environment is the most universal livelihood well-being; persisting that green development is a profound revolution in the concept of development; persisting in the coordinated systematic governance of mountains, rivers, forests, farmlands, lakes, grasses, marshes, and sands; persisting in using the strictest systems and the most rigorous rule of law to protect the ecological environment; persisting in transforming the construction of a Beautiful China into the conscious action of all people; and persisting in seeking the path of global ecological civilization construction together. Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization originates from practice and guides practice; it provides a systematic explanation and scientific planning for the strategic positioning, goals and tasks, overall approach, and major principles of ecological civilization construction under the new situation, possessing extremely significant political, theoretical, historical, practical, and global significance.
Accurately Grasping the Opportunities and Challenges Faced in Accelerating Green, Low-Carbon, and High-Quality Development and Building a Beautiful China
Reporter: The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee pointed out that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, China's development environment will face profound and complex changes. How do you view the new situation faced in accelerating green, low-carbon, and high-quality development and building a Beautiful China?
Huang Runqiu: Correctly judging the situation is an important prerequisite for scientific decision-making. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, China's development will be in a period where strategic opportunities coexist with risks and challenges, and uncertain and unpredictable factors increase; the construction of a Beautiful China also faces new problems and challenges. Overall, China's ecological civilization construction is still in a critical period of overlapping pressures and moving forward under heavy burdens; structural, root-cause, and trend-based pressures on ecological and environmental protection have not yet been fundamentally relieved. The pressure for the green transformation of development modes remains large, with an industrial structure that is too heavy, an energy structure that is coal-biased, and a transportation structure that is highway-biased; the overall level of green development is not yet high enough. The pressure of environmental pollution and ecological destruction remains large; problems such as heavy pollution weather and "black and odorous" water bodies in counties and townships still occur in some areas; the foundation for solid waste treatment is relatively weak, and ecosystem degradation issues still exist in some regions. The pressure for ecological and environmental risk prevention and control remains large, with new risks intertwining and overlapping with traditional risks; risks from new pollutants are beginning to emerge, and maintaining a high level of nuclear and radiation safety faces new challenges. The pressure to improve ecological and environmental governance capacity remains large; environmental illegal acts are still frequent, problems such as fraudulent behavior by third-party environmental service agencies and falsification of monitoring data are prominent, and the strength of grassroots ecological and environmental teams is still relatively weak.
However, China's economic foundation is stable, its advantages are many, its resilience is strong, and its potential is great. The supporting conditions and basic trends of long-term improvement have not changed, providing favorable external conditions for the construction of a Beautiful China; overall, opportunities outweigh challenges.
First, Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization has become more deeply rooted in people's hearts. Since the 18th CPC National Congress, wherever General Secretary Xi Jinping goes, he explains the requirements for ecological civilization construction and ecological and environmental protection, providing direction and steering the construction of a Beautiful China at critical moments and important nodes. This is our greatest confidence and most solid reliance for withstanding pressure and overcoming difficulties and challenges. The entire Party and the whole country persist in using Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization to arm their minds, guide practice, and promote work. Local Party committees and governments earnestly implement the principle of "the Party and the government sharing the same responsibility, and one post having dual responsibilities," consciously shoulder the political responsibility of Beautiful China construction, and build a modern environmental governance system with Party committee leadership, government guidance, enterprises as the main body, and the joint participation of social organizations and the public. The concept that "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" has become a consensus and action for the whole society.
Second, the momentum of green and low-carbon transformation is becoming stronger and more powerful. Green and low-carbon development has become an international trend and an inevitable direction. Currently, China's new quality productive forces are being steadily promoted, traditional industries are accelerating their green transformation and upgrading, strategic emerging industries are flourishing, and future industries are being laid out in an orderly manner, forming a modern industrial system with a complete framework, full supporting facilities, and efficient synergy, laying a solid material foundation for green and low-carbon transformation. The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a critical period and a period of tackling tough problems for achieving carbon peaking; it will reverse the rigid growth trend of resource consumption and pollutant emissions from fossil fuels and other resources, and the industrial, energy, and transportation structures will continue to be optimized and adjusted, bringing new opportunities for promoting pollution reduction, improving ecological and environmental quality, and promoting green, low-carbon, and high-quality development.
Third, the policy toolbox is becoming richer and more complete. The "1+1+N" implementation system for Beautiful China construction has been basically established, the assessment of Beautiful China construction effectiveness is about to be implemented, the construction of Beautiful China pilot zones has been fully launched, and some new mechanisms and models are being explored, achieving a series of major landmark results. Ecological and environmental standards, monitoring, evaluation, and supervision and enforcement systems are being continuously improved and perfected; ecological and environmental zoning control, environmental impact assessment approval, and pollutant discharge permits are interlinked, forming an ecological and environmental protection system of source prevention, process control, damage compensation, and responsibility accountability. The mechanism for realizing the value of ecological products is continuously deepening, and the market-based allocation of resource and environmental elements is becoming more effective.
Fourth, support and guarantees are becoming more powerful and effective. The leading role of scientific and technological innovation is being further played, breaking through and solving a batch of major theoretical problems and core technical bottlenecks in pollution prevention and control and ecological restoration. A national major science and technology special project for comprehensive environmental governance in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region has been established, and a national comprehensive service platform for the transformation of ecological and environmental scientific and technological achievements has been built and is in operation. The "Regulations on Ecological and Environmental Monitoring" have been printed and implemented, deeply promoting the "two major transformations" of intelligent monitoring and off-site enforcement; key technologies such as artificial intelligence have made new breakthroughs, effectively improving the efficiency of ecological and environmental governance. Financial support has been further increased, and green finance continues to exert force, which will effectively mobilize investment from the social sector to support the construction of a Beautiful China.
Building a Beautiful China Where Humanity and Nature Coexist in Harmony
Reporter: During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, what are the main key tasks for comprehensively promoting the construction of a Beautiful China?
Huang Runqiu: The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee clearly proposed seven major objectives for the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, of which "new major progress in the construction of a Beautiful China" is one; it also deployed 12 strategic tasks for the "15th Five-Year Plan" period that have major pulling, driving, and supporting roles for promoting Chinese-style modernization, of which "accelerating the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development and building a Beautiful China" is an important aspect. The "15th Five-Year Plan for the Construction of a Beautiful China" recently issued by the State Council fully implements the deployments of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, fully connects with the goals and tasks of the national "15th Five-Year Plan" outline, and further clarifies the main goals, key tasks, important measures, and major projects for the construction of a Beautiful China by 2030. We must comprehensively implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, deeply implement the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress and successive plenary sessions of the 20th Central Committee, earnestly implement the deployments of the Fourth Plenary Session, firmly grasp the goal requirements of Beautiful China construction, firmly establish and practice the concept that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets, persist in environmental protection for the people, persist in precise, scientific, and law-based pollution control, take the comprehensive improvement of ecological and environmental quality as the main line, properly handle the relationship between high-quality development and high-level protection, the relationship between key tackling and coordinated governance, the relationship between natural restoration and artificial restoration, the relationship between external constraints and endogenous drivers, and the relationship between "dual carbon" commitments and autonomous action; coordinate industrial structure adjustment, pollution control, ecological protection, and climate change response, and synergistically promote carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion, and growth, planning and promoting ecological and environmental protection work with a higher standing, a broader vision, and greater intensity.
First, continuously and deeply promote the battle against pollution. Adhere to higher standards and deeply fight the battles to protect blue skies, clear waters, and clean soil. Promote continuous improvement in air quality, deeply promote ultra-low emission transformations in key industries, deepen the graded management of atmospheric environmental performance, and continuously promote regional joint prevention and control. Coordinate the governance of water resources, water environment, and water ecology, continuously promote the construction of beautiful rivers, lakes, and bays, strengthen the protection and governance of water bodies near the people, and basically eliminate "black and odorous" water bodies in counties and townships. Deepen marine ecological and environmental protection, promote the source prevention and control of total nitrogen in coastal provinces and major surrounding rivers, and innovate protection and governance mechanisms from mountain tops to the ocean. Strengthen the ecological and environmental protection of soil, groundwater, and rural areas, deeply implement soil pollution source prevention and control actions, strengthen environmental management in key areas for groundwater pollution prevention and control, and continuously promote rural environmental remediation. Comprehensively implement actions for solid waste and new pollutant governance, solidly promote special rectifications for the illegal dumping and disposal of solid waste and cave garbage pollution, strengthen heavy metal pollution prevention and control, and establish a synergistic governance and risk control system for new pollutants. Strengthen ecological and environmental emergency management and promote the construction of national security capabilities in biological, ecological, and nuclear fields.
Coordinate the optimization of ecosystems, implement major projects for the protection and restoration of important ecosystems, and continuously consolidate the national ecological security barrier with the "three zones and four belts" as the framework. Establish and improve a natural reserve system with national parks as the mainstay. Scientifically carry out large-scale national greening, coordinate grassland ecological restoration with reasonable utilization, and fight the tough battle of the "Three-North" Shelterbelt Forest Program. Fully leverage the coordinating role of the biodiversity protection work coordination mechanism and implement major biodiversity protection projects. Strengthen the unified supervision of ecological protection and restoration and carry out assessments of ecological protection and restoration effectiveness.
Second, accelerate the construction of a new energy system. Focus on constructing a new power system, adhering to the simultaneous use of multiple energies such as wind, solar, hydro, and nuclear, and promoting the high-quality development of clean energy. Deeply carry out energy-saving and carbon-reduction transformations and coal control and reduction, comprehensively increase the proportion of renewable energy electricity consumption, and accelerate the progress of ensuring that incremental electricity consumption is covered by incremental clean energy electricity. Strengthen the clean and efficient use of fossil fuels, promote the transformation and upgrading of coal-fired power and the replacement of scattered coal. Vigorously develop new energy storage, and accelerate the construction of smart grids and microgrids. Improve energy utilization efficiency and the level of end-use electrification, promoting the greening and low-carbonization of energy consumption.
Third, actively and steadily promote and achieve carbon peaking. Solidly promote carbon peaking actions and comprehensively implement the dual control system of total carbon emissions and carbon intensity. Implement the national strategy for actively responding to climate change, promote the implementation of a package of major projects for responding to climate change, comprehensively promote climate change healthy adaptation actions, and build a climate-resilient society. Orderly expand the industry coverage of the national carbon emission trading market and actively develop the national greenhouse gas voluntary emission reduction trading market. Improve the carbon emission statistical accounting system and dynamic monitoring and early warning mechanisms, improve the product carbon footprint management system, and enhance the basic capacity to respond to climate change. Deepen cooperation in global environmental and climate governance and deeply promote the green "Belt and Road" construction.
Fourth, accelerate the formation of green production and living styles. Integratedly promote the construction of Beautiful China pilot zones and create highlands for green development. Promote the full-chain institutional reform of ecological and environmental zoning control, ecological and environmental impact assessment, and pollutant discharge permits, playing the supporting role of ecological and environmental optimization. Improve the green and low-carbon level in key industrial sectors, continuously promote ultra-low emission transformations in key industries such as steel, cement, and coking, and deepen pilot programs for synergistic innovation in pollution reduction and carbon reduction in cities and industrial parks. Increase the proportion of railway and waterway transportation for bulk goods and the proportion of new energy vehicle transportation. Comprehensively implement the ecological and environmental code, establish and improve a green and low-carbon standard system, and implement fiscal, tax, financial, investment, pricing, scientific, and environmental protection policies to promote green and low-carbon development. Promote green and low-carbon lifestyles, improve green consumption incentive mechanisms, and continuously carry out the "Beautiful China, I am an Actor" series of activities, transforming the construction of a Beautiful China into the conscious action of all people.
Return to TopRecently, in Qingxi Town (清溪镇), Qianwei County (犍为县), Sichuan, workers mixed jasmine flowers and green tea for scenting. Since the start of the dog days, Qianwei County has entered the tail end of gardenia picking and the peak season for jasmine picking. Local flower and tea processing enterprise production lines are running at full capacity. It is understood that jasmine flowers, gardenia flowers, and tea in Qianwei County have formed an industrial cluster, with comprehensive output value exceeding 20 billion yuan in 2025. Photo by Kong Sheng (孔胜) (Xinhua News Agency release).
Return to TopBeijing, July 26 (Reporter Wu Qiuyu (吴秋余)) — Data released by the People's Bank of China show that since the beginning of this year, China's financial markets have been operating smoothly. In the first six months, the cumulative issuance of panda bonds reached 160.03 billion yuan, and 21 new overseas institutions entered the interbank bond market.
Panda bonds are bonds issued by overseas institutions within China, denominated in renminbi, with principal and interest repaid in renminbi. They are not only an important measure for promoting the opening of China's bond market but also a key tool for broadening the cross-border renminbi financing channel and advancing the internationalization of the renminbi. As China's high-level financial opening deepens, the panda bond market has become increasingly active in innovation, institutional arrangements have become more internationalized, and the use of funds has become more convenient.
Data show that in June of this year, the net financing of China's government bonds was 768.33 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 582.52 billion yuan; the net financing of corporate bonds was 401.16 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 158.97 billion yuan. As of the end of June, the custody balance of the bond market was 205.0 trillion yuan. In June, the amount of commercial bill acceptance was 4.0 trillion yuan, and the amount of discount was 3.2 trillion yuan. As of the end of June, the balance of commercial bill acceptance was 21.9 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 13.2%; the balance of discount was 17.3 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 16.8%.
Return to TopBeijing, July 26 (People's Daily) — (Reporter Li Xinping (李心萍)) Recently, the longest tunnel on the Sichuan section of the Xining-Chengdu Railway — the Baozuo Tunnel (包座隧道) — has been fully holed through.
The Xining-Chengdu Railway is a component of the Lanzhou (Xining)-Guangzhou Corridor (兰（西）广通道) of China's "Eight Vertical and Eight Horizontal (八纵八横)" high-speed rail network. It originates from Xining Station in Xining City, Qinghai Province, passes through Haidong City and Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Gansu Province, and Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture (阿坝藏族羌族自治州) in Sichuan Province, and connects to Chengdu East Station in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province.
The Baozuo Tunnel is located in Songpan County (松潘县), Aba Prefecture. It is a single-bore double-track railway tunnel, designed for a speed of 200 kilometers per hour, with a total length of 11,795 meters, an average elevation of 3,500 meters, and a maximum elevation of nearly 3,700 meters. It is situated in a strongly compressive tectonic zone on the eastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and 98.5% of the tunnel section consists of Grade IV and above fractured surrounding rock.
Before project construction, the native turf was stripped in sections, centrally stored, and maintained; after the project was completed, it was backfilled and replanted on site for greening. Production and domestic wastewater was treated through a fully closed-loop circulation system. The spoil disposal sites strictly followed the standards of "retaining wall first, then filling, layered protection," with a cumulative completed ecological restoration area exceeding 120,000 square meters. Along the railway line, special passages were reserved for wildlife migration and herder livestock passage.
Currently, 11 of the 14 tunnels on the Sichuan section of the Xining-Chengdu Railway have been successfully holed through, 92.4% of the 62 bridge works have been completed overall, 85.6% of the subgrade works have been completed, and the overall project construction progress exceeds 55%.
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Inside Parirenyatwa Hospital (帕里雷尼亚图瓦医院) in the center of Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, the signboard of the China-Zimbabwe Traditional Chinese Medicine Center (中国—津巴布韦中医药中心) (hereinafter referred to as the “TCM Center”) is particularly eye-catching. This is the largest TCM center in sub-Saharan Africa, integrating functions such as TCM diagnosis and treatment, training and teaching, and TCM cultural dissemination. Since its establishment in 2020, it has received tens of thousands of patient visits, safeguarding the medical health of local people, and building a bridge for China-Africa medical exchange and people-to-people connectivity.
Safeguarding the Health of Local People
Early in the morning, there are already many patients waiting for consultation at the TCM Center. “Our newly established chronic disease management clinic is very popular with local people,” said Gao Juhua (高菊华), deputy chief physician of neurology at the TCM Center. “Appointments for the next two weeks are fully booked. We are considering increasing doctor consultations to meet patient demand.”
Kamusoko, 59, has suffered from chronic arthritis for eight years. He said that the painkillers prescribed by local hospitals could only temporarily relieve the pain. Doctors at the TCM Center regularly give him acupuncture and moxibustion, and his joint symptoms have significantly alleviated.
Due to dietary structure, lifestyle habits and other reasons, the incidence of chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension among local people is relatively high. “Zimbabwe’s chronic disease management system is not yet well-established, and there is also relatively little popular science education about chronic diseases. Many patients do not know that they suffer from chronic diseases, and they often only come for medical treatment when obvious symptoms appear,” said Gao Juhua. “We integrate the TCM concept of treating disease before it occurs (治未病 - zhì wèi bìng, “treating disease before it occurs”) into daily diagnosis and treatment. Through dietary guidance, acupressure, and health science popularization, we help patients stably control their condition and prevent complications, with good results.”
The TCM Center has also opened specialized clinics such as stroke rehabilitation, TCM orthopedics and traumatology, and cerebral palsy specialist clinic. The cerebral palsy specialist clinic officially opened in 2024 and is currently one of the few clinics in Africa providing systematic TCM diagnosis and treatment for cerebral palsy. The TCM Center has formed a specialized diagnosis and treatment team, with members covering physicians from multiple disciplines including TCM, neurology, pediatrics, and acupuncture. Hu Sha (胡莎), head of the cerebral palsy specialist clinic, said: “As of now, the clinic has received over a hundred children with cerebral palsy. After treatment, many children have shown significant improvement in motor and language abilities.”
Data shows that when the TCM Center opened in 2020, the annual outpatient (and emergency) visits were about 900 person-times. As of now, the TCM Center has cumulatively provided diagnosis and treatment services to over 25,000 person-times. “Behind these numbers is not only the trust of patients in us, but also the best proof that TCM has truly entered local communities and benefited people’s livelihoods,” said Xiao Zhiqiang (肖志强), director of the TCM Center.
Enhancing China-Zimbabwe Medical Exchange
Parirenyatwa Hospital is the largest public hospital in Harare. Xiao Zhiqiang introduced that in the treatment of stroke, the TCM Center has established a consultation and referral mechanism with the hospital, forming an integrated Chinese-Western medicine collaboration model of “Western medicine diagnosis, TCM treatment, and rehabilitation care.” The TCM Center has also established a cooperation mechanism with the traditional medicine community in Zimbabwe. “We are actively learning from and drawing on the characteristics of Zimbabwean traditional medicine, incorporating local herbal medicines into diagnosis and treatment to align with local people’s medication habits. Through communication with patients, we have found that local traditional herbs and Chinese herbal medicines share similarities in treatment concepts. In the future, we will systematically learn about indigenous herbal knowledge and carry out joint diagnosis and treatment practices with local traditional practitioner associations.”
With the promotion of TCM treatment in Zimbabwe, more and more local people are beginning to understand and accept TCM culture. The TCM Center actively collaborates with the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare of Zimbabwe to jointly establish a “theory + practice + clinical” training system. The content covers TCM basic theory, acupuncture, tuina massage and other practical techniques. Through a combination of classroom teaching and clinical mentorship, it systematically trains local TCM talent.
“We select outstanding trainees to undergo practical training at the TCM Center,” said Zhang Xiong (张雄), deputy chief physician of orthopedics and traumatology at the TCM Center. Currently, dozens of trainees have passed assessments and are able to independently perform basic acupuncture treatment. “The one who left the deepest impression on me was a trainee named Richard Mutinhwende. After passing the assessment, he opened a clinic with TCM characteristics in Harare.”
The TCM Center also assists the Chinese Embassy in Zimbabwe in selecting outstanding trainees for short-term study in China. In June 2025, trainee Anita Rulamise went to China and participated in the Belt and Road (一带一路 - yī dài yī lù, “Belt and Road”) countries training course on the application of Chinese herbal medicine in the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases. “Although the two-week study experience was short, it gave me a more systematic understanding of TCM theory and let me feel the unique charm of TCM culture,” Anita told reporters.
Promoting TCM Culture to “Win Fans”
In August 2025, the 115th Zimbabwe Agricultural Show was held in Harare. This is one of the country’s oldest and largest comprehensive exhibitions. The TCM Center was invited to set up an independent booth, introducing to the public the historical lineage and cultural concepts of TCM through various forms such as graphic panels, displays of medicinal materials and instruments, and interactive experiences. In the TCM characteristic experience area, activities such as tuina massage, acupuncture, cupping, and TCM herbal tea attracted many participants. “During the exhibition, many exhibitors expressed their intention to cooperate with us. Local media reported on our participation, further promoting the dissemination of TCM culture,” said Xiao Zhiqiang.
The TCM Center regularly holds “TCM Culture Open Day” events. In addition to TCM technique experiences and health lectures, the content also specially adds teaching sessions of traditional health exercises such as Baduanjin (八段锦 - bā duàn jǐn, “Eight Section Brocade”) and Tai Chi (太极拳 - tài jí quán, “Tai Chi Chuan”). “Baduanjin movements are gentle, easy to learn, and quite popular among everyone,” said Xiong Xi (熊熙), deputy chief physician of TCM internal medicine at the TCM Center.
The TCM Center has also established Africa’s first TCM first-aid cabin, systematically showcasing TCM’s characteristic therapies in the field of first aid, including acupuncture first aid, herbal medicine first aid, and orthopedic first aid. Ndoro, director of the Traditional Medicine Department of the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare of Zimbabwe, said that the TCM first-aid cabin can not only help Zimbabwean people effectively respond to emergencies, but also systematically popularize first-aid concepts and train first-aid skills.
In the past two years, the TCM Center’s free clinic team has traveled to all 10 provinces of Zimbabwe, conducting a total of 31 large-scale free clinics. “For us, free clinics are not only about providing medical services and medicines, but also a ‘mobile TCM classroom,’” said Xiao Zhiqiang. “Many people, through the free clinics, get to know TCM for the first time, understand its concepts and characteristics, and then take the initiative to come to the TCM Center for further diagnosis and treatment, and to learn TCM culture.”
“Many people who participated in the free clinics expressed the hope that more TCM service points would be established locally,” said Xiao Zhiqiang. The TCM Center is actively planning to set up branch centers in the future to further expand service coverage and influence, “so that the benefits of TCM can more broadly reach the people of Africa.”
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At the invitation of President Xi Jinping, Slovak President Pellegrini will pay a state visit to China from July 27 to 29. This is President Pellegrini's first visit to China since taking office. During the visit, President Xi Jinping will hold talks with President Pellegrini, jointly chart the blueprint for the future development of China-Slovakia relations, and exchange views on bilateral relations and international and regional issues of common concern. This visit will become a new important milestone in bilateral relations.
China-Slovakia relations keep pace with the times, and political mutual trust has grown stronger over time. Slovakia was one of the first countries to establish diplomatic relations with New China. Over more than 70 years since the establishment of diplomatic ties, friendly cooperation has always been the mainstream of bilateral relations. In 2024, under the strategic guidance of the two countries' leaders, China-Slovakia relations were elevated to a strategic partnership, and the development of bilateral relations entered a new historical stage. China and Slovakia uphold the principles of mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit, and win-win cooperation, and support each other on issues involving each other's core interests and major concerns. The Slovak side adheres to the One-China policy, recognizes that there is only one China in the world, the government of the People's Republic of China is the sole legal government representing the whole of China, and opposes any attempts to interfere in China's internal affairs, sovereignty, and territorial (including Taiwan) integrity. The Chinese side respects Slovakia's independent choice of a development path suitable for its national conditions, and expects Slovakia to play a positive role in the healthy and stable development of China-Europe relations.
China-Slovakia economic and trade exchanges have deepened and solidified, and mutually beneficial cooperation has improved quality and increased efficiency. Slovakia was one of the first European countries to support and actively participate in the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative. China is Slovakia's largest trading partner outside the European Union, with bilateral trade reaching US$8.63 billion in 2025. High-quality specialty products from Slovakia such as wine and crystal have a good reputation in China, while Chinese smart cars, electronic products, and daily commodities are widely popular among Slovak people. Relying on the China-Czechoslovak Friendship Farm (中国捷克斯洛伐克友谊农场), the China-Central and Eastern Europe (Cangzhou) Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Cooperation Zone (中国—中东欧（沧州）中小企业合作区) focuses on cooperation with Central and Eastern European specialty industries. China and Slovakia have broad prospects for cooperation in fields such as new energy, digital economy, and artificial intelligence. China's investment in Slovakia continues to expand, and investment projects such as Volvo and the Gotion-Inobat battery plant are steadily advancing, becoming new calling cards of China-Slovakia cooperation.
The traditional friendship between China and Slovakia is 薪火相传 (xīn huǒ xiāng chuán - "pass the torch from one to another," meaning traditions are passed down), and people-to-people exchanges are increasingly active. Many Chinese classical works such as the Tao Te Ching and Dream of the Red Chamber have been translated and introduced to Slovakia. Many design works by the famous architect Hudec have become 家喻户晓 (jiā yù hù xiǎo - "known to every family and household," widely known) landmarks in Shanghai, creating a much-told tale of China-Slovakia people-to-people friendship. The year 2026 marks the 10th anniversary of bilingual education in Slovakia. The two countries have signed a bilingual teaching agreement to further integrate Chinese language education into Slovakia's national education system. After China implemented a 30-day visa-free entry policy for Slovakia, the number of mutual visits between business people and tourists from both countries has increased significantly. More and more Slovak people are showing strong interest in Chinese culture; traveling to China, learning Chinese, practicing martial arts, and experiencing traditional Chinese medicine are gradually becoming new trends.
Amid the century's great transformations, China and Slovakia are moving toward each other and strengthening international coordination. Facing an intertwined and turbulent international situation, both China and Slovakia adhere to multilateralism and open cooperation, and are committed to world peace and development. The two countries firmly uphold the international system with the United Nations at its core, resolutely oppose hegemonism and unilateral bullying, jointly support open, inclusive, balanced, and win-win economic globalization that benefits all, are committed to defending international fairness and justice, and have broad consensus on international and regional hot-spot issues. China is willing to work with Slovakia to uphold the vision of a community with a shared future for mankind, practice true multilateralism, promote reform and improvement of the global governance system, and jointly make greater contributions to promoting world peace and development.
Like-minded people do not fear distance; ascending high, one does not fear difficulty. This year is the first year of China's "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan," and China is steadily advancing high-quality development and continuously expanding high-standard opening up. Slovakia is formulating the "Slovakia Vision 2040" for its future economic and social development. The two countries have many points of convergence in development goals and governance philosophies, with broad space for cooperation. We look forward to both sides continuing 精诚合作 (jīng chéng hé zuò - "sincere and earnest cooperation," to cooperate wholeheartedly) and working hand in hand, writing a new chapter in the strategic partnership, deepening high-quality Belt and Road cooperation and China-Central and Eastern European Countries cooperation, helping China-Europe relations achieve 行稳致远 (xíng wěn zhì yuǎn - "steady progress leads to distant reaches," to achieve long-term success by moving steadily), and promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.
(The author is the Chinese Ambassador to Slovakia)
Return to TopAt the invitation of President Xi Jinping, Slovak President Pellegrini will pay a state visit to China from July 27 to 29.
Peter Pellegrini was born in October 1975 in the city of Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, and holds a Master's degree in economics. He was elected president in April 2024.
(Xinhua, Beijing, July 26)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 黄炜鑫
“From having only over 50 party members at its founding in 1921 to developing today into the world’s largest ruling party, the Chinese Communist Party has created remarkable achievements that have drawn worldwide attention,” said Mwencha, former Vice Chairperson of the African Union Commission and member of the Advisory Committee of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation. “Over the past 105 years, the Chinese Communist Party has written a glorious chapter in the history of human development.”
The Chinese Embassy in Kenya recently held a symposium titled “Celebrating the 105th Anniversary of the Founding of the Chinese Communist Party: The Responsibility of Political Parties on the Path to Modernization.” Kenyan political party figures, think tank scholars, and others attending the meeting hotly discussed the historic achievements of the Chinese Communist Party and its contributions to world peace and development, expressing hope to strengthen experience exchange between Kenya and China on party governance and state administration, and jointly embark on a new journey toward modernization. Chinese Ambassador to Kenya Guo Haiyan (郭海燕) stated that to understand today’s China, one must understand the Chinese Communist Party. Holding this symposium was precisely to enable everyone to gain a deeper understanding of the Chinese Communist Party’s governing philosophy, state governance strategy, and struggle history, and to deepen their understanding of Chinese-style modernization.
“Winning the battle against poverty and historically resolving the issue of absolute poverty is undoubtedly a remarkable achievement that has drawn worldwide attention,” said Ongwen, Executive Director of Kenya’s Orange Democratic Movement. The Chinese Communist Party has led the Chinese people to achieve tremendous successes in modernization. “China’s experience and support can help us find the right development direction.”
“We bring back to Kenya the valuable experiences we have learned in China and adapt and apply them in light of our own national conditions,” said Mbarire, National Chairperson of Kenya’s ruling party, the United Democratic Alliance. In recent years, the United Democratic Alliance has made multiple visits to China for study and exchange, learning from the Chinese Communist Party’s experience in party building, which has greatly enhanced the party’s capacity building. Inspired by the Chinese Communist Party’s experience in party governance, the United Democratic Alliance is preparing to establish a leadership training center to systematically cultivate its cadres and leadership talent.
“The 105-year journey of the Chinese Communist Party provides profound inspiration for the vast number of developing countries around the world,” said Cavins Adhil, a Kenyan international relations scholar. A discipline-strict, people-centered party can create miracles in advancing modernization. “Africa is facing development challenges such as poverty and infrastructure shortcomings, and China’s development experience can help Africa realize its development vision,” he said. China’s practice has fully proven that when a country sets a clear development blueprint and practices a people-centered development philosophy, it can achieve leapfrog development.
“China’s brilliant achievements in economic development, infrastructure construction, poverty alleviation, and technological innovation fully demonstrate the strong leadership of the Chinese Communist Party and the significant value of its relevant experience,” said Bongale, Secretary-General of Kenya’s United Democratic Movement. He expressed hope to continue strengthening friendship and cooperation with the Chinese Communist Party, improve the institutional construction of Kenya’s United Democratic Movement, enhance the level of national governance, and jointly achieve development and prosperity with China.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 时元皓
More than one month after the earthquake in Venezuela, the Chinese government, Chinese-invested enterprises in Venezuela, and local overseas Chinese and Chinese nationals have continuously provided support to Venezuela in areas such as emergency search and rescue, material aid, and post-disaster reconstruction and recovery work.
After the strong earthquake struck Venezuela, the Chinese government quickly provided Venezuela with emergency humanitarian relief supplies including 20 generators, 8 water purification vehicles, 200 disinfection devices, 200 sets of solar lighting equipment, more than 1,700 tents, and more than 6,700 blankets, offering support for the basic living needs of the affected people. In Catia La Mar (卡蒂亚拉马尔), La Guaira State, on the northern coast of Venezuela, rows of new blue tents are neatly arranged. The tents bear the words “China” and “Emergency Relief.” These tents come from the relief supplies provided by the Chinese government to Venezuela.
China also swiftly initiated satellite remote sensing emergency support work, comprehensively utilizing public welfare satellite and commercial satellite resources to perform rapid imaging and data processing of the disaster area, providing satellite image support for search and rescue operations, disaster assessment, and shelter site planning.
Chinese-invested enterprises in Venezuela have cumulatively donated hundreds of tons of supplies including food, daily necessities, and hygiene products. Engineering companies voluntarily provided engineering machinery and equipment such as cranes and excavators, and dispatched operators, who, in accordance with the local government’s unified disaster relief deployment, went to the affected areas to participate in rescue and cleanup operations.
Local overseas Chinese and Chinese nationals have also taken active action. Xu Guocheng (徐国程), Secretary-General of the Venezuelan Federation of Overseas Chinese and Chinese Nationals (委内瑞拉全国华侨华人联合总会), told a reporter that the Federation has organized the donation of more than 2,400 tons of relief supplies to the disaster area, including drinking water, food, and hygiene products. Currently, the Federation is cooperating with Chinese volunteer organizations to set up medical stations locally, “joining hands with everyone to rebuild our homes.” In a video posted by social media blogger Luis Herrera, volunteers worked together to transport relief supplies donated by the overseas Chinese community, which were delivered by helicopter to the hardest-hit areas. “Venezuelans sincerely thank the Chinese community for extending a helping hand,” Herrera said.
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Gil stated that China has maintained close communication with the Venezuelan government ever since the earthquake, and that the assistance provided is of great significance to the current emergency rescue and post-disaster recovery and reconstruction, “demonstrating the enduring and ever-strengthening friendship between Venezuela and China.”
Return to TopBridgetown, July 25 (Our Dispatch) — (Reporters Chen Yiming (陈一鸣), Cheng Shijie (程是颉)) On July 24, local time, a China image promotion event with the theme "A friend who 雪中送炭 (xuě zhōng sòng tàn - "send charcoal in snowy weather," to provide timely help), a partner who walks hand in hand" was held in Bridgetown, the capital of Barbados.
The promotion event was jointly hosted by the Chinese Embassy in Barbados and the People's Daily Latin America Center Branch (人民日报社拉美中心分社). Representatives from local media including the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation, The Nation, Barbados Today website, Government Information Service website, as well as friendly groups such as the Barbados-China Friendship Association, attended the event.
In his speech, Chinese Ambassador to Barbados Zheng Bingkai (郑冰开) stated that media cooperation is an important bond of China-Barbados friendship, and this promotion event helps the media of the two countries jointly spread the story of friendship. China has always carried out practical cooperation based on Barbados's development needs and the well-being of its people. From agricultural technology cooperation, infrastructure construction to medical and health services, each cooperation project vividly illustrates that China-Barbados friendship is not an abstract slogan, but is implemented in concrete actions that benefit people's livelihoods and promote development, fully demonstrating the sincere friendship of the Chinese people towards the people of Barbados.
At the event site, the heads of the China-assisted Barbados upland rice planting project, the China-built Barbados sewage treatment plant project, the China-assisted Barbados National Stadium reconstruction project, and the China medical team to Barbados respectively introduced the positive results achieved in practical cooperation between the two sides in the fields of agriculture, infrastructure, medical and health, and other areas.
Barbadian guests highly praised the achievements of cooperation between Barbados and China in various fields, stating that this promotion event enhanced local media's understanding of China and China-Barbados cooperation, and expressed the hope that the two sides will further strengthen media exchange and cooperation, jointly telling the story of Barbados-China friendship.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 车 斌
On July 25, local time, the “Carrying Forward the Rewi Alley Spirit · Promoting China-New Zealand Friendship” symposium and the opening ceremony of the “China in 1979 and Rewi Alley” photo exhibition were held in Auckland, New Zealand. The event was co-hosted by the Embassy and Consulates of China in New Zealand and the New Zealand China Friendship Society . Representatives of Rewi Alley’s relatives and friendly personages from various circles in China and New Zealand attended the event.
In 1927, the 30-year-old Rewi Alley traveled from New Zealand to China. In the subsequent 60 years, he initiated the Industrial Cooperative Movement, founded the Shandan Bailie School (山丹培黎学校), and poured his entire life’s heart and blood into the great cause of China’s national liberation and national construction, earning the respect and love of the Chinese people and building a bridge of friendship between the peoples of China and New Zealand.
The works in the photo exhibition are from New Zealand documentary director and photographer Geoffrey Steven. In 1979, Geoffrey Steven accompanied Rewi Alley for two months, traveling across China and freezing precious historical moments in time. “The most intuitive feeling of traveling with Rewi Alley was: he deeply loved China, and the Chinese people genuinely loved and respected him from the bottom of their hearts,” Geoffrey Steven said in an interview with a reporter. “I look forward to returning to China and recording the brand-new appearance of China in the new era.”
Chinese Ambassador to New Zealand Wang Xiaolong (王小龙) stated at the symposium that next year will mark the centenary of Rewi Alley’s arrival in China. The Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (中国人民对外友好协会) and the New Zealand China Friendship Society, with the support of the Embassy and Consulates of China in New Zealand, will jointly launch a series of commemorative activities. David Carter, Honorary Chairman of the New Zealand China Friendship Society and former Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives, said, “We should take the centenary of Rewi Alley’s arrival in China as an opportunity to continuously deepen the friendly relations between New Zealand and China. Since 2009, I have visited China many times. If he could see China today, he would surely feel gratified.”
Jin Dong (靳东), head of the China Coal Mine Art Troupe (中国煤矿文工团), as the lead actor and core creative member, deeply participated in the historical TV drama Northwest Years (《西北岁月》) . The drama vividly presents the 峥嵘岁月 (zhēng róng suì yuè - “extraordinary years,” referring to eventful and remarkable times) of the Northwest Revolutionary Base Area, including the precious memories of Rewi Alley fighting 并肩作战 (bìng jiān zuò zhàn - “shoulder to shoulder in battle,” fighting side by side) with the Chinese people. Jin Dong said, “We will strive to continue the friendship between the two countries, using the power of literature and art to deepen the bonds between our peoples, so that the traditional friendship between China and New Zealand 生生不息 (shēng shēng bù xī - “to grow and multiply without cease,” to thrive endlessly) and 历久弥新 (lì jiǔ mí xīn - “to become newer over time,” to be ever-renewing and enduring).”
Yang Jian (杨健), Chairman of the New Zealand Chinese Business Club , has organized multiple delegations to China, tracing the footsteps of Rewi Alley. “Through multiple visits, we have come to recognize Rewi Alley’s internationalist sentiment of dedicating himself to the well-being of all humanity, his courage to firmly stand on the side of fairness and justice, and his faith in the pursuit of peace. At a time full of uncertainty and tense geopolitical situations, the ‘Rewi Alley Spirit’ holds even greater contemporary significance,” Yang Jian said.
(This newspaper, Auckland, New Zealand, July 26)
Return to TopAccording to Xinhua News Agency, Maputo, July 25 (Reporter Liu Jie) — The China and Portuguese-Speaking Countries Business Cooperation Meeting was held on the 24th in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. More than 350 political and business representatives from Mainland China, Macao, Mozambique, and other Portuguese-speaking countries attended the meeting to promote economic and trade cooperation between China and Portuguese-speaking countries. This meeting was jointly initiated by the Mozambique Investment and Export Promotion Agency (莫桑比克投资和出口促进局), the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (中国国际贸易促进委员会), and the Macao Special Administrative Region Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (澳门特别行政区招商投资促进局).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 窦 皓
“If you have some free time, you might choose to sit quietly, read a book, sip a cup of tea, and enjoy this bountiful world.” On July 24, the 34th National Book Trade Expo opened in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Shi Yigong, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and president of Westlake University, shared his reading insights with readers.
The fragrance of books permeates the air as the Qiantang tide surges. As one of the highest-level and most influential national book industry events in China, this year’s expo carries the theme “书香中国 阅读之美” (shū xiāng Zhōngguó yuèdú zhī měi - “Bookish China, the Beauty of Reading”), bringing together over 1,000 exhibitors from across the country, hosting more than a thousand reading activities, and offering nearly one million book titles for sale both online and offline. A grand reading event shared by the whole nation spreads the fragrance of books into city streets and alleys.
A scene at every step — savoring the fragrance of books
Walking into the main venue of the Book Expo at Hangzhou International Expo Center, one sees a dazzling array of literary classics, new social science works, and cultural and creative sidelines. The main venue is divided into eight exhibition halls, showcasing and offering for sale thematic books, new titles, and quality publications from across the country in recent years.
The “Light of Truth — Exhibition of Publishing Achievements of the Party’s Innovative Theories” systematically presents the Party’s innovative theories; the “Reading China — National Fine Books Exhibition” concentrates on high-quality publications from the past two years; the “Old Books, New Knowledge” exhibition area selects over a thousand precious red-letter documents…
The Book Expo is not only a concentrated display platform for publishing achievements but also becomes an important stage for ideological exchange and cultural dissemination.
At the “Wisdom Reading the Future — AI-Era Youth Reading” thematic seminar hosted by People’s Daily Press (人民日报出版社), experts and scholars from education, publishing, science and technology and other fields gathered to discuss the impact of AI technology on the youth reading ecosystem.
At the “Books Nourish the Heart — New Mass Literature and Art Creation Sharing” event, multiple grassroots creators and readers shared “My New Mass Literature and Art Story.” Chen Hao (陈浩), a container truck driver and avid reader, has read many books in his cab. “The starting point of reading is that moment you open a book. As long as you enter the world of books, you can gain something.”
As a flagship event of the National Book Trade Expo, the 17th “Readers’ Convention” showcased the lives of cultural luminaries from different fields in the company of books, presenting the new face of nationwide reading in the new era through classic recitation, thematic sharing, cross-disciplinary dialogues, and other forms.
The Featured Bookstore Exhibition Area was a highlight of this year’s Book Expo. Hangzhou Xiaofeng Bookstore blends Song-dynasty aesthetics with Wuyue culture; Xi’an Wanbang Bookstore presents Shaanxi literature, history, and Guanzhong folk customs; Chengdu Panda Bookstore brings cultural and creative products based on the giant panda… In a space of nearly 1,000 square meters, 27 benchmark bookstores from 14 provinces made a collective appearance, setting new records for both the number of participating bookstores and the exhibition area among all previous Book Expos.
Diverse integration — reading without boundaries
This year’s expo set up a digital intelligence themed exhibition hall of 8,000 square meters for the first time, focusing on the frontiers of the publishing industry and the new track of “culture + technology,” showcasing new business-format products in fields such as large-model applications and intelligent content creation.
The “Science and Technology Reading Experience” section takes “frontier technology empowering culture” as its main line, creating an immersive integrated experience space through four blocks: “intelligent content creation — knowledge interaction — reading carriers — science and technology classics.”
Traditional culture radiates new vitality under the empowerment of technology. The “Elegance of Painting and Calligraphy — Special Exhibition on the Beauty of Reading in the ‘Great Series of Chinese Paintings Through the Ages’” relies on the rich publishing achievements and image resources of the “Great Series of Chinese Paintings Through the Ages,” leading viewers from books into paintings, allowing them to feel China’s millennia-old reading culture in an exhibition experience that merges ancient and modern.
The “Fragrance of Libraries: Special Exhibition of Jiangnan Library Buildings” pieces together fragmented information about library buildings scattered in historical records, local gazetteers, and genealogies into a complete “Jiangnan Library Map.” The “Song Elegance Book Fragrance” immersive reading experience activity created a hands-on experience zone, allowing visitors to unlock the unique elegant reading scenes of Song-dynasty literati. “We experienced movable-type printing, tile-end rubbing, and even copied Song-dynasty poetry calligraphy in a Song-style study. The child got up close to the charm of fine traditional Chinese culture,” said Luo Jiaying (罗佳英), a citizen.
Stepping outside the main venue, three offline sub-venues each have their own characteristics. Ningbo focuses on “Accompanying Children to Read Classics,” with children’s literature authors holding reading-sharing sessions in rotation; Jiaxing uses the 5,000-square-meter Wuzhen East Gate (乌镇东栅) as an open-air literary exhibition space; Hangzhou Liangzhu, with the theme “Tracing Civilization’s Origins — Reading Opens Doors,” collaborated with the China National Archives of Publications and Culture Hangzhou Branch (中国国家版本馆杭州分馆) and others to explore 5,000 years of Chinese civilization together with readers.
Books benefit the people — integrated into daily life
Inside and outside the exhibition halls, citizens carrying book bags could be seen moving among various cultural experience activities. Multiple online shopping platforms also set up online sub-venues for the Book Expo, allowing readers across the country to “visit the expo in the cloud.”
The Book Expo was accompanied by generous people-benefiting measures. The main venue issued 3 million yuan in people-benefiting book purchase vouchers, the Ningbo sub-venue also launched 2 million yuan in book fragrance consumption vouchers, and the Jiaxing sub-venue offered a 30% discount on all books.
Chen Siwen (陈司文) from Quzhou (衢州), Zhejiang, brought a suitcase and took a special train to Hangzhou. The books he purchased soon filled the case. “The Book Expo offers very strong discounts; I’ve basically used up all my vouchers,” Chen Siwen said.
Scenes of reading are also expanding. Amap (高德地图) jointly with publicity departments of nine cities released the first batch of “Urban Book Fragrance Maps,” based primarily on the real navigation and store-visiting behavior of nearly one billion users. It established a ranking for over 400 physical bookstores in nine cities and used AI technology to provide a 360-degree panoramic display of each bookstore’s entrance and interior environment.
Taking Zhengyang Bookstore (正阳书局) in Beijing’s Xicheng District as an example, the flying street view glides over the gray-brick and gray-tile courtyard houses, capturing the ancient pagoda and shelves full of Beijing local historical documents together in the frame. “We are hidden in a hutong ancient pagoda courtyard and are hard to find; this zero-cost flying street view presents the bookstore’s features. We hear that many readers first ‘flew’ over on their phones before following the pagoda spire to find us,” said the relevant person in charge of Zhengyang Bookstore.
This Book Expo also specially planned the “Follow the Book Expo to Tour Hangzhou” activity, releasing six high-quality Hangzhou cultural tourism routes, accompanied by tens of millions of yuan in cultural tourism people-benefit packages, skillfully linking book pages with the city’s landscapes.
Zhejiang continues to improve the nationwide reading service system and actively builds a “Bookish Zhejiang.” At present, Zhejiang has built a total of 102 libraries, more than 1,400 city study rooms, and over 18,000 rural libraries, carrying out more than 40,000 reading activities each year with the participation of over 10 million people.
“Millennia of cultural heritage have nourished Zhejiang’s cultural gene of respecting culture and valuing education, and have made books and reading the cultural foundation of the land of Zhejiang,” said the relevant person in charge of the Publicity Department of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (浙江省委宣传部).
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Born for the people, rising because of the people.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “Adhering to the people-centered development philosophy embodies the Party’s ideals, beliefs, nature, purpose, original aspiration, and mission, and is also a profound summary of the Party’s struggle course and practical experience.”
Two cities interpret the unwavering original aspiration of the Chinese Communist Party and witness the deep logic of Chinese-style modernization.
One is a green oasis city rising from barren beaches and Gobi desert – Hongsi Bao (红寺堡) in Wuzhong, Ningxia.
As the largest centralized resettlement area for relocated migrants in the country, 235,000 migrant people, mostly from Xihaigu (西固) in Ningxia, have gathered here.
Poverty alleviation and fostering ambition, east-west collaboration, Yellow River irrigation – more than 20 years of continuous struggle have “planted” hope into this barren land. Guided by the new development philosophy, they have explored a sustainable development path of “generating gold from green.”
In the history of world urban development, there is no shortage of planned cities, but building an eco-new city on barren beaches and Gobi desert and enabling hundreds of thousands of farmers to lead an urban life like Hongsi Bao is 绝无仅有 (jué wú jǐn yǒu - “absolutely unique, without equal”). Someone commented: “China’s ecological migration is truly a miracle.”
The other is a “city of the future” that is growing rapidly – Xiong’an New Area in Hebei.
The “millennium plan” personally decided, deployed, and promoted by General Secretary Xi Jinping has been entrusted with an extraordinary mission: “to build a ‘city of the people’ suitable for work and livable in the new era.”
A city above ground – blue and green interwoven, industry and city integrated; a city underground – intensive, three-dimensional, and 四通八达 (sì tōng bā dá - “four communications, eight extensions,” extending in all directions); a city in the cloud – full-domain digital twin, smart governance empowering… The “three cities” grow as one, the digital city and the physical city pulsate at the same frequency.
With the well-being and happiness of the people as the ultimate goal, high-quality development and high-quality life advance toward each other. Some foreign media believe that Xiong’an New Area represents a new concept for better urban development and is expected to become a model for future cities in China and even the world.
If Hongsi Bao answers the question “how to ensure that no one is left behind,” then Xiong’an New Area answers the question “what should a future-oriented happy life look like.”
“Take steady steps, advance stage by stage.” The continuous struggle of the Chinese Communist Party not only creates a 日新月异 (rì xīn yuè yì - “daily renewal, monthly change,” changing with each passing day) present but also brings a hopeful future to hundreds of millions of people.
“Deeply rooted among the people, always possessing a solid foundation” – this is the incomparable excellent quality of our Party and the secret to continuously creating new historical great feats.
“Bury your head and work hard, live yourself as a comma; straighten your back, and you are an exclamation mark,” say Hongsi Bao residents. In those years, Hongsi Bao cadres led the migrant people to fight wind and sand, struggle against drought, push forward into the wilderness under the scorching sun. Now, new farmers returning to their hometowns have set up winemaking studios, inherited intangible cultural heritage embroidery, and led the people in developing specialty industries. Hongsi Bao people say: “Miracle is another name for struggle.”
“To be a Xiong’an person is a matter of pride.” In a central enterprise relocated to Xiong’an, more than 300 employees who were not originally on the first batch of relocation lists voluntarily signed up to join. Groups of pioneers and builders obey the Party’s needs, act at a single command, and forge “Xiong’an quality” with innovation and creation.
From Hongsi Bao to Xiong’an New Area, this repeatedly confirms General Secretary Xi Jinping’s assertion: “The people are the creators of history, the true heroes,” “Socialism is achieved through hard work, and the new era is achieved through struggle.”
In the 1960s, British Field Marshal Montgomery visited China and, after meeting with Chairman Mao Zedong, remarked with deep feeling: “Mao’s philosophy is very simple: the people are the decisive force.”
“The country is the people, and the people are the country.” The efforts and struggles of Chinese Communists in the new era are reflected in the relentless pursuit of putting the people first and regarding people’s livelihood as the greatest, and are written in the scenes of 物阜民丰 (wù fù mín fēng - “goods abundant, people prosperous,” describing a thriving society) and 万家灯火 (wàn jiā dēng huǒ - “ten thousand homes, lamp fires,” a scene of thriving urban life).
On the new Long March, the prospects are incomparably bright, yet the road ahead remains arduous.
Practicing the people-centered development philosophy, our Party “possesses a foundation that no wind or wave can shake.”
Return to TopThis Newspaper, Dingxi, Gansu, July 26 (Reporters Wang Jintao (王锦涛), Zeng Yichen (曾亦辰)) — Reporters learned from the government of Weiyuan County (渭源县), Dingxi City, Gansu Province: At approximately 14:00 on July 26, a flash flood was triggered in Shuangshimengou (双石门沟), Luojiamo Village (罗家磨村), Huichuan Town (会川镇), Weiyuan County, due to short-duration heavy rainfall upstream, causing nearby camping and self-driving tourists to become trapped. All rescue forces of the local city and county emergency management, fire rescue, health, cultural and tourism, and other departments, as well as Huichuan Town, have arrived at the scene and are making every effort to carry out emergency rescue and personnel transfer and resettlement work. As of 21:15 on July 26, 10 people have been killed, and 230 trapped persons have been evacuated and rescued, including 23 who were injured, all of whom have been arranged for medical treatment. Currently, the first three rounds of on-site search and rescue have been completed, and a fourth round of search and rescue is underway. A cumulative total of 164 pieces of mechanical equipment, including forklifts and excavators, have been deployed; more than 1,000 professional rescue personnel from fire and medical services have been organized; and more than 400 items of rescue supplies have been distributed.
This Newspaper, Beijing, July 26 (Reporter Liu Wenxin (刘温馨)) — In the afternoon of July 26, Weiyuan County, Dingxi City, Gansu Province, was affected by short-duration heavy rainfall, resulting in a flash flood disaster that caused casualties.
After the disaster occurred, the Office of the National Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters (国家防总办公室) and the Ministry of Emergency Management (应急管理部) continuously dispatched and directed the emergency response work, and sent a working group to the scene to guide the response. The National Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters activated a Level-IV flood-control emergency response for Gansu. The national comprehensive fire and rescue teams, with 305 personnel and 68 vehicles, are conducting rescue operations at the scene. At present, the rescue and response work is still underway.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 胡泽曦 邝西曦 陈世涵
To run China's affairs well, the key lies in the Party.
“Full and strict governance over the Party is always on the way.” On the new journey, we must fully implement Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, carry out the general requirements for Party building in the new era, and deeply advance the great new project of Party building in the new era.
Looking back, the Chinese Communist Party's 105 years of unremitting struggle “has demonstrated the powerful vitality of Marxism.”
“Today, the vigorous vitality and exuberant energy of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics have fully tested the scientific nature and truth of Marxism, fully demonstrated the people's character and practical nature of Marxism, and fully manifested the openness and contemporaneity of Marxism,” General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out at the celebration of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.
Looking across the history of human politics, rarely has a political party like the Chinese Communist Party engraved the pursuit of truth into its genes and integrated it into its blood.
Reflecting, continuously advancing from victory to victory, why can the Chinese Communist Party do it?
“Determinedly pursuing truth, always grasping the correct direction of progress” is one of the key codes. Having experienced hardships and difficulties while continuously developing and growing stronger, “a very important reason is that our Party has always attached importance to building the Party ideologically and strengthening the Party theoretically.”
Since the new era, focusing on continuously enhancing the Party's political leadership, ideological guidance, mass organization, and social appeal, General Secretary Xi Jinping has
Return to TopHandle the people’s hopes, resolve the people’s difficulties; the key is to accurately find the focal point. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized during his inspection in Shanghai, “Taking the mass line means to think what the masses think and be anxious about what the masses are anxious about. It is about seeing what the masses need, not what cadres imagine out of thin air.” In this issue of Readers’ Talk, we select and publish three contributions to think together with everyone about how to better do good and practical things that reach the masses’ hearts.
— Editors
Learn to Find Problems
Li Yihan (李一韩), Hengnan County, Hunan Province (湖南省衡南县)
When I first started work in the town, I was full of passion, but I was always led by the nose by various affairs, feeling 束手束脚 (shù shǒu shù jiǎo - “bound hands and feet,” feeling constrained). One time while taking a walk on the street, I noticed the road lighting was dim, making it inconvenient for pedestrians, so I reported it to the relevant department, and the problem was quickly resolved. Although it was a small matter, it made me realize that to enhance work proactiveness, to change from “being chased by problems” to “actively pushing to solve problems,” one first needs to learn to find problems.
Finding problems, the value lies in being attentive. The process of finding problems is also a process of investigation and research; one must step out of the office, go down to the grassroots, and put one’s heart and feelings into it. Is the road smooth or not, is buying groceries convenient or not, what are the bottlenecks in garbage sorting… Be attentive persons, with a sense of responsibility of “always being unable to rest assured,” find the crux of contradictions from concrete details, find the responsibility list in complex demands, and thoroughly understand the problem, only then can one hit the mark of what the masses hope for.
Finding problems, the emphasis is on proactiveness. Rather than sitting and waiting for problems to come to your door, it is better to move the checkpoint forward and actively meet them. A proactive conversation may untie a knot in the heart that has lasted for years, and may also find an unexpected good solution. This seems like asking for trouble, but it is actually a forward-looking action that can achieve greater results at a smaller cost.
Only when problems are found accurately can one apply the right effort, and work can be more proactive and creative. Whether one can find problems concerns both work attitude and is a manifestation of ability and level.
Think of Ways to Create a Precedent
Pan Jiangping (潘江平), Huangping County, Guizhou Province (贵州省黄平县)
“No precedent to follow, let’s wait and see,” “Lack of document authorization, let’s watch and wait,” “No regulations, there’s a risk”… In reality, some cadres use “no precedent” as an excuse for passivity, slackness, and evading responsibility.
Handling affairs for the people will always encounter new situations, new problems will always arise in the development process; there are originally no ready-made templates or inherent precedents. When lacking precedent, one can act prudently, exploring while summarizing, but if one thinks of evading and not doing things as soon as new situations and new problems arise, on the surface it is avoiding risk, but in reality it is shirking responsibility.
Rather than using lack of precedent as an excuse, it is better to think of ways to create a precedent. Facing new difficulties in serving the masses, some places optimized procedures, innovated mechanisms, and properly handled one “first case” livelihood practical matter after another; facing new business forms in rural industries, some places dared to explore, dared to break through, and led the masses to blaze a new path for increasing income; facing new test questions in grassroots governance, some places sank power down, provided forward-deployed services, and resolved conflicts and disputes in their nascent state. Daring to try and dare to innovate in the face of difficult problems, daring to take responsibility and dare to act in the face of risk, what is opened is a new development situation, and what is won is the trust of the masses.
There are no eternal precedents, only eternal responsibility. Only by firmly guarding the bottom line and not overstepping the rules, and also bravely opening a new situation and not fearing difficulties, is the proper appearance of a Communist Party cadre.
Turn “Difficult to Solve” into “Excellent Solution”
Man Dongguang (满东广), Xinyi City, Jiangsu Province (江苏省新沂市)
In a certain old residential community, the problem of electric bicycles “flying-wire charging” once gave community cadres a severe headache. The community had adopted measures such as cutting wires and posting notices, but it still 屡禁不止 (lǚ jìn bù zhǐ - “repeatedly banned but not stopped,” to continue despite repeated prohibitions), and residents had many complaints. Later, the community introduced a third-party company to install smart charging piles for free, with charging fees at the same price as residential electricity, and gave charging insurance to every legally registered electric bicycle. Gradually, the “flying wires” disappeared, and residents actively pushed their vehicles to the designated area for charging.
Many difficult problems around the masses are not “unsolvable”; they are just “difficult to solve” because the “key to the lock” hasn’t been found. Where do methods come from? The masses are the ones who experience the problems, and they are also the “Zhuge Liangs” for solving them. Taking “flying-wire charging” as an example, the community adopted the residents’ suggestion of “not increasing the electricity fee,” dispelling everyone’s concerns, and making more people “willing to charge.” The masses’ “complaints” hide real pain points, and the masses’ suggestions often contain down-to-earth answers. Taking the masses’ opinions and suggestions as a compass for improving work, one can often find good ideas that fit reality.
Changing blockades to guidance, finding increments within the stock, the effect may be vastly different. For example, faced with insufficient public parking spaces, some cities did not blindly issue tickets, but instead opened community parking spaces at staggered times, built multi-story parking garages, and used mini-programs to display available parking spaces in real time, effectively alleviating the parking difficulty. When the thinking changes, a dead knot becomes a living buckle.
Methods are always more numerous than difficulties. Only by being willing to use one’s brain, willing to listen to public opinion, and willing to take responsibility, can one turn “difficult to solve” into “excellent solution.”
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When high quality and high price become a consensus, core technological innovation, supply chain self-reliance, and the like receive greater attention, and new blue oceans of value will continuously emerge
For some time now, the profit margin on completed vehicles in the automotive industry has been under sustained pressure. Breaking free from the predicament of industrial competition, so that the prosperity of “selling more” bears the fruit of “earning more as well,” has become a mandatory question for the high-quality development of China’s automotive industry.
Not long ago, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology convened a symposium of key automobile production enterprises to deploy work on regulating industry competition order; the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers released the first domestic set of rules for calculating completed vehicle costs, constraining irrational low-price competition at the source. From policy guidance to industry self-discipline, the signals are dense and clear: “Price wars” are extremely harmful and unsustainable; domestic auto enterprises must bid farewell to the low-price strategy of trading price for volume and rush toward the value high ground of high quality and high price.
No one wants to be mired in a quagmire. The crux of the problem lies in how to leap out of the quagmire. Since the 17 auto enterprises made a 60-day payment period commitment in 2025, institutional supervision and industry self-discipline have continuously exerted force in the same direction, and the consensus and combined strength for anti-involution (反内卷) in the automotive field have been coalescing. To achieve the crucial leap out of the quagmire of “involution-style” competition, auto enterprises need to solve problems such as product homogeneity and single-dimensional competition.
From the consumer perspective, besides price, there are many other reference factors when purchasing a car. When buying a daily-use vehicle, considerations are more about safety, reliability, and realistic range; intelligent driving assistance is a plus. When buying an off-road vehicle, the most discussed topics are “Is a short wheelbase good or a long wheelbase good?” “What maximum incline slope can it climb?” “Does the transfer case have a metal oil pan?” Only by focusing on differentiated demand and precisely positioning niche segments can one win consumer favor.
Healthy market competition should be a multi-dimensional contest of technology, product, service, brand, and ecology, among which technology is a key factor. To break the “downward spiral” and achieve a “breakout upward,” one must strive for more technology premium. Artificial intelligence reconstructs the human-vehicle relationship, making intelligent driving more “knowing you”; minute-level flash charging redefines the efficiency of electric travel; a single model adapts to various road conditions, enabling intelligent driving solutions to be implemented in more scenarios… An enterprise may have multiple “moats,” but the most reliable and effective one has always been technological leadership.
From intelligent driving processors to automotive-grade storage to high-end transmissions, one deep-seated crux of auto enterprises falling into homogeneous competition is that some core components remain subject to others, and there are still shortcomings in the capability for self-controllable supply chains. Fluctuations in external costs are transmitted to completed vehicles, weakening the pricing autonomy of finished-vehicle enterprises. Striving to control key core technologies and components, and leading product functions to achieve inter-generational leaps, will help domestic auto enterprises achieve a rebalancing between quality and cost, thereby seizing the initiative in market competition.
Expanding outward, seeking a “second curve” in the global market, is a breakthrough for auto enterprises to gain greater development space. In the first half of this year, China exported 5.096 million vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 65.3%. International market competition is fierce, so why have many auto enterprises made their overseas moves calmly and steadily? This includes both the reason that vertical integration of the supply chain strengthens cost advantages, and more importantly, the factor that new energy combined with intelligent driving brings superior experiences. By defining product uniqueness and appeal through technological innovation, deeply participating in the top-level design of global quality systems, and promoting the internationalization of brands and operations, domestic auto enterprises will obtain more development opportunities.
Transformation cannot be accomplished overnight. The automotive industry still needs to hone its internal skills amid multiple challenges. No storm will fail to pass, and no spring will fail to arrive. When high quality and high price become a consensus, and core technological innovation, supply chain self-reliance, and the like receive greater attention, new blue oceans of value will continuously emerge. Pressing down firmly on the accelerator pedals of differentiation, quality, intelligence, and internationalization, Chinese automobiles will drive toward a more vast horizon on the track of high-quality development.
Return to TopBy: 靳 山
Phenomenon As the summer holiday arrives, the tourism market is heating up, with both the quantity and quality of cultural and tourism consumption rising, and new highlights constantly emerging. The "slow-charge travel,"主打松弛治愈、深度沉浸, has become a new choice for many. Finding a small, not-too-popular city and settling in stably for three or four days; checking no guides, setting no destination, and discovering surprises through "opening a blind box"; "soaking" in a museum, immersing oneself in the exquisite artifacts and profound culture... Slowing down, sinking in, recharging the body and mind—this injects new vitality into the development of cultural tourism.
Commentary
What is the meaning of travel? Hard to explain in a few words. Pondering this question, two scenes come to mind: occasionally spacing out, thoughts drifting among the vast mountains and by the blue sea, washing away fatigue and shifting one's mood in a brief detachment; when unable to sleep, flipping through photos and videos from previous trips, or closing one's eyes to recall the beautiful sights seen, the delicious food eaten, the amusing incidents of the journey, one always feels relaxed.
The meaning of travel blossoms on the journey and echoes in the depths of memory. Two key words can诠释 the beauty of going far away: one is experience—seeing different landscapes, experiencing different ways of life; the other is leisure—giving body and mind a vacation amidst the indulgence in natural scenery.
Fresh scenery, novel feelings, and the transcendence of daily life constitute an important source of travel's appeal. Mount Tai is 雄浑 (magnificent), Mount Hua is 险峻 (precipitous), Mount Heng is 秀美 (elegant)—the famous mountains each have their own merits (各有千秋, gè yǒu qiān qiū - "each has its own thousand autumns," each has its own unique excellence). Without being there, how could one know their true face? At magnificent Lushan, Jinxiu Valley (锦绣谷) has "无限风光在险峰" (endless scenic beauty lies on the perilous peaks), Five Elders Peak (五老峰) is like "青天削出金芙蓉" (the blue sky carves out golden hibiscus), and Three-Step Waterfall (三叠泉) has a force like a galloping horse, shaking the heart and soul. Having come all this way, how could one not experience each of them in turn? Yet, as the holiday fleetingly passes, it is not hard to understand the hurried pace of checking in at 8 scenic spots in one day, nor to be surprised by the "special forces-style tourism" of "traveling through three provinces in two days."
Travel inherently has no standard answer. Some pursue the "addition" of experience, others value the charm of "leaving blank space." Whether it's drifting slowly on a bamboo raft, idly watching the clouds roll and unfurl, or learning a craft from an artisan, unlocking new skills like tie-dyeing or pottery... Slowing down the pace, being at ease and unhurried, "slow-charge travel" is a调剂 to the fast-paced life; what it replenishes is "battery power," but also spiritual nourishment. Whether it's rushing to the next destination for more experiences, or lingering long in one place for deeper experience, choices have no hierarchy—suiting oneself and pleasing oneself is the best way to open it.
Whether fast or slow, being at ease and following one's heart—"工夫在诗外" (gōng fu zài shī wài - "the real work lies outside the poem," true skill lies beyond the obvious)—there is real meaning behind it. Looking back in history, the Ming Dynasty traveler Xu Xiake aspired from a young age: "Of the nine provinces, I have traversed eight; of the five sacred mountains, I have climbed four." Today, with crisscrossing air routes and interconnected high-speed railways, "three days for five sacred mountains" and traveling a thousand li in a day are no longer unattainable dreams. Climbing Yandang Mountain several times and venturing into danger a few times, Xu Xiake lamented: "To exhaust the splendor of Yandang, one must be a flying immortal." Today, riding a new elevator, tourists can reach the glass walkway of Wolong Valley (卧龙谷) in just tens of seconds to take in the magnificent view. It can be said that the ever-improving cultural and tourism infrastructure gives us the confidence to "speed up"; the more abundant and diverse tourism services give us the ease to "slow down."
From the efficient "special forces-style tourism," to the trendy "color walks," to the "slow-charge travel"主打 relaxation and healing, new ways of playing and new forms emerge endlessly, vividly demonstrating the surging vitality of the cultural tourism market. Fast and slow, visual impact and spiritual nourishment, photogenic quality and a sense of ease, "outward exploration" and "inward contemplation." Facing continuously iterating demands and an ever-more segmented market, deeply cultivating new scenarios and expanding the supply of high-quality cultural tourism products is the one and only way (不二法门, bù èr fǎ mén - "the one and only dharma gate," the sole method) to grasp new opportunities and open up new spaces.
Between fast and slow, it all resides in the heart. Cultural tourism is an industry about happiness. Only by starting from the heart, serving with intent, responding to people's expectations and meeting their needs, can one attract visitors, retain them, achieve transformative development, and build a solid foundation for lasting prosperity.
Return to TopOur country’s sports goods export scale is large, and product categories are numerous. From official balls used in competitive sports to various equipment and devices for mass sports, in recent years, our country has always been the world’s largest sports goods exporter, accounting for over 40% of global exports. According to statistics, in the first half of the year, our country’s sports goods and equipment exports reached 67.53 billion yuan, of which paddle boards and other water sports equipment exports were 4.77 billion yuan, and ball exports were 3.08 billion yuan.
This is just:
One ball, one racket, of fine and excellent quality,
Crossing mountains and traversing seas, setting sail for distant voyages.
Assisting athletes to gallop on the competition fields,
Winning a fine reputation that benefits all directions.
Xu Xu (徐 徐)
By: 徐晓敬
Recently, I came across two incidents worth pondering.
One incident: a community in Benxi, Liaoning took the lead in installing streetlights for an old residential area. It was originally a good deed that benefits and serves the people, but unexpectedly received opposition — light disturbance. The reason was that one building in the area had a special shape, so the lampposts could only be placed right next to residents’ windows. Some residents said the lights were too bright and they couldn’t sleep well at night. Faced with this practical problem, the community cadres did not rush to make a decision. Instead, they held a meeting downstairs and listened to the opinions of each household on the spot. In the end, a 两全其美 (liǎng quán qí měi - “both sides achieve perfection,” a solution satisfying both parties) solution was formed: make the lights in the nearby square brighter, “borrowing light” to illuminate this corner, thus saving the cost of installing streetlights and avoiding the nuisance of light disturbance.
Another incident occurred in Zhejiang. A resident village cadre saw a piece of abandoned land in the village and was eager to put it to use, planning to set up greenhouse vegetables. The old village party secretary found him and explained the reasons why this land had been idle over the years. The resident village cadre then invited agricultural technology experts to conduct a field survey, and the conclusion was that this land was not suitable for facility agriculture. So, he let go of his previous 一厢情愿 (yì xiāng qíng yuàn - “one-sided wishfulness,” wishful thinking), combined the villagers’ opinions and experts’ suggestions, readjusted his thinking, improved the wasteland and planted miscellaneous grains, and achieved a good harvest.
Looking closely at these two incidents, both contain 耐人寻味 (nài rén xún wèi - “worth pondering over,” thought-provoking) “twists”: the grassroots cadres’ original intentions were good — either to solve the problem of residents walking in the dark, or to avoid land abandonment. But they did not 固执己见 (gù zhí jǐ jiàn - “stubbornly hold one’s own opinion,” be obstinate), but patiently listened to the voices of the masses and decisively let go of their initial ideas. The streetlights were not installed, but they borrowed the light from the square, illuminating everyone’s hearts; the greenhouses were not built, but they planted miscellaneous grains, ushering in a heavy golden harvest. The plan was changed, but the original intention was not lost; the plan was adjusted, but the cadre-mass relationship became closer.
This makes one ponder: what “I” consider good may not be what the masses recognize as good. If good intentions in doing things cannot be transformed into the masses’ tangible sense of gain, then it cannot be considered a good thing.
“Good intentions” are the starting point, but “doing it well” is the final foothold. The way to accomplish things, beyond enthusiasm, requires scientific methods and rigorous work style. Before doing things, first bend down to conduct in-depth investigation, listen more to what the masses say, talk less about what one “thinks,” and also learn to 换位思考 (huàn wèi sī kǎo - “put oneself in another’s position,” empathize) — whether the masses need it must be felt from their perspective. Once detached from the needs of the masses, it is easy to veer off onto the forks of formalism and bureaucracy, turning good intentions into bad deeds.
The commendable aspect of the above two incidents is that Party cadres understood to “pause” — not to shelve, but to listen, and to re-examine the work direction from the perspective of the masses. It was precisely this “pause” that allowed what might have gone astray to ultimately be done to the satisfaction of the masses. Thus, “pausing” is not retreating; it is for calibration; soliciting opinions cannot be a formality, but must genuinely ascertain the actual situation, so that public services better meet the needs of the masses.
(Excerpted from Liaoning Daily, original title: “The Streetlights Were Not Installed, So Why Are They Still Applauded?”)
Return to TopBy: 蒋文鹏
Auditing is a kind of "physical examination": it both precisely identifies the focus of disease, applies the remedy to the case to "cure existing illness," and deeply excavates the root causes, builds a solid defense line to "prevent illness before it occurs."
In the year the High School Affiliated with Minzu University of China (中央民族大学附属中学), my alma mater, received a reply letter from General Secretary Xi Jinping, I was already a sophomore, but the exhortation "learning is like a bow and crossbow, talent is like an arrowhead" (学如弓弩，才如箭镞) was branded into the rings of my youth like a brand. From the ivory tower to the great classroom of society, from a young man embracing ideals to becoming a member of the audit front line, this encouragement has always inspired me to draw the bow and nock the arrow, guiding me to find the exact center of the target.
When auditing is mentioned, many people think it is "finding fault," and some even believe it is just "checking accounts." In fact, for the audited region, unit, or individual, auditing is a kind of "physical examination": it both precisely identifies the focus of disease, applies the remedy to the case to "cure existing illness," and deeply excavates the root causes, builds a solid defense line to "prevent illness before it occurs." Fiscal finance, land and spatial planning, people's livelihood guarantees, project investment, ecological environmental protection... wherever the management and use of public funds, state-owned assets, and state-owned resources are involved, audit supervision follows like a shadow (如影随形 - rú yǐng suí xíng, "like shadow follows form," to be inseparable). The scope of work is inherently broad, and with rapid economic and social development, for the people of the audit profession, learning is a lifelong matter.
Learning is like a bow and crossbow: the deeper the accumulation, the more fully it is drawn. How to learn? Deeply cultivate the book with writing. Audit everything that should be audited, be strict in every audit; the foremost requirement is to take facts as the basis and law as the criterion. After starting work, the first project I participated in was an audit of village-level special funds. If one cannot understand the fund allocation process, subsidy distribution standards, and village-level financial management requirements, how can one grasp the focus and direction of the audit, how can one judge whether there are problems such as false reporting, fraudulent claiming, interception, and misappropriation of people's livelihood funds? Becoming an expert (行家里手 - háng jiā lǐ shǒu, "a professional and skilled hand," an expert or seasoned professional) cannot be achieved merely by accumulating seniority; it relies on day-by-day learning.
Carefully read the book without writing. In 2023, I moved from a grassroots audit institution to the Audit Office (审计厅), and one important task was to conduct economic responsibility audits of major leading cadres of prefectural and municipal party committees and governments. The economic responsibility audit focuses not only on "how the money is spent," but even more on "how responsibility is shouldered." From land-for-project exchanges, audit out deviations in policy implementation; from misappropriated people's livelihood funds, audit out the departure from the original aspiration; from losses caused by blind decision-making, audit out the anomie in the exercise of power... seeing power and responsibility through "the numbers in the account books," the stronger the penetrating power, the stronger the deterrent power. This book without writing — practice — the more it is read, the thicker it becomes.
Talent is like an arrowhead: only by learning and being good at reflection can one hit the target. Once, a local government was frantically dealing with leftover problems from investment attraction. We comprehensively reviewed the entire process of decision-making, project implementation, and actual results, and determined the problems mainly originated from the previous administration. Therefore, we proactively contacted the provincial competent department, sorted out fund flows and project progress, analyzed work bottlenecks, actively offered suggestions and proposals, and helped the locality properly handle the leftover problems.
Reality is complex and diverse; it is not appropriate to draw the bow and crossbow too fully. In these years of work, I have increasingly come to realize that auditing "grows teeth and carries electric charge"; it cannot let any shred of trace evidence slip by, but it is by no means "finding fault for the sake of fault-finding" (吹毛求疵 - chuī máo qiú cī, "blow at the hairs to find a blemish," to nitpick or be overly critical). It is necessary to adhere to the "three distinctions" (三个区分开来), to leave room for error tolerance, to be practical and realistic, prudent and scientific, so as to avoid striking the wrong board and dampening work enthusiasm.
Auditing for the nation and calculating for the people is concrete and practical. Once, a locality, due to a lack of supervision over its subordinate state-owned enterprises, caused large amounts of state-owned assets to face the risk of loss. We took inventory on-site, ascertained the "family assets," pointed out the crux, and promoted the establishment and improvement of rules and regulations in the locality. Another time, government workers misappropriated funds from the "One-Card" (一卡通) program for benefiting farmers and agriculture. Through big data comparison, we discovered suspicious points, verified and fixed evidence materials on-site, and the misappropriated funds were ultimately recovered into the fiscal treasury. Watching over the "money bags" and "account books," and promoting the government to live on a "tight budget," can better guarantee the people's "good life."
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized, "We must strive to become experts in our respective work fields." Only by deeply rooting oneself in the soil of one's profession and applying knowledge flexibly in practice can one strike the bullseye and achieve solid results.
(The author is a staff member of the Economic Responsibility Audit Office of Sichuan Provincial Audit Office. This article is selected and edited from a submission.)
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 杨颜菲
Summer, Jiangxi Jinggangshan City (井冈山市) Shenshan Village (神山村) ushers in tourism peak season. Just as the sky is faintly light, small groups of tourists are already jogging along the "Second Ring Road." "The air feels sweet; jogging is very comfortable," said Lin Faming (林发明), a tourist from Shenzhen, Guangdong, wiping sweat from his forehead, smiling.
This 4.5-meter-wide asphalt road strings together 15 scenic spots, and also strings together Shenshan Village's 脱胎换骨 (tuō tāi huàn gǔ - "shed the old and take on a new form," thorough transformation) over the past ten years.
Shenshan Village is located in Maoping Town (茅坪镇), Jinggangshan City, and was once a typical poor mountain village. "Shenshan is a poor place; girls, don't marry a Shenshan man; you walk on muddy roads, you live in earthen houses" — this is a true portrayal of Shenshan Village's past.
"Giving money and goods is not as good as building a strong Party branch." The village Party branch secretary, Peng Zhan'yang (彭展阳), firmly believed this principle. At that time, he was still working as a corporate executive elsewhere, earning more than 200,000 yuan a year. The former branch secretary made a phone call: "Zhan'yang, you are a Party member, you are educated, come back to the village and work!" After tossing and turning for several nights, Peng Zhan'yang packed his bags and returned. Villager Huang Xiaolan (黄晓兰) and her husband also gave up their business outside and returned home, "just wanting to contribute to our hometown," Huang Xiaolan said.
The branch became strong, people's hearts gathered. Party members served as volunteer red docents, serving over 5,000 tourist visits each year. Shenshan Village's peasant propaganda team went out, using the village's changes to tell the story of comprehensive rural revitalization.
People's hearts gathered, but how to develop industries? Cultivated land is less than 200 mu, yet mountain forests are 4,950 mu. The Party branch led everyone to think: what to plant, how to do it, and what to rely on for income increase.
In 2016, the village had a small permanent population, mostly elderly, and villagers had concerns about industrial prospects. "To develop, we must have people and confidence," Peng Zhan'yang recalled. "At the critical moment, the village's Party members and cadres took the initiative to take responsibility and charge forward. To promote industrial implementation, we took the lead in transferring our own land to cooperatives."
Zuo Xiangyun (左香云), a National People's Congress deputy and villager, continuously improved technology, developed products, and introduced high-value-added products such as "Shenshan Bamboo Wine." He also took the lead in establishing a bamboo products processing factory, introduced e-commerce sales, and absorbed employment for many villagers.
The village two committees (村两委) built a platform, Party members explored new paths. Villager Peng Deliang (彭德良) saw this and resolved to return to the village. He joined the tea cooperative led by Party members and started "tea-tourism integration" — tourists first taste tea, then go up the mountain to the tea gardens. Every year, he earns more than 200,000 yuan in the village, which he uses to renovate his house and buy a car in full.
The village two committees explored the "1 Party branch + 1 cultural tourism company + 1 association + N households" model. Party members took the lead in establishing yellow peach and tea cooperatives, successively building a 460-mu yellow peach base and a 200-mu ecological tea garden, with complementary development of 16 agritainment establishments, multiple business forms advancing side by side (齐头并进, qí tóu bìng jìn - "advance shoulder to shoulder," develop simultaneously). Specialty yellow peaches entered large supermarkets, going out of the deep mountains and opening up broad markets. In 2025, Shenshan Village's collective operating income exceeded 1 million yuan, and villagers' per capita disposable income reached 36,000 yuan.
The village became more beautiful, industries gradually expanded, and more and more tour groups came out of admiration (慕名而来, mù míng ér lái - "come drawn by reputation," attracted by fame) ... In 2022, the village two committees introduced Ji'an Tourism Investment and Development Co., Ltd. to build supporting tourism facilities such as a Red Book House, Starry Sky House, and Siyuan Restaurant.
Villager Huang Jinlong's (黄金龙) guesthouse was the first to taste the sweetness. "Previously, guests would leave after eating; now many come to stay overnight. Last summer, all rooms were full, earning nearly 100,000 yuan in two months." He also introduced guests who couldn't be accommodated to neighbors' guesthouses: "The cake should be made bigger; eating it alone is no fun." Now, the whole village has 16 agritainment establishments and 14 guesthouses, receiving over 300,000 tourists annually.
With pockets bulging, the spirit also lifted. Peng Xiaying (彭夏英), winner of the National Advanced Individual in Poverty Alleviation (全国脱贫攻坚先进个人获得者), joined the Shenshan Peasant Propaganda Team. In her spare time, she tells stories of poverty alleviation to tourists, with a loud voice and straight back; tourists love to listen.
Villager Zuo Weibo (左伟波) is about to pursue a combined master's and doctoral program at Tsinghua University. He said: "I hope to use the knowledge I have learned to help upgrade the industries of my hometown." Over the years, Shenshan Village has produced nine university students.
In recent years, the village two committees have advocated "setting family rules, passing on family teachings, cultivating family traditions" (立家规传家训树家风), established a Love Points Bank (爱心积分银行), where environmental management and garbage sorting are included in points. Villagers changed from "standing and watching" to "taking the initiative to do." Zuo Xiangyun served as captain of the Red Mediation Team (红色调解小分队), resolving more than 20 tourist disputes and neighborhood conflicts.
In the evening, a cool breeze blows gently. Peng Zhan'yang, who had just returned to the village from Beijing, gathered Party members for a group photo in front of the "Smile Wall." He said excitedly: "This honor was achieved by the village two committees leading everyone to work! The branch has strength, Party members have drive, and villagers have prospects."
Now, Shenshan Village's Party members have grown to 23. Many returning entrepreneurs who became rich have actively drawn close to the Party organization and followed the branch to work. Everyone in the village firmly believes one principle: with the branch steering the direction and Party members taking the lead, the more you pound glutinous rice cake, the stickier it gets; the more you live, the sweeter life becomes.
Return to TopBeijing, July 26 (Reporter Zhang Yang) — On July 26, leading comrades of the Central Organization Department (中央组织部) and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源社会保障部) escorted the 12th batch of central-government aid-Xinjiang cadres and talents to their arrival in Urumqi. From this point, the 12th batch of aid-Xinjiang cadres and talents have taken up the "relay baton" of paired-up aid to Xinjiang and begun their three-year aid-Xinjiang work.
Since 1997, in accordance with the unified deployment of the Party Central Committee, the Central Organization Department and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security have successively organized twelve batches of more than 30,000 cadres and talents to work in Xinjiang. The vast contingent of aid-Xinjiang cadres and talents have earnestly implemented the major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, followed the work arrangements of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Party Committee and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (新疆生产建设兵团) Party Committee, closely adhered to the main line of forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation, firmly grasped the general objective of Xinjiang work, and together with cadres and the masses of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang tackled difficulties and worked hard and diligently. They actively promoted new progress and new achievements in governing Xinjiang according to law, stabilizing Xinjiang through unity, nourishing Xinjiang with culture, enriching Xinjiang and prospering its people, and building Xinjiang for the long term, thereby demonstrating the vision and distinctive character of aid-Xinjiang cadres and talents.
This year, the Central Organization Department and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, adhering to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as their guide, comprehensively implementing Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, deeply implementing General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on Xinjiang work, and fully, accurately, and comprehensively implementing the Party's strategy for governing Xinjiang in the new era, organized and carried out the selection and rotation of a new batch of aid-Xinjiang cadres and talents in accordance with the paired-up support work arrangements for cadres and talents. The 12th batch of central-government aid-Xinjiang cadres and talents totals more than 800, coming from over 130 central-government units. Overall, they are 年富力强 (nián fù lì qiáng - "year abundant, strength strong," in the prime of life), possess relatively good comprehensive quality, and have a fairly reasonable structure, meeting the current and future needs of Xinjiang's economic and social development.
From July 27 to August 2, the Central Organization Department and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security will hold a training class in Urumqi to help the central-government aid-Xinjiang cadres and talents quickly become familiar with the situation and enter into their roles as soon as possible.
It is reported that the 12th batch of more than 7,400 aid-Xinjiang cadres and talents selected by the relevant paired-up support provinces and municipalities had already arrived in Xinjiang for work before the end of May 2026.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李昌禹
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: “To realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, the joint efforts of all Chinese sons and daughters at home and abroad are needed. Closely uniting the vast number of overseas Chinese, returned overseas Chinese, and their family members, and bringing their positive role into play in the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, is an important task of the Party and the state.”
Overseas Chinese affairs work is a long-term, strategic task of the Party and the state, always closely related to the overall development of the country and tightly connected to economic and social development. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, coordinating both domestic and international overall situations, has made new deployments and put forward new demands for doing a good job in overseas Chinese affairs, uniting the hearts and strength of overseas Chinese to jointly realize the Chinese Dream, opening up a new situation in overseas Chinese affairs work, and effectively promoting the great unity of all Chinese sons and daughters at home and abroad.
Broadly unite and consolidate the hearts of overseas Chinese
This summer, the film ‘Love Letter to Grandma’ was a hit, and one after another ‘qiaopi (侨批)’ — short in paper but long in sentiment, deeply moving — once again became a 街谈巷议 (jiē tán xiàng yì - “street talk and lane discussion,” topic of widespread conversation) hot spot.
‘Pi’ (letter) one, silver a few, crossing mountains and seas, feelings tied to family and country. The ‘qiaopi’ in the film brings to mind a scene from more than five years ago at the Guangdong Shantou Qiaopi Cultural Relics Museum (广东汕头侨批文物馆).
In October 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping, who was inspecting Guangdong, came to the Qiaopi Cultural Relics Museum with the characteristics of the Chaoshan overseas Chinese hometown. The then curator Lin Qingxi (林庆熙) introduced in detail to General Secretary Xi Jinping the specific processes of writing, sending, delivering, and replying to qiaopi, as well as the touching stories behind each ‘qiaopi’.
“‘Qiaopi’ record the difficult entrepreneurial history and deep family-country feelings of the older generation of overseas Chinese, and are also an important manifestation of the Chinese nation’s emphasis on credibility and keeping promises.” General Secretary Xi Jinping was deeply moved, emphasizing the need to protect these ‘qiaopi’ cultural relics, strengthen research, and educate and guide people not to forget the humiliating history that our country experienced in modern times and the difficult entrepreneurial history of the older generation of overseas Chinese.
“An important characteristic of overseas Chinese is loving the country and loving their hometowns” “Broadly unite and connect with overseas Chinese, guide them to convey China’s voice well” “Rely on ties such as clan relatives, fellow townsmen, and ancestral culture to broadly consolidate the hearts of overseas Chinese”… Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping’s repeatedly affectionate concerns for the vast number of overseas Chinese and his earnest instructions for overseas Chinese affairs work have crossed thousands of mountains and rivers, consolidating the powerful strength of all Chinese sons and daughters at home and abroad to work together to realize the Chinese Dream.
Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, overseas Chinese affairs work has strengthened top-level design and overall planning, and reforms of the system and mechanism have been smoothly advanced.
The Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council (国务院侨办) was fully merged into the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee (中央统战部). Local overseas Chinese affairs offices at all levels, following the central institutional reform model, coordinate and carry out overseas Chinese affairs work… Through the systematic reshaping of institutional reform, the Party’s leadership over overseas Chinese affairs work has been further strengthened, the pattern of large overseas Chinese affairs work has been established, and the overall and systematic nature of overseas Chinese affairs work has been continuously improved.
Holding activities such as the ‘World Overseas Chinese Societies Friendship Conference (世界华侨华人社团联谊大会),’ carrying out the ‘China Root-Seeking Journey (中国寻根之旅)’ summer (winter) camps, establishing the ‘Maritime Silk Road Overseas Chinese Museum Alliance (海上丝绸之路华侨华人博物馆联盟)’… Various localities and departments leverage geographical and kinship advantages, rely on cultural ties, deepen extensive friendship with overseas Chinese, and overseas friendly forces continue to grow and strengthen.
“My grandfather yearned all his life for the country’s prosperity and strength. If he could see today’s flourishing age, he would surely be moved to tears.” On September 3, 2025, invited to attend the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, Chen Liren (陈立人), grandson of patriotic overseas Chinese leader Chen Jiageng, observed the ceremony from the Tiananmen Rostrum. Seeing the mighty army arrayed and the torrent of steel, his thoughts were myriad.
“The roots of overseas Chinese are in China.” Chen Liren said emotionally. The fate of overseas Chinese is always closely linked to their ancestral (or home) country, and the strength of their ancestral country makes them feel extremely proud.
Chinese people, Chinese culture, Chinese spirit, Chinese heart.
Though mountains and seas are far, roots and veins are connected. From the never-ceasing tide sounds of the Fujian and Guangdong homelands, to foreign lands thousands of miles away, in the new era, the vast number of Chinese sons and daughters at home and abroad are linked heart and hand, resonating with one mind, gathering a common voice——
“The united Chinese nation is the common root of all Chinese sons and daughters at home and abroad; the 博大精深 (bó dà jīng shēn - “broad, great, profound and deep,” extensive and profound) Chinese culture is the common soul of all Chinese sons and daughters at home and abroad; realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the common dream of all Chinese sons and daughters at home and abroad.”
Using overseas Chinese as a bridge, bringing overseas Chinese strength into play
Boao, Hainan. Coconut breezes blow gently, waves sound in bursts.
On March 25, the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2026 Roundtable Meeting of Chinese Business Leaders and Chinese Think Tanks was held as scheduled. “I have never missed the annual roundtable,” said Zhang Yin (张茵), Honorary President of the China Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs Association (中国侨商联合会). “Everyone learns and exchanges with each other, sharing the dividends brought by China’s policies.”
Chinese-style modernization, the Belt and Road Initiative, digital-intelligence empowering industrial upgrading… The attending guests exchanged views on the same stage, the atmosphere was warm. This vivid scene is a microcosm of our country’s role in leveraging overseas Chinese wisdom and capital to serve national economic and social development.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “Our reform, opening up, and development construction undertakings are inseparable from the large number of overseas Chinese who 心系桑梓 (xīn xì sāng zǐ - “heart tied to mulberry and catalpa,” caring deeply about one’s hometown) and care deeply about the motherland.”
Using overseas Chinese as a bridge, bringing overseas Chinese strength into play. In the new era, various regions and departments closely integrate promoting the development of overseas Chinese undertakings with serving major national strategies, focusing on increasing efforts to introduce overseas Chinese wisdom and capital.
Promoting and implementing various facilitation measures to serve overseas talents, creating a good development environment for their work and life in China; promulgating the Foreign Investment Law and its regulations, repeatedly revising the negative list for foreign investment access, significantly relaxing restrictions on foreign investment access; holding the World Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention (世界华侨华人工商大会), the China Overseas Chinese Investment Conference (中国侨商投资大会), supporting the holding of the World Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention (世界华商大会) at home and abroad, encouraging overseas Chinese entrepreneurs to play a role in China’s high-quality economic development… One after another measure promotes the advantages of overseas Chinese wisdom and capital to be brought into play, effectively serving the national economic and social development.
In Minning Town (闽宁镇), at the eastern foot of the Helan Mountains in Ningxia, overseas Chinese from Fujian and enterprises funded by overseas Chinese, harboring the 初心 (chū xīn - “original aspiration”) of loving the country and hometown and revitalizing the nation through industry, crossed mountains and seas, took root in the frontier, and helped transform the former Gobi desert into tens of thousands of acres of vineyards. Overseas Chinese wisdom and capital are deeply integrated into the entire process of the Fujian-Ningxia collaboration, allowing the fruits of Fujian-Ningxia collaboration to go beyond the northwest and reach the world.
In the Shantou Overseas Chinese Economic and Cultural Cooperation Pilot Zone (汕头华侨经济文化合作试验区) in Guangdong, the local area builds bridges to introduce overseas Chinese wisdom and capital, the cross-border digital economy industrial park construction is in full swing, strings of code build bridges connecting the world in the digital age, and Shantou leverages the ‘digital express’ to achieve a higher level of opening up.
Participating in the Belt and Road Initiative construction, building solid bridges of people-to-people connectivity; anchoring high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening, committing to innovation and tackling key problems; leveraging the advantage of bridging China and foreign countries, telling China’s story well, spreading Chinese culture; participating in non-governmental exchanges and interactions, promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind… The vast number of overseas Chinese have left solid footprints in many areas of our country’s economic and social development and international exchanges.
This year is the beginning of the ‘15th Five-Year Plan’ period, and the vast number of overseas Chinese are ushering in new era opportunities. The grand blueprint outlined in the ‘15th Five-Year Plan’ outline is being transformed into a broad stage for overseas Chinese entrepreneurs and enterprises to realize their aspirations.
Embarking on the ‘15th Five-Year Plan,’ the vast number of overseas Chinese have risen to action, seizing historic opportunities, leveraging advantages in capital, technology, and networks, becoming an important link in facilitating the smooth domestic-international dual circulation in a two-way endeavor, sharing development opportunities and creating a better life together with people of all countries.
Benefiting and assisting overseas Chinese, safeguarding overseas Chinese rights and interests
“Our strong motherland is our solid backing!” “Thank the country! Seeing our warships, I feel the strength of the motherland, I am very proud.”
On April 27, 2023, at around 10 a.m. local time, two silver-gray warships slowly entered the port of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with the five-starred red flag fluttering in the wind on the masts. On the dock, the welcoming crowd held up a huge five-starred red flag and unfurled a red banner reading “Welcome compatriots of the motherland back to the warm harbor.” The Chinese Navy warships carrying 678 evacuees from Sudan crossed the Red Sea and arrived in Saudi Arabia.
This was an unforgettable evacuation operation. Sincere words expressed people’s excited feelings.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out, “We must strengthen ties with overseas Chinese, returned overseas Chinese, and their family members, and safeguard their legitimate rights and interests.”
Bearing in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important entrustment to “be the intimate person for overseas Chinese, returned overseas Chinese, and their family members, and become a doer in overseas Chinese affairs work,” overseas Chinese affairs workers at all levels in the new era continue to deepen service measures for overseas Chinese, continuously enhancing their tangible sense of gain, happiness, and security.
—— Further improve laws, regulations, and policies related to overseas Chinese. Promote the inclusion of the law on the protection of the rights and interests of overseas Chinese into the legislative plan of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress; guide localities to research and promulgate regulations on the protection of overseas Chinese historical and cultural relics; formulate guiding opinions on the construction of a domestic public service system for overseas Chinese; formulate and issue documents to legally protect the right to education of children of overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese students.
—— Continuously improve policies and measures benefiting overseas Chinese. Establish service platforms for overseas Chinese such as ‘Overseas Chinese Home (侨之家),’ ‘Overseas Compatriots Home (侨胞之家),’ ‘New Overseas Chinese Station (新侨驿站),’ etc., to open up the ‘last mile’ of service; vigorously promote ‘Internet + service for overseas Chinese,’ letting data run more and overseas Chinese run less; build an identity authentication platform for entry-exit documents; implement facilitation policies for foreign nationals of Chinese descent to apply for multiple-entry visas, long-term residence, and permanent residence.
An old overseas Chinese ancestral house carries the nostalgia that stretches across generations; a thin qiaopi letter entrusts the concern that crosses mountains and seas. On July 1 this year, the ‘Fujian Province Regulations on the Protection of Overseas Chinese Historical and Cultural Relics (福建省华侨历史文化遗存保护条例)’ officially came into effect, marking a new stage where the protection of Fujian’s overseas Chinese historical and cultural relics has laws to follow and is systematically promoted, allowing wandering sons abroad, no matter where they are, to follow the imprints of their homeland and feel the warmth of home.
For many overseas Chinese, returning to China to handle affairs is troublesome. To facilitate overseas Chinese, Qingtian (青田), Zhejiang has built a ‘cross-border platform’ for overseas Chinese to handle affairs, using the Qingtian Public Security WeChat public account to open a ‘global one-stop service (全球通办)’ function, realizing ‘cross-border handling’ and ‘remote handling’ of 45 items in three major categories: household registration, entry-exit, and vehicle management, including reissuing household registers, splitting households at the same address, and extending driver’s licenses.
The ‘15th Five-Year Plan’ outline states: “Fully implement the Party’s policies on overseas Chinese affairs, better consolidate the hearts and strength of overseas Chinese, and give play to the role of ties such as clan relatives, fellow townsmen, and ancestral culture.”
Thousands of rivers and mountains do not separate the will of like-minded people. Standing at a new historical starting point, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, under the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, overseas Chinese affairs work in the new era will continue to 守正创新 (shǒu zhèng chuàng xīn - “uphold fundamental principles and break new ground,” to maintain correct principles while innovating), keep moving forward, consolidate the hearts and strength of overseas Chinese, and make new contributions and write new chapters for comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization.
On the afternoon of July 26, this year’s 12th typhoon, Hongxia (红霞), weakened to a tropical storm level. At 17:00, its center was located within Fogang County (佛冈县), Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province. The maximum wind force around its periphery was Force 8 (20 meters per second), and the minimum central pressure was 992 hPa. It is forecast that “Hongxia” will move in a northerly direction at a speed of approximately 15 kilometers per hour, passing through the central part of Guangdong. It is expected to enter southern Hunan in the early morning of the 27th, weaken to a tropical depression in northern Hunan in the early morning of the 28th, and move into Hubei during the daytime of the 28th, with its intensity gradually weakening.
Affected by it, from 20:00 on the 26th to 20:00 on the 27th, the northern, eastern, and southern parts of the South China Sea, the southwestern part of the East China Sea, and the coast of Guangdong will experience winds of Force 5 to 7, with gusts of Force 8 to 9; some land areas in northern Guangdong, southern Jiangxi, and southern Hunan will also have winds of around Force 5, with gusts of Force 6 to 7. From the night of the 26th to the 28th, parts of central and eastern Guangdong and the southern coast, western and southern Jiangxi, central and eastern Hunan, central and western Hubei, and central and southern Henan, among other areas, will experience heavy rain to torrential rain, with localized extremely heavy rain.
In addition, over the next three days, much of the eastern part of the Northwest, North China, the Huang-Huai, the Jiang-Huai, the Northeast, and the Sichuan Basin, among other areas, will experience showery or thundery weather, with localized heavy to torrential rain or extremely heavy rain. As the extent of high temperatures has decreased and their intensity has weakened, the National Meteorological Center (中央气象台) has lifted the yellow warning for high temperatures, but high temperatures persist in Inner Mongolia, the Sichuan Basin, and other areas.
At 18:00 on July 26, the National Meteorological Center issued a blue warning for typhoon, an orange warning for heavy rain, a meteorological risk warning for flooding of small and medium rivers, and a meteorological alert for waterlogging risk; it also continued to issue a yellow warning for severe convective weather. The Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) and the China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局) jointly issued a red meteorological warning for mountain torrent disasters; the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部) and the China Meteorological Administration jointly issued an orange meteorological risk warning for geological disasters.
On the morning of July 26, the Office of the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters (国家防总办公室) and the Ministry of Emergency Management (应急管理部) continued to organize a multi-department joint consultation to study and judge the development trends of Typhoon “Hongxia” and the heavy rainfall, and to study and deploy flood control and typhoon prevention work in key areas. The National Commission for Disaster Prevention, Reduction and Relief (国家防灾减灾救灾委员会), in response to the severe impact of the 12th typhoon “Hongxia” on Guangdong, activated a National Level IV disaster relief emergency response and dispatched a working group to the disaster area frontline to inspect the disaster situation on the ground, guiding and assisting local authorities in carrying out disaster relief work such as disaster verification, mass transfer and resettlement, and basic livelihood guarantees. The Office of the National Commission for Disaster Prevention, Reduction and Relief and the Ministry of Emergency Management, in response to the impact of Typhoon “Hongxia” and based on the needs of flood control, typhoon prevention, and disaster relief work in Guangdong, Jiangxi, Hunan, and other places, together with the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration (国家粮食和物资储备局), allocated 25,000 pieces of central disaster relief supplies, including folding beds, folding tables and stools, towel blankets, summer quilts, and family emergency kits, to the three provinces, supporting local authorities in properly carrying out emergency evacuation, resettlement, and relief work for affected people.
A reporter learned from the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) on July 26: The National Development and Reform Commission urgently arranged 100 million yuan of central budget investment to support Guangdong Province in post-disaster emergency recovery from the typhoon disaster, focusing on the post-disaster emergency recovery construction of damaged roads, water conservancy, and other infrastructure, as well as public service facilities such as schools and hospitals in the disaster area, to promote the restoration of normal production and living order as soon as possible.
Around the time of the typhoon’s landfall, Guangdong Province cumulatively transferred over 800,000 people at risk. At 11:00 on July 26, the Guangdong Provincial Flood Control Headquarters lowered the Level I emergency response for typhoon prevention to Level II; at 10:00 on July 26, the Guangdong Provincial Disaster Reduction Committee (广东省减灾委) raised the provincial Level III disaster relief emergency response to Level II, closely monitoring secondary disasters such as mountain torrents, landslides, and urban waterlogging induced by short-duration heavy rainfall. The Guangdong Provincial Department of Water Resources (广东省水利厅) continued to carry out various defense measures, urged flood control work for small and medium rivers and mountain torrent disasters, and strengthened patrol and defense of dangerous reservoirs, water conservancy projects under construction, rooftop ponds, high-dam ponds, and small hydropower stations, ensuring the safe operation of water conservancy projects during the flood season.
Starting from 17:00 on the 25th, the Hunan Provincial Emergency Committee (湖南省应急委员会) decided to simultaneously activate Level IV emergency response for flood control and natural disaster relief in 10 cities: Chenzhou, Yongzhou, Zhuzhou, Hengyang, Xiangtan, Changsha, Yiyang, Changde, Yueyang, and Loudi.
(Our reporters Jiang Xuehong, Deng Jianyang, Liu Wenxin, Wang Donghui, Liu Zhiqiang, Cheng Yuanzhou, Li Zong, Liu Wenxin)
Return to TopOn July 25, at the drying yard of a silk enterprise in Mengshan County (蒙山县), Wuzhou City (梧州市), Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, workers took advantage of the fine weather to dry xiangyunsha.
Photo by Wu Guangsheng (吴广升) (Image China (影像中国)).
By: 本报记者 李亚楠
At 10 a.m., on the border line at the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, strong winds whipped up sand and gravel. Kaisaer Tuerxun (开沙尔·吐尔逊), a border guard at the Pochengzi Border Checkpoint (破城子边境检查站) under the Akesu Border Management Detachment (阿克苏边境管理支队) of the Xinjiang Entry-Exit Border Inspection General Station, had already led his team members to begin a new day of patrol work.
The Pochengzi Border Checkpoint is located at the entrance of the Xiata Ancient Road (夏特古道) in Wensu County (温宿县), Akesu Prefecture, Xinjiang. This ancient road runs through the Tianshan Mountains from north to south and was a vital transportation route for exchanges between the northern and southern regions in ancient times. In the northeast side of the jurisdiction, six border guard duty posts have been established, safeguarding the tranquility of the border.
In 2016, upon hearing the news of recruiting border guards, Kaisaer Tuerxun was the first to sign up, and in April of the following year, he joined the border guard team.
"Every buckle must be carefully checked; no safety hazard can be left behind."
Here, for more than 220 days a year, winds of force 6 or above blow. Kaisaer Tuerxun's face is already covered with a layer of dust. The anti-slip boots under his feet made a "rustling" sound as they stepped on the gravel road. "Today, we need to focus on inspecting this section of the barbed wire fence. Every buckle must be carefully checked; no safety hazard can be left behind," Kaisaer Tuerxun said as he walked, reminding the young border guard beside him.
In summer, they fight floods and provide emergency rescue; in winter, they patrol the border through snow. Every blade of grass and every tree along the border line is deeply imprinted in Kaisaer Tuerxun's heart. "We are border guards. What we protect behind us is the happy life of our fellow villagers. No matter how hard or tiring, we must hold the line," Kaisaer Tuerxun said.
During the flood season of 2023, continuous heavy rain caused the river valley water level to surge, and a section of nearly 30 meters of the border fence was washed away by the flood, creating a security gap. Kaisaer Tuerxun led his team members to the site in the rain, braving the torrential currents to carry stones and reinforce sandbags. They fought continuously for 12 hours and finally erected a temporary barrier. Only after returning home did he discover that his hands had been cut by the barbed wire and the soles of his feet had been bruised by the gravel.
"There are no small matters on the border line." Kaisaer Tuerxun stayed up all night to compile the situation and report to the checkpoint. After research by the relevant departments, special funds were allocated to reinforce this section of the fence, and three additional flood monitoring points were set up.
Without closing his eyes for a day and a night, he cooperated with the police to solve a case of illegal herb gathering; searching for three days in the deep mountains, he found a herder trapped in the mountains and risked danger to rescue 10 sheep... Over the past nearly 10 years, Kaisaer Tuerxun has conducted nearly 3,000 border patrols, covering more than 40,000 kilometers, and has grown into the captain of the border guard team at Duty Post No. 1.
"Guarding the border line year after year, I know even more deeply what home and country mean to every person."
On Kaisaer Tuerxun's chest, a Party emblem badge (党员徽章) is pinned. "Since joining the Party, I have worn the Party emblem badge, reminding myself to always be a benchmark and set an example, to be a warrior loyal to the Party!"
In 2018, after his wife Xiazadanmu Maitiniyazi (夏扎旦木·买提尼牙孜) joined the border guard team, they moved their home to the duty post, located in an uninhabited area at an altitude of 2,000 meters, more than 150 kilometers from Wensu County town. "The wind blows from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, and buying daily necessities is inconvenient, but we have always persisted," Kaisaer Tuerxun said. They drank water from the river dam; in the first few years, they used solar power generation, and when the weather was bad, the electricity was insufficient, only enough for nighttime lighting. Now conditions have improved, with water purifiers installed, and Duty Post No. 1 has been connected to electricity.
To better patrol the border, Kaisaer Tuerxun took the lead, together with the village committee of Wusitangboyi Village (吾斯塘博依村), Bozidun Township (博孜墩乡), Wensu County, and border guards from other duty posts, to establish a mounted patrol team. When patrolling the border on horseback, the Party flag flutters over the motherland's border line. Xiazadanmu Maitiniyazi also took the lead among the female border guards to form a women's border defense mounted patrol team.
"Guarding the border line year after year, I know even more deeply what home and country mean to every person." In his essay, his son Kaidierdan Munisha (凯迪尔旦·木尼沙) described his parents' 言传身教 (yán chuán shēn jiào - "teach by word and deed").
"We have been stationed at the duty post year-round. Our son and daughter come here every year during their holidays to patrol the border with us on horseback, and they are as familiar as we are with every blade of grass and every tree along the border line," Kaisaer Tuerxun said.
Walking every patrol route well, completing every patrol task, protecting the homeland, and safeguarding the tranquility of the Xiata Ancient Road — this responsibility has been integrated into Kaisaer Tuerxun's blood. Inspired by Kaisaer Tuerxun, the other 36 border guards at the border checkpoint have all submitted applications for Party membership to the Party organization. Now, among the border guard team, there are seven Party members.
"Carry the people's urgent, difficult, worried, and longed-for concerns on our shoulders."
"Under the national grassland ecological subsidy policy, how much can we receive? How do we apply?" Not long ago, a herders' symposium was held in Wusitangboyi Village. At the meeting, in response to the question from the elderly Abuduwaili Tuniyazi (阿布都外力·吐尼亚孜), Kaisaer Tuerxun took out the policy list he carried with him and patiently explained the terms.
As a deputy to the 14th People's Congress of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区第十四届人大代表), Kaisaer Tuerxun is not only a "guardian" on the border line but also a "bridge of hearts" between the Party and the people. He proposed the formation of a "Horseback Propaganda Team" (马背宣讲队) composed of border guards, village cadres, and people's congress deputies, riding horses to shuttle among the yurts, delivering Party policies to every household in the pastoral area.
How to make policy propaganda more down-to-earth and more deeply rooted in people's hearts? The local residents are mostly Kirgiz (柯尔克孜族). Kaisaer Tuerxun and the propaganda team members adapted the key points into traditional Kirgiz ditties for singing in the pastoral areas. Since being elected as a people's congress deputy, the "Horseback Propaganda Team" he leads has gone deep into all eight administrative villages of the township, conducting a total of over 80 propaganda sessions and answering more than 300 policy questions from the masses, becoming a "mobile classroom" that shuttles through the grasslands and pastures, village groups, and alleyways, conveying the Party's voice.
"The people elected me as a deputy, so I must carry the people's urgent, difficult, worried, and longed-for concerns on my shoulders and truly do practical things for the people and solve their difficulties." Kaisaer Tuerxun's notebooks recording the people's sentiments have been completely filled in three volumes. They contain not only patrol records but also detailed notes of every appeal collected during his visits.
These appeals have been transformed into suggestions, gradually turning into tangible results: the local cultural and tourism department, together with professional teams, completed the design of tourism routes, and the first batch of 10 embroidery inheritors have received professional training; mobile medical vehicles for the pastoral areas regularly travel to remote village groups every month to provide diagnosis and treatment services; the reinforcement project for the irrigation canal has also been fully completed...
"I will always guard this land, be a good guardian of the territory, a propagandist of policies, and a close confidant of the masses, making the border line more secure and giving the herders a better life!" Standing in front of the newly built border guard station, Kaisaer Tuerxun looked at the continuous Tianshan Mountains in the distance, his tone firm.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 金 歆 王 丹
Those who continue working after reaching the statutory retirement age are commonly referred to as beyond-retirement-age workers (超龄劳动者). Among them are both retired rehired technical backbone and industry experts, and ordinary workers engaged in security, cleaning, housekeeping, logistics, etc., continuing to contribute “silver force” (银发力量) to society with their years of work experience.
But for a long time, the protection of beyond-retirement-age workers’ labor rights has faced legal difficulties. Once they encounter situations such as wage arrears, work injury identification, or overtime work, they often find it difficult to obtain effective relief. Where exactly are the blockages in protecting beyond-retirement-age workers’ rights and interests? How will the Interim Provisions on the Protection of Basic Rights and Interests of Beyond-Retirement-Age Workers (超龄劳动者基本权益保障暂行规定) (hereinafter referred to as the Interim Provisions), which officially took effect on July 1, promote the resolution of the rights-protection difficulties of beyond-retirement-age workers? The reporter conducted interviews on this matter.
The nature of the employment relationship is difficult to determine; previously, the protection of beyond-retirement-age workers’ rights and interests faced a legal predicament.
“Never take holidays off; the company requires work during the ‘May Day’ holiday and the Dragon Boat Festival.” This was recently reported by Mr. Tang (唐先生), a reader from Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province. His mother, Ms. Zhang (张女士), 58, started working as a cleaner for a property management company in February 2026. As a beyond-retirement-age worker, she earns over 2,000 yuan per month, with no mention of overtime pay. “And when the company signed the agreement, they only showed my mother the signature page. After signing, the company took the agreement away; my mother doesn’t even have a contract.”
On the afternoon of July 9 this year, while Ms. Zhang was cleaning as usual, she was hit by a passing vehicle, resulting in a foot fracture. “After the accident, the traffic police and relevant departments communicated with the property management company multiple times, requesting to see the service contract and insurance documents for liability determination and claims processing, but the company made excuses to evade responsibility,” Mr. Tang said on July 24.
During this period, Mr. Tang filed a complaint with the labor inspection department. The response was that the enterprise and the beyond-retirement-age worker have a service relationship (劳务关系), so the case was not accepted, and they stated, “If it is a service relationship, there is no such thing as work injury.”
Ms. Li (李女士) and two other beyond-retirement-age workers also encountered the same obstruction in resolving their wage arrears issue. They worked as room cleaners at a business hotel in Jinan, Shandong Province, and wages were unpaid for nearly six months from December 2025 to May 2026. Ms. Li applied for arbitration with the local labor arbitration department, but the arbitration department rejected it on the grounds that they were over 50 years old. Ms. Li had no choice but to file a lawsuit in court.
Why has the shortfall in protecting beyond-retirement-age workers’ rights and interests persisted for so long? A judge from the First Intermediate People’s Court of Beijing said: “The primary issue faced previously in protecting beyond-retirement-age workers’ rights and interests was the difficulty in determining the nature of the employment relationship.”
Siqin (斯琴), Associate Professor at Northwest University of Political Science and Law (西北政法大学), explained that for a long time, for a worker to enjoy the rights granted by labor law, such as social insurance, rest and leave, and minimum wage protection, the prerequisite was to be recognized as a worker in the legal sense, having a labor relationship (劳动关系) with the employing unit. If the relationship between the two parties is determined to be a service relationship (劳务关系), the rights and obligations are stipulated by the parties themselves; the worker does not automatically enjoy labor benchmark rights, and the labor inspection department has no jurisdiction.
Article 44 of the Labor Contract Law (劳动合同法) stipulates: “The labor contract is terminated under any of the following circumstances: … (2) the worker begins to receive basic old-age insurance benefits in accordance with the law”; while the Regulations on the Implementation of the Labor Contract Law (劳动合同法实施条例) clearly states: “When a worker reaches the statutory retirement age, the labor contract is terminated.”
Wang Tianyu (王天玉), Deputy Director of the Social Law Research Office at the Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院法学研究所), introduced that there is disagreement in practice regarding the above provisions. Due to the lack of clarity in legal provisions, in judicial practice, there are also significant differences in the standards and scales of judgment across regions regarding whether persons who have reached the statutory retirement age constitute a labor relationship: in Guangdong, Zhejiang and other places, any worker who has reached the statutory retirement age cannot establish a labor relationship with the employing entity; Jiangsu, Jilin and other places use “whether they receive old-age insurance benefits” as the criterion; Shanghai, Tianjin and other places adopt a flexible approach of “principle negation + exception recognition.”
“The ambiguity in rule determination has formed an inertial thinking in some grassroots law enforcement departments—as long as it is a beyond-retirement-age worker, it is uniformly treated as a service relationship, labor inspection does not intervene, labor arbitration does not accept it, and it is directly pushed to the court for civil litigation procedures,” Siqin said.
The inability to determine the nature of employment has also triggered a series of derivative issues. One prominent issue is the difficulty of work injury identification. According to the Work Injury Insurance Regulations (工伤保险条例), “material evidence proving the existence of a labor relationship (including a de facto labor relationship) with the employing unit” is one of the required documents for applying for work injury identification. Without a labor relationship, naturally, a work injury cannot be identified.
Previously, Sun Mou (孙某) from Jieyang City, Guangdong Province, was injured in a hit-and-run while working and applied for work injury identification with the local human resources and social security bureau. The bureau held that Sun had already reached retirement age when hired, was not within the scope of “workers” as defined by the Guangdong Province Work Injury Insurance Regulations (广东省工伤保险条例), did not have a labor relationship with the employing unit, and the employing unit had not paid work injury insurance premiums for him in the project-based insurance method, and therefore did not recognize the work injury.
The Interim Provisions fill a gap, but there are still issues to be further clarified during implementation.
On July 1, the Interim Provisions issued by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the National Health Commission, and three other departments officially took effect. Wang Tianyu said this is China’s first departmental regulation specifically protecting the rights and interests of beyond-retirement-age workers, and its issuance marks the transition of beyond-retirement-age worker rights protection from a “no law to rely on” gray area to an institutionalized baseline protection phase.
Specifically, this regulation focuses on resolving several issues:
Clarifying the protection objects. Ye Jingyi (叶静漪), Vice President and Secretary-General of the China Society of Social Law (中国社会法学研究会) and Professor at Peking University Law School, stated that the Interim Provisions state their theme at the outset, taking “workers who have exceeded the statutory retirement age” as the application starting point, no longer agonizing over whether the employment relationship is labor or service, and establishing the principle of “where there is labor, there is protection” (有劳动即有保护).
Improving the content of protection. Wang Tianyu introduced that the Interim Provisions require employing units to conclude written employment agreements with beyond-retirement-age workers, specifying work content, remuneration, working hours, rest and leave, labor protection, and other matters; and require providing work injury insurance for beyond-retirement-age workers and paying work injury insurance premiums, etc.
Opening up rights protection pathways. The Interim Provisions specify that disputes over labor remuneration, rest and leave, labor safety and health, and work injury protection shall be handled in accordance with the Labor Dispute Mediation and Arbitration Law of the People’s Republic of China (中华人民共和国劳动争议调解仲裁法).
Shen Jianfeng (沈建峰), Professor at the Law School of Central University of Finance and Economics (中央财经大学法学院), stated that one of the important breakthroughs of the Interim Provisions is to include labor rights disputes in situations without a labor relationship into the labor dispute processing procedure, promoting the transformation of labor disputes from “labor relationship disputes” to “labor rights disputes.”
“After the Interim Provisions came into effect, the labor department contacted me.” This was reported by Ms. Tian (田女士), a reader from Kunming City, Yunnan Province. Her mother, who worked in Fengtai District (丰台区), Beijing, had more than 10,000 yuan in wages owed. In June 2026, she sought help through the national wage arrears clue reporting mini-program (全国欠薪线索反映小程序) but was told that her mother, being 55 years old, was a beyond-retirement-age worker and not within the jurisdiction of the human resources and social security department, “so we should contact the labor union or apply for legal aid.” Just when her efforts were blocked and she was very frustrated, in mid-July, “it seems the labor department called the boss, and half of my mother’s owed wages were recovered.”
Some beyond-retirement-age worker rights protection issues can be handled through labor dispute arbitration channels based on this, but it should also be recognized that the Interim Provisions still have room for improvement.
Wang Tianyu believes that the primary issue is a significant gap in the scope of protection, with a large number of flexibly employed beyond-retirement-age workers excluded. He stated that the applicable objects of the Interim Provisions are “beyond-retirement-age workers hired by employing units,” i.e., beyond-retirement-age persons with a clear employing entity. But in reality, a large number of beyond-retirement-age workers work in flexible employment or new forms of employment, and they are not within the scope of protection.
A recent case confirms this. Mr. Liu (刘先生), a food delivery rider aged 60 in Chaoyang District (朝阳区), Beijing, had a dispute with the platform over the settlement of monthly wages. He reported to the labor inspection department, who informed him that even though the Interim Provisions have been implemented, such disputes are not within their scope of application.
Siqin stated that whether the Interim Provisions have retroactive effect for beyond-retirement-age worker rights disputes that occurred before their implementation is also an issue that needs clarification.
Ms. Wu (吴女士) worked in a restaurant in Jing’an County (靖安县), Jiangxi Province. She called the labor inspection line due to wage arrears, and the staff rejected her case on the grounds that “beyond-retirement-age means it is not a labor relationship.” Ms. Wu mentioned the “July new regulations,” and the other party clearly replied, “Disputes before July 1 are not accepted; only those after are handled.”
Reader Ms. Wang (王女士) also reported that her 67-year-old father started working as a cleaner for a company in Beijing in May 2025 and had been owed wages all along. There were over 20 cleaners like her father, each owed between 10,000 and 30,000 yuan. When seeking help from the labor inspection department, they said that for those over 60, they could only go to court.
After the Interim Provisions came into effect on July 1, she inquired again: “The human resources and social security bureau’s labor inspection department replied that they only manage wage arrears after July 1; only after the regulation is implemented can their labor inspection intervene. For before, we can only sue.”
Mr. Tang’s mother started work in February this year, and the accident occurred on July 9 this year. The labor inspection department still stated that since the start date was before the Interim Provisions were issued, they could not handle it under the new regulations. After repeated requests, the labor inspection department did communicate with the company, but the company has not taken any action to date.
In addition, Wang Tianyu introduced that regarding social insurance other than work injury insurance, the Interim Provisions follow the principle of voluntariness and consultation: beyond-retirement-age workers may continue to pay basic old-age insurance premiums and basic medical insurance premiums for employees in their personal capacity; with agreement through consultation with the employing unit, the unit may also pay basic old-age insurance premiums and basic medical insurance premiums for employees on their behalf. However, this “consultation insurance participation” model easily becomes a mere formality in the reality of unequal status between labor and capital.
Resolve the most prominent issues in protecting beyond-retirement-age workers’ rights and interests, and fortify the baseline of basic rights.
Ye Jingyi stated: “In recent years, various localities and departments have made many attempts to solve the problem of protecting beyond-retirement-age workers’ rights, and have also achieved many results.” In particular, the Interim Provisions, based on the reality of population aging, innovate institutional design, unify judgment standards, and solve the long-standing lack of rights and difficulties in rights protection faced by beyond-retirement-age workers. This is a major policy benefit that is bound to have a significant positive effect on beyond-retirement-age workers’ rights protection.
“Some contents of the Interim Provisions are more directional and principled; they can be further refined in the future, with supporting implementation rules issued,” Ye Jingyi said. For example, the Interim Provisions clearly state that employing units should provide work injury insurance for beyond-retirement-age workers and pay work injury insurance premiums, but also propose that work injury protection measures are to be formulated separately. “This easily leads to some localities, lacking detailed operational rules, being unable to implement the work injury protection for beyond-retirement-age workers, and there is an urgent need for supporting detailed norms to be implemented.”
There is also a similar situation reported by a reader: Master Worker Tan (谭师傅), a 62-year-old migrant worker, worked at a highway construction site in Zixi County (资溪县), Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province. When he arrived on site in April this year, he voluntarily requested to purchase work insurance, even willing to bear half the cost personally, but the site manager ignored this.
In May, an accident occurred at the site, and Master Worker Tan was seriously injured. The construction side, citing his lack of a labor contract and work injury insurance, refused to report the work injury and refused to provide surveillance footage, daily attendance photos, and other evidence that could verify the de facto labor relationship, which he personally had no right to access. Although the human resources and social security department clearly stated that the site had a legal obligation to cooperate with the work injury identification application and issued a Notice of Acceptance of Work Injury Identification Application (工伤认定受理通知书), the rights protection process was still not smooth. “Still negotiating with the boss; currently still determining the labor relationship,” Master Worker Tan said recently.
Wang Tianyu stated: “For situations where the employing unit fails to participate in insurance according to law, how to identify the work injury and have the unit bear the responsibility for work injury insurance benefits, and how to ensure that beyond-retirement-age workers receive the same work injury relief as standard workers, all need to be improved in subsequent systems.”
In addition, addressing issues such as the insufficient self-rights-protection capability of some beyond-retirement-age workers, Wang Tianyu believes that to truly open up the channels for beyond-retirement-age workers to protect their rights, it is also necessary to promote mechanism integration and implement a diversified collaborative governance structure.
The Interim Provisions propose that labor unions safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of beyond-retirement-age workers in accordance with the law, and that human resources and social security, health, tax, medical insurance departments, and others, together with labor unions and enterprise representative organizations, cooperate in doing a good job of protection according to their duties. However, in practice, the linkage mechanism between mediation and arbitration and administrative law enforcement is not yet sound, the function of labor unions in protecting rights is not fully exerted, and there are still barriers to information sharing and coordinated law enforcement between departments. How to build a closed loop from the declaration of rights to the realization of rights, and form a truly effective diversified main body governance structure, still requires continuous exploration in the operation of the system.
“As for the issue of the nature of the legal relationship between beyond-retirement-age workers and employing units, this still needs to be clarified at the legislative level in the future,” Ye Jingyi suggested.
Wang Tianyu believes that the next top priority is to clear the channel for employing units to handle work injury insurance for beyond-retirement-age workers, optimize the insurance participation process and work injury identification procedures, solve the most frequent and most intractable problems in protecting beyond-retirement-age workers’ rights and interests, and fortify the baseline of basic rights.
On this basis, the rate of signing written employment agreements with beyond-retirement-age workers should be further increased, and a special reporting hotline and rapid handling mechanism for small disputes should be established. In the long term, flexibly employed beyond-retirement-age workers should gradually be included in the scope of rights protection. The most urgent task currently is to provide occupational injury protection for this group, ultimately achieving full coverage of rights protection for beyond-retirement-age workers, so that every beyond-retirement-age worker can enjoy dignity and protection in work.
(Zhang Lingxi (张玲溪) contributed to this article.)
Return to TopWe are villagers of Aoshang Group (坳上组), Yangmei Village (杨梅村), Luoa Town (罗坳镇), Yudu County (于都县), Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province. In 2004, due to railway construction, a culvert with a width and height of only 2.5 meters was built on the only road connecting the village group (see figure).
This culvert is in a low-lying area and has no dedicated drainage ditch. Every rainy season, the culvert accumulates water, and accidents such as villagers falling while riding bicycles and motor vehicles suffering damage when wading through water have occurred many times. More seriously, because the culvert passage is narrow, fire trucks cannot pass.
Over the years, we have repeatedly reported the situation to relevant government departments, hoping to dredge the drainage ditches in the farmland around the culvert, widen and raise the culvert, or rebuild a road connecting the village group, but the problem remains unresolved to this day.
People's Daily Online "Leader's Message Board"
Return to TopPeople's Daily:
Your esteemed newspaper's July 6 "Readers' Letters" section published a reader's letter titled "Bus Stops Set in Green Belts" (公交站点设在绿化带里), pointing out the problem that the bus stop signs at our county's Xingfu North Road (幸福北路) Construction Bureau (建设局) and Riverside Garden (滨河花园) are set within the road green belts, causing inconvenience for travel and boarding. After learning of the situation, Donghai County (东海县) Transportation Bureau (交通局) immediately conducted an on-site inspection and, together with the housing and construction department (住建部门), formulated a rectification plan. At present, the bus shelters at the temporary bus stops at the former Construction Bureau on Xingfu North Road and Riverside Garden, as mentioned by the reader, have been installed in place (see picture).
Jiangsu Donghai County Transportation Bureau
Recently, some melon farmers in townships of Henan, due to watermelon sales stagnation, publicly sought help through the "Three Rural Issues Help Farmers" (三农助农) channel of Henan local media, hoping to use the media platform to release information, connect with the market, broaden sales channels, and reduce planting losses.
Smooth sales or stagnation of agricultural products are ordinary market fluctuations, and after stagnation occurs, widely publicizing to open up sales channels is also a normal demand of farmers. Unexpectedly, some village staff, upon learning that villagers had sought help from the media, did not go to the fields to verify the stagnation situation at the first opportunity, nor did they assist in contacting supermarkets and purchasers to expand sales channels; instead, they regarded the problem reported by farmers as negative public opinion and demanded that the villagers withdraw their letter requesting help.
With agricultural products in stagnation and farmers 心急如焚 (xīn jí rú fén - "heart anxious as if burned," extremely anxious), grassroots cadres discovering this situation should think of ways to provide necessary help. Even if their ability is limited and they cannot assist in overcoming difficulties, they should encourage and support villagers to seek help externally. How can they, in the name of negative public opinion, make farmers not speak out? This behavior of not helping and instead causing trouble not only deviates from the original intention of serving the people, but will also chill the hearts of grassroots masses. The actual difficulties reported by the people are the voice and sentiment of the people. Do not take the masses' requests for help as negative public opinion. Solving difficulties and relieving the people's worries is the correct approach to facing the people's voice and sentiment.
Henan Zhoukou City Liang Feng (梁峰)
Return to TopBy: 赵 兵 李令仪
“Encountering a jade-picking young man by the riverbank,” “Uncle selling leftover scraps at low prices,” “Little girl selling jade for her disabled father”… Recently, on short video platforms, a type of scripted video centered on jade customization has frequently appeared. The jade carvers in the videos always manage to acquire high-quality jade material at extremely low prices, which are then carved and polished into exquisite jade ornaments. Many consumers are attracted by phrases such as “snapping up bargains” (捡漏) and “master’s handcraft,” and order customized jade products, but upon receiving the goods, they find them vastly different from the promotion, and returning the goods or seeking rights protection is fraught with difficulties.
In April this year, Mr. Yang consulted a short video content creator named “Seeking Jade” (寻玉) about raw Hetian jade material. The other party told him that a piece of jade material originally priced at 23,000 yuan, through his own “efforts,” was obtained for 8,500 yuan, and claimed that the material’s quality was close to top-grade white mutton-fat jade. Mr. Yang believed it to be true and immediately paid for customization. After receiving the finished product, he found that the bracelet and the bead string were seriously inconsistent with the promotion.
Similar situations are not isolated cases. A reporter’s investigation found that some jade and jadeite customization merchants use carefully designed “scripts” to attract traffic. The videos often follow a similar pattern: first, vigorously bargaining with street vendors to purchase high-quality jade leftover scraps at “rock-bottom prices”; then filming the process of hand carving and polishing; finally displaying the finished product effect, creating the illusion of “snapping up bargains” of high-quality jade at low cost.
In these transaction scenarios, many links show clear traces of performance. Upon careful observation, one can see that the tool head of the processing machine in the video does not actually touch the jade material, and some material footage is even reused repeatedly. The final finished products also generally show traces of standardized computer machine carving, clearly differing from the “master’s handmade” claim in the promotion.
The reporter randomly contacted a merchant on the Douyin (抖音) platform who claimed to be a “jade carving master.” In the video he posted, the price of a piece of Hetian jade leftover scrap was bargained down from 3,000 yuan to 580 yuan, and it was made into a plain plaque (无事牌) and a bead string. However, when the reporter sent a private message to inquire about the same product, the other party did not quote a price, but instead asked to leave contact information, to be followed up by a dedicated person via WeChat. After adding the WeChat, the salesperson said that the high cost-performance jade material in the video “requires luck,” and then began recommending products with much higher prices, forming a stark contrast with the low-price promotion in the short video.
Are these scripted sales in short videos a marketing creativity or an illegal act? In this regard, Huang Yinxu (黄尹旭), associate professor at the Renmin University of China Law School (中国人民大学法学院), stated that actions such as fabricating bargaining and material acquisition, fabricating encounters with raw stones, and creating illusions of bargain finding may constitute false commercial advertising.
“If a merchant engages in false or misleading commercial propaganda regarding goods, deceiving or misleading consumers, it may violate the relevant provisions of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law and the Advertising Law,” Huang Yinxu said. If the propaganda content directly targets core information such as price, place of origin, and quality, and consumers, based on the false propaganda information, develop a mistaken understanding and purchase the goods, it may constitute consumer fraud. According to the Consumer Rights Protection Law, consumers have the right to claim triple damages; if the amount is less than 500 yuan, it is calculated as 500 yuan.
Experts stated that the key to distinguishing reasonable propaganda from false propaganda lies in whether the content of the propaganda involves core facts of the goods. Optimizing the display of jade appearance through lighting, color adjustment, and other methods is a relatively common propaganda method in the industry and does not change the attributes of the goods themselves. However, if the jade’s place of origin or natural attributes are fabricated, the bargaining process and transaction scenes are forged, or treatment processes such as dyeing and filling are concealed, then it constitutes fabrication of core facts of the goods and is suspected of false propaganda.
The marketing tricks for jade and jadeite are constantly being renewed, and there are still many old problems in the jade customization field, such as insufficient after-sales protection and difficulties in refunding and returning goods. For example, a reader came into contact with a certain jadeite customization merchant through the Xiaohongshu (小红书) platform. After adding WeChat, the other party sent a large number of pictures of high-quality raw stones and guided her to pay 5,800 yuan to customize jadeite. The final finished product received differed significantly from the previously agreed size and color. The reader requested a refund, but the merchant refused on the grounds of “customized goods are non-refundable and non-exchangeable.”
“It is legally baseless for merchants to refuse after-sales service on the grounds that customized goods are generally not returnable. Consumers have the right to claim refunds and returns when statutory conditions are met,” Huang Yinxu stated. Customized goods also need to meet the quality standards agreed upon by both parties. If situations such as goods not matching the sample or quality non-conformity occur, consumers still enjoy the statutory right to return goods and obtain refunds; merchants cannot exempt themselves from responsibility on the grounds of customization.
Because jade is a typical non-standardized commodity, consumers often face difficulties in providing evidence when seeking rights protection. In this regard, Huang Yinxu advises consumers to do a good job of retaining evidence in advance. One should completely save short videos, live-stream replay screen recordings, especially the content of the blogger’s promises about material, origin, appearance, and price. When receiving the goods, it is best to record the entire unboxing video to document the original state of the goods, while also keeping chat records, payment vouchers, and the after-sales communication process. When necessary, one can also entrust a professional appraisal institution to issue an appraisal opinion to provide evidence support for subsequent rights protection.
It is worth noting that the “Measures for the Supervision and Administration of Live Streaming E-commerce” (直播电商监督管理办法), implemented from February 1 this year, has made targeted regulations on related disorders in live-stream marketing. The measures clearly delineate the responsibilities of live-streaming platforms, live-stream room operators, live-stream marketers, and MCN (multi-channel network information content distribution service) institutions, explicitly prohibiting false or misleading commercial propaganda regarding product quality, source, and sales status, providing clear law enforcement basis for governing the disorders of “scripted bargaining” and “fabricated bargain-finding” in the jade industry. At the same time, it requires live-streaming e-commerce platforms to save data such as live-stream content, transaction information, and interaction records for no less than three years, solving at the institutional level the pain point of previous live-stream content “disappearing after viewing” and consumers having no means to present evidence.
Experts remind that in the face of endless tricks in short videos, consumers should maintain rational judgment, not easily believe scripted marketing, and try to request written confirmation for key information concerning jade quality, grade, and place of origin. For “bargain-finding” products with prices significantly below market levels, one should be even more vigilant to avoid falling into consumption traps.
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 智春丽 曹怡晴 陈圆圆 周 欢
On July 25, the “Jingdezhen Handmade Porcelain Industry Heritage” (景德镇手工瓷业遗存) was successfully inscribed on the World Heritage List, filling the gap in the World Heritage List for the theme of “porcelain.”
“China’s fine traditional culture has never been interrupted from ancient times to the present; ceramics are a Chinese treasure and an important名片 of Chinese civilization.” In October 2023, during his first local inspection after the National Conference on Propaganda, Ideology, and Cultural Work, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Jiangxi, entered Jingdezhen, and made cultural inheritance and development a key focus of this inspection.
Under the guidance of Xi Jinping’s cultural thought, Jingdezhen is undergoing a modern “kiln transformation” (窑变): the genes of innovation and creativity contained in cultural heritage are being continuously activated, and humanity and economy are being fused together with unprecedented depth, presenting a new-era cultural scroll that is magnificent and where ancient and modern shine together.
—— Editor’s Note ——
Kiln fire condenses poetry; porcelain speaks for China.
“China has long been called the nation of porcelain, and the peak of the porcelain industry is this capital.” A 2,000-year history of pottery, a 1,000-year history of official kilns, and a 600-year history of imperial kilns—the miracle of the world’s creation and the legend of the Oriental porcelain palace are all concentrated in one city of China: Jingdezhen.
Why Jingdezhen?
The answer lies in the thousand-year unextinguished kiln fire, and is even more written in the profound assertion of humanistic economics that “uses culture to educate people, uses culture to benefit the people, uses culture to enrich the city, and uses culture to revitalize industry.” In this living thousand-year porcelain capital, material civilization and spiritual civilization grow and nurture each other; the new connotations, new formats, and new scenes of ceramic culture are becoming the deep driving force for the city’s transformation.
One color entering the kiln, ten thousand colors emerging from the kiln. The change in Jingdezhen is very much like the “kiln transformation” full of imagination and possibility after the porcelain blank enters the kiln—there is the change in the craft of porcelain, the change in the transformation of the porcelain industry, and even the rebirth from the fire of the porcelain capital.
The Change in Porcelain
“China’s fine traditional culture has never been interrupted from ancient times to the present; ceramics are a Chinese treasure and an important名片 of Chinese civilization.”
Porcelain is both for daily use and for aesthetics. From technological innovation to aesthetic narrative, from the utility of objects to the pursuit of value, Jingdezhen porcelain, “shining with luster and abundant beauty” (光致茂美), is a vivid testimony to the long “kiln transformation.”
— A piece of porcelain measures the continuity and innovation of Chinese civilization.
At the Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Factory National Archaeological Site Park, layers of strata are deposited as pages of history: Song and Yuan ceramics in the lower layers, Ming and Qing ceramics stacked above, 17 horseshoe kilns lined up in a row, and beneath them are buried even more ancient 24 horseshoe kilns and 4 egg-shaped kilns.
“China’s fine traditional culture has never been interrupted from ancient times to the present; ceramics are a Chinese treasure and an important名片 of Chinese civilization.” General Secretary Xi Jinping spoke with feeling.
Famous kilns emerged in the Tang and Song dynasties; the light and elegant bluish-white porcelain matured; in the Yuan dynasty, Yaoli glaze stone met with imported Persian Su- ma- li- qing (苏麻离青) to paint the moving blue-and-white on large dragon jars; in the Ming and Qing dynasties, vessel forms such as meiping and baoyueping were 兼收并蓄 (jiān shōu bìng xù - “to incorporate things of diverse nature,” to embrace and absorb everything), and techniques such as colored glazes and famille rose 独辟蹊径 (dú pì xī jìng - “to open a new path alone,” to blaze a new trail)... Time, wisdom, and sweat condensed into the world-renowned Oriental legend.
— A piece of porcelain reveals the path of “creative transformation and innovative development” (两创) of China’s fine traditional culture.
How to accurately “decode” more than 20 million pieces of ancient porcelain fragments? In 2022, the country’s first ancient ceramics gene bank was established in Jingdezhen. 12,000 specimens and nearly one million data points integrate the evolution of ceramic body, glaze color, decoration, and vessel form into modern algorithms, giving the ancient porcelain fragments scattered in the depths of time a complete “DNA archive.”
The open ancient ceramics gene bank allows the general public to participate more extensively, providing more possibilities for creative transformation and innovative development.
How to successfully “translate” the profound cultural heritage? The restored Ming Chenghua three-color duck-shaped incense burner from the Imperial Kiln Museum has become the internet-savvy “Suisui Duck” (岁岁鸭), a “spiritual companion” for young people; the dance drama Only I Am Bluish White (唯我青白) dances with “porcelain shadows” of bowls, saucers, plates, and bottles from the Song and Yuan dynasties, telling the ancient charm reborn in “gathering the essence of all the world’s craftsmen and assembling the achievements of all the world’s famous kilns”; cultural and creative products enter porcelain—ancient “haute couture” such as Yuan blue-and-white and rice-pattern porcelain become modern “hot items”...
Connecting tradition and modernity, integrating culture and economy, in the “two creations” (两创), Jingdezhen writes a “great article” on the coordination of material civilization and spiritual civilization.
One porcelain carries ancient and modern.
“The best inheritance of history is to create new history; the greatest respect for human civilization is to create new forms of human civilization.”
The change in Jingdezhen porcelain witnesses the continuity and innovation of the thousand-year ceramic culture, carries the contemporary aura of the endless vitality of Chinese civilization, and precipitates the deep and enduring humanistic background of Chinese-style modernization.
The Change in the Porcelain Industry
“The fine traditional culture handed down by our ancestors, we must continue to hold firmly in our hands, keep pace with the times, and let it be carried forward.”
The thousand-year road of porcelain-making lies in “guarding” but even more in “innovation.”
Eight trades, thirty-six lines, seventy-two processes—transmitted and evolving through the years, step by step forging the “peak of the porcelain industry.”
— Generation-after-generation continuous perseverance and determination.
Great-grandfather pulled the clay, grandfather prepared the glaze, father painted blue-and-white—the craft has been passed down to Sun Lixin (孙立新), a provincial-level intangible cultural heritage representative inheritor of traditional blue-and-white porcelain making techniques, already the fourth generation. What the ancestors left behind is not only techniques, but also the simple craftsman spirit that is “all in the heart.”
In Jingdezhen, more than 20,000 young people are busy at the front line of porcelain making.
General Secretary Xi Jinping was quite emotional: “I am very glad to see that the porcelain cause has so many inheritors and successors; this cause must continue to develop.”
“To do one thing for a lifetime, for generations and generations to do one thing, is not a simple matter. We must insist on walking our own path and cannot 见异思迁 (jiàn yì sī qiān - “to see something different and want to change,” to be inconstant or vacillate). The fine traditional culture handed down by our ancestors, we must continue to hold firmly in our hands, keep pace with the times, and let it be carried forward.”
— The boldness and courage to dare to break through and dare to act.
From manufacturing, moving toward “intelligent manufacturing.” Relying on material innovation, ordinary porcelain completes a cross-border transformation.
In Changnan New District, a 78-meter fully automated strong reduction tunnel kiln was successfully ignited, allowing rice-pattern porcelain and colored glaze porcelain to be fired on a large scale in the same kiln; dry powder enters the machine, forming a blank in 8 seconds; the fully automatic glazing line glazes over 1,500 pieces per hour, matching the day’s labor of traditional manual work; aiming at application fields such as communication electronics, new energy, aerospace, and biomedical, advanced ceramics open new tracks and become key materials supporting the development of emerging industries...
One furnace of kiln fire is now using digital intelligence as fuel, burning out the new flame of high-quality development.
Firing, and even more pursuing creation. The “ceramics+” model extends formats and broadens scenes.
Collaborating with well-known brands, traditional techniques such as “扒花” (engraved decoration) and enamel create limited-edition trendy toys, “winning fans” among young consumer groups; with the help of live streaming, ceramic products combine with modern artistic creativity to become a new growth point for innovation and entrepreneurship; integrating into life and social interaction, ceramic production enterprises actively cross borders to create offline experiential scenes...
Traditional culture must be inherited, characteristic industries must be revitalized—find the point of combination, and the two empower each other.
Kiln fire burns bright every night; porcelain comes out every day.
“Every civilization continues the spiritual bloodline of a nation and a country. It needs not only to be passed down from generation to generation and guarded by each generation, but also to 薪火相传 (xīn huǒ xiāng chuán - “to pass the fire from one piece of firewood to the next,” to pass on the torch of knowledge or tradition from generation to generation) and keep pace with the times and have the courage to innovate.”
Art ceramics are moving toward advanced ceramics; product upgrades drive experience upgrades. The transformation path that Jingdezhen’s porcelain industry has forged once again confirms this profound judgment.
The Change in the Porcelain Capital
“Make the ‘Thousand-Year Porcelain Capital’ this bright business card even brighter”
“Thirteen li of Taoyang, a hundred thousand homes of smoke and fire.” When you come to Jingdezhen, you must see Taoyangli.
Viewed from the air, more than 160 old kiln sites and 108 old alleyways connect into a network; the blue-gray rooftops stretch like waves, with protection first and restoration as before (修旧如旧).
Placed within, residential houses, guild halls, and porcelain shops have been transformed into intangible cultural heritage museums, handcraft workshops, and coffee shops, open and alive. Tourists, craftsmen, and “foreign Jing drifters” (洋景漂) gather here.
“A city is for holding its people.” The renewal of the old city has the skill of “embroidering flowers” and even more the thought of people’s livelihood. The old and new of a street alley reflect the gains and losses of the ancient city.
In 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to the Taoyangli Historical and Cultural Block, learned with great interest about the processes of porcelain-making techniques, the inheritance and innovation of ceramic culture, and foreign exchanges, and pointed out: “Make the ‘Thousand-Year Porcelain Capital’ this bright business card even brighter.”
The atmosphere of烟火气 (smoke and fire of daily life) gathers new momentum. In 2025, Taoyangli received more than 5 million domestic tourists. The two-way rush of people and city vividly interprets Jingdezhen’s “magnetic attraction” effect, confirming that “places where culture is developed can still have the economy leading the way.”
— The youthful and international style of a market reflects a “city of youth.”
Mottled red walls merge with cultural and creative markets; tall chimneys frame with modern sculptures... Taoxichuan, once the state-owned Universal Porcelain Factory, is now a trendy “internet-famous” check-in spot for fashion and creativity.
In the thousand-year porcelain capital, the figures of young people are everywhere: Chen Saijie (陈赛杰), who chose to stay after graduation, walked out of the “first kilometer” of entrepreneurship under the support of policies such as the “Jing drift loan” (景漂贷); post-2000 young man Hu Yiming (胡一鸣), starting from a street stall, slowly polished his own original brand; French student Ke Yang (柯杨) crossed the ocean to settle in the porcelain capital, blending the volcanoes and ocean elements of Réunion into Oriental glazes...
60,000 “Jing drifters” (景漂) and thousands of “foreign Jing drifters,” from all over the world, gather because of porcelain. The ancient land is “growing backwards” in innovation and creation.
Focus on people, land on people.
“The essence of ‘cultural economy’ lies in the integrated development of culture and economy, and in the final analysis, it must highlight the word ‘people.’”
Why Jingdezhen? Clay, glaze materials, and biscuit can be bought “in one stop”; porcelain-making workshops are spread throughout the city; supporting services such as the Sanbao International Ceramic Art Village “Home of Jing Drifters” precisely support. Where the smoke and fire of daily life rise, that is also where happiness lands.
— One porcelain spans a thousand years, civilization crosses mountains and seas, achieving a “world city.”
“We must build the Jingdezhen National Ceramic Culture Heritage and Innovation Pilot Zone well, and create a new platform for foreign cultural exchanges.”
This is a broad global vision. The China Jingdezhen International Ceramic Expo, the World Mayor Dialogue, the International Academy of Ceramics Congress, etc., create a feast of exchange; Jingdezhen ceramic stores are established overseas, transforming into cross-cultural spaces for porcelain and tea exchange experiences; relying on platforms such as the “Silk Road Tourism Cities Alliance,” Jingdezhen has established friendly relations with 72 countries and more than 180 cities... Porcelain travels the world, conveying the gentle and warm Oriental aesthetics to the world, vividly telling “Why China.”
This is a revived cultural atmosphere. Not only Jingdezhen. In Suzhou, Jiangsu, watch the digital rebirth of ancient silk patterns, weaving a “double-sided embroidery” of cultural prosperity and economic flourishing; walking in Jingmai Mountain, Yunnan, taste the new fragrance of tea in the ancient tea forest, “green traffic” opens the development scroll of the integration of agriculture, culture, and tourism.
Carrying the Chinese cultural lineage, telling Chinese stories well, the two-way rush of culture and economy interprets “from ancient times to ancient times” (亘古亘今) in innovation and creation.
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The “c” in “china” – lowercase is “porcelain,” uppercase is “China.” Once, with the camel bells of the desert and the waves of the sea, Jingdezhen porcelain traveled far, writing the Oriental legend. Today, inheriting a thousand years, the kiln fire never goes out, and humanistic economics gives birth to a new “kiln transformation.”
The significance of this “kiln transformation” has long transcended the city itself.
“Contemporary Chinese Communists and the Chinese people should and certainly can take up new cultural missions, make cultural creations in practical creation, and achieve cultural progress in historical progress!” We have such pride and confidence.
Listen—this is the sound of a city being reborn in the kiln fire!
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Porcelain has influenced the human way of life and also promoted the integration and development of human aesthetics. The 10th to 19th centuries, in which the Jingdezhen Handmade Porcelain Industry Heritage (景德镇手工瓷业遗存) is situated, were the golden age of China's porcelain industry development and also the period when Chinese porcelain produced broad worldwide influence.
The Jingdezhen Handmade Porcelain Industry Heritage is a world heritage project with highly composite characteristics, encompassing multiple types of immovable tangible heritage while also involving the natural landscape environment and intangible cultural heritage related to the porcelain industry. The constituent elements that make up this vast heritage project are closely linked together through the complete handmade porcelain industry工序, the industrial chain distribution, and the historical evolution process.
In physical space, the water systems around Jingdezhen closely connect the town area (镇区), which served as the center of porcelain production within this heritage, with the origins of porcelain clay, porcelain stone, and glaze materials—Gaoling (高岭) and Yaoli (瑶里)—as well as the historical production area of kiln fuel—Lifang (礼芳)—forming a landscape morphology that includes urban landscape, mining landscape, rural mountain and forest landscape, and the natural features of water systems and mountains and forests.
From the historical perspective of the porcelain industry, the heritage constituent elements include the Hutian Ancient Porcelain Kiln Site (湖田古瓷窑址), which reflects the stage of mutual borrowing and integrated development of northern and southern Chinese porcelain-making techniques in Jingdezhen; the Luomaqiao Kiln Site (落马桥窑址), which reflects the production of blue-and-white porcelain and the management institutions of the porcelain industry in the Yuan Dynasty; the Guanyinge Kiln Site (观音阁窑址), which reflects the introduction of new glaze materials and the formation of new styles in the porcelain industry; and the Imperial Kiln Factory (御窑厂) and related civilian kiln remains in the town area from the Ming and Qing dynasties, when the level of Chinese porcelain-making was pushed to its peak.
From the industrial chain perspective, the Jingdezhen Handmade Porcelain Industry Heritage includes remains from all stages of raw material extraction, refining and processing, blank forming, glazing and painting, firing and completion, and packaging and transportation, involving various temples, streets, alleyways, and dockyards associated with the mining, kiln, commercial, and transportation industries.
The process by which the Jingdezhen Handmade Porcelain Industry Heritage became a world heritage is also an important practice of the holistic and systematic protection of China's cultural heritage. Digital technology enables the display of what was originally esoteric archaeological knowledge through virtual reality, mixed reality, and other methods, helping the public to understand and appreciate them. Today, in Jingdezhen's handmade porcelain industry, there are not only inheritors who carry forward traditional porcelain-making techniques and skills, but also a large number of young, energetic practitioners, as well as ceramic artists from all over the world. In Jingdezhen, the creative industry based on ceramic art has achieved further development and prosperity, and the protection of heritage is organically integrated with the sustainable development of society, economy, and people's lives.
(The author is the Director of the National Heritage Center of Tsinghua University (清华大学国家遗产中心).)
Return to TopChengdu, July 26 (People's Daily) — (Reporter Jin Xin (金歆)) As one of the important activities of the 2026 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Digital Week, on the 25th, the APEC Citizens' AI Literacy Enhancement Action New Concepts and New Pathways Seminar was held in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province.
This seminar was hosted by the Cyberspace Administration of China (国家互联网信息办公室). The meeting set up two special discussions: "Improving Universal Education on AI Literacy, Helping the Whole Population Cross the Digital Divide" and "Fortifying the Safety Defense Line of AI Literacy, Creating a Safe and Healthy Digital Environment". More than 200 representatives from various sectors including government, business, academia, and research, as well as representatives of international organizations, from APEC member economies and observers attended the forum.
At the seminar, a relevant official from the Cyberspace Administration of China stated that the Chinese government attaches great importance to the enhancement of the whole population's AI literacy, has issued documents such as the Action Outline for Enhancing the Whole Population's Digital Literacy and Skills (提升全民数字素养与技能行动纲要) and the Ethical Safety Guidelines for AI Application 1.0 (人工智能应用伦理安全指引1.0), has made the popularization and application of AI a key task, has released the Global Cooperation Initiative on Mutual Trust, Interconnection and Interoperability of Intelligent Agents (智能体互信互联互操作全球合作倡议), and has promoted the fruits of AI development to benefit all types of entities, with relevant work achieving positive results. In the future, it is willing to work together with APEC member economies to share good practices and valuable experiences with each other, and jointly advance the construction of AI literacy.
Return to TopOur newspaper Beijing, July 26th (Reporter Zhang He (张贺)). The publication symposium for the Xinhua Dictionary (13th edition) was held on the morning of the 26th at the China International Publishing Exchange Center (中国国际出版交流中心).
Participants reviewed the compilation and revision journey of the Xinhua Dictionary, which has taken root among the people and kept pace with the times for over 70 years. They engaged in in-depth exchanges around topics such as the revision philosophy, contemporary value, and linguistic and cultural dissemination of the Xinhua Dictionary (13th edition), and discussed practical paths for lexicography to assist in building a culturally strong country, promoting nationwide reading, and fostering ethnic integration and international cultural exchange. Participants believed that the Xinhua Dictionary is a knowledge project presented in the form of word and entry items, manifesting cultural genes and treasuring national and family memories. Its compilation, revision, and use maintain the standards of the national common language and script, explain new knowledge and common sense, and have far-reaching significance for inheriting China's excellent traditional culture and enhancing the national cultural soft power.
This symposium was hosted by China Publishing Group Corp. (中国出版集团有限公司) and organized by the Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院语言研究所), the Commercial Press (商务印书馆), and the Chinese Lexicographical Society (中国辞书学会). Experts and scholars from the fields of linguistics, lexicography, publishing, and education gathered together to jointly witness the renewal and departure of this national dictionary.
The Xinhua Dictionary is the first modern standard Chinese dictionary of New China (新中国) and also the most influential small-scale Chinese dictionary to date. First published in 1953, it has now been revised to the 13th edition, with a cumulative print run exceeding 700 million copies, making it the most widely distributed reference book in the world. The revision of the Xinhua Dictionary (13th edition) adheres to the requirements of serving the economic, social, and cultural needs of the new era and new journey, and based on the principles of "stability, standardization, scientificity, timeliness, functionality, and orientation," combined with the general laws of reference book revision and the distinctive features of the Xinhua Dictionary itself, a prudent and systematic revision of the entire book was carried out.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 窦瀚洋
The robotic arm flexibly rotates, the dexterous hand precisely grasps a coffee cup, and moments later, a humanoid robot smoothly places a hot cup of coffee on the countertop. Nearby, staff promptly record data and adjust parameters. At the National Artificial Intelligence Application Pilot Base (Embodied Intelligence) (国家人工智能应用中试基地（具身智能）) in Hangzhou High-tech Zone (Binjiang) (杭州高新区（滨江）), Zhejiang, the "cyber" scene is becoming reality.
In the base's unmanned supermarket, a vending robot is learning to automatically identify and grasp goods, self-checkout, and inventory management. In the underground operation training area, a mining robot gropes forward in a simulated dim mine tunnel, detecting obstacles. In the agricultural picking training area, a robotic hand synchronously "copies" the picking actions and force of a staff member.
In May of this year, this national-level application pilot base for embodied intelligence was officially inaugurated and put into operation, providing robots with a national-level vocational skills training ground. The base has built an integrated public service platform for computing power assurance, data opening, model services, and scenario validation, becoming the "first examination room" for robots transitioning from the laboratory to real-world scenarios.
Currently, the field of embodied intelligence faces common problems of high data collection costs and difficulty in grounding scenarios. "A humanoid robot requires one to two data collectors to work together on whole-body motion data collection. A single simple action requires thousands of real motion data 'feedings,' and the data efficiency rate is below 50%, making it very inefficient," introduced Li Xingteng (李兴腾), Deputy General Manager of Hangzhou Embodied Intelligence Pilot Base Technology Co., Ltd. (杭州具身智能中试基地科技有限公司).
To address this pain point, the base has built a public service platform including an ontology library, database, model library, and tool chain. Through partial data open-sourcing and low-cost supply, it solves enterprises' data thirst, model difficulties, and scenario needs, while also providing low-cost or even free robot body leasing services, allowing startup teams to validate technical routes at a relatively small cost.
Li Xingteng explained that the base's positioning is "taking the end as the beginning": first simulate the real demands of end application scenarios, thoroughly understand the problems, then force improvements in the initial links until the technology can truly land in that scenario, thereby pushing embodied intelligence from good technology to good products.
The base also provides customized solutions for enterprises in fields such as logistics, healthcare and elderly care, while building bridges to facilitate supply-demand collaborative problem-solving.
On the second floor of the base, on a replicated simulated factory production line, several robots are rehearsing precise bin handling and sorting. "This is an embodied intelligence handling scenario jointly developed with an enterprise," said Li Xingteng. The enterprise wanted to use robots to create an intelligent sorting scenario but faced the problem of 'cannot buy the product, cannot find technical support.' After the base intervened, Yushu Technology (宇树科技) provided the robots, the enterprise provided the logistics sorting line, and the base team undertook the technical development, working together to achieve bin handling.
"The base not only shortened the data preparation cycle but also became our benchmark customer, building a positive cycle — the richer the scenarios, the higher the data quality, the faster the model iteration, helping us win a valuable time window," said Huang Peng (黄鹏), founder of Hangzhou Zhiji Yige Embodied Technology Co., Ltd. (杭州知几易格具身科技有限公司).
"Companion-style growth" is precisely the uniqueness of the base. From business orders, technical evaluation, to joint venture equity participation, the base connects resources from all sides through the flexible mechanism of mixed ownership, and has also introduced robot insurance — body insurance and third-party liability insurance — to mitigate risks for robots on the job.
"We strive to enable enterprises to achieve 'one-stop resource acquisition, one-click demand and application release, and nationwide promotion,'" said Li Xingteng. As of now, the base has attracted nearly 30 enterprises.
Currently, the base has laid out scenarios around embodied intelligence + new manufacturing, new engineering, new logistics, new safety, new services, new agriculture, and other fields. Looking to the future, the base will focus on jointly building an embodied intelligence industry ecosystem, so that more embodied intelligence robots can practice their skills, enter the market, and serve the public.
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Supply and demand are two fundamental aspects of the internal relations of a market economy. Management and regulation of the supply side and the demand side are not only the driving force of market operation but also the foothold of government policy. Multiple works in Volume I of Xi Jinping's Selected Works on Economy (《习近平经济文选》) provide profound discussion on this. For example, "Accelerate the Building of a New Development Pattern and Master the Initiative in Future Development" ("加快构建新发展格局，把握未来发展主动权") points out: "Both the supply and demand ends exert force simultaneously, coordinate and cooperate, forming a higher-level dynamic equilibrium where demand drives supply and supply creates demand, achieving a healthy cycle of the national economy"; "Ensure Our Country's Economic Ship Sails Steadily and Far Through Wind and Waves" ("确保我国经济航船乘风破浪、行稳致远") points out: "We must adhere to coordinated force exertion and dynamic equilibrium on both the supply and demand sides, continue to deepen supply-side structural reform, advance and retreat, protect and suppress, enhance the adaptability and balance between supply and demand." In the new era, the principal contradiction in Chinese society has transformed, driving the operation of the economy to exhibit new characteristics on both the supply and demand sides. Enhancing the adaptability and balance between supply and demand is put forward by the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core on the basis of deeply observing the laws of economic development and precisely grasping the new trends in the changes in the supply-demand relationship. It has important theoretical and practical significance for implementing the "15th Five-Year Plan (十五五)" outline's requirement to "coordinate the expansion of domestic demand with the deepening of supply-side structural reform (供给侧结构性改革)," for promoting the formation of a higher-level dynamic equilibrium where demand drives supply and supply creates demand, and for advancing high-quality development while enhancing the balance of economic development.
A new height has been reached in understanding the laws of supply and demand under the conditions of the socialist market economy. General Secretary Xi Jinping, in "Handle Several Major Relationships Well in Advancing Supply-Side Structural Reform" ("推进供给侧结构性改革要处理好几个重大关系"), points out: "Supply and demand are two fundamental aspects of the internal relations of a market economy; the supply side and the demand side are two basic means of managing and regulating the macroeconomy." Our Party's understanding of the supply-demand relationship has been formed under the guidance of the basic principles of Marxist political economy, in the great practice of transitioning from a highly centralized planned economy to a vibrant socialist market economy. This process not only reflects the enormous leap in the level of productive forces but also embodies the continuous adjustment and improvement of production relations.
Entering the new era, the driving force of traditional factors in China's economic development has weakened, and the supply-demand contradiction has transformed from a "total gap" to a "structural mismatch." On the one hand, insufficient domestic demand remains a prominent contradiction in economic operation, such as insufficient income support for consumer demand and the incomplete release of vitality in private investment; on the other hand, the adaptability and flexibility of supply face challenges. Our Party assesses the situation and emphasizes that abandoning the demand side to discuss the supply side or abandoning the supply side to discuss the demand side are both one-sided; they are not an either-or, one-goes-one-stays substitution relationship, but rather require mutual cooperation and coordinated advancement. General Secretary Xi Jinping's important exposition on enhancing the adaptability and balance between supply and demand is precisely put forward in response to such real economic problems.
Specifically, adaptability manifests as both the supply and demand sides having strong momentum and overall matching; through proactive adjustment to a higher level, they achieve overall adaptation in structure and efficiency. The supply side, relying on scientific and technological innovation and institutional innovation, can form an independent, controllable, quality-led output capacity, adapting to effective demand and creating new demand; the demand side, relying on income growth and structural optimization, can expand consumer demand supported by income, investment demand with reasonable returns, and financial demand with principal and debt constraints, using effective demand to drive supply and achieve stronger economic growth. Balance manifests as dynamic equilibrium and healthy interaction between the supply and demand sides; through the effective interaction of multiple mechanisms, they tend toward and form a high-level dynamic equilibrium. This is inseparable from the organic combination of an effective market and a capable government; supply, through structural adjustments of "advance and retreat, protect and suppress," actively moves closer to demand, while demand also drives supply through its own upgrading and sustained growth, ultimately smoothing the economic cycle and improving development efficiency.
General Secretary Xi Jinping's important exposition on enhancing the adaptability and balance between supply and demand marks that Xi Jinping's economic thought has reached a new height in understanding the laws of supply and demand under the conditions of the socialist market economy, providing theoretical guidance and action guidelines for resolving the supply-demand contradiction. Only by mastering the initiative in development while facing stormy seas, being good at using reform methods to solve structural problems on the supply side, breaking through supply constraints and bottlenecks through scientific and technological innovation and institutional innovation, and also being good at leveraging China's super-large market advantages, tapping the potential of domestic demand, and continuously expanding domestic demand, can a solid foundation be laid for comprehensively advancing the construction of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization.
Enhancing the adaptability and balance of supply and demand has important theoretical value. Enhancing the adaptability and balance of supply and demand is not only rooted in the vivid practice of China's economic development but also has profound theoretical foundations and significant innovative value; it both inherits and develops Marxist political economy and achieves a transcendence of Western economics.
Inheritance and development of Marxist political economy. Marxist political economy examines the relationship between supply and demand based on the movement of the fundamental contradiction of society, analyzes the relative overproduction caused by the fundamental contradiction of capitalism, and reveals the problem of disproportion between the two major departments of social production under capitalist conditions, pointing out that production and consumption each manifest as the means of the other, mediated by the other, and are interdependent and indispensable. This has certain guiding significance for understanding the supply-demand relationship under the conditions of the socialist market economy.
Enhancing the adaptability and balance of supply and demand combines the basic principles of Marxist political economy concerning the theory of social reproduction and the theory of the relationship between production and needs with China's specific reality, creatively analyzes the supply-demand relationship under the conditions of the socialist market economy from the two aspects of adaptability and balance, and emphasizes the dialectical unity of adaptability and balance. Adaptability is the foundation of balance; balance without precise adaptability easily forms a "low-level equilibrium"; balance is the guarantee of adaptability; adaptation detached from balance is often difficult to sustain. This makes original theoretical contributions to the development of Marxist political economy, endowing the Marxist political economy theories of social reproduction and the relationship between production and needs with new contemporary connotations.
Transcendence of Western economics. Enhancing the adaptability and balance of supply and demand is rooted in the successful practice of China as a super-large developing country, achieving a profound reflection on and overall transcendence of Western economics from multiple dimensions. This is mainly reflected in the following aspects.
First, transcendence in values. Western economics usually takes the "rational man" hypothesis as its theoretical starting point, focusing on abstract market efficiency and individual utility, often obscuring the multidimensional needs and development rights of people in real social relations. Enhancing the adaptability and balance of supply and demand adheres to the people-centered development philosophy (以人民为中心的发展思想), takes meeting the people's ever-growing needs for a better life as the goal of supply-demand interaction, and takes improving people's well-being and promoting the comprehensive development of individuals as the yardstick for evaluating supply-demand balance, enabling the theory to transcend the cold calculation of things and numbers and truly serve the comprehensive development of people and the overall progress of society.
Second, transcendence in historical perspective. Western economics often strives to refine so-called "general laws" of supply and demand that transcend time and space, easily falling into dogmatism detached from reality and development conditions. Enhancing the adaptability and balance of supply and demand emphasizes that the focus of managing a country's supply-demand relationship must be strategically chosen based on the objective changes in its development stage, requiring adaptation to the stage-specific characteristics of development and changes in the economic situation, revealing the ideological thread of the historical process of solving China's economic development problems from "having or not having" to "good or not good," and responding to the theoretical needs arising from the transformation of the principal social contradiction in the high-quality development stage.
Third, transcendence in methodology. Most Western economic analyses presuppose a static equilibrium state that can be approached or restored, likening the economic system to a mechanical device seeking a steady state, and their management and regulation of supply and demand are often fragmented. Enhancing the adaptability and balance of supply and demand adheres to proceeding from reality in everything, analyzing specific problems concretely, treating the management and regulation of supply and demand as an inseparable whole, and understanding economic development as a spiraling upward, continuous interactive process where demand drives supply and supply creates demand. The dynamic equilibrium it pursues is an adaptive stable state in which supply and demand continuously match and stimulate each other in quality and structure, a benign cycle actively constructed endogenously within the development process.
Fourth, transcendence in policy approach. Western economics usually believes in "market versus government, one or the other," and policy tools are mostly limited to aggregate-level fiscal and monetary policy adjustments. Enhancing the adaptability and balance of supply and demand organically combines the foresight of strategic planning, the depth of institutional reform, and the flexibility of policy regulation; it not only includes traditional fiscal and monetary policies but also encompasses structural policies guided by the new development philosophy (新发展理念), reform policies aimed at stimulating endogenous momentum, and guiding policies designed to guide market expectations and behavior. This provides solid theoretical support and practical pathways for a major country's economy to promote dynamic supply-demand equilibrium and achieve high-quality development amidst complex changes.
Demonstrating practical power in coordinating the relationship between aggregate supply and aggregate demand. General Secretary Xi Jinping, in "Ensure Our Country's Economic Ship Sails Steadily and Far Through Wind and Waves," points out: "We must coordinate the relationship between aggregate supply and aggregate demand to smooth the circulation of the national economy." Enhancing the adaptability and balance of supply and demand is not only a profound summary of past experience but also a scientific guide for future high-quality development, and it has already demonstrated strong practical power in resolving the supply-demand contradiction. The 15th Five-Year Plan period is a critical period for basically achieving socialist modernization; coordinating the relationship between aggregate supply and aggregate demand and continuing to enhance the adaptability and balance of supply and demand can build a more solid material foundation for Chinese-style modernization.
Adhere to expanding domestic demand as the strategic foundation and accelerate the cultivation of a complete domestic demand system. General Secretary Xi Jinping, in "Ensure Our Country's Economic Ship Sails Steadily and Far Through Wind and Waves," points out: "Expanding domestic demand concerns not only economic stability but also economic security; it is not an expedient measure but a strategic move." In practice, facing a complex and changing external environment, we have changed the past development model of overreliance on "two ends abroad," leveraging the advantages of the super-large domestic market, and continuously promoting domestic demand to become the main driving force and stable anchor for economic growth. This fully proves that it is precisely by relying on a strong domestic market that we have been able to stand firm amidst various risks and challenges and maintain economic resilience. Looking ahead, we must accelerate the cultivation of a complete domestic demand system and promote a healthy interaction between consumption and investment. In terms of consumption, further release consumption potential by improving the income distribution system and strengthening the social security system; in terms of investment, focus on consolidating foundations, strengthening advantages, shoring up weaknesses, and reinforcing weak links, strengthen human resource development and investment in the comprehensive development of people, and actively support investment in new infrastructure and intangible assets. Through the mutual promotion of consumption demand supported by income and investment demand with reasonable returns, a deep strategic hinterland is built to resist external risks.
Adhere to deepening supply-side structural reform as the main line, and use high-quality supply to lead and create new demand. General Secretary Xi Jinping, in "Deeply Understand the New Development Philosophy and Advance Supply-Side Structural Reform" ("深入理解新发展理念，推进供给侧结构性改革"), points out: "Supply-side management focuses on solving structural problems." In practice, we adhere to focusing economic development on the real economy, continuously deepen supply-side structural reform, and through "cutting overcapacity, reducing inventory, deleveraging, lowering costs, and strengthening weak links" (三去一降一补), significantly improve the quality and efficiency of the supply system and advance industries toward the mid-to-high end. Looking ahead, we must actively cultivate and develop new quality productive forces (新质生产力) and build a modern industrial system. We must accelerate the new type of industrialization, promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation, use digital technology and green technology to transform and upgrade traditional industries, actively cultivate strategic emerging industries and future industries such as biomedicine and quantum technology, and use disruptive technologies and cutting-edge technologies to generate new industries, new models, and new driving forces. Through a substantial increase in total factor productivity, provide more high-tech, high-efficiency, high-quality products and services, continuously improve the quality of the supply system, and use independent, controllable, high-quality, and efficient supply to meet existing demand and create new demand.
Adhere to coordinated force exertion on both the supply and demand ends, smooth the national economic cycle in dynamic equilibrium, and build a new development pattern. General Secretary Xi Jinping, in "Long-Term Adherence and Continuous Enrichment and Development of the Economic Thought of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era" ("长期坚持、不断丰富发展新时代中国特色社会主义经济思想"), points out: "Macro-control must adapt to the stage-specific characteristics of development and changes in the economic situation; when demand needs to be expanded, expand it; when supply needs to be adjusted, adjust it." In practice, we organically combine the implementation of the strategy of expanding domestic demand with deepening supply-side structural reform, promote the mutual reinforcement of domestic and international dual circulations, and improve the quality and efficiency of the national economic cycle. Looking to the future, we must accelerate the construction of a unified national market, pay more attention to overall planning in macro policies, strive to remove institutional and mechanism obstacles that hinder the flow of factors, and ultimately form a healthy interaction where demand drives supply and supply creates demand, promoting steady and sustained development of China's economy.
(The author is Vice President of the Central University of Finance and Economics (中央财经大学).)
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General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Chinese-style modernization, livelihood is the greatest." Realizing the people's aspiration for a better life is the starting point and foothold of Chinese-style modernization. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, under the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, our Party has always taken the people's aspiration for a better life as the goal of struggle, earnestly implemented the tenet of rule of law for the people in the practice of comprehensively governing the country by law, focused on the urgent, difficult, and anxious problems of the masses, aimed at key areas and critical links in livelihood work, and continuously strengthened the guarantee of the rule of law.
As a legal department of the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics, social law is the sum of legal norms in labor and employment, social security, protection of rights and interests of special groups, social organizations, and other aspects, and has played an important role in reflecting the interests of the people, reflecting the wishes of the people, safeguarding the rights and interests of the people, and enhancing the well-being of the people. Constructing an independent knowledge system of Chinese social law (中国社会法学自主知识体系) is both an inevitable choice to meet the needs of the rule of law in the field of livelihood security in the new era and an inherent requirement to accelerate the construction of a legal discipline system, academic system, and discourse system with Chinese characteristics. We must always adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, deepen research on the independent knowledge system of Chinese social law, and better provide legal support for ensuring and improving people's livelihoods.
Based on China's reality, following the laws of discipline development.
Social law studies are closely connected with real life. To construct an independent knowledge system of Chinese social law, it is necessary to conform to the general trend of world development, base itself on the reality of Chinese-style modernization, and promote academic innovation in solving institutional difficulties in livelihood security and better enhancing people's well-being.
The world today is undergoing a major transformation unseen in a century, and the social governance models of various countries are facing profound adjustments. China is comprehensively advancing the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization. Chinese-style modernization is a modernization with a huge population scale, a modernization of common prosperity for all people, which inherently contains a higher pursuit of social fairness and justice and livelihood security. Since the new era, China has made remarkable achievements in ensuring and improving people's livelihoods, while also facing some new challenges in areas such as improving employment quality and safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of special groups. This has put forward new requirements for improving the livelihood security system and enhancing the effectiveness of the livelihood security system. As an important legal department for regulating social relations and promoting social harmony, social law must also realize its own development in adapting to the development of the times and meeting the needs of the times.
From a practical perspective, the acceleration of the legislative process in the field of livelihood, and the joint efforts of multiple departments to continuously improve the level of protection of the rights and interests of workers in new employment forms, reflect the important role of social law in ensuring and improving people's livelihoods and promoting social fairness and justice, and also promote the accelerated construction of an independent knowledge system of Chinese social law, better serving the development of people's livelihood.
From a theoretical perspective, social law studies have problems such as relatively weak basic theory, insufficiently unified concept definitions, and immature discourse system. Compared with other legal disciplines, there is insufficient academic consensus in theoretical research on social law in China, and some research still remains at the level of transplanting foreign theories, failing to fully integrate with China's legislative practice and social reality. To construct an independent knowledge system of Chinese social law, it is necessary to follow the laws of discipline development, take root in China's historical and cultural traditions, proceed from the current stage of social development, absorb and draw on all beneficial achievements of human rule-of-law civilization, and in the process of promoting social law from "departmental law practice" to "mature discipline," refine iconic concepts and original theories that both have Chinese characteristics and can help solve common concerns of mankind.
Grasping the value orientation, improving the theoretical system.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Upholding the rights to subsistence and development are the primary basic human rights" and "The people's happy life is the greatest human right." Looking back at the development course of China's social law, ensuring the basic subsistence, basic development, and basic dignity of the people is a prominent feature of social law. This determines that constructing an independent knowledge system of Chinese social law must adhere to the people-centered development thought, adhere to the value orientation and logical premise of putting the people first.
To this end, we must always take the protection of the rights to subsistence and development, the improvement of people's quality of life, and the realization of people's happy life as the value starting point of the independent knowledge system of Chinese social law, deeply study how to achieve mutual connection and efficient coordination between different social laws such as labor law and charity law, as well as between social law and other legal departments such as economic law and administrative law, through the design and effective implementation of legal systems, and reflect the value pursuit of Chinese social law studies in promoting social fairness and justice in the process of better promoting the equalization of basic public services and helping to narrow the urban-rural gap, regional gap, and income gap. Always adhering to the people-centered approach is an important mark that distinguishes Chinese social law theory from Western social law theory, and has laid the value foundation for Chinese social law to have full autonomy.
On this basis, it is necessary to further improve the theoretical system of our country's social law studies. It can start from three sections: basic theory, institutional norms, and implementation guarantee. Among them, the basic theory section mainly studies basic theoretical issues such as the essence, concept, basic principles, and value goals of China's social law; the institutional norms section mainly studies the design of legal systems in specific fields such as labor, social security, and anti-discrimination; the implementation guarantee section mainly studies the implementation and landing issues of social law such as law enforcement mechanisms, judicial remedies, and social supervision. The three sections support and promote each other, and can form a logical and rich independent knowledge system of Chinese social law.
Focusing on frontier issues, strengthening academic innovation.
Problems are the starting point of discipline generation and also the power source of discipline development. To construct an independent knowledge system of Chinese social law, it is necessary to adhere to problem orientation and practice orientation, and promote innovative development of China's social law studies around frontier issues. It is necessary to focus on legislative practice in key areas, and conduct empirical research on hot livelihood issues such as employment promotion, social security, elderly care services, and protection of the rights and interests of workers in new employment forms. For example, deepening research on issues such as the difficulty of identifying labor relations in the platform economy, incomplete social security coverage, etc., is conducive to promoting labor law to adapt to practical development. In addition, various localities in China have formed many beneficial explorations in livelihood security. It is necessary to deeply study local innovation experiences, and through the theoretical refinement of these practical experiences, form replicable and promotable social law theoretical achievements. With the vigorous development of information technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data, new problems such as infringement of personal privacy and abuse of algorithms are constantly emerging. Social law studies must actively expand research boundaries, bring livelihood security issues in the digital era into the research vision, and respond to the new needs of the people.
The key to constructing an independent knowledge system of Chinese social law lies in strengthening academic innovation and forming iconic concepts and original theories with Chinese characteristics, practical characteristics, and characteristics of the times. First, summarize and refine core categories. For example, on the basis of existing research, we can further clarify the connotation and extension of core concepts such as "social rights," "payment obligations," and "social mutual assistance," form legal categories that condense academic consensus and highlight cultural subjectivity, and compile the achievements of constructing an independent knowledge system into textbooks and integrate them into the teaching process. Second, deepen theoretical construction around institutional innovation. Aiming at the unique problems of building China's livelihood security system, such as the social security system in the effective connection between consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation and rural revitalization, and the legal guarantee mechanism for equalization of basic public services, carry out systematic research, discover theoretical shortcomings and correct theoretical deviations through specific case analysis, and produce China's independent theoretical innovation and theoretical creation. Third, attach importance to methodological innovation, break disciplinary barriers, integrate multidisciplinary methods such as law, sociology, and economics, promote multidisciplinary cross-research, deepen comprehensive research of "normative analysis + empirical research + comparative reference," actively serve law formulation and implementation with high-quality research results, and continuously enhance the explanatory power, persuasiveness, and guiding power of the independent knowledge system of Chinese social law in the benign interaction between theory and practice.
(The author is a researcher at the Institute for Chinese-style Modernization of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院中国式现代化研究院).)
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Intangible cultural heritage is a vivid testimony to the continuous transmission of Chinese civilization, and is the crystallization of wisdom and spiritual symbol of the Chinese nation. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “We must solidly carry out systematic protection of intangible cultural heritage.” The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan proposes: “Raise the level of protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage, and cultivate new scenes for inheritance and experience.” Against the dual background of building a culturally strong country and a digital China, technology empowerment has become an important means to solve the difficulties in the protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage and to activate its contemporary vitality. Promoting technology empowerment for the protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage can better meet the people's growing spiritual and cultural needs and advance cultural confidence and self-strengthening.
In recent years, China's work on the protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage has made significant progress. The state attaches great importance to the protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage, issuing a series of policies and regulations, establishing a four-level intangible cultural heritage list system at the national, provincial, municipal, and county levels, and implementing the digital protection project for intangible cultural heritage; various types of intangible cultural heritage exhibitions and performances are rich and diverse, film and television works on intangible cultural heritage themes are constantly emerging, digital carriers such as VR (virtual reality) exhibition halls and 5G live broadcasts bring the public closer to intangible cultural heritage, and social attention to intangible cultural heritage continues to increase; the training model for inheritors of intangible cultural heritage is continuously innovated relying on digital technology, and online and offline teaching methods are deeply integrated, injecting new vitality into the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage skills. At the same time, the protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage still faces many difficulties. For example, skills gaps bring the risk of loss, there are few effective resource integration and sharing mechanisms, there is a tendency towards homogenization, and technology empowerment is insufficient. To effectively address these practical challenges, it is necessary to take technology as the starting point, build a systematic empowerment system with culture as the core and technology as the tool, and promote better empowerment of technology for the protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage.
Adhere to multi-dimensional digital empowerment for the protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage, and build a sustainable development system. To realize technology empowerment for the protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage, it is necessary to systematically exert efforts in multiple aspects including protection, inheritance, dissemination, and development, forming a virtuous cycle of “careful protection — factor innovation — market development — feedback to inheritance.” In the protection dimension, build a “safe” with digital technology. Through high-precision collection methods such as 3D laser scanning, multispectral imaging, and motion capture, carry out full-element recording of intangible cultural heritage skills, etc., and construct a traceable and reusable “digital gene bank.” In the inheritance dimension, break time and space barriers with intelligent technology. Rely on digital human and virtual human simulation technology to empower the living inheritance of intangible cultural heritage, allowing inheritors to achieve “cloud teaching” through live broadcasts and 3D modeling, lowering the learning threshold. In the dissemination dimension, use immersive technology to trigger cultural resonance. For example, intangible cultural heritage workshops can rely on VR technology to allow users to immersively experience the porcelain-making process, and ancient streets and towns can use AR (augmented reality) technology to enhance narrative charm. In the development dimension, expand value boundaries with digital creativity. Develop digital collectibles of intangible cultural heritage, use AI (artificial intelligence) to assist in designing intangible cultural heritage products, and integrate intangible cultural heritage content into micro-short dramas and film creation, etc.
Use digital intelligence technology to precisely break through the bottlenecks in the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage, and activate the endogenous driving force for the living development of intangible cultural heritage. Aiming at the risk of skill loss among elderly inheritors, use sensors and the Internet of Things technology to carry out dynamic monitoring of endangered projects and timely intervention, analyze the style characteristics of traditional techniques with the help of deep learning algorithms, and empower the restoration of intangible cultural heritage objects and the recovery of skills. Break through the problem of fragmented protection, promote the establishment of a national-level digital resource library for intangible cultural heritage, formulate unified collection, storage, and sharing standards, open up data barriers between cultural and tourism departments, museums, and universities, and integrate relevant resources. Break through the problem of formal homogenization, rely on generative AI to deconstruct the patterns and color genes of intangible cultural heritage, and generate design schemes that match contemporary aesthetics; combine user portraits and intelligent recommendation systems to develop differentiated cultural and creative products. Pay attention to breaking through the problem of shallow technology application, so that technology application takes cultural value transmission as the core and adheres to cultural authenticity. For example, robots performing bamboo pole dance, “AI + travel photography” special experiences, etc., allow traditional culture to retain cultural distinctiveness while adding distinct technological attributes.
Coordinate systems, talent, and mechanisms to create a sustainable ecosystem of collaborative empowerment. Strengthening supporting foundations in terms of systems, talent, and mechanisms can enable technology empowerment for the protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage to take root effectively and achieve stable and long-term development. Strengthen institutional guarantees, accelerate the formulation of technical standards for the entire chain of intangible cultural heritage digitalization, improve regulations on digital copyright and data security, and establish a closed-loop management mechanism of “right confirmation — authorization — rights protection.” Deepen collaborative innovation, promote deep integration of industry, academia, research, and application, and guide enterprises, universities, and inheritors to conduct joint research. For example, some colleges and universities have opened cross-disciplinary majors related to digital intangible cultural heritage, cultivating composite talents through industry-education integration. Promote domestic dissemination and popularization, rely on carriers such as intangible cultural heritage digital creation competitions and intangible cultural heritage workshops, and guide the public to become the main body of intangible cultural heritage creation and dissemination. Strengthen external dissemination, broaden international communication channels, promote the export of digital products integrating intangible cultural heritage elements, use technology as a bridge to tell the story of Chinese intangible cultural heritage well, and enhance the international influence of Chinese intangible cultural heritage.
(The author is a professor at the School of Art and Communication, Beijing Normal University.)
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Currently, it is the flood season, and flood prevention and disaster relief require the whole society to unite with one heart and help each other (同心聚力、守望相助). However, a small number of netizens exploit the disaster and flood situation to gain attention and traffic, fabricating and spreading false information by making up dangerous situations and disaster conditions, inventing casualty figures, splicing together fake videos, exaggerating disaster impacts, and other methods, giving rise to a chaotic phenomenon of online rumors related to disasters.
Recently, the Cyberspace Security Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security (公安部网安局) has successively released two batches of typical cases of illegal and criminal activities involving the fabrication and dissemination of online rumors related to flood and other disasters. Public security organs in multiple localities have struck hard at flood-related rumors, rigorously investigated those who gain traffic by fabricating rumors, imposed criminal detention and administrative penalties on rumor-mongers in accordance with the law, and concurrently banned violative online accounts.
Online rumors related to flood and other disasters exhibit characteristics such as fabrication out of thin air, repackaging old news, and 移花接木 (yí huā jiē mù - "move the flowers, graft the branches," to substitute one thing for another by clever deception).
On July 11, a netizen in Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, posted a video titled "Serious water accumulation on the road near a certain driving school," in which the water at the entrance of the road was very deep.
The video's view count continued to increase, surpassing 100,000 in just a few hours, sparking netizens' concerns about local waterlogging and flood prevention work.
But at that time, the typhoon had not yet made landfall, and the extreme weather shown in the video had not occurred locally. "Someone replied below saying, 'Just passed this place, and there was no water accumulation.' After we found this clue, we immediately rushed to the location mentioned in the video to investigate," said Chen Bin (陈斌), a police officer at the Hongjia Police Station (洪家派出所), Jiaojiang District Bureau (椒江分局), Taizhou City Public Security Bureau.
By scrutinizing details such as the scene, weather conditions, and water accumulation characteristics in the video, the police confirmed that this video was not filmed during the current typhoon period but was old footage from last year.
The police immediately activated an emergency verification mechanism, identified the publisher of the false information as Huang Mou (黄某), and apprehended him. Upon investigation, Huang Mou, in order to gain traffic and attract attention, deliberately edited a flood prevention video from last year, passed it off as real-time disaster conditions from the current typhoon, and posted it online, fabricating dangerous situations and misleading the public.
"Rumor-mongers rely on short-video platforms and social groups to rapidly spread false content, causing panic among the public and also affecting flood prevention work to a certain extent," Chen Bin said. Such rumors are relatively concentrated in content, mainly involving fabricated dangerous situations, concocted public notices, and splicing together other disasters to confuse the disaster situation and mislead the public.
According to the case-handling departments, based on previous investigations, such flood-related online rumor cases mainly exhibit the following three characteristics: first, fabrication out of thin air, where some self-media, in order to attract followers and gain traffic, invent alarming information such as reservoir breaches, missing persons, and stranded relief supplies; second, repackaging old news, where flood footage from previous years is stripped of time information and disguised as current dangerous situations; third, 移花接木, where footage of disasters from other places is intercepted and unrelated videos are spliced together, 张冠李戴 (zhāng guān lǐ dài - "put Zhang's hat on Li's head," to confuse one thing with another) to create panic.
Creating a false persona, seeking attention, attracting followers and traffic, and maliciously spreading false flood information.
"During the typhoon, several delivery workers died in Taicang, some blown into rivers, some blown onto trees and fell to their deaths." On July 10, a person surnamed Pang (庞某) posted a troubling piece of flood information on his social media, causing many netizens to express panic and unease.
In order to gain attention and show off to others, Pang even falsely claimed, "These are things the news won't report; only people in our circle know," emphasizing that the incident came from exclusive information channels.
But after investigation, the police found that the content posted by Pang was all false information, and its subsequent spread caused negative social impact. The public security organ in Taicang City (太仓市), Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, imposed an administrative penalty on Pang in accordance with the law.
Public security organs in other localities also investigated and dealt with similar flood-related online rumor cases. For example, in Yuxi, Yunnan, Zhao Mou (赵某) used an artificial intelligence tool to generate a false video with the content "Continuous heavy rain in Chengjiang City (澄江市) caused flooding and waterlogging at the toll station and blueberry base"; in Huainan, Anhui, Cheng Mou (程某) fabricated false information such as "A child in Dashun Town (大顺镇), Shou County (寿县) was swept away by the wind and is missing." From the typical cases released by the Cyberspace Security Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, it can be seen that some netizens, in order to create a persona of "being well-informed and having exclusive channels" in their friend circles, deliberately fabricate false information such as fake flood conditions and internal notices; many self-media and short-video bloggers, in order to gain attention, treat disasters as a traffic password for profit and attracting followers, producing content by editing and splicing old videos, grafting foreign disasters, and fabricating details of dangerous situations, spreading it on social platforms.
"Although flood-related rumors are mostly fragmented information, their harm cannot be underestimated," said Ding Tie (丁铁), deputy captain of the Cybersecurity Guard Brigade of the Taicang City Public Security Bureau (太仓市公安局网络安全保卫大队). For the public, false flood conditions can easily trigger unwarranted anxiety, induce irrational behaviors such as panic buying and disorderly evacuation, and disrupt normal production and living order. For disaster relief work, rampant rumors can crowd out public opinion space, causing genuine requests for help to be submerged, while forcing emergency management, public security, and other departments to divert manpower and materials to verify and debunk rumors, depleting precious flood prevention and disaster relief resources. Moreover, some rumors smear flood prevention and disaster relief performance, exaggerate disaster losses, and undermine the clean and clear online ecosystem.
Simultaneously advancing online patrols and clue verification; netizens should consciously resist and proactively report flood-related rumors.
From July 12 to 14, heavy rainfall occurred in many areas of Liaoning Province, and a few netizens took the opportunity to maliciously fabricate and spread flood-related online rumors.
In response, the cybersecurity departments of the Liaoning public security organs, relying on the special "Clean Cyberspace" (净网) operation, strictly cracked down on online rumors related to floods and disasters in accordance with the law, promptly clarified rumors to set the record straight (以正视听), released typical cases, explained laws and regulations, and strived to eliminate the risks and hazards caused by the dissemination of false information.
Cui Jiaqi (崔佳祺), a third-level police sergeant of the Cybersecurity Guard Corps of the Liaoning Provincial Public Security Department (辽宁省公安厅网络安全保卫总队), introduced that as of now, the cybersecurity departments of the Liaoning public security organs have investigated and handled 18 cases of online rumors related to disasters in accordance with the law, and have dealt with 27 netizens who fabricated or spread rumors, including 7 subjected to criminal punishment, 13 subjected to administrative penalties, and 7 subjected to criticism and education.
"Such rumors can easily trigger public panic, mislead social cognition, disrupt normal disaster relief order, consume public governance resources, and severely damage the online ecosystem and social stability," said Sun Shuguang (孙树光), a lecturer at the Law School of the People's Public Security University of China (中国人民公安大学法学院). The cybersecurity departments of public security organs in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Sichuan, and other localities have also continuously intensified their crackdown on this chaotic phenomenon. Relying on the "Clean Cyberspace" operation, they have established a rapid rumor tracing and handling mechanism, simultaneously advancing online patrols and clue verification to lock down the origin of rumor fabrication and dissemination at the earliest opportunity; strengthening coordination and linkage with short-video platforms to promptly intercept and clean up rumor information, and imposing traffic restrictions and account bans on violative accounts; adhering to the practice of 以案释法 (yǐ àn shì fǎ - "explain the law through cases," using cases to illustrate legal principles) by centrally publishing typical cases and imposing administrative penalties on relevant individuals in accordance with the law, and pursuing criminal liability where circumstances are serious enough to constitute a crime. At the same time, they coordinate with emergency management and propaganda departments to simultaneously carry out authoritative rumor debunking, squeezing the space for rumor dissemination.
A responsible official from the Cyberspace Security Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security stated that the internet is not a lawless place. The public security organs will rely on the "Clean Cyberspace" operation to continue to severely crack down on illegal and criminal activities involving the fabrication and dissemination of online rumors related to floods and other disasters in accordance with the law.
Police remind: In the face of flood conditions, rumors are like invisible "secondary disasters." When netizens encounter such videos or see uncertain information, please think calmly, verify through official channels, and do not blindly forward. If you find clues of rumors, you can report them to the relevant departments through the reporting function of online platforms, working together to maintain a clean and clear cyberspace.
Return to TopBeijing, July 26 (Reporter Jin Xin (金歆)) — The reporter learned from the Cyberspace Administration of China (中央网信办): In order to effectively block the dissemination of illegal and harmful information on disaster accidents during the flood season, further regulate the release of information on disaster accidents during the flood season, and prevent illegal and harmful information from misleading the public and disrupting rescue order, recently, the Cyberspace Administration of China and the Ministry of Emergency Management (应急管理部) jointly issued a notice, deploying nationwide a concentrated cleanup and rectification of illegal and harmful information on disaster accidents during the flood season.
The notice requires focusing on rectifying five types of prominent issues: First, issues of 移花接木 (yí huā jiē mù - “move flowers, graft branches,” to falsify or tamper with materials by clever manipulation) and malicious editing. Issues of grafting and malicious editing: maliciously editing video and image materials of disaster accidents that occurred abroad or in other places, selectively extracting one-sided information, and by means of removing watermarks, changing titles, substituting subtitles, etc., disguising them as real-time disasters occurring locally, 混淆视听 (hùn xiáo shì tīng - “confuse what is seen and heard,” to deliberately mislead people) and misleading the public. Second, issues of re‑frying old news and grafting history. Issues of re‑frying old news and grafting history: repackaging on‑site pictures or videos of disaster accidents that occurred in previous years or even decades ago, deleting original time information, falsely claiming them as breaking news, and rendering panic sentiment. Third, issues of 夸大其词 (kuā dà qí cí - “exaggerate one’s words,” to exaggerate or overstate) and fabricating data. Issues of exaggeration and fabricating data: fabricating and falsifying disaster situations, deliberately inventing and exaggerating key data such as the number of casualties, the number of damaged houses, the scale of economic losses, or tampering with disaster levels, fabricating secondary disasters, disrupting rescue order. Fourth, issues of fabricating dangerous situations and impersonating authorities. Issues of fabricating dangerous situations and impersonating authorities: fabricating serious false dangerous situations such as “reservoir dam collapse”, “embankment breach”, “chemical plant leak”, stealing the names or logos of official institutions and mainstream media, forging document formats, issuing false announcements, and damaging government credibility. Fifth, issues of technical forgery and exploiting opportunities for fraud. Issues of technical forgery and exploiting opportunities for fraud: using artificial intelligence generation, splicing and editing, scripted staging and other means to produce disaster pictures or videos, fabricating accident scenes, rescue details, etc. Falsely publishing fake donation links, help‑seeking QR codes, etc. under the pretext of disaster, causing public property losses and personal information leakage.
Return to TopBeijing, July 26 (Reporter Wei Zhezhe (魏哲哲)) — The Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院) and the Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) jointly issued the Decision on Amending the Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Law in the Handling of Criminal Cases of Insider Trading and Disclosure of Inside Information (hereinafter referred to as the Amending Decision). The Amending Decision shall come into effect on July 27, 2026.
Since the Interpretation on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Law in the Handling of Criminal Cases of Insider Trading and Disclosure of Inside Information came into effect on June 1, 2012, it has played a positive role in punishing the crimes of insider trading and disclosure of inside information. In recent years, new situations and new changes have emerged in the crimes of insider trading and disclosure of inside information, and relevant laws in the securities and futures fields have also been amended. To ensure the accurate, unified, and effective implementation of the law, and to more precisely and forcefully punish related crimes, the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate conducted in-depth research and investigation, extensively solicited opinions, repeatedly deliberated and refined, and formulated the Amending Decision.
The Amending Decision adheres to severely punishing the crimes of insider trading and disclosure of inside information according to law, assists in the construction of the rule of law in the capital market, actively fosters an open, fair, and just market environment, and effectively safeguards the legitimate rights and interests of investors.
It further clarifies the stricter legal responsibilities of key entities. A new provision stipulates that "the time when a controlling shareholder, actual controlling person, or relevant decision-maker discloses to a closely related person the preliminary intention to form inside information, or the time when a relevant transaction is conducted based on that preliminary intention, shall be regarded as the initial time of the proposal." This provides clear and specific provisions regarding the sensitive period for inside information concerning entities that play a key role in the generation of inside information, thereby preventing them from exploiting time differences to engage in insider trading or disclose inside information.
It further improves the defenses against insider trading. The relevant provisions of Article 4 of the Interpretation are amended, emphasizing that an acquisition of a listed company must comply with the purpose of acquisition, to prevent acquisition personnel of a listed company from using "dark positions" (暗仓) to engage in insider trading; emphasizing that a planned transaction must be genuine and lawful, to prevent actors from using false or illegal contracts, orders, or plans to evade legal sanctions; clarifying the public nature of the "disclosure" in paragraph 3 of this article, fairly protecting the legitimate rights and interests of various types of investors, adhering to a strict approach in evaluating defenses that do not constitute insider trading, and continuously tightening the legal net.
Next, the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate will accurately understand and apply the Amending Decision, strictly punish the crimes of insider trading and disclosure of inside information according to law, and provide stronger judicial guarantees for the stable operation of the capital market.
Return to TopThis newspaper, Haikou, July 26 (Reporter Cao Wenxuan (曹文轩)) The Hainan Province Government-Business Interaction Behavior Guidance List (《海南省政商交往行为指引清单》) was officially issued recently, listing a positive list and a negative list for government-business interactions, aiming to further clarify the boundaries of government-business interactions and continuously create a first-class business environment that is market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized.
The List specifies ten items on the positive list for government-business interactions for Party and government organs and public officials, including: Implementing policies that benefit enterprises, reaching business entities directly; Boosting economic and trade activities, serving economic development; Contacting and serving enterprises, relieving development difficulties; Optimizing government services, improving work efficiency; Standardizing supervision and law enforcement, adhering to inclusiveness and prudence; Upholding fairness and justice, safeguarding competitive order; Abiding by government integrity, keeping faith and fulfilling promises; Performing duties and fulfilling responsibilities according to law, protecting enterprise rights and interests; Strengthening propaganda and guidance, maintaining enterprise reputation; Escorting foreign-related development, assisting two-way opening up.
The negative list for government-business interactions for Party and government organs and public officials specifies six prohibitions: Prohibition of abusing power in supervision; Prohibition of breaching contracts and losing credibility in performance; Prohibition of interfering in enterprise operations; Prohibition of lazy and indolent governance in performing duties; Prohibition of power-for-money transactions for profit; Prohibition of profiting through relatives and connections, drawing a clear disciplinary red line for government-business interactions.
The negative list specifies six prohibited behaviors for various business entities and entrepreneurs: Prohibition of entrusting public officials to illegally intervene and meddle in market economic activities; Prohibition of seeking transaction opportunities or competitive advantages through improper means such as bribery; Prohibition of giving gifts, cash, or other property to public officials or their relatives and specific connections under any pretext exceeding normal reciprocal gift-giving; Prohibition of arranging banquets, travel, fitness, entertainment, and other activities that may affect public officials' clean performance of duties; Prohibition of transferring benefits to public officials or their relatives through means such as acting as a proxy for investment or wealth management, or giving dry shares, high-interest loans, or receiving compensation for nominal positions; Prohibition of touching the legal red line, disrupting market order, and interfering with or obstructing the execution of official duties or judicial activities in any way.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 禹伟良 田豆豆
In laying out new tracks for future industries, the Wuhan East Lake High-tech Development Zone (“China Optics Valley”) has made another move: not long ago, the Optics Valley International Brain-Computer Interface Innovation Center was completed and put into use, providing enterprises with full-chain services from clinical needs, concept verification, to product registration and clinical application. As of now, the center has attracted participation from over 130 institutions. Around the brain-computer interface industry, Optics Valley has now constructed a full-chain support system covering ecology, capital, and platforms, gathering a group of related enterprises such as Zhonghua Brain-Computer (衷华脑机), Yirui De (依瑞德), and Greentech (格林泰克).
In November 2024, when inspecting Hubei, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: “Be full of energy, strive hard and forge ahead, make unremitting efforts, be good at doing things and achieving success, forge ahead courageously in the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and accelerate the building of an important strategic pivot for the rise of the central region.”
To thoroughly implement the important directive spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping, Hubei has continuously implemented the “Cadre Quality Improvement Year” (干部素质提升年), improving cadres’ political quality and their ability to promote high-quality development, etc., and continuously pushing for new breakthroughs in the construction of the pivot.
Striving to forge ahead spurs responsibility —
“After the China (Ezhou) Cross-border E-commerce Comprehensive Pilot Zone (中国（鄂州）跨境电子商务综合试验区) was approved for establishment in April last year, we transformed idle factory buildings into a cross-border e-commerce base, and so far have attracted 751 enterprises to register and 95 enterprises to settle in,” said Chen Si (陈思), a young cadre from the coordination service special class of the Ezhou Airport Economic Zone Cross-border E-commerce Industrial Park (鄂州市临空经济区跨境电商产业园).
Ezhou relies on Huahu International Airport (花湖国际机场), Asia’s largest professional cargo airport, to promote the construction of a world-class air cargo hub. Focusing on fields such as air logistics and cross-border e-commerce, Ezhou guides cadres to break through problems through learning and answer them through practical work. “The atmosphere of striving to forge ahead is even stronger,” Chen Si said.
Reform and innovation dares to take responsibility —
The humanoid robot jointly designed and developed by the team of Academician Chen Xuedong (陈学东) from Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Wuhan Gelanruo Intelligent Robot Co., Ltd. (武汉格蓝若智能机器人有限公司) was a bit unsteady in walking last year, but has now completed testing and verification in a substation.
Why can “Made in Hubei” robots rapidly “evolve”? “The 23 high-simulation scenarios and data collection services provided by the Hubei Humanoid Robot Innovation Center (湖北人形机器人创新中心) played an important supporting role,” said Guo Jishun (郭继舜), general manager of Wuhan Gelanruo Intelligent Robot Co., Ltd.
In April last year, the Wuhan East Lake High-tech Development Zone invited academicians, experts, and entrepreneurs in the field of artificial intelligence to serve as “chief examiners”, selecting a group of professional cadres to enter the newly established “AI+ Office” (人工智能+办公室), promoting the establishment of the Hubei Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, the AI professional incubator “Modal Space” (模态空间), and others.
Hubei guides cadres to skillfully use reform methods and innovative measures to shoulder heavy burdens and overcome difficulties, improving development quality and efficiency. In the first half of this year, Hubei Province’s gross domestic product grew by 5.0% year-on-year, the added value of high-tech manufacturing grew by 36.8% year-on-year, and its contribution rate to industrial growth above designated size reached 78.2%.
Supporting and encouraging to protect responsibility —
The first-phase project of the Envision Power Yichang Smart Lithium Battery Production Base (远景动力宜昌智能锂电池生产基地), with a planned annual capacity of 40 GWh, took only six months from signing to topping out of the main structure. This was inseparable from the support of the forward-looking decision risk pre-reporting mechanism (前瞻性决策风险事前报备机制).
“To improve construction efficiency, would bidding using an engineering general contracting downward rate quotation model be a violation? Would using post-qualification for qualification review leave hidden dangers?” Facing the project party’s request to speed up, the cadres of the project service special class were uncertain, so they invited Zhang Xu (张煦), a disciplinary inspection and supervision cadre of the Yichang High-tech Zone (宜昌高新区), and others to the project construction site.
“The forward-looking decision risk pre-reporting mechanism can be used in the project,” Zhang Xu said. According to this innovative mechanism, relevant units or individuals can pre-report matters that, due to unclear policies or other reasons, have a risk of being held accountable or disciplined in the process of undertaking work and starting businesses. The pre-reporting situation can serve as an important basis for fault tolerance. Zhang Xu and colleagues expedited the completion of sorting out and reporting all risk points of the project, installing an “accelerator” for the project construction.
From exploring and promoting the risk filing mechanism for pioneering and taking responsibility (先行先试担当作为风险备案机制) to establishing lists of exempted or mitigated responsibility matters in key fields such as finance, technological innovation, and state-owned enterprise reform, Hubei has improved the incentive and protection mechanism for cadres to take responsibility and act, encouraging cadres to let go of their hands and feet and boldly do things.
Remembering General Secretary Xi Jinping’s earnest instructions, Hubei insists on taking the improvement of cadre quality as a guiding and foundational task for the construction of the pivot, and strives to forge a high-quality cadre team that is politically excellent, professionally excellent, and style-excellent.
Return to TopOn the evening of July 25, job seekers were learning about position information at the special job fair of the 2026 Summer Tour Recruitment Night Market in Mengjin District (孟津区), Luoyang City, Henan Province. During the summer, Luoyang City, based on the situation of summer night market crowds gathering and consumption being active, carried out multiple sessions of summer tour recruitment night market activities, building a bridge for supply and demand docking, to help stabilize employment.
Huang Zhengwei (黄政伟) photo (Xinhua)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 吴 君
Which items thrown count as high-altitude throwing? Even if high-altitude throwing does not hit a person, does one still bear legal responsibility? The People's Court of Changyang Tujia Autonomous County, Yichang, Hubei (长阳土家族自治县人民法院) concluded a dispute caused by high-altitude throwing.
On November 28, 2025, a plastic water bottle containing half a bottle of water fell from an upper floor of a certain residential community in Changyang County and hit the pepper seedlings planted in the yard of Ms. Chen, a resident of an adjacent residential community. Ms. Chen reported that this was not the first instance of high-altitude throwing in that residential community. Previously, when an owner of that community was renovating a house, no safety net was installed, and cement chunks and aluminum alloy pieces fell from upstairs, hitting Ms. Chen's father. Because Ms. Chen's father happened to be wearing a motorcycle helmet, fortunately no major physical injury was caused.
After encountering high-altitude throwing again this time, Ms. Chen quickly reported to the police. After the police retrieved surveillance footage from Ms. Chen's home and the community, they discovered a blind spot at the throwing location and could not identify the specific tortfeasor. Therefore, Ms. Chen sued the owners' committee of a certain residential community in court and demanded compensation of 1 yuan for losses.
The People's Court of Changyang County held that the damaged pepper seedlings at Ms. Chen's home were broken by the falling water bottle. Since the specific tortfeasor could not be determined in this case, combined with the facts ascertained at trial and on-site visits, the defendant community owners' committee had some fault in fulfilling safety measures and should bear corresponding responsibility.
Wan Shurong (万姝蓉), deputy presiding judge of the Comprehensive Division of the People's Court of Changyang County, stated that throwing objects from a height, if it endangers others' personal safety or public or private property safety, constitutes a violation of law regardless of whether actual damage is caused.
The Public Security Administration Punishments Law of the People's Republic of China (《中华人民共和国治安管理处罚法》), which came into effect on January 1 of this year, stipulates that anyone who throws objects from a building or other height, if there is a danger of endangering others' personal safety, public or private property safety, or public security, shall be detained for not more than five days or fined not more than 1,000 yuan; if the circumstances are serious, they shall be detained for not less than 10 days and not more than 15 days, and may also be fined not more than 1,000 yuan.
“This means that even if one merely throws an unextinguished cigarette butt or a half-drunk plastic water bottle, if the throwing act may pose a hazard or danger, one will face relevant penalties; if the high-altitude throwing is serious, one may also have to bear criminal liability,” Wan Shurong said. “Residents must not only refrain from throwing objects from a height, but also regularly inspect windows, reinforce doors and windows, air conditioner brackets, and exterior walls, and clear away easily falling objects such as flower pots on balconies.”
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李俊杰
Early morning, sunlight passes through the rolling mountain ranges, spilling onto the ±1100 kV Guquan Converter Station (古泉换流站) standing among the mountains; operation and maintenance personnel had already assembled for duty and headed to the front line of equipment inspection.
State Grid Anhui Electric Power (国网安徽电力)’s Guquan Converter Station is located in Xuancheng, Anhui, and is the receiving-end station of the Zhundong–southern Anhui ±1100 kV UHVDC transmission project. This project is currently the world's highest voltage level, longest transmission distance, and largest transmission capacity UHVDC transmission project, hailed as the "Everest of Electric Power." Today, the Guquan Converter Station delivers approximately 200 million kWh of electricity to the Yangtze River Delta region each day, meeting one-third of Shanghai's average daily electricity demand.
The daily operation and maintenance of this converter station is carried out by a young team primarily composed of the post-80s and post-90s generations. Among them, the 36 Party members of the Guquan Converter Station Party branch, with an average age of only 33, are the backbone force of this team.
"The initial challenge came from the unknown," admitted Zhang Honghu (张鸿鹄), secretary of the Guquan Converter Station Party branch. Facing 146 "first-of-its-kind" and "first-set" devices in the station, there was no ready-made experience to follow; everything had to be figured out on their own.
"Retreat is not an option; only by shouldering responsibility," Zhang Honghu explained. The Party branch promptly implemented a "Party member responsibility zone + equipment ownership system (党员责任区+设备主人制)," precisely assigning each device to an individual.
"This converter transformer is under my 'management,'" said young Party member Zhou Zheng (周正), pointing to the identification sign. Inspection plans, data records, historical curves... Zhou Zheng documents all the operating conditions of this device one by one. "Equipment doesn't speak; we must always be attentive, anticipate all potential risks, and ensure the stable operation of the equipment."
This compressed responsibility has become a powerful driving force for young Party members to break through technical barriers and grow rapidly.
In the early stages of the converter station's operation, the new equipment operated under complex conditions, and various abnormal alarms occurred frequently. Party members faced the problems head-on, closely monitored subtle fluctuations in the equipment, meticulously inspected every abnormal point, compiled frontline operational data, and proactively contacted the equipment manufacturers, pushing forward multiple technical optimization and upgrades within half a year.
After traversing the difficult path of exploration, the Party branch summarized a practical and effective work principle: "Better to make ten unnecessary trips than to miss a single inspection." Precisely by relying on this rigorous work style, the Guquan Converter Station has cumulatively and safely transmitted over 380 billion kWh of electricity.
During the annual comprehensive maintenance, the converter station must undergo a full power outage. Every day of delay means losing hundreds of millions of kWh of electricity for the Yangtze River Delta region. Facing nearly 5,000 maintenance tasks, Party member technical backbone led the charge, repeatedly refining the procedures, parallelizing work where possible, optimizing processes where feasible, and compressing the construction period from 13 days to 7 days. "The time we gained allows us to deliver an additional 1.2 billion kWh of electricity to the Yangtze River Delta," said young Party member Liao Jun (廖军).
An even greater breakthrough lies in overcoming 卡脖子 (kǎ bó zi - "choking the neck," critical bottleneck) technologies. In the past, key components of high-end control protection systems relied on foreign sources. The Guquan Converter Station Party branch selected technical backbone to coordinate with domestic manufacturers, conducted grid-connected operation experiments for fully domestically produced control protection systems, provided massive amounts of test data, and assisted in the successful R&D of the first set of domestically produced highest-voltage-level control protection equipment, achieving a leap from "dependent on imports" to 自主可控 (zì zhǔ kě kòng - "autonomously controllable," independent and controllable).
"Ensuring that every kilowatt-hour of electricity safely and stably passes through every mountain here, lighting up the lives of thousands of households far away — that is the meaning of our perseverance," said Zhu Haoyan (祝浩焱), a young Party member at the Guquan Converter Station, expressing the significance of their ability to bear the burden and stand firm.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 林丽鹂
The closely watched Ctrip monopoly case announced its penalty result on July 25: the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局) imposed an administrative penalty on Ctrip Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Ctrip”) for abusing its dominant market position to implement monopolistic conduct, with fines and confiscated illegal gains totaling 5.179 billion yuan.
The investigation and punishment of the Ctrip monopoly case is another major landmark case in the routine regulation of anti-monopoly in the platform economy, with breakthrough significance in many areas. The reporter will review the entire process of the Ctrip monopoly case from the perspective of three “firsts.”
China’s first anti-monopoly case in the online travel field
“Ctrip required me to sign a ‘best price clause,’ guaranteeing that the selling price on Ctrip must be lower than on other channels, and the commission has risen from the initial roughly 10% to now over 25% for some room types, squeezing profit margins severely. After accounting for rent, labor, and energy costs, my net profit is already below 5%,” said a B&B owner in Dali, Yunnan.
Since 2025, regulatory authorities have received a large number of complaints and reports from industry associations, hotel operators, online travel platforms, and others reflecting Ctrip’s monopolistic conduct. Market regulation departments in multiple localities have also summoned Ctrip for talks. The State Administration for Market Regulation promptly responded to public demands, conducted multi-party external verification, and on January 14, 2026, announced the filing of a case to investigate Ctrip for suspected abuse of dominant market position to implement monopolistic conduct. At the same time, it dispatched key anti-monopoly enforcement personnel from market regulation departments nationwide to form a special case group to conduct on-site investigations, and traveled to more than 10 provinces to investigate and collect evidence.
Ctrip is currently China’s largest online travel platform, with main businesses covering hotel booking, transportation ticketing, travel and vacation, etc. Qunar is its wholly owned subsidiary. BOCOM International estimated that as of the end of 2024, Ctrip’s gross merchandise value (GMV) market share in the domestic core hotel and travel market was approximately 56%.
“Before the emergence of online travel and local life platforms, hotel room sales mainly relied on offline channels and telephone bookings. Platforms enable consumers to conveniently compare and choose services, and enable merchants to transcend geographical limitations to reach a broader customer base, greatly improving the efficiency of supply-demand matching,” said Song Xiaoxi (宋小溪), Vice President and Secretary-General of the China Hotel Association (中国饭店协会). “The high-quality development of the accommodation industry requires benign interaction between platforms and merchants. For a period of time, the two sides have become increasingly confrontational. A healthy business ecology should allow all parties to obtain reasonable returns and development space.”
A hotel operator in Sichuan Province frankly stated: “Among third-party online hotel booking platforms, Ctrip has a large customer base and high sales volume. Our hotel has cooperated with other platforms before, but the order volume was too low. Ctrip accounts for 80%–90% of our online orders. It can be said that without Ctrip we cannot survive, but with Ctrip we cannot thrive.”
“The Ctrip monopoly case is China’s first anti-monopoly case in the online travel field, and is of great significance for regulating the competitive order of the online travel platform service market, protecting the legitimate rights and interests of hotel merchants and consumers, and promoting the high-quality development of the industry,” said Ning Lizhi (宁立志), a member of the Expert Advisory Group of the State Council Anti-Monopoly and Anti-Unfair Competition Commission (国务院反垄断反不正当竞争委员会专家咨询组) and a professor at the Wuhan University School of Law.
China’s first case of a new type of monopolistic conduct in the platform economy field
The technical analysis difficulty in investigating the Ctrip monopoly case was extremely high. Relevant data was scattered across terminal devices, cloud servers, and business systems, with large data volumes, complex correlation relationships, and strong information concealment. After more than five months of meticulous investigation, the special case group conducted big data analysis and algorithmic parsing on tens of thousands of gigabytes (GB) of electronic data.
“During the investigation, the regulatory authorities adhered to technology empowerment and data support, exploring and forming a technical path for evidence collection that is ‘multi-path evidence collection + automated data analysis + targeted precision assessment,’ providing strong support for clarifying the facts,” said Fang Jie (方杰), Deputy Director of the Competition Policy and Assessment Center of the State Administration for Market Regulation.
Eventually, the traces of monopolistic conduct hidden within the complex technical system were 抽丝剥茧 (chōu sī bō jiǎn - “pull silk, peel cocoon,” to analyze step by step) restored, outlining the full picture of China’s first case of a new type of monopolistic conduct in the platform economy field.
“Our hotel signed a cooperation agreement with Ctrip in 2018, with a listing level of ‘special card.’ We could not cooperate with other platforms. If discovered, they would give us a warning and require us to delist room inventory from other platforms,” recalled a hotel operator in Chongqing.
Ctrip used technical means, manual comparison, and other methods to monitor in real time. If it found that a “special card” hotel was operating on other platforms, it would impose punitive measures such as traffic restrictions and “delisting,” causing a sharp drop in the hotel merchant’s traffic and revenue. Ctrip’s requirement for “special card” hotels to engage in exclusive cooperation constituted the conduct of restricting transactions prohibited by Article 22, paragraph 1, item 4 of the Anti-Monopoly Law.
“Our hotel started doing ‘gold card’ at the end of June 2025. Previously, our hotel’s ranking on Ctrip was after the 2000th place; after doing ‘gold card,’ it rose to around 200th place. If our prices on other platforms were lower than on Ctrip, staff would contact us and require us to ensure that the price was at least 20 yuan lower than on other platforms,” said a hotel operator in Beijing.
“Ctrip’s ‘Price Adjustment Assistant’ automatically monitors and adjusts room prices to the ‘lowest price on the entire network.’ Generally, monitoring occurs around 9 a.m., 10 a.m., 12 p.m., 2 p.m., and 6 p.m. every day, and adjustments continue in the early morning hours,” a B&B staff member in Yunnan introduced. In just one month, the algorithm automatically adjusted prices more than 100 times.
Ctrip used a price comparison system to compare prices of the same hotel across different platforms. If it found that the price of a “gold card” or “no card” hotel was higher than on other platforms, it would use technical tools such as the “Price Adjustment Assistant” and “Listing Pass” to adjust the hotel’s price to the lowest on the entire network, and implement punitive measures such as traffic restrictions, “delisting,” and deduction of order reserve funds. This constituted the conduct of imposing unreasonable trading conditions prohibited by Article 22, paragraph 1, item 5 of the Anti-Monopoly Law.
On the basis of mastering a large amount of facts and data analysis, the special case group conducted in-depth analysis and argumentation, listened to opinions from relevant experts multiple times, and finally determined that since 2020, Ctrip had abused its dominant market position in the online hotel booking platform service market within China, using the traffic allocation mechanism as the core, and utilizing platform rules and technical means to implement the above two types of monopolistic conduct.
Shi Jianzhong (时建中), Deputy Head of the Expert Advisory Group of the State Council Anti-Monopoly and Anti-Unfair Competition Commission and Dean of the Data Law Research Institute at China University of Political Science and Law, analyzed: “Unlike the simple and direct ‘choose one or the other’ monopoly model of the past, Ctrip deeply integrated digital intelligence technology with ecological layout, forming a composite monopoly model of ‘technology + ecology + conduct.’ Ctrip used digital intelligence technologies such as algorithm monitoring, traffic regulation, and ecological bundling to precisely and efficiently implement monopolistic conduct with greater concealment and harmfulness.”
China’s first case in the platform economy field where three types of penalties are simultaneously imposed for anti-monopoly
Looking closely, the penalty decision consists of three parts: ordering Ctrip to cease its illegal conduct, fully refund the forcibly deducted order reserve funds of hotel operators amounting to 122 million yuan; confiscate illegal gains of 1.658 billion yuan; and impose a fine of 7.5% of its 2025 domestic sales revenue of 46.958 billion yuan, amounting to 3.521 billion yuan.
Analysis of the penalty decision reveals three major characteristics: it is the first case in the platform economy field to simultaneously impose three types of penalties for anti-monopoly, the first case in the platform economy field to confiscate illegal gains for anti-monopoly, and the monopoly case with the highest fine ratio in the platform economy field.
What are order reserve funds?
A hotel operator in Heilongjiang introduced: “Around April 2025, because our hotel’s occupancy rate was low, we recharged two to three thousand yuan to buy traffic and advertisements, and the remaining money was put into the ‘order reserve fund.’ If our hotel’s price advantage on Ctrip did not reach 5%, money would be deducted from this fund.”
What are illegal gains?
Ctrip’s price adjustments were generous at the merchants’ expense. The “Price Adjustment Assistant” would adjust prices to the point where merchants had no profit, but as long as a transaction was completed, the merchant had to pay Ctrip a commission according to the agreed proportion. In past monopoly cases in the platform economy field, it was difficult to calculate illegal gains, but the Ctrip case achieved a major breakthrough. After accounting, it was possible to determine illegal gains, which were confiscated according to law.
Under the Anti-Monopoly Law, the ratio fine ranges from 1% to 10% of the previous year’s sales revenue. Why was the penalty ratio relatively high in the platform economy field for Ctrip?
“Ctrip implemented two types of monopolistic conduct. This penalty strictly follows the provisions of the Anti-Monopoly Law concerning confiscation of illegal gains and the ratio fine, comprehensively considering factors such as the nature of the illegal conduct involved, the severity of the circumstances, and the duration, fully embodying the legal spirit of 过罚相当、宽严相济 (guòfá xiāngdāng, kuānyán xiāngjì - “punishment fitting the crime, combining leniency with severity”), and demonstrating the seriousness, authority, and effectiveness of anti-monopoly enforcement,” said Ning Lizhi.
In fact, regarding the Ctrip monopoly case, “how to reform” is more worthy of attention than “how much to fine.”
Shi Jianzhong believes that the ultimate value of anti-monopoly enforcement lies not in the size of the fine, but in clearing the fair competition mechanism clogged by monopolistic conduct, allowing the market mechanism to once again play its decisive role in resource allocation — “restoring competition,” and thereby incentivizing enterprise innovation and enhancing consumer welfare. That is the legal value, economic value, and social value of this penalty decision.
For Ctrip, this will be a reshaping of business rules. In March this year, Ctrip took the lead in taking down the “AI Business Assistant” (formerly the “Price Adjustment Assistant”). The issuance of this penalty decision is even more the starting point for its further rectification. Ctrip issued a statement saying, “We will take this penalty as an opportunity to deeply reflect and self-innovate, resolutely abandon ‘involution-style (内卷式)’ inefficient competition, and unswervingly follow the path of high-quality development. We will earnestly fulfill our main responsibility for maintaining fair competition order in the industry, pay more attention to balancing the interests of partners, consumers, and all sectors of society, and commit to building a cultural and tourism ecology of symbiosis and common prosperity, harmony and health.”
For the platform economy, “The Ctrip monopoly case provides a ‘Chinese solution’ in the exploration of global platform anti-monopoly enforcement practice. China’s anti-monopoly enforcement work is of great significance for improving and perfecting the governance system of the platform economy, preventing and stopping the damage of monopolistic conduct to the innovative development and economic vitality of the platform economy, and promoting the healthy and sustainable development of the platform economy,” said Meng Yanbei (孟雁北), a member of the Expert Advisory Group of the State Council Anti-Monopoly and Anti-Unfair Competition Commission and a researcher at the National Academy of Development and Strategy of Renmin University of China.
For economic and social development, “This case fully responds to the realistic expectations of the people and broad market entities for fair competition, standardized operation, and win-win development. In the first year of the ‘15th Five-Year Plan,’ the lawful investigation and handling of this case is a good start for China’s in-depth rectification of ‘involution-style’ competition and for promoting the construction of a market order with high quality and high price and benign competition,” said Yang Dong (杨东), a member of the Expert Advisory Group of the State Council Anti-Monopoly and Anti-Unfair Competition Commission and Dean of the School of Law at Renmin University of China.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 施 芳
By the end of July, the first batch of 72 robots will be successively put into use in 14 municipal parks in Beijing, marking the opening of a new model of smart management for Beijing's municipal parks.
On the east side square of the promenade at the Temple of Heaven Park, a sweeping robot has been put into use. This robot possesses capabilities of autonomous navigation, automatic obstacle avoidance, automatic charging, and all-weather duty, enabling routine environmental cleaning of the park. At the flower border of the northeastern outer altar, a patrol robot put into use can accurately identify uncivilized park behavior such as smoking, becoming an important force for park order management and control.
As early as during the 2024 World Robot Conference, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology (北京市经济和信息化局), the Beijing Municipal Forestry and Parks Bureau (北京市园林绿化局), and the Beijing Municipal Park Management Center (北京市公园管理中心) established the city's first "robot + landscape" innovative application scenario pilot at Yuyuantan Park, taking the lead in conducting trial operations of landscape robots. In 2025, Yuyuantan Park established the "Landscape Robot Workstation" (园林机器人工作站) to provide practical training scenarios for innovative robot technologies, exploring the empowerment of the landscape greening industry by new quality productive forces (新质生产力). As of now, 23 robots from 18 enterprises have completed their first trials and first uses at Yuyuantan Park.
On this basis, the Beijing Municipal Park Management Center is vigorously promoting the application and popularization of robots. It will deploy 72 robots in 14 municipal parks, including the Summer Palace, Temple of Heaven Park, Beihai Park, Taoranting Park, Yuyuantan Park, and Luxian Ancient City Ruins Park, focusing on six major business scenarios: cleaning and sweeping, smart inspection, inquiry and guidance, water surface rescue, greening and maintenance, and ecological monitoring. Technology empowerment will enhance the level of refined management of parks and the visitor service experience.
The sweeping robot, relying on large model technology, can autonomously adjust its operational strategy based on the distribution of garbage, achieving edge-aligned sweeping, automatic obstacle avoidance, and intelligent cruise, greatly improving sweeping efficiency and quality; the water surface cleaning robot can automatically identify and collect floating garbage such as fallen leaves and plastic bottles, achieving routine water surface cleaning operations and improving operational safety; the water surface mowing robot integrates harvesting, collecting, and conveying in one, efficiently completing the removal of submerged plants; the patrol robot, relying on artificial intelligence recognition technology and the "end, edge, cloud" collaborative architecture, can achieve identification of uncivilized behavior, monitoring of plant diseases and pests, biodiversity monitoring, and detection of facility faults, providing data support for landscape maintenance and ecological protection.
The collaborative application of intelligent equipment has effectively reduced the labor intensity of frontline workers and improved operational safety. Zhou Ziniu (周子牛), Deputy Director of the Science and Technology Information Division of the Beijing Municipal Park Management Center, stated that they will coordinate the operational data of robots in all municipal parks, strengthen data monitoring, achieve real-time monitoring of operational status, precise positioning, and multi-dimensional statistical analysis, and provide data support for the subsequent deepening and expansion of robot applications in landscape scenarios with a solid data foundation.
Return to TopIn Shandong Province's Tengzhou (滕州市), the Gaoya Home Service Department (高雅家政服务部), a trainer is training postpartum care workers (月嫂).
In recent years, Shandong has placed the home service industry in an important position for ensuring people's livelihood, stabilizing employment, and boosting consumption, coordinated the introduction of a series of policies, targeted the cracking of difficulties in industry development, and continuously promoted the standardized, professional, and industrialized development of the home service industry. Now, Shandong has cultivated a batch of local-featured home service labor brands, built a women's home service network (巾帼家政服务网络) that covers the entire region and connects urban and rural areas, and the supply of diversified home services such as elderly care, maternal and infant care, whole-house organization, and health companionship continues to expand, precisely matching the multi-level family service needs of the masses.
Photo by Song Haicun (宋海存) (People's Vision (人民视觉)).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 万秀斌 邵玉姿 张腾扬
Inside the Tangshan Earthquake Memorial Hall, the 16 large characters 公而忘私、患难与共、百折不挠、勇往直前 (gōng ér wàng sī - "public-minded, forgetting self," huàn nàn yǔ gòng - "share hardships together," bǎi zhé bù náo - "undeterred after a hundred setbacks," yǒng wǎng zhí qián - "march forward bravely") shine brilliantly, engraving the spiritual strength of the 1976 earthquake relief efforts and bearing witness to this city’s rebirth from disaster.
A kilometer away, on Phoenix Mountain (凤凰山), the trees and grass are lush. Climbing to the summit and looking into the distance, tall buildings stand in clusters, greenery stretches on, rivers and lakes are clear, and the cityscape blends harmoniously with its surroundings.
Over the past 50 years, Tangshan in Hebei Province, this Phoenix City, has undergone two baptisms of fire and rebirth.
The first time, it rose from the ruins — in the ten years after the earthquake, Tangshan rebuilt its homeland on a stretch of rubble; the second time, it broke through with transformative development — since the new era, Tangshan has used green to redefine the growth model of this century-old industrial stronghold.
In July 2016, when inspecting Tangshan, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed the hope that the broad cadres and masses of Tangshan would continue to carry forward the earthquake-resistance spirit, seize the favorable opportunity presented by the state’s promotion of the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, and, in accordance with the "three efforts to build" (三个努力建成) target, make persistent efforts and work tirelessly, comprehensively carry out all work on reform, development, and stability, strive to be at the forefront in transforming the development mode, adjusting the economic structure, and advancing supply-side structural reform, and enable this heroic city to achieve new glory.
Keeping instructions firmly in mind, forging ahead with determination. In 2024, Tangshan’s gross regional product historically broke through the one-trillion-yuan mark, becoming the first city in Hebei with a GDP exceeding one trillion yuan; in 2025, Tangshan’s economic growth rate reached 6.2%. In the first half of this year, the city’s gross regional product grew by 5.0% year-on-year.
From post-disaster rebirth and accumulated revitalization to industrial transformation and the switching of growth drivers, at the foot of the Yanshan Mountains and on the shore of Bohai Bay, Tangshan is lush with greenery and brimming with vitality.
Toward Green: Reconstructing the Green Industrial Foundation
Tangshan, the cradle of modern Chinese industry, gave birth to many "firsts": the first mechanized coal mine, the first barrel of machine-made cement, the first piece of sanitary ceramics...
Ten days after the earthquake, it produced the first cart of "anti-quake coal"; 14 days after the earthquake, the power plant was connected to the grid; 28 days after the earthquake, the first furnace of "steel of resolve" was smelted... Industry recovered rapidly after the earthquake, and by 2012, Tangshan’s gross regional product reached 586.163 billion yuan, with a growth rate of 10.4%.
However, behind the data, problems could not be ignored: a singular industrial structure, overcapacity in steel, resource carrying capacity hitting its ceiling — extensive growth was unsustainable. According to the national environmental protection department’s 2013 report on air quality conditions in key cities nationwide, Tangshan ranked among the bottom 10 cities with relatively poor air quality, and it saw no improvement in the following years.
"Ecological and environmental problems are ultimately problems of the development mode and the lifestyle." Zhou Haishan (周海森), deputy director of the Tangshan Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment (唐山市生态环境局), recalled that at that time, atmospheric governance was forcing a green transformation, which had become a task of the era that Tangshan had to answer well.
This was a profound revolution in development philosophy.
"The green transformation in the new era is a hurdle whose difficulty is in no way less than post-disaster reconstruction," Zhou Haishan acknowledged frankly.
Gripping with 壮士断腕 (zhuàng shì duàn wàn - "a brave warrior cuts off his wrist," to decisively make a painful sacrifice), Tangshan gritted its teeth and, with the courage of 破釜沉舟 (pò fǔ chén zhōu - "smash the pots and sink the boats," to burn one's bridges and fight to the end) "took the knife" to extensive development.
Overall production capacity was first reduced. Starting in 2013, Tangshan vigorously eliminated outdated and excess capacity; by 2020, it had cumulatively reduced and withdrawn over 60 million tons of steelmaking capacity.
The main urban area and its near suburbs also had to "slim down." One of the very difficult challenges was: where would the 11 key steel enterprises concentrated here go?
What to do? Taking stock of its assets, Tangshan borders Bohai Bay and has abundant coastal resources that can be used to layout the steel industry; looking at experience, in 2008, Shougang relocated from Beijing to Caofeidian, pioneering a "front port, rear factory" green production and port-adjacent transformation new paradigm, setting an example to follow.
Investigation after investigation, seminar after seminar... At the end of 2017, based on long-term development, Tangshan anchored on the direction of port-industry synergy, slimming the interior, and improving quality on the coast, making the decisive decision to promote the relocation of 11 key steel enterprises out of the main urban area and its near suburbs.
Relocation involved a funding gap of tens of billions of yuan and the resettlement and reemployment of tens of thousands of workers; the difficulty can be imagined. But Tangshan’s cadres and masses pressed forward the harder it got.
Pushed by the Tangshan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, besides coordinating financial rewards and subsidies and special bank financing, numerous Tangshan enterprises contributed to building a "mutual aid fund pool," providing interest-free loans to the relocating steel enterprises, jointly solving the funding problem. A person in charge of a steel enterprise that had received interest-free loans from the "mutual aid fund pool" remarked with emotion: "Tangshan people share hardships together, and at the crucial moment, everyone joined hands to lift up us steel enterprises."
The spirit of the time of the great earthquake — when people set aside their own families for the greater collective, public-minded and forgetting self — has been inherited and carried forward: for the sake of the city’s overall development, tens of thousands of steel workers overcame inconveniences such as commuting, left the old plant areas, built new plant areas, and shouldered the burden of transformation. One old worker said: "We did not flinch during post-earthquake reconstruction, and in transformative development we cannot fall behind either."
Every hurdle was difficult, but every hurdle was crossed. By the end of 2022, the last steel enterprise relocating out of the main urban area, Guotang Steel, was completed and put into operation in Leting County (乐亭县). After years of hard work, all steel enterprises in the urban area of Tangshan have relocated out, freeing up over 20,000 mu of land. Traditional industries such as coking were also orderly moved to the coast.
With the road to transformation open, Tangshan could breathe "freely"!
From 2022 onward, Tangshan exited the bottom 10 of the national ranking of annual air quality in 168 key cities. The number of days with good air quality in the city increased from 109 days in 2013 to 289 days in 2025.
Toward New: Opening Up Space for Green Transformation
Relocation frees up space, but changes the mindset.
Green has been "planted" into the new plant areas.
The new Tangshan Steel area is only 1.4 kilometers from Pier No. 4 of Jingtang Port Area of Tangshan Port. Fully enclosed belt corridors transport materials; iron ore, once unloaded from ships, goes directly onto the conveyor belt and enters the plant — no ground contact, no dust. The new plant area invested nearly 10 billion yuan in environmental protection, applying over 130 world-class emission reduction technologies, achieving ultra-low emissions throughout the entire process.
Hebei Tianzhu Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd. moved to Leting County, building its new plant on saline-alkali land. Just for planting trees, it replaced the soil three times, built an anti-seepage layer, and invested over 300 million yuan in total. The company was rated a national-level green factory for 2025.
The green concept takes root through ideological consciousness, but it also cannot be separated from institutional force.
From 2022 onward, Tangshan promoted the creation of A-level environmental performance in key industries such as steel: the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government jointly issued an implementation plan, established a municipal-level task force, formulated a "timeline, roadmap, and construction drawing," and urged enterprises to implement environmental protection responsibilities.
Tangshan’s self-formulated environmental standards are even higher than national standards — some people call it the "Tang Standard." Currently, Tangshan is again "self-imposing pressure," extending environmental performance A-level creation from key industries like steel and coking to other industries. As of now, the city has 115 enterprises with A-level environmental performance.
Products, too, are moving toward new and high quality. Tangshan Steel’s 750 MPa grade hot-rolled steel for drive shafts exceeds the highest strength level of the national industry standard; Shougang Zhixin’s mass-produced 0.1 mm electrical steel has a thickness of just a fraction of a sheet of paper... "Tangshan Steel" is shifting from "competing on output and scale" to "competing on materials and value."
Relying on the century-old industry’s rich foundation, Tangshan extends down the steel industry chain — from "steelmaking" extending to "steel-using," from raw materials extending to components and complete machine manufacturing.
The robotics industry grew out of this —
"Tangshan has many coal mines, many steel mills, and many chemical plants. Many production scenarios are unfriendly to humans, but they are the battlefield for robots." Lu Zhihong (卢志宏), a technical backbone at CITIC Heavy Industries Kaicheng Intelligence, has a father who worked for Kailuan Coal Mine all his life. Underground gas was a sword hanging over everyone’s head; his father often talked at home about which tunnel had detected anomalies again. Those heart-stopping stories were etched into Lu Zhihong’s heart from childhood, and now they have become his research direction — mine safety monitoring and firefighting robots.
Today, Tangshan’s special-purpose robot and welding robot industries rank among the top in the country... as of the end of 2025, Tangshan had 286 robot enterprises, with revenue of 13.71 billion yuan, accounting for over 60% of the revenue of Hebei Province’s robot industry.
The new energy industry ran out of this —
As a heavy industry city, Tangshan has as many as 180,000 heavy trucks, giving it enormous potential for green transformation.
In 2016, the domestic lithium battery enterprise Guoxuan High-Tech, aiming at Tangshan’s transformation development opportunity, made a layout; most components had to be shipped in from other provinces. Tangshan Lunan District set up a service task force to station on-site and handle approvals. Construction started in November of that year, and formal production began one year later. "This was the fastest production line construction speed in Guoxuan’s history," said Ge Daobin (葛道斌), head of Tangshan Guoxuan Battery Co., Ltd. Relying on a tenacious spirit, Tangshan people built a supporting system from scratch, and the Guoxuan battery project expanded from Phase I to Phase VI. Of the 1,200 new energy buses running through the streets of Tangshan, most of their batteries come from Guoxuan High-Tech.
In 2025, the four key industries of steel, equipment manufacturing, green chemicals, and green building materials contributed 78% to Tangshan’s industrial growth; the added value of electronic information, new energy and other industries all achieved double-digit growth.
Toward Excellence: Creating New Green Growth Poles
At Pier No. 25 of Jingtang Port Area of Tangshan Port, container vessels are berthed steadily, and twin-trolley quay cranes stand on the shore. On the container yard, several driverless intelligent flatbed transport vehicles move in an orderly shuttle.
This is Hebei Province’s first fully automated container terminal. "Relying on domestically produced container terminal operating systems, Beidou and 5G positioning, we achieve remote centralized control and 24-hour uninterrupted operation," said Yang Xuejun (杨学军), chairman of Tangshan Port Industrial Group Co., Ltd.
Jingtang Port Area first opened to navigation in the early 1990s; Caofeidian Port Area started construction in 2003... after decades of development, Tangshan Port, comprising Jingtang Port Area, Caofeidian Port Area, and Fengnan Port Area, accesses 262 ports in nearly 80 countries and regions, has built 62 inland ports, radiating across northern China and connecting Europe and Asia. In 2025, Tangshan Port’s cargo throughput reached 884 million tons; the number of green ports reached 9, ranking first in Hebei Province.
Extending seaward, connecting landward. New green growth poles have grown out of the great port.
At Dajin Heavy Industry’s Caofeidian deep-sea offshore engineering super base, offshore wind power monopiles over 10 meters in diameter and nearly 100 meters in length are stunning. "We adopt advanced processes such as fully automated intelligent welding, achieving significant energy-saving and carbon-reduction effects," introduced Yu Xiaoqing (余晓清), deputy general manager of the base. The base achieves a seamless chain covering equipment production, anti-corrosion coating, and finished product loading, providing robust capacity support for one-stop overseas delivery of offshore wind power equipment.
At the Tangshan Shengang seawater desalination project site, warm waste seawater from the Datang power plant is sent directly to the workshop through blue pipes. After treatment such as reverse osmosis membranes, fresh water is produced for use by surrounding enterprises, and the concentrated brine is then delivered to Tangshan Lancang Ocean Technology Co., Ltd. to extract bromine. "Using warm waste seawater solves the winter production difficulties of seawater desalination and bromine extraction, achieving stable year-round operation, and raising water resource utilization from the conventional 75% to 97%," explained Ren Zhirui (任志锐), chairman of Tangshan Chengfa Construction Group Co., Ltd. In the first four months of this year, over 500 tons of bromine have been extracted; next, magnesium and potassium will be extracted, further extending the circular chain.
In 2025, Tangshan’s coastal economic belt achieved a gross product of 396.04 billion yuan, an increase of 7.1% over the previous year, accounting for 37.9% of the city’s total.
New growth poles are not limited to the coast.
In Lunan District, Tangshan City, the century-old Kailuan Coal Mine left behind a large area of subsidence depressions. This "South Big Pit," once despised by Tangshan locals, underwent over 20 years of treatment — blocking sewage outfalls, staged sedimentation, planting vegetation to purify water, and sealing and capping the mountain body with soil... Today, the Nanhu Urban Central Ecological Park has been completed, hosting diversified functions such as exhibitions, cultural tourism, and sports. The 2016 Tangshan World Horticultural Exposition was held here. "I used to walk around holding my nose, now I come for a stroll every day — the change is enormous," said Zhao Xiang (赵祥), an 80-year-old Tangshan resident.
The "Coal River" (煤河) in Fengnan District, Tangshan City, is no more than 10 meters wide. Born in 1881 for coal extraction and transportation from the Kailuan Coal Mine, it could go south direct to Lutai in Tianjin, but later declined with the rise of railways. Today, it has become a popular tourist attraction — Hetou Old Street, which received over 8 million visitors last year. Every evening, along the river, stories of King Tang’s Eastern Expedition and the opening of Tangshan’s port unfold one after another on the stages, in tea houses, and alongside intangible cultural heritage workshops.
From "urban scar" to "city living room," from "Longxu Ditch" to "trendy check-in spot," from the extensive model relying on resources and competing in manpower to high-quality development emphasizing innovation and striving for green... This heroic city has changed its development mode and industrial structure, but what remains unchanged is its sense of responsibility to closely follow the national strategy and bravely shoulder the mission of the times.
Shedding its heavy burdens and donning new clothes, Tangshan surges toward the future.
Return to TopJuly 26 is International Mangrove Ecosystem Conservation Day. The journalist learned from the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (国家林业和草原局): China’s mangrove area has reached 31,700 hectares, an increase of 44% compared with the beginning of this century, making it one of the few countries in the world to achieve a continuous increase in mangrove area. The ecological integrity, biodiversity, and blue carbon (蓝碳) sequestration capacity of mangroves have been significantly enhanced.
Mangroves are an important coastal wetland ecosystem, playing an irreplaceable and important role in maintaining coastal ecological security, protecting biodiversity, and mitigating and adapting to climate change.
International Mangrove Center officially enters substantive operation stage
On July 26, the first Council meeting and unveiling ceremony of the International Mangrove Center (国际红树林中心) was held in Shenzhen, Guangdong, marking that the International Mangrove Center has officially moved from a global initiative into the substantive operation stage, demonstrating the pragmatism and responsibility of the Chinese government in promoting intergovernmental coordination for global mangrove protection.
In November 2022, China proposed an initiative at the 14th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (《湿地公约》) to establish an International Mangrove Center in Shenzhen. In September 2023, the 62nd Standing Committee of the Ramsar Convention designated the International Mangrove Center as a regional initiative. In November 2024, representatives of the first 18 prospective member states jointly signed the Agreement on Establishing the International Mangrove Center (《关于成立国际红树林中心的协定》) in Shenzhen. In June this year, the agreement officially entered into force. As of now, the International Mangrove Center has 8 member states and 13 signatory states, covering Asia, Africa, the Americas, and other major global mangrove distribution areas.
As the world’s first intergovernmental international organization dedicated to mangrove protection and cooperation, the International Mangrove Center aims to promote global cooperation and joint action in mangrove protection, restoration, and sustainable use, deeply participate in global ecological governance, and safeguard the precious mangrove resources of the earth.
Since the preparatory work for the International Mangrove Center began, various tasks have been steadily advanced, achieving important interim results. A report on the current status and key issues of global mangrove resources has been compiled, and research has been carried out on blue carbon policies, market mechanisms, ecological governance, community participation, and investment and financing construction.
The Secretariat of the Ramsar Convention highly commended the important role played by the Chinese government in promoting the establishment of the International Mangrove Center. The Chinese representative stated that the Chinese government will join hands with all member states, closely adhere to the center’s strategic plan, deepen exchanges, cooperation, and data sharing, jointly conduct scientific research, capacity training, and demonstration projects, assist countries in improving their mangrove protection and management levels, and jointly contribute to global biodiversity protection, climate change response, and the achievement of sustainable development goals. Representatives of the signatory states stated that the International Mangrove Center, as a unique regional initiative under the framework of the Ramsar Convention, will provide an important platform for all parties to strengthen policy exchanges, technical cooperation, and experience sharing, and to promote global mangrove protection, restoration, and sustainable use.
China completes new mangrove planting of approximately 11,600 hectares, over 90% of mangroves included in ecological protection red line
The journalist learned from the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部) and the National Forestry and Grassland Administration: Since the issuance and implementation of the Special Action Plan for Mangrove Protection and Restoration (2020–2025) (《红树林保护修复专项行动计划（2020—2025年）》), China has completed new mangrove planting of approximately 11,600 hectares (174,000 mu).
The results of the 2025 National Land Use Change Survey show that China’s mangrove area has increased to 31,700 hectares (475,000 mu), an increase of about 44% compared with the beginning of this century. While the resource volume has steadily increased, the quality, stability, and carbon sink capacity of the mangrove ecosystem have also significantly improved. Currently, over 90% of mangroves are included in the ecological protection red line (生态保护红线).
At the same time, the legal system and standard system for mangrove protection have been continuously improved. China has always attached great importance to mangrove protection, promulgated and implemented the Wetland Protection Law, set up mangrove protection provisions, and provided legal guarantees for mangrove protection. A new type of protected area system has been built, incorporating mangroves into the ecological protection red line or protected areas for strict protection. Use control of mangrove land has been strengthened, human activities involving mangroves have been strictly regulated, and various illegal acts that damage mangroves have been severely cracked down on. The Wetland Protection Plan and the five-year special action for mangrove protection and restoration have been implemented, regional coordination, departmental coordination, and land-sea integration have been strengthened, comprehensive measures have been adopted and promoted in an integrated manner, and measures such as planting and restoration and returning ponds to forests have been taken to comprehensively strengthen mangrove wetland protection and restoration.
The pathways for realizing the value of mangrove ecological products have been continuously broadened. Relevant coastal cities have actively explored models such as carbon sink auctions and judicial carbon sinks, expanding the value realization mechanism of mangrove carbon sink products, achieving a win-win situation for ecological protection and economic and social benefits.
Next, the Ministry of Natural Resources and the National Forestry and Grassland Administration will formulate and issue the Special Action Plan for Mangrove Protection (2026–2030) (《红树林保护专项行动方案（2026—2030年）》), providing guidance for local mangrove protection and restoration, and promoting high-level protection and high-quality development of mangroves.
All localities adapt measures to local conditions, continuously strengthen the mangrove protection barrier
Guangdong is the province with the largest mangrove distribution area in China, with approximately 11,600 hectares of existing mangroves, accounting for nearly 40% of the national total. Nearly 93% of mangroves in Guangdong are included in the ecological protection red line, and about 68% are included in important wetlands. There are currently 3 internationally important wetlands, 1 nationally important wetland, and 51 provincially important wetlands that take mangroves as their main protection object.
In recent years, Guangdong has added over 8,000 hectares of newly planted and restored mangroves, exceeding the mangrove planting and restoration tasks of the ‘14th Five-Year Plan’. To strengthen the mangrove protection barrier, Guangdong has improved the provincial and municipal regulatory and planning system, established a special chapter on mangroves in the provincial wetland regulations, with Zhanjiang and Zhuhai providing supplementary special legislation, and 14 coastal cities achieving full coverage of protection plans. Recently, the first phase of the Guangzhou Nansha Wetland Mangrove Afforestation Carbon Inclusion Project (广州市南沙湿地红树林造林碳普惠项目（一期）) completed its first judicial carbon sink transaction, which is the first market-based landing transaction after the first phase emission reductions of Guangzhou’s first marine carbon sink project were officially issued.
By the end of the ‘14th Five-Year Plan’, Guangxi’s mangrove area reached 10,800 hectares, exceeding the target of breaking through 10,000 hectares in mangrove holdings by 8%, compared with 7,300 hectares at the end of the ‘12th Five-Year Plan’, an increase of 47.95% in ten years.
Since 2019, the Mangrove and Wetland Research Team of the Guangxi Academy of Forestry Sciences (广西林科院) has been continuously carrying out the construction of a mangrove germplasm resource bank. In November 2024, it was successfully approved as the second batch of autonomous region-level forest and grass germplasm resource banks (mangrove thematic bank). Currently, the bank has collected and preserved 17 species of mangrove plants, including 124 provenances and 617 germplasms. Mangroves such as Qiujia (秋茄), Mulang (木榄), Tonghuashu (桐花树), Baigurang (白骨壤), and Honghailan (红海榄) have been mass propagated.
Guangxi has established mangrove forest chiefs (红树林林长) by jurisdiction, set up mangrove resource protection stations in townships, assigned full-time patrol officers by district, established a ‘forest chief + police chief + chief procurator’ (林长+警长+检察长) coordination mechanism, forming a three-level grid supervision pattern at the city, county, and township levels, achieving full coverage of routine management and protection of coastal mangroves. In addition, relying on technologies such as satellite remote sensing, drone patrols, and ground video surveillance, Guangxi has built a three-dimensional supervision network of ‘real-time video surveillance + dynamic remote sensing analysis + manual on-site verification’, achieving monthly patrols, quarterly remote sensing, and real-time early warning for mangroves throughout the region.
Since 2020, Hainan has accumulated over 2,030 hectares of mangrove planting and over 3,300 hectares of restoration, achieving a simultaneous leap in mangrove area and quality.
The Special Plan for Mangrove Resource Protection of Hainan Province (2024–2035) (《海南省红树林资源保护专项规划（2024—2035年）》) proposes to improve the quality of mangrove resources from five aspects: mangrove planting, restoration of degraded mangroves, removal and transformation of exotic tree species, pest control, habitat restoration of rare and endangered species, and provenance expansion, based on mangrove resource protection. By the end of 2030, 460 hectares of exotic mangrove plants will be removed and transformed, 1,000 hectares of mangroves will be naturally restored, and the province’s mangrove area holding will be maintained at no less than 7,948 hectares.
(Comprehensive report by our correspondents Gu Zhongyang (顾仲阳), Dong Siyu (董丝雨), Liu Shiyao (刘诗瑶), Lü Shaogang (吕绍刚), Li Zong (李纵), Luo Aihua (罗艾桦), Zhang Yunhe (张云河), and Dong Zeyang (董泽扬).)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李 纵
Midsummer, Shenzhen Bay, Guangdong.
Sunlight pours over the sprawling mangroves, seawater floods the gnarled root systems, and several herons flutter out from the green leaves. Intelligent monitoring cameras rotate silently, capturing moments in the dense forest. Led by volunteers, children walk along the popular science boardwalk, identifying different forms of mangrove plants.
At 8:30 a.m., forest ranger Song Changhua (宋昌华) takes his binoculars and sets out along the patrol path inside the reserve. The patrol route runs about 10 kilometers, mainly to check the growth of mangroves, watch for activity on the mudflats, and also note whether anyone is disturbing the birds.
When the kandelia obovata (秋茄) blooms, how to identify the leaves of Sonneratia apetala (无瓣海桑), which of the overwintering migratory birds will arrive first… Song Changhua has worked here for more than 20 years and has long known the characteristics of various mangroves and migratory birds by heart.
This is the Futian Mangrove National Nature Reserve (福田红树林国家级自然保护区), the only national nature reserve located within an urban hinterland in the country. On one side are the skyscraper clusters of Shenzhen's city center; on the other, the wetlands and shallows of Hong Kong's Mai Po Nature Reserve (米埔自然保护区). The survival of this mangrove forest owes to Shenzhen's repeated choices to give way to ecology during urban development.
In 1994, when Shenzhen was building Binhai Avenue, the original planned route cut directly through the Futian Mangrove National Nature Reserve. That was the option with lower cost and easier construction. After multi-party coordination and careful deliberation, the route was eventually shifted 260 meters north, leaving intact space for the mangroves.
Among the tasks, removing alien plants is a protracted battle. Alien mangroves such as Sonneratia apetala and Laguncularia racemosa (拉关木) grow rapidly and are highly invasive. Song Changhua and his teammates occasionally step onto mud sleds to glide deep into the mudflats, clearing alien species and replanting native mangroves. "They grow too fast, occupying mudflat space, leaving migratory birds with no foraging grounds; they must be strictly controlled," Song said.
Forest protection methods are also quietly upgrading. Song Changhua recalls that when he first came to the reserve in 2003, rangers patrolled by bicycle every day. Today, high-definition cameras monitor around the clock, an AI (artificial intelligence) bird identification system can precisely distinguish waterfowl, and smart water gates automatically adjust fishpond water levels. "Work is more efficient and more accurate," Song said.
Mangrove protection is no longer the affair of a single entity but has become a coordinated effort across the Greater Bay Area. In 2023, Shenzhen and Hong Kong signed a framework agreement on wetland conservation cooperation, for the first time designating the Futian Mangrove Wetland and Hong Kong's Mai Po Nature Reserve as "sister reserves (姊妹保护区)." The two sides conduct regular mutual visits and exchanges, jointly carry out migratory bird monitoring, mangrove surveys, water quality protection, and other work. The two sides also agreed to implement simultaneous surveys using unified timing and methods, building an ecological monitoring network covering the entire Shenzhen Bay. From "each managing its own piece" to "jointly managing the whole area," the ecology of Shenzhen Bay has continued to improve, water quality has steadily risen, and the species and numbers of migratory birds such as the black-faced spoonbill have also increased steadily.
In 2017, Shenzhen launched a multi-party cooperation model of "government supervision and guidance + public-interest organization operation + public participation." The Mangrove Foundation (红树林基金会) raises social funds through corporate donations, public welfare platforms, and other means, and collaborates with professional forces and volunteers to restore ecology, holding public-interest classes that reach enterprises, communities, and schools. Today, in Shenzhen, more and more diverse social forces are converging into the ranks of mangrove protection…
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 董泽扬
Donning straw hats and pulling on rain boots, the research team seized the low-tide period of the day to enter the Tielu Harbor (铁炉港) Mangrove Nature Reserve in Sanya, Hainan, to visit their "old friends."
"Look, doesn't this look like a human knee?" Bending down, Yang Yong (杨勇), a senior experimentalist at the College of Life Sciences of Hainan Normal University, observed the knee-shaped roots of a Honglanli (红榄李) tree. The root system, which protrudes above the water at high tide, helps the Honglanli, which grows in the intertidal zone between land and sea, breathe better. Healthy Honglanli, together with other mangrove plants, form this mangrove forest that can purify seawater, reinforce embankments, and protect the shore.
Nearby, a few newly transplanted Honglanli sprouts were showing green. "Now the Honglanli have 'old, middle-aged, and young,' but ten years ago they faced a survival crisis," Yang Yong said. In 2016, only 14 native Honglanli trees remained in China, with nine in Tielu Harbor, Sanya, and five in Dadun Village (大墩村), Lingshui (陵水). As a rare component of mangroves, the Honglanli, with its narrow distribution, tiny population, and poor growth at the time, was called "the giant panda of mangroves."
Stepping on the mudflat, they walked deeper into the mangrove forest. "This is our 'old friend,' an ancient Honglanli tree several hundred years old." Looking up together with Yang Yong, the ancient tree was broad and canopy-like, with dark brown fruits dotting the branches.
The "old friend" often has new worries. Changes in the hydrological environment and typhoon disturbances affect the ancient tree's growth and snap its branches. The research team and forest rangers often come to "visit," paying attention to the ancient tree's health; after typhoons, they promptly apply protective coating to broken branches to prevent fungal infection. Fine-tuned management and protection have preserved precious germplasm resources for artificial breeding.
Saving the Honglanli depends on breeding. Because Honglanli seeds have a high rate of empty embryos and undergo after-ripening, natural reproduction faces difficulties. Yang Yong and his colleagues collect mature seeds in May and June each year, bring them back to the laboratory for artificial breeding. Through day-after-day collaborative efforts, the seed germination rate was raised from an initial 3‰ to 17%, and the germination rate of optimally selected seeds can even reach 50%.
Today, the Honglanli have many new neighbors. Since 2019, the research team has successfully cultivated over 30,000 Honglanli seedlings from nine ancient trees in the reserve. In suitable mudflat areas in Sanya, Lingshui, and elsewhere, the team has planted over 3,000 Honglanli trees. At Dongzhaigang (东寨港) in Haikou, retired worker Wang Shijun (王式军) and other forest rangers have poured their hearts into cultivating over 2,800 Honglanli trees, steadily increasing the population.
In Hainan, the Honglanli's "companions" are also protected. In Dongzhaigang, Haikou, in areas severely eroded by tides, people stack oyster shells to dissipate wave energy and carry out low-tide afforestation; in Xinying Bay (新英湾), Danzhou (儋州), restoration work follows the natural terrain, reserving grooves and water systems to leave habitat for wildlife at different tide levels; in Xincun (新村) Lagoon, Lingshui, researchers combine native local species with exotic species to enrich the mangrove community's structural layering.
The seed storage and breeding technology for Honglanli has allowed this once-endangered species to form contiguous forests in the wild, while optimizing the environment and providing new homes for benthic organisms and birds.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 蒋雪鸿
In the early hours of July 26, this year's 12th typhoon, Hongxia, made landfall along the coast of Pinghai Town (平海镇), Huidong County (惠东县), Huizhou City, Guangdong Province.
Two days earlier, the related report titled "Landfall location changes again" attracted considerable attention. One word "again" may lead some readers to believe that typhoon forecast conclusions are 变幻无常 (biànhuàn wúcháng - "changing without constancy," constantly changing and unpredictable), always being adjusted. In fact, behind the change in landfall point seen in the forecast information released to the public lies the scientific method of "rolling forecasts, stepwise correction." Essentially, as time approaches, the forecast range of the typhoon's landfall continuously narrows and becomes more accurate.
Why, when the National Meteorological Center has been releasing information related to Hongxia in recent days, have the typhoon's path, intensity, and landfall area changed from time to time? What makes typhoon forecasting difficult, and what technological breakthroughs have been made?
"Sudden changes in a typhoon's path or movement speed are very difficult to predict," said Zhao Wei, director of the National Meteorological Center's Typhoon and Marine Weather Forecasting Center. A typhoon is like a spinning top on an ice surface; what determines where it goes is the massive subtropical high pressure around it. At the same time, factors such as the monsoon also constantly affect its trajectory. When these "pushers" exert force in inconsistent directions, the typhoon may suddenly turn, slow down, or even stall and spin. In addition, the prediction of sudden changes in typhoon intensity is a recognized technical challenge in the global meteorological field.
"AI (artificial intelligence) technology is playing a role in typhoon forecasting," Zhao Wei said. The computation speed of AI-based large weather models far exceeds that of traditional physical models, greatly improving forecast efficiency; AI forecast models are more accurate than traditional physical models for typhoon path forecasts of three to five days, significantly increasing path forecast accuracy; the National Meteorological Center has developed an adapted model for typhoon intensity forecasting based on the Fengqing AI model, achieving a breakthrough in intensity forecasting; the lead time for disaster prevention decision-making has been extended — for example, the Fengqing AI model locked onto Typhoon Yagi's landfall path more than six days in advance.
Typhoon precipitation forecasting is very tricky, and long-distance transport and slow prolonged movement are dual challenges in typhoon precipitation forecasting. Zhang Xidi, deputy director of the National Meteorological Center's Weather Forecasting Office, said: "When Typhoon Bavi had not yet made landfall in China, its peripheral circulation transported moisture long-distance northward over a thousand kilometers and, in coordination with cold air, produced extreme precipitation in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and the Northeast. Typhoon Maysak's slow movement within Guangxi led to persistent extreme precipitation — a classic case of 'the typhoon may be weak, but the heavy rain does not stop.'"
To address the difficulty of forecasting heavy rain caused by long-distance moisture transport from typhoons, the meteorological department employs ensemble forecasting methods, quantifying forecast uncertainty through integrated analysis of multiple models and multiple initial fields. Despite continuous technological breakthroughs, typhoon forecasting remains full of uncertainty. For this reason, the meteorological department adheres to a "progressive service": report the trend in the early stage, become more precise as the event approaches, and let services advance step by step with the forecast conclusions. Reminding people several days in advance that "a typhoon is coming" is the first step; then each subsequent round of forecasting becomes more refined — how strong the wind and rain will be, which areas will be affected, and when and where conditions will be most severe — advancing layer by layer and gradually focusing.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王 浩
At 18:00 on July 26, the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) and the China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局) jointly issued a red flash flood disaster meteorological warning: there is a very high possibility of flash flood disasters occurring in parts of southern Jiangxi and central-northern Guangdong (red warning).
Flash floods are a type of sudden, highly destructive small-area mountain torrent with rapid confluence speed and short evacuation time. Flash floods often carry sediment, rocks, branches, and the like, and are very likely to trigger landslides, debris flows, and other disasters. Influenced by monsoon climate, diverse topography, and other factors, China's flash flood disasters are widespread across many points, highly sudden, and severe in causing disasters, and have always been a key focus of flood prevention work. Especially in recent years, extreme weather events have become more numerous, more frequent, and more intense, making flash flood disaster prevention even more difficult.
From a review and examination of typical flash flood disaster incidents in recent years, three key factors — location, time period, and target — must be given focused prevention. Yao Wenguang (姚文广), Director of the Department of Flood and Drought Disaster Prevention (水旱灾害防御司) of the Ministry of Water Resources, introduced that in terms of risk locations, disasters mostly occur in risk areas such as settlements in mountain gullies and river channels, construction work zones, stream valley scenic spots, and upstream and downstream of bridges; in terms of key time periods, disaster incidents causing casualties almost all occur during nighttime and early morning hours; in terms of key targets, casualties due to disasters are primarily concentrated among mobile personnel such as migrant workers, campers, stream trekkers, and livestock farmers, as well as vulnerable groups such as left-behind elderly and children, solitary individuals, and disabled persons in mountain areas.
The Ministry of Water Resources issues forecast warnings, monitoring warnings, and on-site warnings in a tiered manner. For forecast warnings, it jointly with meteorological departments issues a 24-hour flash flood disaster meteorological risk warning; the Ministry of Water Resources conducts 24-hour monitoring and continuously and rolling releases nowcasting warnings for the next 2 to 3 hours, and promptly implements the "call-respond" (叫应) mechanism to alert local responsible units and responsible persons. For key populations, it supervises and guides localities to focus on implementing evacuation and risk avoidance plans and measures for mobile personnel from outside such as those in construction work zones, scenic area guesthouses, mines and forest farms, as well as vulnerable groups such as the old, weak, sick, disabled, and young in schools, hospitals, elderly care institutions, and remote mountain areas.
If we receive a flash flood disaster-related warning, what should we do? Tu Yong (涂勇), Senior Engineer (正高级工程师) from the Disaster Reduction Center (Defense Center) (减灾中心（防御中心）) of the Ministry of Water Resources, introduced that we must learn to identify warning information and decisively take action. Flash flood disaster meteorological risk warnings are generally divided into four levels according to the possibility and impact degree of flash flood disasters, with the risk from low to high indicated by blue, yellow, orange, and red respectively. A blue warning means that flash flood disasters may occur in the future, reminding relevant units and personnel to pay increased attention; a yellow warning indicates that the possibility of flash flood disasters in the future is relatively high, and may cause harm to personal safety and infrastructure; an orange warning indicates that the possibility of flash flood disasters in the future is high, posing a greater threat to personal safety and infrastructure; a red warning indicates that the possibility of flash flood disasters in the future is very high, posing a serious threat to personal safety and infrastructure safety.
Tu Yong introduced that monitoring warnings and on-site warnings are divided into two levels: prepare to evacuate (准备转移) and evacuate immediately (立即转移). A prepare-to-evacuate warning means that the possibility of flash flood disasters is high, and preparations for evacuation must be made in advance; an evacuate-immediately warning means that the possibility of flash flood disasters is very high, and personnel must be organized to evacuate immediately. When seeing a meteorological risk warning, remember "Blue — be more cautious; Yellow — prepare early; Orange — evacuate in an orderly manner; Red — evacuate immediately." When seeing a monitoring warning or on-site warning, remember "Prepare-to-evacuate: prepare early, gather belongings then withdraw; Evacuate immediately: the highest alert, move at once without delay."
Tu Yong introduced that during the main flood season, rainfall in mountainous areas is highly sudden and canyon water convergence is rapid. When entering mountains, one must pay attention in advance to flash flood and rainstorm warnings, and upon receiving a warning, should immediately cancel the trip. Resolutely abandon camping near water; tent sites must be far away from river channels, dry gullies, and canyon valley floors, and should be set up in safe highland areas. When detecting dangerous signs such as turbid water and roaring water flow, immediately abandon equipment and move to higher elevations on the mountain.
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 乔 栋
The 25th Tour of Beautiful Qinghai International Road Cycling Race came to a close. Meeting again with Zhang Xiaolong (张小龙), manager of the Qinghai Tianyoude Cycling Team (青海天佑德车队), he was staring nervously at his phone screen.
The results of the final race day, July 18, came out. "At the start the team was ranked behind; we chased every day, and in the end we won Best Asian Team, and we also got the blue jersey symbolizing the best Asian rider. So happy!" Zhang Xiaolong let out a sigh of relief. From a logistics support staff member to team manager, Zhang Xiaolong, like many local riders, has witnessed the growth of the Tour of Qinghai (环青赛). This high-altitude race has been etched into his life.
The Tour of Qinghai was founded in 2002 and is one of the earliest in China and the most influential high-altitude professional road cycling races in Asia, and also the benchmark multi-day road cycling race with the highest average altitude in the world. Recently, the reporter followed the riders' route and selected three locations to let everyone experience the charm of cycling.
Menyuan County Flower Sea Fragrant Bath Scenic Area
Breakaway: Being a "Rabbit" Is Not Easy
July is the season when the rapeseed flowers bloom in Menyuan Hui Autonomous County (门源回族自治县). A brilliant "golden carpet" spreads out between Zoulang Nan Mountain (走廊南山) and Daban Mountain (达坂山).
The second stage (Huangyuan–Menyuan), Jon Aguirre of the Spanish Euskaltel-Euskadi team was the first to launch a breakaway, pulling away from the peloton to lead. As a solo "rabbit" (the first to break away), he faced the chasing group behind him alone, before being caught 42 kilometers from the finish.
Being a "rabbit" is not easy; the breakaway rider must take on the task of breaking the wind. In road cycling races, overcoming wind resistance accounts for more than 70% of a rider's energy expenditure.
Zhang Xiaolong explained: "A team has seven riders. The breakaway rider is often not the main rider; the domestiques take turns being the 'rabbit', and the main rider stays in the 'wind shelter', thereby reducing energy loss to conserve strength for the sprint points and other points-scoring opportunities." As Alexander Salby of the Li Ning Star Continental Team, the champion of this year's first stage, said: "Thanks to the whole team's domestiques leading the breakaway for a long time and reducing wind resistance for me, I was able to conserve energy for the sprint." Breakaways greatly test the on-the-spot cooperation between riders from different teams. To widen the gap with the chasing group, riders from different teams in the breakaway group often need to take turns leading.
During the race, the Lunfeng ROTOR Chengdu Continental Team (轮峰ROTOR成都洲际队) and the Euskaltel-Euskadi team chased each other, neither giving way. After continuously breaking away for over 170 kilometers, a rider from the Lunfeng ROTOR Chengdu Continental Team waved to his team for supplies, but his team was slow to arrive. The feed car of the Euskaltel-Euskadi team alongside handed him a water bottle. At that moment, the race track was not only about competition but also filled with warmth.
Huzhu County Twelve-Pan Slope
Climbing: A Huge Challenge to Physical Fitness
The third stage day (Menyuan–Huzhu), before the riders could be seen, the roar of the race helicopter echoed through the valley. Spectators on the mountain col simultaneously looked down the mountain, "Here they come, here they come!"
The first to climb was rider No. 173, Jonas Rapp of the Hengxiang Cycling Team (恒翔车队). This is the Twelve-Pan Slope (十二盘坡) in Huzhu Tu Autonomous County (互助土族自治县) at an altitude of over 3,000 meters, with a vertical drop of over 400 meters and 12 winding turns, posing a huge challenge to the riders' physical fitness.
As the first rider climbed upward, dozens of riders formed a leading group, and the second group quickly followed. The "rainbow" road instantly became crowded. Every turn witnessed fierce competition. Several strong contenders for the blue jersey kept looking back, adjusting their positions, and "blocking" their competitors.
A total of 22 teams participated in this year's Tour of Qinghai, with Asian teams making up half and Chinese riders accounting for nearly 15%. In the first two stages, the blue jersey was held by a rider from the Thailand Road Insurance Continental Team, but his lead over the chasers was only 4 seconds. The most competitive among the chasers was the rider from the Qinghai Tianyoude Cycling Team.
For the local team, climbing is a strength. Before entering the Twelve-Pan Slope, a crash occurred in the chasing group. Guo Shourong (郭守荣) of the Qinghai Tianyoude Cycling Team seized the opportunity and chased hard. "Before the race, we did a complete reconnaissance of the race route. This first-category climb is very difficult, but we were fully prepared." Guo Shourong, with dark skin, is already the team captain at 24 years old.
In Zhang Xiaolong's view, the team's confidence comes from a "database" accumulated through long-term local training. "We train on the routes in Qinghai all year round. Which feed zone to push, which corner to attack after — the team has its own 'battle map'." He believes that year-round high-altitude training also provides young riders with better physical reserves.
The mountain weather is changeable. Passing clouds and rain bring local low pressure. On a plateau at about 3,000 meters altitude, fluctuations in the body's blood oxygen levels mean an even greater challenge for riders. Zhang Xiaolong explained: "We adjust tire pressure and gear ratios according to weather conditions, and also carefully compare each rider's heart rate and blood oxygen differences after each ascent and descent, to improve the team's energy distribution plan."
After the fifth stage, Saeed Safarzadeh of the Qinghai Tianyoude Cycling Team obtained the blue jersey and held it until the race concluded.
Daotanghe Town on the South Shore of Qinghai Lake
Sprint: Neutralizing Opponents' Tactical Arrangements
The fourth stage of the Tour of Qinghai (Huzhu–Guide), Banyan Village (班彦村) was very lively. The roadside was packed with locals, craning their necks and looking curiously. The Li Ning Star Continental Team took first and second at the Banyan Village sprint point, and team rider No. 187, Alexander Salby, donned the green jersey symbolizing the "Sprint King" after the fourth stage.
Each team has different tactics. "For us, the most important thing is to get the blue jersey, followed by scoring points at the climb points and sprint points," Guo Shourong said.
On July 18, the eighth stage day, from Xihai Town to the Erlangjian Scenic Area on Qinghai Lake, the clear sky merged with the blue lake water. "The scenery here amazes me. Cycling on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is a wonderful experience," Jon Aguirre said.
Daotanghe Town (倒淌河镇) was the last intermediate sprint point. After cycling past here, the course only had the climb and the final group sprint left, with no more intermediate points to contest. The competition was exceptionally fierce. The wind conditions on the lakeside course were complex: accelerating with tailwinds, slicing with crosswinds, controlling speed with headwinds... The complex environment greatly tested the teams' on-the-spot adjustment abilities. In the intense battle, other teams repeatedly used the tactic of "sending rabbits to chase, wearing down in segments" in an attempt to disrupt the sprint rhythm of the Li Ning Star Continental Team and thus snatch points. However, the Li Ning Star Continental Team, relying on tacit relay riding, precise positioning, and rhythm control, successfully neutralized the competitors' tactical arrangements.
Yang Zhibin (杨志斌), a rider from the Qinghai Tianyoude Cycling Team, was participating in the Tour of Qinghai for the first time. In the first stage, the Xining circuit race, he achieved a good result; in the fourth stage, he had to withdraw due to illness. "Since I was a child, I sat on my father's shoulders to watch the Tour of Qinghai Lake (环湖赛). Being able to stand in such a high-level event and compete with continental-level teams is already a success," said this post-2000 rider. "I'm still young, I'll fight again next year!"
Qinghai Lake has accompanied the youth's growth and also witnessed the transformation of this high-altitude race. Driven by the Tour of Qinghai, multiple cycling races are held enthusiastically, and cycling around the lake has gradually become a fashion. People ride against the wind, enjoying the high-altitude scenery. The shop "Dayu Tribe" (达玉部落) is located by the lake, with annual income from cycling support services such as bicycle rentals exceeding 6 million yuan, and it receives 190,000 cycling enthusiasts annually.
At the finish line of the Erlangjian Scenic Area, Zhang Xiaolong took photos from time to time with team members, riders from other teams, and spectators. "From 2017 to now, our team has collected all the colors of the leader's jerseys," Zhang Xiaolong said with pride. "Our team's progress is visible to the naked eye!"
In 2025, the "Tour of Qinghai Lake" (环湖赛) was renamed the "Tour of Qinghai" (环青赛). A difference of one character reveals the trajectory — from a single lake-loop course to covering four cities and prefectures within Qinghai Province, gradually growing into an international, professional, and branded event, continuously promoting national fitness and the integrated development of culture, sports, and tourism.
Another year of the Tour of Qinghai, the finish line is also a new starting point.
Return to TopMany viewers, when watching the Tour of Qinghai Lake, have noticed that some athletes' jerseys are prominently colored, and some even have polka dots printed on them. Why is this? In fact, this is a symbol of honor — riders who lead in various points standings at the end of a previous stage may wear the leader's jersey in the subsequent stage.
The yellow jersey represents the best overall individual time across completed stages and is the highest recognition of a rider's comprehensive ability; the green jersey is exclusive to the "sprint king," indicating that the rider leads in total points accumulated at intermediate sprints and stage finishes; the polka dot jersey is awarded to the rider with the highest total climbing points; the blue jersey, also known as the Best Asian Rider jersey, is a unique honorary jersey of the Tour of Qinghai Lake, awarded to the highest-ranked Asian rider in the overall standings.
This edition of the Tour of Qinghai Lake has eight stages. After each stage, the event organizing committee recalculates the various rankings, tallies the cumulative results from the start to the current stage, and re-determines the holders of the four colored leader's jerseys.
If a rider simultaneously earns multiple leader's jerseys, the order of precedence follows yellow, green, polka dot, and blue, and the rider chooses the highest-priority jersey color; the committee then passes the other jersey colors down to the next-ranked rider in the respective standings. In the fifth stage of this edition of the Tour of Qinghai Lake, Caicedo Cepeda simultaneously won both the yellow and green jerseys. In the subsequent stages, he competed wearing the yellow jersey and held onto the yellow jersey honor until the very end.
(Our reporter Cao Jiwei (曹继炜))
Return to TopBy: 陈津梁
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized, “We must establish the educational concept of ‘health first,’ offer a full complement of physical education classes, and help students enjoy pleasure, strengthen their physique, perfect their personality, and temper their will in physical exercise.” Orienteering integrates the four-dimensional educational functions of physical fitness, skills, mental acuity, and moral education, and possesses the effects of fitness, intellectual development, aspiration cultivation, and national defense education. It is a high-quality sports vehicle for practicing the mission of establishing virtue and nurturing people and promoting the comprehensive and healthy growth of youth.
Orienteering supplements the physical fitness shortcomings of youth and consolidates the foundation of physical and mental health.
With green mountains as the field and vegetation as companions, map-reading and running in mountain forests and cross-country movement in outdoor scenes are the unique “romance” and distinctive mark of orienteering, and also a good prescription for strengthening the physique of youth. Some youth do not have much time for outdoor exercise, facing problems such as weak physical fitness, imbalanced body posture, obesity, and declining vision. Using natural spaces such as mountain forests and parks as the competition venue, the continuous combination of map-reading cross-country running with aerobic, coordination, and agility training can effectively improve the cardiopulmonary endurance, coordination, and agility of youth, scientifically control body weight, and improve body posture. At the same time, participants placed in a natural environment can switch and adjust their vision between near and far scenery, effectively relieving visual fatigue. Leaving the classroom and heading to the mountains, using footsteps to measure the land, opens a pragmatic path for reducing “little fat dumplings” and “little glasses.”
A map and a compass — orienteering hides the educational “code” of 知行合一 (zhī xíng hé yī — “knowledge and action are one,” unity of knowing and doing), and is a vivid classroom for using sports to develop wisdom. A major feature of orienteering is direction identification, map reading, and route planning. Students must proficiently master practical skills such as wilderness direction identification and map-reading positioning during exercise, and gain lifelong skills in emergency avoidance and wilderness survival. Outdoor exploration without a fixed route tests independent thinking and on-the-spot decision-making. When encountering situations such as getting lost or physical exhaustion, students must put aside their dependency mentality, independently assess and judge, and through repeated trial and error and breakthroughs, exercise logical thinking, improve rapid decision-making ability, and cultivate a spirit of calm tenacity and 迎难而上 (yíng nán ér shàng — “face difficulties and go upward,” to confront challenges head-on), achieving educational results that simultaneously advance skill growth, strength enhancement, wisdom development, and character shaping.
Orienteering carries the function of national defense education and thickens the 家国情怀 (jiā guó qíng huái — “family-country sentiment,” patriotic and familial feelings) of youth. Orienteering is born from military field training, naturally carrying the function of national defense education, and is an ideological and political platform for thickening youth’s family-country sentiment. Among its contents, map-reading positioning and mobile movement come from the same lineage as basic military reconnaissance subjects, inherently possessing a distinct attribute of national defense education. Participating in training and heading to the competition venue, youth immersively experience field march scenarios, honing the fine work style of 吃苦耐劳 (chī kǔ nài láo — “eat bitterness, endure labor,” to bear hardships and work hard) and the courage to struggle through running and exploration. Popularizing orienteering courses on campus turns sunlight, greenery, and running into a walking ideological and political classroom, enabling students to firmly establish national defense concepts, always maintain awareness of potential dangers, inherit red genes, and internalize patriotic feelings in the heart and externalize them in action while trekking through mountains and fields, effectively broadening the depth and breadth of sports education.
When the youth are strong, the young are strong, then China will be strong.
Orienteering is not only an effective method for youth to strengthen their bodies and health, but also a way to implement the mission of establishing virtue and nurturing people, advance competency-based education, and deepen national defense education. Schools at all levels, under the premise of ensuring safety, may increase the popularization of orienteering, systematically integrate it into campus physical education classes, extracurricular practice activities, and campus competition systems, simultaneously link it with the construction of the national fitness system, and fully tap its unique value. Using orienteering to deeply cultivate the fertile soil of integrating sports and education, let students strengthen their bones and muscles in chasing the wind through mountains and fields, increase their talents in independent exploration, temper their character in 攻坚克难 (gōng jiān kè nán — “attack fortresses and overcome difficulties,” to tackle tough problems and overcome difficulties), and carry the responsibility of family and country in the unity of knowledge and action. Diligently cultivate the new-era youth with comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, physique, aesthetics, and labor, and accumulate vigorous youthful strength for the construction of a healthy China and a strong education country.
(The author is the Secretary-General of the Outdoor Sports Branch of the Beijing University Sports Association (北京市大学生体育协会户外运动分会).)
Return to TopBeijing, July 26 (Reporter Zeng Huafeng (曾华锋)) -- On the evening of the 25th, the eight-day 2026 World Youth Climbing Championships concluded in Arco (阿尔科), Italy. The Chinese team performed excellently, winning three golds, one silver, and three bronzes.
A total of more than 750 athletes from 69 countries and regions participated in this World Youth Championships, which was divided into two age groups: U17 and U19. Each age group was divided into men's and women's categories, with events in lead climbing, speed climbing, and bouldering, producing a total of 12 gold medals.
In the U17 men's speed climbing, Zhou Mingyi (周明意) won the first gold of this tournament for the Chinese team; Chen Nuo (陈诺) won a bronze in the women's event. In the U19 speed climbing, Shi Yanze (史炎泽) and Huang Xinyi (黄欣怡) won the men's and women's gold medals respectively. In the U17 women's lead climbing, Li Meini (李美妮) won a bronze. In the U17 women's bouldering event, Tan Youtian (谭有恬), competing for the first time, won a silver medal, while Li Meini added another bronze.
Return to TopBeijing, July 26 (People's Daily) — (Reporter Zeng Huafeng (曾华锋)) On July 26, the 2026 World Highline Slacklining Championship concluded in Lax (拉克斯), Switzerland. Chinese competitor Li Liangpeng (李良鹏) won the championship in the final of the 60-meter high-altitude speed event with a time of 23.05 seconds, becoming the first Chinese competitor to win a world championship gold medal in this event, and set a new world record.
Highline slacklining is an extreme sport in which participants walk on a nylon webbing line rigged between two points at height, known as "sky ballet." It requires participants to rely on body posture to adjust their center of gravity to complete walking or technical movements, without using a balancing pole. As the annual top-level event in the global highline slacklining field, the competition attracted 40 athletes from 14 countries and regions, including many former world champions. Airflow disturbance, the high-altitude environment, and psychological fluctuations all tested the athletes' balance control ability and instantaneous explosive speed. The 60-meter high-altitude speed course was rigged in Lax, a well-known Swiss tourist town, and the entire event process was equipped with comprehensive safety protection facilities.
Return to TopOur newspaper Qiandongnan, July 26 (Reporter Cheng Huan) — On the evening of the 25th, the final of the fourth Guizhou “Village Super League (村超)” in 2026 kicked off in Rongjiang County (榕江县), Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture (黔东南苗族侗族自治州), Guizhou Province.
The final was contested between Chejiang Village 1 Team (车江一村队), the champion of the first “Village Super League”, and Pingyong Village Team (平永村队), which had reached the quarterfinals for the first time. In the end, Chejiang Village 1 Team defeated its opponent 1:0 and won the overall championship. In addition to the exciting competitive match, there were also fun interactions, costume shows, chorus… The “Super Saturday (超级星期六)” final day event deeply integrated football matches with folk culture and mass performances, presenting a hot and steaming mass sports feast for on-site and online audiences.
This edition of the tournament lasted seven months, with a total of 137 teams and 2,694 non-professional players from all walks of life participating, completing a cumulative total of 528 matches. According to statistics, from January to June this year, Rongjiang County received a cumulative 5.0667 million tourist visits, a year-on-year increase of 7.20%; total tourism expenditure was 5.255 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 2.10%.
Return to TopEducational evaluation bears on the direction of educational development; whatever kind of evaluation baton there is, that is the kind of school-running orientation there will be. Chongqing Chemical Vocational College (重庆化工职业学院) thoroughly implements the "Overall Plan for Deepening Educational Evaluation Reform in the New Era" (《深化新时代教育评价改革总体方案》), based on the type orientation of vocational education, takes the reform of the separation of teaching and examination (教考分离) as its grasp, strictly and substantively strengthens academic atmosphere construction, promotes the benign interaction between teaching and assessment, and builds a sound education ecology. After the reform was implemented, the classroom attendance rate reached 95.5%, the examination violation rate dropped from 2.5% to 1.8%, and the number of student competition awards increased by 5.5% year-on-year.
Anchoring pain points to break the situation, build a system for the separation of teaching and examination reform. The school established a special work leading group, clarified the implementation path of "pilot first, steadily expand coverage, full coverage," issued implementation rules, incorporated the separation of teaching and examination into the performance assessment of teaching units, and consolidated the main responsibility. In response to curriculum diversity, it adhered to classified implementation: public compulsory and professional basic courses were prioritized for implementation, professional core courses adopted a "theoretical written test + skills hands-on" model, art courses explored forms such as collective interviews and defenses, balancing rigid requirements and curriculum characteristics. At the same time, it increased funding investment, built a smart teaching and examination platform, assembled a team for question-setting and supervision, and consolidated the foundation of reform.
Focusing on key links, create a whole-process closed-loop management model. The school took question bank construction as the main grasp, promoted standardized question-setting and dynamic updating, and invited experts to review and verify. It strictly implemented the confidentiality system for the entire examination process, promoted "non-course-teacher invigilation" and paperless online examinations, used the smart platform to randomly generate test papers, answer online, and automatically collect papers, reducing human intervention. It established a mechanism of "collective grading, assembly-line operation, double-person review": objective questions were automatically graded, subjective questions were independently graded by at least two teachers, and when discrepancies arose, collective deliberation was conducted to ensure objective and accurate evaluation. It established a results analysis and feedback mechanism, formed an analysis report at the end of the semester, organized teaching discussions aimed at problems, linked examination results to student academics and teacher assessment, forming a benign cycle of teaching and examination.
Deepening reform effectiveness, activating the endogenous impetus for talent cultivation. The reform broke the traditional model: teachers teach according to standards, students change their learning attitudes, homework quality increased by 14%, forming a good teaching ecology. Assessment and evaluation became more objective and fair, students' basic knowledge and practical abilities were simultaneously strengthened, and the number of competition awards increased by 5.5% year-on-year. The school has explored and formed a reform model of "institutional guidance, classified implementation, whole-process closed-loop, multi-dimensional empowerment," which has strong operability and replicability, providing a practical reference for other vocational colleges to promote the separation of teaching and examination.
The separation of teaching and examination is not a simple adjustment of examination methods, but a profound transformation of the philosophy of running and governing the school. Chongqing Chemical Vocational College adheres to 实事求是 (shí shì qiú shì - "seek truth from facts," practical and realistic approach) and 真抓实干 (zhēn zhuā shí gàn - "grasp firmly and do solidly," to work earnestly and solidly), establishes a sound education atmosphere, solidifies the foundation of talent cultivation quality, and contributes the school's strength to the construction of an educational powerhouse.
Data source: Chongqing Chemical Vocational College
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘文璋
On July 24, the Japanese government of Takaichi Sanae formally decided to establish a "National Intelligence Bureau" and plans to hold the first "National Intelligence Conference" on July 31. This is a major change in Japan's postwar intelligence system, intended to integrate and strengthen intelligence capabilities, but in essence it is building a "pre-war new intelligence system" that serves military expansion, exposing the increasingly膨胀 militarist ambitions of Japan's right-wing forces. Ignoring the calls of the international community and discerning voices in Japan to uphold peace and oppose war, the Takaichi government has been taking dangerous steps on the road to breaking through the constraints of the "Peace Constitution" and accelerating military expansion. These developments have triggered widespread concern and criticism in Japanese society; over the past several days, many Japanese citizens have held rallies in Tokyo to protest the establishment of the "National Intelligence Bureau." Asian countries and the international community must maintain a high degree of vigilance.
Reminding public opinion of Japan's pre-World War II and wartime "Tokko" (Special Higher Police)
According to the previously adopted bill to establish the "National Intelligence Conference," Japan is constructing an intelligence system with the "National Intelligence Conference" at its core and the "National Intelligence Bureau" as the implementing body, strengthening intelligence work, unifying it under centralized management, and reinforcing "Prime Minister's Office leadership." The "National Intelligence Conference" will be chaired by the Prime Minister, with members including several cabinet ministers such as the Chief Cabinet Secretary, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Minister of Defense. The "National Intelligence Bureau" will be given comprehensive coordination authority over the intelligence work of various government ministries.
According to Japanese media reports, the Takaichi government, using the pretext of "preventing foreign spy infiltration," is forcefully pushing for the establishment of the "National Intelligence Bureau," which will create a round-the-clock surveillance system covering all citizens. Through cross-ministerial data integration, this system will bring ordinary citizens' daily interactions, political expressions, and anti-war activities all within the scope of surveillance. In the future, due to the absence of democratic oversight mechanisms, it will lay hidden risks of systematic human rights violations.
In Japan, the strengthening of the intelligence system has sparked concerns from all sectors about the resurgence of "secret police rule," reminding Japanese public opinion of Japan's pre-World War II and wartime "Tokko" (Special Higher Police). The full name of "Tokko" is "Special Higher Police." The "Tokko" was a secret police agency used by Japanese militarists to suppress domestic social movements and carry out ideological surveillance. A previous editorial in the Japanese newspaper Ryukyu Shimpo pointed out that Japan's military police and "Tokko" once monitored citizens and suppressed anti-war activists, and this historical lesson must never be forgotten. The current bill does not clearly specify the operational details of intelligence activities, raising concerns that it may infringe on thought, belief, and privacy.
The Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun commented that Prime Minister Takaichi has not explicitly denied that "ordinary citizens could be made investigation targets simply for participating in opposition protests," and the public's worry that strengthening government intelligence functions might lead to an escalation of surveillance has not been dispelled.
A protester at a rally expressed concern, saying that the "National Intelligence Bureau" and the "Anti-Espionage Law" could become legal tools to monitor society and suppress citizens, with the ultimate goal of building a war system for "tight peacetime surveillance and immediate wartime mobilization," turning Japan into a country that participates in and assists war.
Nishimura Makoto, chair of the Japan Media Culture and Information Workers Union Conference, stated that the core of the "National Intelligence Conference" establishment bill is the "enemy-friend distinction" mindset of war; the government unilaterally defines who is the "enemy," and anyone so defined will be suppressed. Media workers are the first to be affected, and in the future, investigative reports that expose government scandals could be classified as "leaking state secrets." "Our union's slogan is 'Never again pick up the pen for war,' and that is also the bottom line for all media professionals."
Leaving institutional space for power abuse and political suppression
According to Japanese media reports, unlike the parliamentary intelligence oversight systems commonly established in Europe and the United States, the Japanese government has refused to set up any independent third-party oversight body, placing all power over intelligence collection and use in the hands of the administrative departments for their own discretion. This leaves institutional space for power abuse and political suppression. Critics argue that the most fatal institutional flaw of the "National Intelligence Conference" establishment bill is the absence of democratic oversight and checks and balances. When intelligence agencies concentrate power and their behavioral boundaries are vague, problems of power abuse and infringement of citizens' rights can arise. The Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun commented that the bill does not incorporate any system to oversee the activities of intelligence agencies.
Rashar Ishii, Secretary-General of the Japanese Social Democratic Party and member of the House of Councillors, said that the "National Intelligence Bureau" will be an intelligence agency lacking supervision and will ultimately become nothing more than the ruling party's "enforcer."
Sugihara Koji, representative of the citizens' group "Stop Large-Scale Military Expansion," said that this bill has no legislative basis, no supporting oversight mechanism, and cannot even clearly define the scope of surveillance — it is absurd and outrageous. "We need to amplify our opposition voices, put pressure on lawmakers through rallies and other means, and resolutely resist this evil law."
Daimon Masashi, a Japanese Communist Party member of the House of Councillors, stated that the Ogaki City Police Station in Gifu Prefecture illegally collected information on opponents, and the Self-Defense Forces' Intelligence Security Unit in Sendai monitored citizens — both cases have been ruled illegal by courts, but the government has shown no reflection and instead seeks to legalize such behavior through legislation. The "National Intelligence Bureau" will achieve cross-departmental information sharing, and all citizen data from the police, the Self-Defense Forces, and the Digital Agency will be centrally controlled, leaving no personal privacy.
Okamoto Yuko, a Matsudo City councilor from the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, said that the government, using the excuse that "this is merely an organizational law," has refused to include any personal information protection clause in the bill, essentially giving the administrative branch a blank check. Once the "National Intelligence Bureau" is established, data abuse will become a nationwide institutional arrangement.
Laying significant hidden dangers for peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific and the world
Japan's establishment of the "National Intelligence Bureau" is not an isolated legislative move; it is intended to replicate the pre-World War II Japanese militarist intelligence control system, step by step tearing up the "Peace Constitution" and pushing Japan back to the brink of war. Since the Takaichi government took office, from deploying long-range missiles with "enemy base attack capability" to sending large-scale combat personnel to participate in joint military exercises, from passing cabinet resolutions allowing the export of lethal weapons to now establishing the "National Intelligence Bureau" and upgrading the intelligence system, a series of military expansion and war preparations are interlinked, severely impacting regional security and laying serious hidden dangers for peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific and the world.
Ogawa, a sponsor of multiple protest rallies held near the Japanese Diet and a member of the protest action executive committee, said that the Takaichi government is going all out to cultivate the military-industrial sector as an economic pillar. The "National Intelligence Bureau" and future proposals such as the "Foreign Agents Law" and "External Intelligence Bureau" are all pawns on the "remilitarization" path. While letting prices soar and people's livelihoods become difficult, the government is frantically arming and preparing for war — this is no different from what Japanese militarists did before World War II.
Japanese lawyer Fukuyama Kazuto clearly stated his position demanding the repeal of the "National Intelligence Conference" establishment bill, characterizing it as "an evil law that completely fails to learn the lessons of World War II." He criticized that the system design led by the Prime Minister and cabinet ministers carries the risk of political distortion and could become a command center for suppressing dissent.
Japanese literary critic Saito Minako criticized that the Takaichi government is building a preparatory mechanism for a war system of "peacetime surveillance and wartime mobilization," and that the relevant system has historical continuity with the prewar "Peace Preservation Law." Such highly violent laws could lay the groundwork for promoting war. "The Takaichi government's reckless actions must be resolutely curbed."
(本报东京7月26日电) (Our correspondent's report from Tokyo, July 26)
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At the Annecy International Animation Film Festival recently held in France, two Chinese works, The Little Demon of Langlang Mountain (《浪浪山小妖怪》) and Xiao Na (《小娜》), were simultaneously shortlisted in the main competition feature film section. Although they ultimately did not win awards, making it into the "final round" among a global array of outstanding works confirms the continued rise in Chinese animation's international visibility.
"Salute to every self who bravely sets out." When the end credits of The Little Demon of Langlang Mountain (《浪浪山小妖怪》) appeared, the Bonlieu Grand Theatre, which seats over a thousand, erupted in warm applause and cheers. After the screening, the audience continued to discuss: some empathized with the real yet flawed "little person" texture of the four little demons, others were struck by the detail of the wild boar mother pouring water into her son's flask — that simple familial affection, needing no translation, could cross the language barrier. It is precisely this shared human expression that gives animation the moving power to transcend culture.
The Little Demon of Langlang Mountain (《浪浪山小妖怪》) was co-produced by the Shanghai Animation Film Studio (上海美术电影制片厂). From Little Tadpoles Looking for Their Mother (《小蝌蚪找妈妈》) to Havoc in Heaven (《大闹天宫》), the Shanghai Animation Film Studio once showcased the charm of Chinese animation to the world with its 独树一帜 (dú shù yī zhì - "fly one's own colors," to have a unique style) Eastern aesthetics. Times are changing; ink wash rendering has turned into digital rendering, and creative techniques are constantly being updated, but as director Yu Shui (於水) said, what remains unchanged is the pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty, and the longing for justice and ideals.
In recent years, works such as the Nezha series have demonstrated that Chinese animation's industrial standards are on par with the international front line, and Chinese animation's international influence has steadily expanded. At this year's Annecy International Animation Film Festival, two feature films simultaneously shortlisted in the main competition section marked a new breakthrough; the French streaming animation platform ADN reached a cooperation with Bilibili, launching two Chinese animated works online each month. Bastien Guetta, ADN's content development director, frankly stated that Chinese animation now has the capacity for sustained high-quality output.
Animation is by no means a narrative medium only for children; it can also bear weighty social and historical themes. Among the shortlisted works this year, some explored family bonds in the context of Alzheimer's disease, and others examined historical trials in documentary form. The Little Demon of Langlang Mountain (《浪浪山小妖怪》), with its delicate care for the fate of ordinary individuals, won resonance from audiences of different cultural backgrounds. France's Les Echos commented that it "makes the small and the grand face each other, as if nothing was already predetermined."
After watching The Little Demon of Langlang Mountain (《浪浪山小妖怪》), Clementine, a French girl sitting next to this writer, told me she wanted to read the original Journey to the West. Upon learning that the English subtitles could only restore about eighty percent of the cultural connotations and humorous expressions, this young audience member, who studies Chinese after class, had even more interest in her eyes. Good cultural dissemination never needs stiff preaching; it first moves people with story, then naturally leads the audience into the depths of culture.
Chinese animation starts from the shore of Chinese culture. Ancient myths are a natural treasure trove for creation, the rapidly developing society provides vivid real-life material, and the rich cultural heritage together with the living soil of the times supply a continuous stream of nourishment for animation creation; ink-and-wash painting and folk crafts can all be transformed into new visual languages.
In the process of technological iteration and market expansion, creators have always held onto the most precious core: meticulous observation of life, profound understanding of human nature, firm confidence in Eastern aesthetics, and the perseverance and steadfastness to polish fine works. The birth of excellent animation works has never been separable from the creators' slow work of refining frame by frame; behind a finished film of several tens of minutes are often years of deep immersion and polishing.
Standing on the stage at Annecy and looking back, Chinese animation has already sailed far — telling more Chinese stories well on the international stage, allowing Chinese culture to reach out in a more vivid manner.
Return to TopU.S. media reveals reasons why Trump temporarily delayed expanding the scale of operations against Iran
According to Xinhua News Agency, Washington, July 25 -- The U.S. newspaper The New York Times reported on the 25th, citing two people familiar with the matter, that U.S. President Trump temporarily delayed expanding the scale of military strikes against Iran because the U.S. side feared that an escalation of the war might invite more violent retaliation from Iran, further depleting the Pentagon's stockpile of air-defense interceptor missiles in the Middle East region.
The two people familiar with the matter told The New York Times that on the 24th, Trump held a meeting with senior advisers and high-ranking government officials, focusing on the issue of the Pentagon's dwindling inventory of air-defense munitions such as the Patriot system. A senior government official mentioned that an Iranian ballistic missile had recently breached the defense of the U.S. air-defense system, resulting in the deaths of three U.S. soldiers stationed in Jordan.
Since the 7th of this month, the United States has launched continuous military strikes against Iran on the pretext of responding to Iran's attacks on commercial vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz. Subsequently, U.S. military bases in Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates came under intense attack from Iran. According to U.S. media reports, on the 23rd, Trump said he was considering "launching a large-scale strike" against Iran. Even before the meeting on the 24th, Trump was still considering expanding military operations against Iran. After the meeting that day, Trump ordered the U.S. military not to launch strikes against Iran.
Multiple companies sue U.S. government over new tariff measures
According to Xinhua News Agency, New York, July 25 (Xinhua) -- (by reporter Liu Yanan (刘亚南)) The latest documents from the U.S. Court of International Trade show that multiple companies have filed two lawsuits against the new tariff measures announced by the U.S. government on the 23rd, requesting the court to suspend or revoke these new tariff measures.
On the 23rd, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative issued a notice announcing that, based on Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, under the pretext of so-called "forced labor," it would impose tariffs of 10 to 12.5 percent on 60 countries and regions, to replace the global import tariffs expiring on the 24th. The new tariffs were scheduled to take effect at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time on the 24th.
One of the complaints argues that the U.S. government's tariff decision under "Section 301" exceeds the scope of authorization granted by the relevant law. The complaint states that "Section 301" only authorizes the U.S. Trade Representative to counter a specific act, policy, or practice, and does not authorize the government to impose tariffs on such a wide range of trading partners and imported goods.
The other lawsuit, on similar grounds, requests the Court of International Trade to rule the U.S. government's latest tariff measures illegal and to revoke them.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has not yet responded to these two lawsuits.
Ebola confirmed cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo exceed 3,000
According to Xinhua News Agency, Kinshasa, July 25 (Xinhua) -- (by reporter Shi Yu (史彧)) The latest epidemic report released by the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the 25th shows that the cumulative number of confirmed Ebola cases in the country's current outbreak has risen to 3,075, including 1,354 deaths. Data show that as of the 24th, a total of 755 patients were under isolation or hospitalization, and the cumulative number of recovered cases was 556. The epidemic has spread to five provinces: Ituri, North Kivu, South Kivu, Upper Uele, and Tshopo.
Prime Minister Tuluka of the Democratic Republic of the Congo stated on the 24th in Ituri Province that overall there is currently no major funding gap for the response to the epidemic, and the core difficulty lies in how to ensure that all logistical support is fully in place, including laboratories, water supply, oxygen supply, ambulances, and equipment needed for the safe burial of the deceased. Research teams in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are intensifying efforts to develop vaccines and therapies targeting the Bundibugyo-type Ebola virus, striving to achieve results in the coming months.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 郭梓云
Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, is Europe’s largest information and communication technology and microelectronics hub, hosting a semiconductor industry cluster known as “Saxon Silicon Valley.” One out of every three chips produced in Europe bears the “Made in Saxony” label. Numerous industry-leading companies such as Bosch, GlobalFoundries, Infineon, and Jenoptik all have semiconductor fabrication plants in Dresden. According to data from the Statistical Office of Saxony, the semiconductor industry in Saxony achieved total sales of nearly 4 billion euros in 2024, accounting for roughly 5% of total manufacturing turnover.
Recently, Infineon inaugurated a large-scale smart power semiconductor factory in Dresden, the “Smart Power Wafer Fab,” which primarily uses 300-millimeter wafer production technology to manufacture semiconductor products for applications such as AI data center power supply, renewable energy, power grids, and autonomous driving. The total investment in this factory is 5 billion euros, making it the largest single investment in Infineon’s history and one of the largest industrial investment projects in Germany in recent years. Of this amount, approximately 1 billion euros is jointly funded by the European Union, the German federal government, and the state of Saxony. According to reports, the factory was completed in just three years and began production ahead of the original schedule. The new plant will create 1,000 direct jobs and double the production capacity of Infineon’s Dresden site.
A reporter recently visited Infineon’s newly built factory in Dresden and was presented with a futuristic scene: on overhead tracks, transport units glide smoothly, automatically moving wafers to designated locations; among the various production equipment, robotic arms work methodically. Employees clad in tight protective suits move through the facility; the entire workshop is busy yet orderly. Jochen Hanebeck, CEO of Infineon Technologies AG, stated: “From AI data centers and software-defined vehicles to renewable energy, the factory will provide urgently needed capacity for future key technologies. Infineon looks forward to further consolidating its leading position in power semiconductors and analog/mixed-signal technology.”
Semiconductors are an indispensable infrastructure for digital economy, electric vehicles, artificial intelligence, national defense, and energy transition. McKinsey & Company predicts that the global semiconductor market is about to experience a historic leap in growth, surpassing the trillion-dollar mark by 2030 and possibly even reaching 1.6 trillion dollars. Michael Kretschmer, Minister-President of the German state of Saxony, stated that Europe’s current share of global chip manufacturing is far below 10%, and “Infineon’s brand-new factory will further strengthen Dresden’s industrial ecosystem and also send a positive signal for the future development of Europe’s microelectronics industry.”
According to reports, GlobalFoundries has already planned to invest 1.1 billion euros to expand its factory in Dresden, with the goal of increasing annual production capacity to over 1 million wafers by the end of 2028, focusing on automotive, Internet of Things, and other sectors; Bosch has planned to invest 3 billion euros in its semiconductor business; Jenoptix inaugurated a new high-tech factory in Dresden in 2025, specializing in the production of micro-optical components and sensors for the semiconductor equipment industry, and plans to start an expansion of its headquarters this summer.
Germany and the European Union have adopted multiple measures to promote the development of the microelectronics industry and enhance industrial autonomy. In September 2023, the European Chips Act formally came into effect; the European Commission hopes through this to increase the EU’s share of global chip production to 20% by 2030. The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy issued a German Microelectronics Strategy in 2025, which will fully leverage the opportunities brought by the European Chips Act, focusing on R&D capabilities, professional talent cultivation, and manufacturing capacity building. The EU’s Important Project of Common European Interest – Advanced Semiconductor Technology (IPCEI) is jointly coordinated by Germany, the Netherlands, and France, and plans to provide funding to relevant enterprises and projects to promote frontier semiconductor technology R&D and accelerate its transformation into industrial applications.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated that microelectronics technology is a key technology for prosperity, freedom, and security. Germany possesses approximately 30% of Europe’s wafer production capacity and occupies a pivotal position in Europe’s semiconductor manufacturing. The expansion of factories and the development of the microelectronics sector not only demonstrate the future direction of German industry but also have significant implications for Germany’s digital sovereignty, economic resilience, and autonomous capability.
(Our newspaper, Berlin, July 26)
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According to the latest data from Uganda’s Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, in the 12 months from June 2025 to May 2026, Uganda’s total coffee exports amounted to 8.6 million bags, a year-on-year increase of 16%. In recent years, the Ugandan government has vigorously promoted the cooperative model, continuously expanded the international market, and at the same time transformed coffee plantations into immersive experience destinations, allowing tourists to participate in the entire process of coffee picking, processing, roasting, and cupping.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 姜泓冰
Though it is the summer break, Shanghai Chuangzhi College (上海创智学院), located in the Beiyang AI Town (北杨人工智能小镇) park in Xuhui District, Shanghai, is as busy as ever.
In the summer school classroom, Professor Richard Sutton, winner of the 2024 Turing Award, systematically and completely taught the academic system of reinforcement learning. After class, questions and exchanges continued. A simple graduation ceremony held for the first six doctoral graduates turned into a project showcase and project roadshow for dozens of groups of doctoral students.
Those who work hard, those who focus on thinking, those who discuss in twos and threes—whether they are “I people” or “E people,” young or old—the light and passion that constantly flashes in their eyes all highlight the uniqueness of this place.
Shanghai Chuangzhi College, a new type of talent training institution in the field of artificial intelligence jointly built by top universities, research institutions, and leading enterprises, has been in existence for less than two years, yet has already gathered more than 80 full-time and full-time mentors with an average age of 36, enrolled more than 800 doctoral students from 45 majors, and incubated 27 teacher-student startup enterprises.
A path of exploration for the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent is emerging and extending here.
How to cultivate talent?
One student, one strategy; evaluation does not only rely on papers; pursuing a doctorate becomes a “speed bump.”
Shanghai Chuangzhi College, formally established in September 2024, held its first graduation ceremony this summer. In the lecture hall, six doctoral graduates went on stage one by one to introduce their research achievements and learning insights.
“The doctoral career at Chuangzhi College is not a ‘fast lane,’ but a rare ‘speed bump.’” Doctoral graduate Ma Weijie (马炜杰) shared. The reason he said “speed bump” is because the college gives students a freedom not swept away by utilitarian, short-term indicators, enabling everyone to settle down and dare to do “difficult but right things.”
During his doctoral studies, Ma Weijie focused on combining AI (artificial intelligence) with naked-eye 3D (autostereoscopic display) technology, achieving for the first time ultra-wide-range full-parallax naked-eye 3D at desktop-level display size. His related results, as the sole first author, were published in the international academic journal Nature, and were evaluated by the industry as an important engineering breakthrough.
“The research environment and diversified evaluation system of Chuangzhi College supported me to sink down without burden and ‘gnaw on hard bones.’” Ma Weijie said that the college encourages innovation and tolerates failure, allowing him to focus wholeheartedly on making his work deeper, more thorough, and more refined.
“What we want to cultivate are top AI talents who are ‘one of a kind, arm-wrestling,’ and we must protect each student’s innovative courage and free growth with ‘one student, one strategy.’” Ding Xiaodong (丁晓东), Secretary of the Party Committee and Executive Vice President of Shanghai Chuangzhi College, introduced that with the support of the Ministry of Education and the Shanghai Municipal Government, the college adopts a super-conventional school-running model to explore paths such as boundary-breaking talent selection and bastion-style cultivation.
In the talent selection process, Shanghai Chuangzhi College connects with 31 co-building universities, as well as high schools and top experts, to form a support network. Enrollment does not rely on conventional exams or focus on past GPAs, but instead uses a rolling selection through a quarterly “practical training selection camp” (实训选拔营), comprehensively assessing students in front-line project practice. “Innovators willing to take high risks and do breakthrough and disruptive work are the key targets we lock onto,” said the person in charge of the college’s enrollment and training department.
For the selected good seedlings, the college adopts a breaking-conventional cultivation method. The college innovates flexible study methods, without setting a mandatory academic system or minimum study period; adopts an “academic + industry” mentor group cultivation mechanism, where students can choose their own mentors, can also propose to have outside experts as mentors based on their research direction, and can also change mentors and topics according to research progress and needs; establishes an academic exchange mechanism, “look up and see a big shot, turn around and exchange.”
In the evaluation process, the college has also formulated an academic achievement “impact index” evaluation system. “It does not only rely on papers, but also looks at download counts in open-source communities, model usage counts, user numbers and customer numbers with industrial influence, as well as social impact and strategic contributions, etc.,” said Qiao Yu (乔宇), Vice President of Shanghai Chuangzhi College.
“The college has no rigid paper publication requirements, and values students’ actual research capabilities more. This leniency gave me the courage to try and make mistakes.” Chen Yeyun (陈烨赟), a first-term graduate, will continue to deepen research in the interdisciplinary field of artificial intelligence and future materials at a top laboratory.
In the view of graduate Zhao Ziyu (赵子瑜), the most special thing about the college is “being closer to real problems.” During his studies, he participated in multiple enterprise cooperation projects, and upon graduation held job offers from five or six top AI companies.
“Some devote themselves to basic algorithms, some go to industrial implementation, and some choose to start businesses. This made me realize that excellence has no unified standard.” Graduate Shi Jiangming (施江鸣) chose to go to the university podium, bringing the problem awareness and research methods learned at Chuangzhi College to the front line of education.
Different destinations share a common background — doing difficult but right things.
How to gather faculty?
Full-time and full-time mentors average age 36, sufficient resources efficiently support the advancement of research tasks.
“I will provide lifelong ‘after-sales service’ for everyone!” At the graduation ceremony, Professor Lu Cewu (卢策吾), representative of Shanghai Chuangzhi College mentors, humorously told the first doctoral graduates. At the ceremony site, college leaders, mentor representatives, and students wore the same T-shirts, relaxed and at ease, making it even hard to distinguish teachers, graduates, and current students—at Chuangzhi College, the average age of full-time and full-time mentors is only 36.
Liu Pengfei (刘鹏飞), a full-time mentor at Shanghai Chuangzhi College, is a post-90s. He smiled and said that he almost treats the college as home: “My home is not close to the college, about 20 kilometers. Once I opened the ride-hailing app and saw the travel records, I was also surprised — in the past year, I came to the college almost every day, the earliest day I arrived at 5:40 in the morning.”
What is it that attracts Liu Pengfei to work hard and treat the college as home?
Liu Pengfei said that he caught up with the era of artificial intelligence, encountered the unique model of Shanghai Chuangzhi College, and also received resource support beyond expectations at the college. “Having the fortune to stand at such a convergence point, how can I not work hard?”
Sufficient resource support and research guarantees are factors that attract many young talents to choose Shanghai Chuangzhi College. The college focuses on building high-standard computing power and data infrastructure, data middle platforms and engineering middle platforms, creating an open-source and open intelligent computing ecosystem of “basic resources — core capabilities — application implementation,” efficiently supporting the advancement of research tasks for teachers and students.
Luo Jianlan (罗剑岚), a full-time mentor at the college and chief scientist at Zhiyuan Robot Company (智元机器人公司), is 33 years old this year. He once engaged in robotics and artificial intelligence research at a well-known foreign institution. He chose to return to China and settle at Shanghai Chuangzhi College because his focused research on reinforcement learning and embodied intelligence requires not only technology but also hardware, data, scenarios, etc., and the open and active research environment of Chuangzhi College attracted him.
At Chuangzhi College, Luo Jianlan was able to combine research with industry, establishing the Chuangzhi-Zhiyuan joint laboratory, where the school and enterprise share data and computing power, and jointly cultivate students. Now, the performance of the high-performance reinforcement learning system built by the team continues to improve, and the “technology on the demonstration table” gradually becomes “capability on the production line.”
Cognitive intelligence, situational intelligence, embodied intelligence, scientific intelligence, AI infrastructure... Now, Shanghai Chuangzhi College has gathered several major research directions currently receiving much attention in the field of artificial intelligence, as well as related facilities and resources. Through the flexible model of “core faculty + industrial collaboration + dynamic part-time,” the college, together with participating universities, research institutions, and leading enterprises, has gathered more than 80 full-time and full-time mentors, more than 300 part-time mentors, and more than 120 industrial mentors. Here, a group of young talents with innovative sharpness, research ambition, and full of passion for educating are fighting side by side.
How to build an ecosystem?
Build a “research-innovation-learning” system to let innovative talents “grow” out.
Artificial intelligence is a young undertaking, and it is also the undertaking of young people.
At Shanghai Chuangzhi College, where young AI users, researchers, and entrepreneurs gather, the density of new knowledge, the frequency of thought collisions, and the activity of innovation are unprecedentedly rich.
In the classroom, there is the inheritance of the “two bombs and one satellite” spirit and the spirit of scientists; in the teaching building, there are words saying “do the world’s number one work, do work that changes the world.” Many teachers and students say that in such an environment, research and learning have a strong internal drive, and everyone actively challenges the most cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence and undergoes the tempering of industrial practice.
Teacher-student co-creation stimulates innovation potential. At Shanghai Chuangzhi College, Liu Pengfei’s office is very close to the students’ workstations. “We can have very high-density academic discussions, and many good ideas, good inspirations burst out during discussions.” There is a whiteboard in the office; when thinking or discussing, one can reach out and write infinite possibilities.
After a late-night brainstorming session, the whiteboard was densely covered with discussion records, and students took photos to freeze-frame this “note.” At that moment, Liu Pengfei was deeply moved: “Scientific research is not a lonely journey, but a collective climb of like-minded people.”
Support entrepreneurship, let achievements go to the front line. In the eyes of full-time mentor Yin Zhen (印真), Shanghai Chuangzhi College has an excellent entrepreneurial innovation ecosystem. Relying on the college platform, his laboratory has grown from a small team of a few people to a cross-innovation team covering mechanism research, engineering implementation, and product design, developing multiple modular swarm robot systems. Not only have results been published in top international journals, but teachers and students have also jointly established three startup companies, promoting research results to industrial implementation.
Now, Shanghai Chuangzhi College has incubated multiple AI enterprises, and the Chuangzhi symbiotic community formed around the college is also expanding. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Shanghai Center, the Shanghai Institute of Physical Intelligence and Robotics (上海物理智能与机器人研究院), and other institutions have become neighbors of the college, and more than 100 AI-related enterprises have settled in the surrounding area.
More and younger students are growing rapidly under the guidance of mentors.
Wang Dianyi (王殿仪), a post-00s student, said that a year ago, he was still fixated on how to publish one more top conference paper, but under the influence of the college atmosphere, his thinking gradually changed: after completing a six-month industrial internship at an enterprise, he returned to school and formed a technical breakthrough team with classmates. In February this year, the team launched its self-developed unified multimodal generation and editing model DeepGen 1.0. Now, he is also leading the initiation of a student project in the direction of world models. Wang Dianyi said that his understanding of scientific research has changed from “writing papers along established directions” to doing truly cutting-edge, first-class work.
Ding Xiaodong defines the ecosystem of Shanghai Chuangzhi College as “research-innovation-learning,” that is, innovating in research, and letting students learn to learn and learn to grow in innovation. “Innovative talents are not cultivated; they grow out. We mainly build an ecosystem suitable for the growth of innovative talents.” He expects that as the three major missions of accelerating frontier original breakthroughs, promoting major industrial implementation, and outputting top innovative talents are deeply coupled and mutually driven, more “entrepreneurs with scientist strength” and “scientists with entrepreneurial spirit” will emerge from here.
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This summer, two contrasting scenes of youth development come into sharp relief:
On campus, an increasing number of students confront industry needs directly, replacing their graduation thesis with practical results to successfully apply for their degrees; off campus, groups of students enter employing units and the grassroots front line, gaining training, increasing knowledge, and building competence through internships and practice.
These two scenes together reflect that education is by no means only arduous study in the study – one must also go to the real site to weather storms and see the world.
Using practical results to apply for a degree may sound like lowering the threshold or “giving a green light,” but in fact it is swapping one “yardstick” for measuring talent, measuring whether one can solve real problems. For example, at the defense meeting, the research results displayed by Nanjing University doctoral student Wang Haoran (王浩然) have already been deployed in projects such as the South-to-North Water Diversion Project (南水北调工程); the practical results composed by Lanzhou University doctoral students Wang Haixi (王海锡) and Li Yang (李阳) – a boron neutron capture therapy tumor treatment device (硼中子俘获肿瘤治疗设备) – have undergone strict evaluation by many experts and entered the clinical trial stage.
An innovation-oriented country needs both theoretical innovation talent and practical innovation talent. Real-world difficulties often do not line up and wait to be solved according to disciplinary classifications. Some make “from 0 to 1” breakthroughs, some realize “from 1 to 100” applications, and some complete works that move people’s hearts. With diverse growth and each displaying their strengths, every path of development can be walked with full confidence.
Off campus, participating in internships and practice is also an important step for students to consolidate knowledge and understand society. Only by squatting in the fields for several months can one know that precise fertilization requires not only following the textbook method, but also observing the sky, the land, and the seedlings, and even looking at the experience of the neighboring “old hand” (老把式); only after following a project’s execution can one understand which practical link the theory learned applies to, and know what employing units most need and value. Internships and practice can not only help students consolidate specialized knowledge, but also allow young people to better recognize themselves, identify the direction for future effort, plan their career path in advance, build a sense of enterprise, and increase their sense of responsibility.
When growing through internships and practice, what is most feared is self-consolation amid false busyness, and also echoing others’ views under a single standard. Some internships done to “buff up the resume” involve nothing more than scrolling on a phone and getting a certificate; some volunteer services done to “earn credits” end with a group photo and a hasty departure... “Completing” the motions in a perfunctory manner consumes time and youth but cannot nourish a person.
Real gains, on the contrary, require putting in some 笨功夫 (bèn gōngfu - "stupid effort," persistent and unglamorous hard work). The quality of an internship or practice lies not only in what project one participated in or which company one joined, but more importantly in whether one seriously did things, used one’s brain, and summarized experience. Those superficially glamorous, polished resumes often cannot withstand deep questioning; whereas those results that are actually achieved, even if not very eye-catching, can reflect ability, potential, and creativity.
To let young people engage in internships and practice with peace of mind, all parties in society must set up the ladders. Institutions of higher learning should standardize internship and practice teaching arrangements according to the characteristics of their disciplines, and must not “manage everything with one form.” Employing units should calculate the “education account” and the “long-term account,” treating internships and practice as channels for discovering talent and deepening the integration of industry and education. Relevant departments should strengthen oversight of internship and practice work in higher education institutions, improve relevant management mechanisms, and allow students to practice with peace of mind and grow steadily.
Practice is a yardstick for testing talent. Encourage young people to go to the site, to go to the problems, to go into life. There, sweat will not deceive people, time will not be wasted, and every step counts.
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Having worked in vocational education for 20 years, I have always been rooted in the front line of teaching, witnessing each successive cohort of vocational students break through limitations and radiate brilliance.
In society, some people have stereotypes about vocational students, but in training classrooms, on skills competition arenas, and in front-line industry projects, what I see is a different picture: many vocational students have dreams in their hearts, skills in their hands, and a path under their feet. Their growth makes me even more convinced that vocational education is a growth channel that lights up special talents, explores potential, and allows each to display their strengths. Vocational teachers must be guides for students, exploring the potential of every student and lighting up the light of their youth.
To educate others, one must first discipline oneself, and set a benchmark with standards. The spirit of craftsmanship sounds grand, but when it comes to daily life, it is the pursuit of perfection and perseverance. This is the foundation of skilled talent. I always adhere to: what I ask students to do, the teacher must first demonstrate. In order to let students not just flip through books and memorize theories, but truly revere craftsmanship, I voluntarily signed up to participate in the National Industry Vocational Skills Competition, spent years in the training lab pondering technical problems, adjusting parameters over and over, and optimizing plans over and over.
Frankly speaking, it was not just for winning awards, but also hoping to let students witness that the pursuit of extreme effort is not in vain. When I was awarded the title of "National Technical Expert" and stood on the podium, I saw excitement and longing in the students' eyes. The teacher's perseverance will silently nourish the students' growth.
Later on, my students also successively won more than ten national-level skills awards. I recall a competition where a student accidentally damaged a component of the competition equipment, making it almost impossible to win a prize, but he did not give up. He repaired it bit by bit, adjusted it bit by bit, and finished the competition steadily. This tenacity of not admitting defeat and not giving up is a vivid inheritance of the spirit of craftsmanship.
Vocational education cannot be disconnected from practice; it must closely adhere to industrial needs and guide students to develop real skills.
Last year, I led a team to take on a project for the automated inspection of components for an aviation manufacturing enterprise. For a full half year, from scheme design, algorithm debugging to equipment integration, students participated in every link. I hoped they would not only practice solid skills, but also cultivate a sense of family and country, and an industrial mindset.
I told the students: don't underestimate every step you are working on; these will ultimately be used in important projects. In the end, the project results far exceeded expectations. I turned the pitfalls we encountered during the research and the lessons we learned into classroom teaching materials, forming a closed loop between practice and teaching, so that what students learn is always fresh and closely aligned with cutting-edge demands.
As a teacher, I am delighted to see that many graduates work steadily in enterprises and gradually grow into technical backbone in core positions. Students stand firm with their skills, win respect with their strength, and also let more people see the value of vocational education.
Education is not screening, but lighting up. May every passion have a stage to shine.
(The author is a teacher at the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Shenzhen Vocational and Technical University. Our reporter Wu Dan compiled this.)
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Supporting seedlings with soil, carrying water to irrigate... Some time ago, at the Central Minzu University (中央民族大学) Hainan International College, teachers and students from five universities, secondary schools, and primary schools jointly planted pomegranate trees. "The pomegranate trees taking root on campus are a testimony to ethnic unity," said Li Binghan (李炳瀚), a student from the Central Minzu University Affiliated High School Sanya Campus.
On the university campus, primary and secondary school students also visited the exhibition "One Continuous Line of China, United Hearts Building Dreams" (中华一脉 同心筑梦) and served as young volunteer docents, making the knowledge learned from books more vivid and lively.
In recent years, Central Minzu University has implemented the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education, strengthened education on forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation, emphasized integrated promotion and贯通育人 (guàn tōng yù rén - "through-line education," coherent education across stages), gradually building an education system covering all academic levels, opening "grand ideological and political courses" (大思政课) on the motherland's vast land, and implanting the sense of community for the Chinese nation into children's hearts from an early age.
"To promote the integrated construction of education on forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation across universities, secondary schools, and primary schools, we must first establish a mechanism, advancing teaching in a gradual, spiraling manner," introduced Wu Benjian (吴本健), Director of the Development Planning Division at Central Minzu University. The university has united with over 30 secondary schools, primary schools, and kindergartens to form a teaching alliance, and various university colleges have also set up practice bases with primary and secondary schools, promoting the extension of high-quality resources to basic education and pushing forward the establishment of a vertical articulation mechanism between university, secondary, and primary levels.
In cross-level, cross-disciplinary joint teaching research, the focus of education at each level has become clearer: primary school emphasizes perceiving cultural symbols, lower secondary school emphasizes learning historical threads, senior secondary school promotes rational deliberation, and university strengthens theoretical guidance... "When teachers from different academic levels engage in deep discussion around the same topic, I become more aware that ideological and political education is a relay race, and each of us must run our own leg well," said Kong Xinfeng (孔新峰), Party Secretary and Dean of the School of Marxism at Central Minzu University.
At the same time, Central Minzu University also relies on the rich cultural and museum resources across various regions, focuses on empowering through practice, and strives to create "walking ideological and political courses" (行走的思政课).
In the "United Hearts Forging Together, New Legend of the Divine Steed" (同心共铸·神骏新传) youth cultural co-creation program jointly carried out by the Palace Museum and Central Minzu University, university students entered the Palace Museum to learn the stories behind the cultural relics, to comprehend the history and connotation of the multi-unity pattern of the Chinese nation and Chinese civilization, and also created dance, poster, and other works. While being educated themselves, they also combined it with the "Knowing and Doing China" (知行中华) summer social practice to share their practical gains with more people.
"The cultural and creative works I created with my classmates were displayed at the Palace Museum as outcomes. Next, I want to share with primary and secondary school students the history of interactions, exchanges, and integration among various ethnic groups carried by the Palace Museum's artifacts," said Yan Kehui (闫珂慧), a graduate student at the School of Education, Central Minzu University.
The practice of integrated education is gradually crossing mountains and rivers.
"Look, everyone — which river is shown in this picture?" At Wensu County No. 2 Primary School (温宿县第二小学) in Xinjiang, volunteers from the 27th graduate student teaching support group of Central Minzu University conducted special mini-lectures, combining historical stories, geographical knowledge, and life cases to introduce the shared Chinese cultural symbols and images of the Chinese nation shared by all ethnic groups.
It is reported that the Youth League Committee of Central Minzu University regularly organizes students from various colleges to enter primary and secondary schools in Inner Mongolia, Hainan, Xinjiang, and other places to carry out teaching support and other activities. At the same time, batches of primary and secondary school study groups also enter Central Minzu University, visit the university's ethnic museum, hold discussions with students of all ethnicities, and strengthen their conviction to serve the country and build their hometowns.
Through repeated classroom seminars and walking investigations, university, secondary, and primary school students touch the strong pulse of Chinese-style modernization with their hands, and feel the warmth and harmony of the great unity of the Chinese nation with their hearts. "We will take the integrated advancement of university, secondary, and primary education as the starting point, continue to create a 'wall-less' ideological and political classroom, and spread the seeds of forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation in the hearts of young people," said Wang Xiongjun (王雄军), Deputy Party Secretary and Vice President of Central Minzu University.
(Wang Weiping contributed to the writing of this article.)
Return to TopThe 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance was recently held in Shanghai, China. President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech at the opening ceremony, putting forward four points of view on global AI governance, systematically elaborating China's policy positions and conceptual propositions. In this issue, we invite four Chinese and foreign guests to discuss the construction of a fair and reasonable global AI governance system, and to discuss the conceptual consensus, practical pathways, and cooperation directions for global AI governance.
Abdon Atangana (Academician of the World Academy of Sciences, Chair of the Research and Innovation Committee of the African Mathematical Union)
Bilel Jamoussi (Deputy Director of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau of the International Telecommunication Union)
Liu Wenjun (刘文郡) (Researcher at the Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, Party School of the Central Committee of the CPC (National Academy of Governance) (中共中央党校（国家行政学院）))
Marcos Iglesias (AI Advisor to the President of the New Development Bank of BRICS)
China is an important leader in the global AI field
Bilel Jamoussi: China attaches great importance to the development and governance of artificial intelligence, and has become one of the main contributors in AI research, industrial application, digital infrastructure, standardization, and global cooperation. The 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance hosted by China is an important platform for promoting international exchange and cooperation and advancing global governance.
At the level of innovation and application, China has demonstrated extraordinary strength, consolidating digital infrastructure through large-scale investment; in the area of international standardization, institutions such as the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (中国信息通信研究院) have actively participated in the work of the International Telecommunication Union, contributing valuable technology and experience in fields such as embodied intelligence, AI evaluation and benchmarking, brain-computer interfaces, and intelligent networks. Today, China's AI technology has been widely applied to empower manufacturing, telecommunications, healthcare, transportation, smart cities, and space computing, and it continues to promote global cooperation and capacity building. For example, the "AI Playbook" global digital platform launched by the International Telecommunication Union with the support of Zhejiang Lab (之江实验室) is helping to popularize AI applications in various countries.
Abdon Atangana: China is an important leader in the global AI field. This is not only because China possesses excellent large models such as DeepSeek (深度求索), but also because China closely links basic scientific research, technological innovation, and industrial application, forming a systematic development synergy. At the World AI Conference, I saw the extensive application of Chinese AI in many scenarios such as manufacturing, infrastructure, and urban governance; AI has been deeply integrated into many areas of China's economic and social development. More importantly, the Chinese government, research institutions, and enterprises have formed a virtuous innovation ecosystem that jointly promotes the efficient transformation of scientific and technological achievements. This mechanism of collaborative innovation is precisely the key to China's rapid AI development. If my children were to study AI in the future, I would unhesitatingly send them to China.
Liu Wenjun (刘文郡): China has launched the "AI+" action, by synergistically promoting the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, the cultivation and expansion of emerging industries, and the forward-looking layout of future industries, allowing AI to deeply empower thousands of industries. This highlights the unique advantages of China's AI development — a complete industrial system, rich application scenarios, rapid application capabilities, and a cooperative awareness of openness and sharing.
For other Global South countries, China's experience, although not simply copyable, is highly valuable for reference. Global South countries can vigorously develop computing power, digital infrastructure, and cultivate talent, lowering the threshold for AI development through open cooperation, and building a sustainable AI application ecosystem based on their own needs; they can proactively pay attention to data rights, employment transformation, and benefit distribution, ensuring that technological development always serves the free and comprehensive development of humanity.
Marcos Iglesias: China has successfully achieved the deep integration and large-scale alignment of AI technology with industries such as advanced manufacturing and infrastructure. In 2024, the China-BRICS AI Development and Cooperation Center (中国—金砖国家人工智能发展与合作中心) established by China is a model for promoting international cooperation, building a bridge for multilateral cooperation and providing a broad platform for information exchange and practical cooperation among governments, research institutions, and enterprises.
Countries of the Global South look forward to expanding cooperation with China, moving from a system procurement model to deep localized empowerment, enhancing the basic AI capabilities of the Global South. This requires us to practice the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind (人类命运共同体) in the AI field, carry out localized training for specific industries and languages, and consolidate the foundation of cooperation.
Let AI become an important driving force for promoting common prosperity and maintaining common security
Liu Wenjun (刘文郡): As a responsible major country, China has always been committed to being a provider of international public goods in the AI field. The initiatives and measures proposed by President Xi Jinping provide a Chinese solution for bridging the global digital and AI divide and promoting the beneficial and inclusive development of AI globally, and point the direction for jointly building a fair and reasonable global AI governance system.
China has successively put forward the Global AI Governance Initiative and the "AI+" International Cooperation Initiative, released the AI Capacity Building Universal Plan and the AI Cooperation and Development Action Plan, and proposed the establishment of the World AI Cooperation Organization. A series of Chinese proposals and actions aim to promote AI to advance common prosperity and maintain common security, so that technological progress truly transforms into development opportunities for all humanity.
Marcos Iglesias: The global popularization of AI technology requires that humanity must learn to coexist with it. Orderly guiding, developing, and governing AI well helps implement the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
In terms of AI governance, China has always been at the forefront. China calls for the establishment of a fair and reasonable global AI governance system, emphasizes effectively playing the important role of the United Nations, and focuses on helping Global South countries strengthen capacity building. China also attaches great importance to various risks accompanying the development of AI, especially security and ethical risks. Countries need to reach a consensus to ensure that AI remains under human control and serves humanity.
Abdon Atangana: I fully agree with President Xi Jinping's concept of people-centered, aspiring to goodness. If AI can only benefit a few countries while a large number of developing countries are excluded, such development is unsustainable. China is not only at the forefront of the world in AI technology innovation, but also actively advocates open cooperation. President Xi Jinping announced that in the next five years, China will provide 5,000 special AI training and study positions for developing countries; build international AI application cooperation centers for ASEAN, the Arab League, the African Union, CELAC, the SCO, and BRICS; and promote the application of the intelligent weather early warning solution "Mazu (妈祖)" in 30 countries, watching over the lights of ten thousand households and protecting peace across the four seas. These major initiatives cover both talent training and application cooperation, while also providing adaptable solutions, which are of great significance to African countries. China has truly made AI serve all humanity, rather than creating new technological barriers.
Bilel Jamoussi: AI is a technological advancement with global influence. It is crucial to strengthen international dialogue, share knowledge, build consensus, and deepen cooperation. Only when a wider range of countries deeply participate in the formulation and implementation of standards can standards better reflect global needs. Establishing trustworthy standards in the AI field is very important, and the International Telecommunication Union has specially established a working group for this purpose. At the same time, there is an urgent need to develop open and internationally recognized interoperability standards to avoid duplication of work, promote global cooperation, and accelerate technological innovation.
The establishment of the World AI Cooperation Organization is a very positive signal
Bilel Jamoussi: To build a complete AI ecosystem, cooperation is the cornerstone. Adhering to openness and inclusiveness, improving interoperability, and promoting international cooperation are principles we must always uphold. The International Telecommunication Union advocates a cooperation model involving the participation of multiple stakeholders, committing to bringing together governments, industry, academia, civil society, and technical communities. Any new international initiative should complement the important existing work of the UN system and international standardization organizations, striving for a higher degree of coordination, broader participation, and more practical collaboration.
Marcos Iglesias: The structural contradiction currently faced by the AI development and governance system lies in the high concentration of technology and digital infrastructure and the insufficient implementation capacity of multilateral mechanisms. A few countries and enterprises monopolize core resources such as advanced chips, computing power, foundation models, and data, causing most Global South countries to become technology-dependent and data suppliers, making it difficult for them to control key technologies that affect their own public services and national security. China's encouragement of openness, open source, cooperation, and sharing helps Global South countries share the dividends of AI development.
On July 16, 29 countries signed an agreement in Shanghai, becoming founding member states of the World AI Cooperation Organization (世界人工智能合作组织). This organization, initiated by China, is precisely an outstanding initiative to strengthen global AI governance. I look forward to the organization playing the following key roles: effectively narrowing the global digital and AI divide through talent training, knowledge exchange, and capacity building; empowering developing countries to participate equally in the formulation of international standards and regulations; providing test spaces for governance solutions; integrating the forces of all parties, and conducting extensive collaboration with various existing entities to jointly build a fair and reasonable global AI governance system.
Abdon Atangana: The development of AI is bringing historic opportunities to Africa. African countries value capacity building and hope to obtain open and shared technology, talent training opportunities, and scientific research cooperation platforms, and to participate in the formulation of global AI governance rules.
President Xi Jinping pointed out that international cooperation should be widely carried out to help Global South countries strengthen capacity building, bridge the digital and AI divide, promote sustainable development, and avoid creating new historical injustices in the AI field. This will create opportunities for African researchers and institutions to participate not only in technology research and development but also in the construction of AI governance frameworks. The establishment of the World AI Cooperation Organization is a very positive signal. For Global South countries, AI can become an important force for promoting common global development and benefiting all humanity only when more developing countries participate equally in AI governance and share knowledge, technology, and development achievements.
Liu Wenjun (刘文郡): The opportunities and risks of AI transcend national borders; no country can exclusively enjoy the dividends or remain untouched. The establishment of the World AI Cooperation Organization marks the institutionalization of China's initiative. This organization directly addresses global concerns such as capacity deficits and rule fragmentation, aiming to build a normalized cooperation platform, promote cooperation in standard alignment, infrastructure construction, and talent training, and help developing countries enhance their independent capabilities. It supports the United Nations in playing its main channel role, adding a link for implementation and capacity building to the existing multilateral system.
AI is not a cold carrier operating independently of society and culture; its development must be examined within the grand coordinate system of the progress of human civilization. Civilizational diversity is the nourishment and soil for AI development. Humanity should make good use of AI technology to promote exchanges and mutual learning among different civilizations. Only in this way can AI truly become a powerful positive energy driving the progress of human civilization. Only by ensuring the participation right, decision-making right, and benefit right of more countries can AI become an international public good that benefits humanity.
(Interviewed and compiled by our reporters Qu Pei (屈佩), Xu Xin (徐馨), Dai Kairan (戴楷然), and Wang Yinxin (王崟欣); Zhang Chi (张弛) also contributed.)
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The 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-level Meeting on Global AI Governance (2026世界人工智能大会暨人工智能全球治理高级别会议), held recently in Shanghai, is of great significance, far beyond the technical realm, and will become an important milestone in the history of AI development. President Xi Jinping attended the opening ceremony and delivered a keynote speech, fully reflecting China's high emphasis on the global development and governance of artificial intelligence, and also demonstrating China's firm determination to promote the construction of a fair and reasonable global AI governance system.
Currently, AI technology innovation is showing a collective breakthrough, entering an unprecedented period of activity. Monitoring by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (中国信息通信研究院) shows that in recent years, the iteration cycle of top large models has been compressed from several months to several weeks. In March this year, China's daily token call volume exceeded 140 trillion, increasing more than a thousandfold in two years, making China one of the countries with the highest activity in AI applications globally. In the midst of the wave of rapid technological evolution, a deeper proposition becomes increasingly prominent: the global AI governance deficit urgently needs to be addressed, and the gap between rapid technological iteration and rule supply needs to be bridged as soon as possible.
Global AI governance has three major pain points. First, security risks spill over. AI face-swapping and voice-cloning technologies make online fraud 防不胜防 (fáng bù shèng fáng - "cannot defend against all," too numerous to prevent), deepfake content makes it difficult to distinguish truth from falsehood, algorithmic discrimination and data abuse erode user rights, and autonomous agents face new threats such as permission overstepping and prompt injection when executing tasks independently. Second, governance rules are fragmented. Countries have different governance paces, standards 各行其是 (gè xíng qí shì - "each does what they think right," acting without coordination), rule supply is scattered, and multilateral consensus is difficult to form. A recent report by the UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI emphasizes that governance clearly lags behind technological evolution. Third, the global North-South AI capability gap is widening. Resources such as computing power, data, and talent are highly concentrated in a few countries, while the AI innovation and application capabilities of the vast majority of developing countries are weak, and their voice in rule-making is insufficient.
To alleviate the governance deficit, forming consensus on concepts is the precursor. In 2025, China released the "Action Plan for Global AI Governance" (《人工智能全球治理行动计划》), advocating for toward goodness and for the people, respect for sovereignty, development orientation, safety and controllability, fairness and universal benefit, openness and cooperation. The leading value of these propositions lies in directly confronting the crux of the deficit and proposing action plans: first, balancing the right to development and security, neither 因噎废食 (yīn yē fèi shí - "stop eating for fear of choking," refraining from necessary action due to minor risks) nor letting risks run unchecked, preserving development space for developing countries; second, respecting each country's governance autonomy, not forcing a single model, allowing countries with different national conditions to find suitable paths; third, promoting the transformation of concepts into rules, standards, and evaluation tools, making governance measurable and operable.
To alleviate the governance deficit, promoting implementation with pragmatic actions is key. China's international cooperation practice in AI is unfolding along the path of goodness-oriented development, security co-governance, and outcomes sharing. In goodness-oriented development, global initiatives are used to consolidate consensus, from the "Global AI Governance Initiative" (《全球人工智能治理倡议》) to the "Action Plan for Global AI Governance," to 立柱架梁 (lì zhù jià liáng - "erect pillars and set beams," to lay a foundation or framework) for multilateral collaboration. In security co-governance, standard-setting empowers governance tools, promoting international mutual recognition of testing methods and evaluation standards, turning security from a concept into a verifiable threshold. In outcomes sharing, capacity building paves a path of inclusive benefit. Relying on the China-BRICS AI Development and Cooperation Center (中国—金砖国家人工智能发展与合作中心) and other platforms, China has carried out cooperation in standard coordination, industrial docking, etc., with Brazil, Russia, South Africa, Egypt, and other countries. The highly anticipated World AI Cooperation Organization (世界人工智能合作组织) has officially settled in Shanghai, not only building a new multilateral platform for global AI cooperation but also responding to the common concerns of Global South countries, providing an institutionalized path for developing countries to strive for equal participation rights and benefit rights.
Looking toward the future from Shanghai, all parties need to work together, turning visions into actions, implementing initiatives as projects, using open and inclusive international cooperation as a bond, to ensure that developing countries do not fall behind and share the dividends of technological progress. With more dialogue and collaboration, and less closure and confrontation, the "partner" of artificial intelligence can truly become an international public good that benefits all humanity.
(The author is the director of the AI Research Institute of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology; this article was compiled by our reporter Wang Yinxin (王崟欣).)
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In Chongqing, Yaxing New Chongqing Heavy Industry Co., Ltd., which urgently needed intelligent technological transformation, obtained a 30 million yuan credit line from China Merchants Bank, and the new production line was put into operation on schedule; in Fuzhou, Fujian, the "light asset, high growth" Ruidiyou Communication Technology Co., Ltd. obtained a 7.6 million yuan medium- and long-term credit loan from the Fuzhou Branch of China Construction Bank, securing sufficient funds for communication equipment research and development; in Chengdu, Sichuan, the national high-tech enterprise Yurui Innovation Technology Co., Ltd. received a 10 million yuan pure credit loan from Industrial Bank, accelerating the market introduction of innovative achievements... With the precise support of the relending policy for technological innovation and technological transformation (科技创新和技术改造再贷款), more and more technology enterprises are transforming from "no-loan households" to "first-loan households," bringing abundant momentum to technological innovation and technology upgrading.
Tech finance ranks first among the "five major articles" (五篇大文章) of finance. In reality, the "light asset, high risk, long cycle" characteristics of technology enterprises do not match the traditional credit model, causing financing difficulties for some enterprises, especially for start-ups where obtaining loans is more difficult. How to achieve precise and effective financial support for technology enterprises? At a recent press conference of the State Council Information Office, a set of data released by the People's Bank of China was quite enlightening. The data show that as of the end of April this year, under the incentive of the relending policy, banks have issued loans for technological innovation and technological transformation totaling 1.5 trillion yuan, and 21,000 small and medium-sized technology enterprises that had no loans before have obtained their first loans, successfully breaking the "first loan difficulty."
"First loan" is the "first kilometer" in solving financing difficulties. For technology enterprises in the start-up and growth stages, successfully obtaining the first bank loan will make subsequent financing much easier, greatly expanding the survival and development space of small and medium-sized technology entities.
To solve the "first loan difficulty" and support technological innovation, simply relying on increasing the total amount of finance to "sprinkle pepper" (撒胡椒面) is difficult to solve the problem; it is necessary to give full play to the "precise drip irrigation" (精准滴灌) function of structural monetary policy, to incentivize and guide financial institutions to actively allocate credit to technology enterprises. The relending for technological innovation and technological transformation is precisely an effective tool to achieve "precise drip irrigation." When a financial institution issues a loan to a qualified technology enterprise, it can obtain relending at a preferential interest rate from the People's Bank of China, thereby using a market-based incentive mechanism to promote financial institutions to strengthen financial services for small and medium-sized technology enterprises and large-scale equipment updates, solving the difficulty and high cost of financing for technology enterprises. In January this year, the People's Bank of China increased the relending quota for technological innovation and technological transformation by 400 billion yuan, and lowered the interest rate of structural monetary policy instruments by 0.25 percentage points, further increasing the incentive intensity.
Good policies have mobilized the enthusiasm of all parties. Since the establishment of the relending for technological innovation and technological transformation, financial institutions have each leveraged their strengths to continuously promote the efficient implementation of the policy: China Construction Bank created the "Shan Jian Ke Ji" (善建科技) technological innovation intelligence selection tool, effectively improving the reach rate of the relending policy and enterprise coverage; China Merchants Bank established a special work team to create a "digital and intelligent four-pronged approach" (数智四招) working method for systematic deployment, creating digital financing products such as "Ke Chuang Dai" (科创贷) and "Ke Ji Ji Gai Dai" (科创技改贷); Industrial Bank leveraged financial commissioners as a grasp, deeply connected with national incubators and key laboratories, creating an online + offline, commercial bank + investment bank, financial + non-financial comprehensive service plan for the full lifecycle of technology enterprises... With the joint efforts of all parties, financial "living water" continues to bring innovation vitality. According to statistics, since the beginning of this year, loans to small and medium-sized technology enterprises in China have maintained a relatively high growth rate of about 20%; in the first five months, investment in equipment and tool purchases increased by 9.3% year-on-year, with the growth rate 2.2 percentage points higher than the same period last year.
Monetary policy values "precision," and it is also difficult to achieve "precision." Just as people build water conservancy facilities to precisely regulate water flow, achieving a transformation from flood irrigation to precise drip irrigation, the establishment of structural monetary policy instruments can effectively guide financial resources to flow to major strategies, key areas, and weak links in economic and social development, further enhancing the adaptability and precision of financial services for economic structural adjustment and high-quality development. The fact that 21,000 small and medium-sized technology enterprises obtained their first loans shows that structural monetary policy instruments can give full play to the guiding role of 四两拨千斤 (sì liǎng bō qiān jīn - "a small weight moves a thousand catties," to achieve a great effect with minimal effort), continuously directing financial "living water" to key areas and critical links that meet policy requirements, precisely activating a pool of spring water for development.
At present, China's structural monetary policy instruments have covered all areas of the "five major articles" of finance. In the future, it is necessary to timely adjust the support objects and conditions of structural monetary policy instruments according to domestic and international economic and financial situations and financial market operations, reasonably grasp the pace and intensity, improve the incentive and constraint mechanisms for financial institutions, smooth policy transmission channels, improve resource allocation efficiency, and use the source of living water of finance to precisely activate development.
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In the scorching summer heat, can you sell sweaters? Instinctively, many people would shake their heads firmly; but when a reporter walked into Dalang Town (大朗镇), Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, what they saw was a completely different answer.
The “homework” done before departure was already astonishing: Dalang Town is one of the wool-knitting industry clusters with the most complete global industrial chain and the highest degree of industrial agglomeration; it produces about 900 million sweaters per year, meaning roughly one out of every five sweaters in the world is made here; the annual transaction value of the entire industrial chain exceeds 72 billion yuan, earning it the reputation of “World Capital of Wool Knitting”…
Arriving at the Dalang Wool Knitting Trade Center (大朗毛织贸易中心), the massive parking lot was crammed full, and the scene of 门庭若市 (mén tíng ruò shì - “the courtyard is like a market,” bustling with visitors and customers) was even more astonishing: upstairs and downstairs, shops stood 鳞次栉比 (lín cì zhì bǐ - “row upon row like scales and teeth,” tightly packed one after another); inside and outside the doors, the latest spring/summer knitted tops hung in rows. Some shop owners were carefully tending to their garments, others were drinking tea and negotiating with customers; a few children on summer vacation had also come to the store, learning by imitation and helping their parents as assistants.
“Dalang just finished its Wool Knitting Products Trade Fair, and we’ve hit another shipment peak. Think about it: preparing stock takes ten to twenty days, the ship has to sail for over a month, plus all the miscellaneous time — by the time it reaches the other side of the ocean, it’s bound to be after October!” Before his words faded, Zhang Jiankai (张健开), head of Jitai Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd. (吉泰供应链管理有限公司), had already bowed his head, instructed his assistant in the store to log into the Dongguan City Market Procurement Trade Online Information Platform, and with a few proficient steps, shipped a batch of women’s wool sweaters ordered by an Australian customer.
This small Lingnan town, with an area of less than 100 square kilometers, does not produce wool, and people wear sweaters for only a month or two a year — so how did it develop such a large wool-knitting industry out of thin air, achieving 无中生有 (wú zhōng shēng yǒu - “create something from nothing,” to develop something where there was nothing)? Many practitioners who, like Zhang Jiankai, have worked here for over a decade marveled: within a radius of a few kilometers, you can source all the main and auxiliary materials; skilled workers and designers are easy to find; export channels are broad, selling products to more than 160 countries and regions… “In short, it’s profitable and has a future!”
Promoting smart transformation to achieve ‘one yarn knitted into one garment’
One worker, one knitting machine — pushing left and right, a sweater gradually takes shape… When many people think of wool knitting, such a picture comes to mind. However, the production scene at Dongguan Xinhongfeng Garment Co., Ltd. (东莞市新宏丰服饰有限公司) overturns the imagination —
Walking into the management and dispatch room, the first thing that catches the eye is a giant screen pieced together from four LCD panels, with more than 200 high-definition cameras transmitting back grid-like video images. Looking closely, in the production workshop on the other side of the screen, computer-integrated forming knitting machines were lined up like a matrix, parts on the machine bodies running rapidly, while in the aisles between the rows of machines, only the occasional one or two workers could be seen.
“Starting from 2019 when we introduced more than 20 computerized flat knitting machines, the enterprise has gradually pushed forward its smart transformation. Now we have equipped more than 500 integrated forming machines, reportedly the most among the town’s enterprises.” Entering the workshop, the company’s general manager Lu Zhonghua (卢仲华) bent down and pointed at the sweater slowly emerging from the bottom of the knitting machine. “Now, ‘one yarn knitted into one garment’ is standard practice. For a relatively conventional style like this, one piece can be turned out in 50 minutes.”
Zhong Jinfang (钟金法), deputy secretary of the Party branch of the Dalang Town Wool Knitting Industry Chain, introduced that Dalang’s wool knitting industry began with “three processing and one compensation” (三来一补, three processing: processing with supplied materials, samples, or parts; one compensation: compensation trade) in the late 1970s. Over more than 40 years, it has weathered the vicissitudes of domestic and international markets and an increasingly fierce baptism of competition. Its ability to grow ever stronger and continuously “break out of the circle” has relied on “using change to respond to all changes,” especially with the support of relevant Dongguan city policies, promoting digital upgrades through a model of “equipment renewal subsidies plus demonstration factory leadership.” “Today, enterprises across the town have equipped 150,000 wool knitting flat machines, among which high-end computer-integrated forming knitting machines have already exceeded 10,000. In the past, the scene of ‘every household wrapping yarn, every alley sounding with knitting machines’ has been continuously shifting toward a ‘smart economy.’ A single sweater has become a typical example of Dongguan’s ‘smart creation of quality products,’” Zhong Jinfang said.
“And it doesn’t stop there! We’re already using AI large models.” In the company’s design department, designer Tang Lanyan (唐兰艳) was conversing via voice with an AI agent in her computer. “Lighten the color, make it more lively and dynamic,” “Lengthen the cuffs a bit more”… With each command, the system automatically generated design sketches. Not only did it support 360° “no dead angle” display, but it could also generate the effect of the garment being worn with a single click. “It can be directly used for livestreaming on online stores,” she said with a laugh.
At the China (Dalang) Wool Knitting Products Trade Fair (中国（大朗）毛织产品交易会) held from June 24 to 26 this year, a large AI sweater model drew attention. The model relies on a database containing over 2 million wool knitting style images; designers input keywords, and within one to two minutes, multiple sets of plans are generated, reducing design costs by over 60%. Combined with the smart manufacturing industry chain, the sampling cycle has been compressed from three days to two hours, pioneering a new paradigm of “customization upon arriving in Dongguan” and flexible production, rapidly turning various innovations and creative ideas into hit products.
Deepening the quality track, making sweaters ‘not for warmth but for fashion’
A few streets away, Tongfa Knitting Garment Co., Ltd. (同发针织制衣有限公司) has turned a sweater into an even greater prospect.
“Old Zhang, it still takes 10 hours to knit one piece — that’s a bit too long. Can we optimize it further and reduce it to 8 hours?” Chairman Liu Dianyu (刘殿煜) had only been at the company since morning; after a couple of sips of tea in his office, he hurried to the design department to huddle and discuss with technical director Zhang Ruibin (张锐彬) .
Two or three days ago, an American client sent a pattern for a knitted long dress: the shoulders were cut out, the upper part dense, and the skirt had seven or eight rows of circular holes that progressively enlarged from top to bottom, giving it a light, trendy, elegant, and luxurious feel. “But you know, knitted garments are woven from yarn, different from ready-made fabric cut and sewn. If the style and pattern are a bit more complex, the process requirements are often several orders of magnitude higher,” Zhang Ruibin sighed. Facing the difficulty head-on, the technical team worked through the night, decomposed the process according to the pattern, designed a knitting plan, then “fed” it to the computer knitting machine, repeatedly made samples and modifications, and finally produced a satisfactory fabric sample.
Next, the team needed to produce a whole sample as quickly as possible, send it to the client for confirmation, and then proceed to batch production; at the same time, they needed to further improve the process, both to ensure quality and to compress subsequent production time as much as possible. “Dalang wool knitting has been continuously shedding its past extensive, volume-driven industrial model. Take Tongfa as an example: we don’t compete in the low-end market, we deepen our high-end quality track. Sales have increased by 20%–30% annually; 70% of products are exported to European and American markets, with a single unit ex-factory price reaching 25–30 USD.” Liu Dianyu frankly stated that every single product must be polished with 匠心打磨 (jiàng xīn dǎ mó - “craftsman’s heart polishing,” meticulously crafted with the spirit of a craftsman), and every part of the cost must be carefully calculated.
As he said, walking into Tongfa’s showroom felt like being in an international brand fashion boutique: knitted garments of various materials, colors, and styles dazzled the eyes — 琳琅满目 (lín láng mǎn mù - “a dazzling array of beautiful things”). On both sides of the main central aisle, a few form-fitting long dresses worn on mannequins stood out like evening gowns. “Nowadays, sweaters are ‘not for warmth but for fashion,’ and can be worn all year round. All the styles here are developed to follow international market trends; some are customer-sampled custom orders, but the vast majority are our own original designs.” To this end, Liu Dianyu has assembled a design and development team of more than 100 people, accounting for one-third of the company’s total workforce, and development investment accounts for 50% of total costs. “Next, we plan to set up a design studio in Europe and carry out co-branded designs with well-known local designers.”
Beyond garment design, research, development and innovation are also extending continuously into underlying materials. According to data, Dalang researches and develops nearly 10,000 new yarn varieties every year; various functional yarns and environmentally friendly new materials emerge in an endless stream, long since breaking through the traditional “wool knitting” category. Yarn enterprises hold more than 200 related patents, of which over 80% are fancy yarn patents, accounting for about two-thirds of the national fancy yarn patent count. “Through a three-wheel drive of technology, model, and materials, Dalang wool knitting is accelerating its climb toward the high end of the value chain,” said Ye Jianfen (叶建芬), deputy town mayor of Dalang.
New methods of policy services, helping small businesses ‘sell globally’
As night falls, on the streets and alleys of Dalang Town, various signs — “Knitted Apparel,” “Arctic Velvet 270 Colors,” “Spot Supply Factory Direct” — light up one after another. In front of big and small shops, tricycles loaded with yarn and semi-finished woolen products shuttle past, while the shop assistants work tirelessly… This bustling scene — 车水马龙 (chē shuǐ mǎ lóng - “carriages like water, horses like dragons,” heavy traffic and bustling activity) — lasts until two or three in the morning.
“For a small micro-trading company like ours to be able to sell sweaters to thirty or fifty countries, we owe it to a good business environment and thoughtful policy support, especially the simplification of export procedures and the optimization of services — everyone can see that it’s like the sweaters we handle every day: woven finer and finer, more and more beautiful.” At the Dalang Wool Knitting Trade Center, Zhang Jiankai, busy for most of the day, took a short break. Zhang Jiankai cited the Dongguan Municipal Market Procurement Trade Online Information Platform as an example: “The channels are clear, the operation is convenient, the process is simple — especially the policy of VAT exemption without refund, which both relieves suppliers of invoicing requirements and ensures full compliance in export customs clearance, while also making payments worry-free. We have been using it for over three years now, and we feel it is very suitable.”
“Most of the wool knitting enterprises in Dalang Town are micro, small, and individual businesses. Moreover, the wool knitting products themselves involve small orders and mixed goods. Under traditional trade methods, every step — declaration, consolidation of containers, tax rebates, foreign exchange settlement — is fraught with difficulties,” explained Liu Haojiang (刘浩江), director of the Dongguan Dalang Market Procurement Trade Service Center (东莞市大朗市场采购贸易服务中心). “With the support of the Dongguan municipal government and Huangpu Customs (黄埔海关), the Dalang Wool Knitting Trade Center was approved in September 2020 as one of the fifth batch of pilot programs for market procurement trade methods in China, exploring a new type of trade method distinct from general trade and processing trade — namely, market procurement trade. In practice, it is an extension of the Yiwu small commodity export model.”
How to understand this method? Liu Haojiang further explained: the pilot new method means that goods purchased here and handled for export customs clearance by qualified foreign trade companies can enjoy the VAT “exemption without refund” policy; on the revenue side, they can also achieve above-board foreign exchange settlement and collection through domestic banks. “The policy allows multi-batch, multi-category, small-quantity goods without input invoices to be exported under the market procurement trade method, with a maximum customs value per single declaration of 150,000 USD. This solves the pain point for micro, small, and individual businesses of being unable to legally export and conveniently collect foreign exchange for ‘invoiceless’ goods,” Liu Haojiang said.
“We guide enterprises to simplify declaration procedures through the market procurement trade method and enjoy ‘instant release’ customs clearance, allowing small businesses to flexibly connect with the international big market,” said Liu Rui (刘锐), deputy head of Changping Customs (常平海关) under Huangpu Customs. Since the policy pilot began, small and scattered wool knitting merchants have enjoyed a “one-stop” service for customs procedures such as declaration, inspection, and release. In a favorable development environment, Dalang wool knitting has accelerated its growth, transforming from a specialized town focused purely on production into an industrial cluster covering all links including design, production, and trade.
Currently, the market procurement trade method has been extended from yarn and sweaters to various categories such as footwear, hats, bags, plastic products, toys, hardware, and more; its reach now covers all micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises and industrial clusters throughout Dongguan. On the third floor of the Dalang Wool Knitting Trade Center, a “Market Procurement Trade Export Situation” board displays real-time rolling updates of various product categories, transaction volumes, export values, market routes, and other information. “As of July 18 this year, the export value for the current year was 13.111 billion yuan, the cumulative export value reached 220.058 billion yuan, and trade reached 225 countries and regions…”
Liu Rui stated that Customs will focus on the requirements of high-quality development and high-level opening up, and will continue to fully support the healthy development of new business forms such as market procurement trade, allowing enterprises to fully enjoy the benefits of Customs trade facilitation policies, and helping more “Made in China” wool-knit products to better “sell globally” and “break out of the circle.”
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General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "To advance Chinese-style modernization, we must efficiently develop and utilize the ocean, promote high-quality development of the marine economy, and forge a path of turning to the sea to pursue strength with Chinese characteristics."
The ocean is a strategic space for the nation's food supply. As the "core chip" of marine fisheries, the marine aquatic seed industry, centered on the protection of germplasm resources, innovation in improved variety breeding, and the construction of an industrial system, supports the modernization of plowing the sea and herding fish (耕海牧渔 - plowing the sea and herding fish, i.e., marine farming and ranching) and serves the national food security strategy. It is hailed as the blue seed industry (蓝色种业). In recent years, under the guidance of the big food concept (大食物观), China's blue seed industry has broken through the "bottleneck" constraints of seed sources, driving the transformation of marine fisheries from resource dependence to innovation-driven development. To efficiently develop and utilize the ocean, we must continue to deeply cultivate the blue seed industry and build a solid blue granary (蓝色粮仓) for economic and social development.
Break supply constraints and enhance self-control. For a long time, China's marine aquaculture has faced bottlenecks such as high external dependence for core seed and seedling stocks, insufficient exploitation of local germplasm resources, and weak improved variety breeding capacity. The seed source supply of dominant varieties such as whiteleg shrimp, turbot, grouper, and large yellow croaker has been constrained, restricting the large-scale and standardized development of marine fisheries. In response to industrial shortcomings, China, guided by the revitalization of the seed industry, has gradually built a self-controlled seed source supply system. The state, through science and technology special programs such as the 863 Program (863计划) and institutional arrangements such as the Seed Industry Revitalization Action Plan (种业振兴行动方案), has strengthened investment in germplasm resource protection and improved variety innovation, forming a collaborative mechanism of "scientific research breakthroughs plus demonstration and promotion." This has achieved the localized breeding and large-scale seed production of varieties such as scallops, prawns, sea cucumbers, and abalone, promoting the transformation of marine fisheries from "relying on heaven for food" to "artificially controllable," providing core seed source guarantees for expanding the capacity of the blue granary.
Help industrial value addition and expand and strengthen the marine economy. Relying on self-developed improved varieties, we must build modern marine ranches and deep-sea aquaculture zones, form stable aquatic product production capacity, transform high-end aquatic products into inclusive livelihood supplies, enrich the national food structure, and practice the big food concept. Currently, seed industry clusters represented by Qingdao and Weihai have formed ten-billion-level yuan seedling production capacity, driving employment in upstream and downstream sectors such as seedling raising, aquaculture, circulation, and processing, thereby increasing fishery efficiency and fishermen's income. The blue seed industry connects upstream and downstream links including germplasm protection, improved variety breeding, seedling propagation, demonstration and promotion, equipment manufacturing, and feed production, building an integrated industrial chain of "breeding, propagation, and promotion," cultivating distinctive industrial clusters, and pushing the marine economy from scale expansion to quality and efficiency improvement, becoming a "growth pole" that drives the marine economy.
Accelerate germplasm innovation and build modern marine fisheries. With technological innovation as the core driving force, the blue seed industry is leaping from "following" to "leading," providing sustained momentum for the modernization of marine fisheries. Germplasm resource protection consolidates the innovation foundation. By building specialized platforms such as the Qingdao Blue Seed Industry Research Institute (青岛蓝色种业研究院) and the Hainan Provincial Seed Industry Laboratory (海南省种业实验室), the state strengthens the construction of germplasm resource banks and the mining of genetic resources, enhancing the capacity for germplasm resource preservation, evaluation, and utilization. With improved varieties at the core, we promote the implementation of deep-sea aquaculture, smart fisheries, and green aquaculture models, extend the industrial chain, upgrade the value chain, build a modern marine seed industry system, help improve the quality and efficiency of the marine economy, and expand new development space for industrial upgrading.
The blue seed industry is the intersection of building a maritime power and revitalizing the seed industry, and an important support for ensuring national food security. The 15th Five-Year Plan (十五五规划) outline proposes strengthening the protection and utilization of germplasm resources. In the future, we must further incorporate the blue seed industry into the strategic layout of food security and a maritime power, stabilize innovation expectations and guide factor aggregation through institutional supply, strengthen the strategic support of the policy system, consolidate the foundation of people's livelihood and well-being with the blue granary, and inject sustained momentum into the high-quality development of the marine economy.
(The author is a professor at Dalian Maritime University)
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General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly pointed out 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 (国家科学技术奖励大会、两院院士大会、中国科协第十一次全国代表大会): "The low conversion rate of scientific and technological achievements has always been a prominent problem we face."
The value of scientific and technological innovation is never only reflected in the patents and papers of the laboratory; it is even more reflected in the real productive forces that land in industry and empower development. Raising the conversion rate of scientific and technological achievements is essentially about breaking down the barriers between research and industry, so that more innovative achievements can move from the "bookshelf" to the "shelf," from laboratory samples into products, forming industries, and injecting new kinetic energy into cultivating and developing new quality productive forces and accelerating the construction of a modern industrial system.
From actual data, China's conversion of scientific and technological achievements still has obvious shortcomings. As of the end of 2025, the industrialization rate of invention patents in Chinese universities is only 10.1%, and that of research institutions is 17.2%. It can be seen that the low conversion rate of scientific and technological achievements remains a practical problem restricting the full release of the effectiveness of scientific and technological innovation.
Tracing the root causes, there are multiple blockages in the chain of conversion of scientific and technological achievements. For example, links such as pilot-scale verification and process optimization are high-risk and require large investments, making it difficult for many achievements to land; there is still a certain misalignment between research supply and industrial demand, with some achievements unable to find application scenarios and some enterprises encountering technical difficulties but not knowing how to resolve them; more problems require collaborative efforts across different disciplines, and the subdivision of academic directions and industries has invisibly increased information barriers; the flow of innovation resources is not yet smooth enough, and the intellectual property protection and service systems still need improvement...
To solve the problem of achievement conversion, the key is to clear each blockage in the conversion chain. Strengthen the construction of the national technology transfer system (国家技术转移体系), lay out and build concept verification centers (概念验证中心) and pilot testing platforms (中试平台), and help scientific and technological achievements cross the "Darwinian Sea." In recent years, the construction of concept verification and pilot testing platforms in China has been accelerating, with many localities issuing policies related to concept verification centers and pilot platforms. For example, the National Eastern Tech-Transfer Center (国家技术转移东部中心) and Fudan University jointly built the Shanghai International Green and Low-Carbon Concept Verification Center (上海国际绿色低碳概念验证中心), and Jinan in Shandong established the Concept Verification Center Alliance and the Pilot Demonstration Base Alliance. The next step is to continue to enhance the professional level and radiation capacity of these platforms, so that they truly become bridges connecting research and industry.
Create diversified application scenarios and high-level industrial clusters, so that scientific and technological achievements have a place to land. Many new technologies, after emerging, lack initial users, making them difficult to promote and apply. China has been continuously opening up application scenarios in areas such as artificial intelligence, autonomous driving, low-altitude economy, and humanoid robots, allowing new technologies to iterate and improve in real environments. In 2025, Beijing released 95 typical "AI+" cases and 12 application scenarios for "open competition for solving key problems" (揭榜挂帅), promoting supply-demand matching. Practice has proven that leveraging the advantages of the super-large market and cultivating more application scenarios can not only verify technologies but also cultivate markets and drive industries.
Improve the intellectual property protection system, break down barriers to the flow of innovation elements among universities, research institutes, and enterprises, and truly "enliven" innovation resources. Continuously advance the reform of empowering scientific and technological achievements, improve the mechanism for distributing income from the transformation of job-related scientific and technological achievements (职务科技成果转化收益分配机制). Many universities are exploring giving researchers greater rights to dispose of and benefit from achievements, further stimulating the enthusiasm for converting scientific and technological achievements. As the intellectual property system and distribution mechanism are continuously improved, innovation elements such as talent, achievements, technology, and data will achieve more efficient flow.
Construct a scientific and technological financial system compatible with scientific and technological innovation, providing continuous financial support for the conversion of scientific and technological achievements. Scientific and technological innovation especially requires "patient capital" to accompany enterprises through the research and development cycle and tolerate the risk of failure. Only by smoothing the investment and financing channels for science and technology enterprises can finance truly become a booster for scientific and technological innovation.
From an idea in the laboratory to a product on the production line, and then to an industry in the market, every step requires institutional guarantees and ecological support. When the innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain, and talent chain are more closely connected, more innovative achievements will cross the "last mile" and truly transform into the "largest increment" for high-quality development, becoming a strong support for Chinese-style modernization (中国式现代化).
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Recently, China's first domestically produced 100,000-card AI supercluster — Dawn 8000 (曙光8000) — was officially completed and put into operation, and simultaneously connected to the Zhengzhou core node (郑州核心节点) of the National Supercomputing Internet (国家超算互联网). This marks that China's computing infrastructure construction has officially entered the stage of 100,000-card-level deployment. In its first week of operation, Dawn 8000 has already achieved full-load operation, with the daily average number of processed jobs exceeding 150,000 and the peak single-day processing jobs exceeding 500,000. It has completed adaptation for multiple super-intelligent fusion applications, covering multiple application scenarios such as large model training, high-throughput inference, and scientific computing.
At the recently held 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance, Dawn 8000 was listed among the top ten "treasures of the museum" of this conference. How was this "super brain" forged? In which fields will it function? The reporter conducted interviews.
Supercomputing and intelligent computing are both computing infrastructure for processing massive data and supporting cutting-edge technology. Supercomputing is mainly based on scientific research, positioned for solving problems in big science and big engineering, pursuing computational precision, such as weather prediction, aircraft design, and earthquake simulation, which are its application fields. Intelligent computing, on the other hand, focuses on artificial intelligence algorithm and model innovation. Although it does not require high precision, it pursues computational performance, supporting large model training and inference, natural language processing, autonomous driving, and other AI-integrated applications.
As the scale of large models increases, computing scenarios expand, and intelligent applications deepen, there is an urgent need for a new generation of computing infrastructure that can handle high concurrency, high throughput, multi-precision, and multi-task loads.
"Artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving from large models to intelligent agents and embodied intelligence, requiring the ability to simultaneously support high-precision scientific computing and low-precision artificial intelligence training. This demands further innovation in the architecture, scale, energy efficiency, and reliability of the computing system," said Li Guojie (李国杰), academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
"Facing the massive and heterogeneous computing power demands, building an open, efficient, and collaborative computing ecosystem has become the key to unleashing the value of intelligent computing," said E Weinan (鄂维南), academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Dawn 8000 was developed under this background. As a supercluster, Dawn 8000 interconnects tens of thousands of computing accelerator cards at high speed, logically integrating them into a unifiedly dispatched "giant computer," thereby providing ultra-large-scale parallel computing power.
"It adopts the technical route of 'super-intelligent fusion,' unifying high-precision scientific computing and low-precision intelligent computing capabilities into the same system," explained Li Bin (李斌), senior vice president of Sugon (中科曙光). This means that one chip, one computing unit, needs to possess both the ability to support scientific engineering computing and digital computing simulation, and the ability to support neural network-type algorithms.
Dawn 8000 is precisely such a comprehensive computing system oriented towards multi-scenario, multi-precision, multi-task. Li Bin introduced: "Dawn 8000 covers double-precision 64-bit down to 32-bit, 16-bit, 8-bit, and even lower precision, and also provides flexible mixed-precision invocation capabilities, capable of meeting computing needs such as scientific computing, large model training, AI inference, and industrial simulation."
From thousand-card, ten-thousand-card to 100,000-card, the construction logic of computing infrastructure is also changing. Compared with thousand-card and ten-thousand-card-level systems, 100,000-card deployment tests not only the number of computing cards and theoretical peak performance, but also system architecture, network interconnection, storage access, energy efficiency control, resource scheduling, and engineering delivery capabilities.
System innovation creates a "super project"
Such a huge comprehensive computing system is a veritable "super project": 3 billion electronic components achieve precise coordination, the total length of interconnection cables exceeds 1,600 kilometers, and the total system weight is 1,500 tons... And all of this must be compressed within a structural assembly precision of less than 0.05 millimeters — even thinner than an ordinary A4 sheet of paper.
In system construction, Dawn 8000 possesses the capability of a full-chain, fully self-developed AI infrastructure of "chip, computing, storage, network, cooling, application, service," achieving full domestic production from core component development to system deployment.
"From ten-thousand cards to 100,000 cards, it is not simply multiplying by 10, but also making it 'run' with the proper performance efficiency after the scale is expanded," Li Bin gave an example. In terms of computing power coordination, as the architecture evolves toward complex heterogeneous computing, any shortcoming in a computing or network node will cause a significant decline in overall performance. In terms of system reliability, an increase in the number of components will lead to a rise in theoretical failure rate, and the complexity of the system architecture will further exacerbate the difficulty of maintaining stable operation.
There are not many shortcuts to deal with these challenges. During the development of Dawn 8000, the reliability required of any single board card was an order of magnitude higher than that of general-purpose computing equipment. And the design and manufacturing of supporting systems such as power supply and cooling consumed a great deal of the team's effort. In Li Bin's words, "Dawn 8000 requires unprecedented system innovation."
It is worth mentioning that the significant progress of domestic computing chips and basic software and hardware ecosystems has provided important support for the construction of the Dawn 8000 system. For example, the distributed storage technology applied in Dawn 8000 achieved the "double first place" on both the production-type full-node and 10-node lists in the global storage system performance benchmark IO500 rankings released in June this year. This storage system can support massive data reading and writing in large model training and scientific computing, ensuring the efficient operation of large-scale clusters, proving that domestic high-end storage technology already possesses leading strength in the global computing power system.
China's independently developed phase-change immersion liquid cooling technology provides a new way to address the heat dissipation challenge of large-scale computing clusters. Zhang Peng (张鹏), senior vice president of Sugon Digital Creation (曙光数创), introduced: "Dawn 8000 immerses all computing equipment in fluorinated liquid for cooling. The boiling point of the fluorinated liquid is around 50 degrees Celsius, while the equipment operating temperature is between 80 and 90 degrees Celsius. When the equipment operating temperature rises, the fluorinated liquid will boil and undergo a phase change, and then enter the condenser through the transfer pipeline. The cooled gas is then converted back into fluorinated liquid, achieving closed-loop recycling."
In addition, technologies such as high-speed networks, digital twin operation and maintenance, and multi-fusion scheduling jointly enhance the operational efficiency and application adaptation capability of ultra-large-scale clusters. In the view of industry experts, opening up the full-stack domestic chain from chips, complete machines, and basic software to intelligent applications, and building a new generation of intelligent infrastructure, has far-reaching strategic significance.
Supporting the computing power industry to "climb peaks" and "build plateaus"
Building well is more important to use well. As the country's first 100,000-card-level computing resource pool integrating supercomputing and intelligent computing, Dawn 8000 was simultaneously connected to the National Supercomputing Internet upon operation, and relies on the National Supercomputing Internet to connect to the national integrated computing power network, providing computing services to research institutes and industrial users, supporting scenarios such as weather prediction, material design, energy exploration, biomedicine, quantum computing, fluid simulation, industrial simulation, large model training and inference, and forming a broader range of computing power coordination and application support.
"China's computing power industry must both 'climb peaks' and 'build plateaus,'" said Cao Zhennan (曹振南), deputy director of the National High-Performance Computer Engineering Technology Research Center (国家高性能计算机工程技术研究中心). "'Climbing peaks' means using independent technology to develop the world's top computers and systems; 'building plateaus' means relying on the National Supercomputing Internet to connect machines and supercomputing centers, and more importantly, to connect talent, applications, and ecosystems."
In April 2024, the National Supercomputing Internet, guided and initiated by national ministries, was officially launched, and has built the country's largest-scale integrated computing power network and application service platform, aggregating over 3.5 million CPU cores and 250,000 GPU accelerator cards. After the Zhengzhou core node of the National Supercomputing Internet went online, the National Supercomputing Internet launched a universal resource package for new users, including 200 card-hours of computing power, 10 million token call quota, and 500 GB of storage resources, with mainstream large models available for selection. University teachers, students, and young research teams can complete model testing, algorithm verification, and scientific computing experiments at lower cost; AI developers and small and medium-sized enterprises can quickly complete application prototype construction and model verification before formal investment.
Guo Qing (郭庆), chief engineer of the National Supercomputing Internet, introduced that in addition to supporting major scientific research breakthroughs, the National Supercomputing Internet is promoting the penetration of computing power into a broader user base. Currently, the cumulative users of the National Supercomputing Internet exceed 1.4 million, and the average age of users is continuously decreasing, from middle school students to professional researchers can all access high-end computing power resources.
According to the introduction, Dawn 8000 has completed deep adaptation for more than 300 key applications, covering over 20 industry fields. In typical scenarios, the system has supported the development and deployment of a new generation of meteorological large models, promoted the transplantation and optimization of core imaging algorithms in the energy field on domestic platforms, and accelerated tasks such as protein folding process simulation in the fields of biology, materials, and fluids.
"In the past year, based on the foundation of the National Supercomputing Internet, we have built several scientific computing intelligent agents, encapsulating previously complex scientific computing processes into easy-to-use natural language interaction-based agent services, already covering more than 100 core computing scenarios," introduced He Mujun (何牧君), president of Sugon Intelligent Computing (曙光智算).
Dawn 8000 is not only a single technological breakthrough and product innovation, but also a result of collaboration among industry, academia, research, and application. In recent years, Sugon has built an industrial ecosystem consortium around the domestic general-purpose computing platform, aiming to solve the fragmentation problem of the domestic computing platform ecosystem and promote the development of an independent and controllable information technology ecosystem. It has now gathered more than 6,000 industrial partners to jointly promote the development of China's computing industry.
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Not long ago, China achieved a breakthrough in the field of stable isotope enrichment and high-purity silicon preparation: for the first time, successful independent mass production of silicon-28 isotope with abundance exceeding 99.99% was realized, and the product indicators reached internationally advanced levels. This breakthrough in key materials will provide solid support for the development of silicon-based quantum chips and advanced process semiconductors, high-end navigation, metrological benchmarks, and other cutting-edge technologies and products.
Silicon is an important chemical element. Natural silicon contains three isotopes, namely silicon-28, silicon-29, and silicon-30. In ordinary silicon, because of the presence of the silicon-29 isotope which generates magnetic noise, it instantaneously destroys fragile quantum states. Silicon-28, as the lightest stable isotope of silicon, has zero nuclear spin, which can greatly reduce the "environmental noise" interference in quantum computing, and is an indispensable key material for silicon-based quantum chips.
Obtaining high-abundance silicon-28 is like "in a marathon race with many contestants participating simultaneously, precisely picking out a few contestants with lighter body weight." It requires not only accurately identifying extremely tiny isotopic differences, but also efficiently gathering these fine particles. As early as 2006, the Research Institute of Physical and Chemical Engineering of Nuclear Industry of China Nuclear Energy Industry Co., Ltd. (中国原子能工业有限公司核工业理化工程研究院), where I work, carried out research on silicon-28 isotope and raised its abundance to 99.5%. However, extracting ultra-high abundance silicon-28 isotope faces difficulties such as specialized equipment development, system design, and high-precision system control.
To find the optimal design form of the equipment, we started building models from the underlying theory of fluid mechanics and designed a new separation system. Based on the optimization results of each section, we repeatedly experimented with different system forms at the junctions, and found a method that could achieve both smooth transition and independent controllability, just like installing flexible joints and partitioned nerves on the equipment, thereby solving the problem under a single control mode.
In the process of abundance crossing to 99.99%, a slight carelessness in control would lead to 功亏一篑 (gōng kuī yī kuì - "fail to complete a mound for lack of one basket," nearly succeed but fall short at the last moment). Facing this multi-variable, strongly coupled nonlinear system, the team continuously remained on site for 72 hours, debugging the algorithm section by section. When the sample abundance finally reached above 99.99% and achieved stable operation, the entire experimental site erupted.
Stable isotopes are an important area of nuclear technology application and also basic materials supporting national high-end industries and frontier scientific research. For a long time, global stable isotope preparation technology has been highly concentrated, with extremely high barriers. In recent years, the Research Institute of Physical and Chemical Engineering of Nuclear Industry has continuously promoted the engineering and industrialization of stable isotope technology, overcoming a series of cutting-edge technical difficulties such as isotope separation, purification, and conversion, and has successively achieved the first research and production of 12 elements and 26 stable isotopes including molybdenum, tellurium, nickel, zinc, silicon, ytterbium, etc. In the future, we will also face major needs in fields such as nuclear energy and nuclear medicine, aerospace, quantum information, particle physics, deep space exploration, and carry out research and development of a series of stable isotope products.
(The author is a member of the Stable Isotope Technology R&D Center team of the Research Institute of Physical and Chemical Engineering of Nuclear Industry of China Nuclear Energy Industry Co., Ltd. This article was compiled from an interview by our reporter Gu Yekai (谷业凯).)
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On September 8, 2020, the National Commendation Conference for COVID-19 Response (全国抗击新冠肺炎疫情表彰大会) was solemnly held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. General Secretary Xi Jinping personally placed the "People's Hero" national honorary title medal on my chest. At that moment, the spotlights were so bright they dazzled, my hands trembled slightly — this medal does not belong to me alone; it belongs to the more than 42,000 medical workers who went against the flow to aid Hubei, to the medical teams at Jiangxia Fangcang Hospital (江夏方舱医院) who stood guard day and night, to the thousands upon thousands of Wuhan citizens who trusted traditional Chinese medicine and cooperated with treatment, and even more to the torch of Chinese medicine (岐黄薪火) passed down for 5,000 years. Honor is more like a reminder: we are but a single wave in the long river of the cause of traditional Chinese medicine; what truly lifts this wave is the need of the country and the people. Looking back on the road we have traveled, the clearest imprint is not the increase in titles, but in each and every choice, always placing the word "patient" and the cause of traditional Chinese medicine before personal gain or loss. Honor is not the end point; for me, after honor comes continuing to see patients, to teach, to conduct research, and at critical moments, to strive for the position that traditional Chinese medicine deserves.
A single dose of herbal decoction set a lifelong aspiration.
My connection with traditional Chinese medicine did not begin in a study, but from grassroots clinical practice.
It was 1968. After graduation, I was assigned to a basic-level health center by the Bohai Sea in Tianjin. On a snowy winter night, a young patient suddenly developed acute intestinal obstruction. Heavy snow blocked the roads, and it was too late to go to the district hospital 20 kilometers away for surgery. At the critical moment, a Chinese medicine doctor at the health center prescribed a dose of Dachengqi Decoction (大承气汤), which unexpectedly alleviated the crisis. This incident deeply affected me. Why could a few herbs take effect in an acute illness? Was traditional Chinese medicine merely an old discipline in books? After that night, I became increasingly aware that TCM is not abstruse talk among old papers; it is a living skill that can save people.
From then on, I began to self-study TCM. Later, I participated in the "Western Medicine Doctors Leaving Posts to Study TCM Course" (西医离职学习中医班), obtaining the opportunity for full-time systematic study of TCM. From late 1973 to early 1976, I studied while also engaging in medical practice, and together with classmates formed a research group, continuously accumulating experience in TCM treatment of acute illnesses, febrile diseases, and blood disorders. Those days were not easy, but I felt reassured because I knew I was drawing closer to a path truly worth taking.
Just after the Beginning of Spring in 1979, on the last day of registration for the Tianjin graduate entrance examination, I cycled 80 li (40 km) to submit my registration form. The wind along the way was cold, but my heart was warm. Later, after selection, I finally entered the first graduate class of Tianjin College of Traditional Chinese Medicine as I had hoped. Looking back on this process, my aspiration for TCM was not born out of thin air; it came from the needs of patients, from the impact of grassroots clinical practice on me, from the shock that a single dose of decoction brought me, and from a young doctor's reaffirmation of the medical path.
Mr. Ruan Shiyi (阮士怡), a famous doctor of Tianjin and a national master of Chinese medicine (国医大师), was an important guide on my TCM path. Mr. Ruan studied Western medicine in his early years and later delved deeply into TCM. He often said to me: "Boli, medicine is a humane art; without virtue, one cannot become a doctor. For TCM to develop, it is not enough to just preserve the heritage; we must use modern science to explain its principles clearly." I have remembered this sentence all my life.
During my graduate studies, I followed my teacher in clinical practice, copied prescriptions, and learned various subjects during the day; in the evenings, I immersed myself in the library consulting literature. I increasingly felt that learning TCM cannot be done behind closed doors, nor can we reject other disciplines. I often went to sit in on classes at Tianjin University and Tianjin Medical College (the predecessor of Tianjin Medical University), studying thermal physics, engineering, pharmacology, statistics—many fields of knowledge that seemed far from TCM could actually become tools for us to understand TCM, research TCM, and develop TCM. For TCM to move forward, accumulated experience alone is not enough; but to leave behind TCM's own laws and simply adopt external methods is also not feasible. We need to continuously build bridges between the classics, clinical practice, and modern knowledge.
After graduating with a master's degree, I stayed on to teach, engaging in both clinical work and research, and established the first TCM Engineering Research Institute in the country, undertaking a national "Seventh Five-Year Plan" key project and carrying out systematic research on objective tongue diagnosis. Together with my team, we built laboratories, pioneered research on TCM components, promoted the secondary development of famous and excellent Chinese patent medicines, and explored digital analysis and compatibility optimization of Chinese medicines. After more than ten years of tackling key problems, we established a core technology system for the secondary development of Chinese patent medicines, significantly improving the quality of TCM preparations and clinical efficacy. The relevant achievements won the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award. I am convinced that although the discipline of TCM is ancient, its concepts are not backward. The essence of TCM must not remain only at the empirical level; we must use evidence-based medicine to prove its efficacy, use modern scientific language to elucidate its mechanisms of action, so that more people can understand it, trust it, and use it. Serving as a deputy to the 11th through 14th National People's Congress, over the past 20 years I have submitted more than 100 proposals for the development of TCM, and participated in the entire process of drafting, revising, and investigating the Law of the People's Republic of China on Traditional Chinese Medicine (中华人民共和国中医药法). At the 25th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress, the Law of the People's Republic of China on Traditional Chinese Medicine was finally passed. The cause of TCM, pursued by generation after generation, now has the protection of a national law. My heart could not remain calm. TCM is not the cause of any one individual; it concerns the medical wisdom accumulated by the Chinese nation over thousands of years, and also the practical needs of people's health today and in the future. Developing TCM is striving for life and vitality for the entire Chinese nation. To gain a little more space for it, I feel that all the hardships of my life have been worth it.
When the country is in crisis, doctors are soldiers.
As a doctor, it is one's duty to sit in the clinic and treat patients in normal times; when the country is in crisis, doctors become soldiers and must step up. During the fight against SARS in 2003, TCM's participation in treatment was not given sufficient room from the start. A relative of the president of a Western medicine hospital contracted SARS (atypical pneumonia) and, after Western medical treatment, still had a high fever that would not subside and was in critical condition. The hospital president, with a "try it and see" attitude, came to me. After careful examination and differentiation of the syndrome, I prescribed a TCM formula. A few days later, good news arrived: the patient's fever subsided, and the condition improved markedly. I seized the opportunity to request a battle assignment. The Tianjin municipal leaders decided to allow TCM to intervene in treatment. I was appointed as the general commander of Tianjin's TCM treatment of SARS, compiled the "SARS Special Issue," established the "TCM Red Zone," shortened the duration of symptoms, reduced hormone dosages, and achieved definite efficacy. The relevant treatment plan was later included in the "SARS TCM Treatment Plan" issued by the World Health Organization. For me, this was not about vying for temporary fame, but about proving that TCM can take responsibility and make contributions in major public health events.
In the Gengzi New Year of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic suddenly broke out, and Wuhan was in urgent crisis. On the second day of the Lunar New Year, I went to Wuhan immediately as a member of the expert group of the Central Guidance Group. On the day I arrived, I went to the wards of designated hospitals such as Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine and Union Hospital of Huazhong University of Science and Technology to assess the situation. At that time, the situation was urgent and the pressure was great. Some Western medicine colleagues still had doubts about TCM drugs, and some patients also lacked trust. I understood in my heart that the more critical the moment, the less we could just shout slogans. TCM had to produce concrete efficacy; we had to organize treatment work as quickly as possible. I proposed to the Central Guidance Group to establish a TCM position, with TCM taking over a Fangcang shelter hospital as a complete organizational unit. This proposal was approved the same day. Subsequently, under the leadership of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jiangxia Fangcang Hospital was rapidly established. I served as honorary president and chief advisor. TCM medical teams from five provinces and municipalities entered Jiangxia Fangcang, mainly using comprehensive TCM treatment: decoctions tailored to syndrome differentiation, combined with acupoint application, auricular acupoint pressing with seeds, Baduanjin guided exercises, and also attention to emotional regulation. Later, Jiangxia Fangcang Hospital achieved "zero deaths, zero progression to severe illness, zero infections" among 564 patients, and concluded that "lowering the rate of progression to severe illness" was the core indicator for evaluating efficacy. As experience gradually took shape, the integrated Chinese and Western medicine treatment became an important highlight of China's anti-pandemic plan, and the "rate of progression to severe illness" became a standard recognized worldwide.
When the last batch of recovered patients walked out of the Fangcang hospital, there was both steam from instant noodles and hot tears on my spectacle lenses. That was one of the few times I shed tears in Wuhan. Once was for the fallen comrades and the resilient people of Wuhan, and once was when I returned to the former site of Jiangxia Fangcang, facing the changed scene while people were no longer the same; my heart was hard to calm for a long time.
"When the country is in crisis, doctors are soldiers. Better to let ourselves down than to let the people down." The weight of these words lies not in how loud they are spoken, but in that they correspond to real choices. When the country and the people need it, a physician must never stand by with folded arms.
The mulberry and elm do not lament the dusk; the medicine mountain has far-reaching aspirations.
Many people came to know me through honors and spotlights. But I know best in my own heart: my identity has always been that of a doctor. To this day, as long as conditions permit, I still insist on seeing outpatients three times a week. No matter how busy I am with administration, research, or meetings, I cannot give up seeing patients. A doctor, only by sitting in the consultation room, seeing the expressions in patients' eyes, and hearing their difficulties, will know what medicine truly needs to respond to.
Someone once asked me, "What supplements do you take?" I said, "The sense of achievement from curing a difficult patient is more nourishing than any supplement." Benevolence is not an expression of passion, but a long-term, stable, and specific professional responsibility. A doctor should not only see the indicators, but also see the real person behind the indicators; should not only think about the disease itself, but also appreciate the patient's inconvenience, anxiety, and difficulties.
My motto is "Virtue to promote ethics, skill to assist benevolence" (贤以弘德，术以辅仁). This is a principle I realized from the Analects of Confucius. As a teacher, I often require students: "When sitting down, be able to see patients; when standing up, be able to give speeches; when closing your eyes, be able to think; when entering the laboratory, be able to do research." This saying is very plain, but it is my expectation for TCM talents. People who study TCM must not only be able to recite texts, nor only be able to copy prescriptions; they must be able to do clinical work, and also to express themselves; they must be able to think, and also to do research. For TCM to be passed down, it depends on generation after generation of people with real ability, real sentiment, and real responsibility.
In 2009, I donated all the prize money from the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Award and the National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Supervisor Award, etc., to establish the "Yongbo" Motivational Fund (勇搏励志基金) at Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, to reward students of excellent character and academic performance who come from financially difficult families. In response to the relatively common problems among university students at the time, I initiated and established the "Yongbo Motivational Class" (勇搏励志班), with the class motto: "Responsibility, Tenacity, Self-discipline, Dedication." The students organize and manage themselves. Over the past ten-plus years, tens of thousands of Yongbo students have become pillars of society. As they themselves say, this class does not gather excellent people; it makes the gathered people excellent. I hope that they will not only excel academically, but also have noble sentiments, tenacious character, and a spirit of dedication, becoming people capable of shouldering great responsibilities. The cause of TCM is just like this: one generation takes over from another, and each generation paves the road a little further ahead.
I am now nearly eighty years old. "The mulberry and elm do not lament the dusk; the medicine mountain has far-reaching aspirations." Although I am in my later years, I am still willing to devote my time to the cause. Personal life has its boundaries, but the cause of TCM must continue forward generation after generation. What a person ultimately leaves behind should not be judged only by what titles they have obtained, but more by what they hand over to those who come after.
Some say I don't know how to enjoy life, but let me say: my life is work, and work is happiness. As long as my health permits, I will continue to see patients, continue to mentor students, and continue to run around for the inheritance and innovation of TCM. Promoting the modernization of TCM, establishing and improving TCM standards, and promoting TCM to the world — these things cannot be completed in a single day. What I can do, I will do a bit; what I can push forward, I will push forward a step.
Returning to the word "life," my experience is actually not complicated. It can be summarized in five sentences: Aspirations must grow from real problems; scholarship must take root through long-term accumulation; innovation must withstand the test of practice; a doctor must put the patient first; a scholar must take responsibility when the country needs it.
Honors will be written into a resume, but what truly remains may be the consultation room that patients remember, the manuscripts handed over to students, a TCM practitioner's long-term practice of "Virtue to promote ethics, skill to assist benevolence." The value of life lies not in the title itself, but in whether personal ideals are linked with the interests of the people and the needs of the country.
I am willing to be a single wave in the cause of TCM. The wave ultimately returns to the sea, but the cause will forever surge forward.
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My hometown has a stretch of tidal flat where a "tidal tree" (潮汐树) lies flat. Called a tree, shaped like a tree, it is actually a path. But it is not a path on which people or vehicles can travel; it is a path of the tide, a trace left by time upon the earth.
The "tidal tree" has existed since antiquity. Between rising and falling tides, seawater day after day wanders over the mudflat, sketching out a crisscrossing natural network. Yet it lay silent for a thousand years unknown to people, until human lenses broke free from the constraints of the ground and soared into the sky — only then was that hidden natural path first glimpsed in its entirety.
One morning, a middle-school classmate posted a link in his WeChat Moments: "Encountering the Natural Beauty of Tidal Trees." I tapped to open it: Tiaozini (条子泥) wetland, golden tidal channels spreading like the roots of a giant tree, stretching toward the Yellow Sea… This was a hometown I had never seen before. Tiaozini is a highly representative muddy intertidal wetland on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean, and also an important "international airport" along the global migratory route of birds. The "tidal tree" — on the shore of the Yellow Sea, where I had lived for more than twenty years — I had heard of it for the first time, let alone seen it.
Yet seen or unseen, it was always there. When the tide rises, seawater carries sediment and gently spreads it; when the tide falls, the current softly rubs and outlines. In the daily gentle caress and carving, shallow marks are slowly polished into deep channels, which then freely branch and spread along the mudflat. Over time, using the tide as a brush, nature leaves interlaced patterns on the tidal flat — could this count as the wetland's unique "tree rings"?
Not only my hometown's Tiaozini, but also the coastal tidal flats of Liaoning and Shandong, and the intertidal zone of the Qiantang River estuary, all have similar life patterns: the main trunk facing the sea, branches heading toward the land, shaped like giant trees…
The history of the "tidal tree" is roughly as old as the tides of this sea area. Only in recent years has its magnificence entered people's field of vision.
The world does not lack beauty; it lacks eyes that discover beauty. To discover extraordinary sights and grand beauty depends on more than just a pair of eyes. Sometimes, a landscape is at an extraordinary height and angle, requiring a pair of "wings" that can break through the limitations of perspective.
The "tidal tree" at Tiaozini being seen went through at least two "approaches": in 2013, the Tiaozini reclamation project was completed, greatly shortening the physical distance between the mudflat and people; in 2019, the Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of the Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf of China (Phase I) (中国黄（渤）海候鸟栖息地（第一期）) was successfully inscribed on the World Heritage List, with Tiaozini included, and followers began to explore new angles of observation and recording.
When people walk on the tidal flat, what they see is fragmented, concrete, and also carries a sense of immersion. Tidal flat harvesters can tell the depth of the mudflat, birdwatchers can see a bird's beak cut through the water's surface, children remember the coolness seeping between their toes. This genuine feeling of "being on the scene" is full of warm details, yet it offers no way to glimpse the full texture of the wetland.
And when a drone opens its "Sky Eye," I prefer to call it a "bird's-eye perspective": the aircraft rises to three or four hundred meters above the ground, and the familiar wetland suddenly becomes unfamiliar and magnificent. The chaotic tidal channels, puddles, and sand ridges on the ground, when viewed from above, present a precise network like a life map. This is not creation but revelation: these earth veins were naturally formed, originally obscured by the ordinary perspective, and now, with the help of the technological eye, they are presented in full view.
I recall my first long trip in early years; my hometown gradually receded outside the car window into blurred patches. The street layouts and urban textures that had long become the background of daily life, precisely at the moment of parting, revealed a clear outline. Distance, sometimes, is a way to enable another kind of seeing. Distance creates beauty.
The "tidal tree" is just like this: the ground-level perspective lets us be in it, touching the texture of every patch of mud; the sky-level perspective lets us look far across the wilderness, reading the operating logic of the tidal system. The two are not opposites, but different dimensions of cognition. Does life not also need such a shift in perspective? Some say that looking down from the third floor, all one sees are trivialities; looking from the thirtieth floor, all that enters the eye are mountains and rivers. If one can occasionally detach from oneself and look back at life from a bird's-eye view, one may perhaps see clearly how those events once thought isolated connect into the trajectory of fate, and how those seemingly accidental choices give birth to the branches of life.
When I inquired about the past and present of the "tidal tree," I was told that Tiaozini wetland has now banned drones. This wetland is the home of rare migratory birds such as the spoon-billed sandpiper (勺嘴鹬) and the Nordmann's greenshank (小青脚鹬); the flight and roar of drones would disturb their roosting and breeding. The breathtaking sky-level perspective must ultimately give way to ecology. This seems like a profound metaphor: we use advanced technology to reach unprecedented heights of cognition, yet after truly seeing, we learn restraint.
The "tidal tree" is still there. I have finally understood that some scenery requires distance to appear vast, and true appreciation is, after comprehending its majestic grandeur, still being able to restrain the urge to approach, guarding its undisturbed freedom.
Tide comes, tide goes. Tree lives, tree hides. Who understands its meaning?
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Yanjin Huoshao, like neighboring Huaxian county's Daokou Braised Chicken, Laomiao Beef, and Wanggu Lamb Stew, is a local famous food bearing a geographical designation. When I was a child, there was no such saying as "Yanjin Huoshao"; at that time, what was widely passed from mouth to mouth was "Niutun Huoshao." My home town and Niutun Township are only a dozen or so li apart. Yanjin Huoshao's reputation has risen only in the last twenty or thirty years.
When Huoshao spread to Yanjin county seat, it was endowed with new content and new flavor. For one thing, Yanjin produces strong-gluten wheat hailed as "China's No. 1 Wheat" (中国第一麦); for another, as living standards have improved, ordinary people are more willing to spend on food, and the Huoshao-making masters have accordingly adapted to everyone's tastes, using more generous fillings. Not only that, they also invented the "stuffing-in" way of eating, just like Tianjin's "pancake stuffed with everything" — eggs, ham, tofu skewers, mung bean sprouts, fried chili peppers... all kinds of meats and vegetables can be stuffed in. One Huoshao can be eaten in many varieties; whatever you like to eat, you can choose.
The method of making Huoshao is very particular. When the master kneads the dough, in winter he uses "hand-jerking water" — water so hot it makes people jerk their hands away; in summer he uses "yin-yang water" — that is, lukewarm water mixed from cold water and boiling water; in spring and autumn it is "hand-resisting water" — water with a temperature between the two, still somewhat hot. The amount of water added also differs: when the weather is hot, 2 liang of water per jin of flour; when the weather is cold, half a jin of water. While kneading the dough, one kneads vigorously and lets it "rest" slowly. Stretching the dough piece requires tight throwing and slow stretching, with the hand never leaving the oil and the dough not sticking to the hand. A ball of dough is stretched by the master to be as long as a belt and about an inch wide. The filling uses finely chopped fatty lean pork, mixed with refined salt, chopped spring onion, cumin, thirteen-spice seasoning, etc., spread evenly over the stretched dough piece, then rolled into a top-like shape, pressed into a flat cake, and placed in the oven for baking. First it is baked over high heat, then simmered over low heat, while being turned and brushed with oil in cycles. After about a quarter of an hour, a golden-yellow Huoshao comes out of the oven.
A Huoshao fresh from the oven bulges in the middle, its color like purple copper, a size larger than baked flatbreads from other places. The ring upon ring of spiral patterns are its distinctive mark, just like a small bronze drum. Without even biting into it, the aroma has already filled half the street.
Writer Liu Zhenyun is from Yanjin County. He said at a cultural event that Yanjin Huoshao has good flour, good fillings, and the people who make Huoshao are also good. Liu Zhenyun hit the nail on the head. Good food can only be made by good people. In present-day Yanjin, Huoshao stalls and Huoshao shops fill the streets and lanes — Shengli Huoshao, Wenbang Huoshao, Xiaojun Huoshao, West Street Mutton Huoshao... Each establishment is particular about its ingredients and offers warm-hearted service, and they all find ways to make their Huoshao more distinctive and more attractive to people. If the taste or portion size is not satisfactory, one simply cannot stay in business. It is with this kind of sincerity that Yanjin Huoshao has, without anyone noticing, made its name famous throughout the Central Plains.
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All day long, the small pond receives
skylight, drifting clouds, bird shadows,
petals and withered twigs also falling into it.
At night, the world returns to stillness.
The small pond darkens,
删繁就简 (shān fán jiù jiǎn - "delete the complex, adopt the simple," to simplify), only offering
a single bright moon.
Just like a person entering twilight years,
life is simple,
yet still harboring warmth and clarity in heart.
Chinese painting "Prairie Little Rider," by Feng Yuan, collection of the National Art Museum of China.
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On a summer night, I received a phone call from my mother in our hometown: “The cucumbers and long beans in the vegetable garden are about to become overripe—come back and take them quickly!” Sitting in my study, the moonlight outside the window was bright and clear, and the stooped figure in the vegetable garden once again appeared before my eyes.
My mother is 75 this year; she has had a herniated lumbar disc for many years, and her back is also severely bent. Her health is getting worse and worse, yet she rarely tells us, her children. During the day, she spends most of her time in the vegetable garden. Pulling weeds from one ridge takes an entire morning, but she is not in a hurry—she pulls them slowly. In the evening, she often goes to the garden as well, using the light from the front door to look here and there, east and west, as if inspecting a world that only she knows.
Our family originally had three or four mu of land. The paddy fields by the river were planted with rice, the flatter high ground with wheat and corn, and the sloping land with sweet potatoes and potatoes. Our family of five depended on that land for food. Later, the sloping land was returned to forest under the Grain-for-Green program. My elder brother, elder sister, and I each started our own families, and we had long since stopped farming.
My mother cannot bear to be idle. Beside the old house there was a small patch of vacant land, full of broken bricks and rubble, overgrown with weeds. She stubbornly opened it up, hoe by hoe.
After the start of spring, after watering it twice, the chives’ roots put out thin, tender shoots. The seeds of lettuce and small greens were sown, and within about a week, green seedlings emerged. Around the Qingming Festival, my mother planted kidney beans. Around the Guyu period, she bought cucumber seedlings from the street; soon after planting them, she inserted a few bamboo poles, muttering “please climb up the trellis…” The garden was full.
As the weather grew hot, the vegetable garden also became lively. The peppers were green, the eggplants a glossy purple, the tomatoes red and translucent; cucumbers, loofahs, and long beans, at my mother’s urging, wound around and climbed all over the trellises. Some elderly women in the village came by and praised her: “Incredible—when you were young, you grew grain well and embroidered flowers well, and now in old age, you grow vegetables well too.” Mother smiled, picked a handful of long beans, pulled up a few scallions, and handed them over. A few days later, when they came to visit again, they brought a few stalks of kai-lan and a few cauliflower heads—things that were not in Mother’s garden. Mother accepted them, then turned around, picked a few tomatoes, and pressed them into their hands.
Mother bends at the waist, squatting, with one hand propped on the ground and the other pulling hard at the weeds; broken soil trickles down between her calloused fingers. After just a few minutes, she has to rest, leaning on the hoe handle. I said, “Ma, stop planting—whatever you want to eat, you can buy on the street; you don’t have to work so hard.” Mother did not reply, busy with her hands.
When I returned to the city, my mother packed the trunk of my car full to bursting. She mimicked the tone of a vegetable vendor: “No pesticides used, no chemical fertilizer applied.” I said, “The gas and tolls for a round trip of several hundred kilometers could buy how many vegetables.” As soon as the words came out, I felt they were too harsh. Mother said nothing, and pushed the bag of small greens on the side a little further in.
On holidays when I returned to the old home, I brought back some seeds of pumpkins that I bought online. Mother grew them successfully. After that, I also often went to the vegetable garden to help Mother work, sometimes picking a cucumber and biting into it—crisp and fresh. When returning to the city, without waiting for Mother’s instructions, I carried away several pumpkins.
A few more ridges of corn appeared in the garden. The stalks were much taller than a person, and when the wind passed, they rustled loudly. My daughter went in among them, and when she came out she was holding two green ears, shouting “wow wow.” Later she wrote about this in a composition, and the teacher gave her an “Excellent.”
When the weather turned cold, after we harvested the turnips and cabbages, only a few rows of garlic shoots, capped with frost, remained in the garden. Mother gathered the withered branches and dead leaves in the yard, piled them in a corner of the garden, and set them alight to make compost. After finishing that, she spent another whole day digging a square pit in the garden. The turnips and cabbages were moved inside, covered with corn stalks, and then a layer of earth was spread over them…
In front of the window, the moonlight of the mountain city spilled onto the ground, white as snow. I was stunned for a moment—every winter, snow falls and covers Mother’s garden. The garlic shoots struggle up out of the snow.
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