Summary: The article reports that from August 1-7, 60 leading experts in fundamental research, strategic technologies, and social sciences were invited by the CPC Central Committee and State Council to Beidaihe for a summer retreat themed "Striving for the 15th Five-Year Plan." On August 3, Politburo Standing Committee member Cai Qi, entrusted by Xi Jinping, visited and encouraged the experts to carry forward the spirit of scientists and make new contributions. During the retreat, experts shared insights on topics such as AI, quantum computing, and talent cultivation, emphasizing the need to align with national strategic goals. The event highlights China's institutional commitment to valuing talent and fostering innovation ahead of the next five-year planning period. No references to the United States or U.S.-China relations appear in the article.
Summary: The article reports on China’s employment-first strategy, highlighting policy measures to stabilize and expand job opportunities for key groups such as university graduates and migrant workers. It cites President Xi Jinping’s call to strengthen employment-oriented policies and a July 30 Politburo meeting urging greater support for key groups and protection of flexible workers. Examples include a Yibin University job fair, targeted assistance for graduates, migrant-worker support in Chongqing, and skills training in Hunan. Officials from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security express confidence in meeting employment goals during the “15th Five-Year Plan” period. No reference is made to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Since the 14th Five-Year Plan began, Jiangsu's Hongze Lake reserve has restored over 15,000 mu of degraded wetlands and completed 133,000 mu of wetland restoration from fishing and reclamation. These efforts aim to enhance the stability of the wetland ecosystem. The photo shows artificial wetland islets under construction in Banzheng Town, Sihong County, near the lake.
Summary: The article highlights President Xi Jinping's framing of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as a mission-oriented, learning-oriented, and empowering party, emphasizing its role in achieving national rejuvenation and long-term governance. Xi is quoted reflecting on historical planning documents in Shantou in 2020, and his speeches at party study sessions from 2016 to 2026 are cited to illustrate the party's strategic continuity and theoretical evolution. The piece notes that China's comprehensive score in the 2025 Global Future Industries Index surpassed that of the United States for the first time, indirectly referencing U.S.-China competition. It also details China's global AI governance proposals, positioning the CCP as a provider of public goods and contrasting its cooperative stance with U.S.-led zero-sum approaches. No accompanying officials are named in the reported events.
Summary: The article presents a theoretical analysis of Xi Jinping’s ecological civilization thought, drawing on a comprehensive reading of Volumes 1–5 of *Xi Jinping: The Governance of China*. It emphasizes the scientific and truth-seeking nature of this framework, arguing that it systematically addresses China’s environmental challenges. No specific official statements or accompanying figures are reported. The text does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article highlights China's advancements in wheat breeding, showcasing new varieties like Xinmai45 for Henan's braised noodles, Luyan951 for Shandong's scallion pancakes, Jiemai20 for Hebei's salt-alkali land bread, and Liangchun1758 for Xinjiang's naan. These cultivars improve yield, disease resistance, and processing quality, meeting diverse regional culinary needs. No officials’ statements or U.S.-China relations are referenced.
Summary: China's National Bureau of Statistics reported that July's CPI rose 0.5% year-on-year but fell 0.1% month-on-month, with core CPI (excluding food and energy) up 0.9% year-on-year, indicating moderate inflation. The report attributed the month-on-month decline primarily to international market volatility driving domestic gasoline prices down 10.7%. Food prices remained flat month-on-month, below seasonal norms, while non-food prices edged down 0.1%. The PPI rose 3.5% year-on-year but fell 0.7% month-on-month, with the year-on-year increase narrowing due to imported and seasonal factors. No U.S.-related context was mentioned in the report.
Summary: China's State Administration for Market Regulation reported that in the first half of the year, 561,000 new enterprises were established in eight emerging and nine future industries, with generative AI and humanoid robotics seeing significant growth. The services sector saw 3.957 million new enterprises, with high-tech services like information transmission and software, inspection testing, and tech commercialization expanding. In manufacturing, high-end equipment manufacturing grew 2.5% year-on-year, while high-tech manufacturing saw strong gains, including a 185.7% surge in spacecraft and launch vehicle manufacturing. The article does not mention any specific officials or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports on the annual Beidaihe summer retreat for 60 top experts from fields including basic research, strategic technology, and social sciences, held from August 1-7 under the theme "Striving for the 15th Five-Year Plan." On August 3,中共中央政治局常委蔡奇 (Cai Qi), entrusted by Xi Jinping, visited the experts and encouraged them to carry forward the spirit of scientists and contribute to national goals. The experts engaged in cross-disciplinary discussions on topics like AI, quantum computing, and talent cultivation, with some calling for more resources for young researchers. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports on the BINGO radio telescope project in northeastern Brazil, a joint China-Brazil initiative to study dark energy by detecting baryon acoustic oscillations. Chinese institutions, including the Chinese Academy of Sciences and several universities, contributed to the telescope's engineering design, data algorithms, and structural manufacturing, while Brazilian scientists led the scientific objectives and site construction. Brazilian chief scientist Elcio Abdalla emphasized that the project exemplifies "mutual trust and complementarity" in bilateral cooperation, with China's engineering strengths and Brazil's scientific leadership combining effectively. The piece notes that Brazil's Alessandro Marín chose to pursue postdoctoral research at a Chinese university due to the professionalism and trust built during the collaboration. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A coalition of nearly 200 US tech startups urged the US government not to restrict access to Chinese open-weight AI models, stating that American developers require continued use of global open models. The article argues that Chinese open-source models have become a "must-have" for overseas developers due to their balanced performance, cost-effectiveness, and security advantages, with US firms' token usage of these models consistently exceeding 30% weekly. It highlights that US restrictions, including investment limits, chip controls, and cloud service curbs, reflect a zero-sum mentality that would stifle competition and raise innovation costs. The piece also notes that a major AI platform successfully used a Chinese open-source model to resolve a security breach after a US closed-source model failed. China advocates an open, collaborative approach to AI development, opposing the US "small yard, high fence" strategy that seeks to block technology flows.
Summary: Carlos Kuriyama, director of the APEC Policy Support Unit, praised China's APEC host year for setting the theme "Building an Asia-Pacific Community" with priorities of openness, innovation, and cooperation. He highlighted China's role in advancing discussions on a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific and supply chain resilience, while noting challenges like geopolitical tensions and rising protectionism. Kuriyama emphasized that innovation and digital economy are key drivers, citing China's widespread use of QR code payments as a model for regional cross-border transactions. He also lauded China's economic transformation, poverty alleviation, and its role as a stabilizing force for the global economy. The article did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The 9th China-Germany U16 youth football friendship match took place in Xiong'an New Area from August 6-8. German players, including goalkeeper Julian Koch and midfielder Noah Odili, expressed excitement about bonding with Chinese peers and praised Xiong'an's futuristic architecture, robot staff, and driverless cars. Team manager Martin Willich and former China men's national team coach Klaus Schlappner accompanied the delegation, with Schlappner calling Xiong'an "a model for global urban construction."
Summary: The article reports on China's first cross-provincial village plan, jointly approved for villages in Sichuan's Anyue County and Chongqing's Dazu District, aimed at breaking administrative barriers. Officials including Dazu District Planning Director Zhang Yanling and local party secretaries Peng Shuchun (Sichuan) and Chen Shuzhong (Chongqing) emphasized the plan's role in coordinating infrastructure, ecological protection, and tourism development. A newly built "Lianxin Bridge" physically connects the two villages, facilitating access to a wild golden nanmu forest that is now being developed as a scenic area. The collaboration extends to linking previously disconnected roads and promoting integrated industries, such as beekeeping and agricultural products, according to town official Li Zeming. Chongqing's Rural Planning Director Dong Dafa stated the initiative exemplifies regional synergy under the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle strategy.
Summary: Li Can, a senior colonel and joint operations staff officer in the Central Theater Command, emphasized his commitment to "studying warfare wholeheartedly" and being a dependable joint operations参谋. He stated, "Better to be prepared without fighting than to fight unprepared," and noted that "every judgment affects the outcome of battle and the safety of officers." Li led the overall planning for the 2025 victory parade commemorating 80 years since the end of World War II, ensuring precision down to individual soldiers' steps. He also advocated for improved synchronization and integration in joint operations, proposing a multi-level coordination method. His philosophy: "Day after day of persistent struggle is the value and meaning" of a staff officer's role.
Summary: The article discusses the selection of a comrade for party discipline inspection, where a superior emphasized the primacy of "daring to struggle" over merely being "good at struggle," likening it to Wu Song's courage in fighting the tiger. It critiques cadres who avoid struggle due to incompetence or selfishness, warning that such avoidance harms party and state interests. The piece invokes Mao Zedong's directive to publish *Stories of Not Fearing Ghosts* and Xi Jinping's call for cadres to have the backbone to "not believe in evil, not fear ghosts." It argues that courage must precede strategy, as all tactics are useless without the will to confront challenges. The article concludes by urging cadres to be fearless warriors in the new era's critical struggle for national rejuvenation.
Summary: Typhoon “White Dolphin,” the 13th of the year, made landfall in Yuhuan and Yueqing, Zhejiang, on August 9. Yuhuan enforced a responsibility system and conducted comprehensive, tiered risk inspections and controls. Yueqing re-checked its population figures, set up 345 shelters and 58 temporary refuge sites, and stockpiled 72 hours of supplies. Party members and cadres in Yueqing’s Qingjiang town were reported helping elderly residents who had difficulty moving to safety.
Summary: Typhoon "Bai Hoi Tu" (Bailu) made landfall in Zhejiang on August 9 as a strong typhoon, with winds up to level 14, before weakening and landing again near Wenzhou. The Central Meteorological Observatory issued a red typhoon warning, while multiple agencies jointly issued alerts for rainstorms, geological hazards, and flooding. The Ministry of Water Resources held rolling consultations, issued targeted warnings to seven provinces, and maintained emergency responses for flood defense in Zhejiang and other regions. The National Flood Control Headquarters and the Ministry of Emergency Management coordinated joint consultations with several provinces and maintained typhoon and flood prevention responses for Zhejiang, Fujian, and other areas. Local authorities in Zhejiang suspended ferry routes and construction projects, while Fujian's Ningde city evacuated thousands of people and brought ships into safe harbors.
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Summary: The article features a dialogue between commentator Li Zheng and Tsinghua scholar Xie Maosong, who argue that the Chinese Communist Party’s "people-centered" approach extends the traditional Chinese concept of "people as the foundation," contrasting with Western parties that only represent partial interests. Xie highlights Xi Jinping’s statement “I will serve the people without any thought of myself” and the Party’s lack of special interests as key to its success. The discussion frames China’s modernization as rooted in its uninterrupted civilization, enabled by the "two combines" of Marxism with Chinese reality and traditional culture. It notes that China's global initiatives, such as the Belt and Road and the vision of a community with a shared future, reflect a civilizational ethos of mutual benefit, implicitly distinguishing these from Western models. The dialogue concludes that the Party’s integration of ancient wisdom and modern governance ensures enduring vitality and a new form of human advancement.
Summary: The article reports on how technological innovation, exemplified by XAG’s smart farm in Huangpu, Guangzhou, is transforming agriculture into an attractive, data-driven sector for young Chinese. Co-founder Gong Jiaqin is quoted saying that 140,000 trained “new farmers” (mostly post-90s and 2000s) now use drones and IoT to make farming “cool.” It notes persistent challenges—high equipment costs, inadequate digital infrastructure, and training gaps—but highlights policy responses, including the 2025 Central Document No. 1’s call to boost rural talent, Henan’s plan to hire college graduates for villages, and Huzhou’s first local regulation on youth rural development. The piece concludes that sustained institutional support is needed to retain these young people and realize rural revitalization.
Summary: China has accelerated its 6G development in 2025, with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology approving 6GHz test frequencies for the IMT-2030 (6G) promotion group and provinces like Jiangsu and Hubei launching industry initiatives. The article notes that this approval enables real-world testing, moving 6G from theoretical research to practical validation. It states that China's 6G technology trials have completed the first phase and begun the second, with commercial applications expected around 2030. The commentary emphasizes China's strategic approach of "planning before action," citing the early allocation of 6GHz spectrum and the "fifteenth five-year plan" as examples of this governance philosophy. The piece concludes by highlighting how successive mobile generations have reduced digital divides, and that 6G will continue this trend of technological inclusivity.
Summary: The article discusses two separate trends in China: the push to establish universities in county-level cities and the revival of intercity buses in Guangdong. For county universities, it notes that while such initiatives can support local industrial upgrading and talent retention, success depends on solid financial and industrial foundations; otherwise, they risk becoming fiscal burdens. The article highlights that many counties lack the necessary resources, and decision-makers must align academic programs with local industry needs. On the bus revival, it attributes Guangdong’s success to deregulation allowing “station-to-door” pick-up points, digital ticketing, and a shift to platform-based revenue sharing, which lowered costs and improved efficiency. It argues that the bus model complements rather than competes with high-speed rail, serving different market segments.
Summary: The Ministry of Transport announced that during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, three major trunk highways (G219, G331, and G228) will be fully connected to form a "golden outer ring" around China's borders and coastline, with a length exceeding half the Earth's circumference. The project is expected to enhance self-driving tourism experiences and promote industrial linkages, border consolidation, and regional development.
Summary: The article reports that the CPC Central Committee and the State Council have issued the ninth five-year plan for legal publicity and education (2026–2030), building on eight previous cycles since 1986. It quotes President Xi Jinping emphasizing the need to firmly establish the authority of the constitution and law across society. The plan aims to transition from simple legal knowledge dissemination to embedding rule-of-law faith among China’s 1.4 billion people through practical integration with grassroots governance, dispute resolution, and law enforcement. Examples include local officials using dialect sessions in Hunan and "legal experts" in Gansu revising village rules to address issues like exorbitant bride prices. The article stresses shifting from superficial, checklist-style普法 to targeted, results-oriented implementation, with accountability integrated into local government performance reports.
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Summary: The article describes how Xin'an Primary School in Huai'an, Jiangsu, leverages the legacy of the "Xin'an Travel Troupe" (1935-1952) to build a "Three Little" education system—"Little Teachers," "Little Masters," and "Little Heroes"—that integrates revolutionary history into classroom learning, student-led performances, and field trips. In 2021, President Xi Jinping responded to the school's Young Pioneers, urging them to study Party history and follow the Party. Students act as "Little Teachers" by teaching peers, serve as "Little Masters" by offering micro-suggestions on school and community issues, and participate as "Little Heroes" in red-study tours retracing the troupe's route. The school has produced a children's play, trained student docents, and launched a "Ten Abilities for New-Era Little Heroes" initiative. The report does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article highlights how Xin'an Primary School carries on the legacy of the "New An Traveling Troupe" by using local red resources to nurture students' values and patriotism. Through activities such as visiting historical memorials, performing children's plays, and retracing the troupe's routes, children transform from listeners into storytellers and participants. The school integrates the troupe's tradition of "teaching others by teaching oneself" with modern methods to cultivate good learning habits and social awareness. These efforts aim to help students build a strong moral foundation and grow into a generation capable of national rejuvenation.
Summary: Qin Xiang, a 50-year-old rural teacher in Linquan County, Anhui, was recently named to the 2026 "China Good Person" list for his 30-year-plus volunteer calligraphy program at 41 village schools. He was reported as saying he wants children to "write well and create their own wonderful lives," despite sustaining a leg disability from cycling accidents. He started teaching after being asked by a local principal in 1994, later opening a calligraphy training center that provided fee reductions for low-income families. His efforts have inspired other educators, including Qiu Xiling and Dai Fenghai, to join the initiative. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports on China’s employment policies and efforts to stabilize job growth, citing President Xi Jinping’s emphasis on strengthening employment-first policies and supporting key groups such as graduates and migrant workers. It notes a July 30 Politburo meeting called for stronger livelihood guarantees, greater support for key groups' employment, and better protection for flexible and new-form workers. Local examples include Yibin University job fairs, a Chongqing supermarket hiring migrant workers under subsidy policies, and skills training programs in Hunan that placed workers in care and tech roles. Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security officials are quoted pledging to implement the “15th Five-Year Plan” employment strategy, expand job channels, and promote high-quality full employment. The article also highlights support for new employment forms, such as housing and injury protection for delivery riders, and references helping industries affected by external environments without specifically naming the United States.
Summary: A volunteer-led "Bright Cinema" project in Guangxi's Gongcheng Yao Autonomous County provides audio-described films for visually impaired residents, with 40 volunteers including armless dancer Luo Xiangjun assisting attendees. Luo, a county troupe actor, guides blind viewer Chen Zhongqiang to a screening of the revolutionary film "Five Heroes on Langya Mountain," offering narration and support. The initiative, organized by the local Civilization Office since August last year, operates through fixed and mobile screenings to create an "audio cultural blind path." Volunteers also provide transportation, snacks, and additional services like haircuts and medical checks. After the film, Luo gathers feedback to improve future screenings, aiming to bring more stories to the visually impaired community.
Summary: The All-China Federation of Trade Unions, along with the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, announced the launch of the eighth National Workers' Excellent Technological Innovation Achievement Exchange Activity. The event seeks to collect, showcase, and exchange workers' innovations, including "five small" achievements (small inventions, creations, innovations, designs, and suggestions). Outstanding innovations may be nominated by the All-China Federation of Trade Unions for national science and technology awards. The activity, running through September 2026, provides online and offline platforms for submissions and aims to encourage grassroots innovation. The previous edition in 2023 spurred participation by over 30 million industrial workers.
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Summary: China's gig economy now employs 84 million workers, but many lack formal labor relations and social insurance, facing high accident risks. The "new-type occupational injury insurance" pilot, launched in 2022 and expanded nationwide from July 2026, mandates platform companies to cover costs per order. Experts like Lou Yu urge clearer rules for multi-platform work and cross-region claims, while Chen Lifan warns that smaller platforms may pass costs to workers. Riders struggle with complex insurance claims, often involving multiple entities for contracts, pay, and management. The article highlights the need for streamlined enrollment, portable benefits, and better protection for domestic workers and livestreamers not yet covered.
Summary: In a recent letter to the editor, a reader identified as Qin Jian from Qinyuan County, Shanxi, reported that during the ongoing heatwave, three government-operated "love stations" for outdoor workers (such as环卫 workers and delivery riders) were fully equipped with facilities like umbrellas, first-aid kits, charging banks, books, chairs, and water dispensers—but were locked and inaccessible. The author urged local authorities to improve management so that these stations can fulfill their intended role as convenient, open-door public service points. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations were mentioned.
Summary: A People's Daily reader letter reported that Shanxi's Yongshou County removed too many trees during rural environmental work without adequately consulting villagers. The local government confirmed insufficient consultation and simplistic methods, then re-solicited villager input, optimized the plan, and pledged to replant trees in autumn. Ma Fang town officials stated they would improve work methods, strengthen villager committee roles, and respect local ecological features.
Summary: A citizen in Kunming reported that a hospital's digital payment system failure prevented her mother from receiving timely emergency care until cash was used, highlighting the vulnerability of over-reliance on digital infrastructure. The article calls for maintaining manual cash payment channels and establishing emergency protocols to ensure uninterrupted basic medical services during system outages. No U.S.-China relations were mentioned.
Summary: Chinese consumers increasingly buy goods on e-commerce platforms, but many report that obtaining official invoices is difficult because merchants delay, refuse, or only offer receipts, while platforms often fail to assist. Academics and lawyers cited in the article say platforms should at least verify merchant information and help consumers report violations to tax and market regulators, even if they are not directly responsible for issuing invoices. Consumers can complain via the 12366 hotline or the State Taxation Administration’s website, but the process is time-consuming and requires filling in detailed merchant information. The article cites cases where tax authorities resolved complaints only after individual consumers filed formal reports, and notes that cross-regional platform transactions complicate tax jurisdiction and enforcement. Experts suggest linking platform order data with tax complaint systems and simplifying evidence requirements to make consumer rights protection easier.
Summary: The People's Daily "Readers' Letters" section and the People's Net "Leadership Message Board" have jointly launched a campaign to collect public concerns, specifically targeting "annoying pop-up ads." They are inviting readers to submit clues and suggestions regarding this issue. Contact methods include an email address, the People's Daily client's "Exposure Platform," and the "Leadership Message Board" app. No official was quoted or reported in the article. The announcement does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: President Xi Jinping has emphasized the concept of "people's cities built by the people and for the people," urging the construction of modern people's cities during his inspections. The article introduces a new visual series showcasing progress in Beijing, Shanghai, Xiong'an New Area, Fuzhou, and Hangzhou under this guidance. No accompanying officials or U.S.-related content are mentioned.
Summary: Xi Jinping, deeply concerned with Beijing's development, has conducted multiple inspections since 2012, visiting sites like a nursing home, transport center, forest park, and a commercial district. He urged Beijing to pursue world-class urban governance to become a harmonious and livable capital, emphasizing public safety, basic services, green living, and efficient management. Under his guidance, Beijing has enhanced its "four centers" function, achieved sustained "Beijing Blue" air quality, raised forest coverage to 45%, and increased life expectancy from 82.4 to 84.2 years. The city continues to explore new paths for megacity governance, focusing on innovation, livability, and resilience. For the 15th Five-Year Plan period, Beijing aims to further optimize its capital functions, improve people's livelihoods, and deepen reform and opening-up.
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Summary: Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, a key component of his governance philosophy, is systematically developed across volumes 1-5 of *Xi Jinping: The Governance of China*, evolving from general calls to "build an ecological civilization" to a comprehensive framework for "beautiful China." The thought deepens understanding of ecological laws by framing environmental protection as a political responsibility of the Communist Party and a defining feature of Chinese-style modernization. It integrates ecological principles into economic, political, cultural, and social development, promoting green growth and a shift in public values. Domestically, this has driven major environmental improvements and the establishment of a robust legal and institutional system. Internationally, it positions China as a leader in global climate governance, offering an alternative development model rooted in ecological civilization.
Summary: The article reports on Xi Jinping’s instruction that Party members and cadres must both “know fear” (respect discipline) and “take action” (be proactive), correctly handling the dialectical relationship between the two. Xi emphasizes that without reverence for rules, officials cannot truly focus on work, while using fear as an excuse for inaction reflects a lack of party spirit. The piece critiques those who avoid responsibility by citing potential blame, and calls for establishing a correct view of performance that prioritizes practical results for the people. No accompanying officials are mentioned, and the United States or U.S.-China relations are not discussed.
Summary: The article discusses China’s efforts to improve cyberspace governance, citing Xi Jinping’s remarks that a clean and healthy online environment serves the people’s interests, while a polluted one does not. It outlines plans under the “15th Five-Year Plan” to strengthen online civility, security, and content management. Key measures include promoting positive propaganda, holding internet companies accountable for social responsibility, and advancing secure and ethical technology innovation. The piece emphasizes integrating content guidance, corporate responsibility, and technical safeguards to build a wholesome cyberspace and advance China’s digital power. The author is identified as an editor at Hunan Daily.
Summary: The article, authored by the Party Secretary and Director of the General Administration of Customs, outlines how the national customs system is implementing President Xi Jinping’s directives on establishing a correct view of performance. It emphasizes that customs officials must prioritize Party loyalty, serve the people, and make scientific decisions while avoiding formalism. The piece details efforts to integrate these principles into customs work, including targeted governance reforms, trade facilitation measures, and improved supervision. It also reports on concrete outcomes, such as a 16.9% year-on-year increase in China’s foreign trade in the first half of the year. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports that SAIC Motor and General Motors recently renewed their joint venture for 20 years, following a similar extension by GAC and Honda, despite sharp sales declines in China. It argues that multinational automakers are staying because China has evolved from the world's largest auto market into the most demanding "testbed," where products, technologies, and teams that succeed there become globally competitive. The author notes that foreign firms now rely on Chinese partners for cost-effective, rapid R&D and supply chains in electrification and smart technology. GM’s renewal aims to gain "capability output" from SAIC’s advantages, while SAIC benefits from GM’s global experience. The article does not explicitly discuss U.S.-China relations, but GM's commitment underscores the strategic necessity of integrating into China’s ecosystem.
Summary: The National Data Administration has issued the "Data Property Rights Registration Work Guidelines (Trial)" to standardize data property registration across China, providing a unified framework for registration institutions, procedures, and certificates. An unnamed administration official stated that the guidelines aim to implement data property rights, reduce transaction costs, and foster a national integrated data market. The official explained that registration certificates, issued by trusted institutions, verify data accuracy, source compliance, and ownership clarity, serving as proof of rights. To ensure implementation, the administration will launch a national registration service system, gather practical experience, and align the guidelines with systems for trading, distribution, and security. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Hubei and Chongqing are jointly advancing the development of green cruise ships on the Yangtze, upgrading supporting facilities such as shore power and ports. Their cooperation spans new business formats, expanded cross-provincial routes, and enhanced land-water linkages to extend the tourism industry chain. These efforts aim to raise the international influence of the Three Gorges tourism brand. The report notes that a new energy cruise ship was photographed sailing through Xiling Gorge in Zigui County. No U.S.-related topics were discussed in the article.
Summary: Jiang Yongqing, a researcher at the Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, explained that chilled, frozen, and hot fresh beef differ mainly in post-slaughter temperature control, with negligible nutritional variation. He advised consumers to check labels for quarantine certificates on chilled beef, daily inspection documents for hot fresh beef, and "quick-freeze" markings for frozen products. Jiang emphasized proper storage: consume chilled beef within three days at 0–4°C, freeze in single-portion packs, and thaw in the refrigerator to preserve texture. He warned against using hot water for thawing, as it degrades protein and causes moisture loss. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: China's recently released "14th Five-Year Plan for Building a Sports Powerhouse" and "National Fitness Plan (2026–2030)" set targets including a sports industry worth over 7 trillion yuan and 4 square meters of sports space per capita by 2030. To meet space demands, the plans advocate repurposing "golden corners" such as underpasses and rooftops, exemplified by a basketball park built under a bridge in Chengdu. Outdoor sports are prioritized, with plans for 100 high-quality destinations and a focus on mountain, water, snow, and low-altitude activities, supported by a growing industry chain. The plans also address rising elderly fitness demand by promoting "senior sports health homes" and call for using artificial intelligence to enhance fitness guidance and events. Finally, the document highlights the "sports economy," citing the "Su Super League" which generated 145.7 billion yuan in cross-regional consumption.
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Summary: Sun Jianming, deputy director of the Hainan Big Data Development Center, stated that the province launched a grassroots "One Table System" in December 2024 to combat redundant form-filling and reduce bureaucratic burdens. The pilot, led by the provincial营商环境厅 with technical support from the Big Data Center, began in Haikou's Qiongshan District, where official Meng Rong noted that excessive agricultural reporting had "tied the hands" of local cadres. After successful trials, the system was expanded province-wide in July 2025, integrating data across departments to eliminate duplicate submissions. Officials like Wang Yifan explained that cross-agency data sharing now exposes governance blind spots, while Huang Yingying detailed measures to prevent "off-system" form submissions via private channels. Deputy Director Wang Xuehao emphasized that the system will continue evolving to shift from "people seeking policies" to "policies finding people," with digital tools further empowering grassroots governance.
Summary: The article reports that despite efforts to streamline administrative procedures, grassroots officials still face excessive form-filling burdens, including duplicate reporting across different platforms. During the flood season, some local frontline workers are forced to stay up late submitting repeated flood-report forms, leaving less time for on-site inspections and emergency response. The adoption of new online platforms has in some cases increased workloads, as officials must upload multiple related materials weekly and input identical information into different systems. The piece argues that excessive "form-filling for record purposes" diverts grassroots cadres from solving practical problems and serving residents. It invites readers to report similar instances of formalism through the People’s Daily "Leadership Message Board."
Summary: The article criticizes excessive form-filling and redundant reporting as formalist burdens that consume grassroots officials' time and hinder service delivery. It argues that digitalization should optimize resource allocation and data sharing, not merely reduce forms. The goal is to free cadres from bureaucratic paperwork so they can prioritize solving residents' urgent problems. It calls for institutional innovation to break departmental silos and technology-driven data sharing to let data flow instead of officials filling forms. The ultimate aim is to shift focus from bureaucratic compliance to tangible public service and efficiency.
Summary: Li Yang, the Party secretary of Lifeng Village in Hanzhong, Shaanxi, died in a flash flood on August 1 while inspecting the Hetyan Reservoir with grid worker Li Guifu. They had gone to check for hazards amid heavy rainfall, and after finding the reservoir water level above the warning line, they decided to set up warning points to stop vehicles and pedestrians from entering dangerous sections. Their vehicle was swept away by floodwaters; Li Guifu survived after being pushed upward by Li Yang, but Li Yang was swept away and later found dead. Li Yang, a veteran of the Armed Police, had previously received commendations for rescuing a civilian and was posthumously awarded the title "Outstanding Communist Party Member of Hanzhong City" on August 6. The article highlights his consistent ethos of "I go first, I am at the front" in facing danger, but does not discuss U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Ministry of National Defense's conscription office issued a publicly available code of professional ethics for recruitment staff, effective immediately. The code is designed to implement President Xi Jinping's directives on moral construction and advance ideological and political rectification efforts. It outlines five core principles—loyalty to the Party, lawful and transparent selection, dedication to national defense, integrity, and collaborative service—along with 25 specific ethical standards. The guidelines aim to foster a culture of self-discipline and high ethical conduct among conscription personnel. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Residents of the Tawan used car market area in Shenyang's Yuhong District had long complained about traffic congestion and safety hazards caused by illegal parking and street vending, a governance blind spot due to overlapping jurisdictional responsibilities. In response, Yuhong District established a cross-department task force integrating urban management, market regulation, public security, and local subdistricts. The task force relocated over 50 vendors to a standardized market built on 27 mu of reclaimed land and implemented time-limited parking policies (5 p.m. to 8 a.m.) to balance daytime traffic flow with nighttime parking needs. Authorities also removed 46 illegal parking locks, issued fines for over 2,100 parking violations, and added nearly 300 new parking spaces. These measures transformed short-term enforcement into long-term governance, restoring public space and improving residents' sense of safety and satisfaction.
Summary: The article describes the Six-Foot Lane in Tongcheng, Anhui, a historic site symbolizing邻里 harmony and mutual concession, originally created when Qing official Zhang Ying and his neighbor each yielded a three-foot strip of land. It has been developed into a comprehensive scenic area for academic research, clean government cultural exchange, and tourism. The photo shows visitors at the site on August 7, taken by Cheng Zihan for Xinhua. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations are mentioned.
Summary: The article reports that Xinjiang's market supervision department has deepened food safety regulatory reforms by integrating a "smart supervision network" with precision training, achieving digital oversight of 143,300 catering service units. The department established a platform that consolidates data on restaurant registration, routine inspections, hazard rectification, and credit disclosure, enabling dynamic risk assessment and closed-loop management. No U.S. or bilateral relations are mentioned.
Summary: Shanghai police dismantled a criminal gang that extorted over 3 million yuan from securities investment advisory firms by filing thousands of coordinated malicious complaints demanding refunds. The gang, disguised as a legal and investment advisory firm, used illegally obtained personal data to organize proxy complaints and extract commission from settlements. Twenty-one suspects were arrested in the operation, which was launched after a targeted firm reported the extortion.
Summary: Fuzhou, Fujian, has issued ten measures to regulate administrative inspections of enterprises, aiming to address unclear boundaries, poor coordination, and rigid enforcement. The measures require dynamic management of inspection lists, ensuring no checks occur outside the list, and prohibit unauthorized or unrelated inspections. They also establish cross-departmental collaboration for "one inspection, comprehensive check" and promote service-oriented supervision with an "appointment-style" guidance system. Enterprises can request advisory services, which must be provided within 15 working days. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article reports that Harbin is leveraging "Northeast Super" football match ticket stubs as vouchers to link 25 scenic spots, commercial districts, and cultural venues, aiming to convert sports-event traffic into lasting tourism revenue. Deputy Director of the Harbin Cultural Tourism Bureau Yang Nianfu was quoted saying the ticket stubs connect cross-city客流 and activate the consumption chain. Deputy Director of the Harbin Sports Bureau Yu Yang was cited announcing plans for over 300 mass sports events this year, including 17 key municipal-level events during the summer "100-Day Action," to integrate sports with summer tourism. The piece highlights how Harbin’s indoor ice-and-snow venue extends its winter IP into summer, and how the Harbin Grand Theater offered 20,000 discount coupons plus free entry for visiting fans. The article positions these cross-sector initiatives as a model for blending sports, culture, and tourism to boost local consumption.
Summary: The article discusses how ticket stubs from sports events and concerts are being repurposed as vouchers for dining, accommodation, and shopping, turning them into tools for cultural tourism innovation and urban consumption. It highlights a shift from single purchases to chain experiences, where initial consumption triggers related spending across multiple sectors. The "multi-function ticket" adds emotional value by offering surprise benefits like local cuisine and crafts, acting as a key to exploring a city's culture. This approach amplifies the multiplier effect of chain consumption, blending human culture with economic growth and converting temporary visitor traffic into sustained engagement.
Summary: The article reports on a new nighttime light show, *Why Xuankong Temple*, launched in May at the Xuankong Temple scenic area in Datong, Shanxi. Project director Deng Yingcheng explained that the two-year production prioritizes文物保护 (cultural relic protection) using cold-source imaging technology, while director Yang Jianlin highlighted the use of the natural cliff face as a "giant curtain." The 30,000-square-meter projection show recreates the temple's construction history and has boosted local tourism, with total box office revenue exceeding 30 million yuan and over 170,000 attendees. The initiative breaks the previous daytime-only visit model, extending the tourism consumption chain and increasing overnight stays. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations are mentioned.
Summary: The "Shouwang" (Guardianship) exhibition on the three-year action to preserve covered bridges (langqiao) opened on August 7 at the China Craft Museum, co-hosted by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the National Cultural Heritage Administration. The initiative was launched in 2023 by the Central Propaganda Department, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and the National Cultural Heritage Administration, cataloging 2,193 bridges and completing restoration of over 100 ancient structures. The exhibition features 35 physical models from various provinces, multimedia displays, and expert-built bridge sections, aiming to showcase the systemic protection of these cultural heritage assets. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: The article reports the premiere of the original contemporary Longju opera "Daoyuan Daoqing" at the Gansu Yellow River Theater on August 6. It is the first piece produced under the newly enacted "Gansu Province Longju Protection and Inheritance Regulations" and the final installment of the "Yellow River Trilogy," which explores Yellow River culture across historical and modern themes. The trilogy includes "Yu the Great Tames the Flood," "The Great River Flows East," and the new work, which focuses on the contemporary preservation and revitalization of Longdong Daoqing shadow puppetry. Longju, a traditional opera form unique to Gansu, was originally called Longdong Daoqing and was listed as a national intangible cultural heritage in 2006. No officials or U.S.-China relations are mentioned.
Summary: The article reports that the world’s largest-diameter high-speed rail shield machine, the "Linghanghao," has successfully completed tunneling under the Yangtze River as part of the Chongtai Yangtze River Tunnel, a key project on the Shanghai-Nanjing section of the Shanghai-Chongqing-Chengdu high-speed railway. The tunnel, stretching 14.25 kilometers and reaching depths of 89 meters underwater, will allow trains to cross the river at full speed. The machine, weighing 4,000 tons and equipped with customized high-pressure sealing and intelligent systems, was developed by China State Railway’s construction management unit in collaboration with China Railway Tunnel Bureau. Engineer Ma Chenliang highlighted the machine's ability to adapt to complex geology through advanced sensors and automated controls, enabling unmanned operation. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations are mentioned in the article.
Summary: The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Department of Culture and Tourism announced a unified shift for 4A+ scenic spots from per-person or per-vehicle fees to a per-vehicle pricing model, with caps ranging from 120 yuan for 5-seat vehicles to 600 yuan for 20+ seats. Existing per-person fee areas have until August 20 to transition, while per-vehicle fee areas must adopt the new rules by August 12. The announcement did not mention any specific officials or accompanying personnel, nor did it address the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: People's Daily Editor-in-Chief Chen Jianwen and Shaanxi Governor Zhao Gang spoke at the 2026 Energy Economy and Carbon Peak/Carbon Neutrality Forum in Yulin, emphasizing China's green and low-carbon development under Xi Jinping's ecological guidance. Chen highlighted the media's role in promoting green transition cases, while Zhao outlined Shaanxi's plans for modern energy clusters and green industries during the "15th Five-Year Plan." Special Envoy Liu Zhenmin noted China's global leadership in carbon policy systems and renewable energy, while officials from various ministries detailed progress in carbon markets, ecological restoration, and new energy systems. The forum did not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A forum on building a new energy system was held in Yulin, Shaanxi, as part of efforts to achieve the 2030 goal of a clean, low-carbon, safe, and efficient system. Yulin Mayor Ma Yuefeng stated that over 70% of the city's energy products supply the nation, and it is advancing coal chemical integration with new energy. Other officials, including Li Zhanming of Changqing Oilfield and Chen Qi of Yan'an Petroleum, detailed their companies' progress in CCUS, green transformation, and zero-carbon pathways. Participants from Lanzhou Petrochemical, China Qiyuan, Haier's COSMO, Shaanxi Construction, and Seres also shared their decarbonization and digital energy management initiatives. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports the release of the "Yulin Energy Revolution Innovation Demonstration Zone Innovation Practice Research Report (2026)" at an energy forum on August 6. Compiled by the People's Daily China Brand Development Institute, the report uses Yulin's experience as a sample for resource-rich cities balancing energy supply and green transition. It highlights three key insights: China's effective energy transition path, a "national R&D + Yulin transformation" cross-regional innovation model, and exemplary solid waste utilization for modern governance. The report aims to support national energy security, carbon peak and neutrality goals, and the cultivation of green, low-carbon productivity. No officials or their statements are mentioned, and the United States is not discussed.
Summary: The People's Daily China Brand Development Research Institute released the second phase of its "Enterprise Green and Low-Carbon Development" study at a forum on energy economy and carbon peak/neutrality. The research focuses on the entire new energy vehicle (NEV) industry chain, developing a quantitative evaluation system based on five dimensions. It identifies three key features: coordinated policy and market drivers, a full life-cycle low-carbon approach, and China's NEV industry moving from product exports to standard setting and ecosystem building. The study emphasizes that China's low-carbon development path offers practical experience for global transportation sustainability. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: Chinese officials, including Climate Envoy Liu Zhenmin and others from the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, emphasized China's progress in energy transition and carbon reduction. They highlighted the world's largest carbon emissions trading market and renewable energy system, and called for deepening international cooperation on climate change. Local leaders like Yulin Party Secretary Zhang Shengli underscored the city's role as a national energy security base, integrating coal, oil, gas, wind, solar, and hydrogen. The article did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article reports on the brutal history of the Thailand-Burma "Death Railway" built by Imperial Japan during WWII, using forced labor from Allied POWs and Asian workers. It highlights the horrific conditions, with over 110,000 deaths, and notes that the railway's remnants serve as evidence of Japanese militarist crimes. Researchers at the Thailand-Burma Railway Centre emphasize preserving these sites as a warning against the revival of militarism. No specific Chinese officials or U.S.-China relations are mentioned in the report.
Summary: At the Nagasaki atomic bombing anniversary, Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae again avoided explicitly reaffirming Japan’s “Three Non-Nuclear Principles.” Russia’s ambassador to Japan warned that abandoning the principles would breach the NPT and invite regional countermeasures. In Iran, President Pezeshkian met the supreme leader on economic and military issues, while Iranian officials said reopening the Strait of Hormuz requires the U.S. to meet five conditions, including ending military actions and sanctions. Japan’s defense ministry requested a record ¥8.9 trillion for FY2027, focusing on drones, AI, and long-range missiles. The Pentagon reportedly ordered defense firms to sharply speed up weapons production, and Hunter Biden said his father’s prostate cancer has spread.
Summary: Delhi Chief Minister Gupta announced the launch of the "Electric Vehicle Policy 2.0," offering 100,000 rupees per gasoline vehicle owner to switch to EVs to combat air pollution, stating that "clean air is a basic right." The policy aims to make 95% of new vehicle registrations electric by 2027, supported by a 150 billion rupee investment over four years for charging infrastructure and public transit electrification. Additional measures include banning non-compliant vehicles from refueling, restricting truck access, and deploying AI for dust monitoring. The article notes that India's air pollution crisis, driven partly by vehicle emissions, persists despite such efforts. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: Jiangxi Province achieved a historic breakthrough in the 2025 National Science and Technology Awards, winning nine prizes, including its first National Natural Science Award first prize, led by Academician Jiang Fengyi of Nanchang University. Academician Huang Lusheng’s team from Jiangxi Agricultural University also won a first prize in the National Science and Technology Progress Award for breeding innovations. The article highlights Jiangxi’s systematic efforts to build an innovation ecosystem through initiatives like the "Six Major Actions for Revitalizing Jiangxi through Science and Technology" and has raised its comprehensive innovation index to 69.63%, moving up to 15th nationally. The province is also launching the "2030 Qihang Plan" to support foundational research in future materials, energy, aviation, AI, and other sectors. No mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations appears in the article.
Summary: On August 10, 2016, COSCO Shipping (Piraeus) Port Limited fully took over operations of Greece's Piraeus Port, marking a new chapter for the facility located near Athens. The port, historically Greece's most important and seen as Europe's southern gateway, has been developed over the past decade through China-Greece win-win cooperation. Both sides have aimed to build a world-class port, supporting long-term sustainable growth. This collaboration is highlighted as a vivid example of high-quality Belt and Road cooperation. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations are mentioned in the article.
Summary: The article reports that a Mazu statue was placed at Piraeus port alongside a Greek Poseidon statue, symbolizing cultural exchange between China and Greece. It highlights bilateral cooperation through "small yet beautiful" projects, such as supporting an underwater archaeology museum and establishing a park and scholarship. The author, chairman of COSCO Shipping (Piraeus) Port, emphasizes that mutual respect and shared values of peace underpin the China-Greece partnership. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The mayor of Piraeus writes that the port, operated by COSCO Shipping over the past decade, has achieved leapfrog development and become a key Mediterranean hub for shipping, trade, and tourism. He argues that commercial success must be matched by tangible benefits for local residents, citing corporate social responsibility efforts such as a large green park, support for sports and charities, and municipal revenues used for public infrastructure. The mayor highlights the port as a bridge between Greece and China, with growing cultural, educational, and local exchanges, including sister-city ties between Piraeus and Shanghai and Qingdao. He expresses confidence that cooperation based on mutual trust and win-win results will continue to strengthen Greece-China relations in the next decade.
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Summary: The article warns that "campus loans" have resurfaced in new forms during the summer consumption peak, using algorithmic targeting to exploit young people's social, entertainment, and self-improvement needs. It notes that multiple Chinese authorities, including the Cyberspace Administration and the Ministry of Human Resources, have intensified regulatory actions such as special campaigns and risk alerts against these deceptive loan practices. The piece emphasizes that parents and youth must remain vigilant, manage payment tools securely, and recognize marketing tactics like "limited-time offers" and "zero-interest installments." It calls for a societal effort to foster rational consumption habits and prevent financial harm to adolescents.
Summary: The article reports that China's National Financial Regulatory Administration issued a notice on July 9 requiring banks and insurers to ensure uninterrupted basic financial services and increase credit support for flood relief and livelihood enterprises. The People's Bank of China added 100 billion yuan in relending quotas to guide financial institutions toward lending to affected small businesses, farmers, and households in flood-hit regions. Specific banks, such as Agricultural Bank of China and China Construction Bank, deployed mobile service vehicles and green approval channels to restore banking access and provide emergency loans. Insurance companies, including PICC, accelerated claims and offered pre-payments for property, vehicle, and agricultural losses, with total reported claims reaching 63.8 billion yuan and payouts of 28.9 billion yuan as of July 13. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article discusses China's strategy to upgrade living services (e.g., elderly care, childcare, housekeeping) by focusing on demand-driven quality improvements rather than simply increasing supply, as outlined in an April policy directive. It emphasizes the need for standardized service quality, tiered supply structures, and convenience through "15-minute community life circles," citing pilot projects in Zhejiang, Henan, and Hubei. The piece, written by a researcher at the Zhejiang Red Boat Cadre Academy, argues that aligning services with evolving consumer needs—such as those of aging and smaller households—can boost domestic demand and economic circulation. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: At a recent policy briefing on improving livelihoods through high-quality development, Minister of Science and Technology Yin Hejun stated that artificial intelligence, robots, and innovative drugs—termed the "new-new three" industries—are growing rapidly and expected to become new pillar sectors. He contrasted these with the earlier "new three" (EVs, batteries, solar) and "old three" (clothing, furniture, appliances), highlighting a shift from traditional goods exports to exports of systemic capabilities, such as algorithm development and clinical transformation. Yin cited data showing China’s open-source AI models surpassed 10 billion global downloads, industrial robot exports reached 6.29 billion yuan in the first half of the year, and innovative drug out-licensing deals totaled about $110 billion. He emphasized that this evolution reflects China’s deepening global role in high-tech and knowledge-intensive services, exemplified by Chinese firms enabling AI infrastructure in the Middle East, local language models in Europe, and ride-hailing innovation in South America.
Summary: The article reports on China's hydrogen energy development, highlighting its role in green transformation and decarbonization. Li Ruixia, manager of Sinopec's hydrogen division, stated that the Xinjiang Kuqa green hydrogen project has operated safely for over three years, reducing CO2 emissions by 485,000 tons annually. Yang Guanghao, director of China Iron & Steel Research Institute's hydrogen metallurgy center, noted that pure hydrogen metallurgy is a core path for steel industry decarbonization. Yang Yufeng, chairman of State Power Investment Corp's hydrogen technology arm, emphasized that cost reductions and technological breakthroughs are critical for commercial viability. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A senior expert from CNNC's nuclear control team reported that their fully domestically developed industrial internet platform has been deployed, achieving 100% localization from chips to applications to secure China's nuclear industry's digital foundation. The platform addresses long-standing "data islands" across nuclear power, fuel, and chemical facilities by replacing foreign-dependent systems with a self-controlled digital base. The team overcame challenges including seamless integration with domestic DCS, developing proprietary high-speed communication protocols and over 200 industrial models to enable millisecond data exchange. The platform has already supported a national-level intelligent manufacturing pilot, significantly improving design, testing, and production efficiency. The expert emphasized that this milestone strengthens technological self-reliance and safeguards national energy security.
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Summary: The article tells the story of Li Guose, a noodle shop owner in Cangnan, who for years quietly helped a mentally disabled elderly man by accepting his hand-drawn pictures and small coins in exchange for food, preserving the man’s dignity. Li and his wife treated the man kindly until his death in 2022, and Li’s act went viral after he posted videos online, earning him the title “Most Beautiful Cangnan Person.” The attention brought donations from strangers across China, which Li used to buy food and supplies for the elderly man. Li, who grew up receiving help from his village after losing his mother, later expanded his charity to include supporting impoverished elderly, students, and local farmers. The article is a human-interest feature with no direct discussion of U.S. or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article recounts a visit to Zeng Di (Zeng Embankment) in Jinan's Daming Lake, built by Song dynasty official and writer Zeng Gong, who served as prefect of Qizhou. It compares his legacy to other benevolent officials remembered through public works, such as Bai Juyi's Bai Di and Su Dongpo's Su Di in Hangzhou, and later Yang Mengying's Yang Gong Di. The author emphasizes that these names were given by grateful locals, not the officials themselves, reflecting a folk philosophy that those who serve the people are remembered. The piece concludes by linking this tradition to modern Communist Party figures like Jiao Yulu and Yang Shanyu, whose names are attached to enduring projects. No mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations appears in the article.
Summary: The article describes the author's journey tracing the source of Qujiang Creek in Jiangxi province, accompanied by their child, to revisit memories of logging from 30 years prior. It details the natural landscape, including the creek's flow through forests and a large dragon pool, and notes that decades of a logging ban have allowed the forest to regenerate. No political figures or references to the United States or U.S.-China relations are mentioned.
Summary: The poem celebrates the legendary figure Yu the Great, a symbol of water control and selfless service, and describes his statue standing by the Yellow River in Qingtong Gorge, where a temple was built in his honor. The speaker recalls a visit to Yu’s mausoleum in Jiangnan thirty years ago, where he wrote lines praising Yu as China’s first “model worker.” The poem emphasizes Yu’s enduring legacy over physical monuments, reflecting themes of governance and public duty relevant to Chinese political culture. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article describes traditional home-brewing practices in the countryside of southern Shaanxi, noting that men typically distill fruit-based spirits in autumn while women prepare a wheat-based wine around the Grain in Ear solar term. It details the process of making the wine starter from wildflowers and old starter, and the careful steps of cooking, fermenting, and aging the wheat grains. The narrative emphasizes the role of women in preserving this ritual as a celebration of harvest and a source of refreshment for laborers. There is no mention of any political officials, government statements, or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: In a Guizhou community, “Lusheng King” Wang Jingcai, a national-level inheritor of the Miao lusheng dance “Rolling Mountain Pearl,” was found teaching children at a training base with his son Li Feilong. Wang voiced concern that Li Feilong is too soft on students, saying children today avoid hardship and that rigorous practice is essential to master the difficult performance. He then had his grandson lead a group of young performers in an impressive bowl-balancing lusheng routine. Li Feilong said he is compiling his father’s teaching videos to support “intangible cultural heritage entering schools.”
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By: 本报记者 张 洋
The blue sea meets the sky, plants are lush and verdant, the scenery at Beidaihe is just right.
From August 1 to 7, invited by the Party Central Committee and the State Council, 60 outstanding expert talents from the fields of basic research, strategic frontier technology, key core technologies, and philosophy and social sciences gathered here to spend a carefully arranged period of rest and recuperation.
The Party Central Committee and the State Council inviting outstanding expert representatives to Beidaihe for summer vacation is an important institutional arrangement of the Party and the state's talent work. The theme of this year's vacation activities is "Striving Forward for the 'Fifteenth Five-Year Plan'." Over the few days, the experts both relaxed their bodies and minds and also discussed and exchanged knowledge. Everyone expressed that they are determined to take Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as the guide, and to continue to strive and make new contributions in their respective posts.
The sea breeze gently moistens people's hearts.
"On receiving the invitation letter at that moment, I read it word by word. This is a solemn invitation from the Party Central Committee and the State Council." Huang Hui (黄辉), a researcher at the China Academy of Engineering Physics (中国工程物理研究院) and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, could hardly contain his inner excitement. For decades as one day, he has focused on energetic materials research, making outstanding contributions to equipment construction, especially the significant improvement of safety.
Recognize talent, love talent, respect talent, use talent.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has placed talent work in a key position in the overall plan of governance, deeply implementing the strategy of strengthening the nation with talent in the new era, continuously transforming talent advantages into innovation advantages, competitive advantages, and development advantages.
On August 3, entrusted by General Secretary Xi Jinping, Cai Qi, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, visited the experts on summer vacation in Beidaihe. He encouraged the expert talents to carry forward fine traditions, carry forward the spirit of scientists, 踔厉奋发 (chuō lì fèn fā - "stride forward with vigor," to march forward energetically), pioneer and innovate, achieve new accomplishments in their respective fields, and make many new contributions to achieving decisive progress in basically realizing socialist modernization.
The experts were greatly inspired and immediately conveyed the care and concern of the Party Central Committee to their colleagues and peers who work side by side with them.
"I am usually very busy with work, and having this opportunity to come here is very touching and heartwarming." Zhu Kun (朱坤), Deputy Director of the Science and Technology Committee of China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said, "We often say 'the times forge heroes'. It is precisely this era that provides us with a broad stage for growth and success. We have caught up with good times, so we must go all out, live up to the times, and live up to the mission."
Cai Shujun (蔡树军), Chief Scientist of the China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, has long been engaged in semiconductor chip research. He said, "As the cornerstone of modern information society, chips have become a focus of great power competition. Everyone needs them, and the country also needs them. We must transform the care and concern of the Party Central Committee into strong motivation for doing our work well, strengthen confidence, struggle unremittingly, persistently work hard on chip technology, and strive to achieve better results."
During the vacation period, it happened to be a certain expert's birthday. Comrades from the Talent Work Bureau of the Central Organization Department had silently kept this date in mind ever since the vacation list was confirmed.
That evening, they held a cake and gently knocked on the door, offering sincere blessings. The expert tightly grasped the hand of the responsible comrade from the Talent Work Bureau, smiling so much that his mouth could not close. He spoke of the storms of the past, of the struggles before him, and especially of the organization's unwavering care and support over the years, saying excitedly, "Now I just work with all my might, work hard to do my job well!"
Outside the window, the sea breeze gusts, waves rumble. The waves of Beidaihe gently kiss the sand, also moistening the hearts of each vacationing expert.
Waves surging, condensationg sharp insights.
Is artificial intelligence becoming a "research partner" really reliable? How to solve the prominent problem of China's low rate of transformation of scientific and technological achievements? Although on vacation, thinking never stops. During the ride, at dinner tables, under the courtyard trees, on the beach strolls, there are always passionate exchanges.
One day, 88-year-old Qian Qihu (钱七虎) and 43-year-old Lu Chaoyang (陆朝阳) told each other's stories of tackling tough problems in their respective fields, which again resonated.
Qian Qihu, professor at the Army Engineering University of the People's Liberation Army and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. "More than 20 years ago, at a symposium, I proposed a suggestion – building underwater tunnels on the Yangtze River. At that time, mechanical equipment relied on imports. So many years have passed, not only have we built many underwater tunnels in the Yangtze River basin, but we also independently developed tunnel boring machines. Tunnel boring machines not only occupy the domestic market but also are exported to many countries and regions in Europe and Southeast Asia. Not only tunnel boring machines; China's automobile and shipbuilding industries have also entered the world's advanced ranks." He spoke slowly but firmly: "This progress is very fast. The leadership of the Party is the fundamental guarantee. Now, the Party Central Committee has proposed goals such as building a sci-tech power, an aerospace power, and a transportation power. We have confidence to achieve them." At this point, applause rose.
Lu Chaoyang, Executive Dean and professor of Shanghai Institute for Advanced Study, University of Science and Technology of China. He mainly engages in research on optical quantum, and last year with his team released China's latest generation of optical quantum computer "Jiuzhang No. 4". He said, "The "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" outline lists quantum technology at the top of future industries, which is an incentive and spur for scientific researchers. We must work hard diligently, be steady and solid, devote ourselves to scientific research with a rigorous and pragmatic attitude, and promote quantum technology to 行稳致远 (xíng wěn zhì yuǎn - "steady progress reaches far," to move forward steadily and go far)." This sense of responsibility also won rounds of applause.
The "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" period is an important stage for overcoming difficulties and breaking through barriers in the construction of a strong education, science, technology, and talent country. The experts combined their own experiences to talk about insights, share experiences, strengthen confidence, and boost motivation.
Cross-disciplinary exchange often gives birth to unexpected inspiration. Peng Shige (彭实戈), professor at Shandong University and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, with decades of scholarship insights, earnestly expounded the foundational role of basic mathematics research for national innovation. Just as he finished, Huang Dekuan (黄德宽), director of the Research and Conservation Center for Unearthed Texts at Tsinghua University, took over the conversation: "Science and technology advance; civilization must also develop in sync." He detailed the development of humanities disciplines since the new era, the expansion of the talent pool in "unpopular but essential" studies, and the solid progress of the "Project for the Inheritance and Development of Ancient Chinese Characters and the Chinese Civilization." He sighed, "Striving forward for the 'Fifteenth Five-Year Plan', we must maintain this momentum. Only when technological progress and cultural prosperity are dual wheels driving together can we better promote the continuous development of Chinese-style modernization."
Then, "Technology must create value in industry. Currently, AI+X=Y, what is Y?" A remark by Feng Junlan (冯俊兰), Chief Scientist of China Mobile Group, attracted many people's attention. Over the years, she and her team have researched, developed, and applied language processing and structured data analysis technology, deeply optimizing the construction and operation of China Mobile's customer service and communication networks; developing the "Jiutian" AI platform and models, empowering the production-type applications of dozens of large enterprises and institutions. "Enterprises are the main body of innovation. Striving forward for the 'Fifteenth Five-Year Plan', we must continue to deepen reform, improve talent introduction and use mechanisms, and promote deeper integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation with greater effort," Feng Junlan said.
The sea waves tirelessly strike the rocks, scattering jade-like foam, just like sparks of thought constantly bursting forth. 群贤毕至 (qún xián bì zhì - "all worthy people gather," all eminent talents arrive), wise people gather. The space of this resting place, due to the heat of thought, is more blazing than the sun.
Blue billows surge, broadening one's bosom.
"Tightly aligned with the major strategic needs of the nation, continuously adjust and optimize discipline settings, cultivate more national strategic talents and urgently needed talents."
"Strengthen the integration of industry and education, cultivate and produce more high-quality technical and skilled talents, great country craftsmen, and skilled artisans."
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Managing China's affairs well depends on the Party, depends on people, depends on talent. How to cultivate more outstanding talents is a key topic of expert exchange, and also a deep reflection on the future.
Westlake University is a new type of research university supported by social forces and key-supported by the state. How can a new type of university be run with novelty and high quality? Shi Yigong (施一公), President of Westlake University and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said, "We adhere to the 'small and refined' school-running orientation, uphold the governance policy of 'professors govern academics, administration manages the school, academic orientation determines administrative affairs,' resolutely break the 'four onlys' orientation of only papers, only titles, only degrees, only awards, and build a diverse, inclusive, free, and upward campus culture. We are the 'tinder,' the pathfinders, constantly exploring new paths and new practices for higher education and technological innovation."
Wang Enge (王恩哥), former Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, combined decades of teaching and research experience to share three points of educational insight: "First, tell students that doing physics and basic research is not difficult, cultivate students' interest in scientific research, and give people confidence. Second, discuss and exchange closely with students, deeply understand each student's ability level, and teach according to their aptitude. Third, help students as early as possible to throw themselves into broader spaces and stages, take on research tasks."
Focusing on accelerating the achievement of high-level self-reliance and self-strengthening in science and technology, focusing on the growth of young talents, Xie Xiaoliang (谢晓亮), Director of the Changping Laboratory (昌平实验室) and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, also expressed a clear view: "Scientific research resources should tilt toward young people with potential for original innovation, encourage them to take the lead; further optimize and improve the evaluation assessment system, guide young people to be willing to sit on cold benches and dare to gnaw hard bones."
Talents flourish, the nation's fortune rises.
During the vacation, the experts visited the Shanhaiguan China Great Wall Museum. In the exhibition halls, cultural relics are quietly displayed. Amidst the mottling, they bear the marks of years of beacon fire. 抚今追昔 (fǔ jīn zhuī xī - "touch the present, pursue the past," recall the past and compare it with the present), the Great Wall is no longer a defensive fortification built of bricks and stones, but has become the spiritual backbone of the Chinese nation's tenacity and 众志成城 (zhòng zhì chéng chéng - "unity of will becomes a fortress," unity is strength) — it spans across history and also stands in the hearts of generations.
"The path of scientific research has always been full of the unknown, full of dangers. Precisely because of this, we need to carry forward the spirit of scientists, calm the mind, continuously tackle key problems, and 笃行不怠 (dǔ xíng bù dài - "act steadfastly without slackening," to execute diligently without respite)." Chen Yuanliu (陈远流), Vice President and Distinguished Professor of the School of Mechanical Engineering at Zhejiang University, said, "Striving forward for the 'Fifteenth Five-Year Plan,' I will base myself on my post, resolutely implement the deployments and requirements of the Party Central Committee, solidly delve into basic research, focus on directions such as atomic-scale processing and detection, and strive to achieve original innovation breakthroughs."
"The starry sky is vast and infinite, exploration never ends. Glorifying the country is the original aspiration and mission of us astronauts. Being able to step forward when the Party and the people need it is the highest honor. We are always ready!" Cai Xuzhe (蔡旭哲), special-class astronaut of the PLA Astronaut Brigade, said.
The great tide surges, 千帆竞发 (qiān fān jìng fā - "a thousand sails compete," a multitude of sails vying to set out). On the grand journey of Chinese-style modernization, one after another talented figures of the era who ride the waves will, with even fuller passion, tread the waves and go forward without hesitation.
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From salary and benefits to promotion prospects, job seekers ask in detail; from job content to corporate culture, recruiters answer thoroughly. At a recent employment fair held at the Lin'gang campus of Yibin College (宜宾学院), over 200 employers in fields such as artificial intelligence, new energy, and biomedicine entered the venue, attracting more than 2,500 graduates to participate. Since March this year, Yibin College has held over 100 recruitment events of various types, providing nearly 10,000 positions to help graduates find better jobs and careers.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Strengthen the orientation of employment-first policies, implement actions to stabilize jobs, expand capacity, and improve quality, and make every effort to stabilize employment for key groups such as college graduates and migrant workers." The meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局) held on July 30 pointed out: "Multiple measures must be taken simultaneously to strengthen livelihood guarantees, increase support for employment of key groups, and do a good job protecting the rights and interests of flexible employment personnel and those in new forms of employment."
The "Implementation of the Employment-First Strategy: 15th Five-Year Plan" ((《实施就业优先战略“十五五”规划》) clarified the ideas, goals, key tasks, and policy measures for deeply implementing the employment-first strategy and promoting high-quality full employment during the 15th Five-Year Plan period. Since the beginning of this year, various regions and departments have treated employment as the top priority for people's livelihoods, implemented the plan's tasks, and rolled out a package of policy measures including stabilizing and expanding jobs, skills training, and assistance for the disadvantaged, going all out to stabilize the employment situation and improve employment quality.
Strengthen employment-first policies to stabilize and expand employment for key groups
"At first, I couldn't find the right direction for job matching. My counselor helped me optimize my resume, highlighting my practical ability in automotive equipment, and also pushed targeted recruitment information from companies," said Wang Bo (王波), a 2026 graduate of the Automotive Service Engineering major at Yibin College. He has now signed with Sichuan Hongsheng Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd., matching his major.
Ma Hongjiang (马洪江), Party Secretary of Yibin College, introduced that the school has established a precise assistance mechanism of "one file per person, one strategy per student," providing key groups such as zero-employment families and disabled graduates with at least three heart-to-heart talks, three employment guidance sessions, and three job recommendations, striving to ensure that 100% of key group graduates with employment intentions are placed.
In a supermarket in Chongqing, 41-year-old migrant worker Li Yong (李勇) was carefully organizing shopping carts. "I was injured and have mobility issues. Thanks to the employment assistance policy, I became a loss prevention officer at the supermarket, and my wife works here as a pastry chef," he said with relief. The workplace is close to home, and the couple's combined monthly income exceeds 7,000 yuan.
Supermarket store manager Zou Chuan (邹川) said that the dividends of the employment subsidy policy effectively supported the company's expansion, with the supermarket recruiting more than 80 new employees this year. In the first half of the year, Chongqing promoted nearby employment for 196,000 migrant workers, a year-on-year increase of 6.4%.
Issuing the "Stabilize Jobs, Expand Capacity, Improve Quality Action Plan" ((《稳岗扩容提质行动方案》) to support industries affected by the external environment in driving employment; continuing and optimizing the implementation of policies beneficial to enterprises and people such as stable job rebates, skill upgrade subsidies, and expansion subsidies to help labor-intensive enterprises stabilize positions; placing youth employment in a more prominent position and launching the 2026 college graduates and other youth employment service campaign… Since the beginning of this year, policy measures have been successively introduced to stabilize employment in key industries, tap employment potential, and improve employment quality.
"We will go all out to keep employment generally stable, maintain a considerable scale of new urban jobs, and make new progress in high-quality full employment," said a relevant official from the Planning and Finance Department of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源社会保障部规划财务司).
Improve the efficiency of person-job matching, strive to resolve structural employment contradictions
"After training, I found a job with a monthly salary of 6,000 yuan." At an elderly care service company in Lenɡshuitan District, Yongzhou City, Hunan Province (永州市冷水滩区), Pan Zhenglin (潘峥霖) skillfully performed daily care for disabled elderly people. Having left the workplace for many years, Pan Zhenglin had difficulty finding a job. "I saw on the 'Yongzhou Release' public account that the government was organizing skills training, so I signed up for the health caregiver order class. Now I have solid skills, a stable job, and life is getting better and better," said Pan Zhenglin with confidence.
On one hand, some workers face employment difficulties due to insufficient skill matching; on the other hand, hot industries face talent shortages. The structural contradiction of supply-demand mismatch is one of the blockages in employment work. Yongzhou innovatively launched a training model of "the public orders, the human resources and social security bureau assigns, institutions take orders, and enterprises place orders," focusing on scarce occupations such as AI trainers and drone operators. In the first half of the year, it organized training for 11,000 people, with over 5,000 successfully employed.
Efficient person-job matching is one of the important connotations of high-quality full employment at the macro level. A relevant official from the Department of Vocational Capacity Building of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源社会保障部职业能力建设司) said that China is thoroughly implementing the "Skills Light Up the Future" training action, focusing on organizing special training around AI technology and other areas. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, China will carry out more than 50 million subsidized vocational skills training sessions to better align with industries and serve employment.
Establish a broad concept of employment, build an employment-friendly development model
At 5 a.m., the lights were on at the Warm New Apartment in Wenhua Community, Qiaocheng District, Bozhou City, Anhui Province (安徽亳州市谯城区文化小区). 43-year-old delivery rider Chen Kui (陈魁) quietly got up and glanced back at his wife and children still asleep. The apartment, over 120 square meters, is now their warm home. "The furniture is all here, you can move in with just a bag, and the rent is much cheaper than the market," he said. In Bozhou, 979 sets of Warm New Apartments have been built to help new employment groups settle down.
After settling down, there is also the need for peace of mind. Recently, delivery rider Li Hao (李昊) working in Bozhou received occupational injury protection benefits. "From the injury to receiving the money, the human resources and social security department followed up throughout, and I felt very at ease."
Creating multi-level convenient services and new consumption entrepreneurship scenarios, building a friendly entrepreneurial ecosystem; rolling out the pilot of occupational injury protection for new forms of employment personnel nationwide to improve reform quality, efficiency, and coverage; developing a national employment public service map to facilitate job seekers finding work nearby… Various regions and departments have strengthened policy coordination, highlighted the employment-driving force of development, cultivated a good employment and entrepreneurship ecology, and promoted a virtuous cycle of economic growth and employment expansion and quality improvement.
"During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the supporting conditions and basic trend of China's economy remaining positive in the long run have not changed. We have confidence and ability to achieve a stable employment situation and good momentum," said a relevant official from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. He said that the ministry will fully implement the "four stabilities" requirements, deeply implement the employment-first strategy, strengthen orientation, expand channels, and protect key groups, continuously promoting new progress in high-quality full employment.
(Reported by our reporters Qiu Chaoyi (邱超奕), Liu Xinwu (刘新吾), You Yi (游仪), Sun Chao (孙超), Luo Yangqi (罗阳奇))
Return to TopSince the launch of the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the Jiangsu Hongze Lake Reserve has restored more than 15,000 mu of degraded wetlands and completed the return of 133,000 mu of fishing grounds to wetlands and polders to lake, continuously enhancing the stability of the wetland ecosystem. The photo, taken recently, shows wetland ecological artificial islets under orderly construction in Banzheng Town, Sihong County, Jiangsu, adjacent to Hongze Lake. Photo by Liu Ye (China Images)
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“Today, the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is 势不可挡 (shì bù kě dāng - “momentum cannot be stopped,” irresistible) and has exhibited unprecedented bright prospects.”
Looking across the land of China: the world’s most extensive high-speed rail network, the most complete industrial system, the strongest green energy grid, the largest social security system, and the most enormous and most comprehensive talent resources …
“Only we Chinese Communists have achieved this.” In October 2020, during an inspection in Shantou, Guangdong, General Secretary Xi Jinping stopped in front of a related planning map from Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s The Strategies for Nation Building and remarked with emotion.
What kind of long-term ruling Marxist political party to build and how to build a long-term ruling Marxist political party are major epochal issues that concern China’s future and destiny and influence the century-old transformation of the world. Xi Jinping’s thought on party building has great practical significance and long-term guiding significance for strengthening the party and the country.
General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out: “The reason why the Chinese Communist Party has been able to continuously forge brilliance in its 105 years of struggle, and the reason why history and the people have chosen the Chinese Communist Party, fundamentally lies in the fact that our party possesses excellent traits that other political parties and political forces cannot compare with.”
Observing the party’s excellent traits from the three perspectives of a mission-oriented party, a learning-oriented party, and an enabling party allows a deeper understanding of the statements: “The key to comprehensively building a modern socialist country and comprehensively advancing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation lies in the party,” and “China’s development prospects are bright; we have this confidence and this conviction”!
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The Chinese Communist Party is a “mission-oriented party” that “bravely shoulders historical missions and always grasps strategic initiative.”
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “Our party cherishes the lofty ideal of communism, is determined to achieve the perennial cause of the Chinese nation, firmly carries the heavy responsibilities given by history and the people on its shoulders, insists on unifying long-term goals with phased goals, adapts to changes in the principal social contradiction to establish central tasks, formulate and implement correct lines, principles and policies, and ensure it firmly grasps the leadership and initiative in undertaking development.”
Anchoring strategic goals, strengthening strategic thinking, scientifically formulating and implementing strategic plans, and always maintaining strategic focus, advancing step by step with firmness, continuously accumulating small victories into great victories — the “system of China” proves effective, and the “governance of China” highlights its advantages.
Three “dreams” give an intuitive key to understanding.
The “millennium-long moderately prosperous dream” reflects overall planning.
Since the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward the strategy of targeted poverty alleviation, led the entire party and the people of all ethnic groups in the country to win the largest-scale battle against poverty in human history, turning the ancient chant in the Book of Songs — “The people are also toiling, may they soon have a little ease” — into reality.
After accomplishing the first centenary goal, the strategic arrangement for comprehensively building a great modern socialist country was clearly set in “two steps.” The party unites and leads the Chinese people onto a new examination path toward achieving the second centenary goal.
From “in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, no one must be left behind” to “on the road to common prosperity, no one must be left astray,” goals are set scientifically one by one, and progress is advanced stage by stage. The Chinese Communist Party is the most reliable leading force that unites and leads the people in overcoming difficulties and forging ahead.
The “dream of becoming an automobile power” highlights forward-looking thinking.
Determining that developing new energy vehicles is the necessary path for China to transform from a big automobile country to a powerful automobile country, implementing the Energy-Saving and New Energy Vehicle Industry Development Plan (2012–2020), issuing the New Energy Vehicle Industry Development Plan (2021–2035) …
Seizing the historic opportunity of industrial transformation and low-carbon shift, “carrying out one blueprint to the end,” China’s new energy vehicles have been the global sales champion for 11 consecutive years, and the Chinese automobile industry has achieved a “lane-changing overtake.”
Correctly assessning the situation, keenly perceiving opportunities, being guided by long-term planning, and maintaining high policy continuity — our party foresee the future and lead the future through scientific strategy.
The “dream of rejuvenating the country through roads” reflects sustained struggle.
Today, the world’s largest high-speed railway network, expressway network, information and communication network … a mobile China has long surpased the road-building dream in The Strategies for Nation Building.
Building the He-ruo Railway in the vast desert, laying the Sichuan-Tibet Railway on the “Roof of the World,” opening two Chengdu-Kunming Railways in the “forbidden zone for railway construction” … Our party “once a strategy is formed, must be persised in for the long term, grasped unyilyingly, and executed well to achieve resultados.”
Strengthening the planning and construction of the “six networks,” mantaining the “modderately advanced” nature of modern infrastructure, “all matters beneficial to the party and the people, we must not avoid difficulties nor shirk responsibilities, but act boldly and resolutely.”
The road-building dream, the moderately prosperous dream, the power dream … in the final analysis, they are the people’s “happiness dream.” Seeking happiness for the people is precisely the value gist of all struggles of the Chinese Communist Party.
Just as Alberto Moreno, chairman of the Peruvian Communist Party (Red Fatherland), remarked, “Without the Chinese Communist Party, there would be no China today, and no China’s astonishing development achievements.”
On the new journey, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Xi Jinping at its core, combining strategic firmness with tactical flexibility to push forward Chinese-style modernization, we possess incomparable historical confidence and grasp firm historical initiative.
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The Chinese Communist Party is a “learning-oriented party” that is “dedicated to pursing truth and always keeps the forward direction right.”
Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, born out of the “two integrations” and the great practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era, is systematic, complete, logically rigorous, rich in content, and broad and profound; it is the guiding ideology and action guide of the entire party, the entire army, and the people of all ethnic groups in the country.
In September 2020, at the Yuelu Academy (岳麓书院) in Hunan, General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out: “How could the Communist Party succeed? Back then in Shikumen, on a small boat on South Lake, just a dozen people — to today’s state. The path along the way must be clearly understood; the truth must be indigenized.”
In June 2026, at the National Party Building Work Forum, it was clarified that studying and implementing Xi Jinping’s thought on party building is an important political task for the entire party at present and for a certain period to come.
Building the party ideologically and strengthening the party theoretically are unique advantages and historical experience that our party has tempered and formed in the course of struggle.
“Constantly guiding new practice with new theory, ensuring that the cause of the party and the people advances in the correct direction.”
Whenever a major historical juncture approaches, our party always calls on the entire party to step up learning.
Three “lessons” provide a perspective for observation.
Global growth is sluggish, and domestically there is the “overlap of three periods” — should we continue extensive development, or blaze a new path of high-quality development?
In 2016, at the “first lesson” of the opening year of the 13th Five-Year Plan, General Secretary Xi Jinping explicitly said: “To establish the new development concept, we need to learn contantly, deeply, and persistently, and establish from the depths of the soul a consciousness and confidence in the new development concept.”
Economic deglobalization is rising; the “large import and large export” model is unsustainable. Faced with external suppression and containment, how to achieve high-level self-reliance and self-improvement?
In 2021, at the “first lesson” of the opening year of the 14th Five-Year Plan, General Secretary Xi Jinping stated from an eminent perspective: Constructing a new development pattern “is a strategic layout and a preemptive move to grasp the initiative in future development.”
Scientific and technological innovation advances by leaps and bounds; social change is broad and deep; new things emerge endlessly; some cadres have developed a “skill panick.”
In 2026, at the “first lesson” of the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: “Solving this problem still relies on learning. The priority is to study the party’s innovative theories deeply, thoroughly comprehend the Party Central Committee’s major policies and decisions, and improve political capability and strategic thinking.”
“A nation that wants to stay at the forefront of the times must never be without theoretical thinking, and must never be without correct ideological guidance.”
Since the new era, 9 rounds of centralized education within the party, along with regular education, have been carried out successively, arming the mind with the party’s innovative theory, deepening the root of theory for the entire party, casting the soul of faith, consolidating the foundation of capability, and delivering the key to practice.
A governing party led by advanced thought implements the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee more resolutely and effectively, unites and leads the people to concentrate on doing its own things well, and stimulates the creativity and innovation vitality of the whole society.
Since the new era, China has always been a stable and reliable source of power for world economic development. The 2025 Global Future Industries Index Report shows that China’s comprehensive score surpassed that of the United States for the first time, moving to the top spot.
“The Chinese Communists have relied on learning to get to where they are today, and they will inevitably rely on learning to move toward the future.”
On the new journey, unstintingly using Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to consolidate the soul and shape the heart, constantly realizing the transformation from “theoretical armament” to “theoretical weapon,” we will surely grasp historical opportunities, lead the pace of the times, and open up new vistas in the development of our cause.
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The Chinese Communist Party is an “enabling-type party,” and China is an “enabling-type big country” that “conforms to the development trend and always walks at the forefront of the times.”
Always standing on the correct side of history and on the side of human civilization progress, the Chinese Communist Party seeks happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation, and also seeks progress for humanity and universal harmony for the world.
From putting forward the major concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind to promoting the implementation of the four global initiatives, providing a new era answer to the question “what kind of world to build and how to build it” … the big-party sentiment of “taking the people’s heart as one’s own heart and the world’s benefit as one’s own benefit” becomes 历久弥坚 (lì jiǔ mí jiān – “grows stronger over time,” enduring and strengthening).
Being in a century of great changes, scientific and technological innovation is the key variable.
The Chinese approach to artificial intelligence marks the value coordinates.
Accelerating the development of the new generation of artificial intelligence is an important strategic grip to win the initiative in global technological competition and a crucial strategic resource to drive a comprehensive leap in productive forces.
For such a strategic technology, does one dominate the world with hegemonic thinking, or build consensus through collaborative governance?
“Join hands with all countries to create an open, fair, just, and non-discriminatory environment for scientific and technological development”;
“Artificial intelligence should be an international public good that benefits all of humaninity”;
“Make artificial intelligence an important driver for promoting common prosperity and safeguarding common security, and work together to build a fair and reasonable global AI governance system”.
From the 2021 World Economic Forum “Davos Agenda” dialogue, to the 2025 World Smart Industry Expo, to the 2026 World AI Conference and High-level Meeting on Global AI Governance – a special message, a letter of congratulation, and a keynote speech by General Secretary Xi Jinping each demonstrates the demeanor of a leader of a major party and big country tackling global frontier issues.
Maneuvering the general trend, upholding great justice.
China put forward the Global AI Governance Initiative, launched the AI Capacity Building Inclusive Plan and the AI Global Governance Action Plan, and proposed the establishment of a World AI Cooperation Organization, refecting the profound insight of “drawing on and absorbing all excellent civilizational achievements of humanity with the inclusive breadth of 海纳百川 (hǎi nà bǎi chuān – “the sea admits hundreds of rivers,” being inclusive and embracing all streams).
As the world’s largest holder of artificial intelligence patents, does one exclude dissidents with zero-sum game mentalty, or tolerate differences with the culture of harmony and cooperatoin?
“The development of AI should not be a solo performance by one country, but a symphony of global cooperatoin.”
Cherishing the bigger picture, treading the great way.
Developing open-source large language models, with downloads ranking first in the world; releasing “Xiangshan” and “Ruyi,” offering open-source design drawings of high-performance chips and cost-effective tools; the weather intelligence early warning solution “Mazu” being applied in multiple countries …
Promoting cooperatoin through open source, replacing monopoly with enablement, advancing win-win through sharing, helping developing countries bridge the digital-intelegence divide, demonstratting the big-country responsibility of “providing new opportunities for the world with China’s new development,” embodying the perspicacity that “true development means everyone develops together.”
“Mutuual respect, work together with one hearth, and harmonous coexistance 和衷共济 (hé zhōng gòng jì – “work with one heart and one mind,” cooperatoin in common cause) is the correct path for human civilizational development.” This is not only the solemn commitment of a responsible major country, but also the global vision of an “enabling-type party.”
The Belt and Road Initiative cooperatoin, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the International Mediation Organization … institutional-type public goods contribute Chinese solutions to global governance.
China always enables development transformation with ideals and values, enhances global prosperity with its own development, opens a new path for humanity toward modernization, and creates a new form of human civilization.
The 105-year glorious history of the Chinese Communist Party makes us proud, but we must not become arrogant or complacent and 止步不前 (zhǐ bù bù qián – “stop and not advance,” remain stuck) .
On the new journey, deeply understand the decisive signifance of the “two establishments” (两个确立), strengthen the “four consciousnesses” (四个意识), firm up the “four confidences” (四个自信), and achieve the “two upholds” (两个维护), stablize confidence, continue the struggle, constantly create new achievements worthy of the times and the people. “Our golden world, a world of radiant splendor, lies ahead”!
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Wheat Fragrance for a Millennium, Flavor Ever New
By Yu Jingxian (郁静娴)
A lump of dough, springy and supple; take a bite, and homesickness lingers.
"Noodles follow the course of the Yellow River" — its nine bends and eighteen twists give birth to gamiànpiàn (pulled noodle slices), héle (coarse noodles pressed through a sieve), cuōyú (hand-rolled noodle "fish"), huìmiàn (braised noodles), and more. In the Jiangnan region, one finds mostly xiǎolóngbāo (steamed soup dumplings), crystal zhēngjiǎo (steamed dumplings), and the like. Spring pancakes for the Start of Spring, cold noodles in summer, flower-shaped steamed buns for the New Year... as the seasons turn, all kinds of wheat foods accompany us from dawn to dusk, blending into people's three meals and four seasons.
Historical records show that after wheat was introduced to China, it took root in the Yellow River basin for thousands of years. With improvements in cultivation and milling techniques, and advances in stoves and cooking utensils, wheat foods evolved into local specialties with strong regional characteristics. Strands of wheat fragrance have become an important and distinctive culinary symbol across the land of China. Today, China's perennial wheat planting area reaches 350 million mu, with total output exceeding 130 million tons for many consecutive years, accounting for 17% of the global total, making it the world's largest wheat producer and consumer.
Diversified demand has also made this wheat plant more resilient and higher in quality. In recent years, wheat variety breeding has shifted from a single-minded pursuit of yield to a comprehensive performance improvement that combines high yield, high quality, multiple resistances, and broad adaptability, continuously breaking through the traditional bottleneck where high yield and stress resistance are difficult to achieve simultaneously. A batch of new superior varieties has moved from the laboratory to the field, supported by technology innovation and integration such as green and efficient cultivation, making production more capable of coping with diseases and disasters like lodging, pre-harvest sprouting, and Fusarium head blight, while also better meeting the refined quality requirements of different wheat foods — noodles, steamed buns, crispy pastries, and so on — continuously unleashing people's culinary imagination.
For thousands of years, our expectation for a bountiful harvest has been 始终如一 (shǐ zhōng rú yī - "from beginning to end as one," constant and unchanging). This summer harvest, the per-mu yield of wheat reached 402.6 kilograms, an increase of 0.9%. This was achieved even though the previous year saw prolonged rains in the Huang-Huai-Hai region and large-scale late sowing of winter wheat. In the thick wheat fragrance is not only the continuity of farming civilization but also, with the help of modern science and technology, an ever-deepening confidence in the harvest.
"Xinmai 45"
A Bowl of Huìmiàn Eases Homesickness
By Zhang Wenhao (张文豪), Staff Reporter
Wide noodles like jade, with a faint wheat fragrance; a few slices of lamb placed in the bowl, wood ear fungus, goji berries, and greens interspersed; chili oil and sweet garlic cloves added to taste. Gently lifted with chopsticks, the noodles are soft and elastic, the broth clear and bright. A bowl of huìmiàn, with noodles, soup, meat, and vegetables all together, can often dispel the homesickness of a traveler far from home.
Henan's total wheat output accounts for about one-quarter of the national total, but not all varieties are suitable for making huìmiàn. Jiang Zhikai (蒋志凯), director of the Wheat Research Institute of the Xinxiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences (新乡市农业科学院), explains: The dough stability time of conventional medium-gluten wheat is mostly within 5 minutes; the elasticity and toughness of the huìmiàn processed from it are insufficient, and when pulling the noodles they break easily, and when cooking they cloud the soup. Often it is necessary to blend in strong-gluten wheat to meet the processing characteristics and texture requirements of huìmiàn.
At the flour milling workshop of Wudeli Group (五得利集团) Xinxiang Flour Co., Ltd., after processes of cleaning, tempering, grinding, sifting, and blending, each grain of wheat becomes fine, white flour. Xu Jing (许晶), quality control manager, explains that the factory produces special flour for huìmiàn and dynamically adjusts it according to the gluten strength of each batch of raw wheat, "ensuring that the gluten strength and texture are stable and consistent."
The key raw material for blending flour at local flour enterprises is the independently bred varieties "Xinmai 26" and "Xinmai 45" from the Xinxiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences. "Xinmai 26" is one of the first four super-strong-gluten wheat varieties recognized in China; its flour has high water absorption and good extensibility, and the dough stability time can reach more than 20 minutes, with outstanding gluten-enhancing effect. While retaining the original characteristics of "Xinmai 26," "Xinmai 45" has been improved through dwarfing breeding and yield trait improvement, raising its yield and expanding its range of applicability. To date, "Xinmai 26" has been promoted cumulatively over an area exceeding 100 million mu, creating economic benefits of 12.6 billion yuan. "Xinmai 45" has been promoted in many places, and in 2025 it was selected as a leading agricultural variety in Henan Province, filling the supply gap for high-quality raw materials in domestic high-end wheat foods.
Good seeds go into the field, and dividends reach the farmers directly. "I have transferred 5,000 mu of farmland and planted all of it with the 'Xinmai' varieties; the per-mu yield stays at 600 to 650 kilograms," says Ma Youyong (马有永), a large grain grower from Zhaipo Town, Xinxiang County, Xinxiang City. He started trial planting "Xinmai 26" in 2012, and in recent years has expanded to "Xinmai 45," with the purchase price per catty 0.1 to 0.3 yuan higher than that of ordinary commercial wheat.
The granary of the Central Plains, the fragrance of wheat foods wafts far and wide. Behind a bowl of springy, high-quality huìmiàn is a vivid microcosm of how the seed industry empowers the people's dining table. Good seeds are still being iterated and optimized, and the story of "Xinmai" is being continued in the Central Plains.
"Luyan 951"
A Crispy Pastry Holds Fresh Fragrance
By Li Rui (李蕊), Staff Reporter
Hot oil sizzles, a handful of scallions is sprinkled in; between the layers of crispy crust of the flatbread, wheat fragrance and onion fragrance intertwine and "dance." Take a bite — the outer skin is crisp, the inside soft. After a day of labor, eating a hot scallion oil pancake is a solid comfort.
In Cao County (曹县), Heze, Shandong, scallion oil pancakes are everywhere — on home stoves and in snack shops. This seemingly simple wheat food actually has rather specific requirements for the flour. Only by using medium-gluten flour with moderate protein content and balanced gluten quality can one knead a dough with exactly the right extensibility — strong enough to support the layered, flaky structure yet still chewy.
In Cao County, much of the recognized good flour for baking pancakes comes from the locally grown "Luyan 951." This variety was jointly bred by the Crop Research Institute of the Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences (山东省农业科学院作物研究所) and Shandong Luyan Agricultural Good Seed Co., Ltd. (山东鲁研农业良种有限公司), and is a cross between "Luyuan 502" and "Jimai 22," both of which have been selected as national backbone wheat varieties.
"Variety breeding is a long race against time," explains Li Peng (李鹏), a researcher at the Crop Research Institute of the Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences. In 2010, they assembled the cross combination, and over the following more than ten years, every wheat plant had to undergo repeated observation, comparison, and screening until "Luyan 951" finally 脱颖而出 (tuō yǐng ér chū - "to stand out from the crowd," to emerge as outstanding).
In Li Peng's memory, there is no "off-season" in their calendar. "The more it's windy, rainy, or extreme weather, the more we have to run to the fields. Only under adversity can you see a variety's true resistance."
In recent years, the pace of promoting "Luyan 951" has been accelerating. Li Xiaoming (李晓明), deputy general manager of Shandong Luyan Agricultural Good Seed Co., Ltd., says that in 2023 the provincial planting area was only 30,000 mu, but by 2025 it had exceeded 5.4 million mu.
In Cao County, this good seed has covered 26 towns and subdistricts, with a planting area of 120,000 mu. The average per-mu yield for the 2025–2026 season was 520 kilograms, more than 1% higher than local conventional varieties. "Its wheat ears are standard spindle-shaped, the ear layer is neat with good ripening appearance, and its disease resistance and lodging resistance are outstanding," says Li Rufeng (李汝锋), head of the Agricultural Technology Extension Section of the Cao County Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau. "We must let good seeds produce good yields and good quality."
"Jiemai 20"
A Basket of Mianhua (Steamed Flower Buns) Embodies Craftsmanship
By Shao Yuzi (邵玉姿), Staff Reporter
Steamed mianhua (flower-shaped buns) are a dual gift to taste and sight: a touch of crimson lightly suffusing the plain white wheat flour surface; gently break it open, the interior texture is fluffy yet springy; one bite, soft-elastic and subtly sweet. In Cangzhou, Hebei, inside the mianhua production workshop of Dijian Food Co., Ltd. (帝鉴食品有限公司), steam rises as baskets upon baskets of mianhua shaped like fish, shrimp, sheep, and more come out fresh from the steamer, wheat fragrance spreading all around.
Awakening lions holding blessings, three-dimensional longevity peaches, exquisite fortune pouches, wheat-ear twisted dough sticks... colored with natural fruit and vegetable juices, combining traditional mianhua making techniques with delicate huabobo (ornamental steamed bun) crafting methods — at the Xihe Huabobo (喜禾花饽饽) pastry shop in Xinhua District, Cangzhou, these baskets of mianhua are being "played" with many new twists.
"Mianhua made with drought-alkali-tolerant wheat has a rich wheat fragrance, a springy texture, and the more you chew the more flavorful it becomes — this is a taste unique to saline-alkali land," says Sun Jianjun (孙建军), a representative inheritor of the Huanghua (黄骅) mianhua making technique, a Hebei provincial-level intangible cultural heritage.
The unique flavor comes from each precious wheat seed.
"Growing grain on saline-alkali land is living at the mercy of the weather. I remember as a child the per-mu yield was only a few tens of catties," says Zhang Weijun (张卫军), a local agricultural technology expert. Determined to produce more and better grain from saline-alkali land, he threw himself into breeding work and has been at it for over 40 years.
"Developing a good seed variety — from initial cultivation, continuous testing, identification and screening, to final approval — often takes six or seven years or even longer," Zhang Weijun says. With persistent tenacity, in 2015 he and his team officially passed the approval of "Jiemai 19," a new drought-alkali-tolerant wheat variety systematically selected from "Jimai 32."
"'Jiemai 19''s biggest characteristics are drought tolerance and salt-alkali tolerance, and the per-mu yield was immediately raised to about 260 kilograms." After "Jiemai 19" was promoted, Zhang Weijun shifted his work focus to cultivating the hybrid variety "Jiemai 20." Compared to "Jiemai 19," "Jiemai 20" has fuller grains, higher test weight, shorter plant height, and stronger lodging resistance, with per-mu yield raised to about 300 kilograms. It is being accelerated in promotion over the past two years.
One good seed activates an entire industry. Since 2023, Cangzhou has bred 8 new drought-alkali-tolerant wheat varieties, built a breeding base of 102,200 mu, and the good seeds are also being sold to Shandong and other places. In 2026, the summer harvest area of drought-alkali-tolerant wheat in Cangzhou reached 2.0585 million mu, with an average per-mu yield of 305.4 kilograms and a total output of 628,600 tons, all new highs. The city's annual processing capacity for drought-alkali-tolerant wheat has exceeded one million tons, and the total value of the entire industry chain has surpassed 10 billion yuan.
"Liangchun 1758"
A Baked Naan (Flatbread) Carries the Hearth's Smoke
By Jiang Yunlong (蒋云龙), Staff Reporter
At 7 a.m. in Hami, Xinjiang, the fragrance of hot naan flatbread already permeates the streets and alleys.
Following the scent, at the naan shop at the alley entrance, a dozen young men are busy: kneading dough, rolling it out, pressing sesame seeds on it, putting it into the naan pit... When the golden, oil-bright naan "flies" from the pit onto the workbench, the steam carries the wheat fragrance in waves toward the queuing customers.
"The dough must be proofed for a full 6 hours, and the naan pit temperature must be stable at 280 degrees Celsius. If I relax even a bit, the texture will be much worse," says the shop owner, Adili Abulimiti (阿迪力·阿不力米提).
Just out of the pit, the hot naan is crisp on the outside, crunchy in the middle, soft at the edges, and tender inside, carrying the fruity and smoky aroma of the pit's charcoal.
"The secret of the delicious taste lies in the flour," Adili Abulimiti says. The Xinjiang spring wheat they use is produced in the cool, high-altitude wheat fields of Barkol Kazakh Autonomous County (巴里坤哈萨克自治县), more than 100 kilometers away.
Located on the northern slope of the Eastern Tianshan Mountains, Barkol has a high altitude, a cool climate, and abundant sunlight, making it one of Xinjiang's main spring wheat production areas. The local area is advancing a multi-year campaign of good seed cultivation and technological upgrading.
"We have collected more than 70 high-quality new varieties from across the country and set up multi-point trial fields in Barkol," explains Li Li (李丽), head of the Grain and Cash Crop Technology Section of the Hami Agricultural and Agricultural Machinery Technology Extension Service Center. Agricultural technicians are rooted in the fields, carrying out full-cycle systematic evaluations of cold tolerance, stress resistance, lodging resistance, yield stability, processing suitability, and more.
Among them, "Liangchun 1758," bred by the Spring Wheat Breeding Innovation Team of the Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences (新疆维吾尔自治区农业科学院), stood out. It possesses characteristics such as early tillering, high tiller ear-forming rate, high thousand-grain weight, and excellent quality. In 2023, this variety set a national record for small-area high yield of high-quality spring wheat. In 2024, the hundred-mu high-yield demonstration field in Kuisu Town, Barkol, achieved an average per-mu yield of 796.1 kilograms, setting a national record for the highest actual harvested per-mu yield of a spring wheat hundred-mu plot.
"In the past, our wheat per-mu yield was only about 400 kilograms; now it's close to 700 kilograms. Especially 'Liangchun 1758,' it suits the climate here very well," says Li Zhiqiang (李志强), head of the Denong Planting Cooperative (德农种植专业合作社) in Barkol County. "The cooperative has planted 7,000 mu of wheat, and this year will be another bumper harvest."
This issue coordinated by: Qi Jiarun (祁嘉润), Cui Bin (崔斌)
Layout design: Zhang Fangman (张芳曼)
Data sources: China Wheat Industry Expert Group of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, National Wheat Industry Technology System
Beijing, August 9 (Reporter Li Xinping (李心萍)) — The reporter learned from the National Bureau of Statistics that in July, affected by international input factors, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) fell 0.1% month-on-month and rose 0.5% year-on-year; the core CPI excluding food and energy prices rose 0.3% month-on-month and 0.9% year-on-year; the CPI overall maintained a moderate increase. On average from January to July, the national CPI rose 0.9% compared with the same period of the previous year.
In July, the national CPI rose 0.5% year-on-year. Among them, urban areas rose 0.5%, rural areas rose 0.4%; food prices fell 1.5%, non-food prices rose 0.9%; consumer goods prices rose 0.2%, services prices rose 0.7%. The year-on-year increase in CPI fell 0.5 percentage points from the previous month, mainly affected by the narrowing of the increase in gasoline prices.
In July, the national CPI fell 0.1% month-on-month, with the decline narrowing by 0.2 percentage points from the previous month. Among them, urban areas fell 0.1%, rural areas fell 0.2%; food prices were flat, non-food prices fell 0.1%; consumer goods prices fell 0.6%, services prices rose 0.4%. Fluctuations in international market prices affected domestic gasoline prices to fall 10.7%, with the decline expanding by 5.8 percentage points from the previous month, affecting the month-on-month CPI decline by about 0.35 percentage points. Food prices were flat compared with the previous month, 0.6 percentage points lower than the seasonal level.
In addition, although demand in some domestic industries increased, affected by input and seasonal factors, the Producer Price Index (PPI) in July fell 0.7% month-on-month and rose 3.5% year-on-year, with the increase falling 0.6 percentage points from the previous month.
Return to TopBeijing, August 9 (Xinhua) — (Reporter Lin Lili (林丽鹂)) Data released by the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局) show: in the first half of the year, 561,000 new enterprises related to the "eight major emerging industries + nine major future industries" were established nationwide, maintaining a stable growth trend and injecting a living source of water to drive the development of new quality productive forces (新质生产力). Among them, 55,000 new enterprises were established in the generative artificial intelligence field, a year-on-year increase of 28.0%; 116,000 new enterprises were established in the humanoid robot field, an increase of 9.5%; new industries and new tracks are accelerating the formation of new economic growth points.
Business entities related to the service sector showed outstanding highlights. The service sector established 3.957 million new enterprises, flat compared with the same period last year, injecting new momentum into expanding domestic demand and promoting consumption. High-tech service industries accelerated their growth: information transmission and software information technology services established 322,000 new enterprises, up 3.3% year-on-year; inspection and testing services established 16,000 new enterprises, up 43.9%; science and technology achievement transformation services established 459,000 new enterprises, up 6.8%.
The pace of transformation and upgrading of manufacturing enterprises accelerated. The equipment manufacturing industry advanced toward the high end. In the first half of the year, the high-end equipment manufacturing industry established 28,000 new enterprises, a year-on-year increase of 2.5%. Among them, the intelligent equipment manufacturing industry grew by 6.4%, and the urban rail equipment manufacturing industry grew by 4.4%. The high-tech manufacturing industry showed strong growth momentum. As of the end of June, the total number of high-tech manufacturing enterprises reached 330,000, with 15,000 newly established in the first half of the year. Among them, the spacecraft and launch vehicle manufacturing industry saw a year-on-year increase of 185.7% in new enterprises, the optical fiber and optical cable manufacturing industry grew by 129.4%, and the integrated circuit manufacturing industry grew by 24.2%.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张 洋
The azure sea meets the sky, lush vegetation thrives, and the scenery of Beidaihe is at its finest.
From August 1 to 7, at the invitation of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council, sixty outstanding expert talents from the fields of basic research, strategic frontier science and technology, core key technologies, and philosophy and social sciences gathered here, spending a carefully arranged period of rest and recuperation.
The invitation by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council for outstanding expert representatives to take summer leave in Beidaihe is an important institutional arrangement of the Party and the state's talent work. The theme of this year's leave activity is "Striving Forward for the Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" (十五五). Over these days, the experts both relaxed their minds and bodies and exchanged academic insights. Everyone expressed that they are determined to take Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as their guide, continuing to strive and make new achievements in their respective positions.
The sea breeze gently refreshes the heart
"The moment I received the invitation letter, I read it word by word; this is a solemn invitation from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council." Huang Hui (黄辉), a researcher at the China Academy of Engineering Physics (中国工程物理研究院) and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, could hardly contain his inner excitement. He has focused on the study of energetic materials for decades, making outstanding contributions to equipment construction, especially the significant improvement of safety.
Recognize talent, cherish talent, respect talent, employ talent.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has placed talent work in a key position within the overall plan of national governance, deeply implementing the strategy of strengthening the nation through talent in the new era, with talent advantages continuously transforming into innovation advantages, competitive advantages, and development advantages.
On August 3, entrusted by General Secretary Xi Jinping, Cai Qi (蔡奇), Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee, visited the experts on summer leave in Beidaihe. He encouraged the expert talents to carry forward fine traditions, promote the scientist spirit, 踔厉奋发 (chuō lì fèn fā - "stride forward with vigor and determination," to forge ahead with drive), blaze new trails and innovate, achieve new accomplishments in their respective fields, and make new contributions to securing decisive progress in basically realizing socialist modernization.
The experts were greatly encouraged and promptly conveyed the care and concern of the Central Committee to their colleagues and peers working alongside them.
"I am usually very busy with work. Having this opportunity to come here is deeply moving and heart-warming," said Zhu Kun (朱坤), Deputy Director of the Science and Technology Committee of China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (航天科工集团) and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. "We often say 'the times forge heroes.' It is precisely this era that has provided us with a broad stage for growth and development. We have encountered good times, so we must give it our all, live up to the times, and live up to our mission."
Cai Shujun (蔡树军), Chief Scientist of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (中国电科集团), has long been engaged in semiconductor chip research. He said, "As the cornerstone of the modern information society, chips have become a focal point of great power competition. No individual can do without them, nor can the nation. We must turn the Central Committee's care and concern into a powerful driving force for doing our work well, strengthen our confidence, strive tirelessly, and persistently delve into chip process research, striving for better results."
During the leave period, it happened to be one expert's birthday. Colleagues from the Talent Work Bureau of the Central Organization Department had silently noted this date as soon as the leave list was confirmed.
That evening, holding a cake, they gently knocked on the door to offer sincere birthday wishes. The expert, tightly gripping the hands of the relevant responsible comrade from the Talent Work Bureau, beamed with joy. He spoke of past hardships, current struggles, and the organization's unwavering care and support over the years, saying with emotion, "Right now, I just work with all my might, working desperately to do my job well!"
Outside the window, the sea breeze gently blows, waves rumble. The waves of Beidaihe gently kiss the beach, and they also moisten the hearts of every expert on leave.
Waves surging, coalescing insights
Artificial intelligence becoming a "research partner" — is it really reliable? How to solve the prominent problem of the low conversion rate of China's scientific and technological achievements? Although on leave, thoughts never cease. On bus rides, during meals, under courtyard shade, while strolling on the beach — there are always earnest exchanges.
One day, 88-year-old Qian Qihu (钱七虎) and 43-year-old Lu Chaoyang (陆朝阳) shared stories of tackling tough problems in their respective fields, resonating deeply.
Qian Qihu, a professor at the Army Engineering University of the People's Liberation Army (中国人民解放军陆军工程大学) and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. "More than 20 years ago, at a symposium, I made a suggestion — to build underwater tunnels in the Yangtze River. At that time, mechanical equipment relied on imports. So many years have passed. We have not only built many underwater tunnels in the Yangtze River basin, but also independently developed tunnel boring machines (TBMs). TBMs have not only captured the domestic market but are also exported to numerous countries and regions like Europe, Southeast Asia, etc. It's not only TBMs; China's automobile and shipbuilding industries have also entered the world's advanced ranks." His tone was slow but firm. "This progress has been very fast. The Party's leadership is the fundamental guarantee. Now, the Central Committee has proposed goals like building a sci-tech powerhouse, a space powerhouse, and a transportation powerhouse. We are confident we can achieve them." At this point, applause erupted.
Lu Chaoyang, Executive Dean and Professor of the Shanghai Research Institute of the University of Science and Technology of China (中国科学技术大学上海研究院). He mainly conducts research on optical quantum aspects. Last year, he and his team unveiled China's newest generation optical quantum computer, "Jiuzhang IV" (九章四号). He said, "The outline of the 'Fifteenth Five-Year Plan' lists quantum technology as the foremost among future industries. This is both an encouragement and a spur for scientific researchers. We must study diligently, work steadily and surely, devote ourselves to scientific research with a rigorous and realistic attitude, and promote the 行稳致远 (xíng wěn zhì yuǎn - "walk steadily to reach far," to advance steadily and achieve lasting success) of quantum technology." This sense of responsibility also won rounds of applause.
The period of the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" is an important stage for overcoming difficulties and breaching key barriers in building a strong educational, technological, and talent nation. Combining their own experiences, the experts shared insights, discussed experiences, strengthened confidence, and boosted motivation.
Cros-disciplinary exchanges often breed unexpected inspiration. Peng Shige (彭实戈), a professor at Shandong University and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, elaborated for decades on the foundational role of basic mathematics research for national innovation. As soon as he finished speaking, Huang Dekuan (黄德宽), Director of the Research and Conservation Center for Unearched Documents at Tsinghua University (清华大学出土文献研究与保护中心), took up the thread: "As technology advances, civilization must also develop in step." He detailed the development of humanities disciplines since the new era, the growth of the talent pool in "niche and esoteric studies" (冷门绝学), and the solid progress of the "Ancient Characters and Chinese Civilization Inheritance and Development Project" (古文字与中华文明传承发展工程). He exclaimed, "Striving forward for the 'Fifteenth Five-Year Plan, we must maintain this momentum. Only when scientific and technological progress and cultural prosperity advance on twin tracks can we better promote the continuous development of Chinese modernization."
Then, "Technology must create value in industry. Currently, AI+X=Y, what is Y?" A remark from Feng Junlan (冯俊兰), Chief Scientist of China Mobile Group (中国移动集团), drew many people's attention. Over the years, she and her team have researched and developed applied language processing and structured data analysis technologies, deeply optimized the construction and operation of China Mobile's customer service and communication networks, and developed the "Jiutian" (九天) AI platform and models, empowering production applications for dozens of large enterprises and institutions. "Enterprises are the main bodies of innovation. Striving forward for the 'Fifteenth Five-Year Plan, we must continue to deepen reForm, improve the mechanism for talent introduction and utilization, and promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation with greater vigor," Feng Junlan said.
The sea waves tirelessly pound the reefs, sending up spay like jade shards, just as sparks of thought continuously burst forth. With so many worthies and wise individuals assembled, this space of rest, due to the heat of thought, blazes even fiercer than the scorching sun.
Bilue billows surging, expanding the bosom
"Closely aligning with the strategic needs of the nation, continuously adjust and optimize discipline settings, cultivate more national strategic talents and urgently needed scarce talents."
"Strengthen the integration of industry and education, cultivate and bring about more high-quality technical and skilled talents, master craftsmen of the great nation, and skilled artisans."
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Handling China's affairs well depends on the Party, depends on people, depends on talent. How to cultivate more excellent talents is a key topic of expert exchange and a profound reflection on the future.
West Lake University (西湖大学) is a new-type research university run by social forces and supported by the state. How can a new-type university achieve innovation and high quality? Shi Yigong (施一公), President of West Lake University and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said, "We adhere to the 'small but refined' school-running orientation, uphold the school governance policy of 'professors govern learning, administration manages the school, academic orientation decides administrative affairs,' resolutely eliminate the 'four onlys' (四唯) orientation — only papers, only titles, only diplomas, only awards — and build a diverse, inclusive, free, and progressive campus culture. We are 'sparks,' we are pathfinders, constantly exploring new paths and new practices for higher education and technological innovation."
Wang Enge (王恩哥), former Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, combined decades of teaching and research experience to share three insights on education: "First, tell students that doing physics, doing basic research is not difficult, cultivate students' interest in doing research, give people confidence. Second, discuss and communicate closely with students, deeply understand each student's ability level, teach according to their aptitude. Third, help students enter broader spaces and stages as soon as possible, taking on research tasks."
Focusing on accelerating the achievement of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening, and on the growth of young talents, Xie Xiaoliang (谢晓亮), Director of the ChangPing Laboratory (昌平实验室) and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, also put forward a clear view: "Research resources should lean towards young people with potential for original innovation, encouraging them to take on major roles; further optimize and improve the evaluation and assessment system, guiding young people to be willing to endure the hard work of a 'cold bench' and dare to gnaw 'hard bones'."
When talents flourish, the nation's fortunes thrive.
During their leave, the experts visited the Shanhaiguan China Great Wall Museum (山海关中国长城博物馆). In the exhibition halls, cultural relics stand in silent display. Their mottled surfaces bear the marks of beacon-fire times. Tracing the past and contemplating the present, the Great Wall is no longer a merely a stone-and-brick defensive fortification but has transformed into the spiritual backbone of the Chinese nation's unyielding resilience and unity of will — it stretches across the depths of history and also stands firm in the hearts of generations.
"The path of scientific research has always been full of unknowns and perils. Because of this, we need to promote the scientist spirit, settle our hearts, continuously tackle key problems, 笃行不怠 (dǔ xíng bú dài - "act sincerely without slacking," to persist unswervingly without idleness)." Chen Yuanliu (陈远流), Deputy Dean and Distinguished Professor of the School of Mechanical Engineering at Zhejiang University, said, "Striving forward for the 'Fifteenth Five-Year Plan,' I will be grounded in my post, resolutely implement the Central Committee's deployments and requirements, solidly cultivate basic research, focus on directions like atomic-level processing and inspection, and strive for original innovations."
"The starry sky is vast and boundless; exploration has no end. Winning glory for the nation is our primary mission and original aspiration as astroauts. Being able to rise to the occasion when the Party and the people need us is the highest honor. We are always ready!" said Cai Xuzhe (蔡旭哲), special-class astronaut of the People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps (中国人民解放军航天员大队).
The great tide surges, a thousand sails compete. On the grand journey of Chinese modernization construction, era after era of talents who stand at the forefront of the tide will walk the waves with even fuller passion, advancing with indomitable spirit.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 宋亦然
Amid the Urubu mountains in Paraíba state in northeastern Brazil, the main structure of a radio telescope 40 meters in diameter faces deep space, waiting to receive faint radio signals from the depths of the universe. This telescope is the radio telescope for capturing baryon acoustic oscillation signals in the universe (BINGO), jointly built by China, Brazil, and other countries, building a new platform for China and Brazil to deepen practical cooperation in the high-end science and technology sector.
From scientific goal design to main structure manufacturing, from theoretical models to data algorithms, from youth exchanges to talent cultivation, Chinese and Brazilian researchers have advanced side by side through repeated discussion, testing, verification, and debugging, and, with the aid of this "giant eye" gazing into the depths of the universe, are jointly exploring the mystery of dark energy in cosmic expansion. "This is not only a scientific instrument for exploring the universe, but also a vivid embodiment of the deepening scientific and technological cooperation between Brazil and China," said Elcio Abdalla, professor at the Institute of Physics of the University of São Paulo and chief scientist of the BINGO project.
"Studying the structural characteristics of the universe's long evolution"
"BINGO's core mission is to study the structural characteristics of the universe's long evolution by receiving faint radio signals from the depths of the universe," Abdalla told reporters.
How to understand BINGO's function? All of this begins with dark energy. Zhang Jiajun (张佳骏), associate researcher at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院上海天文台), said that at the end of the 20th century, scientists discovered through observation that the expansion of the universe was not gradually decelerating as previously speculated, but was instead accelerating, making dark energy one of the most important and most mysterious questions in modern cosmology.
Dark energy cannot be seen or touched; scientists can only detect it indirectly through the influence it exerts on the overall expansion of the universe. Capturing baryon acoustic oscillation signals from the universe is precisely an important method for studying dark energy. In the early universe, matter and radiation interacted, leaving ripple-like imprints in the large-scale structure, namely "baryon acoustic oscillations," also known as the "standard ruler." As the universe expanded, the "standard ruler" was stretched. Therefore, by measuring changes in the "standard ruler" at different periods, scientists can infer the history of cosmic expansion and further explore the nature of dark energy.
How can this "standard ruler" be read accurately in the vast universe? "BINGO first looks for hydrogen atoms in the universe," Zhang Jiajun said. Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe; neutral hydrogen atoms emit a spectral line with a wavelength of about 21 centimeters. During their propagation, affected by cosmic expansion, the wavelengths are gradually stretched to 25 centimeters, 30 centimeters, or even longer. These "stretched" signals record the history of cosmic expansion. By measuring changes in the strength of neutral hydrogen signals in different directions and at different distances, scientists can "draw" a map of the distribution of matter in the universe, and then analyze cosmic structure and evolution.
Zhang Jiajun said by way of analogy that observing the universe with neutral hydrogen signals is like hearing a needle drop clearly in a 人声鼎沸 (rén shēng dǐng fèi - "human voices bubbling like a boiling cauldron," extremely noisy) stadium and precisely determining its position — precisely for this reason, a telescope's observation environment, receiving system, algorithmic capability, and engineering precision all directly affect whether it can "hear" the faint echoes from the depths of the universe. As a major international cooperation project in radio astronomy and space science, BINGO carries the hopes of both China and Brazil, and indeed the global scientific community, in exploring the mystery of dark energy.
Abdalla said that, unlike traditional telescopes that lock onto galaxies one by one, BINGO has a unique innovative design, using neutral hydrogen intensity mapping technology to measure baryon acoustic oscillations, without the need to identify galaxies one by one. "This approach covers a broader range, is more efficient, is better suited to studying the overall evolution of the universe, and costs significantly less than large radio interferometric array telescopes." In his view, BINGO adopts a fixed reflector structure and a specially customized receiving system, achieving a good balance between frontier scientific goals and practical engineering conditions.
"The advancement of large-scale scientific projects cannot do without international collaboration"
Moving a frontier scientific concept from blueprint to reality requires the close interconnection of multiple segments: scientific goals, site selection, engineering manufacturing, system integration, and data processing. The advancement of the BINGO project is the result of the complementary advantages of the Chinese and Brazilian sides.
The BINGO site is located in Paraíba state in northeastern Brazil, where the surrounding mountains form a natural barrier, helping to reduce external radio noise interference and providing a good environment for detecting faint cosmic signals. The Brazilian side has long participated in the project's scientific goal setting and on-site construction organization, promoting the implementation of this major scientific facility in Brazil.
Multiple institutions, including Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Yangzhou University, the University of Science and Technology of China, the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Network Communication Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (中国电科网络通信研究院), formed an interdisciplinary team that deeply participated in the design and research of the BINGO project, playing important roles in theoretical models, data algorithms, structural design, and engineering manufacturing.
Engineering manufacturing tests the coordination capacity of the Chinese and Brazilian sides. The main reflector of BINGO has a diameter of 40 meters, and the sub-reflector has a diameter of 36 meters. If the panels were manufactured by conventional means, the mold cost alone would be extremely high. To control costs and ensure precision, the project team communicated and deliberated repeatedly and, after several months, found a relatively optimal solution: the main reflecting surface consists of 528 panels in 20 sizes, and the sub-reflecting surface consists of 708 panels in 33 sizes. Supporting these reflecting panels is a complex steel structure composed of thousands of steel pipes and a large number of bolt spheres. To reduce installation difficulty, the Chinese engineering team continuously optimized the structural form, reduced the types of steel pipes, and stamped an identification number on each steel pipe, making on-site assembly clearer and more orderly.
"The Brazilian side leads the scientific goals and design, while the Chinese side gives play to its outstanding advantages in engineering manufacturing and technical realization — such a division of labor is both natural and efficient." Abdalla used "mutual trust" and "complementarity" to summarize the essence of Brazil-China cooperation. "The advancement of large-scale scientific projects cannot do without international collaboration. It is the complementary advantages of Brazil and China that have enabled this frontier scientific concept to be realized step by step."
The complementarity is also reflected in the coordination between BINGO and "China's Sky Eye" — the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST). According to reports, FAST's main observation sky region is concentrated in the northern hemisphere, while BINGO's observation sky region is mainly located in the southern hemisphere, with a larger field of view. Zhang Jiajun likened FAST to a "细致入微 (xì zhì rù wēi - "meticulous down to the smallest detail," extremely thorough) all-capable super probe" and BINGO to a "dedicated global scanning machine." "When the two are coordinated, the universe can be studied both broadly and precisely."
At present, the BINGO project has entered the critical stage of main structure installation and subsequent commissioning. Next, the project will successively advance key tasks such as receiver installation and calibration, overall integration of electronic systems, and stability testing, and then enter the scientific commissioning stage. "This is an important step for the project from 'being built' to 'being put into use'," Abdalla said. Only through strict commissioning can the stability and reliability of the data obtained in the future be ensured.
"Contributing developing countries' wisdom to global scientific and technological cooperation"
Zhang Jiajun still remembers that when he first arrived at the BINGO site at the end of 2025, red earth was flying at the construction site, his trousers were always stained with red mud, and his notebook was covered with a thin layer of red earth. "At that moment, the dream of looking up at the starry sky and the work of 脚踏实地 (jiǎo tà shí dì - "feet planted on solid ground," down-to-earth and pragmatic) finally became connected in reality." He said with emotion, "Above this dust is the foundation of the telescope, which will lift us up to pose 'heavenly questions' to the universe."
While Chinese researchers went to Brazil to participate in the construction, Brazilian scholars and students also came to China to work. "Many Brazilian students have grown up through the project, laying a solid foundation for Brazil's future participation in more international big-science projects," Abdalla said. Since 2024, a Brazilian youth research team has come to the University of Science and Technology of China to carry out scientific research, while learning relevant technologies and attempting to apply them to the BINGO project.
Alessandro Marins is one of them. During his doctoral studies, Marins, together with another Brazilian scholar, completed the theoretical analysis and simulation of BINGO's optical design, and later worked with Chinese engineers to carry out modeling and verification on the optical system manufacturing plan. Marins said that when applying for postdoctoral research, he chose the University of Science and Technology of China. The professionalism, rigorous attitude, and the trust established through long-term cooperation among Chinese researchers were important reasons for his choice.
Now, Marins is participating in guiding and assisting Brazilian and Chinese students in research on radio data processing, telescope technology, and signal processing software optimization, and is promoting promising Brazilian students to come to the University of Science and Technology of China for exchanges.
At present, the BINGO team has signed cooperation memoranda of understanding with important international research teams and radio telescope facilities, including FAST and the "Tianlai Project" (天籁计划), and will continue to advance cooperation in data sharing, scientific research, and talent cultivation in the future.
"The practice of BINGO has fully proven that countries can carry out high-level scientific and technological cooperation on the basis of equality and mutual benefit," Abdalla said. Brazil and China have broad space for cooperation in astronomical observation, data processing, artificial intelligence, and space technology. The cooperation model in which "scientific research, technological innovation, and talent cultivation" are 相辅相成 (xiāng fǔ xiāng chéng - "mutually supporting and completing each other," complementary) not only brings long-term benefits to both countries, but also enhances the overall influence of Global South countries in international large-scale scientific research projects, "contributing developing countries' wisdom to global scientific and technological cooperation."
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Return to TopChinese open-source models have evolved from being an "option" on the global industrial landscape to becoming a "must-have" for numerous overseas developers pursuing technological innovation.
Recently, an industry association composed of nearly 200 technology start-ups in Silicon Valley, USA, jointly addressed a letter to the U.S. government, explicitly opposing restrictions on domestic enterprises' use of Chinese open-weight artificial intelligence models. The letter states: "American developers need continued access to existing open models available globally." This is not only a rational choice by U.S. enterprises based on practical commercial interests but also reflects the widespread recognition of Chinese open-source AI by the global industry. Facts show that Chinese open-source models have evolved from being an "option" on the global industrial landscape to becoming a "must-have" for numerous overseas developers pursuing technological innovation.
The broad favor Chinese open-source models enjoy in the international market stems from the practical needs of the global AI industry. AI research and development have high thresholds and require large-scale investment. Small and medium-sized technology enterprises can neither afford the enormous costs of training large models from scratch nor bear the high call fees of leading closed-source models over the long term. Open-source models, with their excellent performance and controllable costs, have become an important foundation for their innovation. Chinese open-source models, leveraging balanced technical performance and mature ecosystems, precisely meet the common needs of the global industry. According to monitoring by third-party industry institutions, the token share of U.S. enterprises calling Chinese AI models is currently stable at over 30% weekly, reaching a peak of 46%. From medical start-ups using them to accelerate technology iteration, to digital service platforms adopting them as default development tools, Chinese open-source models continuously provide practical solutions for industrial innovation in various countries. Analysis by Bloomberg (美国彭博社) points out that a comprehensive restriction on Chinese open-source models entering the U.S. market would cause substantial impact on relevant enterprises and users.
China's adherence to an open-source and open development path also builds a solid line of defense for global AI security. Not long ago, the internationally renowned AI open-source platform Hugging Face (抱抱脸) experienced a cross-boundary intrusion by intelligent agents. The technical team first called upon a leading U.S. commercial closed-source model to analyze the attack logs, but it was unusable due to interception by security filtering mechanisms. Subsequently, the team adopted an open-source model developed by a Chinese enterprise, fully restoring the attack path, locating system vulnerabilities, and efficiently completing the response within just a few hours. AI security risks have distinct cross-border characteristics; no country can 独善其身 (dú shàn qí shēn - "manage its own affairs alone without considering others," to look after one's own safety without regard for others) in this regard, nor can any closed model singularly cope with various complex risks and challenges. Open-source AI models possess open-weight characteristics, allowing users to fully download and deploy locally, autonomously adjust operational rules and security strategies according to their own needs, free from the uniform rule constraints of third-party platforms, and thus possess greater flexibility and controllability in special scenarios such as security research and emergency response.
An open ecosystem is an important source for stimulating innovation vitality; closure and exclusivity only solidify monopoly structures and suppress technological progress. For some time, the U.S. side has viewed AI development through a zero-sum mindset, generalizing the concept of national security in the technology sector, from investment restrictions and chip controls to cloud service management, and to groundlessly smearing Chinese AI enterprises, stubbornly trying to build "small yard, high fence" (小院高墙), in an attempt to block technological flow. This practice completely violates the laws of technological development and the general trend of industrial division of labor. Artificially setting up barriers can neither stop the global advance of Chinese AI technology nor will it cut off the technology supply for domestic start-ups while raising innovation costs across the entire industry. As the joint letter states, "Restrictive measures will stifle competition, entrench the positions of existing companies, and act effectively as a tax on intelligence, raising costs and narrowing choices." This is both a practical concern of U.S. technology enterprises and a powerful warning to relevant U.S. policies.
AI is a global undertaking oriented towards the future; the fruits of its development should benefit people of all countries. The voice of the global industry once again demonstrates that decoupling bans going against the trend cannot stop the era's current of openness and cooperation. Currently, AI technology is at a critical stage of accelerated evolution, with the interests of all countries intertwined and their destinies shared. China consistently upholds the concept of broad consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits to promote AI development, integrates into the global wave of innovation with an open-source and open attitude, and is willing to work with all countries to build consensus, manage risks, and jointly promote AI technology to benefit all humanity.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 陈尚文
"In November last year, China took over as host, and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) cooperation entered 'China Time' (中国时间)." Carlos Kuriyama, Director of the APEC Policy Support Unit, recently said in an exclusive interview with our reporter that China has designated "Building an Asia-Pacific Community for Shared Prosperity" (建设亚太共同体，促进共同繁荣) as the theme for hosting the meetings and put forward the three priority areas of "openness, innovation, and cooperation" (开放、创新、合作). "This design both carries forward APEC's consistent core concepts and meets the common expectations of all members to respond to global challenges and bring Asia-Pacific cooperation to a new level; it is of great significance."
Kuriyama said that as a policy research and analysis institution established within the APEC Secretariat, the APEC Policy Support Unit is mainly responsible for regional economic research and policy analysis, evaluation of initiatives under the APEC framework, and supporting the Senior Officials' Meeting, various working groups, and committees by providing empirical evidence and policy recommendations. "As a platform for open dialogue and sharing solutions, APEC has put forward three economic drivers, namely trade and investment; innovation and digitalization; and strong, balanced, secure, sustainable, and inclusive growth — these are precisely the focus of our work. This and the three priority areas of APEC's 'China Year' (中国年) are 相辅相成 (xiāng fǔ xiāng chéng - "mutually assist, mutually complete," to complement each other)."
Kuriyama said that since its founding, APEC has always been committed to promoting openness and has made trade and investment liberalization and facilitation its core task. This year, China continues to uphold its original aspiration, promoting a series of key discussions among economies on such topics as advancing the construction of the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP) and enhancing the resilience of regional supply chains. "Connectivity is an important foundation for regional economic integration." In Kuriyama's view, in recent years, transportation and communications infrastructure in the region has been continuously improved, the coverage of online services has continued to expand, and electronic single windows, paperless trade, and digital payment systems have effectively raised the level of trade facilitation. "In particular, mobile QR code payment is very common, which is especially prominent in China; such experience will help promote regional cross-border payments." Kuriyama stressed: "APEC development still faces challenges such as imbalance and inadequacy, and all parties need to join hands and work together so that growth benefits all economies."
"Robots transformed into 'traffic police' on duty on the streets and playing chess with humans at the chessboard, making latte art coffee, providing hotel room services, and so on — such scenes have already been widespread for many years. All of them are deeply impressive." Kuriyama believes that innovation is driving the accelerated iteration of new technologies and the rapid development of the digital economy, making it a key force in global economic growth and also a key priority area of APEC cooperation. China's emerging technologies are developing with strong momentum, with more and more achievements benefiting the people. The APEC Digital Week held in Chengdu in July this year provided a valuable platform for all economies to exchange and draw on advanced experience.
Kuriyama said that China has organized and plans to hold several sectoral ministerial meetings this year, covering energy, transportation, food security, human resources, small and medium-sized enterprises, and other fields, providing a platform for members to conduct discussions on topics of common concern. "Although Asia-Pacific cooperation currently faces challenges such as geopolitics and rising protectionism, as long as we maintain dialogue, there is hope that we will find ways to respond and further deepen regional economic cooperation."
Speaking of the APEC Trade Ministers' Meeting held in Suzhou, Jiangsu in May, Kuriyama said that, on the one hand, the meeting produced the first ministerial outcome document of APEC's "China Year," the Suzhou Statement, in which all parties reaffirmed advancing the FTAAP agenda and specified regional cooperation plans in response to global challenges such as supply chain disruptions and fragmentation of rules; on the other hand, the meeting formulated the "APEC Roadmap on Innovative, Competitive and Resilient Services," which aims to identify and reduce barriers to trade in services. Given that the services sector accounts for two-thirds of APEC's economic aggregate and involves a huge employed population, this initiative will strongly promote rapid regional economic growth while also boosting employment.
Before joining the APEC Secretariat in 2009, Kuriyama served as an official of Peru's Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism and, as chief negotiator, participated in the negotiations of the Peru-China Free Trade Agreement, having observed China over a long period. "In 2007, I visited China for the first time. China's economic development and transformation over the past few decades have been very impressive." Kuriyama said that China has successfully lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, significantly improved people's livelihood and well-being, and increasingly strengthened its economic competitiveness. As the world's second-largest economy, China must promote its own development to 行稳致远 (xíng wěn zhì yuǎn - "walk steadily, reach far," to proceed steadily and achieve enduring progress), and it has always been an important force for world economic stability and growth.
As the APEC meetings enter the final countdown, more and more eyes are turning to Shenzhen. "I believe that with China's promotion and the joint efforts of all member economies, APEC cooperation will bear even more fruitful results," Kuriyama said.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 邵玉姿
From August 6 to 8, the 9th China-Germany U16 (under 16) Youth Football Friendship Match exchange activity was held in Xiongan New Area, Hebei. With football as the bond, Chinese and German young people sowed the seeds of friendship and dream on the green field of the "City of the Future" (未来之城).
"We forged friendships with Chinese young players during the matches; this is very cool," said Julian Koch, goalkeeper of the youth training team of SV Maldof Mannheim, who was very excited — this was his first time visiting China. "Xiongan is great, especially the library which is particularly spectacular." Before the matches, he visited the Xiongan Library together with his teammates, and the robot employee at the service counter on the first floor left a deep impression on him.
"I am particularly delighted to play football together with Chinese peers!" said Nuoxikenachuku Nuoya Aodili, a player of the youth training team of Berlin Union Club, "We experienced a different culture and built friendships — this will become a very beautiful memory in my life." He expressed hope that more and deeper exchanges can be established between German and Chinese youth.
"Xiongan is a 'City of the Future'." Kian Hermann, captain of the selection team of the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region, had learned about the construction and development story of Xiongan on online media before departure. After visiting in person, those stories about the "future" became reality before his eyes. "There are many buildings with a futuristic artistic sense here, as well as many advanced facilities." Having heard that self-driving cars often run on the streets of Xiongan, the 16-year-old Hermann was full of anticipation, wishing to see this cutting-edge technology with his own eyes.
Accompanying the children on a bus tour of Xiongan, going to the Xiongan Library to experience the fragrance of books, and visiting the country park to experience intangible cultural heritage projects such as shadow puppetry and rubbing printing... Martin Willich, manager of the youth training team of SV Waldhof Mannheim, said this was his first time leading a team to participate in the China-Germany U16 Youth Football Friendship Match, and this visit deepened his understanding of Xiongan. "I am very happy to come to Xiongan for my first participation in the friendship match. Here, together with our Chinese partners, we have sown the seeds of friendship and dreams."
The China-Germany U16 Youth Football Friendship Match was established in 2012, jointly initiated by the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and the German-Chinese Friendship Association of the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region of Germany. "Football is a bond full of strength. Through football, the young people of the two countries exchange with each other and grow together." Klaus Schlappner, the first foreign head coach of the Chinese men's national football team, is one of the initiators of the China-Germany U16 Youth Football Friendship Match. In his view, the friendship match is an important avenue for German youth to truly get to know China and understand China.
"We have visited many cities, and through touring different cities we have learned about different aspects of China's development." Schlappner once lived in China for a period. During this match, he went to the Xiongan New Area Start-up Zone, the Central Green Valley, and other places, experiencing the construction and features of the "City of the Future" up close. The orderly and neat streets and the lush green spaces gave him a fresh impression. "This is a completely new modern city," said Schlappner. Although Chinese friends had previously shared with him stories about the construction of the Xiongan New Area, he was still greatly shocked to see the city's development with his own eyes. "Xiongan's urban construction is a model for world urban construction."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 姜 峰
In the Bashu Yanan Scenic Area near the provincial boundary marker, a wild golden silk nanmu forest attracts tourists who come on reputation. A newly completed “Heart-Linking Bridge” crosses the river, connecting the fields and courtyards of Sichuan and Chongqing.
This year, the “Village Planning of Kongque Village, Shuanglongjie Township, Anyue County, Sichuan Province and Cizhu Village, Gaoping Town, Dazu District, Chongqing Municipality (2024–2035)” was officially approved in both places, becoming the first cross-provincial administrative region jointly compiled village planning in the country. From administrative boundary to cooperation frontier, from “each manages its own patch” to “jointly painting a blueprint,” the two villages of Sichuan and Chongqing prioritized planning and coordinated efforts, forging a new development path for neighboring villages to jointly achieve revitalization.
Planning takes the lead, and coordination resolves blockages.
Cizhu Village (茨竹村) and Kongque Village (孔雀村) share connected landscapes and close cultural ties, but in the past they each “blew their own bugle” in development.
“Infrastructure, industrial layout, ecological protection – so many things, how to coordinate?” said Chen Shuzhong (陈树忠), former party branch secretary of Cizhu Village, expressing the dilemma of those days.
What most distressed the villagers was the wild golden silk nanmu forest at the junction of the two villages. With over 50,000 trees, most over a hundred years old, how to protect and utilize them? The two villages lacked coordination and failed to reach a consensus, so development had to be shelved.
Chen Yunming (陈运明), a villager from Cizhu Village, has a family heirloom golden silk nanmu sled plow. “Only later did I realize this wood is a treasure and must be protected,” said Chen Yunming. “Such a fine forest and scenery can’t be developed, and no tourists can be attracted – it’s so frustrating!”
With the accelerated construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing dual-city economic circle in recent years, cadres from both places have frequently met to jointly seek development.
“Developing a scenic area – is there a basis for land use? Attracting projects – can they be practical?” Peng Shuchun (彭树春), party secretary of Kongque Village, recalled that at the beginning, the two sides faced one difficulty after another, settling down to ponder step by step. Li Zeming (李泽明), chairman of the People’s Congress of Gaoping Town (高坪镇), spoke the minds of many: “Without the leadership of planning, we cannot achieve long-term undertakings.”
Planning first, coordinated efforts. Last year, under the guidance of relevant departments in Dazu District (大足区) and Anyue County (安岳县), the cross-provincial village planning compilation for Cizhu Village and Kongque Village was officially launched. “The aim is to break administrative barriers, through integrated design, to promote ecological co-protection, cultural co-integration, and industrial co-prosperity,” said Zhang Yanling (张燕岭), director of the Dazu District Planning and Natural Resources Bureau (大足区规划和自然资源局).
Facing challenges such as different administrative divisions, inconsistent management systems, and mismatched planning standards, the two sides established a problem-oriented consultation mechanism, successively holding seven joint meetings to repeatedly negotiate key issues such as resource utilization within ecological red lines, integration of cultural resources, and coordination of industrial layout. “This is not a simple spatial integration, but a profound transformation of development concepts and governance methods,” said Xu Yuhui (徐煜辉), a professor at Chongqing University who participated in the planning review. This exploration provides referable experience for cross-administrative region rural collaborative governance nationwide.
One by one, blockages were resolved, and a blueprint covering 14.11 square kilometers for the integration of agriculture, culture, and tourism was officially implemented.
Road and bridge connections activate development momentum.
With the planning implemented, the most visible change is transportation. There is a river between the two villages, which is a natural provincial boundary. Now, a “Heart-Linking Bridge” has been newly built over the river, turning “gazing at each other across the river” into “arriving as soon as you lift your foot.”
On this side of the bridge is Kongque Village; Anyue County provided the land and Dazu District provided the money to build the visitor center of the Bashu Yanan Scenic Area, with complete service facilities. On that side of the bridge is Cizhu Village, adjacent to the main golden silk nanmu forest scenic area. “Once the bridge is open, the path for development becomes smoother,” said Chen Yunming.
The systematic protection and utilization of the golden silk nanmu forest also depend on transportation construction. In the past, the forest area only had simple fire hydrants and no fire prevention passages, posing ecological safety risks and lacking conditions for development and utilization. “According to the several types of limited human activities allowed within the ecological protection red line, we incorporated forest fire prevention passages into the planning content,” said Li Yi (李易), a technician from the Dazu District Planning and Surveying Institute (大足区规划设计和勘测院).
The planning specifies the construction of two new forest fire prevention passages in the forest area, each 4.5 meters wide and totaling 2,700 meters in length, which both meet the needs of forest protection and fire prevention and connect the forest landscape with village ancient courtyards and other nodes, achieving multiple goals of ecological protection, safety assurance, and tourist access.
Demonstrating the dividends of coordinated development, besides the bridge, there are also roads. Anyue County and Dazu District have multiple adjacent townships and towns, and in the past there were more than 20 “dead-end roads” that were not asphalt-paved and had varying grade standards.
“People from our Dongyue Village (东岳村) have to walk over an hour to go to the market in our township, but going to a market town on the Chongqing side takes only about ten minutes,” said Liu Shi (刘石), head of Shuanglongjie Township (双龙街乡). “Every market day, the villagers go to Chongqing nearby, but the dirt road connecting the two sides is very bad, becoming muddy and hard to walk on when it rains.”
Driven by the hardware connectivity of the two villages, the transportation departments of Dazu District and Anyue County held a joint meeting to include the “dead-end roads” of adjacent townships in a unified renovation list, turning the once “muddy” market paths into smooth and unobstructed roads convenient for the people.
During the Spring Festival this year, the Bashu Yanan Scenic Area, which officially opened to visitors, was particularly lively. Li Zeming introduced: “At its peak, more than 3,000 tourists came in one day, with cars parked in a long line along the road. The resources that had been dormant for many years have finally awakened!”
Co-prosperity of industries, advancing deep integration.
Guided by the planning, the two villages have led the masses onto a path of shared industrial prosperity, allowing them to share tangible gains.
In Dazu District, Wang Wenhu (王文虎), a resident of Zhong’ao Town (中敖镇), revitalized a vacant farmhouse next to the golden silk nanmu forest scenic area, opened a farmhouse restaurant, offering simple specialty meals and stove-boiled tea, with full occupancy during holidays. In Anyue County, Jiang Daguang (蒋达光), a resident of Shuanglongjie Township, who previously traveled around for work, has now seized the opportunity of hometown development to plan and build guesthouses and dining services. “My hometown is different now; it has become an ‘entrepreneurial window.’ Following the planning to do projects gives me confidence,” said Jiang Daguang.
To enrich tourism formats and experiences, the two townships also introduced a “Cute Pet Paradise,” where animals like sika deer and micriature pigs attracted many family tourists to check in. “The Dazu District Education and Research Base welcomed a group of students during the holiday, carrying out activities such as forest crossing and nature science popularization, upgrading traditional sightseeing to experiential tourism,” said Li Zeming.
In the past, constrained by the market, local agricultural industries were small in scale and short in chain. Now, relying on unified planning, inefficient land has been revitalized, industrial zones have taken shape, and specialty planting and agricultural product processing have been 串珠成链 (chuàn zhū chéng liàn – “string pearls into a chain,” to link separate elements into a coherent whole).
Picking up a bottle of honey mineral water, Li Zeming introduced that this is an extended product developed based on the beekeeping industry in both places. “We are building an agricultural product market around the scenic area to sell specialty products at good prices, turning ecological resources into benefits for the people.”
The coordinated planning is still being upgraded. The stone carving cultural heritage resources of Dazu District and Anyue County are renowned. The cultural and tourism departments of both sides are joining hands to build a cooperation platform company, and under the guidance of the Bashu Cultural Tourism Corridor construction, they are taking the golden silk nanmu forest, which happens to be located in the middle of the stone carving clusters of both places, as a node for unified promotion and unified traffic attraction.
One map, one chess game. Roads and bridges are built, the forest area thrives, the environment becomes beautiful, wallets become fuller. The former administrative boundary has become a frontier for comprehensive rural revitalization with interconnectedness and beautiful ecology.
Dong Dafa (董大法), director of the Rural Planning Division of the Chongqing Planning and Natural Resources Bureau (重庆市规划和自然资源局乡村规划处), stated that the cross-provincial village planning reflects the deep integration of Sichuan-Chongqing rural governance and spatial development concepts, and is also a vivid practice of planning coordinating regional coordinated development. “Next, we will summarize and promote the experience, push for the coordinated implementation of planning in more Sichuan-Chongqing border areas, drive comprehensive rural coordinated development through planning integration, and assist the in-depth advancement of comprehensive rural revitalization in the Chengdu-Chongqing dual-city economic circle.”
Reporter’s Note
Administrative boundaries have never been “walls”
“Can we integrate resources and connect cooperation?” During past interviews, I have encountered Sichuan-Chongqing exchange cadres who were concerned about this. Now, ideas are becoming reality.
At the junctions of administrative divisions, there is no lack of lucid waters and lush mountains (绿水青山) and mountains of gold and silver (金山银山). The industries and livelihoods of adjacent areas often have countless connections. But in the past, many places understood administrative boundaries as “walls,” with each managing its own planning, poor transportation, and fragmented industries, making good ideas hard to implement and good resources hard to monetize.
The first cross-provincial jointly compiled village planning in the country has been implemented in Sichuan and Chongqing – this is a clever move to break administrative barriers and activate development momentum. The two sides jumped out of the mindset of acting independently, using “one blueprint” for coordinated layout, using “joint meetings” to resolve blockages, using “Heart-Linking Bridge” to break barriers, and relying on “working together” to drive people’s livelihood, allowing dormant resources to awaken and making the development path more open.
Not satisfied with superficial connections, they emphasize deep integration of mechanisms; they plan with systematic thinking, putting comprehensive coordination into practice… When more cross-administrative region villages embark on the path of jointly painting a blueprint and collaborative governance, comprehensive rural revitalization will have more abundant source water, and the matter of “seeking happiness for the people” can be done better and more solidly.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李龙伊
On the exercise and training ground, the iron torrent rolled and war eagles screamed. A thousand li away, inside the main hall of the Central Theater Command (中部战区) Joint Operations Command Center, the situation map pulsed in real time, and combat scenes of multiple services and arms were displayed synchronously. Colonel Staff Officer Li Can (李灿) of the Theater Command Joint Staff Department fixed his eyes on the screen and, together with his colleagues, made precise adjustments, transmitting one order after another to the participating troops.
In 21 years since enlisting, devoting himself to the grassroots front line and the theater command organs, Li Can grew from a single-service commander into an elite joint-all-domain staff officer. He was honorably awarded one First-Class Merit, two Second-Class Merits, and two Third-Class Merits; was cited as a "Whole-Army Outstanding Staff Officer" (全军优秀参谋); received the 2026 New Era Youth Pioneer Award (2026年度新时代青年先锋奖); and was selected as a "Most Beautiful New Era Revolutionary Soldier" (最美新时代革命军人) ... Honors bear witness to his footsteps, and Li Can's goal has been 始终如一 (shǐ zhōng rú yī - "from beginning to end as one," consistent and unchanging): "一心一意 (yī xīn yī yì - "one heart, one mind," wholeheartedly) study war, and be a joint operations staff officer who can be counted on."
"We must set our sights on the whole domain and coordinate across multiple dimensions."
In 2023, Li Can, coming from a grassroots unit, stepped into the Central Theater Command organ for the first time.
Before this, Li Can was an Army battalion commander, responsible for managing several hundred troops and dozens of pieces of equipment, with a brilliant résumé: in 2013, he won first place in the staff-elite competition of the former Beijing Military Region (原北京军区); in 2014, he won the professional-category championship in the whole-army staff skills competition. But Li Can knew full well that these achievements had long passed their "shelf life." "From a single service to joint all-domain, there is a 'mountain' in between." Li Can had a sober understanding of the challenges ahead.
In the theater command, Li Can's combat post was in the Joint Operations Command Center. On the big screen, real-time data of multiple services and arms pulsed, and Li Can had to face and process a great deal of information every day.
"At the grassroots level, I only needed to watch one battalion and one stretch of ground; at the theater command, I must set my sights on the whole domain and coordinate across multiple dimensions," Li Can said.
In the period just after arriving at the organ, Li Can worked hard to shore up his weak spots: he did not miss a single joint lecture session, was never absent from duty training, and actively sought advice from commanders at all levels and military experts. Soon, he could 脱口而出 (tuō kǒu ér chū - "slip out of the mouth," speak effortlessly) the main equipment parameters of every service and arm, and the tactical and technical specifications of many weapon platforms were also 烂熟于心 (làn shú yú xīn - "thoroughly ripe in the heart," known by heart).
But a joint command exercise gave him 当头一棒 (dāng tóu yī bàng - "a blow right on the head," a sudden, sobering shock).
At the seminar, commanders organized discussions around force disposition and fire coordination. When the conversation turned to fighter aircraft covering ground assaults and armored units coordinating with air power, Li Can, although his head was full of data, could not get a word in. Those parameters were like "parts" scattered all over the ground, unable to be assembled into a "war vehicle" that could fight.
After the meeting, sitting in the empty conference room, Li Can thought for a long time. He understood that mastering all kinds of equipment and data was only the threshold. If he could not thoroughly grasp the underlying mechanisms of the operations of the various services and arms, he would never break through the "window paper" leading from theory to actual combat.
So Li Can changed his learning method: he took the initiative to call frontline commanders for advice, asking pilots about the detailed procedures of air operations; when attending seminars, even in unfamiliar fields, he boldly presented his views — he was not afraid of being wrong, only of not speaking up.
With this drive, Li Can gradually got a clear picture of the equipment and tactics of the different services and arms, thoroughly absorbed the tactical logic of cross-domain coordination, and learned to think from the perspective of a joint operations commander.
In July 2023, extreme flooding struck North China; in many places, dikes were in danger and the masses were trapped. Li Can rapidly integrated all-domain data on hydrology, disaster conditions, and troop strength, assisted commanders in precisely dividing rescue zones and deploying rescue echelons of the various services and arms, and provided strong support for the troops' disaster-relief operations, safeguarding the lives and property of the people.
From exercise sites to the disaster-relief front line, from war preparedness to emergency response, Li Can was repeatedly tempered in task after task, forging the two characters "joint" into his own skill.
"Every judgment is connected to victory or defeat in the battle situation and to the safety of officers and soldiers."
On Li Can's desk were stacked piles of densely written notes and manuscripts revised who knows how many times. He often said: "Rather be prepared and not fight than be unprepared and fight."
Once, Li Can was responsible for drafting a response plan for a certain operation. A colleague told him that this type of plan was already very mature and could be completed with slight modifications. At first, he also thought the task was simple, but the more he pondered it, the more something seemed wrong: the maneuver route seemed inappropriate, the arrival time seemed off, and the forward deployment points also needed further scrutiny...
Li Can consulted historical archives, studied relevant cases, and repeatedly ran simulations on the map. Day after day passed; his superiors urged him several times, and his colleagues were somewhat puzzled. Only after two weeks did he produce the initial draft of an entirely new plan. Everyone found that this plan was more comprehensive in its anticipatory analysis of operational response, its measures for extreme situations, and so on.
"As staff officers, every one of our judgments is connected to victory or defeat in the battle situation and to the safety of officers and soldiers," Li Can said.
This earnest rigor ran through every part of his work. Li Can insisted on carefully deliberating details with the mentality of "going into battle tomorrow," ensuring 万无一失 (wàn wú yī shī - "in ten thousand [cases], not one mistake," absolutely fail-safe). Each round of revising a plan was like truly organizing a campaign.
In 2025, for the military parade commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, Li Can shouldered the heavy burden of overall planning. More than ten thousand officers and soldiers took part in the parade; the foot formations, equipment formations, air echelons, and so on — no part could tolerate the slightest deviation.
In those days, Li Can and his comrades fought continuously at high intensity, buried all day in plans and process simulations, often busy until two or three o'clock in the dead of night. From as small as the stride of a single soldier on parade to as large as the overall march sequence of an entire echelon, he precisely rehearsed and repeatedly polished each link.
On September 3, 2025, the last air echelon roared over Tiananmen Square, not a second off. Li Can, manning his command seat, let out a long breath and felt immensely proud.
"日复一日 (rì fù yī rì - "day after day," day in and day out) of perseverance and hard work is the value and the meaning."
From platoon leader to battalion commander, from group army staff officer to theater command staff officer, at almost every change of post, Li Can had to "reset himself to zero" once more. "The halo of the past cannot be eaten as a meal."
In April this year, the theater command organized a joint operations staff competition and assessment, with dozens of elite staff officers competing on the same stage. Li Can took the lead on his own initiative: busy with professional work during the day, and at night leading everyone in focused and intensive practice. In the end, four people in Li Can's group were rated among the "Ten Best Outstanding Staff Officers," and he himself also ranked in the top three. "This is not the finish line, but a brand-new starting point with a higher standard," he said.
In one exercise, Li Can led the organization of command planning. As the start approached, the progress of the various units was 参差不齐 (cēn cī bù qí - "uneven and irregular," inconsistent and out of step), and the plans of a few units were slow to be submitted, so the overall command efficiency was compromised. "The key to winning joint operations lies in synchronization, interconnection, and integration." At the after-action review meeting, Li Can expressed his views. After this, he successively attended several discussion sessions, recording more than 60 optimization suggestions item by item, and put forward a method of multi-level synchronized coordination. After the new model was implemented, orders from higher levels reached frontline sentry posts directly, forces and materiel were allocated simultaneously, and the quality and effectiveness of command planning and operations improved markedly.
His comrades all said that working with Li Can, one gained ability and could get things done. Staff officers newly arriving in the theater command sometimes could not find the way in; Li Can would take the initiative to guide them, from overall operational planning to specific force configuration, teaching hand in hand and leading face to face. "A good staff officer must be able to 'crawl the grid' (write documents), and even more must be able to 'offer ideas'; he must understand professional work, and even more must understand warfighting." Li Can often urged his comrades in this way. Under his leadership, several newly selected staff officers quickly grew into professional backbones.
In the Central Theater Command office building, the lights were brightly lit. In the conference room, a sand table was spread out and charts were arrayed; Li Can and his colleagues sat around together, 各抒己见 (gè shū jǐ jiàn - "each expresses his own views," freely airing their views) on the key and difficult points of joint operations. Studying war through the starry night and 枕戈待旦 (zhěn gē dài dàn - "pillow on weapons, await the dawn," to remain combat-ready at all times) were their daily routine.
Why does he push himself so hard? "Since I sit here, I must live up to the four characters 'joint operations,'" Li Can said. "In the staff officer post, day after day of perseverance and hard work is the value and the meaning."
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A certain unit planned to promote a comrade to the post of secretary of the discipline inspection commission. The higher-level wanted to know whether his struggle spirit was strong or not. A comrade replied: “He is good at struggling.” The higher-level understood the 弦外之音 (xián wài zhī yīn - “sound beyond the strings,” implied meaning) and sternly pointed out that Wu Song fought the tiger not because he “knew how” to fight, but first because he “dared” to fight.
Daring to struggle and being good at struggling are both indispensable, and daring to struggle occupies the priority position. Understanding the struggle spirit in a one-sided or fragmented way is mistaken in cognition and will produce serious consequences in practice. If at the time when the cause needs it, one cannot, dares not, or is unwilling to step forward, but instead 畏葸不前 (wèi xǐ bù qián - “fearful and hesitating, not advancing”), or puts on a show or plays Tai Chi (shirks responsibility), that will greatly harm the cause of the Party and the people, and is absolutely impermissible.
Daring to struggle is the distinctive character of our Party, the powerful spiritual force that makes the Party and the people invincible. However, in reality, the situation where some leading cadres dare not struggle is not uncommon. Where does the problem lie?
Some fear struggle due to insufficient capability. These comrades have only a belly full of hot blood, their methods are simple and rigid, and when encountering matters they blindly charge and act recklessly. Or they cannot distinguish between priorities and urgency, cannot grasp the timing, degree, and effectiveness; or they cannot see the essence of contradictions, cannot seize the key crux, toil for a long time with little result. Not only do they fail to solve problems, but they may also intensify opposition and amplify contradictions. So the reckless man learns a lesson, but instead becomes timid, becomes 畏首畏尾 (wèi shǒu wèi wěi - “fear the head, fear the tail,” overly cautious), and even avoids struggle.
Some subjectively evade struggle. Such comrades are accustomed to smoothing things over when encountering matters, smearing here and smearing there, blurring contradictions and right and wrong. They constantly talk about “strategy and methods,” always mention “the art of struggle,” appearing unfathomable and measured in advancing and retreating, but in reality they are refined egoists who fear offending others but do not fear harm to the interests of the Party and the people.
Whether one dares to struggle or not is a question of political stance and Party principle; it is of primary importance and is the touchstone for testing Party member leading cadres. When two armies meet, the brave wins. The outcome of a struggle often first depends on one’s spirit and courage. Only by first harboring a heart that dares to fight can one acquire the ability to fight well. Once one casts away the courage to struggle and loses the confidence to draw one’s sword, all strategies for handling affairs, gauging limits, and work skills become useless. Of course, courage is never equivalent to recklessness; true courage in struggle contains far-reaching stratagem from beginning to end, and “courage” itself includes the requirement of “stratagem.”
In the early 1960s, Comrade Mao Zedong instructed the Institute of Literature of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to edit and publish a book entitled Stories About Not Fearing Ghosts (《不怕鬼的故事》), which during a special period greatly enlightened and inspired the entire Party and the people of the whole country. Comrade Mao Zedong pointed out that the more one fears ghosts, the more there are ghosts; if one does not fear ghosts, then there are no ghosts. This served as a warning to the whole Party: the more one fears risks and challenges, the more pressure will press in step by step; if one dares to stand up and face them, the so-called “ghosts and goblins” are not worth fearing. Its core essence is daring to struggle.
“Communists must at all times have the demeanor, integrity, and courage to not believe in heresies, not fear ghosts, and not be spineless.” Since the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping has made a series of important expositions on daring to struggle and being good at struggling. “The more our cause advances and develops, the more new situations and problems there will be, the more risks and challenges we will face, and the more unpredictable things we will encounter.” This requires the entire Party to dare to draw the sword, dare to face difficulties head-on, dare to step forward, dare to bear responsibility, and dare to resolutely struggle. Entering the critical period of national rejuvenation, the road ahead has both boundless spring scenery and major tests of 风高浪急 (fēng gāo làng jí - “high winds and swift waves,” turbulent conditions) and 惊涛骇浪 (jīng tāo hài làng - “frightening waves and terrifying surf,” great dangers). If one dares not struggle, all opportunities will slip by, all goals will be out of the question, and all achievements may be 得而复失 (dé ér fù shī - “gain and then lose”).
The new journey has a glorious mission, heavy responsibilities on our shoulders, and a long and arduous road. We must always place daring to struggle and daring to draw the sword at the forefront and implement them on the front line, face risks and tests with an iron will, solve development problems with outstanding responsibility, and cultivate the belief of “though thousands upon thousands of people, I will go” with upright character.
Be a fighter with high morale and no fear – this is the need of the times.
Return to TopThis year's 13th typhoon, White Dolphin (白海豚), made landfall in Yuhuan City (玉环市), Taizhou, Zhejiang, around 17:30, and in Yueqing City (乐清市), Wenzhou, Zhejiang, around 18:40 on August 9. To respond to Typhoon White Dolphin, Yuhuan City strictly implemented the responsibility guarantee system (包保责任制), adopted a model of "comprehensive territorial investigation, departmental block-by-block census, comprehensive supervision by the flood control headquarters (防指)," and carried out full-domain dragnet-style investigation and rectification, managing risks by levels, categories, and grades.
Yueqing City comprehensively reviewed the baseline numbers of personnel within its jurisdiction, and at the same time refined and formulated a tiered plan for personnel relocation. The city set up a total of 345 disaster shelters and 58 temporary disaster shelter points, and prepared sufficient living supplies for 72 hours in advance.
The photo shows party members and cadres of Qingjiang Town (清江镇), Yueqing City, relocating elderly people with mobility difficulties on August 9.
Text by our reporter Dou Hanyang (窦瀚洋), photo by Zheng Jingjing (郑晶晶).
This year's 13th typhoon, "White Dolphin" (白海豚), made landfall along the coast of Kanmen Subdistrict (坎门街道), Yuhuan City (玉环市), Taizhou, Zhejiang at approximately 17:30 on August 9. At landfall it was a severe typhoon, with a maximum wind force of 14 near its center; at approximately 18:40 it made landfall again along the coast of Wengyang Subdistrict (翁垟街道), Yueqing City (乐清市), Wenzhou, Zhejiang, weakening to a typhoon at landfall, with a maximum wind force of 13 near its center. At 18:00 that day, the National Meteorological Center (中央气象台) continued to issue a red alert for typhoons; the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) and the China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局) jointly issued a red meteorological alert for mountain torrent disasters; the National Meteorological Center continued to issue an orange alert for heavy rain and a blue alert for severe convective weather, issued a meteorological alert for waterlogging risk and a meteorological risk alert for floods on small and medium rivers; the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部) and the China Meteorological Administration jointly issued an orange meteorological risk alert for geological disasters.
On the 9th, the Ministry of Water Resources organized rolling consultations to analyze and judge the movement path, impact scope, and the national situation of rainfall, water conditions, and flood conditions of typhoon "White Dolphin", and arranged and deployed key defense work. Based on the 24-hour rainfall forecast, the Ministry of Water Resources issued a "one-province-one-sheet" (一省一单) targeted early warning to seven provinces including Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangxi, and Yunnan, notifying the list of counties (cities, districts) covered by heavy rainfall, the list of reservoirs, the risk areas and points for mountain torrent disasters, and reminding to do a good job in reservoir safety during flood season, defense against floods on small and medium rivers, and mountain torrent disasters. The Ministry of Water Resources maintained a Level III emergency response for flood defense for Zhejiang and a Level IV emergency response for flood defense for Heilongjiang, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Anhui, Fujian, and Jiangxi. Five working groups of the Ministry of Water Resources were on the front lines in Fujian, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Heilongjiang and other places to assist and guide the defense work against heavy rain and floods.
On the 9th, the Office of the National Flood Control Headquarters (国家防总办公室) and the Ministry of Emergency Management (应急管理部) organized a joint consultation with multiple departments and provinces including Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Anhui, to judge the development trend of typhoon "White Dolphin" and deploy prevention and response work. The National Flood Control Headquarters initiated a Level IV emergency response for flood control and typhoon prevention for Shanghai and Jiangxi, maintained a Level III emergency response for flood control and typhoon prevention for Zhejiang and Fujian, and a Level IV emergency response for flood control and typhoon prevention for Jiangsu and Anhui. Two working groups of the National Flood Control Headquarters continued to assist and guide flood control and typhoon prevention work on the front lines in Zhejiang and Fujian.
The Zhejiang Provincial Flood Control Headquarters (浙江省防指) raised the emergency response for typhoon prevention to Level I at 20:00 on the 8th, and the Zhejiang Maritime Safety Administration (浙江海事局) initiated a Level I emergency response for typhoon prevention along the Zhejiang coast on the 8th. Currently, all 162 passenger ferry routes and 316 passenger ships in the province have suspended operations, 193 water construction projects have stopped work, and 474 construction vessels have proceeded to safe shelter waters for refuge. Yuhuan City has opened 133 standardized disaster shelters and activated 53 temporary disaster relocation sites.
To respond to typhoon "White Dolphin", Ningde City, Fujian, as of 17:30 on the 9th, had sent down 8,995 cadres, evacuated 50,996 people from the sea, and evacuated 20,145 people on land. In Anren Village (安仁村), Jiayang She Ethnic Township (佳阳畲族乡), Fuding City (福鼎市), Ningde, all 139 registered marine vessels had entered the bay for shelter from the wind, and the village also received many vessels from surrounding areas to take shelter from the wind.
(Comprehensive reporting by our reporters Jiang Xuehong (蒋雪鸿), Deng Jianyang (邓剑洋), Liu Wenxin (刘温馨), Jiang Nan (江南), Dou Hanyang (窦瀚洋), and Liu Xiaoyu (刘晓宇).)
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Li Zheng (李拯), commentator of this newspaper; Xie Maosong (谢茂松), senior researcher at Tsinghua University's National Strategy Institute (清华大学国家战略研究院).
Li Zheng: Recently, a media outlet launched a converged media product titled "105 Years, 71 Comparisons." Once, mountains and rivers were shattered, the people were plunged into misery. Now, over 1.4 billion people enjoy peace and stability. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized, "The Communist Party of China inherits and develops the people-oriented thought of Chinese civilization, always adhering to the fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly." From people-oriented thought to "people-centered," what is the spiritual inheritance?
Xie Maosong: The Book of Documents says, "民惟邦本 (mín wéi bāng běn - "the people are the foundation of the state") , 本固邦宁 (běn gù bāng níng - "the foundation being secure, the state is at peace")," emphasizing taking the people as the root, revering Heaven and protecting the people, and also stating, "天视自我民视 (tiān shì zì wǒ mín shì - "Heaven's vision comes from the people's vision") , 天听自我民听 (tiān tīng zì wǒ mín tīng - "Heaven's hearing comes from the people's hearing")," highlighting the significance of the people's will. "People-centered" inherits and develops the people-oriented thought. From the day of its founding, our Party inscribed "seeking happiness for the Chinese people" on its banner, and has consistently adhered to it through wind and waves. The "half a quilt" on the Long March, the Red Flag Canal (红旗渠) on the Taihang cliffs, "not one person left behind" on the road to moderate prosperity in all respects (全面小康)... Over more than a hundred years of rugged years, the original aspiration of serving the people has never changed.
Li Zheng: Many political parties in the West claim to represent the people's interests, but stop at slogans. Why can the Communist Party of China truly implement "people-centered"?
Xie Maosong: In the West, the word "party" mostly originates from Latin, with a root meaning "part," representing only partial interests. The Communist Party of China, however, always represents the fundamental interests of the vast majority of the people. It is precisely because the Communist Party of China "has no special interests of its own" — this "having nothing" — that it can produce the "having something" of "representing the fundamental interests of the vast majority of the people." General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasizes "I sẽ to self, live up to the people" (我将无我，不服人 mín), which contains profound philosophy.
Li Zheng: General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out: "Without the five-thousand-year Chinese civilization, where would there be any Chinese characteristics? Without Chinese characteristics, where would there be the successful path of socialism with Chinese characteristics we have today?" Only from the perspective of the long-standing historical continuity can we better understand modern China and future China.
Xie Maosong: That is the reason our Party places such emphasis on the "two combines (两个结合)." Chinese civilization continues to this day without interruption—this continuity decideds that we must take our own path. Our Party possesses a high degree of civilizational self-awareness; it is both a faithful believer and practitioner of Marxism and a loyal inheritor and promoter of excellent traditional Chinese culture; it cherishes the lofty ideal of communism while also aiming for the eternal enterprise of the Chinese nation. Therefore, Chinese modernization is a modernization that carries forward an ancient civilisation, a modernization that grows from the soil of China. It sẽ take the 旧邦新命 (jiù bāng xīn mìng - "old state, new mandate," the renewal of an ancient civilization with a new mission) of the Chinese nation to impel Chinese civilization to regain its glory and create a new form for human civilization.
Li Zheng: The "second combine (sad个结合)" allows us to grasp the initiative in thought and culture and effectively acts upon the path, theory, and system. Chinese culture has a long history; Chinese civilization is extensive and profound. It provides inexhaustible ideological resources for our Party today in optimizing national governance and promoting reform and development.
Xie Maosong: The nourishment of civilization is 润物无声 (rùn wù wú shēng - "moisten things without sound," a subtle and enduring influence) but lasting and enduring. For example, our Party coordinates and grasps the dialectical relationships between economy and society, government and market, efficiency and fairness, vitality and order, development and security, promotes the high integration of various elements, reflecting the thinking methods of 执两用中 (zhí liǎng yòng zhōng - "hold the two extremes and use the middle," acting with impartiality and balance) and 守中致和 (shǒu zhōng ZHì hé - "hold to the middle and achieve harmony," maintaining balance to attain harmony). It makes good use of markets, capital, and the latest digital technologies, artificial intelligence, etc., fully develops productive forces while at the same time restraining and guiding capital's excessive profit-seeking nature, thereby transcending Western capitalism's capital-first approach and achieving more inclusive, more balanced, and more sustainable development.
Li Zheng: The excellent traditional Chinese culture advocates "协和万邦 (xié hé wàn bāng - "harmonize all the myriad states," promoting harmony among all nations)," "守望相助 (shǒu wàng xiāng zhù - "guard and help each other," mutual assistance in time of need)," and "天下大同 (tiān xià dà tóng - "Great Unity under Heaven," a world of common good)." These wisdoms and concepts are deeply rooted in the people's hearts. How will they shape the impact of Chinese modernization on the world?
Xie Maosong: Chinese civilization emphasizes 己立立人 (jǐ lì lì rén - "establish oneself and establish others," to help others thrive when one thrives oneself) and 己达达人 (jǐ dá dá rén - "achieve oneself and achieve others," to help others succeed when one succeeds oneself). First, one must independently take one's own path and manage one's own affairs well. While developing itself, it drives the common development of other countries, especially developing countries—this is the cultural origin of the "empowering-type major country" (赋能型大国). In recent years, from the joint building of the Belt and Road Initiative bringing benefits to many countries, to continuously expanding opening up and using "China Opportunity 2.0" to assist in the modernization of various countries, all are vivid manifestations of "establishing oneself and establishing others" (立己达人).
Promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, allowing all countries to benefit mutually, allowing various civilizations to inclusively learn from each other, allowing the peoples of all countries to understand and grow closer—this is not a temporary expedient, but a call hidden deep within civilization, the world-embracing sentiment of Chinese civilization extending from the past into the future.
Li Zheng: From people-oriented thought to "people-centered," from "the world as one family (天下一家)" to "a community with a shared future for mankind"... From the perspective of civilizational inheritance, our Party's century-long struggle has achieved a fateful turn for the Chinese nation from decline to resurgence, driving the life renewal and modern transformation of Chinese civilization. Nurtured by a long-standing civilization, guided by the light of truth, united by the strength of hundreds of millions of people, our Party will forever retain its youthful vitality and ever be full of vigour, impelling Chinese civilization to 辉光日新 (huī guāng rì xīn - "shine with new brilliance each day," constantly renewed and bright).
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After the rain, at the XAG Super Farm (极飞科技超级农场) in Huangpu District (黄埔区), Guangzhou, Guangdong, the fragrance of rice seeds filled the air. A black-painted agricultural drone skimmed low over the rice paddies, capable of completing aerial seeding of 300 mu in half an hour.
"In the past, young people thought farming was hard and rustic, but now it's different," said Gong Jiaqin (龚槚钦), co-founder of XAG, pointing to the data jumping on the screen. The 140,000 smart agriculture personnel they have trained are overwhelmingly post-90s and post-00s. These new farmers return to villages, set up smart farms, engage in drone planting—farming has become something very "cool."
Where does this "coolness" come from? It comes from technological innovation.
At the XAG Super Farm, agricultural robots, soil sensors, weather stations, smart cameras, and other IoT devices can be seen everywhere; data on temperature, humidity, light, soil fertility, etc., is uploaded every 15 minutes and merged into the "farmland brain." Taking the XAG 3,000 mu super cotton field in Xinjiang as an example, it requires only two people to manage, and per-mu yield reaches the national first-class level.
In the past relying on experience, now relying on data—technology's empowerment has allowed agriculture to shed its label of "facing the yellow earth and back to the sky" and speed onto the fast track of modernization. From pushing forward seed industry innovation, to promoting drones and other smart equipment, and then to applying AI vision and IoT and other digital technologies... across the vast land, agriculture is increasingly becoming a sunrise industry with technological content, brand value, and development prospects.
At the same time, operating drones, debugging robots, analyzing big data... a large number of jobs have been born in the fields. Agriculture, from an industry that "could not retain people," is turning into a track that "attracts people." Young people returning to their hometowns not only farm, but also introduce e-commerce live-streaming, order agriculture, and customized agriculture, extending single-grain production into brand-based management. What they bring back is not just labor power, but also internet thinking and market awareness; the countryside is being reactivated.
However, technology making agriculture "cool" is only the first step. Behind smart agriculture, practical problems such as high costs of agricultural machinery, insufficient rural digital infrastructure, and lack of technical training support for new farmers still exist. How to make young people stay and take root is even more critical.
Adhering to long-termism, continuously creating new scenarios and building new platforms, so that young people have great potential to act.
Xianju (仙居), Zhejiang, is famous far and wide for its bayberries, but in the past it suffered from "color change in one day, taste change in two days, spoilage in three days." Thanks to the implementation of new ice-temperature physical preservation technology, the "common prosperity fruit" says goodbye to "one-day freshness" and can be exported by sea to high-value-added markets such as Europe and Southeast Asia. In Yanjin (延津), Henan, villagers selected and planted Zhengmai 918, "each kilogram can sell for one more cent than ordinary wheat." Behind each seed is the complete seed industry innovation system built by the Central Plains Agricultural Valley (中原农谷) from the laboratory to the field. 因地制宜 (yīn dì zhì yí - "adapt measures to local conditions") developing new quality productive forces in agriculture (农业新质生产力), letting technological innovation truly grow within the industry and fall onto the fields—young people have ample space to use their talents.
Seek momentum from deepening reforms, so that the fields can bear the weight of young people's self-realization and growth expectations.
This year's "No. 1 Central Document" (中央一号文件) states: "Develop and strengthen the rural talent team, encourage all kinds of talents to go to the countryside for service, entrepreneurship, and employment." In 2025, Henan experimented with recruiting 5,100 college students and sending them down to the villages that need people most. In 2026, this number nearly doubled, with 10,000 village-level coordinators for rural revitalization taking up posts with organized establishment. Elderly uncles and aunts were overjoyed: "Young people have arrived in the village."
To make young people "stay and do well" in the countryside, we must also be adept at using legal thinking and legal methods to solve problems.
In May this year, the "Regulations of Huzhou City (湖州市) on Promoting Youth Development in the Countryside" were formally implemented, providing long-term and clear institutional expectations for youth development in the countryside through legalized means. This local regulation specifically targeting youth development in the countryside helps young people take root downward and grow upward on the ridges.
Drones fly over villages, data flows through the fields—this is a deep-level transformation. Beyond "coolness," allowing returning youth to see development space and a bright future—comprehensive rural revitalization will gain deep and lasting strength.
(The author is a reporter from our newspaper's Guangdong branch.)
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[Phenomenon] Since the start of this year, it can be clearly felt that our pace of deployment in 6G technology applications, industrial development, and other areas is accelerating. In May, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) approved the use license for 6GHz-band 6G experimental frequencies to the IMT-2030 (6G) Promotion Group (IMT-2030 (6G)推进组). In June, the special action for the 6G innovation and development provincial-ministerial coordinated pilot was launched. In July, Jiangsu Province established the 6G Industry Alliance (6G产业联盟), and Hubei Province released the 6G Industry Innovation and Development Action Plan (6G产业创新发展行动方案). Moving from the laboratory toward experimental verification and industrial implementation at an accelerated pace, 6G’s development direction is clear and its steps are steady.
[Commentary]
6G is the next-generation global mobile communication system after 5G. What does it mean to approve 6G technical test frequencies? Simply put, with this license, engineers can test real-world issues such as signal penetration, equipment interference, and others in real urban, industrial, and other scenarios. If we use the analogy of obtaining a driver’s license, it is roughly equivalent to having passed the theoretical study and closed training ground stages, now able to conduct “actual combat training” on “real roads.” This is undoubtedly a major step toward practical application.
So, when will ordinary users be able to use 6G?
China’s 6G technical tests are divided into three phases: the key technical test phase, the technical solution test phase, and the system networking test phase, corresponding to the main objectives of clarifying the main technical directions of 6G, developing 6G prototype devices for typical scenarios and performance indicators, and developing 6G pre-commercial equipment, respectively. Currently, the objectives of the first phase have been achieved, and the second phase has begun. It is estimated that around 2030, 6G will initiate commercial application and truly enter our daily lives.
In China, for some major projects and key initiatives, many people subconsciously want to know their timelines and roadmaps. This subconscious “synchronizing watches” reflects the deep-rooted nature of scientific planning and vigorous execution, and also mirrors the strategic thinking of “China’s governance (中国之治)”: whether advancing innovation or deepening reform, we “do not fight a battle unprepared”; we always plan before acting.
Strategic thinking gives us clarity.
More than three years ago, the Regulations on the Division of Radio Frequencies of the People’s Republic of China (2023 Edition) were released, providing a reference for global 6G frequency division. Being the first to initiate research on the 6GHz band and the first to approve 6G technical test frequencies both demonstrate China’s scientific overall planning and precise, rational supply of spectrum resources. Combining good planning with execution capability is an important experience from the past transformation and 弯道超车 (wān dào chāo chē - “overtaking on a curve,” catching up by taking advantage of a turning point) of China’s communications industry, and it will also be an important magic weapon for continuing to climb higher and innovate in the future.
From building rural road networks, to urban renewal, and then to the “millennium strategy (千年大计),” planning first is placed in an important position. During the construction of the Xiong’an New Area, every inch of land is planned clearly before construction begins; a landscape control mechanism is established, and a digital pre-rehearsal model is introduced to ensure that every building and every road meets the overall landscape requirements, avoiding style incongruity. From the small to the large, one can further realize: scientifically formulating and successively implementing five-year plans “is an important political advantage of socialism with Chinese characteristics (中国特色社会主义).”
Strategic thinking enables us to 行稳致远 (xíng wěn zhì yuǎn - “go steadily to reach far,” to achieve long-term success through steady progress).
In 2025, China added 588,000 new 5G base stations, bringing the total to 4.838 million, and more than 330 cities have achieved 5G-A network coverage. In the 6G era, will 5G infrastructure have little use? The answer is no.
The new-generation communication network among the “six networks (六张网)” includes both building new networks using new technologies and upgrading existing networks. Zhang Ping (张平), an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, led his team to verify the feasibility of semantic communication technology achieving 6G transmission capability on 4G and 5G links, exploring a new development path for achieving 6G performance goals in low-frequency, narrow-bandwidth conditions. These are precisely in line with the direction and principle set forth in the “15th Five-Year Plan Outline (十五五规划纲要)” of “adhering to moderately advanced but not excessively advanced development, strengthening overall infrastructure planning, optimizing layout and structure, and promoting integration and convergence.”
I recall a small matter: once I sent a text message to my elder aunt, and after a long time I received a voice reply dictated by someone else — only then did I remember that my aunt is illiterate. I clicked on a video call, and we had a good chat. The iteration of mobile communication technology continuously lowers barriers and bridges gaps, allowing many people who originally found it difficult to use such technology to also enjoy convenience and embrace digital life.
What changes will 6G bring to our lives? Some can be foreseen, but more cannot be accurately predicted. However, what is certain is that by anchoring to the direction of technology for universal benefit and technology for good, and by carrying out scientific planning and precise implementation, the pace of innovation and development will become increasingly solid, and the path will grow broader and wider.
Return to TopHow to Root a University in a County Town
Meng Jiaduo (孟嘉多)
In recent years, the wind of "running universities in county towns" has been blowing stronger and stronger. From the Hainan Lingshui Li'an International Education Innovation Pilot Zone (海南陵水黎安国际教育创新试验区) to the university clusters in Jiangsu Taicang (江苏太仓)… running universities in county towns is changing from sporadic pilots into a trend. Currently, hundreds of counties in the country have universities or university campuses.
Universities moving down to counties – the general direction is entirely defensible. County economies contribute nearly 40% of the national GDP, and also face the problem of "lacking technology, lacking talent" in the upgrading of distinctive industries. Running a university at the doorstep of industry, cultivating talent with targeted orientation, and transforming results on the spot – this both solves the enterprises' 燃眉之急 (rán méi zhī jí – "urgency of eyebrows on fire," critical and pressing need) and retains young people for the county town. This calculation is worthwhile.
But the reality is that not every county can support a university. Those counties with ample fiscal resources and solid industries can afford the money to build schools, and can also provide jobs for students. But for ordinary agricultural counties, or counties with continuous population outflow, spending large amounts of money to build campuses, with subsequent faculty, operations, and student enrollment unable to keep up, it may well become an inescapable fiscal burden. Blindly building schools divorced from industrial foundation and fiscal capacity often results in "the school is built, but the human vitality cannot gather."
Running a university in a county town is a long-term talent layout. Building big buildings requires 真金白银 (zhēn jīn bái yín – "real gold and white silver," hard cash), and to take root also requires 久久为功 (jiǔ jiǔ wéi gōng – "persist for a long time to achieve success," sustained effort). When making decisions, one must think more about whether the majors match the industries, whether faculty can be retained, and whether students have places to go. Only by plunging into the soil of the county and connecting with the industry's ground-level reality will universities in county towns have vitality.
(Excerpted from Liaoning Daily (辽宁日报), originally titled "The Key to 'Choosing a County Town as a University Site' Is to Take Good Root")
The Enlightenment of the Counter-Trend Recovery of Buses
Wei Chen (维辰)
Nowadays, many passenger transport stations have closed or transformed, but Guangdong's site-stop buses have recovered against the trend. In 2025, the number of internet passenger transport scheduled trips and passenger volume in Guangdong Province increased by nearly 70% year-on-year respectively.
Previously, buses and passenger transport stations were bound together. After policy liberalization, the site-stop buses shed the requirement to enter the station, and now board and alight passengers at over a hundred sites and more than a thousand stops arranged in areas such as subway entrances and commercial centers. Passengers can buy tickets on their phones, and board and alight at stops near their homes, which is convenient and fast.
The price advantage is equally obvious. Passenger stations and high-speed rail stations are both heavy assets; land, maintenance and other costs are reflected in ticket prices. The light-asset operation of site-stop buses faces much less cost pressure to spread. The more core change is the adjustment of division of labor and benefit distribution. Previously, the passenger station was the hub, providing services and extracting fees. Now, the internet platform becomes the new hub; participants such as ticketing platforms and site service providers distribute revenue according to contribution. Specialized division of labor improves efficiency and stimulates the enthusiasm of all parties.
But low prices have their boundaries. The low-price model that site-stop buses spawned in the early stage to expand passenger sources is difficult to maintain long-term, and the cost dividend from switching fuel vehicles to electric vehicles is also limited to short and medium distances. Therefore, one cannot use the extreme low prices of site-stop buses during the platform subsidy phase to criticize the prices of high-speed rail and passenger station lines, nor simply say that "buses have defeated high-speed rail." The two do not provide homogeneous services – "station-to-station" focuses on overall efficiency, while "door-to-door" focuses on segmented experience. The two are complementary rather than substitutive relationships; their cost and profit structures differ, and in many cases they cannot be directly compared.
The recovery of Guangdong's buses offers two layers of enlightenment: it is not only the most advanced products or services that can survive – traditional industries that find their positioning and deeply cultivate segmented markets can also 大有可为 (dà yǒu kě wéi – "great potential for action," have great prospects); and by deconstructing the value chain and using specialized division of labor to reduce costs, it is possible to effectively revitalize existing development resources.
(Excerpted from Nanfang Daily (南方日报), originally titled "How Can Guangdong Buses Achieve a Counter-Trend Recovery?")
Return to TopAccording to the Ministry of Transport, during the “Fifteenth Five-Year Plan” period, the three backbone corridors — the border-area G219 and G331 and the coastal G228 — will be fully connected, forming a “golden outer ring” that encircles China’s border and coast, with a total length equivalent to more than half the circumference of the equator. This major transportation ring line will not only bring people a new experience of self-driving tours, but will also release multiple values in terms of industrial linkage, consolidating border areas and revitalizing border regions, and other aspects.
Exactly:
Snowy domains, icy peaks, great desert haze,
Tides surge on silver sands, blue waves link.
Drive, window shifts — all are splendid views,
Travel thrives, commerce booms, faces beam with joy.
Shen Qiuwen (沈丘文)
By: 徐 隽
Since 1986, China has continuously implemented and completed eight five-year plans for universal legal education. Recently, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council forwarded the Ninth Five-Year Plan for the Popularization of Legal Education (2026–2030) of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee (中央宣传部) and the Ministry of Justice (司法部), making a new comprehensive deployment for legal education and publicity.
The authority of law lies not in the density of its provisions, but in the depth of belief in it. General Secretary Xi Jinping has stressed, “We must make unremitting efforts to firmly establish the authority of the Constitution and the law throughout society, so that the broad masses of the people fully trust the law and consciously use the law.”
In recent years, leading cadres have observed court trials and reported on their work and legal compliance; young students have conducted mock court activities; couriers seek lawyers and read legal provisions when encountering problems… The ethos of following rules in handling affairs, valuing contracts in transactions, and relying on the law to protect rights is growing stronger, and the rule-of-law literacy has settled into a conscious practice of the entire populace. In a country as large as ours, persistently carrying out universal legal education and enabling the people to believe in the rule of law is a great pioneering undertaking in the history of human rule of law, fully demonstrating the superiority of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics.
The sounding of the clarion call of the “Ninth Five-Year” legal education plan is by no means a simple transmission of legal knowledge, but a systematic project to make the belief in the rule of law take deep roots and lush leaves (gēn shēn yè mào - “deep roots and lush leaves,” deeply established and flourishing) in the hearts of over 1.4 billion people.
Legal education and publicity is not simple indoctrination, but rather helping citizens learn to use the law to solve practical problems. Cadres in Loudi, Hunan, use local dialect to explain legal knowledge about homesteads, support for the elderly, and inheritance; the “bench classroom” (板凳课堂) has untied long-standing grievances among neighbors. In Longnan, Gansu, relying on the contingent of “legal literate persons” (法律明白人), they promoted the revision of village rules and civil agreements, and legally rectified sky-high bride prices and extravagant weddings and funerals… Rooted in grassroots governance, embedded in the construction of local customs, integrated into conflict mediation, practical effects best persuade and influence people.
Only by deeply integrating legal education and publicity with legal practice, transforming legal provisions on paper into the real power to resolve disputes and protect people’s livelihoods, can the foundation of belief in the rule of law be made ever firmer.
The front line of law enforcement and judicial work is the best classroom for legal education. After investigating false advertising, market regulatory authorities organize on-site warning meetings for surrounding merchants; the comprehensive law enforcement team of street offices rectifies illegal charging of electric bicycles, and in addition to punishments, simultaneously publicizes fire safety regulations, bidding farewell to the simple enforcement model of “only fining without educating”; judicial authorities create short-video accounts for legal education, using skits and clapper talk to explain cases concerning people’s livelihoods — a single anti-fraud video can gain millions of views.
To foster a social atmosphere where respecting the law, studying the law, abiding by the law, and using the law become common practice (wèi rán chéng fēng - “become a common practice,” to become prevalent) throughout society, it is necessary to thoroughly implement the responsibility system of “whoever enforces the law propagates the law” (谁执法谁普法), incorporate the fulfillment of legal education responsibilities into the report on the construction of a law-based government and the important content of the year-end legal compliance report of the main local party and government leaders at the city and county levels, and comprehensively raise the level of institutionalization, standardization, and scientific management of legal education and publicity work.
Only by shifting legal education from “flood irrigation” to “precision drip irrigation” can the quality and efficiency of legal education work be improved. To this end, all localities need to eliminate “formalistic legal education” (形式普法) that relies on ledger-checking and photo-taking, make efforts in targeting and practical effectiveness, and turn the responsibility for legal education from a “soft task” into a “hard constraint.”
Guiding all the people to become loyal advocates, conscious observers, and staunch defenders of socialist rule of law, and better leveraging the important role of the rule of law in consolidating fundamentals, stabilizing expectations, and benefiting long-term development, will provide a more solid legal escort for advancing Chinese-style modernization.
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 姚雪青
In the classroom, students step onto the podium to share boldly and discuss actively; outside the classroom, children bring children's plays to the stage, using childlike language to tell red history; during holidays, teachers and students retrace the "Xin'an Troupe" road, cultivating patriotic feelings amid comparisons of past and present... These scenes come from Xin'an Primary School (新安小学) in Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province.
In 1929, people's educator Tao Xingzhi founded Xin'an Primary School and served as its first principal. In October 1935, the "Xin'an Touring Troupe" (新安旅行团, hereafter "Xin'an Troupe"), whose main members were teachers and students of Xin'an Primary School, set out on the road of propaganda for national resistance against Japan, lasting 17 years, moving through 22 provinces, traveling over 50,000 li. Through artistic forms such as film screenings, song-and-dance dramas, and editing and publishing magazines, they actively propagated the Party's propositions and strived to contribute to the victory of the War of Resistance and the liberation of the whole country.
On May 30, 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping, in a reply letter to the Young Pioneers of Xin'an Primary School, stressed: "I hope you will study Party history well in light of your own growth reality, take heroic model figures as examples, from an early age strengthen the determination to listen to the Party and follow the Party, study hard, establish ideals, temper character, increase abilities, and strive to achieve all-round development in morality, intelligence, physique, aesthetics, and labor."
It is understood that the school fully taps the red resources of the "Xin'an Troupe," draws on its successful experience in educating people, and constructs a "three little" education system of "dare to be little teachers, able to be little masters, strive to be little good fellows," so that red history and the "Xin'an Troupe" tradition are passed down from generation to generation on campus.
Dare to be "Little Teachers"
Inheriting the "Xin'an Troupe" tradition through critical thinking
"Today we study an ancient text, 'Reading by the Light of Fireflies in a Bag.' Everyone sees that the title has a new character. Who knows what it means?" In Chinese language class, Chinese teacher Liu Lanlan asked.
"This character 'nang' looks like a tied rope above and a container below, as if a cloth bag is tied up." Chen Ren (陈仁), a "little teacher of literacy" who had previewed the text, stepped onto the podium, teaching everyone stroke by stroke how to write the character more smoothly.
When it came to the reading segment, who would be the "little teacher of reading"? Cheng Kewei (成可为), sitting in the front row, raised his hand: "In summer, then use a silk bag, put dozens of fireflies in it, to illuminate the book..." After Cheng Kewei finished reading with cadence, Liu Lanlan told the students: "By pausing at segments like time, action, and goal, reading classical texts will have more rhythm."
In the subsequent comprehension segment, the whole class was divided into different groups, each group recommending a "little teacher of speech" to explain their understanding to everyone, while other students acted as "little teachers of commentary," expressing views and exchanging ideas.
This Chinese lesson that let students step onto the podium is a microcosm of Xin'an Primary School's exploration of distinctive education methods.
Zhang Dadong (张大冬), Secretary of the Party Committee of Xin'an Primary School, introduced that the "Xin'an Troupe" became a cradle for cultivating various talents during its 17 years of revolutionary propaganda activities. This unique educational phenomenon originated from the "little teacher" system advocated and implemented by the "Xin'an Troupe," whose core is that the teacher teaches himself, teaching as soon as one knows, the older teaching the younger, those who know teaching those who do not.
Xin'an Primary School encourages students to dare to be "little teachers" in the classroom. This is both an externalization of the "Xin'an Troupe" educational tradition in action, and in an atmosphere of "everyone can participate, everything can be displayed," it guides children to exercise their thinking abilities.
"One must know the knowledge inside out to be able to share it with classmates," said Chen Ren. Serving as a "little teacher" makes him love learning more and become confident and generous.
The school also launched a "peer learning community" to let children cooperate and progress together. Art teacher Wu Jinjuan (吴锦娟) introduced that in one art class, teachers and students went to the Xin'an Touring Troupe Historical Museum on campus to find inspiration and do secondary creation on the subject of the "Xin'an Troupe."
"Everyone formed groups according to their interests to complete works," introduced Huang Xiaoxiao (黄潇潇), a fifth-grade student. Students good at drawing became "little teachers of production," enthusiastic and careful students became "little teachers of management," and those with strong expression skills served as "little teachers of sharing" to introduce works.
Through teamwork, the children completed impressive creations: some designed cartoon images of "Xin'an Troupe" members, some made cloth appliqué pictures of the "Xin'an Troupe" departure scenes, and the four-fold study manual produced by Huang Xiaoxiao's group was collected by the museum.
"Not only integrate red culture into teaching content, but also inherit the 'Xin'an Troupe' tradition in teaching methods, organically integrating knowledge transmission with value delivery," said Zhang Dadong.
Able to be "Little Masters"
Red culture nurtures the roots of students
"At that time, floods and famines were constant. Tao Xingzhi was worried about the safety of the Xin'an Touring Troupe and suggested delaying their departure. But the members firmly said, 'Even if we have to beg, we must go to propagandize for resistance against Japan.'" At the Xin'an Touring Troupe Historical Museum, fifth-grade student Yao Yunhan (姚云涵) stood before a group sculpture and explained to visitors.
Zhou Yongfei (周永飞), Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Xin'an Primary School, introduced that as the school's red education base, the 2,800-square-meter museum exhibition hall, themed "Wind and Clouds Fifty Thousand Li, Forever Follow the Party" (风云五万里，永远跟党走), reproduces the glorious deeds of the "Xin'an Troupe" using artistic weapons to propagate the Party's propositions under the Party's care and leadership. The school trains over 40 "little docents" each year in the form of extracurricular clubs. The "little docents" widely learn about this history by watching documentaries, reading related books, and participating in presentation competitions, so that everyone can tell the story of the "Xin'an Troupe."
Not long ago, Yao Yunhan represented the school in a "Red Story Competition." What to do when there were no physical exhibits or scenes on site? "The 'Xin'an Troupe's' spirit of fearing no difficulties and self-reliance infected me. I thought of a way: I 'wore' the museum on my body: I put on the white shirt and blue work pants they wore when they set out, carried a cloth bag, and also made a group flag," said Yao Yunhan. Her emotionally charged and creative expression on site won rounds of applause.
Xin'an Primary School also collaborated with the China National Theatre for Children (中国儿童艺术剧院) in 2022 to rehearse and stage the children's play Xin'an Touring Troupe, which toured several times in Beijing, Nanjing, Huai'an, Hong Kong, and other places. Since then, the school selects young actors from different grades every year. Currently, over 300 students in the school have participated in the performances, with audiences exceeding 10,000 people.
"Learning history and playing roles can bring different feelings to children," said Zhang Xiaoli (张晓莉), Deputy Director of the Moral Education Office of Xin'an Primary School. Fourth-grader Wang Zichen (王梓宸) played the protagonist "Chen Mo" in the play. This is a role that combines the experiences of several real-life figures. Wang Zichen not only memorized his lines in performance and strove to act the role well and vividly, but also tried to emulate the role outside the plot. During the holidays, he and his classmates visited and conducted research in the community, proposing the suggestion, "I hope to set up a mobile book station in the community."
Wang Zhengxiang (王正祥), Vice Principal for Moral Education of Xin'an Primary School, introduced that since 2023, the school has advocated that children exert their independent "little master" consciousness, observe life, and care about society. So far, over a thousand "micro-suggestions" have been received, including adding a lost-and-found office at school and alleviating the parking difficulties at Hexia Ancient Town (河下古镇), many of which have been implemented or are being followed up.
From the podium to the stage, from inside the school to outside, the "little masters" step into a vast world.
Strive to be "Little Good Fellows"
The footprints of the "Xin'an Troupe" extend beneath their feet
Starting from Xin'an Primary School, walking 15 minutes along the canal, they arrive before a memorial archway. The teachers and students take out an old photo copied from the museum and compare it repeatedly: "It's right here!" Back then, members of the "Xin'an Troupe" boarded a boat from this canal dock, embarking on the road of propaganda for national resistance against Japan. Today, 30 teachers and students stand here once again, imagining the scene of "Xin'an Troupe" members boarding the boat in a light drizzle, bidding farewell to their loved ones. Leading teacher Zhang Shourong (张寿荣) explained to the students that the Grand Canal once declined from prosperity due to changes in transportation, but now, with the construction of the Canal Cultural Belt, this section of the Grand Canal has become the city's living room. "We have seen today's development for them," said fifth-grade student Ma Yiman (马溢蔓).
Since 2021, the school has launched the "Little Good Fellows Retrace the Xin'an Troupe Road" red study tour, organizing students to follow in the footsteps of the "Xin'an Troupe," touring the motherland's mountains and rivers and experiencing the era's style.
At the Jinshan Lake Dock (金山湖码头) in Zhenjiang, the children told the story of the "Xin'an Troupe" like the members did back then; in Nanjing, teachers and students completed a "rescue interview" of Chen Qi, an oil painter and former troupe member; in Anhui, everyone went into She County (歙县) and Yi County (黟县) to visit the hometowns of the two former principals, Tao Xingzhi and Wang Dazhi (汪达之). After the study tour, the students also left behind a stack of precious visit diaries.
The red study tour is one component of the school's "New Era Little Good Fellows Ten Abilities Cultivation Action."
Liang Wenchao (梁文超), Vice Principal of Xin'an Primary School, told reporters that from the tangible "study tour road" to the intangible "talent development road," starting in September 2024, the school launched the "New Era Little Good Fellows Ten Abilities Cultivation Action," covering ten aspects including independent learning, physical exercise, and artistic aesthetics, guiding students to become "New Era Little Good Fellows with ideals, abilities, and responsibility." For example, in physical exercise, the school promotes table tennis throughout the school and sets up special classes; students use big breaks, physical education classes, and after-school club training to strengthen their bodies and temper their will. In artistic aesthetics, in the corrugated paper art club, students use imagination and skillful hands to turn corrugated paper into sculptures, prints, spray paintings, and other expressive works.
Zhang Dadong said, from the "little teachers" in the classroom to the "little masters" in the museum, to the "little good fellows" on the study tour road, the "Xin'an Troupe" tradition is taking root in the children's hearts in a visible way.
By: 张智琪
In the classroom they dare to act as "little teachers," outside the classroom they can be "little masters," and on the study tour path they strive to be "little heroes"… Xin'an Primary School (新安小学) carries forward the "New Travel" (新旅) tradition, allowing red resources to inject spiritual strength into forging souls and educating people.
The abundant red resources are vivid teaching materials for establishing virtue and nurturing people, for cultivating roots and forging souls. Touching the bygone years in historical memorial halls, recreating historical scenes on children's theater stages, feeling the style of the era while retracing the "New Travel" road… in the vast "red classroom," children change from listeners to narrators, from participants to disseminators, not only increasing their historical knowledge but also cultivating patriotic feelings.
The fine red tradition provides rich nourishment for innovation in teaching methods. The combination of the "New Travel" educational tradition of "he who teaches others teaches himself; what is known is immediately passed on" with modern teaching methods allows children to develop good study habits in the classroom, step out of the campus to observe life and care about society, and gradually forms a teaching atmosphere that enlightens wisdom and moistens the heart through subtle influence and silent nourishment.
The footprints of the Xin'an Traveling Troupe (新安旅行团) from over 90 years ago are still imprinted on the path of becoming talent in the new era today. We must fully and flexibly use red resources, lay a solid spiritual foundation, consolidate the roots of life, and guide children to grow into new generations capable of shouldering the great task of national rejuvenation.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李俊杰
On a summer afternoon, in Linquan, northern Anhui, waves of heat shimmer. The summer托管 classroom of Yingxian Town Central School in Linquan County, Fuyang, Anhui, is exceptionally quiet — several dozen children sit with heads bowed over their desks, pen tips moving across paper, rustling. At the lectern, a middle-aged man in a red vest faces the blackboard, chalk rising and falling, one horizontal stroke, one vertical stroke, one left-falling stroke, one right-falling stroke, breaking down the skeleton of Chinese characters.
His name is Qin Xiang (秦翔, see photo, photo by Guo Haiyang), aged 50, a native of Wei Xiaomiao Village, Yingxian Town, Linquan County, and also the founder of the "Hard-Pen Standard-Character Calligraphy Rural Tour" (硬笔规范汉字书写乡村行) public-welfare class in Linquan County. Over the past 30-plus years, he has ridden a bicycle back and forth along the country lanes of Linquan County, using one pen and one stack of paper to bring the beauty of Chinese characters to 41 rural schools, warming the hearts of over ten thousand left-behind children. Not long ago, Qin Xiang was selected for the first batch of the 2026 "China Good Person List" (中国好人榜).
Qin Xiang's grandfather and father spent their entire lives rooted in rural education, and he himself learned to write beautifully from his father as a child. But his bond with rural calligraphy education began with a "give it a try."
In 1994, then only 18 years old, Qin Xiang was forced to suspend his studies due to illness and stayed at home. The principal of Weizhuang Elementary Schoo in the neighboring village came to his door seeking help: "The school is short of teachers, the children are waiting for classes — can you help as a substitute teacher for a while?" Qin Xiang agreed to "give it a try." That one try never stopped.
At first he taught Chinese language. While correcting student homework, Qin Xiang discovered that many children's handwriting was sloppy. "Writing is a basic skill and also cultivates one's character. I can't let the children fall behind in those strokes." So, in addition to his Chinese classes, he voluntarily opened a hard-pen calligraphy class without asking the schoo or parents for a single cent of compensation.
Without supporting teaching materials, he bought sample books at his own expense, staying up late to hand-copy and stencil mimeograph sheets to make simple handouts. Some children from poor families could not afford paper and pens, so he bought stationery himself and distributed it to the students. In just one year, the writing level of his students improved greatly.
"Rural children have a hard time becoming successful — if I can help one more, I should." With that simple thought, Qin Xiang's calligraphy class expanded beyond Weizhuang Elementary Schoo and gradually covered all 41 rural schools in the county.
In 2019, Qin Xiang left his substitute teacher post. To make a living and also to keep his rural public-welfare calligraphy classes going, he opened a hard-pen calligraphy training center. In the seven years since founding it, he has waived or reduced tuition fees for low-income families and children of disabled persons by 76,000 yuan, and has also taken out 42,000 yuan, all of which he has put into public-welfare classes at rural schools.
In over 30 years of going to the countryside to teach, he has worn out three bicycles and five electric scooters one after another. Regardless of scorching heat or bitter cold, Qin Xiang's schedule of teaching at rural schools has never been interrupted. But this road has not been easy. Some parents felt that practicing calligraphy was "useless" and did not want their children to participate; in some schools, calligraphy classes were often set aside. Traveling year-round through the countryside, Qin Xiang fell and was injured twice while riding, resulting in a Level 2 physical disability. At his worst, he could only stand at the lectern with a cane. Doctors repeatedly told him to move less and rest more, but when he thought of the children waiting for class, he could not let go of the chalk in his hand.
People often ask him, after more than 30 years of rushing about, spending money and effort and ending up with a body full of injuries, what is he after? His answer is very simple: "I just want the children to write Chinese characters well, and in the future use a good hand to write out their own splendid lives."
More than three decades of hard work have yielded abundant fruit. Over 260 students he has taught have won awards in provincial and municipal calligraphy competitions. Cheng Longfei (程龙飞), whose handwriting was once crooked and whose personality was introverted, has now gone all the way to a doctorate. "A good hand has become a 'key' for many rural children to open the door to a broader world," said Qin Xiang with a smile.
The faint light of one person gradually gathers into warm sparks. Qin Xiang's steadfastness, asking nothing in return, has moved many educators and calligraphy enthusiasts. More and more people are joining the rural calligraphy education public-welfare team. Qiu Xiling (邱喜玲), a teacher from Yingdong District, Fuyang City, has studied calligraphy with him and, over seven years, used her spare time to tutor over 300 rural children. Dai Fenghai (代凤海), a member of the Fuyang Calligraphy Association, influenced by him, has in six years entered 10 town-level schools to give free calligraphy lectures. Yang Chao (杨超), far away in Fang County, Hubei, who had never met him face to face, was deeply moved after a single phone call and has taught over 5,000 teachers and students over five years without compensation.
In 2023, after Qin Xiang made numerous trips and appeals, Lanzhi Elementary Schoo in Aiting Town, Linquan County, established the province's first rural calligraphy education experimental school. The one-way trip from his home to the school is 24 kilometers. Every Wednesday, rain or shine, he travels back and forth to teach, never a break to this day.
The class bell rang. Qin Xiang picked up his canvas bag, mounted his electric scooter, and rode into the twilight. Years have added white hair at his temples, but he remains full of passion. In his heart is an unchanging goal: "As long as my body can still move, my steps on the road to teaching in the countryside will not stop. I will go to more remote villages, using the ink fragrance of hard-pen calligraphy to nurture more rural children."
(Li Peng contributed to the reporting.)
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From salary and benefits to promotion prospects, job seekers asked in detail; from job content to corporate culture, the hiring side answered in full. At an employment two-way selection fair held not long ago at the Lingang Campus of Yibin University (宜宾学院) in Sichuan, more than 200 employers in fields such as artificial intelligence, new energy, and biomedicine entered the venue, attracting more than 2,500 graduates to participate. Since March this year, Yibin University has held more than 100 recruitment fairs of various types, providing nearly 10,000 positions and helping graduates better choose and secure employment.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Strengthen the guiding orientation of the employment-first policy, implement the action to stabilize jobs, expand capacity, and improve quality, and make focused efforts to stabilize employment for key groups such as college graduates and migrant workers." The meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held on July 30 pointed out: "We must take multiple measures to strengthen livelihood security, increase support for the employment of key groups, and do a good job in protecting the rights and interests of flexibly employed personnel and personnel in new forms of employment."
The "15th Five-Year Plan for Implementing the Employment-First Strategy" (实施就业优先战略"十五五"规划) clarified the thinking, goals, key tasks, and policy measures for deeply implementing the employment-first strategy and promoting high-quality and full employment during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. Since the beginning of this year, all regions and departments have treated employment as the top priority in people's livelihood, firmly grasped the implementation of the planning tasks, and introduced a package of policy measures such as stabilizing and expanding jobs, skills training, and assistance for those in difficulty, going all out (全力以赴 (quán lì yǐ fù - "to put forth one's full strength," spare no effort)) to stabilize the employment situation and improve employment quality.
Strengthen the employment-first policy and stabilize and expand employment for key groups.
"At first I could not find the right direction for job matching. My counselor helped me optimize my resume, highlighting my practical operation ability in automotive equipment, and also pushed enterprise recruitment information to me in a targeted way," said Wang Bo (王波), a graduate of the class of 2026 majoring in automotive service engineering at Yibin University. He has now signed with Sichuan Hongsheng Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. (四川宏晟智能装备有限公司), with the job matching his major.
Ma Hongjiang (马洪江), Party Secretary of Yibin University, said that the school has established a precise assistance mechanism of "one person, one file; one student, one strategy" (一人一档、一生一策), and for key groups such as graduates from zero-employment households and graduates with disabilities, it ensures at least three heart-to-heart conversations, three employment guidance sessions, and three job recommendations, striving to ensure that 100% of key-group graduates with employment intentions have their placements confirmed.
Inside a supermarket in Chongqing, Li Yong (李勇), a 41-year-old migrant worker, was carefully arranging shopping carts. "I was injured and have difficulty moving. Thanks to the employment assistance policy, I became a supermarket loss-prevention officer, and my wife also works here as a pastry chef," he said with relief. The workplace is close to home, and the couple's combined monthly income exceeds 7,000 yuan.
Zou Chuan (邹川), the supermarket store manager, said that the dividends of the employment subsidy policy effectively supported the enterprise's expansion of recruitment, and since the beginning of this year the supermarket has hired more than 80 new employees. In the first half of the year, Chongqing promoted near-home employment for 196,000 migrant workers, a year-on-year increase of 6.4%.
Issuing the "Action Plan for Stabilizing Jobs, Expanding Capacity, and Improving Quality" (稳岗扩容提质行动方案) to support industries affected by the external environment in developing and driving employment; continuing and optimizing the implementation of policies benefiting enterprises and the people, such as job stabilization refunds, skill-upgrade subsidies, and job expansion subsidies, to help enterprises in labor-intensive industries stabilize positions; placing youth employment in a more prominent position and launching the 2026 action to tackle key difficulties in employment services for college graduates and other young people (高校毕业生等青年就业服务攻坚行动)... Since the beginning of this year, policy measures in areas such as stabilizing employment in key industries, tapping employment potential, and improving employment quality have been rolled out one after another.
"We will go all out to keep employment generally stable, maintain a considerable scale of newly added urban jobs, and achieve new progress in high-quality and full employment," said a relevant official of the Planning and Finance Department of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源社会保障部).
Improve the efficiency of person-job matching and make focused efforts to resolve the structural employment contradiction.
"After training, I found a job with a monthly salary of 6,000 yuan." At an elderly care service company in Lengshuitan District (冷水滩区), Yongzhou City, Hunan, Pan Zhenglin (潘峥霖) skillfully provided daily living care to disabled elderly people. Having been away from the workplace for many years, Pan Zhenglin had not been very successful in finding a job. "I saw on the 'Yongzhou Release' (永州发布) official account that the government had organized skills training, so I signed up for the order-based training class for health caregivers. Now I have solid skills, a stable job, and my life has more and more to look forward to," Pan Zhenglin said with full confidence.
On the one hand, some workers face difficulty in finding employment because their skills are not well suited; on the other hand, popular industries face a shortage of talent. The structural contradiction of supply-demand mismatch is one of the bottlenecks in employment work. Yongzhou has innovatively introduced a training model of "the masses place orders, the human resources and social security department dispatches orders, institutions accept orders, and enterprises place orders" (群众点单、人社派单、机构接单、企业订单), focusing on occupations in short supply such as AI trainer and drone pilot. In the first half of the year, 11,000 person-times of training were organized, and more than 5,000 people have already been smoothly employed.
Efficient person-job matching is one of the important connotations of high-quality and full employment at the macro level. A relevant official of the Department of Vocational Capacity Building of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security said that China is deeply implementing the "Skills Illuminate the Future" training action (技能照亮前程), focusing on organizing special training around artificial intelligence technology and other areas. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, China will carry out subsidized vocational skills training for more than 50 million person-times, so as to better align with industries and serve employment.
Establish a broad employment concept and build an employment-friendly development model.
At 5 a.m., the lights were already on in the Warm New Apartments (暖新公寓) in Wenhua Community (文化小区), Qiaocheng District (谯城区), Bozhou City, Anhui. Chen Kui (陈魁), a 43-year-old food delivery worker, got up quietly and looked back at his wife and child, who were still sleeping soundly. This apartment of more than 120 square meters is now their warm home. "The furniture here is complete; you can move in with just your bags, and the rent is much cheaper than on the market." In Bozhou, 979 Warm New Apartment units have been built to help people in new forms of employment settle down.
After settling down, one must also feel at ease. Recently, Li Hao (李昊), a food delivery rider working in Bozhou, received occupational injury protection benefits. "From after I was injured until I received the money, the human resources and social security department followed up throughout, and I felt especially reassured."
Creating multi-tiered convenience services for the people and new-consumption entrepreneurship scenarios, building an entrepreneurship-friendly ecosystem; expanding nationwide the pilot of occupational injury protection for people in new forms of employment, improving the quality, effectiveness, and coverage of the reform; developing a national map of public employment services to make it convenient for job seekers to find jobs nearby... All regions and departments have strengthened policy coordination, highlighted the employment-driving force of development, cultivated a sound employment and entrepreneurship ecosystem, and promoted a virtuous cycle between economic growth and the expansion and quality improvement of employment.
"During the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, the supporting conditions and basic trend of China's economy improving in the long run have not changed. We have the confidence and capability to achieve overall stability in employment and a positive trend," a relevant official of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security said, adding that they will make every effort to implement the "four stabilities" (四稳) requirements, deeply implement the employment-first strategy, strengthen guidance, expand channels, and protect key groups, and continuously push for new progress in high-quality and full employment.
(Staff reporters of this newspaper: Qiu Chaoyi (邱超奕), Liu Xinwu (刘新吾), You Yi (游仪), Sun Chao (孙超), Luo Yangqi (罗阳奇))
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"Teacher Luo, you've worked hard." "It's nothing. Let's listen to the movie together."
Watching a movie may be an everyday thing for others. But for 52-year-old Chen Zhongqiang (陈忠强), it is different. After accidentally losing his sight at age six and a half, he rarely entered a cinema. In half a lifetime, he had watched films in person only twice.
This time, it was at the accessible screening venue of the "Bright Cinema" (光明影院) at the New Era Civilization Practice Center (新时代文明实践中心) of Gongcheng Yao Autonomous County (恭城瑶族自治县), Guilin, Guangxi. The hall was brightly lit. Chen Zhongqiang placed his hand on the shoulder of Luo Xiangjun (罗相军), an armless dancer, and, guided by Luo Xiangjun, walked to his seat.
"The film is about to begin. If you need help, please raise your hand at any time." Luo Xiangjun is a volunteer with the "Bright Cinema." When the visually impaired audience members were seated, Luo Xiangjun pressed the play button.
"Use voice to convey color, use listening to perceive art. Welcome to the 'Bright Cinema'..." A voice-over slowly rose, and the red film Five Heroes on the Wolf Tooth Mountain officially began screening.
On the big screen, light and shadow shifted, and the plot slowly advanced. The venue was utterly still; everyone sat up straight and listened attentively. The accompanying accessible commentary explained the mountain-and-river scenery and the characters' expressions one by one. Chen Zhongqiang leaned slightly forward, carefully catching every segment of explanation at his ear. "Someone is willing to describe the world before my eyes to me — it's very heartwarming," he said softly with emotion.
Since August of last year, under the lead mobilization of the Gongcheng County Civilization Office (文明办) and other departments, the local area organized a "Bright Cinema" volunteer service team, with more than 40 volunteers eagerly joining and, through a model of "fixed screenings + mobile touring screenings," promoting an audible "cultural blind path" (文化盲道) reaching straight into the Yao countryside. The team's members come from all walks of life; school teachers, cultural and artistic performers, and others have all joined in. Luo Xiangjun said: "When guiding, we have them lightly rest a hand on our shoulder and keep watch over the steps and road conditions. We are willing to be the walking stick and guide of visually impaired friends, holding respect in our hearts and accompanying them along the way."
Luo Xiangjun, 43, is an actor at the county cultural troupe. He lost both arms at age 7. "I myself have a disability and know deeply the difficulties of life for disabled people, so I hope to contribute an extra share of effort and pass the warmth along," Luo Xiangjun said. When he heard that the county was establishing a volunteer service team, he signed up and joined on his own initiative at the first opportunity, and was on duty throughout every session, handling the opening hosting and the guidance and companionship.
"Not only did the volunteers make a special trip to pick me up from home, they also had fruit prepared at the venue, and someone accompanied me attentively the whole time. After I finished listening to the film, there were also free haircuts and free clinic activities. All matters, big and small, were thoughtfully considered — I feel especially at ease," Chen Zhongqiang said.
After the screening, Luo Xiangjun sat down with everyone to exchange views and collect opinions on the screenings. "We hope more classic red films will be shown," "Can the screening times be arranged, as much as possible, on weekends and holidays"... Luo Xiangjun said: "We must take in everyone's opinions, improve our services, and bring the good stories from the silver screen to the ears of more friends."
Return to TopThis newspaper, Beijing, August 9 (Reporter Yi Shuran (易舒冉)). Recently, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (中华全国总工会), the Ministry of Science and Technology (科学技术部), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部), and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源社会保障部) issued a notice, officially launching the Eighth National Workers' Outstanding Technological Innovation Achievements Exchange Activity (第八届全国职工优秀技术创新成果交流活动). The main content of this activity is to collect, display, and exchange workers' outstanding technological innovation achievements and workers' "five small" (五小) achievements (small inventions, small creations, small innovations, small designs, small suggestions), among which workers' outstanding technological innovation achievements will be included in the scope of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions' nomination and recommendation for participation in the evaluation of national science and technology awards.
This activity will set up a comprehensive platform for the display and exchange of workers' innovation achievements, combining online and offline methods to display and collect the achievements through the "Workers' Home" APP (职工之家), the Online Learning Platform for Industrial and Information Technology Technical and Skilled Talent (工业和信息化技术技能人才网上学习平台), the Fourth Great-Power Craftsmen (大国工匠) Innovation Exchange Conference and the Great-Power Craftsmen Forum, and other channels. It encourages workers to extensively apply for "five small" achievements that focus on the front line of enterprise production and are based on post innovation, and guides all fields, all industries, and all trades to extensively carry out mass innovation and creation activities such as the "five small." Currently, the activity has entered the achievement collection stage. The broad masses of workers can apply for outstanding achievements through the China Workers' Economic and Technological Informatization Service Platform (中国职工经济技术信息化服务平台) and the "Worker Achievements" module of the "Workers' Home" APP. The collection deadline is September 15, 2026.
The National Workers' Outstanding Technological Innovation Achievements Exchange Activity is held once every three years, and has been successfully held for seven sessions since 2004. Since the seventh session was launched in 2023, it has driven more than 30 million industrial workers to participate in mass innovation and creation activities such as the "five small."
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New employment forms (新就业形态), represented by the platform economy, have flourished in recent years, and new employment groups such as food delivery riders, couriers, and ride-hailing drivers have grown increasingly large. According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics (国家统计局) and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源和社会保障部), the number of workers in new employment forms nationwide has reached 84 million. The "15th Five-Year Plan" outline (十五五规划纲要) explicitly proposes to "improve the institutions for protecting the rights and interests of workers in flexible employment and new employment forms" and to "raise the insurance participation rate of flexibly employed persons, migrant workers, and personnel in new employment forms."
Because of the flexibility and uncertainty of their work, the labor protection of the new employment groups is less than satisfactory. Unclear labor relationships, absent social insurance contributions, and difficult insurance claims are the problems they often face in safeguarding their rights and interests.
Multiple factors have led to riders' low willingness to participate in insurance, and the "new work injury" (新职伤) protection pilot has achieved new breakthroughs.
Food delivery riders mainly receive orders through internet platforms and complete deliveries. On the surface, their work seems free and flexible: they can decide on their own when to accept orders and on which platform to accept them. But in order to maintain stable order taking and income, riders must stay online continuously and maintain their order-running frequency, and the time-limited delivery of orders directly determines the speed at which riders rush about on the road.
One rider said, "For 1 kilometer, they may only give 2 to 3 minutes." Although the platform restricts riding too fast, riders still have to weigh between "must not be late" and "must not speed." Some riders stated frankly that, in order to deliver on time, the platform tacitly allows or even encourages riders to run red lights. Multiple riders mentioned that situations such as slippery roads on rainy days, slow meal preparation by merchants, unreachable customers, and inconvenient access to residential communities all consume delivery time, but the countdown after an order is dispatched does not stop because of these factors; all of these factors increase the risk of accidents during riders' order-running.
Being on the road from morning to night, the work is hard, yet some riders have not paid social insurance. One rider told the reporter that only regular employees of the platform or the site have social insurance paid by the employer. "Most of us who run orders don't have it."
Depending on the management method, riders are divided into two forms: dedicated delivery riders and crowdsourced riders. Dedicated delivery riders are closely connected with sites, accepting arrangements such as scheduling, uniforms, and team leader management, thereby constituting a de facto labor relationship; crowdsourced riders, by contrast, register independently on platforms to accept orders, and their online hours and order-accepting platforms are relatively flexible, belonging to an incomplete labor relationship. Whether crowdsourced or dedicated, most riders have not signed labor contracts, and the entity responsible for paying social insurance — especially work injury insurance — is unclear.
Multiple crowdsourced riders said that it is "necessary to buy" social insurance and that they discuss insurance participation issues with their peers, but they also admitted that, for riders who are settled per order and whose income fluctuates, paying premiums means a reduction in current take-home income, so they are more inclined to first keep the "hard-earned money" earned by running orders in their own hands.
Rider Xiao Feng (小冯) told the reporter that many of the peers around him come from other places, and some people may change cities and platforms after running orders for just a few months.
Rider Lao Ma (老马) has his family in Henan and currently runs orders in Wuhan, Hubei. In his view, Wuhan is only his temporary stopping point; he may go elsewhere later. "If I pay social insurance here, what happens when I go elsewhere later?"
At present, the household registration restrictions on flexibly employed persons participating in insurance at their place of employment are being gradually lifted, and social insurance relations such as pension insurance and medical insurance may also undergo cross-regional transfer and continuation according to regulations. But for highly mobile platform riders, the practical concerns are not only about "whether they can participate in insurance," but also include how to choose the place of participation, how benefits will be connected after a lapse in contributions, and how to handle the continuation procedures after changing cities or platforms, and whether anyone will provide continuation guidance. The combination of various factors has led many people to postpone the idea of handling social insurance again and again.
Some platforms have taken out commercial insurance for riders on a per-policy basis. Crowdsourced rider Xiao Zhang (小张) told the reporter that all the platforms he is currently on deduct insurance premiums, and the insurance fees differ among platforms. "It is generally 2 to 4 yuan, but no one has told me what exactly is covered and how claims are paid."
What kind of fee is this? Some riders collectively refer to it as "accident insurance." In fact, this fee usually corresponds to commercial insurance and is mostly borne by the workers themselves. The premium is usually automatically deducted from the pay for the first order of each day; specifically, it may be commercial accident insurance, and it may also involve employer liability insurance, third-party liability insurance, and the like. The coverage of different insurance types differs, and whether items such as accidental death, disability payment, medical expenses, lost-work losses, and third-party damage can be compensated must all be determined by the specific policy terms. Once an accident occurs, whether compensation is obtained basically depends on platform rules; the uncertainty is high, the claim amount is low, and it cannot play a safety-net role.
In July 2022, 10 departments including the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security launched the pilot for occupational injury protection for personnel in new employment forms (新就业形态人员职业伤害保障试点), first piloting it in 7 provinces and municipalities including Beijing and Shanghai, providing some platform workers with a third protection path beyond the work injury insurance in social insurance and commercial insurance. This system does not take the traditional labor relationship as a precondition, nor does it take the total wage bill as the contribution base; it adopts a contribution method of calculating fees per order and declaring monthly according to order volume. Compared with commercial insurance, the fees are fully borne by platform enterprises; it follows the rules of social insurance, compensates according to statutory items and standards, and its coverage amount is higher than that of most commercial insurance.
This protection system, known as the "new work injury," is regarded as an important breakthrough in solving the problem of occupational injury protection for workers in new employment.
Proof such as labor relationships and employment management is difficult to obtain, and the difficulty of insurance claims troubles workers.
Difficulty in claims is one of the troubles riders face when they encounter occupational injuries. At noon on July 30, 2024, Sun Yue (孙月, a pseudonym), a rider in Huainan City, Anhui Province, had a traffic accident during delivery, resulting in a tibial fracture and a knee joint injury. After undergoing internal fixation surgery, she was hospitalized and recuperated for several months.
At the end of June 2024, Sun Yue joined the Shannan (山南) site of Meituan in Huainan, with the status of a dedicated delivery rider. In her view, she was no different from the site's employees — orders were dispatched by the site, and daily scheduling and uniforms were also arranged by the site. Correspondingly, she believed that compensation for her accident liability should also be the responsibility of the site.
However, when she tried to apply for work-injury-related protection, she was told that she still needed to supplement proof of labor relationship, wage payment, employment management, and the like. It was only then that she learned that the work relationship that seemed clear in daily order-running actually involved multiple entities: she signed a contract with the site upon joining, but the original of the contract was not in her hands; bank statements showed that a human resources company paid her wages on behalf of the employer; daily scheduling, check-in, and other employment management were handled by the site. When she later asked about social insurance, the site manager said that the site had never paid social insurance for riders — meaning that she could not obtain protection through the traditional work injury determination path.
Even though she had formed a de facto labor relationship with the site, when contract, payroll, management, and insurance belonged to different entities, Sun Yue could only repeatedly contact the site, the platform, the human resources company, and the insurance institution, and the process of safeguarding her rights was extremely difficult.
If dedicated riders are barely managing to cope in this way, crowdsourced riders find it even harder to identify a clear offline management entity, and obtaining the proof of labor relationship and employment management needed for work injury determination is naturally all the more difficult.
A crowdsourced rider told the reporter that a peer of his had a car accident during delivery. Because he only had commercial insurance, he could only apply for a claim through platform customer service. During the process, the customer service repeatedly asked him to upload materials such as accident certificates, order screenshots, and medical records, but when he asked how the insurance would actually pay, "the customer service person said she did not know either." He said that although he ultimately received compensation, the amount was not high.
According to the deployment of the Notice on Expanding the Pilot for Occupational Injury Protection for Personnel in New Employment Forms (关于扩大新就业形态人员职业伤害保障试点的通知), jointly issued by nine departments including the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, from July 1, 2026, the "new work injury" protection pilot will be fully rolled out in 31 provinces and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (新疆生产建设兵团), focusing on all platform enterprises of scale in the three high-risk industries of instant delivery, ride-hailing, and intra-city freight.
But in terms of the claims effect, it is still necessary to see whether platforms are fully included, whether riders fall within the scope of protection, and whether the accident occurred in the course of order-acceptance services, and so on.
Crowdsourced rider Xiao Zhang admitted that he opens multiple platforms at the same time and selects orders according to the unit price, while platforms set different tags according to rider type, corresponding to different dispatch priority and unit prices. "It is unlikely to accept orders on only one platform." In such a situation, if he accepts orders from multiple platforms and takes to the road at the same time, once an accident occurs, a series of issues — how liability is determined and costs are apportioned in multi-platform employment, and how the work time and work position of the occupational injury are determined — all need specific analysis and definition.
In a typical case released by the Ministry of Justice (司法部) in April 2026, a food delivery worker surnamed Miao in a certain economic development zone in Jiangsu Province fell and was injured due to improper operation on the way back after finishing a delivery, and applied for disability benefits under occupational injury protection. The human resources and social security bureau of the economic development zone refused to confirm it as an occupational injury on the grounds of "fell by himself due to improper operation" and "on the way back to the business district after finishing the delivery," and it was only after administrative reconsideration that a re-confirmation was made.
In addition, some insurance companies, in order to pay less, set hidden exclusion clauses targeting the relationship between "new work injury" protection and commercial insurance, blurring the scope of protection. In March 2023, a food delivery rider surnamed Tan in Chongqing died in a traffic accident while delivering. When his family applied for a claim, the commercial insurance company refused to pay on the grounds that Tan's situation fell within the scope of "new work injury" protection. This phenomenon — after "new work injury" compensation is paid, commercial insurance no longer pays — occurs from time to time. Although Tan's family ultimately obtained compensation through litigation, not every worker has the time and energy to "file a lawsuit."
It is hoped that supporting implementation rules will be introduced, that platforms' responsibility for insurance participation and contribution payment will be consolidated, and that more new employment groups will benefit.
How can the rights and interests of workers in new employment forms be protected, and how can they be provided with occupational injury protection more suitable to the characteristics of their work?
Lou Yu (娄宇), director of the Social Law Research Institute at China University of Political Science and Law (中国政法大学), pointed out that work injury insurance is bound to the labor relationship: if a worker has not established a labor relationship with an employer, he or she cannot participate in work injury insurance, while platform employment relationships show diversified characteristics. "But in situations of incomplete labor relationships, platform workers face relatively high occupational injury risks and cannot participate in work injury insurance, so the occupational safety of a large number of workers in new employment forms lacks protection."
In reality, most riders and truck drivers only pay medical insurance in their hometowns, and for occupational injuries the reimbursement rate is low and protection is weak. Commercial insurance is generally accident insurance and third-party damage insurance, and is currently relatively common in the fields of delivery, express delivery, and ride-hailing, but its premium rate is low and its protection is incomplete; it can only serve as transitional and supplementary protection and cannot replace social insurance protection.
How can workers in new employment forms enjoy occupational injury protection that better conforms to the nature of their work?
On July 1 of this year, "new work injury" protection expanded from the 7 platforms, including Meituan and Ele.me, in July 2022 to multiple leading platforms such as Xiaoxiang Supermarket and Hema Fresh, and some provinces and cities have also added some small and medium platforms on this basis. As of the end of June 2026, the cumulative number of participants in the "new work injury" pilot reached 29.902 million.
"In the future, platform responsibility should be consolidated, with platforms bearing the contribution responsibility equivalent to that of an employer. Supporting implementation rules should be introduced to clarify the claim boundaries for multi-platform employment and accidents occurring in other localities," Lou Yu said. Regulatory departments can, through data sharing, ensure that the per-order contribution obligation can be implemented on every single order, prevent platforms from concealing the number of workers and orders, and consolidate platforms' responsibility for insurance participation and contribution payment.
Chen Lifan (陈力凡), associate professor at the School of Labor and Human Resources of Renmin University of China (中国人民大学), in turn reminded that "small and medium platforms lag far behind leading platforms in terms of financial strength, technical capability, and compliance awareness, which is a problem that needs to be highlighted in advancing the pilot across localities. Without reasonable transitional arrangements and lacking strong contribution supervision, if platforms directly shift the cost of insurance participation onto riders, new conflicts may arise."
In addition to workers in industries such as delivery, ride-hailing, and intra-city freight, Chen Lifan believes that other new employment forms, such as housekeeping services and online live-streaming hosts, have not yet been fully included in the scope of protection. During the transition period, workers in these industries have neither work injury protection nor occupational injury protection — "supported by neither side" — and can only rely on commercial insurance. This is the group that most needs attention in the next step of institutional improvement.
Chen Lifan said that the policy of participating in insurance at the place of employment without household registration should be fully implemented, the handling procedures for cross-regional transfer and continuation of social insurance relations should be simplified, "one-click transfer, continuous calculation of rights and interests" should be achieved, and the expansion of coverage of direct settlement for medical treatment in other localities should be advanced.
"Many people are unwilling to participate in insurance because they have no intuitive perception of the benefits. Social insurance handling agencies should provide personalized benefit calculation services and strengthen publicity, in particular clearly explaining the immediate risks of medical insurance contribution lapses and the irreplaceability of work injury and occupational injury protection," Lou Yu said. In light of the characteristics of the new employment groups, a buffer mechanism for contribution lapses and a fault-tolerance mechanism for back payment should be established. For workers who encounter income troughs such as declining order volume and short-term work stoppages, they should be allowed to make up the lapsed flexible-employment social insurance contributions within the year in which the lapse occurred, without clearing the cumulative contribution years, so as to eliminate their concerns.
During the interview process, multiple riders said that they would more readily accept a method in which the platform bears the main costs and individuals bear a smaller portion. Others suggested that participation standards could be set with reference to order-running volume, attendance days, and stable order-taking circumstances, so that workers with greater labor intensity and higher occupational risk could obtain corresponding protection first.
(Wang Menghe (王梦荷) participated in the interviewing and writing.)
Return to TopRecently, the continuous high temperatures have made it urgent for outdoor workers such as sanitation workers and delivery drivers to have convenient venues where they can cool off, rest, drink water, and charge their phones. However, on the afternoon of July 29, the author conducted an on-site visit to three trade union love stations (爱心驿站) in Qinyuan County (沁源县), Shanxi, and discovered that the love stations were fully equipped with umbrellas, first-aid supplies, power banks, books, chairs, water dispensers, and other facilities, but all three were locked, leaving outdoor workers to only stare at the "door" and sigh.
It is hoped that relevant departments will strengthen management, so that the love stations can truly play their role, and the service positions that benefit the people will live up to their name, opening their doors to warm hearts.
Qin Jian (秦剑), Qinyuan County, Shanxi
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On July 20, the Reader’s Letter page of People’s Daily published Cutting Trees to Pave Concrete Roads – Environment Improvement Affects Small Ecosystem, which reported that in the course of rural environment governance, Dongzhang Village (东张村), Mafang Town (马坊镇), Yongshou County (永寿县), Shaanxi, had not fully solicited public opinion and had cut down an excessive number of existing plants, thereby affecting the rural small ecosystem.
After the report was published, the local authorities promptly launched a comprehensive verification. The investigation found that when carrying out living environment improvement in Dongzhang Village, Mafang Town, some trees on both sides of the village streets were removed, and there existed problems of insufficient consultation with the public and simplistic working methods. In response, the local government immediately took measures, re-soliciting villagers’ opinions on the environment improvement work, and further optimizing the implementation plan. At the same time, sufficient garden and vegetable plots were reserved in front of farmers’ homes for the masses to plant, and trees will be uniformly replanted on both sides of the roads in autumn.
Relevant staff of Mafang Town indicated that going forward, they will continuously improve working methods and standardize work procedures, especially in rural work, by fully leveraging the role of villager deliberation, respecting the will of the masses, basing actions on rural characteristics, and protecting the ecological landscape.
Return to TopRecently, my mother was stricken with sudden abdominal pain and went to see a doctor. The physician urgently ordered blood tests and a CT scan. We took her medical insurance card to the manual payment counter, only to be told the system had malfunctioned and the card could not be swiped for settlement; we were advised to use the self-service machine. However, the self-service machine and the mobile app likewise indicated a system crash, and the payment process was completely stuck. Because the examination department had not received proof of payment, the patient's information could not be entered into the system, making it impossible to proceed with the tests. My mother, in unbearable pain, could only wait anxiously in the waiting area. Fortunately, I had brought cash with me, which allowed the subsequent diagnosis and treatment to proceed smoothly.
At present, online appointment booking and self-service settlement have greatly improved the efficiency of seeking medical care. However, digital systems can never be completely error-free, and we must be alert to the risk of service interruptions caused by technological fragility. It is recommended that a normalized emergency backup mechanism be established. On the one hand, "traditional channels" such as manual cash payment should be retained and kept unblocked, ensuring that basic medical services are not interrupted under extreme circumstances. On the other hand, detailed contingency plans should be drawn up so that green channels can be activated quickly when the system goes down, and dedicated personnel should be arranged to guide and assist elderly and special-needs patients in completing the emergency treatment process.
Liu Lan, Kunming, Yunnan
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 胡笑源
In recent years, online platforms have become the top shopping choice for many consumers, from small items like tissues to large items like production machinery – with one click, orders can be delivered nationwide. However, some readers have reported that after making purchases on platforms, obtaining an invoice has become a difficult task: certain merchants delay or even refuse to issue invoices, the platform does not intervene when approached, and rights protection is very troublesome.
In April this year, Mr. Pan (潘先生), a reader from Chaoyang District, Beijing (朝阳区), placed an order on the Dangdang (当当) platform for a book costing 21 yuan. He requested an invoice from the merchant through the back-end system, and the merchant stated that the invoice could only be issued after receipt of the goods. When Mr. Pan confirmed receipt and again requested the invoice, the other party either did not reply or repeatedly auto-replied with a robotic customer service message saying “customer service is off duty,” thus effectively refusing to issue the invoice.
Not alone in this, a netizen surnamed Wang complained on the “People’s Complaint” (人民投诉) platform of People’s Daily Online (人民网) that she had spent 520 yuan on the Meituan (美团) platform to buy two performance tickets. “Before placing the order, I specifically confirmed that an invoice could be issued. On the day of the order, I filled in the invoicing information in the system and specifically explained the situation to customer service,” Ms. Wang said. Customer service initially replied that the invoice could be issued within one month, but when the time came, customer service said she would have to wait another five days. Ms. Wang urged them repeatedly, and customer service simply stopped replying. When Ms. Wang complained to the platform, the order showed “Service order has expired.”
During the investigation, the journalist applied on multiple online shopping platforms as a consumer to have invoices issued for goods that had been confirmed as received, and found that most platform-owned stores automatically issue invoices after a purchase, while the majority of non-platform-owned stores require the consumer to actively request an invoice from the merchant. Among these, some merchants indeed never respond after the consumer submits the invoice application, and some simply state explicitly: “Cannot issue an invoice, can only issue a receipt.”
“Compared with in-person consumption, obtaining invoices for platform-based consumption often faces more obstacles.” Feng Chen (冯晨), a professor at the School of Economics and Finance of Xi’an Jiaotong University, pointed out in his analysis that the transaction entities in platform consumption include platform-owned stores and third-party merchants, making it difficult for consumers to distinguish. On some platforms, there are also large numbers of individual sellers who do not have the qualification to issue invoices, leaving consumers unclear about whom to request an invoice from. In addition, the entry point for applying for an invoice on some platforms is hidden, and most merchants do not proactively remind or guide customers to request an invoice. There are also merchants operating on multiple platforms where electronic invoice standards are not uniform, and individual consumers often face the predicament of “nowhere to get an invoice” because they lack a taxpayer identification number.
Beyond the merchants that do not issue invoices, platforms that stay out of the matter also exacerbate consumers’ consumption difficulties. On a certain e-commerce platform, after a merchant refused to issue an invoice, the journalist complained to the platform’s customer service. The other party said they would “feed back to the merchant management department for review and handling of the merchant,” but progress on the invoice still did not advance. For some older orders where the merchant has already gone out of business, the journalist asked platform customer service whether a supplementary invoice could be issued, and the other party stated clearly: “If the merchant has withdrawn from platform operations, the platform is temporarily unable to assist in issuing an invoice.”
Faced with merchants that refuse to issue invoices or have already closed down and become “unreachable,” does the platform have an obligation to assist consumers in requesting or issuing supplementary invoices? Wang Zimo (王子墨), a lawyer at Beijing Jiaguan Law Firm, pointed out that according to the relevant provisions of the E-Commerce Law and the Consumer Rights Protection Law, platforms should verify and register the true information of merchants entering the platform, including identity, address, contact information, administrative licenses, etc., and report this to the market supervision department. At the same time, in accordance with the provisions of tax collection and administration laws and administrative regulations, they should report the identity information of operators on the platform and information related to tax payment to the tax department. When consumers seek rights protection, although the platform does not directly bear the obligation to issue invoices, it should provide the true identity information of the merchant and transaction records, and assist consumers in reporting to the tax department and the market supervision department, rather than adopting an attitude of “it’s none of my business, so I stay aloof.”
In fact, consumers facing the infringement of a merchant refusing to issue an invoice can file a complaint by calling the 12366 tax service hotline or through the “Illegal Acts Reporting” module on the official website of the State Taxation Administration (国家税务总局). However, many consumers report that although the rights protection channels are accessible, the time and effort spent on rights protection are considerable.
Mr. Pan told the journalist that after multiple unsuccessful attempts to request an invoice, he filed a complaint against the merchant through the official website of the State Taxation Administration. The next day, the tax department in the merchant’s locality investigated and verified the situation and ordered the merchant to issue an invoice. But this process required the consumer to first register on the website, and when reporting, also to provide in the system information such as the name of the accused party, their region, and their address (place of domicile). “Infringement costs nothing, but rights protection consumes time and effort,” Mr. Pan said with helplessness.
Ms. Zeng (曾女士), a reader from Nanjing, Jiangsu, had a deep understanding of this. In January this year, Ms. Zeng and her colleagues fronted the money on the Pinduoduo (拼多多) platform to purchase a batch of office supplies for a newly opened company, most of which were scattered small-sum orders. When Ms. Zeng applied for unified invoicing, she found that as many as 236 orders could not have invoices issued. “Some merchants explicitly refused, some read the message but did not reply, and some prevaricated and delayed. My colleagues and I repeatedly complained to the platform, requesting that it fulfill its obligation to assist. Customer service said ‘we cannot force merchants to issue invoices’ and suggested that we go to the tax bureaus in the localities of more than 200 merchants nationwide to seek rights protection one by one.” Ms. Zeng said helplessly that even when complaining through the reporting platform of the State Taxation Administration, they would have to investigate separately and fill in information for hundreds of merchants.
Regarding Ms. Zeng’s experience, Feng Chen pointed out that platform consumption has the characteristic of cross-regional transactions, with consumers, platforms, and sellers belonging to different regions, making tax jurisdiction attribution more complex. Disagreements often arise over which party issues the invoice and which locality’s tax rate applies. From the perspective of regulatory implementation, the current approach remains mainly passive acceptance, with insufficient proactive inspection and data analysis capabilities, and the cross-regional coordinated law enforcement mechanism is not yet well-established.
In response, Feng Chen suggested that while promoting a platform first-liability system for compensation, it could also open up data integration between platform transaction information and the tax reporting system, extracting merchant information from orders and filling it into the reporting form, thereby eliminating the need for consumers to collect it themselves. It could also be piloted to allow consumers, when initiating a complaint, to use order numbers, payment records, etc., as the basis for reporting, and then let the regulatory authorities verify the information of the reported party, providing convenience for consumer rights protection.
(He Zhonghuan (何忠焕) participated in the drafting and interviewing.)
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Return to TopGeneral Secretary Xi Jinping attaches great importance to and is deeply concerned about urban construction, putting forward the concept of the people build the people's city, the people's city serves the people (人民城市人民建、人民城市为人民), and emphasizing “building a modern people's city.” When conducting inspections in localities, he has offered earnest instructions and clear requirements for urban construction, providing important guidance for various places to forge a new path of urban modernization with Chinese characteristics.
Keeping in mind the earnest entrustment and fully implementing the concept of the people's city, Beijing, Shanghai, Xiong'an New Area in Hebei, Fuzhou in Fujian, Hangzhou in Zhejiang and other places have promoted urban construction, achieving new progress and new appearances. Starting today, this newspaper launches five visual special editions under the title “Painting of the New Era · Buiiding a Modern People's City” to present to readers.
— Editor
Return to TopBy: 付明丽
General Secretary Xi Jinping, with his heart tied to the capital's development, has conducted inspections and research in Beijing many times since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China — at the Four Seasons Green Nursing Home (四季青敬老院) he learned about the provision of elderly care services, at the Municipal Rail Transit Command Center (市轨道交通指挥中心) he listened to a report on Beijing's transportation work, at the Grand Canal Forest Park (大运河森林公园) he inspected the achievements in ecological environment governance along the Grand Canal, at the Longfu Temple Block (隆福寺街区) he listened to briefings on urban renewal work...
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "To build Beijing into a world-class harmonious and livable capital, it is necessary to advance urban governance by the standard of the foremost good (首善标准)." He stressed "continuously raise the level of urban public safety," "strive to improve the basic public service system," "create a green, low-carbon livable home," and "make urban governance more efficient and fine-grained."
Keeping in mind the General Secretary's earnest instructions, Beijing, centered on the goal of building a modern people's city that is innovative, livable, beautiful, resilient, civilized, and smart, continues to explore new paths for megacity governance. The functional construction of the "four centers" (四个中心) has been continuously strengthened. "Beijing Blue" (北京蓝) has become the norm, the annual average concentration of fine particulate matter has met the standard stably for five consecutive years, the city's forest coverage rate has reached 45%, and the total number of parks exceeds 1,130. More than 80% of the city's fiscal expenditure is directed toward people's livelihood areas, and the average life expectancy has risen from 82.4 years in 2020 to 84.2 years in 2025, with the fruits of modernization continuously being transformed into the quality of life of the people.
During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period (十五五), Beijing will continue to base itself on the city's strategic positioning and the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei (京津冀协同发展), further consolidate the orientation toward high-quality development, pay more attention to optimizing and enhancing the capital's functions, improving people's well-being, strengthening innovation momentum, deepening reform and opening up, strengthening megacity governance, coordinating development and security, and answering with hard work and endeavor the major epochal question of "what kind of capital to build and how to build it" (建设一个什么样的首都，怎样建设首都).
Return to TopBy: 习近平生态文明思想研究中心
Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, as a major achievement of combining the basic tenets of Marxism with the practice of China’s ecological civilization construction and with China’s outstanding traditional ecological culture, is an important component of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. The first through fifth volumes of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China centrally reflect General Secretary Xi Jinping’s profound thinking and strategic planning on ecological civilization, and constitute authoritative texts for thoroughly grasping the formation and development trajectory of this important thought. From the systematic exposition of “building an ecological civilization” in Volume One to the profound elaboration in Volume Five of “comprehensively advancing the building of a Beautiful China,” ecological civilization has always been an important theme running through these volumes, with its strategic status continuously highlighted and its theoretical system increasingly complete. An overall grasp of the important expositions on ecological civilization in the five volumes allows one to deeply feel that Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization has been continuously formed, enriched, and developed in the great practice of our Party’s governance in the new era, fully demonstrating its distinctive theoretical character of advancing with the times. Profoundly grasping the scientific nature and truth of Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization is of great guiding significance for comprehensively advancing the building of a Beautiful China and accelerating the modernization of harmony between humanity and nature.
Continuous deepening in the dimension of understanding: scientific grasp of the laws of ecological civilization construction
Thought is the precursor of action, and theory is the guide to practice. Along with the great practice of ecological civilization construction in the new era, Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, starting from the strategic heights of the laws of human social development, the laws of socialist construction, and the laws of Communist Party governance, has continuously deepened its understanding of the laws of ecological civilization construction, establishing a solid theoretical core and ideological foundation for comprehensively advancing the building of a Beautiful China and accelerating the modernization of harmony between humanity and nature.
It continuously deepens the understanding of the laws of human social development, revealing that ecological civilization is the historical trend of human civilization development. Starting from the historical laws of the development of human social civilization, Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization reveals the relationship between the rise and fall of the ecological environment and the development and succession of civilization. Volume Two points out that “human development activities must respect nature, follow its ways, and protect it; otherwise, nature will retaliate,” profoundly clarifying that human harm to nature will ultimately harm humanity itself, a law that is not subject to anyone’s will. Volume Five points out that “we must, from the height of safeguarding national ecological security, the sustainable development of the Chinese nation, and being responsible for human civilization, strengthen ecological protection and restoration, leaving a clean and beautiful ecological space for future generations,” elevating the understanding of laws into a conscious historical responsibility. From revealing the laws of rise and fall to clarifying the irresistibility of natural laws, and then to establishing the historical consciousness of being responsible for human civilization, this understanding has continuously deepened, profoundly answering the question of where human civilization is headed.
It continuously deepens the understanding of the laws of socialist construction, revealing that harmony between humanity and nature is a distinctive feature of Chinese-style modernization. Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization plans ecological civilization construction within the overall framework of socialist construction, continuously raising the strategic positioning of ecological civilization construction. Volume One states: “The 18th National Congress of the Party incorporated ecological civilization construction into the Five-in-One (五位一体) overall plan for the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, clearly proposing to vigorously advance ecological civilization construction, strive to build a Beautiful China, and achieve the sustainable development of the Chinese nation. This marks a further deepening of our understanding of the laws of socialism with Chinese characteristics and demonstrates our firm will and strong determination to strengthen ecological civilization construction.” Ecological civilization has become an important part of the overall plan for the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and the connotation of the laws of socialist construction has been significantly expanded. On this basis, Volume Four profoundly elaborates that “China’s modernization is the modernization of harmony between humanity and nature, which focuses on simultaneously advancing material civilization and ecological civilization construction,” elevating ecological civilization construction to the level of an essential feature of Chinese-style modernization. This important assertion contains a unique ecological view, completely surpassing the old path of Western modernization that sacrifices the environment for growth, making harmony between humanity and nature a distinctive feature of Chinese-style modernization.
It continuously deepens the understanding of the laws of Communist Party governance, revealing that ecological civilization construction is a major political issue concerning the Party’s mission and purpose. Volume One emphasizes that ecological civilization construction must be advanced “with an attitude and responsibility of being highly responsible to the people and future generations,” incorporating ecological responsibility into the basic scope of governance responsibility. This means that being responsible for ecology is being responsible for the people. As practice deepens, this understanding continues to develop in depth. Volume Three profoundly points out that “the ecological environment is a major political issue concerning the Party’s mission and purpose, and also a major social issue concerning people’s livelihood,” elevating the ecological issue from environmental governance to the political height of the Party’s governance foundation. Volume Four further requires Party committees and governments at all levels to “bear in mind the ‘affairs of the state’ (国之大者) and assume the political responsibility for ecological civilization construction,” and makes a series of arrangements around consolidating the political responsibility for ecological civilization construction. From being incorporated into governance responsibility, to being established as a major political issue, to being elevated to “affairs of the state,” what runs through this is the profound awareness that protecting lucid waters and lush mountains means protecting the people’s hearts and consolidating the Party’s governance foundation, demonstrating the character of a Marxist governing party that is highly responsible to history and the people.
Continuous extension in the dimension of connotation: in-depth exploration of Chinese-style modernization of harmony between humanity and nature
Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization is an open theoretical system formed in the process of answering the questions of the times and leading great changes. In Volumes One through Five, this important thought has always anchored the essential requirement of Chinese-style modernization—promoting harmony between humanity and nature—with its theoretical boundaries continuously broadened and its ideological connotation increasingly complete, demonstrating strong theoretical vitality.
It deepens the strategic vision in advancing the building of a Beautiful China. A Beautiful China is the grand goal of ecological civilization construction, and this goal has been continuously concretized and systematized in practice. Volume One proposes “striving to move toward a new era of socialist ecological civilization” and “leaving for future generations a production and living environment with blue skies, green earth, and clear water,” elucidating the strategic conception of a Beautiful China. Thereafter, this vision has undergone a process of deepening from macro goals to phased tasks, and then to a complete implementation system. Volume Three deploys resolutely fighting the battle against pollution, concentrating efforts on winning the battles for blue skies, clear waters, and clean soil, laying out a clear path of key battles for the construction of a Beautiful China. Volume Five further proposes “comprehensively advancing the modernization of harmony between humanity and nature through the building of a Beautiful China,” further emphasizing the overall requirements for comprehensive advancement. A Beautiful China has moved from a “blueprint” to a “construction drawing,” gradually refined from an overall goal into an actionable, verifiable, and assessable action system, demonstrating the distinctive characteristic of the integration of strategic planning and tactical advancement.
It perfects the institutional system in comprehensively deepening reform. Institutional construction is the fundamental guarantee for ecological civilization construction, and the strictest institutions and the most rigorous rule of law are the keys to advancing ecological protection. From Volume One’s clear statement of the fundamental direction that “only by implementing the strictest institutions and the most rigorous rule of law can we provide reliable guarantees for ecological civilization construction,” to Volume Two’s proposal to “establish the ‘four beams and eight pillars’ of the ecological civilization institution system as soon as possible,” marking the entry of the construction of the ecological civilization institution system into the fast track. Institutions such as central ecological environmental protection inspection, “Party and government shared responsibility, one post with dual responsibilities,” and auditing of outgoing leading cadres’ natural resource assets have been successively established, and the “four beams and eight pillars” of the institution system have gradually taken shape. The deepening of the institution system is particularly prominent in two aspects: first, from breakthrough in individual institutions to system integration, with various institutions linking and supporting each other, forming an institutional chain of strict prevention at the source, strict management in the process, and severe punishment for consequences; second, the rigid constraints of institutions have been continuously strengthened, making institutions a high-voltage line that cannot be touched. The ecological civilization institution system, from establishing rules and building a framework to systematization and rule of law, has provided more mature and finalized institutional guarantees for ecological civilization construction.
It thickens the theoretical foundation in the “two combinations” (两个结合). Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization adheres to combining the Marxist view of nature and ecology with China’s specific realities and with China’s outstanding traditional culture, gaining profound theoretical nourishment in the “two combinations.” Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization transcends the cognitive dilemma of “subject-object dichotomy” between humans and nature in Western philosophy, putting forward the important judgment that “humans and nature are a community of life.” Volume Three quotes classical Chinese philosophical sayings such as “Heaven and earth were born together with me, and the myriad things are one with me” and “Heaven does not speak yet the four seasons proceed, the earth does not speak yet a hundred things grow.” Volume Four quotes Engels’ famous saying: “Let us not, however, flatter ourselves overmuch on account of our human victories over nature. For each such victory nature takes its revenge on us.” This is a vivid interpretation of the inherent requirement of following nature and respecting laws, and it also shows that Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, through upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground, has given new theoretical life to Marxist ideas about the relationship between humans and nature on the fertile soil of Chinese culture, and China’s outstanding traditional ecological culture has been endowed with new contemporary connotations under the guidance of Marxism. This is precisely the vivid practice of the “two combinations” in the field of ecological civilization, and the fundamental reason why Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization possesses a profound theoretical foundation and manifests Chinese characteristics, Chinese style, and Chinese manner.
Continuous expansion in the dimension of layout: promoting the deep integration and penetration of ecological civilization construction with various fields
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasizes: “Integrate ecological civilization construction into all aspects and the whole process of economic, political, cultural, and social construction.” The important expositions on ecological civilization in Volumes One through Five consistently adhere to a systematic perspective, promoting the deep integration of ecological civilization construction into the Five-in-One overall plan, achieving concerted efforts and holistic advancement in all fields.
In economic construction, it resolves the dilemma of the binary opposition between development and protection. Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization profoundly clarifies that ecological civilization construction is not a separate set of actions outside economic development, but rather makes green the distinctive background of high-quality development. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasizes “firmly establishing the concept that protecting the ecological environment is protecting productive forces, and improving the ecological environment is developing productive forces” and “firmly establishing and practicing the concept that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets,” profoundly revealing the inherent unity between the ecological environment and productive forces. On this basis, Volume Five further proposes handling the relationship between high-quality development and high-level protection, pointing out: “High-level protection is an important support for high-quality development. High-quality development that prioritizes ecology and is green and low-carbon can only be achieved through high-level protection.” This fundamentally breaks the long-standing thinking that pits development against protection, transforming ecological protection from a tight constraint on development into an important path for shaping new momentum, achieving the mutual promotion of economic development and ecological protection.
In political construction, it consolidates the political responsibility for ecological protection. Ecological civilization construction is not a soft constraint; it must be guaranteed through strong institutional arrangements and political responsibility. Volume Two’s discussion on reforming China’s environmental management system directly addresses the practical problems at the time, such as the difficulty of implementing local environmental responsibility and the susceptibility of environmental monitoring, inspection, and law enforcement to interference. Volume Three further emphasizes the rigidity and authority of institutions, pointing out that “the vitality of an institution lies in its implementation, the key is real action, and it relies on strict management,” and “an institution must never become a ‘toothless tiger’,” requiring Party committees and governments at all levels to tighten and consolidate their political responsibility for ecological environmental protection. In this process, ecological civilization construction has been continuously and closely integrated with political construction, driving profound changes in performance evaluation, cadre responsibility, supervision and law enforcement, and legal guarantees, reshaping the boundaries of political responsibility, and also bringing ecological governance into the core agenda of the modernization of national governance, making ecological environmental protection a political responsibility that Party committees and governments at all levels cannot relax for a moment.
In cultural construction, it cultivates a green and low-carbon civilized ethos. Ecological civilization construction not only entails changes in production methods but also a profound reshaping of lifestyles and values. From Volume Three emphasizing that “everyone is a protector, builder, and beneficiary of the ecological environment,” to Volume Four calling for “advocating a simple, moderate, green, low-carbon, civilized, and healthy lifestyle,” and Volume Five “hoping that the whole society will take action, actively spread and model the concept that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets,” Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization always focuses on cultivating ecological concepts throughout society, pushing ecological awareness from external advocacy to internal consciousness. Ecological civilization construction not only changes the natural environment but also reshapes people’s spiritual structure and social customs. Respecting nature, following its ways, and protecting it are increasingly becoming mainstream values in social life, infusing ecological civilization construction with deep and lasting cultural strength.
In social construction, it enhances the most inclusive public well-being. Building an ecological civilization and advancing green development are inherent requirements for meeting the people’s need for a beautiful ecological environment. Volume Three states that “the environment is people’s livelihood, green mountains are beauty, and blue skies are happiness,” emphasizing resolutely fighting the battle against pollution and concentrating on solving prominent ecological and environmental problems that affect the people. Volume Five further points out that “we must make great efforts to solve problems of noise, oil fumes, and odors at the people’s doorstep, and actively respond to the people’s concerns,” directly reflecting the effectiveness of ecological governance in tangible improvements to people’s lives. Volume Five also proposes “building a green, smart digital ecological civilization,” using technology to empower the improvement of ecological governance levels and the quality of people’s livelihood. Ecological civilization construction is not an abstract concept but a vivid practice implemented in the daily lives of the people, making a good ecological environment the most inclusive public well-being and continuously enhancing the people’s sense of gain, happiness, and security.
Continuous advancement in the dimension of practice: from domestic practice to leading global governance
The truth power of scientific theory must ultimately be tested by practice. Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, based on the sustainable development of the Chinese nation and embracing the future of humanity, has had its scientific nature and truth fully verified in the grand practice of ecological civilization construction in the new era, and has also provided an important scientific paradigm for solving the global ecological crisis and building a community of life on Earth.
It achieves new significant progress in promoting the building of a Beautiful China. Since the new era, under the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, China’s ecological civilization construction has undergone historic, transformative, and comprehensive changes from theory to practice. From the beautiful vision of “blue skies, green earth, and clear water” depicted in Volume One, to the specific deployment in Volume Three of coordinating the battles for blue skies, clear waters, and clean soil, to the blueprint in Volume Five for comprehensively advancing the building of a Beautiful China, China’s ecological civilization construction has progressed with solid and powerful steps. The battle against pollution has been advanced in depth; air quality, water environment quality, and urban and rural living environments have markedly improved; and landmark battles have achieved remarkable results. The pace of green and low-carbon transformation has accelerated; the “1+N” policy measures in the ecological environment field to promote new quality productive forces have been implemented and yielded results; and the beautiful vision of “blue skies, green earth, and clear water” depicted in Volume One is becoming a reality. At the same time, the overall layout for the building of a Beautiful China has been fully unfolded; the Ecological Environment Code has been promulgated and will be formally implemented; the “1+1+N” implementation system for the building of a Beautiful China has been basically established; and the modernization level of the ecological environment governance system and governance capacity has been continuously improved. Ecological civilization construction has become a significant symbol of the historic achievements and historic changes in the cause of the Party and the state in the new era, fully demonstrating the practical power of Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization.
It demonstrates the responsibility of a major country in leading global environmental governance. Volume Three points out: “Faced with ecological and environmental challenges, humanity is a community of shared future where all prosper together and all lose together; no country can stay aloof.” China has made solemn commitments to the international community to achieve carbon peak and carbon neutrality, and participates in global climate governance with a more proactive posture. From commitments to action, China has actively and steadily advanced carbon peak and carbon neutrality, built the world’s largest clean power generation system, and contributed about one-quarter of the world’s new green area; from participant to leader, it has successfully promoted the achievement of a series of international consensus, such as the Paris Agreement and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, deeply advanced the construction of a green Belt and Road, strengthened South-South cooperation, and provided green public goods to the international community. The deep significance of this transformation lies in: at a time when global ecological governance faces fragmentation, China not only provides tangible public goods but also provides a development paradigm for building an ecological civilization, offering a Chinese solution different from the traditional Western path for countries seeking a balance between escaping poverty and protecting the environment, demonstrating the mission and responsibility of a responsible major country.
The important expositions on ecological civilization construction in Volumes One through Five vividly record the magnificent journey of Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization from its formation to its continuous enrichment and improvement. The development process of this important thought, deepening in understanding, extending in connotation, expanding in layout, and advancing in practice, not only demonstrates its inherent scientific nature and truth but also provides ideological guidance, directional leadership, value coordinates, and methodological principles for China’s ecological civilization construction. On the new journey of the new era, we must deeply study and implement Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, profoundly comprehend the theoretical character contained therein, firmly establish and practice the concept that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets, unswervingly follow the path of prioritizing ecology and green development, comprehensively advance the modernization of harmony between humanity and nature through the building of a Beautiful China, lay a solid ecological foundation for the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation, and make new and greater contributions to jointly building a clean and beautiful world.
(Written by: Yu Hai (俞海), Wang Yuexin (王悦心))
Return to TopBy: 李 明
General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out: “It is necessary to guide Party members and cadres to fully understand and implement Party discipline, and under the premise of observing rules and discipline, work with peace of mind, boldly carry out tasks, forge ahead with keen determination, act actively, and create achievements that live up to the people and the era.” This profoundly enlightens us: Party members and cadres, when undertaking work and pursuing achievements, must both “know reverence” and “have achievement.” Only by correctly handling the dialectical relationship between the two, always harboring a heart of awe, always fearing the authority of law and discipline, can they firmly establish a correct view on achievement, and achieve daring and effective action, and vigorous accomplishment.
For Party members and cadres, “knowing reverence” means knowing awe, maintaining vigilance, and holding the bottom line. It is concretely embodied in strictly cultivating oneself, strictly using power, and strictly disciplining oneself; having fear in the heart, having restraint in speech, and having limits in action. Only when Party members and cadres have this “reverence” in their hearts can they at all times keep the string of discipline and rules taut, consciously resist unhealthy tendencies, and devote all their thoughts and energy to real work, achieving the attitude of not avoiding difficulties in matters and not shirking responsibilities in righteousness. Conversely, if discipline and rules are treated as a “rubber band” that can be loosened or tightened, if discipline awareness is weak and the bottom line of rules is lost, many problems will breed and spread.
The purpose of “knowing reverence” is not to make people look ahead and look behind (瞻前顾后, zhān qián gù hòu - “look ahead and look behind,” overly cautious), fear the head and fear the tail (畏首畏尾, wèi shǒu wèi wěi - “fear head and fear tail,” timid), nor is it to make people lethargic and spiritless (暮气沉沉, mù qì chén chén - “evening spirit heavy,” lethargic and lacking vitality), and muddleheaded and confused (浑浑噩噩, hún hún è è - “muddy muddy, dim dim,” muddleheaded and lacking clear purpose), but rather to have vigilance in the mind, to hold the bottom line firmly, to face difficulties and go forward (迎难而上, yíng nán ér shàng - “face difficulties and go upward,” tackle challenges head-on), and to attack fortresses and overcome difficulties (攻坚克难, gōng jiān kè nán - “attack fortresses, overcome difficulties,” surmount tough obstacles). In reality, some Party members and cadres worry about “the more bowls you wash, the more you break,” and believe in vulgar philosophies such as “better to do nothing than risk doing wrong.” All such phenomena, in essence, substitute the name of “having reverence” for the reality of “not acting.” On the surface, it appears to be too heavy a burden and insufficient drive, but at root, it is still a lack of awe in the heart and insufficient purity of Party spirit.
“Having achievement” means being able to act, daring to take responsibility, and achieving results. It is concretely embodied in knowing responsibility in the heart, bearing responsibility on the body, and fulfilling responsibility in action; being both willing and eager to act actively, and also capable, competent, and adept at acting, proactively stepping forward to share the Party’s concerns, work for the country, and seek benefits for the people. Implementing the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and advancing the cause of the Party and the state admits not the slightest trace of frivolity. Whether Party members and cadres can achieve results tests their consciousness, capability, and tenacity. Shouting slogans to the skies, writing materials ever so beautifully — if not put into practice, all is futile. In practical work, the reason some localities and departments manifest phenomena such as reckless action under the pretext of “achievements,” inaction under the pretext of “stability,” reluctance to act under the pretext of “fear of accountability,” and poor capacity to act under the pretext of “difficulties” is, in the final analysis, a problem with their view on achievement. The view on achievement guides the view on development; the view on development reflects the view on achievement. Only by firmly standing on the people’s side, remembering that bringing well-being to the people is the greatest achievement, establishing a clear value orientation that emphasizes real work, real results, and real responsibility, making scientific decisions based on reality, acting according to laws and rules, and doing more concrete matters of public welfare that lay foundations and benefit the long term, can Party members and cadres truly put the correct view on achievement into practice.
According to the standpoint of dialectical materialism, “knowing reverence” is cognition internalized in the mind, while “having achievement” is practice externalized in action. The two form an organic unity that mutually supports and interacts, jointly building the solid foundation for Party members and cadres to cultivate themselves, establish virtue, undertake work, and pursue achievements. To achieve “knowing reverence,” the emphasis is on respecting the law and fearing discipline, observing rules and regulations, proactively drawing a red line in thought and defining boundaries in behavior, understanding clearly what should be done and what should not be done, acting appropriately and refraining from inappropriate action, calmly analyzing real problems, soberly judging major matters of right and wrong (大是大非, dà shì dà fēi - “major right and major wrong,” fundamental principles of right and wrong), correctly treating development and change, and with the sobriety and firmness of “always on the road,” rectifying words, mind, and conduct. To achieve “having achievement,” one must be single-minded and free from distractions (心无旁骛, xīn wú páng wù - “heart without side distractions,” utterly concentrated), pragmatic and focused on real work, fully exert subjective initiative, neither wait nor watch nor hesitate regarding deployed tasks and decided measures, neither shirk nor slack nor wrangle over accepted duties and assigned responsibilities, devote heart and soul to planning and doing, and step by step implement work that benefits people’s livelihood, warms people’s hearts, and complies with people’s will, achieving action in response to circumstances and accomplishment by seizing the momentum.
“Knowing reverence” is the prerequisite condition for “having achievement”; “having achievement” is the ultimate purpose of “knowing reverence.” Standing at the new starting point of the 15th Five-Year Plan, to open up new vistas in work, without “knowing reverence” there is no foundation, and without “having achievement” there is no completion. It requires the vast number of Party members and cadres to establish and practice a correct view on achievement, to become action-oriented doers and solid workers who grasp implementation and see results, to carry on one batch after another, to draw one blueprint through to the end, and continuously transform the people’s aspiration for a better life into reality.
Return to TopBy: 王礼生
The cyberspace is the common spiritual home of hundreds of millions of people. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "A cyberspace with clear skies and a good ecological environment is in the interests of the people. A cyberspace with foul atmosphere and a deteriorating ecological environment is not in the interests of the people." The "15th Five-Year Plan" Outline specifically makes arrangements for strengthening the construction of cyber civilization and enhancing the capacity for cybersecurity protection. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, under the scientific guidance of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important thought on building a strong cyber country, the modernization of the national cybersecurity system and capacity has been advanced in an orderly manner; mainstream online values, mainstream public opinion, and mainstream culture have continuously grown; and the overall online ecology has been improving and moving upward. However, problems such as telecom and online fraud and infringement of citizens' privacy still exist, and cybersecurity threats and risks remain prominent. It is necessary to take Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as the guide, thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important thought on building a strong cyber country and the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, adhere to the principle that positive energy is the general requirement, being able to manage is the hard truth, and using it well is true capability, coordinate content guidance, main responsibilities, and technical support, focus on improving the long-term mechanism for cyber ecological governance, create a clean and clear cyberspace, and further promote the construction of a strong cyber country.
Improve the online content dissemination mechanism that is full of positive energy. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "When the source is clear, the stream is clear. We must insist on shaping cyberspace with positive voices, mainstream values, and the new ethos of the times, making the internet an important position for ideological guidance, moral cultivation, and cultural inheritance." The primary task of improving the long-term mechanism for cyber ecological governance is to build an online content dissemination mechanism dominated by positive energy and resounding with the main theme. Hold high the ideological banner and strengthen theoretical guidance. Do a good job in online promotion of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, making the Party's propositions the strongest voice in cyberspace; take socialist core values as the guide, deeply explore the contemporary connotations of excellent traditional Chinese culture, revolutionary culture, and advanced socialist culture, and create high-quality online content. Innovate dissemination methods and enhance the influence of mainstream values. Follow the laws of communication in the all-media era, promote systemic changes in mainstream media; respect audience habits, make good use of short videos, live broadcasts, and other methods to make grand narratives more down-to-earth and positive propaganda more dynamic; improve the support and incentive mechanisms for high-quality content, guiding online creators to delve deep into positive energy themes. Strengthen comprehensive governance and purify the cyberspace environment. Adhere to governing the internet according to law and nourishing the internet with virtue, continue to deepen special actions such as 清朗 (qīng lǎng - "clear and bright," a campaign for a clean cyberspace), 净网 (jìng wǎng - "clean net," a campaign to purify the internet), and 护苗 (hù miáo - "protect seedlings," a campaign to protect minors online), guide netizens to improve their cyber literacy; form a comprehensive internet governance pattern involving multiple participants such as Party committee leadership, government management, enterprise responsibility fulfillment, social supervision, and netizen self-discipline, combining economic, legal, technical and other means, and consolidate the foundation of cyber ecological governance.
Improve the operation mechanism of internet enterprises that unifies social and economic benefits. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "We must consolidate the main responsibility of internet enterprises, and never allow the internet to become a platform for spreading harmful information and creating rumors." Adhere to value orientation and firmly establish the concept of the overall situation. Guide enterprises to embed social responsibility into their corporate strategy, business processes, and management mechanisms, consciously hold the bottom line of law, the red line of morality, and the main line of values, so that market value and social value go in the same direction, and commercial interests and public interests achieve win-win. Improve institutional constraints and consolidate main responsibilities. Improve the internal governance and responsibility implementation mechanisms of enterprises, establish a social responsibility evaluation and assessment system; strengthen comprehensive algorithm governance, promote algorithm recommendation to shift from traffic orientation to value orientation; strengthen industry self-discipline and collaborative co-governance, promote mutual supervision among enterprises and regulate competition. Adhere to upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground, achieving steady and long-term development. Guide enterprises to transform the fulfillment of social responsibility into innovation impetus and development advantages, expand business around digital benefit to the people, industrial upgrading, cultural inheritance, etc., and enhance the development pattern while serving the overall situation; actively participate in online public welfare, digital inclusion, and cyber civilization construction, actively safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of users, and prevent cyber risks.
Improve the safe, controllable, upward and virtuous innovation and application mechanism of internet technology. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Without cybersecurity there is no national security, without informatization there is no modernization." Cyber ecological governance must adhere to equal emphasis on technological innovation and ethical norms, and synergy between independent controllability and safe development. Adhere to innovation leadership and build a solid technical foundation. Firmly take the path of independent innovation, get rid of the passive situation of being controlled by others in key technologies; improve the collaborative innovation system of industry, academia, research, and application, optimize the mechanisms for talent cultivation, scientific research investment, and achievement transformation, and stimulate the vitality of innovation and creation. Adhere to safety and controllability, and prevent technical risks. Improve the mechanisms for technical security risk assessment, monitoring and early warning, and emergency response; strictly prevent risks such as cyber attacks, data breaches, and technology abuse; standardize the ethical governance and institutional constraints of technology application, improve the rule systems for artificial intelligence and data use. Adhere to technology for good, serving cyber ecological governance. Closely track the development trends of new technologies and new applications, rely on digital technology to improve the refinement and intelligence level of cyber governance, accurately combat harmful information, effectively guide online public opinion, and promote technology to be upward and virtuous, safe and controllable, and beneficial to the people.
(The author is a member of the Editorial Committee of Hunan Daily)
Return to TopBy: 孙梅君
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important discourses on establishing and practicing a correct view on political performance have provided fundamental guidance and a course of action for Party cadres to fulfill their duties and undertake endeavors.
Customs nationwide have earnestly implemented the deployments of the Party Central Committee, solidly carried out study and education on establishing and practicing a correct view on political performance, combined it with in-depth study and implementation of Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building, practiced the tenet of “people’s customs for the people,” insisted on creating political performance for the people and through solid work, and guided the high-quality development of customs affairs with a correct view on political performance.
Accurately grasp the general requirements for establishing and practicing a correct view on political performance
Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building clearly puts forward that we must firmly establish and practice a correct view on political performance, adhere to the people-centered development philosophy, and follow the Party’s mass line in the new era. Customs shoulders the duties and missions of guarding the national gate and promoting development. It must let the correct view on political performance take root in thought, merge into the blood, and be manifest in action, so as to be a guardian of the national gate that reassures the Party and satisfies the people, and strive to open up a new situation in customs modernization.
Adhere to “building the Party for the public,” and plan and promote customs work in the overall situation and general trend. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized, “What plays a decisive role in establishing and practicing a correct view on political performance is Party spirit.” As the state’s import and export supervision and administration organ, customs must always adhere to the overall leadership of the Party over customs work, firmly support the two establishes (两个确立 - “two establishes,” the establishment of Comrade Xi Jinping’s core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole, and the establishment of the guiding position of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era) and resolutely achieve the two upholds (两个维护 - “two upholds,” upholding General Secretary Xi Jinping’s core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole, and upholding the Central Committee’s authority and its centralized, unified leadership) with the standard of the first echelon. It must consciously position, plan, and advance customs work within the overall situation of Chinese-style modernization, implement the deployments and decisions of the Party Central Committee fully and faithfully, and be single-minded in serving the public, truly using the power entrusted by the Party and the people for undertaking endeavors, adding luster to the whole by the brilliance of customs’ one domain.
Adhere to “bringing benefit to the people,” and deeply practice the tenet of “people’s customs for the people.” General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized, “Communists must remember that bringing benefit to the people is the greatest political performance.” All of customs’ power comes from the people; on the issues of “for whom to enforce the law” and “for whom to serve,” there can be no slightest blurring or wavering. “Guarding the national gate” guards the fundamental interests of the Party and the people; “promoting development” promotes the well-being of the masses. In every link of performing duties, the value orientation of customs for the people must be upheld, the dialectical relationship between “guarding the national gate” and “promoting development” must be grasped well, making good “promotion” articles within “guarding,” and building a solid “guarding” bottom line within “promotion,” achieving both “being able to manage well” and “being able to pass quickly,” striving to create actual results that can withstand the test of practice, the people, and history.
Adhere to “scientific decision-making,” ensuring that customs work conforms to reality and follows laws. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out, “A correct view on political performance requires us to proceed from reality and act in accordance with laws.” Customs work cannot simply adopt a “one-size-fits-all” approach or mechanically copy and apply. It must not only consider problems and plan work from the overall and general situation, but also strengthen investigation and research, identify the comparative advantages of various places, and based on reality introduce customs policies and measures that are more targeted and meet the development needs of localities and enterprises. Study and apply the Yiwu development experience (义乌发展经验 - Yiwu development experience) well, insist on asking the people for advice and regulating in accordance with the trend, support all localities to leverage their resource endowments, tailor measures to local conditions to build diverse forms of open highlands, and embark on a high-quality development path that conforms to reality.
Adhere to “genuine and solid work,” and promote the fine style of the customs contingent. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out, “Achievements are all made through doing; only by truly doing can one truly produce achievements and produce true achievements.” National gate security concerns the happiness and well-being of the common people; customs clearance facilitation concerns enterprise development and employment income. Customs is at the forefront of opening up to the outside world and is a “window” displaying the country’s image. In doing customs work, there is no room for 花拳绣腿 (huā quán xiù tuǐ - “flowery fists and embroidered kicks,” flashy but useless skills) and no tolerance for the slightest false effort. Resolutely oppose formalism and bureaucracy, with the spiritual realm of “success does not have to be mine” and the historical responsibility of “success must necessarily have me,” systematically enhance the modernization level of customs governance capacity, and strive to open up a new work situation of better supervision, higher security, greater convenience, and stricter crackdown on smuggling.
Grasping the organ to drive the system ensures that customs study and education goes deep and solid
In advancing study and education, the General Administration of Customs insists on grasping the organ to drive the system, with the three-level Party committees linked and connected, promoting study, inspection, and rectification in an integrated manner with a serious attitude and a meticulous spirit, substantively solving problems, and ensuring that study and education goes deep, solid, manifest in action, and yields effects.
Deeply study and carefully comprehend, continuously strengthen Party spirit cultivation. Insist on running study and discussion throughout the entire process, through forms such as Party committee theoretical study center group study, special study classes, and Party organization secretaries taking the lead in giving Party lectures, systematically and deeply study Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building and General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important discourses on establishing and practicing a correct view on political performance, promote the strengthening of theoretical armament, continuously deepen understanding and grasp of the correct view on political performance, strengthen Party spirit cultivation, raise the realm and pattern, and tighten the “master switch” of thinking. Hold a symposium on studying and applying the Yiwu development experience, vigorously promote the spirit of reform and innovation, and establish a practical and truth-seeking orientation. Coordinate the use of positive and negative typical cases issued by the central level and the customs system, study Gu Wenchang’s good family tradition and family education, hold a customs warning education conference, and guide Party cadres to 见贤思齐 (jiàn xián sī qí - “seeing the worthy, think of equaling,” emulate the virtuous) and use the mirror to reflect and examine themselves.
Take real action and hit hard, truly investigate and genuinely rectify prominent problems. Insist on regarding rectification and remediation as the key to achieving practical results in study and education, ensuring that problems are not let go until solved, rectification is not let go until in place, and the masses are not let go until satisfied. The Party Committee of the General Administration earnestly implements the important requirements of the “four have or have nots” (四个有没有 - “four have or have nots”) and the “three comparisons” (三个对照 - “three comparisons”), taking the lead in examining and listing problems. Deploy special governance in the fields of quarantine treatment and bidding and tendering, develop a smart supervision system, and through addressing both symptoms and root causes, confine power within the cage of institutions. Vigorously rectify the chaos in the customs declaration industry, conduct investigation and identification of high-risk customs declaration enterprises, promote and apply the enterprise profiling system, and continuously purify the industry atmosphere. Build a differentiated assessment and evaluation system to enhance the targeting and scientific nature of assessment. Through strict and solid rectification and remediation, some chronic and stubborn problems are gradually being solved, and a batch of institutional results are beginning to show initial effect.
Use heart and feeling to ensure that results are perceivable and accessible. Insist on benefiting people’s livelihood, resolving people’s concerns, and warming people’s hearts, so that enterprises and the masses truly feel new customs style and new changes. Principal responsible comrades of the three-level customs take the lead in holding customs-enterprise dialogue meetings, go to enterprises and grassroots customs frontlines for investigation and research, driving all levels to “face to face” listen to demands, “point to point” provide precise services, and “hand in hand” clear problems. Take the lead in carrying out special actions for cross-border trade facilitation, introduce 29 innovative measures to help enterprises reduce costs and increase efficiency. Formulate measures that benefit enterprises and the people, precisely solve pain points such as “difficult returns, high costs, long cycles” in cross-border e-commerce. Introduce a series of policies and measures such as promoting the capacity expansion and quality enhancement of comprehensive bonded zones and supporting the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, promoting high-quality development and high-level opening up with better supervision. In the first half of this year, China’s total foreign trade in goods increased by 16.9% year-on-year; foreign trade started with strong momentum, grew with strong trends, and moved with stable pace.
Fulfill the duties and missions of guarding the national gate and promoting development with solid work and responsible action
Customs nationwide deeply study and implement Xi Jinping’s thought on Party building, carry out the Party’s mass line in the new era through the entire process and all aspects of guarding the national gate and promoting development, make genuine and solid work the most distinctive mark of the national gate guardians, transform the results of study and education into practical effects for promoting high-quality development, and make greater contributions to getting the 15th Five-Year Plan (十五五 - 15th Five-Year Plan) off to a good start and taking solid initial steps.
Strictly check and maintain national gate security. Comprehensively implement the holistic view of national security, build a “big risk control” system that covers all fields, runs through all chains, integrates all elements, and manages the entire cycle, and improve the ability for penetrating supervision over production and supply chains. Strive to enhance the joint effectiveness of risk, audit, and investigation (风稽侦 - fēng jī zhēn - risk, audit, and investigation), continuously strengthen port inspection, tax collection and administration, and subsequent auditing, and firmly hold the red line of supervision and the bottom line of safety. Improve and perfect the customs export control work system, advance special actions such as “Bright Sword” (亮剑 - Liàngjiàn) and “Golden Key” (金钥 - Jīnyào), and severely crack down on the smuggling export of controlled items. Scientifically and precisely carry out port epidemic prevention and control, strengthen whole-chain supervision over the safety of imported and exported food, solidly advance the action to promote the quality and safety improvement of exported goods, and serve the building of a Beautiful China and a Safe China.
Comprehensively apply measures to promote foreign trade quality improvement and efficiency enhancement. Solidly advance the special action for cross-border trade facilitation, serving the construction of a strong trading nation. Optimize the supervision system for new business forms and models such as cross-border e-commerce, market procurement, overseas warehouses, and “bonded+,” innovate supervision methods for artificial intelligence products and green low-carbon transformation products, and cultivate and strengthen new drivers of foreign trade. Enhance the precision of enterprise-related services, make good use of policy direct-reaching mechanisms such as customs-enterprise dialogue meetings and enterprise coordinators, strengthen notification and evaluation of technical trade measures, help enterprises cope with trade barriers, stabilize orders, expand markets, and increase efficiency. Promote greater coordination between imports and exports, implement the measure of fully applying zero tariffs to the 53 African countries with diplomatic relations with China, optimize access and inspection and quarantine procedures, expand imports of domestically urgently needed advanced technology equipment, high-quality agricultural products, and consumer goods, and facilitate “global good things” to share the opportunities of China’s big market.
Deepen reforms to serve the expansion of high-level opening up. Give play to the role of customs as a hub intersecting domestic and international dual circulations, build a supervision system compatible with high-level opening up, and create a transparent, stable, and predictable institutional environment. Implement well the customs tasks involved in the high-level implementation of the Hainan Free Trade Port’s customs closure operation, and create customs supervision special areas with international competitiveness and influence. Organize the implementation of comprehensive bonded zone policies to enhance the innovation-leading development function of open platforms. Optimize the layout of port opening, upgrade port infrastructure, and, guided by demand, optimize the supervision models for China-Europe (Central Asia) freight trains and the New Western Land-Sea Corridor, promoting the linked development of international logistics corridors.
Strengthen international cooperation to promote mutual benefit and win-win outcomes. Implement high-level economic and trade agreements, strengthen alignment and connection in customs procedures, inspection and quarantine, and rules of origin, play a greater role in building a more just, reasonable, cooperative, and win-win international economic and trade order, and better serve the high-quality joint construction of the Belt and Road (一带一路). Deeply implement the “Smart Customs” partnership plan, accelerate the implementation of the “AI + Customs” action, achieve information exchange, mutual recognition of supervision, and mutual assistance in law enforcement, and further expand the “circle of friends” in trade cooperation. Strengthen information sharing and law enforcement cooperation with key countries, key regions, and international organizations, severely crack down on cross-border smuggling criminal activities of drugs, foreign garbage, and endangered animals and plants, continue to launch the “Mekong Dragon” (湄龙 - Méi Lóng) operation and the “Gaia” (大地女神 - Dàdì Nǚshén) operation, and contribute Chinese strength to global security governance.
(The author is the Party Secretary and Director of the General Administration of Customs)
Return to TopBy: 王 政
Products, technologies, and teams that can break through in the Chinese market possess strong competitiveness when placed in any global market.
SAIC Motor and General Motors recently renewed their contract for 20 years, making General Motors another multinational car company that has chosen to “long-term bind” to the Chinese market. Previously, GAC Group and Honda had also signed a joint venture renewal agreement. Against the backdrop of declining sales and shrinking market share, the reasons for the renewal are worth pondering.
Data shows that GAC Honda’s annual sales dropped from over 800,000 vehicles to about 350,000 vehicles, a decline of 56%; SAIC-GM’s sales in China fell from over 2 million vehicles to 535,000 vehicles in 2025, losing nearly three-quarters. Although the numbers are stark, the choice of multinational car companies is clear — resolutely staying in the Chinese market.
The reasons are obvious: today’s China is not only the “world’s largest market” in the automotive field but also the “toughest exam room.” Chinese consumers have stringent requirements for the configuration specifications of smart cockpits, even higher expectations for intelligent assisted driving, and a strong willingness to accept the transition to new energy. Rapid technological iteration, leapfrog configurations, good but not expensive — these are merely the essential elements of a Chinese best-selling model. The logic of a “global car” that multinational car companies rely on — one model dominating the world — is increasingly unworkable in the Chinese market.
To gain a foothold in the Chinese market, one must build cars tailored for China. However, developing models exclusively for the Chinese market entails high R&D costs, which are difficult to amortize under the current sales scale. Going it alone carries too much risk; giving up entirely is unacceptable. Therefore, leveraging Chinese partners and utilizing China’s technologically advanced, efficient, and low-cost R&D and supply chain systems has become a realistically attractive rational choice.
A deeper logic lies hidden in the statements of multinational car company executives: China is the “experimental field” and “gym” of the global automotive industry.
In the Chinese market, companies must face rapid technological iteration, a mature smart ecosystem, and consumers willing to try new things. Products, technologies, and teams that can break through in the Chinese market possess strong competitiveness when placed in any global market. In other words, the significance of China operations is undergoing a transformation — from a profit center to a capability center. Declining sales and compressed profits are being re-endowed with strategic value: the technologies honed here, the products validated here, and the teams trained here can be exported to the world in the future.
By renewing for 20 years, General Motors is precisely eyeing this possibility of “capability export.” SAIC Motor has outstanding advantages in areas such as electrification, intelligence, industrial clusters, and smart manufacturing, as well as excellent cost competitiveness and speed of technological iteration. Experiencing high-intensity training in the Chinese market enables the development of “world-class” genuine skills. For SAIC Motor, General Motors’ century-long technological accumulation, its compliance awareness, international market experience, and network resources are equally worth learning from and tapping into, also harboring vast cooperation space.
20 years is a long time, enough for an industry to undergo significant changes. For multinational car companies willing to truly integrate into China’s ecosystem and learn from each other with Chinese companies, the renewal is like obtaining a “ticket” to the future.
Return to TopBeijing, August 9 (Reporter Wang Yunshan (王云杉)). The National Data Bureau (国家数据局) recently issued the "Data Property Rights Registration Work Guidelines (Trial)" (《数据产权登记工作指引（试行）》) (hereinafter referred to as the "Guidelines"), making systematic arrangements in aspects such as registration institution management, registration process standardization, and registration certificate application, providing unified guidance for nationwide data property rights registration work. The National Data Bureau is steadily advancing data property rights registration work, accelerating the construction of a nationally integrated data market.
Data property rights registration, simply understood, is to issue an "identity certificate" for the intangible asset of data. The responsible official of the National Data Bureau stated that the purpose of establishing the Guidelines is to implement the data property rights system, provide a unified property rights certificate for data circulation and trading, reduce the cost of data circulation and trading, and cultivate a nationally integrated data market.
It is understood that the data property rights registration certificate (数据产权登记凭证) is issued by a trusted registration institution, which reviews the accuracy of data description, compliance of sources, clarity of property rights, etc., and serves as a strong proof of data ownership, compliance, and the like. "In the future, the role of the data property rights registration certificate will become even more diverse as the methods of data marketization and value realization increase, becoming an important link in promoting the market-oriented allocation of data elements," said the responsible official of the National Data Bureau. To better promote the implementation of the Guidelines, the National Data Bureau is focusing on three areas: launching the National Data Property Rights Registration Service System (国家数据产权登记服务系统) and carrying out data property rights registration work in an orderly manner; promptly summarizing the implementation status of data property rights registration and strengthening pilot tasks to accumulate practical experience; and strengthening the alignment of the data property rights registration system with systems for circulation and trading, revenue distribution, security governance, etc., effectively unblocking blocking points and sticking points in system implementation, and accelerating the process of data marketization and value realization.
Return to TopIn recent years, Hubei and Chongqing have vigorously developed green cruise ships, strengthening the construction of supporting facilities such as shore power and ports. From cultivating new business forms to enriching cross-provincial routes, and in aspects such as promoting water-land linkage and extending the tourism industry chain, the two places have carried out cooperation, continuously enhancing the influence of the Three Gorges international tourism brand. The photo shows a new-energy cruise ship sailing in the waters of Zigui County (秭归县) in the Xiling Gorge of the Three Gorges on the Yangtze River. Photo by Zheng Jiayu (郑家裕) (People's Vision (人民视觉)).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘军国
In recent years, beef consumption demand has continued to grow, and there are many categories of chilled, frozen, and hot fresh beef on the market. Many consumers, because they do not understand the differences in processing techniques among the three types of beef and cannot read product packaging labels, easily fall into misunderstandings when purchasing.
In response to these consumer questions, the reporter interviewed Jiang Yongqing (蒋永清), a researcher at the Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine of the Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences (浙江省农科院), to answer questions and resolve doubts in conjunction with national meat standards.
Chilled fresh beef is the mainstream sales category in supermarkets and stores. After slaughter, the beef immediately enters a constant temperature cold chain of 0 to 4 degrees Celsius, undergoes low-temperature acid removal and rigor resolution for more than 12 hours, and can then be divided into ordinary film-wrapped, vacuum, and modified-atmosphere fresh-locking packaging, with a preservation period of 3 to 14 days.
Frozen beef involves sending the portioned beef into a quick-freeze warehouse or blast freezer, reducing the central temperature of the beef to between minus 15 degrees Celsius and minus 18 degrees Celsius within 48 hours, and storing it at below minus 18 degrees Celsius. The shelf life can reach 12 months, making it suitable for family bulk storage.
Hot fresh beef is directly marketed and circulated 2 to 6 hours after slaughter, without any low-temperature acid removal treatment throughout the process, and is mostly sold by on-site segmentation at farmers' markets.
Jiang Yongqing stated that the main difference among the three types of beef lies in the temperature control treatment after slaughter. The core nutrients such as protein and minerals are not significantly different, with the main distinction reflected in aspects like tenderness of texture and juice retention.
Hot fresh beef has a strong natural meat aroma, but 12 to 24 hours after slaughter the muscles enter a peak period of rigor mortis, making the meat relatively tough, suitable for thin-slice hot pot cooking. Moreover, selling at room temperature easily fosters microbial growth, so it must be consumed on the same day. Chilled fresh beef, through low-temperature acid removal, softens muscle fibers, making the meat tender and juicy; the low-temperature environment effectively inhibits bacterial reproduction, making it suitable for various cooking methods such as pan-frying, stir-frying, braising, and roasting, with only a slight transformation of a small amount of flavor compounds.
When purchasing, how to check labels, and how to select products with higher cost performance?
Jiang Yongqing stated that product labels are an important basis for distinguishing beef quality, and the key inspection points differ by category. When purchasing chilled fresh beef, be sure to check the animal quarantine certificate and meat quality inspection certificate printed on the packaging; vacuum and modified-atmosphere labels represent long-term preservation. When purchasing hot fresh beef, check the day's quarantine documents displayed at the stall, and give priority to beef with a dry surface and no large amount of exudate; serious exudate is mostly repackaged frozen meat pretending to be fresh. When purchasing frozen beef, look for the "quick freeze" label on the packaging; the standard storage temperature should not be higher than minus 18 degrees Celsius; give priority to individually packaged small packages.
What common misconceptions exist regarding subsequent storage and thawing, and how to reduce ingredient waste?
Jiang Yongqing said that the root cause of poor beef texture lies in improper storage and thawing methods. Chilled fresh beef should be stored in a refrigerator at 0 to 4 degrees Celsius, and it is recommended to consume within 3 days. Frozen beef should be stored in sealed bags divided by single-use portions, avoiding repeated thawing. The optimal thawing method is slow thawing in the refrigerator, with minimal juice loss. In urgent situations, it can be soaked in cold water in a sealed bag, changing the water regularly. Never use hot water to thaw directly; high temperature will cause rapid protein denaturation, making the meat dry and woody, and accelerating nutrient loss.
Return to TopBy: 人民网记者 申佳平 方经纶
The 15th Five-Year Plan for Building a Sports Powerhouse (体育强国建设“十五五”规划) and the National Fitness Plan (2026–2030) (全民健身计划（2026—2030年）) were issued in succession recently. The 15th Five-Year Plan for Building a Sports Powerhouse proposes that by 2030, the total output of the sports industry will exceed 7 trillion yuan; per capita sports venue area will reach approximately 4 square meters; and more than 5,000 fitness facilities and venues close to the people will be newly built or renovated.
Where will the venues come from? Both documents point to one answer — “golden corners and silver edges” (金角银边), i.e., inventory spaces such as industrial plants, storage warehouses, commercial premises, space under elevated expressways, and building rooftops. In Chengdu, Sichuan, the space under the Shuangqiaozi Interchange was utilized, and through a public tender, a basketball park covering 1,800 square meters was built; the relevant enterprise secured the operating rights at an annual price of 220,000 yuan, invested more than 2 million yuan in renovation, and subsequently enriched the business format through multiple channels, achieving venue maintenance and long-term operation. Idle resources were activated, the public gained places for fitness, and the enterprise also found room for profit.
Where will projects be found? The 15th Five-Year Plan for Building a Sports Powerhouse proposes vigorously developing outdoor sports such as mountain, water, ice and snow, and low-altitude activities, and creating premium routes and branded events. In addition, it will coordinate the construction of 100 high-quality outdoor sports destinations. Behind this lies an industrial chain stretching from equipment manufacturing to event operations, and from training services to outdoor guides.
In recent years, the nationwide enthusiasm for sports has continued to heat up, and new demands such as outdoor sports have kept surging. Data from the General Administration of Sport of China shows that, as of early April 2025, the number of people participating in outdoor sports nationwide had exceeded 400 million. Moreover, relevant survey reports indicate that last year the total amount of outdoor sports consumption in China surpassed 1 trillion yuan.
The fitness demands of the elderly are also growing rapidly. Data from JD.com shows that since the beginning of the year, in silver-haired consumption, the transaction volume of fitness equipment such as steppers, stair-climbing machines, and kettlebells has all increased by over 100% year-on-year. By the end of 2025, Shanghai had built 200 Senior Fitness and Health Homes, where the "fitness + health maintenance + social interaction" scenario, combining affordable monthly cards with value-added services, has been widely welcomed. Targeting this growth point of demand, the National Fitness Plan (2026–2030) specifically proposes "innovating models of using sports to promote health for the elderly, developing senior fitness programs and products, and promoting community multi-functional fitness venues such as Senior Fitness and Health Homes."
Where will the popularity come from? As sports consumption improves in quality and expands in scale, consumers have placed higher demands on the "quality-price ratio" (质价比) of exercise and fitness.
The National Fitness Plan (2026–2030) clearly states "using artificial intelligence to empower the development of national fitness," and accelerating the application of AI in national fitness venues and facilities, events and activities, fitness guidance, and publicity and promotion. Technology is making "affordable professionalism" possible. Powerful and price-friendly "cyber coaches" are becoming a window of opportunity for many tech entrepreneurs.
The event economy also holds great promise. The 15th Five-Year Plan for Building a Sports Powerhouse supports the development of events such as football, basketball, and volleyball (the "three big balls"), ice and snow sports, and emerging trendy sports, and "vigorously develops the event economy." The success of the Jiangsu Super League (苏超) can serve as confirmation — in the 2025 season, online livestream viewing exceeded 2.2 billion person-times, driving 14.57 billion yuan in out-of-town cultural and tourism consumption via UnionPay channels.
Along the policy脉络, a "sports+" development map has already become clear. Behind every "+" lie new opportunities within easy reach for ordinary people.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 曹文轩
For Ding Hua (丁花), a grid worker of Beichongxi Community (北冲溪社区), Binjiang Subdistrict (滨江街道), Qiongshan District (琼山区), Haikou City (海口市), Hainam Province (海南省), the matter of filling forms had troubled her for a long time. “Above are a thousand threads; below is a single needle, but sometimes there are too many thread ends, which leaves one breathless.” Ding Hua counted on her fingers: “Previously, in one quarter, we had to fill more than a dozen forms on population mobility, social insurance participation, rental housing registration, public security patrols, and so on. At that time, when I heard the two words ‘report form,’ my heart tightened.” For nearly a year, Ding Hua has no longer been worried about this. In July this year, the Hainan grassroots “One-Table-Pass” (一表通) system had been operating province-wide for over a year. When asked about the change, Ding Hua told the reporter: “Now the number of forms to fill has decreased, and there is no need to switch back and forth between platforms or fill repeatedly!” The change began in December 2024. “Rectifying the multi-channel submission and repeated filling of report forms, promoting grassroots data to be ‘submitted only once’—this is the practical need to rectify formalism and reduce the burden on grassroots.” Sun Jianming (孙建明), deputy director of the Hainan Provincial Big Data Development Center (海南省大数据发展中心), introduced. At that time, Hainan formed a grassroots “One-Table-Pass” special work team, led by the Provincial Business Environment Construction Department (省营商环境建设厅), with technical support from the Provincial Big Data Development Center, and chose to first break ground in Qiongshan District, Haikou City, to explore a path for “slimming down” grassroots report forms across the province. Why was Qiongshan District chosen for the pilot? “Tropical characteristic high-efficiency agriculture (热带特色高效农业) is one of the pillar industries of our district. There are many agricultural-related report forms with high frequency, repeated filling, multiple reminders, and deadlines. Some grassroots cadres have reported being trapped by form-filling, even having to squeeze time to visit villages and households.” Meng Rong (蒙蓉), a cadre from the Qiongshan District Business Environment Construction Department, frankly stated: it was precisely this predicament of “being tied hand and foot” that forced the reform to accelerate. In the early stage of the pilot, growing pains were constant. Chen Haisheng (陈海生), project manager for the grassroots “One-Table-Pass” of Digital Hainan Co., Ltd. (数字海南有限公司), recalled: initially, the project technology team went down to the grassroots for a full-coverage survey, combing through the various report forms of the district’s 58 subdistricts and towns and departments, cleaning up and merging these forms, which exerted great pressure. At that time, the provincial-level system had not yet been built, and after district-level integration, the information still had to be manually split when submitted upward; coupled with some cadres’ habits being hard to change, they kept their distance from the new system 敬而远之 (jìng ér yuǎn zhī - “respect but stay aloof,” to keep at a distance)…… Meng Rong introduced: everyone resolved to 啃硬骨头 (kěn yìng gǔ tóu - “gnaw hard bones,” to tackle a difficult task). The special work team, together with the relevant departments of Qiongshan District, busied themselves for two months, classifying, screening, integrating, deduplicating, optimizing, and streamlining various report forms, achieving one-time collection, multi-party sharing, and full-area reuse, curbing repeated filling at the source. At the Yunlong Town (云龙镇) Agricultural Service Center in Qiongshan District, staff member Huang Wenji (黄文际) casually opened the “One-Table-Pass” within the “Haizheng Tong” (海政通) government affairs platform for a demonstration: “For example, this ‘Haikou City Village Collective Economic Organization Income Status Form’ (海口市村集体经济组织收入情况表) originally had to be filled monthly, but now it is filled once every half year. Now the system can automatically pre-fill, intelligently review, and batch import; even if I change posts, the previously aggregated information can be found in the system ledger, and the person replacing me does not need to reorganize. This year I have only filled three forms in total, and I have more time to go to the fields.” After the success of Qiongshan District’s exploration, in July 2025, the grassroots “One-Table-Pass” system was rolled out province-wide, establishing a user management system covering all levels. The unified collection of form information across the province loosened the bonds on the grassroots, bringing about optimization of work processes and improvement of work efficiency. “In the past, departments collected information each tending to their own patch, like isolated islands. Now all kinds of information flow into the ‘One-Table-Pass’ pool; when cross-department comparisons are made, many governance blind spots ‘pop out.’” Wang Yifan (王一帆), director of the Data Resources Division of the Hainan Provincial Big Data Development Center, said. At the beginning of this year, Danzhou City (儋州市) and Tunchang County (屯昌县) took the lead in testing the scene of civil affairs subsidy distribution. Fu Xiaoxing (符晓星), a cadre from Xinxing Town (新兴镇), Tunchang County, told the reporter: “In the past, when distributing subsidies for the elderly, we relied entirely on manual ledgers from villages, which made it easy for eligible elderly people to miss subsidies, or for subsidies to deceased persons not to be stopped in time; checking and recovering funds was time-consuming and laborious. Now the grassroots ‘One-Table-Pass’ system breaks down information barriers between departments, intuitively displays the total number of elderly people at different ages and subsidy distribution data, and promptly provides lists of those who should have been paid but were not, or those who should have been stopped but were not. Towns and villages can precisely visit households to remind them to apply, and stop payments in a timely manner, avoiding the risks of missed payments and fraudulent claims.” At present, such scene applications are being accelerated across Hainan: on July 16, Hainan conducted a province-wide specialized training on grassroots “One-Table-Pass” civil affairs subsidy data applications, covering 670 staff at the city, county (district), and township (subdistrict) levels, with systematic instruction on operational procedures and information security; the civil affairs “Data-Tong Hundred Scenes—Intelligent Subsidy Pass” (数通百景—智补通) module within the grassroots “One-Table-Pass” system entered the verification stage, with information from finance, health, civil affairs, disabled persons’ federation, and other parties interconnected, and 11 application modules including subsidies for the elderly and two types of subsidies for the disabled were launched. The initial results of burden reduction and empowerment have appeared, but whether they can be sustained is the true test. “Forms are dynamic; we must build a ‘firewall’ in advance.” Huang Yingying (黄莹莹), deputy director of the Digital Government Promotion Division of the Hainan Provincial Business Environment Construction Department, introduced. Hainan has formulated a grassroots “One-Table-Pass” operation management method, framing everything from submission channels and division of responsibilities to information security. Another thorny factor is “off-system circulation”—“Some cadres still habitually use private chat on the ‘Haizheng Tong’ government affairs platform, WeChat, or email to transmit forms, which not only affects the burden-reduction effect but also wastes information resources.” Huang Yingying said. Summing up experience, they put forward three countermeasures: first, build a “direct express” for needs, collecting real-time platform optimization suggestions and grassroots business needs, quickly responding to reasonable demands and iterating within a set timeframe; second, open an anonymous reporting channel in the system so that grassroots issues can be reported and managed; third, data monitoring plus field visits, issuing reminder letters and regular notifications when anomalies are found. “Over the past year, ‘One-Table-Pass’ has opened a digital window for grassroots governance.” Wang Xuehao (王雪皓), deputy director of the Hainan Provincial Business Environment Construction Department, said. “We must continue to optimize the experience and improve the mobile terminal system so that grassroots cadres find it convenient to use, while accelerating the transformation of the service model from ‘people looking for policies’ to ‘policies looking for people,’ and from ‘residents running errands’ to ‘data running errands’ for subsidy disbursement, allowing digitalization to continuously reduce burdens and untie the bonds on grassroots, and to empower social governance with efficiency.”
Return to TopBy: 人民网记者 徐明玥
With the continuous optimization of standardized management procedures, localities have made great efforts to streamline reporting items and improve filing processes. The once much-criticized phenomenon of "filling out forms for everything" has now been largely corrected. However, old problems in some areas and links have not yet been eradicated — the phenomenon of "repeated filling, multiple reporting" still exists in individual localities. In a special collection initiative launched on the "Leadership Message Board" (领导留言板) of People's Daily Online, some grassroots cadres still reported the distress caused by "filling out forms for everything."
Recently, many parts of the country are in a critical period of flood prevention, and grassroots tasks are heavy. One message reported that during the flood prevention process, certain business departments required townships to repeatedly fill out various flood prevention forms, forcing frontline personnel to stay up late preparing materials. In response, it is recommended to further optimize the information reporting process; some non-urgent data could be consolidated and submitted after the flood season rather than being completed simultaneously, so that grassroots flood prevention personnel can devote more time and energy to on-site inspections and hazard handling.
Another grassroots worker reported that the locality is promoting a new online platform. After the original offline processes were converted into online form-filling, the workload increased rather than decreased, and grassroots staff spend a large amount of time on repeated form-filling and material uploading. From meeting plans and meeting minutes to the links for each meeting agenda — if any one item is missing, the system will not approve; at least three forms must be filled out every week. Moreover, for the same matter with the same content, it is often necessary to repeatedly fill in on different platforms, so efficiency drops instead of rising.
Necessary statistics are indispensable, but excessive pursuit of "filling out forms to leave traces" will only make grassroots cadres revolve around forms and stare at numbers. We must liberate grassroots cadres from tedious forms and reports, so that they have more time and energy to go among the masses and solve practical problems.
If you have similar situations around you, you are welcome to visit the "Leadership Message Board" special section on the homepage of People's Daily Online and click "People's Daily invites you to tell us about the formalism around you" to leave a message.
Return to TopBy: 李佩阳
The quality of grassroots governance is not measured by glossy, neatly formatted forms, but by the genuine feelings of the masses. Yet formalist problems such as excessive reports, duplicate entries, and reporting to multiple authorities have trapped many grassroots cadres amidst paperwork, squeezing the time and energy they have to serve the people. It is necessary to break the governance inertia of tiao-kuai segmentation (条块分割 - department-based and territorial fragmentation), and even more necessary to improve data-sharing mechanisms, so that governance effectiveness can truly be channeled into matters that benefit the people.
Digitizing the burden reduction does not mean reducing forms or doing less work; rather, it means enabling grassroots forces to return to service and governance functions through optimized resource allocation. The effectiveness of grassroots burden reduction is ultimately reflected in the assumption of responsibility and action. Only by casting off the formalist burden of "filling out forms for everything" and avoiding the drawback of "having to repeatedly fill out forms even in urgent situations" can grassroots cadres have a clear priority of tasks and better free their hands to serve the people.
Streamlining the forms is only the starting point; enabling cadres to travel light and truly address the people's urgent, difficult, anxious, and longed-for concerns (急难愁盼 - jí nán chóu pàn, "urgent, difficult, anxious, and longing") is the ultimate goal of reducing burdens and empowering grassroots levels. Only by continuing to cut into formalism, using institutional innovation to unblock departmental chokepoints, leveraging technological empowerment to advance data sharing, and letting data run more while cadres fill in fewer forms, can time be returned to the front line and efficiency be brought to the masses.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张丹华
Around 5:30 a.m. on August 1, a downpour struck Lifeng Village (立峰村), Gaotai Town (高台镇), Nanzheng District (南郑区), Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province.
Li Yang (李杨), Party branch secretary of the Lifeng Village general Party branch, called on Li Guifu (李贵福), a grid worker on duty with him, to go out and check the Contract Rock Reservoir (合同岩水库). "Because the rain was so heavy, we thought we would go check for any danger," Li Guifu said.
The Contract Rock Reservoir normally holds more than 600,000 cubic meters of water. Under continuous heavy rainfall, it faced the risk of overtopping and spillway discharge, endangering the safety of downstream villages.
The two drove forward with difficulty, checking the water level along the reservoir area. They found the reservoir water level had exceeded the warning line, and the spillway channel had already begun to overflow. "Then we decided to go to the dangerous road section to set up warning checkpoints to strictly prevent pedestrians and vehicles from passing through the hazardous area," Li Guifu said.
When they reached the overflow ditch of the Jiangba River (姜坝河), the road surface suddenly flooded over a large area, and the vehicle was instantly overturned and swept into the torrent. Floodwater poured into the cabin. Li Guifu struggled desperately and choked on several mouthfuls of water. "Just when I felt I was running out of strength, a large hand forcefully pushed me upward," Li Guifu said.
With that momentum, Li Guifu grabbed the edge of the car window and struggled to climb onto the roof. When he turned back to pull Li Yang, he saw that the door on his side was wide open, and Li Yang had already been swept out of the car by the flood, his hands lying on the rocks beside him. In just an instant, he was swallowed by the flood and disappeared. The rescue team searched along the river channel for more than 30 hours. At about 5 p.m. on August 2, they found Li Yang downstream; he had no vital signs.
In September 2013, Li Yang enlisted in the military and served in the Second Detachment of the Chongqing Corps of the People's Armed Police (武警重庆总队第二支队). While on duty at the North Square of Chongqing Railway Station, Li Yang successfully rescued a member of the public who had fallen on an escalator, and was recorded a third-class merit. In 2016 and 2017, he was rated by the Chongqing Corps as a strong-army model soldier and the Most Beautiful Chongqing Armed Police.
In September 2018, after demobilization, Li Yang went to the Nanzheng District Fire Rescue Brigade (南郑区消防救援大队) to engage in rescue work. In early 2025, Nanzheng District launched the "Rural Torch Engine" Project (农村火炬引擎工程). Carrying the ideal of "taking root at the grassroots, serving the people," Li Yang resolutely returned to his hometown and devoted himself to its construction. In January 2026, Li Yang was elected secretary of the Lifeng Village general Party branch, and in March of the same year he was elected village committee director.
Having shed his military uniform and returned to his hometown, "charging at the front, 舍我其谁 (shě wǒ qí shuí - 'if not me, then who,' fearless self-sacrifice)," Li Yang's soldierly nature never changed. On August 6, the Hanzhong Municipal Party Committee (汉中市委) issued a decision to posthumously award Comrade Li Yang the title of "Hanzhong City Excellent Communist Party Member" (汉中市优秀共产党员). In every crisis and difficulty, he instinctively chose "Let me go first, I will be at the front."
Return to TopBeijing, August 9 (Reporter Li Longyi (李龙伊)) – Recently, the Ministry of National Defense Conscription Office (国防部征兵办公室) issued the Code of Professional Ethics for Conscription Staff, the content of which is made public to society, and it shall take effect from the date of promulgation.
The Code thoroughly implements General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important discourses on moral construction, implements the deployment requirements for deepening ideological rectification (思想整风) and advancing political rectification training (政治整训), targets the actual work of conscription, focuses on the key links of staff performing duties and exercising power, establishes a moral high line, and promotes professional spirit.
The Code consists of five parts, setting forth the professional ethics for conscription staff: loyalty to the Party and bearing the overall situation in mind, performing duties according to law and selecting talents transparently, caring about national defense and adhering to standards, being incorruptible and self-disciplined and not seeking personal gain, and uniting and cooperating with warm-hearted service, and clarifies 25 specific ethical norms in each aspect, in order to guide the vast number of conscription staff to hold fast to lofty value pursuits, temper strong inner strength, achieve reverence for virtue and self-cultivation as well as self-awareness and self-discipline, and continuously create a new atmosphere and healthy trends in conscription work.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘洪超
"These cars are parked at will on both sides of the road. At morning and evening rush hours, traffic is jammed so tight that it is 水泄不通 (shuǐ xiè bù tōng - "water cannot leak through," so congested that even water could not pass), and pedestrians can only thread their way through the traffic flow, which is very unsafe." In the Tawan (塔湾) secondhand car market and surrounding area of Yuhong District (于洪区), Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, residents were full of helplessness when talking about their previous living environment. This area is located at the juncture of two districts; because authority and responsibility overlapped and supervision coordination was not smooth, it lay for a long time in a governance blind spot. For years, problems such as illegal parking, road-occupying business operations, and stopping cars to solicit customers occurred frequently; the masses had difficulty getting around, difficulty parking, and a poor living environment. Many rectifications all treated the symptoms without curing the root cause, and it became a stubborn governance disease.
Merchants needed to make a living, the masses needed a livable environment, and order needed to be regulated—governance of the area fell into a deadlock. Yuhong District formed a cross-departmental comprehensive governance task force, coordinating the forces of urban management, market regulation, public security, and local subdistrict offices to conduct on-site research and assessment. Where were the merchants' cars to be parked? Where were residents' cars to be put when they returned from work? The rectification task force abandoned the extensive model of shutting down and closing operations, established the line of thinking of combining dredging with blocking and treating both symptoms and root causes, and formulated a systematic whole-area governance plan.
To rectify the road-occupation disorder at its root, Yuhong District revitalized 27 mu of idle land, built a standardized site for secondhand car operations, and guided more than 50 car dealers to move into the market and operate in a standardized manner. "Before, we did business by setting up stalls on the roadside, hiding from inspections every day and feeling 提心吊胆 (tí xīn diào dǎn - "lift the heart, hang the gallbladder," to be extremely anxious and fearful). Now, with a proper business site, the business is stable and my heart is at ease," said merchant Wang Qianjin (王前进) with emotion. In response to the problems of congested travel and difficult parking strongly reflected by the masses, the task force applied measures by category: on Linshui Street (临水街), it implemented a management model of "time-limited photo enforcement from 17:00 to 8:00 the next morning"—ensuring traffic passage during the day and free opening at night—thereby solving the problem of scarce parking resources.
In addition, the Yuhong District Urban Management Bureau (于洪区城管局), together with multiple departments, carried out a dragnet-style investigation, implementing immediate inspection and immediate rectification, with re-verification and case closure. It dismantled 46 privately installed ground locks, investigated and handled more than 2,100 cases of illegal parking, and persuaded and dispersed more than 400 person-times of people who stopped cars to solicit customers. The congestion at morning and evening rush hours has been effectively alleviated, realizing the transformation from short-term rectification to long-term governance. At the same time, idle, dirty and disorderly plots were upgraded in quality: the ground was leveled and hardened, nearly 300 parking berths were newly added, and shortcomings in supporting facilities for people's livelihoods were continuously filled. This truly returned the roads to the people and returned space to the people, and the masses' sense of gain, happiness, and security has been markedly enhanced.
Return to TopThe Liuchixiang (六尺巷) in Tongcheng City (桐城市), Anqing City, Anhui Province was formed because Zhang Ying (张英), a Grand Scholar of the Qing Dynasty, and the neighboring Wu family each ceded three feet of their foundation to each other. It is a model of neighborhood harmony and comity. In recent years, the Liuchixiang scenic area has become a comprehensive scenic area integrating academic research, clean government cultural exchange, and tourism reception. The picture shows tourists visiting the Liuchixiang scenic area on August 7. Photo by Cheng Zihan (程子涵) (Xinhua News Agency)
Return to TopUrumqi, August 9 (Our reporter Shang Rongzheng (尚嵘峥)) The reporter learned from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Administration for Market Regulation (新疆维吾尔自治区市场监督管理局): since the beginning of this year, Xinjiang's market supervision departments have comprehensively deepened the reform of smart food safety supervision, deeply integrated the "one-network smart food safety supervision" (食品安全智慧监管一张网) with the precision training system, continuously raised the digitalization and intelligentization level of food safety supervision, and have achieved digital food safety supervision over 143,300 catering service units. Xinjiang's market supervision departments have established the "one-network smart food safety supervision" platform; by integrating information and data such as catering service unit filing, daily inspections, hidden danger screening, rectification review, and credit publicity, they have achieved normalized dynamic screening, risk grading, and closed-loop rectification of catering service units.
Return to TopThis newspaper, Shanghai, Aug 9 (Reporter Cui Yin (崔寅)) — Recently, Shanghai police successfully smashed a criminal gang that extorted securities investment advisory institutions by making malicious complaints as a threat, initially verifying that the gang had gained illegal profits of over 3 million yuan.
Starting in May this year, Shanghai Liduo Star Securities Consulting Co., Ltd. (上海利多星证券咨询有限公司) received requests for refunds from thousands of centralized complainants, with the complaint text, claimed amounts, and tone of wording being highly similar. Large numbers of malicious complaints flooded in continuously, severely damaging the company’s business reputation and disrupting normal operational order. The company reported the matter to the police. After receiving the report, the Criminal Investigation Corps of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau (上海市公安局刑侦总队) jointly established a special task force with the Jiading (嘉定) police to launch an investigation. Through penetrating analysis and judgment on massive amounts of information, they quickly identified one company involved in the case. This company outwardly disguised itself as a legal consulting or securities investment advisory institution, but in fact used means such as illegally obtaining citizens' personal information, organizing and acting as agents for complaints, and extracting commission from refunds to commit extortion. Twenty-one criminal suspects have been arrested and brought to justice. The case is under further investigation.
Return to TopFuzhou, August 9 (Reporters Fu Wen (付文)) — Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, has issued ten measures to strictly regulate administrative inspections involving enterprises, focusing on resolving issues such as unclear boundaries of responsibilities, poor coordination among departments, rigid enforcement that disrupts enterprises, and similar problems. It requires the implementation of dynamic management of administrative inspection item lists. Each administrative law enforcement department shall, in accordance with statutory functions and powers, sort out and compile a list of administrative inspection items involving enterprises, specifying core elements such as item names and legal bases, ensuring that there are no inspections outside the list.
Various departments in Fuzhou will strictly implement the management procedures for inspection plan formulation. Administrative inspections involving enterprises must strictly implement plan management and approval mechanisms, and it is strictly prohibited to conduct inspections as an add-on or to carry out activities unrelated to law enforcement objectives under the guise of inspections. Fuzhou will improve cross-departmental, cross-field, and cross-level administrative law enforcement coordination mechanisms, expand the application scenarios of joint inspections, and achieve the goal of "one inspection, comprehensive examination."
Fuzhou will vigorously promote a service-oriented regulatory model, explore "appointment-based" guidance services, and enhance the effectiveness of flexible law enforcement involving enterprises. Enterprises may, based on their own needs, apply to the relevant administrative law enforcement departments for "appointment-based" guidance services by telephone or in writing. The relevant departments shall, within 15 working days of receiving the enterprise’s application, formulate an inspection plan and enter the enterprise to provide administrative guidance, policy consultation, compliance advice, and other services.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 崔 佳 方 圆
头条看点 A ticket to a football match enables visitors to both feel the passionate cheers on the green field and redeem preferential benefits for "ice-and-snow tourism." During the "Northeast Super" (东北超) tournament, Harbin, Heilongjiang, used the ticket stub as a medium to link scenic spots, commercial districts, cultural venues, etc., connecting the entire range of cultural tourism, so that the "traffic" brought by the match becomes "retention" in the city's distinctive cultural experiences.
On the evening of July 25, at the Acheng District (阿城区) Cultural and Sports Center Stadium in Harbin, Heilongjiang, the final whistle blew for the 2026 "Northeast Super" match between Harbin and Changchun. Changchun fan Wu Hao (吴昊) did not immediately return home but instead boarded a free shuttle bus heading to the city center.
The match fell on a weekend, and Wu Hao's family had a packed schedule. "When I was grabbing tickets, I noticed that with my ID card and match ticket stub, there were discounts for visiting scenic spots and dining at restaurants. It was a perfect chance to bring my family for a trip," Wu Hao said with a smile.
A match ticket stub became a "passport" to unlock Harbin's cultural tourism. During the "Northeast Super" tournament, 25 scenic spots in Harbin, together with commercial districts, cultural venues, etc., created new ways to integrate sports, culture, and tourism.
The tournament connects distinctive cultural tourism
At the dedicated verification passage for fans at Harbin Polarland (哈尔滨极地公园), Wu Hao and his family quickly entered the Taoxue Penguin Hall (淘学企鹅馆) for free by presenting their match ticket purchase voucher.
"Polarland is very cool. The kids can see penguins and beluga whales, and also learn marine science knowledge," Wu Hao said.
According to reports, Harbin Polarland introduced exclusive ticketing benefits for match spectators. Operational data from the park shows that since the "Northeast Super" started, the number of visitors from Jilin, Liaoning, and Inner Mongolia has increased by about 15% year-on-year. The customer base is mainly young people, most traveling in groups, and they are willing to pay for experiential and commemorative consumption items.
Zhang Zhiming (张志铭), Deputy General Manager of Harbin Polarland, believes that the young people attracted by the "Northeast Super" also favor Harbin's summer tourism. "On one hand, the pro-people policies extend the match consumption chain; on the other hand, the match also becomes an opportunity for more visitors to understand Harbin's cultural tourism characteristics."
This year, Harbin plans to release 100 million yuan in cultural tourism consumption vouchers, covering scenic spots, hotels and homestays, cultural entertainment, and other fields. During the "Northeast Super" tournament, it also added exclusive match "special vouchers" to bring spectators a richer cultural tourism experience. In the first half of the year, the city's cultural tourism consumption vouchers covered over 760,000 person-times, driving cultural tourism consumption of over 240 million yuan.
"One match ticket may seem thin, but it strings together cross-city passenger flow and activates the consumption chain," said Yang Nianfu (杨年福), Deputy Director of the Harbin Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism (哈尔滨市文广旅游局). This small stub becomes a "big carrier" that integrates the city's cultural tourism resources. "It not only gives fans real benefits but also adds momentum to the market."
The ice-and-snow IP breaks through seasonal limits
In the afternoon, at the entrance of the Dream Ice and Snow Hall in Harbin Ice and Snow World (哈尔滨冰雪大世界), a queue of visitors stretched for dozens of meters. Among them, many fans were lining up to redeem exclusive discount tickets. Pushing open the hall door, a blast of cold air surged in — inside the door was a winter landscape of carved ice and inlaid jade, with just a few steps making the switch between summer and winter.
Unlike the outdoor Ice and Snow World in winter, the indoor hall's ice-and-snow scenes are more delicate: plant-based colored ice treated with special techniques is vibrant and environmentally friendly, and the ice sculptures carved from it are 栩栩如生 (xǔ xǔ rú shēng - "vividly lifelike"); ice pianos and ice harps can play clear melodies; winter "internet-famous" attractions like ice slides, frozen roses, and steam ice trains are all recreated... The integration of sound, light, electricity, and real-time interaction technology pushes the ice-and-snow experience from "stopping to watch" toward "immersive participation."
The contrast effect of "enjoying ice and snow in the heat of summer" attracts a large number of visitors to experience it, and the Dream Ice and Snow Hall is a must-visit spot for many tourists to feel the charm of the Ice City.
Harbin's summer tourism "100-Day Action" was recently launched, aiming to create a new model of deep integration and development of "sports + summer tourism + cultural tourism." The match serves as a bridge, allowing the ice-and-snow IP to transcend seasons and achieve "year-round travelability," expanding more growth space for the high-quality development of the city's cultural tourism.
Cultural tourism integration showcases the city's character
It is not only ice and snow. Harbin's cultural and artistic heritage is also displayed through this ticket stub, extending "watching the match" into "touring the city."
As dusk deepened, in front of the city landmark Harbin Grand Theatre (哈尔滨大剧院), fans from various places entered the venue orderly using their match ticket stubs. Some stopped to take photos on the viewing promenade, capturing the scene where architecture and dusk interweave; others scanned QR codes to claim exclusive viewing discount vouchers. The enthusiasm from the green field quietly blended into the artistic atmosphere of the theatre.
For the "Northeast Super" tournament, Harbin Grand Theatre not only released 20,000 self-operated performance discount vouchers but also allowed fans from the participating cities to visit the theatre for free on the match day itself and the day before and after.
"The passion of football and the gentleness of art are both part of Harbin's urban culture," said a relevant person in charge of Harbin Grand Theatre. The cross-domain linkage aims to let more fans from other places feel the cultural texture of the "City of Music" and gain a more immersive and diverse cultural tourism experience.
One match reveals the city's charm; multi-domain linkage shows its character and depth.
Yu Yang (于洋), Deputy Director of the Harbin Municipal Sports Bureau (哈尔滨市体育局), introduced that the city plans to carry out over 300 mass sports activities this year, building a nationwide fitness supply system that runs uninterrupted through the four seasons and covers both urban and rural areas. During the summer tourism "100-Day Action," the city will arrange 17 key municipal-level mass sports events and over 70 county (city)-level distinctive sports activities, covering more than 10 categories including football, marathon, etc., linking resources such as scenic spots, commercial districts, and time-honored brands to form a virtuous development pattern of hosting events, gathering people, boosting cultural tourism, and promoting consumption.
From the four-season operation of the ice-and-snow IP, to the deep linkage of cultural venues, to the full-chain coverage of food, accommodation, travel, sightseeing, shopping, and entertainment, Harbin naturally embeds its ice-and-snow endowments, artistic charm, and cultural heritage into visitors' itineraries. The match-driven traffic from afar not only gains a perceptible and memorable city memory but also stimulates the vibrant vitality of the cultural tourism market.
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After watching a ball game or listening to a concert, don't rush to throw away the ticket stub — for eating, lodging, or strolling through the market, it can all be put to use. How can such a small ticket stub become a vivid vehicle for cultural tourism innovation and an effective lever to pry open urban consumption?
A single purchase transforms into a chain experience. The value of the ticket stub lies not only in stimulating secondary consumption through a "gift package" of discounts, but even more in continuously extending the consumption chain and enriching consumption scenarios. The touchpoint of initial consumption gives rise to the stickiness of associated consumption; the originally scattered catering, transport, commerce, and the like are strung like beads into a chain, bringing compound interest to the cultural tourism industry.
The "multifunctional ticket" pays the bill for emotional value. Specialty foods, handicraft experiences, hidden-gem homestays... the follow-on consumption opened up by the ticket stub is like a blind box: while providing practical benefits, it also carries a full measure of surprise. With the ticket stub in hand, consumers have a "golden key" to deeply unlock a city's charm and experience its local culture.
From corresponding to a single point to linking multiple scenarios, the thin ticket stub has turned "thick," fully releasing the multiplier effect of chain consumption, so that culture and economy, "traffic" (流量) and "retention" (留量), 相得益彰 (xiāng dé yì zhāng - "each gains added brilliance from the other," to complement each other and bring out the best in both).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 郑洋洋
What is there to see at the Hanging Temple at night?
At the Hanging Temple scenic area in Datong, Shanxi, under the night sky, many visitors are on the viewing platform, gazing at the cliff face of Cuiping Peak ahead. Suddenly, a beam of light illuminates the cliff face; to the accompaniment of narration, the entire giant rock wall bursts into radiant color.
"How beautiful!" The visitors at the scene exclaim, one after another. The ancient Hanging Temple and the flowing light and shadow set each other off — 虚实相生 (xū shí xiāng shēng - "emptiness and solidity give rise to each other," the virtual and the real mutually reinforcing), 美轮美奂 (měi lún měi huàn - "lofty and resplendent," magnificent and exquisite).
As the light and shadow leap, the images change one after another: crimson spreads across the cliff face, recreating the magnificent spectacle of 金戈铁马 (jīn gē tiě mǎ - "golden spears and iron horses," ancient battle and cavalry); in a flash, 浮光跃金 (fú guāng yuè jīn - "floating light, leaping gold," shimmering golden light dancing), and the galloping ten thousand horses turn into flowing golden sand. The Hanging Temple is also lit up: its eaves and dark reddish-brown walls of antique simplicity make it look like an ancient painting suspended halfway up the mountainside.
The Hanging Temple was first built in the Northern Wei period and is a relatively early, relatively well-preserved high-altitude wooden cliff-clinging ancient building complex still extant in China. As enthusiasm for ancient-architecture tours continues to climb, the Hanging Temple scenic area has become a popular domestic tourist destination. But previously, the scenic area could only be entered during the day, and most visitors made a round trip on the same day.
To enrich the cultural-tourism business format, in May this year the local area launched a large-scale cliff-face real-scene light-and-shadow performance, "Why the Hanging Temple" (何以悬空寺), with a light-show projection area of more than 30,000 square meters.
"The entire performance took more than two years to create. We focused our efforts on deepening the refinement of the storyline and tackling technical challenges, to shape cultural texture and visual experience," said Deng Yingcheng (邓颖成), project head of "Why the Hanging Temple." The project has always adhered to the principle of giving priority to cultural relic protection; cold-light-source imaging technology is used throughout, and the entire sound, light, and visual-effects system emits no ultraviolet rays and no infrared heat radiation.
While being prudent and painstaking in cultural relic protection, the performance boldly breaks with tradition in creative expression. The entire performance is divided into six chapters, adopting a narrative rhythm of 移步换景 (yí bù huàn jǐng - "shift the step, change the scene," the view transforming with every step) and 由浅入深 (yóu qiǎn rù shēn - "from shallow to deep," progressing gradually from the surface to the depths). The audience's viewing route extends from the foot of the mountain upward, advancing layer by layer, 环环相扣 (huán huán xiāng kòu - "rings linked to rings," each link interlocking with the next).
Ancient craftsmen move amid the sheer cliffs, rope after rope drops down the mountainside, and beam after beam of timber is erected in turn... The construction process of the Hanging Temple is vividly recreated. With "Why the Hanging Temple" as its title, the performance addresses visitors' curiosity about this ancient building and answers such questions as why the Hanging Temple was built, how it was constructed, and by what means it has stood for more than 1,500 years.
"The light and shadow vividly recreate the scene of common people who, fearing neither hardship nor danger, built the ancient temple on the sheer cliff with craftsmanship and perseverance," said Deng Yingcheng. In their immersive viewing, the audience can better understand the construction history of the Hanging Temple and feel the cultural charm and value of this ancient architecture.
"There is no need to erect a stage artificially; the sheer cliff is a natural giant curtain gifted by nature," said Yang Jianlin (杨建林), director of "Why the Hanging Temple." The performance brings the real scene of the ancient building on the sheer cliff into the drama, truly realizing "mountains and rivers as the curtain, the ancient temple as the stage" — every frame is a real and authentic scene, and every light and shadow carries the ancient cultural lineage, creating an immersive audio-visual feast.
The cross-domain fusion of digital technology and the cliff-clinging ancient architecture has unlocked an entirely new nighttime tour mode for the Hanging Temple, breaking the scenic area's single daytime-visiting pattern and effectively extending the local cultural-tourism consumption chain. The snack street in the scenic area now exudes an even thicker atmosphere of everyday life, and local specialties such as Astragalus root and bean jelly are also very popular. According to reports, as of now, the total box office of the "Why the Hanging Temple" light show has exceeded 30 million yuan, with a cumulative attendance of more than 170,000 visits; each performance can attract more than 2,000 visitors to stay overnight, realizing two-way empowerment between the revitalization and utilization of cultural relics and the growth of local cultural-tourism revenue.
Return to TopBeijing, August 9 (Our reporter Shi Fang (施芳)) — The "Watching Over — Exhibition of the Achievements of the Three-Year Action for the Protection of Covered Bridges" (守望——廊桥保护三年行动成果展), jointly hosted by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (文化和旅游部) and the National Cultural Heritage Administration (国家文物局), opened on the 7th at the China National Arts and Crafts Museum (中国工艺美术馆, also known as the China Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum). The exhibition will continue until November 7.
Covered bridges, also known as wind-and-rain bridges, flower bridges, pavilion bridges, and house bridges, integrate into one body such functions as passage, rest, trade, deliberation, sacrifice, and entertainment. They are mostly distributed in China's southern mountainous areas, and are particularly dense in regions such as Fujian, Zhejiang, and Hunan.
In 2023, the Central Propaganda Department (中央宣传部), the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and the National Cultural Heritage Administration jointly launched the Three-Year Action for the Protection of Covered Bridges, ascertaining the full inventory of 2,193 covered bridges and completing the repair and reinforcement of more than 100 ancient bridges. With "Watching Over" as its theme and the systematic protection of the covered bridge cultural heritage as its main thread, this exhibition is divided into three chapters, displaying physical models of 35 covered bridges from the provinces and autonomous regions where covered bridges are distributed, setting up 11 multimedia interactive stations, and systematically presenting the full picture of the value of the covered bridges themselves and of the protection action; it also invites experts to construct on site a section of an actual covered bridge, creating an immersive experience space.
Return to TopLanzhou, August 9 (Reporter Song Chaojun (宋朝军)). On August 6, the original contemporary Long opera Daoqing of the Great Plateau (《大塬道情》) premiered at the Gansu Yellow River Theatre (甘肃黄河剧院). This work is the first opera created and staged by the Gansu Provincial Long Opera Theater (甘肃省陇剧院) after the implementation of the Regulations of Gansu Province on the Protection and Inheritance of Long Opera (《甘肃省陇剧保护传承条例》), and is also the concluding work of the theater's "Yellow River Trilogy" (黄河三部曲) following Yu the Great Tames the Flood (《大禹治水》) and The Great River Flows East (《大河东流》).
The "Yellow River Trilogy" takes Yellow River culture as its theme, displaying the sparks of the collision between traditional art and the times through different historical and modern perspectives. Yu the Great Tames the Flood recounts the ancient legend of flood control; The Great River Flows East focuses on the story of Yellow River boatmen during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression; Daoqing of the Great Plateau concerns the contemporary safeguarding and revitalization of Longdong Daoqing (陇东道情) shadow puppetry.
Long opera is a traditional opera genre unique to Gansu Province. Originally named Longdong Daoqing, it was included in the first batch of the national intangible cultural heritage list in 2006.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 季觉苏
In Shanghai's Chongming, a river breeze brushes the face. Deep beneath the riverbed, a high-speed railway river-crossing passage is taking shape. The world's largest-diameter high-speed railway shield tunneling machine independently developed by China — the "Pilot" of the Chongtai Yangtze River Tunnel — recently succeeded in crossing the Yangtze River's water area, achieving the breakthrough of the shield tunnel in the tunnel's river-water section.
This shield tunneling giant, with a total length of 148 meters and a total weight of approximately 4,000 tons, has undertaken the key boring task beneath the Yangtze River. The river-crossing passage it has carved out is an important component of the controlling project of the Shanghai-Nanjing section of the Shanghai-Chongqing-Chengdu High-Speed Railway.
The Chongtai Yangtze River Tunnel has a total length of 14.25 kilometers, with its deepest point located 89 meters beneath the water surface of the Yangtze River. After completion, high-speed trains crossing the Yangtze River will be able to speed through without slowing down.
What does 89 meters underwater mean?
"The water pressure there is equivalent to seven or eight adults standing on the palm of one person's hand," said Ma Chenliang (马晨梁), engineering department head of the Chongtai Yangtze River Tunnel project under the China Railway Tunnel Bureau (中铁隧道局), offering an analogy. "As the shield machine bores beneath the riverbed, it constantly withstands enormous water and soil pressure. The pressure ahead must be held firm, and the boring posture must remain stable. Building a high-speed railway tunnel beneath the riverbed is a contest of mastering the scale within the finest fractions."
The "Pilot's" technological content is first reflected in its "customization."
From the very beginning of its design, this shield machine was customized according to the working conditions of the Chongtai Yangtze River Tunnel. In response to conditions such as high water pressure, ultra-long-distance single-head boring, and complex strata, the project's construction management unit, Shanghai National Railway Construction Management Company (上海国铁建管公司), together with the China Railway Tunnel Bureau, established an expert committee. Through technical consultations, academic seminars, and frontline investigations, they pushed risk considerations as far forward as possible, and then worked backward to derive the equipment design.
The high pressure at the deepest point of 89 meters gave rise to a stronger sealing capability. The "Pilot" is equipped with a high-water-pressure sealing system, and the main drive seal meets a pressure-bearing requirement of approximately 12 bar. This parameter leaves a larger safety margin for deep-water boring. "The sealing system is like putting a close-fitting waterproof suit on the entire machine; no matter how great the pressure, it can keep the outside water and soil out," Ma Chenliang said.
The strata beneath the Yangtze River have also been continuously posing difficult problems.
Clay, silty clay, and sand layers alternate, with calcareous cementation materials present locally. Ma Chenliang noted that the sand layers here have a high quartz content, like fine, dense sandpaper; the cutter blades wear quickly, and the slurry pipelines also endure continuous scouring. In addition, the strata vary greatly in hardness and softness, and as the shield machine advances, its posture also needs to be constantly adjusted.
The strata are always changing, so the shield machine must first be able to "see."
The "Pilot" is equipped with an advanced geological prediction system that can monitor and provide feedback on changes in the strata ahead. Whether the strata ahead are soft or hard, and whether there are sudden changes, the system first captures the signals, and the subsequent construction parameters are then continuously adjusted accordingly.
The "Pilot" is equipped with an intelligent pressure-holding system and an intelligent boring system, enabling it to predict, recommend, and provide early warnings for key parameters such as cutter head rotation speed, total thrust, and slurry pressure by integrating geological information, historical boring data, and real-time monitoring results. Now, it has broken through key technologies including pressure self-adaptation within the shield chamber, self-decision-making on cloud-based predictive data, self-cruising of boring posture, and self-adjustment of slurry circulation muck discharge, achieving routine application of unmanned boring under full-system algorithmic control.
Focusing only on what lies ahead is still not enough; the shield machine must also "give itself a physical examination" at any time.
To what degree the cutters have worn, whether the slurry pipelines have been thinned by abrasion, whether the pressure in the shield tail sealing chamber is stable, whether there are any abnormalities in the main engine's operating status... These changes hidden within the boring process can now all be captured in a timely manner by sensors and monitoring systems. "In the past, we groped along slowly relying on experience; now the machine 'speaks up' first," Ma Chenliang said.
Such intelligence also extends from the cutter head all the way back into the shield machine's "belly." The segment assembly process has achieved automatic grasping and automatic auxiliary assembly. Boring proceeds at the front while assembly proceeds synchronously at the rear, like building blocks, one ring interlocking with the next.
The Yangtze River still surges before our eyes, and the high-speed railway will unfold a new path beneath the riverbed. After speeding all the way through, the Yangtze River Delta will become closer still.
Return to TopUrumqi, August 9 (Reporter Shang Rongzheng (尚嵘峥)) — The Department of Culture and Tourism of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区文化和旅游厅) recently issued a notice stating that, in coordination with relevant departments, it has guided all 4A-rated and above tourist attractions in the region that charge self-driving service fees to optimize and adjust their fee models and standards.
The notice specifies that after each scenic area formulates an optimization and adjustment plan and files it in accordance with procedures, the original per-person charges and per-vehicle charges shall all be changed to per-vehicle charges, with the vehicle type based on the number of passengers specified on the motor vehicle driving permit. For five seats and below, the price shall not exceed 120 yuan per vehicle; for six to seven seats, not exceed 180 yuan per vehicle; for eight to 19 seats, not exceed 300 yuan per vehicle; for 20 seats and above, not exceed 600 yuan per vehicle.
The implementation plan is divided into two situations: for scenic areas that originally charged per person, the new plan shall take effect no later than 0:00 on August 20, with the period before that serving as a transition period during which the price shall not exceed 30 yuan per person; for scenic areas that originally charged per vehicle, the new plan shall take effect no later than 0:00 on August 12, with no transition period. Each scenic area will release its new plan to the public in the coming days.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 寇江泽 张丹华
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “Promoting green and low-carbon economic and social development is a key link in achieving high-quality development.” The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party proposed: “Using carbon peak and carbon neutrality as the driving force, coordinate the reduction of carbon, cut pollution, expand green space, and pursue growth, consolidate ecological security barriers, and enhance the momentum of green development.”
The 2026 High-Quality Development Forum on Energy Economy and Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutrality was held on August 6 in Yulin City, Shaanxi Province. The forum, with the theme “Towards New, Towards Green, Towards the Future,” built a dialogue and exchange platform, shared green transition experiences, and further consolidated consensus and gathered strength for accelerating the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development and the high-quality development of the energy economy.
Chen Jianwen, Editor-in-Chief of People’s Daily, stated that under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, China unswervingly follows the path of prioritizing ecological protection and pursuing green development, guided by the “dual carbon” (双碳) goals, coordinating to reduce carbon, cut pollution, expand green space, and pursue growth. Ecological and environmental protection has undergone historic, turning-point, and overall changes, creating 举世瞩目 (jǔ shì zhǔ mù – “raised the world’s gaze,” attracting worldwide attention) ecological miracles and green development miracles. People’s Daily will deeply explore typical cases and effective experiences in promoting industrial greening and low-carbon development, meticulously plan and launch key articles and integrated media reports, showcase the dynamic trend of China’s economy moving towards innovation and thriving on greenness, and depict a green picture of beautiful ecology, thriving industries, and prosperous people.
Zhao Gang, Deputy Secretary of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee and Governor, said that the entire province of Shaanxi earnestly studies and implements Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization and the General Secretary’s important speeches and instructions during his inspections of Shaanxi, resolutely shoulders the responsibilities and mission of a national important energy base, uses carbon peak and carbon neutrality as the driving force, accelerates the comprehensive green transformation of the economy and society, adheres to the direction of high-end, diversified, and low-carbon development of the coal chemical industry, strives to build a modern energy trillion-level industrial cluster, and a number of billion-level and hundred-billion-level major energy chemical projects are accelerating deployment and implementation. During the “Fifteenth Five-Year Plan” period, Shaanxi will vigorously develop green energy, accelerate the construction of a new energy system, vigorously cultivate green industries such as cultural tourism, advanced manufacturing, and modern services, and strive to embark on a green development path that suits Shaanxi’s actual conditions.
A responsible person from People’s Daily stated that People’s Daily is currently building a high-quality mainstream value corpus to help accelerate the construction of a new energy communication system in the field of artificial intelligence, improve the application level of the corpus in policy interpretation, product promotion, brand building and other different scenarios in the energy field, and create a good public opinion environment for building a strong energy country. At the same time, People’s Daily has independently developed an intelligent agent open development platform, which will in the future incubate more intelligent agents serving the energy economy for the energy industry, shaping new competitiveness for the intelligent internet.
Participating guests expressed that we must adhere to the coordinated advancement of reducing carbon, cutting pollution, expanding green, and pursuing growth, deepen the energy revolution, place the development of new energy and clean energy in a more prominent position, and support the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development through the green transformation of energy.
Green and low-carbon transformation has achieved historic accomplishments.
Achieving carbon peak and carbon neutrality is a major decision and deployment made by China based on a sense of responsibility for human civilization and the inherent requirements of achieving sustainable development. China has taken strong actions and made arduous efforts to achieve historic achievements in green and low-carbon transformation.
Liu Zhenmin, China’s Special Envoy for Climate Change Affairs, said: “Since making the major declaration of carbon peak and carbon neutrality, China has built the world’s most systematic and complete carbon reduction policy system, established the world’s largest carbon emissions trading market, built the world’s largest and fastest developing renewable energy system, formed the world’s largest and most complete new energy industry chain, and effectively promoted a significant reduction in global wind and solar photovoltaic costs.”
Zhang Jianjun, Deputy Director of the Department of Territorial Space Ecological Restoration of the Ministry of Natural Resources, said that during the “Fourteenth Five-Year Plan” period, the “mountains and waters” projects (山水工程) have cumulatively completed ecological protection and restoration area exceeding 82 million mu, restored and managed 3.35 million mu of historically abandoned mines, and driven the national rectification and restoration of 940 kilometers of coastline and 830,000 mu of coastal wetlands.
Lu Shize, Deputy Director of the Department of Climate Change Response of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, introduced that China has built the world’s largest carbon emissions trading market, covering the power generation, steel, cement, and aluminum smelting industries, achieving effective control of about 65% of the country’s carbon dioxide emissions. At the same time, the national voluntary greenhouse gas emission reduction trading market has entered a new stage of rapid development, issuing 18 methodologies for voluntary greenhouse gas emission reduction projects, providing financial support for carbon reduction and sink enhancement in more fields.
Liang Yongwei, Second-Level Inspector of the Department of Ecological Protection and Restoration of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, said that we will scientifically carry out large-scale national land greening, fight the “Three-North” (三北) project tough battle, precisely improve forest quality, strengthen grassland restoration and wetland protection, continuously enhance ecosystem stability and carbon sequestration capacity, and build a stable and reliable green carbon sink.
Promoting the construction of a new energy system and a new electric power system.
Energy activities are the main source of carbon emissions. The green and low-carbon transformation of energy is the key to achieving carbon peak and carbon neutrality. Based on its basic national conditions and development stage, China, while ensuring energy security, vigorously implements renewable energy substitution, promotes the construction of a new energy system and a new electric power system, and provides strong support for achieving the “dual carbon” goals.
Wang Yiming, former Vice Chairman of the Development Research Center of the State Council, said that energy transformation is a profound change in energy supply, industrial development, and governance methods, and also a dynamic process of continuous adjustment and optimization under the dual constraints of high-quality development and energy security. To promote energy transformation, the key is not only to reduce energy consumption and carbon emission intensity, but also to drive the transformation of energy development models towards innovation-driven and efficiency improvement through technological innovation, industrial upgrade, and institutional improvement, cultivate new economic growth points, and form new competitive advantages.
New pollutant control is an important catalyst driving the green and low-carbon transformation of the energy industry. Yu Gang, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Dean of the School of Future Technology of Beijing Normal University, suggested that for new pollutant control in the energy field, on the one hand, we should improve pollution prevention and control standards for sub-sectors, implement source clean substitution and closed-loop control of production processes; on the other hand, we should broaden investment channels for green finance and social capital, and promote the green upgrade of the industry chain through technological innovation and institutional constraints.
As a national important energy base and one of the first batch of carbon peak pilot cities, Yulin resolutely shoulders the responsibility of energy supply and steadily promotes the transformation of energy structure. Zhang Shengli, Secretary of the Yulin Municipal Party Committee, introduced that Yulin is accelerating the construction of a new energy system integrating coal, oil, gas, chemicals, wind, solar, electricity, and hydrogen, promoting the high-end, diversified, and low-carbon development of the coal chemical industry, and leading the transformation and upgrading of resource-based cities to high-quality development with the stability, innovation, and greenness of the energy revolution.
China National Nuclear Corporation promotes nuclear energy to break through the single power generation scenario, expanding into tracks such as industrial steam supply, urban heating, and isotope production. The Tianwan Nuclear Power “Heqi No.1” is China’s first industrial-use nuclear energy steam supply project. “CNNC has a complete modern nuclear industry system and will continue to promote the coordinated and high-quality development of nuclear power and new energy, contributing to ensuring national energy security and achieving the ‘dual carbon’ goals,” said Zhang Tao, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and General Manager of China National Nuclear Corporation.
As a backbone central energy enterprise, CHN Energy resolutely shoulders the responsibility of supply guarantee, based on coal as the main energy source, and deeply cultivates the big article of chemical industry. Yan Guochun, Member of the Party Committee and Deputy General Manager of China Energy Investment Corporation Limited, introduced that in the field of modern coal chemical industry, the group constructs an industrial system with high standards, with coal-to-liquid and coal-to-olefin production capacities reaching 5.31 million tons and 3.93 million tons per year respectively, continuously leading the clean and efficient utilization of coal.
China Three Gorges Corporation constructs and operates the world’s largest clean energy corridor, with the six power stations generating about 300 billion kWh of electricity annually, reducing carbon dioxide emissions by over 240 million tons per year. “Three Gorges Corporation has developed into the world’s largest hydropower development and operation enterprise and China’s leading clean energy and ecological environmental protection group. During the ‘Fifteenth Five-Year Plan’ period, it will continue to strengthen, optimize, and expand the clean energy business, promoting the green transformation of the economy and society,” said Lyu Tingyan, Member of the Party Committee and Deputy General Manager of China Three Gorges Corporation.
Hu Ming, Party Committee Secretary of China Electric Power Planning & Engineering Institute (电力规划设计总院), introduced that the institute continues to deeply cultivate in high-quality transformation and innovative development of energy and electricity, supports the compilation of the national “Fifteenth Five-Year Plan” for energy, electricity, renewable energy, and energy technology innovation, promotes major engineering decision-making and the transformation and application of major technological innovations, innovatively promotes the deep integration of energy with key energy-consuming fields such as industry, transportation, construction, and computing power, and explores new scenarios, models, and forms of energy transformation and development.
Accelerating the construction of green and low-carbon production methods and lifestyles.
Industry, transportation, construction, and residential life are important areas generating carbon emissions. China incorporates carbon peak and carbon neutrality into the overall economic and social development, accelerates the construction of green and low-carbon production methods and lifestyles, injecting strong green momentum into high-quality development.
The middle route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project (南水北调中线工程) has basically achieved full-route gravity flow water supply over 1,432 kilometers, optimizing the water loss rate from the designed 10% to about 3%. “Energy transformation is inseparable from the solid support of water resources. The South-to-North Water Diversion Group resolutely follows the path of prioritizing ecology and green development, accelerates the construction of a green construction and operation system for the South-to-North Water Diversion and national water network, relies on the ‘water diversion +’ advantage to expand the green low-carbon water industry chain, and supports high-quality development with high-quality ecological and environmental protection,” said Huang Aiguo, Member of the Party Committee and Deputy General Manager of China South-to-North Water Diversion Group Co., Ltd.
CRRC Corporation Limited incorporates carbon emission intensity and total carbon emission indicators into the business performance evaluation and assessment system. All construction projects must conduct carbon emission evaluation during the feasibility study stage. “CRRC released a carbon peak and carbon neutrality action plan in September 2021, striving to achieve corporate operation carbon neutrality by 2035 and full value chain carbon neutrality by 2050. CRRC will comprehensively and deeply promote the green and low-carbon transformation of the enterprise, implementing the ‘dual carbon’ goals with concrete actions,” said Tan Mu, Member of the Party Committee of CRRC Corporation Limited.
SERES adheres to the dual technical route of extended-range and pure electric, actively promoting low-carbon manufacturing upgrades and green supply chain collaboration. “The photovoltaic power generation system of the SERES super factory has cumulatively generated over 280 million kWh of electricity, reducing about 150,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions. It took the lead in the industry to build a ‘plant-in-plant’ supply chain model. Multiple core suppliers such as CATL and Wencan directly built production lines inside the SERES super factory. From issuing instructions to production line adjustment, it takes less than 20 minutes, greatly improving upstream and downstream collaboration efficiency and reducing logistics carbon emissions,” said Guo Feng, Brand Public Relations Director of SERES Group.
Zhongyuan Environmental Protection Co., Ltd. (中原环保股份有限公司) relies on an academician expert think tank and a national-level postdoctoral workstation to participate in national water special projects, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei environmental comprehensive management and other projects. “The company promotes the transformation of sewage plants into ‘three centers’ of resources, energy, and carbon sinks, treating over 900 million tons of sewage annually, building a million-ton-level Zhengzhou New District sewage treatment plant, which was selected as one of the first national batch of green low-carbon benchmark sewage treatment plants, helping sewage plants become green factories and energy factories,” said Liang Weigang, Party Committee Secretary and Chairman of Zhongyuan Environmental Protection Co., Ltd.
Achieving carbon peak and carbon neutrality is a broad and profound systemic change in the economy and society. Let us adhere to Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization as the fundamental guidance and action guide, actively and steadily promote carbon peak and carbon neutrality, accelerate the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, and push for new major progress in building a beautiful China.
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Accelerating the construction of a new energy system is a major strategic task for building a strong energy nation and a beautiful China. The "15th Five-Year Plan (十五五) for the Construction of a New Energy System" proposes that by 2030 a clean, low-carbon, safe, and efficient new energy system will be initially established.
On August 6, as a sub-forum of the 2026 Energy Economy and Carbon Peak Carbon Neutrality High-Quality Development Forum, the New Energy System Construction Forum was held in Yulin City (榆林市), Shaanxi Province. The participating guests engaged in lively discussion and exchange, building consensus and pooling synergy for accelerating the completion of a new energy system and building a strong energy nation.
Yulin, as a national energy base and a pilot city for carbon peaking, actively coordinates energy supply assurance with green transformation. "At present, over 70% of the city's energy products are supplied to the whole country, new energy installed capacity accounts for more than 40%, the demonstration project coupling national energy coal chemical industry with new energy has achieved a breakthrough, and while completing a large number of energy-saving equipment upgrades, we are accelerating the construction of a high-end, low-carbon modern coal chemical industry system." Ma Yuefeng (马月逢), Deputy Secretary of the Yulin Municipal Party Committee and Mayor, stated that in the future, the city will promote the efficient transformation of more scientific research results, the landing and construction of high-quality projects, the collaborative aggregation of industry chains and clusters, and the full release of advanced production capacity, striving to build a demonstration model for new energy system construction.
Green and low-carbon is an important breakthrough for coal chemical enterprises to achieve high-quality development. "Changqing Oilfield (长庆油田) has incorporated new energy into its main responsibility and main business, building an industrial ecology characterized by abundant oil and prosperous gas, green integration, and digital-intelligence empowerment." Li Zhanming (李战明), Deputy Chief Economist of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and Secretary of the Party Committee and Executive Director of Changqing Oilfield Branch, said that in the future, it will continue to deeply tap the energy-saving potential of the entire exploration and development process, building a clean, low-carbon, safe, and efficient energy system.
"In recent years, Yanchang Petroleum (延长石油) has continuously carried out technological research and engineering practice on carbon dioxide capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), and built China's first internationally certified full-process integrated CCUS project." Chen Qi (陈琦), Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and General Manager of Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum (Group) Co., Ltd., introduced that in the future, it will fully leverage the multi-industry coupling advantages of oil, gas, coal, chemical, electricity, new energy, and new materials, and perfect the technological innovation system for source carbon reduction, process carbon reduction, and end carbon sequestration.
"Yulin Energy Group (榆能集团) has constructed four major industrial segments: coal, electricity, chemicals, and new materials, advancing the upgrade of coal chemical industry towards fine new materials." Wen Yaoshun (文尧顺), Member of the Party Committee and Deputy General Manager of Shaanxi Yulin Energy Group Co., Ltd., introduced that in the future, it will plan a million-ton-scale aromatics and polyester fiber integration project, following a development path of high-end, diversified, and low-carbon coal chemical industry.
"Lanzhou Petrochemical (兰州石化) takes technological innovation, clean energy substitution, and zero-carbon layout as its grasp, forming a replicable carbon reduction practice path." Jiang Pengfei (蒋鹏飞), Deputy General Manager and Chief Engineer of Lanzhou Petrochemical Branch of CNPC, stated that in the future, it will build a Lanzhou intelligent factory and an industry lighthouse factory, integrating green electricity production and smart charging to construct a comprehensive zero-carbon scenario.
Green and low-carbon industrial parks are important carriers of the new energy system. Sun Anli (孙安礼), Member of the Party Committee and Deputy General Manager of China Qiyuan Engineering Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd. (中国启源工程设计研究院有限公司), introduced that China Qiyuan provides integrated services of carbon planning, engineering construction, and long-term operation to localities, parks, and enterprises, forming a replicable zero-carbon implementation plan.
"Haier's COSMOPlat (卡奥斯) has independently developed an energy-carbon digital management platform, supporting low-carbon management for dozens of Haier factories internally, and serving more than 10 industries and thousands of enterprises externally, creating standardized digital solutions for zero-carbon factories and zero-carbon parks, providing full-process low-carbon transformation services for various industrial entities." Yang Zijiang (杨子江), Deputy General Manager of COSMOPlat Smart Energy, said.
To help achieve the dual-carbon (双碳) goals, various industries are actively exploring new paths and new models for green and low-carbon development.
"Through industrial production, we have reduced construction waste by 60%, and we use digital means to achieve energy conservation and consumption reduction throughout the entire construction operation and maintenance process." Li Wenming (李文明), Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and General Manager of Shaanxi Construction Engineering Holding Group Co., Ltd. (陕西建工控股集团有限公司), said that in the future, the enterprise will proactively transition to clean energy and the circular economy, promoting the iteration of traditional construction towards a smart and low-carbon model, and integrating green and low-carbon throughout the entire industrial chain.
"Seres (赛力斯) adopts a technology route parallel to range-extended and pure electric. In 2025, the Wenjie (问界) models' pure electric driving mileage accounts for about 70% of total mileage." Guo Feng (郭锋), Brand Public Relations Director of Seres Group, stated that the factory area promotes integrated die-casting and magnesium alloy lightweighting to reduce vehicle energy consumption, relies on artificial intelligence to achieve digital management and control of energy consumption and carbon emissions for the entire factory, and builds a whole-chain green manufacturing system.
Return to TopYulin, August 9 (Reporter Jia Fengfeng (贾丰丰)). On August 6, at the site of the 2026 Energy Economy and Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutrality (碳达峰碳中和) High-Quality Development Forum, the “Yulin Energy Revolution Innovation Demonstration Zone Innovation Practice Research Report (2026)” (《榆林能源革命创新示范区创新实践研究报告（2026)》) (hereinafter referred to as “the Report”), compiled by the People’s Daily China Brand Development Research Institute (人民日报中国品牌发展研究院), was officially released, providing experience for clarifying the transformation thinking of resource-endowed cities and stimulating the vitality of green development.
The Report is based on the overall situation of the national energy security strategy, goes deep into the front line of Yulin’s construction, takes regional practice as a sample, establishes a multi-dimensional and three-dimensional comprehensive evaluation system, and fully demonstrates Yulin’s rich experience in areas such as multi-energy integration, scientific innovation transformation, low-carbon governance, and ecological restoration, based on its coal resource endowment, coordinating energy supply guarantee and green transformation.
The Report distills three practical insights: First, Yulin’s practice reflects China’s determination and remarkable achievements in promoting sustainable development, confirming that China’s energy transition path is effective. Second, it forms a cross-regional collaborative innovation model of “national R&D + Yulin transformation,” providing solutions for the low-carbon upgrading of high-carbon industries. Third, it summarizes and sorts out the outstanding achievements in comprehensive utilization of solid waste, setting a benchmark for the modern governance of resource-endowed cities.
The Report focuses on the construction experience of the Yulin Energy Revolution Innovation Demonstration Zone, highlights the vivid practice of energy transition innovation, further enriches the research system for high-quality energy development, provides reference and guidance for high-carbon cities to practice a new path of green and sustainable development, and provides intellectual support for ensuring national energy security, steadily advancing carbon peak and carbon neutrality, and cultivating green and low-carbon new quality productive forces (新质生产力).
Return to TopOur newspaper Xi'an, August 9 (Reporter Zhang Danhua (张丹华)). On August 6, at the 2026 Energy Economy and Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutrality (碳达峰碳中和) High-Quality Development Forum, the People's Daily China Brand Development Research Institute (人民日报中国品牌发展研究院) officially released the second-stage results of the "Enterprise Green Low-Carbon Development Research." This stage of research focuses on the entire industrial chain of new energy vehicles, systematically sorts out industrial development trends, summarizes low-carbon transformation experiences, and aims to provide intellectual support for the new energy vehicle industry in implementing the dual carbon (双碳) goals.
This stage of research continues the five-dimension research framework of the first phase — development, environment, safety, innovation, and governance — and, combined with the industrial characteristics of the new energy vehicle industry chain being long and technology iteration fast, constructs a quantitative evaluation system that possesses both universality and industry-specific features. The research sample covers traditional automobile enterprises, emerging new energy vehicle enterprises, and parts and components enterprises, deeply exploring the development trends of industrial low-carbon upgrading, brand going global (品牌出海), and energy level leapfrogging (能级跃升).
The research summarizes three major characteristics of industrial development: First, policy guidance and market drive work in concert to form a benign industrial ecology of top-level leadership, standard constraints, enterprise practice, and market promotion; second, the concept of full-life-cycle low-carbon development is deeply rooted in people's hearts, relying on the five dimensions to build a complete green development paradigm, and running low-carbon governance through the entire industrial chain; third, the local low-carbon development path provides practical experience for global transportation sustainable development. My country's new energy vehicle industry, relying on a complete industrial system, super-large market advantages, and independent core technologies, is currently moving from product export to standard export and ecological co-building, contributing Chinese solutions (中国方案) to global transportation green governance.
Return to TopGrasp Global Trends, Accelerate Energy Transition
Liu Zhenmin, Special Envoy for Climate Change of China
The global energy system is undergoing profound transformation. The traditional energy supply pattern continues to fluctuate, competition over key mineral supply chains in the utilization and development of new energy intensifies, and competition in key technologies becomes increasingly fierce, bringing challenges to global energy security and low-carbon transition development.
The successful convening of the 30th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change sent a clear signal to the world of upholding multilateralism, accelerating pragmatic action, and deepening international cooperation. New energy technologies continue to achieve breakthroughs, markets are increasingly mature, and green low-carbon development is accelerating from international political consensus into the conscious actions of individual countries and the general trend of market development.
At present, the green low-carbon industry has become an important component of China’s high-quality development. We must seize the window of opportunity presented by the global energy transition, accelerate the transformation of industrial and technological advantages into cooperative development advantages, better contribute Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions, and open up a new chapter in international energy cooperation.
China has constructed the most systematic and complete carbon emission reduction policy system in the world, established the world’s largest carbon emissions trading market, built the world’s largest and fastest-growing renewable energy system, formed the world’s largest and most complete new energy industry chain, and effectively promoted a substantial reduction in the cost of global wind power and photovoltaics. The recently issued plans, such as the Fifteenth Five-Year Plan for New Energy System Construction and the Fifteenth Five-Year Plan for National Response to Climate Change (十五五), not only set new goals for us but also provide action guidance and important basis for the next steps.
Climate change concerns the well-being of all humanity, and the energy transition cannot be achieved without the international community moving forward hand in hand. China will continue to solidly advance its own energy transition, fulfill its commitments with concrete actions, deepen practical cooperation in green energy, and work together with other countries to promote steady and long-term progress in global climate governance.
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Carry Out the “Dual Carbon” Work in the Natural Resources Sector
Zhang Jianjun, Deputy Director of the Department of Territorial Space Ecological Restoration, Ministry of Natural Resources
General Secretary Xi Jinping attaches great importance to the work on carbon peak and carbon neutrality, and has made a series of important expositions on achieving China’s dual carbon (双碳) goal, pointing the direction and providing important guidance for building a Beautiful China. The Ministry of Natural Resources deeply studies and implements Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, and accelerates the construction of a Chinese-style modernization featuring harmony between humanity and nature.
Adhere to planning leadership and optimize the pattern of territorial space development and protection. We have fully implemented the Outline of the National Territorial Space Plan (2021–2035) (全国国土空间规划纲要（2021—2035年）), delineated an ecological protection red line area of no less than 3.15 million square kilometers, laid out 49 candidate national park areas, and selected and established over 190 island-related protection areas, including the Huangyan Island National Nature Reserve.
Adhere to the priority of conservation and comprehensively improve resource utilization efficiency. During the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, the cumulative decline in land use per unit of GDP nationwide was 19.36%. Standards for mining recovery rate, mineral processing recovery rate, and comprehensive utilization rate for 125 mineral types were issued and implemented. Promote the layered and three-dimensional use of sea areas and the exit mechanism for inefficient sea use. Support the construction of large-scale wind power and photovoltaic bases using unused land such as deserts, Gobi, and barren lands.
Adhere to systematic governance and enhance the carbon sink capacity of ecosystems. During the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, the total area of ecological protection and restoration completed under the mountain-water project (山水工程) exceeded 82 million mu. A total of 940 kilometers of coastline and 830,000 mu of coastal wetlands were rehabilitated, and the area of mangrove forests increased to 475,000 mu, effectively improving the diversity, stability, and sustainability of ecosystems.
Ensure energy security and support green and low-carbon development. Major breakthroughs in mineral exploration for energy minerals, especially petroleum, natural gas, and uranium, were achieved. During the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, 10 large oil fields and 19 large gas fields were newly discovered.
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Continuously Improve the Capacity for Climate Change Response Governance
Lu Shize, Deputy Director of the Department of Climate Change Response, Ministry of Ecology and Environment
Not long ago, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, together with 18 departments including the National Development and Reform Commission, issued the Fifteenth Five-Year Plan for National Response to Climate Change, systematically deploying the tasks and targets for responding to climate change during the “15th Five-Year Plan” period, providing action guidance for climate change response work over the next five years. In recent years, China has unswervingly implemented the proactive national strategy for addressing climate change, promoting significant achievements in climate change response work.
By the end of 2025, the share of non-fossil energy consumption nationwide reached 21.7%. Indicators such as wind and solar installed capacity and forest stock volume have already achieved the 2030 Nationally Determined Contribution target six years ahead of schedule. The world’s largest carbon emissions trading market has been built, a national greenhouse gas emission factor database has been established, a national standard system for climate change response has been constructed, the control of non-CO2 greenhouse gases has been actively promoted, and the application of green low-carbon technologies has been accelerated. We have participated constructively in the multilateral climate process and promoted positive outcomes at successive sessions of the United Nations Climate Change Conference.
In the next steps, we will firmly implement the proactive national strategy for addressing climate change and continuously improve the effectiveness of climate change response governance. First, in accordance with the Fifteenth Five-Year Plan for National Response to Climate Change, implement a package of major projects for climate change response. Second, accelerate the construction of a carbon market that is more effective, more dynamic, and has greater international influence. Third, strengthen product carbon footprint management and promote the establishment of a unified and standardized statistical accounting system for carbon emissions. Fourth, accelerate innovation and application of green low-carbon technologies, and mobilize more funds to flow into green and low-carbon fields. Fifth, improve the working system for adaptation to climate change and continue to promote the construction of a climate-resilient society. Sixth, participate more actively and proactively in and lead global climate governance, contributing Chinese wisdom and strength to the global climate governance system.
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Strengthen Technological Innovation and Promote Breakthroughs in “Dual Carbon” Technologies
Li Zixin, Deputy Director of the Bureau of Strategic High Technology Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
As the main force of national strategic scientific and technological strength, the Chinese Academy of Sciences resolutely implements the major decisions and deployments of General Secretary Xi Jinping and the Party Central Committee. In recent years, in the field of “dual carbon,” it has implemented a number of major projects such as “Carbon Budget Certification for Addressing Climate Change,” “Thorium-Based Molten Salt Reactor,” “Clean Energy,” “Efficient Coal Combustion and Low-Carbon Utilization,” and “Large-Scale Energy Storage,” providing scientific data support for China’s international climate negotiations. “Single-atom catalysis,” “methanol to olefins,” and “coal to oil” have respectively won the State Natural Science Award, the State Technological Invention Award, and the State Science and Technology Progress Award. Carbon dioxide to starch and carbon dioxide to methanol provide new ideas for carbon dioxide emission reduction and utilization. The 500,000-ton coal-to-ethanol project has opened a new path for the efficient and clean utilization of coal.
The scientific and technological innovation work of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in the field of “dual carbon” has received strong support from Shaanxi Province and Yulin City. In December 2019, our Academy signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Shaanxi Provincial People’s Government on the Energy Revolution Innovation Demonstration Zone. In October 2023, the plan for establishing the Energy Revolution Innovation Demonstration Zone was approved. Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, invested over 3 billion yuan to build the Yulin Zhongke Clean Energy Innovation Institute (榆林中科洁净能源创新研究院), gathering 7 academician teams and over 60 research teams, constructing a full-chain innovation system for scientific research, pilot scale-up, achievement transformation, and talent cultivation, fully empowering the high-quality construction of the Yulin Energy Revolution Innovation Demonstration Zone.
Currently, core technologies such as coal-to-olefins and coal-to-ethanol have been implemented on a large scale in Yulin, cumulatively driving investment of over 200 billion yuan and an annual output value exceeding 40 billion yuan, consolidating the foundation of a national-level energy chemical industry cluster. At the same time, technologies such as zinc-bromine flow energy storage and magnesium hydride hydrogen storage have achieved successive breakthroughs. Twenty mature achievements have been reserved, with three achieving local industrialization.
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Build a Strategic Hinterland for National Energy Security
Zhang Shengli, Secretary of the Yulin Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, Shaanxi Province
The wave of the energy revolution surges forward; the mission of the “dual carbon” goal inspires progress. Yulin City in Shaanxi was approved in 1998 to build the Northern Shaanxi Energy and Chemical Industry Base. After 28 years of intensive cultivation and hard work, it has transformed from an inland small city into an energy hub, now moving towards the goal of becoming a world-class high-end energy and chemical base.
In September 2021, during his inspection in Yulin, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that Yulin is an important national energy base. The coal chemical industry has enormous potential and a bright future; it is necessary to improve the comprehensive utilization efficiency of coal as a chemical raw material and promote the high-end, diversified, and low-carbon development of the coal chemical industry.
We bear the mission and responsibility firmly with the “stability” of energy. Occupying about 0.45% of the national land area, we contribute more than 10% of the country’s total primary energy production. We are accelerating the construction of a new energy system, promoting the multi-energy integrated development of coal, oil, gas, chemical, wind, solar, electricity, and hydrogen, and building a strategic hinterland for national energy security.
We drive technological and industrial innovation with the “newness” of energy. We fully promote “basic research + pilot testing + industrial demonstration,” establish an innovation system led by research institutes such as the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Xi’an Jiaotong University, and persistently work over the long term to build the Energy Revolution Innovation Demonstration Zone.
We lead the low-carbon development of a high-carbon city with the “greenness” of energy. We coordinate development and emission reduction, the overall and the partial, the short-term and the long-term, the government and the market. We proactively plan six task lists, including carbon emission reduction in key areas and the phasing out of backward production capacity on an annual basis, and clearly define emission reduction measures such as green electricity and green hydrogen substitution and differentiated regulation, striving to blaze a new path of green low-carbon energy transformation and harmony between humanity and nature.
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Leverage the Advantages of Multi-Energy Integration to Explore the Path of Energy Transition
Wang Yiming, Former Deputy Director of the Development Research Center of the State Council
Energy transition is a profound transformation in energy supply, industrial development, and governance models. Its core lies not only in reducing energy consumption and carbon emission intensity but also, through technological innovation, industrial upgrading, and institutional improvement, in promoting the shift of the energy development model towards innovation-driven and efficiency-enhancing, cultivating new economic growth points and forming new competitive advantages.
At present, China’s promotion of energy transition faces profound changes in the internal and external environment. First, a new round of technological revolution is accelerating breakthroughs. Artificial intelligence, quantum technology, and the energy system are deeply integrating. Technologies such as new energy storage, smart grids, and digital dispatching continuously enhance the resilience of the energy system. Second, geopolitical conflicts increase the uncertainty of international energy supply, and volatility in the global energy market intensifies. Third, achieving the goals of peaking coal and oil consumption and reaching a 25% share of non-fossil energy consumption by 2030, and promoting the construction of a new energy system, have entered a critical stage.
Yulin City in Shaanxi Province, as a national-level comprehensive energy strategic node, has formed a comprehensive energy industry system characterized by “coal as the foundation, multi-energy complementarity, and industrial synergy.” During the “15th Five-Year Plan” period, promoting Yulin’s energy transition needs to focus on four aspects: First, strengthen the construction of scientific and technological innovation capabilities, deepen cooperation with national-level research institutions, and increase R&D investment and talent introduction and cultivation efforts. Second, build a modern energy system with multi-energy integration, coordinate the synergistic development, optimized allocation, and efficient utilization of coal, oil, gas, wind, solar, hydrogen, and other energy sources, and establish an energy system with multi-energy complementarity and source-grid-load-storage coordination. Third, build a modern industrial system and cultivate new growth points in fields such as new energy and advanced manufacturing. Fourth, enhance multi-dimensional collaborative governance capabilities and improve supporting systems such as technology finance, green finance, and dual control of carbon emissions.
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Promote the Transformation and Application of High-Entropy Energy Technologies
Wang Zhonglin, Foreign Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Founding Director of the Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Currently, the stock of fossil energy is limited, while green energy is abundant but unstable and has low distribution density. Based on this reflection, we proposed the concept of “high-entropy energy.”
In 2012, our team successfully invented the triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG), which utilizes the coupling effect of contact electrification and electrostatic induction to achieve the conversion of mechanical energy into electrical energy. Compared with traditional generators, TENG exhibits unique advantages under low-frequency, small-amplitude, and weak-force driving conditions, forming a spectral complementarity with traditional electromagnetic generators. After more than ten years of development, the application scenarios of TENG technology cover six major industrial directions.
In the field of intelligent robotics, miniature TENG devices can achieve micro-force perception and precise control, providing sensing support for embodied intelligence. In the medical and health field, TENG-based active stethoscopes achieve high-sensitivity detection of heart sound signals, opening new avenues for digitalization of traditional Chinese medicine and remote diagnosis and treatment.
In the field of infrastructure monitoring, self-powered sensing nodes based on TENG do not require an external power supply. Relying on vibration energy, they can achieve real-time monitoring and data feedback of bridge health and line status, providing low-cost, large-scale solutions for the construction of the national six major networks (六张网). Oriented towards the national maritime strategy, the team proposed the “blue energy” concept, and has already achieved self-powered navigation aid beacons in the East China Sea.
Energy development requires multi-energy complementarity and comprehensive development. As China’s original technology in the field of high-entropy energy, TENG technology is expanding from micro/nano energy and self-powered sensing into broader fields such as blue energy and smart society, injecting new technological momentum into promoting the energy revolution, achieving the “dual carbon” goal, and building a modern industrial system.
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Governance of Emerging Pollutants Drives the Transformation of the Energy Industry
Yu Gang, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Dean of the Future Technology Academy of Beijing Normal University
Governance of emerging pollutants is an important task for building a Beautiful China, and moreover, it is a catalyst driving the green and low-carbon transformation of the energy industry and supporting high-quality development. With the issuance of the Fifteenth Five-Year Plan for Building a Beautiful China, which coordinates industrial restructuring, pollution control, ecological protection, and climate change response, the governance of emerging pollutants has become a major focus for pollution prevention and control and environmental quality improvement in the new stage.
China’s governance system for emerging pollutants is being accelerated for construction and improvement. Since the issuance of the Action Plan for the Governance of Emerging Pollutants (新污染物治理行动方案), multiple departments have established a collaborative promotion mechanism, issued a key control list, and governance work has been fully rolled out across various regions. The Ecological and Environmental Code (生态环境法典) lays a solid legal foundation for governance, collaborative governance of emerging pollutants has been included in major engineering projects, a special key technology R&D program is about to be launched, and the institutional and technological support for governance is continuously strengthened.
The energy industry is one of the key areas for the governance of emerging pollutants. Traditional coal chemical and petrochemical production links cover multiple types of controlled substances. New energy industries such as photovoltaics, wind power, and power batteries also have potential risks of emerging pollutant emissions throughout the full cycle of material preparation, equipment manufacturing, and waste resource recycling.
The governance of emerging pollutants in the energy field should be promoted systematically in phases. First, layout industry demonstration projects, then establish a closed-loop mechanism for screening identification, risk assessment, and whole-process control. On the one hand, improve pollution prevention and control standards for sub-sectors, promote clean substitution at the source and closed-loop control in the production process. On the other hand, broaden channels for green finance and social capital investment, and drive the green upgrade of the industrial chain through technological innovation and institutional constraints. Governance of emerging pollutants is not a constraint on industrial development, but an important path to optimize the industrial structure, break through green trade barriers, and enhance the comprehensive competitiveness of the industry. It will help the energy economy achieve green and sustainable development.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 白元琪
"Death, in contrast, is easy; living is the torment." More than 80 years ago, an Allied POW wrote this sentence in his diary, exposing the cruelty and bloodshed of Japanese militarism's war of aggression. In 1942, in order to open the land supply line between Thailand and Burma and completely occupy Southeast Asia, Japanese militarism forcibly conscripted more than 60,000 Allied POWs and several hundred thousand Asian laborers to build the Thailand-Burma Railway. The harsh environment and cruel abuse left more than 100,000 lives buried in the wilderness, and this railway was also called the "Death Railway."
Today, some sections of the Thailand-Burma Railway still fulfill transport functions, and also attract tourists from around the world to visit. The reporter recently traveled along the railway line, tracing the footprints of suffering from those years and experiencing the peace warning that this painful history leaves to later generations.
The miasma-shrouded tropical rainforest and mosquito-infested construction site —
"The camp was a swamp; the mud wrapped around everyone, soaked through everything, and seeped into the tents"
In Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand, close to the Thai-Burmese border, the famous Krasae Cave Railway Bridge is built against a cliff. This wooden trestle bridge is one of the best-preserved trestles on the entire "Death Railway," and was also one of the most dangerous sections to construct back then. On one side of the trestle is a sheer cliff; on the other side is a deep valley, with the Khwae Noi River surging along the valley floor. At that time, POWs and laborers, relying solely on carrying with their shoulders and lifting with their hands, erected bridges and laid tracks between the sheer cliffs.
In 1942, the Thailand-Burma Railway project started from Thanbyuzayat in Burma and Ban Pong in Thailand respectively, advancing toward the middle. To quickly assemble labor, the Japanese military made so-called "Ten Promises" to POWs in occupied areas such as Singapore, falsely claiming that they would provide good medical care, ample supplies, comfortable housing, and so on, tricking them into going to "new camps with better conditions"; at the same time, the Japanese military also tricked Asian laborers with high wages, and later, as the numbers were insufficient, carried out large-scale forced conscription.
All the promises were in fact bubbles. The POWs and laborers set off on the journey to Thailand, stuffed like cargo into sealed iron-sheet carriages. The transport scene recreated by the Thailand-Burma Railway Centre in Kanchanaburi reproduces the misery of those days. "A carriage only 7 meters long was crammed with 28 people. Many people could not lie down during the 4-day journey, and food was extremely scarce; some groups even went without a single grain of rice for more than 40 consecutive hours," guide Sanno told the reporter. The POWs and laborers who went by sea fared even worse: they curled up in narrow compartments; some died of suffocation, and some perished when the ship they were on was sunk.
After arriving in Thailand, what awaited them was not a "new camp," but a miasma-shrouded tropical rainforest and mosquito-infested construction sites. To prevent the POWs from uniting in resistance, the Japanese military dispersed them over a range of several hundred kilometers along the line. Many people, as soon as they got off the train, had to march on foot toward the deep mountains, the farthest being more than 300 kilometers. To avoid Allied reconnaissance, the Japanese military forced them to travel through the night. A POW wrote in his diary: "We set out late at night, the rain poured down in torrents, and the ground underfoot was extremely muddy. Everyone was 精疲力竭 (jīng pí lì jié - "spirit weary, strength exhausted," utterly exhausted), able only to support each other in the darkness and move forward with difficulty."
When they arrived at their station, only unfinished bamboo-framed thatched huts and a few ragged, worn-out tents were there for them to lodge in. A tent that originally held only 8 people was crammed with more than 20. A POW later recalled: "The camp was a swamp; the mud wrapped around everyone, soaked through everything, seeped into the tents, and plastered the bamboo bed boards; even when we slept, we were covered in mud all over." However, before they could even catch their breath, the Japanese military's whips and bayonets forced them to rush to the construction sites.
Laborers had to lay about 890 meters of track every day —
"Viewed from afar, it was like a 人间地狱 (rén jiān dì yù - "human world, hell," hell on earth) of churning flames, and this is how 'Hellfire Pass' got its name."
Entering the Hellfire Pass Memorial, a cage nearly 2 meters high and filled with rocks stands in the center of the exhibition hall. "This is the 3 cubic meters of rock that each laborer had to clear away every day," Jutaporn Pansombun, head of information at the Memorial, introduced. But the food they could receive each day was only about 370 grams of rice.
Display panel data show that the entire Thailand-Burma Railway required excavating 4 million cubic meters of earth, blasting 3 million cubic meters of rock, and erecting 14 kilometers of bridges. At that time, large machinery was lacking; drilling, blasting, clearing debris, and transporting were almost entirely dependent on human power. It is estimated that laborers had to lay about 890 meters of track per day.
The reporter walked along the path behind the Memorial for more than 10 minutes and arrived at the famous Hellfire Pass site. This place consists of two manually excavated cuttings; the deepest one is about 75 meters long and 25 meters deep, like a huge wound embedded in the mountain body. The rock walls still bear the traces of drilling and the broken steel bars from those years, and on the ground remain a short section of rails, sleepers, and rusted spikes.
Jutaporn Pansombun pointed at several slanted holes on the rock wall and told the reporter that after nightfall, the workers, by the light of oil lamps and burning bamboo torches stuffed into the holes, continued to split the mountain and break the rock. The sounds of hammering, blasting, and work chants echoed through the valley all night, and the dim yellow firelight illuminated the swaying human figures. "Viewed from afar, it was like a hell on earth of churning flames, and this is how 'Hellfire Pass' got its name."
The arrival of the rainy season made the situation even worse. Mountain floods destroyed the roads and cut off supplies, and most of the food rations sent to the construction sites had already rotted and spoiled. Australian POW Alan Heard wrote in his memoir: "The rice we ate was crawling with weevils and worms. If you picked out all the insects, there was almost no rice left to eat."
Chronic hunger, overloaded forced labor, and harsh climate broke down the laborers' bodies. Wounds cut by broken stones during construction easily festered into tropical ulcers so deep that the bone was visible; epidemics such as malaria, cholera, and dysentery spread in the camps. Facing the laborers on their sickbeds, the Japanese military even threatened to cut off rations and forced them to return to work while ill.
From June to October 1943, more than 7,000 Allied POWs alone died, and the casualties among Asian laborers were even harder to estimate. "For every kilometer the railway advanced, behind it was a price in lives paid by countless people," Jutaporn Pansombun said with a sigh.
An average of about 350 people died for every kilometer —
"These ruins and physical objects are irrefutable iron evidence of the crimes of aggression of Japanese militarism."
In the face of the Japanese military's cruel oppression, the POWs never gave up resistance. They placed termite nests beside the bridge piers, used softwood in place of hardwood, deliberately drove the bridge piles shallower, and secretly delayed the construction. When the Dutch POW Gus was at the point of death, he still insisted on drawing scenes of his companions being cruelly enslaved; some POWs secretly recorded the Japanese military's atrocities on bamboo slips, aluminum lunch boxes, and other objects, leaving precious evidence for later generations.
As the number of patients continued to increase, the POW military doctors, 就地取材 (jiù dì qǔ cái - "take materials on the spot," to use local resources), used bamboo tubes, discarded gasoline drums, beer bottles, and the like to make infusion devices, distillers, and simple surgical instruments, barely maintaining one crude "field hospital" after another. Military doctor Peter Hendry wrote in his testimony that whenever the Japanese military came to the camps to forcibly conscript laborers, the medical staff would find ways to have those with lighter conditions take the place of the critically ill, and not a few doctors were severely beaten as a result.
Civilian rescue operations were also quietly unfolding. Bangkok merchants Gardner and Heath, together with local residents, Chinese employees, and others, formed an underground aid network, secretly sending medicines and food to the POW camps. Some local residents, at the risk of being killed, secretly provided relief to the POWs in the dark of night.
In October 1943, the Thailand-Burma Railway was connected through its entire line. A historical photograph in the collection of the Thailand-Burma Railway Centre records the absurd scene of that time: the Japanese military deliberately had the POWs pose in a staged scene of "leisurely" walking into a fake bar, trying to create a false impression for the outside world that the POWs were being treated generously. Survivor Gilman later recalled: "The Japanese reshot the scene of the rails closing again and again, but in our minds were all the comrades who had died before the rails closed."
This railway, with a total length of 415 kilometers, was ultimately built at the cost of the lives of about 12,500 Allied POWs and more than 100,000 Asian laborers — an average of about 350 deaths for every kilometer. Among them, the Tamil and Chinese laborers from British Malaya and the laborers from Burma suffered the heaviest casualties, with the death toll accounting for about half of the total. They were not protected by international conventions and received almost no medical treatment; many did not even leave behind their names before lying in eternal sleep in a foreign land. After the Thailand-Burma Railway was connected, tens of thousands of Asian laborers were still forcibly detained by the Japanese military and forced to continue to undertake the dangerous operation and maintenance work.
After the war, many POWs who returned to their hometowns could no longer return to a normal life because of illness, disability, and long-term malnutrition. Even more people suffered lifelong torment from nightmares, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder, and their families were deeply affected. Materials in the exhibition hall of the Thailand-Burma Railway Centre show that many young POWs, because of the prolonged abuse and the torment of illness suffered during the railway's construction, died one after another shortly after returning home. For example, POW Robinson Mantan was only 25 years old when, upon being released and returning to his homeland, he 撒手人寰 (sā shǒu rén huán - "let go of the hand, leave the human world," to pass away).
In the 1990s, Rodney Beattie, a World War II history scholar, discovered while visiting Kanchanaburi that the outside world knew very little about the true history of this "Death Railway." In the decade or more that followed, he trekked and surveyed along the railway line, visited more than 60 POW camp sites, collected oral historical materials and historical relics from survivors, and founded the Thailand-Burma Railway Centre, hoping to help more families of POWs find the last traces of their loved ones, and to let more people understand this history.
"In Kanchanaburi, the fates of many families are closely linked to this railway. Some grandparents risked death to transport food and medicine, and my grandfather also devoted himself to the underground anti-Japanese organization," said Prag, a researcher at the Thailand-Burma Railway Centre. "Today, we must protect these ruins and physical objects, inherit and tell this history. These ruins and physical objects are irrefutable iron evidence of the crimes of aggression of Japanese militarism. Remembering history is not to perpetuate hatred, but to build a solid line of defense against the revival of militarism, to prevent the recurrence of tragedy, and to let peace last forever."
(This newspaper's Bangkok, August 9 dispatch)
Return to TopSanae Takaichi Again Makes Ambiguous Statement on 'Three Non-Nuclear Principles' (无核三原则)
This newspaper's Nagasaki, Japan, August 9 (Reporter Liu Wenzhang) The 81st anniversary ceremony of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki was held on the 9th at the Peace Memorial Park in Nagasaki City. Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi attended the ceremony, and in her address she still made an ambiguous statement on the 'Three Non-Nuclear Principles,' not clearly stating that Japan will continue to adhere to the principle.
Takaichi's statement on the 9th regarding the 'Three Non-Nuclear Principles' followed the wording she used in her address at the 81st anniversary ceremony of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on the 6th. At that time, Sanae Takaichi only mentioned in her address that 'Japan currently adheres to the Three Non-Nuclear Principles,' but her wording was slightly different from that of previous Japanese prime ministers, and she did not clearly state that Japan would continue to adhere to the principle.
Japanese opposition parties had previously stated that Takaichi's expression merely described the current situation and lacked the determination to continue adhering to the 'Three Non-Nuclear Principles' in the future.
The 'Three Non-Nuclear Principles' refer to 'not possessing, not producing, and not allowing the entry of nuclear weapons.' According to previous disclosures by Japanese media, the Takaichi administration intends to revise the principle of 'not allowing the entry of nuclear weapons' within the 'Three Non-Nuclear Principles' when amending the 'Three Security Documents' (安保三文件) at the end of this year. In July, Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi openly proposed in a program that Japan should discuss policies related to nuclear weapons without any taboos. This series of nuclear-related developments has triggered ongoing concern from all sectors of Japanese society.
Russian Ambassador to Japan: Japan's Overturning of 'Three Non-Nuclear Principles' Will Invite Countermeasures from Neighboring Countries
According to Xinhua News Agency Moscow, August 9 (Xinhua) -- According to a report by RIA Novosti on the 9th, Russian Ambassador to Japan Nikolai Nozdrev stated in an interview with RIA Novosti that Japan's overturning of the 'Three Non-Nuclear Principles' will trigger reactions from other countries in the region and invite countermeasures from these countries.
Nozdrev said that Japan's overturning of the 'Three Non-Nuclear Principles' would directly violate its international obligations under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, which it joined as a non-nuclear-weapon state, and would lead to a serious deterioration of the security situation in the Asia-Pacific region, inevitably inviting countermeasures from other countries in the region.
Iranian President Meets with Supreme Leader, Exchanges Views on Economic and Military Issues
Xinhua News Agency Tehran, August 9 (Reporter Chen Xiao, Shadati) -- According to multiple Iranian media reports on the 9th, Iranian President Pezeshkian and Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei met and exchanged views on Iran's economic and military issues.
The report said that during the meeting, the two sides discussed in detail the current problems and difficulties facing Iran, focusing on ensuring the living needs of the people, the current situation and future development of the 'third imposed war,' developments in the military field, and the issues of guarantee and expenditure management in foreign exchange and energy. The two sides also exchanged views on conducting economic interaction with relevant foreign parties.
Iran: Prerequisite for Reopening Strait of Hormuz is that the US Meets 5 Conditions
Xinhua News Agency Tehran, August 9 (Xinhua) -- According to a report by Iran's Press TV on the 8th, Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Zoleghadr (佐勒加德尔) stated that if the US does not change its behavior, the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed, and the prerequisite for reopening the Strait of Hormuz is that the US meets five conditions including permanently ceasing military operations against Iran.
The report said that these conditions include permanently ceasing military operations against Iran and its regional allies, ceasing threats or insults against Iran, lifting the maritime blockade and all sanctions against Iran, returning Iran's frozen assets, and compensating for the losses caused to Iran by relevant military operations.
In addition, according to a report by Iran's Fars News Agency on the 8th, Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi stated that same day that Iran and Oman are 'close' to reaching an agreement, but that does not mean the Strait of Hormuz will be reopened. 'The opening of the strait also depends on other conditions, including compensation from the US for violating the memorandum of understanding.'
Iran's Tasnim News Agency reported on the 8th, citing a spokesperson for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, that the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz is unrelated to the negotiations between Iran and Oman, but depends on whether the US fully accepts Iran's conditions and stops interfering in regional negotiations. 'Once the US accepts Iran's conditions, the strait will definitely reopen.'
Japan's Defense Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2027 Hits Record High
Xinhua News Agency Tokyo, August 8 (Reporter Chen Ze'an, Liang Chen) -- According to a report by Japan's Kyodo News, multiple people familiar with the matter disclosed on the 7th that for the Japanese government's fiscal year 2027 budget compilation work, the Japanese Ministry of Defense plans to request approximately 8.9 trillion yen (1 yen is approximately 0.043 yuan) from the Ministry of Finance, setting a new record high.
The report said that since it includes a large number of projects with unspecified amounts, it is expected that the Japanese government's finalized defense budget for fiscal year 2027 (April 1, 2027 to March 31, 2028) may further increase. A senior Japanese government official said that the final scale of the defense budget for fiscal year 2027 may reach 10 trillion yen.
The budget priorities include equipping interceptor drones, introducing AI (artificial intelligence) into command systems, and further deploying long-range missiles with 'enemy base attack capability.' The Ministry of Defense plans to purchase a large number of interceptor drones at prices lower than air defense missiles to strengthen sustained combat capability, and to combine high-power laser and microwave technology to build an air defense network. The Ministry of Defense also plans to introduce AI to analyze massive data, helping to determine attack targets and achieve rapid decision-making. Japan has already officially deployed the 'Type 25 Surface-to-Ship Missile' (25式地对舰导弹) as an 'enemy base attack capability' this year, and plans to develop and deploy an air-launched version and a sea-launched version of the 'Type 25 Surface-to-Ship Missile.'
The Japanese government formally adopted the new 'Three Security Documents' at the end of 2022. The documents state that Japan's total defense expenditure over the five fiscal years from 2023 to 2027 will be increased to approximately 43 trillion yen. Since fiscal year 2023, Japan's defense budget has set consecutive new records, which has caused concern among various sectors of Japanese society.
US Department of Defense Revealed to Require Defense Contractors to 'Significantly Accelerate' Weapons Production
According to Xinhua News Agency Washington, August 8 (Reporter Yang Ling, Xiong Maoling) -- According to a report by the US Washington Post on the 8th, the Iran war has led to a sharp decline in US weapons stockpiles. The US Department of Defense has recently required US defense contractors to rapidly increase the production and delivery capabilities of weapons, including munitions that are in extreme shortage due to the Iran war.
The report cited a memorandum from the US Department of Defense that Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve Feinberg sent a letter on the 5th to heads of US defense contractors, requiring them to submit plans within 21 days to significantly accelerate the progress of weapons deliveries and increase the production capacity of key equipment. Feinberg said in the letter: 'R&D cycles lasting several years are unacceptable. We must immediately and significantly accelerate project progress and expand production capacity.'
In addition, according to a report by the US New York Times on the 8th citing sources, the US has consumed more than 1,500 Patriot air defense system interceptor missiles in the war with Iran, and the current US inventory of this type of missile is less than 1,700. The report said that although the US government has cooperated with US defense contractors to accelerate and expand production, it will still take more than two years to replenish this quantity of missiles.
Biden's Son: Biden's Cancer Has Further Spread
Xinhua News Agency Washington, August 8 (Xinhua) -- Hunter Biden, the son of former US President Joe Biden, recently said that Joe Biden's prostate cancer has further spread.
Hunter said in an interview broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation on the evening of the 7th that although Biden has received treatment, the cancer cells have metastasized to the bones and other parts. Biden's life has been severely affected, and his current health condition is 'not very good,' but he is still 'active in the public eye.'
Biden was born in 1942 and served as US President from January 2021 to January 2025. In May 2025, Biden's office issued a statement saying that Biden was diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer that had spread to the bones. In October of the same year, Biden's spokesperson said that Biden was receiving radiation and hormone therapy.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 赵益普
India's New Delhi recently launched citywide implementation of the "Electric Vehicle Policy 2.0" plan. The city government will provide every fuel vehicle owner in the city with a subsidy of 100,000 rupees (1 yuan RMB is equivalent to approximately 14.1 Indian rupees), encouraging owners to replace their vehicles with electric vehicles so as to curb air pollution. New Delhi Chief Minister Gupta said that the government will mobilize all forces in the capital region and intensify air pollution control efforts, adding, "Clean air is not a luxury, but a basic right of citizens."
In recent years, air pollution has plagued various Indian states, especially New Delhi and the surrounding areas. A report by India's Central Pollution Control Board shows that, among nearly 500 cities in India with a resident population of more than 100,000, more than 130 cities have persistently failed to meet national air quality standards. According to information on the official website of India's National Clean Air Programme, exhaust emissions from millions of substandard vehicles in the Indian capital region are one of the important sources of pollution. Coupled with pollution sources such as straw burning in rural areas, industrial emissions, and construction dust, New Delhi has repeatedly experienced air quality conditions of "very poor" or "severe" in recent years.
The "Electric Vehicle Policy 2.0" plans to invest 150 billion rupees over the next four years to accelerate the transformation of transportation toward electrification in the capital region. According to the target, by the end of 2027, 95% of newly registered vehicles in New Delhi will be electric vehicles. In addition to providing owners with subsidies for replacing fuel vehicles with electric vehicles, the city government will also provide subsidies for electric bicycles and electric motorcycles to reduce their selling prices. The city government plans to install 32,000 electric vehicle charging stations over the next four years and will allocate 43.9 billion rupees to promote the electrification of urban public transportation.
The New Delhi Transport Department believes that the core objective of the electric vehicle policy is to substantially reduce air pollution caused by motor vehicles, while building New Delhi into a benchmark city for global electric vehicle popularization. India's International Council on Clean Transportation believes that the large number of motor vehicles is the main source of urban pollution in New Delhi, and that the popularization of electric transportation by the New Delhi city government "has potentially transformative significance."
In addition to promoting electric vehicles, the New Delhi city government is also adopting multiple means to control air pollution. According to the "2026 Air Pollution Mitigation Action Plan" announced this April, the New Delhi area will implement the "no emission certificate, no refueling" rule, restricting vehicles whose exhaust emissions exceed standards from the roads. Starting this November, only trucks that meet exhaust emission standards or that are powered by compressed natural gas or electricity will be allowed to enter the New Delhi urban area. The New Delhi city government will also regulate non-essential traffic flow and consider implementing directives such as staggered commuting hours and working from home, as well as imposing additional restrictions on motor vehicles during periods of severe air pollution.
Dust from roads and construction sites is one of the main causes of New Delhi's pollution. The city government said it will deploy mechanical road sweepers, sprinkler trucks, anti-smog cannons, and spray systems on a large scale, and carry out hardening renovation of roads across the city. As for the several landfills in the New Delhi area whose pollution exceeds standards, the government has set deadlines for cleanup and will severely punish biomass burning that violates regulations. New Delhi will also add green belts, plant 7 million trees, shrubs, and bamboo by the end of 2027, and make the planting of more than 10 million plants across the city a long-term goal.
The New Delhi city government is intensifying its supervision and publicity efforts, including using artificial intelligence systems to monitor dust pollution in real time, establishing a "Central Green War Room" and an "Integrated Smart Control Center," and incorporating air pollution conditions into the scope of citizen complaints and suggestions on the "311 Platform," India's integrated municipal service and complaint platform. Starting this July, all schools in New Delhi have been carrying out a one-year publicity campaign, focusing on introducing students to the sources, hazards, and ways to respond to air pollution.
Hindustan Times reported that India's air pollution problem is 由来已久 (yóu lái yǐ jiǔ - "the origins are already long," long-standing), that government efforts alone cannot thoroughly improve air quality, and that broad participation from the public, enterprises, and social institutions is also needed to jointly advance air pollution control.
Return to TopNot long ago, the 2025 National Science and Technology Awards were announced. A total of nine scientific and technological achievements led or participated in by Jiangxi Province won awards, including three leading projects that won first prizes, two that won second prizes, and four participating projects that won the National Science and Technology Progress Award. Both the number and the level of awards achieved a historic breakthrough.
Academician Jiang Fengyi (江风益) of Nanchang University and his team won the first prize of the National Natural Science Award for "V-defect three-dimensional PN junction and its application." This was Jiangxi's "zero breakthrough" in this award. Academician Huang Lusheng (黄路生) of Jiangxi Agricultural University and his team won the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award for the project "Chinese-breed pig breeding technology and core germplasm creation and application."
In addition, Jiangxi also had one special project that won the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award; the team of Shen Louyan (沈楼燕) from China Ruilin Engineering Technology Co., Ltd. (中国瑞林工程技术股份有限公司) won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award for "Innovative technology, equipment, and industrialization for efficient beneficiation and smelting of complex sulfur-oxygen mixed copper-cobalt ore"; and the team of Yang Ming (杨明) from Jiangxi University of Chinese Medicine (江西中医药大学) won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award for "Inheritance, protection, and innovative transformation of ancient traditional Chinese medicine processing techniques."
From basic theory to industrial application, from essential needs of people's livelihood to strategic implementation, Jiangxi's scientific and technological innovation has achieved multi-point layout and blossomed everywhere.
Through persistent and sustained efforts to consolidate the foundation, Jiangxi systematically built a high-quality innovation ecosystem. Jiangxi's continuous emergence of scientific and technological innovation achievements stems from its adherence to long-termism and systematic reshaping of the innovation ecosystem.
In recent years, the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government have always held fast to scientific and technological innovation as the "key variable," deeply advanced the Six Major Actions for Revitalizing Jiangxi through Science and Technology (科技兴赣六大行动), and implemented in detail the Action to Upgrade Regional Innovation Synergy, the Action to Upgrade Innovation Platform Leadership, the Action to Upgrade Technical Breakthrough Hard Power, the Action to Upgrade Enterprise Innovation Competitiveness, the Action to Upgrade Scientific Talent Creativity, and the Action to Upgrade Science and Technology Governance Support.
Through the systematic implementation of the six major actions, Jiangxi has greatly enhanced the level of scientific and technological supply and accelerated the construction of a province-wide innovation system with Jiangxi characteristics.
On the one hand, it focused on advantages with targeted efforts. Jiangxi precisely channeled limited resources into advantageous tracks such as aviation, rare earth, electronic information, traditional Chinese medicine, and agriculture, achieving synchronized resonance between "what the country needs, what Jiangxi can do, and where the industry is headed." On the other hand, it restructured the research system. Jiangxi completed the optimization and reorganization of 172 provincial key laboratories; national-level platforms such as the Ganzhou Innovation Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences took root; and it innovatively launched the "four horizontals, four verticals" (四横四纵) innovation platform system and a point-based performance evaluation mechanism.
More crucial is the cultivation of fertile soil for talent growth. Jiangxi established a special project for cultivating young scientific and technological talents in the early career stage, directly granting each newly hired doctoral graduate from provincial universities and research institutes a non-competitive, free-exploration research project subsidy of 40,000 yuan per person per year for a period of five years. The proportion of provincial Natural Science Foundation projects led by young talent increased from 52% in 2020 to 84% in 2025. Starting from 2026, the "Ganpo Talents Support Plan" (赣鄱俊才支持计划) will focus its support targets on people under the age of 35, with young talent transitioning from supporting roles to leading roles in provincial talent projects.
In 2025, Jiangxi's comprehensive scientific and technological innovation level index reached 69.63%, moving up to 15th place in the national ranking, with its increase ranking among the top in the country.
Jiangxi insists on leveraging the driving role of major achievements and major breakthroughs. The award-winning projects of Academician Jiang Fengyi's team and Academician Huang Lusheng's team set a benchmark for researchers across the province of "willing to sit on the cold bench, daring to gnaw hard bones," inspiring more young talents to engage in original innovation.
More importantly, these major award-winning projects will accelerate the deep integration of Jiangxi's scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation. Currently, Jiangxi has constructed a "1+M+N" system for the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements. The Jiangxi Province Science and Technology Achievement Transfer and Transformation Center (江西省科技成果转移转化中心) and its 11 prefecture-level city sub-centers and 20 university and research institute sub-centers have been established and are operational.
381 provincial-level "deputy chief technology officers" (科技副总) brought technology into enterprises, opening up the "last mile" from the laboratory to the production line. From enterprises like Jiangxi Copper turning frontline production difficulties into research topics, to Jiangxi Jiuling Lithium Industry (江西九岭锂业) achieving 100% recycling of tailings and waste residue, the collaborative innovation of industry, education, and research is releasing strong momentum.
With forward-looking layout of future tracks, Jiangxi's innovation writes a new chapter. Currently, Jiangxi is systematically laying out future industries with a forward-looking vision.
The "2030 Voyage Plan" (2030启航计划) was officially launched and implemented in 2026. As a provincial applied basic research special project, the plan is positioned to carry out organized applied basic research and strengthen the supply of underlying technologies in key industrial fields. According to the plan, by the end of the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the province will have implemented a total of approximately 400 projects under the "2030 Voyage Plan."
These projects will be systematically deployed around fields such as future materials, future energy, future aviation, future displays, future biology, future health, and artificial intelligence, striving to produce cutting-edge, original innovative achievements and providing solid underlying technical support for the province's future industry development.
At the same time, Jiangxi is deeply implementing the major science and technology special project "2030 Pioneer Project" (2030先锋工程). In accordance with the requirements of "making existing industries futuristic and future technologies industrial," and centering on the "1269" Action Plan (1269行动计划) and the six future industry fields, it is carrying out coordinated industry-university-research efforts across the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, promoting major key technology breakthroughs, major product development, application and industrialization of major scientific and technological achievements, and realizing the leading role of science and technology in industry. To date, a total of 26 major special projects have been initiated.
Critical breakthroughs have already been achieved in the first batch of "2030 Pioneer Project" special projects: MOCVD equipment for GaAs-based red and yellow LED applications has entered the user verification stage; significant progress has been made in the industrialization of the core solid-state battery material, lithium-rich manganese-based cathode, and a fully automatic pilot production line with an annual output of 3,000 tons is operating stably.
Today, on the land of Jiangxi, innovation waves are surging, and talent vitality is bursting forth. The vast number of scientific and technological workers, with a climbing posture that never stops and a sincere heart devoted to serving the country, are striving to write a new chapter in Jiangxi's scientific and technological innovation in the new era. As the innovation ecosystem continues to optimize and the living water of talent fully flows, Jiangxi will take more solid steps on the journey of driving high-quality development through scientific and technological innovation.
Data source: Department of Science and Technology of Jiangxi Province (江西省科学技术厅)
Return to TopOn August 10, 2016, COSCO Shipping (Piraeus) Port Co., Ltd. fully took over the operation of Greece's Piraeus Port, opening a brand-new chapter in the port's development. Located about 10 kilometers southwest of Athens, Greece, the Piraeus Port has been Greece's most important port since ancient times and is regarded as the southern gateway to Europe. Over the past 10 years, the Chinese and Greek sides have upheld the concept of win-win cooperation, anchored to the goal of building a world-class port, and promoted the long-term, stable, and sustainable development of the Piraeus Port, writing a vivid footnote for the high-quality joint construction of the Belt and Road (一带一路).
Return to TopBy: 韩 超
Watching over the lights of ten thousand homes, protecting the peace of the four seas. On April 17, 2026, a statue of Mazu traveled across the ocean aboard the “COSCO Denmark” to arrive at Piraeus Port, and together with a statue of the Greek sea god Poseidon, was erected at the Piraeus Port Maritime Culture Square.
In Chinese culture, Mazu embodies the beautiful wish of protecting maritime navigation; in Greek culture, Poseidon symbolizes the majestic power of the ocean. “Protection” and “Power” meet on the shores of the Aegean Sea, opening a window to perceive Chinese culture and attracting many local residents to stop and admire. From the former “guardian” of safe navigation to today’s envoy of mutual learning among civilizations, what has been crossed are eras and oceans, but what remains unchanged is humanity’s common cherishing of peace, tranquility, and a happy life.
Mutually beneficial cooperation and cultural exchanges are the two major bonds of China-Greece relations. Piraeus Port connects not only shipping routes and markets, but also carries the mission of promoting cultural exchange and people-to-people bonds. Supporting the construction of the Greek Underwater Archaeology Museum, assisting the protection and inheritance of maritime cultural heritage; building the “COSCO Shipping Piraeus Port Park” to add public space for the community; establishing the “Kunpeng Scholarship” (鲲鹏奖学金) to support youth growth… In recent years, Piraeus Port has integrated into the local community and benefited people’s livelihoods through one “small yet beautiful” project after another. Drops of goodwill converge into a warm current of mutual understanding and affinity, and also turn the spirit of “one heart, one strength, one direction” into a vivid practice of Chinese and Greek employees striving shoulder to shoulder and the people of the two countries joining hands to move forward.
Statues are silent; civilizations have voices. Mutual learning among civilizations illuminates the path of Piraeus Port’s future development, promotes understanding and consensus between the two great civilizations of China and Greece, and writes a vivid chapter of harmony and coexistence among different civilizations.
(The author is the Chairman of COSCO Shipping (Piraeus) Port Co., Ltd.)
Return to TopBy: 扬尼斯·莫拉利斯
The fate of the city of Piraeus has been closely linked to Piraeus Port since ancient times. Over the past ten years, under the management and operation of COSCO Shipping, Piraeus Port has achieved leapfrog development, establishing for the city of Piraeus a development positioning as a core hub for Mediterranean shipping, trade, and tourism. However, commercial success should not be the sole criterion for measuring the development of Piraeus Port; it is even more important to see that it enables every person who lives and works here to feel tangible gains.
In recent years, COSCO Shipping (Piraeus) Port Co., Ltd. has actively fulfilled its corporate social responsibilities, increasing support for sports, charitable organizations, and public utilities, integrating deeply into the local community through concrete actions, and becoming an important force in community development. The large green park created in the area surrounding Piraeus Port will be formally handed over to local residents in the future as a high-quality leisure space. The reimbursing fiscal revenues brought to the city government by port operations have been directly invested in livelihood projects and infrastructure improvements.
Most importantly, Piraeus Port has become a solid bridge connecting Greece and China. Beyond economic and trade cooperation, interactions between the two sides in culture, education, and local government levels have become increasingly frequent. The city of Piraeus has established sister-city relationships with Shanghai, China, and Qingdao, Shandong Province, with exchanges and cooperation flourishing in various fields. This fully proves that a successful international investment cooperation can be transformed into a bond that enhances the friendship between the peoples of two countries and promotes mutual learning among civilizations. We look forward to and firmly believe that this bond, built on mutual trust, dialogue, and win-win outcomes, will continue to play a positive role in the further development of Greece-China relations.
In the next ten years, the city of Piraeus will continue to join hands with COSCO Shipping and other parties to transform the development dividends of Piraeus Port into well-being that every household can see and touch, allowing the ancient port to shine even more brightly in the process of modernization.
(The author is the Mayor of Piraeus, Greece. Xie Yahong, a reporter of this newspaper, conducted the interview and compiled the text.)
Return to TopBy: 杨远帆
"High-salary employment," interested? "Zero-cost beauty makeover," tempted? Summer is the peak season for consumption and also the main period when various types of online scams rapidly "pounce" on young people. Some "campus loans (校园贷)" have recently reappeared quietly in a "new guise." These disguised variants target precisely the strong social, entertainment, and self-improvement needs of youth groups during the summer, and their harm should not be underestimated.
"Campus loans" are not a new topic. In the past few years, multiple departments have jointly carried out special rectification, explicitly banned illegal "campus loans," and promoted regular financial services onto campuses, achieving certain positive results. However, with the rapid development of new business forms such as short videos, livestreaming, and social e-commerce, some unscrupulous institutions have turned to using technical means such as big-data precision targeting and algorithm recommendations to embed lending entry points into various application scenarios where young people gather, making risks more hidden and transmission faster. Currently, some variant "campus loans" are no longer limited to simple lending relationships but are deeply bundled with inducement-based consumption, false advertising, personal information leakage, etc., causing not only economic losses to families but also blurring the cognitive boundaries of some young people between reasonable borrowing and excessive debt under the coercion of "instant gratification" and "symbolic consumption." It can be said that this is both a financial risk issue and a deeper topic concerning the growth environment of young people and social atmosphere.
A high-pressure stance must be maintained at all times against summer online consumption scams, and platform enterprises must be effectively guided. Since the beginning of this year, central and local authorities have continuously strengthened the synergy of regulation. The Cyberspace Administration of China (中央网信办) launched a 4-month special campaign called "Qinglang·Protection of Minors in the Online Environment" (清朗·未成年人网络保护), which explicitly states that algorithm models inducing internet addiction and excessive consumption must not be set. The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源社会保障部) and other departments jointly issued a risk alert, reminding job seekers to beware of scams such as "recruitment-to-training" (招转培) and "training loans" (培训贷). At the local level, the Beijing Municipal Comprehensive Law Enforcement Corps for Market Regulation (北京市市场监管综合执法总队) handled cases of false advertising in platform ticket snatching and organized administrative interviews with 12 mainstream platforms; the Jilin Financial Regulatory Bureau (吉林金融监管局) issued a risk alert about the "recruitment-to-loan trap" (招转贷), exposing illegal institutions that induce job seekers to take out training loans... These regulatory measures, which are continuously intensifying, help to continuously improve relevant systems and make illegal and non-compliant behavior 寸步难行 (cùn bù nán xíng - "unable to move even an inch," unable to proceed).
Faced with various ever-renewing "consumption temptations," both parents and young people need to continuously raise their vigilance and effectively guard the safety line. Parents should consciously and strictly manage all kinds of payment tools and account information in the home, not casually disclose payment passwords to their children, and prudently set limits and permissions for convenient functions such as password-free payments and facial recognition payments. In daily life, they should strengthen guidance on their children's online consumption behavior and safety education, helping children identify the real costs and risks behind marketing rhetoric such as "limited-time offer," "installment with no interest," and "only a few yuan for the first month," and cultivate moderate and rational consumption habits. For various prepaid consumption such as summer training classes, summer camps, and long-term membership cards, be sure to be extra cautious, carefully check the qualifications of the operating entity, sign standard contracts, and avoid large prepayments and blind recharges. Once you discover that a child has fallen into a variant "campus loan" or other online consumption scam, immediately preserve key evidence such as chat records, transfer vouchers, and advertisement screenshots, and legaly defend rights through channels such as the 12315 platform and public security authorities.
From a long-term perspective, a healthy and correct consumption concept must be guided and established at the entire society level. On the one hand, at the institutional level, the suitability management obligations of financial institutions and quasi-financial institutions must be consolidated, and the entire process supervision of credit assessment, quota control, post-loan management, etc., must be improved to prevent product abuse and risk spillover. On the other hand, there is an even greater need for families, schools, and society to work together, 持之以恒 (chí zhī yǐ héng - "persevere with constancy," persist unremittingly) publicize the harms of overconsumption and advance consumption, and guide young people to understand: true se sense of gain never comes from overdrafting tomorrow's consumption in exchange for temporary brilliance, but from relying on down-to-earth efforts to gradually realize self-worth. The consumption concept of 量入為出 (liàng rì wéi chū - "measure income to determine expenditure," live within one's means) and rational moderation has always been a valuable wealth that accompanies one throughout life.
A little more vigilance means a little more safety. Only by multiple measures working together 多管齐下 (duō guǎn qí xià - "multiple pipes work together," take coordinated measures) to govern summer online consumption traps—with regulatory authorities continuously intensifying efforts, platform enterprises taking real responsibility, families and schools providing attentive guidance, and young people themselves 擦亮雙眼 (ca liang shuang yan - "wipe the eyes bright," keep their eyes open)—can we jointly weave a dense protective net, make variant "campus loans" and other consumption traps truly 无机可乘 (wú jī kě chéng - "no opportunity to exploit," no chance to take advantage), and guard the property safety and spiritual homeland of young people.
Return to TopBy: 葛孟超 屈信明 徐 佳
Since the start of the flood season, Guangxi, Zhejiang, Hubei, Gansu and other areas have experienced concentrated heavy rainfall, with severe flood disasters in some localities, causing casualties and economic losses, and posing considerable challenges to post-disaster home reconstruction and the resumption of work and production.
On July 9, the General Office of the National Financial Regulatory Administration (国家金融监督管理总局) issued a notice requiring all banking and insurance institutions to "provide safe and convenient financial services, ensuring continuity of basic financial services in disaster areas" and "increase credit support for flood prevention and disaster relief, and livelihood security enterprises, handling credit approval efficiently in accordance with laws and regulations." The People's Bank of China recently added 100 billion yuan in relending quotas for agriculture and small enterprises (支农支小再贷款), guiding and encouraging financial institutions to increase credit support for business entities in disaster-affected areas, especially small and micro enterprises, individual businesses, as well as agricultural, breeding enterprises and farming households.
Smoothing basic financial service channels such as cash payment and account handling; increasing credit support for flood prevention and disaster relief and livelihood security enterprises; leveraging the insurance protection function to build a financial barrier for disaster prevention and mitigation... Banking and insurance institutions are making every effort to carry out financial and insurance services such as flood prevention and disaster relief and post-disaster recovery and reconstruction, contributing financial strength to the resettlement of disaster-affected people and the resumption of production for business entities.
Extending service coverage to facilitate public affairs
Affected by continuous rainfall from Typhoon Maysak, the water levels of major rivers in Hengzhou City, Nanning, Guangxi exceeded the warning line. The Liulan Reservoir developed dangerous conditions, and a large area of Yunbiao Town downstream was hit by flooding. Shops along the streets, residential houses, and rural roads were submerged by floodwaters. Communication base stations were damaged and paralyzed, and channels such as online transfers and fund settlement stalled. Many people's urgently needed working capital for resuming work got stuck halfway.
As soon as the water level receded slightly, the Agricultural Bank of China Nanning Hengzhou Sub-branch quickly dispatched a mobile financial service vehicle into Yunbiao Town. As soon as the service vehicle stopped, Wang Peng, the owner of a hardware and building materials shop, rushed over.
"Young man, quickly help me see if this payment can be remitted immediately!" Wang Peng, sweating profusely, spoke with great anxiety. The building materials shop he ran urgently needed to transfer payment for procurement of goods, but the network outage made mobile banking unusable, delaying the resumption plan again and again.
The bank staff calmed Wang Peng while quickly verifying information, logging into the system, and completing the transfer in just three minutes. "I thought the transfer for resuming work would be delayed for several more days. I didn't expect the Agricultural Bank to open a business outlet directly in the town, making things fast and worry-free," Wang Peng said with a long sigh of relief.
Li Zebiao, head of the Agricultural Bank of China Nanning Yunbiao Sub-branch, introduced: "Starting from July 14, we coordinated with debris removal and emergency rescue efforts, relying on the mobile financial service vehicle to provide door-to-door services. The vehicle is equipped with intelligent teller machines and mobile terminals, making it essentially a mobile miniature branch, serving an average of over 20 people per day."
For post-disaster home reconstruction and the resumption of work and production, facilitating convenient basic financial services for the public is a key livelihood guarantee. The flood situation caused the suspension of township branch offices and communication disruptions, hindering the daily transfer settlements, account handling, and cash use of the public, with concentrated demand for livelihood financial services. Financial institutions proactively extended services downward, expanded service scope, and made every effort to guarantee the basic financial needs of the public.
Extending service coverage to break service blind spots. After work on July 9, the College Road Sub-branch of Wenzhou Bank Wenzhou Branch received an urgent request from a construction company: if the enterprise could not open an account before the typhoon arrived, the wages of over 100 migrant workers would have to be delayed. Staff of the sub-branch, early the next morning, brought portable intelligent devices for door-to-door service, conducting on-site due diligence, collecting materials, entering the system, and completing the entire account opening process in one hour.
Optimizing account services to facilitate public affairs. Beibu Gulf Bank of Guangxi implemented a "dual online and offline parallel" model, added 12 customer service staff, established a special flood season service guarantee post, and extended service hours for remote counter business; Guilin Bank set up a "green priority service window for flood-affected residents" at its branches, with dedicated personnel handling services such as bank card water damage replacement, emergency cash withdrawals, and fund transfers.
Experts said that in the face of the trend of frequent extreme precipitation events caused by climate change, the banking industry can no longer rely solely on emergency policies like "patching leaks" during the flood season. It urgently needs to incorporate flood prevention financial services into a long-term climate risk management framework and establish systematic, normalized guarantee mechanisms. On the one hand, the banking industry should improve the long-term mechanism for risk assessment of affected entities, making advance judgments on regional disaster risks; on the other hand, it should continuously optimize emergency financial service plans, promoting a shift of flood relief and support measures from short-term emergency response to normalized deployment.
Precisely targeting credit supply to support enterprise resumption
"The anxious heart has finally settled completely." When seeing the SMS of funds arriving, Zheng Jian'an, head of Zhejiang Tongmu Electric Technology Co., Ltd., finally relaxed his furrowed brow.
In July this year, Typhoon Bavi brought violent winds and heavy rain to Yueqing, Zhejiang, causing rainwater backflow from heavy precipitation, severe waterlogging in local industrial parks, and the suspension of production at many manufacturing enterprises with heavy losses. As the wind and rain gradually subsided, staff from the China Construction Bank Wenzhou Yueqing Sub-branch immediately went deep into the industrial park to visit Zhejiang Tongmu Electric Technology Co., Ltd., a key disaster-affected enterprise.
Entering the factory area, the ground was still covered with unremoved mud, the walls had water stains, and the scars of the typhoon's rampage were clearly visible. Zheng Jian'an was very anxious: "On the typhoon night, rainwater backed up and flooded in, damaging a large number of molds and components. In the peak production season, we hit a disaster; equipment maintenance, replacement of raw materials, and rush orders all require money."
In response to the enterprise's lagging receivables and short-term turnover difficulties, the CCB Wenzhou Yueqing Sub-branch opened a green approval channel, handling 2.7 million yuan in renewal loans without principal repayment and offering preferential interest rates, with funds seamlessly connecting the entire process of equipment maintenance, debris clearing, material replacement, and production resumption.
Post-disaster enterprise resumption of work and production and factory area restoration and reconstruction cannot do without sustained and stable credit fund support. Facing the impact of the flood situation, financial institutions implemented the policy of "not blindly withdrawing loans, cutting off loans, or pressing for repayment," smoothing approval channels, optimizing credit services, reducing financing costs, and injecting financial liquidity into post-disaster work and production resumption across various regions.
Opening green approval channels to improve approval efficiency. The Agricultural Bank of China Guangxi Branch opened a green approval channel for credit, handling fund transfers for flood prevention and disaster relief and related credit business as special cases, compressing application materials and timelines, and giving priority to meeting the financing needs of disaster-affected farming households, small and micro enterprises, water conservancy and flood prevention projects, and post-disaster reconstruction projects. The branch conducted on-site visits and telephone follow-ups to assess the situation of over 3,100 disaster-affected customers in places like Nanning, Guigang, and Qinzhou, processing 155 million yuan in post-disaster reconstruction loans.
Implementing relief policies to stabilize development expectations. Financial institutions established special ledgers for affected customers, tailoring renewal, extension, or new credit lines according to the "one enterprise, one policy" principle. The ICBC Fangchenggang Branch formed a "flood prevention and disaster relief financial service team," going deep into aquaculture ponds and enterprise factories to assess the disaster impact on existing customers, identifying 11 customers severely affected by Typhoon Maysak, involving a loan balance of 5.25 million yuan.
To support flood prevention and disaster relief and post-disaster reconstruction through financial services, the People's Bank of China recently added 100 billion yuan in relending quotas for agriculture and small enterprises. Laibin Rural Commercial Bank in Guangxi quickly formulated a special credit guarantee plan, actively engaged with the People's Bank of China Laibin Branch, obtaining 96 million yuan in relending quotas for agriculture and small enterprises, directed to farming households, family farms, farmer professional cooperatives, agricultural small and micro enterprises, and village-level collective economic organizations affected by the flood impact, focusing on characteristic pillar industries such as sugar cane planting, silkworm breeding, under-forest economy, and wood processing. On July 26, Typhoon Hongxia made landfall along the coast of Huizhou City, Guangdong. The People's Bank of China Guangdong Branch urgently arranged 5.8 billion yuan in additional relending quotas for agriculture and small enterprises, allocating them to 15 disaster-affected areas including Huizhou and Shanwei.
Optimizing product supply and improving claims service quality and efficiency
When heavy rain comes, some residents' vehicles are submerged and damaged, houses leak, and in rural areas, farmlands are flooded. To recover property losses, various insurance products such as home property insurance, vehicle damage insurance, and agricultural insurance can all be useful.
From July 10 to 12, a heavy rainfall process occurred in Beijing, with multiple districts experiencing house water seepage, wall and floor water damage, and indoor appliance destruction. House renovation and appliance replacement are no small expenses.
Chen Guang, living in Chaoyang District, said, "My roof was severely damaged. Fortunately, I had taken out inclusive home property insurance, so the money for repairing the house is guaranteed."
The inclusive home property insurance Chen Guang mentioned is the Beijing Inclusive Home Property Insurance (北京普惠家财保) launched locally. After receiving Chen Guang's claim, the claims examiner contacted him to inspect the house damage, activated the major disaster management plan, determined the compensation plan with Chen Guang on July 12, and soon arranged payment. "Receiving over 2,000 yuan in compensation put my mind at ease. I quickly found someone to repair the house," Chen Guang said.
In recent years, extreme weather events have been frequent. As many parts of the country enter the main flood season, people's attention to housing safety and risk protection has increased, and home property insurance has drawn much attention. Industry insiders said that since June, home property insurance products in Beijing, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places have experienced a "subscription fever."
"Home property insurance is insurance that provides risk protection for houses and their interior property. It covers property losses caused by natural disasters, accidents, and theft, and is an effective means for families to cope with risks," said Wang Xiangnan, deputy director of the Insurance and Economic Development Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. For example, damage to windows and roofs during typhoons, water leakage and ingress causing damage to interior decoration, furniture, and appliances, home property insurance will compensate according to contract terms. "Households in old residential communities and families with many valuables should especially consider taking out home property insurance."
The efficiency of claims services concerns the sense of gain of insurance consumers. While optimizing the supply of relevant products, various insurance institutions continuously improve the quality and efficiency of claims for auto insurance, agricultural insurance, etc., by strengthening technological empowerment and optimizing service processes.
"Applying online for auto insurance claims, the compensation arrived in 20 minutes," said Mr. Xia from Bao'an District, Shenzhen, Guangdong. At around 8 a.m. on July 26, he found that his car had been damaged by a signboard knocked over by the typhoon. He immediately reported the claim to the insurance company online, uploading photos of the damaged vehicle scene and other materials.
After receiving the claim, PICC Property & Casualty Shenzhen Branch launched a major disaster-specific claims service, waiving on-site inspection and meteorological proof, relying on online claims tools to quickly connect with the customer and collect claims information, and using an intelligent claims system to quickly assess and pay compensation.
In the field of agricultural insurance, insurance institutions enhance pre-payment services to allow farmers to obtain funds for restoring production in time.
"Pre-payment of 108,000 yuan arrived in a few hours, so now we don't worry about lacking money for drainage and management," said Xu Lingli, a large grower in Jinqing Town, Luqiao District, Taizhou, Zhejiang. After Typhoon Bavi made landfall, more than 500 mu of her rice paddies were flooded and lodged. At 5 a.m. on July 12, insurance company staff arrived at the site for inspection and damage assessment, negotiating the pre-payment amount based on the damage situation.
What is pre-payment? "In the past, agricultural insurance claims had to wait until harvest for yield measurement and loss assessment. Pre-payment means that after a disaster, a portion is paid in time to help us relieve cash flow pressure and make every effort to protect the seedlings and reduce losses," Xu Lingli said.
"Require all financial regulatory bureaus and major property insurance companies to closely track disaster developments, scientifically allocate survey and rescue resources, adhere to special handling for special cases and urgent handling for urgent cases, simplify claims procedures, smooth green channels, and effectively achieve quick compensation where possible, full compensation where due, and reasonable pre-compensation," said a responsible person from the relevant department of the National Financial Regulatory Administration.
Data from the National Financial Regulatory Administration show that as of 9 a.m. on July 13, insurance companies in 20 provinces including Guangxi, Hubei, Zhejiang had received nearly 380,000 claims related to rainstorm, flood, and typhoon disasters, with estimated losses of 6.38 billion yuan. Insurance institutions promptly opened fast-track claims channels, promoting quick compensation where possible, full compensation where due, and reasonable pre-compensation, having already paid 2.89 billion yuan.
At the same time, insurance institutions actively served local disaster rescue operations. Insurance institutions across various regions have sent nearly 240 million flood warning messages to enterprises and individuals, deployed 88,000 rescue personnel, and 52,000 rescue vehicles.
(Our reporter Li Weijun contributed to this article)
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Grasping the key leverage point for upgrading and improving the quality of life services is not simply about increasing supply, but about using demand as the driving force to enhance supply quality and raise the degree of match between supply and demand.
The Opinions on Promoting the Expansion of Capacity and Improvement of Quality in the Service Industry (《关于推进服务业扩能提质的意见》), issued this April, calls for highlighting demand-driven approaches, reform攻坚 (gōng jiān - "assault fortifications," tackling hard nuts), technological empowerment, opening up and cooperation; deeply implementing the action to expand capacity and improve quality in the service industry; promoting productive services to extend toward specialization and the high end of the value chain; and promoting the high-quality, diversified, and convenient development of life services.
It further clarifies that increasing the high-quality supply of resident services, raising the level of adaptation of elderly care and childcare services, and enhancing the professional capacity of health services are key tasks for raising the development level of key areas in life services. Life services are linked on one side to daily necessities, elderly care, and childcare, and on the other side to employment expansion and consumption upgrading. Doing a good job in this field is not only about filling short boards in people's livelihoods, but also an important fulcrum for expanding domestic demand and smoothing the economic cycle.
At present, resident consumption is rapidly transitioning from "whether there is or not" to "whether it is good or not." Population aging, the miniaturization of families, and the diversification of employment modes make mass demands such as housekeeping, meal assistance, childcare, and health care more granular. In reality, some places still face issues such as insufficient supply alongside inefficient repetition, non-uniform service standards, shortages of professional personnel, and insufficient sinking of high-quality resources. Grasping the key leverage point for upgrading and improving the quality of life services is not simply about increasing supply, but about using demand as the driving force to enhance supply quality and raise the degree of match between supply and demand.
To make service quality solid, the focus is on stabilizing the service baseline with standards and talent. Services such as housekeeping, caregiving, and dining directly affect the safety and experience of the masses. We should accelerate the improvement of industry standards, perfect professional training, credit records, and quality evaluation systems, and promote the query-ability and traceability of personnel identity, skill levels, and service records. For areas that are both public-welfare and for-profit, such as inclusive childcare and elderly meals, we should also perfect mechanisms of government guidance, social participation, and market operation, avoiding "heavy on construction, light on operation." For example, Haiyan, Zhejiang (海盐), by revitalizing old spaces, has built elderly stations, introduced community canteens, repair, housekeeping, medical care, and other formats, using small-scale renewal to carry multi-tier services. For example, entering homes during the scorching summer to provide the "sanfutie" (三伏贴 - "dog days patch," a traditional Chinese medical treatment) as a "micro" service has been warmly welcomed by community residents. This shows that quality improvement relies not only on incremental investment but also on 精耕细作 (jīng gēng xì zuò - "ntensive cultivation and meticulous work," the work of carefully and intensively managing existing resources).
To make service diversification refined, the focus is on forming a layered and categorical supply structure. Basic services must ensure inclusivness and sustainbility; upgrade services should encourage professionalization and personalization; a single model cannot cover all groups. Hebi, Henan, has built a "15-minute elderly care service circle," promoting linkage between community health stations and city/county hospitals; Yichang, Hubei, combines community schools with reading, games, and childcare, bridging the care gap before the end of the workday for dual-earner families. These practices show that the starting point of service innovation is not chasing concepts, but accurately identifying real demands in specific populations, specific time periods, and specific scenarios.
To make service convenience deep, the focus is on opening up the "last 100 meters" for delivering services to households. The quarter-hour convenient life circle has already become an important platform carrying community consumption and people's livelihood services. As of the end of 2025, pilot areas for urban quarter-hour convenient life circles have built 8,132 convenient life circles, serving 168 million community residents. In June this year, the Ministry of Commerce and seven other departments further promoted 38 experiences from 5 aspects formed by the third batch of pilots, proposing to achieve "100 cities, 10,000 circles" by 2030, indicating that the convenient life circle is moving from pilot to expansion. In the next stage, we must not only optimize the layout of facilities for elderly care, childcare, housekeeping, retail, etc., but also use digital platforms to integrate booking, payment, evaluation, and supervision. However, we must not allow elderly people who cannot use smart devices to be shut out. Online services must improve efficiency while offline counters and door-to-door services should also retain warmth.
The upgrading and quality improvement of life services must ultimately land on the daily feelings of the masses. Adhering to demand-driven approaches, linking together standard construction, talent training, scenario innovation, digital empowerment, and regulatory reform, promoting basic services to be more inclusive and high-quality, upgrade services to be richer and more professional, and personalized services to be more accurate and convenient — only then can we transform people's livelihood demands into consumption potential, convert service improvement into development increments, and let the quality of high-quality development be reflected in the daily烟火 (yān huǒ - "smoke and fire," the ordinary life) of thousands of households.
(The author is a researcher at the research base of Zhe Jiang Hong Chuan Cadre College (浙江红船干部学院))
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At the recent series of situation and policy reports titled "Ensuring and Improving People's Livelihood in High-Quality Development," Yin Hejun (阴和俊), Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology (科技部), stated that artificial intelligence, robotics, and innovative drugs, known as the 'new new three items' (新新三样), are developing rapidly and are expected to form new pillar industries.
The 'new new three items' are proposed in relation to the 'old three items' (老三样) and the 'new three items' (新三样). For a long period in the past, relying on labor resource and cost advantages, clothing, furniture, and household appliances became the earliest 'business cards' of Chinese manufacturing in the international market. In recent years, with the rapid rise of electric vehicles, lithium batteries, and the photovoltaic industry, the foreign trade 'new three items' have become a new growth engine leading China's industrial leap, and have also driven the upgrading of export products toward high technology, high added value, and green low-carbon direction. In 2025, the export scale of the 'new three items' approached 1.3 trillion yuan, an increase of 3.5 times compared to 2020.
The strong development momentum of the 'new new three items' can be corroborated by some of the latest data: China's open-source artificial intelligence large model global downloads exceeded 10 billion times; in the first half of this year, China's industrial robot export value reached 6.29 billion yuan, with products sold to 141 countries and regions worldwide, and the export value of surgical robots increased by 3.3 times year-on-year; in the first half of the year, China's innovative drug out-licensing transaction value was approximately 110 billion US dollars, and Chinese pharmaceutical companies occupied 8 seats in the top ten global pharmaceutical transactions.
Whether it is the 'old three items' or the 'new three items,' both have very clear goods trade attributes; what supports their global reach is China's strong manufacturing. The 'new new three items' are different: China's innovative drugs have shifted from early product export to the systematic capability output of target discovery, clinical translation, and global registration; the robots exported by China, in addition to selling the equipment 'body,' also have closed-loop capabilities from data, models to scenarios; as for artificial intelligence 'going global,' it is embedded in various 'invisible digital capabilities' such as algorithm development, model invocation, and agent deployment, and it is even difficult to measure using traditional trade metrics.
From the development of the 'new new three items,' we can see that China's role and positioning in global trade are undergoing profound changes. From January to May this year, China's total service import and export volume increased by 6% year-on-year, the service trade deficit narrowed by about 20%, and knowledge-intensive service exports grew by 12.2%. These data also indicate that the competitiveness of China's service exports is continuously improving, the foreign trade structure is being optimized, and 'Intelligent Manufacturing in China' and 'Created in China' are going global.
High-quality goods and services 'going abroad' drive the inclusive sharing of technology and capabilities. In the Middle East, computing power manufacturer Taichu Yuanqi (太初元碁) cooperates with overseas partners, relying on high-density liquid cooling technology to promote the development of artificial intelligence new infrastructure, carrying the vision of the local transformation from a traditional energy center to a digital infrastructure hub; in Europe, the Serbian team cooperated with iFlytek to integrate their local language into translation devices and intelligent application systems, changing the situation where 'large models only serve major languages'; in South America, Didi Chuxing built an order distribution system based on telemetry technology, giving rise to new service models such as motorcycle travel and ride-hailing delivery... These cases reflect the unique advantages of Chinese enterprises in defining products and business models, mastering key core technologies, and linking global resources, and also show China's broad vision of empowering the world and better enhancing human welfare.
The vigorous development of the 'new new three items' is both a fruitful result of China's continuous promotion of industrial transformation and upgrading and forward-looking layout of new tracks, and also an achievement gained by accurately recognizing changes, scientifically responding to changes, and proactively seeking changes against the backdrop of increasing trade barriers and frequent geopolitical conflicts, reflecting the strong resilience of the Chinese economy. From the 'old three items' and 'new three items' to the 'new new three items,' by grasping the initiative in scientific and technological development, actively integrating into and shaping the global innovation ecosystem, there will surely be more new technologies, new products, and new business forms to 'take the baton' and run the 'acceleration' of Chinese-style modernization.
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Hydrogen energy is a secondary energy source that is abundant in supply, green and low-carbon, and widely applicable. As one of the priority directions for future industrial布局 (bùjú - layout/arrangement), promoting the high-quality development of the hydrogen energy industry can both cultivate and develop new quality productive forces and provide support for achieving the "dual carbon" goals (双碳目标 - carbon peak and carbon neutrality). How does hydrogen energy inject vitality into green transformation? What is the current state of development of China's hydrogen energy industry? Recently, reporters conducted interviews.
Application scenarios continue to expand, injecting new momentum into green development
In Kuqa City (库车市), Xinjiang, a sea of photovoltaic panels stretches across the Gobi Desert, gleaming brightly. The green electricity generated by these photovoltaics is delivered to a hydrogen production plant over 20 kilometers away for electrolytic water hydrogen production, and the hydrogen is then transported via pipeline to oil refining and chemical enterprises.
The oil refining industry’s move toward greenness is inseparable from China's first 10,000-ton-class green hydrogen refining project — the Sinopec Xinjiang Kuqa Green Hydrogen Demonstration Project. This project successfully produced hydrogen on June 30, 2023, integrating production, storage, transportation, and utilization. On one end, it utilizes the abundant local solar energy resources to directly produce hydrogen via photovoltaic power generation; on the other end, it supplies green hydrogen on-site to Sinopec Tahe Refining and Chemical Co., Ltd. (中国石化塔河炼化有限责任公司), replacing the hydrogen produced from natural gas used in the oil refining process.
"If the project operates at full capacity, it can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by approximately 485,000 tons per year," said Li Ruixia (李瑞霞), manager of the Hydrogen Energy Management Department of Sinopec Star New Energy Company (中石化新星新能源公司). The project has been operating continuously, safely, and stably for over three years, validating the reliability of large-scale industrial application of green hydrogen.
Hydrogen production is the first link in the hydrogen energy industry chain. Based on the production method and carbon emission level, hydrogen energy is mainly divided into three types: gray hydrogen, blue hydrogen, and green hydrogen. Gray hydrogen uses fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas as raw materials, with high carbon emission intensity; blue hydrogen uses fossil energy for hydrogen production combined with carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technologies to reduce emissions, but the technology is complex and costly; green hydrogen uses renewable energy such as wind and solar for power generation, produced through electrolytic water technology.
In oil refining and chemical industry, hydrogen is an indispensable industrial raw material. Replacing traditional gray and blue hydrogen with green hydrogen taps the development potential of hydrogen energy and promotes the low-carbon transformation of the petrochemical industry.
The green vitality injected by hydrogen energy is also reflected in fields such as steel, electric power, and automotive. In Lingang Economic Development Zone (临港经济开发区), Linyi City, Shandong, the pure-hydrogen shaft furnace demonstration production line of China Iron & Steel Research Institute Group (中国钢研) has opened up the entire process of producing high-purity iron through pure hydrogen metallurgy. Here, normal production of direct reduced iron with metalization rate above 96%, as well as batch trial production of 3N grade (99.9%) high-purity iron, has been achieved.
When iron oxide is reduced with hydrogen, the main products are metallic iron and water vapor. The tail gas from the pure-hydrogen shaft furnace reduction has no adverse impact on the environment, significantly reducing the environmental load. This demonstration project is the first successful application of a pure-hydrogen shaft furnace project in China, having operated stably for over 8,000 hours, with a single continuous operation exceeding 2,000 hours, fully verifying its safety and reliability.
"As the global energy structure undergoes deep adjustment and China's 'dual carbon' strategy advances in depth, green and low-carbon transformation of the steel industry is imperative. To transition from high-carbon to low-carbon processes, pure hydrogen metallurgy is one of the core technological paths," said Yang Guanghao (杨光浩), director of the Hydrogen Metallurgy (Green Metallurgy) Center of China Iron & Steel Research Institute Group.
Hydrogen energy has high energy density and advantages in long-distance transport, and it is applied in scenarios such as public passenger transport, cold-chain logistics, and trunk-line freight.
During the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, 200 hydrogen energy buses equipped with the "Hydrogen Teng" (氢腾) fuel cell system of State Power Investment Corporation (国家电投集团) Hydrogen Science and Technology Company (国氢科技) ensured event travel. These buses coped smoothly with complex road conditions such as low temperatures, snowfall, and mountainous terrain, covering a total mileage of over 880,000 kilometers, reducing carbon dioxide emissions by more than 620 tons, achieving "zero carbon, zero accidents, zero errors" throughout the process.
Relying on policy guidance from the national hydrogen energy demonstration city clusters, as of the end of 2025, China's cumulative sales of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles reached nearly 40,000 units. Application scenarios for hydrogen fuel cells are extending to mining trucks, ships, drones, rail transit, and more. In recent years, China's hydrogen energy industry is moving from technological demonstration and exploration to the stage of scale and commercial development, with application potential continuously being released, showing increasingly broad prospects for implementation.
Enterprise innovation breakthroughs across the industrial chain and policy guidance form a joint force
The steady progress of China's hydrogen energy industry is driven both by industrial demand and by the combined force of enterprise innovation breakthroughs across the industrial chain and policy guidance. On July 28, 3,750 tons of green ammonia produced in Daan City (大安市), Baicheng City, Jilin, were transported by land to Lianyungang City, Jiangsu, loaded onto ships and shipped to South Korea, setting a global record for the largest single batch export of green ammonia.
The exported green ammonia was all produced at the "Hydrogen Oasis·Daan Green Ammonia" (氢洲·大安绿氨) demonstration project of State Power Investment Corporation, located in Daan. This project was completed and put into operation in July 2025, marking the first industrial-grade stable operation of the largest domestic PEM (Proton Exchange Membrane) hydrogen production equipment. The project validated the unique advantages of PEM hydrogen production technology and the autonomous flexible system in coping with fluctuations in wind and solar power generation, second-level start-stop, and wide-load regulation.
What is the confidence behind this "first" breakthrough? Yang Yufeng (杨玉峰), Party Secretary and Chairman of State Power Investment Corporation Hydrogen Science and Technology Company, introduced that the 12 sets of "four-drive-one" 800 standard cubic meter large "Hydrogen Surge" (氢涌) PEM hydrogen production equipment delivered by the company undertakes the consumption of intermittent fluctuating power from wind and solar photovoltaics, playing an important role in the stable operation of the project.
Hydrogen production equipment is the key equipment for producing hydrogen through electrolysis of water. Since the establishment of State Power Investment Corporation Hydrogen Science and Technology Company in 2017, the company has focused on the autonomous control of core technologies for hydrogen fuel cells and advanced hydrogen production equipment, overcoming a series of core technologies such as catalysts, PEM, carbon paper, membrane electrode assemblies, bipolar plates, and stacks. Based on long-term accumulation, it has developed the "Hydrogen Teng" fuel cell product line and the "Hydrogen Surge" PEM hydrogen production equipment spectrum.
The progress China has made in pure hydrogen metallurgy is backed by the industry's vigorous exploration. In 2020, China Iron & Steel Research Institute Group established the China Iron & Steel Research Institute Hydrogen Metallurgy (Green Metallurgy) Center, independently developing the entire green process and core equipment for pure hydrogen metallurgy, overcoming a series of difficulties such as key control technologies for pure hydrogen shaft furnace engineering, and building the world's first 50,000-ton pure hydrogen shaft furnace demonstration project. Ansteel Group (鞍钢集团), in collaboration with domestic research institutions, developed pure hydrogen fluidized bed technology. Based on this technology, in August 2025, the world's first green electricity green hydrogen fluidized bed hydrogen metallurgy pilot line entered the commissioning phase, representing an important exploration in addition to the pure hydrogen shaft furnace process.
The continuous improvement in the localization rate of core components and the increasing autonomous and controllable capability have led to a significant reduction in fuel cell system costs. "Compared with 2020, the cost of hydrogen energy complete vehicles and fuel cell systems has dropped by 80%. At the same time, the power density and lifespan of stacks have significantly improved, with system power entering the 300-kilowatt level, providing support for high-power commercial vehicles and heavy-load scenarios," said Yang Yufeng.
In recent years, strong policy support has accelerated the commercial implementation of the hydrogen energy industry. The Energy Law of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国能源法), officially implemented in January 2025, established its energy attribute and legal status. Multiple national-level plans have elevated hydrogen energy to a strategic height. Among them, the Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan (十五五规划纲要) explicitly designates hydrogen energy as a key direction for future industries to cultivate, and the Plan for Building a New Energy System during the 15th Five-Year Plan Period (新型能源体系建设"十五五"规划) incorporates hydrogen energy into the non-fossil energy supply system and proposes a target of reaching 2 million tons of renewable energy hydrogen production by 2030.
At the specific implementation level, the Medium- and Long-Term Plan for the Development of the Hydrogen Energy Industry (2021–2035) (氢能产业发展中长期规划（2021—2035年）) clearly prioritizes the development of hydrogen production from renewable energy. In March of this year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other departments launched a new round of comprehensive hydrogen energy application pilot projects, guiding hydrogen energy applications to extend from the transportation field to all scenarios including industry, electric power, and green fuels. At the same time, support at the fiscal and financial level has become more precise. The 2026 Government Work Report (政府工作报告) proposed "establishing a national low-carbon transition fund," and green hydrogen projects have been included in the China Certified Emission Reduction (CCER) (国家核证自愿减排量) mechanism, allowing the cost disadvantage of green hydrogen to be offset through revenue from carbon assets.
Experts interviewed said that China has built a multi-level policy system from top-level legal design to specific project implementation, providing solid support for green hydrogen production and hydrogen energy technology application.
From policy guidance to commercial feasibility, there is still a period of critical攻坚 (gōng jiān - "storming of fortresses," i.e., tackling tough challenges) that must be crossed
Although policy dividends continue to be released, because the hydrogen energy industry is still in its early stage of development, there are still some bottlenecks in industrial development.
First, high production costs and insufficient economic viability are obstacles to the commercial promotion of green hydrogen. Taking the implementation of the pure hydrogen metallurgy industry as an example, Yang Guanghao explained that currently, even in regions with the best wind and solar resources in China, the cost of green hydrogen still exceeds 18 yuan per kilogram, whereas the economically competitive cost of green hydrogen for pure hydrogen metallurgy needs to be reduced to 10 to 12 yuan per kilogram.
Green hydrogen is mostly transported in gaseous form, but this method has low transport efficiency and high cost, weakening the economic viability of green hydrogen in end-use applications. In addition, green hydrogen production is mainly concentrated in the "Three Norths" (三北 - North China, Northwest China, and Northeast China) areas rich in wind and solar resources, while the consumer market is concentrated in economically developed regions such as East China and South China. This spatial mismatch between supply and demand further amplifies the contradiction.
Industry experts said that key materials such as PEM and gas diffusion layers in China rely on imports, and some technologies such as wide-load regulation of electrolyzers still need breakthroughs. "Technological breakthroughs and innovation are key to promoting the sustainable development of the hydrogen energy industry," said Yang Yufeng. From policy guidance to commercial feasibility, there is still a critical攻坚 (gōng jiān - "storming of fortresses," i.e., tackling tough challenges) period that must be crossed.
In addition, imperfect market and pricing mechanisms also affect industrial development. "Insufficient support from the carbon market makes it difficult to form a 'green premium' for hydrogen metallurgy products. Users are unwilling to pay a high price for green steel, leading to insufficient motivation for the steel industry to embrace hydrogen metallurgy," said Yang Guanghao.
After years of development, China has become the world's largest hydrogen producer and hydrogen consumer, with rich experience in hydrogen supply and industrial foundation.
"Green hydrogen has the dual attributes of clean energy and energy storage, and is an important carrier for deep industrial decarbonization and achieving the 'dual carbon' goals," said Li Ruixia. She believes that with the technological progress of green electricity such as photovoltaics and wind power, the cost of green electricity will continue to decrease, the capacity and performance of electrolyzers and fuel cells will improve, and technological iteration and material renewal will inevitably drive down the cost of green hydrogen production and use, enhancing the competitiveness of the green hydrogen industry.
Yang Yufeng stated that looking ahead, the key to breaking the situation industrial development lies in focusing on advantageous scenarios and打通 (dǎtōng - opening up) the closed loop of the entire chain. The entire industry must move from "single-point competition" to "chain-based collaboration." On one hand, relying on the synergy of the entire industrial chain, use applications to drive technological iteration and push the industry into a positive cycle of "cost reduction — volume expansion — further cost reduction." On the other hand, focus on differentiated scenarios, lock in "rigid demand" scenarios such as cold-chain logistics and medium- to long-distance heavy-load transport, explore monetization paths for "green premium," and promote the formation of commercial closed loops.
Yang Guanghao introduced that in the future, with the development of new energy technologies, reduced equipment investment intensity, and tighter carbon emission control in the steel industry, the cost disadvantage of green hydrogen metallurgy will be eliminated, and pure hydrogen metallurgy will shift from policy-driven to market-driven.
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Not long ago, the fully domestically produced industrial internet platform independently developed by our China Nuclear Control team completed its application deployment, building a solid "base" for the digital-intelligent transformation (数智化转型) of our country's nuclear industry. As a domestically produced industrial internet platform built for the high-safety scenarios of the nuclear industry, it has achieved 100% domestic production from the underlying chips, operating systems, and databases to the upper-level industrial applications, at one stroke filling the long-standing short board of digital infrastructure in the nuclear power control area, and firmly gripping the digital lifeline of the nuclear industry in our own hands.
For nuclear facilities, DCS (Distributed Control System) is the "brain" in charge of production and operation, while the industrial internet platform is the "neural network" that runs through the entire industrial chain. Over the past 10-plus years, we have 攻坚克难 (gōng jiān kè nán - "storm fortifications, overcome difficulties," to tackle tough problems and surmount difficulties) and achieved the complete self-reliance and domestic production of instrumentation and control system software and hardware. As the industry develops, new difficult problems now stand before us: the plant areas of nuclear power, nuclear fuel, and nuclear chemical engineering each have inconsistent system standards and mutually incompatible interfaces; "data islands," one after another, are scattered throughout the industrial chain; and there has always been a lack of a domestically produced digital base that suits the strict safety specifications of nuclear grade and can organically link them together.
Some people say that mature foreign industrial software is easy to deploy and can be purchased directly. But the team has always held a conviction: the nuclear industry bears on national energy security, and the digital foundation must not depend on foreign technology. We made up our minds to build a completely independent and controllable (自主可控) industrial internet platform.
At the project's inception, we had no experience in building large industrial internet platforms. We traveled to nuclear power bases and talked face-to-face with front-line operation, maintenance, and production personnel, recording more than 100 concrete production pain points. At the same time, we formed a cross-disciplinary R&D team, deepening our understanding of the industry while carrying out technical research. From underlying software and hardware compatibility to full-chain security protection, we went through multiple rounds of compatibility and stress tests, cracking one by one the blocking points in the adaptation of domestic software and hardware. In response to the strict requirements of nuclear industry safety, we built a security protection system covering the full chain...
The hardest bone to gnaw on the R&D road was achieving seamless connection between the platform and the domestic DCS. General-purpose industrial internet platforms are mostly developed based on cloud computing, and they appear 水土不服 (shuǐ tǔ bù fú - "the water and soil do not agree," to be unaccustomed to a new environment) in the complex scenarios of industrial real-time control. To cross this hurdle, we independently developed a proprietary high-speed communication protocol, achieving millisecond-level data interaction between the platform and the control system, both firmly guarding the safety bottom line of the independent operation of the DCS and completely opening up the data link of the entire domain; the innovatively built integrated development tool, with more than 200 industrial mechanism models built in, directly compressed the application development cycle from several months to several days; the multi-protocol dynamic collection technology, moreover, found the optimal balance among safety, performance, and flexibility. After tackling difficulties all along the way, the team conquered more than 20 core technologies in succession.
Even before the platform was formally promoted to the industry, it had already supported the country's first national-level intelligent manufacturing standard application pilot in the nuclear industry field, driving substantial improvements in design efficiency, test execution efficiency, and production efficiency, and achieving full-process data traceability and full coverage of compliance review. At the moment when customers conducted on-site inspections of the long-term operation results and finally finalized the cooperation, we knew that this platform, which had grown out of the soil of the nuclear industry, had formally stepped from internal pilot into a new stage of large-scale application across the entire industry.
From the full independent controllability of DCS to the 落地生根 (luò dì shēng gēn - "fall to the ground and take root," to become firmly established) of the fully domestically produced industrial internet platform, every step we have taken has advanced solidly toward the goal of core technology self-reliance. Going forward, we will continue to polish the platform product, continue to deeply cultivate independent digital technology, and safeguard national energy security with scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening.
(The author is a member of the Science and Technology Committee of China National Nuclear Corporation (中核集团) and chief expert of China Nuclear Control System Engineering Co., Ltd. (中核控制系统工程有限公司). Gu Yekai (谷业凯) and Lü Zeying (吕泽滢) conducted the interview and compiled the text.)
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In the early morning, the train arrived at Cangnan (苍南) High-Speed Rail Station. The familiar atmosphere of home rushed toward my face.
A friend picking me up at the station smiled and asked, “What do you want for breakfast?”
I blurted out, “Noodles.”
“Seafood noodles, fish soup noodles, beef noodles… which kind do you want?”
I said, “I want to go eat a bowl of noodles made by Li Guose (李国色).”
My friend was first taken aback, then immediately understood: “Got it.”
The car left the parking lot, crossed the crisscrossing streets of the city, and stopped at the entrance of a temporary vegetable market. My friend said that the old vegetable market was being renovated and remodeled, and Li Guose’s noodle shop had moved here. After walking a short distance, amid the densely packed stalls, a simple yet eye-catching sign came into view— “Li Guose Fanyan (矾山) Fresh Noodle Shop.”
At the shop entrance, a middle-aged couple was busy. I had seen photos and short videos of Li Guose; just a while ago, a video was still playing online of him attending the ceremony for the first batch of 2026’s “China Good Person List” (中国好人榜).
I said to Li Guose, “Guose, I’m back in my hometown this time, and I want to taste a bowl of noodles made by your own hands.”
Li Guose said cheerfully, “That’s too easy. I’ll make you a bowl of authentic hometown noodles.”
I said, “Your one bowl of noodles has moved so many ordinary people!”
“My noodles are very ordinary; it’s the kindness of our ordinary people.”
After a moment, Li Guose brought us a bowl of fragrant seafood noodles. I took a taste, and the familiar flavor instantly danced on my tongue.
While busy with business at his stall, Li Guose would occasionally chat with me. The somewhat legendary story of him and the old man who bought noodles slowly unfolded…
In early spring of 2011, Li Guose rented a small storefront at Lingxi (灵溪) Old Street Vegetable Market, opened a small noodle shop, and started his first venture in life. That year, he was 24 years old.
The noodle shop first operated as a breakfast spot, then gradually switched to selling hanging noodles, cut noodles, rice noodles, rice cakes, and so on. The young man could endure hardship, was trustworthy, and always greeted people with a cheerful demeanor; his small business was running 有声有色 (yǒu shēng yǒu sè - “have sound and color,” vivid and impressive).
One day, Li Guose happened to see a thin, frail old man in tattered clothes wandering in front of the noodle shop. The old man hesitated for a long time before stepping up to the stall and pointing at the rice noodles.
Li Guose asked him how much he wanted to buy, but the old man said nothing; he just opened his palm, which held two or three one-yuan coins. Li Guose saw that the old man was living in hardship, so he packed a portion of rice noodles for him and only charged one yuan.
The old man came every one or two days to buy noodles, and each time Li Guose would symbolically charge him one or two yuan. The old man became a regular customer at the small shop, coming silently and never speaking; all his communication with Li Guose relied on eye contact, and Li Guose knew from his eyes what he wanted to eat.
In the blink of an eye, two years passed. One summer morning, the old man first observed the area about ten meters in front of the shop for a while, and only after the customers had left did he slowly walk up to the stall, his expression somewhat uneasy. Li Guose asked him what he wanted to eat, and he pointed at the rice cakes. Li Guose packed a bag of rice cakes for him. At that moment, the old man opened both hands; in one hand were a few coins, and in the other he was clutching a palm-sized hand-drawn piece of paper. Curious, Li Guose took the paper; it looked like a child’s drawing, with some simple patterns and figures on it. Li Guose frowned and looked at the paper several times over, then suddenly understood: this might have been drawn by the old man himself, trying to exchange it for something to eat. He hesitated for a moment, then recalled the old man’s behavior over the past two years; he felt the old man’s mind might not be entirely clear, and so he did not expose this clumsy little scheme.
After that, the old man often came to the shop carrying his own drawings. Every time he came, Li Guose and his wife Wu Chunming (吴春明) would always take them with a smile and pack enough hanging noodles or rice cakes for him to eat for a day or two. They guessed that at that moment the old man must have felt satisfied.
That winter, Cangnan had a rare heavy snowfall. For three or four days in a row, the old man did not appear. Li Guose grew worried: Was the old man sick? Or had some accident occurred? He brought some food, made some inquiries, and after asking around, finally found the village where the old man lived, nearly four kilometers away.
Pushing open the low, dilapidated door, he saw the old man lying in bed; sure enough, he had caught a cold.
A neighbor told Li Guose that when the old man was in his teens, a fall had damaged his brain, resulting in an intellectual disability. He was usually cared for by his older brother and nephew. His monthly subsistence allowance and disability subsidy, combined, were enough to cover basic living expenses. Over the years, neighbors had often seen him carrying rice noodles and hanging noodles home, but only now did they learn that Li Guose was the one helping him.
The ordinary days flowed on like water, and Li Guose’s small noodle shop business was neither hot nor cold.
The old man still came to the shop every one or two days. Every time, Li Guose and his wife would cheerfully 假戏真做 (jiǎ xì zhēn zuò - “pretend play, real do,” to treat a pretense as reality), accompanying the old man in “putting on a show.” With silent understanding and gentle companionship, the couple protected the old man’s dignity and self-respect.
In his spare time, Li Guose liked to go online and watch short videos. He thought this matter was rather interesting, so one day in December 2020, when the old man came to the shop, he casually shot a short video and posted it online. To his surprise, it was reposted by online media. Within days, Li Guose had a few thousand “fans”; in a month, the number reached over 10,000.
Many “fans” left messages for Li Guose: “One bowl of noodles has moved tens of thousands!” “The shop owner has been helping the old man for nine years. It’s not a momentary kindness; there is truly great love in his heart!” “So a pretense can be turned into reality. Kudos to your loving heart!”
That day, a “fan” from Xiamen sent Li Guose a red envelope of 100 yuan, with a note: Dear Brother Guose, you have been persisting in this good deed, and it is touching. Please use this 100 yuan to buy some pickled vegetables and other small snacks for the old man on my behalf.
Fans kept sending Li Guose red envelopes—30 or 50 yuan, 80 or 100 yuan—entrusting him to buy clothes, food, and daily necessities for the old man.
In December 2020, Li Guose was named “Most Beautiful Cangnan Person” (最美苍南人). He felt somewhat uneasy. Cangnan has a population of nearly one million; he was just a noodle seller, yet he had become the “Most Beautiful Cangnan Person” — this honor was truly too high.
That night, childhood memories surged in Li Guose’s mind. He had lost his mother at a young age; his father spent his days running around to make a living, and the villagers had always cared for him. He once said to his wife, “When I was little, I grew up wearing clothes from a hundred families and eating food from a hundred families. I must repay this kindness.”
From then on, the love of one bowl of noodles extended to farther places. Li Guose traveled through the countryside, helping elderly people living alone, supporting poor students, and helping farmers sell local specialty products through livestreaming.
On January 7, 2022, the old man unfortunately died in a traffic accident.
Li Guose was 黯然神伤 (àn rán shén shāng - “gloomy and spirit-sore,” deeply dejected and sorrowful): “Although we were neither relatives nor friends, we had known each other for ten years. Almost every morning, he would appear on time in the right corner of the shop. Now I will never see his figure again. There is an empty, hollow feeling of loss.”
The vegetable market was a constant stream of people; Li Guose kept busy in front of his stall, his forehead glistening with sweat.
The morning peak passed. After finishing his tasks, Li Guose brought a bowl of noodles and sat down across from me.
“How is it? Does the noodle suit your taste?”
“Eating these noodles warms my heart. Your noodles have moved so many people!” I said.
Li Guose’s words were simple and honest: “Actually, at the beginning, I wasn’t thinking about doing a good deed. I just felt that when facing an elderly man with intellectual disabilities, I could help if I could—it was just a 举手之劳 (jǔ shǒu zhī láo - “the labor of raising a hand,” a small effort for me). I never expected that this small kindness would be recognized by so many netizens.”
This small noodle shop in Cangnan, with its ordinary hanging noodles and common rice cakes, spread through the internet and warmed the hearts of countless netizens all over the country. The goodwill gathered from 天南地北 (tiān nán dì běi - “south of the sky, north of the earth,” from all over the country) then moistened this hot land of Cangnan like spring rain.
When taking leave, I said to Li Guose, “Next time I come home, I’ll bring more friends to eat your noodles.”
“Welcome, welcome!”
Li Guose patted the flour off his hands and revealed his signature cheerful smile.
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A few days ago, I was strolling in Jinan's Daming Lake Park and came to a place called "Zeng Embankment" (曾堤). Upon inquiring, I learned that this Zeng Embankment is related to Zeng Gong, one of the "Eight Great Prose Masters of the Tang and Song."
Taking out my phone to search online, I came to understand that this was a project of virtuous governance from when Zeng Gong served as the prefect of Qizhou (齐州). This long embankment, built from the silt dredged from Daming Lake, originally had a different name — it was called "Hundred Flowers Embankment" (百花堤). Such a poetic name, I guessed, was personally inscribed by Zeng Gong. Upon checking The Complete Poetry of the Song Dynasty, I indeed found a five-character poem by Zeng Gong titled "Hundred Flowers Embankment." The poem reads: "Surrounded by a hundred-flower grove, dense fragrance drips with clear dew. Interspersed with green willow shade, fragrant breezes turn morning and evening..." Just imagine: after the embankment was completed, on a fine spring day, red peach blossoms blazed among green trees, pear snow piled high in the fragrant grove, and the entire city's old and young wandered in a long line along the embankment, their laughter chasing the flower fragrance — how delightful!
Then I further thought: since it was a "hundred-flower grove" and there was "dense fragrance" all around, what exactly were the flowers and trees planted back then? I checked several sources, but for the moment I found no clear answer. Truly a pity, for otherwise this "register of floral varieties" so closely associated with a great writer could have allowed later generations to "copy the homework" and reproduce more "Hundred Flowers Embankments" and "Hundred Flowers Groves," passing down Chinese garden culture in its original flavor. According to records, by the Republican period a hundred years ago, the "fragrant breezes turning morning and evening" on Hundred Flowers Embankment had already become "now only an earthen mound remains" — truly lamentable.
Although with the passage of time and the changes of the world, Hundred Flowers Embankment experienced vicissitudes of prosperity and decline, this embankment of virtuous governance, which took flood drainage and disaster prevention as its duty, still plays an important role in storing water and diverting floods. Perhaps this is precisely the popular sentiment annotation of why, for a thousand years, the elders and common folk of Jinan have passed down by word of mouth the name "Zeng Embankment" for Hundred Flowers Embankment. In 2009, during the expansion project of the Daming Lake New Area, Small East Lake was incorporated into Daming Lake, and the section between Nanfeng Bridge (南丰桥) and Nanfeng Shrine (南丰祠) was formally named "Zeng Embankment," inscribing the "oral praise" of the common people onto a stone tablet. The scenery of "Zeng Embankment Winding with Water" also became one of the New Eight Sights of Daming Lake.
Standing on the Zeng Embankment, with tourists coming and going, it was the moment when fine evening rain was drifting. Amid the mist and rain, I could not help but think of the Bai Embankment, Su Embankment, and Yang Duke Embankment far away in Hangzhou. The lake embankment built by Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty outside Qiantang Gate was on the east side of West Lake. Although this embankment no longer exists today, later generations still do not forget the virtuous governance of Duke Bai, and they call the embankment road from Broken Bridge to "Autumn Moon over the Calm Lake" the "Bai Embankment" to commemorate him. The embankment built by Su Dongpo of the Northern Song when he dredged West Lake was only named "Su Duke Embankment" by people in the Ming Dynasty, later shortened to "Su Embankment." The Su Embankment was built a few years later than the Zeng Embankment; Zeng Gong and Su Dongpo both studied under Ouyang Xiu, so they were fellow disciples of the same master. The two, one in the north and one in the south, one earlier and one later, respectively dredged silt and built embankments in Qizhou and Hangzhou, benefiting the common people. They not only shone brilliantly in the literary world but also left a fine official reputation in the hearts of the people. As for that Ming Dynasty Hangzhou prefect Yang Mengying (杨孟瑛), who saved West Lake from its dire straits, he endured suppression from local powerful interests, overrode objections to dredge the lake and build an embankment, and preserved this unique scenic wonder of the world. For this, he suffered the unfair treatment of demotion and transfer, but the common people instead respected this courageous and responsible Sichuan man even more; they not only erected a statue and offered him worship, but also called this embankment on the west side of West Lake "Yang Duke Embankment" (杨公堤).
Walking past the Zhengyi Bridge (正谊桥) sheltered by weeping willows, my shoulders were gradually moistened by the fine drizzle. The graceful silhouette of Zeng Embankment receded behind me, gradually merging into the silver-wave-rippling night scene of Daming Lake. Suddenly I thought: how many embankments in history have been remembered by later generations? "Li Duke Embankment" (李公堤) in Jiujiang, Jiangxi (built by Li Bo, prefect of Jiangzhou in the Tang Dynasty), "Fan Duke Embankment" (范公堤) along the coast of northern Jiangsu (built by the famous Northern Song official Fan Zhongyan), "Zhai Duke Embankment" (翟公堤) in Taihu County, Anhui (built by Zhai Juren, magistrate of Taihu County in the Yuan Dynasty)… These projects of virtuous governance that benefited the people's livelihood were not self-proclaimed by their overseers at the time, but rather names that the common people, having not forgotten them, passed down by word of mouth. The philosophy of the common people is the simplest: if you treat us truly well, we will remember your kindness! Today, the Communists who work for the people's welfare surpass even the ancient worthies: the "Jiao Paulownia" (焦桐) named after Jiao Yulu grows ever deeper roots and lush foliage; the "Shanzhou Forest Farm" (善洲林场) named after Yang Shanzhou is always verdant and luxuriant… Of family and country sentiments, only this is the greatest; in the hearts of the people, only this is the most worthy!
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Qujiang Creek originates west of Sanfeng Mountain in Lianhua County, Jiangxi (莲花县), gathering the water accumulated by the virgin forests of Maocong Ridge, Beidou Mountain, and others, rushing 15 kilometers through a thousand obstacles, meeting the water discharged by the Shenjianli Hydropower Station after power generation, together bursting out of the great mountains, pouring 一泻千里 (yī xiè qiān lǐ - “flow a thousand li in one rush,” to flow unimpededly) across the vast rural fields, skirting Qujiang Islet, passing through the heartland of Shenquan Village (神泉村), crossing natural villages such as Pengjia (彭家) and Yuanxia (远下), absorbing Yuyue Stream at Suijiali (眭家里), and in the name of Qujiang Creek, sweeping past Nibei and Nangen Pond, pouring into Shenquan Lake, merging with Ruixi Stream.
This summer, I took my child and set out from the Shenjianli Hydropower Station, going upstream along the creek, searching for memories of teenage logging from more than 30 years ago. Spring water flows among the rocks; the creek bed cannot grow plants, and this is the natural path — people step on the rocks and through the creek water to enter the mountains. After decades of logging prohibition, 人迹罕至 (rén jì hǎn zhì - “rarely visited by people,” few human traces), the gorge that was originally over ten meters wide and the creek bed that was more than three meters wide now seem to have become forested land. Thick, large trees fill the gorge, and the dense shade like a canopy completely covers the water that rushes for dozens of li. Several sections of trees as thick as water buckets lie fallen above the creek water, their bark already shed, their trunks also ravaged by mountain insects, with over a hundred holes large and small, and sawdust-like wood chips falling on bluish stones of various sizes, forming very spectacular conical “sand dunes.” My child was very amazed by these “wood sand dunes” and dared not touch them; I waved my hand, and the wood chips drifted into the creek water, returning to the thick soil of the great mountain mother.
The path turned with the creek; we waded through dozens of small dragon pools in the creek water and climbed over dozens of thorny hillsides. Near the end, there was a large dragon pool about ten meters in diameter strung together by the creek water. The dragon pool had sheer cliffs on three sides; water flowed down from the narrow, long valley that is concave in the middle, falling to the foot of the mountain, forming the dragon pool. Above the narrow long valley were shallow and deep flaky bluish stones, formed by crustal movement or by long-term water flow cutting them into jagged shapes. The 犬牙交错 (quǎn yá jiāo cuò - “like dog’s teeth interlocking,” jagged and interlaced) bluish stone waterway was like a long slide, straight to the mountainside at about a third of the way up, covered by a large stone like a platform; above that was the mountain body fully covered with vegetation. The mountainside was traversed by an artificial channel, and here the water source of Qujiang Creek 戛然而止 (jiá rán ér zhǐ - “to stop abruptly”). Only a few dozen clear springs gushed out from the blade-shaped rock clusters under the huge boulder, accumulating more and more along the narrow waterway, and the tinkling spring sounds sent them all into the dragon pool.
The water vapor of the dragon pool constantly tears open the shelter of branches and leaves, so sunlight and raindrops reach the dragon pool directly. Clear spring water, warm sunlight, thin raindrops, soft mountain breeze, and crisp bird chirps, in the carefree state of “in the mountains there are no sun and moon, one does not know the seasons or the years,” protect this dragon pool, making it the endless motive force of Qujiang Creek.
The deepest part of the dragon pool can submerge an adult; it is so intensely green that one dares not try to step in, and can only walk through the water along the shallow area under the rock wall with drilled holes, holding onto the rock wall. Ascending the stone steps, crawling up the uneven rocks to a high place. Turning to look down, the accumulated withered branches and fallen leaves in the dragon pool rise to the surface; stone frogs and green fish dart about, as if angry at us 不速之客 (bù sù zhī kè - “uninvited guest”) for disturbing their peaceful life. At this moment, sunlight hits the shallows, reflected by the stones and sand into a rainbow-like light, shining on those curious fish. The fish make a gurgle and flip into the downstream waterway, swimming all the way along the creek bed we came from, toward the distance.
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Without written records from high antiquity, a name has been passed down — Yu the Great. A thousand rivers and a hundred streams spread the tale among themselves; the river waters never cease, surpassing monuments cast in gold or carved in stone.
The kind and grateful Qingtong Gorge (青铜峡) built for Yu the Great a splendid temple and hall. A name that thrice passed his own gate without entering — how could he ever sit still inside a shrine?
The statue of Yu the Great stands erect by the Yellow River, observing the water conditions, standing tall as a giant peak. Yu the Great waves to me and tells me: "The Yellow River is calm and tranquil — my lord may take a boat and sail onward!"
I recall that thirty years ago, at Yu the Great's Mausoleum in Jiangnan, the fine rain and green hills kept me company, and a wisp of autumn wind carried away the verses I had written:
"Traversing mountains and crossing waters, building waterworks
Yu the Great spent his whole life taking China's very first place
China's very first model worker
Entered the history books, but got no bonus…"
Oil painting 'Arrowhead Flower' (慈菇花), by Guan Zilan (关紫兰), collection of the National Art Museum of China (中国美术馆).
Return to TopBy: 吴昌勇
In the countryside of southern Shaanxi, wine is brewed at least twice a year.
One time is when the men brew wine, usually in the deep-autumn season when the sky is high and the clouds are pale. Persimmons and Hovenia fruit, their branch tips covered with fallen frost flowers, together with the sweet stalks grown in the fields, are gathered and brought home. After fermenting for more than half a month with native starter culture, they set up an open-air stove outside the house, place the wooden steamer full of fermented grain between a bottom cauldron holding water and a top cauldron, and distill out the distinctive native brew over a strong fire.
The other time is when the housewives brew wine, generally around the Grain in Ear solar term. Golden waves of wheat roll and surge; the swollen wheat ears sink their bodies low, as if making an appointment with the land for the day of opening the sickles and beginning the harvest. When the year is ripe and the harvest abundant, there must be a bowl of newly brewed wheat grain wine to celebrate.
This is a task at which the housewives are skilled, and it is also a sweet anticipation that they begin to arrange as early as just after the opening of spring. They know that a fine homemade wine starter is indispensable for brewing the mellow, fragrant, and sweet wheat grain wine. Every spring, they never forget to walk into the sea of flowers covering the mountains. From the branch tips, they pick one by one the buds just beginning to bloom. They pound the dried flowers together with the previous year's wine starter, add a little rice flour, blend it with mountain spring water to a paste, rub it into balls the size of peaches, then string them with hemp thread and hang them under the eaves to dry in the wind.
The wheat tips gradually turn yellow, and the weather grows hotter day by day. The harvested wheat is stacked outside the house into piles like small hills. Unable to wait for the wheat to be threshed on the drying ground, the housewives 迫不及待 (pò bù jí dài - "too urgent to wait," unable to wait a moment longer) swing their flails, beating out from the wheat ears wheat grains enough to cover the ground. They must race to brew the wheat grain wine before the summer planting, so that the wheat fragrance is transformed into wine fragrance, so that clouds of drunken flush drift across the faces of the family members toiling in the fields.
Several large bowls of washed-clean wheat grains, together with clear, cold spring water, go into the pot. With no more than half an hour of cooking, they are thoroughly done and split open, revealing the cotton-white hearts of the wheat. The chubby wheat grains are spread out in a shallow basin, letting the resilient outer skins slowly cool and then contract. The wine starter, already ground into powder, is stirred evenly with chopsticks, so that every wheat grain is coated with starter powder. Fill into the jar, seal the mouth, let stand. Next, the yeast naturally present in the wine starter will skillfully catalyze the saccharification of the wheat grains. In the sealed space, the wheat grains 窃窃私语 (qiè qiè sī yǔ - "stealthy private speech," to whisper in secret), quietly accepting the abundance that time brings.
Just after the sickles have been put down, before there is even time to catch a breath, the summer planting will again begin with the deep plowing of the field ridges. The housewives, 小心翼翼 (xiǎo xīn yì yì - "small heart, cautious manner," with great care), open the sealed wine jar, and the rich aroma 扑面而来 (pū miàn ér lái - "rushes against the face as it comes," to meet one directly), carrying the fresh sweetness of wheat fragrance and wrapped in the fragrance of mountain flowers. They murmur excitedly: "It's done! A jar of good wine has been brewed!"
Scooping out a few spoonfuls of wine-fragrant wheat grains from the jar, they put them in porcelain bowls, pour boiling water over them, and hand them to the family members toiling hard. The sweet-and-sour taste that moves the tip of the tongue is the taste of the branch tips, is the taste of the harvest.
Savoring slowly this bowl of newly brewed wheat grain wine, the face gradually flushes red — that is the color of the mountain flowers of that early spring.
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On the weekend, I came to Baishuihe Community in Nayong County, Guizhou. The sound of music came from a wooden house on the left side of the community square. A comrade from the community pointed and said, "That is the Miao Lusheng Dance (Gunshanzhu) inheritance base. Let's go take a look."
Pushing open the wooden door, I saw in the middle of a room of over a hundred square meters, an elderly man with a gaunt face sitting on the floor, with a little girl standing before him.
"Beibei, look at Grandfather's fingers. When pressing the sound holes, don't be stiff; it should be like dancing." The old man said as he demonstrated with both hands.
Beibei held a small lusheng up with both hands, puffed out her cheeks, and began to blow.
The old man turned his head sideways. I looked closely: wasn't this the famous "Lusheng King"? The old man also recognized me, smiled, and stood up to greet me.
The "Lusheng King" is named Wang Jingcai. Many years ago, I had interviewed him in the mountains. Wang Jingcai began learning the lusheng dance from his uncle at age 13, and after mastering it, he formed a performance troupe. He often sought advice from performers of opera, acrobatics, martial arts, and other arts, improving and refining the performance, preserving the "special skills" while incorporating "new moves." In the late 1980s, Wang Jingcai saw a kind of insect called a "gunshanzhu" (滚山珠 - "rolling mountain bead") that closely resembled the way they rolled on the ground while dancing, so he renamed the program Dilong Gun Jing (Earth Dragon Rolling Through Thorns) to Gunshanzhu, giving the ancient lusheng dance greater artistic tension. Later, the "Miao Lusheng Dance (Gunshanzhu)" was included in the first batch of the National Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage, and Wang Jingcai became a representative inheritor.
"I didn't expect to meet you here today! Don't you live in the countryside?" I was both surprised and puzzled.
Wang Jingcai sighed: "Staying at home, I just can't stop worrying!"
"The one who answered was Wang Jingcai's eldest son, Li Feilong. "My dad is afraid I'm not teaching well enough; he practically comes in person every weekend to give lessons to the kids."
Li Feilong is his father's most valued "successor." In 2020, he benefited from the poverty alleviation relocation policy and moved into the city. Community cadres learned that he possessed extraordinary skills, so they provided space free of charge and invited him to teach the children to practice Gunshanzhu.
I looked up at the row of plaques on the wall and said to Wang Jingcai: "Isn't he teaching pretty well? What is there to worry about?"
Wang Jingcai pondered for a moment, then voiced the concern in his heart: "The performance requirements for Gunshanzhu are high; without two or three years of hard training, you simply can't get on stage. Nowadays, many kids are afraid of hardship, and Feilong is soft-hearted. How could I just sit back and do nothing?"
He then explained: "When teaching the kids, if he sees a movement that isn't standard, Feilong will at most say 'do it again.' Last week, a kid fell and cried, so he hurried over to rub his knee and coax him with candy. Tell me, how is that acceptable?"
Li Feilong smiled: "Dad, times have changed. The kids have heavy schoolwork; it's already not easy for them to come and learn for two or three hours on the weekend. If I'm too strict, they might just stop coming..."
Before Li Feilong could finish, Wang Jingcai raised an eyebrow: "Learning a craft and practicing skills – how can there be no bumps and bruises! When you were little, half your face was swollen from falling, but you still practiced backflips as usual. Don't spoil them; without putting in hard work, you can't expect results."
Wang Jingcai then said to Beibei, who was leaning against him: "Go and call your brother Yuhan over."
In a while, a group of energetic youths pushed open the door and entered. Wang Jingcai pulled his eldest grandson, Yuhan, to his side: "Yuhan, take your buddies and perform a piece for the guest."
Wang Jingcai fetched six porcelain bowls, placed them bottom-to-bottom in a circle about one meter in diameter, and filled the upper bowls with water. At the command "Ready – go!" Yuhan led twelve team members as they sounded the lusheng, leaping, shifting, squatting, jumping, spinning, and darting around the circle... Reaching the climax, Yuhan bent backward, his head reaching inside the circle, his feet outside the circle, his waist and abdomen suspended above the bowls, his entire body rotating and twisting in an arch shape, while holding the lusheng in both hands, blowing and flipping. Yet the bowls were never touched, and not a single drop of water was spilled. I couldn't help clapping and cheering for the children.
As we were about to leave, Li Feilong told us that he was organizing his father's teaching videos to assist the work of "intangible cultural heritage entering campuses" ("非遗进校园"). Just as we stepped out the door, we heard Wang Jingcai's voice again: "Today, let's practice human pyramid again. Quick! Everyone in position!" Soon, the melodious strains of the lusheng dance music lingered in our ears...
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