Summary: The Central Committee and State Council have transmitted the ninth five-year plan (2026-2030) for legal publicity and education, issued by the Central Propaganda Department and Ministry of Justice. The plan aims to deepen understanding of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, promote constitutional and legal awareness, and integrate legal education into cadre, youth, and social education systems. It emphasizes using new technologies like AI and big data for targeted普法, and calls for strengthening international legal discourse to present China's image. The plan also stresses the importance of implementing the "who enforces the law, who popularizes it" responsibility system and enhancing legal culture. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: In a July 27 phone call, President Xi Jinping and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva discussed deepening the China-Brazil community with a shared future. Xi emphasized that both nations, as key Global South members, should support global governance reform and advance "Greater BRICS cooperation." He also backed Brazil's sovereignty and opposition to external interference. Lula praised bilateral trade and cultural exchanges, and expressed interest in AI and energy cooperation, welcoming more Chinese investment. The call did not address the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports on local governments across China studying and implementing President Xi Jinping’s speech at the 105th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, focusing on establishing a correct view of political performance through learning, inspection, and reform. Officials in Chongqing, Anhui, Xinjiang, and other regions led party members to deepen theoretical understanding and apply it to practical governance. Specific actions included addressing public concerns such as water supply issues in Daqing, digitalizing government services in Jiangxi, and improving elderly care in Gansu. The report emphasizes a people-centered approach, with cadres solving problems in healthcare, education, and infrastructure. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: During China's critical flood season, officials from the Ministry of Water Resources reported that the country faces higher flood risks than drought, with heavy rains expected in both northern and southern regions. Gao Long, director of the technical information division, noted that multiple river basins, including the Songliao, Haihe, Taihu, and Pearl River, are at elevated risk for flooding and typhoon impacts. Zhang Hu from the Changjiang Water Resources Commission added that the Yangtze River basin will see below-normal rainfall, requiring careful reservoir management to balance flood control and drought relief. New technologies, such as digital twin systems and distributed hydrological models, have improved forecast accuracy, extending the flood forecast lead time for the Huai River basin to 3–7 days. Tu Yong, a senior engineer, provided public safety guidance on identifying four-tiered warning signals and recommended precautions for urban flooding and typhoon preparedness.
Summary: At the 48th UNESCO World Heritage Committee session in Busan, South Korea, China's boundary adjustment proposal for the Yellow Sea-Bohai Sea Migratory Bird Habitat was approved, incorporating the Changshan Islands Migratory Bird Habitat in Dalian, Liaoning into the World Natural Heritage list. The decision was reported by the National Forestry and Grassland Administration.
Summary: The State Council General Office issued the "Several Provisions on the Handling Procedures for Administrative Reconsideration Cases of the State Council," effective immediately. The document aims to implement the revised Administrative Reconsideration Law, enhance oversight, and promote law-based governance. It authorizes the State Council's legal department to process reconsideration applications and supervise lower-level agencies. The provisions require provincial governments and State Council departments to prioritize mediation and conflict resolution within reconsideration procedures. Additionally, it mandates strengthened coordination among reconsideration, government inspection, and administrative law enforcement supervision to ensure administrative power operates within the legal framework.
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Summary: At a policy report series in Beijing on July 27, Agriculture Minister Zhang Zhu delivered a speech on accelerating agricultural modernization and rural revitalization. He highlighted the historic achievements under President Xi Jinping's leadership, including record grain output and poverty alleviation gains during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period. Zhang outlined priorities for the "15th Five-Year Plan" starting this year, focusing on technological innovation, green agriculture, and rural income growth. He emphasized preventing large-scale backsliding into poverty and deepening rural reforms. The event was hosted by the Central Propaganda Department and attended by over 700 officials, military representatives, and university students.
Summary: Shen Yiqin, State Councilor and President of the All-China Women’s Federation, chaired a standing committee meeting in Beijing and called for thoroughly implementing Xi Jinping’s important remarks on women and children’s work. She emphasized establishing a correct view of performance and strengthening the protection of women’s and children’s rights to contribute to the 15th Five-Year Plan and Chinese-style modernization. Shen urged the federation to focus on rights protection, improve institutional systems, and address key issues, while deepening grassroots services and marriage dispute prevention. She also stressed solidifying the second half of 2025’s work, including advancing the “five actions” and “six practical matters,” implementing outcomes from the Global Women’s Summit, assisting in flood control, and maintaining security. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations were mentioned.
Summary: The article reports on the advancement of "new quality productive forces" in Guangdong's manufacturing sector, illustrated through AI-driven smart production lines at TCL, Haitianwei, Modb, and other firms. TCL's Zhao Dali highlighted a 99.8% quality pass rate, while Haitianwei's Huang Shuliang described digitizing sensory experience into aroma models. Officials such as Zhou Jun at Yizhimi and Gong Jiaqin at XAG noted efficiency gains, with the latter citing a 47% reduction in water and electricity costs. The piece also features assistive AI devices from Krypton Cloud and Jike Shell, with founder Sun Qian noting a team summited Everest using their exoskeleton. It concludes by stating Guangdong's AI core industry exceeded 300 billion yuan in 2025, up 40% year-on-year, supported by a provincial action plan released in April.
Summary: In the first half of the year, China's industrial enterprises above the designated size saw revenue grow 6.5% year-on-year and profits rise 18.7%, with June profits up 15.1%, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. The electronics sector, driven by AI integration and surging computing demand, led growth with a 96.9% profit increase, contributing 8.5 percentage points to overall profit expansion. Within electronics, computer manufacturing profits surged 689.3% and integrated circuit manufacturing jumped 2,579.5%. New growth drivers boosted related industries, including non-metallic materials (e.g., recycled rubber up 133.3%) and metal materials (e.g., copper smelting up 53.9%). Raw materials manufacturing profits rose 71.7%, with the non-ferrous metals sector up 99.4%, adding 4.7 percentage points to overall profit growth.
Summary: The article reports that centrally-administered state-owned enterprises (SOEs) under the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) maintained stable and improved performance in the first half of 2024, with total profits reaching 1.4 trillion yuan and fixed-asset investment growing 4.5% year-on-year. R&D spending increased by 3.8%, and nine new innovation consortia were established. The "AI+" special action advanced, with over 2,000 smart factories built and production equipment digitalization reaching 67%. No specific official or accompanying persons were cited. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article highlights the Tangmo Scenic Area in Huizhou District, Huangshan City, Anhui Province, which is promoting a summer cultural tourism model centered on "intangible cultural heritage plus night tours." It features a photo from July 25 showing visitors admiring fish-shaped lanterns at a cultural and creative shop in the scenic area. The image is credited to photographer Xiao Benxiang for Image China. No officials or their statements are reported, and there is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article provides practical guidance for vehicle owners dealing with flood damage in China, outlining steps for evidence collection, insurance reporting, and claim assessment. It details how to document water levels, interior damage, and location, and advises contacting insurers within 48 hours. The piece distinguishes between partial loss and total loss scenarios, and notes specific precautions for new energy vehicles and fuel cars. It also explains how total loss payouts are determined based on policy terms or actual vehicle value. The article does not discuss Chinese political figures or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs announced the official implementation of the first list of agricultural plant substantive derived varieties, approved by the State Council. The system requires derived varieties to obtain permission from original variety rights holders before commercialization and share profits, establishing a legal benefit-sharing mechanism. This marks a key institutional innovation in seed industry intellectual property and a milestone for seed industry revitalization.
Summary: The article reports that China's investment in computing and next-generation communication networks is accelerating, with information transmission investment up 25.6% in the first half of the year. It highlights the "computing-electricity synergy" green power direct supply project in Zhongwei, Ningxia, involving a 500MW photovoltaic station and a 1.5GW wind farm, which aims to provide low-cost, green electricity to a data center cluster. Deputy General Manager Jin Liang of Datang Zhongwei New Energy noted the project reduces transmission losses and ensures 24/7 green power coverage. According to Li Henghui, regional general manager of Zhongliandata, electricity costs—over 60% of operational expenses—are nearly half those in eastern China, attracting enterprises including those requiring carbon footprint tracking for export markets. Deputy Director Ma Zhenjun of the Zhongwei Data Bureau stated that improved infrastructure has shifted recruitment from outbound visits to inbound inquiries from eastern firms.
Summary: The article discusses how Zhongwei, a city in western China, is capitalizing on policy opportunities to develop new power grids, computing networks, and communication networks as essential infrastructure for the AI era. By implementing the Data Center Green and Low-Carbon Action Plan, the city is integrating wind and solar power to achieve 24/7 green electricity coverage, which lowers PUE and creates stable expectations for investors. Zhongwei’s competitive edge is strengthened by its "green electricity plus green certificates" model, helping export-oriented firms meet carbon traceability requirements and gain market access. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, investments in new power grids alone are expected to exceed 5 trillion yuan, with total upstream and downstream investments surpassing 10 trillion yuan. Local governments across China are accelerating the buildout of this AI-era infrastructure to boost effective investment and foster new productive forces.
Summary: The article reports that local governments across China are studying and implementing Xi Jinping's speech from the 105th anniversary of the CPC, aiming to promote correct performance views among cadres. Various regions, including Chongqing, Anhui, and Xinjiang, are conducting learning sessions and using case studies to reinforce ideological foundations. In response, localities like Beijing and Liaoning are addressing specific public concerns, such as delivery workers' difficulties and stalled construction projects. The article also highlights practical improvements in elderly care, digital governance, and infrastructure in provinces like Heilongjiang, Jiangxi, and Gansu. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Chinese state-owned PowerChina has completed 25 schools in Peru under a public investment program, including the General Prado School in Callao, which now features modern facilities like science labs, computer rooms, and accessibility upgrades. School principal Marco Cayetano praised the transformation, noting the new campus has become the most attractive educational institution locally. Parent María Silupu and science teacher Gabi Campos highlighted the improved learning environment and hands-on experimental capabilities. Owner’s representative Aldair Mantilla commended the Chinese team for its professionalism and user-centered design, emphasizing attention to lighting, green features, and accessibility. Cayetano expressed hope for deepened Peru-China cooperation, including potential expansion into educational resource sharing.
Summary: The article frames education as a forward-looking investment, highlighting new school facilities in Peru as symbols of hope. It quotes former Peruvian Education Minister Morgan Cro, who said these campuses offer youth a better environment for learning and a gateway to the wider world. The piece notes that Global South countries view education as essential for sustainable development. It emphasizes that sharing experiences and deepening cooperation are increasingly chosen paths to address common challenges like uneven development and insufficient educational resources. The goal is to enable more children to access quality education, fostering shared prosperity among Global South nations.
Summary: The article reports a Pew Research Center survey showing China’s favorability surpassing the U.S. in 27 of 36 countries, with notable gains in Western nations like Spain, Italy, and Canada. It attributes this shift to China’s long-term accumulation of international trust through concrete actions, including economic growth, open-market policies (e.g., zero-tariff treatment for least developed countries and a 240-hour visa-free transit policy), and consistent foreign policy stability. The piece contrasts China’s openness with U.S. tendencies toward protectionism and “decoupling,” framing the results as a global “vote of confidence” in China’s model of peaceful development and win-win cooperation.
Summary: Kim Jong-un visited the Chinese People's Volunteer Army Martyrs' Cemetery in Hoechang County on July 26 to mark the 73rd anniversary of the Korean War armistice. He paid silent tribute to the fallen Chinese soldiers and laid flowers at the grave of Mao Anying, Mao Zedong's son. A wreath in Kim's name was placed at the memorial tower. The visit underscores ongoing North Korea-China solidarity, with no direct mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the report.
Summary: At a China-South Africa young scientists symposium in Pretoria, researchers highlighted collaborative achievements including a 12,900-km quantum communication experiment using China's micro-nano satellite and joint work between FAST and South Africa's MeerKAT telescope. Chinese Ambassador Wu Peng stated that scientific cooperation is a vibrant area of bilateral ties, urging youth to contribute to China-Africa win-win development. South African Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation Blade Nzimande noted broad collaboration potential in basic science, agricultural tech, and green energy. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi will attend and address the high-level meeting marking the fifth anniversary of the Global Development Initiative, to be held in Beijing on July 28. The meeting’s theme is "The Global Development Initiative Fifth Anniversary: Starting Anew to Build a Sustainable Future." Participants include senior UN officials, envoys from “Group of Friends of the GDI” member states, and experts. The discussion will cover the initiative’s implementation, cooperation priorities, and global contributions. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: The Boao Forum for Asia held its Perth conference on July 27 in Australia, with over 200 delegates discussing the theme "Green Transition: Towards a Shared Future for People and Planet." Participants from Asia, Oceania, and Africa engaged in four roundtables covering climate change, energy transition amid the Middle East crisis, innovation and AI for green growth, and green energy-driven future industries. No specific official statements or accompanying figures were reported, and the article does not address the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Tong Mengdavi, Deputy Director of the Cambodia-China Center at Cambodia University of Technology and Science, stated that the CPC's success over 105 years stems from its deep roots in the people and people-centered development. He highlighted poverty alleviation as a key example of the CPC's organizational capacity and governance philosophy, noting that CPC cadres conducted household surveys and precise assistance. Tong mentioned China-Cambodia cooperation projects, such as poverty reduction model villages in Takeo province, which improved water supply and farming incomes. He emphasized that Cambodia has learned from China’s experience in poverty reduction, agricultural modernization, and grassroots governance through exchanges and training. Tong also praised the CPC’s self-reform, openness, and global initiatives like the Belt and Road, contributing to shared development and world peace.
Summary: The article reports on the 35th anniversary of the Queiting Hospital of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine in Bavaria, Germany, highlighting its role as the first TCM hospital licensed by the German government. Bavarian parliamentary group leader Klaus Holetschek praised the hospital as a milestone for integrating Chinese and Western medicine. Beijing University of Chinese Medicine President Tang Zhishu noted the hospital's pioneering role in localizing TCM in Europe. The Fourth China-Germany TCM Forum was held concurrently, with experts discussing international cooperation. Chinese Consul General in Munich Qiu Xuejun emphasized the hospital's contribution to Sino-German cultural exchange and people-to-people ties.
Summary: At a July 27 State Council press conference, CDPF Chairman Cheng Kai, Party Secretary Zhou Changkui, and Vice Chair Li Dongmei outlined the “15th Five-Year Plan” for disabled persons, which includes 32 key tasks and 45 service projects aimed at comprehensive coverage, lifetime care, and rights protection. Cheng noted new indicators such as creating one million urban-rural jobs for disabled persons and providing 3.5 million instances of severe-disability care. Zhou emphasized strengthening social security for disabled persons, especially the poor and severely disabled, and highlighted a new initiative for autism lifetime care services. Li discussed expanding special education and stabilizing employment, including “one-person-one-policy” support for disabled college graduates and promoting tech-assisted products. The plan also addresses protections for disabled elderly, women, children, and those with intellectual or mental disabilities.
Summary: The article reports that China’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and National Supervisory Commission released data on June’s enforcement of the "Eight-Point Regulation" rules. In June, authorities investigated 34,700 violations, disciplining or educating 43,318 people, and imposing party or administrative sanctions on 28,426. Among these, 19,072 cases involved formalism or bureaucracy, including 15,983 cases of inaction or misconduct hindering high-quality development. Additionally, 15,628 cases involved hedonism or extravagance, with 9,657 cases concerning the illegal gifting or receiving of gifts. The report also breaks down cases by official rank, from five provincial-level to 32,594 at the township level or below.
Summary: A flash flood struck Shuangshimen Gully in Huichuan Town, Weiyuan County, Gansu Province on July 26, prompting a large-scale rescue operation involving over 305 firefighters, 68 vehicles, and 164 pieces of heavy equipment. Li Jiang, head of the Huichuan town government's专职 fire brigade, described the initial scene as having surging waters and debris-covered roads. Deputy captain Jia Yongjiang noted that communications were cut and heavy machinery could not enter the disaster zone, forcing rescuers to form human chains to evacuate the elderly and children. By July 27, the rescue shifted to meticulous grid searches across 22 kilometers of river channels, with 135 personnel divided into 13 teams. The Gansu provincial finance department allocated 20 million yuan for relief and post-disaster coordination, including insurance claims.
Summary: The Central Committee of the CCP and the State Council have issued the Ninth Five-Year Plan for Legal Publicity and Education (2026–2030), emphasizing the need to deepen the study and promotion of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law. The plan targets continuous improvement in legal awareness among officials and citizens by 2030, integrating law into education for all age groups. It calls for innovative methods including AI-powered legal outreach and the use of digital platforms. The document also stresses international communication of China’s legal achievements, aiming to project a favorable national image, though it makes no specific mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations. No individual officials were reported as accompanying the issuance.
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Summary: The article argues that ecological civilization requires a scientific balance between human activity and nature, avoiding both overdevelopment and isolationist conservation. It cites Anhui’s Xixinan village, which uses wetland rotation and free entry to sustainably manage tourism. The piece criticizes excessive restrictions that harm local livelihoods, referencing China’s National Park Law as allowing necessary human activities. It highlights Xi Jinping’s concept of “lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets” to guide the conversion of ecological advantages into economic ones. Examples from Fujian, Zhejiang, Yunnan, and Hebei illustrate how ecological protection can drive prosperity, reinforcing the goal of harmonious coexistence.
Summary: The article reports on China's record summer grain output of 3014.9 billion jin despite adverse weather and global input market volatility, highlighting the resilience of agricultural modernization. Xi Jinping is quoted stressing self-reliance in food security, stating that China must feed itself and that even with modernization, grain must primarily come from domestic production. The piece attributes this resilience to a combination of technological adaptation, policy coordination (including party-government responsibility for food security), and institutional strengths that enable cross-regional and cross-sectoral response. It emphasizes that China's stable food supply is not a matter of luck but of continuously building capacity to withstand shocks. No reference to the United States or U.S.-China relations appears in the text.
Summary: The article highlights the collective efforts of Chinese citizens, including student volunteers like Wu Yulun and three high school graduates, in flood relief operations. It emphasizes the spirit of mutual aid and solidarity, with individuals using their skills to support affected communities. The piece also notes the role of efficient emergency response mechanisms involving multiple government and military forces. It calls for strengthening disaster preparedness, especially in mountainous areas, by improving monitoring, infrastructure, and communication systems. The overarching theme is that unity and shared responsibility, rather than individualism, drive China’s disaster response.
Summary: China, as the world's largest grassland nation with nearly 4 billion mu of grassland, has issued the "15th Five-Year Plan for Forestry and Grassland Protection and Utilization." The plan calls for implementing a fourth round of subsidies and awards for grassland ecological protection. It also aims to advance the delineation and management of basic grasslands. These measures are intended to further enhance the ecological functions of grasslands. The article does not reference any specific officials, their statements, or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: During a July 15 inspection of a residential community in Shanghai's Huangpu District, Xi Jinping remarked on the shift from traditional bamboo drying poles to more convenient retractable racks. The article emphasizes that such improvements stem from incorporating resident feedback into urban renewal design, prioritizing people's daily needs over top-down planning. It cites examples from Yichang and Loudi where collaborative platforms resolved parking and sanitation issues through shared governance. The piece frames these efforts as part of China's broader shift from large-scale demolition to more nuanced, people-centered urban development. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports that Mao Xiaoming, director of the Nanshan Terminal, stated the facility has expanded to receive more gas and condensate from the "Deep Sea No. 1" field while maintaining its green surroundings. Chen Chibin, director of the "Deep Sea No. 1" platform, noted that a Chinese firm has operated the Yacheng 13-1 field for over 20 years after taking over from an international oil company, ensuring stable output and new development. Both officials highlighted the project's green credentials, technological self-reliance, and alignment with national strategies. Since production began, the field has supplied 50 billion cubic meters of gas in 2025 to the Greater Bay Area and Hainan Free Trade Port. The article also discusses how high-quality development in China fosters mutual benefits between enterprises and regions, though it does not address the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article covers the 80th anniversary of China's WWII victory, with J-20 fighters flying over Tiananmen Square, and focuses on the Party committee at AVIC Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group (Chengfei). It reports that the committee, described as embodying "loyalty and dedication," led efforts to overcome technological gaps by adopting digital manufacturing for the J-10 and later J-20 programs. The committee mobilized Party branches and young members to develop AI platforms and smart factories, achieving "24-hour unmanned automated machining" and other breakthroughs. The narrative underscores that Party leadership is the "root and soul" of state-owned enterprises, enabling self-reliance in core technologies. The United States or U.S.-China relations are not mentioned.
Summary: The article reports on China's "seven-ups and eight-downs" main flood season, which poses risks to autumn grain crops like corn, rice, and soybeans, with experts warning of compound disasters from typhoons, heavy rains, and high temperatures. Li Congfeng, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, noted that prolonged waterlogging in cornfields could severely impact yields, emphasizing the need for rapid drainage within 24 hours and pest control. Cao Liyong, director of the Northern Rice Research Center, advised against draining rice paddies completely under high temperatures to prevent seedling wilting, and recommended shallow irrigation and fungicide application during critical growth stages. Yang Zhonglu, a soybean expert, highlighted that sustained temperatures above 33°C during flowering could cause pod drop, suggesting boron fertilizer and foliar sprays to enhance stress tolerance. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs launched a 100-day campaign to bolster field management, disaster mitigation, and pest control to secure autumn grain harvests.
Summary: Wu Zhengping, Party Secretary and Vice Director of the China International Import Expo Bureau, announced at a July 27 briefing that preparations for the 9th CIIE (November 5–10) are progressing steadily, with 57 countries and 3 international organizations confirmed for the national pavilions and Canada set to serve as guest of honor for a second time. The enterprise exhibition has already secured over 1,200 exhibitors from 99 countries, covering more than 340,000 square meters, with U.S. companies accounting for the largest contracted area. The concurrent Hongqiao Forum will focus on "Stability and Cooperation: Building an Open World Economy" and release the *World Openness Report 2026* along with a new *Export to China Capability Development Report*.
Summary: The article reports on the construction site of the Longrong Expressway in Longsheng, Guangxi, as of July 27. The expressway is a key section of Guangxi's expressway network, featuring two-way four lanes and a designed speed of 100 km/h. No officials or their statements are mentioned, nor is there any reference to the United States or U.S.-China relations. The accompanying photo is credited to Pan Zhixiang.
Summary: Li Chuan, chief designer of the "Xihe" satellite's science and application system at Nanjing University, reported that after years of perseverance—including a five-year period with no papers or results—the satellite successfully achieved optimal performance in August 2022. He stated that the team overcame technical hurdles by adopting an innovative "CT scan" approach for solar Hα spectroscopy, and noted that data from Xihe is now used by researchers in 16 countries. Li Chuan, who was encouraged by his mentor Fang Cheng, emphasized the importance of "listening to your heart" and "holding onto perseverance and optimism." The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports on severe rainfall across multiple Chinese provinces, with the Central Meteorological Observatory issuing yellow alerts for rain and geological hazards. The National Flood Control Headquarters initiated Level IV emergency responses for Hubei and Sichuan, while the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Emergency Management allocated 180 million yuan for disaster relief in six provinces. The Ministry of Water Resources maintained flood defense responses for seven provinces, with eight working groups deployed to assist on the ground. Guangdong provincial authorities directed efforts to monitor high-risk areas and coordinate emergency response, disbursing 50 million yuan for local disaster relief. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations were mentioned.
Summary: The article reports on the Politburo's April 28 directive to accelerate construction of "six networks," including water infrastructure, and highlights Dezhou City's digital twin water network as a case study. Xue Yi, director of the Dezhou Water Bureau's Smart Water Office, is quoted explaining how the platform integrates real-time data on reservoirs, rivers, and canals to optimize irrigation and flood control. Li Shouxue, director of the Dezhou Water Bureau, states the platform enables efficient water use and quality monitoring for residents. The piece underscores the water network's role in supporting agricultural output and rural smart meter adoption, without referencing the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article discusses China's national water network, a comprehensive system integrating natural rivers, diversion projects, reservoirs, and smart controls for water allocation, flood control, and ecological protection. It notes that during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, 5.68 trillion yuan was invested, covering 80.3% of national territory, but highlights ongoing challenges such as insufficient connectivity, weak digitalization, and limited industrial integration. Future priorities include improving network linkages (e.g., South-North Water Transfer projects), advancing digital twin and AI applications, and promoting cross-sector "water network+"融合发展 to break fragmentation and maximize comprehensive benefits.
Summary: The article reports on the transformation of desert land in Pingluo County, Ningxia, into productive vegetable farms, driven by local entrepreneurs and government-led irrigation projects. Village cadre Ma Mingjun recalled how sandstorms once buried homes, prompting residents to consider leaving, but now the area has become a "green bank" with 46,000 mu of desert vegetables yielding nearly 800 million yuan annually. Company head Wang Hao explained that they improved sandy soil by mixing in red clay and used drip irrigation to save water, achieving green food certification for crops like yams and sweet potatoes. The initiative has boosted local employment, with daily wages of 150–200 yuan for 700 workers, and even improved the microclimate by reducing sandstorms. A preserved dune remains as a reminder of the past, while the nearest desert edge has receded from 50 meters to 3 kilometers from the Yellow River.
Summary: The Central Social Work Department convened a meeting on July 27 to implement the "Opinions on Strengthening Social Work in the New Era," emphasizing Xi Jinping's thought on party building and social work. The meeting stressed deepening party leadership over social work, expanding party coverage in new economic organizations, internet platforms, and tech firms, and strengthening party-building in new social organizations and employment groups. It also called for enhancing grassroots governance and party-building at the community level, as well as improving services for the public, including petition work and volunteerism. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Beijing's Zhengyangmen city gate tower reopened to the public on July 27 after systematic conservation and renovation, marking the full restoration of this Ming-Qing Dynasty landmark along the Central Axis. The tower, a national key cultural relic, had been closed since 2020 for repairs including roof work and structural reinforcement. A permanent exhibition debuted alongside a promotional event for the second anniversary of the Central Axis’s UNESCO inscription, co-hosted by the Beijing Cultural Forum. The Dongcheng and Xicheng districts jointly released the "2026–2028 Central Axis Revitalization Action Plan." No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Central Social Work Department held a meeting on July 27 featuring reports from five model workers, including Ma Shanxiang, Li Liancheng, Wu Yaqin, Wang Kehao, and Zhao Naixiang, who shared their experiences in serving the people. The event was framed as both a spiritual洗礼 and a party education exercise. The meeting stressed the need to thoroughly study Xi Jinping's thoughts on party building and social work, and to implement a central document on strengthening social work in the new era. Attendees were urged to learn from the models' political loyalty and dedication to the people, and to prioritize solving urgent public concerns. The goal is to advance high-quality development of social work in the new era.
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Summary: The article reports that Industrial Bank (兴业银行) concluded its 2025 "Innovation Marathon" finals in Fuzhou, Fujian, having accumulated over 6,200 innovative projects over four years as part of the Digital China Innovation Competition. The bank has prioritized digital and intelligent transformation as its core strategy under the "14th Five-Year Plan," increasing annual technology investment to over 8 billion yuan and expanding its tech team to more than 8,000 personnel. It is now advancing from "Digital Industrial Bank" to "Smart Industrial Bank," embedding AI across 260+ business scenarios with over 300 intelligent agents deployed. The bank’s digital tools have supported tech finance (1.15 trillion yuan in approvals), green finance (carbon accounts for 5 million enterprises), and inclusive finance (399 specialized markets). The article emphasizes the bank’s role in serving the "Digital China" initiative, with no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article argues that Xi Jinping's thought on party building is essential for governing the party and strengthening China, emphasizing its theoretical system, practical implementation, and role in advancing Chinese-style modernization. It calls for deepening study and application of this thought to address challenges, with a focus on political loyalty, theoretical武装, organizational strength, and anti-corruption efforts. The piece stresses the need for systematic, reform-minded approaches to achieve long-term party governance and ensure the party's leading role in national rejuvenation. No mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations is present.
Summary: President Xi Jinping stated that formalism stems from subjective thinking and utilitarianism, rooted in a misguided view of political achievements and lack of responsibility. He emphasized that correct performance views require internalizing responsibility to the Party, the people, and history, with the people as the highest priority. The article stresses that responsibility consciousness must be internalized as genuine party spirit and courage to act, avoiding superficial "no trouble" or "box-ticking" behaviors. Externalizing responsibility demands practical, hard work aligned with objective laws, not just slogans or vanity projects. The process of internalization and externalization is a continuous dialectical cycle that transforms responsibility from cognition into character.
Summary: President Xi Jinping emphasized focusing on building a community with a shared future with neighboring countries and leveraging high-quality Belt and Road cooperation as a key platform. The article notes that the "15th Five-Year Plan" calls for advancing pilot free trade zones, with China (Inner Mongolia) becoming the fifth such border zone in April 2026. It argues these zones must enhance infrastructure connectivity, institutional openness, and cross-border cooperation to deepen regional integration. Specific measures include improving transport links, smart ports, energy and digital infrastructure, aligning rules and standards with neighbors, and expanding trade, industrial chains, and emerging sectors. The piece does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports on the launch of Volume V of *Xi Jinping: The Governance of China* in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, where officials including former Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbayeva, Kyrgyz State Secretary Arslan Koichiev, and SCO Deputy Secretary General Piao Yangfan praised the book for explaining China’s modernization and governance. Otunbayeva highlighted China’s poverty alleviation and the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind, while Koichiev emphasized its role in cross-cultural exchange. Kazakh officials, such as Yernur Bessenbayev and Askar Umarov, noted the book’s value for deepening bilateral ties and understanding China’s development path. No mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations appears in the text.
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Summary: The article reports on China's advances in humanoid robot mass production, featuring a factory in Foshan with an annual capacity of 10,000 units, where modular and flexible assembly lines address challenges in consistency and stability. It highlights the development of 0.2mm-thick specialized electrical steel by Shougang for robot motors, balancing torque and efficiency. Additionally, it describes companies like Shanghai Zixi and designer Ding Hanqing creating flexible, sensor-integrated outerwear and knitted "skin" for robots, enabling motion detection and tactile feedback. These efforts reflect China's strategic push to scale humanoid robot manufacturing and related supply chains. No U.S. relations are mentioned.
Summary: The article reports on the rapid modernization of the ceramic industry in Huairen, Shanxi, where automated production lines now produce over a million daily-use porcelain items daily. Huairen’s Industry and Information Technology Bureau director Yin Gaofeng stated that the city has shifted from scattered, inefficient plants to 80 automated lines, achieving top national intelligence levels. Deputy Mayor Tian Yong emphasized the cluster-based, chain-integrated development strategy, with 118 ceramic enterprises and 35 billion annual output capacity. Company leaders Liu Min and Wang Xibi noted that automation has doubled efficiency and improved product quality, while innovations like third-generation bone china address durability and microwave-safety issues. No reference to the United States or U.S.-China relations appears in the article.
Summary: In the first half of 2024, cargo transported via the China-Laos Railway reached a value of 17.17 billion yuan, up 33.8% year-on-year. Imports of tropical fruits like durian and mangosteen totaled 4.22 billion yuan, while exports of "new three" products—new energy vehicles and photovoltaic goods—surged 3.5 times to 2.14 billion yuan. Cross-border e-commerce B2B exports also grew 1.2 times. Cumulatively, the railway has handled over 22,000 international freight trains, moving 19.35 million tons of goods worth 90.28 billion yuan. The route now serves 19 countries and regions, covering 3,900 product types and accelerating economic ties between China and ASEAN.
Summary: China's State Administration for Market Regulation has drafted revised safety requirements for large amusement rides, now open for public comment. The mandatory national standard incorporates lessons from recent accidents, addresses operational issues, and aligns with international advanced safety standards. It aims to enhance risk prevention and operational guidance across the full lifecycle of such equipment.
Summary: The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) issued a notice on organizing the construction of national-level zero-carbon factories, including zero-carbon computing facilities. The initiative aims to achieve near-zero carbon dioxide emissions through technological innovation, structural adjustment, and management optimization. The notice specifies selection criteria for manufacturing enterprises and computing facilities that commit to meeting emission reduction targets within a set timeframe. Evaluation indicators include core mandatory factors and eight guiding indicators across four categories, focusing on energy-saving upgrades, equipment application, and digital carbon management. MIIT will conduct random inspections and phased验收, officially certifying qualifying facilities as national-level zero-carbon factories.
Summary: The China Meteorological Administration released the "Modern Agricultural Meteorological Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Capability Building Plan (2026–2030)," aiming to significantly enhance domestic agricultural meteorological disaster risk coverage to the plot level and develop global food security meteorological risk warning capabilities by 2030. The plan outlines 22 key tasks across five areas, including precision monitoring, forecasting, services, and technological support. It also targets completing a new national agricultural climate resource survey and zoning, producing climate zoning maps for five major agricultural regions and 25 key crops. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations were mentioned.
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Summary: The article reports that the UNESCO World Heritage Committee approved the expansion of China’s Yellow (Bohai) Sea Migratory Bird Habitat to include the Changshan Islands in Dalian, Liaoning. Local officials, including Changhai County Natural Resources Service Center Deputy Director Wang Piyu and County Natural Resources Bureau Director Lü Yongquan, highlighted the success of ecological restoration and strict protection measures that have boosted the breeding population of yellow-billed egrets. Changhai County Deputy County Chief Liu Runnian described the World Heritage status as a "precious green名片" (green business card) for the city, emphasizing sustainable eco-tourism and cross-regional conservation coordination. The article underscores China’s systematic approach to island-reef ecosystem protection and monitoring, but does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports that on July 27, the Changshan Islands migratory bird habitat in Dalian, Liaoning, was inscribed as a World Natural Heritage site, expanding the Yellow-Bohai Sea migratory bird habitat series. This expansion, covering over 4,900 hectares, enhances the series' integrity and underscores China's land-sea coordinated conservation of coastal resources. The area hosts over 140 bird species, including the world's largest breeding population of Chinese egrets, and serves as a critical stopover on the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. China now leads globally with 15 World Natural Heritage sites and four mixed sites, supported by its national park system. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations are mentioned.
Summary: China Three Gorges Group Chairman Liu Weiping published an article emphasizing that the new Three Gorges water transport channel is a major initiative to implement Xi Jinping's directives on high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt. He stressed the project's role in enhancing the Yangtze's comprehensive transport corridor, supporting national strategies, and advancing green, low-carbon development. Liu called for strengthening Party leadership, prioritizing people's interests, and upholding systematic planning to build a "quality, safe, green, innovative, and clean" landmark project. He reaffirmed the Group's commitment to delivering a project that meets the expectations of the Party and the people. No reference to the United States or U.S.-China relations was made.
Summary: The National Energy Administration has officially released China’s Green Electricity Certificate (GEC) Price Index, which closed at 181.0 points in June 2025 (base period January 2025 = 100), a 23.2% year-on-year increase. The index is based on national GEC transaction data and is designed to objectively reflect market supply-demand dynamics and pricing trends. It will be published monthly on a regular basis moving forward. For energy-consuming enterprises, the index provides a clear price reference to optimize procurement and support low-carbon transitions. For power generators, it helps identify optimal trading windows to ensure GEC value realization and promote renewable energy.
Summary: The article reports that the world's first zero-carbon airport technology was unveiled in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, with the Ordos Ejin Horo International Airport certified as meeting "zero-carbon airport" standards. The technology, independently developed by Peking University's Ordos Energy Research Institute, integrates a "wind-solar-storage-cooling-heat-electricity" system utilizing local renewable energy and AI-driven energy management. Since its operation began in March 2025, the airport has eliminated fossil fuels, Freon, and cooling water, achieving over 90% clean energy use and reducing annual energy costs by 50%. The system is scalable for airports, industrial parks, and manufacturing facilities. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations were mentioned.
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Summary: Two Chinese mathematicians, Deng Yu and Wang Hong, won the Fields Medal at the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians, marking the first time Chinese nationals have received the award. Wang Hong resolved the century-old three-dimensional Kakeya conjecture, while Deng Yu made key progress on Hilbert's sixth problem. Chinese Academy of Sciences members Tian Gang and Zhang Jiping hailed the achievement as a historic breakthrough for China's basic science. Tian Gang, director of Peking University's Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research, noted that the duo "dared to enter uncharted territory and challenge major problems." The article also quotes Peking University President Gao Song pledging sustained investment to strengthen mathematics research and talent cultivation.
Summary: Two Chinese mathematicians won the 2026 Fields Medal, which Li Zhiyuan, a distinguished professor at Fudan University, called a symbol of China's rising mathematical research. He attributed the achievement to sustained state investment and improved talent cultivation. Han Jingjun, an associate professor at Fudan, noted the winners' different training paths—one via international Olympiads, the other conventional—proving China's K-12 and undergraduate math education can produce world-class talent. Shen Weixiao, an academician and dean of Fudan's School of Mathematical Sciences, stressed the need for a research environment free from short-term utilitarian pressures to foster breakthroughs. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A 10-year collaborative effort by nine Chinese archaeological and cultural heritage institutions, including the Hunan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and the Tibet Autonomous Region Institute of Cultural Relics Protection, has produced the "Tibetan Mural Complete Collection," published recently by Science Press. The six-volume, seven-book series covers murals from 280 temples, residences, and manors across seven prefectures in Tibet. Using archaeological methods, the work documents spatial distribution and preservation status, supplemented by iconographic analysis and stylistic historical review. It presents the overall landscape of Tibetan murals, particularly preserving mural data from remote small monasteries and grottoes. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: PICC Property and Casualty (PICC P&C) is aligning with China's "15th Five-Year Plan" to support the national economic transition by focusing on new growth drivers. The company is building three support systems—product supply, risk control, and digital services—with emphasis on health, tech, and new energy vehicle (NEV) insurance. It aims to enhance multi-tiered social security, serve new productive forces, and expand coverage for emerging sectors like low-altitude economy and Belt and Road projects. PICC P&C is also addressing NEV export challenges by providing overseas insurance solutions via Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, and plans for Europe and Australia. The company's strategy reflects a state-owned financial enterprise's role in advancing China's modernization goals.
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Summary: The article reports on China's new mandatory national standard (GB 18580—2025) for formaldehyde emission limits in wood-based panels and their products, effective June 1, 2025. It quotes Li Wei, general manager of China Building Materials Beixin's wood-based panel division, and Ping Lijuan, R&D manager, who explain that the standard distinguishes between panels (E1 ≤0.124 mg/m³) and finished products (E0 ≤0.050 mg/m³), making requirements for consumer-facing items stricter than EU and ISO standards. Fu Yuejin, director of the National Center for Quality Inspection and Testing of Wood-based Panels, notes the standard is globally leading. The article advises consumers to verify product compliance with GB 18580—2025 and consider factors like edge sealing to prevent formaldehyde release during installation. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Seven Chinese government departments, including the National Fire and Rescue Administration and the Ministry of Education, jointly issued a work plan to improve public fire safety awareness and skills nationwide. The initiative outlines four key actions:普及消防常识, basic skills training, evacuation drills, and case-based warnings, supported by 15 specific measures. The plan tasks each department with specific responsibilities, such as the Ministry of Education integrating fire safety into school curricula and the Ministry of Civil Affairs focusing on elderly and children’s welfare institutions. Implementation will proceed in three phases: mobilization, execution, and deepening, with local governments expected to tailor measures and establish long-term mechanisms. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region's Department of Human Resources and Social Security, along with eight other departments, has issued a five-year action plan (2026–2030) for workplace injury prevention. The plan sets three goals: a continued decline in workplace injury rates, with a 10% reduction over five years in key industries such as hazardous chemicals and mining; a similar reduction for new employment forms like platform workers; and improved working conditions to reduce occupational diseases. Ten key tasks include establishing a quarterly data-sharing mechanism, developing a workplace injury prevention association, and creating a monitoring system to issue risk warnings. The plan specifically targets six high-frequency injury types—falls, strikes, machinery accidents, traffic incidents, dust hazards, and pneumoconiosis—while also expanding monitoring to cover commuting accidents and sudden workplace illnesses. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations were mentioned.
Summary: The article reports that Tianjin’s human resources and social security bureau has established 1,483 internship bases, with 11% being public institutions. It notes that 16,800 internship positions have been developed, of which 81.9% are high-quality roles in research, management, and technology. The bureau has upgraded its online public employment service to allow full digital processing of applications and subsidies, and introduced a smart verification system for compliance. Officials also conduct on-site policy briefings and have implemented a policy evaluation mechanism with a real-time data dashboard. Additionally, the bureau extended remaining-term internship subsidies and raised retention incentives to better link youth internships with stable employment.
Summary: Rui Jian, a 34-year-old employee of the Taizhou Port and Shipping Development Center, was photographed guiding children in a safety evacuation drill at a kindergarten in Taizhou’s pharmaceutical high-tech zone. A former firefighter now working in the transportation system, he serves boat operators on the front line and is known as a “water safety guardian.” As a volunteer, he helps arrange hull repairs, handles sudden vessel breakdowns, and uses his spare time to conduct fire safety talks, emergency rescue training, and legal education in schools and nursing homes. The article contains no statements or actions by any political official and makes no reference to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Zhang Yu, deputy director of the Zhejiang Maritime Safety Administration Command Center, outlined three key principles for maritime typhoon safety: heed early warnings, alert authorities in distress, and conduct self-inspections before resuming voyages. He emphasized that vessels should alter course away from typhoon-affected waters upon receiving warnings, and those remaining must secure shelter, evacuate personnel if required, and maintain 24-hour watch with VHF monitoring. Fang Qichao, director of the Fujian Maritime Safety Administration Command Center, warned that typhoon alerts being lifted does not guarantee safe seas, and vessels must verify wind and wave conditions meet navigational standards before resuming operations. He cited the Xiamen-Kinmen "mini-three links" ferry route, which requires winds below Force 7 for safe resumption. Both officials stressed comprehensive pre-departure inspections and cautious, slow-speed sailing after a typhoon passes.
Summary: China's National Disease Control and Prevention Administration, alongside six other central departments, has drafted and issued the "15th Five-Year Plan for Disease Prevention and Control," approved by the State Council. The plan aims to build a modernized disease control system with Chinese characteristics by 2030, enhancing surveillance, response, and containment capabilities for emerging infectious diseases. It emphasizes a "big disease control" approach promoting social co-governance, with routine inter-agency coordination and flexible emergency transition mechanisms. The plan also prioritizes expanding the national immunization program by adding cost-effective vaccines for key populations and advancing electronic vaccination records for equitable access. Additionally, it advocates integrated multi-disease prevention and a "One Health" framework to optimize resource use and achieve maximum control efficiency with minimal cost.
Summary: The article reports on the growing popularity of functional foods in China, exemplified by the busy Jinlongyu Fengyitang store in Shanghai’s Pudong district, where consumers like Ms. Yang purchase low-GI products for health management. Yihai Kerry Arawana President Mu Yankui is quoted stating that aging populations and chronic disease concerns drive the company’s strategic shift from traditional grain and oil production to nutritionally enhanced functional foods. Mu emphasized China’s advantages in large-scale agricultural processing, strong scientific innovation, and traditional food-as-medicine culture. The company launched its "Jinlongyu Fengyitang" health brand in April 2025, leveraging its R&D center in Shanghai with over 300 scientists. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article reports on efforts in Changsha to transform Party-mass service centers from bureaucratic spaces into welcoming community hubs, as described by local officials including village party secretary Chen Yao and community party secretary Li Wei. These centers have minimized office space to maximize service areas, with features like live-streaming sales for villagers, repair stations, and shared activity rooms tailored to resident needs. The initiative emphasizes "one room, multiple uses" and flexible scheduling, avoiding a one-size-fits-all approach. Community involvement is encouraged through volunteer "stewards" and partnerships with local businesses, shifting from single-handed management to collaborative governance. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Central Propaganda Department and Ministry of Public Security have jointly launched the 2026 "Most Beautiful Grassroots Police" campaign, announcing plans to select and publicize 20 exemplary officers during the 2027 People's Police Day. The notice, issued by the Ministry, calls for implementing Xi Jinping's thoughts on police work and focuses on innovation-driven governance to support the "15th Five-Year Plan" and new security frameworks. It outlines a four-stage process emphasizing political integrity, people-oriented service, and clean conduct, with preference for officers serving in western China. The campaign, first held in 2019, has recognized 168 officers across seven editions to foster role-model effects. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei consumer associations conducted a survey on airline overbooking, finding that nearly 70% of passengers do not fully understand overbooking rules, and over 70% reported inadequate risk disclosure. On July 24, the three associations summoned 10 airlines, including Air China, and 5 online platforms such as Ctrip, demanding corrective actions by August 31. A China Air Transport Association official noted that overbooking is legal if airlines follow regulations, with typical overbooking ratios around 3% during peak seasons. The associations demanded that airlines ensure transparent disclosure of overbooking rules, compensation standards, and cannot use vague or obscured notices. The Civil Aviation Administration of China has tasked CATA with developing a unified overbooking standard, expected to be released for public comment in August.
Summary: The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) reported that it has been supervising online platforms to enforce source labeling for content on domestic and international current events. It disciplined 3,704违规 accounts and corrected over 48,000 misleading videos, citing examples from Douyin, Kuaishou, and Bilibili that failed to properly cite sources for international news, including vague terms like “外媒消息.” The crackdown targets self-media accounts that repost or distort foreign affairs coverage, which implicitly affects the presentation of U.S.-China relations. The CAC emphasized that such practices confuse public understanding and undermine information credibility. No specific accompanying officials were named in the report.
Summary: In Zhongfu Village, Fujian, guide Zhong Ming explained the 1.5-meter height mark on the Red Army Bridge to elementary students during a red study tour. The mark was used as a recruitment standard for the Red Army in 1934, when the Red Ninth Army held a rally there before embarking on the Long March. The village now preserves its revolutionary heritage as a site for revisiting history. It is also strengthening protection of red resources and developing local industries to consolidate poverty alleviation efforts. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Zhang Shiping, former member of the Party Leadership Group and Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, was investigated by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission for serious disciplinary and legal violations. He was found to have accepted bribes, gifts, and illegal benefits, exploited his position for personal gain, and continued misconduct after the 18th Party Congress. As a result, he was expelled from the Communist Party, had his benefits revoked, and his case was transferred to prosecutors. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Yang Hongyong, former Party committee member and discipline inspection secretary of Harbin Electric Corporation, was investigated and found guilty of severe disciplinary and legal violations, including corruption, abuse of power, and illegal business operations. He was expelled from the Party and his case has been transferred to prosecutors for criminal investigation.
Summary: The Anhui Provincial Market Regulation Bureau, along with seven other departments, launched a special inspection of enterprise-related fees from July to December 2026, covering seven key areas including administrative intermediaries, industry associations, utilities, government units, banks, and bidding. The inspection focuses on fees charged since January 2024, targeting issues such as illegal intermediary services and cost-shifting. A bureau spokesperson stated the operation uses a "provincial deployment, provincial-city coordination" model. Authorities will apply joint penalties through market, industry, and credit regulation to promote comprehensive governance of enterprise fees.
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Summary: On July 25, at the 48th UNESCO World Heritage Committee session in Busan, South Korea, "Jingdezhen's Handcrafted Porcelain Industry Heritage" was inscribed on the World Heritage List, becoming China's 61st World Heritage site. The heritage encompasses a complete ancient porcelain production system spanning the 10th to 19th centuries, including five zones from raw material mining to export. The article emphasizes the "living heritage" nature of Jingdezhen, where traditional porcelain-making techniques continue to be practiced and passed down. It details the 11-year application process led by Jiangxi Province, which involved a province-wide effort and the development of specialized protection regulations and monitoring systems. The summary is based on data provided by the Jiangxi Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism.
Summary: The article reports on the 2026 Jiangsu City Football League’s "Taihu Derby" between Suzhou and Wuxi, where Spanish World Cup winner Pedri presented the official match ball, marking his first visit to China and highlighting the intersection of local grassroots football with global top-tier competition. Experts, including Liu Jinsong (FIFA expert and Chinese Football League理事) and Wang Zhiyuan (Tongji University associate professor), emphasized that China must learn from the World Cup's underlying patterns—such as deep youth academies, integrated league systems, and football as part of daily life—rather than copying foreign models. They noted that China’s registered elite youth players (over 100,000) and certified coaches (126,000) remain far below European standards, with overly功利 motivations hindering grassroots development. The article also highlights the rise of local tournaments like "Su Chao" and "Xiang Chao" on social media, with former women's national coach Shui Qingxia urging that World Cup enthusiasm be channeled into民间 football to boost participation. Ultimately, the piece argues that China must build a tailored football ecosystem—covering talent cultivation, venue supply, and commercial operations—to sustainably close the gap with top football nations.
Summary: The 2026 China Open badminton tournament concluded in Changzhou, with China winning mixed doubles (Guo Xinwa/Chen Fanghui defeating teammates Feng Yanzhe/Huang Dongping), women's doubles (Liu Shengshu/Tan Ning successfully defending their title against Japan's Fukushima/Matsumoto), and women's singles runner-up (Chen Yufei losing to Japan's Yamaguchi). Chen Fanghui attributed her mixed doubles victory to maintaining a calm mindset under pressure. Tan Ning overcame injury to focus on tactics, stating the win set a strong foundation for the upcoming World Championships and Asian Games. Chen Yufei expressed disappointment but vowed to adjust and stay level-headed for future matches. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Wei Yi, currently China's top-rated chess player, won the fourth National Chess King Tournament in Chengdu by defeating Yu Yangyi 3-1 in the final, while former world champion Ding Liren secured third place. The event featured 12 elite Chinese players, with Yu and Ding entering as seeded competitors.
Summary: The 2026 Asian Speed Roller Skating Track Series (Guiyang, China) concluded on July 26, featuring 48 teams and 384 athletes from multiple countries. The event was hosted by the Asian Roller Skating Federation and organized by Chinese sports authorities. Official race results counted toward series rankings. In the overall team standings, Sichuan Sports Vocational College ranked first, followed by clubs from Jiangsu, Chinese Taipei, and Indonesia's DKI team. No references to U.S.-China relations or political figures were made.
Summary: From July 25 to 26, the 2026 Inner Mongolia Roller Skating Elite Competition was held at Wanhe Sports Park in Hohhot. The event featured speed skating and freestyle skating, attracting over 200 competitors from 25 teams across multiple cities. No officials or references to U.S.-China relations were mentioned in the report.
Summary: The article reports that Harbin, leveraging its "dual Asian Winter Games city" status, announced a new integrated development model combining sports, summer tourism, and cultural activities during a press conference on July 27. The city plans to host over 300 mass sports events annually, with nearly 100 scheduled during its "100-Day Summer Action" to boost summer spending. Key activities include 17 city-level and over 70 county-level events across soccer, marathons, taekwondo, boxing, and martial arts. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations were mentioned.
Summary: The article reports on the 2026 Zhaosu "Ma Chao" horse racing event in Xinjiang's Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, highlighting the victory of jockey Kushay Talgat on "Black Qilin" in the 2-year-old Yili horse 1000m speed race. It details a series of seasonal races from April to October, including speed and endurance events for various age groups. The Zhaosu Tianma Cultural Tourism Park is promoting "horse racing+" tourism, integrating folk sports like horse racing and sheep snatching with cultural activities. During the Tianma Cultural Tourism Festival, the county hosts multiple events, including the "Silk Road" China Super Equestrian Orienteering Endurance Race. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Shen Tiejun, Party Secretary of Qinghai Provincial Sports Work Team No. 1, has been involved with the Tour of Qinghai Lake international cycling race since 2005, when he helped organize its fourth edition. He noted that the race has grown from a loop around the lake to eight upgraded stages showcasing Qinghai's green development and ecological improvements, including visible reforestation and a 44-fold increase in the once-endangered naked carp population. Shen emphasized cost-saving measures such as reusable steel frames for advertising materials since 2015 and a "real-name" system that reduced credential costs and waste. The event now attracts riders and tourists globally, with side activities like amateur cycling tours and cultural exchanges boosting the local economy. Qinghai's Deputy Director of Culture and Tourism, Ma Li, added that the race now extends into scenic spots, commercial areas, and pastoral regions to promote "following the event to travel."
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Summary: The article reports on the rise of AI-enabled cyber fraud in South Korea, the Netherlands, and Thailand, detailing national responses. South Korea's Police Chief Park Jae-heung noted a surge in investment scams, with a new "10-minute emergency number shutdown" mechanism credited for reducing fraud cases by 37%. Dutch police, cooperating with EU partners, dismantled cybercrime infrastructure targeting ransomware and data theft. Thailand's government, using AI tools, shut down over 13,000 illegal gambling sites, with officials reporting a 60% drop in cybercrime after targeting financial and asset chains. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations are mentioned.
Summary: The article reports on a CNA documentary that exposes Unit 731's wartime human experiments and reveals how the United States, for Cold War geopolitical gain, granted immunity to Japanese biological warfare criminals in exchange for their data. It details the unit's atrocities across China and Southeast Asia, and notes that Japanese right-wing revisionists continue to whitewash these crimes. The documentary features testimony from the last surviving Unit 731 member and other victims, building an irrefutable evidence chain. The piece calls on the international community to pressure Japan to fully confront its militarist past.
Summary: The Chinese embassy spokesperson in Tokyo stated that Japan's prosecution of a Japanese Self-Defense Force officer for intruding into the Chinese embassy demonstrates rampant far-right extremism in Japan. The spokesperson condemned the March 24 incident, in which the officer unlawfully entered the embassy with a knife, as a serious violation of diplomatic norms and Chinese sovereignty. He urged Japan to thoroughly investigate, punish the perpetrator, and prevent future occurrences, calling for a responsible explanation to China and the international community. The article reports on Japan's indictment of the officer, identified as 24-year-old Third Lieutenant Murata Kota, for trespassing and threats. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A massive wildfire in central Spain has burned approximately 77,000 hectares, with the blaze in Ávila province—covering about 50,000 hectares—becoming the largest on record in the country. The fires have affected nearly 100,000 people across 46 municipalities in the Madrid region, Ávila, and Toledo. Spanish State Meteorological Agency representative Javier Ametros stated the fires were fueled by temperatures above 30°C, relative humidity below 30%, and winds exceeding 30 km/h. No reference was made to the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: Chinese Embassy Counselor Kang Xiaolei attended a memorial in Sagami, Japan, for laborers killed during the construction of the Sagami Lake Dam, including forcibly conscripted Chinese workers. Kang condemned Japanese militarism's wartime atrocities and criticized Japan's right-wing efforts to deny or whitewash its侵略 history, as well as its accelerating shift toward offensive security policies. He noted that 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the Tokyo Trial and called for joint efforts with Japanese peace advocates to uphold historical memory and oppose revisionist threats. The event was also addressed by Hashimoto Toshiko of the Sagami Lake Dam Historical Record Society, who stressed the importance of educating Japanese youth about the forced labor history. The dam, built between 1940 and 1947, involved 3.6 million laborers, including nearly 300 Chinese, with 28 named Chinese victims.
Summary: French household consumption is under pressure, with many shortening trips and cutting restaurant spending, as the economy slows. The Finance Ministry downgraded France's 2026 growth forecast to 0.7%, citing energy prices, weak consumer and business investment, and geopolitical uncertainty. Services PMI remains in contraction, while manufacturing is supported by aerospace and defense orders. The Bank of France identified energy costs and tepid consumption as key drags. The OECD recommended accelerating industrial electrification and improving vocational training to boost long-term competitiveness.
Summary: Ito Makoto, director of the Constitutional Research Institute at Japan Law School, criticized Japan's ongoing military expansion under the pretext of "defense" during a lecture in Tokyo on July 27. He highlighted Japan's wartime atrocities, including the Nanjing Massacre and forced labor, and argued that current security policies are transforming Japan from a peaceful nation into a military state. Ito stated that Japan's own military buildup, not the security environment, is the true cause of regional instability. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article reports on Beijing's Chaoyang District "Mars Plan" training camp, which selects post-90s cadres for practical urban renewal training. District Party Secretary Wu Xiaojie stated the initiative aims to cultivate innovative, capable young cadres by emphasizing real-world performance and responsibility. Organization Department head Ren Chao explained that the camp uses a "unit recommendation + personal self-nomination" dual-channel selection process to identify promising talent. Deputy head Han Shanshan noted the curriculum, modeled after MBA programs, combines theoretical knowledge with field exercises and dynamic screening. Over half of the first cohort's 158 participants have since been promoted or reassigned to new posts based on their camp performance.
Summary: The article examines Xi Jinping's principle of "full and rigorous governance over the Party," first introduced during his December 2014 inspection tour in Jiangsu province. It emphasizes that this comprehensive approach—covering all Party members and organizations—is essential for maintaining the Party's strength and leadership as China nears its goal of national rejuvenation. The piece highlights Xi's call for systematic, integrated efforts to combat corruption and improve Party conduct, as reiterated at the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection's fifth plenary session. It notes that such governance has reduced bureaucratic burdens on grassroots officials and enhanced the Party's unity and effectiveness. The article concludes that sustained, rigorous Party-building is crucial for securing China's development and achieving its new-era missions.
Summary: A village committee member in Tianjin's Jizhou district, Yang, was found to have owed nearly one million yuan in collective rent for years, alongside other villagers. The district disciplinary inspection committee investigated after receiving complaints, and Yang paid the arrears upon evidence. The former village party secretary and committee director, Guo, was also disciplined for failing to take effective measures to recover the rent. The disciplinary authority emphasized that party members must lead by example and not treat power as a privilege. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations were discussed.
Summary: Liu Mingfang, Party branch secretary and village committee director of Zhonghe Village in Guangdong, was praised for orchestrating a "textbook" evacuation of 57 villagers from 25 households during Typhoon Butterfly in June 2025, after she detected warning signs of a mudslide and reported them to then-village Party secretary Cao Musheng and deputy town mayor Liu Chunhua. The successful operation, which saved lives as 5,000 cubic meters of debris destroyed 35 houses, earned her the titles of "National Outstanding Communist Party Member" and "Touching China 2025 Person of the Year." Liu, originally an "outsider bride" who learned the local Hakka dialect, emphasized that her skills came from continuous training in flood, drought, and typhoon prevention provided by the party. She has pursued further education, earning an undergraduate degree online and using a provincial lifelong learning platform to study grassroots governance, rural e-commerce, and agriculture. Liu now leads the village with a focus on lifelong learning to maintain her先进性 (advanced nature) as a party member.
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Summary: The article argues that while digital media and algorithms have devalued "second-hand experience" in literary creation, genuine, lived experience—such as that of delivery drivers, cleaners, and miners—retains powerful authenticity. It warns against relying on formulaic or algorithm-driven storytelling, emphasizing that true creative force comes from direct observation and embodied experience. The author, a Zhongshan University professor, calls for transforming personal experience into universal narrative rather than mere self-recording, and highlights the enduring value of text over short videos in capturing deeper meaning. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations are mentioned.
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Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 27 — Recently, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council forwarded the Ninth Five-Year Plan for the Publicity and Education of the Rule of Law (2026–2030) of the Central Propaganda Department and the Ministry of Justice and issued a notice, requiring all regions and departments to earnestly study and implement it in light of actual conditions.
The full text of the Ninth Five-Year Plan for the Publicity and Education of the Rule of Law (2026–2030) of the Central Propaganda Department and the Ministry of Justice is as follows.
Publicity and education on the rule of law is a long-term foundational task for comprehensively governing the country according to law. In order to strengthen and improve publicity and education on the rule of law, and to promote the 蔚然成风 (wèi rán chéng fēng - "luxuriantly become the common practice," to become widespread and prevalent) of respecting, studying, abiding by, and using the law throughout society, this plan is formulated.
One, Overall Requirements
Adhere to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as the guide, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Party and all previous plenary sessions of the 20th Central Committee, earnestly implement the deployments of the Fourth Plenary Session (of the 20th Central Committee), comprehensively implement Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, profoundly understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments (两个确立)," strengthen the "four consciousnesses (四个意识)," firm the "four confidences (四个自信)," achieve the "two upholdss (两个维护)," adhere to the Party's overall leadership, adhere to putting the people first, adhere to comprehensively governing the country according to law, adhere to serving the overall situation of economic and social development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, take promoting Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law to deeply enter the hearts of the people as the primary task, take implementing the Law on Publicity and Education of the Rule of Law as the starting point, take thriving and developing socialist rule-of-law culture as the support, take improving the work system for publicity and education of the rule of law as the guarantee, practice socialist core values, promote the socialist spirit of the rule of law, advance the construction of a rule-of-law society, and create a favorable rule-of-law environment for comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization.
By 2030, the ability of leading cadres to handle affairs according to law and the rule-of-law literacy of citizens will continue to improve; a social environment in which the whole society esteems the rule of law, adheres to rules, respects contracts, and upholds justice will further take shape; the deep integration of publicity and education on the rule of law with law-based governance and rule-of-law practice will be deepened; the social foundation for comprehensively governing the country according to law will be further consolidated; the responsibility system for law popularization "whoever enforces the law shall popularize the law (谁执法谁普法)" will be thoroughly implemented; and the institutionalization, standardization, and scientification of the work of publicity and education on the rule of law will be comprehensively raised.
Two, Promote Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law to Deeply Enter the Hearts of the People
(i) Continuously deepen study and publicity. Establish a pool of lecturers for propagating Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, develop model high-quality courses, make good use of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on the Rule of Law Volume I, General Secretary Xi Jinping's On Persisting in Comprehensively Governing the Country According to Law, Study Outline of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law (2025 Edition), Study Q&A on Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, Series of Lectures on Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, and others, and deeply study and publicize Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law and its latest achievements in rich development. Incorporate Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law into the important content of study and training of Party committee (Party group) theoretical study central groups, Party schools (schools of administration), and cadr colleges. Incorporate Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law into relevant courses of universities, secondary schools, and primary schools, offer compulsory courses on Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law in law majors, support qualified universities to offer elective courses in other majors, organize the compilation of Readings for University Students on Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, make good use of textbooks such as Introduction to Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, and promote the all-round entry of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law into textbooks, into classrooms, and into minds. Give play to the role of venues such as the Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law and the Research Center for Comprehensively Governing the Country According to Law, make good use of platforms such as the Hundred Legal Experts Hundred Report Sessions and the China Legal Practice Grand Lecture Hall, and deepen the research, interpretation, and mass dissemination of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law.
(ii) Strengthen publicity of rule-of-law practice and achievements. Focus on the vivid practice and historic achievements of comprehensively governing the country according to law under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, through compiling practice cases, organizing media reports, online theme publicity, etc., deeply publicize the centralized unified leadership of the Party Central Committee over comprehensively governing the country according to law, publicize the major measures and achievements of the Party in leading legislation, ensuring law enforcement, supporting judicature, and taking the lead in abiding by the law, publicize the landmark achievements of China's socialist rule-of-law construction in the new era, and stimulate the consciousness and initiative of the whole society to believe in and vigorously implement the rule of law.
(iii) Deepen international communication. Make good use of various media cooperation mechanisms and platform channels, deeply interpret the common values of all humanity contained in Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, tell well the stories of China strengthening the rule-of-law guarantee of human rights, safeguarding fairness and justice, abiding by international rule of law, and promoting the civilization of human rule of law, and publicize the superiority of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics. Strengthen foreign-related rule-of-law publicity and international exchanges and cooperation, through holding academic forums, conducting multilateral and bilateral rule-of-law dialogues, etc., interpret foreign-related rule-of-law concepts, propositions, and successful practices with Chinese characteristics, and present a credible, loveable, and respectable image of China from the perspective of the rule of law.
Three, Deeply Study and Publicize the Constitution, Laws and Regulations, and Inner-Party Regulations
(i) Highlight constitutional publicity and education. Grasp key groups such as leading cadres, newly recruited civil servants, and youth, grasp key carriers such as constitutional commemoration, constitutional oath-taking, and constitutional textbook construction, grasp key positions such as schools, communities, media, and the internet, and promote the normalization and long-term effectiveness of constitutional publicity and education. Organize well the National Constitution Day and annual rule-of-law figure publicity activities. Continue to deepn and carry out the nationwide student "Learn the Constitution, Speak the Constitution" activity. Strengthen publicity and education of the Constitution and the basic laws of the special administrative regions, enhance the awareness of compatriots in Hong Kong and Macao of upholding the constitutional order of the special administrative regions determined by the Constitution and the basic laws. Actively publicize the Anti-Secession Law and the policies and principles for advancing the reunification of the motherland, and enhance the understanding of all Chinese people, including compatriots in Taiwan, of the sacred duty of completing the great cause of the motherland's reunification.
(ii) Deeply publicize laws and regulationelated to promoting high-quality development. Vigorously publicize laws and regulations concerning national development plans, optimizing the business environment, promoting the development of the private economy, advancing comprehensive rural revitalization, etc., serve the construction of a unified national market, and accelerate the construction of a new development pattern. Vigorously publicize laws and regulations concerning the digital economy, platform economy, low-altitude economy, technological innovation, intellectual property protection, etc., promote the development of emerging industries and future industries, and serve the development of new quality productive forces. Deeply publicize laws and regulations in the financial field, strengthen the awareness of financial institutions to operate in compliance with laws and regulations, strengthen the protection of the legitimate rights and interests of financial consumers and investors, prevent and defuse financial risks, and promote high-quality financial development. Deeply publicize laws and regulations concerning foreign trade, attraction and utilization of foreign investment, outbound investment, international commercial dispute resolution, and personnel entry and exit, etc., and serve the expansion of high-level opening up.
(iii) Deeply publicize laws and regulations relating to safeguarding national security and social stability. Viorously publicize the holistic view of national security and relevant laws and regulations on national security, deepen the rule-of-law publicity and education activities of the National Security Education Day for All. Deeply publicize the Law on Patriotic Education, inherit and carry forward the spirit of patriotism. Deeply publicize laws and regulations concerning national defense and military construction, and cross-military-domain governance, enhance the national defense security awareness of all people, and improve the effectiveness of cross-military-domain governance. Strengthen publicity and education on laws and regulations related to social governance, promote the building of a social governance community where everyone has responsibility, everyone does their part, and everyone enjoys the benefits. Adhere to and develop the "Fengqiao Experience (枫桥经验)" in the new era, deeply publicize laws and regulations related to the diversified prevention, mediation, and resolution of disputes. Deeply publicize laws and regulations concerning criminal, public security management, anti-cult, drug control, cybersecurity, secrecy, anti-espionage, etc., promote the prevention and punishment of crimes. Strengthen rule-of-law publicity and education for emergency response, promote the whole society to improve the ability to prevent and respond to emergencies. Take forgeing the sense of community for the Chinese nation as the main line, strengthen publicity and education on the rule of law to promote national unity and progress, enhance the cohesion of the Chinese nation, and advance the construction of the community of the Chinese nation. Strengthen publicity and education on the rule of law concerning religious affairs, guide religious figures and believers to consciously carry out activities within the scope prescribed by laws and regulations, and enhance the whole society's ability to identify and resist illegal religious activities.
(iv) Deeply publicize laws and regulations concerning safeguarding and improving people's livelihood and building a beautiful China. Innovatively carry out theme publicity activities such as "Good Life · Companion of the Civil Code." Deeply publicize laws and regulations in the cultural field such as cultural heritage protection and the promotion of nationwide reading. Around areas with greater legal needs of the masses such as transportation, medical care, labor, consumption, marriage and family, compile work guidelines for law popularization. Around hotspot issues of public concern, deeply publicize laws and regulations concerning promoting employment and entrepreneurship, education, social security, rural land contracting, etc. Focus on issues such as personal information protection, preventing telecommunications and cyber fraud, and in response to chaos such as online rumors, online violence, and "fan circles," deeply publicize laws and regulations related to online governance. Vigorously publicize the Ecological Environment Code, carry out the series of activities "Beautiful China, I am an Actor," and strengthen publicity and education on the protection of birds and other wildlife according to law.
(v) Deeply publicize inner-Party regulations. Adhere to the organic unity of governing the country according to law and governing the Party according to regulations, and strengthen the study, publicity, and education of inner-Party regulations and laws and regulations together. Vigorously publicize the Party Constitution and the Party's organizational regulations, leadership regulations, self-construction regulations, supervision and guarantee regulations, strengthen the publicity and interpretation of newly formulated and revised inner-Party regulations, and enhance the authority and enforcement of inner-Party regulations. Incorporate inner-Party regulations into the compulsory learning content of Party committee (Party group) theoretical study central groups, the "Three Meetings and One Class (三会一课)" of grassroots Party organizations, and the key content of Party member study and training, normalize the promotion of respecting regulations, studying regulations, abiding by regulations, and using regulations, and educate and guide the vast number of Party members to understand legal discipline, understand rules, and know reverence.
Four, Deeply Implement the Lifelong Legal Education System for Citizens
(i) Deepen the action to enhance citizens' rule-of-law literacy. Extensively carry out mass rule-of-law publicity and education activities, strengthen rule awareness, advocate contract spirit, promote public order and good customs, and promote the formation of social consensus and behavioral habits of handling affairs according to law, seeking law when encountering problems, using law to solve problems, and relying on law to resolve conflicts. Research and establish a benchmark and evaluation index system for citizens' rule-of-law literacy. Vigorously publicize typical figures and deeds who esteem the law and are good, and vigorously implement the rule of law.
(ii) Incorporate legal education into the cadre education system, deepen the publicity and education of the rule of law for state functionaries. Improve the system of testing law upon recruitment and daily law study for state functionaries, and incorporate legal education into education and training plans. Fully implement the list system of inner-Party regulations and laws and regulations that leading cadres should know and know. Deeply implement the systems of state functionaries attending court hearings and the heads of administrative organs appearing in court to respond to lawsuits. Give play to the leading and exemplary role of leading cadres, and encourage the principal persons in charge of Party and government to take the lead in teaching rule-of-law courses. Improve the comprehensive rule-of-law evaluation work mechanism, enhance the rule-of-law literacy of leading cadres and their ability to handle affairs according to law.
(iii) Incorporate legal education into the national education system, strengthen the publicity and education of the rule of law for youth. Take the physical and mental characteristics and growth needs of youth as the guide, strengthen positive guidance, and construct a pattern of youth rule-of-law education with the classroom as the mainstay, family coordination, and social linkage. Revise the Outline of Youth Legal Education. Incorporate rule-of-law literacy into the scope of comprehensive quality evaluation of students. Promote the full coverage of the appointment of deputy principals of rule of law in primary and secondary schools and their effective performance of duties. Promote qualified primary and secondary schools to equip rule-of-law course teachers with a legal professional background, achieve full coverage of rule-of-law training for rule-of-law course teachers. Implement diversified rule-of-law practice education. Strengthen the overall planning of various rule-of-law education activities entering campuses. In correctional education, special education, and special correctional education, focus on strengthening rule-of-law education. Explore the establishment of "parent rule-of-law classrooms" to enhance the awareness and ability of parents to carry out rule-of-law education for minors.
(iv) Incorporate legal education into the social education system, strengthen the publicity and education of the rule of law for various groups. Improve the system of law study and use for enterprise operation and management personnel, and implement the plan to enhance the rule-of-law literacy of private entrepreneurs in the new era. Strengthen publicity and education on the rule of law for platform enterprises and workers in new forms of employment, promote platform enterprises to standardize their employment according to law and protect the legitimate rights and interests of workers in new forms of employment, and guide workers in new forms of employment to abide by rules and regulations and seek rights according to law. According to the characteristics of groups such as women, the elderly, the disabled, and migrant workers, carry out targeted rule-of-law publicity and education. Strengthen the publicity and education of the rule of law for village cadres and community workers, improve their ability to serve grassroots governance according to law. Strengthen the publicity and education of the rule of law for news media practitioners, guide them to use rule-of-law thinking to interpret social problems and report cases and events in a standard manner according to law. Strengthen the publicity and education of the rule of law for network service providers, network practitioners, and netizens, promote network service providers and network practitioners to operate according to law and perform obligations, and guide netizens to use the internet civilly and express themselves rationally. Strengthen the publicity and education of the rule of law for Chinese citizens and enterprises "going global," guide them to comply with Chinese and local laws, and prevent and respond to legal risks. Strengthen the publicity and education of the rule of law for foreigners working and living in China, help them understand and comply with China's laws and regulations, and protect their various legitimate rights and interests in China.
Five, Accelerate the Formation of a New Model for Precise Rule-of-Law Publicity and Education
(i) Grasp the new demands for rule-of-law publicity and education. Explore the establishment of a precise research and judgment mechanism based on big data, relying on government data, judicial data, internet enterprise data, etc., to dynamically identify the needs of the masses for rule-of-law publicity and education and weak links in rule-of-law literacy, and carry out precise rule-of-law publicity and education for different groups. Timely understand audience feedback, dynamically adjust the content and methods of rule-of-law publicity and education.
(ii) Explore new methods of rule-of-law publicity and education. While making good use of traditional methods of rule-of-law publicity and education, strengthen the construction of an all-media rule-of-law communication system, use forms such as micro-videos, micro-films, micro-dramas, and animations to enhance the communication power and influence of rule-of-law publicity and education. Continue to run activities such as the national collection and exhibition of rule-of-law animation and micro-video works. Implement "rule of law + intangible cultural heritage," embed rule-of-law elements into cultural tourism, sports events, traditional festivals, folk activities, etc. Implement "artificial intelligence + law popularization," promote the AI-assisted generation, intelligent distribution, and real-time interaction of rule-of-law publicity and education content. Promote the combination of public opinion guidance on social hot cases and events with rule-of-law publicity and education, guide law enforcement and judicial organs, media, experts, etc. to timely carry out rule-of-law interpretation.
(iii) Expand new platforms for rule-of-law publicity and education. Relying on existing resources, build a "digital smart law popularization" platform, strengthen resource sharing with China Judgments Online, the People's Court Case Database, local rule-of-law publicity and education websites, internet platforms, etc. Build a national unified information platform for laws, regulations, rules, and normative documents. In light of actual work, embed intelligent rule-of-law publicity and education modules in government service platforms, public transport facilities, community smart terminals, etc. Extend the new media matrix of rule-of-law publicity and education, and create a number of high-quality new media accounts for rule-of-law publicity and education.
Six, Thrive and Develop Socialist Rule-of-Law Culture
(i) Promote red rule-of-law culture. Deeply explore, study, and protect red rule-of-law resources, strengthen the research, interpretation, and publicity of rule-of-law elements in the spiritual pedigree of Chinese Communists. Carry out the survey and registration of red rule-of-law sites and relics, and strengthen protection measures. Incorporate red rule-of-law elements into cultural venues such as the Museum of the Communist Party of China and museums, and create high-quality, fine exhibitions. Strengthen the construction of a clean culture in the new era, promote clean culture into all industries and thousands of households, and promote the social atmosphere of esteeming integrity and rejecting corruption.
(ii) Inherit excellent traditional Chinese legal culture. Encourage and support universities, research institutions, media, think tanks, etc. to strengthen the collation and research of ancient Chinese legal classics, artifacts, relics, etc. Relying on existing resources, build a digital library and resource database of excellent traditional Chinese legal culture. Publish a series of books on traditional legal wisdom and new-era rule-of-law practice. Release typical cases of inheriting and developing excellent traditional Chinese legal culture.
(iii) Enrich the supply of rule-of-law cultural products. Strengthen the cultivation of rule-of-law cultural brands, encourage the creation of distinctive rule-of-law cultural brands in light of the actual conditions of specific regions, industries, and groups. Implement a support plan for the creation of excellent rule-of-law cultural works, build a high-quality library of rule-of-law culture, and organize nationwide exchange and display activities.
(iv) Strengthen and standardize the construction of rule-of-law cultural venues. Establish a directory of rule-of-law cultural venues, pubish it to the public and dynamically update it. Strengthen the construction of online rule-of-law cultural venues, create a number of online rule-of-law cultural communication brands. Strengthen the maintenance and updating of facilities and content of rule-of-law cultural venues, and rely on venues to extensively carry out mass rule-of-law cultural activities.
Seven, Improve the Work System for Rule-of-Law Publicity and Education
(i) Fully implement the responsibility system "whoever enforces the law shall popularize the law." Improve the responsibility list system of state organs for "whoever enforces the law shall popularize the law," incorporate the performance of law popularization responsibilities into the report on the construction of a law-based government and the important content of the annual statement on rule of law by the principal persons in charge of local Party and government at the city and county levels. Implement "whoever manages shall popularize the law" and "whoever serves shall popularize the law," promote mass organizations, industry organizations, grassroots self-governing organizations, legal service institutions, enterprises, etc. to actively carry out rule-of-law publicity and education. Explore the establishment of coordination and linkage mechanisms for departmental law popularization and military-civilian law popularization. Implement the law popularization reminder and accountability system, and improve the relevant provisions of judicial administrative organs on law popularization reminders.
(ii) Improve the integration mechanism of rule-of-law publicity and education with law-based governance and rule-of-law practice. Deepen law-based governance at the grassroots and in industries, guide the masses to enhance their rule-of-law literacy in participating in rule-of-law practice and solving practical problems around them. Strengthen the publicity and interpretation of the entire process of legislation initiation, drafting, review, deliberation, publication, implementation, etc., expand social participation, and promote the implementation of laws and regulations. Strengthen the interpretation of reasoning in administrative law enforcement and judicial documents, formulate work guidelines for carrying out rule-of-law publicity and education throughout the entire process of law enforcement and case handling. Improve the system for releasing typical cases by administrative organs, supervisory organs, and judicial organs, implement the system of open review and hearing of judicial cases, and strengthen law popularization through cases. Promote the combination of rule-of-law publicity and education with strengthening grassroots governance and advocating changing customs and traditions, and continuously rectify problems such as high bride prices, vulgar wedding nuisance, social comparison, and neglect of the elderly while lavish funerals.
(iii) Improve the system for media and network service providers to carry out public interest rule-of-law publicity and education. Promote news media to open rule-of-law columns and special topics, broadcast rule-of-law public service advertisements, report rule-of-law news, etc., and fulfill the responsibility of public interest rule-of-law publicity and education. Party newspapers at the city and prefecture level and above and metropolitan newspapers should reasonably determine the proportion of space for public interest rule-of-law publicity and education, and radio stations and television stations should increase the production and broadcast of public interest rule-of-law publicity and education programs. Promote network service providers, especially large network platforms, to set up fixed public interest rule-of-law publicity and education columns, actively organize online rule-of-law publicity and education activities, and provide traffic tilt and push support for authoritative rule-of-law interpretation of social hot cases and events.
(iv) Guide and standardize social forces to participate in rule-of-law publicity and education. Deeply implement the "legal savvy person (法律明白人)" training project, steadily achieve that qualified villages (communities) have at least 5 "legal savvy persons," explore the cultivation of "legal savvy persons" in industries and fields, and give play to their role as information officers on social conditions and public opinion, propagandists of laws and policies, mediators of conflicts and disputes, and guides of rule-of-law practice. Build a national online school for "legal savvy persons." Encourage and guide state functionaries, legal education researchers, legal service workers, and law students to serve as law popularization volunteers, research and formulate work guidelines for law popularization volunteers. Create the brand of university student rule-of-law propaganda groups. Improve the incentive and guarantee mechanism for social forces to participate in rule-of-law publicity and education. Establish a national expert database for rule-of-law publicity and education, strengthen research and talent cultivation for rule-of-law publicity and education.
(v) Improve the risk prevention and control mechanism for rule-of-law publicity and education. Strictly implement the responsibility system for ideological work, strengthen the management of rule-of-law publicity and education positions, and do not provide channels for erroneous ideas and viewpoints concerning the rule of law. The content of rule-of-law publicity and education should be accurate and clear, avoid misleading the masses. Compact the responsibility of network service providers, strictly prevent misinterpretation by "self-media" accounts.
Eight, Strengthen Organization and Implementation
Party committees and governments at and above the county level should incorporate the work of rule-of-law publicity and education into the overall deployment of rule-of-law construction in their regions, into important contents such as spiritual civilization construction, safe China construction, and rule-of-law supervision, and timely study and solve problems in the work. People's congresses standing committees at all levels should strengthen supervision over the work of rule-of-law publicity and education. Judicial administrative departments at all levels should perform their duties as competent departments, together with Party propaganda departments, strengthen the overall planning, coordination, and supervision and guidance of the work of rule-of-law publicity and education. Local governments at and above the county level should, in combination with the level of economic and social development and their own actual conditions, provide necessary funds for rule-of-law publicity and education, strengthen the encouragement, guidance, and standardized management of social funds participating in and supporting rule-of-law publicity and education, and ensure the smooth progress of the work of rule-of-law publicity and education. Carry out mid-term evaluation and final evaluation of the implementation of the plan. The implementation of the plan should focus on practical results, resolutely avoid formalism and bureaucracy, and avoid increasing the burden on the grassroots.
The ninth five-year rule-of-law publicity and education work for the military shall be arranged and deployed with reference to this plan.
Return to TopBEIJING, July 27 (Xinhua) -- On the morning of July 27, President Xi Jinping spoke by phone with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at the latter's request.
Xi Jinping noted that in recent years, positive progress has been made in the building of a China-Brazil community with a shared future and in the alignment of the two countries' development strategies, playing an important role in promoting the development of China and Brazil and the well-being of the two peoples, and also injecting valuable stability into the turbulent international situation. This year marks the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China and the start of China's 15th Five-Year Plan period, and Brazil will also face important domestic political agendas. China is willing to further strengthen bilateral and multilateral strategic coordination with Brazil, and continue the good momentum of building a community with a shared future between the two countries.
Xi Jinping emphasized that, facing new circumstances and new challenges, China and Brazil, as important members of the Global South, should firmly stand on the side of historical correctness and the progress of civilization, and play a greater constructive role in reforming and improving the global governance system and defending international fairness and justice. The two sides should work together to promote the high-quality development of "Greater BRICS Cooperation," keep the direction of cooperation on track, maintain the momentum of solidarity, create more outcomes, and write a new chapter of unity and self-strengthening for the Global South. China highly values Brazil's international status and important influence, supports Brazil in safeguarding its own sovereignty and independence, opposes external interference, and supports Brazil in making its contribution to maintaining regional and world peace and stability.
Lula said that the Brazil-China community with a shared future for a fairer world and a more sustainable planet has made positive progress, with rapid development of cooperation in various fields, a new record in bilateral trade volume, and various activities of the "Brazil-China Cultural Year" further consolidating the foundation of public goodwill between the two countries. Brazil looks forward to strengthening cooperation with China in areas such as artificial intelligence, energy, and minerals, welcomes more Chinese enterprises to invest in Brazil, and hopes to make bilateral cooperation more diversified and achieve more results. Brazil congratulates China on the successful hosting of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, and highly appreciates President Xi Jinping's concept of open and inclusive international cooperation and global governance in artificial intelligence. Brazil is willing to maintain close multilateral coordination with China, uphold the authority of the United Nations, strengthen BRICS solidarity and cooperation, firmly defend multilateralism, resolutely oppose power politics, insist on resolving hotspot issues through dialogue and consultation, and jointly safeguard international fairness and justice as well as world peace and stability.
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Recently, localities across the country, in conjunction with studying and implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech at the celebration of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, have deeply carried out study and education on establishing and practicing a correct view on political achievements, advancing study, inspection, and rectification as an integrated whole, guiding the vast number of Party members and cadres to deeply study and meticulously comprehend, to work hard and act with determination, and promoting the transformation of cadres’ work style and the delivery of tangible benefits to the masses.
Deep study and meticulous comprehension, building a solid ideological foundation
The Party Working Committee of Chongqing High-tech Zone of the Western Science City earnestly studied and comprehended the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech at the celebration of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, and deeply grasped the clear requirements of the five musts (五个必须). Leading cadres at all levels, with the “key minority” driving the “vast majority,” had principal leaders take the lead in delivering special Party lectures, motivating more than 16,000 Party members and cadres in the area to build a solid ideological foundation for a correct view on political achievements and to boost their spirit of entrepreneurship and dedication.
“To strengthen confidence and continue the struggle, we must firmly rely on the people to create historical achievements.” Fengyang County, Chuzhou City, Anhui Province organized collective study of the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech at the celebration of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, and the leading group engaged in heated discussions.
While strengthening theoretical armament, Fengyang County also focused on promoting action through study, implementing the results of study and education into key areas of people’s livelihood such as medical treatment, education, and elderly care, and solidly advancing the operationalization of county-level consultation and referral service centers, the renovation and repair of old school buildings, and the construction of community-based integrated elderly care service complexes, ensuring that many practical livelihood projects were implemented and produced results.
Altay Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, relying on the Party-building brand “Snow Capital Builds Fortresses, Border Pass Party Flag Red” (雪都筑堡垒·边关党旗红), launched special carriers such as “Horseback Lecture Hall” (马背讲堂) and “Yurt Delivery of Learning” (毡房送学), formed 316 propaganda teams, covering 73,200 pastoral area Party members; at the same time, it focused on using positive and negative typical cases, inspiring responsibility and action with advanced deeds, and strengthening warning education with negative cases, so that the correct view on political achievements takes root in the hearts of Party members and cadres in the border areas.
True investigation and real rectification, solving prominent problems
The Social Work Department of the Dongcheng District Committee of Beijing used heart and feeling to solve the urgent, difficult, and anxious problems of new employment groups, organized Party members and cadres to conduct on-site research, accurately identified problems such as couriers’ difficulties in entering buildings and sorting parcels, and accordingly established a “new matters jointly discussed” (新事共商) deliberation and consultation mechanism, convening sub-districts, commercial district property management, traffic management, public security, and platform enterprises to sit together to think of ways and solve problems, advancing the construction of a “friendly urban area” (友好城区), and responding to the people’s expectations with practical work.
Shenyang City, Liaoning Province deeply grasped the important speech spirit of “must firmly rely on the people to create historical achievements,” practiced a people-centered development philosophy, and had leading cadres at all levels go deep into towns, streets, villages, communities, and key enterprises to conduct special research, accurately identifying development bottlenecks and livelihood shortcomings; it insisted that clearing old accounts is also a political achievement, and carried out disposal work on stalled and slow-construction projects that had drawn strong complaints from the masses and business entities, assessing each case one by one, determining a “one building, one plan” (一楼一案) disposal strategy, clarifying timelines and task books, targeting efforts, and accelerating revitalization.
Since the study and education campaign began, Ezhou City, Hubei Province has focused on guiding the high-quality development of the artificial intelligence industry with a correct view on political achievements. It closely monitored the blocking and bottleneck issues in the AI industry, and selected Party members and cadres to visit and assist innovation platforms, major projects, and key enterprises.
Party members and cadres in Pingli County, Ankang City, Shaanxi Province took the initiative to go deep into enterprises to investigate blocking points and pain points such as slow project approval, financing difficulties, and frequent law enforcement, and through mechanisms such as government-bank-enterprise symposiums and “first-in-command face-to-face” (一把手面对面) meetings, strove to resolve problems in their infancy, improving the ability to scientifically foresee and promptly detect issues.
Longde County, Guyuan City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region responded to the masses’ concerns with true investigation and real rectification. Based on characteristic industries such as cool-season vegetables, beef cattle, Chinese medicinal herbs, and mushrooms, it launched four models: “shareholding operation, field embedding as a safety net, three zeros for common prosperity, three linkages and three increases” (股份经营、嵌田托底、三零共富、三联三增), promoting deep connections between new business entities and farmers, driving an average per-household income increase of more than 6,500 yuan.
Work hard and act with determination, doing good things for the people
This summer, Sun Haiping, a resident of the Hubin Teachers’ Garden in Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province, no longer worried about water use. Two months ago, with the completion of the final pipeline connection, the water supply problem that had plagued the old residential community for many years was resolved.
Daqing City promoted the renovation of old residential communities with “embroidery skill” (绣花功夫), based on “one building, one policy” (一栋一策), launching refined and differentiated renovation measures to solve problems troubling the masses’ daily lives, and testing the results of study and education with the actual effectiveness of benefiting people’s livelihood.
Luxi County, Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province practiced a people-centered development philosophy, used digital reform to break down departmental barriers, and moved government services from “able to handle” to “easy to handle.” In the service hall, the digital assistant “Xi Xiao Ban” (溪小办) was on duty online, improving the efficiency of single-person consultations; the 12345 hotline upgraded its intelligent processing mode, shortening the dispatch time for complex work orders, significantly reducing cross-department communication costs; a full-time agent team was formed to provide free full-process agency services for key projects.
Longxi County, Dingxi City, Gansu Province took the issue of high meal costs at elderly canteens, which concerned the masses, as a breakthrough, comprehensively improving the quality and efficiency of elderly care services. Zhangjiawan Village, Kezhai Town converted idle school buildings into a caring canteen, while the village collective simultaneously revitalized abandoned land for unified management, with the proceeds subsidizing the canteen; it also launched a “labor for meals” (以劳换餐) mechanism, allowing the elderly to exchange self-grown vegetables for meal tickets, or to earn meal tickets through labor such as cleaning the caring canteen or recycling waste, striving to ensure that the elderly can afford and eat well.
(Reporters from this newspaper: Shi Yiqi (史一棋), Wang Jintao (王锦涛), Liu Hongchao (刘洪超), Zhu Dawei (祝大伟), Pan Junqiang (潘俊强), Zhang Danhua (张丹华), Qi Zhiming (齐志明), Fan Haotian (范昊天), Li Yanan (李亚楠), Tian Xianjin (田先进), Wang Xinyue (王欣悦), Jiao Siyu (焦思雨))
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王 浩
Currently, China is in the critical flood prevention period of "七下八上" (qī xià bā shàng - "seven-down, eight-up," referring to the roughly 20-day period from late July to early August when precipitation shifts northward, the most intense phase of the flood season), and flood control efforts face complex and severe tests. How is the flood situation developing? What countermeasures exist? A reporter interviewed flood control cadres and experts from the water conservancy departments.
Both the south and the north are in rainy zones, with flooding more severe than drought.
Reader's concern: Having seen some areas suffer flooding, we feel anxious. What will the weather situation be like next?
Gao Long (高龙), head of the Technical Information Division under the Department of Flood and Drought Disaster Prevention of the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部水旱灾害防御司), introduced that, based on comprehensive analysis and judgment, during this year's "seven-down, eight-up" period, both southern and northern China have rainy areas, flooding is more severe than drought, local rainstorms and floods are frequent and severe, relatively strong typhoons will move northward to affect the interior, and the disaster risk is relatively high. From a river basin and regional perspective, in rainstorm zones of the Songliao, Haihe, Taihu Lake, and Pearl River basins, disasters such as medium and small river floods, mountain torrents, and urban waterlogging will occur.
While doing a good job of flood prevention, we must adhere to simultaneous prevention and management of drought and flood. Zhang Hu (张虎), section chief of the Engineering Division under the Bureau of Flood and Drought Disaster Prevention (水旱灾害防御局) of the Changjiang Water Resources Commission of the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部长江水利委员会), said that during the "seven-down, eight-up" period, precipitation in the Yangtze River basin is normal to slightly below normal. On the premise of ensuring flood control safety, the reservoir group in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, with the Three Gorges at its core, will be finely dispatched, drought relief emergency water volume will be reasonably reserved, and orderly refilling of small and medium reservoirs across the basin will be guided.
Monitoring, forecasting, and early warning are more precise.
Reader's concern: Facing the severe flood control situation, what new measures and new means are there?
Gao Long introduced that the water conservancy departments continue to implement the "three mechanisms" (三项机制) of responsibility implementation, decision support, and dispatch command, combined with the "three lines of defense" (三道防线) for rainfall and water regime monitoring and forecasting as well as the construction of a digital twin water conservancy system, to further strengthen the "four pre" (四预) measures of forecast, early warning, rehearsal, and plan (预报预警预演预案).
A series of new technologies and new equipment make monitoring, forecasting, and early warning more precise. Xu Shuang (徐爽), division chief of the Department of Flood and Drought Disaster Prevention (水旱灾害防御处) of the Pearl River Water Resources Commission of the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部珠江水利委员会), introduced that in the Pearl River basin, the water conservancy departments have developed and established a distributed hydrological model covering all key medium and small rivers in the entire basin, as well as a "three lines of defense" coupling and connecting system (三道防线耦合贯通系统) for the Dateng Gorge (大藤峡) rainfall and water regime, achieving rapid forecasting and early warning for the basin's large rivers and 160 key medium and small rivers.
Large rivers now have "digital avatars" (数字分身). The construction of the "four pre" system for flood prevention of the digital twin Huaihe River (数字孪生淮河) has been comprehensively accelerated, with active exploration of frontier technologies such as artificial intelligence meteorological large models and their integrated application. Currently, the flood forecast lead time at major control stations in the Huaihe River basin has been extended to 3–7 days.
Learn to identify early warning signals and master common knowledge of avoiding danger and self-rescue.
Reader's concern: If we encounter floods, typhoons, etc., how to avoid danger and rescue ourselves?
Mountain torrent disasters are highly sudden and destructive. Tu Yong (涂勇), a senior engineer (正高级工程师) at the Disaster Reduction Center (Prevention Center) of the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部减灾中心（防御中心）), introduced that the meteorological risk early warning for mountain torrent disasters is generally divided into four levels according to the possibility and impact degree of mountain torrent disasters. The risk, from low to high, is represented by blue, yellow, orange, and red. The public should remember: "Blue – pay more attention, yellow – prepare early, orange – transfer in an orderly manner, red – evacuate immediately" (蓝色多留意、黄色早准备、橙色有序转、红色马上撤).
What to do when encountering urban waterlogging? Tu Yong reminded that residents living in low-lying urban areas should take targeted enclosure measures in advance according to local conditions. Once outdoor accumulated water seeps into the house, the indoor power supply and gas source should be cut off in time, and items that are easily soaked and damaged should be moved to higher places.
To deal with typhoons, Tu Yong suggested avoiding going out as much as possible, clearing balcony items, securing clothing, closing doors and windows tightly, stockpiling daily necessities in advance, and storing water and food.
Return to TopBeijing, July 27 (Reporters Gu Zhongyang (顾仲阳) and Dong Siyu (董丝雨)) — The reporter learned from the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (国家林业和草原局) that on the 27th, the 48th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, held in Busan, Republic of Korea, reviewed and approved the boundary adjustment project for the China Yellow (Bohai) Sea Migratory Bird Habitat World Natural Heritage site, and the Liaoning Dalian Changshan Islands Migratory Bird Habitat (辽宁大连长山群岛候鸟栖息地) was successfully included in the World Natural Heritage. (Related report see page 12)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 27 (Xinhua) -- A few days ago, the General Office of the State Council issued the "Several Provisions on the Handling Procedures for Administrative Reconsideration Cases of the State Council" (《关于国务院行政复议案件处理程序的若干规定》) (hereinafter referred to as the "Several Provisions"), which shall come into effect as of the date of issuance.
The Several Provisions aim to comprehensively implement the newly revised Administrative Reconsideration Law and its implementing regulations, enhance the quality and effectiveness of administrative reconsideration supervision, promote law-based administration, and further standardize the relevant handling procedures for administrative reconsideration cases of the State Council. The full text consists of 10 articles, with the main contents as follows.
First, it authorizes the legal affairs department of the State Council (国务院法治部门) to handle, in accordance with the law, applications for administrative reconsideration submitted to the State Council, as well as applications for supervision over administrative reconsideration submitted to the State Council reflecting that a lower-level administrative reconsideration organ has, without justifiable reason, refused to accept a case, dismissed an application, or failed to make a response after the expiration of the administrative reconsideration period.
Second, it clarifies that the people's governments of all provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government, as well as all departments of the State Council, shall intensify efforts in the pre-resolution, mediation, and reconciliation of administrative disputes, actively cooperate with the legal affairs department of the State Council in organizing and carrying out mediation work, and promote the effective resolution of administrative disputes within the administrative reconsideration procedure.
Third, it requires the legal affairs department of the State Council to strengthen guidance and supervision over administrative reconsideration, improve the administrative reconsideration system and mechanism, and properly handle the work of responding to questions concerning the application of law in administrative reconsideration. It shall strengthen the coordination and cooperation between administrative reconsideration and government supervision as well as administrative law enforcement supervision, deepen the use of cases to promote governance, and promote the operation of administrative power on the track of the rule of law.
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Return to TopBeijing, July 27 (People's Daily) — The seventh session of the series of policy briefings on "Ensuring and Improving People's Livelihood through High-Quality Development," jointly organized by the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Working Committee of 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, was held in Beijing on July 27. Zhang Zhu, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, delivered a special report titled "Accelerating Agricultural and Rural Modernization and Solidly Advancing Comprehensive Rural Revitalization."
In his report, Zhang Zhu pointed out that the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has always attached great importance to work concerning agriculture, rural areas, and farmers. General Secretary Xi Jinping has delivered a series of important expositions and issued a series of important instructions and directives, providing a program of action and fundamental guidance for doing a good job in work concerning agriculture, rural areas, and farmers in the new era, and leading agricultural and rural development to achieve historic accomplishments and undergo historic transformations. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, China's comprehensive agricultural production capacity reached a new level, grain production crossed a new threshold of 1.4 trillion jin, the achievements in poverty alleviation were continuously consolidated and expanded, the level of agricultural material and technological equipment was greatly improved, new progress was made in building beautiful and harmonious villages that are livable and workable, the vitality of rural development continued to strengthen, and farmers' incomes and living standards continued to rise, providing strong support for high-quality economic and social development and for improving people's well-being.
Zhang Zhu pointed out that the 15th Five-Year Plan period is a critical period for consolidating the foundation and making comprehensive efforts to basically achieve socialist modernization. It is necessary to accurately grasp the development situation, goals, and tasks for agriculture, rural areas, and farmers, accurately grasp trends such as the continuous upgrading of China's food consumption structure, the profound transformation of the agricultural production system, the profound changes in the population pattern of villages, the increasingly prominent multiple values of rural areas, and the profound adjustment of urban-rural relations, and advance agricultural modernization and rural modernization in an integrated manner, striving to achieve increased agricultural efficiency, enhanced rural vitality, and higher farmer incomes.
Zhang Zhu stated that this year is the first year of the 15th Five-Year Plan. It is necessary to solidly and forcefully promote high-quality agricultural and rural development, adhere to simultaneously focusing on output and production capacity, production and ecology, and increasing output and income, coordinate the development of science and technology agriculture, green agriculture, quality agriculture, and brand agriculture, ensure not only quantity but also diversity and quality, enhance comprehensive agricultural production capacity and quality efficiency, accelerate the achievement of high-level self-reliance and self-strengthening in agricultural science and technology, improve agricultural infrastructure, and lay a solid material foundation for agricultural modernization. Unremittingly carry out normalized and targeted assistance, hold the line against the occurrence of large-scale return to poverty or new poverty, and enable the lives of those who have been lifted out of poverty to reach a higher level. Deeply study and apply the experience of the "Thousand-Village Demonstration, Ten-Thousand-Village Improvement" project (千万工程), promote the construction of beautiful and harmonious villages that are livable and workable in accordance with local conditions, and guide all localities to create a modern version of "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" with distinctive local characteristics. Further deepen rural reform, broaden channels for increasing farmers' incomes and getting rich, strengthen the rural talent team, and improve the effectiveness of policies to strengthen agriculture, benefit farmers, and enrich farmers.
The briefing was presided over by a responsible comrade from the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee. Approximately 730 people attended the briefing, including cadres from Party, government, and military organs in Beijing, cadres and employees of central enterprises, teachers and students from universities in the capital, and representatives from various sectors of the public in the capital.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 27 (Xinhua) — The All-China Women's Federation held an enlarged meeting of its Standing Committee in Beijing on the 27th. State Councilor and President of the All-China Women's Federation Shen Yiqin attended the meeting and delivered a speech, emphasizing the need to deeply study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important discourse on women, children, and women's federation work, to establish and practice a correct view of performance, to further strengthen the protection of the legitimate rights and interests of women and children, and to contribute women's strength to ensuring a good start and solid progress for the 15th Five-Year Plan (十五五) and to pioneering new prospects in the construction of Chinese-style modernization.
Shen Yiqin pointed out that realizing, safeguarding, and developing the legitimate rights and interests of women and children is an inevitable requirement for practicing the people-centered development philosophy and consolidating the foundation of people's livelihood in Chinese-style modernization. Women's federations at all levels must anchor on the goals and tasks for the 15th Five-Year Plan period, take the Women's Rights Protection and Warm-Hearted Action (巾帼维权暖心行动) as a starting point, promote the improvement of the institutional system, actively tackle key and difficult issues, consolidate the grassroots rights protection and service positions, deepen and substantiate caring services, deeply advance the prevention and resolution of marriage and family disputes, and comprehensively enhance the quality and effectiveness of work. They must uphold the Party's overall leadership, strictly implement responsibility, and provide strong guarantees for doing all women's federation work well.
Shen Yiqin emphasized that the work in the second half of the year must be done solidly, deepening the "Five Actions" (五项行动) and "Six Concrete Matters" (六件实事), continuously ensuring the implementation of the outcomes of the Global Women's Summit, advancing the implementation of the program outline, assisting in flood prevention and disaster relief, and resolutely holding the bottom line of safety.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李 刚 崔 妍 洪秋婷
In Guangdong Huizhou, at the TCL smart TV production base, an artificial-intelligence brain uniformly schedules and dispatches production, while automated guided vehicles and robotic arms operate in an orderly manner; televisions enter a sealed light tunnel for a "full-body inspection," and quality-inspection data quickly pops up. "The smart production line is more efficient, and the quality-inspection pass rate is consistently above 99.8%," said Zhao Dali (赵大力), general manager of TCL Industrial's Large Display Manufacturing Management Platform.
Stepping into the front line of Guangdong smart manufacturing, one finds a concrete manifestation of the statement: "New quality productive forces have already taken shape in practice and demonstrated their powerful driving and supporting force for high-quality development."
Smart manufacturing carries forward tradition, allowing old trees to sprout new shoots.
At Foshan Haitian Flavoring & Food's soy sauce brewing workshop, an artificial-intelligence "electronic nose" inspects soy sauce samples bottle by bottle, passing on traditional manufacturing techniques in a more efficient and stable new way.
"By independently developing aroma-capture equipment and sensor arrays, we convert sensory experience into digital models and construct a soy sauce aroma omics spectral library," said Huang Shuliang (黄树亮), chief digital-intelligence engineer at Haitian Flavoring & Food.
Dongguan Moldbao Company relies on an intelligent platform to enable one operator to dispatch two production lines. "In the past, process data was stored in the minds of veteran workers; now it is entered into the system, and young people can take up posts after brief training," said on-site manager Li Yun (李云). He explained that artificial intelligence transforms manufacturing from "experience-dependence" to "wisdom support," reducing average production lead times by 30%.
Smart manufacturing boosts efficiency, enabling what people cannot do.
At Foshan Yizumi's digital factory, injection-molding machines of different specifications are produced on mixed lines, and automated guided vehicles accurately deliver components of different models.
Zhou Jun (周俊), chief technology officer of Yizumi, said: "The key to building a fully intelligent, flexible mixed-line production system throughout the entire process is digital transformation. After the transformation, the factory's production cycle and operating costs both dropped by more than 30%."
At the super farm of XAG (极飞科技) in Guangzhou's Huangpu District, agricultural drones sweep past at 8 meters per second, completing aerial seeding of 300 mu (approx. 50 acres) in 30 minutes.
"Relying on the 'farmland brain,' only two people are needed to manage 3,000 mu of experimental fields," said Gong Jiaqin (龚槚钦), co-founder of XAG. "Water and electricity costs per mu have dropped by 47%, and pesticide usage has decreased by 30%."
Smart manufacturing breaks through constraints, helping dreams blossom.
At the Crete Yunque (克里特云科) exhibition hall in Fenggang, Dongguan, a pair of AI glasses weighs only 23.9 grams and looks very close to ordinary glasses. "Wearing them, hearing-impaired people can 'hear' through speech-to-text, and visually impaired people can 'see' the world through real-time voice navigation," introduced founder Zhang Jiawei (张家炜).
In the exhibition area of Shenzhen Nanshan's Extreme Tech (极壳科技), a 2-kilogram AI exoskeleton attracts attention. The reporter fastened the buckles, took the first step, and felt gentle assistance; on the second and third steps, the machine began to "learn" the stride frequency; on the fourth step, the synchronization was complete, and climbing stairs felt 如履平地 (rú lǚ píng dì - "as if treading on level ground," easily). "In May this year, an expedition team wearing Extreme Tech's exoskeleton summited Mount Everest," said founder Sun Kuan (孙宽), who believes that technology can help people become better versions of themselves.
In Guangdong, artificial intelligence has already entered factory workshops and thousands of industries and trades.
By the end of 2025, the core industry scale of artificial intelligence in Guangdong exceeded 300 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of more than 40%, accounting for one-fourth of the national total. Under the policy of "watering and fertilizing," artificial intelligence is sprouting new shoots in industrialization. In April this year, the "Guangdong Province Action Plan for Accelerating High-Level Application of AI Across the Entire Domain, All the Time, and All Industries" was issued, centering on seven major directions and 63 key tasks to lay out a broader landscape for AI empowerment.
Return to TopThis newspaper, Beijing, July 27 (Reporter Liu Zhiqiang (刘志强)) — The reporter learned from the National Bureau of Statistics (国家统计局): In the first half of the year, against the backdrop of stable growth in industrial production and a continuous rebound in industrial product prices, the operating revenue of industrial enterprises above designated size increased by 6.5% year-on-year, accelerating by 1.5 percentage points compared with the first quarter. The accelerated growth in operating revenue drove the profits of industrial enterprises above designated size to increase by 18.7% year-on-year, accelerating by 3.2 percentage points compared with the first quarter. In June, the profits of industrial enterprises above designated size nationwide increased by 15.1% year-on-year.
Profits in electronics-related industries grew at a high speed. In the first half of the year, the accelerated integration of artificial intelligence with various fields and the substantial increase in computing power demand drove the profit of the electronics industry to increase by 96.9% year-on-year, pulling up the profit growth of all industrial enterprises above designated size by 8.5 percentage points, making it an important support for the relatively rapid profit growth of industrial enterprises above designated size. Among them, in the field related to servers and high-performance workstations, profits in the computer whole-machine manufacturing industry and the computer peripheral equipment manufacturing industry increased by 689.3% and 305.8% respectively; in the field of electronic device manufacturing, profits in the integrated circuit manufacturing industry and the semiconductor discrete device manufacturing industry increased by 2579.5% and 31.2% respectively; in the field of electronic components and electronic special materials manufacturing, profits in the electronic special materials manufacturing industry and the electronic circuit manufacturing industry increased by 209.7% and 26.9% respectively.
The rapid development of new growth drivers drove a significant increase in profits in related industries. In the first half of the year, among industries related to non-metallic materials, profits in the recycled rubber manufacturing industry and the graphite and carbon products manufacturing industry increased by 133.3% and 61.0% respectively; among industries related to metallic materials, profits in the aluminum smelting industry and the copper smelting industry increased by 117.1% and 53.9% respectively; among industries related to data center internal interconnection, profits in the optical fiber manufacturing industry and the optical cable manufacturing industry increased by 410.4% and 39.8% respectively.
Profits in the raw materials manufacturing industry grew rapidly. In the first half of the year, profits in the raw materials manufacturing industry above designated size increased by 71.7% year-on-year, pulling up the profit growth of all industrial enterprises above designated size by 8.8 percentage points. By industry, driven by factors such as strong demand for non-ferrous metal products like copper and aluminum, profits in the non-ferrous metals industry increased by 99.4%, pulling up the profit growth of all industrial enterprises above designated size by 4.7 percentage points.
Return to TopOur newspaper Beijing, July 27 (Reporter Li Xinping (李心萍)). In the first half of the year, the operation of central enterprises under the supervision of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (国务院国资委) was stable and improving, achieving total profits of 1.4 trillion yuan, and fixed asset investment increased by 4.5% year-on-year.
Scientific and technological research was accelerated and intensified. From January to June, central enterprises' R&D expenditure increased by 3.8% year-on-year. The fourth batch of nine innovation consortia began to be established, eight industry common technology research institutes set up 47 full-time R&D institutions, and four fields including the new-type power system basically built original technology sources with global influence.
The quality and efficiency of transformation were effectively improved. The industrialization consortium for scientific and technological achievements of central enterprises was formally established, the Scientific and Technological Achievements Application Expansion Project (科技成果应用拓展工程) was deeply implemented, and single BeiDou terminals were applied in nearly 15 million units (sets) across 14 fields.
The industrial layout and structure moved toward the new and the superior. The "AI+" special action (AI+专项行动) was advanced in depth, an "AI+" embodied intelligence and rail transit equipment industry community was established, the lead was taken in building eight national industry application pilot bases, a cumulative total of over 1,200 application scenarios were deployed, and the open-source "Huanxin Community" (焕新社区) gathered over 20,000 models and 3,000 datasets. Digital transformation accelerated its implementation, with a cumulative total of over 2,000 smart factories built, and the digitalization rate of production equipment and facilities reached 67%.
Return to TopRecently, the Tangmo Scenic Area (唐模景区) in Qiankou Town (潜口镇), Huizhou District (徽州区), Huangshan City, Anhui Province, has created a new summer cultural tourism scene with the feature of “intangible cultural heritage + night tour” (非遗+夜游). The image shows tourists admiring fish lanterns in a cultural and creative shop in the Tangmo Scenic Area on July 25. Photo by Xiao Benxiang (肖本祥) (Image China (影像中国)).
Return to TopBy: 《中国经济周刊》记者 周 琦 谢 玮
Recently, heavy rainfall has occurred in many areas, and vehicles in some regions have been submerged in water. After a vehicle has been flooded, how should one collect evidence, report the case, assess the damage, and settle claims? What are the points to note?
Before filing a claim, the vehicle owner must first clarify the extent of damage to the vehicle. The industry has a clear reference for the classification of water-damaged vehicles: if the water level does not exceed below the seat, most cases follow a repair procedure; if accumulated water submerges the dashboard, it can basically be presumed a total loss; if the water level is between the seat and the dashboard, the determination is made based on actual on-site inspection.
After a vehicle has been flooded, evidence collection and case reporting should be done promptly. When taking photos or recording videos, three aspects should be included: first, the water level reference line, using wheels and steps as reference objects to clearly capture the height of the accumulated water; second, the interior scene, actually recording the extent of water intrusion on the dashboard and seats; third, the on-site location, capturing street signs, building numbers, etc., in the frame. When shooting, you can turn on the phone's time watermark and location function to retain time and place evidence. If the accumulated water is deep, personal safety should be prioritized; do not recklessly enter the water. You can stand on high ground and shoot from a distance, and orally record the day's time and on-site water accumulation situation in the video to retain a complete visual record.
After evidence collection is completed, promptly call the insurance company's phone number (usually within 48 hours after the vehicle is flooded). If the vehicle has been washed away by floodwaters and cannot be recovered, you must first report the case to the public security authorities and obtain a vehicle loss certificate, then contact the insurance company for claims settlement.
In the repair phase, in addition to the cooperative repair shops recommended by the insurance company, the vehicle owner may also request that the vehicle be towed to the brand's 4S dealership for damage assessment. It should be noted that before the full extent of vehicle damage has been inspected, it is not advisable to sign a full-authorization repair agreement — once the signature is given for disassembly and repair, the room for negotiation in subsequently applying for a presumed total loss will be very limited.
Owners of new energy vehicles should note that for towing a flooded vehicle, a flatbed tow truck should be used for whole-vehicle transport; it is not advisable to use an ordinary tow truck to drag the wheels while driving. The wheels spinning idly can easily drive the motor to generate electricity, potentially burning out the vehicle's entire electronic control system. For such artificially expanded losses, the insurance company will not pay compensation.
For fuel-powered vehicles, after the vehicle stalls while wading through water, do not restart the engine a second time. Engine damage caused by a second ignition is something the insurance company has the right to refuse to compensate for. Fuel-powered vehicles equipped with an automatic start-stop function should have this function turned off when driving in rainy weather.
Many vehicle owners are unclear about how the total loss payout amount is determined. It can be divided into two situations: if the insurance policy clearly specifies the insured amount, when a total loss is presumed, the insurance company must pay compensation according to the amount agreed upon in the policy. Court rulings in many regions have made it clear that the insured amount stated on the policy is the compensation standard agreed upon by both parties. If the policy's insured amount is vaguely stipulated, the calculation is based on the actual value of the vehicle before the accident. New energy vehicles have higher depreciation losses than fuel-powered vehicles, and there are differences depending on the type of power system. It is recommended that vehicle owners request a clear insured amount when purchasing insurance.
If an agreement cannot be reached with the insurance company regarding damage assessment and compensation, the vehicle owner may call the 12378 Banking and Insurance Consumer Complaint and Rights Protection Hotline.
Return to TopBeijing, July 27 (People's Daily) — (Reporter Zhu Jun (朱隽)) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) that, with the consent of the State Council, the first batch of the implementation catalog for the agricultural plant essentially derived variety system (实质性派生品种制度) has been published, marking the official implementation of China's agricultural plant essentially derived variety system. This is both an important institutional innovation in the field of seed industry intellectual property rights and a landmark achievement in the revitalization of the seed industry.
An essentially derived variety, in layman's terms, is a new variety selected and bred by modifying and improving an existing original variety, and compared with the original variety, only individual traits have changed. Establishing an essentially derived variety system requires that, before commercial promotion, the essentially derived variety must obtain permission from the holder of the rights to the original variety and agree to share a certain amount of revenue. The purpose is to establish a legally protected benefit-sharing mechanism between the breeder who makes the modification and improvement and the holder of the rights to the original variety, reflecting respect for the rights and interests of the original variety rights holder, and better incentivizing original innovation in breeding.
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25.6%
Since the beginning of this year, the computing power network and the new-generation communication network have been accelerating their deployment, and investment in related fields has grown relatively quickly. In the first half of the year, the scale of fixed asset investment reached 22.6 trillion yuan, and investment in the information transmission industry grew by 25.6%.
In summer, the sun blazes fiercely on the southeastern edge of the Tengger Desert. Inside the 500,000-kilowatt photovoltaic power station of China Datang Zhongwei Cloud Base, arrays of photovoltaic panels spread across the dunes. Between the dunes, four 110-kilovolt transmission lines extend, reaching straight into the Zhongwei (中卫) data center cluster in Ningxia, one kilometer away.
This year, "computing-electricity synergy" (算电协同) was written into the Government Work Report for the first time, and together with ultra-large-scale intelligent computing clusters, it was explicitly designated as a new infrastructure project. In May, the first large-scale "computing-electricity synergy" green electricity direct supply (绿电直供) project was put into operation in Zhongwei. The total investment in this project is 8.7 billion yuan, triggering a chain reaction upstream and downstream.
Forty kilometers south of the photovoltaic power station, a 1.5-million-kilowatt wind power project is being constructed intensively, with a plan to achieve full-capacity grid connection by September. "By then, the annual power generation of the entire green electricity direct supply project will reach 4.3 billion kilowatt-hours, which can basically meet the electricity demand of the data center cluster," said Jin Liang (靳良), Deputy General Manager of Datang Zhongwei New Energy Co., Ltd. (大唐中卫新能源有限公司).
Su Tao (苏涛), head of the Production Preparation Department of Datang Zhongwei New Energy Co., Ltd., who participated in the entire project construction, introduced that during the peak construction period, over a thousand workers and hundreds of machines were operating daily. "Before the power station was even put into production, the supporting services had already been rolled out. Construction roads, construction electricity, communication base stations, etc., were all built from scratch," Su Tao said. After hardening, reinforcement, capacity expansion, and upgrading, the vast majority of these roads and water-power lines will become permanent infrastructure for the park.
To promote the realization of the dual carbon (双碳) targets, the proportion of green electricity in newly built data centers at national hub nodes should be no less than 80%, and the power usage effectiveness (PUE) should be lower than 1.2. Green electricity direct supply has become an advantage for Zhongwei City in developing the big data industry, driving investment growth.
"Traditional green electricity sent to the grid requires multiple steps of voltage step-up and step-down, with losses of around 5%. After we erected dedicated lines, losses were compressed to within 3%, and almost all the electricity generated is converted into computing power," Jin Liang did the math. The increase in transmission efficiency can lower the unit computing power energy consumption of data centers, providing solid support for PUE control. "After the wind power project is completed, during the nighttime when photovoltaic power stops, wind power will take over, achieving round-the-clock green electricity coverage."
Driving into the Zhongwei Industrial Park (中卫工业园区) computing power center, tower cranes stand in rows and machinery roars. At the construction site, Li Henghui (李恒慧), Northwest Regional General Manager of Zhongliang Data Group (中联数据集团), pointed to a building with its main structure completed and said: "The first-phase No. 1 data center machine room is under construction and is expected to be put into use in the second half of the year. At that time, it will be able to install 30,000 standard racks."
"The park is planned with a total area of over 1,000 mu. To dare to invest on such a large scale, the electricity price is the decisive factor," Li Henghui frankly stated. Electricity costs account for over 60% of the operating costs of the computing power industry. With the green electricity direct supply model, the comprehensive electricity price in Zhongwei data centers is nearly half that of the eastern region. "Customers now not only look at the price but also at the proportion of green electricity," Li Henghui explained. Export-oriented intelligent computing enterprises must meet the carbon footprint traceability requirements of overseas markets. "Direct supply green electricity plus green certificates is genuine competitiveness."
After the "computing-electricity synergy" green electricity direct supply project was put into operation, more enterprises were attracted. As of June, Zhongwei had signed contracts for eight ultra-large-scale intelligent computing center projects, including Qinhuai and Haoyun, with a total investment of 188.5 billion yuan; the city's standard racks in data centers reached 331,000.
"The green electricity direct supply lines are erected right in the park, visible and tangible, making investment attraction much more persuasive," Ma Zhenjun (马振钧), Deputy Director of the Zhongwei City Data Bureau (中卫市数据局), pointed out the change. "Three years ago when attracting investment, we had to visit enterprises one by one. Now that the industrial supporting facilities are complete, many enterprises from the eastern region actively come to us."
Zhongwei is concentrating its efforts on building the "three bases and one center" (三基地一中心) — a computing power guarantee base, a data disaster recovery base, an artificial intelligence innovation application base, and a computing power dispatch and trading center. In the first five months of this year, Zhongwei City's total telecommunications business volume increased by 32.8% year-on-year. The city attracted and cultivated 17 enterprises above designated size in the information service industry, incubated 15 data annotation enterprises, and 13 large models are being trained here.
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New-type power grids, computing networks, and next-generation communication networks are likened to "water, electricity, and coal" of the artificial intelligence era. How can the western city of Zhongwei (中卫) seize development opportunities and drive accelerated investment?
Precisely grasp the policy window period. After the issuance of the "Special Action Plan for Green and Low-Carbon Development of Data Centers," Zhongwei has stepped up its layout; wind-solar complementarity will achieve round-the-clock green electricity coverage, and green electricity direct supply also provides support for PUE control. For investors, this means stable expectations; for those attracting investment, it increases the confidence of 筑巢引凤 (zhù cháo yǐn fèng - "build a nest to attract phoenixes," create favorable conditions to attract investment).
Systematically restructure cost competitiveness. The computing industry is sensitive to cost, and green electricity has become a visible advantage for Zhongwei. The "green electricity + green certificate" combination further meets the carbon footprint traceability requirements of export-oriented enterprises, broadening overseas channels. The two factors combined, Zhongwei has leaped from a "price depression" to a "value highland."
During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, investment in new-type power grids alone will exceed 5 trillion yuan, driving total investment in upstream and downstream sectors to exceed 10 trillion yuan. All localities, adapting to local conditions, are accelerating the cultivation of new quality productive forces, speeding up the deployment of "water, electricity, and coal" for the AI era, and actively expanding effective investment and consumption.
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Recently, various localities, in conjunction with studying and implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech at the celebration of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (在庆祝中国共产党成立105周年大会上的重要讲话), have deeply carried out study and education on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance (树立和践行正确政绩观学习教育), advancing study, inspection, and rectification as an integrated whole, guiding the vast number of Party members and cadres to deeply study and meticulously comprehend, to work hard and act with determination, promoting the transformation of cadre work styles and bringing tangible benefits to the masses.
Deep study and meticulous comprehension, building a solid ideological foundation
The Party Working Committee of the Chongqing High-tech Zone of Western Science City (西部科学城重庆高新区) earnestly studied and understood the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech at the celebration of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, and deeply grasped the clear requirements of the “five musts” (五个必须). Leading cadres at all levels, with the “key minority” (关键少数) setting an example for the “vast majority,” with main leaders taking the lead in giving special Party lectures, guiding over 16,000 Party members and cadres in the area to build a solid ideological foundation for a correct view of performance and to boost the spirit of undertaking work and starting businesses.
“To strengthen confidence and continue the struggle, we must firmly rely on the people to create historical achievements.” Fengyang County (凤阳县), Chuzhou City, Anhui Province, organized a collective study of the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech at the celebration of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, and the leading group held a lively discussion.
While strengthening theoretical armed forces, Fengyang County also focuses on promoting learning through action, implementing the results of study and education in key areas of people’s livelihood such as medical treatment, education, and elderly care, solidly advancing the substantive operation of the county-level consultation and referral service center, the renovation and repair of old school buildings, and the construction of community-embedded elderly care service complexes, among many other practical livelihood projects that have been implemented and delivered results.
Altay Prefecture (阿勒泰地区), Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, relying on the Party-building brand “Snow Capital Builds Fortresses, Border Pass Party Flag Red” (雪都筑堡垒·边关党旗红), launched special carriers such as “Horseback Lecture Hall” (马背讲堂) and “Yurt Delivery of Learning” (毡房送学), formed 316 propaganda teams, covering 73,200 pastoral area Party members; at the same time, it focused on using positive and negative typical cases, using advanced deeds to inspire responsibility and action, and using negative cases to strengthen warning education, allowing the correct view of performance to take root in the hearts of border area Party members and cadres.
True investigation and actual rectification, solving prominent problems
The Social Work Department of the Dongcheng District Committee of Beijing (北京市东城区委社会工作部) devoted itself wholeheartedly to solving the urgent, difficult, worried, and hoped-for issues of new employment groups, organizing Party members and cadres to conduct on-site surveys, accurately identifying problems such as couriers’ “difficulty entering” and “difficulty sorting,” and for this purpose established a “new matters co-discussion” (新事共商) deliberation and consultation mechanism, summoning sub-districts, commercial district property management, traffic management, public security, and platform enterprises to sit together and think of ways and solve problems, advancing the construction of a “friendly urban area” (友好城区), responding to the people’s expectations with solid work.
Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, deeply grasped the important speech spirit of “must firmly rely on the people to create historical achievements,” practiced the people-centered development thought, with leading cadres at all levels going deep into towns, streets, villages, communities, and key enterprises to conduct special investigations, accurately identifying development bottlenecks and livelihood shortcomings; insisted that clearing old accounts is also a performance achievement, and carried out handling work on suspended and delayed construction projects that the masses and business entities strongly complained about, assessing each one by one, determining the “one building, one plan” (一楼一案) handling strategy, clarifying time schedules and task lists, targeting efforts and accelerating revitalization.
Since the study and education began, Ezhou City, Hubei Province, has focused on guiding the high-quality development of the artificial intelligence industry with a correct view of performance. Keeping a close eye on the blocking and sticking points of the AI industry, it selected Party members and cadres to visit and assist innovation platforms, major projects, and key enterprises.
Party members and cadres in Pingli County (平利县), Ankang City, Shaanxi Province, took the initiative to go deep into enterprises to investigate blocking points and pain points such as slow project approval, difficulty in financing, and frequent law enforcement, and through mechanisms such as government-bank-enterprise symposiums and “top leader face-to-face” meetings, strived to resolve problems in the bud, improving the ability for scientific foresight and timely insight.
Longde County (隆德县), Guyuan City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, responded to the concerns of the masses with true investigation and actual rectification. Based on characteristic industries such as cool-weather vegetables, beef cattle, Chinese medicinal herbs, and mushrooms, it launched four models: “shareholding operation, field-embedded guaranteed minimum, three-zero common prosperity, three linkages and three increases” (股份经营、嵌田托底、三零共富、三联三增), promoting deep connection between new-type business entities and farmers, driving an average household income increase of more than 6,500 yuan.
Solid work and determined action, doing good things for the people
This summer, Sun Haiping (孙海萍), a resident of Lakeside Teacher Garden (湖滨教师花园) in Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province, no longer worries about water use. Two months ago, with the completion of the last pipeline connection, the water supply problem that had plagued the old residential community for many years was resolved.
Daqing City promoted the renovation of old residential communities with “embroidery skill” (绣花功夫), based on “one building, one policy” (一栋一策), launching refined and differentiated renovation measures to resolve problems troubling the masses’ daily lives, testing the results of study and education with the actual effectiveness of benefiting people’s livelihood.
Luxi County (芦溪县), Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province, practiced the people-centered development thought, using digital reform to break down departmental barriers, moving government services from “able to handle” to “good to handle.” In the service hall, the digital person “Xixiaoban” (溪小办) was on duty online, improving the efficiency of single-person consultation; the 12345 hotline upgraded its intelligent handling mode, shortening the dispatching time for complex work orders, significantly reducing cross-departmental communication costs; a full-time agency service team was formed to provide full-process free agency services for key projects.
Longxi County (陇西县), Dingxi City, Gansu Province, took the issue of high meal costs at elderly cafeterias that the masses care about as a breakthrough, comprehensively improving the quality and efficiency of elderly care services. In Zhangjiawan Village (张家湾村), Kezhai Town (柯寨镇), idle school buildings were converted into a caring canteen; the village collective simultaneously revitalized abandoned land for unified management, with the proceeds subsidizing the canteen; it also launched a “labor-for-meal” (以劳换餐) mechanism, where elderly people could exchange self-grown vegetables for meal tickets, or exchange labor such as cleaning the caring canteen or recycling waste for meal tickets, striving to make meals affordable and good for the elderly.
(Reporters from this newspaper: Shi Yiqi (史一棋), Wang Jintao (王锦涛), Liu Hongchao (刘洪超), Zhu Dawei (祝大伟), Pan Junqiang (潘俊强), Zhang Danhua (张丹华), Qi Zhiming (齐志明), Fan Haotian (范昊天), Li Yanan (李亚楠), Tian Xianjin (田先进), Wang Xinyue (王欣悦), Jiao Siyu (焦思雨))
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In the early morning, the Pacific sea breeze blows into Callao, a port city north of Lima, Peru. “The school is close to the sea, the ultraviolet rays are very strong, and the sports field has been specially fitted with sun-shading awnings, making it much more comfortable,” said Marco Cayetano, principal of General Prado School. “After the new campus was completed, our school has become the most attractive educational institution in the area.”
As of now, 25 schools, including General Prado School, covered by the Peru Bicentennial Special Public Investment Project undertaken by China Power Construction Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as ‘PowerChina’), have all been put into use. A reporter recently visited the school to learn about the positive contributions of Chinese enterprise projects to improving Peru’s educational infrastructure and enhancing educational service capabilities.
“The campus has undergone a tremendous transformation.”
Stepping into the brand-new campus, it is hard to imagine what General Prado School used to look like. When the reporter first visited the old campus in 2024, the walls of the teaching buildings were already mottled, some classroom windows were difficult to open and close due to age, affecting lighting and ventilation, and some buildings also had safety hazards. “The reconstruction of the school buildings was urgent,” Cayetano said. After the new campus was completed in April 2025, this 82-year-old school took on a completely new look.
The new campus covers nearly 23,000 square meters and can accommodate about 3,600 students. It is currently one of the largest and most functionally complete educational infrastructure facilities in the Lima Metropolitan Area, the capital. On campus, the teaching buildings for the primary and secondary sections are neatly arranged, and buildings such as the library, multi-functional hall, gymnasium, and administrative office building are all available. Entering the teaching building, classrooms are spacious and bright, lockers are installed on one side of the corridor, and the hallways are also equipped with accessible ramps and handrails to provide convenience for students with mobility difficulties.
“This is our innovation classroom,” Cayetano said as he led the reporter into a classroom, where 30 laptop computers were placed, along with teaching facilities such as projectors.
Drinking water facilities by the sports field, emergency shelters in the teaching buildings, street lamps wrapped with anti-collision devices… The campus reflects humanistic care everywhere. Liu Shusheng, project manager of General Prado School, told the reporter that the 25 schools built by PowerChina cover multiple regions across Peru, all constructed according to modern educational institution standards, with construction content covering a complete campus functional system and comprehensive water supply and drainage, electrical, information technology, and safety facilities. “We hope to provide students with a better modern learning environment, allowing them to grow up safely and happily.”
“The campus has undergone a tremendous transformation. My daughter’s current learning conditions are so much better than when we were in school,” said María Silupu, a parent of a student who once studied at General Prado School. “Now, the school has complete modern teaching facilities, bringing huge changes to the education of the next generation.”
“It truly reflects a construction concept that starts from the user’s perspective and is people-oriented.”
“What satisfies me most about the new campus is the science laboratory,” said science teacher Gaby Campos as she led the reporter to visit the physics, chemistry, and biology laboratories. She said that previously, the school’s infrastructure conditions were limited, and only theoretical teaching was possible. Now, students can do hands-on experiments, making it much easier to understand the knowledge in textbooks.
“The teaching effect is remarkable. Students are full of enthusiasm for lab classes, and their academic performance has improved a lot,” Campos said. The school is also equipped with vocational education workshops, allowing students to learn about the use of various machines and tools, cultivating hands-on ability and innovative awareness.
In a corner behind the teaching building, there is an ecological vegetable garden — in several rectangular flower beds, plants such as beets, green onions, and mint are grown. “Each class in the primary section has its own exclusive planting plot, and teachers take students to learn about plants through practice,” said Sulema Cáceres, vice principal of the primary section.
“The ecological vegetable garden is a microcosm of detail optimization,” said Aldair Mantilla, owner’s representative who has participated in the liaison work for multiple school projects. He stated that Chinese enterprises have demonstrated a very high level of professionalism and sense of responsibility during the construction process, especially in earnestly listening to suggestions from teachers and students. The Chinese team not only considered the structure and function of campus facilities but also paid great attention to details such as light transparency, accessible passages, and green environmental protection facilities, “truly reflecting a construction concept that starts from the user’s perspective and is people-oriented.”
From underdeveloped areas around Lima to the depths of the rainforest in the Ucayali Region, and to the high-altitude areas of the Puno and Cusco Regions, multiple schools built by Chinese enterprises have become some of the most modern and eye-catching buildings locally. The Chinese side fully considered local climatic conditions and actual teaching needs, scientifically optimizing the building structure, lighting design, and functional layout of the schools, gaining widespread recognition and welcome from local people.
“We hope future cooperation can be extended to the sharing of educational resources.”
PowerChina has also undertaken the construction of multiple schools in the La Libertad School Reconstruction Project in Peru. Once all are completed, they will provide learning spaces for approximately 35,000 students. The construction of new schools, while improving local educational infrastructure, also creates conditions for local students to learn about China.
“China has a lot of delicious food,” “Many of the electronic products we use come from China,” “Chinese technology is very advanced”… During the interview at General Prado School, students eagerly shared their knowledge of China with the reporter.
Regina Huamán, vice principal of the secondary section of General Prado School, told the reporter that in the future, the school will incorporate courses such as Chinese culture into the teaching plan and strengthen exchanges with Chinese educational institutions, so that children can deepen their understanding and knowledge of China.
“The modern campus has raised expectations for the upgrading of education quality from all sides, and has also injected new vitality into the development of Peru’s education sector,” Cayetano said. In recent years, Peru-China cooperation has continuously deepened, promoting positive changes in multiple fields in Peru. “We look forward to further improving the quality and upgrading of practical cooperation between the two sides, so that more people from both countries can benefit.”
“We hope that future cooperation can be extended to the sharing of educational resources, such as cooperation in teacher training, technical exchanges, distance education, and other fields,” Mantilla said. He expressed hope that Peru and China will continue to explore more infrastructure project cooperation to further benefit the people of both countries.
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Education is regarded as an investment oriented toward the future. Spacious and bright classrooms, fully equipped laboratories, and vibrant campuses reflect the expectations of Peruvian teachers and students for the future. As former Peruvian Minister of Education Morgan Cro said, for young people, a new campus means a better environment for learning and growth, and is also the starting point for them to access a broader world.
Education carries the expectations of families and also concerns the development of the country. Currently, Global South countries regard education as an important foundation for achieving sustainable development. Facing common challenges such as unbalanced development and insufficient educational resources, strengthening experience exchange, deepening practical cooperation, and sharing development achievements have become the choice of more and more countries. Allowing more children to enjoy high-quality education will accumulate strength for Global South countries to achieve common development and common prosperity.
Return to TopFavorability has never been a groundless shift in public opinion, but rather the international recognition accumulated by China through long-term practical actions.
A global attitude survey recently released by the Pew Research Center in the United States has drawn widespread attention from international public opinion. The survey, covering 36 countries and regions and 42,000 respondents, shows that public favorability toward China exceeds that toward the United States in 27 countries and regions, with the positive shift in perceptions of China being particularly prominent in Western countries such as Spain, Italy, and Canada. This is the first time since the center began tracking Sino-US global perceptions in 2002 that China has led in favorability ratings among the public in more than 70% of the surveyed countries.
Behind the data lies the global wave of "looking eastward." Many international media outlets believe that such a change is not surprising — favorability has never been a groundless shift in public opinion, but rather the international recognition accumulated by China through long-term practical actions.
The substance of development is China's most convincing national name card. In 2025, China's GDP exceeded 140 trillion yuan for the first time, and in the first half of 2026, it continued the development momentum of "stable, resilient, innovative, and superior," with the gold content of high-quality development continuously increasing. More and more countries recognize that China is following a modernization path that balances efficiency and fairness, development and sharing, providing a new option for the global exploration of modernization models. From open-source and inclusive benefits in artificial intelligence and electric vehicles to forward-looking layouts in green energy and the digital economy, the vivid practice of Chinese-style modernization (中国式现代化) not only continuously improves people's livelihood and well-being but also provides governance ideas that can be referenced for global development. Today, many overseas scholars actively study China's Five-Year Plans and explore China's governance logic; "understanding China" is increasingly becoming a "required course" in global development discourse.
Openness measures are the bridge and bond connecting China with the world. China has always insisted on promoting cooperation through opening up and seeking win-win outcomes through cooperation, continuously sending a clear signal of openness and inclusiveness to the world, forming a sharp contrast with the practices of some countries that build walls and barriers, decouple and sever supply chains. As the first major economy to unilaterally and fully implement zero-tariff treatment for all African countries with diplomatic relations and all least developed countries with diplomatic relations, China has effectively opened its market doors to developing countries; the 240-hour transit visa-free policy implemented for 55 countries has greatly facilitated foreign citizens' travel to China, making "come whenever you want" the norm and also spurring the spontaneous spread of a large amount of Chinese cultural tourism content on overseas platforms; the annual number of China-Europe Railway Express trips has increased 10.8 times in 10 years, and since 2026, the cumulative trips have exceeded 10,000, setting a new record for the same period in history. By promoting exchanges and sharing opportunities, China, with practical actions, is fulfilling its responsibility of empowering global common development.
Policy stability is China's valuable asset in winning trust. Currently, unilateralism is on the rise, geopolitical conflicts are intensifying, the global economic recovery is weak, and uncertainty has become a high-frequency word in the international community. In the face of regional conflicts, China insists on promoting peace and facilitating talks, not fanning flames, not passing knives, always standing on the side of peace; in carrying out international cooperation, China insists on opening its doors wide, not building walls, not severing chains, always upholding the principle of mutual benefit and win-win. This demeanor of a major power, where words must be followed by actions and actions must bear fruit, makes people of all countries increasingly feel that dealing with China means a predictable future, without having to worry about policy vacillation. This survey also shows that China is rarely seen by respondents as a country that "interferes in internal affairs" — this trust is 弥足珍贵 (mí zú zhēn guì - "fully sufficient to be precious," extremely valuable), reflecting the international community's deep longing for sincere and reliable partners.
This global "vote of confidence" does not derive its profound significance from the high or low scores between countries, but rather reflects the common aspiration of all countries for peaceful development, win-win cooperation. Anchoring the course in turbulent times, advancing hand in hand amidst complex changes, and injecting more positive energy into the world with China's certainty — this is China's 始终不渝 (shǐ zhōng bù yú - "from beginning to end without change," unswerving) commitment, and it is also the proper meaning of building a community with a shared future for mankind (构建人类命运共同体).
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Pyongyang, July 27 (Reporter Wang Tianliao) — According to a report from the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on the 27th, on the occasion of the 73rd anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War of Korea, Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and President of State Affairs, visited the cemetery of the Chinese People's Volunteers martyrs (中国人民志愿军烈士陵园) located in Hoechang County, South Pyongan Province (平安南道桧仓郡) on the 26th, paying high tribute to the martyrs.
According to the report, Kim Jong Un observed a moment of silence in mourning for the martyrs of the Chinese People's Volunteers, and paid respects at the grave of Mao Anying (毛岸英), laying a bouquet of flowers in tribute. The report stated that a wreath placed in the name of Kim Jong Un was set before the monument to the Chinese People's Volunteers martyrs.
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The China-South Africa Young Scientists Symposium (中国—南非青年科学家研讨会) was recently held in Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa. Young scientists from China and South Africa exchanged experiences, shared achievements, deepened joint research, and promoted knowledge sharing.
“Scientific cooperation can connect researchers from different countries.” Yashila Ismail, a senior lecturer in the Department of Physics at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, shared her experience in conducting quantum communication research with a team from the University of Science and Technology of China. In March 2025, a joint team composed of Chinese and South African researchers used China’s micro-nano quantum satellite to achieve an intercontinental quantum communication experiment over 12,900 kilometers. This is the first time a quantum communication experiment has been completed between countries in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Ismail expressed her expectation to continue joint research with the Chinese team and jointly tackle scientific challenges.
Gu Wenqing (国文清), a Chinese scholar conducting postdoctoral research in the Department of Physics at Stellenbosch University, introduced that China’s “Sky Eye”—the 500-meter aperture spherical radio telescope (FAST)—is engaged in close cooperation with South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope, and scientists from both countries jointly explore frontier topics such as cosmic evolution and galaxy formation. “Cooperation between China and South Africa in the field of large scientific facilities not only drives scientific discovery but also provides opportunities for exchange and cooperation among young researchers from both sides,” Gu Wenqing said.
The “China-South Africa Young Scientists Exchange Program” (中国—南非青年科学家交流计划) and other mechanisms have built platforms for exchange and cooperation between researchers of the two countries. Sandiswa Figlan, associate professor of plant breeding at the University of South Africa, once visited Hunan Agricultural University for exchange. She focuses on climate-adapted crop breeding, using genomics, mutation breeding, and water-saving agricultural technologies to enhance food security levels. “Climate change poses tremendous challenges to African agriculture, and China has accumulated rich experience in agricultural technology innovation,” Figlan said. “South Africa-China exchanges help to further tap the potential for scientific and technological cooperation among Global South countries.”
Ye Xianming (叶先明), associate professor at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, focuses on the application of artificial intelligence in mining, manufacturing, and other fields, hoping to improve energy utilization efficiency through digital means and reduce carbon emissions and environmental impact in the process of mineral development. Ye Xianming stated that China and South Africa have broad space for cooperation in areas such as energy digitalization, smart manufacturing, and green mining.
China’s Ambassador to South Africa Wu Peng (吴鹏) stated that scientific and technological cooperation, especially exchanges and cooperation among young scientists, is one of the most dynamic and fruitful areas in China-South Africa bilateral relations, and expressed the hope that the youth of both countries will continue to make positive contributions to China-Africa win-win cooperation and comprehensive development of relations.
South Africa’s Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation Blade Nzimande stated that South Africa and China have broad space for cooperation in basic sciences, agricultural technology, green energy, and other fields. Thulani Dlamini, Chief Executive Officer of the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, stated: “We look forward to South Africa-China young researchers strengthening academic exchanges and contributing to the scientific and technological innovation cooperation between the two countries.”
Return to TopBeijing, July 27 (Xinhua) — (Reporter Chen Xirui (陈熙芮)) A spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on the 27th that the High-Level Meeting on the Fifth Anniversary of the Global Development Initiative (全球发展倡议) will be held in Beijing on July 28. Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, will attend the high-level meeting and deliver a speech.
The spokesperson said that the meeting is themed "The Global Development Initiative at Five: Re-energizing for a Sustainable Future." Chinese and foreign guests, including senior UN officials, envoys of the member states of the Group of Friends of the Global Development Initiative (全球发展倡议之友小组) stationed in China, representatives of UN development system agencies in China, renowned experts and scholars, will attend the meeting and engage in in-depth exchanges on the implementation results of the Global Development Initiative, cooperation priorities, and its contribution to the world.
Return to TopAccording to Xinhua News Agency, Perth, Australia, July 27 (reporters Liu Xiaoyu (刘晓宇), Xue Yanwen (薛艳雯)) — The Boao Forum for Asia Perth Conference was held in Perth, Australia on the 27th, with over 200 participating delegates engaging in in-depth exchanges around the conference theme of "Green Transformation: Towards a Common Future for People and Planet."
During the conference, representatives from political, business, and academic circles of Asia, Oceania, and Africa also held four roundtable discussions on topics such as "Addressing Climate Change: Building Closer Green Industry Partnerships," "Energy Transition and New Opportunities for Green Industry Under the Impact of the Middle East Crisis," "Key Drivers of Green Industry Growth: Innovation, Artificial Intelligence, and Financial Cooperation," and "Green Energy Driving Future Industries and Cultivating Green Markets."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 白元琪
"The fundamental reason why the Chinese Communist Party has been able to traverse 105 years of glorious history and continuously develop and grow stronger is that it is deeply rooted in the people, stands together with the people, thinks together with the people, and works together with the people." Tong Meng David, Deputy Director of the China-ASEAN Research Center at the Cambodia-China University of Technology, recently said in an exclusive interview with our reporter that the Chinese Communist Party has always adhered to a people-centered development philosophy. This is an important code for the Chinese Communist Party to maintain its vigorous vitality, and also an important driving force for China to continuously create development miracles.
In Tong Meng David's view, poverty alleviation is an important window for observing the Chinese Communist Party's governance philosophy and excellent qualities. "In order to let the masses live a better life, the Chinese Communist Party organized a large number of cadres to go deep into the grassroots, conduct household-by-household surveys, and provide targeted assistance, fully demonstrating strong organizational and mobilization capabilities and a people-first governance philosophy."
Tong Meng David has visited Cambodia-China cooperation projects many times. He said that the two sides have built poverty alleviation demonstration villages in Takeo Province and other places, improved water supply conditions, developed planting and breeding industries, and many local farming households have achieved stable income increases. "China's development philosophy not only focuses on economic growth, but also pays more attention to improving people's livelihoods and strengthening endogenous development momentum," he said. This development philosophy of adhering to the people's standpoint and win-win cooperation provides a useful reference for developing countries.
Tong Meng David stated that in recent years, Cambodia has continuously strengthened exchanges and cooperation with China in areas such as poverty reduction, agricultural modernization, and grassroots governance, learning from and drawing on China's experience through official visits, study tours, and personnel training. During his visits to China, he deeply felt that the Chinese Communist Party is good at promoting reform and innovation based on actual conditions, continuously improving the governance system, and consistently responding to the expectations of the people. "A major party with a history of over a hundred years is able to always adhere to self-innovation and continuously improve its own construction — this is 难能可贵 (nán néng kě guì - "rare and commendable," meaning very valuable and praiseworthy)," he said. "The Chinese Communist Party has always maintained an open and enterprising spirit, continuously advancing theoretical innovation and practical innovation according to the needs of the times, providing a strong guarantee for the country's sustained development."
Tong Meng David said that the Chinese Communist Party has not only led China to achieve rapid development, but has also always kept the world in mind, continuously creating opportunities for the world through its own development. China actively promotes high-quality joint construction of the Belt and Road, and has put forward four major global initiatives, contributing Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to promoting common development and maintaining world peace.
Tong Meng David said that the world today faces multiple challenges such as geopolitical conflicts and development imbalances, and all countries need to adhere to peace, development, cooperation, and win-win outcomes more than ever. China has always adhered to the path of peaceful development, insisted on open cooperation and mutual benefit and win-win outcomes, continuously shared development opportunities with the world, and injected positive energy into promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘仲华
The 35th anniversary celebration of the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine’s Koetzting Hospital (北京中医药大学魁茨汀医院) was recently held in Koetzting (魁茨汀市), Bavaria, Germany. In 1991, through the unremitting efforts of both the Chinese and German sides, the Koetzting Hospital, built through cooperation between Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and the German Staudinger Group, was established, becoming the first hospital of Chinese medicine licensed by the German government and currently the only hospital of Chinese medicine in Europe that accepts inpatients and is covered by health insurance.
“The establishment of the Koetzting Hospital is a milestone.” Klaus Holetschek, chairman of the CSU parliamentary group in the Bavarian State Parliament, said that the integration of Chinese and Western medicine brings possibilities for solving modern life science challenges.
Over a long period, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine has continuously selected and dispatched more than 260 medical, teaching, and management骨干 (key personnel) to work in Germany, providing solid support for the construction and development of the Koetzting Hospital. Tang Zhishu (唐志书), president of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, stated that the Koetzting Hospital has become a pioneer for Chinese medicine taking root in Germany and facing Europe, truly realizing the substantive and localized operation of the hospital, and providing high-quality Chinese medicine medical services to the local population.
The Fourth China-Germany Traditional Chinese Medicine Forum (第四届中国—德国中医药论坛) was held concurrently in Koetzting. Experts from the fields of traditional medicine in China, Germany, and Europe engaged in in-depth exchanges on international cooperation in Chinese medicine, chronic disease prevention and treatment, and scientific research innovation.
Yang Likun (杨丽鹍), the Chinese director of the Koetzting Hospital, presented a report using rich local frontline clinical data, taking the example of the TCM syndrome regularity in 97 cases of primary headache at the Koetzting Hospital, meticulously analyzing the gender distribution characteristics of headaches and the advantages of Chinese medicine therapies, demonstrating with solid data the efficacy of TCM syndrome differentiation and treatment (中医辨证论治) in German local patients.
Takis Kotis, founder of Cambridge Medical College Ltd. in the United Kingdom, delivered a report titled “Promoting Chinese Medicine to the World,” introducing his vision for advancing the international development of Chinese medicine, proposing the establishment of an international cooperation network covering Europe and China, promoting the integration and complementary advantages of Eastern and Western medical resources, and driving Chinese medicine to be more broadly integrated into the international medical and health system.
Over 35 years, from the initial introduction of technology and academic exchanges to today’s deep co-construction and coordinated development, the Koetzting Hospital has broken down geographical and medical barriers, allowing the ancient wisdom of Chinese medicine and modern Western medical technology to coexist and integrate, building a bridge for Sino-German medical exchange and cultural互通 (mutual understanding).
Qiu Xuejun (邱学军), Chinese Consul General in Munich, stated that over the years, the Koetzting Hospital has enabled more and more German people to understand Chinese medicine, recognize Chinese medicine, and benefit from Chinese medicine, playing a positive role in promoting Sino-German people-to-people and cultural exchanges and people-to-people bonds. He expressed the hope that the Koetzting Hospital of Chinese Medicine will continue to play its role as a bridge and纽带 (link), promoting Chinese medicine to better serve the health of the local population, and making new contributions to the development of friendly Sino-German relations, strengthening the emotional ties between the peoples of the two countries, and enhancing the well-being of both peoples.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 易舒冉
Persons with disabilities are an important force in advancing Chinese-style modernization and are also a special difficult group that requires extra care and extra attention. On the morning of July 27, the State Council Information Office held a press conference under the series theme "A Strong Start for the '15th Five-Year Plan Period.'" Cheng Kai, Chairperson of the China Disabled Persons' Federation; Zhou Changkui, Secretary of the Leading Party Members' Group and Executive Vice Chairperson of the China Disabled Persons' Federation; and Li Dongmei, Vice Chairperson and Executive Vice President of the China Disabled Persons' Federation, introduced relevant circumstances concerning the comprehensive development and high-quality development of the cause of persons with disabilities during the "15th Five-Year Plan period" and answered reporters' questions.
32 key tasks, 45 key service projects and special initiatives
In July this year, the State Council Working Committee on the Disabled issued the "15th Five-Year Plan for the Protection and Development of Persons with Disabilities" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"). Cheng Kai introduced that the Plan closely follows three main lines — full-coverage basic safeguards, whole-life-cycle care services, and all-round rights protection — and sets forth 9 major indicators, 32 key tasks in 7 major areas, and 45 key service projects and special initiatives.
"The first section of the Plan covers overall requirements, establishing 9 major indicators in three areas: income and employment, social security, and basic public services. Some are binding indicators. Compared with the '14th Five-Year Plan period,' two new indicators have been added: '1 million new urban and rural disabled persons employed' and '3.5 million person-times of care and support services for persons with severe disabilities' — both directly reflecting the urgent difficulties and aspirations of persons with disabilities and serving as important indicators of social development," Cheng Kai said.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan period," the Party and the state further increased support and investment in the cause of persons with disabilities, and the sense of gain, happiness, and security of persons with disabilities was further enhanced. However, overall, persons with disabilities remain a special difficult group and still face many obstacles in life.
Zhou Changkui stated that during the "15th Five-Year Plan period," efforts to increase care and support should be further intensified, and raising the social security level for persons with disabilities — especially those in difficulty and with severe disabilities — should be placed in a more prominent position. This includes optimizing the dynamic adjustment mechanism for living subsidies for disabled persons in difficulty and nursing subsidies for severely disabled persons; improving universal, basic, and bottom-line safeguarding policies related to persons with disabilities; and also improving the rehabilitation assistance system for children with disabilities.
"The Plan also pays special attention to the rights protection and care services for disabled elderly persons, disabled women, disabled minors, including persons with mental disabilities (i.e., persons with intellectual and mental disabilities) — those with special difficulties — and proposes providing more effective protection and more precise services," Zhou Changkui said.
Developing and upgrading special education, stabilizing and expanding the scale of employment for persons with disabilities
Education, employment, and technology-assisted disability services are closely related to the well-being and development of persons with disabilities.
"The China Disabled Persons' Federation will cooperate with the Ministry of Education and other departments to jointly formulate and implement a special action plan for the development and upgrading of special education. In improving the education system for persons with disabilities, there are three main focuses: first, focusing on consolidating the universal coverage level of compulsory education, ensuring that the enrollment rate of school-age disabled children in compulsory education remains above 97%; second, focusing on continuing to promote the extension of special education to both preschool education and the upper secondary education stage — by entering regular kindergartens, establishing special kindergartens, and having special education schools set up preschool classes to provide opportunities for disabled children to receive preschool education; third, focusing on optimizing and improving policy measures such as reasonable accommodations for the college entrance examination," Li Dongmei said.
Regarding stabilizing and expanding the scale of employment for persons with disabilities and improving employment quality, Li Dongmei stated that during the "15th Five-Year Plan period," relevant work will be advanced from two aspects: promoting the removal of employment barriers across the entire chain so that persons with disabilities can enter work units, and precisely improving the employability of persons with disabilities so that they can perform well on the job.
"We will also fully implement various support and guarantee policies for the employment and entrepreneurship of persons with disabilities, continue to strengthen the entrepreneurship incubation platform, implement 'one person, one strategy' precise assistance for disabled college graduates, and implement support measures such as job-seeking and entrepreneurship subsidies," Li Dongmei said.
In recent years, the development of frontier technologies such as artificial intelligence and brain-computer interfaces has given more persons with disabilities hope. During the "15th Five-Year Plan period," how will the China Disabled Persons' Federation promote the research, development, and application of assistive technology products for persons with disabilities, so that technological development can benefit more persons with disabilities?
Zhou Changkui introduced: first, adhere to a demand-oriented approach, understand and sort out the technological needs of different categories of persons with disabilities, and prevent a disconnect between scientific research and development and the needs of persons with disabilities; second, further promote the integration of technology into real scenarios — for example, improving the barrier-free ride-hailing travel applications for persons with disabilities; third, promote the inclusion of assistive technology products for persons with disabilities in relevant subsidy scopes, lowering the threshold for their use by persons with disabilities.
Doing a good job in whole-life-cycle care services for autism spectrum disorder
The Plan, for the first time, lists "Promotion Action for Whole-Life-Cycle Care for Autism Spectrum Disorder" as a separate column, reflecting the high importance the Party and the state attach to the autism spectrum disorder community and also providing specific guidance for providing whole-life-cycle care services for autism spectrum disorder during the "15th Five-Year Plan period." "We believe this will bring tangible well-being to the autism spectrum disorder community and their families," Zhou Changkui said.
Early detection, early rehabilitation. "Children with autism spectrum disorder generally show some characteristics around the age of two, some may be even earlier. If they can be detected early and receive early rehabilitation, the effects will be very good," Zhou Changkui introduced. During the "15th Five-Year Plan period," through improving and implementing the service norms for screening and intervention for autism spectrum disorder in children aged 0–6, a mechanism linking screening, diagnosis, and rehabilitation assistance will be established, and the entire service process will be standardized — especially helping parents to identify children with autism spectrum disorder relatively early.
Further optimize the supply of rehabilitation services. The Plan proposes increasing the supply of public-interest rehabilitation services for children with autism spectrum disorder, improving the capacity of maternal and child health institutions to provide rehabilitation services for children with autism spectrum disorder, regulating rehabilitation institutions for children with autism spectrum disorder run by social forces, and ensuring that every prefecture-level city and relatively populous county (city, district, banner) has the capacity to provide rehabilitation assistance services for children with autism spectrum disorder.
"Integrate the rehabilitation of children with autism spectrum disorder with their education more effectively, so that parents do not have to run between rehabilitation institutions and educational institutions, helping children with autism spectrum disorder better integrate into school life," Zhou Changkui said. It is also necessary to develop services such as family psychological counseling, care and support, and community support to alleviate the long-term care pressure on families.
Return to TopBeijing, July 27 (People's Daily) — (Reporter Shi Yiqi (史一棋)) On the 27th, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and National Supervisory Commission (中央纪委国家监委) released a summary of the nationwide investigation and handling of problems concerning violations of the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation (中央八项规定精神) in June. The bulletin shows that in June, a total of 34,700 cases of violations of the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation were investigated and handled nationwide, with 43,318 people criticized, educated, and handled, and 28,426 people given Party disciplinary and government affairs sanctions.
According to the bulletin, in June a total of 19,072 cases of formalism and bureaucratism were investigated and handled nationwide, with 24,578 people criticized, educated, and handled. Among them, problems of "failing to take responsibility, failing to act, acting arbitrarily, or acting falsely in the performance of duties and service to economic and social development and ecological environmental protection, seriously affecting high-quality development" were investigated in 15,983 cases, with 20,714 people criticized, educated, and handled. In June, a total of 15,628 cases of hedonism and extravagance were investigated and handled nationwide, with 18,740 people criticized, educated, and handled. Among them, problems of "illegally sending and receiving famous and special products and gifts and money" were investigated in 9,657 cases, with 10,466 people criticized, educated, and handled.
According to the bulletin, in June a total of 5 cases involving leading cadres at the provincial-ministerial level, 146 cases involving leading cadres at the prefectural-department level, 1,955 cases involving leading cadres at the county-section level, and 32,594 cases involving cadres at the township-section level and below were investigated and handled nationwide.
Return to TopOur newspaper, Dingxi, Gansu, July 27 (Reporters Dong Hongliang (董洪亮), Wang Jintao (王锦涛)). On the afternoon of July 26, affected by short-duration heavy rainfall, a flash flood disaster occurred in Shuangshimen Gully (双石门沟), Luojiamo Village (罗家磨村), Huichuan Town (会川镇), Weiyuan County (渭源县), Dingxi City (定西), Gansu Province. After the disaster occurred, the Gansu Provincial Fire and Rescue Corps (甘肃省消防救援总队) successively dispatched 305 fire rescue personnel, 68 fire trucks, 4 search and rescue dogs, etc. from the Dingxi, Lanzhou, and Special Service detachments to rush to the rescue, cumulatively deployed 164 pieces of mechanical equipment such as loaders and excavators, organized over 1,000 professional fire and medical rescue personnel, distributed over 400 pieces of rescue supplies, and comprehensively ensured the orderly progress of emergency rescue work.
“When the first batch of rescue personnel arrived at the scene, the river channel was surging with water, and the road surface was covered with a large amount of debris,” introduced Li Jiang (李江), head of the full-time fire brigade of Huichuan Town Government.
The fire rescue personnel adhered to scientific rescue, seizing the golden rescue time. Jia Yongjiang (贾永江), deputy head of the full-time fire brigade of Weiyuan County Government, who has 19 years of frontline rescue experience, introduced that communication in the central area of the disaster was completely cut off, large rescue machinery could not enter, and the search and rescue environment was very harsh. At the critical moment, all rescue personnel closely coordinated and fought together, linking arms to form a human wall, building a temporary life passage, and transferring the elderly and children in batches.
On July 27, the rescue work shifted to the fine-scale investigation and mop-up stage. According to the deployment, the Gansu Provincial Fire and Rescue Corps coordinated 80 fire rescue personnel, 30 militia, and 25 personnel from the Blue Sky Rescue Team (蓝天救援队), divided into 13 groups, each group responsible for searching and investigating about 2 kilometers. The investigation and confirmation scope covers about 22 kilometers from Huichuan Town to the river channel and beach at the mouth of Shuangshimen Gully. Currently, search and rescue work is still ongoing.
To consolidate disaster relief guarantees and assist post-disaster response, the Gansu Provincial Department of Finance (甘肃省财政厅) urgently pre-allocated 20 million yuan in provincial funds to Dingxi City, supporting the work of searching, rescuing, transferring, and sheltering affected personnel, investigating hidden dangers of secondary disasters, and emergency remediation. It is understood that the local government is rapidly coordinating claims settlement work and coordinating with relevant insurance companies to activate the vehicle insurance emergency response mechanism.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 27 (Xinhua) — Recently, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council forwarded the Ninth Five-Year Plan for the Publicity and Education of the Rule of Law (2026—2030) of the Central Propaganda Department and the Ministry of Justice and issued a notice, requiring all regions and departments to earnestly implement it in light of actual conditions. The full text of the Ninth Five-Year Plan for the Publicity and Education of the Rule of Law (2026—2030) of the Central Propaganda Department and the Ministry of Justice follows.
The publicity and education of the rule of law is a long-term foundational task for comprehensively governing the country according to law. To strengthen and improve the publicity and education of the rule of law, and to promote a social atmosphere where respecting the law, studying the law, abiding by the law, and using the law 蔚然成风 (wèi rán chéng fēng - "becoming common practice," to become a prevailing trend or common practice), this plan is formulated.
I. General Requirements
Adhere to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as the guide, deeply implement the guiding principles of the 20th National Congress of the Party and the successive plenary sessions of the 20th Central Committee, earnestly implement the deployments of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee, comprehensively implement Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, profoundly comprehend the decisive significance of the “Two Establishments” (两个确立 - the establishment of Comrade Xi Jinping’s core position on the Party Central Committee and the establishment of the guiding role of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era), enhance the “Four Consciousnesses” (四个意识 - consciousness of the need to maintain political integrity, think in big-picture terms, follow the leadership core, and keep in alignment with the central Party leadership), strengthen the “Four Confidences” (四个自信 - confidence in the path, theory, system, and culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics), achieve the “Two Safeguards” (两个维护 - safeguarding Comrade Xi Jinping’s core position on the Party Central Committee and in the entire Party, and safeguarding the authority and centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee), persist in the Party’s overall leadership, persist in putting the people first, persist in comprehensively governing the country according to law, persist in serving the overall situation of economic and social development during the “15th Five-Year Plan” period, take promoting the deep-rooted establishment of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law in people’s hearts as the primary task, take implementing the Law on the Publicity and Education of the Rule of Law as the starting point, take the flourishing development of socialist rule-of-law culture as the support, take perfecting the work system for publicity and education of the rule of law as the guarantee, practice core socialist values, promote the spirit of the socialist rule of law (社会主义法治精神), advance the construction of a rule-of-law society, and create a favorable rule-of-law environment for comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization.
By 2030, the capacity of leading cadres to handle affairs according to law and the rule-of-law literacy of citizens will continue to improve; a favorable environment in which the entire society esteems the rule of law, abides by rules, respects contracts, and upholds justice will be further formed; the publicity and education of the rule of law will be deeply integrated with governance according to law and rule-of-law practice; the social foundation for comprehensively governing the country according to law will be further consolidated; the responsibility system for law popularization “whoever enforces the law popularizes the law” (谁执法谁普法) will be thoroughly implemented; and the institutionalized, standardized, and scientific level of work on publicity and education of the rule of law will be comprehensively elevated.
II. Promote the Deep-rooted Establishment of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law in People's Hearts
(I) Continue to Deepen Study and Publicity. Form a resource pool of lecturers for Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, develop exemplary high-quality courses, make good use of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on the Rule of Law, Volume I, General Secretary Xi Jinping’s On Persisting in Comprehensively Governing the Country According to Law, Study Outline for Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law (2025 Edition), Study Q&A on Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, Series Lectures on Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, and others, to deeply study and publicize Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law and its latest achievements in rich development. Incorporate Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law into the important study and training content of the theoretical study center groups of Party committees (Party groups), Party schools (schools of administration), and cadre academies. Incorporate Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law into relevant courses in universities, middle schools, and primary schools, offer compulsory courses on Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law in law majors, support qualified universities in offering elective courses in other majors, organize the compilation of A Reader of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law for University Students, make good use of textbooks such as An Introduction to Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, and promote the all-dimensional integration of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law into teaching materials, classrooms, and minds. Leverage the role of platforms such as research centers for Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law and research centers for comprehensively governing the country according to law, make good use of platforms such as the Hundred Jurists’ Hundred Reports and the China Rule-of-Law Practice Lecture Hall, and deepen the research, interpretation, and mass dissemination of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law.
(II) Strengthen Publicity of Rule-of-Law Practice and Achievements. Focus on the vivid practice and historic achievements of comprehensively governing the country according to law under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law. Through compiling practice cases, organizing media reports, online thematic publicity, etc., deeply publicize the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee over comprehensively governing the country according to law; publicize the Party’s major measures and achievements in leading legislation, ensuring law enforcement, supporting the judiciary, and taking the lead in abiding by the law; publicize the landmark achievements of China’s socialist rule-of-law construction in the new era; and stimulate the consciousness and initiative of the whole society in believing in and rigorously implementing the rule of law.
(III) Deeply Advance International Communication. Make good use of various media cooperation mechanisms, platforms, and channels. Deeply interpret the common values of all mankind embodied in Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law; tell the story of China strengthening human rights guarantees through the rule of law, upholding fairness and justice, abiding by international rule of law, and promoting the rule-of-law civilization of mankind; and publicize the superiority of the socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics. Strengthen publicity related to foreign affairs (涉外法治宣传) and international exchanges and cooperation. Through holding academic forums, conducting multilateral and bilateral rule-of-law dialogues, etc., explain China’s concepts, propositions, and successful practices regarding the rule of law in foreign affairs; and, from the perspective of the rule of law, present a credible, lovable, and respectable image of China.
III. Deeply Study and Publicize the Constitution, Laws, Regulations, and Intra-Party Regulations
(I) Highlight Publicity and Education on the Constitution. Focus on key groups such as leading cadres, newly recruited civil servants, and young people; focus on key carriers such as constitutional commemoration, constitutional oath-taking, and construction of constitutional teaching materials; focus on key positions such as schools, communities, media, and the internet; and promote the normalization and long-term effectiveness of constitutional publicity and education. Organize well the National Constitution Day and annual rule-of-law figure publicity activities. Continue to deeply carry out the national student “Study the Constitution, Speak on the Constitution” activity. Strengthen publicity and education on the Constitution and the basic laws of the Special Administrative Regions, and enhance the awareness of compatriots in Hong Kong and Macao regarding the constitutional order of the Special Administrative Regions established by the Constitution and the basic laws. Actively publicize the Anti-Secession Law and the policies and principles for promoting the reunification of the motherland, and enhance the awareness of all Chinese people, including our compatriots in Taiwan, of the sacred duty to complete the great cause of the motherland’s reunification.
(II) Deeply Publicize Laws and Regulations Related to Promoting High-Quality Development. Vigorously publicize laws and regulations related to national development plans, optimizing the business environment, promoting the development of the private economy, and advancing comprehensive rural revitalization, serving the construction of a unified national market and accelerating the establishment of a new development paradigm. Vigorously publicize laws and regulations related to the digital economy, platform economy, low-altitude economy, scientific and technological innovation, and intellectual property protection, promoting the development of emerging and future industries, and serving the development of new quality productive forces. Deeply publicize laws and regulations in the financial sector, strengthen the awareness of financial institutions to operate legally and in compliance with regulations, strengthen the protection of the legitimate rights and interests of financial consumers and investors, prevent and defuse financial risks, and promote high-quality development of the financial sector. Deeply publicize laws and regulations related to foreign trade, attracting and utilizing foreign investment, outbound investment, international commercial dispute resolution, and the entry and exit of personnel, serving the expansion of high-standard opening up.
(III) Deeply Publicize Laws and Regulations Related to Maintaining National Security and Social Stability. Vigorously publicize the holistic view of national security and laws and regulations related to national security, and deepen the rule-of-law publicity and education activities for National Security Education Day for all people. Deeply publicize the Law on Patriotic Education, and inherit and promote the spirit of patriotism. Deeply publicize laws and regulations related to national defense and military construction, and cross-military-civilian governance; strengthen the national defense security awareness of the entire population; and enhance the effectiveness of cross-military-civilian governance. Strengthen publicity and education on laws and regulations related to social governance, and promote the construction of a social governance community where everyone has responsibility, everyone fulfills their duty, and everyone enjoys the benefits. Adhere to and develop the “Fengqiao Experience” (枫桥经验 - “Fengqiao experience,” a model for grassroots social governance emphasizing conflict resolution at the local level) in the new era, and deeply publicize laws and regulations related to the diversified prevention, mediation, and resolution of disputes. Deeply publicize laws and regulations related to criminal law, public security management, anti-cult, drug control, cybersecurity, confidentiality, and anti-espionage, and promote the prevention and punishment of illegal and criminal activities. Strengthen rule-of-law publicity and education on emergency response, and encourage the whole society to improve their capacity for emergency prevention and response. Taking forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation as the guiding principle, strengthen rule-of-law publicity and education promoting national unity and progress, enhance the cohesion of the Chinese nation, and advance the building of the Chinese national community. Strengthen rule-of-law publicity and education on religious affairs, guide religious figures and believers to consciously carry out activities within the scope prescribed by laws and regulations, and enhance the entire society’s ability to identify and resist illegal religious activities.
(IV) Deeply Publicize Laws and Regulations Related to Ensuring and Improving People’s Livelihood and Building a Beautiful China. Innovatively carry out the “Better Life · Civil Code Accompanies Me” thematic publicity activity. Deeply publicize laws and regulations in the cultural field, such as those on the protection of cultural heritage and the promotion of nationwide reading. Compile guides for law popularization work concerning areas with significant legal needs for the public, such as transportation, healthcare, labor, consumption, marriage, and family. Focus on hot issues of public concern, and deeply publicize laws and regulations related to promoting employment and entrepreneurship, education, social security, and rural land contracting. Focus on issues such as personal information protection and preventing telecommunications and online fraud; target chaos such as online rumors, online violence, and the “fanquan” (饭圈 - “fan circles,” organized online fan communities) phenomenon; and deeply publicize laws and regulations related to internet governance. Vigorously publicize the Ecological and Environmental Code, carry out a series of activities such as “Beautiful China, I am an Actor,” and strengthen publicity and education on protecting birds and other wildlife according to law.
(V) Deeply Publicize Intra-Party Regulations. Adhere to the organic unity of governing the country according to law and governing the Party according to regulations, and simultaneously strengthen the study, publicity, and education of intra-Party regulations and laws and regulations. Vigorously publicize the Party Constitution and the Party’s organizational regulations, leadership regulations, self-construction regulations, and supervision and guarantee regulations; strengthen the publicity and interpretation of newly formulated and revised intra-Party regulations; and enhance the authority and enforcement of intra-Party regulations. Incorporate intra-Party regulations into the compulsory study content of the theoretical study center groups of Party committees (Party groups), the “Three Meetings and One Lesson” (三会一课 - branch general membership meetings, branch committee meetings, group meetings, and Party lectures) of grassroots Party organizations, and the key content of Party member study and training; normalize the practice of respecting, studying, observing, and using regulations; and educate and guide the vast majority of Party members to understand discipline and rules and know what to fear.
IV. Deeply Implement the Lifelong Rule-of-Law Education System for Citizens
(I) Deepen the Action to Enhance Citizens’ Rule-of-Law Literacy. Extensively carry out mass activities for the publicity and education of the rule of law; strengthen the awareness of rules; advocate for the spirit of contract; promote public order and good customs; and push towards forming a social consensus and behavioral habit of handling affairs according to law, seeking the law when encountering problems, using the law to solve problems, and relying on the law to resolve conflicts. Research and establish baseline standards and an evaluation index system for citizens’ rule-of-law literacy. Vigorously publicize exemplary figures and deeds who respect the law, are inclined towards goodness, and rigorously implement the rule of law.
(II) Incorporate Rule-of-Law Education into the Cadre Education System, and Deepen Rule-of-Law Publicity and Education for National Staff. Improve the system of assessing knowledge of the law for recruitment and daily study of the law for national staff, and incorporate rule-of-law education into education and training plans and programs. Fully implement the list system for intra-Party regulations and laws and regulations that leading cadres should know and must know. Deeply implement the systems for national staff to attend court hearings and for responsible persons from administrative organs to appear in court and respond to lawsuits. Leverage the exemplary and leading role of leading cadres, and encourage the principal responsible persons of Party and government organs to take the lead in teaching rule-of-law lessons. Improve the comprehensive rule-of-law assessment work mechanism, and enhance the rule-of-law literacy and the ability of leading cadres to handle affairs according to law.
(III) Incorporate Rule-of-Law Education into the National Education System, and Strengthen Rule-of-Law Publicity and Education for Young People. Guided by the physical and mental characteristics and growth needs of young people, strengthen positive guidance, and build a pattern of rule-of-law education for young people with the classroom as the mainstay, family coordination, and social linkage. Revise the Outline for Youth Rule-of-Law Education. Incorporate rule-of-law literacy into the scope of comprehensive quality evaluation for students. Promote the full coverage of the assignment of vice principals for rule of law (法治副校长) in primary and secondary schools and their effective performance of duties. Encourage qualified primary and secondary schools to be equipped with rule-of-law course teachers with a background in law, and achieve full coverage of rule-of-law training for rule-of-law course teachers. Implement diversified rule-of-law practical education. Strengthen the coordination of various rule-of-law education activities entering schools. In corrective education, specialized education, and specialized corrective education, focus on strengthening rule-of-law education. Explore the establishment of “Parent Rule-of-Law Classrooms” to enhance parents’ awareness and ability to conduct rule-of-law education for minors.
(IV) Incorporate Rule-of-Law Education into the Social Education System, and Strengthen Rule-of-Law Publicity and Education for Various Groups. Improve the system for enterprise operation and management personnel to study and use the law, and implement a plan to enhance the rule-of-law literacy of private entrepreneurs in the new era. Strengthen rule-of-law publicity and education for platform enterprises and workers in new forms of employment, promote platform enterprises to standardize their employment according to law and protect the legitimate rights and interests of workers in new forms of employment, and guide workers in new forms of employment to abide by rules and regulations and safeguard their rights according to law. Based on the characteristics of groups such as women, the elderly, persons with disabilities, and rural migrant workers, carry out targeted rule-of-law publicity and education. Strengthen rule-of-law publicity and education for village cadres and community workers to improve their ability to serve grassroots governance according to law. Strengthen rule-of-law publicity and education for news media professionals, guiding them to use rule-of-law thinking to interpret social issues and report cases and events according to law and regulations. Strengthen rule-of-law publicity and education for network service providers, network practitioners, and netizens; promote network service providers and network practitioners to operate according to law and fulfill their obligations; and guide netizens to surf the internet civilly and express themselves rationally. Strengthen rule-of-law publicity and education for Chinese citizens and enterprises “going global,” guiding them to comply with Chinese and local laws, and to prevent and respond to legal risks. Strengthen rule-of-law publicity and education for foreigners working and living in China, helping them understand and comply with Chinese laws and regulations, and safeguarding their various legitimate rights and interests in China.
V. Accelerate the Formation of a New Model for Precision in Conducting Rule-of-Law Publicity and Education
(I) Grasp the New Demands for Rule-of-Law Publicity and Education. Explore the establishment of a precise research and judgment mechanism based on big data. Relying on government data, judicial data, internet enterprise data, etc., dynamically identify the public’s needs for rule-of-law publicity and education and weak links in rule-of-law literacy; carry out precise rule-of-law publicity and education for different groups. Promptly understand audience feedback, and dynamically adjust the content and methods of rule-of-law publicity and education.
(II) Explore New Methods for Rule-of-Law Publicity and Education. While making good use of traditional methods of rule-of-law publicity and education, strengthen the construction of an all-media rule-of-law communication system; use forms such as micro-videos, micro-films, micro-dramas, and animations to enhance the communication power and influence of rule-of-law publicity and education. Continue to well-run activities such as the national collection and exhibition of rule-of-law animated and micro-video works. Implement “Rule of Law + Intangible Cultural Heritage,” embedding rule-of-law elements into cultural tourism, sports events, traditional festivals, folk activities, etc. Implement “AI + Law Popularization,” promoting AI-assisted generation, intelligent distribution, and real-time interaction of rule-of-law publicity and education content. Promote the integration of guidance of public opinion on hot social cases and events with rule-of-law publicity and education, guiding law enforcement and judicial organs, media, experts, etc., to promptly carry out rule-of-law interpretations.
(III) Expand New Platforms for Rule-of-Law Publicity and Education. Relying on existing resources, build a “Digital Smart Law Popularization” platform. Strengthen resource sharing with China Judgments Online, the People’s Court Case Database, local rule-of-law publicity and education websites, internet platforms, etc. Build a unified national information platform for laws, regulations, rules, and normative documents. In light of work realities, embed intelligent rule-of-law publicity and education modules into government service platforms, public transportation facilities, community smart terminals, etc. Extend the new media matrix for rule-of-law publicity and education, and create a batch of high-quality new media accounts for rule-of-law publicity and education.
VI. Flourish and Develop Socialist Rule-of-Law Culture
(I) Promote Red Rule-of-Law Culture. Deeply explore, research, and protect red rule-of-law resources; strengthen the research, interpretation, and publicity of rule-of-law elements within the spiritual lineage of the Chinese Communists. Conduct surveys and registration of red rule-of-law sites, relics, and artifacts, and strengthen protection measures. Integrate red rule-of-law elements into cultural venues such as the Museum of the Communist Party of China and museums, creating high-quality and refined exhibitions. Strengthen the construction of a culture of integrity in the new era, promote the entry of integrity culture into all industries and thousands of households, and promote a social atmosphere of esteeming integrity and rejecting corruption.
(II) Inherit Excellent Traditional Chinese Legal Culture. Encourage and support universities, research institutions, media, think tanks, etc., to strengthen the collation and research of ancient Chinese legal texts, artifacts, and sites. Relying on existing resources, build a digital library and resource database of excellent traditional Chinese legal culture. Publish a series of books on traditional legal wisdom and new-era rule-of-law practice. Release typical cases of the inheritance and development of excellent traditional Chinese legal culture.
(III) Enrich the Supply of Rule-of-Law Cultural Products. Strengthen the cultivation of rule-of-law cultural brands, encouraging the creation of distinctive rule-of-law cultural brands based on the actual conditions of specific regions, industries, and groups. Implement a support plan for the creation of outstanding rule-of-law cultural works, build a repository of high-quality rule-of-law cultural works, and organize national-level exchange and exhibition activities.
(IV) Strengthen and Standardize the Construction of Rule-of-Law Cultural Venues. Establish a directory of rule-of-law cultural venues, announce it to the public, and update it dynamically. Strengthen the construction of online rule-of-law cultural venues, creating a number of online rule-of-law cultural dissemination brands. Strengthen the maintenance and updating of facilities and content in rule-of-law cultural venues, and rely on these venues to extensively carry out mass rule-of-law cultural activities.
VII. Perfect the Work System for Publicity and Education of the Rule of Law
(I) Fully Implement the Responsibility System for Law Popularization: “Whoever Enforces the Law Popularizes the Law.” Improve the list system of responsibilities for law popularization by state organs according to the principle “whoever enforces the law popularizes the law.” Include the fulfillment of law popularization responsibilities in reports on the construction of a law-based government and important content in the year-end legal work statements of principal Party and government leaders at the city and county levels. Implement “whoever manages popularizes the law” and “whoever serves popularizes the law,” promoting mass organizations, industry organizations, grassroots self-governing mass organizations, legal service institutions, enterprises, etc., to actively conduct rule-of-law publicity and education. Explore the establishment of collaborative and linkage mechanisms for departmental law popularization and military-civilian law popularization. Implement the system of reminders and accountability for law popularization, and improve the relevant provisions of judicial administrative organs regarding law popularization reminders.
(II) Improve the Integration Mechanism of Rule-of-Law Publicity and Education with Governance According to Law and Rule-of-Law Practice. Deepen governance according to law at the grassroots level and within industries, guiding the people to enhance their rule-of-law literacy through participation in rule-of-law practice and solving practical problems around them. Strengthen publicity and interpretation throughout the entire process of legislation proposal, drafting, review, deliberation, promulgation, and implementation; expand social participation; and promote the implementation of laws and regulations. Strengthen the explanation of legal principles in administrative law enforcement and judicial documents, and formulate guidelines for conducting rule-of-law publicity and education throughout the entire process of law enforcement and case handling. Improve the system for administrative organs, supervisory organs, and judicial organs to publish typical cases; implement the systems of public review and hearings for judicial cases; and strengthen law popularization through cases. Promote the integration of rule-of-law publicity and education with strengthening grassroots governance and advocating for the transformation of outdated customs and habits. Continuously rectify issues such as high bride prices, vulgar wedding celebrations, unhealthy comparisons in social interactions, and neglect of the elderly in favor of lavish funerals.
(III) Improve the System for Public Interest Rule-of-Law Publicity and Education by Media and Network Service Providers. Promote news media to establish special columns and topics on the rule of law, broadcast and publish public service advertisements on the rule of law, and report on rule-of-law news, fulfilling their responsibilities for public interest rule-of-law publicity and education. Party newspapers and metropolitan newspapers at the city and prefecture levels and above should reasonably determine the proportion of space for public interest rule-of-law publicity and education; radio and television stations should increase the production and broadcast of public interest rule-of-law education programs. Promote network service providers, especially large internet platforms, to set up fixed public interest rule-of-law publicity and education columns, actively organize online rule-of-law publicity and education activities, and provide traffic favoritism and push support for authoritative rule-of-law interpretations of hot social cases and events.
(IV) Guide and Standardize Social Forces to Participate in Rule-of-Law Publicity and Education. Deeply implement the “Legal Awareness Person” (法律明白人 - “falü mingbai ren,” persons who understand the law) cultivation project; steadily achieve at least five “Legal Awareness Persons” in each qualified village (community); explore cultivating “Legal Awareness Persons” in industry sectors; and leverage their role as information providers on social conditions and public opinion, propagandists of laws and policies, mediators of conflicts and disputes, and guides for rule-of-law practice. Build a national online school for “Legal Awareness Persons.” Encourage and guide national staff, legal education researchers, legal service workers, and law students to serve as law popularization volunteers; research and formulate work guidelines for law popularization volunteers. Build a brand for university student rule-of-law propaganda groups. Improve the incentive and guarantee mechanism for social forces to participate in rule-of-law publicity and education. Establish a national expert database for rule-of-law publicity and education, and strengthen research on and talent cultivation for rule-of-law publicity and education.
(V) Improve the Risk Prevention and Control Mechanism for Rule-of-Law Publicity and Education. Strictly implement the responsibility system for ideological work; strengthen the management of venues for rule-of-law publicity and education; and do not provide channels for disseminating erroneous thoughts and views related to the rule of law. The content of rule-of-law publicity and education should be accurate and clear, avoiding misleading the public. Reinforce the responsibilities of network service providers, and strictly prevent erroneous interpretations by “self-media” accounts.
VIII. Strengthen Organizational Implementation
Local Party committees and governments at the county level and above should incorporate the work of rule-of-law publicity and education into the overall deployment of rule-of-law construction in their regions, include it in the key content of spiritual civilization construction, safe China construction, and rule-of-law inspection and supervision, and promptly study and solve problems arising in the work. People’s congress standing committees at all levels should strengthen supervision over the work of rule-of-law publicity and education. Judicial administrative departments at all levels should fulfill their responsibilities as competent authorities, and together with Party propaganda departments and others, strengthen the overall coordination, supervision, and guidance of the work of rule-of-law publicity and education. Local governments at the county level and above, based on the level of economic and social development and their own actual conditions, should provide necessary funds for rule-of-law publicity and education, strengthen encouragement, guidance, and standardized management of social funds participating in and supporting rule-of-law publicity and education, and ensure the smooth conduct of the work of rule-of-law publicity and education. Conduct mid-term evaluations and final evaluations of the implementation of the plan. The implementation of the plan should focus on practical results, strictly avoid formalism and bureaucracy, and avoid increasing the burden on grassroots units.
The ninth five-year work on rule-of-law publicity and education for the military shall be carried out with reference to this plan.
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To advance ecological civilization construction, we must enable people to "integrate" into nature in a more scientific way, allowing "trees" and "people" 各得其所 (gè dé qí suǒ - "each gets its proper place," meaning everyone is properly placed), achieving a two-way rush toward ecological sustainability and improved people's livelihoods.
In Xixinan Village (西溪南村), Huangshan, Anhui, the Fengle River (丰乐河) flows through the village, nourishing the native Chinese wingnut forest stretching for several kilometers along its banks, and also creating a dreamlike scene like "The Wizard of Oz." In the past it was obscure, but now the annual tourist reception volume has exceeded 2 million person-trips.
The reason Xixinan Village successfully "broke out of its niche" relies not only on its ecological endowment, but also on management innovation. By creating a wetland ecological rotation rest mechanism and implementing a free admission strategy, it both avoided ecological degradation caused by a surge in tourists and avoided the discontent of villagers and tourists caused by "enclosing land to sell tickets," achieving a multi-win of ecological protection, rural development, and tourist satisfaction.
In recent years, more and more people enjoy landscape sightseeing and outdoor hiking. This brings a new issue: how to scientifically control the degree of tourism development, ensuring that natural ecology is effectively protected and people's livelihood needs are reasonably satisfied. From the practice of ecological governance, blind development that "only sees people, not green trees" is unacceptable, and isolated protection that "only sees trees, not people" is equally inadvisable.
For example, restrictive measures are escalated layer by layer, prohibiting any human activity even in non-core areas; logging and grazing bans are not accompanied by industrial transformation measures, causing local people to lose their income sources; using barbed wire and other methods to enclose mountains and forests, alienating ecological environmental protection into "isolation from the world"... Such practices, while seemingly guarding clear waters and green mountains, actually deviate from the pursuit of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature, and sever the intrinsic connection between ecological protection and people's livelihood development.
Green development, the key lies in straightening out the relationship between humans and nature, making humans co-builders and beneficiaries of ecological civilization. Taking the national park system as an example, the National Park Law (国家公园法) makes the strict requirement that "human activities are prohibited in core protection areas," but at the same time lists several exceptional circumstances, including necessary production and living activities of original residents. "Achieving the unity of ecological protection, green development, and improvement of people's livelihoods" has become a clear rule-of-law principle.
To advance ecological civilization construction, we must enable people to "integrate" into nature in a more scientific way, allowing "trees" and "people" each to get their proper place, achieving a two-way rush toward ecological sustainability and improved people's livelihoods. From ecological poverty alleviation in Changting, Fujian (福建长汀) to bamboo forest carbon sinks in Anji, Zhejiang (浙江安吉), to the under-forest economy in Gongshan, Yunnan (云南贡山), typical cases of ecological protection across various regions powerfully demonstrate that only when people's wallets are thickened by ecology and people's lives are enhanced by ecology can ecological environmental protection gain broader and more enduring endogenous momentum.
More than 2,000 years ago, Zhuangzi envisioned that "Heaven and earth were born together with me, and the ten thousand things are one with me." Today, an important breakthrough of Chinese-style modernization lies in leaping out of the old path of "pollute first, treat later," breaking the mold of "conquering nature, plundering nature," and also avoiding the drawback of "guarding clear waters and green mountains while living a bitter life," painting a new picture of human civilization through the integrated consideration of ecological protection and economic development.
From the systematic concept that "humans and nature are a community of life" to the scientific thesis that "clear waters and green mountains are not only natural wealth and ecological wealth, but also social wealth and economic wealth," Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization provides guidance for us to transform ecological advantages into development advantages. The sound of logging in the Greater Khingan Range in Northeast China has disappeared; summer resort industries and under-forest economies are thriving. "In the past, when a tree fell, it was money; now, when a tree stands, it is even more money." In the past, "poor in the deep mountains," now green and wealth prosper together. Winter skiing competitions and summer cross-country races have made Chongli District, Zhangjiakou, Hebei (河北张家口崇礼区) widely renowned. On the basis of strictly adhering to the red line for ecological protection, the bottom line for environmental quality, and the upper limit for resource utilization, broaden the channel for transforming "clear waters and green mountains" into "gold and silver mountains" — "the green mountains will surely not let people down."
Having both the landscape beauty of "fragrant grass, fresh and beautiful; fallen petals in profusion" and the worldly warmth of "old men and children, all happy and content" — this is the "Peach Blossom Spring" that Chinese people have yearned for for thousands of years. Cherish the verdant green mountains, flourish the warmth of human life, let "green trees" and "people" mutually fulfill each other — the path of sustainable development of Chinese-style modernization will grow ever broader.
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The value of agricultural modernization lies not only in increasing efficiency under favorable conditions, but even more in reducing losses and stabilizing output under adverse conditions. From “relying on the heavens for food” to placing greater emphasis on “knowing the heavens and acting accordingly,” science and technology are continuously empowering grain production.
This year, the national summer grain output reached 301.49 billion jin, breaking through the 300 billion jin mark for the first time, an increase of 0.7% over the previous year — a weighty figure that writes a significant stroke in the opening of the 15th Five-Year Plan.
A bountiful harvest does not mean favorable weather. Last autumn, prolonged rainfall in the Huang-Huai-Hai region caused large-scale late sowing of winter wheat; during this year’s wheat harvest period, some areas encountered heavy precipitation. At the same time, factors such as fluctuations in the international agricultural materials market also put pressure on grain production. From weak seedling conditions at sowing time to “snatching grain from the dragon’s mouth” at harvest, this season’s summer grain has broken through one barrier after another.
Against the backdrop of unfavorable natural conditions, China’s grain output has grown against the trend, demonstrating a strong resilience in resisting risks, adapting to changes, and stabilizing output.
Resilience is the ability to steady one’s position and respond effectively when storms strike. “China must rely on self-reliance to feed itself,” “No matter how modernized this country becomes, grain must mainly rely on itself” — General Secretary Xi Jinping has sounded the alarm for ensuring food security. From implementing the joint responsibility of Party and government for food security, to strengthening the coordination of policies such as prices, subsidies, and insurance, to breaking down and implementing sown area targets, all aspects form a complete chain of responsibility, constantly keeping the string of security taut. It can be said that to build a solid ballast stone for food security, one must first have a sense of responsibility that is “always unable to rest assured.”
Resilience is embodied in the ability to adapt flexibly according to time and place. The key to coping with large-scale late sowing lies in promptly finding remedial methods. “Compensate for late sowing with seeds, compensate for late sowing with density, compensate for late sowing with quality, compensate for late sowing with fertilizer,” promoting the transition from weak to strong, “one spray, three preventions” — one applicable technology after another was implemented in the fields, gradually turning the situation around. With a shortened harvest window, cross-regional dispatching of agricultural machinery, coordination of drying equipment, and follow-up of meteorological warnings all worked to minimize the impact of adverse weather. The value of agricultural modernization lies not only in increasing efficiency under favorable conditions, but even more in reducing losses and stabilizing output under adverse conditions. From “relying on the heavens for food” to placing greater emphasis on “knowing the heavens and acting accordingly,” science and technology are continuously empowering grain production.
Resilience also comes from the full exertion of institutional advantages and governance effectiveness. From planting to harvesting, grain must pass through multiple links: arable land, seeds, agricultural materials, agricultural technology, agricultural machinery, and storage. Any obstruction in any link can affect the final yield. In the face of risks and challenges, both high-standard farmland and water conservancy facilities are needed to strengthen basic support, and good farmland, good seeds, good machinery, and good methods are needed to integrate and increase efficiency; it is necessary both to let the market play its role in allocating resources and to improve the capacity for cross-regional and cross-departmental organization and dispatch. A single technology can solve one problem, but only systemic coordination can hedge against various risks. The “stability” of China’s grain production is the result of the joint support of every entity, every policy, and every link.
The more consecutive years of bumper harvests, the less one can take the harvest for granted; the more one faces uncertainty, the more one must use definite responsibility to hold the bottom line. Continuous “stability” is not simple repetition, but the accumulation of capacity and the improvement of mechanisms through each response to risk. At present, autumn grain production is still advancing, extreme weather events are frequent and multiple, resource and environmental constraints are tightening, and ensuring food security can never be lightly declared as having passed the test; it is still necessary to continue to meet major tests and great challenges with strong resilience.
The resilience of grain production tests the capacity of agriculture to cope with uncertainty and reflects the quality of high-quality development of agriculture, rural areas, and farmers. Only by making the responsibility for food security more solid, moving the threshold for disaster prevention and mitigation further forward, and calculating the accounts for farmers growing grain better, can more unpredictable risks be transformed into manageable challenges. The hard-won bumper harvest tells us a simple truth: the stability of China’s rice bowl relies not on luck, but on our continuously honed ability to weather the storm.
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[Keywords] 众志成城 (zhòng zhì chéng chéng - “many wills form a fortress,” unity is strength).
[Event] Shanghai student Wu Yulun (吴与伦), who had just finished the college entrance exam, saw recruitment information for volunteers online and rushed to Hengzhou City (横州市), Guangxi. Arriving late at night at the disaster relief物资 collection point, he immediately set to work loading and unloading relief supplies. Three high school graduates from Binyang County Kaizhi High School (宾阳县开智中学) — Pan Zongshi (潘宗实), Liu Yu (刘裕), and Ye Yuxuan (叶宇轩) — drove more than 50 kilometers early in the morning to reach the silt-clearing site. They learned the tricks of clearing silt from firefighters and exerted force together while shouting work chants. Shoulder to shoulder, bits of goodwill gathered into a powerful force.
[Commentary]
The actions of a few young people are a microcosm of collective strength in the face of disaster. Floodwaters may have cut off roads, but they could not sever the bond of 守望相助 (shǒu wàng xiāng zhù - “watch over and help each other,” mutual aid) among people.
Caring individuals self-funded the purchase of 30 tons of fresh vegetables from Yunnan and distributed them free of charge to the disaster-affected. From 4 a.m., drone operators flew their drones back and forth, delivering supplies trip after trip. Chefs from other areas brought their own cookware and ingredients, just to ensure the disaster victims could have a hot meal… Every person used the means they were good at to contribute to flood control and disaster relief. A single beam of light may be faint, but when thousands of people gather into thousands of beams, the warmth can reach any place.
When many forces combine, even a weight of ten thousand jun is not too heavy to lift (众力并，则万钧不足举也). Disaster did not make people distant from each other; instead, it made more strangers stand together. Fighting floods and rushing to the rescue has never been one person’s heroism; it is a shared undertaking of an entire city, even an entire nation.
Faced with natural calamities, no one is born fearless. Those figures who spontaneously mobilized and resolutely went against the flow are also ordinary beings. They have families they worry about, they also feel exhaustion and fear. Yet at the moment when the masses need them most, they keep danger for themselves and give hope to others.
What drives a surge of passion is the social virtue that has 蔚然成风 (wèi rán chéng fēng - “flourishing and becoming a custom,” to become common practice). “Be friends with those who come and go, watch over and help each other, support each other in illness” — such choices are inscribed in the bloodline of the Chinese nation. People are not atomized individuals. Upholding the spirit of 扶危济困 (fú wēi jì kùn - “support the endangered, aid the distressed,” to help those in trouble), they treat others’ affairs as their own, kindling a light and adding firewood for others to walk out of hardship. This “all for one, one for all” 古道热肠 (gǔ dào rè cháng - “ancient path, warm heart,” warm-hearted and compassionate) and fraternal mutual aid shape social harmony and trust, drawing people together more closely to advance hand in hand and 同舟共济 (tóng zhōu gòng jì - “in the same boat, cross the river together,” to pull together in times of trouble).
In this race against the floodwaters to save lives, a scientific and efficient emergency response mechanism gave simple kindness a solid foundation. Multiple forces — firefighting, armed police, militia, professional rescue teams, electric power, medical care — coordinated and advanced together. Mechanical clearing, foot marches, drone airdrops, satellite phone communications — multiple methods were deployed simultaneously. Reopening roads, restoring power, securing medical care, supplying materials — every link was interlocked, allowing life passageways to remain unobstructed. From the gradual restoration of roads, power, and communications to the rapid initiation of post-disaster reconstruction, this rescue race against time demonstrated the continuously improving organizational and mobilization capacity of the emergency response system.
We praise courage, but we seek even more a stable and reliable safety guarantee. Every extreme weather event is a major test for emergency management. Only by constantly improving mechanisms and making up for shortcomings with bottom-line thinking and extreme thinking can losses be minimized to the greatest extent. The entire area of Zhenlong Township in Hengzhou City (横州市镇龙乡) was once cut off from contact; hundreds of landslides blocked traffic, bridges were damaged, and communications were severed — this exposed the vulnerabilities of mountain-area infrastructure in the face of extreme weather. How can mountain torrent monitoring and early-warning capabilities be further enhanced? How can remote areas gain a stronger capacity to withstand natural disasters? How can a more efficient emergency communications and material support system be established? These are all practical issues that must be answered seriously.
From party members and cadres charging ahead, to the people’s soldiers pushing deep into the mountains; from white-robed angels (medical workers) standing guard day and night, to volunteers carrying supplies on their shoulders across mountain ranges; from a pot of hot porridge shared among neighbors, to a hot meal at a resettlement site… The most solid dike is not just steel and concrete — it is the unity of wills and mutual help in times of crisis. The floodwaters will eventually recede; the homeland will be rebuilt. The figures who rushed together through the storm are the warmest spiritual strength.
Our country is a major grassland nation, with a grassland area of nearly 4 billion mu, ranking first in the world. The recently issued Forestry and Grassland Protection and Utilization "15th Five-Year" Plan proposes implementing the fourth round of grassland ecological protection subsidy and reward policy and advancing the delineation and protection management of basic grasslands. This will help further enhance the ecological functions of grasslands.
This is exactly:
Clouds brush the green, the intent thick,
Cattle and sheep drink in the mountain stream.
Long protect the wild plains green,
Grasses and trees grow even more lush.
Xu Zhiwen
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On July 15, General Secretary Xi Jinping said during an inspection at the Bansongyuan Road Subdistrict Citizen New Village (半淞园路街道市民新村) in Huangpu District, Shanghai: “In the past, you would stick a bamboo pole out to hang clothes, right? The changes, I saw along the way, are more convenient and aesthetically pleasing.”
What is the change? The original bamboo poles have become retractable clothes racks. In the past, in Shanghai, many old alleyways had limited living space, making it difficult to set aside a drying area inside the home. Residents could only use long bamboo poles to lift clothes out over the windowsill and hang them on “dragon gate frames” (龙门架) to dry.
Behind the bamboo poles and “dragon gate frames” was a long-standing drying problem for residents of old communities: a gust of wind could easily cause the bamboo poles to lose control, posing a risk of falling objects from height; drying heavy clothes and thick quilts required great effort; without uniform safety standards and maintenance, the dense “dragon gate frames” also affected the city’s appearance.
The clothes-drying pole is just a small item, but the quality of life of ordinary people is often hidden in such details. Whether sunlight can reach through the window when opened, whether clothes feel dry and comfortable to wear — only the people living in the rooms know best. The bamboo drying poles disappeared because the old-area renovation project listened to public opinion from the very beginning and incorporated retractable clothes racks into the design drawings. Respecting public opinion is precisely the value orientation that urban renewal should have.
Urban renewal is not only about reshaping buildings; it must ultimately be grounded in people. From the disappearance of bamboo drying poles to the resolution of the “carrying chamber pots” (拎马桶) problem, it all began with seeking advice from the people and asking about their needs. Cadres do not conceive ideas in their offices out of thin air; instead, they go into residents’ homes and hand over the initiative for renovation to the residents themselves. By addressing the urgent concerns of the people and doing every task thoroughly and meticulously, we can continuously enhance the people’s sense of gain, happiness, and security. Handling one by one the matters that concern the people, and making residents the protagonists and designers of urban renewal, will inject lasting vitality into the city.
Every co-construction is the beginning of a win-win. There is no need to shy away from the fact that many places face similar difficulties. Parking, charging, garbage disposal... conflicts are diverse, demands are varied, and the wisdom and strength of the masses are often the magic key to untangling knots. In Yichang, Hubei, through a “discussion hall” (议事厅), merchants and enterprises were brought together to jointly fund renovations. The gray zone of dirt, disorder, and poor conditions under the Zhongnan Road Railway Bridge (中南路铁路桥), which had persisted for over a decade, was transformed into an ecological parking lot, alleviating parking pressure and increasing the turnover of car wash shops. In Loudi, Hunan, platforms for joint discussion and co-governance such as the “All-People City Management Studio” (全民管城工作室) were established, developing over 200,000 urban management volunteers, with services benefiting countless households.
In recent years, against the backdrop of the deepening national new-type urbanization strategy, urban construction is accelerating its departure from large-scale demolition and construction and extensive expansion, placing greater emphasis on connotative development. How can various localities forge new paths suitable for themselves? In the “Urban Renewal ‘15th Five-Year Plan’” (城市更新“十五五”规划), requirements such as “activating the potential of urban stock resources” and “building a mechanism for reasonable co-sharing of funds among government, market, and residents” point the general direction. Only by adhering to the principle that the people’s city is built by the people and the people’s city serves the people can urban renewal bring warmer and richer human touch and vitality to the city.
(Excerpted from Hubei Daily)
Return to TopBy: 董泽扬
The vast South China Sea, China's largest offshore gas field, "Deep Sea No.1," is connected on one end to submarine mineral deposits and on the other to the myriad lights of households.
In Sanya, Hainan, the Nanshan Terminal is the supporting production facility for China's first offshore cooperative gas field—the Yacheng 13-1 gas field. With the formal commissioning of Phase I and Phase II of "Deep Sea No.1," the Nanshan Terminal has gradually expanded and upgraded to receive more natural gas and condensate. Mao Xiaoming (毛小明), director of the Nanshan Terminal, said: "Previously we took the 'order' from Yacheng; now we take the 'big order' from Deep Sea No.1. What has increased is oil and gas output and technological content; what remains unchanged is the blue sea and clear sky, the lush grass and trees."
The "Deep Sea No.1" operation platform, big data, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things have built a "cloud-based gas field." Both remote control and on-site duty can manage the gas field's operational status. Chen Chibin (陈炽彬), the gas field director, introduced that Chinese enterprises have taken over from international oil companies as the operator of the world-class Yacheng 13-1 gas field for over 20 years. "The original gas field operates stably, and the newly developed gas field also has a new look."
The words of the two managers reveal the green foundation of high-quality development, the hardcore achievements of scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening, and also the overall situation awareness and opportunity awareness of enterprises serving the national strategy. Since the "Deep Sea No.1" gas field was put into production, natural gas production capacity has continuously increased, with an annual output of 5 billion cubic meters in 2025, continuously supplying energy to open frontiers such as the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the Hainan Free Trade Port. Oil and gas enterprises have also achieved high-quality development by integrating into regional development strategies. The pipeline network connecting the ocean and the land, and the mutual achievement between enterprises and localities, is precisely a vivid picture of a two-way effort.
In the practice of high-quality development, examples of mutual achievement and mutual promotion are 比比皆是 (bǐ bǐ jiē shì - "everywhere, one after another," abundant). Since the Hainan Free Trade Port began its island-wide customs clearance operations, high-level opening up has gradually benefited the lives of ordinary people. When the first batch of daily consumer goods duty-free shops in the Hainan Free Trade Port opened, there were streams of people and goods turning like wheels. The policy exempts all tax costs in the circulation process of imported goods, allowing Hainan residents' shopping carts to have more high-quality and reasonably priced "zero-tariff" goods. At the same time, customs, commerce and other departments also focus on collecting opinions from enterprises and consumers, updating the duty-free goods list in a timely manner, both meeting the consumption needs of the people and activating new development momentum with new supply. In the process of steady and orderly promotion, opening up to the outside world and expanding domestic demand find a balance point between releasing dividends and controlling risks.
Looking again at oil and gas development, the concept of green development has been internalized in all aspects of enterprise production. The Nanshan Terminal seems to be in a garden; the offshore gas field grows in the blue waves. The beauty of ecology and the charm of industry 交相辉映 (jiāo xiāng huī yìng - "shine together, complement each other"). From this, one can think that carbon reduction, pollution reduction, energy conservation, and emission reduction have shifted from production supply indicators to details of living consumption. New energy vehicle production and sales have repeatedly hit new highs, green home appliances are more popular, and eco-tourism is booming. These green consumption methods sprout from the fertile soil of high-quality development and will also give rise to more new business forms. Ecological environmental protection and economic and social development 相得益彰 (xiāng dé yì zhāng - "each benefits from the other, bring out the best in each other"), which is also a portrayal of mutual achievement in high-quality development.
Mutual achievement requires empathy of putting oneself in the other's shoes and the wisdom of overall planning and balanced consideration. Localities are anxious about what enterprises are anxious about; enterprises think about what localities think about, doing their utmost to consider the other's needs and seek consensus on industrial development. The introduction of a new policy requires all parties to offer suggestions and advice, 集思广益 (jí sī guǎng yì - "pool wisdom and gather suggestions"), and find the greatest common divisor. Only then can exploration be swift and steady, and beneficiaries feel 如沐春风 (rú mù chūn fēng - "like bathing in a spring breeze"). Up and down the chain, and between regions, this "mutual achievement" mindset can also be used to open up new prospects.
In deep-sea oil and gas development, equipment such as subsea Christmas trees and umbilical cables are indispensable. The former is like a "faucet" at the wellhead, controlling flow; the latter connects surface facilities with subsea systems, preventing "loss of communication" and "congestion." Like these advanced pieces of equipment, achieving mutual achievement in high-quality development requires both unblocking bottlenecks and synergistic cooperation. We look forward to more cooperation moving in the same direction to provide support for high-quality development, add vitality to the innovation economy, and add novelty to a better life.
(The author is a reporter from this newspaper's Hainan branch.)
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 宋豪新
On September 3, 2025, the grand ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War was held solemnly at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. J-20A and J-20S aircraft lined up in formation, flapping their wings and sweeping across the sky.
Thousands of miles away in Chengdu, Sichuan, employees of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China, Chengdu Aircraft Industrial (Group) Co., Ltd. (航空工业成都飞机工业（集团）有限责任公司) watched the live broadcast intently. The moment the silver war eagles flew neatly past the reviewing stand, applause broke out, and tears welled up in many eyes. Waving red flags reflected faces of excitement and pride, and also illuminated the original aspiration of generations of Chengfei people to obey the Party's command and serve the country through aviation.
Where the Party flag points, the heart follows. The AVIC Chengfei Party Committee bears in mind and upholds the new-era aviation service-to-country spirit of "loyalty and dedication, 自力更生 (zì lì gēng shēng - "rely on one's own efforts," self-reliance), 艰苦奋斗 (jiān kǔ fèn dòu - "hard struggle"), and daring to scale heights," transforming the Party's political and organizational advantages into surging momentum for overcoming difficulties and achieving innovative breakthroughs.
In the 1980s and 1990s, the generation gap in aviation equipment at home and abroad was significant: the West had fully popularized third-generation fighters, and paperless, digital manufacturing had become the norm; domestic mainstay models still remained at the second-generation level, parts processing relied on template patterns and manual filing, and core manufacturing technology faced numerous barriers.
"Key core technologies cannot be obtained by asking, buying, or begging." Facing the generation gap and technological shortcomings, the AVIC Chengfei Party Committee proactively shouldered the mission, made the strategic decision to tackle digital manufacturing and ensure the successful development of third-generation fighters, and proactively undertook the key application task of the National 863 Program CIMS (Computer Integrated Manufacturing System) project.
Shortage of funds, scarcity of talent, no mature solutions to draw upon — numerous difficulties lay ahead. The Party Committee coordinated, Party branches tackled difficulties, Party members took the lead, and all staff followed, processing a 2-ton aviation high-strength aluminum alloy into a fuselage frame weighing only over 70 kilograms. This integral frame structure represented the implementation of the digital integrated manufacturing system on the key component production line of the J-10.
On March 23, 1998, the J-10 prototype 一飞冲天 (yī fēi chōng tiān - "soar to the sky with one flight," to achieve sudden success), and China joined the ranks of the few countries in the world capable of independently developing third-generation fighters. Looking back on this 峥嵘岁月 (zhēng róng suì yuè - "extraordinary years"), Chengfei people deeply realized that upholding the Party's leadership and strengthening Party building are the "root" and "soul" of state-owned enterprises. It was the Party organization that gathered 众志成城 (zhòng zhì chéng chéng - "many wills form a wall," unity is strength) to overcome difficulties, forging a red iron army with rock-solid faith and daring to fight hard battles amid the predicament of lacking technology and equipment, accumulating a solid technical foundation and talent team for the subsequent development of new-generation stealth fighters.
As the J-20 series entered a production norm of multiple variants, variable batches, and mixed R&D and production lines, traditional manufacturing models could not meet the requirements of a strong country and strong military. The AVIC Chengfei Party Committee anchored on the strategic task of developing new quality productive forces, issued the implementation plan for "Digital Intelligent Aviation" construction, using Party building to promote digital and intelligent transformation across the entire chain, clearing the blockages and difficulties in smart manufacturing upgrades.
The Party flag is planted at the forefront of scientific research and production. On the smart manufacturing production line, post-90s young Party member Cui Zhizhuo (崔志卓) led the formation of a youth assault team with an average age under 30, shouldering the heavy responsibility of developing an AI platform, independently building the "Chengfei Yizhi" AI open platform, embedding AI deeply into J-20 production, management, and other processes. Party members and backbone of the CNC manufacturing laboratory Party branch rooted themselves in the workshop, striving to tackle key problems, achieving 24-hour automated machining of large fighter structural parts without human intervention. On the final assembly line, the "J-20 aircraft final assembly integration testing technology breakthrough" Party member vanguard team explored a new model of deep human-machine collaborative assembly, achieving a substantial leap in assembly quality and efficiency. At inspection and testing posts, Party members Han Liya (韩利亚) and Liu Qinghua (刘清华) used AI technology to empower front-end design and parts manufacturing, using digital means to fortify the quality defense line of the nation's major equipment. Grassroots Party organizations injected strong momentum into industrial transformation. In November 2025, the Chengfei advanced aviation equipment flexible and agile smart factory was selected for the first batch of national pilot-level smart factory cultivation list.
The pace of innovation never stops. Groups of young Party member backbone personnel have stepped onto frontier tracks such as the low-altitude economy and green low-carbon. They aim at cutting-edge aviation technologies, successively overcoming key core technologies such as vertical takeoff and landing, proactively exploring application scenarios such as emergency rescue and forest fire prevention, promoting unmanned equipment from the laboratory to real application scenarios. Now, the "Cloud Shadow" (云影) and "Sky Wing" (天翅) series of UAVs have been successively introduced.
From traditional manufacturing to a national pilot-level smart factory, standing at a new starting point, the AVIC Chengfei Party Committee will always adhere to the Party's overall leadership, continuously strengthen grassroots battle fortresses, keep a close eye on independent controllability of core technologies and make unremitting efforts to overcome difficulties, writing a new chapter of aviation personnel's 赤胆忠诚 (chì dǎn zhōng chéng - "utter devotion and loyalty") and wisdom triumphing over the blue sky.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 郁静娴
The "seven-down, eight-up" (七下八上) main flood season is both a period of high incidence of agricultural disasters and a critical period for the formation of autumn grain yields. According to meteorological department forecasts, during this year's main flood season, temperatures nationwide will be on the high side, drought and flood will coexist, the number of landfalling typhoons will be on the high side and their intensity on the strong side, and regional and periodic drought and flood disasters will be pronounced.
Corn is the main autumn grain crop, accounting for more than half of total autumn grain output. In mid-July, the main corn-producing areas of China encountered a complex meteorological disaster of super typhoon Bavi superimposed with convective weather.
"Such a long-track, wide-ranging deep inland incursion is not common," said Li Congfeng (李从锋), a post scientist in the National Corn Industry Technology System and a researcher at the Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (中国农业科学院作物科学研究所). He explained that currently, spring corn in the northeast is in the critical flowering and pollen-shedding period, summer corn in the Huang-Huai-Hai region is in the critical ear differentiation period, and some low-lying areas have varying degrees of field waterlogging, with prominent risks of waterlogging and soil saturation.
Li Congfeng said that waterlogging easily leads to premature root senescence and yellowing of lower leaves, affecting normal plant growth and development. Once soil waterlogging exceeds three days, it will markedly affect yield. In addition, the Huang-Huai-Hai region also faces a complex situation where "early-stage waterlogging and later-stage drought" coexist, with a narrow management window.
In the northwest spring corn region, some areas suffered hail and wind damage caused by strong convective weather. Experts said that this weather appeared 15 to 20 days earlier than in previous years, with high intensity and wide extent. The hail disaster directly damaged leaves in some fields, broke stalks, or damaged ears. Leaf damage at this stage will weaken photosynthetic capacity and affect grain filling.
Experts pointed out that draining water and removing soil saturation is the urgent task at present, and after drainage, attention must also be given to pest and disease control.
Li Congfeng said that for waterlogged corn plots, efforts should be made to drain the field water within 24 hours. Because high-humidity conditions accelerate the prevalence of corn stalk rot, northern leaf blight, southern rust and other diseases, waterlogged plots must strengthen pest and disease prevention and control and apply timely supplemental fertilizer.
In Heilongjiang, rice is in the booting to heading stage. "Considering that precipitation during the flood season in July and August may be on the high side, combined with the rice field growth situation and the generally large amount of topdressing applied to rice earlier, there may be a risk of rice blast prevalence in the later period," said Cao Liyong (曹立勇), director of the Northern Rice Research Center of the China National Rice Research Institute.
He cautioned that in the face of extreme weather with heavy precipitation, rice field water must never be drained all at once under high temperatures and strong sunlight; a thin water layer should be retained to prevent seedling wilting. After the weather improves, water can be drained to expose the field and promote root recovery, followed by the method of "frequent irrigation with shallow water" to avoid long-term deep flooding leading to root hypoxia and premature plant senescence. During the rice booting stage and full heading stage, chemical control is needed, and the prevention, control and monitoring of rice sheath blight and insect pests must also be strengthened.
To promote the return of crops to normal growth, many details require attention in field management.
During this period, regarding the restoration of production after disasters for crops such as rice, soybeans and sugarcane, the National Agricultural Technology Extension Service Center (全国农技中心), in conjunction with relevant experts, formulated and released relevant technical guidance opinions.
From mid-June to mid-July, during the plum rain season in the Yangtze River Basin, rainfall processes were concentrated, gusty winds were frequent, and combined with persistent high temperatures in July and the impact of typhoons, fields are prone to multiple compound disasters such as waterlogging and root rot, plant lodging, high-temperature flower and pod drop, and pests and diseases, adversely affecting the maturation and harvest of spring soybeans and the flowering and podding of summer soybeans.
"If the temperature remains above 33 degrees Celsius for an extended period during the soybean flowering period, it is easy to cause flower and pod drop," cautioned Yang Zhonglu (杨中路), a member of the Soybean Expert Guidance Group of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) and an associate researcher at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He noted that recently, extreme high temperatures in the Yangtze River Basin coincide with the summer soybean flowering period; attention should be paid to applying additional boron fertilizer to protect flowers and pods, and combined with foliar spraying of some foliar fertilizers or growth regulators to enhance soybean stress resistance and avoid yield reduction due to high-temperature heat damage.
Affected by the recent typhoon Maysak, many areas in Guangxi have experienced persistent heavy rainfall and strong winds, adversely affecting sugarcane production. Chen Changbing (陈常兵), a promotion researcher in the Economic Crops Technical Division of the National Agricultural Technology Extension Service Center, introduced that for small-area sugarcane fields where lodging has occurred, manual straightening can be carried out, avoiding damage to roots and stalks caused by excessive pulling force. Straightened sugarcane can be tied up; the tying position should be at about two-thirds the height of the cane plant. After straightening, allow about 15 days for recovery growth, then promptly untie the binding rope. For sugarcane that has been straightened after lodging, wait until the roots and leaves have recovered before applying supplemental fertilizer.
How to strengthen post-disaster remediation? Experts suggest that measures should be tailored to local conditions and classified treatment should be applied.
Rice can be classified for retention or timely replanting depending on the situation. Wan Kejiang (万克江), director of the Grain Crop Technical Division of the National Agricultural Technology Extension Service Center, introduced that for crop failure fields in double-cropping rice areas, early-maturing late-season rice varieties with a growth period of 90 to 100 days should be selected for rush sowing before late July; for fields where thermal conditions permit and the rootstocks and regeneration buds remain active, ratoon rice can be retained, with cutting completed 3 to 5 days after the flood recedes. Cutting at a stubble height of 15 to 20 cm should be done from late July to early August, and cutting at a stubble height of around 30 cm should be done around August 10, to ensure safe maturation.
"For plots severely affected by waterlogging or hail disasters, where growth points have necrotized and there is total crop failure, the remaining plant debris should be promptly cleared and the fields replanted with short-season crops to minimize losses to the greatest extent," Li Congfeng said.
In terms of variety selection, farmers can choose silage corn, buckwheat, as well as short-season miscellaneous beans such as mung beans and red beans, or fast-growing leafy vegetables such as autumn beans and bok choy — provided that sowing is completed before the end of July to ensure normal harvest. If the season is too late and unsuitable for planting cash crops, green manure crops such as milk vetch can be sown to improve soil fertility, laying a foundation for the next season's crop planting.
Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has organized and implemented a campaign to "fight for 100 days, strengthen field management, combat disasters, and seize autumn grain harvest." Focusing on key crops, key regions, and major disasters, it has organized work teams and science and technology squads to go down to the front line, implementing field management and per-unit yield enhancement measures such as scientific fertilization, water-saving irrigation, and foliar spraying by crop, by region, and by growth stage.
At the same time, closely monitoring major disasters such as torrential rain and flooding, high-temperature heat damage, drought, and typhoons, it guides the implementation of disaster prevention and mitigation measures such as clearing ditches and managing soil moisture, chemical control for lodging prevention, and one-spray multiple-promotion; it closely monitors major pests and diseases such as rice planthoppers and leaf folders and rice blast, corn ear pests and southern rust, and soybean pod borers and root rot, and carries out unified prevention and control, joint prevention and control, and emergency prevention and control, to minimize disaster losses and go all out to secure the autumn grain and the annual grain harvest.
Return to TopPeople's Daily, Shanghai, July 27 (Reporter Tian Hong (田泓)) The ninth China International Import Expo will be held in Shanghai from November 5 to 10. On July 27, Wu Zhengping (吴政平), Party Secretary and Deputy Director of the China International Import Expo Bureau (中国国际进口博览局), introduced at the ninth China International Import Expo press briefing that currently, all preparatory work for the ninth CIIE is fully underway and steadily advancing, achieving phased progress.
Work on the national exhibitions is progressing smoothly. For the ninth CIIE, 57 countries and 3 international organizations have confirmed participation in the national exhibitions, with Moldova, Romania, and the United Nations Development Programme participating for the first time. At the same time, support is given to relevant countries' provinces, states, and cities to participate, showcasing the results of local cooperation between China and foreign countries. Regarding Countries of Honor, Canada has announced that it will be invited to serve as Country of Honor for the second time. The ninth CIIE has innovatively designed Country of Honor theme days, enriched the Country of Honor "benefits package," and will also hold diverse booth activities, exploring "inside the hall + outside the hall" exhibition-city linkage. The China Pavilion will take "Open Up New Horizons, Win a New Future Together" (开创新局面 共赢新未来) as its theme, comprehensively displaying the new opportunities and new visions for China's economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period (十五五).
The enterprise exhibition continues to maintain a super-large scale. It sets up six major exhibition areas — technology equipment, consumer goods, agricultural and food products, automobiles and smart mobility, medical equipment and healthcare, and trade in services — as well as an innovation incubation zone. Currently, more than 1,200 enterprises from 99 countries and regions have signed up to exhibit, an increase of over 100 compared to the same period last year; the contracted exhibition area exceeds 340,000 square meters, an increase of nearly 10,000 square meters compared to the same period last year. There are 265 Fortune Global 500 and industry-leading enterprises, an increase of 10 compared to the same period last year; 169 enterprises and 30 overseas exhibition organizing institutions have become "full-attendance participants" (全勤生) for all nine editions of the CIIE. Developed economies remain the main force of exhibitors, with US enterprises having the largest contracted area; the current contracted areas of enterprises from France, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand have already exceeded last year's. This year, the Asia-Africa Products Zone will also be upgraded, actively helping enterprises and exhibits from African countries with diplomatic relations to seize the "zero tariff" opportunity.
The Hongqiao Forum has determined its theme and topic framework. The Hongqiao Forum, held concurrently with the CIIE, will take "Stable Cooperation, Jointly Build an Open World Economy" as its theme, striving to expand international influence. This year, it will launch a "dual flagship" (双旗舰) report, continue to release the World Openness Report 2026 and the latest World Openness Index, systematically study new trends in global openness and development, invite Nobel Prize laureates in economics and other renowned domestic and international scholars and experts to share cutting-edge research and practical experience, and comprehensively display the rich content of "China Opportunity 2.0"; it will also release for the first time the Export to China Capability Development Report (出口中国能力发展报告), analyzing the potential of China's large market and helping more countries enhance their export capacity to China.
Return to TopOn July 27, at the construction site of the Longrong Expressway in Longsheng, Guangxi. The Longrong Expressway is an important part of vertical line 8 of the Guangxi expressway network, with two-way four lanes and a design speed of 100 km/h.
Photo by Pan Zhixiang (潘志祥) (Image China).
By: 本报记者 姚雪青
517 kilometers high, in a Sun-synchronous orbit, the Xihe (羲和号) , laden with humanity's curiosity about the Sun, completes one orbit around the Earth every 96 minutes, keeping its "appointment" with the Sun 15 times a day. During each 30‑minute encounter, it adjusts its attitude to aim at the Sun, recording the slow pulsations of photospheric sunspots, the sudden eruptions of chromospheric flares, and subtle spectral fluctuations.
The observation data transmitted from space flows into the Solar Science Data Center at Nanjing University — this is the ground‑based "headquarters" of the Xihe science and application system. Over the many years from project demonstration to on‑orbit Sun‑chasing, a group of researchers willing to sit on the cold bench (耐得住寂寞 - endure solitude patiently) have been dismantling, bit by bit, the puzzles hidden in the sunlight. Li Chuan (李川) , professor at the School of Astronomy and Space Science of Nanjing University and chief designer of the Xihe science and application system, has walked this road of chasing light and the Sun and exploring the unknown for nearly twenty years.
"Follow the choice of the heart"
One day in 2014, Li Chuan, then teaching at Nanjing University, was called to the office by his doctoral advisor, Fang Cheng (方成) , an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences: "Do you want to make a satellite for detecting the Sun?" Li Chuan did not answer immediately. Many years later he recalled that this sentence became the turning point of his life.
In 1981, Li Chuan was born into an ordinary family in Zibo (淄博) , Shandong. From childhood he was full of curiosity about the starry sky. After graduating from undergraduate studies, he was admitted to the Department of Astronomy (now the School of Astronomy and Space Science) of Nanjing University for a combined master's–doctoral program, and later joined the "Solar Research Group."
Within the astronomical community, solar research is not a hot track, but Li Chuan always believed it had irreplaceable research value. Li Chuan explained that the Sun is the nearest star to Earth, and the eruptive activity that occurs on the Sun can also happen on other distant celestial bodies. The more humans understand the physical processes of the Sun, the deeper their understanding of the universe.
After earning his Ph.D. in 2008, Li Chuan went to Europe for postdoctoral research, focusing on solar eruptions and high‑energy particles. Li Chuan discovered that observing the Sun from the ground is inevitably interfered with by the atmosphere and clouds. Europe and the United States had long since launched multiple solar satellites and deep‑space probes, ushering in space‑based solar observation; China, however, had no solar observation satellite of its own. Chinese scholars could not obtain first‑hand raw data and could only use publicly available data from foreign satellites for follow‑up research.
His mentor Fang Cheng encouraged him, but Li Chuan was worried: "Publishing papers using other people's data gives less of a sense of achievement. If I switch to working on satellites, I have to first put down my current research and open a new path. If it fails, I end up with nothing."
"The country must eventually have its own solar observation satellite," Li Chuan told himself. "This time, I will follow the choice of my heart. Even if it fails, it doesn't matter."
"No results, but everything was worth it"
To build a satellite, the first step was to define the scientific objectives. As a pathfinder, Xihe's core function is to observe the solar Hα spectrum. This is one of the most important spectral lines in visible sunlight; it helps humans detect the lower atmosphere and understand the physical processes in the source regions of solar activity.
But the Hα spectral band is extremely narrow. Conventional imaging would cause the signal to be drowned out by the background spectrum and become indistinguishable. Li Chuan said that Xihe's core innovation is to adopt a "CT scan" approach, scanning the internal structure layer by layer.
The basic principle of the core payload demonstrated by Nanjing University, the Solar Hα Imaging Spectrograph (太阳Hα成像光谱仪) , is: first let sunlight pass through a slit 9 micrometers wide, then spread the spectrum via a grating with 1900 line pairs per millimeter, making the spectrum clearer.
This design essentially squeezes a "solar tower" (tower‑type solar telescope) dozens of meters high into a science payload only 70 centimeters on each side — a challenge far beyond imagination. The research group contacted various research institutes to develop the payload. Two earlier collaborations failed because the technical threshold was too high and the compatibility was insufficient.
In 2018, the research group reached a cooperation agreement with the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院长春光学精密机械与物理研究所) , and the satellite payload development was implemented. In June 2019, after review, Xihe received approval for project establishment from the China National Space Administration (国家航天局) , with joint efforts from Nanjing University, the Eighth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (中国航天八院) , Changchun Institute of Optics, and other units. "This is a day to remember!" Li Chuan said. "Five years with no papers, no results — but everything was worth it."
The launch was scheduled for before the end of 2021, leaving very little time. The R&D team directly skipped the prototype stage and jumped from the principle prototype to the flight model. Li Chuan led the team into a "devilish rhythm": flying to partner units at least once a week, holding online meetings almost every day, working non‑stop to chew through all the problems.
On October 14, 2021, Xihe was launched, and China officially entered the era of space‑based solar observation. Standing at the launch site, Li Chuan breathed a sigh of relief. But the real test had only just begun.
As the satellite entered orbit and the first‑light observation data were transmitted back, Li Chuan's mood went from excitement to dejection: the spatial resolution did not meet expectations. Both engineering units guaranteed that their products were definitely fine. So the most likely cause was that vibration during launch had displaced some movable part.
The spectrograph had five movable parts in total; they could only be tried one by one. Li Chuan gave adjustment suggestions to the two units, which sent commands to the satellite; each time the satellite flew over Chinese territory, one micro‑adjustment was made. Yet eight consecutive months brought no progress. "This was the most desperate period in my scientific career, but I could not give up." Li Chuan led the team to keep persevering. When adjusting individual parts had no effect, they switched to adjusting several parts together in groups.
On August 3, 2022, nearly ten months after Xihe entered orbit, the quality of the images drawn from its transmitted data — spectral resolution, temporal resolution, and so on — all reached their optimal levels. At that moment, Li Chuan was filled with a mixture of emotions (百感交集, bǎi gǎn jiāo jí - "a hundred feelings interweave," overwhelmed by many emotions).
"Holding onto the spirit of perseverance and optimism"
Xihe's design life was three years, and it has now exceeded its service period on station. Over these years, Li Chuan's team's work has been to command the satellite for on‑orbit calibration every two months, process the data, and release it to the world. "The solar images and edited popular‑science videos we share on the website are not directly taken by the satellite. The raw data are like negatives; they need 'calibration' and 'color grading' to become beautiful solar images," Li Chuan said.
The process of handling satellite data is also Li Chuan's method of training students. Among his students, 11 have participated in satellite development work. Some have fallen in love with solar research; others have grown into data‑processing experts capable of handling tasks independently.
Over five years, the team has delivered its report card. "For the first time, we accurately depicted the three‑dimensional image of the Sun's atmospheric rotation," Li Chuan said. Previously, it was widely believed that the inner layers of the solar atmosphere rotated faster and the outer layers slower. The observation data overturned this conclusion: the solar magnetic field "drags" the outer atmosphere, so it rotates faster. To date, research teams from 16 countries have downloaded and used Xihe data, significantly boosting China's international influence in the field of solar physics.
The Sun‑chasing pace does not stop. Just one day before Xihe was launched, the first demonstration meeting for Xihe-2 (羲和二号) was already held at the launch site. When Xihe-2 was officially established as a project in December 2025, the team had expanded to 30 people.
Li Chuan often tells his students: "In those days we were chasing after others; now it is our turn to lead everyone forward. Holding onto the spirit of perseverance (锲而不舍, qiè ér bù shě - "carve without stopping," persistent and unremitting) and optimism, we will surely go farther."
Reporter's Notes
Chasing light and the Sun, bravely scaling the heights of science and technology
From "using other people's data" to "leading everyone forward," Xihe chases light and the Sun. This is not only a breakthrough from nothing to something, but also a portrayal of scientists forging ahead with dedication.
Scaling the heights of science and technology requires the steadiness to be willing to sit on the cold bench. Should one do follow‑up research or pursue original innovation? Li Chuan chose the harder path. It is precisely this kind of selfless, persistent perseverance that has yielded breakthroughs in the midst of repeated dead ends.
Scaling the heights of science and technology requires the boldness to venture into uncharted territory. Xihe's innovative development had no ready‑made experience to follow. When conventional imaging didn't work, they innovated with "CT scanning"; when cooperation failed, they started from scratch... Breakthroughs never belong to those who stick to the rules, but to those who dare to try and innovate.
Scaling the heights of science and technology also requires a relay of passing down the torch. From Xihe to Xihe-2 — a cause progresses steadily through the intergenerational transmission of the scientist spirit. Scientific innovation requires one generation to stand on the shoulders of the previous generation and gaze toward the more distant sea of stars.
To build a strong nation in science and technology, we need more steadfast people like Li Chuan, enabling more fields to achieve the leap from catching up to leading.
Return to TopDuring the daytime of July 27, heavy rainstorms occurred in Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Sichuan and other areas. The National Meteorological Center predicts that the remnant system of "Hongxia" will continue to affect Hunan, Hubei and other areas, with heavy precipitation in Sichuan, Jilin and other areas. Specifically, from the night of the 27th to the 30th, there will be heavy to rainstorms in Guangdong, central and eastern Guangxi, southern and eastern Fujian, central and northern Hunan, central and western Jiangxi, central and eastern Hubei, Henan, western Shandong, southeastern Gansu, southern Shaanxi, central and southern Sichuan, western Chongqing, Yunnan, northeastern Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, northeastern Jilin and other areas, with heavy rainstorms in some areas and extremely heavy rainstorms in local areas along the coast of South China.
At 18:00 on July 27, the National Meteorological Center issued a yellow warning for rainstorms, a blue warning for severe convective weather, and a yellow meteorological risk warning for small and medium river floods; the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) and the China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局) jointly issued a yellow meteorological warning for flash flood 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.
From July 27 to 28, the risk of flash floods, geological disasters, and small and medium river floods is relatively high in central and southern Hubei, the Sichuan Basin and other areas. The National Flood Control Headquarters (国家防总) decided at 18:00 on July 27 to initiate a Level IV flood emergency response for Hubei and Sichuan.
Recently, the Office of the National Flood Control Headquarters (国家防总办公室) and the Office of the State Council Work Safety Committee (国务院安委会办公室) issued a notice requiring all regions and relevant departments to further improve enterprise flood safety management and effectively prevent and mitigate major flood disaster risks. On July 27, the Ministry of Finance (财政部) and the Ministry of Emergency Management (应急管理部) urgently allocated 180 million yuan in central natural disaster relief funds to support six provinces including Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, Liaoning, and Jilin in carrying out flood prevention, typhoon emergency rescue and disaster relief work, with a focus on search, rescue, transfer and resettlement of affected people, hazard removal and emergency response, so as to effectively protect the safety of people's lives and property.
A reporter learned from the Ministry of Water Resources: On July 27, the Ministry of Water Resources made targeted arrangements for key defense work, maintaining a Level III flood defense emergency response for three provinces—Jiangxi, Hunan, and Guangdong—and a Level IV flood defense emergency response for four provinces—Fujian, Henan, Hubei, and Guangxi; eight working groups and expert teams from the Ministry of Water Resources are assisting and providing guidance on the front line of rainstorm and flood defense in Guangdong, Fujian and other provinces.
As the main body of typhoon "Hongxia" gradually weakens and moves north, the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government require all localities to closely monitor risk points such as slope-cutting housing, valley slopes, low-lying villages, and small and medium-sized reservoirs, and to coordinate the full chain of disaster investigation, fault handling, and ensuring power supply for people's livelihoods. The natural resources department has intensified patrols of geological disaster hazard points; the water conservancy department has continuously inspected tens of thousands of reservoirs and embankments, closely monitoring dangerous sections that exceed warning water levels; the housing construction and urban management departments have conducted hazard inspections on underground garages and drainage networks. Guangdong has organized emergency response, firefighting, transportation, armed police and other forces to clear fallen trees and unclog flooded road sections. The Guangdong Maritime Safety Department has conducted cruise inspections of waterways and anchorages. The Guangdong Provincial Finance Department (广东省财政) allocated 50 million yuan in disaster relief funds to support Huizhou, Shanwei, Jieyang, Meizhou, Heyuan and other places in carrying out hazard remediation and disaster relief.
(Reporters by this newspaper: Jiang Xuehong (蒋雪鸿), Liu Wenxin (刘温馨), Qu Zhehan (曲哲涵), Deng Jianyang (邓剑洋), Cheng Yuanzhou (程远州), Yang Xun (杨迅))
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王 者
The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee meeting held on April 28 pointed out that planning and construction of the water network, new-type power grid, computing power network, new-generation communication network, urban underground pipeline network, logistics network, etc., should be strengthened.
As the core carrier of the modern infrastructure system, the "six networks" are an indispensable part of the modern industrial system and are of great significance for stabilizing investment, expanding consumption, and benefiting people's livelihoods.
Starting today, this edition launches a series of reports, visiting the vivid practices of various localities in promoting the construction of the "six networks" in light of local conditions, to see how the "six networks" cross mountains and rivers and illuminate life.
— Editor
"Look, each grain is full and plump, another bumper harvest year!" In Laoguanzhang Village, Zhengjiazhen Town, Lingcheng District, Dezhou City, Shandong Province, large grain grower Zhang Linhe bent down, grabbed a handful of wheat from his own granary, and said with emotion: "This good year cannot be separated from abundant irrigation."
The modern water network is being accelerated in construction. Through interconnecting and supplementing the network, it promotes the optimal allocation and spatial balance of water resources, enhances water resource carrying capacity, and empowers high-quality development in various regions and industries. As a national-level pilot zone for the city-level water network, Dezhou City strengthens the construction of a modern water network. By using a digital twin water network platform, it improves the digital, networked, and intelligent level of water network operation and management, ensuring economic and social development.
Aggregating water-related data to ensure agricultural production
"We have sufficient water supply here—can irrigate in drought, can drain in waterlogging—growing grain gives us confidence!" Zhang Linhe said.
At Shangmiao Gate of the main Huanghe River diversion canal of the Panzhuang Irrigation District in Dezhou City, the artificially constructed Huanghe diversion channel meets the Majia River, continuously delivering irrigation water to the fields of Lingcheng District. Entering the Dezhou Digital Water Network Dispatching Center, on the large screen, the water diversion decision-making module of the digital twin water network platform updates information such as river flow and soil moisture in real time.
"Information on Dezhou's 24 reservoirs, 5 main streams, 89 tributaries, and 1,559 drainage ditches is all aggregated in the same system," introduced Xue Yi, director of the Smart Water Office of the Dezhou Water Resources Bureau. "We can grasp in real time how much water the city distributes each day, how much water it uses in total, and how much water remains in the river channels."
Since 2023, Dezhou City has vigorously promoted the construction of the digital twin water network, achieving unified aggregation and governance of the city's water-related data. As of now, a total of 140 million pieces of water use data have been collected, and data services have been provided to the outside more than 20 million times.
The data originates from the digital information three-dimensional monitoring network within the water network. In recent years, Dezhou City has deployed 37 regional flow meters, 960 large-user water pressure collection points, 11 water quality monitoring points, and 5 remote-regulation peak-shaving pumping stations, achieving full coverage of perception from water sources and water plants to key nodes of the pipeline network, and collecting water-related data in real time. "The system integrates and calculates the data; system decision-making assistance compensates for the shortcomings of manual work, making water supply more targeted," Xue Yi said.
Before the peak of spring irrigation water use this year, the Dezhou Water Resources Bureau used the digital twin water network platform to conduct digital and intelligent analysis of reservoir storage conditions, water source conditions, and Huanghe diversion irrigation capacity, calculated the city's overall irrigation water demand, and initiated the diversion of Huanghe River water in advance, ensuring an abundant water source for spring irrigation.
Using this platform, flood control and drainage have also become more efficient. During the autumn flood season last year, some farmland in Dezhou experienced severe waterlogging, and wheat was sown more than a month later than usual. The platform quickly retrieved high-resolution satellite remote sensing data, comprehensively grasped the waterlogging situation in the city's farmland, automatically calculated priority drainage areas, lowered the water level of main streams, freed up storage capacity, and made every effort to accelerate drainage from tributaries, ditches, and low-lying waterlogged areas, ensuring that winter wheat was planted by the end of November. After the autumn flood season ended, areas with weaker wheat seedling conditions and areas prone to waterlogging were precisely overlaid onto a map, providing a clear "map" for scientifically managing low-lying waterlogged land.
Through decision-making using the digital twin water network platform, as of now, Dezhou City has managed a total of 480,000 mu of low-lying waterlogged land, managed 4,181 field ditches totaling 2,583 kilometers, opened up the last 1 meter of farmland irrigation and drainage, and provided a solid guarantee for a "one-and-a-half-ton-grain" yield per mu under waterlogging disaster conditions.
Controlling water quality at the plant outlet, facilitating people's water use
With the smart water network established, domestic water use has also become more convenient. At Zhang Linhe's home, turning on the faucet, clear water gushes out with a gush. "The water quality is good, and using water is convenient," said Zhang Linhe's wife, Li Xiuqin. "Now every household has installed a smart water meter."
Since 2022, Shandong Province has promoted the intelligent transformation of rural household water meters. Lingcheng District has installed a total of 137,000 smart water meters, achieving a 100% intelligent rate for rural household meters in the entire district. Smart water meters can detect leaks in time through abnormal flow alarms, while also uploading daily water use data, connecting to the digital twin water network platform. "How much water is used at home can be viewed in real time on the mobile phone, and water bills can also be paid through the platform—it's especially convenient," Li Xiuqin said.
"Dezhou has abundant per capita water resources. Using the digital twin water network platform, the common people can realize good water use and convenient water use," said Li Shouxue, director of the Dezhou Water Resources Bureau.
Entering the Comprehensive Regulation and Control Center of the Lingcheng District Water Supply Center, staff member Li Huali is using the digital twin water network platform to monitor real-time water use data. Water from Dingdong Reservoir flows through the main stream, then passes through the underground pipeline network, and after treatment here, flows into the pipes of thousands of households.
"The digital twin water network platform allows us to control the water quality at the plant outlet more precisely," Li Huali introduced. In 2024, the Lingcheng District Water Supply Center used the platform to establish a mathematical model for sodium hypochlorite dosing. Through the two variables of dosing amount and real-time water volume, the simulated value of residual chlorine in the plant outlet water was calculated.
"Look, from the monitoring curve, it can be seen that the difference between the real-time value and the simulated value is very small, which means the residual chlorine value of the plant outlet water is stable and meets the standard," Li Huali said, pointing at the screen. "If the difference between the two values exceeds the threshold, it indicates an abnormality in the dosing process, and we need to adjust production to ensure the disinfection process remains stable and up to standard for a long time."
The Lingcheng District Water Supply Center has also established an online early warning hydraulic model of the pipeline network. Based on the real pipeline network topology structure, it simulates pressure and flow distribution in real time, sets early warning rules such as abnormal pressure and minimum flow, and can predict risks such as pipe bursts and low pressure several hours in advance and automatically locate the abnormal pipe section. After the system was applied, it successfully issued early warnings for multiple leakage risks, reduced the time for maintenance personnel to arrive on site to within 20 minutes, and reduced the pipeline network leakage rate to below 9%.
Carrying out intelligent dispatching, realizing "model-based decision-making"
After receiving an instruction from the Dezhou Digital Water Network Dispatching Center, the Jinqidian Gate at the upper reaches of the Majia River opened, and water from Liaocheng City surged into the Majia River. Using the digital twin water network platform, a cross-city flood discharge and water diversion operation was efficiently and successfully completed.
Not long ago, in order to cope with the peak summer water demand, Dezhou City diverted water from the Huanghe River to the Majia River to replenish the water source for reservoirs within the urban area. However, continuous rainfall in Shandong caused the water level of the river channel at the upper reaches of the Majia River to keep rising, making it urgent to open the Jinqidian Gate and use the Majia River for flood discharge.
"If we open the gate and release water without waiting for the water supply to be completed, the rainwater from upstream will flow into the water supply river channel, contaminating the drinking water source," Xue Yi said. But if the gate is not opened in time to release the floodwater, the river channels in the upstream cities will exceed the warning water level, creating a risk of inundating the land on both sides of the river channel.
Therefore, choosing the right time to open the gate became the key—not only to ensure the urban water supply but also to ensure smooth flood discharge upstream.
When to release the water? How long until the warning water level is reached? The digital twin water network platform provided the answer: Relying on automated monitoring equipment, the platform grasps the real-time incoming water dynamics upstream of the Jinqidian Gate, and combined with meteorological forecasts, uses a hydrological model to deduce and predict the water level trend at Jinqidian Gate. The result showed that there were still 5 days before reaching the warning water level, and the drinking water reservoir filling needed to be completed before that.
How to efficiently use the 5 days? The platform monitors key river channel cross-sections, reservoir inflow flow rates, and pumping station unit operating data in real time. Combined with the current storage capacity and inflow flow, the system can automatically calculate the time required for each reservoir to complete water storage.
If it is predicted that reservoir filling and storage cannot be completed within 5 days, the system automatically triggers the "efficiency-first" mode, intelligently allocating the operating flow of pumping station units at each time period to ensure that every piece of equipment operates under optimal working conditions. Ultimately, before the warning water level was reached, the work of diverting Huanghe River water to fill the reservoirs was successfully completed, and the Jinqidian Gate at the upper reaches of the Majia River was opened in time to discharge the flood.
With the digital twin water network platform, dispatchers can simulate water source allocation plans under different rainfall and incoming water conditions in a virtual environment, predict risks in advance, optimize dispatching strategies, achieve functions that the physical water network cannot, and complete the leap from "experience-based decision-making" to model-based decision-making (móxíng juécè - "model decision-making," decision-making based on models rather than experience).
The application of the digital water network cannot be separated from the improvement of the physical water network. In recent years, Dezhou City has accelerated the construction of water conservancy projects to improve the city's water supply capacity. In 2023, Dezhou City built a new outlet pumping station at Dingdong Reservoir and laid 30 kilometers of water supply connecting pipelines, achieving a "dual water source, dual pipeline" water supply of Huanghe River water and Yangtze River water for the main urban area, increasing the daily water supply capacity from 280,000 cubic meters to 480,000 cubic meters.
Currently, the Yangzhuang Reservoir in Dezhou City, with a total investment of 900 million yuan, is under construction. After completion, Yangzhuang Reservoir will supply water to the central urban area of Dezhou City together with Dingdong Reservoir and Datun Reservoir. "In the future, Dezhou City will continue to promote the construction of the digital water network, vigorously implement the water network integrated development project, and serve the high-quality development of the economy and society," Li Shouxue said.
Return to TopBy: 张立国
The national water network (国家水网) is a comprehensive system based on natural rivers and lakes, using water diversion and drainage projects as channels, regulation and storage projects as nodes, and intelligent regulation as means, integrating functions such as optimal allocation of water resources, flood control and disaster reduction in river basins, and water ecosystem protection. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the country completed 5.68 trillion yuan in water conservancy construction investment, and the coverage of the national water network accounted for 80.3% of the national land area, with remarkable results in the construction of a modern water network.
However, water network construction still faces challenges such as insufficient connectivity, weak digital and intelligent empowerment, and inadequate industrial integration, and the pattern of "one water network, empowering all industries" (一张水网、赋能百业) has not yet been fully formed.
Looking ahead, water network construction still needs sustained efforts. Strengthen water network connectivity and interoperability, promote the simultaneous planning and construction of major water diversion projects such as the South-to-North Water Diversion and regional supporting projects, coordinate the management of main and tributary river channels, unblock the connection bottlenecks of water networks at the national, provincial, municipal, and county levels, and enhance the safety and resilience of the water network. Strengthen the technological empowerment of the water network, carry out systematic upgrades in aspects such as the perception foundation, digital twin platform, scheduling model algorithms, cross-domain coordination mechanisms, business closed-loop applications, and guarantee systems, explore the promotion and application of artificial intelligence, and improve intelligent management capabilities. Promote the integrated development of "water network +" (水网+), coordinate efforts across industries and regions, solve problems such as vertical and horizontal segmentation (条块分割) and redundant construction in some industries and regions at present, promote industrial synergy and integrated development, and give full play to the comprehensive benefits of the water network.
(The author is the director of the Water Development Research Center of Shandong Provincial Water Resources Survey and Design Institute Co., Ltd. (山东省水利勘测设计院有限公司水利发展研究中心), and the article was compiled from an interview by Li Rui (李蕊), a reporter of this newspaper.)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 秦瑞杰
In the height of summer, on the sandy land of Hongrui Village (红瑞村), Hongyazi Township (红崖子乡), Pingluo County (平罗县), Ningxia, row after row of yam vines climb and spread along trellises, their green leaves glistening under the scorching sun. "This is the critical period for vine-hanging; if the vines grow well, the yams underground will have the strength to grow," said Wang Hao (王浩), head of Ningxia Saisheng Agricultural Science and Technology Co., Ltd. (宁夏塞盛农业科技有限公司), as he walked through the fields, checking the growth of the vines while telling the story of this land.
Pingluo County lies on the edge of the Mu Us Sandy Land (毛乌素沙地), with year-round drought and little rain; in the past it was often plagued by sand damage.
In 2012, Hongrui Village relocated here from the mountainous area of Xiji County (西吉县) in the Xihaigu region (西海固地区) of Ningxia. Ma Mingjun (马明军), a village cadre of Hongrui Village, still vividly recalls the scene from those years: "Whenever a strong wind blew, the sand buried the doors of the houses. The villagers had to wrap their heads when going out, and many people thought about moving back."
In those years, the government led the villagers in laying straw checkerboards, planting trees, and pressing down sand, but the ecological environment remained fragile, and the industries could find no direction.
A turning point soon appeared. Some villagers tried planting the first crop of vegetables in the sandy land, and unexpectedly the growth and quality were quite good. Starting in 2017, Pingluo County began large-scale promotion of desert vegetable cultivation, shifting its development approach from the past "treating sand for the sake of treating sand" to "treating sand with vegetables, determining production by water availability," integrating industry into ecological governance and turning the sandy land into a "green bank."
Growing vegetables in the desert, the hardest parts are "soil" and "water."
Wang Hao pointed to the distant dunes and said, "We thought of a crude method: hauling red soil from the mountains truckload by truckload onto the sandy land and covering it. Red soil is dense, cannot be blown away by wind, and retains water and fertilizer." After several years of mixing and improvement, the sandy land finally had a decent tillage layer.
The water problem was solved under the government's overall planning. Reservoirs were built nearby, motor-pumped wells were drilled to extract groundwater, complementing Yellow River water; drip irrigation tape was laid in the fields, with integrated water and fertilizer for precise irrigation. "One mu uses 300 cubic meters of water, half of what ordinary farmland uses." Wang Hao casually grabbed a handful of sandy soil and opened his hand; the sand grains fell with a rustle, but a clump of moist soil remained in his palm.
The desert climate is dry, so pests and diseases are not easily propagated. Wang Hao cooperates with the Ningxia Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences (宁夏农林科学院); experts go down to the fields every half month to guide the application of biological agents and foliar prevention and control. "Before planting, we drip-irrigate with the biological agent; in the early growth stage, we spray the foliage a few times, and basically no pesticides are used."
Currently, six varieties grown by the company—tomatoes, watermelons, melons, potatoes, etc.—have passed green food certification. With quality improved, prices naturally gain an advantage. Ordinary yams sell for 3.3 to 3.4 yuan per jin, while theirs can sell for 3.9 yuan; ordinary sweet potatoes sell for about 1.2 yuan per jin, while premium sweet potatoes can sell for over 1.5 yuan.
"Growing vegetables on sandy land, quality is the trump card." Zhang Sujun (张苏军), who came all the way from Shandong to grow yams in Pingluo, deeply understands this. He has transferred over 1,200 mu of sandy land, specializing in the yam variety "Baiyu" (白玉), and the total value of yams stored each year is around 80 million yuan. "In the market, Ningxia's sandy-land products have solid quality; there is absolutely no worry about selling them," Zhang Sujun said.
Yams are resistant to storage; they can be sold from the autumn market all the way until the new yams come in the following year, with buyers coming in an 络绎不绝 (luò yì bù jué - "continuous stream," coming one after another). Zhang Sujun stamped the ground under his feet: "You see, this land has a high sand content and good air permeability; it's hard for the yams to grow crooked."
Quality builds the brand; the industry accelerates to take shape. In recent years, Pingluo County has built a desert melon and vegetable industrial economic belt centered on both sides of the Hongtao Highway (红陶公路), vigorously developing specialty melons and vegetables. As of now, Pingluo County has developed over 46,000 mu of desert melons and vegetables, with an annual total output value of nearly 800 million yuan.
With the industry rising, the local people have benefited greatly. In the vegetable base of Hongrui Village, villager Ma Zhimei (马志梅) was swiftly covering sweet potato seedlings with plastic film; her annual income is quite good. "Working nearby, I can also take care of the family—much better than working far away as a migrant laborer."
Wang Hao told reporters that labor demand is most concentrated in spring and autumn, with a large number of hands needed for seedling planting and harvesting. "Once it gets busy, there are no idle people in the surrounding villages; each person earns 150 to 200 yuan per day." Over the course of a year, his base can drive flexible employment for over 400 households and more than 700 people.
Even more surprising is that after several years of vegetable cultivation, the local microclimate has also changed.
"In the past, it was hard to see a few rains all year; now in summer, it drizzles every now and then, and windy, sandy days are much fewer." Ma Mingjun stood at the entrance of Hongrui Village and looked into the distance; the once continuous shifting dunes have been replaced by vast tracts of vegetable fields. Amid the fields, one large dune has been deliberately preserved, surrounded by green sweet potato fields on all sides.
Ma Mingjun said with a smile: "At the time, leveling it was difficult, and also it was meant to be a memorial, so that future generations will know that this place was once desert, and that the achievements of sand control were 来之不易 (lái zhī bù yì - "hard-won," not easy to come by)." Today, the shifting sandy land of the Mu Us Desert within Pingluo County has been fully stabilized, and the shortest distance between the desert and the Yellow River has shifted eastward from less than 50 meters to 3 kilometers.
Wang Hao plans to invest 30 million yuan this year to build a sweet potato deep-processing production line, developing products such as burst-filling fries, sweet potato puree, and pudding, while also building the company's brand and connecting with supermarket channels. "Deepen the industry, so that this sandy land can grow more 'golden nuggets,'" Wang Hao said.
Return to TopBeijing, July 27 (People's Daily) — (Reporter Meng Xiangfu (孟祥夫)) The Central Social Work Department held a meeting in Beijing on the 27th to advance the deployment of studying, implementing, and promoting the "Opinions on Strengthening Social Work in the New Era (关于加强新时代社会工作的意见)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions") issued by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council. The meeting deeply studied and implemented Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, studied and implemented General Secretary Xi Jinping's important discourses on social work, and, centering on implementing the Opinions, consolidated ideological consensus, strengthened study and exchange, deployed and advanced work, so as to better promote the high-quality development of social work in the new era.
The meeting emphasized that it is necessary to systematically study and deeply grasp the essence of the Opinions, accurately and comprehensively understand the requirements of each task, and implement them without any discount. Implement the deployment requirements for improving the systems and mechanisms of the Party's leadership over social work, adhere to the Party's management of social work, continuously advance the theoretical armed with the Party's innovative theories, and fulfill the political responsibility for social work. Implement the deployment requirements for strengthening Party building in emerging fields, continuously ensure the Party's organizational coverage and work coverage, strengthen Party building in new economic organizations, do a good job of Party building in internet platform enterprises, explore new paths for Party building in science and technology innovation enterprises, strengthen Party building in new social organizations, strengthen the standardization of industry associations and chambers of commerce elections and the building of their leadership teams, continuously promote the governance of industry conduct, and strengthen Party building and service management for new employment groups. Implement the deployment requirements for strengthening the leadership of Party building over grassroots governance and grassroots political power construction, strengthen the leading role of grassroots Party organizations, strengthen grassroots political power construction, continuously reduce burdens and empower grassroots, and strengthen rural governance and community governance. Implement the deployment requirements for doing a good job of uniting and serving the masses, focus on advancing the work of people's letters and visits, implement in detail the service management of various social groups, do a good job of collecting suggestions from the people, and continuously improve the level of volunteer service work.
Return to TopBeijing, July 27 (People's Daily) — (Reporter Shi Fang) On the 27th, after systematic conservation, restoration, and renovation, the Zhengyangmen Gate (正阳门) city gate tower in Beijing was reopened to the public, adding another cultural space for the public to experience the heritage value of the Beijing Central Axis at close range. Following the opening of the Zhengyangmen Gate arrow tower in December 2024, the opening of the city gate tower marks the return of this landmark of Ming and Qing Beijing to public view in its complete form.
The Zhengyangmen Gate city gate tower was first built in the 17th year of Yongle of the Ming Dynasty (1419 AD), is one of the constituent elements of the Beijing Central Axis heritage, and a National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit (全国重点文物保护单位). In 1991, the city gate tower was opened to the public; from 2020, it was closed due to conservation and restoration; and at the end of 2025, the restoration was completed. According to introductions, this restoration included roof replacement, large timber component reinforcement, ground layer repair, and oil painting on inner and outer eaves.
The basic exhibition of the Zhengyangmen Gate city gate tower was simultaneously launched. As one of the activities of the 2026 Beijing Cultural Forum Reception Room, the "Cultural Relics Belong to the People, Serve the People" (文物属于人民 服务人民) publicity and display event commemorating the second anniversary of the successful inscription of the Beijing Central Axis on the World Heritage List was held on the same day at the Zhengyangmen Gate city gate tower. The two districts of Dongcheng and Xicheng also jointly released the "On the Central Axis" — Beijing Central Axis Renewal and Brilliance Action Plan (2026–2028) (《"中轴线上"——北京中轴线焕新绽彩行动计划（2026年—2028年）》).
Return to TopBeijing, July 27 (Reporter Meng Xiangfu (孟祥夫)) — The Central Social Work Department (中央社会工作部) held on the 27th an advanced deeds report meeting for recipients of the "July 1 Medal" (七一勋章) and representatives of the national "Two Excellences and One Advanced" (两优一先). The meeting invited "July 1 Medal" recipients Ma Shanxiang (马善祥), Li Liancheng (李连成), Wu Yaqin (吴亚琴), national outstanding party affairs worker Wang Kehao (王柯皓), and representative of national advanced grassroots party organization Zhao Naixiang (赵耐香) to deliver deeds reports.
At the meeting, five meritorious model representatives each, drawing on their own experiences, recounted their advanced deeds of keeping in mind the original aspiration and mission and being steadfast in serving the people, vividly interpreting the noble character and lofty spirit of Chinese Communists.
Everyone deeply felt that this deeds report meeting was both a spiritual baptism and, even more, a vivid education in Party spirit.
The meeting emphasized that it is necessary to deeply study and implement Xi Jinping's thought on Party building (习近平党建思想) and the important speech spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping at the celebration of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, to study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on social work, to implement the "Opinions on Strengthening Social Work in the New Era" (关于加强新时代社会工作的意见) issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council, and to effectively unify thoughts and actions to the Party Central Committee's decisions and deployments.
It is necessary to deeply study the advanced models' political character of loyalty to the Party and their sincere feelings of steadfastly serving the people, always firmly stand on the people's side, take serving the people as the starting point and foothold of all work, do one's utmost to solve the people's urgent, difficult, worried, and anticipated problems, strive to be pioneers and examples in practicing the purpose and serving the people, and vigorously advance the high-quality development of social work in the new era.
Return to TopIn April this year, the 2025 National Finals of the "Xinghuo-Liaoyuan" (兴火・燎原) Innovation Marathon, hosted by Industrial Bank (兴业银行), concluded in Fuzhou, Fujian Province. As a core event that has entered the Digital China Innovation Competition's Digital Finance track for four consecutive years, the Innovation Marathon has accumulated over 6,200 innovation projects over four years, and a batch of "technology + finance" innovation achievements have been implemented and transformed. This is both a vivid footnote to Industrial Bank's acceleration of digital-intelligent transformation and a true portrayal of Industrial Bank serving the construction of Digital China with digital-intelligent Industrial Bank (数智兴业).
Since the 14th Five-Year Plan, Industrial Bank has adhered to the strategy of "prospering the bank through technology" (科技兴行), making digital-intelligent transformation the focus of the entire bank's work, 夯基垒台 (hāng jī lěi tái - "ram the foundation, build the platform," to lay a solid foundation) and 积厚成势 (jī hòu chéng shì - "accumulate thickness, form momentum," to build up strength and gain momentum). Now, Industrial Bank's digital transformation has entered a harvest period, and a new journey of intelligent transformation has set sail by leveraging the momentum. Industrial Bank firmly establishes the digital-intelligent strategy, accelerates the push from "Digital Industrial Bank (数字兴业)" to "Smart Industrial Bank (智慧兴业)", and is committed to injecting new momentum into the construction of Digital China.
Strategic navigation — from "Digital Industrial Bank" to "Smart Industrial Bank"
In 2000, Fujian Province made the strategic deployment of building "Digital Fujian (数字福建)", which is the ideological source and practical starting point of "Digital China". Actively serving the construction of "Digital Fujian", Industrial Bank planned and built the first management information system within the bank — the President's Inquiry System.
In the more than 20 years since, Industrial Bank has adhered to the strategy of "prospering the bank through technology", and with the spirit of 敢为人先 (gǎn wéi rén xiān - "dare to be the first," to have the courage to pioneer) has pioneered many firsts among similar banks: among the first to implement data centralization, the first to independently develop a core business system based on an open architecture, the first to create a technology output model for bank-bank cooperation… A series of trailblazing moves have laid a deep foundation for Industrial Bank's subsequent digital-intelligent transformation.
During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, Industrial Bank made digital transformation a top priority, deepened the reform of the science and technology system, built an organizational structure of "One Committee, Three Departments, One Company, One Institute (一委三部一司一院)" within the bank, continuously increased investment in science and technology resources, implemented the "Ten Thousand Talents Plan for Technology (科技人才万人计划)", and continuously expanded the science and technology talent team. Over the past five years, Industrial Bank's science and technology investment has steadily increased from over 4 billion yuan per year to over 8 billion yuan per year, and the number of science and technology talents has grown from over 2,000 to over 8,000. At the same time, through platforms such as the "Xinghuo Technology" forum and digital transformation training and examinations, Industrial Bank has continuously improved the digital-intelligent literacy of all employees, creating an atmosphere of "everyone learns technology, everyone uses technology".
Standing at the new starting point of the beginning of the 15th Five-Year Plan, Industrial Bank has established digital-intelligent transformation as the bank's first strategy, comprehensively deepened the "Artificial Intelligence+" action, anchored the goal of "building a first-class intelligent bank", and promoted the comprehensive leap of financial services from digitalization to intelligence.
Digital-intelligent foundation building — from "laying the foundation" to "accumulating momentum"
During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, Industrial Bank focused on "laying the foundation, strengthening capabilities, and empowering business", pushing the foundation of digital-intelligent transformation from "laying the foundation" to "accumulating momentum". On this basis, Industrial Bank seized the opportunity of artificial intelligence development, transforming technological momentum into a powerful driving force for serving the real economy.
Over the past five years, Industrial Bank, guided by "enterprise-level, standardization", has comprehensively consolidated the three major technology foundations of computing power, data, and cloud-native, empowering intelligent transformation. Closely following the strategic needs of "East Data West Computing (东数西算)", it accelerated the construction of data centers in Gui'an New Area, Guizhou (贵州贵安新区), Shanghai, and Fuzhou, Fujian, building a computing power support system. Focusing on data element empowerment, it comprehensively strengthened data governance and application, released over 70,000 data dictionary items, built an enterprise-level data middle platform serving nearly 12 million times per day on average, constructed over 900 data applications and over 1,200 models, and continuously released the value of data elements. Anchoring advanced technology and future architecture, it implemented the five major enterprise architecture projects (五大企架工程), accelerated the Distributed Core Project (分布式核心工程), launched a New Generation Cloud Platform (新一代云平台), and comprehensively upgraded the technology architecture, laying a solid technical foundation for digital transformation.
On the basis of consolidating the foundation, since 2025, Industrial Bank has taken "agility" and "experience" as its two major goals, using digital-intelligence to innovate the internal technology operation model. Through process optimization and engineering capability improvement, the average delivery cycle of Industrial Bank's IT projects has been compressed by 33%, supporting the parallel construction of more than 300 larger projects; it has optimized over 1,500 business processes cumulatively, the Net Promoter Score (NPS) has increased from 49 to 64, driving an annual increase of over 360 billion yuan in online wealth sales, achieving a dual leap in R&D efficiency and user experience, and fully releasing digital productivity.
Intelligence is the main direction of Industrial Bank's digital-intelligent transformation. Since 2025, Industrial Bank has deeply implemented the "Artificial Intelligence+" action, consolidated the three major technology foundations of computing power, data, and cloud-native, built an enterprise-level intelligent platform, and promoted the full integration of intelligent technology into all financial scenarios. As of now, Industrial Bank's intelligent technology scenario applications have covered more than 260 areas including customer service, marketing, risk control, and investment research, with over 300 intelligent agents launched, and the average daily call volume of intelligent services exceeding 3 million times.
Today, Industrial Bank's brand IP image "Xingfulong (兴福龙)" has transformed into an all-around intelligent assistant, deeply integrated into the entire business process of employees. In the custody business field, intelligent contract review has completed over 6,500 contracts, greatly improving compliance efficiency; in traditional documentary business, processing time has been compressed from 10 minutes to 2 minutes, with operational efficiency improved by 80%; the intelligent coding assistant for R&D personnel has generated over 8.3 million lines of code cumulatively, and the dividends of intelligent transformation are being continuously released.
Intelligence empowers all industries — from "technology accumulation" to "value release"
Industrial Bank believes that the ultimate value of technology lies in improving the ability and efficiency of serving the real economy. Using digital-intelligent technology as a bridge, Industrial Bank makes digital finance benefit thousands of industries and millions of households, empowering technology finance, green finance, inclusive finance, and pension finance to improve quality and increase efficiency.
In the field of technology finance, Industrial Bank iteratively upgraded the "Technology Flow (技术流)" evaluation system, breaking the traditional reliance on collateral for credit, transforming the "soft power" of science and innovation enterprises such as intellectual property and technological strength into "hard currency" for financing, precisely solving the financing difficulties of science and innovation enterprises. In 2025, the relevant approval amount reached 1.15 trillion yuan, injecting financial vitality into technological innovation.
In the field of green finance, Industrial Bank innovatively built a "Dual Carbon (双碳)" management platform, which has established carbon accounts for over 50,000 enterprises and 7.8 million individual customers, using digital means to help achieve the "Dual Carbon" goals.
In the field of inclusive finance, Industrial Bank relies on the Internet of Things and big data technology to build a smart market system, covering 399 specialized markets, with a financing balance of over 45 billion yuan, effectively solving the financing pain points of small and micro enterprises and agriculture-related entities.
In the field of pension finance, Industrial Bank focuses on the "Anyu Life (安愉人生)" brand, upgrading the Anyu version of mobile banking, creating age-appropriate financial services, serving over 4.5 million person-times cumulatively, making financial services more warm.
Looking to the future, Industrial Bank will adhere to the strategy of "prospering the bank through technology", continue to deepen the "Artificial Intelligence+" action, further strengthen the three foundation capabilities of computing power, data, and models, solidly advance the construction of the three strategic foundation projects of high-quality data sets, knowledge engineering, and model engineering, accelerate the formation of replicable and scalable AI application solutions, promote the construction of "Smart Industrial Bank" to take greater steps, and contribute greater strength to the construction of Digital China.
Data source: Industrial Bank
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To govern the country, the Party must first be governed; only when the Party thrives can the country be strong. Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building epitomizes the achievements of theoretical, practical, and institutional innovation in Party building in the new era, providing the fundamental guidance for strengthening Party building in the new era. At present, China’s development is interwoven with opportunities and challenges, and the tasks of reform, development, and maintaining stability are arduous and heavy. Only by continuously deepening study, meticulous understanding, and earnest practice of Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building, adhering to the integration of learning, thinking, and application and the unity of knowledge, belief, and action, and transforming theoretical strength into practical results in governing and managing the Party, can we continuously open up new realms in governing and managing the Party, revitalizing and strengthening the Party, and provide the fundamental political guarantee for comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization.
Deeply grasp the theoretical system and internal logic of Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building, and enhance the ideological consciousness of implementation and application.
Thought is the precursor of action. To study and implement Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building, the primary task is to deeply understand and scientifically grasp the scientific connotation, logical framework, and contemporary value of this important thought, achieving systematic understanding and comprehensive mastery, and enhancing the ideological consciousness of implementation and application.
Grasp the theoretical origins and understand the innovative development of this important thought in relation to Marxist theories of Party building. Marxist theories of Party building guide the direction of proletarian Party building. Over more than a century, our Party has adhered to the two combinations (两个结合), continuously deepening its understanding of the laws governing the building of a Marxist political party. Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building upholds and develops the Party-building theories of Marx, Engels, and Lenin, as well as our Party’s theories on Party building in different historical stages. Based on the profound changes in the world, national conditions, and Party conditions in the new era, it answers the major theoretical and practical issues facing Party building in the new era, achieving innovative development of Marxist theories of Party building. This important thought has put forward a series of original judgments around the laws of governance, mission and responsibility, and organizational health, enriching and developing the basic principles of Marxist theories of Party building, and contributing Chinese wisdom to global political party governance. To study and implement this important thought, we must grasp its theoretical innovation process that is 一脉相承 (yī mài xiāng chéng - “come down in one continuous line,” inheriting the same lineage) and 与时俱进 (yǔ shí jù jìn - “keep pace with the times,” advancing with the times), and understand its theoretical character from the perspective of the history of theoretical development.
Grasp the scientific system and understand the systematic and holistic nature of this important thought. Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building is 博大精深 (bó dà jīng shēn - “broad and profound,” extensive and deep), rich in connotation, forming a complete and logically rigorous theoretical system, centrally embodied in the “fourteen upholds” (十四个坚持). The “fourteen upholds” deeply grasp the internal relationship between governing and managing the Party, revitalizing and strengthening the Party, and strengthening the country and national rejuvenation, coordinating Party leadership and Party building, forming an organic whole that is 环环相扣 (huán huán xiāng kòu - “interlinked like rings,” closely interconnected) and internally unified, with a clear and rigorous internal logic. The first four upholds are based on top-level design, clarifying fundamental principles and strategic directions, playing a role in overall leadership; the latter ten upholds focus on specific work in various areas of Party building, serving as the basic support for implementation and effectiveness. This centrally embodies General Secretary Xi Jinping’s new concepts, new ideas, and new strategies for Party building in the new era. Only by grasping the whole and achieving 融会贯通 (róng huì guàn tōng - “achieve mastery through a comprehensive study,” thoroughly understand and integrate) can we truly grasp the essence of the spirit, avoiding one-sided study and deviation in understanding.
Based on the era’s orientation, understand the strong sense of mission and clear problem consciousness of this important thought. A major party in power has both the advantage of scale and unique tests. The “four major tests” (四大考验) and “four dangers” (四种危险) exist long-term, and Party building in the new era must directly face these real challenges. Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building accurately assesses the risks and hidden dangers within the Party under long-term governance conditions, directly confronts the weak links and prominent problems in governing and managing the Party, both focuses on rectifying current stubborn and chronic diseases and takes a long-term view to consolidate the foundation of governance, demonstrating a strong sense of mission, combining problem orientation, systematic thinking, and strategic vision, providing a “golden key” for the Party to forever maintain vitality. We must always remain sober and firm, consciously use scientific theory to calibrate the course, resolutely eliminate all factors that weaken the Party’s advanced nature and impair the Party’s purity, ensuring that the Party never changes its nature, its color, or its flavor.
Deeply grasp the practical focus of governing and managing the Party, and enhance the practical consciousness of implementation and application.
Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building clarifies the scientific layout, key tasks, and practical paths for Party building in the new era. To implement and apply this important thought, we must grasp the key points and implement precise measures, consciously use this important thought to plan and advance Party building, apply strict standards and strict requirements throughout all areas and links of Party building, and transform this important thought into specific policies, specific tasks, and specific measures, building our Party well and making it strong.
Take the Party’s political construction as the guide, and consolidate the political foundation of loyalty to the Party. Taking a clear stand on politics is the fundamental attribute of a Marxist political party and also the unique advantage formed by our Party through more than a century of struggle. The Party’s political construction occupies a leading position, determining the direction and effectiveness of Party building. We must uphold the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee as the highest principle of Party leadership, deeply understand the decisive significance of the “two establishments” (两个确立), enhance the “four consciousnesses” (四个意识), strengthen the “four confidences” (四个自信), and achieve the “two upholds” (两个维护). Political loyalty is embodied in the actions of implementing the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, in the actual results of performing duties and responsibilities, and in daily words and deeds. Party members and cadres must continuously improve their political judgment, political understanding, and political execution, be adept at discerning political signs from complex affairs, grasp political logic in complex contradictory relationships, ensure that political stance does not waver and political direction does not deviate, and implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee completely and without compromise.
Take theoretical armed as the foundation, and replenish the “calcium” in the spirit of Communists. Ideological construction is the foundational construction of the Party. Arming the entire Party with the Party’s innovative theories is the fundamental task of consolidating the foundation and cultivating the essence, and building consensus. We must persist in arming our minds, guiding practice, and promoting work with Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, promote Party members and cadres to read original works, study original texts, and comprehend principles, fully and accurately grasp the world view, methodology, and the standpoints, viewpoints, and methods that run through the Party’s innovative theories. Improve normalized and institutionalized learning mechanisms, relying on the theoretical study center groups of Party committees (Party groups), “three meetings and one lesson” (三会一课), themed Party days, centralized rotation training, etc., to build a learning pattern that is layered, categorized, and covers all areas. Vigorously promote a good style of study, closely combining theoretical learning with Party spirit tempering, practical exploration, and problem-solving.
Take Party spirit tempering as the root, and build the foundation for Communists to establish themselves. The cornerstone for Party members and cadres to establish themselves, their careers, their words, and their virtues is Party spirit. With a strong Party spirit, one can consciously stand on the Party’s and the people’s standpoint, share the Party’s worries and benefit the people; one can take a clear stand when facing major issues of right and wrong, and consciously resist all kinds of unhealthy tendencies. A strong Party spirit is not innate, nor is it achieved once and for all; it must be continuously tempered and honed with the spirit of forever being on the road. The Party spirit of Chinese Communists is built on a scientific and sober theoretical cognitive foundation. We must deeply study and thoroughly understand General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on Party spirit, grasp from the theoretical source the foundational role of Party spirit in the pragmatic work style, sense of responsibility, and discipline awareness of Communists, and comprehensively understand and grasp the requirements of Party spirit. Practical exercise is crucial for cultivating Party spirit. We must consciously temper Party spirit in major struggles, work hard and overcome difficulties in major tasks such as promoting high-quality development and advancing comprehensive rural revitalization, and do our utmost to complete the duties and tasks entrusted by the Party.
Take the construction of the organizational system as the key, and forge a strong and capable cadre force. The Party’s strength comes from organization, and a tight organizational system is our Party’s advantage in overcoming difficulties. Thoroughly implement the Party’s organizational line for the new era, improve the organizational system that is connected from top to bottom and effective in execution, and comprehensively enhance the political functions and organizational functions of Party organizations. Adhere to the clear orientation of focusing on the grassroots, coordinate and advance Party building work in rural areas, communities, government organs, state-owned enterprises, schools, new business forms and new groups, etc., continuously rectify weak and lax grassroots Party organizations, and promote grassroots Party organizations to serve as fighting fortresses in rural revitalization, grassroots governance, emergency response, and serving the people. Strictly implement the principle of the Party managing cadres and the Party managing talents, abide by the standards for good cadres in the new era, and establish a talent selection orientation that emphasizes hard work, actual performance, and responsibility. Focus on tempering cadres on the front lines of major struggles, strengthen ideological tempering, political training, practical exercise, and professional training, and comprehensively enhance the comprehensive capabilities of cadres. Standardize the entire process of Party member education, management, and development, give full play to the vanguard and exemplary role of Party members, and make the entire organizational system strong and full of vitality.
Take rectifying work style, enforcing discipline, and combating corruption as the starting point, and continuously purify the political ecology within the Party. Strict discipline is a glorious tradition of our Party. Always adhere to the strict tone, strict measures, and strict atmosphere for the long term, persistently implement the Central Eight-Point Regulations (中央八项规定) and its implementation rules, closely monitor the hidden and mutated problems of formalism and bureaucracy, continuously reduce burdens at the grassroots, and strictly prevent the rebound of the “four forms of decadence” (四风). Comprehensively strengthen discipline construction, make the Party Constitution, Party regulations, and Party discipline a required course, guide Party members and cadres to know respect, maintain fear, and keep the bottom line, making iron discipline a conscious action. Adhere to the integrated promotion of dare not rot, cannot rot, and do not want to rot (不敢腐不能腐不想腐), achieving simultaneous efforts, concerted efforts, and comprehensive efforts. Maintain a high-pressure anti-corruption posture, strictly investigate corruption in key areas and “micro-corruption” around the masses; improve the power restriction and supervision system, tighten the institutional cage; strengthen clean culture construction and warning education, build a solid ideological defense line against corruption and degeneration. Deepen the simultaneous investigation and treatment of work style and corruption, and continuously purify the political ecology within the Party.
Take governing the Party by institutions and regulations as the guarantee, and enhance the standardization level of governing and managing the Party. Governing the Party by institutions and regulations is a long-term and fundamental strategy for comprehensively and strictly governing the Party. To improve the system for comprehensively and strictly governing the Party, we must achieve full coverage in content, full coverage in objects, full chain in responsibility, and full connection in institutions, promoting the organic connection and coordinated efforts of various Party building tasks. Combined with the practice of Party building in the new era, continuously improve the system of intra-Party regulations and rules, forming a systematic, complete, scientifically standardized, and effective institutional chain. The vitality of institutions lies in implementation. We must strengthen the institutional awareness of Party members and cadres, promote their conscious respect for, study of, observance of, and use of institutions. Leading cadres must take the lead in implementing institutions and maintaining institutional authority. Improve the supervision and accountability mechanism for institutional implementation, seriously hold accountable those who disobey orders and prohibitions, make institutions a hard constraint that cannot be crossed, and use institutions to ensure the normal and long-term effectiveness of governing and managing the Party.
Compress the responsibility for governing and managing the Party, and promote the implementation of responsibility with strict and practical standards. Implementing the responsibility for governing and managing the Party is the core political task of Party organizations at all levels. Strengthen the awareness of being responsible for guarding the territory, being responsible for guarding the territory, and doing one’s utmost to guard the territory (守土有责、守土负责、守土尽责), refine the list of Party building responsibilities, and promote the transmission and compaction of responsibilities layer by layer. Optimize the orientation of assessment and evaluation, shift the focus of assessment from work traces to actual results and mass evaluation, and improve the scientific nature of assessment. Adhere to the combination of strict management and care, and equal emphasis on incentives and constraints, create a good working atmosphere of practical responsibility, and seriously pursue accountability for those whose responsibilities are suspended and whose implementation is ineffective, using rigid constraints to ensure that the responsibility for governing and managing the Party takes root.
Adhere to the unity of knowledge and action, internalization and transformation, and guide the performance of duties with Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building.
The value of theory lies in guiding practice. Party members and cadres must consciously become firm believers and faithful practitioners of Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building, focus on internalizing this important thought in the heart and externalizing it in action, transform scientific theory into a pragmatic work style, a sense of responsibility, and clean integrity, combine it with the requirements of learning and education on establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements, and practice the original aspiration and mission in performing duties and responsibilities.
Adhere to seeking truth and being pragmatic, and transform theoretical requirements into outstanding achievements. Strictly governing and managing the Party is essentially about guiding Party members and cadres to establish correct value orientation for undertaking undertakings. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: “Communists are materialists; pragmatism is an essential character. We must seek truth from facts, be pragmatic, and work hard.” Achievements are all made through hard work; undertaking undertakings cannot tolerate any falsehood. Party members and cadres must resolutely abandon formalism and bureaucracy, abandon the wrong practices of seeking quick success and instant benefits and superficial showmanship. Plan work based on reality, advance work down-to-earth, with the spiritual realm of “achievements need not be mine” (功成不必在我) and the historical responsibility of “achievements must have me” (功成必定有我), do more practical things that lay the foundation, benefit the long term, and improve people’s livelihood, and create actual results that stand the test of practice, the people, and history.
Strengthen the spirit of responsibility, and transform theoretical requirements into practical results. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “Carry forward the spirit of responsibility and struggle.” On the road forward, risks and challenges emerge one after another, requiring Party members and cadres to take the initiative to shoulder responsibility and dare to struggle. We must break the state of “lying flat” (躺平), the “Buddhist” (佛系) mentality, and the thought of fearing difficulties and shirking responsibility, and actively face difficulties when encountering reform challenges, development bottlenecks, and complex contradictions. Based on the post, perform duties and responsibilities, and implement with the nail-driving spirit (钉钉子精神). Adhere to grasping the direction of struggle, pay attention to struggle strategies, enhance the ability to prevent and resolve risks, and be able to dare to struggle and be good at struggle.
Strictly observe the bottom line of discipline, and transform theoretical requirements into clean self-discipline. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “To forge iron, one must be strong oneself” (打铁必须自身硬). For leading cadres, being strong oneself first requires being clean oneself. Integrity and self-discipline are the basic conduct of Party members and cadres. We must adhere to being cautious when alone, cautious at the beginning, cautious in small matters, and cautious in choosing friends (慎独、慎初、慎微、慎友), start from small matters and small details, consciously purify the social circle, life circle, and friend circle, and hold the red line of discipline and the bottom line of integrity. Establish a correct view of power, status, and interests, remember that power is entrusted by the people and can only be used to serve the people. Leading cadres, as the “key minority” (关键少数), must lead by example, set an example, take the lead in accepting supervision, strictly manage their family members and staff, cultivate a good family tradition, and win the trust of the masses with a clean image.
Uphold the spirit of reform and systematic thinking, and promote the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party to deepen.
Deeply study and implement Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building, we must adhere to 守正创新 (shǒu zhèng chuàng xīn - “uphold fundamental principles and break new ground,” maintaining orthodoxy while innovating) and 久久为功 (jiǔ jiǔ wéi gōng - “persist for a long time to achieve success,” sustained effort), use reform methods to solve problems, use systematic thinking to coordinate the overall situation, and promote the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party to deepen.
Use reform and innovation to solve practical problems in Party building. Keeping pace with the times, upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground are the distinctive qualities of a Marxist political party. Facing new situations, new tasks, and new challenges, we must adhere to promoting Party building work with the spirit of reform, use new concepts, new ideas, and new measures to resolve various contradictions and problems, and continuously improve the effectiveness of governing and managing the Party. Deepen the reform of the Party building system, promote institutional innovation based on theoretical innovation in practice, make up for institutional shortcomings, consolidate the results of governing and managing the Party with institutional construction achievements, and enhance the efficiency of governance. Respect the pioneering spirit of the grassroots, encourage grassroots Party organizations to boldly explore and innovate under the premise of grasping the correct political direction, break the mindset and path dependence, promptly summarize and promote good experiences and good practices from the grassroots, so that Party building always resonates with the development of the times.
Use systematic concepts to coordinate the overall situation of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party. To improve the system for comprehensively and strictly governing the Party, we must adhere to using systematic concepts to coordinate and advance various tasks. Adhere to the integrated promotion of the Party’s political construction, ideological construction, organizational construction, work style construction, discipline construction, institutional construction, and the fight against corruption, promote the connection and linkage of work in various fields, and make concerted efforts. Take theoretical armed as the basic project of consolidating the foundation and cultivating the essence, and persistently grasp it, promote the integration and fusion of political supervision, organizational management, discipline enforcement and accountability, and responsibility implementation, and build an all-round, multi-level pattern of governing and managing the Party. Make up for work shortcomings, strengthen weak links, and promote comprehensive and strict governance of the Party to achieve 标本兼治 (biāo běn jiān zhì - “address both symptoms and root causes,” treat both the symptoms and the root causes) and overall quality improvement.
Use normalization and long-term effectiveness to promote the deepening and solidification of study and implementation. Rely on various propaganda positions and education platforms, comprehensively publicize and explain Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building, clearly explain the great significance, rich connotation, spiritual essence, scientific system, core essence, and practical requirements of this important thought, clearly explain the principled achievements and original contributions of this important thought, so that Party members and cadres not only know what it is, but also know why it is so, and even more know why it must be so. Normalize theoretical seminars, experience exchanges, and practical observation activities, deeply explore and select advanced models, give play to the exemplary and leading role of role models, guide the majority of Party members and cadres to benchmark against advanced models and strive for excellence. Create a strong atmosphere within the entire Party of valuing Party building, researching Party building, and grasping Party building solidly, and continuously promote the deepening and solidification of the study and implementation of Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building with normalized and long-term effective work ideas.
Based on the new era and new journey, we must adhere to Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building as the fundamental guidance, unswervingly promote comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, persistently deepen Party building, transform theoretical strength into a powerful driving force for governing and managing the Party and undertaking undertakings, continuously open up new realms in governing and managing the Party, revitalizing and strengthening the Party, ensure that the Party always stays at the forefront of the times, wins the heartfelt support of the people, withstands various storms and tests, and unites and leads the people to steadily advance on the journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country.
(The author is the Dean of the School of Marxism, Tsinghua University)
Return to TopBy: 张全峰 刘 鑫
General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out: “The essence of formalism is subjectivism and utilitarianism; its root is a misplaced view on political achievements and a lack of a sense of responsibility.” This important exposition profoundly reveals the internal logic between the view on political achievements and the sense of responsibility: the view on political achievements is the projection of responsibility consciousness in political conduct, while responsibility consciousness is the value foundation of the view on political achievements. For Party members and cadres to establish and practice a correct view on political achievements, in the final analysis, they must internalize responsibility consciousness in the heart and externalize it in action — internalize it as a value consciousness of loyalty to the Party, fulfilling responsibility to the people, and shouldering responsibility for the cause; externalize it as concrete actions of seeking truth from facts, tackling tough problems, and 久久为功 (jiǔ jiǔ wéi gōng - “persist for a long time to achieve success,” to make unremitting efforts over time).
For responsibility consciousness to be internalized in the heart, the first thing is to solve the value coordinate problem of “to whom one is responsible.” For Party members and cadres, the direction of responsibility consciousness is always clear: be responsible to the Party, be responsible to the people, be responsible to history. These three are not separated from each other, but are unified in the Party’s original aspiration and founding mission. Since its founding, the Communist Party of China has always represented the fundamental interests of the broadest majority of the people and has no special interests of its own. This determines that the responsibility of Party members and cadres, fundamentally speaking, is to be responsible to the people, that is, to place the people in the highest position in their hearts and to take benefiting the people as the greatest political achievement. In reality, a small number of Party members and cadres have deviations on the issue of the direction of responsibility: some only look upward, narrowing responsibility to superiors into responsibility to individual leaders, equating “only looking upward” with “being responsible”; some turn responsibility to subordinates into “selective responsibility,” turning a blind eye to the people’s urgent concerns and difficulties, and rushing after conspicuous achievements that are “short, fast, and quick.” The root of such deviations lies in the fact that responsibility consciousness has not truly been internalized in the heart; the “responsibility” recognized internally is utilitarian and selective, not pure and thorough. Only by truly calibrating the value coordinate of “to whom one is responsible” to the side of the people can the internalization of responsibility consciousness have the correct direction.
For responsibility consciousness to be internalized in the heart, the key lies in forging the Party spirit consciousness of “daring to be responsible.” General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: “What plays a decisive role in establishing and practicing a correct view on political achievements is Party spirit.” When Party spirit is strong, responsibility consciousness can transform from an external requirement into an internal consciousness. Conversely, when selfish thoughts and distracting ideas erode Party spirit, responsibility will degenerate from a “must-fulfill duty” into a “choice that can be fulfilled or not.” There is a mistaken tendency worthy of vigilance: treating “not causing trouble” as “fulfilling one’s duty.” Individual Party members and cadres follow the logic of “if you don’t wash dishes, you won’t break them,” going around problems and retreating when encountering difficulties. This appears “steady,” but in fact it is an absence of responsibility consciousness. There is also a tendency to equate “having done it” with “having done it well,” substituting the completeness of the process for the effectiveness of the result, and substituting “leaving traces” for “leaving care.” The common root of these problems is that responsibility consciousness remains at the level of “knowing” and has not yet truly entered the depths of “emotion” and “will,” lacking sincere feelings for the cause and lacking the will and character to face difficulties head-on. To internalize responsibility consciousness in the heart is to make “daring to be responsible” a value pursuit that comes from the heart.
Internalization in the heart is the prerequisite; externalization in action is the purpose. To externalize responsibility consciousness in action, one must both “work solidly” and “work hard,” and moreover “work according to laws.” Working solidly, first of all, means seeking truth from facts and not engaging in vain efforts. Whether responsibility consciousness is strong or not is not judged by how loudly slogans are shouted, but by how many problems have been solved and how much tangible benefit the people have received. Those who are keen on engaging in “image projects” and those who are addicted to “digital political achievements” — at a deep level, it is because responsibility consciousness has not truly taken root. Working hard means not fearing difficulties and not shying away from challenges. The greater the sense of responsibility, the greater the undertaking one can accomplish. The more concentrated the contradictions, the more difficult the areas, the more Party members and cadres need to step forward and rise to the occasion. Working according to laws requires unifying responsibility consciousness with the scientific spirit, having both the enthusiasm to start undertakings and the methodology of seeking truth from facts. To talk about responsibility while departing from laws easily leads to reckless action; to talk about laws while departing from responsibility easily degenerates into empty talk.
The internalization and externalization of responsibility consciousness are not accomplished once, but are a dialectical process of continuous circulation and mutual promotion in practice. Internalization provides value support and spiritual motivation for externalization, while externalization tests and deepens the effectiveness of internalization. It is precisely in the cycle of “internalization—externalization—re-internalization—re-externalization” that responsibility consciousness deepens from cognition to belief, transforms from concept to habit, and internalizes from requirement to character.
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General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: “We must focus on building a community with a shared future for neighboring countries (周边命运共同体) and strive to open up new prospects for neighborhood work,” and pointed out: “Take high-quality joint construction of the Belt and Road (高质量共建‘一带一路’) as the main platform.” The Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan (十五五规划纲要) proposes: “Implement the strategy to upgrade pilot free trade zones, carry out institutional opening-up experiments with greater intensity, and enhance the capacity for innovation-led development.” Border-area pilot free trade zones (沿边自贸试验区), as the economic cooperation frontier facing neighboring countries and the highland of border-area opening up to the outside world, bear the important mission of connecting neighboring countries. In April 2026, the China (Inner Mongolia) Pilot Free Trade Zone was inaugurated, becoming the fifth border-area pilot free trade zone in China after Guangxi, Yunnan, Heilongjiang, and Xinjiang. Facing the deep interaction between the neighboring landscape and world changes, border-area pilot free trade zones deeply participate in the high-quality joint construction of the Belt and Road, continuously enhance their ability to connect neighboring countries, which is of great significance for creating diverse forms of open highlands and building a community with a shared future for neighboring countries.
Focus on infrastructure connectivity to build an open passage system. Hard connectivity of infrastructure is the cornerstone of border-area pilot free trade zones connecting neighboring countries, and also the blood vessels and meridians of the regional economic circulation; it is necessary to further improve the integrated connectivity pattern of land, sea, air, and cyber. First, accelerate cross-border transportation infrastructure connectivity. Cross-border transportation infrastructure, as the main artery for personnel movement and goods circulation, directly determines the overall efficiency of regional connectivity. It is necessary to further optimize the road network layout in border areas, advance the construction of backbone corridors such as cross-border railways and highways, actively participate in the construction of China-Europe Railway Express (中欧班列) assembly centers, and explore multimodal transport models that suit border-area characteristics. Second, deeply advance the construction of smart ports. Improve port infrastructure and inspection supporting facilities, strengthen the deep integration of smart ports with smart customs, smart border inspection, etc., and promote innovation in inspection procedures and regulatory models. Implement unmanned cross-border transport models, deploy intelligent inspection systems for personnel and vehicle verification, and adapt to large-scale, high-frequency cross-border circulation needs through port smartification. Third, coordinate the layout of energy corridors and digital infrastructure facing neighboring countries. Solidly advance the construction of cross-border transmission lines, oil and gas pipelines, etc., to provide solid guarantees for deepening regional cooperation with neighboring countries. Accelerate the construction and expansion of dedicated international internet data channels, orderly build data centers and computing power centers, form a digital cooperation pattern, and cultivate new advantages for border-area opening up.
Steadily advance institutional opening up and break down institutional barriers to connecting neighboring countries. The degree of compatibility and alignment of rules, regulations, management, and standards determines the depth of border-area pilot free trade zones in connecting neighboring countries. It is necessary to deepen and expand institutional consensus with neighboring countries. First, deepen exploration in rule alignment. Aligning with high-standard international economic and trade rules is an important part of the high-level opening up of border-area pilot free trade zones and an important pathway to achieving institutional convergence with neighboring countries. Exchanges should be strengthened in areas such as property rights protection, industrial subsidies, environmental standards, labor protection, government procurement, and e-commerce, and alignment should be strengthened in areas such as investor rights protection, expropriation compensation, and investment dispute resolution, to enhance the confidence of market entities in cross-border cooperation. Second, accelerate breakthroughs in regulatory coordination. Objective differences exist in domestic regulations of various countries; a normalized cooperation mechanism is an effective way to resolve regulatory differences and reduce cooperation costs. Normalized cooperation mechanisms should be established with relevant departments of neighboring countries, with strengthened coordination around qualification requirements, technical standards, licensing procedures, etc., to enhance regulatory transparency. Third, pilot and trial in management innovation. Promote management coordination of goods, personnel, data, etc., through institutional innovation, and deepen cooperation in areas such as port information exchange, mutual recognition of supervision, and mutual assistance in law enforcement. Fourth, take active action in standard mutual recognition. Standards are the “common language” of international cooperation. It is necessary to jointly promote deep alignment with neighboring countries in areas such as standard development, conformity assessment, metrology and testing, and promote mutual recognition of inspection and testing results and certification certificates.
Expand cross-border cooperation areas and tighten the bond of interests with neighboring countries. Economic and trade exchanges and industrial collaboration are strong supports for border-area pilot free trade zones to enhance their ability to connect neighboring countries. It is necessary to continuously enrich cooperation formats, extend cooperation chains, and promote the formation of a deeply integrated, mutually beneficial and symbiotic interest pattern. First, expand the scale of trade cooperation and cultivate new business forms and models. The expansion of trade scale and the innovation and upgrading of business forms can continuously activate the vitality of border markets. It is necessary to optimize the development model of border residents’ mutual trade, layout cross-border e-commerce overseas warehouses and operation centers, simultaneously cultivate business forms such as market procurement trade and new barter trade, and strengthen and optimize border trade. Second, deepen the collaboration of industrial and supply chains and guide rational and orderly cross-border layout. Build high-quality industrial cooperation platforms such as “two countries, twin parks” and cross-border economic cooperation zones, accelerate the construction of a number of cross-border industrial and supply chains with outstanding characteristic advantages, and create models of international production capacity cooperation with demonstration and leading roles. Third, expand cooperation in emerging areas and open up new space for connectivity. Digital economy, green and low-carbon, cross-border finance, and other areas are current new growth points for international cooperation, and also important directions for border-area pilot free trade zones to open up new space for cooperation with neighboring countries. It is necessary to join hands with neighboring countries to advance cooperation in areas such as digital infrastructure and smart cities, deeply cultivate cooperation in green and low-carbon industries such as green infrastructure and green energy, steadily broaden cross-border settlement channels, rely on labor cooperation and skills training to enhance people-to-people exchanges, so that the fruits of cooperation benefit the people of both sides, and make the awareness of a community with a shared future 落地生根 (luò dì shēng gēn - “fall to the ground and take root,” to become deeply rooted) in neighboring countries.
(The author is the Director of the Digital Trade Research Institute at the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, Ministry of Commerce.)
Return to TopPromotional events for Volume V of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China were recently held in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. Participating guests believe that Volume V of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China systematically expounds the theory and practice of Chinese-style modernization, vividly presents China’s vision and plan for promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, and can not only help all sectors of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan understand China’s development concepts and development paths in the new era, but also build a bridge for the exchange of governance experience and mutual learning among civilizations.
Deeply Revealing the Inner Logic of Contemporary China’s Development
Roza Otunbayeva, former President of Kyrgyzstan
China has an old saying: “Read ten thousand volumes, travel ten thousand miles.” If one truly wishes to understand a country, merely observing it is not enough; one must also read it, study it, and engage in dialogue with it.
The series Xi Jinping: The Governance of China brings together the concepts and practices of China in the new era in areas such as deepening reform, poverty alleviation, economic development, ecological governance, and law-based governance. It not only presents major events in China’s development process for readers of all countries, but also deeply reveals the inner logic of contemporary China’s development.
China’s continuous achievement of new development accomplishments and its undergoing of earth-shattering changes have relied on far-sighted planning, stable and continuous policies, and practices grounded in national conditions. In recent years, China has won the battle against poverty on schedule as promised, solidly promoted common prosperity for all its people, and the historic leap of letting the fruits of development benefit more than 1.4 billion people is particularly remarkable. The important revelation China’s successful experience brings to the world is that, as long as clear goals are set, the continuity of policies is maintained, an effective governance system is adopted, and firm political will is harbored, those seemingly unattainable problems will ultimately be overcome.
The concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind proposed by President Xi Jinping profoundly interprets the reality of the interdependence of all countries in the world today. When facing global risks and challenges, no country can 独善其身 (dú shàn qí shēn - “to look after one’s own virtue alone,” to attend to one’s own affairs without regard for others). Only by upholding the principles of win-win cooperation, mutual respect, and accommodating each other’s interests can countries join hands to achieve common development. Kyrgyzstan has a unique historical tradition and development path. We can deeply explore China’s experience, analyze its logic of success, study its governance mechanisms, and creatively integrate the Chinese wisdom that aligns with Kyrgyzstan’s national conditions into our development practice.
The Concept of a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind Runs Through It
Arslan Koichiev, State Secretary of Kyrgyzstan
The concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind runs through the series Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, providing important ideological guidance for promoting exchanges and mutual learning among different civilizations. Facing the epochal question of how different civilizations should coexist in today’s world, President Xi Jinping proposed that we should promote mutual respect and harmonious coexistence among different civilizations, making inter-civilization exchanges and mutual learning a bridge to enhance friendship among peoples, a driving force for the progress of human society, and a bond to safeguard world peace.
In recent years, people-to-people and cultural exchanges between Kyrgyzstan and China have become increasingly close. This year, Kyrgyzstan hosted the Issyk-Kul International Forum, inviting a large delegation of Chinese writers to participate. Such exchange activities are not only a manifestation of the deepening dialogue between Kyrgyz and Chinese civilizations, but also provide a broad platform for writers of the two countries to learn from each other, inspire each other, and spark creative inspiration.
China is the most successful country in the localization of Marxism. China has accumulated rich experience in combining the fundamental principles of Marxism with China’s specific realities and advancing the sinicization and modernization of Marxism. To deeply understand the development of Marxism in the 21st century, seriously studying the series Xi Jinping: The Governance of China is of great significance. At present, the series Xi Jinping: The Governance of China has been translated into many languages, including Russian, English, and Kyrgyz. More and more translators are making positive contributions through their efforts to promote mutual understanding among peoples of different countries and deepen exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations.
Enhancing Countries’ Understanding and Recognition of China’s Path
Piao Yangfan, Deputy Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
President Xi Jinping attaches great importance to and personally promotes the development of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and China’s relations with SCO countries, reaching important consensus with the heads of state of the relevant countries. At last year’s SCO Summit in Tianjin, President Xi Jinping put forward the Global Governance Initiative, the content of which is highly compatible with the “Shanghai Spirit,” reflecting full recognition of the SCO’s status and role. Volume V of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China includes President Xi Jinping’s important speeches on building a China-Central Asia community with a shared future and an SCO community with a shared future, pointing the direction for deepening regional solidarity and coordination, consolidating the security and stability environment, strengthening the alignment of development strategies, and promoting people-to-people bonds.
China and Kyrgyzstan, as founding member states, have made unique contributions to the building and development of the SCO. The “SCO family,” as an important part of the Global South, has similar or identical positions and demands in defending national sovereignty and security, achieving modernization, upholding international rule of law and fairness and justice, and opposing unilateralism and protectionism. SCO countries advocate respecting the right of each country’s people to independently choose their own development path, while actively promoting exchanges in governance experience and other areas.
The translation of the series Xi Jinping: The Governance of China into foreign languages has played a positive role in enabling SCO countries to timely, accurately, comprehensively, and deeply understand the lines, principles, and policies of the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese state, as well as in enhancing mutual knowledge and mutual understanding, strengthening mutual learning among civilizations, and promoting common progress. It is believed that the publication of Volume V of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China will surely enhance countries’ understanding and recognition of China’s path, China’s governance, and China’s rationale.
Looking Forward to Strengthening Exchange of Governance Experience with China
Temir Sariev, Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Kyrgyzstan, former Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan
President Xi Jinping is a 高瞻远瞩 (gāo zhān yuǎn zhǔ - “to see far and wide from a high vantage point,” far-sighted) world-class leader. In my view, the series Xi Jinping: The Governance of China is an important blueprint for China’s reforms.
I was invited to attend the Third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in 2023, and I still clearly remember President Xi Jinping’s keynote speech at the forum’s opening ceremony. President Xi Jinping said that the ancient Silk Road thrived through camel caravans and goodwill, not war horses and spears; through treasure ships and friendship, not strong ships and cannons. President Xi Jinping’s important speech holds great significance for the world. The Belt and Road Initiative is an initiative based on solidarity, cooperation, and mutual trust, committed to connecting all parties and achieving mutual benefit and win-win results.
China’s achievements in areas such as economic development, infrastructure construction, and digital technology have attracted worldwide attention. Kyrgyzstan has a strong willingness to deepen cooperation with China and hopes to continuously expand the boundaries of cooperation with China. We look forward to strengthening exchanges in governance experience with China, learning from and drawing on China’s governance practices, and on this basis deepening cooperation with China. Currently, Kyrgyzstan-China relations are at their best period in history. The two sides maintain close high-level exchanges, and cooperation in economic, political and other fields is very smooth. In the future, there is still much cooperation to be advanced. It can be said that Kyrgyzstan-China cooperation holds infinite possibilities.
The ancient Silk Road closely bound us together. Let us look back at the camel bells of the merchant caravans, not forget our original intention of cooperation, continue to learn from each other, and jointly create a better future.
Promoting People-to-People and Cultural Exchanges and Cooperation Between the Two Countries to a New Level
Yernur Beysenbayev, Director of the Internal Policy Department of the Presidential Administration of Kazakhstan
Last year, we held the launch ceremony of the Kazakh-language editions of Volumes I to IV of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China in Astana. Now, Volume V of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China has officially met with Kazakhstani readers, promoting people-to-people and cultural exchanges and cooperation between Kazakhstan and China to a new level.
China is a trustworthy friendly neighbor of Kazakhstan. The history of friendly exchanges between the two countries can be traced back more than 2,000 years. The ancient Silk Road connected the profound friendship between the Kazakh and Chinese peoples. Today, upholding historical traditions, Kazakhstan and China, on the basis of the Kazakhstan-China Permanent Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, jointly promote the continuous achievement of new results in mutually beneficial cooperation in various fields.
Currently, under the advocacy of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Kazakhstan is comprehensively advancing a series of deep-seated economic and political reforms, aiming to build an efficient state governance system. Therefore, exchanges and mutual learning with China in the areas of governance experience, digital transformation, and improvement of public service efficiency are becoming increasingly important and urgent.
Although their development models have their own distinctive features, the development concepts of Kazakhstan and China are highly aligned. Both insist on proceeding from their own national conditions, advancing reforms step by step, and committing to achieving sustainable development. The series Xi Jinping: The Governance of China provides highly valuable important references for Kazakhstani readers to deeply understand China’s development path, governance practices, and development goals.
The Publication of Each New Volume Holds Great Significance
Askar Umarov, Director of the Central Communications Service of the President of Kazakhstan
The publication of each new volume of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China holds great significance. When I took over the newly published Volume V of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, I felt as inspired as when I received Volume I. The series Xi Jinping: The Governance of China is an important window for the international community to deeply understand contemporary China’s development path, governance experience, and concepts of international cooperation, and has always attracted high attention from experts and scholars in fields such as international relations, political science, and Sinology.
For Kazakhstan, the publication of Volume V of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China holds even more special significance. China is a good friend and permanent comprehensive strategic partner of Kazakhstan. We share a profound friendship of more than 2,000 years. Mutually beneficial cooperation between Kazakhstan and China has yielded fruitful results, and the two countries are moving hand in hand towards modernization. Volume V of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China comprehensively presents the latest theoretical achievements and practical explorations of China’s development in the new era, helping us to gain a deeper understanding of China’s domestic and foreign policy orientations, thereby conducting more fruitful exchanges and cooperation with China.
I believe that the publication of Volume V of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China will not only enhance dialogue between experts and scholars of Kazakhstan and China, but also promote the deepening of cooperation and mutual learning among government departments, scientific research institutions, and media, continuously injecting new impetus into the Kazakhstan-China Permanent Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.
Injecting New Impetus into the Long-Term Development of Bilateral Relations
Islam Sunkar, Representative of the People’s Party of Kazakhstan
The series Xi Jinping: The Governance of China is an authoritative reading for the international community to understand China in the new era. The publication of Volume V of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China provides an important opportunity for Kazakhstan to deepen the exchange of governance experience with China.
This year marks the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. Over many years, the Chinese Communist Party, through sound institutional building and long-term strategic planning, has anchored its development direction, successfully achieving the comprehensive victory in the battle against poverty and significantly improving the people’s living standards, along with other remarkable development achievements that have attracted worldwide attention, fully demonstrating the outstanding leadership of the Chinese Communist Party.
Both Kazakhstan and China have thousands of years of long history. As friendly neighbors, the two countries have accumulated a deep foundation of mutual trust through long-term exchanges. Kazakhstan attaches great importance to the Kazakhstan-China Permanent Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. Under the strategic guidance of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and President Xi Jinping, the scope of mutually beneficial cooperation between the two countries has successfully expanded from traditional fields such as economy and trade, transportation, and science and technology to deeper-level exchanges, including governance experience.
Currently, under the leadership of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Kazakhstan is steadily advancing a series of national reforms. At this critical juncture of transformation and development, deepening the mutual learning of governance experience between Kazakhstan and China is particularly important. This will not only lay a solid foundation for the people of the two countries, especially the younger generation, to join hands in creating a better future, but also inject new impetus into the long-term development of bilateral relations.
Kazakhstan and China Have Broad Consensus on Development Concepts
Aliya Mussabekova, Director of the International Security Department of the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies under the President
Modernization is not the privilege of a few countries, but an inevitable trend of global development. Against the backdrop of a wave of technological change sweeping the world and profound adjustments to the economic landscape, countries strengthening the exchange of development experience and jointly addressing common challenges is the only way to shared prosperity. The publication of Volume V of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China coincides with an important juncture when Kazakhstan is fully advancing the construction of “Adal Kazakhstan” (Just Kazakhstan), providing ideological guidance for the exchange of governance experience between the two countries.
President Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out: “Developing countries have the right and the ability to independently explore modernization paths with their own distinctive features based on their own national conditions.” This important exposition is highly compatible with Kazakhstan’s development strategy. Currently, Kazakhstan-China relations have been elevated to the highest level in history. The achievement of this result benefits not only from the two countries’ natural endowments of geographical proximity and economic complementarity, but also stems from the deep integration and long-term alignment of their strategic interests.
Kazakhstan and China are each exploring modernization paths with their own distinctive features based on their respective national conditions. Kazakhstan and China have broad consensus on development concepts, namely that the realization of modernization is inseparable from an efficient governance system, vigorous scientific and technological innovation, an open economic environment, and sustained talent cultivation. Looking to the future, I firmly believe that, as long as the two sides are guided by strategic consensus, continuously deepen economic cooperation, expand scientific research collaboration, strengthen educational exchanges, promote digital technology integration, and foster exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations, they will surely push the Kazakhstan-China Permanent Comprehensive Strategic Partnership to new heights and jointly write a new chapter of development and prosperity.
(This page’s text compiled by our reporters Qu Pei (屈佩) and Qu Song (曲颂))
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Return to TopVisiting a Factory with an Annual Production Capacity of Ten Thousand Humanoid Robots
“The difficulty of mass production lies in making them stable and consistent.”
Our reporter Jiang Xiaodan
Walking into the robot factory of Dongfang Yuanqi Intelligent Robot (Guangdong) Co., Ltd. located in Nanhai District, Foshan, Guangdong, the workshop is clean and bright, with intelligent equipment operating orderly. This intelligent manufacturing factory, jointly built by Leju Intelligent (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. and Guangdong Dongfang Precision Technology Co., Ltd., is a large-scale production base for humanoid robots with an annual production capacity of ten thousand units.
Where are the difficulties in large-scale production of humanoid robots? Li Deping, director of the Artificial Intelligence Teaching and Research Office at Jinan University, introduced that humanoid robots have multiple joints connected throughout the body, and subtle differences such as the tightness of screws will be amplified, causing obvious deviations in the robot’s walking and grasping movements. In addition, the lack of unified standards for industry components, incomplete matching of sensors and bionic accessories, and the need to individually debug motion and force control parameters for different models make it very difficult to mass-produce products with consistent performance.
This mass production factory in front of us relies on a complete set of intelligent production line design to specifically resolve the difficulties of mass production.
In the intelligent material management area, the highly automated material system is eye-catching. Staff only need to pass identity verification, and the corresponding material cabinet automatically opens, with the required components neatly arranged and precisely retrieved. After retrieval, the system automatically weighs, counts, and checks. Changes in a single screw or a single gasket can be precisely captured and updated in real time.
After materials are out of the warehouse and sorted, AGVs (Automated Guided Vehicles) transform into “intelligent transporters,” precisely delivering components to each workstation. Heavy-duty AGVs are responsible for long-distance cross-area transfer of heavy parts such as torsos and frames; light-duty AGVs transport small items such as screws, cables, and sensors within the assembly area; lifting AGVs with elevating platforms can directly deliver material trays to the specified height of the assembly line, seamlessly connecting with the production line… Different AGVs automatically avoid each other and travel orderly according to planned paths, with no need for manual following throughout the process, making material flow efficient and orderly.
Continuing forward, we arrive at the core assembly area for humanoid robots. Unlike traditional assembly lines, this area adopts a modular, synchronized, and flexible production mode. Key components such as hands and legs, torso, and head are assembled simultaneously at different workstations, with staff and automated equipment working closely together. Dozens of processes such as structural component installation, wiring connection, and sensor debugging proceed 有条不紊 (yǒu tiáo bù wěn - “there is order and no confusion,” methodically), and the entire production line operates quietly, smoothly, and continuously.
Also impressive is the “versatile capability” of the production line. In the middle area of the line, humanoid robots of different models and configurations are produced simultaneously. “We have taken a flexible route from the very beginning of design. We only need to switch production instructions in the system to quickly adjust models and configurations, and the switch is completed in a few minutes,” said Cao Yu, assistant vice president of Leju Intelligent. At the hardware level, only the end effector and specific joint modules are replaced, without the need to reconstruct the physical production line; at the software level, the system automatically loads the corresponding assembly parameters and adaptation programs for seamless connection.
Quality control starts from the moment components enter the factory. For different categories of robots such as wheeled-arm and humanoid, most of the quality inspection steps are common, with only the focus of testing adjusted according to product positioning. Cao Yu gave an example: for wheeled-arm robots, the focus is on testing the wheeled chassis, checking whether the wheels drive and steer stably; for humanoid robots, more attention is paid to gait balance and coordination of the arms, testing whether they can walk steadily on stairs and complex terrain.
At the end of the production line, every robot must undergo a “pre-service physical examination” — staff vigorously push the robot’s body, and the robot must stand steadily; the robot can also rotate its waist 180 degrees, flex and extend its joints flexibly, with smooth and natural movements; walking, turning, and positioning are checked item by item under high-precision equipment monitoring. Staff also simulate real scenarios to conduct multi-dimensional tests on the robot, ensuring it can work stably in actual environments. Only when all standards are met can it pass the assessment.
“It’s not about making more or making faster; the difficulty of mass production lies in making them stable and consistent,” said the technical director of Dongfang Yuanqi. This is also one of the important tests of large-scale production. “Putting more effort into the testing phase is to prevent products with hidden dangers from flowing into the market.”
Cao Yu stated that humanoid robots have been initially applied in scenarios such as industrial production, commercial services, and education and research. In the future, as technology continues to mature, scenarios continue to enrich, and demand continues to expand, humanoid robots will undertake more diverse tasks and play more important roles, and the foundation of all this is stable and reliable mass production capability.
Liu Ning, dean of the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Technology at Jinan University, believes that humanoid robots are still in the early stage of the industry, limited by shortcomings in sensor and bionic actuator technology, coupled with few mature commercial scenarios, and large-scale market orders have not yet been released. But in the long run, with the iteration of hardware technology and the continuous expansion of various implementation scenarios, market demand will continue to grow, and large-scale mass production is an inevitable trend in industry development.
Revealing the Special Electrical Steel for Humanoid Robots
The powerful force bursting from 0.2 millimeters
Our reporter Wang Yunshan
Electrical steel, the core material for efficient conversion between electrical and magnetic energy, is known as the “pearl” on the crown of the steel industry.
In new energy vehicles, it lays the foundation for long range and strong power; in large transformers, it supports the stable transmission and efficient conversion of current; inside high-end home appliances, it makes energy consumption lower and operation more stable… From home appliances to new energy, from ultra-high voltage to smart grids, a thin piece of electrical steel connects the power veins of modern industry.
At the Shougang Zhixin EVI (Early Supplier Involvement) laboratory in Qian’an, Hebei, research and development engineer Zhang Bao is bending over to study a sample — 0.2 mm ultra-thin electrical steel specially designed for humanoid robots.
Zhang Bao introduced that as humanoid robots are accelerating their evolution, this ultra-thin steel sheet specially tailored for robots, with a thickness equivalent to the diameter of a hair, can make small motors burst with powerful force, precisely meeting the stringent requirements of humanoid robots for lightweight, high torque density, and high power density. “A robot often carries forty or fifty or even more motors, and each motor cannot do without the support of electrical steel, helping the robot walk flexibly, operate precisely, and exert force stably.”
Compared with new energy vehicle motors, humanoid robot motors are smaller in size and higher in integration, and have more extreme requirements for the performance of some material properties.
For example, high torque means the motor is more “powerful,” supporting the robot to step, lift objects, and complete complex actions; low iron loss corresponds to low heat generation and low power consumption, allowing the robot to move without a complex cooling system… “There is a performance contradiction between the two; improving one often restricts the other,” Zhang Bao said.
How to solve this contradiction within a small space? The Shougang R&D team conducted more than 600 formula experiments in the laboratory, went through more than 10 industrial verifications, and spent a full year, finally finding the best balance point among magnetic induction, iron loss, and torque. Compared with conventional products on the market, this 0.2 mm thick special steel sheet reduces iron loss by 20% to 30%, making robot motors smaller, stronger, and more efficient.
Although humanoid robots are still in their infancy and large-scale application still needs time, Shougang insists on positioning itself in advance to lay the foundation for the vigorous development of the future industry.
“In 2015, when electrical steel for home appliances was selling the hottest, we realized that new energy vehicles were on the eve of an explosion, and we resolutely turned to the research and development of electrical steel for new energy vehicles,” An Dongyang, chief technical expert of Shougang Zhixin, told the reporter. Today, Shougang’s electrical steel products have achieved full coverage of the top ten global new energy vehicle manufacturers by sales, with a domestic market share of one-third.
“According to estimates, every 10,000 humanoid robots use about 100 tons of electrical steel. In the future, when humanoid robots enter thousands of households, this ‘thin steel’ will open up a new market worth hundreds of billions of yuan,” An Dongyang said.
From a broader perspective, Shougang’s deep cultivation in a segmented track is a microcosm of the overall upward breakthrough of China’s electrical steel industry.
On the supply side, during the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, China fully mastered advanced electrical steel production technology and processes, especially high-end products such as electrical steel for new energy vehicles and electrical steel for ultra-high voltage power transmission and distribution projects, all reaching or surpassing the advanced level of world peers. Data from the China Iron and Steel Association shows that in 2025, China’s total output of electrical steel was about 19.633 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 9.6%, accounting for 2.04% of the country’s total crude steel output.
On the demand side, Chen Zhuo, expert advisor of the Science, Technology and Environmental Protection Department of the China Iron and Steel Association, analyzed that looking toward the “15th Five-Year Plan,” the growth in demand for electrical steel mainly comes from three aspects —
The continued expansion of new energy vehicles. China’s new energy vehicle market penetration rate is expected to continue to rise, making it one of the largest incremental markets for non-oriented electrical steel.
Investment-driven growth in the power industry. During the “15th Five-Year Plan” period, China’s fixed asset investment in the power grid will reach over 5 trillion yuan, and demand for high-end oriented electrical steel used in transformers is expected to grow accordingly.
The accelerated rise of emerging fields. In the low-altitude economy, scenarios such as drone servos and electric drive systems for flying cars will promote the application of ultra-high-performance electrical steel and other materials. The widespread use of miniaturized and intelligent micro-special motors in smart terminals such as robot joint motors and robotic vacuum cleaners will create stable demand for electrical steel.
Trying to Dress Humanoid Robots in New Clothes
Not just outerwear, but evolving into “skin”
Our reporter Huang Xiaohui
“Click, click…” In the garment workshop in Jiangqiao Town, Jiading District, Shanghai, the sound of sewing machines remains, but the clothing in Lei Wen’s hands has changed — no longer heavy workwear, but a silver-white outer garment for a humanoid robot. This garment can twist 180 degrees with the robotic arm, and when the robot accidentally falls, it can protect the expensive joint components like an airbag. “If an arm is broken, the loss is not small,” Lei Wen carefully checks the details of the seamless wrapping at the joints of the humanoid robot.
In 2004, Lei Wen, who came from his hometown Xiantao, Hubei to Shanghai to make his way, founded Shanghai Zixi Company to tailor traditional workwear. Over the years, he settled down in Jiangqiao Town, where textile new materials and garment processing enterprises gather. With the arrival of intelligent manufacturing, Lei Wen observed a phenomenon: a set of imported protective clothing for industrial robots often costs tens of thousands of yuan, and it takes months to get it. He led his team to overcome the difficulty of high-temperature resistance of fabrics, and the self-developed welding and spraying protective clothing is sold at half the price of imported protective clothing, winning orders from many enterprises.
In 2023, an engineer posed a question: can you make a high-elasticity cover? Not as bulky as industrial protective clothing, it must be flame-retardant, breathable, able to follow joint bending without jamming, not fall off during movement, and preferably washable. To tackle this problem, Lei Wen’s garment workshop brought in intelligent nesting and cutting, 3D laser scanners and other equipment, optimizing the pattern by digitally modeling and simulating the motion trajectories of the robot’s axes.
“Look at the shoulder,” Lei Wen points to the seamless joint on the sample garment, “We added anti-slip silicone strips. In actual tests, the robot made dozens of emergency stops, and the garment shifted less than a few millimeters.” Accumulated technical achievements time and again have allowed the company to seize the lead in the rapid development of the robot industry. In 2025, the company shipped 1,000 sets of humanoid robot clothing, becoming a supplier to enterprises such as Yushu Technology and Zhiyuan Robot. “In the past, we had to go to the robot to take measurements and tailor clothes; now enterprises actively send robots to us to develop new styles.” Currently, the company is collaborating with universities and fabric enterprises to develop fabric surfaces that can integrate temperature and pressure sensor arrays, attempting to give humanoid robot outerwear collision detection and body surface temperature sensing, gradually evolving into “electronic skin.”
While Lei Wen is busy making flexible outerwear for robots, in a research and development studio in Songjiang District, knitwear designer Ding Hanqing is knitting a knitted sleeve for a robot finger. Ding Hanqing’s team’s main business has always been developing knitted garments, until the second half of last year, when an embodied intelligence company asked them to design the robot’s appearance using knitted fabric. Ding Hanqing recalled: “At that time, the client needed the garment to wrap every industrial surface as tightly as skin, without wrinkles when twisting and bending, leaving holes for each sensor interface, turning the garment into a wearable device.”
Ding Hanqing’s team transplanted the “3D knitting pattern calculation” technology previously developed for fashion, converting mechanical surfaces into knitting pattern pieces one by one, selecting high-elasticity yarns to control thickness and rebound, so that the outer garment attaches to the body like skin, and can be removed, washed, and replaced. Currently, the team’s orders for robot “skin” have equaled traditional knitwear development business, with clients covering embodied intelligence, medical rehabilitation, and dexterous hand enterprises. The team is trying to implant conductive yarns into the knitted structure, combined with algorithms to explore pressure sensing and contact feedback functions. “It’s still in the testing phase, but the direction is clear — future robots must be able to ‘feel’ being touched,” Ding Hanqing said.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 郑洋洋
In Huairen (怀仁市), Shanxi, over a million pieces of daily-use porcelain come off automated production lines every day, sold to various places and heading to overseas markets.
Entering the production workshop of Yijiaqin Ceramics Co., Ltd. (亿家亲陶瓷有限公司), smart equipment operates in an orderly manner. On the circular conveyor line, white gypsum molds flow at a constant speed; after clay material is precisely fed by equipment, the rolling head above rotates at high speed and applies pressure. In seconds, a lump of clay is shaped into the neat preliminary form of bowls and plates. Next to it, pneumatic robotic arms work flexibly, completing procedures such as demolding and edge washing, with trimming and glazing fully automated.
"The intelligent production line integrates multiple processes, doubling production efficiency, steadily increasing product qualification rate, and greatly reducing workers' labor burden," said Liu Min (刘敏), the person in charge of the company.
"Automated production line production has become the norm in Huairen's ceramics industry, and the industry's landscape has taken on a 焕然一新 (huàn rán yī xīn - "dazzling and new," undergoing a complete transformation)," introduced Yin Gaofeng (尹高峰), director of the Huairen Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology (怀仁市工信局). "In previous years, local ceramics enterprises were scattered in layout and backward in technology, falling into the dilemma of increasing output but not increasing revenue. Now, Huairen has increased support for enterprise technological transformation, and the ceramics industry is accelerating its iteration toward automation and intelligence. There are currently 80 sets of automated production lines, and the level of intelligence ranks among the top in the national ceramics industry."
Huairen has a deep heritage in porcelain making. Within its territory, three ancient kiln sites that began firing in the Jin Dynasty are preserved, engraving the developmental imprint of northern ceramics. "Besides historical tradition, our industrial advantages are very obvious: local coal gangue reserves are abundant, which can be processed and purified into high-quality kaolin; after the founding of New China, state-owned ceramic factories were established and put into production, accumulating mature firing techniques for the industry," Yin Gaofeng explained.
To break through the development bottleneck of scattered industries and insufficient supporting facilities, in 2012, Huairen planned and built the Jinshatan Ceramics Park (金沙滩陶瓷园区), integrating various industrial resources. "We adhere to the development thinking of clustering and chain integration, take the construction of provincial-level specialized towns as the starting point, optimize industrial layout, and improve upstream and downstream supporting facilities," said Tian Yong (田勇), Executive Vice Mayor of Huairen. Local authorities have built an industrial system led by flagship enterprises, with division of labor and cooperation, complementarity and symbiosis, saying goodbye to the extensive and scattered development model.
Technological innovation is the key lever for Huairen ceramics to leap out of the low end. In the showroom of Jintai Ceramics Co., Ltd. (锦泰陶瓷有限公司), pieces of translucent and warm bone china are neatly displayed, with elegant and delicate landscape patterns on the bodies. Wang Xibi (王希毕), the person in charge of the company, took two bowls and gently tapped them together, a clear sound slowly spread out.
"Unlike ordinary white porcelain, bone china has long had the reputation of being 'as thin as paper, as white as jade, as bright as a mirror, and as resonant as a chime stone,' and is recognized as a high-grade porcelain variety." Wang Xibi gently touched the porcelain surface with his fingertip, and the light illuminated the plate, clearly showing the silhouette of a hand on the inner bottom.
"The traditionally beautiful bone china once had hard-to-avoid shortcomings," Wang Xibi introduced. "Traditional bone china body is relatively thin, has weak corrosion resistance, is easy to yellow and leave stains after long use, and is not compatible with microwave ovens and dishwashers, limiting daily use." To solve the industry pain point, the company continuously deepens R&D, repeatedly adjusts raw material ratios, innovatively adds rubidium-containing Wulan tea crystal stone (乌兰茶晶石), and successfully improved and developed third-generation bone china. The improved porcelain has simultaneous improvements in hardness, transparency, and antibacterial and easy-cleaning properties.
While tackling high-end daily-use porcelain, it also lays out differentiated tracks of cultural and creative products, and Huairen ceramics has embarked on a path of diversified development.
Entering the showroom of Fuxin Liuli Porcelain Company (福鑫琉璃瓷公司), the brightly colored and exquisitely shaped liuli components are especially striking. "Our liuli has been used in the restoration of buildings such as the Palace Museum and Peking University Library," introduced Zhang Jun (张军), the person in charge of the enterprise. The small cultural and creative product "Twirling Gourd" (转转葫芦) is also popular. A palm-sized "Twirling Gourd" liuli ornament has a precision bearing inside, allowing it to rotate smoothly 360 degrees.
After years of deep cultivation, Huairen has built a mature and complete ceramic industry ecosystem. Currently, Huairen has 118 ceramic business entities, including 41 above-designated-size enterprises, 123 ceramic production lines, annual production capacity of 3.5 billion pieces, total industrial chain output value of 6.3 billion yuan, driving 56,000 employed persons.
From earth kiln coarse pottery to intelligent manufacturing, producing good porcelain and high-quality porcelain, this northern porcelain city is steadily moving toward a ten-billion-level ceramic industrial cluster.
Return to TopKUNMING, July 27 (Reporter Ye Chuanzeng) — A reporter learned from Mengla Customs (勐腊海关), subordinate to Kunming Customs (昆明海关), that in the first half of this year, the total value of imports and exports via the China-Laos Railway reached 17.17 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 33.8 percent, with cross-border trade continuing to be energized.
On the import side, imports of tropical fruits such as fresh durian, mangosteen, and longan totaled 4.22 billion yuan, up 25.8 percent year-on-year. On the export side, the "new three types" (新三样) of products — new-energy vehicles and photovoltaic products — recorded an export value of 2.14 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.5 times. The export value of cross-border e-commerce B2B (business-to-business) grew 1.2 times year-on-year, becoming a new engine for export growth.
As of June 30 this year, the China-Laos Railway had operated more than 22,000 international freight trains cumulatively, with a total import and export freight volume of 19.353 million tons and a value of 90.28 billion yuan. The categories of import and export goods have expanded from just over 10 types at the initial stage of operation to more than 3,900 types, including new-energy vehicles, tropical fruits, temperate vegetables, and Chinese medicinal materials. These goods now reach 19 countries and regions and serve more than 7,000 foreign trade entities in China. A new picture of mutually beneficial and win-win economic and trade relations between China and ASEAN countries is being rapidly drawn.
Return to TopBeijing, July 27 (Reporter Lin Lili (林丽鹂)) — In order to comprehensively strengthen the safety baseline of large amusement rides in amusement parks and scenic areas, and to standardize the technical requirements for the entire chain of design, manufacture, installation, and use of large amusement rides, the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局) has organized the revision of the Safety Requirements for Large Amusement Rides (Draft for Comments), and is now publicly soliciting comments from the whole society.
As a fundamental and mandatory national standard in the field of large amusement ride safety in China, the draft for comments has drawn lessons from accidents involving large amusement rides in recent years, systematically sorted out the operational pain points of large amusement rides currently in use nationwide, simultaneously benchmarked against international advanced amusement ride safety standards, adapted to the development needs of new technologies in the industry, and formulated basic safety requirements for the full life cycle of large amusement rides that are suited to China’s national conditions.
The draft for comments adheres to a risk-prevention-oriented approach, follows the principle of unifying safety, applicability, and scientificity, carries out systematic revisions and improvements to relevant technical requirements, and strives to enhance the operability and forward-looking nature of the standard, thereby strengthening its guiding role in the safe operation of the industry.
Return to TopBeijing, July 27 (People's Daily) — (Reporter Liu Wenxin (刘温馨)) The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) recently issued the "Notice on Organizing the Construction of National-Level Zero-Carbon Factories (关于组织开展国家级零碳工厂建设工作的通知)" to organize and carry out the construction of national-level zero-carbon factories (零碳工厂) (including zero-carbon computing facilities (零碳算力设施)).
Zero-carbon factory construction refers to the process of achieving continuous reduction of carbon dioxide emissions within the boundary, gradually approaching near zero, through emission reduction measures such as technological innovation, structural adjustment, and management optimization.
The notice proposes to select manufacturing enterprises and computing facilities that possess a certain construction foundation, clear construction goals, clear implementation paths, and commit to completing the construction goals within a specified time limit, and to include the best ones into the national-level zero-carbon factory construction list.
The construction evaluation indicator system includes two parts: core indicators and guiding indicators. Core indicators are key factors that are fundamental, decisive, and binding for zero-carbon factory construction. At the same time, 4 categories and 8 guiding indicators are set up to systematically guide enterprises to continuously improve in areas such as energy-saving and carbon-reduction transformation, application of energy-saving equipment, and digital energy and carbon management.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will conduct irregular spot checks and verification on the construction units, and organize acceptance inspections according to the principle of "mature a batch, accept a batch." Those that pass the acceptance evaluation will officially become national-level zero-carbon factories.
Return to TopBeijing, July 27 — (Reporter Jiang Xuehong (蒋雪鸿)) Recently, the China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局) issued the Modern Agricultural Meteorology Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Operational Capability Construction Plan (2026–2030) (现代农业气象防灾减灾业务能力建设方案（2026—2030年）).
The plan specifies that by 2030, the national modern agricultural meteorology disaster prevention and mitigation capability will be significantly improved. Domestic agricultural meteorological disaster risk warnings will cover short-, medium-, and long-term periods, and the spatial resolution of warnings in key areas and the spatial resolution of agricultural yield forecasts will both reach the plot level. It will possess the capability for global food security meteorological risk warnings. Agricultural meteorological observation will basically achieve automation, and a specialized database for agricultural meteorological services will be established. A new round of national agricultural climate resource survey and zoning will be completed, forming five major categories of agricultural climate zoning and zoning maps for 25 main crops.
Anchoring to this goal, the plan revolves around five aspects: enhancing the precision monitoring capability of modern agricultural meteorology, enhancing the forecasting and warning capability of modern agricultural meteorology, enhancing the service capability of modern agricultural meteorology, enhancing the scientific and technological support capability of modern agricultural meteorology, and carrying out demonstration construction of modern agricultural meteorological services, specifying 22 key tasks.
The plan will accelerate the construction of a new-type meteorological service system for agriculture, and strive to enhance the digital-intelligent and scenario-based agricultural meteorological disaster prevention and mitigation capability.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 辛 阳 胡婧怡
On July 27, Beijing time, the 48th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, held in Busan, Republic of Korea, reviewed and approved the boundary adjustment project for the Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf of China (Phase II) World Natural Heritage site, and the Changshan Islands Migratory Bird Habitat in Dalian, Liaoning, was successfully included in the World Natural Heritage.
In the height of summer, the Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf sea breeze, carrying the calls of thousands of birds, sweeps over Fantuizi (矾坨子) of Guanglu Island. Chinese egrets (Egretta eulophotes) are scattered across the green rocky shoals; pale green bird eggs are hidden among the shrubs; fledglings with newly grown feathers flap their wings against the sea breeze. From just a few Chinese egrets landing on the islands in the early years to more than 1,500 adult birds breeding here today, the renewal of the islands bears witness to the course of systematic ecological restoration across the entire Changshan Islands of Dalian.
"This is the home of seabirds, and also the blessing we have guarded into being"
At 5 a.m., Wang Piyu (王丕煜), deputy director of the Changhai County Natural Resources Affairs Service Center (长海县自然资源事务服务中心), rode a patrol boat toward Fantuizi. The tide covered the shallows; the small boat cut through the glassy sea surface, and from afar came the rising and falling calls of birds. Approaching within a hundred meters of the island reef, he killed the engine and stopped the boat. Wang Piyu lowered his voice and urged the accompanying researchers not to disturb the egrets.
Stepping onto the island, vines tangled the patrol path; on the gravel slopes were scattered bird nests forty to fifty centimeters in diameter. In nests woven from fine soft grass stems, two or three downy chicks huddled together, while parent birds perched on high branches, their eyes alert. Wang Piyu crouched down, his fingertips brushing the native shrubs by the path: "Ten years ago, it was not like this. In the early years, people came to the islands to collect bird eggs, and nearshore aquaculture polluted the tidal flats. Many of the reefs on Fantuizi were bare, with even the plants for birds to perch on scarce."
The change began with a comprehensive ecological governance. Dalian successively implemented projects to return aquaculture to wetlands (退养还湿), restore island vegetation, and clean up the shoreline, delineated strict ecological red lines, and completely closed core island reefs during the breeding season.
"Chinese egrets are extremely sensitive to water quality, vegetation, and human disturbance. The fact that they are willing to stay and increase shows that this sea has been well nurtured," said Lü Yongquan (吕永泉), director of the Changhai County Natural Resources Bureau (长海县自然资源局). Today, the four core components of the Changshan Islands Migratory Bird Habitat assume differentiated protection functions: Fantuizi breeds Chinese egrets; Gexian Island Toutuozi (格仙岛头坨子) serves as a stopover for black-faced spoonbills and migratory raptors; Dahaozidao (大耗子岛) provides wintering grounds for waterbirds; and the southern reef zone of Bashao Island (蚆蛸岛) protects the breeding population of the Western Pacific spotted seal, together forming a composite ecosystem of island reefs, rocky shoals, and shallow-sea island native vegetation.
The 2026 survey results show that the total number of breeding adult Chinese egrets in the Dalian area has exceeded 2,500, with cumulative new fledglings surpassing 3,000. Among them, breeding adults on Fantuizi exceed 1,500; the concentrated breeding populations on Xingren Tuozi (行人坨子) and Yuanbao Tuozi (元宝坨子) in Zhuanghe number about 800; and nearly 100 breeding individuals stably inhabit Snake Island (蛇岛) in Lüshun. The regional population scale continues to expand, and the number of islands where they are distributed is increasing.
The sea breeze sweeps over the island reefs; egrets fly over the blue waves. Wang Piyu gazes at the birds, tenderness in his eyes: "I have spent half my life guarding the islands and protecting the birds. Now this migratory bird habitat has been included in the World Natural Heritage. This is the home of seabirds, and also the blessing we have guarded into being."
"In the past, we lived off the sea; now we guard the sea and protect the birds. Lucid waters and lush mountains are the long-term rice bowl (绿水青山才是长久饭碗)"
Chinese egrets have extremely high requirements for their habitat environment. The continuous expansion of this population bears witness to the improvement of the ecological environment along the coastline and islands of Dalian.
The Changshan Islands are located at a key node of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway for migratory birds. The scattered isolated reefs and the difficulty of cross-sea management and protection make island patrols alone far from sufficient. Dalian has moved beyond the fragmented approach of "one island, one guard" and adopted a systematic protection path of "land-sea coordination, island-sea linkage" (陆海统筹、岛海联动). A full-chain governance system supports the "maritime驿站" for migratory bird migration.
Technology has installed "clairvoyant eyes" for ecological monitoring. The Liaoning Snake Island-Laotieshan National Nature Reserve (辽宁蛇岛老铁山国家级自然保护区), Dalian Chengshantou Coastal Landform National Nature Reserve (大连城山头海滨地貌国家级自然保护区), Dalian Spotted Seal National Nature Reserve (大连斑海豹国家级自然保护区), and Liaoning Xianrendong National Nature Reserve (辽宁仙人洞国家级自然保护区) formed a joint survey team, using drone aerial surveys, infrared fixed-point monitoring, and personnel landing inspections in a three-dimensional linkage, achieving real-time monitoring without blind spots on uninhabited islands. Lyu Chuandong (吕传栋), a member of the Snake Island-Laotieshan Reserve research team, carefully operated a drone, using a high-magnification lens at altitude to photograph the breeding situation of Chinese egrets, with nest images transmitted back to the screen in real time. "In the past, landing on an island took half a day, and if there were strong winds and waves, you couldn't go at all. Now drones patrol daily, automatically archiving bird numbers and habitat dynamics, allowing monitoring without disturbing the birds," Lyu Chuandong said.
Cross-departmental coordination breaks down management and protection barriers. Dalian has organized maritime police, fishery administration, natural resources, and other departments to establish a joint law enforcement mechanism. During the peak waterbird breeding season from April to July each year, routine maritime patrols are carried out, and acts of stealing bird eggs and destroying reef and tidal flat habitats are severely cracked down on. Civilian bird protection organizations and research institutes have also joined, and fishermen have transformed into bird protection volunteers, becoming a grassroots force. In Changhai County, which administers the Changshan Islands, many fishermen have taken the initiative to undertake patrol tasks in nearshore waters. "In the past, we lived off the sea; now we guard the sea and protect the birds. Lucid waters and lush mountains are the long-term rice bowl," said Yu Jingjiang (于景江), a fisherman from Changhai County.
Institutionalized constraints lay a solid foundation for long-term protection. Dalian has issued detailed rules for island ecological management and protection, implementing differentiated control. A space-air-ground integrated monitoring network is on duty 24 hours a day; once any ecological damage is detected, emergency response is carried out immediately, keeping human disturbance away from the homes of rare birds.
The inclusion of the Changshan Islands Migratory Bird Habitat in the World Natural Heritage fills the monitoring gap in China's northern island migratory bird and marine mammal coordinated protection, providing a replicable and observable Chinese coastal protection plan for the world.
"World Natural Heritage is a precious green business card for the city"
The first phase of the Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf of China (Phase I) was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2019. In 2024, the second phase expansion added five new areas. Now, with another expansion, this ecological corridor spanning Shanghai, Jiangsu, Shandong, Hebei, and Liaoning has become increasingly complete.
Dalian has two World Heritage areas: Snake Island-Laotieshan and the Changshan Islands. The local government does not engage in extensive development, adheres to "protection first, moderate transformation," and explores an "ecology+" development path: conducting bird-watching study tours and natural science popularization within defined limits, regulating low-disturbance ecotourism, and allowing the public to share in the benefits of ecological protection.
"World Natural Heritage is a precious green business card for the city," said Liu Runnian (刘润年), deputy county chief of Changhai County. After the Changshan Islands' World Heritage inscription, the local government will continue to improve supporting facilities for island restoration, migratory bird monitoring, and spotted seal breeding research, linking with the Yalu River Estuary in Dandong and Snake Island-Laotieshan to form a land-sea connected ecological corridor, stringing together a complete coastal protection belt on the Liaodong Peninsula.
Tides rise and fall; gulls and egrets dance gracefully. From a few waterbirds to tens of thousands gathering, from scattered islands to World Natural Heritage, Dalian, with persistent guardianship, explores a path where economic development and ecological protection complement each other.
"In the future, Dalian will continue to deepen the refined management and protection of the Changshan Islands World Heritage site, improve the cross-regional collaborative protection mechanism, safeguard this migratory bird life passage, and let the ecological sample of China's northern islands continue to shine on the global stage of biodiversity protection," said a relevant official from the Dalian Municipal Natural Resources Bureau (大连市自然资源局).
Return to TopThis newspaper, Beijing, July 27 (reporters Dong Siyu (董丝雨), Xin Yang (辛阳), Hu Jingyi (胡婧怡)) — On July 27, Beijing time, the Changshan Archipelago (长山群岛) migratory bird habitat in Dalian, Liaoning, was successfully inscribed as a World Natural Heritage site, and the series of Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf of China (黄（渤）海候鸟栖息地系列遗产) achieved another extension following 2024, further enhancing the integrity of the series of Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf of China, and representing an important practice of China’s integrated land-sea planning and systemic protection of coastal natural resources.
The Changshan Archipelago, located in the northern Yellow Sea and under the jurisdiction of Dalian City, Liaoning Province, is a maritime must-pass route for the East Asian–Australasian Flyway (东亚—澳大利西亚候鸟迁飞区) and an important energy-replenishing island group for tens of millions of migratory birds crossing the Bohai Sea. The total area of this extension is over 4,900 hectares, comprising four core components: Guanglu Island Fantuozi (广鹿岛矾坨子), Gexian Island Toutuozi (格仙岛头坨子), Dahaoxi Island (大耗子岛), and the southern reef belt of Basha Island (蚆蛸岛南部岩礁带). Together with the Snake Island–Laotieshan (蛇岛—老铁山) and the Dandong Yalu River Estuary (丹东鸭绿江口) migratory bird habitats on the Liaodong Peninsula land shore, this area forms an ecological corridor linking land and sea. The area is rich in species resources, with over 140 species of birds recorded across the entire zone. It is the largest breeding ground globally for the Chinese egret, and nationally protected first-class wild animals such as the black-faced spoonbill and the Western Pacific spotted seal reside here year-round.
In recent years, China has continuously advanced the construction of a protected natural area system with national parks as the mainstay, providing strong support for the systemic and integral protection of World Natural Heritage. As of now, China has 15 World Natural Heritage sites and 4 World Mixed Natural and Cultural Heritage sites, ranking first in the world in total number. The World Heritage site of the Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf of China is located in the world’s largest intertidal wetland and is an important habitat for migratory birds on the East Asian–Australasian Flyway. Phase I was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2019, including two areas in northern and southern Yancheng, Jiangsu. Phase II was inscribed in 2024, containing five areas: Shanghai Chongming Dongtan (上海崇明东滩), Shandong Dongying Yellow River Estuary (山东东营黄河口), Hebei Cangzhou Nandagang (河北沧州南大港), Liaoning Dalian Snake Island–Laotieshan (辽宁大连蛇岛—老铁山), and Liaoning Dandong Yalu River Estuary (辽宁丹东鸭绿江口).
Return to TopBy: 刘伟平
The construction of the Three Gorges New Water Transport Channel Project is a major measure to deeply implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions on promoting the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt. China Three Gorges Corporation adheres to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, deeply studies and implements the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speeches, important instructions, and directives, firmly establishes and practices a correct view of political achievements, goes all out to advance the construction of the Three Gorges New Water Transport Channel Project, and strives to build the new channel into a landmark project of the new era that can withstand the test of practice, the people, and history.
Forging political loyalty, deeply understanding the great significance of constructing the Three Gorges New Water Transport Channel Project
The construction of the Three Gorges New Water Transport Channel Project is conducive to the high-quality development of the comprehensive three-dimensional transportation corridor of the Yangtze River, conducive to promoting the implementation of the Yangtze River Economic Belt development strategy, conducive to constructing a new development pattern of domestic and international dual circulation, and conducive to the implementation of the concepts of ecological priority and green development. Three Gorges Corporation will raise its political stance and continuously deepen its understanding of the great significance of constructing the Three Gorges New Water Transport Channel Project.
The Three Gorges New Water Transport Channel Project is a landmark project that enters the new stage of development and supports the implementation of major national strategies. General Secretary Xi Jinping, standing at the strategic height of achieving the sustainable development of the Chinese nation and the long-term stability and security of the country, put forward the water management approach of "water conservation priority, spatial balance, systematic governance, and two-handed发力 (two forces working together)," providing fundamental guidance and a course of action for implementing the national "river and lake strategy," accelerating the construction of the national water network, and promoting high-quality development of water resources. The Three Gorges Project is an important node of the national water network, and the Three Gorges New Water Transport Channel Project is an important component of the national water network. After the completion of the Three Gorges New Water Transport Channel Project, it will further enhance the comprehensive benefits of the Three Gorges Project, strongly support the construction of the main skeleton and major arteries of the national water network, and provide strong support for serving the national "river and lake strategy," the construction of an energy power, a beautiful China, and a scientific and technological power.
The Three Gorges New Water Transport Channel Project is a comprehensive project that implements the new development concept and promotes green and low-carbon development. Water transport, as a universally recognized green and economical mode of transportation, has significant advantages. After the impoundment of the Three Gorges Reservoir, the navigation conditions in the reservoir area and the Yichang-Wuhan section of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River have significantly improved. Ten-thousand-ton fleets can travel directly from Shanghai to Chongqing, making the Yangtze River a veritable golden waterway. Constructing the Three Gorges New Water Transport Channel Project will further release the advantages of Yangtze River water transport, optimize the transport structure, forge long-term growth momentum and development advantages for green transportation, and inject strong green kinetic energy into the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt.
The Three Gorges New Water Transport Channel Project is a strategic project that constructs a new development pattern and promotes the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt. After the impoundment of the Three Gorges Reservoir, the benefits of Yangtze River shipping have gradually emerged. In 2011, the annual freight volume passing through the Three Gorges ship locks exceeded 100 million tons for the first time, reaching the designed throughput capacity 19 years ahead of schedule. In 2025, the annual throughput of the Three Gorges complex reached 173 million tons, nearly ten times that before the impoundment of the Three Gorges Reservoir. After the completion of the Three Gorges New Water Transport Channel Project, the Three Gorges complex will form a pattern of four-line ship locks plus a ship lift, and the Gezhouba Dam complex will form a pattern of four-line ship locks, further releasing the shipping potential of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, enhancing the navigability of the golden waterway, and providing solid support for accelerating the construction of a new development pattern.
Making real and solid efforts, going all out to advance the high-quality construction of the Three Gorges New Water Transport Channel Project
The Three Gorges New Water Transport Channel Project is large in scale, has a long construction period, involves a wide range of fields, and requires overcoming many world-class technical and management challenges. Three Gorges Corporation will firmly establish and practice a correct view of political achievements, and work together with all participating parties to go all out to advance the high-quality construction of the Three Gorges New Water Transport Channel Project.
The foremost task is to strengthen Party leadership and calibrate the development direction through Party spirit tempering. Continuously deeply study and comprehend the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speeches, important instructions, and directives, use the Party’s innovative theories to unify thoughts, unify will, and unify action. Uphold running the entire process through with an emphasis on politics, promote the integration of Party leadership into the whole process and every link of decision-making, execution, and supervision, and transform the Party’s political advantages and organizational advantages into advantages for high-quality project construction. Uphold strengthening the system as the foundation, make overall plans for selecting the capable and appointing the worthy, consolidating foundations, and cultivating and gathering talent, deepen and expand vivid practices such as the "big party building" in the construction area and party members' "posts, zones, and teams," weave a dense and unimpeded organizational system, and play the "one chess game" of project construction.
The foundation is to abide by putting the people first and manifest the original aspiration and mission with the warmth of people's livelihood. Adhere to sincerely benefiting resettled people, steadily and orderly cooperate with local governments to make overall resettlement work, and go all out to build projects of popular sentiment and warm-hearted projects. Adhere to wholeheartedly protecting the environment, deeply recognize that a good ecological environment is the most inclusive public welfare for the people, build a solid ecological security barrier, and ensure that the fruits of development benefit the masses and future generations. Adhere to carefully promoting development, take project construction as the engine, drive the upgrading of industries such as transportation, commerce, services, cultural tourism in the surrounding areas, broaden channels for the masses to increase income and become prosperous, and enhance the people's sense of gain.
The key point is to strengthen the concept of system and promote overall work through scientific coordination. Properly handle the relationship between flood control and navigation, and under the premise of ensuring the safety of the Three Gorges-Gezhouba cascade complex, scientifically plan the operation and scheduling of ship locks to maximize navigation efficiency. Properly handle the relationship between navigation and ecology, run the concept of green development through the entire life cycle of the project, strictly implement ecological protection measures, and create an ecological waterway where humans and nature coexist harmoniously. Properly handle the relationship between project construction and channel smoothness, optimize construction organization plans, minimize the impact of project construction on the existing navigation order, and ensure seamless connection between construction and operation.
The key is to adhere to making real and solid efforts and build a landmark project with solid action and responsibility. Adhere to solid work to produce high-quality products, put quality and safety first, grasp every process and every link, and strictly control project quality. Adhere to solid work to overcome difficulties, concentrate advantageous resources to carry out major scientific and technological research, promote the autonomy and controllability of key technologies, and promote the upgrading of major water transport infrastructure. Adhere to hard work to build new achievements, forge a project construction iron army with strong political integrity, high professional competence, and excellent work style, inspire the vast number of builders to stand on their posts, make contributions, and write a new chapter in building great national treasures.
Striving for excellence, building a high-quality project, safe project, green project, innovative project, clean project
As the organization and implementation party of the Three Gorges New Water Transport Channel Project, Three Gorges Corporation will leverage the strength of the entire Corporation to do a good job in the organization, coordination, and supervision of project construction, and strive to build the Three Gorges New Water Transport Channel Project into a landmark project of the new era that is "high-quality, safe, green, innovative, and clean."
Strive for excellence and build a high-quality project. Adhere to quality as the foundation, fully implement the "Outline for Building a Quality Power," improve the quality control system, organize design, supervision, and construction units to go all out to build the Three Gorges New Water Transport Channel Project into a high-quality project. Strengthen full life cycle, full process, and all-round supervision, and use first-class standards, first-class design, first-class construction, and first-class quality to go all out to build a high-quality project.
Unite and collaborate, forge a safe project. Adhere to safety first, organize participating units to improve the safety control system, strengthen full-process supervision of "planning, design, construction, operation," keep a close eye on key parts and key links, strengthen investigation and rectification of hidden dangers. Assist local governments in managing the construction area and related areas, cooperate with transportation departments to ensure navigation safety during the construction period, strengthen civilized construction, and ensure social stability.
Ecological priority, build a green project. Adhere to ecological priority and green development, follow the demonstration principles for major water conservancy projects of "actually needed, ecologically safe, and sustainable," strictly implement the requirements approved for ecological environmental protection and soil and water conservation, and implement green and low-carbon construction. Make overall plans for building beautiful construction areas, fully release the green benefits of the Three Gorges New Water Transport Channel Project, and promote a win-win situation for project construction and ecological protection.
Overcome difficulties, advance an innovative project. Adhere to leading high-quality construction with scientific and technological innovation, implement the national key special project "Digital Intelligence Efficiency Enhancement of the Three Gorges New Water Transport Channel" well, concentrate advantageous resources to carry out special research on digital intelligence construction of the project, coordinated scheduling of locks and ships, and three-dimensional perception of waterways, increase the research and development and application of new technologies, new materials, new processes, and new equipment, and strive to achieve major breakthroughs in scientific and technological innovation.
Be upright and clean, forge a clean project. Promote the fine work style of "loyalty to the Party, undertaking the mission; striving for excellence, daring to scale heights; uniting and collaborating, overcoming difficulties; selfless dedication, clean and honest," cultivate the clean culture of "building both dams together, building both ecologies together (两坝同筑、两个生态共建)," and build a clean risk prevention and control system.
The Party and the state have entrusted the important task of constructing the Three Gorges New Water Transport Channel Project to Three Gorges Corporation. We deeply feel the great responsibility and glorious mission. Three Gorges Corporation will deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments" (两个确立), resolutely achieve the "two upholds" (两个维护), and with the mission and responsibility of "success does not necessarily have to be in me, success must necessarily have me," submit an answer sheet that reassures the Party and the state and satisfies the people, and contribute to comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization.
(The author is Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Chairman of China Three Gorges Corporation)
Return to TopBeijing, July 27 (Xinhua) — (Reporter Wang Yunshan (王云杉)) Recently, the National Energy Administration (国家能源局) officially released the China Green Certificate Price Index (中国绿证价格指数). In June of this year, the China Green Certificate Price Index closed at 181.0 points (with January 2025 as the base period of 100 points), down 0.2% month-on-month and up 23.2% year-on-year.
The China Green Certificate Price Index is compiled based on the raw data of national green certificate transaction prices, selecting the national average price of green certificates for a specific period as the base period, and undergoing standardized comprehensive calculation. It is a national authoritative price index that can objectively and truthfully reflect the supply-demand pattern and price change trends of China's green certificate market. At present, the index takes January 2025 as the base period; this release first publishes the monthly index data since January 2025, and subsequently a normalized monthly release mechanism will be implemented.
For energy-using enterprises, the China Green Certificate Price Index will be able to provide a clear price reference and decision-making basis for their low-carbon transformation, helping enterprises accurately judge market conditions, optimize the pace and plan of green certificate procurement, and choose a more economical and more efficient low-carbon transformation path. For power generation enterprises, the China Green Certificate Price Index can help enterprises clearly grasp the price trend of the green certificate market, scientifically judge the trading window period, precisely select the trading timing, ensure smooth green certificate trading and reasonable value realization, so that green certificates can be sold and sold well, fully releasing the environmental value of renewable energy electricity.
Return to TopOur newspaper Hohhot, July 27 (Reporter Zhang Cheng (张枨)) — The global first zero-carbon airport technology achievement press conference was recently held in Ordos City, Inner Mongolia. After review and appraisal by the China Quality Certification Center (中国质量认证中心) and the China Communications and Transportation Association (中国交通运输协会), the overall net carbon emissions of Ordos Ejin Horo International Airport (鄂尔多斯伊金霍洛国际机场) have reached the "zero-carbon airport" standard, and this technology achievement has overall reached an internationally leading level.
This technology was independently developed by the Peking University Ordos Energy Research Institute (北京大学鄂尔多斯能源研究院), innovatively constructing an integrated "wind-solar-storage-cooling-heating-electricity" zero-carbon energy technology system, and has completed on-site verification and practical application at Ordos Ejin Horo International Airport. This technology fully leverages Ordos's unique wind and solar resource advantages, replacing traditional grid power supply with wind and solar power generation, using a diversified energy storage system primarily composed of new nickel-hydrogen batteries for energy storage, driving a transcritical carbon dioxide cooling and heating system with green electricity — cooling in summer and heating in winter — replacing Freon refrigeration units and gas boilers, and through a cross-seasonal soil energy storage system, achieving "heat storage in spring, summer, and autumn, and heat extraction in winter" in the surface layer.
At the same time, by developing an AI (artificial intelligence) intelligent computing holographic three-dimensional smart energy management and control system, integrating digital twin technology, it precisely dispatches the production and conversion of cooling, heating, and electricity, predicts and optimizes the energy supply and demand of the entire site in real time, significantly improving the consumption of green electricity and the efficiency of comprehensive energy utilization, achieving regional smart energy supply.
Since this system was officially put into operation on March 15, 2025, it has updated the traditional heating and cooling modes of the airport, and possesses the conditions for industrial application and large-scale promotion in scenarios such as civil aviation airports, industrial parks, computing power centers, and manufacturing plants, which is of great significance for energy conservation and carbon reduction.
Currently, the airport's clean energy proportion exceeds 90%, annual consumption of wind and solar power generation has surpassed 21 million kilowatt-hours, achieving a full life cycle energy cost reduction of over 25%, the annual operating energy consumption of the heating and cooling system has been reduced by 60%, annual operating costs reduced by 50%, and more than 2 million cubic meters of natural gas can be saved each year. The airport has now achieved a green energy supply mode of zero fossil fuel, zero Freon, and zero cooling water, with significant economic, social, and ecological benefits.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 吴 月 丁雅诵
A historic breakthrough in Chinese mathematics!
On July 23, at the opening ceremony of the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians, Chinese mathematicians Deng Yu (邓煜) and Wang Hong (王虹) received the Fields Medal.
This is the first time that Chinese-nationality mathematicians have won the Fields Medal, and also the first time that two mathematicians with domestic mathematics education backgrounds have simultaneously claimed this "Nobel Prize of mathematics."
From what kind of soil do the seeds of mathematics sprout? With the twin stars shining, what mathematical galaxy lies behind?
"Dare to enter no-man's-land, dare to challenge universally recognized major problems"
The Fields Medal won by Deng Yu and Wang Hong is one of the highest honors in the international mathematics community, awarded once every four years, with no more than four recipients each time, rewarding scholars under 40 years of age at the time of award who have made outstanding contributions in the field of mathematics. Previously, Chinese mathematicians Shing-Tung Yau and Terence Tao have won the award.
What achievements have the two young scholars made? A reporter learned from Peking University that Wang Hong, together with collaborators, used refined multi-scale induction methods to prove the three-dimensional Kakeya conjecture, which had troubled the mathematics community for over a century. In addition, she and her collaborators made a major breakthrough on the two-dimensional Falconer distance problem, and together with collaborators completely solved the Furstenberg set conjecture.
Deng Yu, together with collaborators, completed the rigorous derivation from the hard-sphere particle system to the Boltzmann equation over long time scales, establishing a chain of derivation from Newtonian hard-sphere dynamics to the Boltzmann equation and then to the Navier-Stokes equations, achieving key progress on Hilbert's Sixth Problem.
Speaking about his feelings on winning the award, Deng Yu said at a press conference after the award ceremony that it was a great honor to be listed alongside the names of the great mathematicians he has always admired.
Wang Hong said: "This is extremely significant for me and my collaborators." She said that when she was in high school, she learned from a mathematics magazine that Terence Tao had won the Fields Medal, and she was very excited at the time. "Today I am equally excited."
In the view of Tian Gang (田刚), an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and director of the Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research (北京国际数学研究中心) at Peking University, the breakthroughs by Deng Yu and Wang Hong on major mathematical problems are a manifestation of "敢为人先 (gǎn wéi rén xiān - "dare to be first," to have the courage to pioneer)."
"Not only must one take the first step and stand at the forefront, but one must also dare to enter uncharted territory and dare to challenge universally recognized major problems. This is a courage to 迎难而上 (yíng nán ér shàng - "face difficulties head-on," to confront challenges bravely) and the determination for long-term persistence." At this year's graduation ceremony of the School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University (hereinafter referred to as "PKU Math"), Tian Gang used the experiences of the two young mathematicians to encourage the graduates.
"This is a historic breakthrough in Chinese mathematics." Zhang Jiping (张继平), an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and professor at PKU Math, believes that this award is an event with significant impact in the field of basic science by Chinese people in recent years, and has milestone significance.
"Enjoying the beauty of mathematics in learning, why not do it?"
The germination and growth of seeds are based on deep soil. Looking back at the educational experiences of the two mathematicians, it is not difficult to find that the pursuit of the beauty of mathematics was planted in their hearts from a young age.
"A good solution is like a beautiful essay, a poem." "Enjoying the beauty of mathematics in learning, why not do it?" ...
On July 24, Wang Hong's alma mater, Guilin Middle School (桂林中学) in Guilin, Guangxi, held an exchange meeting where teachers read exactly the essay "The Beauty of Mathematics" that Wang Hong had written. In the teachers' eyes, genuine love, extreme focus, and steadfast persistence are the valuable qualities in Wang Hong.
Wang Hong is from Guilin, Guangxi, and Deng Yu is from Shenzhen, Guangdong. Both completed their basic education phase in China. In 2007, they entered Peking University for undergraduate studies.
PKU Math is a piece of soil where they grew together – Wang Hong was admitted to the School of Earth and Space Sciences at Peking University, and after one year, because of her passion, she transferred to PKU Math. Deng Yu won a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad and was recommended for admission to PKU Math.
"When I was at Peking University, the first class I took was Mathematical Analysis taught by Chen Tianquan (陈天权). His teaching style and textbook were very distinctive, and I learned a lot. After my sophomore year, I studied harmonic analysis with Liu Heping (刘和平) and also did some undergraduate research. At that time, I began to be exposed to some frontier problems in harmonic analysis. Although I didn't produce results then, this training was very important. Overall, my studies at Peking University laid a very solid foundation for me." Deng Yu recalled.
In today's PKU Math, in the open seminar spaces named after chapters of The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art (《九章算术》), such as "Fangtian" (方田), "Sumi" (粟米), and "Yingbuzu" (盈不足), teachers and students often engage in "brainstorming" together. The whiteboards in the seminar rooms are filled with deduction formulas, and the sparks of intellectual collision never cease.
Attaching great importance to basic courses, with academicians leading and high-level faculty teaching, consolidating the front line of undergraduate basic education; deepening teaching reform, with students not initially assigned to majors upon enrollment, and after laying a solid foundation, they autonomously choose directions according to their interests; offering "low-grade discussion groups" and "undergraduate-graduate discussion groups," where students report their research insights in the groups, exercising independent thinking and academic expression... At PKU Math, the atmosphere of learning mathematics and enjoying mathematics is very rich.
"The goal of PKU Math is to provide a resource-rich ecology, allowing everyone to give full play to their unique talents, 百花齐放 (bǎi huā qí fàng - "let a hundred flowers bloom," to allow diverse development). Students with interest and talent come here, and in such an ecology, their interest in mathematics can be maintained long-term, and may even be deeply stimulated." Liu Ruochuan (刘若川), an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and dean of PKU Math, said.
Paving the way for basic science, improving the chain of autonomous talent cultivation
When the twin stars shine, people also turn their gaze to the brilliant galaxy of Chinese mathematics.
In an interview with the media, Deng Yu said: "Based on what I currently know, the domestic mathematical environment is already quite good, and in many areas of frontier research, it is no worse than abroad." Wang Hong also said that when she returns to China for exchanges and giving reports, she can hear many students asking very profound and interesting questions.
Peking University has already, on the basis of the undergraduate top-notch cultivation plan, launched a mathematics graduate top-notch cultivation plan to respond to the need for autonomous cultivation of high-level talents in basic disciplines.
"We will strengthen basic research with greater force and more concrete measures, precisely anchor the main direction of scientific research, grasp the strategic opportunities for the development of basic disciplines, continuously promote the construction of world-class mathematical disciplines, and make new contributions to China's achievement of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening." Gao Song (高松), an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and president of Peking University, said.
Behind the breakthroughs in mathematical research is the country's long-term and stable support for basic science. From issuing the Work Plan on Strengthening Mathematical Science Research (《关于加强数学科学研究工作方案》) to establishing the "Mathematics and Applied Research" project under the 14th Five-Year Plan National Key R&D Program (国家重点研发计划), a series of policy measures strive to pave the way for basic science.
Nowadays, more and more Chinese mathematicians stand on international award podiums and are invited to give talks at the International Congress of Mathematicians. The quantity and quality of papers published by Chinese scholars in top mathematics journals continue to rise, and a group of excellent young foreign mathematicians are turning their steps toward China. These changes send a signal: Chinese mathematics is growing into an important force in world mathematics.
Two young mathematicians winning top international awards brings glory to the Chinese mathematics community, and also brings more reflection – how to guide more outstanding students to deeply cultivate basic disciplines and cultivate more top mathematics talents?
"When interest becomes the guide, effort is no longer a burden, but a natural extension of exploring the unknown." Song Deyi (宋德意), Party secretary of Shenzhen Senior High School (Group) (深圳高级中学（集团）), believes that nurturing students' curiosity, imagination, and desire for exploration is the way to help talents continue to grow, constantly break through, and achieve excellence.
Experts point out that it is necessary to improve the chain of autonomous talent cultivation. The future goal should be to further allow students to obtain a frontier first-class academic environment. In addition, phenomena such as "only hats [titles and honors]," "only papers," and "judging papers and people by the journal" still need to be further eliminated. The academic community should guide researchers to settle down and do first-class teaching work that truly changes and leads the discipline, and support young researchers who focus 心无旁骛 (xīn wú páng wù - "unwavering focus," to concentrate without distraction) on delving into major problems and have the courage to innovate.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 姜泓冰
"The emergence of the two laureates is a microcosm of the rise of Chinese mathematical research," said Li Zhiyuan (李志远), a distinguished professor at the Fudan University Shanghai Mathematics Center (复旦大学上海数学中心), at the moment of the 2026 Fields Medal award ceremony.
Drawing such a conclusion is not only because of the honors of the two mathematicians of Chinese nationality. Li Zhiyuan said that from the early years when only a few fields had top Chinese mathematicians, to the present where every sub-direction of mathematical research has internationally renowned Chinese scholars, the disciplinary layout has blossomed comprehensively — many facts corroborate the progress of Chinese mathematical research in recent years.
"Winning the award is by no means accidental. It stems from the nation's sustained investment in the field of basic mathematics, and is also the long-term outcome of the continuous improvement of the talent cultivation system and the collaborative development of the network of Chinese mathematicians at home and abroad," Li Zhiyuan said.
Han Jingjun (韩京俊), a tenured associate professor at the Fudan University Shanghai Mathematics Center, graduated from Peking University and is a junior alumnus of Deng Yu (邓煜) and Wang Hong (王虹). In his view, the value of the two mathematicians' research results lies not only in solving a certain mathematical problem, but also in creating reusable general mathematical tools that can drive decades of research development in sub-fields.
"One of the two laureates took the International Mathematical Olympiad gold medal competition route, and the other took the conventional training route. Their growth experiences also confirm that the domestic primary and secondary school plus undergraduate mathematics education system has the ability to cultivate world-class mathematical talents," Han Jingjun said.
The Fudan University Shanghai Mathematics Center, where Li Zhiyuan and Han Jingjun work, is jointly established by the state, the Shanghai municipality, and Fudan University. It officially began operation in 2018 and is one of the first pilot platforms in China to implement a localized pre-appointment tenure-track new system (本土化预聘长聘新体制). This reform, through measures such as locking in long-term faculty positions upon pre-appointment, reducing teaching loads, and downplaying short-term performance assessments, alleviates pressure on young scholars. It has already formed research teams that are top-tier in China and have international influence in fields such as algebraic geometry, dynamical systems, and geometric topology.
"Doing mathematics is like climbing a mountain. The reward lies not in the moment of reaching the summit, but in the academic accumulation and cognitive improvement brought by long-term dedicated research," said Shen Weixiao (沈维孝), an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and dean of the School of Mathematical Sciences, Fudan University (复旦大学数学科学学院). The lever to spur more top-tier original mathematical achievements is to cultivate a research soil free from short-term utilitarian pressure. Progress comes from accumulation; major breakthroughs have no fixed predictable path, but are the result of the combined effect of scholars' talent and the academic community's exploration.
Return to TopBeijing, July 27 (People's Daily) — (Reporter Yang Xuemei) The "Complete Collection of Tibetan Murals (西藏壁画全集)" series, completed over ten years by nine cultural relics and archaeology units including the Hunan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology (湖南省文物考古研究院) and the Tibet Autonomous Region Institute of Cultural Relics Protection (西藏自治区文物保护研究所), was recently published by Science Press. This set of 6 volumes in 7 books covers murals from 280 temples, residences, and manors across seven prefectures and cities in Tibet. Using archaeological methods, the staff recorded the spatial distribution and preservation status of Tibetan murals, supplemented by iconographic analysis of mural themes and a sorting of the history of painting styles, presenting the overall picture of Tibetan murals. In particular, it preserves mural materials from small temples and cave shrines located in remote areas, which are especially precious.
Return to TopCurrently, China's economy is in a critical period of transitioning from old to new growth drivers. Boosting the transition from old to new growth drivers is an inevitable requirement for the high-quality development of the property and casualty insurance industry and for central financial enterprises to serve the national strategy. People's Insurance Company of China Property and Casualty Company Limited (中国人民财产保险股份有限公司, hereinafter "PICC Property and Casualty") implements the central government's decisions and deployments, closely aligns with the outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan, connects with the national strategy, and optimizes its business layout. In response to the sustained growth of industrial upgrading and residents' protection needs, PICC Property and Casualty focuses on new tracks such as health insurance, science and technology insurance, and new energy vehicle insurance, and builds three major support systems with the transition from old to new growth drivers as the main line: improving the supply of insurance products that adapt to social transformation, safeguarding industrial and people's livelihood risks; refining full-process professional risk control capabilities to create differentiated competitive advantages; relying on digital and intelligent upgrades to serve customers throughout the entire lifecycle, building a digital service ecosystem, and cultivating new growth drivers.
Integrating the health ecosystem to help build a multi-tiered social security system. PICC Property and Casualty coordinates the development of policy-based and commercial health insurance, fully undertakes critical illness insurance and long-term care insurance, cooperates in carrying out basic medical insurance and work-related injury insurance agency services and fund supervision, promotes inclusive supplementary medical insurance and commercial health insurance, continuously improves the supply of health protection for the people throughout their entire life cycle, helps improve the accessibility of innovative drugs and medical devices, and effectively reduces the medical burden on the people; fully participates in the pilot of occupational injury protection for workers in new forms of employment, promotes supplementary work-related injury insurance, carries out work-related injury prevention and risk reduction services, and improves the occupational injury protection system; launches supplementary insurance for newborns, pregnant and postpartum women, and women and children, helping to build a childbirth-friendly society.
Focusing on science and technology insurance and enterprise customer groups to serve the development of new quality productive forces and the construction of a modern industrial system. In the field of science and technology insurance, PICC Property and Casualty will further improve the product system covering the entire life cycle of scientific and technological activities, and tailor risk protection for fields such as integrated circuits, biomedicine, low-altitude economy, and strategic emerging industries. In the field of shipping insurance, it will provide customized cargo insurance protection for the import and export of key energy, grain, and advanced equipment, and launch a "single-document" multimodal transport insurance to help enhance the resilience of domestic and international logistics supply chains. At the same time, it will actively deploy overseas business, provide full-process risk solutions from the construction period to the operation period for major projects jointly building the Belt and Road, and expand the coverage of catastrophe insurance, promoting the transformation of social governance from post-disaster compensation to pre-disaster prevention and risk reduction.
Deeply cultivating personal non-auto insurance and integrating into new scenarios of consumption and people's livelihood. Serving the construction of Healthy China, PICC Property and Casualty continuously iterates million-dollar medical insurance products, breaks through the insurance restrictions for people with pre-existing conditions and the elderly population, and builds a commercial health insurance product matrix segmented by population, disease type, and scenario. In terms of serving consumption upgrading, it develops extended warranties for new energy vehicles, exclusive insurance for assisted driving, the "Youyou," "Haoyun," and "Yuyue" series of cultural tourism insurance and sports insurance, and launches innovative products such as return shipping insurance, pet insurance, and consumer-grade drone insurance. In terms of serving people's livelihood and well-being, it comprehensively promotes city-customized commercial medical insurance (Huiminbao), inclusive home property insurance (Huijiabao), electric bicycle insurance, and exclusive protection for workers in new business forms.
Innovating auto insurance supply to escort the overseas expansion of the new energy vehicle industry. Under the guidance of regulatory agencies and industry associations, PICC Property and Casualty deeply participates in the research and formulation of exclusive insurance clauses for intelligent connected vehicles, vehicle-battery separation, and "basic + variable" models. In response to the difficulties and high premiums faced by Chinese-funded new energy vehicle enterprises when going overseas, relying on domestic new energy vehicle data and risk control capabilities, through institutions in Hong Kong, Thailand, and other places, as well as international cooperation networks, it provides local underwriting, claims, and other services for domestically produced new energy vehicles. Currently, related businesses have been implemented in Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, and other places, and it is actively promoting the implementation of related businesses in Europe and Australia, and has proposed the establishment of a co-insurance pool for overseas new energy vehicle insurance business, fully escorting the global layout of China's new energy vehicle industry.
Upgrading agricultural insurance services to help comprehensively promote rural revitalization. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, PICC Property and Casualty cumulatively provided risk protection of over 10 trillion yuan to over 300 million household-times of farmers. In the future, PICC Property and Casualty will continue to improve the multi-tiered agricultural insurance system of "basic + supplementary" and "policy + commercial," accelerate the improvement of the coverage rate, conversion rate, and penetration rate of central subsidy agricultural insurance varieties. At the same time, it will vigorously develop local characteristic agricultural insurance; relying on technological empowerment, deepen the integrated service model of "insurance, prevention, reduction, rescue, and compensation," integrate disaster prevention and reduction into the entire process of insurance services, strengthen the application of cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, drones, the Internet of Things, and agricultural robots, and accelerate the construction of a new data-driven, smart operation agricultural insurance operation and management system.
Boosting the transition from old to new growth drivers is an inevitable choice for PICC Property and Casualty to achieve high-quality sustainable development. In the future, PICC Property and Casualty will continue to adhere to the mission of "People's Insurance, Serving the People," deeply and substantively implement the five major articles (五篇大文章) of finance, and continuously contribute insurance strength to advancing Chinese-style modernization through product innovation, service upgrades, and professional risk reduction capabilities.
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李心萍 林丽鹂
Recently, the "Good Housing" Construction Guide (Trial) (Draft for Comments) is again soliciting opinions. Not only can new houses be built as "good housing," but old houses can also be renovated into "good housing."
According to the guide, "good housing" requires the selection of optimal materials, components, equipment, and facilities to support the improvement of housing performance and quality. As one of the basic materials for home spaces, the safety of wood-based panels and their products directly affects indoor environmental quality and human health.
Starting June 1 this year, the new mandatory national standard "Indoor Decoration and Renovation Materials — Limit of Formaldehyde Emission of Wood-based Panels and Their Products" (GB 18580—2025) will be officially implemented. What new requirements does the new national standard have? How to select panels and their products according to the national standard?
Selecting panels and their products: understanding basic knowledge is the first step.
Li Wei (李伟), General Manager of the Wood-based Panel Business Division of China Building Materials Beixin Wood Industry (中国建材北新木业), introduced: "Wood-based panels are panels made from wood or non-wood plant fiber materials as the main raw material, processed into various material units, with (or without) the application of adhesives and other additives."
What are commonly known as plywood (multi-layer board), particleboard (chipboard), blockboard (core board), etc., all belong to wood-based panels.
However, in home spaces, consumers often rarely use wood-based panels directly, but rather use wood-based panel products. Li Wei gave an example: when consumers carry out whole-house customization, the decorative wood-based panels they use are a type of wood-based panel product. They are made by overlaying melamine-impregnated paper, PET film (polyester film), solid wood veneer, UV paint (ultraviolet-curing paint), and other decorative layers onto a particleboard or plywood substrate.
In addition, products such as wooden wall panels, wooden flooring, wooden doors, wooden moldings, etc., processed from wood-based panel materials, all belong to wood-based panel products.
Where does the formaldehyde in wood-based panel products come from?
Adhesives are the key. Traditional adhesives are commonly urea-formaldehyde resin glue, made by polycondensation of urea and formaldehyde. This glue releases free formaldehyde due to incomplete reaction. In recent years, with the continuous upgrading of China's adhesive industry, more environmentally friendly low-formaldehyde or formaldehyde-free adhesives have been put into use.
Ping Lijuan (平立娟), R&D Manager of the Wood-based Panel Business Division of China Building Materials Beixin Wood Industry, introduced: "Currently, there are two mainstream types of environmentally friendly adhesives on the market. One is melamine-modified urea-formaldehyde glue, which, by adding melamine and utilizing its high chemical activity, actively combines with free formaldehyde in the glue, thereby effectively reducing the final formaldehyde emission of the panel." The other type is isocyanate glue, which is completely formaldehyde-free, has extremely high bonding strength, and superior waterproof performance, but is higher in cost.
Selecting panels: the second step lies in recognizing the national standard.
The new national standard is a mandatory national standard, and all products must comply. According to the new national standard, the formaldehyde emission limit for wood-based panels must reach Class E1 (not greater than 0.124 mg/m³), and the formaldehyde emission limit for wood-based panel products must reach Class E0 (not greater than 0.050 mg/m³).
Fu Yuejin (付跃进), Director and Senior Engineer of the National Quality Inspection and Testing Center for Wood-based Panels and Wood-Bamboo Products (国家人造板与木竹制品质量检验检测中心), introduced: "The old version of the national standard did not distinguish between wood-based panels and wood-based panel products; as long as they met Class E1, they could be marketed and sold. The new national standard distinguishes between the two, making the formaldehyde emission standard for wood-based panel products directly facing consumers more stringent."
Internationally, the new national standard is at a leading level. Fu Yuejin introduced that the European Union's standard for formaldehyde emission limits for wood-based panels and their products (EN) has Class E1 (not greater than 0.124 mg/m³) and Class E2 (greater than 0.124 mg/m³); the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard for formaldehyde emission limits for wood-based panels and their products only has Class E1, with no mandatory requirement for Class E0. "Thus it can be seen that the formaldehyde emission limit requirement for wood-based panel products in the new national standard is stricter than the EU and international standards."
Therefore, when selecting wood-based panel products, consumers should check whether the product packaging or test report implements "GB 18580—2025" and the corresponding grade E0 or E1, and be wary of products that only write "Class E0" or "Class E1" but have no standard number.
Moreover, consumers can request that merchants provide a test report issued by a China Metrology Accreditation (CMA) (中国资质认定) testing institution, and the test method should be "GB 18580—2025 (1 m³ climate chamber method)."
If consumers have higher requirements for the environmental standards of wood-based panels and their products, they can also refer to the recommended national standard "Classification of Formaldehyde Emission from Wood-based Panels and Their Products" (GB/T 39600—2021). On the basis of Class E0, it proposes a more stringent ENF class (not greater than 0.025 mg/m³).
Li Wei introduced: "As the world's largest producer of wood-based panels, currently most high-end products of China's leading industry enterprises have simultaneously obtained multiple domestic and international certifications, and can meet consumers' environmental requirements." Taking the Kailisen (凯立森) series decorative wood-based panels, a self-owned brand of China Building Materials, as an example, its formaldehyde emission is not greater than 0.012 mg/m³, a value that is already close to the formaldehyde background value of natural wood itself.
Selecting panels also requires attention to the "last mile" of implementation.
A panel, from leaving the factory to entering the consumer's home, must go through processes such as cutting, edge banding, installing hardware, construction and installation, etc. Each step may introduce new environmental risks.
Among them, the most critical step is edge banding. When a panel is tested at the factory, its formaldehyde emission is measured under the condition that the panel surface is intact and the edges are fully or partially banded. However, during custom furniture processing, cutting and drilling are often required, which will damage the original surface of the panel, expose the internal substrate, and become new channels for formaldehyde release.
Ping Lijuan said: "If the substrate is produced with formaldehyde-containing adhesives, and the edge banding strip is of poor quality, the adhesive has high formaldehyde, or the construction is not standardized, the cross-section will continuously release free formaldehyde."
Currently, the edge banding processes commonly used in custom furniture factories include EVA edge banding (ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer edge banding, also known as hot melt adhesive particle edge banding), PUR edge banding (moisture-curing polyurethane hot melt adhesive edge banding), and laser edge banding. EVA edge banding has mature technology, fast processing speed, and low cost, but the edge banding effect is average; PUR edge banding has a medium price, and its durability and formaldehyde sealing effect are both superior to EVA; laser edge banding has a higher cost and the best edge banding effect, and is currently one of the most effective processes for sealing formaldehyde.
During interviews, reporters found that to ensure a good after-sales experience, leading enterprises in the industry often choose to equip original matching edge banding strips, and formulate unified process specifications for downstream processing plants, providing edge banding standards and construction process training support, thereby eliminating the pollution risks brought by non-standard operations in terms of auxiliary materials and processes.
It is worth noting that in a room, in addition to wood-based panel products, decorative and renovation materials such as flooring, doors and windows, wall paint, carpets, and curtains may also be "sources of formaldehyde release." Therefore, when selecting the type and quantity of wood-based panels, it is necessary to comprehensively consider various factors in the room based on the calculation results of the indoor loading capacity of wood-based panels.
Return to TopThis newspaper, Beijing, July 27 (dispatch) — (Reporter Qi Yukun (亓玉昆)) Recently, the National Fire and Rescue Administration (国家消防救援局), the Central Social Work Department (中央社会工作部), the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (中华全国总工会), the Ministry of Education (教育部), the Ministry of Civil Affairs (民政部), the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源和社会保障部), and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (文化和旅游部) jointly issued a work plan, deploying a nationwide action to improve the fire safety quality of the entire population, striving to achieve that everyone receives fire safety education and everyone masters fire safety skills, thereby building a solid people's line of defense for disaster prevention, mitigation, and relief.
This action aims to thoroughly implement the "Fire Prevention Law of the People's Republic of China" and the "Opinions on Strengthening Grassroots Fire Safety Work" of the General Office of the State Council, and other regulatory documents, with the goals of further enhancing citizens' fire safety awareness, improving citizens' basic fire safety skills, raising the prevention and control capabilities of key groups in units, and broadening channels for citizens to receive fire safety publicity and training. It focuses on carrying out four actions: popularization of fire safety common knowledge, practical training in basic skills, evacuation and self-rescue drills, and case education and warning. It clarifies the main tasks of each action, and formulates 15 specific measures including deepening the fire safety publicity "five entries" (五进) work, building a fire safety publicity network, and strengthening fire safety science popularization education. The action is to be promoted in an orderly manner in three stages: deployment and mobilization, organization and implementation, and deepening and upgrading. Seven departments will coordinate and divide work, relying on resources from various industry lines to carry out targeted publicity and education. All localities will refine implementation measures based on local conditions, issue relevant policy documents and technical standards, and establish and improve a long-term mechanism for improving the fire safety quality of the entire population.
The plan requires that all localities and relevant departments, in light of their responsibilities, pay attention to overall work coordination and scientifically organize implementation. Local Party committee social work departments will provide support and guidance for the construction of fire safety volunteer teams and the development of fire safety volunteer services; trade unions at all levels will strengthen fire safety training for workers and the masses; local education departments will integrate fire safety education into curricula and social practice, and regularly carry out activities such as open classes and skills competitions in vocational colleges; local civil affairs departments will focus on supervising institutions such as elderly care and child welfare to implement fire safety publicity, practical training, and evacuation drills; local human resources and social security departments will guide and supervise enterprises and public institutions to include fire safety knowledge in employee education and training content; local culture and tourism departments will integrate fire safety culture into mass cultural activities, and supervise public cultural venues, scenic spots, and other densely populated places to carry out fire safety publicity and education; local fire rescue departments will strengthen professional guidance and help cultivate a group of fire safety "knowledgeable persons" (明白人).
Return to TopUrumqi, July 27 (People's Daily) — (Reporter Shang Rongzheng (尚嵘峥)) The Department of Human Resources and Social Security of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区人力资源和社会保障厅) and eight other departments recently issued the "Implementation Plan for the Work Injury Prevention Five-Year Action Plan (2026–2030) of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region" (工伤预防五年行动计划（2026—2030年）实施方案), deploying 10 key tasks including establishing a quarterly data sharing mechanism.
The plan puts forward three work objectives, requiring that the work injury accident rate continue to decline, with the work injury accident rate in key industries such as hazardous chemicals, mining, construction, transportation, and machinery manufacturing decreasing by about 10% over five years; the occupational injury rate for workers in new forms of employment gradually decrease, with key platform enterprises decreasing by more than 10% over five years; and working conditions in the workplace continue to improve, with the number of cases of key occupational diseases such as occupational pneumoconiosis significantly decreasing.
The plan deploys 10 key tasks, requiring deepening interdepartmental coordination and linkage, leveraging coordination mechanisms, establishing a quarterly data sharing mechanism, and carrying out joint guidance and comprehensive governance; guiding professional forces to participate, exploring the establishment of a work injury prevention association, cultivating work injury prevention demonstration enterprises at different levels, and leveraging the leading and driving role of demonstration enterprises; improving the work injury prevention monitoring system, issuing work injury risk early warnings, and strengthening closed-loop management of the entire process of work injury prevention projects; innovating the construction of the training system, implementing special training for key industries, promoting collaborative and group-based work injury prevention training, and incorporating work injury prevention into the important content of safety training in technical schools, among others.
The plan requires focusing on preventing six high-frequency work injuries, including falls from height, object strikes, mechanical injuries, traffic accidents, dust and poison hazards, and pneumoconiosis, and simultaneously including commuting accidents, sudden illness at the post, and other circumstances deemed equivalent to work injury into key monitoring and control.
Return to TopOur newspaper Tianjin, July 27 (Reporter Li Jiading (李家鼎)) The reporter learned from the Tianjin Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau (天津市人力资源和社会保障局) that, as of now, the total number of internship bases in Tianjin has reached 1,483, of which public institutions account for 11%.
Tianjin implemented an internship position recruitment plan, cumulatively developing 16,800 internship positions, with research, management, and technical high-quality internship positions accounting for 81.9%. It carried out a pilot of the university student science and technology internship plan, with a number of universities and science and technology venues exploring new pathways for promoting employment through science and technology internships. It upgraded the Tianjin Public Employment Service Network, realizing full-process online handling of base certification, position publication, and subsidy application; individuals willing to participate in internships can submit resumes online, or go to employment internship bases and district-level public employment service institutions for on-site liaison, and students in their graduating year can also register at their school's employment guidance center. It established a smart verification system, with the system automatically capturing valid internship activities and internship durations, with pre-positioned verification rules and pop-up warning functions, ensuring intelligent control and legal compliance of subsidy applications.
Tianjin human resources and social security departments went deep into enterprises to interpret internship policies on-site, demonstrate system operation standards, and widely publicize favorable policies on employment internships and enterprise absorption. They established a policy implementation evaluation mechanism, developed a visual big screen for internship operations, providing data support for policy optimization and precise policy implementation. They continued the remaining period internship subsidy, raised the retention reward standard, supported internship bases in retaining more interns, and promoted effective linkage between youth internships and stable employment.
Return to TopAt the Huaihe Road Kindergarten in the Taizhou Medical High-tech Zone (Gaogang District) (泰州医药高新区（高港区）淮河路幼儿园), Jiangsu, Rui Jian (芮健) is guiding children in a safety evacuation drill.
Rui Jian, 34 years old this year, is a staff member of the Port Section of the Taizhou Port and Shipping Development Center (泰州市港航事业发展中心). After transferring from a firefighter position to the transportation system, he has rooted himself at the front line, serving boat people, and is affectionately called the "escort blue" of water safety. As a member of a volunteer service team, Rui Jian proactively helps boat people coordinate hull repairs and promptly handles sudden vessel malfunctions; he also uses his spare time to enter places such as schools and nursing homes to conduct fire safety lectures, emergency rescue, and legal popularization services.
Photo by Yang Yugang (杨玉岗) (Xinhua News Agency)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 韩 鑫
Currently, China's coastal areas have entered the typhoon peak season. How should maritime shipping pay attention to safety?
"Maritime typhoon prevention must keep in mind three principles: take evasive action before the warning, report distress when encountering danger, and self-inspect before resuming navigation." Zhang Yu (张煜), deputy director of the command center of Zhejiang Maritime Safety Administration (浙江海事局), introduced.
"After receiving a typhoon warning, vessels navigating at sea should immediately adjust their voyage plans and stay away from waters affected by the typhoon." Zhang Yu said that vessels remaining within the scope of typhoon impact should quickly enter sheltered waters with good wind shelter conditions or take measures such as entering a dry dock or hauling out, and carry out personnel evacuation in accordance with the requirements of the local government. Vessels that have been fully evacuated must close all watertight doors, vents, fuel lines, etc., to ensure the safety of the vessel.
When a typhoon arrives, watchkeeping and duty should be strengthened, and the danger should be dealt with calmly. During the typhoon impact period, even if most commercial vessels return to port to take shelter from the wind, personnel must remain on board. Onboard personnel must ensure 24-hour watchkeeping and duty, continuously monitor the Very High Frequency (VHF) radio, conduct routine inspections for hazards such as water ingress into compartments and cargo shifting, regularly verify the vessel's position, and ensure that the vessel's main engine and other equipment are in a state of readiness at all times. Shipping companies must implement a 24-hour shore-based duty system to provide technical support and resource guarantees for vessels' typhoon prevention.
"Prioritize saving people, stay calm and call for help. Once a dangerous situation is discovered, immediately call the Vessel Traffic Service center via VHF or dial the national maritime distress hotline 12395, quickly take self-rescue measures, and personnel must wear life jackets at all times." Zhang Yu especially reminded that when the typhoon eye passes, there will be a temporary calm in wind and waves; do not let down your guard.
"The lifting of a typhoon warning does not equal maritime safety." Fang Qichao (方其超), director of the command center of Fujian Maritime Safety Administration (福建海事局), said that preparations for resuming navigation can only begin after verifying that the actual measured wind force and wave height at sea meet the conditions for resuming navigation, and confirming that the route and channel are free of large-area floating debris that obstructs navigation, among other conditions. For example, passenger ferries have wind resistance level limits; when the wind force along the route is higher than the passenger ferry's wind resistance level, there is a risk in setting sail. Taking the passenger vessels on the Xiamen-Kinmen "mini-three-links" (厦金"小三通") route as an example, navigation can generally only resume when the wind force is below Force 7.
All types of vessels must conduct comprehensive self-inspections before resuming navigation: first, inspect the hull for damage, leakage, and whether the anchor chain is broken; second, inspect the main engine, steering gear, navigation, firefighting, and life-saving equipment; third, inspect cargo lashing, and vessels carrying hazardous chemicals need to additionally test the sealing of cargo tanks. "During the resumption of navigation, the VHF should be continuously monitored, pay attention to floating debris, undercurrents, and displaced navigation marks in the channel, and navigate slowly and cautiously." Fang Qichao reminded that passenger ferry vessels and maritime leisure vessels have relatively small tonnages, so attention should be paid to the wind and wave effects brought by the typhoon's wake, and do not set sail recklessly.
(Wang Shuyan (王澍言) contributed to this article)
Return to TopBeijing, July 27 (Xinhua) — (Reporter Shen Shaotie (申少铁)) To implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and promote high-quality development of the disease control enterprise, the National Disease Control and Prevention Administration, together with relevant departments, drafted the 15th Five-Year Plan for Disease Prevention and Control (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"). The Plan has been approved by the State Council and has been jointly issued by seven departments — the National Health Commission, the National Disease Control and Prevention Administration, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the General Administration of Customs, and the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine — to all provincial-level people's governments.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, all regions and departments have resolutely implemented the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, systematically reshaped the disease control system, significantly improved service guarantee capabilities, achieved remarkable results in infectious disease prevention and control, and the disease control enterprise has achieved leapfrog development. At present, the public health environment facing China is undergoing accelerated changes, the situation for infectious disease prevention and control is severe and complex, and the task of preventing and resolving major public health risks, especially major epidemic risks, remains extremely arduous.
The development goals set forth in the Plan: By 2030, basically complete the construction of a modernized disease control system with Chinese characteristics; further improve the institutional system and working mechanisms for preventing and resolving large-scale epidemic risks; efficiently operate a multi-point trigger, responsive infectious disease monitoring and early warning system; significantly enhance capabilities in scientific assessment, precise prevention and control, emergency response, medical treatment, and material support; achieve new breakthroughs in public health scientific research system and talent team building; be more fully prepared to respond to emerging and sudden infectious disease epidemics; effectively control the epidemic risk of key infectious diseases; and effectively curb the harm of major diseases.
The Plan has the following new highlights: First, it emphasizes the "big disease control" (大疾控) concept and promotes social co-governance. It requires improving the work pattern of infectious disease epidemic prevention and control featuring unified leadership of the Party committee, joint management by the Party and government, efficient coordination among departments, and broad participation of society; maintaining the normalized operation of the joint prevention and control mechanism for major infectious disease epidemics at all levels and its efficient peacetime-to-emergency conversion; and optimizing the layout for external defense against importation of infectious diseases. Second, it focuses on preventing risks and actively prepares for emerging and sudden infectious disease epidemics. It adheres to bottom-line thinking (底线思维 - dǐ xiàn sī wéi - "bottom-line thinking," awareness of worst-case scenarios and preparedness for risks), consistently takes preventing and resolving major public health risks as the fundamental point of the Plan, and establishes development goals and deploys major tasks and measures around early detection, scientific assessment, precise prevention and control, rapid response, and preparation for emerging and sudden infectious diseases. Third, it focuses on protecting health and promotes moving the prevention threshold forward. The Plan proposes dynamically optimizing the categories of vaccines in the national immunization program, pushing to include vaccines with heavy disease burden, high cost-effectiveness, fiscal affordability, and international consensus into the national immunization program. For key populations such as middle-aged and elderly people and women, it promotes vaccination with vaccines that have a heavy disease burden and good vaccination effect, gradually achieving immunization and vaccination for the entire population throughout the full life cycle. It promotes secondary and higher medical institutions to provide vaccination services, comprehensively promotes the electronic vaccination certificate and cross-regional sharing of vaccination data, and provides the people with fairer, more accessible, and more convenient vaccination services. Fourth, it focuses on improving efficiency and promotes simultaneous prevention of multiple diseases and comprehensive management. It effectively integrates prevention and control resources, coordinately implements measures such as monitoring, testing, prevention, control, and management, promotes the "comprehensive health" (全健康) concept, emphasizes simultaneous prevention of humans, objects, and the environment, overall improves the efficiency of prevention and control work, and achieves the maximum prevention and control effect with the minimum cost.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王东辉
On the weekend, at the Golden Arowana Fengyi Tang Changli Road store located in Pudong New Area, Shanghai, a bustling scene unfolds, with a 琳琅满目 (lín láng mǎn mù - "a dazzling array of beautiful things," a wide variety of fine items) selection of plant sterol soy milk, diglyceride oil, multigrain rice, and more. Consumers carefully examine the ingredient lists while staff patiently explain at the side, and from time to time customers inquire and make purchases.
Ms. Yang, over sixty years of age, is a regular customer at this store. She repurchased the low-GI (glycemic index) black highland barley tartary buckwheat noodles and multigrain rice. Store staff explained that foods with a GI value not exceeding 55 are called low-GI foods; they cause a relatively gentle rise in post-meal blood sugar and are suitable for consumers who need to control their blood sugar.
In September 2025, Ms. Yang was passing by the newly opened Golden Arowana Fengyi Tang Changli Road store. She usually needs to control her blood sugar. After the store clerk enthusiastically introduced the product's effects, she bought a box of low-GI black highland barley tartary buckwheat noodles and a bag of low-GI multigrain rice with a mixture of skepticism and hope, intending to try them at home. "Unexpectedly, after trying them, both my family and I found the taste quite good and really liked them, so we kept coming back to buy them," Ms. Yang said. Later, with the help of the store's nutritionist, she also paired them with other functional foods. Store staff explained that functional foods are somewhat different from health foods; they can be consumed normally as a component of three daily meals. Compared to ordinary foods, they possess scientifically verified health effects.
With the construction of a "Healthy China" (健康中国) and the gradual popularization of health concepts, consumers' daily diets have evolved from "eating enough, eating well" to pursuing "eating healthy, eating nutritious." Health consumption is becoming increasingly popular, and the major health industry, represented by functional foods, is embracing broad development opportunities.
"The expansion of the elderly population, along with health issues such as sub-health and chronic diseases, is receiving increasing attention. These realities drive us to proactively seek solutions within the entire grain and oil industry chain and develop functional foods with a scientific basis and actual efficacy," said Mu Yankui (穆彦魁), Director and President of Yihai Kerry Golden Arowana Group, who is the main promoter of the company's major health sector. He stated that China's development of functional foods benefits from the advantages of a large scale in agricultural product processing, strong technological innovation capabilities, and the traditional culture of "medicine and food share the same origin" (药食同源). Based on this, the enterprise has initiated a strategic transformation from traditional rice, flour, and oil production towards the nutritional health upgrade of rice, flour, and oil development.
In April 2025, Yihai Kerry Golden Arowana launched its major health brand "Golden Arowana Fengyi Tang," inheriting the Eastern concept of dietary nourishment, and leveraging the advantages of Golden Arowana's full industry chain, strong scientific research strength, and large-scale production and processing to create a series of major health products. According to reports, from the low-GI rice and noodle series to blood lipid regulation series such as diglyceride oil and plant sterols, every product has undergone meticulous research and development and strict testing, using the three daily meals as a vehicle to meet consumers' diverse needs for healthy eating.
Seeking growth from the "major health" sector is the current development direction of the food processing industry, which requires solid support from technological research and development. Behind the innovation and upgrading of products lies the dual support of Yihai Kerry Golden Arowana's strong scientific research talent echelon and high-end innovation platform. In 2009, Yihai Kerry Golden Arowana established an R&D center in Shanghai, bringing together many scientists from home and abroad, with over 300 R&D personnel and cumulative investment of several billion yuan, providing a continuous impetus for product innovation.
Mu Yankui explained that the company has developed different products for populations with different health needs. Gao Wanlu (高婉璐), the head of the Shanghai Fengyi Tang store, introduced that last month, with the e-commerce shopping festival coinciding with the Dragon Boat Festival, the store's individual orders and group purchase orders continued to climb, and the customer repurchase rate kept rising. Sealing boxes, loading vehicles, dispatching goods... In the warehouse of Yihai Kerry Golden Arowana's Shanghai factory, batches of ordered products are being urgently shipped out.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 颜 珂
Having a small yard, how to arrange seedlings—how to combine ball-shaped plants, flowering plants, and tree-shaped plants?
At the 楠洲村 Party and mass service center (楠洲村党群服务中心), Baijia Town (柏加镇), Liuyang City (浏阳市), Changsha City (长沙市), Hunan Province (湖南省), a seedling sales livestream is nearing its end. Villager Li Beibei (李贝贝) tallies the results: more than 1,000 plants of Ligustrum quihoui (小叶女贞), more than 1,000 plants of rose...
Nanzhou Village (楠洲村) is a locally famous village of seedlings, and in recent years it has developed e‑commerce livestreaming business. The village Party and mass service center provides the venue free of charge; villagers open online shops, and livestreaming has become a "new farming activity." Li Beibei is now a regular here: "Before, coming to the village office was mainly to take care of formalities; now it's to 'build a career'!"
Removing the "government-office flavor," optimizing service supply… In the past two years, Changsha has promoted the upgrading and improvement of Party and mass service centers, making the masses willing to come, love to come, and want to come.
Minimize office space, maximize service space.
Community and village Party and mass service centers are close to Party members and the masses, yet sometimes they feel distant—heavy with "government-office flavor," lacking in everyday life: some service halls are spacious and bright, but leave little activity space for the masses; some look fully functional, but offer few services that the masses actually need…
At the Taohuajing Community Party and mass service center (桃花井社区党群服务中心), Moon Island Street (月亮岛街道), Wangcheng District (望城区), Changsha, aside from two desks placed in a row with a sign reading "Comprehensive Service Window" hanging above, it is hard to connect the place you're in with a community Party and mass service center. Leisure area tables and chairs are arranged in a pleasing, open and spacious manner; the sound of chorus comes from an activity room next door…
Taohuajing Community (桃花井社区) is a "young" community established in 2018, with a population of about 35,000. The community Party and mass service center covers about 6,500 square meters, and the administrative office area is now only 10 square meters.
"Previously, the office area was scattered on the first floor, about 50 square meters; now, except for the service windows, everything has been moved to the second floor," said community Party committee secretary Li Wei (李薇), not forgetting to mention the small details behind the space adjustment: "Take the service windows for example; the common layout used to be a 'bank counter style,' but now it has become two desks—precisely to open up the space and give people a sense of closeness."
In 2025, the Organization Department of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee (湖南省委组织部) issued ten measures to strengthen the construction of village (community) Party and mass service centers; the Organization Department of the Changsha Municipal Party Committee (长沙市委组织部) formulated a work guide for improving service functions. Guided by the needs of the masses, they build and make good use of Party and mass service centers. Starting with spatial restructuring, these Party and mass service centers embedded in cities and villages have burst forth with new vitality.
The Furong Road Community Party and mass service center (芙蓉路社区党群服务中心), Qingshuitang Street (清水塘街道), Kaifu District (开福区), Changsha, is not large in area, but in the view of community Party committee secretary Tian Zeqiang (田泽强), "doing a Buddhist ritual inside a snail shell"—making the most of a small space—still allows room for maneuvering. Tea-and-coffee bar, physiotherapy room, shared tool room… Every corner is a carefully designed functional area. Tian Zeqiang's former office is now a "nail‑art room," provided free of charge to a community resident in financial difficulty. "She no longer has to set up a stall outdoors, exposed to wind and sun, and she can also use her skills to provide free public‑interest services for the elderly in the community," Tian Zeqiang explained. At present, apart from the finance office and archives room, about 30 square meters, which are not open to the public, the rest of the community Party and mass service center is everyone's "shared living room."
Minimize office space, maximize service space. Changsha requires that the standard office area for community staff members not exceed 9 square meters per person, and the total office area should not, in principle, exceed 20% of the center's total floor area, freeing up more space and resources for use by Party members and the masses.
One room for multiple uses, shared at staggered times; advance by category, no one-size-fits-all.
At the Nanzhou Village Party and mass service center, village Party general branch secretary Chen Yao (陈尧) specifically introduced the newly established motorcycle and bicycle repair service point—
"When town and village cadres went from household to household, many villagers reported that repair services were hard to find. If we hadn't gone to hear the masses' needs, how would we have known to set up a repair service point?"
Strengthening service function—precision is the key. In the past, "whatever was available was given"; now, after ascertaining the masses' needs, "whatever is needed is done."
The Zhengyuan Community (政院社区), Dongtang Street (东塘街道), Yuhua District (雨花区), Changsha, once lacked service venues. Through the joint efforts of the street, the community, and local units, several old military barracks were revitalized and new space was expanded.
How to use the new space? The community began with a questionnaire survey. "Which services are most urgent?" "Which projects are most wanted to be introduced?" After gathering opinions, community Party committee secretary Luo Xiaoqing (罗晓情) had a clear picture. Most of the area consists of compound housing for work units, with few convenience services; it used to take residents at least 40 minutes to go back and forth for grocery shopping, haircuts, etc. Now, with supermarkets, barbershops, repair stations, a coffee house… the renovated community neighborhood center aims directly at these needs, serving over 100 people per day on average.
In May of this year, another round of opinion gathering—after compressing the office area, how to optimize the layout of the Zhengyuan Community Party and mass service center? The newly established reading area on the first floor has become a branch of the Changsha City Library (长沙市图书馆), with a collection of more than 3,000 books, available for borrowing and returning across the city; upstairs, a multi‑function activity room is opened, where the elderly singing and dancing team and youth interest classes share the space with one room for multiple uses at staggered times… "Create the warmth of 'home,' so that the masses want to come, love to come, and are willing to come," said Luo Xiaoqing.
In the construction of Party and mass service centers, Changsha requires advancing by category, without a one-size-fits-all approach. Wherever the needs are, services extend there.
The Sifang Commerce and Trade City (四方商贸城) located inside the Siji Meijing Community (四季美景社区), Sifangping Street (四方坪街道), Kaifu District (开福区), is a large comprehensive market integrating commerce, trade, and dining, especially famous for its bustling night market. "The community mainly serves the merchants, but the Party and mass service center is still some distance from the Commerce and Trade City," explained community Party committee secretary Wu Ting (邬婷). "So the community simply took over an old house in the core area of the night market and delivered services to the front line." Mediation of disputes, employment services, rider courier station… The Party and mass service center in the "internet-famous market" "guards" the lively atmosphere of everyday life.
What merchants care about most is business. The community runs training classes; the "internet‑famous incubator course" covers the entire process of image photography, video editing, copywriting, etc. Li Qiang (李强), operator of the "Li's Flying Pancake" stall, started running a video account and became an internet‑famous stall in the night market: "On weekends, I can sell seven or eight hundred pancakes a day, supply can't keep up with demand," he said proudly.
Mechanism innovation, multi‑stakeholder co‑governance; managing well also requires sustainability.
Feng Yahui (冯亚辉) is a resident of Furong Road Community and also the "housekeeper" of the community Party and mass service center. Together with 33 other Party members and resident representatives, he manages the common "home" of the community residents.
Opening doors, closing doors, cleaning, volunteer services… The "housekeepers" spontaneously arrange shifts and rotate shifts; the "home" is lively every day, yet orderly.
"Before, we hired a dedicated manager—spending money, and moreover, the 'manager' and the 'users' often had conflicts," said Tian Zeqiang. He boldly innovated, identifying "housekeepers" from among Party members and resident representatives, providing good training and full "authorization." "After observing for a month, I felt at ease. 'Everyone manages everyone's affairs'—the effect is better!"
From "fighting alone" (单打独斗, dān dǎ dú dòu - "facing the enemy alone with a single weapon," acting single-handedly) to multi‑stakeholder co‑governance—the change is in thinking, the cohesion is of strength.
Walking into the Taohuajing Community Party and mass service center, one meets Shu Jie (舒杰), who is taking a paper‑cutting class. Shu Jie is a resident of Taohuajing Community and runs her own art studio. After several activities, the community Party committee "took a liking" to this enthusiastic resident and invited her to move her studio to the Party and mass service center. The community rents the space at a low price; she continues to run paid courses and, as agreed, provides free public‑interest training for residents.
The neighborhood canteen is fragrant with food, the youth night school is bustling with popularity, professional operations agencies provide free charity childcare… The approach of "exchanging space for services, combining public interest with the market" has attracted many "partners," jointly supporting the diversified service space of Taohuajing Community.
"There are only 'seven or eight rifles' among the community cadres—if we tried to do everything ourselves, even with 'three heads and six arms' (三头六臂, sān tóu liù bì - "three heads and six arms," superhuman abilities) it wouldn't be enough," sighed Li Wei.
Building well, managing well, and using well the Party and mass service centers—what difference does it make? Li Wei's reflections echo the thoughts of many village and community cadres: "Strengthening grassroots governance—the key is the masses' trust. How does trust come? Besides helping the masses solve problems, it comes from staying in touch. Going out to them and inviting them in—a two‑way march, exchanging hearts and blending together."
Return to TopBeijing, July 27 (People's Daily) — (Reporter Zhang Tianpei) Recently, the Central Propaganda Department (中央宣传部) and the Ministry of Public Security (公安部) deployed and launched the 2026 “Most Beautiful Grassroots Police” (最美基层民警) publicity and release activity. The Ministry of Public Security issued the “Notice on Organizing and Carrying Out the 2026 ‘Most Beautiful Grassroots Police’ Publicity and Release Activity,” which will combine the thematic publicity activity of “strengthen governance, protect people’s safety, promote development” (强治理、护民安、促发展), to centrally select, cultivate, and publicize a group of advanced models who empower grassroots with innovation-driven approaches and escort high-quality development with high-efficiency governance, and will publicly publicize and release the advanced deeds of 20 winners of “Most Beautiful Grassroots Police” during the 2027 Chinese People’s Police Day (中国人民警察节).
The notice points out that this publicity and release activity must thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on public security work in the new era, firmly establish and practice a correct view of political achievements, focus on deeply advancing the new quality combat effectiveness improvement project of public security organs (公安机关新质战斗力提升工程), with the theme of “innovation empowers governance, practical work escorts the 15th Five-Year Plan” (创新赋能强治理、实干护航‘十五五’), fully demonstrate the significant achievements of public security organs in using a new security pattern to safeguard a new development pattern (新安全格局保障新发展格局), further enhance the entire police force’s ideological consciousness, political consciousness, and action consciousness of devoting themselves to high-efficiency governance, provide spiritual impetus for consolidating the security foundation of high-quality development and accelerating the construction of a new development pattern, and create a strong atmosphere.
The notice clarifies that the activity is divided into four stages: deployment and mobilization, recommendation and review, publicity and release, and learning and practice. It adheres to the principles of bottom-up, step-by-step recommendation, strict review, and extensive publicity, and does a good job of selection and recommendation work with the standards of political nature, people’s nature, contemporaneity, advanced nature, and representativeness. It requires public security organs at all levels and relevant departments and police branches to strictly recommend according to the standards of firm political character, deep feelings for the people, outstanding practical work and actual achievements, deeds that are learnable and respectable, and personal integrity and honesty. The recommended candidates focus on police officers who enhance the new quality combat effectiveness of public security organs and empower grassroots governance, with appropriate preference given to young police officers who contribute to the western region and serve the motherland.
The notice requires that public security organs at all levels must raise their political stance, effectively strengthen organizational leadership, carefully plan and deploy, use small entry points to present big themes, use small stories to reflect the great era, make the typical publicity both high-level and down-to-earth, both deep and warm, optimize integrated media planning, achieve multi-form presentation, full-platform coverage, and segmented communication, and effectively enhance the penetration and influence of the publicity and release activity. It is necessary to push the publicity and release activity deep into the grassroots and into the homes of the people, through organizing meetings and discussions, typical interviews, deed presentations and performances, pairing up with young police officers, media meetings, and other methods, to educate and guide the vast number of police officers, especially young police officers, to continuously draw spiritual strength from advanced models, and effectively transform the results of learning and publicity into spiritual impetus for advancing the modernization of public security work, forming a good effect of “publicizing one, driving a whole area.”
Since the Central Propaganda Department and the Ministry of Public Security first jointly launched the “Most Beautiful Grassroots Police” learning and publicity activity in 2019, it has been carried out for seven consecutive sessions. Across the country, a total of 168 police officers from different regions and police branches have been awarded the title of “Most Beautiful Grassroots Police,” forming a good demonstration and leading effect.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 邱超奕 潘俊强
Right now it is the peak summer travel season for civil aviation, and many passengers are concerned about the issue of flight overbooking.
Recently, the consumer associations (消协) of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei jointly organized a special survey on awareness of flight overbooking. The results show that although nearly 90% of passengers have heard of flight overbooking, nearly 70% of passengers are not able to fully grasp the rules of flight overbooking; only nearly 30% of passengers clearly know the relevant rights and interests such as full refund or rebooking, accommodation arrangements, and economic compensation after overbooking; during the ticket purchase process, over 70% of passengers reported that the overbooking risk warning text is too small, hidden in position, and low in recognition, and over half of the passengers believed that the warning text was vague in expression.
On July 24, the consumer associations of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei, on the issue of flight overbooking, held talks with 10 airlines including Air China, as well as 5 online ticketing platforms including Ctrip, requiring them to conduct self-inspection and rectification, and to complete the rectification by August 31 this year.
What is flight overbooking? A relevant person in charge of the China Air Transport Association (中国航空运输协会) stated that in daily travel, there are often passengers who, due to itinerary adjustments and other reasons, are unable to take their booked flights. This not only wastes seats but also causes some passengers to be unable to purchase tickets. To avoid the above situation, the common practice in international civil aviation is for airlines to set a certain range of overbooking ratios on flights through scientific prediction of passenger refund and no-show rates.
According to statistics, passengers who have purchased tickets but did not board the flight account for 4%–5% of total ticket sales. The overbooking ratio set by airlines on "full-seat" flights during peak season is usually maintained at around 3%. The relevant person in charge of the China Air Transport Association stated that from the legal and compliance perspective, if airlines implement the relevant provisions on flight overbooking, their related actions are lawful and compliant.
The consumer associations of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei stated that all airlines must protect passengers' right to know. Online ticket purchase channels must adopt conspicuous and independent reminder methods, fully disclose the overbooking rules, on-site handling procedures, and tiered cash compensation standards. They must not weaken the reminder by using small fonts, folded/hidden text, light gray fading, or other means, ensuring that passengers can clearly see and be aware of the relevant risks during the ticket purchase process. They must not replace clear notification and explanation of consumers' core rights and interests with vague reminders such as "there is an overbooking risk."
When flight overbooking occurs, what rights and interests of passengers should be protected?
The reporter learned that when flight overbooking occurs, airlines will follow the principle of "voluntary priority, protection of special groups, proper placement and compensation" to carry out handling. Airlines will first publicly solicit passengers who voluntarily give up their itineraries, and negotiate compensation conditions with volunteers (generally referring to the agreements in each company's general conditions of carriage). For passengers who cannot board due to overbooking, airlines will actively provide unconditional full refund or free rebooking services. For passengers who are stranded because they cannot travel on the same day, airlines will bear the supporting guarantees such as free accommodation, meals, and transportation transfers.
It is understood that airlines differ in the quantity and frequency of overbooking as well as the corresponding compensation methods and standards. Previously, the Civil Aviation Administration of China has required that the China Air Transport Association take the lead in organizing airlines to study and formulate a group standard for flight overbooking. This standard focuses on studying the norms for overbooking information notification, tiered compensation plans, handling procedure standards, and other content. It is expected to be open for public comment in August this year, and will be published and implemented as soon as possible thereafter to better protect passenger rights and interests.
Return to TopBeijing, July 27 (People’s Daily) — (Reporter Jin Xin (金歆)) A reporter learned from the Cyberspace Administration of China (中央网信办) on the 27th that cyberspace authorities are continuously supervising website platforms in advancing source-marking work. Recently, inspections revealed that some “self-media” accounts, when posting content related to domestic and international current affairs, failed to properly mark information sources, causing confusion and severely misleading public perception. The Cyberspace Administration has intensified inspection and enforcement efforts, urging website platforms to handle 3,704 rule-violating accounts in accordance with laws and agreements, and to correct over 48,000 instances of incorrect or missing labels on short videos. On the 27th, the Cyberspace Administration notified a number of typical cases.
These typical cases include: self-media accounts such as Douyin (抖音)’s “Zhijing” (致静) and Kuaishou (快手)’s “Daqin Shuoshu” (大秦说书), which posted international current affairs information by directly copying or simply recompiling, without marking the source of the information, leaving netizens unable to trace the original origin of the information. Self-media accounts such as Weibo (微博)’s “Qizhe Dianlü Qu Dangwei” (骑着电驴去荡圩) and Kuaishou’s “Lulu Jiang Jushi” (路路讲局势), when posting domestic and international current affairs, vaguely marked the information source, using expressions such as “online rumor,” “netizen tip-off,” and “foreign media reports” to deliberately evade review, making it difficult for netizens to discern the authenticity of the information. Self-media accounts such as Douyin’s “Quanqiu” (全球) and Bilibili (哔哩哔哩)’s “Junwu Siling Yuan” (军武司令猿), used exaggerated expressions such as “Thunderous Strike” and “Fighting Again” as titles and cover text, paired with archival footage of international current events, or cobbled together and edited online images and videos, providing one-sided and distorted interpretations of related events, without marking the information source, to attract netizens’ attention and mislead their perception. The accounts involved in the typical cases have already been handled in accordance with laws and agreements.
Return to TopOn July 24, in Zhongfu Village (中复村), Nanshan Town (南山镇), Changting County (长汀县), Longyan City, Fujian Province, guide Zhong Ming (钟鸣) explained the story of the 1.5-meter scale mark on the Red Army Bridge (红军桥) to elementary school students participating in a red study activity. This scale mark was the height standard for the Red Army's recruitment at the time.
On September 30, 1934, the Red Ninth Army held a mobilization rally in front of the Guanshou Ancestral Hall (观寿公祠) in Zhongfu Village and set out on the Long March. Now, the red historical sites within the village have become important venues for revisiting red history. In recent years, Zhongfu Village has continuously strengthened the protection of red resources, deeply cultivated the development of characteristic industries, and consistently consolidated and expanded the achievements in poverty alleviation.
Photo by Xinhua reporter Han Xu.
Return to TopBeijing, July 27 (Xinhua) — (Reporter Shi Yiqi (史一棋)) With the approval of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Commission of Supervision (中央纪委国家监委) initiated an investigation and review into the serious violations of discipline and law by Zhang Shiping (张世平), former member of the Party Leadership Group, Secretary of the Secretariat, and Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (中华全国总工会).
Upon investigation, Zhang Shiping lost his ideals and convictions, betrayed his original aspiration and mission, disregarded the spirit of the Central Committee's Eight-Point Regulation (中央八项规定精神), illegally accepted gifts, cash gifts, and consumption cards, illegally accepted banquets and travel activity arrangements, had expenses that should have been paid by himself paid by others; lost the bottom line of integrity, illegally held concurrent posts, arranged for relatives to obtain salaries without actually working; had no bottom line of discipline or law, alienated public power into a tool for seeking personal gain, extensively collected money and accumulated wealth, retired but did not rest, used his position to seek benefits for others in enterprise operation, project contracting, etc., and illegally accepted huge amounts of property.
Zhang Shiping seriously violated the Party's discipline on integrity, constituted serious duty-related illegality and is suspected of the crimes of bribery and using influence to accept bribes, and did not restrain himself or stop his actions after the 18th National Congress of the Party. The nature is serious, the impact is vile, and he should be dealt with severely. In accordance with the Regulations of the Communist Party of China on Disciplinary Punishment (中国共产党纪律处分条例), the Supervision Law of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国监察法), the Law of the People's Republic of China on Administrative Discipline for Public Officials (中华人民共和国公职人员政务处分法), and other relevant provisions, after study by the Standing Committee of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and reporting to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China for approval, it was decided to give Zhang Shiping the punishment of expulsion from the Party; cancel his entitled benefits according to regulations; confiscate his disciplinary and illegal gains; transfer his suspected criminal issues to the procuratorial authorities for lawful review and prosecution, and transfer the involved property together.
Return to TopBeijing, July 27 (Reporter Shi Yiqi (史一棋)) — With the approval of the CPC Central Committee, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission have initiated an investigation and review into Yang Hongyong (杨宏勇), formerly a member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission of Harbin Electric Group Co., Ltd. (哈尔滨电气集团有限公司), and former Supervisory Commissioner of the National Supervisory Commission stationed at Harbin Electric Group, for serious violations of discipline and law.
The investigation found that Yang Hongyong lost his ideals and convictions, abandoned his original aspiration and mission, and used his authority and the influence of his position to seek personal gain; violated the spirit of the Central Committee's Eight-Point Regulation, improperly accepted invitations to banquets and tourism activities, engaged in banquets at public expense, improperly split up outgoing delegations and extended the duration of visits; lacked organizational principles, failed to report his whereabouts as required, and illegally provided benefits to others in cadre selection, employee recruitment, and other work; lost the bottom line of integrity, improperly accepted gifts and money, illegally engaged in business and ran enterprises, used his position's influence to benefit relatives; failed to correctly perform his duties, interfered in the business activities of the enterprise; violated discipline while being responsible for discipline enforcement, broke the law while being responsible for law enforcement, turned the power entrusted by the organization into a tool for collecting money, took advantage of his position to benefit others in project contracting, job promotion, and other matters, and illegally accepted huge amounts of property.
Yang Hongyong seriously violated the Party's political discipline, organizational discipline, integrity discipline, and work discipline, constituted serious duty-related malfeasance and is suspected of the crimes of bribery and using influence to commit bribery. Moreover, he did not restrain or desist after the 18th National Congress of the CPC, and the nature is serious, the impact is egregious, and he should be dealt with severely. In accordance with the "Regulations on Disciplinary Punishments of the Communist Party of China," the "Supervision Law of the People's Republic of China," the "Law of the People's Republic of China on Administrative Discipline for Public Employees," and other relevant provisions, after study by the Standing Committee meeting of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and reporting to the CPC Central Committee for approval, it was decided to expel Yang Hongyong from the Party; to cancel the benefits he is entitled to according to regulations; to confiscate his disciplinary and illegal gains; and to transfer his suspected criminal issues to the procuratorial authorities for examination and prosecution according to law, with the involved property also transferred.
Return to TopThis newspaper, Hefei, July 27 (Reporter Luo Yangqi (罗阳奇)). The Anhui Provincial Market Supervision Administration (安徽省市场监管局), jointly with the Anhui Provincial Development and Reform Commission (安徽省发展改革委) and six other departments, has deployed a special inspection of fees charged to enterprises for the year 2026, to be carried out from July to the end of December, focusing on the situation of fees charged to enterprises since January 1, 2024. This inspection covers seven key areas: administrative power intermediary services, industry associations, chambers of commerce, and academic societies, water-electricity-gas public utilities, government departments and their subordinate units, commercial banks, and tendering and bidding. It focuses on issues such as illegally setting intermediary matters, shifting costs that should be borne by administrative organs, and illegal fee collection on e-government platforms.
A relevant official from the Anhui Provincial Market Supervision Administration stated that this inspection is conducted in the mode of "provincial deployment, provincial-city linkage." Market supervision departments at all levels in Anhui will strengthen inter-departmental joint supervision and collaborative governance. For problems discovered during the inspection, they will comprehensively apply means such as market supervision, industry supervision, and credit supervision to implement joint punishment. Through "using inspection to drive reform, using reform to drive governance" (以查促改、以改促治), they will push the comprehensive governance of fees charged to enterprises to go deeper and more solid (走深走实).
Return to TopOn July 25, at the 48th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee held in Busan, South Korea, the "Jingdezhen Handmade Porcelain Industry Heritage (景德镇手工瓷业遗存)" was successfully inscribed on the World Heritage List, becoming China's 61st World Heritage site.
Historically, Jingdezhen, with its never-extinguished kiln fires, was a brilliant landmark on the world ceramic map. Craftsmen came from all directions, and wares were completed and traveled across the world. The "porcelain capital of the world" connected land and sea, presenting a grand scene of "pottery houses opening one after another along the shore, boats and sails daily covering the river."
Today, Jingdezhen, with the surging Changjiang River, has become a civilizational coordinate on the World Heritage map. With craftsmanship enduring and integrating past and present, as an important source of goods for the "Maritime Silk Road," Jingdezhen attracts people to come and leaf through the "living textbook of ceramic history and culture."
Archaeological excavations, relocation and remediation, restoration and utilization, public participation... The 11-year journey of applying for World Heritage status was not only an excavation and sorting of history, but also a civilizational dialogue across time and space, highlighting the cultural resilience of the thousand-year-old porcelain capital that emerges renewed from the fire, and also witnessing the living heritage transmission and diverse guardianship involving the entire Jiangxi Province.
Ancient kiln heritage enters the ranks of world civilizational coordinates.
Throwing, trimming, painting and glazing... Within the Jingdezhen Taoyangli Historical and Cultural District, a representative inheritor of the provincial-level intangible cultural heritage "Jingdezhen Traditional Famille Rose Porcelain Making Technique" is fully reproducing the traditional porcelain-making process, with many study tour students and "Jingpiao (景漂)" young people stopping to watch.
In Jingdezhen, the complete set of ancient handmade porcelain industry systems, from raw material mining to export overseas, can be considered complete, and the ancient kiln heritage contains verifiable history.
The "Jingdezhen Handmade Porcelain Industry Heritage" is a representative heritage spanning the Chinese porcelain-making industry system from the 10th to the 19th century, filling a gap in the "porcelain" theme of the World Heritage List. Its overall layout is "one town and four districts," namely the town area porcelain production center, the Hutian Ancient Porcelain Kiln Site, the Gaoling Kaolin Mine Site, the Changling Porcelain Stone Mine Site, and the Jiaotan Kiln Fuel Production Area.
From raw material mining to fuel supply, from porcelain-making workshops to waterway transport, these five areas completely preserve representative kiln houses, workshops, and other production remains from various stages of the evolution of Jingdezhen's handmade porcelain-making techniques. They constitute a living comprehensive entity of handmade porcelain industry civilization and also a treasure trove for studying global handicraft history and ceramic development history.
The Jingdezhen Handmade Porcelain Industry Heritage fully meets the four core criteria of World Heritage (ii, iii, iv, vi) and possesses outstanding universal value. This place was a core hub for global ceramic technology and artistic exchange over a millennium: the Hutian Kiln witnessed the fusion of northern and southern Chinese porcelain-making techniques; in the Yuan dynasty, Middle Eastern cobalt materials were used to fire blue-and-white porcelain; in the Qing dynasty, Western painting techniques were integrated to give birth to famille rose and enamel colors; the unique dual-formula porcelain-making technique directly promoted the batch production of hard-paste porcelain, and Jingdezhen blue-and-white porcelain was an important component of the "Chinoiserie" that swept Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, profoundly reshaping global aesthetics and lifestyles.
Unlike static ancient monuments and heritage, the most precious characteristic of the "Jingdezhen Handmade Porcelain Industry Heritage" is its living transmission. The thousand-year kiln fire has never been interrupted, and handmade porcelain-making techniques have been passed down from generation to generation. Twenty-nine ceramic-related items have been included in the national intangible cultural heritage representative item list. A large number of national and provincial-level intangible cultural heritage representative inheritors adhere to craftsmanship and continue the inheritance. The ancient porcelain-making procedures, kiln industry culture, and artisan spirit are still being continued and developed to this day, forming a unique heritage form of "heritage that can be verified, techniques that can be transmitted, culture that can be felt, and life that is integrated," perfectly interpreting the core value of living cultural heritage.
The whole province united in heart, gathering strength to tackle the World Heritage application journey.
The "Jingdezhen Handmade Porcelain Industry Heritage" has long faced worldwide challenges such as dampness and water seepage at kiln sites, stability of multi-layer kiln industry accumulations, and moisture-proofing and anti-corrosion of ancient wooden structures. Jingdezhen adapted measures to local conditions, consolidated the institutional foundation, and innovatively developed "black technology" for cultural relic protection, forming the "Jingdezhen case" of systematic protection for super-large handicraft heritage.
In 2015, the World Heritage application work was officially launched. Jiangxi established a high-level provincial special working group for the application, clearly stating "to mobilize the entire province's strength to solidly carry out the application work," and built a three-level tackling system of "guidance from the National Cultural Heritage Administration (国家文物局), coordination by the Jiangxi Provincial Special Working Group, and substantive operation by the Jingdezhen Municipal Command Headquarters." The Jiangxi Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism (江西省文化和旅游厅) (Provincial World Heritage Application Office) coordinated with multiple departments to cooperate in areas such as planning formulation, funding guarantees, ecological restoration, and cultural relic archaeology.
Institutions first, coordinated across the entire region. Jiangxi issued a local special regulation on porcelain industry cultural heritage, the "Jingdezhen City Porcelain Industry Cultural Heritage Protection Regulations," and published the "Jingdezhen Handmade Porcelain Industry Heritage Series Heritage Protection and Management Plan (2025-2035)," incorporating all 45 heritage element points into the legal protection framework, achieving legalization, standardization, and normalization of heritage protection.
Jingdezhen adheres to the principles of protection first, rational utilization, and minimal intervention, continuously strengthening the protection, inheritance, and utilization of porcelain industry cultural heritage. It has completed the protection and restoration of over 20 archaeological sites, more than 30 heritage buildings, and over 100 historic-style buildings, systematically protecting over 160 old kiln sites, 108 old streets, and over 250 old alleyways, forming a complete system of coordinated protection for tangible and intangible cultural heritage. The Dongbu Ancient Wharf in Fuliang County (浮梁县) has been renovated and renewed, and ceramic culture lectures are regularly held there. Nearby residents are both witnesses to the success of the World Heritage application and participants in the protection of the World Heritage.
Technology empowers, digital guardianship. At present, the "Jingdezhen Handmade Porcelain Industry Heritage" has established a comprehensive monitoring system. The world's first ancient ceramic gene bank has been built, analyzing the changes in ceramic civilization through component analysis and data collection; the handmade porcelain industry heritage monitoring platform has been built and put into operation, with 789 professional monitoring devices fully deployed. The three-dimensional perception system of "ground sensors + aerial drones + manual patrols" works in synergy to achieve real-time monitoring, precise identification, and rapid closed-loop handling of heritage risks, placing the thousand-year handmade porcelain industry heritage under the protection of "digital intelligent eyes."
The whole province acts as a single chessboard, with multiple parties making concerted efforts. From the initial single heritage point of the Imperial Kiln Factory (御窑厂) to the current overall application of 45 heritage element points, from local independent exploration to high-level promotion through ministry-province cooperation, Jiangxi has mobilized the entire province's strength to complete a revaluation and systematic sorting of the thousand-year porcelain industry civilization, telling the world a vivid story from clay to porcelain, from thousand-year kiln fire to human civilization.
Living transmission, all people share the splendor of porcelain charm.
Ceramic road signs are embedded with exquisite porcelain, ceramic lamp posts are decorated with blue-and-white, bronze group sculptures present the main porcelain-making procedures, and study tour experiences such as "Walking Together on the Porcelain Road" and "Elegant Gatherings" are enthusiastically carried out... Strolling through the porcelain capital, the charm of porcelain lingers.
For this city, the significance of the successful World Heritage inscription of "Jingdezhen Handmade Porcelain Industry Heritage" lies not only in adding a World Heritage site, but also in completing an act of protection and inheritance, enriching the city's cultural connotation, and demonstrating the cultural confidence of the porcelain capital.
Inheriting through protection. The Taoyangli Historical and Cultural District (陶阳里历史文化街区) follows the principle of "protection first, repair the old as old" and carries out "archaeological-style" renovation. 1,127 Ming, Qing, and modern residential buildings have been restored, 25 alleyways have been upgraded, and the historical texture is completely preserved. Visitors can overlook the archaeological sites of original kilns such as the mantou kiln and dragon kiln from a boardwalk, or enter the restored Qing dynasty imperial porcelain supervisor's office and porcelain workers' dormitories to intuitively experience the complete chain from blank making to firing. The three-dimensional protection model of "archaeology + display + experience" makes porcelain industry culture more tangible and understandable.
Innovating through inheritance. Generations of ceramic artisans have held fast to the ordinary, achieving the extraordinary of Jingdezhen ceramics. Today, Jingdezhen still has tens of thousands of ceramic artisans inheriting porcelain industry culture and innovating porcelain-making techniques. In the Ancient Kiln Folk Custom Expo Area (古窑民俗博览区), the re-firing and kiln-opening ceremonies of typical kilns from past dynasties are regularly held, attracting citizens and tourists to participate in the ignition ceremony and kiln-opening ceremony. At the Taoxichuan Spring and Autumn Fair (陶溪川春秋大集), thousands of artists from dozens of countries and regions come with their handicraft works to "set up stalls." According to statistics, Jingdezhen currently has about 60,000 "Jingpiao," of whom over 5,000 come from overseas.
From last year's archaeological excavation project "Jingdezhen City Yuan, Ming, and Qing Porcelain Industry Site Group" being selected as a "2024 China New Archaeological Discovery," to now the "Jingdezhen Handmade Porcelain Industry Heritage" being inscribed on the World Heritage List, Jingdezhen has already begun planning the "second half of the World Heritage application article," using heritage element points as a thread to connect ancient kiln sites, old streets and wharves, intangible cultural heritage workshops, and study bases, creating a ceramic culture-themed tourist route, and promoting deep integration of heritage with study tours, cultural creativity, homestays, and handicraft experiences. In addition, Jingdezhen will uphold the concept of "World Heritage application for the people, benefiting the people, and serving the people," implementing measures such as free park entry, village patrols, and volunteer services, forming a pattern of co-construction and shared governance led by the government, with social participation and universal guardianship.
In the future, Jingdezhen will strive to transform sleeping kiln sites into perceptible historical scenes, transform ancient techniques into participatory cultural experiences, and in the name of World Heritage, tell the story of Chinese ceramics well to the world, allowing the thousand-year porcelain capital to bloom with new contemporary brilliance and write a splendid chapter of porcelain charm.
Data source: Jiangxi Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 陈晨曦 孔庆元 王 亮
On July 25, the 2026 Jiangsu Province City Football League (hereinafter referred to as "Su Chao") saw the Suzhou team and the Wuxi team stage the "Taihu Derby" at the Suzhou Sports Center Stadium in Jiangsu Suzhou, with over 30,000 fans braving the heat to cheer. During the opening segment, Pedri, a player of the Spanish team that had just won the 2026 United States-Canada-Mexico World Cup, came on stage to lend support, passing the official ball of this World Cup, the "Triple Wave" (三重浪), to the "Su Chao" players. This was Pedri's first visit to China, and the strong football atmosphere and enthusiastic fans deeply moved him.
A local grassroots "derby" and the visit of a World Cup champion player brought the wave of Chinese football enthusiasm into collision with the aftereffects of the top international tournament. What inspiration does the World Cup bring to Chinese football? The reporter interviewed relevant experts.
Deeply cultivate the soil
Make playing football a part of life
One major feature of this World Cup is that world football is returning to long-term patterns. The world's top four ranked teams ultimately advanced to the World Cup semifinals, indicating that the highest-level competition has upgraded from "star competition" to "system competition" and "ecosystem competition."
Wang Zhiyuan (王志远), Associate Professor of the International Football Academy at Tongji University, said: "The world's top four ranked teams entering the semifinals is not only based on the coordinated combination of passing and receiving quality, running efficiency, formation effectiveness, and the key role of star players; behind this lies the combined effect of the stability, bench depth, and big-match experience of the top strong teams."
Looking at the squad composition of this World Cup, the 1,248 participating players belong to 449 professional clubs from 71 countries and regions worldwide. The vast and interconnected network of professional clubs is the underlying support for the competitiveness of each national team. Traditional powerhouses such as Spain, France, and England have vastly different tactical styles, but their commonality is very prominent: they have youth training echelons covering all ages from 6 to adult, stable and functioning professional leagues at various levels, and normalized youth competition channels; football is deeply embedded in the daily life of the nation. Taking France as an example, community free pitches in cities like Paris and Lyon are spread throughout residential areas. A large number of teenagers play football on the streets from childhood; scouts go down to the grassroots to select talent. The starting points for stars like Mbappé and Dembélé were all community free pitches near their homes.
Liu Jinsong (刘劲松), FIFA football management and competition expert and council member of the Chinese Football League, said: "What Chinese football must learn are the underlying laws of football development: on the one hand, actively integrate into world football, cultivate players, coaches, referees, managers, as well as on-field and off-field professionals such as competition organization, market development, media communication, sports science, and sports medicine; on the other hand, establish a competition system that covers participants and clubs of different ages, levels, and types, so that everyone has matches, there are channels at every level, and the excellent can stand out."
Compared with European and American football powers, the atmosphere of football for all in China still has room for improvement. In recent years, the number of registered elite youth football players in China has increased significantly, exceeding 100,000, but it is still far lower than that of several European countries with populations under 10 million. According to the "2025 Chinese Football Association Digital Annual Report," in 2025 there were approximately 126,000 certified football coaches in China, but the number of elite coaches deeply engaged in early-age initiation is extremely small, and the grassroots popularization force is seriously insufficient. Many families tie football to further education and career paths, making the purpose of participating in football training overly utilitarian.
"We should cultivate football culture from the grassroots. China has a population of over 1.4 billion, but the atmosphere of football being part of life is not yet strong enough. We must let children enjoy football, not just aim for results. We must respect the development laws of football and connect to the world football network and development track as early as possible," Wang Zhiyuan said. In his view, our youth football training should be more systematic and scientific in talent selection and training, adhere to integrated cultivation, and continuously improve the channels from campus leagues and mass leagues to professional leagues.
Rooted in the local
Establish a "suitable" development system
The competition of football systems is another important signal conveyed by this World Cup. Nowadays, digital technology and the global flow of talent have reshaped football development paths in various regions. Blindly copying the model of other countries makes it difficult to form lasting competitiveness. Chinese football must build a proprietary system tailored to local resources and continuously narrow the gap with the world's strong teams.
This World Cup has been called by the industry the first AI (Artificial Intelligence) World Cup, with average daily AI computing power consumption accounting for 3% of the global total. The venues are equipped with smart footballs that collect data 500 times per second, millimeter-level 3D digital human scanning systems, and AI anti-shock camera devices worn by referees. All 48 participating teams can use the AI tactical analysis system for free, significantly lowering the threshold for tactical analysis. Wang Yuxiong (王裕雄), Director of the Sports Economy Research Center at Central University of Finance and Economics, said: "Technologies such as artificial intelligence, sensors, and 3D visualization were applied on a large scale at the 2026 United States-Canada-Mexico World Cup. Technology is comprehensively reshaping the sports industry chain, from athlete training and event operation to audience viewing experience and the development of intangible assets of events, all of which are profoundly affected."
"After the expansion, this World Cup has increased not only the number of participating slots, but also the space for global football development. More countries and regions have seen hope of entering the World Cup. Governments, associations, clubs, enterprises, and families will continue to invest, thereby continuously improving the football ecosystem," Liu Jinsong said. "The World Cup is not only a competition between national teams, but also a competition between football systems. What truly determines competitiveness is not who copies whom, but who establishes a development system that conforms to its own characteristics."
Compared with the impressive result of 9 out of 10 African teams advancing to the knockout stage, among the 9 teams from the Asian Football Confederation, only Japan and Australia broke through from the group stage. There are still obvious shortcomings in the overall development of Asian football. Wang Zhiyuan said: "The backwardness of Asian football is, to some extent, due to the weakness of basic football science. Not only is the sport training science of football lagging behind, but the development of football philosophy, sociology, and management is also relatively backward. We still have much room for improvement in these areas."
Ignite enthusiasm
Improve the supply of local grassroots competitions
On the evening of July 25, the 2026 Hunan Province Football League (hereinafter referred to as "Xiang Chao") kicked off before the attention of nearly 40,000 fans at the scene. "Xiang Chao" has undergone a comprehensive upgrade, with the scale of the event and the viewing experience set to be enhanced in all aspects. This season's event focuses on discovering youth football reserve forces and building a platform for promising talents to grow.
In recent years, mass events such as "Su Chao," "Xiang Chao," and "Village Super League" (村超) have continued to gain popularity, indicating that the public has a strong demand for participation and spectating. During the World Cup, multiple mass events including "Su Chao" entered the social media platform Xiaohongshu (Little Red Book), covering regions including East China, Central China, South China, Southwest, Northwest, and North China, generating a certain volume of discussion, which indirectly reflects that grassroots football has formed a relatively high agglomeration effect.
Catching the heat of the World Cup and improving the supply of local grassroots competitions is a key lever for cultivating fertile soil for the football industry. As Shui Qingxia (水庆霞), former head coach of the Chinese women's national football team, said: "Channeling the enthusiasm ignited by the World Cup into grassroots football can further inspire more people to take to the pitch and increase football participation across society."
For a long time in the past, the football consumption of domestic fans was highly dependent on top international events such as the World Cup and the top five leagues for traffic generation. Today, local competitions combined with local cultural tourism form a unique appeal, and the domestic football consumption ecosystem is being restructured. The level of local football competitions should be continuously elevated. Only when the domestic football competition system at all levels thrives can it support long-term, sustainable large-scale hardware and software investment.
"Football talent cultivation, youth training systems, and the construction of a football culture for all are long-term projects with no shortcuts. They require both a policy environment that fosters good development and sustained investment, while continuously attracting innovative talent and improving business models. We cannot merely be satisfied with Chinese manufacturing and Chinese brands appearing on the international field; the ultimate goal is to raise the level of Chinese football and build a healthy domestic football consumption ecosystem," Wang Yuxiong said.
The 2026 United States-Canada-Mexico World Cup shows us that modern football competes on a complete football ecosystem, mature youth training, leagues, and a system of mass participation. This provides reference and inspiration for the future of Chinese football. In the future, we must further shore up shortcomings in talent cultivation, venue supply, event operation, and commercial development, achieving the coordinated development of Chinese football talent, culture, and system, thereby forging a long-term stable development path that conforms to national conditions.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 孙龙飞
On July 26, the 2026 China Open, a BWF World Tour Super 1000 event, concluded in Changzhou, Jiangsu. The Chinese team entered three finals in the five events, ultimately sweeping the mixed doubles champion and runner-up, winning the women's doubles gold and the women's singles silver.
The mixed doubles final was contested between the top seeds Feng Yanzhe/Huang Dongping and Guo Xinwa/Chen Fanghui, both Chinese pairs, with the latter winning 25:23, 20:22, 21:15. Thus, Guo Xinwa/Chen Fanghui ended a seven-match losing streak against their opponents, and the pair entered the China Open final for the first time and together won the mixed doubles title. "Previously, when being chased in points, I would easily get anxious; this time I was able to calmly invest in the next rally," Chen Fanghui said after the match, stating that a stable mindset was the key to victory.
In the women's doubles final, the top seeds and defending champions, Chinese pair Liu Shengshu/Tan Ning, faced the Japanese pair Yuki Fukushima/Mayu Matsumoto. The most recent meeting between the two sides was in the women's doubles final of the Indonesia Open in June this year, where Liu Shengshu/Tan Ning lost after a hard-fought three games. Meeting again after more than a month, Tan Ning withstood the pressure of injury and, together with her teammate, focused on technical and tactical execution, ultimately winning in straight games to successfully defend their title. "We performed at the level of our training, which provides a good foundation for the upcoming World Championships and Asian Games," Tan Ning said.
In the women's singles, Chinese player Chen Yufei lost to Japanese star Akane Yamaguchi with a total score of 0:2, finishing as runner-up. "It's a pity that I couldn't continue to break through," Chen Yufei said. On her path to advancement in this tournament, Chen Yufei successively came from behind to defeat India's Sindhu, Thailand's Intanon, and other players, showing tenacious willpower. After the final, she said she would summarize and adjust well, maintain a normal mindset, and play the subsequent matches well.
In other events, Chinese Taipei player Chou Tien-chen defeated French player Popov 2:1 to win the men's singles title. Indonesian pair Alfian/Fikri came from behind to defeat Korean pair Seo Seung-jae/Kim Won-ho 2:1, defeating them again after the previous Japan Open, winning the men's doubles title "back-to-back."
Return to TopBeijing, July 27 (Reporter Zheng Yi) — The "Chess City Cup" 2026 Fourth National Chess King Tournament concluded on the 26th in Qingbaijiang District (青白江区), Chengdu, Sichuan Province. Wei Yi, currently ranked first in domestic rating, defeated Yu Yangyi 3:1 in the final to win the Chess King Tournament championship for the first time.
A total of 12 top domestic chess players participated in this tournament. Former men's individual world champion Ding Liren, the previous two Chess King Tournament champions Yu Yangyi, and Wei Yi advanced directly to the main tournament as seeded players. After the qualifying tournament among the remaining nine players, Lu Shanglei, Xue Haowen, Li Di, Xu Xiangyu, and female player Zhu Jin'er successfully broke through. The main tournament was an eight-player rapid knockout competition. Wei Yi and Yu Yangyi met in the final, with Wei Yi ultimately prevailing. Ding Liren defeated Xue Haowen 2.5:1.5 to take third place.
Return to TopOur newspaper Guiyang, July 27 (correspondent Cheng Huan (程焕)) — On the 26th, with the conclusion of the adult men’s 3000m relay, the three-day 2026 Asian Speed Roller Skating Track Series (Guiyang, China Station) came to a close at the Guizhou International Roller Skating Center.
This event was hosted by the Asian Roller Skating Federation and organized by the Chinese Roller Skating Association, the Guizhou Provincial Sports Bureau, and the Guiyang Municipal People’s Government. It attracted 48 teams and 384 athletes from multiple countries and regions. The events were set in accordance with the 2026 edition of the World Roller Skating Federation competition rules. Among them, the official events of the adult group — the 200m double time trial, the 500m + D sprint, the 5000m points race, and the 10000m elimination race — had their results counted toward the points of the Asian Speed Roller Skating Track Series.
In the overall team points standings, Sichuan Sports Vocational College (四川体育职业学院) ranked first; Legend Roller Skating Club of Huai’an City, Jiangsu Province (江苏省淮安市传奇轮滑俱乐部) and the Roller Skating Committee of the Sports Association of Miaoli County, Chinese Taiwan (中国台湾苗栗县体育会滑轮溜冰委员会) placed second and third respectively; and the Indonesia DKI team finished fourth.
Return to TopFrom July 25 to 26, the 2026 Inner Mongolia Roller Skating Elite Competition was held at Wanhe Sports Park in Hohhot. This competition featured two major categories: speed roller skating and freestyle roller skating, attracting over 200 competitors from 25 teams across multiple cities.
The photo shows children competing fiercely in the race on July 26.
Photo by Ding Genhou (丁根厚) (People's Vision (人民视觉))
Harbin, July 27 (People's Daily) — (Reporter Guo Xiaolong (郭晓龙)) On the 27th, the reporter learned from the press conference on Harbin City's summer retreat tourism "100-Day Action" (百日行动) in Heilongjiang Province that: Harbin, relying on its "Double Asian Winter Games City" (双亚冬之城) brand, is innovatively creating a new model of deep integration and development of "sports + summer retreat + cultural tourism."
Harbin plans to carry out over 300 mass sports activities throughout the year, building a nationwide fitness service that is uninterrupted across the four seasons and covers both urban and rural areas; during the "100-Day Action" period, nearly 100 sports events and activities of various levels and types will be launched, using sports enthusiasm to activate summer retreat consumption. The city will hold 17 key mass sports events at the municipal level and above, and over 70 characteristic sports activities at the county (city) level, covering football, marathon, taekwondo, boxing, wushu, and other events.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 尚嵘峥
The gates opened, and 13 two-year-old Ili horses leaped out, galloping forward. The jockeys, clad in colorful silks, urged their horses on with whips; some led the way, while others conserved strength to give chase. During the sprint phase, the jockeys all stood up, using their body weight to push the horses forward, accelerating their stride. “Horse Number 6 is the first to cross the finish line!” the on-site commentator exclaimed excitedly.
In Zhaosu County, Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, the 2026 Zhaosu “Ma Chao” regular horse racing event was recently held at the Tianma Tourism Culture Park. The 2-year-old Ili Horse 1000-meter speed race kicked off first, with 25 racehorses competing in two groups. Jockey Kushayi Talegat (库沙依·塔勒嘎特) of the Zhaosu Horse Farm representative team, riding his horse “Black Qilin,” won the championship with a time of 1 minute 4.90 seconds. On the same race day, a 3-year-old Ili Horse 3000-meter speed race and a 4-year-old and above Ili Horse 12,000-meter endurance race were also held.
Zhaosu County has long enjoyed the reputation of being the “Land of Heavenly Horses,” and horse racing events are held at multiple venues. There are 10 village-level folk race days and 17 county-level regular events, covering speed races, endurance races, and other types, with race distances ranging from 1,000 meters to 12,000 meters, running continuously from April through October. Every summer, the Xinjiang Ili Heavenly Horse Cultural Tourism Festival is also held here, integrating distinctive folk sports such as horse racing and sheep snatching (刁羊) with cultural tourism, and the “horse racing+” business format is becoming increasingly diverse.
During this year’s Heavenly Horse Cultural Tourism Festival, Zhaosu County held 16 distinctive cultural tourism activities, including the “Silk Road” China Super Equestrian Orienteering Endurance Race·Zhaosu Station, the 2026 Harmonious and Beautiful Countryside·Heavenly Horse Elite Series, and the “Pastoral Song of Zhaosu·Land of Heavenly Horses” Horse King Championship. Visitors can both enjoy a close-up view of the scene of ten thousand horses galloping and immerse themselves in the joy of horseback sports. “This year we have not only enriched the riding experience programs but also launched study tour activities for children, making the business format more diverse,” introduced Wang Hui (王慧), deputy manager of the Tianma Tourism Culture Park. Tourists can become “heavenly horse keepers,” get up close to Ili horses, Akhal-Teke horses, and Dutch Warmbloods, bathe the horses, feed them, and experience the beauty of nature through close interaction with the animals.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 乔 栋
The Party secretary of the Qinghai Provincial Sports Work First Brigade (青海省体育工作一大队), Shen Tiejun (申铁军), participated in the work of the Tour of Beautiful Qinghai International Road Cycling Race (环大美青海国际公路自行车赛) for the first time in 2005. That year was the fourth edition of the event and also the first major event he helped prepare after his demobilization. "At the beginning, I had not even heard of the yellow jersey, green jersey, or polka dot jersey; I only remember that many foreign riders came, and everyone was very excited." Over the years, he has trained in different positions such as the logistics group, secretariat group, and competition group of the event, growing together with the Qinghai Cycling Race (环青赛), "witnessed many summit victories, seen the improvement of Qinghai's infrastructure, and the ecological changes in Qinghai."
"Every year, our primary task is the Qinghai Cycling Race," Shen Tiejun said. "The event lasts only about 10 days, but counting the repeated pre-race reconnaissance, route confirmation, post-race feedback, and review and research time, we are busy for most of the year. To confirm a new point location, we have to go at least a dozen times before we can thoroughly understand the road conditions, transfer traffic, and so on."
Since the first edition in 2002, the event theme of "green, humanistic, harmonious, experiential" (绿色、人文、和谐、体验) has been used to this day. "Every year when the event plan is reviewed, running the race frugally is the basic principle," Shen Tiejun said. "For example, from 2015 onward, the advertising material platforms introduced reusable steel frame structures, only needing to replace the prints each year." In 2020, after becoming the director of the Qinghai Provincial Sports Event Management Center (青海省体育赛事管理中心), Shen Tiejun reduced the event support team from nearly 2,000 people to 1,000, and also streamlined the groups: "The work content of the foreign affairs group and the translation group overlapped. After integration, not only was workflow smoothness improved, but expenditures were also reduced." This year, the Qinghai Cycling Race also implemented a "real-name system" (实名制) reform. "Whether for athletes, referees, or support staff, big data identification was used, which not only saved the cost of credential production but also eliminated the problem of 'showing a credential to get meals and accommodation,' making the event more efficient and the effect of frugality more obvious," Shen Tiejun said.
The Qinghai Cycling Race has been held for 25 editions and has become China's most influential and highest-level high-altitude cycling event. "In the early years, the race was held around Qinghai Lake. Since 2019, the route and scope have continuously expanded. In recent years, the upgraded eight stages have allowed people to see Qinghai's green development," Shen Tiejun said.
Through the live broadcast lens, the endless rapeseed flowers of Menyuan (门源) amazed the audience's eyes. Just as a high-speed train sped through the sea of flowers, the harmonious picture made people yearn for it. Shen Tiejun was full of pride: "Menyuan's hundred-mu rapeseed flower fields, Gangshika Snow Peak (岗什卡雪峰), the 'Mirror of the Sky' Chaka Salt Lake (茶卡盐湖), the ecological secret realm of the Qilian Mountains (祁连山)... The event's points link these tourist destinations together."
The ecological changes are visible to the naked eye. "More than 20 years ago, the southern and northern mountains of Xining had little greenery, and the Datong Mountain (大通山) and South Mountain (南山) ranges around Qinghai Lake were often barren. After years of ecological conservation and greening restoration, the southern and northern mountains of Xining develop a very comfortable microclimate in summer. July is the most beautiful season of Qinghai Lake — the blue lake water, yellow rapeseed flowers, red cycling paths, and green mountains create a visual feast," Shen Tiejun said. In addition, the water area of Qinghai Lake has been expanding for more than 20 consecutive years, the water ecology continues to improve, and the stock of the once nearly extinct Qinghai Lake naked carp (青海湖裸鲤) has increased by 44 times.
In recent years, the Qinghai Cycling Race has become more lively, and the event economy is booming. Whenever the Qinghai Cycling Race reaches a stop, local specialty agricultural and livestock products attract people's interest. After the race, athletes from all over the world and local residents sing and dance together.
Zhang Rui (张睿) and his wife, from Hangzhou, Zhejiang, signed up online for a cycling tour group. "Combining cycling with sightseeing not only exercises the body but also allows us to experience Qinghai Lake's scenery up close — killing two birds with one stone." With the support of a professional team, they cycled more than 360 kilometers around the lake over five days. The cycling equipment came from the "Dayu Tribe" (达玉部落), which is quite famous in Qinghai's cycling circles. Here, there are not only complete cycling vehicles, equipment, and maintenance supplies but also services such as dining and accommodation. The person in charge, Luosang Jiancuo (洛桑尖措), said: "In the future, we plan to build more lake-circumnavigation cycling stations to meet the needs of cycling friends."
To increase public participation, the Qinghai Cycling Race is being upgraded into a "race season" (赛季). "We are enriching the event system. Not only do we have the University Student Road Cycling Race and the New Energy Vehicle Race, but events such as the Yellow River Crossing Amateur Challenge, the Yuzhu Peak (玉珠峰) Mountaineering Event, and the Ethnic Archery Elite Race have also been organized, allowing more people to fall in love with sports," Shen Tiejun said.
"Qinghai fully utilizes benchmark sports events to promote the continuous integration of various business forms," introduced Ma Li (马力), deputy director of the Qinghai Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism (青海省文化和旅游厅). "In recent years, our races have not only entered scenic spots, commercial districts, and neighborhoods but also pastoral areas, continuously enriching the connotation of 'follow the race to travel.'"
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 汪思源 牛瑞飞 杨 一
In recent years, with the widespread application of digital technologies and platforms such as generative artificial intelligence, social media, and virtual assets, various types of new online fraud crimes have spread across multiple countries. The related criminal forms exhibit characteristics such as intelligent tools, industrialized division of labor, cross-border activities, and encrypted illicit proceeds. Criminals are increasingly using artificial intelligence, anonymous communication, malicious software, and cryptocurrencies to commit fraud, conceal identities, and transfer funds, making them 防不胜防 (fáng bù shèng fáng - "guard against but cannot fully guard," hard to prevent despite precautions). In response to new types of online fraud crimes, countries such as South Korea, the Netherlands, and Thailand have introduced multiple prevention and response measures, intensified crackdown efforts, and achieved certain practical results.
South Korea — Cross-departmental coordination to curb the spread of investment stock recommendation fraud, etc.
In March this year, Lee, a 58-year-old South Korean self-employed individual, saw a post on a social media platform titled "Husband works at SK Hynix, recommends buying this stock" and was lured into joining an online chat group, ultimately being defrauded of 30 million South Korean won (1 yuan renminbi is approximately 217 won). According to Lee's recollection: "The group updated 'profit screenshots' daily, claiming that daily profits could reach millions of won, and there were people claiming to be university professors giving investment lectures every night, gradually breaking down my guard."
"New online fraud is not only larger in scale, but also more sophisticated in modus operandi and faster in spread." Park Jae-heung, director of the Comprehensive Response Center for Telecommunications and Financial Fraud of the Korean National Police Agency, told reporters that investment stock recommendation fraud has become the fastest-growing new type of crime in recent years. Fraud gangs usually impersonate investment experts, proactively contact potential victims through social platforms, guide them to join investment exchange groups where multiple fraudsters disguise their identities, and then create expectations of high returns by displaying fake profit screenshots, falsifying revenue data from virtual investment platforms, etc., luring victims to transfer funds before collectively going silent.
The latest data from the Comprehensive Response Center for Telecommunications and Financial Fraud of the Korean National Police Agency shows that from January to May 2026, economic losses caused by traditional online fraud amounted to 272.5 billion won, a decrease of 48.9% compared to 533.4 billion won in the same period in 2025. However, during the same period, losses from new types of online fraud such as investment stock recommendation fraud reached as high as 464.3 billion won. The form of crime has shifted from traditional voice call fraud to more reliance on social platforms for types such as fake investment, romance scams, and fake purchasing agents.
"Since the establishment of the Comprehensive Response Center for Telecommunications and Financial Fraud in October 2025, through the implementation of cross-departmental comprehensive governance, as of now, the number of telecom fraud cases has decreased by 37%, and the amount of losses has decreased by 37.6%, showing initial results in overall governance," said Park Jae-heung. The "10-minute emergency number suspension" mechanism has effectively curbed the spread of fraud. Previously, it took 1 to 2 days from reporting and verification to completion of suspension for fraud-related phone numbers; under the new mechanism, after receiving a report, the police can push information to telecom operators in real time, and complete the number suspension within 10 minutes. As of the end of June 2026, this mechanism has cumulatively suspended 92,600 fraud-related numbers, repeatedly cutting off the criminal chain during the fraud process and preventing cases from occurring.
The Korea Communications Commission recently held the first meeting of the "Inter-departmental Consultation Mechanism for AI Crime Response" jointly with multiple departments. Ko Min-soo, standing commissioner of the Korea Communications Commission, stated that the development of artificial intelligence technology brings both new opportunities and new risks. Crimes committed using artificial intelligence technology are difficult to effectively address by a single department alone. All relevant departments will strengthen collaboration, focus on prevention, and strive to create a safe and trustworthy environment for AI application.
Netherlands — Cross-border cooperation to crack down on criminal chains such as ransomware and data theft.
In recent years, cybercrimes such as ransomware, data theft, and dark web crimes have been rampant in the Netherlands. According to statistics from the Dutch Central Bank, in 2025, approximately 658,000 payment fraud cases occurred in the Netherlands, an increase of 30% year-on-year, with a total amount involved of 198 million euros, an increase of 22% year-on-year.
Bank customer service impersonation fraud is a relatively common type of crime in the Netherlands. Criminals use phone number spoofing technology to make the caller ID appear as an official bank number, claiming to have detected account anomalies or card theft, inducing victims to provide login information and verification codes, install remote control software, or transfer funds to so-called "safe accounts."
Online fraud crimes have formed a relatively complete underground industrial chain. Some gangs specialize in developing and renting malicious software to steal passwords, browsing history, bank card information, and cryptocurrency wallet data, then sell the data or network access rights to other criminals. The development of generative artificial intelligence has significantly reduced language errors in scam emails and text messages. Criminals can quickly produce natural and fluent multilingual messages and carry out targeted fraud based on personal data obtained from social media or leaked databases, such as impersonating company executives requesting urgent transfers, impersonating government departments sending notifications, or impersonating children claiming to have changed phone numbers.
Ransomware attacks targeting enterprises, schools, hospitals, and other public institutions have a wider scope of damage. Criminals typically exploit unpatched software vulnerabilities, leaked account passwords, or phishing emails to enter internal networks, first steal data, then encrypt it, and threaten to disclose customer information, personal data, or trade secrets.
In November 2025, the Dutch police, in coordination with other EU countries, intensified crackdown efforts, shutting down 83 network center servers located in the Netherlands and seizing 20 domain names. The related malicious software infected terminals of over 600,000 victims worldwide, stealing tens of millions of personal data records. In May 2026, the Dutch police, together with relevant French authorities, jointly shut down the "First VPN" anonymous network service widely used by ransomware gangs and dismantled 33 related servers.
The Dutch police also cooperate with foreign law enforcement agencies, prosecution authorities, Europol, cybersecurity companies, and data centers, participating in operations to combat cross-border financial fraud, money laundering, tax and VAT fraud, etc., by seizing network infrastructure, protecting stolen data, notifying potential victims, and confiscating involved cryptocurrencies, carrying out systematic strikes against cross-border criminal chains.
The Dutch police believe that strengthening early warnings and raising vigilance are key to reducing risks. The police remind the public through multiple channels that banks, police, and government departments will not ask residents to provide passwords or one-time verification codes over the phone, nor will they ask for funds to be transferred to so-called "safe accounts." Upon receiving an urgent call involving fund security, one should immediately hang up and verify through the official website's published number. Individuals should set different strong passwords for email, online banking, and social media, and enable two-factor authentication to prevent criminals from gaining access and committing identity theft. After falling victim to online fraud, one should urgently contact the bank to freeze or recover funds, preserve emails, chat records, phone numbers, and transfer receipts, and report to the police as soon as possible.
Thailand — Raid-style law enforcement, focusing on cutting off illegal fund chains and asset chains.
At the end of June this year, the Thai government, with the assistance of artificial intelligence tools, shut down over 13,000 illegal online gambling pages and websites related to the 2026 World Cup. The Office of the Prime Minister of Thailand stated that the government has integrated security and technology agencies to strengthen network blocking measures related to online gambling.
Recently, various Thai departments have intensified actions to combat and prevent technology-related cybercrime. At the end of June, the Technology Crime Investigation Bureau of Thailand, in a major law enforcement operation in the south of the country, cracked down on transnational and cross-provincial criminal networks, conducting a total of 18 raids on involved strongholds, arresting 20 suspects, and recovering economic losses of approximately 1.4 billion Thai baht (1 yuan renminbi is approximately 5 baht). This operation focused on online investment fraud and online gambling. Police stated that popular tourist areas such as Phuket, Koh Samui, and Koh Phangan have become key regions for laundering illicit proceeds from cybercrime, with foreign nationals colluding with local Thai agents to use fraud proceeds to purchase high-value land and real estate. The focus of Thailand's governance of technology-related cybercrime has shifted from cracking down on fraud dens to cutting off fund chains and asset chains. At the end of June, the Thai government stated that after three months of large-scale crackdowns, criminal activities related to cybercrime, fraud, and foreign enterprises using Thais as agents have decreased by approximately 60%.
Thailand established the Anti-Online Fraud Operations Center in 2023, and upgraded it to a 24/7 "one-stop" coordination platform at the end of 2024. This agency is responsible for uniformly receiving reports of online fraud, coordinating banks to freeze involved accounts at the first instance, simultaneously pushing cases to the police for filing and investigation, and sharing data with departments such as the Anti-Money Laundering Office, the central bank, and the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission. At the same time, banks and other financial institutions have adopted measures such as strengthening screening of high-risk accounts, enhancing monitoring of abnormal transactions, and requiring facial recognition for large transfers, to strengthen control at the source.
The Royal Decree on Measures for the Prevention and Suppression of Technology Crimes (Second Amendment), which was revised and took effect in April 2025, is the main legal basis for Thailand's crackdown on various types of online fraud and cyber money laundering in recent years. The revised law expands the responsible entities from traditional financial institutions to entities related to the digital economy, including banks and payment service providers, telecommunications operators, digital asset trading platforms, and some digital platform service providers. The law stipulates that the above entities must establish risk prevention and control mechanisms; if they fail to fulfill statutory obligations leading to fraud losses, they will bear corresponding civil liability according to law. The law authorizes the police and relevant agencies, upon receiving fraud reports, to quickly coordinate with financial institutions to freeze suspicious bank accounts, suspend abnormal fund transactions, freeze digital asset accounts, and track funds involved in fraud.
Thailand also strengthens regional and international cooperation, joining hands with the international community to combat technology-related cybercrime. Last December, the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) held an international conference on the global partnership against online fraud and adopted the Bangkok Joint Declaration (曼谷联合宣言), proposing to address online fraud as transnational organized crime and jointly build a global online fraud governance system covering prevention, crackdown, asset recovery, and international collaboration, in order to curb the rapid spread of cross-border online fraud.
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Recently, the in-depth investigative documentary Uncovering Unit 731: Japan's Secret Human Experiments produced by Singapore's Channel News Asia has once again torn open and exposed before the world the historical black curtain that the Japanese right wing has attempted to cover up for decades. The film systematically restores the crimes against humanity of the Imperial Japanese Army Unit 731 and also meticulously reveals the inside story of how the biological warfare criminals collectively escaped punishment under the Cold War game.
The documentary crew visited multiple locations such as Harbin, Anda, and Quzhou in China, and traveled to Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore, and other countries for interviews. They conducted on-site visits to the Unit 731 site, the severely affected areas of biological warfare, and the former Allied prisoner-of-war camp sites. They not only interviewed Shimizu Hideo, the only surviving former Unit 731 member in the world who is willing to testify publicly, but also Zhang Rongmei (张荣妹), a Chinese victim of biological warfare, as well as descendants of multiple Allied POW camp victims. The entire film cross-references declassified military archives from various countries with the original medical records of the Japanese military, forming a complete and solid chain of evidence. The narrative is calm yet extremely shocking and persuasive.
The entire documentary once again exposes two indisputable key historical facts: First, under the pretext of biological weapons research, Unit 731 carried out inhumane human experiments such as vivisection, virus inoculation, and heterologous blood transfusion on captured personnel and innocent civilians, committing crimes against humanity that trampled on the bottom line of human civilization. Second, after the end of World War II, the United States, out of geopolitical self-interest during the Cold War, secretly exchanged the experimental data for pardoning the biological warfare criminals, allowing those criminals with blood on their hands to collectively escape legal punishment. This dishonorable transaction became a flaw in the history of international justice that is difficult to erase, and also planted the seeds for the future trend of historical revisionism in Japan. As many viewers commented, the prerequisite for facing the future is to remember history. Crimes against humanity must never be 轻描淡写 (qīng miáo dàn xiě - "lightly sketch, lightly write," to downplay or treat lightly), and historical guilt must never escape judgment.
As the largest and most brutal secret biological warfare unit during World War II, the evil deeds of Unit 731 were far from limited to China's territory. Using Unit 731 as a model, the Japanese military established the Oka Unit 9420 (冈字第9420细菌部队) in Singapore, and from that base spread branches to multiple countries in Southeast Asia, wantonly persecuting countless innocent people as "experimental materials." Moreover, the Japanese military also massively deployed biological weapons on the battlefield and in occupied areas, triggering the spread of deadly infectious diseases such as plague, cholera, and anthrax, causing hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties and leaving wounds on the people of the victimized countries that are difficult to heal. These 板上钉钉 (bǎn shàng dìng dīng - "nail fixed on a board," ironclad) historical facts have in recent years been whitewashed over and over again by Japanese right-wing politicians: they package the notorious Unit 731 as a "unit engaged in health research," engage in historical revisionism, and attempt to overturn the verdict on their aggressive crimes, repeatedly striking at the foundation of regional peace and the bottom line of international justice.
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Tokyo Trial. The fact that a mainstream Singapore media outlet took the initiative to dig deep into the truth about Unit 731 and spread historical facts has particularly important practical significance. The filming and dissemination of this documentary is itself a collective action of international justice forces: to guard the truth of history, uphold the justice of history, examine the conscience of history, and be vigilant against the recurrence of history. The Japanese right wing's 处心积虑 (chǔ xīn jī lǜ - "deliberately plan with all one's heart," to scheme carefully) to smother and cover up this dark history is doomed to be futile, and the whole world will not allow it.
In recent years, irrefutable evidence exposing the crimes of Japanese militarism has been continuously surfacing. The original experimental reports of the Japanese military released by the Exhibition Hall of the Evidence of Crimes Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army (侵华日军第七三一部队罪证陈列馆), the 1940 Japanese Army wartime report recording the "heterologous blood transfusion" experiments disclosed by Kyodo News, and the large amount of evidence of Japanese biological warfare crimes preserved from the 1949 Khabarovsk trial... Each declassified file, each existing site, and each accusation from survivors form an unassailable chain of evidence, puncturing the historical lies painstakingly woven by the Japanese right wing until they are 千疮百孔 (qiān chuāng bǎi kǒng - "a thousand wounds, a hundred holes," riddled with holes).
The dark historical facts of Unit 731 are not only the collective pain of the victimized nations, but also a common anti-war cautionary textbook for all humanity. The international community should jointly urge Japan to thoroughly purge the poison of militarism, and to face up to and deeply reflect on its history of aggression. Only in this way can we truly uphold the bottom line of the post-war international order, safeguard the 来之不易 (lái zhī bù yì - "hard-won," not easily achieved) peace, and ensure that the tragedy of war never repeats itself.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Tokyo, July 27 (Xinhua) -- The spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy in Japan answered reporters' questions on the 27th regarding the announcement by the Japanese side of the indictment of Murata Kōdai (村田晃大), pointing out that this incident exposes the rampant ultra-right-wing ideology and forces within Japan, and that the Japanese side must assume responsibility and give a responsible account to the Chinese side and the international community.
The spokesperson stated that on March 24, an active-duty officer of the Japan Self-Defense Forces trespassed into the Chinese Embassy with a knife, issuing a violent threat to the Chinese side, seriously violating the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, seriously infringing upon China's sovereignty and dignity, and seriously threatening the personal safety of Chinese diplomatic personnel and the security of diplomatic facilities, with an extremely vile nature and impact. The facts of the case are clear and the evidence is conclusive.
The spokesperson said that this incident fully exposes the rampant ultra-right-wing ideology and forces within Japan, the lack of discipline and education among Self-Defense Forces personnel, and also exposes the pernicious influence of the erroneous policies of the Japanese government on major core issues concerning Sino-Japanese relations such as history and Taiwan, becoming the social soil for the growth and harm of new-type militarism (新型军国主义). China strongly urges Japan to earnestly assume responsibility, thoroughly investigate the case as soon as possible, dig deep into the underlying causes, severely punish those involved, prevent the recurrence of such incidents, and give a responsible account to the Chinese side and the international community.
According to a report by NHK on the 27th, regarding the incident in March this year in which an active-duty officer of the Japan Self-Defense Forces trespassed into the Chinese Embassy in Japan with a knife, Japanese prosecutors on the 27th indicted him on charges of trespassing into a building and threatening embassy staff.
The person indicted is Murata Kōdai (村田晃大), a Third Lieutenant of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, aged 24, belonging to the Ebino Garrison (虾野驻屯地) of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force in Miyazaki Prefecture. In March this year, carrying a knife, he climbed over the wall and entered the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo, and was subsequently arrested by police.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Madrid, July 26 – (Reporter Meng Dingbo (孟鼎博)) Wildfires in central Spain continue to spread. According to a report by Spain’s EFE news agency on the 26th, the wildfire in Ávila province has burned approximately 50,000 hectares, making it the largest wildfire on record in Spain.
According to statistics from the Spanish Ministry of the Interior, the wildfires in the central region have cumulatively burned approximately 77,000 hectares of land. Among them, the wildfire in Ávila province has burned about 50,000 hectares, and a large-scale wildfire is also burning in the neighboring province of Toledo. At present, firefighting authorities are working hard to prevent the two fire scenes from merging into one.
At present, the Madrid Autonomous Community, Ávila province, and Toledo province have been most severely affected, with nearly 100,000 people and 46 municipalities affected. In addition, a wildfire that started this weekend in the eastern province of Castellón has affected 18 municipalities, impacting more than 16,000 people.
Javier Ametros, the representative of the Spanish State Meteorological Agency in the Madrid region, said in a previous interview that the fire-affected areas simultaneously experienced temperatures exceeding 30 degrees Celsius, relative air humidity below 30 percent, and wind speeds exceeding 30 kilometers per hour – these are the typical meteorological conditions that firefighting authorities identify as highly conducive to the rapid spread of wildfires.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Tokyo, July 27 (reporters Chen Ze'an, Li Linxin) — A joint memorial service for the deceased in the construction of the Sagami Lake Reservoir (相模湖水库) was held on the 26th at the Sagami Lake Exchange Center (相模湖交流中心) in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. More than 200 people, including officials from China, South Korea, and Japan as well as local residents, attended the event to mourn the laborers from China, the Korean Peninsula, and other places who died during the construction of the Sagami Lake Reservoir.
Kang Xiaolei (康晓雷), Counselor of the Chinese Embassy in Japan, said at the memorial ceremony that the war of aggression against China launched by Japanese militarism brought profound suffering to the Chinese people, and the forced conscription of labor was one of its heinous crimes. The right-wing forces in Japan have been vehemently denying, distorting, and even glorifying the crimes of aggression, pushing for an accelerated transformation of security policy in an offensive direction, and even publicly discussing the revision of the "Three Non-Nuclear Principles" (无核三原则), which has aroused vigilance and strong indignation from the international community, including Asian neighboring countries. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Tokyo Trials, a trial of justice that adjudicated the numerous crimes of Japanese militarism. China is willing to join forces with peace-loving people from all walks of life in Japan to take this opportunity to jointly remember history, safeguard peace, and resolutely oppose the retrogressive and reckless actions that distort history and endanger peace.
Hashimoto Toshiko (桥本登志子), President of the Sagami Lake Reservoir Historical Record Society (相模湖水库历史记录会), expressed the hope that through this event, people can learn about history, especially letting Japanese youth know the history of forced conscription of laborers from China and other countries during the construction of this reservoir.
The Sagami Lake Reservoir is Japan's first multi-purpose artificial lake, constructed from 1940 to 1947. To build the reservoir, Japan successively conscripted 3.6 million person-times of laborers, including nearly 300 Chinese who were forcibly abducted to Japan by the Japanese invading army. Due to extremely harsh working conditions and inhuman abuse, many laborers died during the construction, among whom 28 Chinese laborers who died are recorded by name. Since 1979, Japanese people of insight have held memorial activities every year for the deceased laborers.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 尚凯元
This summer, many French citizens have become more budget-conscious about their holidays. According to a recent consumer survey, in order to control spending, many families have chosen to shorten trips, reduce restaurant consumption, cut back on purchasing souvenirs, and opt more for self-driving, picnicking, or staying with friends and relatives.
As an important engine of French economic growth, household consumption has been under sustained pressure in recent months. Data released by the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies shows that France's household confidence index for June stood at 84, still far below the long-term average, indicating that residents still lack confidence in future income, employment, and purchasing power.
Weak consumption is a microcosm of the slowdown in France's economic growth. The French Ministry of Economy and Finance recently lowered its 2026 economic growth forecast from 0.9% to 0.7%, the second adjustment after a reduction from 1.0% to 0.9% in April this year. This growth projection is also consistent with the forecasts of the International Monetary Fund and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Looking at trends over the past few years, France's economic growth rate has gradually declined from the strong rebound after the COVID-19 pandemic and will hit a new low this year.
The enterprise side presents a situation of uneven performance between hot and cold sectors. The latest data show that France's S&P Global Composite Output Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) preliminary reading for July rose from 47.2 in June to 49.6. The services sector, which constitutes the main body of the French economy, remains in contraction territory, with the July services PMI preliminary reading at 49.8, reflecting persistently weak household consumption and market demand. At the same time, France's July manufacturing PMI preliminary reading was 50.0, still at the boom-bust line. Among these, orders in sectors such as aerospace and military industry have provided some support for industrial production.
In its macroeconomic forecast report released in June, the Bank of France identified rising international energy prices, weaker-than-expected economic performance at the start of the year, slow recovery of household consumption, sluggish corporate investment, and increased uncertainty in international trade and geopolitics as the main reasons for the slowdown in France's economic growth. Among these, rising energy prices have not only pushed up enterprise costs but also suppressed residents' real purchasing power, while tighter corporate financing conditions and insufficient investment willingness have further dragged down the pace of economic recovery.
A report by France's Le Monde argues that the economic slowdown is further weakening the operational foundation of small and medium-sized enterprises. Compared with large enterprises, SMEs are more dependent on the domestic market and have relatively limited financial strength and risk-resistance capacity. Faced with weak domestic demand, many enterprises have begun to try to explore overseas markets, but exports are not their traditional strength, and transformation is not easy.
The economic slowdown is also further compressing the French government's fiscal space. The French Ministry of Economy and Finance stated that the economic slowdown has led to tax revenue growth lower than expected, while the government still needs to continue providing support to industries heavily affected by rising energy prices, putting sustained upward pressure on fiscal expenditure. Currently, the government's original target of controlling the public fiscal deficit at 5% of gross domestic product faces greater challenges.
In its economic outlook released in June, the OECD stated that France's energy structure has improved compared with the past, but the energy shock still has a significant impact on households and industries such as agriculture, fisheries, and road freight. The report recommends that France further accelerate the process of industrial electrification, expand the stock of new energy vehicles, and continue to support energy-saving technology research and development and renewable energy deployment, so as to enhance the economy's ability to withstand future energy shocks. At the same time, raising the employment rate remains key to supporting long-term economic growth. France's employment rate is still below the OECD average, especially the low labor force participation rate among youth and the elderly. The report believes that the vocational education system should be further improved, workers should be prevented from leaving the labor market prematurely, and educational equity should be enhanced, in order to improve the long-term competitiveness of the French economy.
(This newspaper, Paris, July 27)
According to Xinhua News Agency, Tokyo, July 27 (Reporters Li Ziyue and Yang Zhixiang) — Makoto Ito, director of the Constitutional Research Institute of Japan Law School, held a lecture in Tokyo on the 26th, criticizing and questioning the current Japanese government's ongoing expansion of armaments under the name of "defense" and its moves to break through the limits of the pacifist constitution.
In his lecture, Ito said that Japan once carried out indiscriminate bombing and military occupation of China and Southeast Asian countries, causing heavy casualties. In particular, during the Nanjing Massacre, hundreds of thousands of Chinese were brutally killed; Japan also forcibly conscripted and enslaved laborers, implemented the "comfort women" system, and so on. Today, the goal of the current Japanese government's "three security documents" is to "maximize the use of comprehensive national power" to wage war and establish a system that mobilizes all of the nation's strength for war. A series of reforms promoted by the Japanese government around this goal are gradually shifting Japan from a peaceful nation to a military nation.
In an interview with reporters, Ito said that the Japanese government has been expanding its armaments on the pretext of being in the "most severe and complex security environment since the war," but what is truly causing the continuous deterioration of the regional security environment is precisely Japan's own ongoing trend of military expansion.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王昊男
On a summer afternoon, the sun had scorched the ground, and a classroom at the Party School of the CPC Chaoyang District Committee (北京市朝阳区委党校) in Beijing was packed to capacity.
“In urban renewal projects, how can operations be front-loaded?” “In renovating old residential communities, how can residents’ opinions be effectively solicited?” On the podium, experts fired off questions. Below, young cadres from subdistricts and townships, district direct departments, and district-affiliated enterprises in Chaoyang District eagerly raised their hands and engaged in intense discussion. There was no rote recitation of theory; all courses were based on real cases. Every Friday afternoon and Saturday, this scene unfolds at the Chaoyang District “Mars Plan” (火星计划) training camp.
As a major economic district of the capital, facing the real challenges of accelerating industrial iteration and complex urban renewal, in recent years, Chaoyang District has continuously built the “Mars Plan” training camp, breaking down barriers between inside and outside the system, setting no hierarchical thresholds, and exploring new pathways for selecting, cultivating, managing, and deploying young cadres. “We must establish a clear orientation for employing people that values practical work, tangible results, and a sense of responsibility, and cultivate a batch of outstanding young cadres who are 德才兼备 (dé cái jiān bèi – “have both virtue and talent,” possessing both moral integrity and professional competence), daring to innovate, and willing to take responsibility,” said Wu Xiaojie (吴小杰), Secretary of the CPC Chaoyang District Committee.
不拘一格 (bù jū yī gé – “not limited to one pattern,” unconstrained by convention), pick out the “good seedlings.”
Unlike traditional training, the camp first broke some rules and restrictions, recruiting young cadres born after 1990 from the entire district, regardless of background or rank, as long as they had passion for their work and pursuit of professionalism, they could sign up voluntarily.
“This ‘open audition’ mechanism stimulated the initiative of young cadres, allowing many potentially good ‘good seedlings’ who were usually unknown to 脱颖而出 (tuō yǐng ér chū – “poke head out of the bag,” to stand out from the crowd),” said Ren Chao (任超), Member of the Standing Committee and Director of the Organization Department of the CPC Chaoyang District Committee (朝阳区委组织部). Participating in the training camp is not only a ‘recharge’ of ability, but also a ‘tempering’ of work style.
Compared with last year, this year’s camp recruitment mechanism was further optimized, adopting a dual-channel model of “unit recommendation + personal self-recommendation”: the professional group targeted recruited section- and division-level cadres born after 1985 from 43 subdistricts and townships and urban renewal business departments; the interest group continued the open concept, setting no threshold for young cadres born after 1990. Each candidate was selected through multiple rounds of preliminary screening and expert panel interviews, ensuring precise allocation of high-quality resources.
“Without a clear positioning, construction investment is easily blind; if investment attraction only chases what is popular, it is easy to lack overall consideration…” Targeting the operational pain points in urban renewal, Meng Yunyun (孟芸芸), founder of Beijing Chrysanthemum Spring Commercial Management Consulting Co., Ltd. (北京雏菊春天商业管理咨询有限公司), standing on the podium, directly hit the root causes through multiple case studies, generously sharing the practical experience accumulated over many years.
“Everything taught is about things around us; everything taught is methods for solving problems,” said Zhang Yu (张瑀), a young cadre from Beijing Chaoyang Urban Development Group (北京朝阳城市发展集团). Such courses are easy to understand, directly hit daily work pain points, and help fill the shortcomings of insufficient grassroots experience.
Opening the curriculum, this year’s camp closely revolves around the theme of urban renewal: how to renovate old residential communities? How to revitalize industrial space? How to operate public space? How to preserve historical culture? These questions are broken down into practical topics such as planning assessment, asset calculation, space renovation, selection of business types, consultation with residents, and long-term operation and maintenance.
The allocation of teaching resources also broke conventions: planning experts lectured on top-level design methodology, experienced entrepreneurs shared gains and losses from frontline operations, district leaders interpreted the regional development blueprint, and subdistrict and township party secretaries passed on “local remedies” for grassroots work. The assessment stage was also unconventional, innovatively introducing a market-oriented evaluation mechanism, giving part of the scoring power to entrepreneurs and experts, with a focus on examining trainees’ market vision and service awareness.
“Trainees not only have to attend lectures, but also conduct site surveys, discuss projects, and ultimately return to the front line with solutions,” said Han Shanshan (韩珊珊), Deputy Director of the Organization Department of the CPC Chaoyang District Committee. The training camp draws on the MBA (Master of Business Administration) curriculum system, adopts a progressive training model of “general knowledge empowerment + actual combat drills,” and implements dynamic screening throughout the entire process.
Actual combat empowers, train out the “true skills.”
After a summer rain, Sun Huiying (孙慧颖), a post-90s cadre at Jiuxianqiao Subdistrict (酒仙桥街道), carrying a satchel, plunged into the old industrial park in the subdistrict. This was once the cradle of Beijing’s famous electronics industry, and is now undergoing the pains of transformation into an optical intelligence space.
Severe industrial homogenization, lack of core competitiveness; prominent resource silos between buildings, zero synergy effects; severe shortage of parking spaces, heavy congestion during morning and evening peak hours; dirty and messy public environment, difficulty attracting high-end talent… In a few days, Sun Huiying’s steps covered every building in the park, and her list of problems grew longer and longer.
“Planning coordination, building construction, operation management, coordination and communication must be promoted as a whole.” Sun Huiying tried to apply the new ideas learned in the training camp to solve difficult problems.
The problem list was promptly transformed into a rectification ledger: issues that could be immediately addressed were coordinated and implemented right away; those requiring scientific demonstration were included in the subdistrict’s agenda; complex issues involving the entire district level triggered a joint tackling mechanism. “In the past, I felt it was difficult because I only focused on my own 一亩三分地 (yī mǔ sān fēn dì – “one mu three fen of land,” one’s own small turf), lacking systematic thinking,” Sun Huiying admitted. “Now I have learned to ‘do puzzles’ and understand how to find solutions within the overall development of the district.”
Such a “flavor of actual combat” permeates the entire training camp. Trainees are no longer just listeners sitting in the audience, but also “chief managers” running on the front line.
As the capital’s advertising industry highland, in 2025 Chaoyang District had 740 advertising enterprises above designated size, accounting for more than 60% of Beijing’s total. Facing the regulatory challenges posed by new business forms such as livestream e-commerce and AI (artificial intelligence) advertising, Ren Jiao (任娇), a trainee from the first batch and section chief of the Advertisement Supervision and Administration Section of the Chaoyang District Market Regulation Bureau (朝阳区市场监管局), once felt a sense of capability panic. “How to find a balance between regulation and service? At that time, I really felt at a loss.”
“Regulation is the bottom line, service is the background.” A change in thinking opened up new horizons. Ren Jiao and her colleagues immediately linked up with the Development and Reform Commission, Taxation Bureau, Culture and Tourism Bureau, and other departments as well as leading enterprises in the industry, creating the “Chaoguang · Zhihui” industry salon, and innovatively establishing a normalized mechanism of “one salon per month.” On this platform, cadres and enterprise representatives sit together, discuss demands, talk about pain points, and seek solutions. Relying on this mechanism, she also took the lead in compiling Beijing’s first compliance guidelines for medical beauty advertising, promoting the transformation of regulatory work from passive response to active service.
“The blade is sharpened on a stone; a person is tempered in affairs.” Ren Chao said, “There is no shortcut for the growth of young cadres; only by experiencing wind and rain and seeing the world can they strengthen their bones and grow their abilities.” By moving the classroom to the field, young cadres have forged ‘broad shoulders’ in project tackling and tempered ‘true skills’ in solving practical problems.
Data shows: In 2025, the 158 trainees of the first training camp submitted 77 pain point reports and 25 industry advice reports, attracting and settling 24 enterprises with a total registered capital of over 240 million yuan.
Practical orientation, let the “thousand-li horses” run.
Training is selection; the arena produces good generals. “I really did not expect that after the training ended, my position would also be adjusted.” Sun Wantong (孙婉童), born in 2001, was the youngest trainee in the first camp. Previously working at the District Science and Technology Association, she has now taken up a new post at the Zhongguancun Chaoyang Park Management Committee (中关村朝阳园管委会).
“In the past, identifying talent often relied on unit recommendations and individual interview assessments; now, selecting people focuses on actual combat performance and practical results,” Han Shanshan introduced. In the training camp, the classroom is the arena; every survey, every investment negotiation, every team collaboration becomes a window for the organization department to examine cadres’ political quality and professional ability.
Starting from scratch to polish a business plan, taking the lead in connecting with more than 10 science and technology innovation enterprises, working with teammates to promote three enterprises to settle… Based on her performance in the training camp, after the training ended Sun Wantong was transferred to the Enterprise Service Division of the Zhongguancun Chaoyang Park Management Committee, participating in the special task force for the international science and technology organization headquarters cluster area. “The training camp not only improved my skills but also helped me discover my potential,” she said.
Sun Wantong’s growth is not an isolated case. Li Yuxin (李雨新) was formerly Deputy Director of the Nanmofang Township (Area) Market Regulation Office (南磨房乡（地区）市场监管所) of the Chaoyang District Market Regulation Bureau. Leveraging his audit and accounting professional background and systematic industrial thinking demonstrated in the training camp, he achieved the highest overall score in the first camp, transforming from a frontline backbone of market regulation to an industrial service expert in the Comprehensive Office of Olympic Village Subdistrict (奥运村街道综合办公室). “Through the platform of the training camp, the organization saw my abilities, and I also realized my personal career aspirations.”
Use training to identify people, use training to cultivate people, use training to deploy people. Based on the observation situation following the training camp, Chaoyang District comprehensively considered cadres’ learning experience background, professional quality, and development potential, advancing “four batches”: supplement a batch to industrial departments, reassign a batch to economic positions, exchange a batch between industrial departments, and train a batch on the market front line. Currently, more than half of the first batch of trainees have taken up new work positions through promotion, rotation, or temporary assignment.
With the deepening of the 2026 “Mars Plan,” this cultivation model is continuously being upgraded. The whole-process performance of trainees in theoretical study, field research, teamwork, and project implementation will be aggregated through big data methods into a precise “growth portrait.”
“We will make every effort to build bridges and pave roads for the growth of cadres, deepen the whole-chain linkage of selection, cultivation, management, and deployment, truly let those who act have positions, let those who are capable move up, and allow young cadres to be tempered into steel in frontline ‘actual combat,’” said Wu Xiaojie.
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Adhering to comprehensive and strict governance of the Party (全面从严治党) is an important aspect of Xi Jinping's thought on Party building's "fourteen adherences (十四个坚持)" and is the strategic policy for Party building in the new era. In December 2014, during an inspection tour in Jiangsu, General Secretary Xi Jinping first proposed "comprehensive and strict governance of the Party." Over the past ten-plus years, the practice of managing and governing the Party has deepened step by step. Looking back on the journey, one increasingly grasps the profound meaning of the word "comprehensive."
Comprehensiveness manifests 一以贯之 (yī yǐ guàn zhī - "to thread through consistently," consistent sobriety and resolve).
In the first year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," a study and education campaign to establish and practice a correct view of performance achievements is being carried out across the Party.
To whatever stage the cause of the Party and the people develops, the management and governance of the Party follows to that stage. "Focusing on strengthening oneself, always full of vitality" is an excellent trait of our Party, and moreover an inherent requirement for shouldering the mission.
Looking back on 105 years of 峥嵘岁月 (zhēng róng suì yuè - "eventful years," glorious and arduous history), General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out in his important speech on July 1, "Our Party is soberly aware that to forge iron, one must be strong oneself, and is adept at examining itself in light of the requirements of the times, alerting itself with a strong sense of urgency, and perfecting itself with the spirit of self-reform."
To run China's affairs well, the key lies in the Party, the key lies in upholding the Party's self-governance and comprehensive and strict governance of the Party. Today, we are closer to the goal of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation than at any time in history. The more so, the more we must 居安思危 (jū ān sī wēi - "dwell in peace, think of danger," to be vigilant in times of peace) and temper ourselves.
Prefixing "comprehensive" before "strict governance of the Party" means governing the entire Party, managing the entire Party, leaving no dead ends, leaving no blind spots; it means persistently upholding the strict tone, strict measures, and strict atmosphere over the long term, making our Party increasingly mature, increasingly strong, increasingly combat-effective, and always the strong leading core.
Comprehensiveness contains the scientific thinking of systematic planning.
Persisting in advancing in an integrated manner the deterrence of corruption, the prevention of corruption, and the aversion to corruption (不敢腐、不能腐、不想腐) is the basic policy of the anti-corruption struggle. Earlier this year, at the fifth plenary session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, General Secretary Xi Jinping again put forward requirements, "We must make greater efforts in integrated advancement."
The concept of system is the methodology inherent in Chinese Communists. Our Party, as a Marxist party in long-term governance, with its lofty goals and historical mission, the huge scale and wide distribution of its membership, and the major risks and severe challenges it faces, determines that only by comprehensively and strictly governing the Party in an overall rather than partial manner, systematically rather than fragmentarily, persistently rather than transiently, and with high standards rather than in a general way, can we build our Party well.
Nowadays, whether it is the "5+2" overall layout of Party building in the new era, or a series of specific practices such as grasping Party spirit, Party conduct, and Party discipline together, and simultaneously investigating and treating misconduct and corruption, everywhere one sees the wisdom of systematic governance and 标本兼治 (biāo běn jiān zhì - "treat both symptoms and root causes," addressing both symptoms and root causes).
Improving the system for comprehensive and strict governance of the Party is an even more important measure proposed by the 20th Party Congress to strengthen Party building in the new era. On the eve of July 1, 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping made important deployments in five aspects. This systematic construction will surely continuously deepen comprehensive and strict governance of the Party.
Comprehensiveness is grounded in the fundamental orientation of serving the overall situation.
Comprehensive and strict governance of the Party is a key link in the "Four Comprehensives" strategic layout, leading and ensuring the development of the cause.
Take for example the reduction of burdens at the grassroots level: continuously rectifying formalism, the mountain of documents and sea of meetings have decreased, filling out forms and reporting numbers have decreased, welcoming and seeing off have decreased, and grassroots cadres have more time and energy to focus on implementation and seek development, "with good work style to invigorate spirit, stimulate morale, establish image, and win people's hearts."
Over the past ten-plus years, the entire Party has become more united and unified, 步调一致 (bù diào yī zhì - "march in step," act in unison) marching forward; Party members and cadres have straightened out their thinking methods, and boosted their spirit for undertaking work and starting businesses; stubborn and chronic diseases have been corrected and treated, and clean and upright atmosphere has become more abundant... What this brings is the continuous enhancement of the Party's political leadership, ideological guidance, mass organization, and social appeal, and our overcoming one difficulty after another and winning one tough battle after another.
"The more effective the management and governance of the Party, the more powerful the guarantee for economic and social development." Anchoring the Party's mission and tasks on the new journey of the new era, we strengthen our confidence, continue our struggle, and 持之以恒 (chí zhī yǐ héng - "persist in it with constancy," persevere unremittingly) advance comprehensive and strict governance of the Party.
Return to Top"Our village's collective economic income mainly comes from the rent of collective houses. In the past two years, rent collection has become increasingly difficult, and there are also village cadres who are in arrears on rent..." Previously, when staff from the Office of Party Conduct and Government Integrity Supervision (党风政风监督室) of the Jizhou District Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision of Tianjin (天津市蓟州区纪委监委) went to a certain village in Yuyang Town (渔阳镇) for research, some villagers reported this.
The Jizhou District Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision immediately established a verification team to conduct an investigation, obtaining the village's collective house lease contracts and rent receipts and other vouchers, and checked the rent collection situation one by one. After verification, Yang Mou (杨某), a former member of the village two committees (村两委), and a few individual villagers had been in arrears on collective rent for many years, totaling nearly one million yuan.
Faced with the evidence, Yang Mou paid the rent that had been in arrears for many years. Because Yang Mou's long-term arrears of village collective rent caused serious adverse effects, Guo Mou (郭某), the former village Party branch secretary and former village committee director, also failed to actively take effective measures in the process of recovering the village collective rent and did not fulfill his duties with due diligence. Both received corresponding Party disciplinary action.
The discipline enforcer says: Consciously abiding by the Party's discipline and exemplary compliance with the country's laws and regulations are the duties that Party members should fulfill. As a cadre of the village two committees, Yang Mou should have played a vanguard and exemplary role, taking the lead in abiding by discipline and law, but he deliberately defaulted on village collective rent for many years, causing serious adverse effects among the masses. The vast number of Party members and cadres should enhance their awareness of integrity and self-discipline, deeply recognizing that the power in their hands is to serve the masses, and is by no means a "talisman" for enjoying privileges.
(Reported by Li Jiading (李家鼎), our staff reporter)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 吴齐强 贺林平
It is another rainy summer. Zhonghe Village (中和村), located in the mountainous area of Guizi Town (贵子镇), Xinyi City (信宜市), Maoming, Guangdong, is shrouded in clouds and mist for most of each day. Village Party branch secretary and village committee director Liu Mingfang (刘名芳), wearing rain boots, patrols in rotation with village cadres, going door to door to publicize, “During the flood season, heavy rainfall is frequent, and it is also summer vacation; flood prevention is a major matter.”
On a stormy night last June, Liu Mingfang and town and village cadres jointly rescued the lives of 57 villagers from 25 households, which went viral online and was praised by netizens as a “textbook-level” evacuation. This year on July 1, she received the title of National Outstanding Communist Party Member (全国优秀共产党员), and recently she was selected as a “Touching China 2025 Person of the Year” (感动中国2025年度人物).
“If not for Secretary Liu, the consequences would have been unimaginable (bùkān shèxiǎng - “cannot bear to imagine,” disastrous)!” said Cao Jinghu (曹景湖), one of the 57 villagers, his eyes reddening. As he spoke, the thrilling scene of that rainy night replayed in everyone’s minds.
On June 14, 2025, Typhoon “Butterfly” swept through western Guangdong with torrential rain. Cadres at all levels in Maoming city, county, town, and village were on duty 24 hours a day, strictly guarding and resolutely defending. At 0:42 on the morning of June 15, Liu Mingfang, then still a village committee member and village women’s federation chair, patrolled in the rain to Lian’er Natural Village (联二自然村) of Zhonghe Village and discovered an anomaly: “A large amount of yellow muddy water was flowing down, very fast, and mixed with many small stones; stepping on them hurt the feet.”
Liu Mingfang immediately recalled the knowledge she had learned during routine disaster prevention and mitigation training: “This phenomenon is very likely a precursor to a mudslide or landslide.” Thinking of this, she dared not delay for a moment and immediately reported the situation to then village Party branch secretary Cao Musheng (曹木生) and the stationed Guizi Town deputy mayor Liu Chunhua (刘春华). Immediately afterward, more than 20 town and village cadres quickly assembled and, within just two hours, safely transferred all 57 villagers from 25 households in three natural villages—Lian’er, Lianyi (联一自然村), and Tianliao (田寮自然村)—to a shelter.
Less than an hour later, with a loud crash, about 5,000 cubic meters of earth and rock cascaded down the hillside. Thirty-five houses were damaged, but no one was injured. Afterwards, this successful early warning and rescue was vividly described by outsiders as a “textbook-level” evacuation.
In response, Liu Mingfang said calmly, “It was everyone’s joint effort. If you insist on saying what I did, it is also the result of continuous learning under the organization’s cultivation over these years.”
Liu Mingfang is a “daughter-in-law from outside” who married into Zhonghe Village in 2001 and began working in the village committee in 2018. Newly arrived (chū lái zhà dào - “just come, just arrived,” a newcomer), the primary difficulty was the language barrier. “Our village speaks Hakka. Although Fang Jie’s hometown is not far away, the two are completely different language families. Unexpectedly, within half a year of arriving, she could already converse with everyone without obstacles,” the villagers praised one after another.
In a disaster-prone area like Xinyi, disaster prevention and mitigation are almost essential skills for all village cadres. “The first time was in 2018, just after I passed the exam to become a candidate village cadre, when I attended classes at the Municipal Party Committee School (市委党校). Experts on the ‘three defenses’ (三防 - flood prevention, drought prevention, wind prevention) explained item by item with diagrams, and there were also animated demonstrations—very easy to understand,” Liu Mingfang recalled. Over the years, she has never missed a single “three defenses” training session in the village, conducting pre-rain inspections, mid-rain patrols, and post-rain checks, putting what she learned into practice.
In recent years, Liu Mingfang has paid for further studies on her own and obtained an on-the-job undergraduate degree. In her actual work, she increasingly feels that practice is the best teacher. As a village cadre, seeing left-behind elderly people who cannot use smartphones or make online payments, she teaches them hand by hand; when there are conflicts between neighbors, she goes to mediate. “As a village cadre, you can encounter all kinds of people; you have to solve problems from different perspectives.”
Once, two households clashed over a drainage ditch issue. One side misunderstood the compensation plan and was scolded so harshly by the other that they could not retort, and in a huff they ran to the village committee. Liu Mingfang, on one hand, calmed their emotions from the villager’s perspective; on the other hand, she opened her phone to look up policy details. Only after the villager’s anger subsided did she explain the policies one by one based on facts and reason, successfully persuading the masses.
Now, Liu Mingfang serves as the Party branch secretary and village committee director of Zhonghe Village. “The burden is heavier, the work is busier, and there is more to learn. After last year’s incident, I realized that for Communist Party members to play a vanguard and exemplary role, they cannot do without their own advanced nature. Lifelong learning is a necessary way to maintain advanced nature,” she said. “When I first became village Party branch secretary, I participated in training at the Municipal Party Committee School. The more I learn, the more I feel that learning has no end (xué wú zhǐ jìng - “learning has no boundary,” knowledge is infinite).”
In February this year, the Guangdong Provincial Lifelong Learning Platform for All (广东全民终身学习平台) was launched. All courses on the platform are free, and they can be viewed by opening the WeChat mini-program. “I have watched the series of micro-courses on the topic of grassroots governance more than once. Governing a village and dealing with the masses are all real examples,” Liu Mingfang said. “Taking time to listen and think is very inspiring for work. The more you learn, the more methods you have.”
The skills improvement section is also a focus of hers, with very practical courses on rural e-commerce, vegetable cultivation, livestock and poultry farming, etc. “I take the lead in learning first, understanding new policies and new models, and then lead everyone to improve their skills together, to increase income and become prosperous together.” Looking toward the green mountains opposite, her eyes are full of anticipation.
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Return to TopBy: 谢有顺
Experience is vivid, and it is also powerful. The acquisition of experience comes from the creator’s observation and experience with 肉眼凡胎 (ròu yǎn fán tāi - “mortal eyes and ordinary body,” ordinary human perception). What some people consider a depletion of material is in fact a decline in our willingness and ability to capture, understand, and deepen experience.
In the digital age of surging information, “experience,” the ancient cornerstone of literary and artistic creation, seems to be undergoing devaluation. By roaming the world through the internet and knowing everything without leaving home, this convenience, while narrowing cognitive gaps, also dilutes the concentration of direct experience. Many creators feel that stories capable of making readers’ hearts race and souls tremble are becoming fewer, and readers’ emotional ignition points are rising ever higher. Is this really the case?
The distant is no longer distant, yet experience falls into a cycle of homogenization. German literary theorist Walter Benjamin, in The Storyteller, proposed the devaluation of experience. He traced two ancient archetypes of storytellers — the farmer who stays put in his village and the sailor who travels the world. The former knows local legends and tales, the latter brings stories from afar; together they shaped a sense of distance in both space and time. But by Benjamin’s own era, the rise of journalism had made “the distant” disappear; people cared only about things close at hand, and that collective experience accumulated through oral transmission, with its edifying function, was replaced by the immediacy and fragmentation of information.
Nearly a century later, we seem to be experiencing an upgraded version of the devaluation of experience. Short videos make everyone a “sailor”; with a swipe of a finger, one can reach the other side of the world. Algorithmic recommendations make all “distant places” no longer distant, yet experience thereby falls into a cycle of homogenization. Everyone can “see” everything, and “seeing” itself loses its weight.
The unexpected popularity of the film The Love Letter to Grandma offers us another revelation. This dialect film, performed by amateurs, does not deliberately tug at heartstrings, rejects dramatic conflict; people meeting in old age speak of everyday matters, caring for each other yet holding back their feelings. Its warm reception shows that what is devalued is not experience itself, but that secondhand experience built from formulaic clichés and algorithmically woven patterns. Writing about the workplace becomes scheming in cubicles; writing about emotions becomes the cliché reversals of short videos; characters are merely “mouthpieces” for netizens, and plots are mostly repeatedly designed “thrill points” and “pain points.” This secondhand experience is smooth, spectacle-like, like plastic flowers — bright to look at but lifeless. But that kind of experience writing that is done with reverence, willing to take root in life, to spend years polishing a detail, to understand a soul — that has not devalued.
The power of experience is also the power of existence. Experience is vivid, and it is also powerful. Especially the acquisition of an experience with a sense of pain is often not the result of rational thought, but comes from the creator’s observation and experience with “mortal eyes and ordinary body.” The emergence of amateur writing in recent years shows that starting from the most familiar and most felt experience around oneself has always been one of the effective ways for literature to gain a sense of reality.
Marx said: “Man affirms himself in the objective world not only through thought, but with all his senses.” Embodied experience gained from firsthand involvement is a special kind of writing resource. Wang Jibing (王计兵) delivers food, Hu An’an (胡安焉) delivers parcels, Fan Yusu (范雨素) works as a domestic helper, Yingzi (瑛子) does cleaning, Chen Hui (陈慧) runs a stall, Chen Nianxi (陈年喜) is a mine blaster. They write only about their day-to-day lives; emotions and details continuously settle and crystallize within a single experience. When experience becomes “saturated,” some faces we were previously unfamiliar with begin to grow vivid and sharp. This kind of roughness, directness, and sincerity originating from the truth of life itself is precisely what no literary technique or elaborate rhetoric can replace. It re-polishes the luster of “experience” in writing and proves that writing from feeling remains the most fundamental truth of writing.
The power of experience is also the power of existence. Many creators of the new mass literature and art rely on the power of experience to move readers. It leads us to understand those silent lives. For every “I,” there are that many possibilities. What some people consider a depletion of material is in fact a decline in our willingness and ability to capture, understand, and deepen experience. Wu Keyan (吴可彦), a blind writer, says, “Plunge into the mud and write literature that scrambles and crawls.” That word “plunge” is precisely what many professional creators today lack.
But we must also be vigilant: when “amateur” becomes a label and “amateur writing” becomes a genre, the uniqueness of experience can also become a formula. True amateur writing cannot be satisfied merely with recording personal experience; it must examine the small narrative of personal joys and sorrows against the coordinates of the era, reflecting the life panorama of a generation through the ups and downs of one individual’s fate. It is not that I write poetry because I am a food delivery worker, but that I have life experience to express. A miner’s poem is stunning not because he writes about the darkness of the mine shaft, but because he writes about human dignity and radiance in extreme circumstances.
Open yourself to life; do not rush to harvest. The advantage of amateur authors lies in the vividness of their experience; their shortcoming is that experience sometimes appears too closed — writing too “concretely” easily becomes a mere log; writing too “self-centeredly” makes it hard to empathize with readers. How to transform personal experience into universal experience, achieving a leap from “I” to “we,” is a key step in keeping writing from being trapped in specific experience.
This requires consciously infusing experience with the power of form. The same diary of a cleaner can be a dull log or a poetic discovery; the same parenting experience can be a complaining outpouring or a tension-filled narrative. Conscious use of form is the necessary path for turning experience from “material” into “art,” and it is also a reflection on experience. Reflecting on experience does not mean making creators distance themselves from experience, but rather keeping creators awake within experience.
In the era of short videos, everyone is a potential “storyteller,” and every 15-second clip competes for the audience’s attention. The intuitiveness and immediacy of images are hard for text to match. When “experience” can be presented in a more direct, more vivid, and more sensorily impactful way, what is the value of text?
This is precisely where the power of text needs to be re-recognized and cherished. The “truth” of short videos often stops at instant sensory impact and momentary emotional resonance; they mostly show “what is” and rarely ask “why” or “what it means.” The “truth” of text, on the other hand, lies in its ability to penetrate appearances and reach the inner heart. It records not only the blazing heat of welding sparks suddenly bursting open, but also the focused solitude and imagination for the future beneath that heat; it depicts not only chapped hands, but the days and hardships those hands have caressed. The value of literary experience does not lie in competing with images for speed and intuitiveness of presentation, but in weaving individual, fragmented experiences into a more enduring spiritual genealogy of humanity through contemplation and empathy.
Experience slowly ferments in the writer’s heart, then summons forth more content that has not yet been clarified or experienced. Therefore, starting from experience requires a patience that opens itself to life without rushing to harvest; and so-called transcending experience means mobilizing those dormant memories, letting them collide, merge, and sublimate, ultimately arriving not at a flat narration of personal experience, but at a resonant narrative capable of connecting individual fate with the human condition. When this kind of experience, which retains historical weight and the memory of the era, begins to speak, it says not “I,” but “we”; not “this moment,” but “all the moments that once were.” True writing should begin from here.
(The author is a professor at the Chinese Department of Sun Yat-sen University.)
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The summer of animated films has arrived once again as promised. This summer vacation, there are more than ten animated films that have been released or scheduled. The screening halls with quite high occupancy rates, the 流光溢彩 (liú guāng yì cǎi - “flowing light and overflowing color,” brilliant and dazzling) screens, and the laughter of adults and children around all make one feel the good popularity and high appeal of animated films. Although evaluations of popular films vary and box office results differ, animated films undoubtedly deserve to be called the heat driver of the summer season.
In 2015, Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage exploded the market, and domestic animation has since 异军突起 (yì jūn tū qǐ - “a different army suddenly rises,” a new force suddenly emerging) in the summer season. In 2019, Ne Zha: Birth of the Demon Child once again ignited, pushing the ceiling of domestic animation to an unprecedented height with 5 billion yuan in box office. In the following years, summer season animation became a 兵家必争之地 (bīng jiā bì zhēng zhī dì - “a place every strategist must contend for,” a fiercely contested arena). Chang'an: 30,000 Li proved that cultural serious drama could also become a box office champion, while Little Monster of Langlang Mountain won strong empathy from young people with its compact classic retelling.
The 老少咸宜 (lǎo shào xián yí - “old and young both suitable,” suitable for all ages) animation language, the story content that evokes cultural DNA, the aesthetic pursuit of Chinese-style artistic conception, and the visual spectacle brought by technological iteration… The accumulated experience and advantages of domestic animated films have been inherited and reflected in this year’s summer season films.
The Eight Immortals! tells the story of the Eight Immortals from a new perspective. The journey of ordinary people practicing chivalry and protecting the common people is tortuous and vivid. The work’s narrative is layered with nested structures and multiple reversals; its comedic expression is skilled and smooth, with jokes spaced appropriately, suitable for audiences of all ages. The creators flexibly draw from classic Chinese and foreign film and television works and popular culture elements, forming an intertextual comedic effect while displaying a cultural confidence that is 兼容并蓄 (jiān róng bìng xù - “inclusive and accommodating,” embracing diverse elements). Three Kingdoms Part 1: Fight for Luoyang continues Light Chaser Animation’s industrial exploration of Chinese historical themes, presenting the epic quality of the late Eastern Han dynasty. The film builds on the production accumulation of Chang'an: 30,000 Li, rigorously researching the forms and structures of Han dynasty architecture, clothing, and artifacts. The scene of Luoyang’s city walls is grand and delicate; the camera choreography and martial arts movements in the segment of the Three Heroes fighting Lü Bu are smooth and sharp, and the battlefield slaughter has a sense of spectacle that live-action film and television cannot match.
The path that domestic animation has traveled is reflected both in the integration of experience in cultural sourcing, character shaping, and scene rendering, and in the support of animation technology and the animation industry. Some commentators point out that the main production team of The Eight Immortals! had no prior experience independently controlling an animated feature film; that their debut work can deliver such high quality benefits from the increasingly mature domestic animation industrial chain. The birthplace of The Eight Immortals!, the Chengdu High-tech Zone, gathers more than 6,000 enterprises related to the digital cultural and creative industry, and once nurtured the “Ne Zha” series of films, providing a rich industrial foundation for animation production.
Equally 耐人寻味 (nài rén xún wèi - “enduring to be savored,” thought-provoking) is that young audiences are growing up together with animated films. “The progress of domestic animation is visible to the naked eye.” On the one hand, young people comment on works 如数家珍 (rú shǔ jiā zhēn - “like counting family treasures,” with great familiarity and detail); on the other hand, they do not hesitate to point out technical flaws and criticize narrative shortcomings. In the comment section of Three Kingdoms Part 1: Fight for Luoyang, one comment directly stated that the work’s skill in “using film to tell a story” was insufficient; the vast historical background and numerous characters and events were not cleverly structured into the story, so the story was pushed along by historical facts. At the same time, a highly upvoted comment said: “Please keep going, wait for Part Two.” This is not shielding shortcomings; it is that the audience understands from the heart that if domestic animated films can successfully run through the path of historical culture, then great works and good works will surely appear.
In the coming summer season, there will also be animated films such as the ancient-style detective-themed Tang Dynasty Demon Detective and Go to Your Island, adapted from a viral online novel. From classic IPs, historical romances to strange tales and legends, new mythological adaptations, and then to suspense detective stories and fantasy romance, the genre track of animated films is becoming increasingly diverse. One new work after another is a deep excavation into Chinese culture, aesthetics, and artistic traditions, and is also seeking new interfaces between traditional cultural veins and contemporary life, seeking new intersections between the audiovisual technology revolution and the aesthetic tastes of the times.
Sitting on the IP of Chinese culture, mining the rich mine of more than 5,000 years of history, facing contemporary life, let us see how animated films will 八仙过海，各显神通 (bā xiān guò hǎi, gè xiǎn shén tōng - “the Eight Immortals cross the sea, each showing their own magic powers,” each using their own unique abilities to achieve a common goal).
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The literary lineage of the Two Song dynasties (Northern and Southern Song) originates in lyric poetry, overflows into painting, and condenses into artifacts. Song ci (lyric poetry) does not adhere to rigid formal rules; its value lies in matching musical modes. Song painting does not prize formal likeness; its value lies in expressing the mind. Song ware does not pursue intricate carving; its value lies in plain simplicity. The dance drama Li Qingzhao created by the Shanghai Dance Troupe deeply captures these three points. This work once served as the opening production of the 23rd China Shanghai International Arts Festival, was invited to perform at key events such as Hong Kong's "Chinese Culture Festival 2025," and recently had a public run at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, receiving acclaim. The piece uses dance to recreate the restrained grace and clear fortitude, the melancholy and the lofty spirit of Li Qingzhao and her ci poetry. As the curtain rises, after rain the clouds disperse; in the sky-blue of a vast, clear sky, a dancer in plain white robes slowly walks out from the depths of light and shadow, simultaneously raising wide sleeves as if to embrace the clear breeze, gradually unfolding the humanistic foundation of the Two Song dynasties.
The work selects fifteen of Li Qingzhao's classic ci poems familiar to the world to unfold its narrative, discarding cluttered plotlines and focusing on presenting Li Qingzhao's unique spiritual world. For example, "Rouged Lips" (点绛唇) reveals a young girl's clear and bright heart; "Slow Slow Song" (声声慢) expresses the sorrow of a chaotic era; "Pride of the Fisherman" (渔家傲) displays the transcendent realm of her later years. The breathing, lifting and sinking, and rhythmic movements of classical dance all change according to the character's emotions and spirit. The life experiences contained in the fifteen ci poems are conveyed through the dancers' bending and rising, striking the heart directly through the rhythm of the body.
The deeper mission of a humanistic dance drama is to create a dialogue between the spiritual world of the ancients and the hearts of modern people. Li Qingzhao's literary talent was 冠绝一代 (guàn jué yī dài - "unrivaled in her generation"). As a woman, her independent spirit that transcended her era is described by contemporary audiences as a "strong female lead" and "role model for women." The dance drama does not create a perfect idol or a "historical specimen"; it does not avoid Li Qingzhao's life hardships and emotional disappointments. The body conveys the character's struggles, and what the audience sees is their own circumstances. Her circumstances connect ancient and present; her emotions span time and space.
The dance drama adopts the Song-style aesthetics of "freehand brushwork — leaving blank space — entrusting emotion," especially manifested in the stage's object arrangements and "investigating things to observe the mind" (格物观心) — using physical objects to express the emotions of the characters in the play. For example, the changing of vases of flowers on the desk and the curling incense smoke symbolize the emptiness of passing time; the third act's set is simple, plain, and elegant — tables, chairs, desks, Ru ware (汝窑) plum blossom cups, latticed windows and winding corridors — creating boundless meaning beyond the image. The projections construct three layers of deep space; horizontal panning simulates slowly unrolling a scroll; plain screens and sparse shadows fully capture the beauty of the 虚实相生 (xū shí xiāng shēng - "the interplay of void and solid," a principle of Chinese painting) in Song painting. Li Qingzhao and Zhao Mingcheng stand within the painted scene; a solitary wild goose in drifting snow, the sequence of stars changing — myriad emotions are slowly generated through the objects. This kind of object-based narrative forms a new national-style aesthetic that integrates characters, artifacts, painting, color tones, scenery, and dance into one. The entire production also adds scenes of intangible cultural heritage rolling lanterns (滚灯), street vendors, and girls reading and playing, harmonizing the reclusive literary mind with worldly true feelings. Most importantly, the dance drama takes the sky-blue glaze of Ru kiln (汝窑) as its aesthetic foundation; the ice-crackle patterns born from kiln-fire tempering express Li Qingzhao's resilience in life. The denser the crackle, the stronger the porcelain's bone — using this as a metaphor for Yi'an's (Li Qingzhao's style name) life: gold and stone scattered, worldly roads battered, just like the cracks on the porcelain body — far from diminishing its charm, they instead reveal a solitary, lofty, and upright character.
Currently, almost every dance drama has a lively curtain-call dance segment to gain traction on social media. Li Qingzhao's curtain call, however, is quiet and still, allowing the audience to immerse themselves in Yi'an's ci poetry, life, and aspirations, and to savor a lingering aftertaste.
Return to TopBy: 张 杭
In recent days, the news of the passing of theater critic Bei Xiaojing (北小京) (Meng Danfeng (孟丹峰)) has drawn attention in the theater world. A diligent, enthusiastic, and keenly perceptive theater critic will no longer update her account; it is as if a beam of light has been extinguished forever in Beijing's theaters.
Starting around 2012, Meng Danfeng, under the pseudonym "Bei Xiaojing," began publishing theater reviews on Weibo and WeChat public accounts, writing nearly 300 articles over 13 years. Only last year, when she compiled her reviews into a book, did she first reveal her identity. No one in the theater industry—whether creators, actors, producers, or audiences—would ignore updates from the "Bei Xiaojing Watches Theater" (北小京看话剧) account. When a certain play became popular, someone would always think: Has Bei Xiaojing written a review? What did she say? Reading her reviews became a matter of great interest.
Although there are differing assessments of the quality of Bei Xiaojing's reviews, and her articles have sparked controversy, there is no doubt that Bei Xiaojing has become a representative of speaking truth in art criticism. She maintained a mysterious identity, bought her own tickets to see plays, and wrote reviews without being constrained by personal favors or red envelopes. Her vision was broad; she paid attention to both imported productions and local creations. Her writing was also not mediocre—not the formulaic approach of dividing a play into several aspects and describing each separately. Her description and analysis of theatrical content and form always served a clear conclusion. When layer upon layer of analysis reached the end of the article, her views and judgments could be described as 水到渠成 (shuǐ dào qú chéng - "when water flows, a channel forms," meaning something is achieved naturally and smoothly).
Some say that Bei Xiaojing became an "internet celebrity" in the industry because of the "gimmick" of anonymity; others say that anonymity creates an asymmetry—the critic is in the dark while the creator is in the light. But I think anonymity may have a more important purpose—to let the critic sit in the audience's seat. Her unwillingness to reveal her professional identity was precisely to make people value and listen to the audience's voice. Her judgments and writing often carry a strong emotional tone, unafraid to show personal aesthetic preferences, maintaining a judgment based on intuition. This is perhaps a corrective for the current theater scene.
Theater criticism that speaks the truth is not rare, nor does it rely entirely on anonymity. For a long time, the literary and art review sections of many established newspapers and periodicals have given important space to stage arts, with a group of enthusiastic theater critics contributing to them. Some professional art journals also insist on publishing reviews, continuously following up on theater observations.
The attention Bei Xiaojing received inspires us to think: What exactly are we looking for when reading theater reviews? I think, first and foremost, it is the exchange of views, and secondly, experiencing pleasure in that exchange. If the views are unclear, they are like 过眼烟云 (guò yǎn yān yún - "passing eyes smoke clouds," like fleeting smoke and clouds, transient); if the language lacks sharpness, there is no pleasure. Reviews that have no exchange and are self-serving are 味同嚼蜡 (wèi tóng jiáo là - "tastes like chewing wax," insipid and boring).
Some people define criticism narrowly as "critique," believing that theater reviews that speak the truth should whip bad works; others point out that analyzing why a good work is good is far more valuable than criticizing bad works. In fact, analyzing good plays and dissecting bad plays both have positive significance for the industry.
Writing a good review is never simple. It requires a volume of play-viewing and industry observation, a foundation in theater theory, genuine personal feelings, insight into the principles of theatrical form, and talent in written expression. Perhaps, looking back from the future, what Bei Xiaojing's sustained practice most inspires us is the pursuit of pure theater criticism.
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In recent years, through people’s “archaeological-style binge-watching,” old dramas “returning to popularity” has almost become a periodically recurring cultural landscape. “Archaeology” implies excavation, re-examination, and repeated discovery, and does not simply point to reviewing the old and learning the new (wēn gù zhī xīn - “review the old and know the new”) under the filter of memory. From this spontaneous popular naming, it seems we can already find the code for old dramas’ “return to popularity.” Along with the growing prosperity of Internet participatory culture, film and television works, through cultural practices such as viewers’ active danmaku, commentary, and fan-edit videos, undergo repeated cycles of meaning reproduction.
In fact, “archaeological-style binge-watching” is no longer exclusive to older works like My Own Swordsman and Lurk. Works that were popular in recent years, such as The Knockout, Three-Body, and The Peaceful Years, because of their lingering aftertaste, are also marked for details, excavated for foreshadowing, and reinterpreted by audiences with great relish (jīn jīn lè dào - “talk with great relish”) after they finish airing. Being selected is not because a work is “old,” but because it is sufficiently “good” — can it withstand repeated exploration by the audience? In other words, “archaeological-style binge-watching” is a value co-creation that quality works continuously form through mass participation.
Traditionally, the life cycle of a work is roughly calibrated by the broadcast cycle; after a work’s first run and reruns, discussions and evaluations around it gradually quiet down. However, the audience participation culture nourished by the Internet is striving to break through this structure. Danmaku continuously accumulates and overlays onto subsequent viewers’ watching experiences; commentary and mashup videos keep old works active in the present with new appearances; social media connects individualized watching into rich relationships of exchange, endlessly extending thoughts and discussions about the works. Because of the deep involvement of the masses, the work becomes a “site” that can be restored and entered at any time, building an open cultural space.
What makes a classic a classic is that it can withstand the repeated questioning of each era. The cultural co-creation of the Internet space allows the audience to mobilize their own experiences, emotions, and value coordinates to make their own answers. When Cui Ping’s female power erupting in a predicament in Lurk is re-evaluated, and the “must think of danger, think of retreat, think of change” from The Great Ming Dynasty 1566 is translated into a contemporary survival wisdom, what the audience does is no longer limited to revisiting old dreams, but also using the old script to rehearse new lives, translating creative value into self-narrative, and connecting artistic situations with real-life experience.
This also reflects a deeper transformation in creative production and dissemination: literary and artistic works are not only “for the masses,” but are increasingly evolving into an open cultural practice of “the masses write” and “the masses enjoy.” Every encounter between the audience and the work facilitates a convergence with the current cultural aesthetic experience, and in that convergence achieves cultural continuity and even transcendence.
In this sense, “archaeological-style binge-watching” precisely reflects the vivid scene of new mass literary and artistic production under Internet conditions. The “people’s character” of literary and artistic creation requires not only writing for the people, but also calls upon the people as creative subjects to activate cultural space. When the audience completes the rediscovery of the work, the work also accommodates the audience’s emotions and consolidates social hearts — this undoubtedly extends the lifeline of literary and artistic works.
Of course, faced with “archaeological-style binge-watching,” caution also needs to be maintained. Fragmented interpretations may dissolve the aesthetic structure of the work as an organic whole, and the convenience of technology often blurs the seriousness of public cultural participation. Not every return can spark valuable discussion, nor can every re-creation truly foster beneficial inspiration. Faced with such a fervent practice that highlights audience subjectivity, we may not need to presuppose fixed boundaries, but we cannot avoid asking about the direction forward.
When the masses are no longer satisfied with “what to watch,” but begin to persistently ask “how to watch” and “what has been seen,” the relationship between literary and artistic creation and reception has already undergone a fundamental reshaping. Old dramas have new chapters, meaning that good works will always reserve space for ordinary audiences to participate. It points to the past, also vividly belongs to the present, and more likely shapes the way we understand the future.
(The author is Deputy Director of the Department of Audiovisual Communication, School of Journalism, Renmin University of China.)
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